Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-06-20
We stated few days since. that there would

scriptons 10 the vrsinisn for the present Proprietor
We stated a few days since. that there would
soon be two daily mails TO this point via the
Richmond and Danvile. and South Side rail roads.
Our statement was based upon information re-
ceived from Jno. r. Mcdaniel, Egg. President OF
the Va. and Tenn. X. X and from the schedule
made out at the Post Office Department and fur.
nished to the Post Master If this city. Ii ap.
pears now that the two roads above mentioned
decline conforming to this arrangements aud one
Of the results of their decision will be- that the
Northern mail. will. in part. be conveyed here IN
Stages, via Charlottesville, and arrive daily at a
bout 5 A M.-eigbt hours earle, than by those
routes We will also get the usual mail by rail
road as heretofore, making two duly mails
though they will not both be transported through
by railroad. The worst feature connected With
the non concurrence Of these companies is the
inconvenience that will be occa-ioned TO travellers
who are 10 transit West or East. and therefore
impatient of unnecessary delay. We have no
doubt, however, that the stages leaving this place
for Charlottesville will afford facilities whereby
passengers can reach Washington via the Alex
andra and Orange rail road, many hours earlier
tnhn Dy tue OfuinHfy Iohlts W WhiNu w h"'' wv
fore referred. And by the same means pas-en-
gers going West will leave Washington. follow
ing the nearest aud -peediest mail route via Char
ln,tesvie, and Lynchburg without touching the
Richmond and DanviIle South Side roads,
We think that the policy of the latter company,
especially, is suicidal 10 its interests, we shall
presently demonstrate The Western terminus
of that road being the point of intersection ut
this place. with the great lines west of
Meeting the Mississippi valley with the sea board
on our own border, it has interests which the
Danville road has not, in arranging schedule
that will be acceptable to the Southwest. and Sc
the unbroken tide Of travel which must set
in from that direction. The present arrange.
ment of the Va. & Tenn. trains is the only one
that can be adapted to their respective regua-
lions. and has already as We are Informed.
cured evident increase of travel over these
roads. To show how matei ial 10 the interests of
the Southwestern roads; the Va. a Tenn. road;
and even the South Side road the present sche-
dule is regarded and to show further the misn
ken policy of the South Side Company, we make
the following extract from letter written by
prominent rail road official in Tennessee, to
gentleman in this city:
KNOXVILLE June To- 1887.
If am correctly informed, it is the Richmond and
Danvlle road that throws difficulties in the way of
quick schedule. Ii SO, why do not the South
side Railroad road cut loose from any close
ton with them at the crossing, aud run our mails
and passengers to Richmond via Petersburg mako
the fare the via the Danville road and let
that place petersburg be the common point for
tapping the Southern line in plnce of Richmond -
The nth side Railroad would ,ulN in
large through travel and carry it the whote
length OF their line but would carry their Iynchburg
and other local travel through, aud put them into
Richmond sooner instead of giving them up to the
Danville road.
The Danvile road has no prospective interct in
this through travel Not so however with the South
side Company They deeply interested in it
and will always be a competitor for II after the rails
are put down to Norfolk and to Charlottesville
II IS all important to them to get the trard started nat
seay When these lines are completed, it will
not matter to your road or ours what direction
traveller takes when he has passed ours to Lynch
burg nor will it matter to from what direction
he comes when at Lyuchburg. SO will be
in condition TO place both these routes mn equal
footing to through tickets and freighs but this is
not true in any sense with the Danve road. They
have nothing in common with us-aud if the South
side Company continue TO occupy position directly
at variance with not only ours but their IN
teress the future will shew discrimination against
them, 80 tar as we are concerned in all time to come
From what is here statcd-facts too that are
patent TO every body at all familiar with the
question treated, is obvious that, upon prin.
ciples OF retaliation. the measure of injury that
could be inflicted by the South. side road upon
the seven hundred miles of railway in immediate
connection with her South western terminus
could bear no proportion to that with which it
would be in their power to annoy her. They
could refuse-as We have heard it intimaed they
might-to issue through tickets or enter into
any reciprocal arrangement whatever with the
officers of that Company,-a state of things
which We should deeply regret.
To demonstrate further the advantages of the
present schedule for quick travel, we will state
fact of which we are cognizant. A gentleman
having business in Knoxville, left thi. city on
Monday morning nj o'clock, and arrived at his
destination on Tuesday morning at "a o'clock
Upon his arrival there be found it necessary to
go or send to Athens, IS miles west of Knox
vile, and accordingly sent a messenger who
transacted his business and returned in time for
him to leave Knoxville at "A O'Clock that after.
noon. and reach his home in Lynchburg We'd
nesdsy night by II o'clock. Here was business
trip Of IA miles. with seventy miles of staging,
actually accomplished in three days and two
nights; or. seventy hours. We may cite another
case Of an opposite character, showing the delay
consequent upon the refusal Of the Danve and
South side roads to conform to the present sche-
du'e for the running OF trains on the Virginia and
Tennessee and other roads west of il. A gen: