The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-16
port of the New York Tribune, which is the


"The Baltimore and Ohio Road is doing exactly
its Northern rivals like viz: forcing shippers to leave
that by of oppression concocted in the very
spirit of fooshness. Agents of the read have overrun
the West engage shippers to send stock in that way
holding of the inducements beside low freight
the advantage of three great city markets-Batmore
| Philadelphia and New York. But that shippers
made their arrangemer and of business
is running that way they told that they cannot sell
their stock at Baltimore without paying the fall fare to
New York. and If they sell at Philadelphia they are &C
tually charged about sl50 head excess Of full fare to
New York, and this week drovers were positively ioDd
to take their cattle off at Philadelphia even when ul
fare to New York and % cents head beside for errage
to Camden was offered. The agent Of the wilmington
Road says that he has been notified to charge all cattle
stonpin ct Philadelphia local fare and the Camden and
Amboy agent says, if the cattle stopped at Phadel
phia their owners afterward wish to bring them
TO New York they cannot do it unless they pay full fare
from Philadelphia here. 1t is well for Western shippers
| to take notice of this state Of things"
| We repubished the whole article from which
this extract is derived, in our commercial column,
and appended, among our comments, the follow
ing statement:
Not very long ago Of our principal cattle brokers'
whose business is worth many thousands of dollars
the road wished to take out lot Of CATTLE which he had
shipped from the far West to New York. at Baltimore,
and sending to the Companys Office to inquire what
deduction would be allowed on the through rates,
told that if he landed his bullocks here, he would
charged local rates, and the operation would cost him
t,oenty three dollars than sending them New
York We believe that the advantages of this market,
developed by the policy did not, at that particular
moment justify the increased charge and the cattle
200 miles further, and twenty-t dollars saved
Other brokers have applied for free tickets for the
who had charge of cattle landed here and have been
refused although the drovers of cattle sent to New York
always receive them as matter of course.
This appears to have touched sore point for
one of the organs of the management, The Ameri-
can, of the next day, had the following paragraph
in its principal editorial column:
THE RAILROAD AND THE CATTLE TRADE.-0ne of our
city contemporaries, which has assumed of per-
sistent hostility the management of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, copies and endorses attack upon it,
from the New York Tribune, about its cattle trade. AS
this subject is of some interest and Importance
shall procure the facts and statistics bearing it. and
give them to readers in day or two being satisfied
that they will prove the injustice of assang home
interests without due investigation upon the statements
rival parties and those who interested in railroads.
| ON Vi JuIi1, l"O us.ys e.rtci, p4v.I.-
ised "'facts and statistics" appeared in con-
temporary, but contained not word of reply to
our specific chsrge-nothing, in fact, but glorif-
cation of the management" and the most con-
elusive internal evidence that it was not prepared
by the editors of The american. On the eighth of
June following, we published still in our CONNER
cia column, q reply to Tile Americans 'tfacts and
statistics" with some new ttfacts and statistics
which we had in the meantime been fortunate
enough to secure, and which were as follows;
We have lying before us duplicates OF two receipts
freight, by the Pennsylvania Central of the May
14th. and the other by the Baltimore and Ohio of June
the 7th this aernoon) The first shows deduction OF
$ll975 "Camden and Amboy freight on lot OF cattle
shipped Chicago through to New York and taken from
the Philadelphia whole charge through being
S9S4 This disposes of the assertion OF the manage
ment that the Pennsylvania Central has made compact
of the date of May 9th which binds it of policy
similar that of road at all events made that
it adheres it, The other receipt of this date June Z is
from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ITSELF for five
cattle shipped Tolona, ILL.,. through to New
taken
SS2750 Last week the same broker had five of cat
tie shipped from the same place Tolona ILL.,, to New
York which through charge of s777 So fifty
dollars less the Nev York lot last aUeeL than that
foEen omt n Baltimore TO dan which is eouaI TO dis
elimination York of Just dollars per
As both these have happened since the reduc
ton of ten dollars from the Ohio river to Balt
more, and the compact with the Pennsylvania Cen
trail, may judge what were the eXacons before that
| beneficial change
This was ian end of controversy so far as The
american was concerned. thas not, we think, used
the word determination SINCE even in literary
article-and the management answered our facts
by Withdrawing its 'patronage'-save the mark!
Yet strong as this statement may appear to be, it
falls far short of showing the actual discrimina-
ton in this transaction against the trade of Balti
| more Our commercial article declares that on
the Tolona transportation there was a "Gscrimi-
'nation against Baltimore of just ''ten dollars
Hper car" The fact is there was gross di6tr-
ea,ee against Baltimore of ten dollars car, but
what was the discrimination 1t is fortunate
in our power TO answer this question by the Com
panys own figures, and having done so, we shall
leave this part of the subject. In The american
''facts and statistics article appeared the following
quotation from one Of the Company's recent
toll sheets, showing too, why the sheet
ranged
The principal officers of the Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania Central-making common cause in the
at Baltimore and revised the tariff and
rules governing the business This revision took elect
upon the 9TH of May and provides the following rates
The ollo,ving prices ,c charged from Wheeling, Ben
ac0od Iarkers6urg, Beaire and Bridgeport, antbfT-
(Maximum load 10000 lbs.)
On F.. g g ss3 in, in ca. Excess Excess
esss' iSooo Ids. or so 1oob s2o 7oc 1oolbs
lbs. less 90 70 SEC 100 lbs "a zoe 100 lbs
1t is thus seen that between the Ohio river and
Baltimore the charge per car load of Is, 900
lbs, and under, is S8O.O0 on the same from
the same point to New York $3.50. 90 per car,
making a difference of forty dollars per car by this
| toll-sheet in favor of Baltimore. As this is only
| the natural difference between New York and Bal
timore, whenever there appears a gross difference
of ten dollars per car in favor of New York, it must
be added to this natural difference thus discrimna
ted away, and of course the actual discrimination
against Baltimore becomes fifty dollars per car
Add to this the free return pass allowed in New
York and refused in Baltimore, amounting on five
cars to perhaps two dollars car, and We have an
actual discrimination efffty-two dollars car upon
| fat cattle, in favor of New York. We have not
learned that our previous exposure of this outrage
has caused any change in the tolls on cattle. We
can only say that patient which can stand such
depletion as this must have a remarkably vigorous
| constitution. What say our contemporaries?
| The REVENUE OF THE PORT OF BALrIMoRE-The
increase of duties at this port the months of
lSG0,as compared with the same months of 1859, is