Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-11
RAILROADS.
Brownsville and Memphis.

The Brownsville Bee says: 1--WE are going
to build our road to Holly Springs, aud We
are going 10 tap the Memphis and Selma
road somewhere along there, unless you
cut a tunnel across North Mississippi and
run the thing under ground. We are not
fighting against any other road, or any
other town, city or neighbOrhood, and
you must cease to war upon us. We are
at work Tor ourselves and our own inter-
ests, along the whole line of our road and
We are determined to succeed. IfyOu want
travel and trade, wealth, influence and inn
portsnce TO flow into the goodly city OF
Memphis, open the chnansls of cOmmu-
nicstion and offer the Inducements. These
are the only means known unto men in
these latter days, that will secure the de-
sired end" Surely, let the Brownsville and
Holly Springs road be built. It viii popu-
late and enrich q wide district of coun-
try, and SO great will be those beuefac-
tiOns that the terminal cities of the road
cannot remove all the cOuntry's wealth
or enjoy all resulting advantages. Mem
phis, next after Cairo or Chicago, will
gain most by the road of which we speak.
II has been often alleged, whether truth
fully Or not, that another railroad COM
pauy paid q facils speaker to canvass the
country for this Brownsville and Holly
Springs road in order to prevent the con
structiOn OF another from Memphis to
Paducah. We referred to the fact in order
to impress u people with some adequate /
idea of the value Of the road to Psducsh, |
and not because we opposed the Browns
vile and Holly Springs scheme. Our stu
pidity is hardly so BOeOtisn that il leads
US to oppose the building of railways any
where. often as Memphis complains Of
the Mississippi Central road, it has done
n UGH in promotion Of the prosperity of
this city. It has lone all It could TO pre-
want fha aoTaaa Of fwaHa and traffic hnt /
has attracted wealth, augmented traffic, |
made population dense, enriched the
country and contributed more than It has
destroyed to the trade of Memphis. The
advice given by the Bee Is excellent and
somewhat gratuitOus.
UNENAMPLED GENEROsITY-HOW LOCAL
GOOD MEN SUBORDINATE PRIVATE To
PUBLIC INTERESTS.
The appended paper illustrates 8 phase
character and conduct 10 which, in
these degenerate days, we annOt often
direct attention. Rarely do public bene-
factors forget that they themselves are the
public. Their expenditures of money
and toll, unhappilY for the age and cOun-
are made primarily in promotion Of
their own personal selfish ends. Memphis
boasts of st least n body of men, re-
engaged in the prosecution
Of q great public work, who have
shown US how to subordinate self
ish, to purposes Of local public good.
When the Memphis and Little Rock Rail-
road Company was subjected to the great
est difficulties, and its were
destroyed, the Board Of Directors
were convened on the 18th day Of May,
1862, and the following resolutions were
offered by r. c.. Brinkley and unani-
adopted:
ResoIved, That the salaries of the OIL
GERS of the Memphis and Little Rock road
cease from snd after this day, and that
such officers as are unwilling to hold their
offices without q salary, be requested to
ResoLved, That this order remain in
force until further notice.
son motion the above resolutions were
unanimously adopted, the Board having
thought It proper to adopt this course on
accOunt of the condition Of the country
the almost entire cessation of business
IN the road, which renders It impossible
10 pay salaries from the small receipts,
hat being the only resource the company
r. c BRINKLEY. President.
D. H. TOWNSEND,
Mills OWEN.
MI. Brlnkley, jr., is now one Of the lar
pest shareholders in the Little Rock road,
md we do not doubt that in his relations
70 the public and the city, with which his
interests. are identified, he will betray as
generous a spirit as that eyinced in the
ictiOn of the former Board of Directors, OF
which his father was President.
A corps OF engineers has started from
Van Buren, TO survey q branch line of the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad, 20 intersect
he latter in the Cherokee Nation about
,ighty miles above Van Buren,. This {
road viii very probably strike the
main line about the crossing OF the At !
and Pscidc and the Missouri, ,
Kansas and Texas railroad, somewhere in y
he vicinity of Wsbber's Falls.
The Atlantic and Pacific road starts 4
st. Louis, and goes in a southwest !
Irly direction, by R0lla, Lebanon, Spring
ield, NeOsha, and into the Nation fol- >
the line of the Both parallel to the :
'acihc. In Missouri 1t has many branches, !
The land grant of this corporation is very '
'aluable, and the work Is being pushed 7
with speed. The branch from e
an Buren, viii be Of the most inn 4
'ortsnt roads in tbs State. When COM
leted 1t VIII give Us a continuous line
rom here TO b Nation, and from there
Nth any part OF Kansas or Missouri-snd
With tho Pacific. But for the stopping Of c
on the Fort Smith road we could
Ontdently look for this connection with
d the next Two years.