Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-20
Memohis and Charleston Railroad.
Railroad Miscellany.

The Northwestern Railroad cOntem-
plates a branch to Jackson by way OF
Huntingdon. Memphis must look sharp
after these Nashville railroad men. They
mean business and work for it.
The Little Rock Railroad is making
progress. The contractors are diligent, up
TO their opportunities, and permit no
chances to pass them whereby they can
stick a peg, drive a spike, roll a log, fix a
chair Or haul a rail.
The Selma, the Mississippi River,
the Belmont and opefield, and the Mem
phis, Springfield and Kansas City Rail-
reads are attracting great attention abroad
as well as at home. We must do all we
! can for them, and secure foreign aid to-
ward their completion.
The sleeping cars on the North
western Railroad from Memphis to Nash
vile, are of the Pullman pattern, are
clean and tidy and well attended TO by
the most polite and careful pOrters and
conductors. We advise parties journey
ing to or from the capital to avail them
selves of these handsome cars.
Railroad men throughout Tennessee
are opposed to the policy of selling out
the roads indebted TO the State. They
argue that to do so viii be to ruin the
stockholders and deter citizens from here
after taking any share in public works in
which the State may be a party. They
want the stockholders to have a fair
chance first, and then if these roads fail to
pay sell them to the highest bidder.
During a recent visit to Nashville,
we learned hat it is the intention of the
Nashville and Chattanooga TO lease the
Northwestern Railroad and by il make
close connection with the Iron Mountain
road recently opened 10 traffic to Column
bus, Ky. The celebrated Green Line "
Of freight cars viii then be run without
breaking bulk, from st. Louis to Nash
Vile, to Atlanta, and if necessary to Au-
gusta, Macon, Charleston or Savannah.
The Northwestern road is in good trim
akd WE are.happy to say has the best pros
peetS for a profitable future.
We are glad to learn that the pros
poets for a good seasons work forthe Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee Railroad were
never more fattering. The road bed is in
the best of order, the rollingstock in good
repair, and the officers on the alert and
qHi UiCe for h may open. Last season
was very profitable to this line. We I'M
! derstand that in cotton alone its freights
were double those of former years, and
that it is contemplated to double even that
result this year. We hope so. We earn
estly desire the success of a line of road
that we do not think has ever been fully
appreciated by Il people.
The recent acceptance by Superin-
tendent Jones, of the Memphis and Ohio
Railroad. ofthe Office of General Agent
for the Louisville road with headquarters
at New York, will devolve the duties
Of the superintendency upon Gen. Boyd,
who has long been stationed here as gen
eral manager of the Memphis and Louis
Vile route. The confidence reposed in
the General by the great Louisville cor
poration is the best guarantee our public
can have that the affairs of the Ohio road
in HE hands are safe, and will be care
fully as wen as impartially administered.
We congratulate the General, and We con-
graduate the Ohio road upon securing
the services Of a gentleman whose mod
esty is only exceeded by his ability and
capacity as a first class raih DAD a