Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-17
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Gen. Neely, OF the Mississi ppi Gen.
trail Railroad, vas in town yesterday.
After the lst of next month, a double
daily passenger service Will be III by
rail between New Orleans and New York,
by way of Knoxville.
Mr.. Barney Hughes, pressman, tele-
graph man snd railroad man, and good st
either, has become connected with the
Charleston Rsilrosd, and viii in future
be a resident Of our city.
e~ssGGQlla San. Tate arrived in the city
the recent spell II Eiolts~~. vhi,,o con
fined him to his bed, IN Water Valley,
Tor some time past.
An adjourned meeting Of the stock.
holders AMI officials Of the ClGrzesviile
and WsyDesboro Railroad Company viii
he held 1T Nashville to-day, "wednesday,
I7th February.
The town is full OF Railroad and Ex-
press men, from northern and western cit
les, on their way back home, after the dis
sipation OF Msrdi Grss in New Orleans.
Most OF them have fesrfuily bad colds,
and complain Of feeling tired.
"A party Of engineers, under the d.
rection Of Mi. i. F. Fslconat, left LIB
anon last Friday 70 survey the route fer
q railroad between thsJ place and MUIR
freesbOro. Msj. W. +. Foster and party
are now surveying the route from Ls6R-
non to GallatiH. The enterprise has
been chartered as the Galiatin and Muir
freesboro Railroad,
-Itreally does seem very hard to get at
the tignres pail by Mr.. Norton, the late
purchaser, for the New Orieansaud Ohio
Railroad, We have made two attempts
and have failed, II seems, in getting it
right. The sum was, we are now in
formed officially, three bundred and
fifty thousand and Ons dollars,
John R. Branner, late President of
the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail-
road, who died recently, leaves 3 fortune,
it Is stated, OF between S2O0 600 and
$500 coo; $40 GOO OF It to each OF his
brothers and sisters, some five or six in
! number, and the remainder TO an only
SOB.
The motion for a new trial in Ire
case Of the steamboat Imperial and
owners VS.. the Louisville and Nashville
Rsilroad, the owners of the b0st having
a few days since beeu awarded 9 judg-
meDt for $4,000 damages, was argued In
the Circuit Court yesterday and allowed
the defendant to pay costs to the pres
ent time.
The Mount Gents tunnel is advsno
ing rspidlys A few more months, and
the railway lines of France and Italy
will unite beneath q mountain $500 feet
high. It is slow worS, as the tunnel has
to be pierced through extremely hard
greenish gray sandstone, mixed with
quartz 43O0 feet were followed out lsst
year. The tunnel is to be SO, 700 feet in
length 20 800 feet Of the work are al
ready completed the remaining 5000
will take about twenty seven or twenty
eight months to accomplish, so that by
March or April, 1871, this stupendous
work will probably be completed.
"A late number of a San Francisco
paper stated q fact, showing how the
business contingent upon the Pacific
r railroad at that port is even now aug
menting, and thus giving 3 messur of
future value. We said that 3 line of
steamers to Australia, via the Sandwich
Islands, was considered ss necessary on
the completion of the rRilrosd, and was
being arranged. The trade of San Fran
cisco with Australia and Hawaii has
been $3S coo. 900 In fifteen years. The
Sandwich Islands employ 1880 vessels Of
1913 900 tons, and tde Aus ralian 1895
vessels OF oil z20 TONS. From 1000 20
1868 the commerce in sugar 70 San Fran
cisco alone grew from go, 600 TO 20. Co.,
600 pounds, Steam communication
would supply all Of this to the Pacific
road, as thereby It could be more speedily
marketed.
We understand that there is q project
on foot, With every prospect Of sn early
and vigorous commencement Of the
work, to connect the Mississippi and
Tennessee, aud the Memphis and Ohio
Roads, by 8 road running along the
levee. A grand, central depot for ffelght
and passengers Is to be erected at the
Navy Yard, whore the business of both
roads Is TO bs transacted. The roads TO
be thus connected will undertake TO do
all the grading and other work necessary
at their own expense. We do not know
amid the many railroad enterprises just
% on the tapis 3 more important pro-
jsot, or one which II carried out will re-
suit more to the benefit, not only OF the
two roads concerned In it, but Of the city
Of Memphis. We hope that the gentle
men who have the matter In hand win
not fall to shove il through us quickly as
passlble.