Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-18
WHAT OF rHAr NEW COUNTY,

The new county 70 be maoe wv " -
part of Shelby, including Germantown
Collierville, Baskerville and the Green
bottom districts and the southern part @
Fayette. has large majority OF the ciii
izens within its limits IN faver OF the
movement. The bill creating the new ,
county has passed the House, and VIZ
doubtless pass the Senate. 1.-THE people
desire a new county let them have IT.
Ontsiders have no business to OBJECT
Apalanche Of Friday morning
We sometime since heard mention OF
some such proposition, but as It dropped
into silence we presumed it had been
dropped altogether. But it seems not 10
have been the case, and the proposition
is marching on although the county
of Shelby has Senator and two Repre-
sentatives to watch and guard her inter
ests. How did the bill Remembering
Shelby pass the House, With or with
out the consent of our Representatives.
Why have they said nothing about i'll
Did they imagine they could slice and
cut up the county to please the whims
of few property-cwners or would
be politiciansG Is it a pet scheme
of Mr.. Jones', and is he anxious
to put it through with as little noise as
possible9 Why has he not sent us the
proposed boundaries, and let us know
exactly how much territory and how
many citizens are to be taken from Shell
BY? AS general thing we are opposed
TO new counties They are not always
desirable or polite, and should be
weighed well before created. 1t is not
enough that majority of the citizens
within the prescribed territory are in
favor oft; and outsiders hare some bust
ness 10 object. II may very seriously
affect the remainder of the county, and
for that reason they should object, and
that very strenuously We do not argue
the question, but before the bill passes
the Senate we trust the Senator from
Shelby viii enlighten his constituents
Let us at least have copy of the bill, If
we are not furnished with the reasons
constituting the basis Of the application.
The above was written for yesterday
but did not then appear. We have since
noticed in the dispatches, from Nash
vile, of the 18th, that Mr.. Cubbins
entered motion to reconsider the vote
rejecting the bill TO establish the county
of Nashoba, in West Tennessee. We
presume this refers to the county TO be
sliced from Shelby, the bill for which
the Senate with good discretion, and
very properly, rejected. The Nashoba
Springs are somewhere in this county
and doubtless desires to be the county
seat; and perhaps there has been activity
in procuring signatures 10 some snch
1t is an exceedingly easy
matter to procure signatures to memo
rails where no money is demanded, the
plant signers not deeming it worth while |
to give the subject second thought, or
taking the chances that it will fall
still-born. This is doubtless the case
in this instance We asked an
practical gentleman what
he thought of it, Why" said he, sit
win not matter much if it shall relieve
Shelby of the inconvenience and folly of
the Bartlett Circuit Court" Perhaps
Mr.. Townsend may think it not unrea-
sonable if we were TO ask him to give US
some information on a subject that really
is Of Importance, and seems to have been
carefully struggled so far through the
initiatory stages oflegislation We should
like to be able to answer respectful inter
rogations when questioned as to the
probable boundaries, name, ETC., of this
projected county, to complete which the
yitals of Old Shelby are to be torn in
shreds, and as far as the Goths engaged
in the sacrilege can accomplish it, be
shorn of her grandeur.