Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-29

MEMPHIS, 5&ptember $50.
Z Editors Memphis Appeal:
The following extract from the card OF
Nj. Woodruff, published in the APPEAL
Of yesterday, justihes me in asking Of
you the privilege Of answering him
through your columns:
"The party ssBt one Of their emissaries
into Henry, Gibson and Carroll counties
TO write and make speeches, to msuufac-
ture and get ny an opposition 70 the man-
agement Of the road"
Though I nave been setting with no
4" party" whatever, in what 1 have said
about the management - OF this road,
and though ] am nobOdy's emissary,'
vet, As I am the only man who has been
writing and making speeches" about
it, in . Of the counties above named,
1 infer that Mr.. Woodruff alluded to me.
10 the after part Of June last, I wrote
NY first article against the manage
ment" OF this road. It was but putting
in the public prints what I had long
thought OF 81, and what I had expressed
TO friends on many occasions. II that
article l said
position, advantages and prospective
future, il has been run downt to RUM The
president and directors are gentlemen Of
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affairs with success. Do they not trust
too much % the presumed competency
Of the superintendent The superin-
tenssnt is always the credEue Officer Of a
road. He should be q man Of large and
comprehensive views, thoroughly quail
fed 70 develop all the resources Of q road,
and to apply them With judiciOus econO-
my. II be fails to create the life-blOOd
needed 10 sustain It OF II be iguorantly
or csrelessiy squanders Il. the soon be
leaves the road the better for 81 e5n-
cerned. If he is not equal to the task
imposed on him, all the financial skin Of
the president and his finance COMMITTEES
will be Of little avail for the road must
ultimately go down and pass into other
hands. The president and directors may
not be positively to blame for the igno-
rance, extravaganza and incompetency
Of q laundering superintendent. But II
they continue a management so destruc-
tive Of all interests, the public may very
justly csnsure them. To a great extent
they are the trustees for the interest
which the state, county and individuals
have in this enterprise and the public
looks 70 them 70 see that interest pro-
tected. Where is the wisdom Of paying 8
man 5000 per annum for running the
road DOWN. A hundred nnen can be
found In Memphis who will do the same
thing for half the money.
At Paris, ] addressed a large cauc0urse
Of citizens on the first Monday in July.
court day, all anxious to Know Whist
should be done 70 remedy tie mismau-
agemsnt under which every planter in
that county admits it has him cursed.
subsequently, l addressed the citizens OF
that county at Henry station, and Of
Carroll county, at TrezevaDt station. In
these three speeches-all I made and
in my priySt9 conversations, 1 advised
the stockholders 70 vote for the same
board Of directors, assuring them that
they could not afford 10 retain Jones as
superintendent, as his MANAGEMENT
would destroy any road under the SUD.
1 refer Mr.. Woodruff to Gen. Dunlap, !
Gen. AtkinA, DR.. Lo-iDg, and any citi-
zens Of Paris to Mr.. James Allen and
X. W. Bridlove, Of Henry station and
Messrs. Walker, Harris, Fuqua and
others At Irezevant. These gentlemen
VII assure Mr.. Woodruff that l did not
desire 70 censufe the directory, IS others
nso done, for Jones mismanagement
NATL regarded them 50 rsposlng too
much confidence 10 him but that their
own good sense would dictate the
sosolute necessity Of placing the road il
ire nanos OF a man who had capacity 10
manage Il successfully.
Having said thus much as to the mart
l sqted With references to their rosd. I
no" proceed TO lustgy my criticism, and
.oIeFls" Alt' Hoodrut's uOst extraor-
binary card. ! will do this ia ali kinJ.
ness for "a relations have always beep
tor friendly to permit anything like hit
{ rless 10 tinge what 1 shall saw. First
l barge that the losses on the road nom
accidents and laundering Ignorance dur
ing the past twelve months, would equal
the annual Interest il owes to the state
Let q committee Of stockholders be an
pOiuted at the coming meeting 10 exam.
Inc into this matter, aud II my charge De
not sustained, Il UjH be because no &c.
count Of these losses has been keDt. Sec
ond, Within the present month Mr..
Jones' blundering and unskillful man
agement has destroyed eighteen or
twenty box cars, several thousand dol.
lars worth Of tresllng, and rendered the
company liable for not less than $4,000
OF goods lost OF damaged. THE was from
the accidents on the 9TH and 10Th. At
rate, how long will It take this q" able
and accomplished superintendent to
use up all the stock Of the rOad2 Third, (
Mr.. Jones ignOrantly or ~deslgnedly dis {
eliminates against Memphis and in favor {
Df Louisville 10 his tariff rates. Proof 4:
He charges g 50 per bale on cotton from Z
Cairo to Memphis, l3l miles, while the
,ams bale can go for the anne sum from :
Paris 70 Louisville, 253 miles, nearly {
vice the distance. Louisville charges a /
,ent a mile per bale on cotton from Paris, c
Tones charges tJ0O cents a mite per 6dIet to 8
Memphis. At Henry station, ten miles s
OF Paris, Jones charges 5
8 so per bale to Memphis dol 5
n more than from Paris, (
nough ten miles nearer to Memphis II
nan Paris IL. At Mckenzie, the crl s. 1
X Of the Memphis S1d Ohio, and the ].
and Northwestern railroad, \
nd twenty miles nearer Memphis than
arts. Jones charges s. so per bale to d
The same cotton can 20 10 L
arts for fifty cents, and thence to Louis &
lie for 81 @-6sfas s. from McKenEfs "