Weekly National Intelligencer

A correspondent complains that on some of the railroads sufficient time is not allowed for passengers to get in and out at the various stopping places. He cites an instance in which several strangers narrowly escaped with their lives in consequence of this impatience. Conductors seem to be of the opinion that women and children can spring in and out of a railroad car with the celerity of lightning. A sad mistake, and one that is often attended with serious consequences. No railroad is properly conducted in which the regulations with regard to stopping are not of such a character as to avoid all unnecessary risk on the part of the passengers. The loss of five minutes in time is nothing when compared with the loss of a limb or a human life.—Philadelphia Inquirer.