Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-31
From the Banner Of the Both.
nnaIcrIH InacIiYifH of n RHiIrnnd.

The Cincinnati papers are out in articles reflect
ing in severe terms on the management of the Lou
isYille and Nashville Railroad. The Cincinnati mer
chants, too, have taken action in regard to the
''blOckade of the L. a n r. R., and the Commercial
states that the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Com
pany have made arrangements TO ship freight TO
Augusta, Macon, Columbia, Montgomery, Atlanta,
and other points via St. Louis.
In answer TO this and in explanation of the "black-
ade" the Louisville Journal of yesterday says:
EGWe find that the machinery OF the road is COmpe-
tent to transport five hundred of freight daily
Of this amount one hundred tons are allotted TO
local and four hundred tons TO through freigh;s
Until the middle OF July the freight business of the
road scarcely reached half the transporting
power of the road Late in July the drought in the
South alarmed the citizens of those States. and an
unexampled rush of purchasers Of breadstutfs to
the more favored regions was the consequence. The
Mississippi river not being navigabe, the demand
upon the road suddenly increased from about two
hundred 20 or quite one thousand tons per
day. The Memphis and Charleston road being over
tasked large quantities of grain from st. Louis for
Georgia were diverted from Memphis TO this city
thus still farther increasing the demands upon our
already overburdened road"
This is true only in part. In q measure the Com
many Is responsible for the accumulation of freight
at Louisville and the closing part of the article in
the Journal. which give below, Is unjust TO TIE
Nashville and Chattanooga road, and reveals the
mode of one partly accused to throw the blame on
the guiltess. The Journal adds:
Quantity Of through freights she now carry, il
would avail nothing there is but one outlet from
Nashville. Indeed, on two or three occasions, the
Chattanooga road has been compelled to ask for de-
Law The Nashville road with its present machinery
is competent to deliver and IS now delivering at
Nashville quite much southern freight as can be
taken from that city without delay"
The last two sentences are without the slightest
foundation in TRUTH and directly opposed 10 the
facts in the case. And answer to this, we call at
Of 4ba nd he fD
lowing facts:
There is now lying at this depot of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad one hundred cars filled with
grain for Southern points, for which bills OF ladlng
have never come TO hand. The Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad Company have had lying in their
depot for UO loeeS past ton or twelve car loads OF
grain of which they have received no bills. If the
road is managed in the same style hencetorward the
one hundred cars will IN all probability be IDLE the
rest of the season. until the bills arrive. In the
last fortnight not less than 20 car loads Of grain
have been returned by draymen to the Louisville
and NASHVILLE Railroad, having been refused by the
n a &. r. L. agents because not accompanied by
bills OF lading
road was we hear compelled to rent storage in the
city on JalesS goods. The whole neghborhood o!
the l.. a y K. K. depot is overladen with frelghts
and the building of the depot has been obstruc-
ed by the accumulation Ct unprotected frelghts on
the grounds We re informed that the receipts oi
the road for weeks past are unentered IN the re-
ceIving ledger because of the want OF bills OF ladg
The \. y G. r. r. company received portion OF inc
freight the La n r. K. to Obhge the agent with
storage until the bills were forwarded. The ellls
never came. and so great was the accumulation OF
freight in the depot and little effort was made &c
remedy the evil that Superintendent Cole forbade
the receipt Of any more bjIesS freights.
1t is at the Louisville terminus then that the fau
lies Any one who will converse moment with
the agent of the road here will become satisfied o.
this. The fault does not lie this depot or with the
y. c. * Il. Il. Co. We seek not to censure but sug
gest that little work and less talk would be more
suitable to the emergency.
The end Of the present dcplorabe state of affaiIs
in regard 10 this road it is not difficult TO fOresee
or predict The effect Of the policy or rather the
want Of IT, in the managers and Louisville agents of
the road are Swallowed forth in the statement
of the Cincinnati paper above given. The
trade of Cincinnati will find another outlet and
whether ty the route Ujd st. Louis with which VT
can compete and over which we have an advantage
or whether by route entering Georgia on the east
side of the Cumberland mountains route which
would injure both Nashville and Louisvllle-timl
alone can determine. The emergency demands &C.
ton on the part of The Superintendent of the
road.
in regard 70 this matter in refutation OF the state
ment of that paper celebrated alike for wit and
wickedness, the Louisville JOTHait; 50, merely as
matter of form, we pronounce Its statements in re
gard TO the Nashville and Chattanooga road untru,
every word OF H. lhere j. INV hluIc thah an acl'
of goods IN hopeless state of confusion lying il
and around the Louisville and Nashville Depot il
this city, owing entirely TO the mismanagement O
some one almost under the eye of the Journal ant
did not that imacuate sheet prefer an unjust fling
sister city it could find ample material for frs
rate Prentcinia' among its own railroad people
Win the Journal tell its readers that the Nashville
and Chattanooga road will. as it always has. carr
promptly all freights which the Louisville and NASH
Vile Railroad may get across the Cumberland. w
know the Journal politically, hut confess that W
do not know how FIR it applies its political rules 4
matters Of mere right and wrong outside.
In conclusion We say that no goods received b
our road will have any detention nor be allowed I
accumulate in quantities 10 be measured b
the acre. We're the journal TO turn some OF j
heavy butting on some OF its own railroad fuctO
aries the act of justice might meet the approval {
the gods aud obtain pardon for some OF its man
fold sins and transgressions.
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