Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-28

! the Louisville and Nashville falHoau,
arrived at Louisville Wednesday night.
The Journal of Friday says the gentle
men were on Thursday morning waited
upon at the Louisville Hotel by the Board
/ Of Trade committee, who welcomed them
for the purpose of forwarding their mission.
Al the meeting on Change the arrival of
the delegation was announced, and the
President appointed Messrs. VIM. Garyin,
| T. l.. Jefferson, John NJ. Robinson, J.
Banks MeIlsain, and all other members
who could attend, TO join the reception
! committee and hold 4 conference with the
! gentlemen from Tennessee in the parlor Of
! the Louisville Hotel at o'clock P. NJ. Ac-
cordingly, this friendly meeting took place,
| and the best Of feeling prevailed. Colonel
/ James J. Turner, of Sumner, and Colonel
Ed. J. Gollidsy, Of Wilson county,
being called upon, gave full and explicit
statements of the enterprise which they
came here TO represent. 1t is proposed 10
build a branch railway, tapping the
! Louisville and Nashville railroad al Gal
laIa to Lebanon, the capital Of Wilson
| county. An informal survey of the route
I HIS DCtH lIGtlc " CbLl lfClCAh peri
enced engineer. He estimates the cost of
building the road, which will be about ff-
/ teen and half miles in length, al four
1 hundred thousand dollars. The counties
of Sumner and Wilson are too greatly i'm
/ poverished, financially, 10 raise this
money; but they claim to possess exhaust
less quantities of coal, iron, lead, copper,
timber cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, cotton,
| tobacco, corn, wheat, etc, which the thrifty
and industrious people there, by the help
| of railroad, will husband and market, and
thereby acquire the ability to pay for the
road The gentlemen ofthe delegation state
! that theirpresent mission is TO lay before the
Directors of the Louisville and Nashville
| railroad, the Board of Trade, and mer.
| chants of this city the plan upon which
they propose to work, and the certain ad,
vanlages that will accrue to Louisville, in q
commercial and manufacturing point of
view, by the success of their undertaking.
! These objects were somewhat deliberately
set forth at this informal meeting. But as
the subject will be more definitely pre-
| scented and discussed on Change today,
we will not anticipate further, although we
are in possession of all the facts ELECTED at
the conference yesterday. The speakers
on behalf of the delegation were followed
by Y. p. Armstrong Esq, President of the
Board of Trade, who spoke favorably of
the enterprise and expressed faith in its
| ultimate success His remarks were very
encouraging TO the gentlemen. They were
also highly pleased with an interview they
! had with the railroad directory At
nine o'clock this morning the delegates
will again confer with the President and
| Directory of the Louisville and Nashville
road, and at twelve o'clock they will be
received at the Board of Trade rooms. We
understand il is their intention TO start
| homeward on the train this evening.
The Journal of yesterday says
At 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the gen
tlemen of the delegations from Sumner and
| Wilson counties, Tennessee, who are on a
visit to Louisville TO further she projection
| of branch railway from Gallatin to Leba-
non, met with the Directors of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, and made known
the plan of their enterprise and what they
| desired the Directory to do. The result Of
this conference was the adoption of reso-
luton BY the Board of Directors, offering
| to incorporate the proposed branch road
with the main trunk when it shall have
been put under way. This action seems to
| have given great satisfaction to the dele
gates But we have no doubt the Louis
Vile and Nashville, the great mother of
railroads, will act even more literally
| toward this her Youngest offspring.
On invitation the committeessfrom Sum
| ner and Wilson, presented themselves on
| Change at noon President Armstrong in
troduced first, Col. W. S. Munday, ofSum-
ner, and then Col. Ed. j. Golliday. ofWil-
son, each of whom addressed the Board in
behalf of their contemplated road, pre-
| senting its great advantages TO the trade
| and commerce of Louisville, in earnest and
eloquent and convincing terms Their
| proposition is that the city of Louisville
loan lis credit, in the shape of bonds, to the
enterprise for one hundred or one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars Both speakers
confidently promised that if Louisville
would thus aid them she would never hear
| Of the interest on the bonds; that in less
than two years after the first locomotive
| whistle blowed among the hills of old
Wilson, the road would be paid for: that
| the people of those counties were honest,
and, as Col. Golliday remarked, "alwaya
pay their notes in bank, and never wait
/ until three o'clock to do it, But we
| haven't the space now to reproduce even
the substances of these highly entertaining
| and conclusive speeches. We shall at an
other time refer TO this matter in all its de-
tails. At the closing of the speeches, the
following preamble and resolution, offered
by John j. Porter, Esq, were read and
unanimously adopted
Whereas The attention of this Board Of
| Trade having been called TO the great ad
| yantages Of direct railroad connection
with Wilson, Smith, Jackson, Overton
White, DeKalb, Putnam and Cannon coun-
ties, Tennessee, and being assured that such
connection can be obtained by building a
branch Of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, of only sixteen miles, from Gal
| latin, on the main stem, to Lebanon, Ten
nessee, and being further assured that the
immediate building of such branch road
can be secured by lending the credit of the
city TO the enterprise, and believing the ad-
vantages gained will far exceed the cost to
the city; therefore
| Resolved, By the Louisville Board Of
| Trade, That we recommend subscription
BY the city of one hundred thousand dol
lars to the stock of the Gallatin and Leba-
non Branch railroad provided, the Louis
| vile and Nashville Railroad Company will
consolidate the stock of said branch road
with the stock of their main stem.
1t is proper to say that the meeting was
a very large one, comprising some of our
first merchants and capitalists All APP
peared to be favorsbly impressed with the
statements of the speakers and with the
importance Of the projected railway. In
the name Of his constituents Col. Golliday
handsomely thanked the Board Of Trade
for their encouragement and hospitality.
Several Of the delegates accepted an invi-
tation from the officers of the steamer Uni
ted States to take trip to Cincinnati and
return on the new boat America, which
starts on its first voyage to day. The re-
maindeT Of the gentlemen took passage on
the evening train for their homes in Ten
nessee.
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