Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-19
TIE MIssIs sIPPI RIVER Il. n
A Singing C@rd from COEoneI
Mitchell.
What tie Cairo Bulletin Thinks
Of Him.
Cairo is Anxious Ia Become the
Northern Terminus.
A GARD from Col. Mitchell.

contained in Amos every issue OF tnal
smallest Of papers, the San. The NUM-
Der this morning exceeds all others in
the vulgarity Of its language.
The editor of the San, Mr.. l.. J. Du-
pre-, has q purpose Ia this abuse Of me.
He desires to get me out of The Missis-
sippi River Railroad, which 1 have
worked up, s~iDgle-handed, to its present
commanding position before the country,
and to get his friend, Col. Sam. Tate, in;
because he thinks there is money and
fame in the enterprise. He (Dupre) tried
first, in the Ledger, by inuendcs against
my capacity and character, to accom-
plish his purpose and Then he went to
DR.. A. II. Kerr, tone OF the Directors OF
my road to learn upon what terms |
would be willing to give nay to Col.
Tate, assuring DR.. Kerr that [ should be
handsomely provided for in considera-
ton Of the work / had done for the road,
and that / should be guaranteed ins
Presidency % of my read &C a lie 81
salary as long as l desired it.
DR.. Ksrr (noble gentleman that be is)
replied that no change could bs mad Ia
the management of the road, with his
consent, hat was not consistent with my
rights and my self-respect and then he
cailsd Dupre's attention to the uufrisnd-
ly tone OF his publications in the Ledger
against me. Dupre instantly disavOwed
the intention of saying anything dis
respectful of me, and next day (Deeem-
Der 90 published 8 communication ia the
Ledger, publicly disavoWing the con-
Ell uction of uniriendlints5 toward me
that had been put upon his Language,
and declaring hat " Nc. Mitchell was u
gentleman whose moral worth was IN
questioned
Since the above dste Dupre has sought
twice (once, through Col. A. z. Douglas,
and again through Col. M. r. Ryder to
bring about an interview between HIM
self, Col. Sam. Tate and myself, with the
view Of transferring the Mississippi
River Railroad to Col. Tate's control.
But finding iattery through the Ledger
and promises Of honor and q fat salary
through Dr.. Kerr Of no avail ia moving
me 10 an abandonment OF my rights and
the true interests OF Memphis in regard
to this road, DuPre has gone back to his
earlier tactics of personal abuse. Per-
hsps he will succeed. We shall see.
By way of 9 crusher this morning, Du-
pre- speaks of me as the poverty
stricken" Mitchell. 1t is true l was
badly Impoverished by the war, and I
sm not now as rich as l would like TO
be but am working hard, and in 3 le-
gitimste way, TO build an Important rail-
road for Memphis, with every prospect
of success. l hope to be generously re-
wsrded for my labor. But, lacking
wealth though / be, | am not so poor but
that | psy all my bills in Memphis, and
someCiEes able to give help 10 me
needy. For instance, about q year sg0
nnn nTnHn n~naI1HGI m uaf Via ~
his honest deot7 through the agency Of
the bankrupt Law. But the Isw and
the rules Of the Cours required q depnsit
OF one hundred dollars ca fling his petit
ton. Dupre mot " poverty sJicken CT
course J could not " raise the st9kesn to
90 into bankruptcy, and 80 he came to
me with ten dollars, and begged me to
file his petition and trust him for the bal
ance. l did so, and thus made myself
liable for his fees. Aud when he was
able afterward to raise his deposit to fifty
dollars l inteIceded with the Register
aud got his costs lipiteG to legs than half
price. DupTe profassad Go 30 grateful to
me for this charity. The public 4 see
what value ne places On obligations
true gentlemen are generally glad
TO recognize.
Man ana boy, l have been known to
the people cE Eernegsae forty yesrs.
ali that tine I have never lore
sworn a debt or betrayed a friend. |
have the cordial and u1itsd support of
the people Of every county on the line
of the Mississippi River Railroad, and
can neither be bought, buliied or black
out Of my position, When
shall becoas 80 ICst to a instincts that
ad0rn q gentleman as TO solicit a
personal favor and receive it, and then,
pROyCG7tia8, turn upon the
friend that relieved me, I shall deserve
the eplthet of poverty STRICKEN" for
[ shall be as bankrupt in principle as in
purse. Respectfully,
the Cairo Bulletin of Tuesday,
TO briefly SUM up the Inducements
pr esented by Cairo, we mention the Hi
nois Central Railroad, traversiGg 700
Of the richest and most populous
OF the northwest the numerous
connections east, west, and northeast,
presented by that road at CentFslis,
Qdin, Decatur, Pana, Chicago, Duuleiih,
etc. The Cairo ard Viuoennes road,
running direct, AlmOst on an sir lire, to
the great railroad center in Indiana the
Cairo snd st. Louis Railroad, with its
connections north and east the
junction Railroad from Cairo to g con.
point on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad the Cairo and Fulton r Railroad,
and last, though not least, the Obio snd
upper Mississippi rivers. q sensible APP
probation OF ali these uCq-e sti0na5le ad-
Vantages brings the Mississippi River
% ~s1-anl - rT1sza ENA~F.n-E 49,. --.Al
the showing of any other accessible
and there will be occasion for sur
prise that any other locality became s
for the terminus. The sue
,ess and usefulness Of the road so mani
testify depend upon its extension to this
1t is to be maryeled at somewhat
That q decision In the premises was SO
long deferred. The vsry fact that Cairo
mas b, en- designated SIS 3 terminus has
awakened an increased interest in the
ana removed sll doubts Rs to its
pscunisrily and otherwise. We
nave no disposition to disparage the
of Padueah. 1t is doubtless the
proper termini for q great many very
useful and extensive railroads, but of
number the Cairo and Memphis
Railroad Is, assuredly, not One.
n EA1SEAAOOO EAALAOs
A Memphis paper is outraging public
juat nov, by is abuse Of Col.
Mitchell, the able and popular President
Dr. the Memphis and Cairo Railroad.
Hbi5 irate sheet Over-rsaches itself. The
extreme rancor of its onslaught shows
that bitter personal enmity is the mov
ing cause, and not a desire to protect the
public from the Vaccinations of Rn i'm
The sheet to which we refer is
The San, the subOrned organ of Sam
Tate, between whom and Mitchell there
Is q manifest "eoolness." This sheet
that "Col. Mitchell writes rail-
road articles for his Cairo organ (meau-
the Bulletin, and has them copied
lDtO the Memphis papers,"
This assertion is broad and unequivo-
cal, and calls for an emphatic answer.
therefore, denOunee it as utterly
false, wholly unfound5d, and without
the slightest gljmmering of truth Col.
Mitchell lever wrote q sentence nor g
for the Bulletin. We never
wrote a sentence or u syllable at his in
stance or request. He lever addressed
Us by letter or in persOn-we never spoke
to the gentleman in cur life, we never
saw hina.
Further than this, we edit the Bulletin
ourselves, borrowing no mans brains TO
assist US. We write what we please,
when We pie ase, always holding our
responsible for consequences.
We brand the intimation, therefore,
that the BaS3etaR is Mitchell's organ y
IS foolishly, maliciously and stupidity
false The R3Llet5n IL the OrOan of no