Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-16
The New York Times Of the 18Th inst

The New York Times of the 18Th instant
says:
The import entries for the pasl week.
amount to S5,O52611, against the total entries of
$4.7e7.l2l same week last year. The export
cleaTances of domestic produce amount to 81,
lgS,Sl9. against S3,2l9,0ll, same week last year.
The export ofspecie amounts to 81 III 52e againSt
s.. 3l5. l6l same week last year. The customs for
the week are 81. l57 600. The receipts of cotton,
coaStwise and By railroad, are $3.50 bales. The
number of emigrant passengers arrived during
the week. 1852.
The gold values oftheimport entries of foreign
merchandise at New York since July l, 1866, the
beginning ai the current fiscal year. are officially
TO April u and semi officially (since) reported
rs follows-the entries of foreign specie being
omitted:
Total since July al l93
Against the same time last year,. 203.9S770
Decrease since July l.............,......... 5S7
The currency value of the exports of domestic
produce and miscellaneous goods from New \ ork,
including foreign articles re-exported, since July
!. 1866, are as follows:
Against same time last year..-.....-" l99,l27.0O7
Decrease since July $S9,7Tl sl3
The Louisville Democrat of the 18th inst.
publishes the following:
Capt. 2. NJ. Sherley from the committee ap-
pointed by the Board of Trade to investigate the
corn shipped south by the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad and the Nashville and Chatts
nooga railroad, made verbal report, and sub
mitted the following correspondence upon the
subject:
Capt. 2. NJ. Sherley chairman, etc-Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find copies of kilograms fl ON the
President of the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad, declining the proposition of your com
mittee TO accept corn upon the the inspection Of
a competent person to be appointed in Louis
vile. This plan having failed, and upon the as
surance of the principal grain dealers of the city
| that this market is cleared of damaged and de-
| tectlYe corn, this company Will from this date
| undertake TO give clear bills of a1ing for corn
| for points South. The continuance of this ex-
| pertinent will of course depend upon the loss
sustained. p 9 Very respectfully,
F. S. VAN ALsTINE. Gem Fl. Agt.
! LOUIsyILLE, May IL, l867.-By Telegraph
| From Nashville. Tenn, May -. to A. Fink,
| Superintendent, Louisville; Mr.. Burns, Presi
! dent of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad,
refuses TO consent to any sort OF an arrangement
| for examining OF receiptng for any sort of corn
outside his depot says shippers ought not TO de-
| sire shipping any but sound corn, and that he
| will not receive nor receipt for any other. He
| takes this ground from sense of duty, after
| carefully reading your letter and giving the
| wishes of the Louisville bOGrI Of Trade due con-
MAY Is, 1s6-;-By telegraph from Nashville,
May -, to A. Fink, Superintendent, Louisville:
| The Nashville and Chattanooga railroad will
| take all corn delivered to them that is in good
order, bat viii not receipt for a damaged article
as good, when inspection proves 1t otherwise. II
| parties insist on shipping damaged corn. this
! road before taking it will take the proper ex-
M. BURNS,
President N. and c. r r.
Capt. SheTiey in submitting the cOrreSpon-
dence, took occasion to critieise in severe terms
| the telegram Of the President of the Nashville
and Chattanooga Railroad, which he regarded
as anything but courteous.