| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| January 3, 1861 |
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| Memphis & Charleston Railroad and our
Northern Trade |
| From the Cincinnati Gazette |
| Col. Sam Tate, president of
the Memphis & Charleston railroad, has been in this city for
several days past, making arrangements with the managers of the Miami
roads and their Eastern rail connections, and with the Memphis packet
company, to carry freights from the East and from this city, destined
for points in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and the Carolinas, by his
road from Memphis to Chattanooga, the great distribution center for
those Southern States. Cincinnati has of late years supplied a large
portion of those States with ???, whisky, corn and other articles of
??? and since the completion of the Louisville & Nashville road
much of this freight has traveled that route. During the troubles on
?? fall, our merchants were compelled to send their property round by
the Memphis & Charleston railroad, but the rates were ??? on that
road that shippers were compelled to return to the Nashville road as
soon as that road got clear of its accumulation. |
| The trade between Cincinnati
and the South within the past year, owing to the failure of the crops
in the South, has become quite heavy, and Col. Tate has determined to
make such rates, in connection with the packet company, as will secure
a large share of the business. |
| We learn from two or three of
our merchants, the greater portion of whose customers reside in
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina, that the orders for
provisions are increasing daily, and their correspondents inform them
that large quantities of produce will still be wanted to carry them
along. These gentlemen are shipping daily to their southern customers,
and count upon a prosperous and increased business this winter,
notwithstanding the political troubles that are agitating our southern
friends. |
| Col. Tate, who is in every
respect a strong southern man, expressed the confident opinion that
nothing serious will result from the political excitement now raging
at the South, to interfere with the commercial relations now existing
between the two sections of the country and that our trade, instead of
falling off, will continue to increase. |
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