Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-14
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THE LOUISVILLE And NASHVILLE
RAILROAD ANSWER To CHAR0Es
OF THE ROBERTSON REGISTER.

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On the 2Sth ult. we printed extracts from
an editorial in the Robertson Register,
charging the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road with uniustly discriminating against
the people Of Tennessee, and in favor of
those Of Louisville, by giving the latter
preference in time and terms of shipment
In the Louisville Courier, Of the l1th inst.,.
there is reply to these charges written by
an officer Of the road, which we are re.
quested, az a matter of justice, to publish
which We now do, eliminating the harsh
epithess which occur in it, and which are
not necessary to a statement of the facts:
"The Reeistey, in making its ofi.repeated
charges Of dissemination on freights in favor
Of Louisville, felt the necessity of giving
an air Of plausibility to its tale by descend
ing 10 particulars. The Register says
"'For instance, il will cost more to ship
a barrel of flour from State Line to Louis
vile than it will the quantity of wheat
necessary to make two barrels, and vice verSa
from Louisville TO State Line, thus en-
abling her millers to buy the grain of this
section, manufacture and place it upon the
market for less than our millers can afford.
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"'Such determinations are rigidly OBJ
served in the shipment of tobacco and all
other articles" .H7s
The truth is that the freight on wheat
from State Line TO Louisville is fifteen
cents per bushel or from seventy-fve to
ninety cents on as much as will make q
barrel of fleur. At the same time the rail.
road has offered TO bring all the -four
Clarksyille has manufactured TO this city
at fifty cents per barrel This diserimina-
tion in favor of Clarksville and against
Louisville has enabled the former city to
buy and manufacture all the wheat on the
railroad south of Bowling Green, KY. This
is the first fruit of the consolidation in the
management of the roads between Louis
vile and Memphis, which the Bulletin Of
the latter city charged as a scheme to pro-
mote the trade of Louisville.
Again as TO tobacco. The ruling rate
from Clarksville 10 Louisville during the
tobacco season Of 1867 was twenty cents
per hundred pounds At the same $ane
the rate from State Line to Louisville was
twenty-seyen cents per hundred pounds.
The difference of rates to Louisville be-
tween State Line and Clarksville is seven
cents in favor of the latter The tendency
and the result of this discrimination has
been to send to ClarksYille the tobacco of
the finest tobacco region in the world,
including the counties Of Todd, Christian
and Trigg in Kentucky.
4 60 far aa NaabviIla 40 ooroarnaI "a Io,
BEEN constant ground of complaint onthe
part of Louisville that freights from New
y ork to Nashville and other points South
are transported by the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, from Louisville,
cheaper than the goods sold here for South
ern shipment. These are facts well known
TO Louisville merchants and Southern
merchants generally.
The Register also charges that goods sold
in Louisville are shipped BY the railroad in
preferences 70 throaeh freights from New
York going Sonth, and that the latter one
delayed and held back in order to give the
customers of Louisville the advantage OF
an advanced opening The truth is, that
the advantage of Louisville customers in
this respect is due alone 10 the difference
in distance between Louisville and New
York On at least three hundred days Of
the year every pound of freight which il
delivered at the louisville and Nashville
depot in this city is shipped on the day O
delivery. g
We apprehend that there is no unayoid
able delays in the transfers at this point
because there is very active competition
between the draymen and the Transfer
Company. That the merchants Of Louis,
vile and the directors of the railroad com
pany are not disposed to delay through
freights at this point, is proven
by the fact that they are now building {
bridge over the Ohio at Louisville so tha
through freigh;s may pass us without trans
fer or delay. In view of what they arr
doing in this respect the charges of ths
Register are false and slanderous, withou
pretext, and even without plsusibility.
We have not the time, nor do we thinl
it worth the trouble 10 expose all the fc
tions on this subject with which the people
of Tennessee have lately been regaled. The
charges above alluded to are fair samples
Of the Misrepresentation gotten up TO ere
ate a local jealousy of this city, and a pre-
/ iudice against the management of the Louis
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and inexcusable is the charge that this city
and the company 'have been lobbying ant
using other foul means through the agency
Of the military power Of the Government
10 force a sale and get possession of th'
Edgefeld and Kentucky railroad.
| Meantime the people may rest conten
with the fact that the river outlets of Nash
Vile, Clarksville, and Memphis put il on
Of the power of the Louisville and Nash
Vile railroad TO discriminate in favor o
Louisville against either of them The
are sall competing points at which tn
Louisville and Nashville railroad has no
the power 20 regulate the freight tariff
As to local freights between way stations
every railroad company in the land doe
and will continue 10 regulate them with
view solely TO its own earnings, and with
out regard TO the special interests of any
body's trade"