Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-16

The Little Rock read is having g hard
time. 1t hes ever had. It struck q streak
of bad luck when 1t fell into the hands of
the original ring of land spectators who
gave it origin. Every change, however,
from that time forth in its management
has been most fortunate. Finished to
Little Rock, its owners could not, and
cannot now, learn what gauge to adopt to
conform its own to the requirements of
the Southern Pacific line. The New York
Syndicate" that holds the Congressional
grant providing for the construction of
the road from Shreveport to the
Pacific has never agreed upon the
gauge of this great highway.
The owners Of the Little Rock road
sought to learn what changes to make,
but could gain 40 Information. Marshal
O'Roberts has been persistently silent.
To remain idle YVES impossible, n there
upon it was determined TO adopt the
gauge Of roads east of the Mississippi,
conVerging at Memphis. Seventy-hve
box cars, ten locomotives and nine pas
senger cars are building, the first at the
shop of the Memphis and Charleston
road in this city, to be completed within
sixty days AS soon as this rolling stock
Is transferred to Hope6eld, the gauge of
the road will be narrowed to five feet,
and thus trains from either road,
on either side of the river, may be trans
ferred by a railway ferry, and passengers
and freights will yer more be subjected
to detentions. Until these ends are at
tanned the travelling and mercantile COM
immunity must anticipate very many an
noysnces. The company cannot afford to
equip the road with cars and locomotives,
which must become Yslueless within q
few months, and it only remains for those
going West and for shippers to sccommO-
date themselves to an unfortunate
| oOnditiOu nf thf-Oa which will
soon be remedied. If four 2sssen-
ger cars viii not contain all who
would visit Little Rock and the West,
those in excess-unhappy msles-must
mount the roof and endure the bsrdships
of those who once INDUCED in the pleas
ures of s~tsge-ooach trsvel. Freight from
Memphis will bs sent forward at all times,
but that from other points may be sub
jected to definitions, In fact, when one
would go West, the Little Rock road fur
| nishes the preferred route; but the luxu-
| ries Of modern travellers cannot yet awhile
be INDUCED beyond the Mississippi. Time
snd money and patience will be re-
quired by the owners of the o and
by those who use it, and the two parties
| should make one another as comfortable
as possible. There is no use in making q
| noise about trihes. or in reference to evils
thai are unavoidable, and, st the moment,
wholly irremedisble.
These facts are given in substitution for
g letter which recites the adventures of a
passenger from Little Rock to this city.
| OF the Justice of criticisms upon the eat
ing house at Brinkley, we are not pre-
pared to speak; but of the condition OF
the road and purposes and conduct of its
owners we have spoken, because the
public should be advised of the
facts. Our impression was that the
proprietor of the dinner-house would con-
duct q frst-Tate establishment, and that
this complainant" who files q terrible
bill, reached the esting-house on an I'M
expected train, when the table was swept
of its contents by passengers who had
just devoured the subtsnce of our late
Sheriff. He has, himself, an incorrigible
fondness for the good things of this world,
and we car hardly believe be would will
fully deny an indulgence of the same
tastes and sppetites to weary, travel
worn fellow creatures.