Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-29
COOPERATION OF NASHVILLE AND
ST AnnRESS

81. l<ODAS----ADDAESS.
To THE PRsPLE OF NASHVILLE: As the
representative of an interest in sister city,
/ am happy, though impressed with feel
ing of awe, in presenting the modest claim
of the "St. Louis, Cairo & Johnsonville
Packet Company" to your generous consid-
Grafton.
When associated in the management Of
The Western Journal and Crilidn," in st.
Louis, and considering the admirable Rail-
road system of Tennessee, radiating mainly
from the centre of the State, one line Of
which was directed towards the Northwest
and another towards the Southeast, and
seeing that it was devised not only to meet
the wants of her own people, but also to CO.
operate with the systems of other States"
IT was a pleasure for me, in the August num-
Der Of 1853, to note the fact that by the ex-
tension of the Iron Mountain Railroad to
the Mississippi river in Southeastern Mis-
souri, to meet the Northwestern Road of
Tennessee, at Hickman, Kentucky, the
trade and travel between Nashville and
st. Louis, thus brought within about three
hundred and sixty miles of each other,
would Of themselves, be strong inducements
in favor Of an early establishment of this
connection" and to express the hope that
"the trade and travel which would certainly
flow between the Southeastern and North
western United States, along this route,
would rival if not surpass the trade and
travel between the East and West"
The ports Of Boston and New York are
over one hundred miles farther from st.
Louis than the ports of Charleston and Sa-
vannah would be by this railroad connection
of Nashville and st. Louis.
The Iron Mountain road is bnilt TO Pilot
Knob, eighly-seven miles from st. Louis.
The Northwestern road is built to Johnson
vile, seyenty-eight miles from Nashville.
The length of the unfinished road from
Jacksonville to Hickman is ninety miles.
The distance from Pilot Knob to Hickman
on the shortest route, unsuryeyed, is about
one hundred miles. The cost of building the
road from Pilot Knob to Hickman would be
several million dollars. The cost of COM
pleting the road from Johnsonville to HEX
man, as estimated by Col. Innis, of the
Nashville and Northwestern road, is only
$675, 700.
One of the millionaires of st. Louis, a
pioneer man in railroad enterprise, who
started the Missouri Pacific Railroad"
which has now penetrated Kansas, MIR.
Thomas Allen, who returned from Europe
a few weeks ago, informed me, as | was
starting for Nashville, that he had brought
over firm assurances Of financial co-opera-
ton for the extension of the Iron Mountain
Railroad to the Mississippi river below
freezing point :" A contamination devoutly
to be wished. and that he hoped soon to
make a satisfactory agreement with the
State of Missouri, to which the Legislature
were then transferring the road, by which
his plans could be accomplished. His aim
was to make the road strike the Mississippi
river opposite either Columbus or Memphis,
at which points great profit could be given
to and gained from Mississippi, Louisiana
and Alabama, by means of the Mobile and
New Orleans roads, as also from Georgia and
South Carolina, through Chattanooga, with
out troubling Nashville.
But Nashville being in direct line be-
tween Savannah and St. Lous, with roads
projected and nearly completed on the route,
throughout the diagonal length of Tennes-
see Nashville, with worldwide reputation
for intelligence wealth and spirit-the Ath-
ems of the South-having been esteemed by
the General Government as priceless treas
ure-house, and made the base of the most
gigantic enterprise outside of Washington,
Nashville, in spite of the desolating calami-
ties of war, of which it was a magnificent
theatre, now rising, like Phoenix, from its
qshes-the cash value of its property, judg-
ing from actual sales and paying rents, be-
ing now more than one hundred per cent.
higher than before the war-the medium
sized, three-storied, yet well-kept, high
priced and crowded hotel, the st. Cloud, hay
ing been rented in 1860 for five years at 81,
500 year. and now renting in 1865 for ten
years at $4,000 year-and its steady pop
ulation, augmented also over one hundred
per cent, having been, in 1860, $4,000, and
being now estimated at over $4,000, Nash
VILE thus glorious in the memories of the
past, and thus vigorous with the energies of
the present, from whose midst the hand of
Providence has selected the President Of our
vast and irresistible nation, would be untrue
to her brilliant destiny by allowing the gold
en- opportunity, of a cooperation with St.
Louis, which now presents itself to pass by
unheeded.
st. Louis, in the centre of the Mississippi
Valley, surrounded with n super-abundance
of resources, which are constantly increasing
in development, enjoying the reputation Of
the largest hotel on the continent of Amer
ica-carrying on Il large direct trade with
various foreign countries, collecting and dis
tributing throughout the length and breadth
of the land the products of Soils mines, and
factories, on its burdened railroads, and on
its vessels, amounting to 100000 tonnage
st. Louis proposes to cooperate directly
with Nashville by an immediate and steady
line of daily Steam Packet Company, run
ming in connection with the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad, at JOhnsonville, on
the Tennessee river.
On the 10th of November, 1865, this COM
pany was chartered by the Legislature of
Tennessee, by an act incorporating the " ST.
Louis Cairo and Jacksonville Packet Com
pany," with the privilege of a capital stock
of from S350,000 to Sl,000,000. The $780,,
600 and more were soon subscribed and paid
in at st. Louis, and the company organized
on the 18th of December and proceeded to
business The Board Of Directors is COM
posed of c. J. Cafirey, S. p. Callahan, II. c.
McCord, A. B. Moreau, ]. B. L. Heating, A.
A. Turner, and j. B. Stockton, Of st. Louis,
| and NJ Burns and II. w. Fyffe, of Nash
ville-men whose prominent position ener-
CIV and sagacity in this department Of bust
ness give assurance of the prosperity of the
enterprise. Frank +. Knobel, a faithful
financier guards the treasury j. B. Stock
ton an accurate business man, has charge Of
the records, and the Office of President is
filled by C. ]. Caffrey, bold and successful
merchant, who was chief proprietor of this
line on its original formation, two months
and more ago.
On the 18th of December the Board Of
Directors appointed NJ Burns, Z. II. Ewing
and H. w. Fyfie, of Nashville, commission
ers to receive subscriptions to the stock, with
full authority to represent the company in
that behalf
The commissioners have now opened their
books in Nashville, at the ticket and freight