Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-10

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Us. THE CHAT |
TANooGA RAILRoAD.-A little 'shindy" has |
been kicked up by the passage ola resolution |
by the Chamber of Commerce, calling at
tention 10 the fact Of the Chattanooga rail-
road being used for the benefit of everybody
else rather than those who have invested
their money in its construction or are taxed
TO paw the interest on the bonds granted by
Davidson county and the State for the same
purpose Through freights are taken from
Johnsonville and piled up at Chattanooga
or left in the cars for days and weeks, or the
Chattanooga cars are run of upon other
roads TO relieve the the glut Of freight at
Chattanooga, created by sending it forward
faster than the roads beyond Chattanooga
can take it away, and the incapacity Of the
roads beyond being known; while freights for
points within the State Of Tennessee, are
living at the Chattanooga depot in this city,
or refused altogether.
When the managers Of the Chattanooga
road know the incapaeity OF the roads IN
their Southern terminus 10 take from them
the freights their superior capacity enables
them to send forward, why do they not per-
NIT the freight to accumulate at Johnson
Vile while they relieve their Nashville de-
pot Of the local freights that await.shipment,
and which could be discharged@at points
where no glut would take place? If they
send forward these local freights their cars
would be emptied for the return trains.
They would not have 10 stand idle with their
loads, and become portable warehouses, as
they are now doing at Chattanooga and be-
yond. The amount Of il is, that the Rail-
road is looking to its own interest, and not
to the interests Of the people of Tennessee,
by whose naoney it was built. The people
along the line of the road can whistle for
their freights, while the Chattanooga rail-
road is furnishing rolling stock and trans
portation for merchants of cities five hun
dred or a thousand miles TO the north Of us,
or TO States south Of US, who by want of ac-
tivity Of their railroad managers, or the mis-
fortunes of war, have no railroads capable of
carrying their commodities.
Charity is a virtue we should all emulate;
but this thing of carrying seed 10 the
farmers of Alabama or Georgia two weeks
before they need it, while our own people
are made to wait until after planting time
for necessary transportation, which, although
they own enough, is being loaned to others,
is a little 100 much charity-or good thing.
If this Legislature could be prevailed
upon, when il renews its labors, to enact
law prohibiting, under fines and penalties,
the loaning of cars by railroads it would
have a tendency to check this matter Of
which we complain. If the saving of
| breaking bulk is advanced as a reason
| why such an enactment would work in
| Justice, let the leaning Of cars by one road
to another be 50 prohibited as TO compel a
temporary exchange Of cars. If one road
| gives another road full car, let an empty
| one replace it, as a consideration. When
another road cannot give an empty car for
| full one, make heavy fine the penalty for
running cars off of the roads TO which they
belong.
| We would like to know whether the
| people Of Tennessee will countenance so
| glaring an injury! They are made to stand
| by and watch their railroads exert every
| effort to supply citizens of other States with
commodities, from cities beyond her Dor
ders while they are neither permitted to
| offer this supply, or furnish it to one an
| other Her own commodities may rot, or
her people starve, while she furnishes the
highway over which others traffic. Who
cares? Railroads like other corporations,
| have neither souls for compassion nor bodies
| to kick. Thomson WITHOUT THE up"
| THE sensation of the day yesterday, was a
rope-walking feat by professor of the magic
art named Donaldson, who, we believe, is at
present giving a series of his entertainments
in this city. Some time in the afternoon a
rope of some two, or two and a half inches
i'm diameter, was stretched across Church
street, from the Maxwell House to the build
ing opposite, occupied as q Photographic
gallery. Before four o'clock a numerous
crowd was collected, standing along Church
| street on both sides, from the st. Cloud 10
the Post Office and the UNION AND AMERI-
CAN Block-numbering, perhaps, two OF
three thousand. The number was gradually
increased until the performance commenced,
which was a few minutes after five O'clock
The professor then appeared, walked the
rope from the gallery building to near the
Maxwell House, retraced his steps back
wards some distance, and then left the rope
and performed series Of gymnastics under
it, to the entire satisfaction of all. After
this he proceeded TO " advance backwards
upon the rope, until he reached the gallery
building and at this point, the novel enter
tainment ended. Ii did not cost anything
to see the sight, and of course, the performer
expects increased audiences the rest of his
stay.
REcoRDER's CoURT.-The usual account
Of 4" drunk" drunk and disorderly," &c
were before the Recorder yesterday. TIC
name all would be time and space lost
Judge WILKINSON disposed of them with
his usual promptness and justice-in which
behalf the city revenue did not suffer.
In addition to these duties our worthy
| Recorder has others to perform that are Of
greater importance which is the execution
| of the corporation license laws. We are
pleased TO see that he is as vigilant in this
respect as in the otherStnties of his office
, fthcre is any body in the city who is doing
business, from an express wagon to the
wholesale merchant, who has not paid his
corporation license, we notify him that he
will save time and money by going to the
| CITY Hall and squaring his accounts. All
such are being ferreted out, and every days
delay will only serve TO make the matter
worse for the delinquents. A hint upon thu
subject ought to be sufficient.
The CorroN BUsINEss.--A city paper o
Yesterday gave an account of the arrest Of ;
person by the name of j. w. ALLEY the da,
before, who was unfortunately mixed NJ
some way, or supposed to be, in the fraudu
lent Disposition of Government cotton in tn
neighborhood of Mobile. We understand
/ that another, by the name of HALEY wa
arrested yesterday, at the instance of tn
military authorities for some misdemeano
in regard to transactions in cotton. VIVA
the specific offences alleged against Ties
men are, we are unprepared to say; and W,
. are equally ignorant of their antecedents
But we are anxious 10 see this entire cottol
,,.arhau1ad fiot tho az,