Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-11
LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD.



The following special dispatch ap-
pears in the Appeal Of this morning:
LITTLE Rock, November l0.-At a
meeting OF the Stockholders of the Mem
phis and Little Rock roailrosd, held to-
day at the office Of the Little Rock, Pine
Bluff and New Orleans railroad, the fol-
lowing named gentlemen were elected to
serve as directors for one year. com
menciug from date: Colonel J. NJ. Lewis,
chief Justice Wiltshire, both of Little
r ,ck; and Colonel Joseph Lenow. Col
onel B. G Brown and Captain Frank
Mahan, of Memphis. This Board is ex-
pected to meet promptly, when Presi-
dent and other officers will be elected"
This is the Taintor ring at work again.
They seem resolved to annoy Colonel
Epperson and to prevent the road from
being built if they cannot monopelize
the business themselves. A notice was
published in an obscure sheet in Little
Rock calling meeting of the Stockhold-
ers of the Little Rock Railroad Com,
pany to assemble Cd the 9th instant to
elect Board of Directors. The call
was sigued as Secretary by one j Z.
Sickles, a sub.contrsctor, WHO'S neither
an officer nor stockhoder. The Mem
phis Committee of Aldermen received q
notice of the extraordinary proceedings
and sent the following dispatch:
MEMPHIS, TENN. November 8, 1869.
Judge Bowen or Col. Lewis. care J. e. Sickles,
Little Rock. Arkansas:
Are you in sympathy with the issue of
enough stock in the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad to Epperson to control the
railroad? One million by Brinkley and
other directors.
Did the election come off the 9Th as
advertised
If not, was 1t postponed, and to what
timer
If to the 10Th, can it not be postponed
few days2 Say beyond tomorrow
Answer fully, so committee Of Mem
phis may vote intelligently. Answer i'm
mediately. L.. E. DYER,
28O Second street, Memphis.
An answer came as follows:
mo sympathy with the Eppersen
transaction. Will oppose the issuance
of stock to him. Meeting held on the
9Th, and adjourned from day to day.
Positively close polls tomorrow. Send
vote tonight. THos. NJ. Bowen,
j. M. LEWIS"
Mayor Leftwich then sent this protest
MEMPHIS. November TO- 1869.
To Governor Powell Clayton. Little Rock.
The city Of Memphis will cooperate
with the Arkansas stockholders in the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad in the
election of directors favorable to the in
terest of the stockholders, and will join
in peremptory cnll, in legal manner,
upon the President of the road to order
an election at an early day but enters
this protest against the election of direc.
tors without calling all the stockholders
to participate in said election.
By order of the committee appointed
to vote city stock.
JOHN W. LEFrwIoH, Mayor"
A private dispatch stated yesterday
that Sickles, Lswis and others are ad-
jourDing from day to day, trying to get
Memphis to join them in electing o
Board of Directors. But when they re-
ceived Mayor Leftwich's dispatch they
proceeded, in their desperation it seems,
to pretend to elect Board. By eectiug
Chief Justice Wiltshire and Judge Bowen,
who are both OF the Supreme Bench OF
Arkansas, they expect, of course, to buy
such decisions as they may need to sus-
tain their illegal proceedings. Bowen is
a greedy carpet Dagger who was not
known to ever hold dollar in stock in
the company, The BOARD of Mayor and
Aldermen will taest this afternoon and
no doubt take prompt measures to pro-
tect the interests of the city.