The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-16
INV. ' :.
TO THE MERCHANTS SOFBAL-IMORE


As stranger disconnected with all the
of the City and of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad my
individual purposes alone have led me to study the
harmonious workings of the Road upon interests
the CITY, The managers of this Railroad might upon
the commerce of the city to the end of time and should
be in way affected But there is standard of moral
right implanted in the human bosom by an Almighty
hand that will revolt at the practices of successful
wrong and although not bound to protect the interests
this city, purposes and my feelings mpel to give
every aid in the exposure Of the wrong doers
Standing in position of entire imparality, see all
the varied conrvances under of which the righ
commerce of this city is burdened With no design to
malign the motives of any am stranger to ali
mission in these numbers has been point out these bur
dens, and leave it with the sufferers to iudpe whether
they have been imposed from selfish and sorid design
PROFITS SWALLOWED AGENCIES.
Viewing the action of the managers the road from
this stand point am struck with the distant costly
agencies they maintain and with the commits
sions they pay No principal point the Atlantic or
even the Pacific, has escaped ''agency'' No
on large pacards hung in the barber shops that they will
carry articles at fixed price per hundred pounds and
place | suppose). They seem to compete with Adams
Express in the humbest duty of carrying and delivering
small pacs ages
In Philadelphia, New York Boston, and am told even
the British Provinces, be found aqencfes, of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. These "dqencies,'
ara located on Chestnut street and Broadway and the
most costly of each city, and every agent pucs
feathers from the pumage of the road Its trade and s
travel directed by these agences from these distant points
runs the gauntlet to Baltimore in its transit over their
combinations of roads Before the net result of these
complicated connections reaches the treasury of the Com
pany its amount has been sweated as scarce to
pay the Baltimore road the cost ofits transport
In regard to the Western trade Of this road the pocv
we have seen, is to leave nothing come to Bat
more in natural and cheap manner By contryance of
aprohlbitory charge all tonnage offered on the banks
OF the Ohio river at Parkersburg Wheeling they force
the tonnage destined for Baltimore pass through an
'agency' at Cincinnati, and by a discriminating and
covert charge at Parkersburg they drive this
the river and force it over the Central Ohio Road
FERRIAGE AT BENwooD
But the cost OF ferrage the Ohio river Benwood
imposition on the commerce of Bamnye and 9 M II an
two Cnfsu -,
dstrust ~
1t stated in the last report of the Company that the
cost OF transfer at Benwood is siry cents There
We're e9Ss7 tons passed east and the year taxed
with an aggregate cost of ferriage of 363S! The
Flour trade of Baltimore then taxed with cost of
six cents barrel at this neck, through which it was
forced by these contrvances policies 1t was charged
with 40 cents only for its transit from Benwood to Balti-
more, distance of $50 miles; whilst ferrage of less
than half mile cost SIX cens Is there fair proportion
in these charges9 Should this ferrage be Of
the total freight from the Ohio riverS
WHO coMPLAINs-FAIR PLAY WANTED
publish these numbers at the instance of merchants
and property holders of Baltimore. These men know and
feel that their has been obstructed under these
policies and by such mpositons and the rightful
labors therefore, only give body and form to Just com
plant of these valuable citizens and are Directed IN b
detection and the exposure of high commercial wrongs
The merchants of Baltimore making manly contest
with the merchants of Philadelphia achieve for Bati
more the rich commerce of Cincinnati they can get
fair play at the hands of their railroad and are al
lowed the full advantages which their position gives
them they know that the lower belt of the and Mis-
through the port of this city. 1t is to secure air pay
that these numbers published.
THE HEAVY LUG-EvERY AID GIVEN TO PHILADELPHIA
rms is struggle for life with the Baltimore merchant
His rival of Philadelphia is powerful intelligent and
resoute to grasp this enrichng the city
Baltimore Philadelphia merchants aided in their ef
forts by facility and every energy the Pennsyva
MIA road The pathway of Philadelphia enterprise is
shortened and cheapened every possible pont To
save twenty five miles of distance for the merchant of
Philade phia JoHN EDGAR THOMPSON President of the
Pennsylvania road has hesated to cut throuGb the
Virginia bridge he
vile The investment in this off road exceeds 81 COO
900 and yet give to Philadelphia merchants facty of
20 miles, and enable them better to overwhelm Baltimore
in the Cincinnati markets. that far seeing nd accomplish
ed President JOHN EDGAR THOMPSON has abandoned his
long road around the bend of the Ohio river and struck
straight through to Steubenville.
JOHN W. GARRETT CoNTRAsTED WITH JOHN EDGAR |
THOMPSON.
How strangely does the policy of JOIN W GARRETT
President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
M WIN ne pohGy OF JoHN EDGAR THOMPSON President of
this Philadelphia Railroad The one abandons a Iona
route and invests 81 100000 to save has merchants 0
miles Of distances the other BY conrraRce Of iScrfna
ting policies drags the hiS merchants 81
miles out ofits straight course and saddles with unneces
sary and enormous burdens will not, however CON |
tnue the contrast, do not design personalities But
may be permitted to say that the Baltimore President
has some hot0 got twisted and pSues "a crooked p0lcu
towards the merchants of has cityn
HOW THINGS STRIKE THE MIND A THOUGHTFUL oBsER.
YER
, Standing as do, on the lookout and viewing from
this eminence of entire disnteresedness the tactics of
the policy men who rule the action of this road am
struck before said with these numerous and covert
commerce
of this city.
In musing over this busy imposition on one side and
poSsre endurance on the other have wondered if the
people OF Baltimore might not be the descendants of
lssachar My thoughts have to that imnressia
scene IN our Holy Bible where the patriarch Jacob he
he foreshadows for EACH the future of his
Of lssachar's seed he prophesied.
Issachar is strong ass crouched down between two
burdens and he rest that it good and the land
that it was pleasant; and he bo0ed his shoulder to bear
ana became as servant unto tribute'
The city OF Baltimore have thought he
to great Lake. and these with their agencies
are the fishermen in its waters The longest poles with
the longest lines to drag the richest treasures
fisherman stationed aar off Cincinnati hooks out 30
'ts a ton second fisherman 400 miles off occupies
the neck at Benwood and casts his lines the great
carotid streams. He hooks his GO cts ton
The Ohio Central Railroad itself only part of their
nshlng ackel To my imperfect vision that interesting
road seems to "be Set in the track of Baltimore com
merce like large fish trap in running stream whose
its meshes.
find unknown parties, ever and anon emptying this
trap of its accumulatOns At time made to cash
for some nameess party SIS 500 of its third mortgage
bonds not north iHtrinSicay 0nv cents - This
does with much gravity, as 'cse precadion for sink
'n9 t1nd! At another time it is made remit to other
parties equally unknown $40 interest on its bonds
hat bonds are thus protected is to Gu
riou puoc and strange to tell clue to the MYSTERY is
furnished because this large interest paid to nameless
parties rho are not eren required to Surrender Meir
coapOnSt
COMPLEMENTARY
ana merchants OF Baltimore ungracous the speech
must carry out my sime to its full analogies would
ask you what your part in this large pcaora foray9
our lot you longer tolerate this game that of the
unthinking mnnow, which idly plays about the hook
baited with the carcass of its species
THE DROP.
1t is by these multiplied agencies that tonnage is made
drop its profit before reaches Baltimore road and
phiebotomized in view it saggers this CITY, as
a non paying invalid, into charity hospital Here too
the city anatomists being better skilled find yet remain
ing vein and they stick in for small streetage charges
. AN OPPRESSED PEOPLE.
Never since the time of Israel ensaved in the land of
Egypt, was there down trodden people, than YOU
OF baltimore When look at the structure of your So
cla system and the oppressor oppressed mingled
together and find the latter looking the hand of the
ormer for money to trade upon, am satisfied that the
Moses who leads you forth from this bondage must be
stranger to your city, who is fearless the power of these
men, and careless of their Establishments
THIRTY AND
am not a Moses-l hid in the burushI
greatly venerate that man of God. These offenders
against his inspired commandments shall receive (pnra
ratvey speakng at my hand his thirty and nine stripes
iaid on without fear, and shall say it has been
done in favor or affection.
A. j.. NJ
BOARD OF TRADE.
Committee of Arbitration for May.
CHAS. f. WETHERED.
GEORGE W CORNER, FRANCIS B. CAPRoN, |
p. G. SAUERWEIN. RICHARD LENNON