Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-25

2 themselves, they asked that the Knox
: Vile and Charleston Company shOulC
! mortgage to the Blue Ridge RAILROAD
Company in South Carolina their entlr,
road, including rolling stock, etc, etf.
. subject, however, to the prior lien OF tht
State of Tennessee.
This proposition was promptly accepted
by the stockholders of the knoxvills and
Charleston Railroad YESTERDAY, and the
President was authorized and Instructed
to execute the requisite mortgage imne-
diately.
RAILROAD.
From the Nashville Banner.l
This road Is in such bad condition that
1t can no longer run with safety to life or
freight. President Cole proposes that if
/ the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
| Company will extend the lease for ten
I wears that he viii expend $500, 900 in re-
pairs upon the road. President Burns in
/ sists, We understand, that this shall also
be accompanied by bonus OF $500, 900,
sufficient to pay of the roads floating
! debt. The terms are considered too hard
| by President Cole. as the lessees already
/ pay to the Nashville and Northwestern
| Railroad Company, according 10 the con-
! tract now existing, all the receipts over
| and above the actual running expenseSi
| Il il held by President Cole that his COM
|
| make the outlay Of S200,00 without a
| guarantee that thoy shall have the use Of
| the road for at least ten years; and that.
| As for the bonus demanded, the COmpaTa-
| lively limited business done by the road
renders that out Of the question. We
| learn that a majority of the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad Directors are in
favor Of accepting President Coles terms,
but that President Burns asks for further
time As, however, the repairs viii, If
made ut all, have to be done before winter
sets in, President Cole has given notice
that he win abandon possession of the
road if his proposition is now accepted by
| the first Of next month.
THE RECEIVER SYSTEM,
From the Nashville Banner
Mr.. w. y. Wright, one of the most In
iuential and reliable citizens of Lincoln
county, has addressed to Comptroller
Blackburn a letter with regard 10 the
management Of the Winchester and Ala
bama Railroad from which we are per-
mitted to make the following extract:
- That the receipts Of the road for the
past year have been largely in excess of
its e8 8penses is a fact known to every
man of ordinary sense in our county.
How much the State has received of this
do not know; YOU do. Rumor says not
a cent, and / presume ruluOr is correct.
I do not know that the receipts Of the
road are not applied 70 Keeping its ma
chinery in proper order, and under its
present management it must and will
stop. In proper hands il viii pay ex-
penses and the state win receive a large
sum beside"
We have the authority Of tho Comptrul- |
Ter for stating that so far from Receiver |
Davenport having paid any earnings of
the Winchester and Alabama road into |
the State Treasury, his last a" settlement" |
brings the State IN debt % him TO the |
amount Of $500 81.
Mr.. Davenport is also Receiver of the |
McMinuville and Manchester Railroad, |
which is leased to Messrs. Huggins & |
Price at $4,000 per annum. These gem |
tlemen say that the road paya rs well or |
better ttaa any in the Stat6, in proper |
ton 10 It's length, and that if they could |
have control of it for live years longer |
they would both retire on independent /
Tortunes. Vet in his last settlement
Mr.. Davenport showed that there was |
only feiU htHdred d0liGrS to the credit of /
theState. What has become Of the balance? |
THE PESrrENTiARY.
From the Nashville Bannerl
We mentioned il yesterdays BGa4er I
that the arbitrators IN the riatteg Gf the |
claim of Messrs. Ward & Briggs, lcsseesUt /
the pententiary, against rhp State, had |
made sn award Of S207 .a3i in favor al
the former. The aSL nassfa az tRa last /
session OF The General Assembly provided |
that the damage sustained by the lessees
should be adjusted by two arbitrators, one
appointed by the State, and one by Messrs.
Ward < Briggs; that all questions upon
which the arbitratOrs could moi agree
should be referred to an umpire to be cho- !
sen by tbGiEselF6g that tho TalLs Gf tie /
machinery and unfinished material On |
hand the Isl Of last July, should be ap-
praised by 4 duly authorized assessor, and
that the Comptroller should issue To
the lessees warrant for the amount Ii
nally awarded.
All the papers ia the case having been
tlaa q the capitol Tuesday, Col. Ward
called upon TIE Comptroller yeaterdAy
Tor 4 warrant Tor S207, }3l, the sum named
above. After a full consideration OF the
matter, the Comptroller refused to issue
the warrant We understand that he re-
CARDS the claim OF tns ivss6es So i+aHGgs
iant in several particulars; that the spirit
Of the act to cancel the case has been yiO-
lated in 5 brit Il net iB letter and the ar
bitration Il th6raRar6 VOID. AZ "a tie
fraud charged, he relies 30 the fact that
the amount Of unfinished material, y |
found on hand by the Assessor, amounted
in value 10 about or over 100000, and IS
confident that he will be able to prove
that the material was prepared and left in
that condition tgr tie sole purpose ef
making he State pay therefor; also, that
the loss by the destruction of'the work
shop in June, 1867. was not near so great
as was claimed by the lessees, and in
eluded in the award,
As the Hon4ptrQler positively DECLINED
to issse the warrant, Col Ward applied
10 Jude Cary for mandamus TO compel |
him to do so. The niandanlls was issued !
yesterday but the CQmplrGlis5 9eGla.G-
that ne viii have the BldtteT referred "a
the courts for full investigation, and that
the interests Of the State shall not suffer
lang ~ they are ln his hands. lie has
already retained the services Of Judge W. I
T. Cooper, Hon. Henry Cooper and 5udge
J. c. Gaut, in behalf of the state.
TRAGEDY Vt cIfsERs4.ftIk.
Fr0m theS aslylile | nionand AInerlGan,l
\ correspondent al Clarksyillo gives us
the particulars Of A dreadful tragedy
which was enacted IN that town on Satur- |
day evening last Charles Hall anu sste-
ven Brandon lpet IN u saloon, corner OF
the square and Strawberry alley, and got
into dispute about seventy cents. After
an exciting alteration, Hall attacked |
Brandon with knife, eight inches long
and two and a-hah wide, cutting him hor-
ribly IN six places. Brandon at last sue
ceeded IN telling Hall With a stick, and
taking his knife troni him cut his antago-
mist in seven different pldces, from the et- |
fects of which wounds he died in about an
hour. Brandon is easy and will probably |
recover.
THE MURRER Al KNoXVILEE.
or this terrible affair the Knoxville
Press aud Herald SAYS: The bloody work |
had evidently been done With an ak. The /
unfortunate mans head was split open,
from he crown to the mouth. Other blows
had also been dealt him, splitting him
open from his chin TO his stomach, pre-
senting a horrible and CHASTITY sight. His
right shoulder was nearly severed from
his body, by the same instrument which
had done the fatal work. The ground vas |
covered with clotted blood aQd bones
which had flowed from his mutilated skull.
After hearing the evidence, the jury re-
turned verdict, in accordance with the
facts, :" that the deceased came TO his |
death by blows dealt from an AK, by some
unknown person" and the brother Of the
murdered man was released. Two negroes
are Suspected OF the horrible deed.
HURRIED HIN Up.
From he Nashville Union and AlaGTiean.l |
The letter which was addressed to the
Commissioner Of Registration by Seereta-
~ Fletcher the other day, informing him
that he did know whether there was sach
a county as Blount or not, a. there had
been an election hsia there about two
months ago and no returns had vet been
sent to his office, reminded the said Com
missioner of mis- neglected duty, tie sent
the following returns IA shs Secretarv's
Office Yesterday: Seuter Sl9, Stokes 1872,
Tipton Sl7, Mcdowell l0IS. There is only |
one more county to hear frOm-GruRdy,