The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-08
THE PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK PRO
RATA RJTTJS

The bill for regulating the transportation charges
OF railroad companies, pending in the Legislature
OF Pennsylvania requires that the companies now
or hereafter having the termini of their roads at
Pittsburg and Harrisburg, or Pittsburg and Phila-
depha, shall publish their tariff of charges for as
many classes of through freight as they shall es-
tablish, make no change in the rates oftener than
monthly and on the first of each month, and shall
file each schedule of charges with the Auditor
General. On these through rates it shall not be
lawful to charge an advance of more than fifty per
cent. per ton per mile for distances under twenty
miles; under one hundred and over twenty thirty
per cent, and below two hundred, twenty-five per
cent. More than two hundred and less than the
whole distance from Pittsburg to Philadelphia,
they may charge twenty per cent advance on the
through rates. No charge for any distance short
of the whole shall, however, exceed the through
rate. No stock or other cars shall be chartered at
less rates, and no other company partnership
shall be permitted to use the road, or any part of
it, at less rates.
The great present difficulty with distant freight
is provided for by declaring that all freight over
roads beyond the State, run in connection with the
Central road, shall be at strictly proportional
rates according to the distance through the State
and any change from such rates shall be punishable
according to this act The penalty for violation of
this law shall be one thousand dollars for each
offence, half to the informer and for every day
of continued violation, five hundred dollars per day
in addition. The act is to take effect, if enacted
on the first of April next.
The act just passed one branch of the New York
Legislature provides for the like classification to
make up a schedule of through rates, in which
whole car loads may be rated lower than simple
tonnage weight. For less than the whole dis
lance the excess charged may be $50 per cent.
under 10 miles, over 10 miles, and not above co.
100 per cent; not exceeding 80 miles, Is per cent;
not exceeding so miles, so per cent; not exceeding
100 miles, rs per cent; not exceeding $50 miles, Is
per cent. up to 200 miles, per cent; and beyond
this, to 500 miles, per cent advance on through
rates. These rates are higher for short distances
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half the per centage of the increase on through
rates. but for the greater distances they are not
widely different. In the New York act the same
restrictions are named to of the road in eva
sion OF the spirit of the act but ores, minerals,
COAL fresh meats, milk and vegetables are excepted
from its provisions The schedules shall be filed
with the State Auditor, and they shall not be
changed more than thirty per cent. in the course
OF any year. Violations of the act shall be punished
by fine between $3.50 and $1,000 for each offence,
or by Imprisonment, or by both, according to the
terms of existing laws regulating railroad opera
tons. All railroads of the State are embraced in
its operations except the Long Island roads, and it
is to 60 into effect April 1st
Too MODEST TO BE GaArErUL.-The Liverpool
Albion says, young lady, the eldest daughter of
a well-known political baronet, was so deep a
sleeper that it was always difficult to wake her;
and in the year 1858 fire broke out at night in
the family mansion, when male domestic burst
into her room, and, snatching her as she Law in
bed, conveyed her to place of safety. Strange
to say, the lady's high sense of modesty caused
her preserver to be discharged from her fathers
service. The lady is still unmarried, but the man
who risked his life to save that of his mistress has
been rewarded by legacy of $500, bequeathed to
him by his late master.
THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE ARTILLERY.-Ex.
President Pierce has offered to take command OF
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery corps of Bos,
ton, for this year, and the company intend visiting
New York, some time during the coming summer,
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command of Captain Mansfield Lowell, formerly
of the army. The 'Honorables'' elect captain
every year.
The neighborhood of st. Paul, Minnesota, has
been troubled with wood thieves. The beautiful
grounds and ornamental drives near the city as
hare as the nrairias