Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-02-17
For the Fayetteville Observer.
McMinnyillF ; and Manchester Rail
Road to Manchester.

Road to Manchester.
MEssRs. EDIroRs:-The arrogant
pretensions and preposterous assump-
tions in favor of the Mountain route
from AIcMihnville to Decherd Depot
and on to Guntersville set forth with
such swellih words and consequent
sial airs ark as likely to be admitted
as thote sci up for himself and pro-
claimed in IA style equally grandilo-
Iquent by khe celebrated ChcctaW
chief, Push natahaw. Dressed i'll a
second han d full uniform Of a colonel
in the Z. s Army, in the feryor Of
his passion4 4te standardization. lie ex-
claimed, | was not bornof woman,
nor dandleh on the knee of Il woman
"a dark doul passed over the hori-
zon, a clap pf thunder split a tall pine
from top to bottom, and Pushmata-
haw steppdd forth ii lull-grown warri-
or with his Iiae on his shoulder" .
I'VE will nd NJ lore take the assulnp-
tions and a aFfog CANT pretensions Of the
mountain Fbute to GuntersviIlc fof
granted, TIA IN did the amused and
tickled by -Btah hders the grandiloquent
assumptions Of Pushmatahaw. The
one set off pretensions are quite as
well found ed as the other. So far
from admitting any pretensions of
this s oyt, L proceed to shcw that the
Winchester b a nd Alabama rail road
project wa au ill-advised scheme from
the first, dnd its cons struction ought
never to Aave { been 5 seriously enter
tained by a sensible people. Fact
No. IL rom Dechd drd Depot the
Nashville and Chattanooga lail road
is already finished on towards Gun
tersville al ) Fir as Bolivar. Fact 10.
2 = From Bolivar the Charleston and
Memphis iail road is already in pro
gress to within some twenty OF wen
ty-fve miles more or less of Glnters-
vile. Fa ct No. 3--A rail road from
this point Oh the Charleston and
Memphis road is I'LL the read that it
is necessary TO construct to Gpnters-
vile to make complete rail road
oonnep ptioll from Decherd Depot to
Guntersville, and thus connect with
any rail road that may be made to
that pointI but, gentlemen, if you
are in.patl lent to get to Gunte ersville,
md cannot whit the completion Of the
Charleston and Memphis road, and
the ann from that road to Gunters-
vile, tand which it is understood is
already cd dntdmplated by the Charles
ton and Memphis Co. to construct as
soon as they have satisfactory eYi-
lcuce tbJt 4 rail road is in actual
construct Jon from Selma to Gunters
rille) there is It he Tennessee river
rom Bolivar to Guntersyille, wide
md deep, with never-falllng steam-
9oat navigation the year round
-ake that anti hasten on your way to
5untersyfllel The route by the
rId Chattanooga and tile
Charlestd IN and Memphis roads from
Bolivar, With the arm to be construct
ID from the Charleston and Memphis
road to Gultecssille is a better and
nearer one than your mountain route,
rom Ddchdrd Depot to Guntersyille;
md has THE preeminent advantage,
it is alreIdy completed to Bolivar and
will soon be completed to within 20
Or % miles more or less Of Gupters-
Vile, abb Il requires from that point
only the distance from the Charles
ton and Memphis road to Gunters-
vile to be provided for. Gentlemen
lssailan4s, don't you see AL this
Il you do not, it is only because you
IRE in t 4at category: there are none
50 blind as those who will not see.
But let us come to figures. HoE
much wlll Yoar rail road cost from
Decherd Depot to Guntersyille? -I
Eight o + nine hundred thousand or
a million of dollars? Any sum you
please set down the figures--look
at the i magnitude of the sum. Then
setit down as Il fact that every dol
lar expended on your project is an
and objectionable waste Of
public 4 ind private funds; for you have
a railway already open and in pro-
gress towards the very point you
gish I'd 60 with but a comparatively
short distance to be provided for
In the name of all that is reasonable,
with two railways, one completed to
Rolivau and tho other conDectina at