The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-10

TO THE MERCHANTS OF BALTIMORE.
STRANGE ALLIANCE.
This alliance between the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
and the Central Ohio railroad is most extraordinary 1t
is inexpcable any hypothesis of advantage to this
city, of profit to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
itself look at its various and pernicous inconsistent
cies, and am amazed to them successfully imposed
Directory which ought to guarl the safety of this
city with jealous vigilance.
RIGHTS OF COMMERCE DIsREGARDED.
This alliance rejects the cheaper and profitable
conveyance by the Ohio river and thereby burdens the
of this city with % additional
barrel -four 1t rejects the shorter Cincinnati
the Marietta railroad and thereby loses the
merce of Baltimore so miles of distance in railroad
transport Except for this alliance the Baltimore Ohio
railroad might receive at least 5S barrel instead
of cents and still come to per barrel cheaper
than The road would, thereby, without additional
burdens to that commerce. have realized large
of revenue in the year 1858.
1T IS AN ANOMALY
The attachment of the policy party to this Central
however sometimes arise but they are at war with
ture and always result in harm The incident am about
to narrate is somewhat opposite in of illustration
AN ANALOGOUS CASE.
An Ohio paper, before me, among the wonders of
that region, tells of that took up strange tender
ness for Young skunk which it found Struggling about
pretty much random and apparently without any
especial purpose. The cat adopted this thing and
took it home to her own nest She petted it even over
her offspring; the result disastrous. The odor-
GUS little wretch brought sickness to the family and the
cat with her kittens langushed and died under the
natural connection.
THE MORAL.
This little incident has its for the merchants of
Baltimore. Some wonderful faulty, perhaps some alien
interest," adversary to yours and stranger your blood
has imposed upon Your commerce this Ohio skunk 1.-THE
Central Ohio road and the scky creature nursing
your very fe's blood.
DESTRUCTION COMMERCIAL RIGHTS.
The losses to Baltimore from this cruel imposition can
not be counted in dollars and cents This city has lost
its rghtful and its richest commercial relations The
trade of empire has been turned other channels
and has been made to enrich other cities To regain
Baltimore has to it from rival merchants in
session; and all practical will appreciate the
hanced difficulty which this fixed habit of trade will in
terpose.
DEcEITs PARTY UNCOVERED.
1t is my purpose to expose this discriminating policy
in all its deformity. 1t should be known to the
chants of this city in all its selfshness and all its shifts,
and pausibites, and disguises, and concealments.
These devices of themselves badges Of unfair purpo
ses and they brand the policy with crminality.
have shewn that by the present tariff steamboat -four,
offered at Parkersburg for transport charged dol
lar barrel unless passed through their agency at
Cincinnati marked 'throgh -four" The agent
through by the river from Cincinnati for
rs to Baltimore. This cheaper, by ten cents
barrel than the Central Ohio route and would of course
have diverted the tonnage from that road. But pre-
this effect and force the choice the Central
road these 'poIicy' men charge more for this trouh
0l at Parkersburg than they charge for T0gh -four"
at Benwood.
THE GAME THEY PLAY
The game here played quite ingenious and is adroity
covered up from view in Jumping amounts If load
of -four reaches Baltimore from the Central Ohio road
sends it to Parkersburg they charge the load
with s4soo, and thus discriminate against their own
branch road Sl152 There eighty barrels to the
load so the discrimination against the river transit is
IA 40 cts. a barrel.
HOW pARKERsBURG IS DONE FOR
When these clever fellows Parkersburg
with driving trade from them they reply to the charge by
saying that they discriminate in favor of the river trade
They show that their charge by the river is rs whilst
by the Central road it is S5 cts barrel This is ap
parent discrimination of 10 cents barrel in favor of Par
kersburg! Thus whilst they seem to give Parkersburg
their action is open and of all men, they cooery bar
den it with discriminating charge of Ia and 10 of cent
from Parkersburg Baltimore This is however, con
cealed from view and had in their Jumping through
charge In this manner by deceful appearances they
cheat the public attention and by taxation they
succeed to throw the trade the Central Ohio rail
road.
But there yet another part of the game in which NAV
be seen the eahy foot print of their disguised purposes
to stuff their pet road They pay their agent % cents
ton through -four by way the river if he
sends by the Central Ohio road the agent gets so cents
ton. This is vastly clever arrangement also has
outward appearance of avorng Parkersburg This
effect however they counterac just seen, by cOrery
making their charges through flour higher at Parkers
burg than at Benwood. And see what stmulent they
give their agent at Cincinnati to send it the Central
Ohio road 1t is ndirectbribe given to force that
route, and in 1855 it amounted learn, to near 81 900
BE PATIENT TO HEAR MATTERS OF DETAIL.
Merchants of Baltimore have patience examine into
and master these facts. Do the mnutie of de
tail here presented. In their aggregate they constitute
deep import to your city have gathered these details
with care and toll for your inspection.
AFINGER OF DESIGN.
crminaon, with c0rert counterGctng btTdenS-in all
these varying charges for transport of the articles
over the roads cents barrel if the Central
0hio-60 cents if sent by way of Parkersburg-and
dollar unless it comes to them as hrOugh 0-I say in
all this tumble and ange there is clue-a thread-
look up the beginning end.
1t must escape your sagacty that hand of design
pointing and guiding and forcing trade to its large
cost in direction has adapted these varied
effect its selfish purposes. By traps and artfces
and enough is yielded to the cheapest route
to hush up public complaint whilst by large bribe to
point,
eliminating tax of IA and 4l0 cents abarrel Parkers
burg and what is vet effective by the control they
exercise in this city direct the Western bound tonnage
the Ohio Central thereby deprving the steamboat
on the Ohio river of back freghtngby all these occult
ends accomplished 1t thus
that your trade is decmaed in its amount and
your hands in profess agency.
LOOK HIDDEN
Men'of Baltimore have you earsand will not hear have
and will not see9 Let these numbers open your
mercal system Look for the of this absolute fail
nre of your great railroad 1t mercantile abortion in
its present hands. Its whole energies turned
upon one and enhance the Central Ohio
TailroddW
CAN'T YOU SMELL RAT?
Can there be sinister influences with sinister purposes
at work. Have any of among you large interests
in this Central Ohio roadl see from the last annual
report OF that road THAT THEY TOO HAVE ESTABLISHED
SINKING FUND for the absorption of their bonded debts
They pay interest these bonded debts and div
dends to their stockholders Tet strange to ten they de
rote the earnings Of their road to the purchase Of their rd
mortgage bonds and hoard these bonds up their sinking
fund
am wrong TO say they pay interest. In their last
report lS5S find they claim to have remitted $40 64
for interest but they do not saw to whom this money
remited-Or what class of bonds thus favored, or
to whom said bonds eXecuted-they only say 'to
that amount remtted for interest," and add in parenthe
sis couponS not retu17edJ Significant fact! 1t may
be that these coupons, if returned! would show that
these third mortgage bonds have been that favored
class i
The of all railroads. working
expenses, first bound for interest their bonds
This is common sense and common honesty. Common
honesty is, therefore, violated by this Central Ohio Rail
road, in thus Withdrawing their surplus revenues from
their interest creditors And why buy up their third
class mortgage bonds!
FOOTPRINTS IN THE sAND-wHo OWNS THIRD. CLASS
MORTGAGE BONDS?
Men of Baltimore, this is of the nscrutable sur
roundings which point from this discriminating policy of
your road 1t also points with great significance the
the Central Ohio road The owners of these
third mortgage bonds, whoever they are, the
cpent Of the surplus Of the Central Ohio rail
road They the men interested to enlarge its business
and increase its revenues.
Can it be, that the of Baltimore the
interest Of the Baltimore road made subserven
the increase of the revenue of this Ohio road that the ho
ders of these third mortgage bonds may. by double
wrong, get their worthless nvesm, cashed? Can it
be- that any set of men, at the Board of the Baltimore
road holding their position, not by virtue of public
dence, but by force of nordnate capital and private
wealth. have possessed themselves practically of the
government of road, and their power for
such ends!
Look closely to this matter. The commerce of this
city its material prosperity and the standing of her
chants as intelligent and Independent men, demand a
thorough investigation
have exhausted the discussion of this dscrimina-
ting policy" In the illustration have given of its oper-
alton have only embraced trade that rendered to
the agent of the Baltimore road at Cincinnati l have
shown by what devices that to take the
route of the Ohio Central at the large loss of this city
Mark ce the point 1t is only such trade offered to
the agent at Cincinnati that have been discussing.
THE VOLUME OF COMMERCE REACHED THIS DIS
CUssIoN.
But this part of the trade drop in the ocean com
pared with the great that belongs this city, and
would here but for this policy Some comes in spite
of this policy; that have shown, made to pay hear
to the third mortgage bondhoders of the Central
Ohio railroad But there is volume of wide in
its achrich in its promise of profit that diverges from
Cincinnati is oated past that city the Ohio river,
that rendered to the agent of the Baltimore
pany for either route to this city
must devote my fourth number to consideration Of
this vast commerce and of the unwise obstrucons that
turn its in the channels of other cities The
subject is of greatest moment to the merchants of Bal
1t ought be comprehended its magnitude;
that the losses brought this city by the po
cy of her railroad direction be fully appreciated
again ask patient attention. AIM
The colored people of Canada are holding meet
ings to protest against the passage of bill now
before the Canadian Parliament, incorporating an
association ''for the Education and Elevation of
the Colored People of Canada" They protest ON
this ground:
That the British Constitution knows no man by
complexion or creed, and her churches, schools,