Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-03-08

RAILROAD MATTERS.
The work on the Mississippi River
Railroad goes Dravely on. At every
point along the entire route the utmost
enthusiasm sad unanimity prevails, and
the most cheering words come TO US from
sill quarters. Read what our Upton
county correspondent says IN his letter
to-day.
Thursday morning the axle Of q
tender attached to q freight train on the
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
broke, when the train was about one-
half mile north Of Smyrna. By this
accident six cars were thrown from the
track, al of which were slightly
damaged. Fortunately no n On the
train was injured.
As the TullAhOma train was sp-
preaching our depot on last Monday
evening, says the NcMinnville Nea0 Era.
and while coming around the curve a
short dist sDce from the depot, the pas
seuger cal, by some means " upset." and
{" messed up F." things generally. Several
persons were slightly bruised, but fortu-
nately none were seriously injured.
The New York Tribune says Il is
LOI = EOS0 btHa AtA AAC 4 0CAuC n11lIOdu
that, in spite o. our remarkably open
winter, the ssoWs on the mountains have
completsly blocked it up for over half OF
the present month. There has not been
a single train through since the 12sh.
The experience Of this winter will be
sure 10 give an impetus to the Southern
routes, and, when the Government can
afford it, thsy will certainly receive as
sistsnce IN some form.
The little 4" u~Gplessautuess " between
the Louisville ROsrd Of Trade and the
Mobile & Ohio r. r, which has existed
for some TINA past, has been amicsbly
adjusted. The quarrel grew out of q real
or tsncied discrimination on the part of
the management of the Mobile i Ohio
r. against Louisville. The Demo.
cTdt Of Thursday, il speaking of itsays
1--WE hope that Louisville has now
reached the end OF this trouble, and that
the Board OF Trade and the directory Of
the road have arrived at so clear an IN
.derstanding, and bave established such
3 feeling Of good fellowship among them
that the merchants and shippers
will never again have either teal or
cause 10 complain of unjust dis
against them"
The Louisville and Nash vile Rail-
road has recently SdGed to its rolling
stock two postal cars, or, as they are IA
military called, flying postofices. The
are 6ttSd up expressly for this SER
vice, being provided with all the appoint
rnents needed in q perfect postOftiee.
Esch Office within the distribution of the
and Nashville off ces has its
pigeOEh0le properly labeled, Hence, IS
as the clerks gtt the mails on board
tho v~C@b a-vp au..a9 aaA fnn aaFr ON
each car are kept busy during the jour
ney between Nashville and Louisville
and return, in asserting and distributing
these mails. When the end OF the route
is reached, the mails are all bsgged and
ready to be put on the outgoing
giving the postofice the gO-by en-
Il will readily be seen that the
time required for the transmission of
between distant points will be ma
shortened.
"A Boston inventor claims to have
made 8 locomotive engine, now in prac-
teal operation, that will perfJrm all the
hard WORK of an ordinary locomotive at
Jne-tbird the cost price and one-hsli the
running expense. IL will travel on the
curves with ease it can be built
from 50 TO 200 horse power, demonstrated
the axle with q traction OF eight TO
tons, which weight, by the dis.
oensation of tender and forward car
rests wholly on the driving
and this traction is also increased
the traction upon these wheels Of the
iuel and water weight. This engine Is
not compelled to drag along the weight
1f the above named appendage as in an
ordinary locomotive, which reduces the
traction OF q % ton locomotive to about
z -. Ia kUe,a aaA eLafH noaE mill oil. -
rom $4,000 TO $4,000. according to sizs and
power. The advantages Of this style OF
will be apparent at q glance. Its
'eduoed hrsi cost its lesssned running
expenses the small outlay necessa Ty for
e pairs its great traction, demonstrated
,n the axle, being 100 to 500 per cent.
above the power OF the engine
50 that while il is only neces-
,sry TO supply steam for q small engine
he power Of a large On is obtained on
he work to be done.
The EUeniag DispGtcA Of Marc 4th
publishes q long account of the trials and
,Ufferings of a large party OF gentlemen
Who recently came over the Union Pa
,inc r silroad. The account is given by
lne OF the party, which embraces many
prominent gentlemen OF California and
New York and other Eastern States, and
they were detained ten days at
r ,WliDgs' Station, and could not induce
.he railroad officials to send q train out
until they held sn Indignation meeting
and telegraphed the railroad company az
w ashington OK the treatment they were
receiving. When they did start they
we're obliged TO shovel snow at different
and they allege they were badly
ed. At one point they shoveled through
/ snoW-drift a thousand feet long, and
when they had the track clear the en-
zines had only steam enough to carry
hem into the deepest psJt Of the drift,
q consequence OF two much whisky
been drank by the Of
icers Of the train, and they were {
tuck again. After remaining two DAYS
u this condition, about fifty Of them
started afOot for Laramie, ninety miles
reaching there 10 four days after
much suffering. From Laramie they +.
,sme through to Omaha without deten-
ion. They complain bitterly of the
received at the hands of the !
Of5Gisls, vino they charge with !
.epeRtediy making misststenents to ;
hem, and who would entertain no pFopo- !
i.iOb to refund extra expenses incurred /.
~ PASSENGERS. They also say exorbl-
ant prices were charged them for pro-
visions in some Instances 81 so being !
demanded for a small piece Of bread and
nolssses, They denOunce the road and
Is management, q say they never {
gisb 10 ride over It again. There were !
,veT 200 persons Oh the train when it was 4
eft Ia the snow. I
SILKS and aFess goods OF every mate (