The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-30
- 81, .r,,,;ru Ra.lroad Frsights,

II
Some DAYS since LyDchburg paper
called attention to the appssssnce there Of
through freights IN cars from New York
vh,eh ran through In :thirty-six hoursl
This expedition was commented on as re-
markable, and as placing the consolidated
line by tho Southside to disadvantage.
Being thus brought to the attention Of our
friends In Norfolk, one Of the journals
there appealed to General MALONE to
chsckmate an expedition and facility of
transportation which threatened injury to
the route via Norfolk.
Not seeing exactly how General MA
HONE can put down the breaks upon line
so expeditions in the movement<of the
lighter description Of freights, we were
somewhat surprised at the confidence with
which the appeal was made. We not only
believe that il is out Of General MAHoNEs
power to check the movement of freights
by this inland line, but we are further Of
opinion that no such power ought to pc
possessed or exercised by any railroad
officer. No line should be subject to
obstruction, and none to preference in
railroad administration. We do not. how
ever, mean to charge General MALONE
with the disposition to exercise a par
| tial discrimination against this Piedmont
line.
/ The incident, however, gives us the OPP
portunity oremind both the lines competing
| for the southwestern travel and transporta-
ton of odious determinations against this
city, and beg them, in their rivalries, if
they have any, to remember that they
should enter court with clean hands, and
that they cannot well exciaim against dis
examinations which they themselves have
been guilty of. fourteen days has freight
from this city been detained blythe Orange
and Alexandria road-and we conjecture
that at no time is freight conveyed from
this city by chat or the southside lines to
Lynchbnrg in less time than thirty. sia
houps--the time between New York and
lLynchburg!
Then, look at charges for transportation
Freights from Richmond in their southern
or southwestern movement rise soerapidly
in comparison with those from Baltimore
and New York travelling by the same
routes that they are hardly out of the
State before the anomaly is presented OF
charges on the Richmond freight being
higher than those upon the goods from the
northern cities!
i 1t is weR enough, gentlemen, that these
facts should be considered while settling
your accounts with one another. The de-
tention of Virginia freights and the dis
ordinations against this city-a Virginia
city, and one that has suffered so much
are monstrous acts of injustice, and ought
to be discontinued.
No officer Of railroad, no directory Of
railroad, has right to give preference to
freights or to discriminate in charges in
favor of one and against another. If this
sort of injustice was practiced in favor of
Virginia-in favor of home-it might be
looked upon with spirit of forgiveness,
on account of the patriotic feeling that
prompted it but. this is not the case.
Virginia interests are suffering by these
determinations while foreign communities
are benefited. This is a practice out
rageous and indefensible, aggravated by
the betrayal of the rights and interests of
our own people.
Railroad powers well merit investigation
and amendment. All determinations, all
preferences, should be forever obliterated.
ALI people should be placed upon an
equality in their participation in railroad
accommodations; and we believe it would
be wise measure of State which would
confscate all roads that denied this equali|
ty to the public.