Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-24

up like sky-rocket, but il will speedily come
down like stick. Yet il would leave behind in
effaceable impressions. IL would leave dsor
ganization and generalization. 1t would leave
distrusts and nfdelites between friends, neigh
bors, and acquaintance.
To-day, Virginia will be either effulgent with
glory dark with eclipse. We do not doubt
that she will prove herself worthy of her ancient
renown and her high destiny. We look to the
result of this election with hopeful but yet a
painful interest. We feel that the character and
the influence Of Virginia, our venerated mother,
are at stake. Ged speed the good cause, and
save Virginia from the ignomny OF Know-noth-
ing influence.
IE Governor Gardner has done two good
things. He has refused to obey the petition of
| the know-nothing Legislature Of Massachusetts,,
to remove Judge Loring; and he has more re-
Gently vetoed that bill Of denominations known os
| the personal liberty bill.'' Yet this Just and
well-directed veto failed to accomplish anything.
When returned to the Legislature by the Cover
nor, it passed that body by an overwhelming vote.
As we have hitherto described it, it is the worst
| form Of three great evils-Abotionism, Know
nothngsm, and Notification.
| Whilst we concede to Governor Gardner all
| the merit to which he is entitled, we yet cannot
| award to him the credit that some Of his South
| ern Know nothing friends are claiming for him,
| to wit-that of opposing these two measures be-
| cause of his soundness on the slavery question.
Now, the only ground assumed by Governor
Gardner in respect to these measures is, that the
first violates the Constitution Of Massachusetts,;
the last, the Constitution Of the United States.
Governor Gardner is aroiued anti-slapery man.
IL The following communication is from the
pen of Judge Daniel ,one ofthe distinguished judges
of the Supreme Court of the United States.
When gentleman occupying his eminent posi-
ton, feels compelled by sense Of duty to the
public, to complain Of the inattention, neglect,
| and imposition of the managers and officers OF
such chartered travelling lines, the grievances
must, indeed, be intolerable We invite atten-
ton to this communication:
Abuses Practised upon Travellers.
Whether any benefit will accrue to the public
from disclosure Of the facts herein narrated
may be regarded as problematical; as it generally
| happens that the traveller, though subjected to
ward by the calls of business sympathy, is de-
prived Of redress for the wrengs he may have suf
| tered, wrongs often premeditated and practised
as means of profit to the reckless and selfish who
| are actuated by no higher motive than the pros
Pect OF gain, or the apprehension of pecuniary
loss. 1t is just, however, that the public be fore
warned OF evils to be encountered, that they may
compare the character and magnitude of those
evils with the inducements or the necessity for
encountering them.
| Upon a recent journey from the southwest by
| the Louisville, Ohio Central, and Baltimore and
Ohio Railroads, what is called through ticket to
| washington city was purchased at Louisville;
but after paying for conveyance as above, am
| engagement for the transportation of the ira
velers baggage by giving him a check or ac-
acknowledgement of its reception was refused. The
consequences of such refusal were these: that the
traveller at intermediate points the route was
compelled to attend to the forwarding of his bag
gage, and was subjected to the demand of an ON
nibus fee and porterage for the transportation OF
| his person and baggage from point to point, al
though his transportation throughout the entire
route had been paid for.
The present terminus of the Central Ohio Rail-
road is at point on the Ohio river, called Belle
| Air, said to be four miles below the town OF
Wheeling, and opposite to Depot or Station OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at place
called Benwood, on the Virginia side of the river
| From the terminus of the Ohio road, travellers
are transported to Wheeling by steamboat
said (but whether correctly or not, is not known
| to be in the employment, and under the joint
control of the two corporations: the Ohio Cen
trail, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
| panies
On the 18th of the present month, the cars on
the Central Ohio road, reached the terminus OF
this road about sun set. The distance thence to
Wheeling, being four miles, and the hour of de-
parture for the night train Of the Baltimore road
between 8 and III o'clock, p. IN. The travellers
were here put on board the steamboat, which re-
manned stationary at the place at which she was
boarded.
To the general Impotence manifested at this
delay, IT was offered as an explanation, that the
water in the river was too low for the boat to
proceed. This, indeed, was discouraging dis
closure, as In the absence of tides in the Ohio,
the only alternative seemed TO be, TO await rise
Of water from rains and one gentleman (Mr.
Raymond, OF Far Mount, Virginia. unwilling
to submit to farther detention, hired a skiff to
convey him across the river The verify Of the ex-
cuse for failing to proceed Immediately to Wheel
ing, may, perhaps, be accurately tested by the
following facts, all Of which can be established
beyond dispute, viz that during the time that
the boat remained stationary, two other steam
boats passed up the river, without apparent diff
Guilty that another train of cars was expected
from the west about 8 O'Clock; that between 8
and o'clock active and extensive preparations
were made on the boat for supper; that the ex-
pected train did in fact arrive, and that shortly
after the contribution for supper levied upon
the travellers (t then being after o'clock the
boat was carried over to the Virginia shore, and
from thence proceeded direct to Wheeling the
travellers eastward, male and female, sick and
well, old and young, having been with their
baggage previously put out on the margin Of the
| river, amidst mud, several inches in depth, (for
it had rained all day. in dark cloudy night,
| without shelter, without conveyance, and with
| out guide and thus left to Chamber up the pre-
ciptous bank Of the river, and to grope their way
as best they could TO the point at which they might
reach the Of the Baltimore road In the
effort to reach this point, the situation Of which
could only be conjectured, the author Of this
statement was, by the breaking away Of the
| loose formation of the shelving bank, several
times precipitated considerable distance amongst
rocks; his clothes torn from his person, and Sc
we're Commissions inflicted, from the pain and sore
ness of which he has not yet recovered. Indeed,
had il not been for the kindness of Mr.. Hayman,
and of a Mr.. Seay, of Richmond, Virginia, who
came with lights to his assistance, if he had not
persisted, he must have passed the night on the
shelving river cliff; for to his repeated calls for
assistance, not the slightest heed was given by