Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-22

throw all its influence to build up the city {
Memphis. IT'S true and pity it's tbs true
The NJ & O. R. R. some time since yielde,
close the mouth of the Bulletin, and forbid
scurrillously attacking the officers of that Road
ltpermtted the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
to run two trains per week from Memphis t,
Scooba on the NJ. & O. R. R., to take Govern
ment cotton to Memphis. We presume some
Government cotton was carried by that Road
but we have indisputable testimony to thu
effect that great amount ofprivate cotton was
also taken by such trains. And not only is
this the fact, but 1t is equally true that the
agent of such trains demanded and it is
confidently believed in addition to the
freight charged by the NJ. & O. R. R.,
a bonus Of from tice to eight dollars per bnlt
additional, thus realizing handsomely from de-
parting from the purposes for which the off
GERS of the NJ. & O. R. R. permitted such trains
to run on its road. 1t is but reasonable to sup
pose if such overcharging was made on cotton,
! an equal swindle may have been practised on
passengers, and that a portion of the sum thus
realized has been applied to sharpening the
quill of the Bulletin man.
That the charges on cotton to Mobile are
three times less than on the same staple going
| to Memphis, is both untrue and absurd-ex-
cept as made so by the Jealous advocates of
| trade with Memphis as indicated by the above.
The Bulletin travels far out of its way, in
deed, to injure the NJ & O. R. R., in order to
demonstrate that the Road is to be diverted
from its regular and natural course by connec-
ting with the Iron Mountain Railroad, at Co.
lumbus, KY. Memphis has been afraid that
the Iron Mountain Railroad would terminate at
Columbus or opposite there at Belmont, and
it is now endeavoring to bring down as much
obloquy as possible upon the officers of the NJ.
0. R. R., for their audacity in endeavoring
to secure an important connection, which will
not subserve entirely and wholly its interests,
and Messrs. Smith, Richards and Cameron are
appealed to, to throw Legislative distinctions
in the way of the Road enhancing its own in
terests. The NJ. & O. r. R. now virtually
terminates at Cairo through its connections,
thus as fully as possible complying with the
provisions ofits charter
For some time past we have given consider
able attention to this Road, and become tolera-
bly, we'll qualified to speak in relation thereto
We consider it as an important medium through
which the commercial men of the North can
approach the producing classes of the South,
as an important auxiliary to trade, commerce
and travel between two of the extreme sections
of the Union, and as such, esteem 1t as an in
stitutlon worthy Of support and public conf.
dence. We are somewhat acquainted with it's
officers, and are prepared to vouch for them
as gentlemen who would not stoop low enough
to deserve the anathemas of the people or pub
lie press, but whose every effort is honorably
put forth to advance the interests Of their road,
and if Cairo is benefited and Memphis injured
thereby, why it is Nature and not them who
are responsible therefor As water flows |
down stream and seeks its level, so trade will
low in its natura. channel and neither dams
nor damns can perpetually divert It. the Mephi
stopholis of the Bulletin to the contrary not