Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-09-27
From the Richmond Wing.
Railroad Freights.

Comparison of Rates on Three Virginia Lines.
The Valley Trade Diverted from Richmond.
STAUNToN, Va, September 20, lS70.-In
previous letter to the WING on the subject of
railroad freights, urged the necessity of the
Chamber of Commerce of your city taking
some action to induce reduction of freight on
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, convinced
as I am that Richmond loses daily by the high
rates of freight on that line. [ give below
comparative statement of freights on other
roads:
Rates on Manassas Gap Road from Harrison
burg:
On -four per bbl to Alexandria, 1876 miles As
On wheat per bush. to Bait, 176 miles...-l2 Is
g g Alex, 1876 miles. IA 4-lO
On -four per bbl to Baltimore .............1
Rates ON Consoldeted Line from Lyachburg.
On wheat per bushel to Richmond, las
On -four per Dbl. to Richmond
Bates ON Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad from
tStounton.
On -four per Dbl. to Richmond, 1876 miles ,....64
On wheat per BUSH to Richmond ..,,.::....:.Is
The above figures will show that the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad charges the Stanton
merchant who ships his -four and wheat to
Richmond l9 cents per barrel more and cents
per bnsheI more for wheat than the Manassas
Gap Railroad charges the Harrisonburg mer-
chant for exactly the same distance, who finds
his market at Alexandria. The distance from
Dublin depot on the consolidated line to Rich
mond is 22S miles, and the rates are the same
as from Staunton to Richmond, 1876 miles,
The Lynchburg merchant ships his wheat to
Richmond, 1913 miles, for Q 40 cents per bushel,
and the Staunton merchant pays Is cents per
bushel. 1t is very plain that the trade OF the
large and fertile district of country lying be-
tween Harrisonburg and Staunton, which has
heretofore sought Richmond as a market for
its produce, will be diverted to Alexandria and
Baltimore by the inducement of low freights
unless the Richmopd merchants will make
some effort to retain this valuable trade, and
offer the same inducements as are offered on
other lines 5. b. 7.
ODD FELLOWSHIP. Grand Secretary J. L.
Ridgely, in his annual report to the Grand
Lodge of the United States, now in session in
Baltimore, gives the following;
Number of Lodges in 1869, 3,473; in 1870,
3,765-increase 1872. Number Of limitations
in 1869, Al, 4S3; in 1870, 46, 49, increase, s.
O96. Amount of revenue in 1869, So, 347,-
973.S6; in 1870, $2,714, 2SS. 93-increase,
1857, 2l5.O7. Expended for relief in 1869,
$3.50, 429.54; in 1870, $3.50 9o6, 6-inerease
$99, All, 80. Number of members in 1869,
26S, sos; in 1870, 29S, 0SS-net gain, 29.475,
exclusive of Colorado.
Business of the Grand Lodge.-The Grand
Lodge will probably have usder consideration
the proposed amendments to articles | and II
of the constitution, SO as to change the title
from Grand Lodge of the United States to
Supreme Grand Lodge" or 'Most Worthy
Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows" or Federal Grand Lodge
Other proposed amendments Of minor impor-
lance, as well as laws recently adopted in appa
rent conhiction with previous enactments, will
be acted upon and Strengthened out in such
manner as to avoid future misconstruction.
The practicability Of using steam on COM
mon roads appears at last to have been thor
oughly tested in Scotland, where the success Of
MIR. S. W. THoMPsoN's Road Steamers after
yrrious trials, has earned for them the endorse
uent of the most skeptical. A six horse road
steamer has been running for several months
from Aberdeen, distance of four miles, oyer
wretched road, to the Kittock Flour Mills.
In many parts of the road the grade is one liz
eight over which the steam engine draws ten
tons with great ease, at the rate of three miles
and half an hour. When we have canals
navigated by steamboats,, aud locomotives run
on common soads trade and travel will In
crease beyond expression"
Milwaukee is the greatest grain market in
the world. 1t has six large elevators, able to
| hold from half million to a million and half
bushels Yet last week five hundred cars were
standing in the freight yards and on the tracks
of the city, unable to discharge their wheat
This immense glut is from old wheat, and the
merchants estimate that there are million
more bushels of the crop of 1869 to come.
VIRGINIA INVENTIONS David Eynon,
of Richmond, has obtained patent for new
| method of manufacturing spikes. The patent
has been assigned to the Tredegar Iron Works
| Company.
Lorenzo Sibert, of Staunton, has also OBJ
tanned patent for desulphurizing aurophyrites
and other ores.
The people of Strasbourg have taken vote
upon the question of surrendering, and by
large majority determined to defend the place
to the last General Ulrich is reported to
have been badly wounded.