Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-14
RAILROADS.

THE Lebanon, Tennessee, Herald says:
"The track on the Tennessee and Pacific
railroad has reached q point within three
miles of this place. All the bridges are
finished, and the road will be completed
to Lebanon by Saturday, unless some &C
cident occurs. Some time Will be neces-
sary to get the road in running order, af-
ter all the track Is laid. Regular trains
between Lebanon and Nashville viii COM
hence running on Monday, September
18TH"
STANTON, the Alabama railroad builder,
having secured about $2,000, 900 for his
Chattanooga and New Orleans road, was
accused OF corrupting the Legislature.
He said he not only did not offer TO give
money for votes, but he never so much as
gave a supper, or wine party, as the fash
lon is with persons lobbying, and as NOR
ais go, not considered disreputable. The
nearest he came to bribery, he said, was,
the niggers, taking advantage Of his posi-
ton as a solicitor of their votes, would,
some Of them, come and ask b loan OF
from a half to five dollars, and he always
gave it without expecting II 20 be re-
turned.
THE Helena Clarion is probably more
inimical to Memphis than any publication
in Arkansas. We nave sought to aid Col.
D. C. Cross in every possible way in the
CO0slTucGlUu OF his D6l1nh anu Oh. LOUIS
road. We would have Helena made a
great city, and hope that a dozen roads
may CONVERGE at that point. Then there
will be not less than two dozen terminal
ing at Memphis. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of
either city Will inure to the grandeur and
prosperity of the other, and We cannot
comprehend that sort of animosity which
results from the mere identity Of local in
terests. If Memphis flourish, Helena
will be aggrandized, and Vice versa.
SUBSCRIPTIONS in Mobile to the Mobile
and Northwestern road amount to S4G0, 900.
This road is destined to extend from Mo-
bile to Helena. Can't our business men
and property holders devise means of at
tracing Mobile to Memphis? Why build
a road 10 a point at which there are 40
converting hnes"-lines running, as An
dy Johnson said, like Democracy and re-
ligion, to one common focus. VIII capi-
talists aid in constructing a road that has
no "feeders?"
WHEN the County Convention recently
held in Jackson, Madison county, had
adjourned the members resolved them
selves into q railroad meeting at which
the following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the people of Madison
county have seen with pleasure the agita-
ton of the building of a railroad from
H~opkinsviIle, KY, to Jackson, Tenn,
ana thdL we pleOS6 OURSELVES 70 give 70
the building of the same al the aid in u
power.
RESOLVED, That we regard the building
Of the direct road from Jackson to Mem
phis, via Somerville, of the greatest i'm
p~Ortance, and that we urge our people to
give all the aid possible.
ReSOIued, That the Board of Aldermen
of the city of Jackson are requested to
send a delegate or delegates to the city of
Hopkinsville TO confer with the friends Of
the Hopkinsville and Jackson railroad.
AT the railroad convention in the town
Of Somerville, Fayette county, on Mon
day, the 9th day of September, 1870, the
following proceedings were had:
WHEREAS, Judge Milton Brown, OF
Jackson, Tenn, is present and eo-operaE-
ing in the efforts TO build a railroad from
Jackson, Tenn, via Somerville to the
city of Memphis, and, whereas, Judge
Brown is expecting to attend railroad
meetings at Huntington, Nashville and
other places, for the purpose OF extend
ing a central railroad through the State
OF Tennessee, east and west, therefore
be it
ResolUed, That this meeting at Somer-
vile, Sept. 5th, 1870, request Judge Brown
to represent this convention at such
places as he may attend, and present the
great desire and earnestness manifested
in building the gap from k to
Memphis.