The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-02-15

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were also stockholders in the Seaoo.e
route And why should these same porn Zee
have Immediately on the termination 0, 'no
late war furnished the funds, winch 'nen
could not be procured--certainls no' on
nearly as favorable terms-for repuila,As .no
ruined roads and bridges between fe'e,'-
burg and Aqua Creek earlier 'nali wv
seaboard road and bridges were rebuilt!
And vet this, too, is a notorious 1act.
Another statement repeatedly made in
sunnort OF this charge is that q thousand
bales of cotton shipped at Raleighfor Alex
andria were necessarily sent round by
Portsmouth and Baltimore, the Richmond
and Fredericksburg company having re-
fused to make arrangements for its more
direct transportation through Richmond,
because, as is untruly asserted, 1t was pro-
hibited from doing so by contract or COM
pact with the Seaboard and Roanoke Kali
road Company. Let simple recital OF the
real facts of this case refute this charge.
On its being represented that there were
parties at Raleigh, and at other points
south of Weldon, who desired to send
cotton directly to Alexandria via Pc
tersburg and Richmond instead of by the
water Internationally cheaper one-via
Chesapeake Bay, through tariff of tolls
| for transporting snch cotton was agreed
| upon by the companies owning the rail-
roads on the inland route between Raleigh
and Aqua Creek, by which the aggregate
of tolls bet,ceen Raleigh aud Alexandria oas
made less than it sras By the cheaper Bag
line, and the companies betaceen Petersburg
| and Alexandria on the -4quid Creek route
received a considerably less rate Of toll per
mile than the companies between Peters
burg and Raleigh. And this was done with
the full knowledge and acquiescence OF the
officers of the Staboard line. But this ar
rangement was made for transporting cot
ton by the carload, which alone could JUS
tify either the extremely low rate Of tolls,
or the sending of car through over TINS
connected chain of railroads. And yet the
lconsignors in Raleigh and the conslSneeS
in Alexandria insisted that under this ar
arrangement it should be carried through
without delay or transhipment and at the
same reduced rates of toll, even when sent
in quantities of half a carload or less
And it was the unwilingness OF the rail-
road companies Interested to do this I'M.
practicable and unreasonable thing, and
the inevitable delays to get carload IN
transporting this cotton, which prompted
its owners to send the residue of it by the
Bay line.
This is fair specimen Of the justice OF
many other such clamors. How much
would the condition of such parties be i'm
proved if the whole line through Virginia
and North Carolina were under the manage
ment of the Pennsylvania railroad, whose
inclination and interest would prompt it to
carry all this cotton not by the car
load merely, but by the train load,
under an euasice system of discriminating
tolls and dra,obacks, prtuately arranged
Nth the consignees. to the wealthy mer-
chants and extensive, numerous factories
| OF Philad9lphiu, or to sustain the ocean
steamers of the Pennsylvania railroad,
| which, without cotton and tobacco, cannot
| be maintained ? P.F. DANIEL, JR.,
President r., F. & Z. r. r. Co.