Southern shield., 1854-09-30

the course esde li5s case 5fs the D.o5:,on4
 the Cairo and Fulton Railroad The following extract shows in full the
 comments of the Enquirer on the case
 stated at the opening of this article:
 Cairo and Fulton Road---Ros-
 well Beebe "Schuylerizing." i We perceive from a discussion going on in 1 the Arkansas journals, that the President of this road, Roswell Beebe, has been detected in illegally using the internal improvement fund of Pulaski county. He was County Com missioner, as well as President of the road and, in disregard of law and the rules and re- gulations therein provided, took the money out of the Commissioners pocket to put into the Presidents wallet, and has been ever since using 1t to defray the expenses of his very toploftical efforts to puff himself and
 roGd into importance sn the popat7dr estimation. | We have ourselves, seen sundry manifestocs
 which were doubtless printed and paid for out
 of the internal improvement fund of Pulaski
 county, thus illegally appropriated by Mr.
 Beebe.
 We regret that this great enterprise should have had such an incubus as this man Beebe appears to be, fastened upon it. For long ! time he has been regarded as a sort of hair brained enthusiast, unstable as the wind-hav- ing once been just as crazy about the Memphis road as he Is now about the Cairo and Fulton
 But this thing of Schuylarizing' other peo- ple'S funds, is a rather more serious defect in a railroad President. There can he no conf dence, where there are such premonitions of insecurity The stockholders in that road would do well to look to it.
 In the accusation raised here against Mir. BEEBE of "SchyIerizing" that gentleman stands accused of Sacjnd- Hng; and as a reference to the two charges laid against Mir. BEEBB, one of the alleged offences sanctioned by the Carr2t- Tal,rt oe pl1laali. nnd tbo oth- er-the use of the funds of the county in advance of the regular calls upon the stock-done with the knowledge of the Board of Directors of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, forbids any, even the shallowest pretext for 80 criminal a charge, we think the whole question of this attack so far as it may be held to damage MT. BEEBE's integrity may be allowed to rest without further re- mark with the justice and morality of the public. But what we should like to know is the object of this ferocious onslaught on MT. BEEBE: this is really the only point of view in which an in- temperance as impotent as it is scand- alous is worthy of any comment what ever? The antecedents of the Memphis Land Company from the introduction of the Cairo and Fulton bill into the House of Representatives until this present time shows a series of active, persevering, violent attacks, whether of openwar or insiduous peace, ,on the great enterprise whose destinies have been placed in the hands of Mir. BEEBE. In the article extracted above from the Enquirer, while that paper affects to lavish its disinterested love on the Cai- TO and Fulton Railroad, the reality of its feelings towards that enterprise leaks out unwittingly in the charge that Mr. BEEBE has been engaged in very EEtoploftiee1 offorts to puff hiraaolf and hiS r00d into importance in the popu- lar estimation.'' This is the head and front of his offending: he has labored too much for the tastes of the Mem phis Land Company to puff hts road into importance. He deserves to be crushed: how dare he presume to be faithful to a trust at conflict with the interests of that stalking-horse of the Memphis Land Company, the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad?
 Overlooking the rude charge of the Enquirer that the True Democrat has attempted tO StuHify the public, for this subdued abuse falls far within the Enquirer's sense of the courtesy due to men and things tn hhis State, we shall proceed to answer its challenge to the Democrat to assign "a sensible reason why it, the Enquirer, is opposed to the Cairo and Fulton Railroad" /" The Mem phis and Little Rock Railroad is urged by Memphis on the ground that once completed 1t will place Little Rock in Railroad connection with Cairo and the Lakes by the Memphis and Ohio Rail-