, 1874-12-30
RAILROAD NEWS.
What tho baltimore & Ohio Is Doing
= for Importers Of Foreign Goods.
The Great Southern Dispatch.
THE BALTIMORE &~OH|O.

Il WAB the intention Of tho Saratoga CofnbinA-
Non, when they established their prosont low
Tariff for fregIts 10 tho Enst 10 force tho Dati-
more l. Ohio TO to11ns. They calculated tint thn
road would thua DO compelled to still further
toduoo tho ratos, md finally, when it Ind loat
enough money, consent to higher rates. Tho
Baltimore & OHIO, howoror, ndhorod TO tho tar-
II previously adopted, aud took 10 notice what
,ver Of tho notion OF thu combination. Iloy had
L, however, we'll understood among shippers and
Importers that they would give them such apo-
.ial privileges by shipping via halt!moro rs to
mike 1t tlloir intorent to do 40. 10
MARE BALTIMORE TIE PntNoifah sEAponr
tor tho trade from tho Wost to Europe was tho
main object Of tho managora Of tho baltimore d
Ohio whom they built tho now line. And thcsc-
ero tho managers Of lho Now York lines made
ruc1 immense el1orts to prcycnt this road from
raining proper footlloll in this city, Or 10 forco
into combination wlltcl, would paraly2e
III Its offorts for supremacy. but their
nlora hayo been all In yain. Tho very
trorts Which wero Hado to rnin this
oaa have helped it to liz auccess. Tic fight
HLioh tho combination made egaltiat it rallied
tho public to its support, aud to-day 1t is NJ vol
Established as most Of tho other lines leading to
the East.
Thc managers Of tho road, besides maintain-
Ing cheap rates from tho West to tho Ekstt aro
tlso doing
aoop wonH FOR WESTERN IMPORTERS
IN giving them chance to avoid tho exorbtant
,harges on goods from Europe to which thsy
wo nbIectcd Mt Now Yorl, as will DO aeon by the
ollowug circular iuRt issued by tho Vico-Presi-
lent, Mr. John King, Jr.
arNrLgMEx: referring to circular issuca by this
coupany u,'dcr date Of July \ ls74 ye have now M to
Company, OH through billa Of aaiuR lasted by tue
North German uoyd or tho Allan Steamship Lines,
4+. 4F}o
United satca, will not bo subjected to chargos n Ball
tinoro for either wharfage tTansicr, caaIon-honso
@ Dy mail eonsSments q. @ ito Weight or
Of which Ia not III excess Of tons or metres, Rld
even these small shipments will 10 exempt from tho
charges bcforn mentioned excepting custolu1lsc and
hrohets charges, which will n futura bs clargcd for
ward ON sucl shipments.
This circular has proved another hard blow
for the combination which heretofore controlled
nearly all tho European trade. Several of tho
leading importers hayo deserted them. mud are
nov shipping via Baltimore instead Of boston or
Now York. Tllcro in no longer amy doubt that
tho combination IL clsccimatcd. and, nh statol
ycstciday. the Erie and Michigan lsailroats wlN
i:robuby draw out Of il within sixty days. But
few roada arc living up to sho agreement, aud
Tho Commissioners arc almost entirely ignored.
Il Ia oln,ned that tho l}ino Line has during
tho Inst week mado contract with larGo ship
por in lhia city. taking fraightH to Boston ut
greatly reduced rates. Sumo Of tho H1nslngcrs Of
tho Michigan Southern Railroad stated to
TRIBUNE reporter yesterday that II tier COM
po.itors did nut cease violating tho agreement in
regard to tue eale Of passenger tickets. thoy
would, boforo long, reduce tho passenger ratos
to the East uB nl,1c4 us tho commission usually
rnd to various points would amount to. 1t il
appatont OIL Ill sides that bofore 1onE the roads
nos within tho combination will light each other
instead of the 1altimoro'tk 0lio.
4 NEW FREIGHT LINE
to tho Southeast has just boen established to
comrcto with tue Baltimore t. Ohio Railroad.
This l.no IL called tho Client Southern Dispatch
and has been mado mp by q JOINT arrangement OF
tho pttsburE, Cincinnati u st. Louis lsallrond; !;
Cincinnati, Hamilton l. Dayton Railroad Illinois
Central 1iallroad; Clnounati, Lafayette y Chi
cago nairoad; indianapolis, Cincinnati s. Lafny-
ctle Railroad; aud Chesapeake j. Ohio HAIL
road, Goods going over this line can DO
shipped either 1t tho depota of tho
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati Il st. Louis, or ut
the Illlnois Central RAILROAD. Tho now limo runs
over what IL known MS tho Kankaheo 4 PAN
Handle pool-lincs to Cincinnati; thence by boat
up tho Ohio River to Huntington, ". Va, and
from thero on Tho Chesapeake Il OHIO Railroad
to all points in Virginia aud North Carolina. Al
Norfoik it will connect With European steamers.
11r. james X. noming has been appointed, Chi
cago Agent. The new rntos hnya bocn made cS.
ceeungly low 30 RS to induce shippers to try the
new limo, which il claiued to be tile shortest to
tho Southeast.
Tho following arc the rates to tho principal
ma