| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| January 22, 1862 |
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| On 'Change -- Business News |
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| The difficulty of forwarding
freight, owing to the frequent occupancy of the railroads for military
purposes leads to much discontent, and of course to a tendency to
attribute blame and find fault. Among other things it has been asserted
that while apparently admitting all freights that arrive with equal
impartiality, those sent by Mr. Grider were admitted with a facility not
allowed to others. In reply to this the president
{of the Memphis & Charleston RR}, Mr. Tate, says that if any
person connected with the road is receiving pay for being guilty of
allowing favoritism, they shall be discharged upon proof. That to the
police has been left the duty of seeing that all freights sent were
received in their turn. Also that when Mr. Grider, the through freight
agent was discharged, over a month ago, he had between three and four
hundred car loads of freight on hand on which the railroad company was
liable for twelve thousand dollars charges. A list of this was made out
and ten or twelve car loads of it ordered to be received daily until all
the back freight was cleared off. It was this clearing off back freight
which doubtless led to the charges adverted to. If the City Council had
wisely made such arrangements with merchants as would have permitted the
large space of unoccupied ground on the landing between Poplar and
Washington streets, to be used as a sugar levee, our storage room would
have been less crowded and much loss and confusion avoided. |
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