Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

C.. II. Wood, General Western
Agent Panhandle route East, also left
yesterday for New Orleans.
VIM. Whittemore, the accomplished
Railroad Agent of the Bee Line, is still
in the city, talking of joining some Cuban
expedition.
On Saturday last, contracts were
subIet, for the entire line of the St. Joseph
and Denver Railroad from Troy, Mo-, to
Hiawatha.
t. l.. Kimball, General Western
Passenger Agent Pennsylvania Central
Railroad. passed through the city yester-
dav for New Orleans, accompanied by his
wife.
On the first of May fifteen thousand
people in California were booked for an
overland trip by rail. The tide of travel
| has fairly commenced, and the time has
now come when tourists will make a trlp
to the Rocky Mountains before climbing
the Alps or INDUCING in a sail or the
Rhine.
A number OF Philadelphia mer-
/ chants have signed a petition asking the
North German Lloyds to IN
of steamers between that port n Bre-
men. and the paper has been sent for
ward. Baltimore, in order to secure such
a line, subscribed, through the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, one-half the capital.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
panv is making preparations for sending
out an exploring party TO pass over the
entire route from Lake Superior TO Puget
| sound. Thos. II. Garfield, General Agent
of the Company, has called on Gen. Sher-
man to arrange for a military escort for a
| portion of the distance.
The Louisville Courier of the 18th
saws: Gen. }. I. Boyd, agent of the les
sees of the Memphis division of the Lou
isville, Nashville and Memphis lines, who
! has been appointed by the Government as
| one of the commissioners to inspect the
| Union Pacific Railroad, passed through
the CITY Yesterday, en- route to California,
| for the purpose Of performing the allotted
! service.
Rumors of consultations of unpre-
| cedented extent are rife in New York.
! We mentioned last week the report con-
| corning the leasing of the Pittsburg, Fort
WAYNE and Chicago to the Pennsylvania
Now there are ruIhors that the Hudson
River, the New York Central, the Buffalo
and Erie, the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, and the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific will be consolidated into one
mighty corporation, extending from New
York to Omaha. 1t has also been limited
that the Michigan Central will be included
in this consolidation.
The sale of thesNew Orleans, Ope,
lousas and Great Western Railroad, tooR
place Tuesday morning, by virtue of ar
| order from the United States Circuit Cour'
under the ~auspicies of eX-United State
Marshal F. j. Heron. The principal IN
terests represented were the j. {. X. K.
the Mobile and Chattanooga railroad, IN
bondholers of the road and Chas. Morgan
The first bid was 81, OO0, 900, and the mex
81, SOC. 900. The bids proceeded by hun
dreds of thousands to S2,000,00O, whicl
was bid by Mr.. Paul Blanc on behalf o
the bondholders of the road, TO whicl
amount he was limited. {. A; Nhltney
representing Chas. Morgan, bid S2,O5O,OOO
at which amount it was knocked down
after a moments pause, and 5000 imme
diatelv paid aS<Raguaranttee. Mr.. Whit
new announced1hat il was the intention
of Mr.. Morgan, who was present in per
son. TO Immediately set about extending
the road TO the Saline. The actual sal
occupied barely ten minutes.
A Cincinnati dispatch of the 25tl
saws: u. y. Stanton, of Boston, Presi
dent Of the Chattanooga and Alabam
Railroad, made the following proposition
to the company to-day: If Cincinnati
selects Chattanooga as the Southern ter
minus of the proposed road, we are pre-
Dared to build a first-class railroad iron
that point TO the Kentucky State line nea
Chitwood, and will nave it equipped an
running as soon as Cincinnati can meet u
at that point. With the aid which Cincin
natl offers we will also undertake the con
struction and equipment of a tirst-clas
railroad from The same point to Cincin
natl, and viii take a perpetual lease c
this part Of the road on reasonable terms
The whole line from Cincinnati to Chat
noOga shall be so arranged as TO run q
one through line and in the interest {
Cincinnati perpetually; and as soon q
your trustees can meet us we shall b
ready TO enter into an arrangement on
basis Of the above. ID. n. STANTON,
J. 7. BURR,
X. T. PAINE, JR.
Judge Mills represented the Nashyill
interest and Col, Walden Decatur's claims
The meeting was large and much interes