The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-06-24

Knoxville Wing, that there is a great DISPOSE
ton among certain parties in that city to
grumble and find fault with the manner in
which the work on the bridge at Loudon and
the upper section of the road, is being prose-
cuted. If, as has recently been asserted
abroad by n gentleman of that place, Knox
vile has already n system of railroads some
two thousand miles in extent, there can be
no particular necessity for hurrying up the
balance. But who is it at Knoxville that
is always carpng, fault-finding, and trying
to make muss about the. work on the East
Tennessee and Georgia Railroad! Are they
the real friends of the enterprise, or do they
belong to that class who have always OppOs-
cd it, and who have never let an opportunity
escape to give it n dig under the ribs! They
cannot be the former, because all factious OPP.
position to those who have the management
and control of the work, and every attempt
to prejudice the public mind against them
while they are faithfully dschargng their
duty,must prove embarrassing and detriment-
al to the interests of the Company. Wefeel
rs much anxiety TO see the road completed
to Knoxville as any one, and we know that
the President and Secretary are doing every
thing in their power to facilitate the work.
The suspicion, which occasionally finds ut
terancc. that Il small local interest at Loudon
is delaying the work, is too absurd TO merit
even the notice of any one ut all acquainted
with the officers alluded to, and We do think
that no persons can entertain it without sub
jccting themselves to the charge of judg.
ing of other mems motives and acts by Il
standard by which they themselves would be
influenced and controlled under similar cir.
cumstances.
Knoxville has $50, 900 on hand at present
to spend in improving the navigation of the
river between the present terminus of the
railroad and that city, so that steamboats,
can ply regularly between the two points,
Wont that do until the road can be cOmplet.
cd! We have no interest at Loudon-we
want to see the road finished to Knoxville,
that, if for no other reason, we may witness
the establishment of our old friend "Pry'
and other gentlemen who five years ago ridi-
culcd the building of railroads through East
Tennessee. We are always pleased with
evidences of an increasing public spirit at
that city, and no one will rejoice more than
ourself when the shriil whistle of the loco
motive shall be heard in its streets. But We
do not approve of a zeal which outruns dis.
crction, which grasps Mt every thing, and
which imputes wrong and unjust motives to
every one who refuses to join hands with il
in its jealousy and prejudice of every inter.
est but its own. Knoxville is favorably stli.
nted, has high career of prosperity before
it, if not defeated by imprudent councils and
misdirected zeal, and We think our friends
there ought to be a little patient, and not OK.
pect everything to be accomplished in day
The work of construction will continue to
be prosecuted with all the energy that the
means at command and other circumstances
will justify, and thc'road will in good time
reach Knoxville, with perhaps all the Offices
emoluments, and patronage Of the Company
which seem TO be so much coveted, and
the want of which, we suspect, constitutes
the real ground for complaint.