Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-10
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1861.
Cry ArFarns.-The regular meeting Of the Board

sued bv his order since the first meeting in June
Mayor CHEATHAM stated, verbally, that the steame
Sligo had been sold for COO cords of good seasone
wood, to be delivered at the Water Works; the pur
chaser being gentleman from Wilson county.
Aid. RHEA presented the reports of the Wate
Tax Collector, Revenue Collector, Recorder AM
Treasurer which were severslly read and reee IVe'
The Water Tax Collectors report showed $40 q
collected; the Recorders report S645 80, and tn
Revenue Collectors report showed collection
amounting to S4,675 SO.
AID. JACKSON submitted the report of the Whar
Master amounting to $l4O.35 collected onimportage
The Market Masters report showed collections
for stall rents, in June of 2S75O
The Sections report showed 81 interments il
the month of June-2O whites and II blacks.
AID RHEA presented petition from HENRY HILL
to erect framed house in the Sth Ward.
The Board then adjourned.
The Louisville and Nashville HaiISOad-.
TenueSsee's Rights
Justice from the Louisville Journal is not to be
expected, yet it is necessary occasionally to expose
its stupid ignorance or wilful misrepresentation
In its issue of the 9th inst it pours forth the fol
lowing volley of words:
TIE ACrIoN OF TESNEsSEE.-The Louisville CO5lr-
Ger attempts to justify as everybody knew it would
the conduct of the Tennessee government in forcby
Selling the cars and locomotives of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad and claiming them within
the limits of Tennessee so that they cannot again
cross the Kentucky line. The government of Ten
nessee or the government of the Confederate States
can practice towards Kentucky no outrage so gross,
so fragrant, insolent, that the secession organs
amongst us will not promptly and zealously uphold
it They are scandalousy false to Louisville false
to their State, false to their country.
No just excuse can be offered for the conduct of
Tennessee in this matter She has set all law at
defiance She has resOrted to the employ ment of
simple brute force. She executes her will by the
military arm. She bids her Generals, at the head
of armed hosts, seize and hold private property
upon the pretext OF establishing an equality be-
tween the number of cars and locomotives upon
the Tennessee end and the cars and locomotives up
on the Kentucky end of railroad. She assumes TO
control by an exercise of martial despotism. what
the civil laws of both Kentucky and Tennessee con-
fde to the control Of chartered company OF me n
of both States The civil law lies bleeding in the
dust and a Tennessee army tramps over it, Ten
nessee Is dashing onward in her fierce and wild ca
reer of violence and revolution, paying no more
heed to the rights of Kentucky and Kentuckisns
than the storm pays to the dry leaves that lie IN It's
desolating path. Bad is getting worse every day.
Forbearance has lost its virtue if it ever had
any.
tennessee seems in this case to have settled very
summarily the much agitated and greatly agitstiDg
question as TO the shipment of provisions and mer
chandise from Louisville to Nashville upon the
railroad. She has settled it by cutting of, with
the military hand all intercourse by railroad be-
tween the two States by the seizure and coafisca>
tiOn of the only means bN which intercourse could
be kept up. SIZE will not let our steamboats, pass
her territory upon the Mississippi river without
seizure and detention she will not let railroad cars
and locomotives enter her limits without seizure
and detention. But the dIsuuion organs Of Ken
tuc&y which have made such vehement and even
wrathful protestations that our people must and
would and should exercise the right Of carrying TO
Nashville whatever they pleased upon a railroad
built and owned chiefly by themselves, will as We
have said, not only submit to but endorse and ap-
plsud the pratical and violent nonintercourse act
of Tennessee.
We call the attention Of Gov Magofln to this mat
ter. He must know that Kentucky, whose Chief
Magistrate he is has been insulted wronged, out
ragged, by Tennessee Had he been equal 10 his OH
cal position and worthy Of it, lie would have de-
manded from her the discharge of the steamboat
Louisville seized at Memphis and claimed indemnity
for the great pecunlary injury done Dy that laWeSs
act, but, although he decided TO remain quescent
then we hope TO find that this last arocity enough
his State pride if not his sense of what Is
due his citizens, to the point OF opening at
once diplomatic correspondence with the Governor
of Tennessee with s view to the prompt adjustment
of the terms upon which the two States are 10
dwell hereafter side by side.
A few facts viii suffice to answer this bitter IN
vectve against Tennessee.
By the act of our Legislature Of the llth Of Feb
ruary, 1852, the aid of the State was granted to
certain Railroad Companies, of which the Louisville
and Nashville is one, to enable them to iron and
equip their roads. And to secure the State in this
loan, it is provided: "And when the whole of said
"road shall be completed, the State of Tennessee
shall benvested with lien, without deed from the
Company, upon the entire road" within the State
of course including the stock, right of way, grad
lie ploiu
" and the whole superstrueture and equipments,
and GAhe property Oa1ned By the company as incident
"to or necessary for as business; and all depots and
depot stations, for the payment of all Of said
" Bonds issued to the Company as provided in this
" act and for the interest accruing said Bonds.
And after the Governor shall have issued Bonds
for the first section" (Of ten miles) of the road,
/" it shall not be lawful for said Company to give,
create, convey to any person or persons or body
" corporate whatever, any lien, incumbrance or
mortgage OF any kind which shall have priority
or come in conflict with the lien of the State herein
secured; and any such lien, incumbrance or mort
"gsge, shall be null and void as against said lien
or mortgage of the State and the SAID lien or mort
gage Of the State shall have priority over all other
claims existing or to exist against said company"
By the act of the 8th of February, 1854 the !
amount of State aid each road for the purpose of
ironing and equipping is fixed at $4,000 per mile.
On the 9th of November. 1885, an act was passed
by our Legislature extending the time to the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad eighteen months to
complete the road in the State, and granting the
Company an additional 100000 to build bridge
across the Cumberland river, all subject to the pro-
visions of the act of the Ilth of February, 1852
Under these different acts the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company received State
Bonds from the Governor to the amount Of
S5jj OOO for the payment of the interest and prin
cipal of which the State holds an unconditional !
lien on all the property of the Company within her
limits which also included about one fourth of the
engines and rolling stock, since the equipments !
were a part of the purpose for which the Bonds 4
were issued and delivered to the Company.
In addition to the aid granted by the State. cif- |
zens of Tennessee own stock in the road 10 an
amount exceeding 100000.
Under these circums tances. were not the Dircc- /
tors Of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in !
good faith, bound to keep fair proposition Of the
equipments at this end and in the event OF failure
10 do So was not the State Of Tennessee entirely
justified in taking possession Of so much of the
rolling stock of the road as her lien in principles OF
equity would extend to? For some time il had
been noticed that gradual withdrawal Of the roll
ing stock Of the road had been going on from this
end, and against this policy Gen. kSDEEsoN had re-
p,opstrsta1 and no only ioterflral whom