The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-05
Regular ana Transient Riyet Bost,.

The transient steamboats, which, II appears,
are greatly on the increase, are causing no
small share Of dissatisfaction 10 the owners of
the Irregular packets" on the Ohio. Many and
grievous are the complaints which are daily
INDUCED in on our public landing, as to the
injury which those transient, irregular and
non-dependable bouts are inAicting upon the
regular steamboat interests Of Cincinnati, by
tho carrying Of goods at prices that, II is posi-
lively ayerred, do not, and never can be made
to, pay. Still these "irregulars," like the
quacks In medicine, are on the increase, not
only here but along the whole course Of the
Ohio, so that numerous complaints are heard
from Pittsburg to Cairo. But the merchants
and manufacturers, IL is said, are the parties
most deserving Of blame, for, without their
patronage, the evil could not long exist; hence
appeals have, from time to time, been mnde to
their patriotism TO sustain "their own" boats,
and to their sagacity as business men to main
tain the Irregular lines," as being the only safe
and reliable carriers of merchandise and pas
sengers. At Wheeling the feeling against the
Pittsburg 'interlopers" is on the increase, yet
these nterlopers audaciously pursue their pi
ratical practices--enter the port and carry of
merchandise at a low rate of freight; and,
what seems stranger still, according to the
Times,) the merchants there are so unpatriotic
and unwise as to act on the penny-wise and
pOunu-lOOllsn bysJeH VI giving theih tho phs-
ronage, which is justly the right of the regu-
lar packets.
"We can not help (says the Times) regard
ing this as hardly a just policy on the part of
manufacturing men, who are ever ready to de-
claim loudly against the support by our citizens
of foreign tradesmen, and expect these very
boats that they ought to support to be always
on hand, but never giving them any thing to
| do. The boats of these lines were never built
with view to their being used TO run their
captains on pleasure excursions up and down
| the Ohio; there is rather too much money In
them to suit that sort Of thing, and tits broadly
limited that unless things turn up little more
favorably we shall lose the Courier and Lib.
erty, and ere long all the rest of our regular
packets. That will be nice story to publish
| in Gath and make known in Askalon. Wheel
ing's packets, that she had Dragged so much
about, and TO which she has promised her un-
| divided support, run of the track by lot O
Pittsburg interlopersl Our manufacturers ant
shippers generally will feel particularly gay
won't they, when Cincinnati tells them tina
Wheeling can't support single packetf
"Ten cents to Louisville for a keg of nails i
little enough for any boat to live at, and yet i
is but few days since the Gazelle came along
and having already fair load Of Pittsburj
freight, took several hundred kegs of these use
full articles from under the Eunice's nose at
cents and other instances are occurring ever
day wherein, for the smallest possible fraction
our packets are cut out Of freight which ough
properly to be theirs at fair living rate. ]
therefore behooves our people, if they wish
keep their boats, to see that they are properl
supported, else they will have to 60 the sam
road with the Union Line of former years.