Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-30
CORRECTION.
Is ais. r. R, cad ths Associated Press
Agent.

By request Of Mr. Woodson, agent Of
the Associated Press Association in this
/ city, we make room for the following, in
answer 20 paragraph from the Little
| Rock Gazette, whicn was published In the
APPEAL yesterday:
MEMPHIS, april %, 1871.
Editor Gdzette-I find the following in
I the local column of your paper OF the
! 22d, which discIoses the fact that there
does not 60 lie in the massive brain" Of the
astute young gentleman who creates
public opinion" in your local columns
that regard 10 facts that would render his
lecture palatable.
Here follows the article referred to, it
In effect charging that an act OF injustice
hHd been done the Memphis road by the
Associated Press agent, in dispatch sent
the other day, ana which will bs rsmem-
bored by all our resdsrs.-ED
de Is right, however, in suppOsing that
/ was prompted by interested parties"
70 make the statement, as my information
was derived from eu officer of the road
who had recently been over it, and who
asserted, moreover, that the road would
virt tus.ly have to be built from HOpehsld
to Madison.
As for the statement that before "this
bad Left Memphis, 3 train had arrived here
from HOpehslds and the water, instead Of
being two feet deep on the track, was
. barely over the iron in q few places j." IL
was undoubtedly prompted by inter
ested parties" IS no train had gone over
the road, but that night an engine had
gotten through carrying Messrs. Liver
wOre and Tate, and dispatch was tels-
grsphed back here to the AUdtGuche, an
nOuncing that fact, and that ''they found
not more than six inches Of water at any
place" Now, taking this in connection
with the fact that the river had fallen
fifteen feet at that time, and there yet re-
mained six inches Of Water, into consider
alton, l think you will sgree that the
dispatch was literally true, aud could
have been made much stronger without
performing an set Of Injustice toward
the Memphis and Little Rock railroad. +"
In the PPEAL Of this morning, in relat-
ing th5 presentation Of a watch to Mr..
LivermOTe, Mr.. Meriwegher, engineer of
the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad,
says, in toasCing sfr. l., that he hoped
that be would lift the bed Of the Little
Rock road as high out Of wster IS he was
in the estimation OF those about him. -
And speaking of the road editorially, the
APPEAL ssys: "Fery soon the whole road
Wnatsver It may cost, viii be ballasted,
and she bed raised above the highest flood
tide of the great river" Had not your
local better take the APPEAL 10 task, also
THAT ASSOCIATED p. AGENT"
Referring to the above explanation, the
Little Rock Gazette says: Really, We
mad no desire 70 wound the tender sensi-
biliLies Of the p. A Agent, or to misre-
present him, and pnblish bis explanation
in full; but it is of the Buusby sort, rather
ambiguous. What has Mr.. LivermOre's 3
watch to DO with the big FIRE in New Y Ork ?
Where is the analogy between high water,
( the peoples estimation, and the road bed
Of railway Why stretch six inches to
two feet, or why cali sn engine tender,
baggage car and passenger car, when
coupled up, an engine only2 The agent
is Is unfortunate in his explanation as
he was in the use Of the words which COM
posed his dispatch"