The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-10
National Express and Trs nsporta-
tiOn Company.

National Express and Tra nsporta-
tion Company.
We extract the following from q
Richmond paper of the 5th:
1t is known to all our readers that
this Company was organized con-
jointly by Northern and Southern
capitalists, and that it was in its pro-
gramme that its officers and employ
ees North should be officers and SOL
diers of that region, and that its
officers and employees South should
be officers and soldiers of the South
ern army-a scheme not only benevo-
lent in its purposes, but also intended
and calculated to harmonic conflict
ing feelings by bringing into business
association with each other, in time
of peace, men who had confronted
each other in battle in time of war.
The Company was rapidly organized,
and went into operation with fine
promise of success; but it soon met
an obstacle of almost insurmountable
magnitude, and that was the conferr-
ing on Adams and Southern Express
Companies, by the Virginia Central,
the Orange and Alexandria, the Vir-
glnla and Tennessee, and the Peters
burg and Weldon Railroads, of exclu-
slve privileges for bonus. To over
como this obstacle, B. F. Ficklin, the
energetic General Superintendent of
the National Express and Transpor.
tatlon Company, brought suit against
II railroads above mentioned, and,
after a hearing of several days, the
Judge, holding all the contracts to be
illegal-in violation of the charter of
the companies-ag:rinst the general
railroad law of Virginia-and void,
awarded m injunction, yesterday, as
follows:
Benjamin f. Fichlin and others, plain.
HfS, against the Virginia Ccnt,M
railroad Compuny and oMers, in
Chonce7'y and npon n motion IF H.
.1unction:
This day again came the parties by
their counsel, and the court, upon the
motion for an injunction against the
defendants, having maturely consi-
dered the bill Of the plaintiffs and
the exhibits filed Herewith, and the
demurrers and answers Of the defend
ants, doth overrule the said demur-
rers and doth award an Injunction to
enloln and restrain the defendant, the
Virginia Central Railroad Company,
it's officers and agents, from further
proceedings or acting under the con-
tract between the Virginia Central
Railroad Company and w. B. Dins-
more andiothers, doing.busincss under
the style of the Adams Express Com
pany, bearing date on the first day of
December, 1865, and III the bill men
toned, and especially to enjoin and
restrain the said Virginia Central
Railroad Company, its officers and
agents, from carrying into effect the
fourth covenant by them made in the
said contract, by and with the said
Company covenanted and agreed not
to grant unto any corporation, com
pany, firm or person the right or pri-
vilcge to have express matter or
freight forwarded or transported on
or over their said railroad and
branches, except on the conditions
specified in the said fourth covenant,
until the further order Of the Court.
But the plaintiffs are not to have the
benefit of this order until they, or
some one Of them, or some one for
them, shall enter into bond before
the Clerk of this Court, in the pc
nalty of $4,000, with good security,
conditional to pay all such costs as
may be awarded against the plaintiff,
and all such damages as shall be in
CURED in case the said Injunction
shall be dissolved. The defendants
therenpon, by their counsel, moved
the court to suspend the said order,
to allow time to apply to the Court OF
Appeals for an appeal, which motion
the Court overruled.
EDWARD X. CHAMBERS
This decision opens up new era
for the express business of Virginia ::
and the National Express and Trans
portation Company, by whose friends
this fight has been made, will not be
SLOW to avail itself of the rich reward
which now await upon activity an,
enterprise in the Old Dominion under
the protection of equal laws.
Hon. VIM. D. Kelly, member Of
Congress from Pennsylvania, after
making a speech Of thirty pages to
prove that it is just to protect the
Eastern manufacturer and to impose
an export duty on cotton, says of the
Soutb.