Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-14

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MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD.
| Arrive. Depart.
New Orleans express. daily. 3;25P.N. 4;10 pm
Sardis accom'n, ex. sunday, 1000 AN. 1850 Pm
| Freight, daily, save Sunday, 2:l6 Pm. 5:46 AN
| MEMPHIS AND oHARLEsTo. RAILROAD.
| Through express, daily....l055 pm. $40 AN
| Through mail. daily.......". lao pm. 6:l0 Pm
| Somerville &C. save Sunday $40 AM. $40 Pm
| MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD.
| Day Fxpress"-............" 400 Pm. goo AN
Night Express...".............6 :un AN. 6:W Pm
Ticket Offices No. 2371l1 Main street and at tn,
depot, head of Main street.
MEMPHIS AND HATcHIE RIVER TRADE
In order that justice may be done the
people who live along the banks o.
Hatchie river, AS we'll as to our fellow
citizens, we call attention to the fact
that the General Assembly of the State
in 1865, passed an act declaring the river
nuisance from the point where the
Memphis and Ohio railroad bridge spans
the same, eastward. This action of the
Legislature never bad the sanction Of
those who were mostly interested, but il
is notorious fact that the bill was engi-
neered through the Legislature by few
who, doubtless, were in the p-id service
of the railroad in question. Hatchie
river, from Bolivar 10 its mouth, is nc
nuisance; every old citizen knows this
to be the plain, unvarnished truth. To
our own personal knowledge, steamboats,
of moderate size, as large as those that
navigate the Yazoo, could have made
regular trips to Bolivar fully seven
months of the year 1867; even now,
there is eight or fen fe. o. w-te: from
here to the Mississippi With such facts
before us, we woulo not be doing our
duty were we not } call The attention o.
representatives in the Legislature to the
great wrong practicod upon the people
of Hardeman, Madison, Haywood and
Upton counties by the act that unjlstly
declares the. Hatchie river nuisan ve
eastward of the Brownsville bridge. We
do not make war upon the railroads, but
only seek the rsopening of the Hatchie
river, and earnestly request w. M. john
son, in behalf of our people, to lose Il Q
time in bringing the question before T.
body of which he is member. Viii J
in Memphis, q few days ago, an oil
steamboatman told US that if Hatchie
river was opend he would put boat in
the trade and carry cotton from here to
Memphis for one dollar per bale, and in
return, deliver freights at Bolivar for fifty
cents per hundred. Let the river be
opened-competition is the life of trade.
-Bolipar Bulletin.
We commend the above to the atten-
ton of our merchants as matter worthy
their serious consideration. A few facts
will serve to show why determined effort
should be made to add the above to the
other practical means of communication
with the interior counties Of West Ten
nessee;
The distance from Bolivar, Hardemar
county, to New Orleans is 440 miles
from Bolivar to Memphis, Y miles. The
freight on cotton per bale to New Or
leans is S.; to Memphis, 81 IS per bale
Other freights are in proportion. The
distance from Bolivar to St. Louis is 800
miles; from Bolivar to Memphis, 7.
miles. The freight on goods per car load
from St. Louis to Bolivar is 81 per hun
bred pounds; from Bolivar to Memphis
only u miles-$2 rs per hundred
pounds.
The glazing disproportion shown BY
the above figures speaks for itself j
accounts for st. Louis and other north
ern points drawing great portion of thu
trade rightfully belonging to Memphis
If the railway tariffs cannot be sutfi
GENTLY modified to place Memphis in I
position of equality with cities six timei
farther away, let our merchants see VIVA
merit the Hatchie river proposition con-
tains. Memphis is being, and has Ions
been, seriously injured by high railway
and river freights, which render it i'm
possible for us to compete for our owl
trade with points hundreds of miles away
The matter should be looked into at once
CONTEMPT the Criminal Court yes
ierday the Auaianche contempt case wa:
continued until Monday, January 18th
1868. Judge Hunter ordered rule to b'
entered and served upon ]. NJ. Campbell
and S. B. Beaumont, to show cause VIII,
an attachment should not issue sgains
them for contempt of Court, in uttering
writing and publishing an article in thu
Avalanche, December 10th, 1867. At
tachments were also ordered to be issued
in two cases, against E. Whitmore and F
A. Tyler, publishers of the Pubic LED
GER, for contempt Of Court, in uttering
writing and publishing an article som'
days since, in said paper. 1t is whis
pered in the neighborhood of the court
house that like attachment will proba
bly, be issued against a wellknown Jus
tee of the Peace. for the publication o
a card in the Avalanche not long since.
This forenoon the parties cited appeared
in court and gave bonds for their appear
ance on the 2sth inst.
NEu MEMPHIS THEATKB.-Mr. Booth
Hamlet" attracted to the theater las
night one Of The largest audiences evel
assembled within its walls 1t was
masterpiece of acting throughout, which
produced a profound impression. Mis-