Higher Railroad Freights

During tho past week a dark and ' tbreatcuing storin cloud has rwen over t the business and the iiuancml intertata i ■ of the West. On its black surface, 1 1 drawn in the suggestive colors in which 6 MephiHlo dclights to dweil, appears the i i form of Commodore Vanderbilt, his foot t on the neck of poor Jolm W. Garrett, of 1 1 the Baltimore and Ohio, and his long, í skinny fingers gïasping at the splendid ( erop of the West. A varice, ghastly and ( insatiable, gleams out in every feature ; 1 and yet a sardonio grin may be detected 1 over the millions he hopes to extortfrom 1 the hard earnings of the West by 1 tont freights on her products to the i ' board. It may be well to hint to this remorseless pírate, in the course of his 1 life lovying a more grindiug tribute npon I the commerce of the country tlian ever i Lafltte did upon that of the Gulf of Mexico, that in the end his grasping I avarice will be sure to defeat itself . Tor tbe last two years, through the j tion of the Baltimore and Ohio raihvay, j the people of the West have had able reights. Under its healthy ence the Grangers went to sleep ; but they are not dead, as Vanderbilt and his confedérate sharks fondly hope. This i proposed oppression will wake them into ! stronger and more desperate life than ever before. Five years ago they burnt corn within less than 200 miles of j cago, because extortionate freights made it cheaper than coal. These railway magnates may as well kuow that tho peo pie wili find a way to break through vested rights, backed even by a hundred ] Dartmouth College decisions, when exaction has reached the limit of anee. Let them be wise while they may ; be content with reasonable proñts, and ■ : all will be well. As these extortionate freights must , i virtually come in part out of every i ' man's pocket at the West, be he banker, I ! mercliant, manufacturer, and even down j to the hod-carrier - a multitude too numerous and too powerful to be j cessfully resisted - it is Üópect the warning here given may havo somo eñect ■ even upon the selfish greed of Eastem rañway