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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 13 (search)
one from Yorktown, leaving the Richmond passengers to lie over at West Point all night and a large part of the day. The railroad, I understand, is unwilling to make any change at all — thinks the steamer ought to do all. I am of a different opinion, and for the reason that, to let the railroad continue its present schedule, would necessarily compel the boat to lie at Yorktown all night. The wharves here are very old, dilapidated, and, in a word, unsafe; and no captain, certainly not Capt. Kirwan, with his experience, would allow the only steamer on the river to lie at a wharf where she might very easily, by the slightest storm, be forced upon the wharf, which giving way, she would be immediately thrust upon the shore. To keep up steam is an expense — a waste of money — and, to say the least, very injudicious, wearing out rapidly the fixtures of the steamer. Now, my proposition is for the railroad to be a little compromising — a little obliging in this matter. Leave Richmo