| From the Nashville Union and American |
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| February 3, 1861 |
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| River News |
| Reported by H. H. Harrison, Steamboat, and
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Agent |
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| A Word to Shippers and Boats |
| The Nashville & Chattanooga
Railroad Company are now cropped: every place they have available around
their Depot is literally crowded and jammed; they have had to cast about
and rent warehouses in the city for the reception of their freights
consigned to them. This last experiment has cost them not only extra
exertions but put them to extraordinary expenses, which their low rates
will by no means justify, in consequence of which, they have to resort
to notification through their agents, and the prints, that on the 31st
day of January they will receive no more at their Depot. This must
remain so for a week or more. Boats that have received and are now in
transit, before such notification, the toad will protect and receive
from. After this they will require boats to pay half storage and drayage
before they will receive. At first blush this may seem arbitrary and
unjust, but it is not so, when we consider all the circumstances
surrounding. The road doing all her rolling stock will admit of, as well
as otherwise, providing for the unforeseen contingency. We would say
then to boats, if such terms will not remunerate them under the present
low rates to boat and road, why they had better cease receiving and tie
up, but should they conclude to continue, the road will receive on the
terms specified, yet each party, in justice to consignor, should notify
the shippers in their bills of lading, that such freights must be
subject to city storage, and leave in regular turn, without extra
expense to consignors As it is, it is certain, unless a mutual
concession is made between boats and roads to share these extra charges,
the carrying trade in this line must cease for the present; as it would
take the entire portion of the roads' freights to meet their
extraordinary expenses. True, it might be obviated by a mutual advance
of shippers. This, under the present want of bread and meat, would be
hard upon the consumers. We speak understandingly upon this subject, and
all parties may rely upon it, therefore, without leaving it to road,
boat, shipper, or consignee, we advise some mutual arrangement. |
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