, 1860-01-27

Schemes If III, cad { q r1,la X Railway.

Proposed Lc:fAlatton in New York.
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seaem:. # III, I sf4asd q r.,l X asilwsy.
tFsora tie n. y. Courier and Euqutrer.]
Tlr Pho.ltA1A FnE1cnr Bit1.-There exists
au,uu;; our merchants drgtee Of apathy III r..
sa!d TO this suicidal measure, which il well
calculated to give ren, we'd energy and hopes 10
thus. s:ho arc pressing it upon tue Legislature.
The facts in II uu.c:son with the subject are
briefly Is E0oNa:
j;sstsy, pLliadst rtiia, B4ltir,ore, aud finally
Fortl4nd, are ali conleuding usalnss New losk
H. tie commerce. Of the West. i B.!tinors ill.,,
siscs Western produce and -Me.tet,, mes chants
et4 the l;aluulore aud Ohio Railroad. ph,!a-
dcsphfa mskes the same overture. over tue
Pcun>5 IvAuia Kailroa.i, aad Eoston aud Port
lNl}d art seekin. tile same result through north.
eru rhannels OF co4amunlcat1on. Tortiunu his
juatc0ne into the Held Of competition; but
with tho Graud Trunk, Rai,road pushing into
the Mcsr, ana' t3natIy connecting with the Hi
nos Central, it is proposed 10 issue bills of Ia
drn:; for produce received Ut Cairo in Illinois,
10 b. Delivered in Liverpool, England, tia the
Grind Trunk Railroad and steamers from Pat
iuud. Experience will prove that this last coin-
petition lur tue y rstesn trade, will not be the
least formidable.
TIC coulI ctll1on beta cen tic various chan
rels Vi communication with the Great West.
icce>suiily le d. TO competing prices in tue
Carrying Of freight and passengers; aud New
ior& would soon find herself rubbed Of her
pie enircoce, ii by ant crror in legislation, The
the Railroads Of this Stute-the Eile, the tell
tral sud lhe hudson ltiver-weic compelled to
give up the existing competition with their ri.
vas. And Yet this is precisely what the pro
satA Freight Bill demands Of them! Not only
must the produce OF iLc Great West be brought
u Ntw 1urk us cheap :ts it can llud lis way to
,}HTn
from tins city to tne Wcst, must be cari'cl Ut
as low :, rlte as otter aud competing lines Will
carry il Iron, Philadelphia aud Baltimore. The
Directors of tue Centr.l, Erie, aud Hudson Riv-
er Railroads, arc fully uwake to 1lcse facts;
aud they know TOO, that if the Western produce
cufilcs hero, and mel chsn3lzo toT the West is
purchased in this city, it foliuws as matter Vi
ncce .sity, that the Western merchant aud uHn
or vi produce must also come here anu travel
over these reads. As necessary consequences
thsY eau afford 10 carry flcight Tor less than
Gust, both 10 aud from this city 10 Ch,cago. be
cau.c with the freight comes the passenger
trat6c. Under this system Of Railroad man.
aycnIeut, produce from Chicago TO New iu1k
and mercl,Endize from New York TO Chicago is
earrici as cheap or cheaper Than it is to aud
from Philadelphia and Baltimore. Thus, sugar
is carried from this city 10 Chicago for fire dol
lars per tou, or t"ent, live eeuts per hundred
pounds! The distance is say, in round nun.
Ier!, about l0U0 miles; and the object Of tue
pending bill is to pass Law compelling tie
NcT York Roads IL carry produce aud lner-
chandizc tor any intermediate distance at q pro
Tatt ru1c In other words, because 4 hundred
pounds of suear is carried 10 Chicago for t1 eaty
five cents, the Legislature il called upon 10
compel the hudson ftiver Road to carry tie
sA.Ite for the merchant In Albany for less than
fouf centsi
". need not say, that this would be ahso-
lutely 1uinous to our Railroads, aud ut the su1.Ie
time. be equally ruinous to the prosperity Ut
this g1eat Commercial Metropolis. Such st law
would at ouea put IN eud to The existing coll-
pcs1ion between our Railroads and the Penn
s,lvlnia tiaad, the Baltimore AID OhiD, and The
Grand Trunk roads: and Of course the produce
Of the West would no longer come to New York,
aud! the uwner Of that produce would do ':1s
trading ia the cities where his produce woul.
tAu5 10 forced byta suicidal legislation. NOW
y rely, it cannot be the Interest Of auy portion
of thts peupl: Of this @rcut State 10 produce
such d result. The merchant ut Duf1;l.o ti,y DE-
sire tn have. h.s rrodace carried as los rs tic
merchant IT Chicago, but hcls not in njufed SO
Inng Us the Ccatrtl ftsilt cad carries it as seup
rs the .ual, anh cheaper than any other con-
vryance, aven if they shonld carry the produce
from Chicu.o qra.a. When the 'ab,ier who
w*s hired Ut tl.s eleventh hour, Was pail the
sane amount as those who were hired n. the
drss, they complained Of injustice; but they
uert re,13iudeh that they had received aIf that
ha,, beeu ~ onscd 10 them aud thai Tic higher
wagrs paid to those who commenced later was
mu concern Of theirs. And so with regard tu-
his pro r.s:a freight bill. If the merchant at
BufE4lo has his rum, sugar aud n,olas*cs delir
c.ea Ill It rfa>or"als-s:1:e, it :sEcre Of hs tnsi.
ness il the RI: :la ot this State -axrrs IL carry
the slime articles g'ats for tilciE friends ut Chi
cngo.
Ills question, it will be found, involves not
on'v tile welfare Of our railroads, but directly
<<F1f4 41t1.S
1t Is altogether, tie most important subject be-
lore The Legislature aad our Ctumber Of Com.
nerce aud merchants generally. must bestir
the,n>elve. il they would not hare inflicted upon
our commerce Il how from which it would lc
exceedingly 1i.!Ecult to recover. Our raltoa'l
DIRECTORS understand this question far better
1ban do o,.r members Of the 1.c. .c.,-iasurc; and
thry must lie permitted to continne this conlpe.
lition x.th competing uyetNes oil trade. i'll tile
manner which to them appears most judlc1ous,
ltm,i;iu. as they do to their own interests aud
the interests oil our mercantile community, who
in fact, are TIE ote'ltrs o. these i"s Gf Hf0rodls.
TiIev kn1w that the Western merchant will
fonw his produce---and tlsat 10 induce him to
come to New York to purchase his goods, be
u,,,st be enabled to scnl lis produce tcre M
chcl rs elsewhere. aud have bis merchandise
taken back n,i siu.lar terms. lie tf:cn trarc!s
to New York, and the Railroads make vi l1s
face for passage villa: they lnse By transporting
his produce and merchandise. There IS wisdom
in ull sLl,-thc wi,dom Of capitalists aud pT1c-
teal merchants combined, whose interests arc
identical with the great interests Of the City
Hnd State. IL;
tFrom the Dctrolt Adycg.tcr.l
GRAND DFslGS OF TIE GnIND TnrSk The
NeS York Cvmmerci4t .iirertittr OF Saturday,
says II has good rclson 10 behave that the
Grand Trunk Railway is cusleasor,ns u extend
It's Western connections, so rs to form. a through
line 10 the Great West. undo: lis own manage
meat and control, ind that negotiations are now
rcnllng by which the Michigan Southern Conf
pany will either rel or lease the section Of i:s
rad from Detroit through Monsoc, anil b; way
hun.!i eli ui t.; east Ut Chicago to the Grand
Trusk Company, the Latter Undertaking 10 con.
@tluct q second track on the line oil The former
fran Eiklugt 10 Chicago. In case OF the COLL
Plc,ion Of tic corttacs. The Michigan Southern
road will probably run It's cars on its Southern
branch. tcin: tic shortest and most direct
routc frcnl Toledo to E!khart, aud so through
to Chicago. The sams paper refers to q report
that tic Canadian Company had at prescat in
contemplation treaty Tor an arrangement
which will give them the control Of the uarlem
Railroad from Albany to New York and thus
furnish anuthcr connection between the Grand
Trunk and tho Atianttc coast. to bc completed,
we prcsume, By way Of tho Vermont roads to
Bennington. und thence Ly building the link be-
tween that place and ChatEam, tue route Of
which has are ady tcen surveyed and some el-
forls made toxarl its completion.
|, lF1om Il st. Loal4 Rsaablc n.
NEW Kou1Es ron TRAVEL AND TRASsroRrA-
r1oS.-Amnrg the strangers in The city il Mr..
Sabel, gentleman long known rs connected
with Ines Of steamers running between Pert
land and Liverpool. lie is On visit to this city
for the purpose oil making arrangements Tor
l4:in:i''s aa' passengers .froni liverpool and
t'r,,: II rc't'ai and there transferring theul
to tAr t;rant Trunk Isailru1d in Canada. and so
i.lsurins their passagv to The West, without loss
OF lime or trouble. lie also coatenalates ich
arrangements rs will Insure the trans sportatinn
of produce Of every kind direct to the steamers
at Portland. at u remarkably, low figure fer
freight, aud with much reduced charges. This
il tue programme Tor tho Northern routc Nu,
the saIno Company also design the establish
lncnt Of IL line OF steam propcl1ers to run be-
tween New Orleans and l.irerpool-s'x in mum.
ber fer the present, but to be Increased as the
demand may make it necessaEy-aMd tn bare
fixed times ior leaving. 70 tho. our produce mug
bc.transferred directly from The river steamers
to The Liverpool packet, with the certainty Of
its not bcip, dstainrd. in port. An arrange.
u,ent of this kind hus lon: been desired. cnd