| From the Alexandria (Va.) Gazette |
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| March 19, 1861 |
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| Arrival of Cotton |
| The freight train on the
Orange & Alexandria Railroad, yesterday morning came in, bringing
among other freight two hundred and fifty bales of Cotton {about
10 carloads}, which came
from Memphis via Lynchburg to seek shipment here for the city of New
York. The Cotton will be shipped hence by the New York and Virginia
Steamship Transportation Company's Line. |
| This is the second arrival of
Cotton we have had to chronicle within a short time, and we trust it
may not be long before such arrivals will be so numerous as to call
for no other notice in our columns, than a weekly summary of the
amount received. Nor are we without the hope that whether or not the
present troubles shall after the political relations of Virginia, they
will at least, tend to induce our people to seek with more
determination and assiduity, to build up home interests and foster
home trade. |
| This effected, we not despair
of seeing our wasted water power whirling a thousand spindles, our
coal driving the ponderous engines that give employment to intelligent
industry, and the sails of commerce from beyond seas whitening our
harbor. Not alone Coal, but Cotton and Tobacco, Flour and Rice, will
wait on our wharves, not for New York or Fall river -- but for Havre
and Liverpool, for Smyrna and Bombay. |
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