| From the Galveston Daily News |
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| February 23, 1865 |
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| Galveston, February 20th, 1865 |
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| Editor News, |
| Perhaps some of your readers
can inform the balance why it is that the G. H. & H. Railroad Galveston,
Houston & Henderson RR} is putting our currency down to so
low a figure. On down freight, they charge at the rate of $?5 for one,
and I suppose they make the same difference, uniformly, on all freight
and passage bills. The {Houston & Texas} Central
Railroad rated our money at $26 for 1 a short time since, and at the
same time the Galveston Road rated it at $30 for 1. Surely there
cannot be a redundancy of the new issue in circulation now, for
everybody is asking for it, and nobody seems to have it. Even the
Government officers profess to have none to pay our soldiers, who have
no other wages to support their families. Indeed, I can hear of none
having this money except some few speculators, and where they get it,
is a mystery to me. |
| The effect of these
railroad-rates are manifestly to depreciate our currency, when we can
see no reason for it. Those who have to pay these high rates on
freight to Galveston, must, of course, make charges in the same
proportion, to get back their money, and in this way the whole burthen
falls upon the Galveston consumers, who are nearly all soldiers'
families or poor people. I hope our railroad authorities will take
this matter into consideration and do what they can to remedy this
evil. |
| A Freight-Payer |
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