Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-11-02


1t is known that during the war the Gov
eminent built track from the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Depot in Louisville,
to the landing on the Ohio river, where the
principal freights were landed from boats
What do you think was about the first thing
that was done? To take it up and fall back
on the draymen, thereby very much pre-
venting the speedy transfer of freights to the
South When it is considered that the dis
lance from the Ohio river to the Louisville
and Nashville Depot is at least three times
as far as it is from the Louisville and Nash
vile Depot in Nashville, TO the Chattanooga
| Depot that an admirable system of transfer
by wagons exists in this city and that the
transfer from one depot TO the other can be
made bere in one-half the time it is made in
Louisville, these charges brought against us
are absurd, and in sheer justice to our work
| ing people, those officers should not ask us
to do what they refuse to do. They recon-
mend the bridging of the Ohio river at
Louisville. When that is done, 1 will take
| into consideration the matter of starving ont
our working people-but not sooner.
| The next charge made is the head and
| front of our offending. We transfer freight
from Johnsonville South, without charge for
transfer" 1t is generally known, think, to
our citizens, that the Nashville and North
western Railroad has no depot for the storing
| of goods. The one used previous 10 the war,
which was situated on College street, was
taken down by the United States authorities.
The depot of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad is the only one they have, and they
use it by the consent of the Directory of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, for
which they have to pay rent.
Now, in the name Of common hooesty, /
ask why they have not the same right to
enter into their depot that the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad has? Especially
when in doing so they use only their own
road, and do not trespass on the rights of
other roads. As well might some over
bearing owner of a storehouse say to his
poor neighbor who rents a store, "Sir, you
are doing me an injustice. Your store is
located nearer the business part of the city,
and if you don't pay for my dra yage, and
thereby put me on an equality with you, |
will complain to the authorities and compel
you to do So" Is this what they want? If
it is not, confess l don't know what they
dowant. But the greatest offence committed
has yet to be told. Neither the officers of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, nor
Judge WENTWORTH mentioned it. The
managers of the Nashville and Northwest
elm Railroad have a line of steamers, run
ming from Louisville to Jacksonville, in
competition with the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, thereby causing reduction
in the receipts of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, during the last six months
embraced in their annual report, of S1,011,-
1852 81. Who were benefited by this? The
merchants of Nashville and the South.
Who of our merchants does not remember
the exactions of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, when they had no COMPETE
ton, either by the Nashville and North
western Railroad or the Cumberland river
their Army freight line; their low water
tariff. This Army freight line charged our
citizens from two TO three dollars per hun
dred pounds from Louisville here. Re
member, if you did not then ship by that
line, you could not get goods except by ex-
press, which rates were still higher. Who
made the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road come down in their rates during the
summer months when the Cumberland
river was low? The Nashville and North
western Railroad did it; thereby putting
the difference in the pockets of our people
in Tennessee and South of US: but making
the receipts of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad come down, in six months. one
million, eleven thousand, seven hundred
and sixty-two dollars and eighty-seven. cents. |
Gentlemen of the Louisville and Nashville |
Railroad, continue at this rate for some |
months longer aud you won't be able to |
build many more roads to cut Nashville off |
and leave her on an island, as it were.
Judge WHITwoRTH says in his report |
that the officers of the Louisville and Nash |
vile Railroad give it as one reason why |
they are building roads around us, is the |
difficulty in making transfers through our |
city, on account Of the roads under ourman- I
agement; when it is well known to every
one, and ought to be to the Judge, that after
they got our county to subscribe S3000O0
and got State aid, and found they couldg get no
more money out of us, they commenced the
Lebanon Branch Road to reach Knoxville,
and afterwards got the road from Bowling
Green to Memphis, leaving our passengers
and freights switched off at Bowling Green
to wait their pleasure to transfer freights
and passengers to their way station of Nash
vile. And that when they, during the war,
were pushing their Lebanon Branch extern
sion to flank us to the south, they had the
full and uncontrolled use of the Nashville
and Northwestern Railroad from their depot
to the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad,
but never had the magnanimnity to Cffer
that poor company one cent for its use.
That l suppose was a military necessity"
And to conclude this lengthy article,
what compensation do they offer to our
citizens for the privileges asked? An old
md intelligent merchant told me few DAYS
'ince that he wanted TO ship some goods to
by the Louisville and Nashville
and what was the result? They
'efused 10 give bill of lading further than
Louisville, and would not do that, unless he
would consign the goods to n commission
merchant in Louisville, and even denied him
he poor privilege of selecting his own mer-
liant, but gave the name of the merchant
o whom he had to consign them. These
foods when they arrived in Cincinnati, cost
me dollar and fifty cents per one hundred
pounds. This is the fair play they intend to
ave us. Is this treating our people right
4 our merchants think so, let them con- J
niue to submit to these extortions. Mer-
hants of Nashville you have four routes
y which freights can be had to this place
The Savannah and Charleston routes, and {
he Norfolk route, and the river route to {
ohnsonville. Every steamer going below 5
'aducah takes all freight destined for Nash
lille, and puts them on the wharf-boat at {
I Paducah. From there they are taken to !
ohnsonville, by the St. Louis packets. q
hereby saving time at Cincinnati, as boats S
ont have to wait for n full cargo /; and as {
on are interested in these routes, and. as I
he line of railroads are all within your |
orders, 1t appears to me that sound policy
ught to dictate what course you ought to /
ursue Where is the ring of the anvil heard, l
r the buzz of machinery, or the artisan,
ept in employment by the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad out of all her wealth,
lade to a great extent off you in Nashville,
hat the privileges they contend for should !
e granted and throw hundreds of deserving
zen out of employment, just at the coming /
n of winter? How is it with the Nashville
nd Chattanooga and Nashville and North
estern Railroads. They spend amongst I
on nearly 100000 per month, thus keeping l
p a large population, who consume the 3
reduce of the farmer, and purchase goods
the merchant c
Citizens of Nashville, look to your inter
'ts, and support one another in preference
, building up rival enterprises that desire
our ruin. As for myself, as long as l live a
ltend to work for the interest of the city to :
hich owe all possess, and the interest !
my stockholders. | was pretty soundly \
tied some time since for doing what Judge !,
1HITwoRTH wants me to do. If the giving =
our transfer to the Louisville and Nash :