Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-29
MEMPHIS, UNION CITY AND METROPOLIS.

MEMPHIS, UNION CITY AND METROPOLIS
Editors Aemhis Appeal;
If Paducah should become the gate
way from North to South, does not
Memphis know that she will be left out
of the trunk route from Chicago, st.
Louis and the lakes, to New Orleans
and the South generally. Long since,
Padueah, in the estimation of some OF
her citizens, has become the Liverpool
of America, and within the last twelve
months have resolved her locality into
the greatest railroad center upon the
American continent; and at present she
claims to have really become such, by
roads already, and roads hereafter to be
finished; See Herald, 18Th, 10Th and
18Th inst, whereas, she has but one road,
and that less than sixty miles in length,
terminating at Union City, but as pro-
posed for some months past to be
changed to Troy Station, five miles
south of Union City, where by virtue
of providential restraints and prohibit
tions, there is no town, and never will
be one; and beyond which, in every di-
rection, for miles, there is scarcely an
inhabitant, and never will be, unless it
becomes possible for men, women and
children to survive location ia cane
brake bottom, to which stock resort
from the uplands toward Union City,
when not OveIfiown by waters from the
clouds and the OOiOn river, which en-
braces the most part of every year.
How, then, has it happened Messrs.
Editors, that "TrOy Station" has at
tanned such railroad notoriety? Some of
the reasons l will not mention now; but
others will. One Of which is this fact
PAducah, like some precocious boys,
wants to be man without waiting for
the age necessary to manhood. So her
railroad schemers, that they might the
more certainly defeat Cairo or Metropolis,
in securing the gateway from North TO
South, by bridge over the Ohio at her
shores, thought it g grand move to
change the terminus OF her road from
Union City, five miles further south, and
then entrap Memphis, by inviting the
Mississippi River Road to meet her there
at Troy station. How nearly Mr..
Mitchell was caught in this-a trick
ster's trap-this grand scheme, we are
not advised, but from what we do know
Of the Especial PIeGdings" Of few
wanting to work off large amount OF
swamp lands, etc., in the OoiOn bottom,
at Troy station, and along the line Of the
plAIcu rOut6 OF the ni5SlSSlppl
road, through this overflown district, at
figures, as stock in the road, we
feel satisfied that Mr.. Mitchell, after the
oil arose to the surface, saw there was
something rotten in Denmark and
g stood from under" Again soon.
+. NJ. ENGLISH.
UNION CITY, March, 1869.
P. S.-What is meant by the follow
ing, which We clip from the Nashville
UasOn and american Of the 18th inst ?
1.-The Southern Railroad Association
have, within the last week, become the
purchasers of the Psduesh Railroad, with
sll its rolling stock, etc, and are about !
10 build road from Jackson, intersect- |
ng the Memphis and OHIO Road at Mi |
an, and connecting with the Paducah |
road at Msyfield. Their object is to |
iraW everything on to their great North
srn and Southern line, and with this |
view it is probable they will discontinue |
running the Psducsh road TO Troy Sta |
ion, and transfer the rails and rolling |
itock to their new road from May yfield to !
Jackson. This will be fatal to the pro- |
ected Mississippi River Railroad"
"WM. W. LES,
Z" President Tenn. Cent Railroad"