The true Democrat., 1854-11-22

VCrN extraordinary hostility to Memphis. We sup 4 pose we might give such an explanation of tht causes of that hostility as would not be very N fattering to the author, but we have no dispo
 sition to injure him personally or professionally
 The communication in the True Democrat bears the signature of HI y and is from the pen of the chief engineer and agent of the Little Rock and Helena railroad. Instead of talking about his own road his whole effort seems to be to create hostile feeling between the Little Rock and Memphis railroad company and the Cairo and Fulton railroad company. The en- glneer and agent of one company, he chooses to | place himselfbefore the public as maker ofmis- chlet, stirrer-up of strife and contention, be- tween two other companies, that have no reason for unklnd feelings toward each other. He thus takes position, which any gentleman of correct sentiments would scorn to occupy Of course his object is selfish, merely selfish, and he seeks to compass it by means that de- grade him as a railroad officer and as citizen. F Capt. Williams, the engineer of the Cairo and tulton railroad, or Maj Barney the engineer of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad, orMr. F Ford, the engineer of the Little Rock and Mem phlS railroad, or any other respectable or decent railroad engineer we have ever known, would sooner throw hls naked head upon a dunghill than be guilty of such an act even If he could perpetrate It without being identified by the public. We do not know much about the Little Rock and Helena railroad company, but we should suppose they would feel it due to their own self-respect to dismiss from their emplov
 ment an officer who, forsaking his own legiti- mate business, makes himself panderer to quarrels between companies with which he neither has nor can have any connection.
 So far as we know there is no hostility or un. kindness between the Cairo and Fulton railroad company and the Little Rock and Memphis company, and certainly there is no occasion for any. Notwithstanding all that is said by this would-be fomenter of contention, there can be no conflict of interest between the two roads. Intelligent men, who look at this matter can- didly and dispassionately, understand very we'll I that the two roads, far from conflicting with each other, will minister to each others success
 The able editor of the True Democrat himself
 in whose paper the communication of this He- lena engineer is published, has borne his own strong testimony that the Cairo and Fulton road and the Memphis and Little Rock road, ii both be constructed, will do each other good and not harm He has said and said truly that they cannot be rival roads, that there can be nc conflict of interest between them but that the friends of each should desire the construction of the other. The engineer in- chief of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, an officer and gentle. man of broad, liberal, and enlightened views
 evinced not long ago his own friendly feelings toward the Memphis and Little Rock road bv writing in substance to the president of its com pany: "l will make a prediction which you
 may disregard altogether or lay by for future reference. Ii Is thls-your railroad when com. l pleted, will have cost two and half millions 10 dollars, and, n five years thereafter, it will I bring revenue to the company of half mil lion of dollars per annum" We doubt if there IS an officer of the Cairo and Fulton railroad company that does not most sincerely desire that both roads shall be made Even the pre- ! sldent, between whom and some prominent men of Memphis considerable i'll feeling ha. existed, said few days ago to venerable gen. tleman of this place, that he believed the Lit
 tie Rock and Memphis company had greater
 amount ot available means than any other com ' pany Tn the State, and that their road wouC | be soonest made; and he expressed no dissatis- faction whatever at such prospect There being no actual rivalry of interest between the two companies, this miserable aud contempt ble effort Of an engineer of third company to make the public believe that there is such ri
 valry IS Intended to operate upon the mem
 bers of the Legislature and bring on quarrel \ ln that body between the friends of the one ! road and those of the other Evidently the writer would be glad tb see both roads go to the ! devil, so he could thereby secure the construc
 ton of that upon which he does his engineer
 ing for what he calls " the prosy consideration of four thousand dollars per year." That ii
 pretty good salary, but it wouldn't half pay 1 oton n1a for t,lyi bo, .L, patry business of trying to get up fights.
 ! The writer in the True Democrat says tha
 the first point of competition between the Cai
 TO and Fulton railroad and the Little Rock anc Memphis road will be at Little Rock, and that there will be another at Louisville If what the friends of his own Helena road say of it is true, there would be just the same chances fol
 competition between it and the Cairo and Full
 ton road both at Little Rock and at Louisville as between the latter and the Memphis road
 All the advocates of the Helena road tell u: that freight and passengers could be taken o1 that road to the Mississippi river and thence up that river by steam boat to Memphis witt | just as much facility and advantage as upon tht | Little Rock and Memphis road. They tell u
 furthermore with great earnestness and vehe
 mence, that the road to Helena is to be met a once by corresponding road on the other side of the river which shall connect immediatel, with the railroads running to Memphis and th
 whole east, and that passengers and freight cal consequently get to and from Memphis, Lou isville, and the whole east, just as we'll by tha route as by the Little Rock and Memphis road if not considerably better. So, if we admit tn
 truth of the arguments and assertions of all tn
 advocates of the road, for which the writer il 1 the True Democrat is engineering for the pro sy consideration of four thousand dollars
 year," there would be full as much rivalry be tween his own pet road and the Cairo and Flu | ton road as between the Little Rock and Mem | phis road and the Cairo and Fulton. It is DOS sible that the engineer " for the prosy conside ration of four thousand dollars n year, may rt pudiate what all the friends of his road sa, and it is quite as possible that they may repr diate what he says and him too. In referrin to what the friends, aN the friends of the Ht z, lena road assert, we certainly would not be LII derstood as conceding that passengers and freigl could get as speedily, as easily, or as cheapl by the Little Rock and Helena, the Helen and Holly Springs the Mississippi Central, tn F Mobile and Ohio and the Memphis and Louis