| From the The Standard {Clarksville, Tex.} |
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| January 26, 1861 |
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| Cotton at Norfolk |
| "Another train of fourteen
cars loaded with cotton, arrived here over the Norfolk & Petersburg
railroad yesterday. This cotton came from Tennessee, and much of it was
in care and marked Va. & T. T. T. {Virginia &
Tennessee RR} |
| "In these exciting times, when
business is almost prostrate, and commercial confidence has almost
become a myth, we have hardly the heart to refer to the future of our
ancient city, for the arrival of train after train of cotton from the
other side of the Blue Ridge, and the shrill whistle of the Western
locomotive has awakened us to such a sense of pride that we cannot
forbear a few words on the subject. The periodical booming of the ocean
steamships has now only to be heard to realize the bright picture which
we painted for our selves some months ago. Already have the planters and
factors of Tennessee discovered that this is their nearest and
legitimate port, and soon evidence, have turned their principal steps in
this direction in such a stream, that all the efforts of the other and
less favored ports will never be able to suppress it. The ??? set this
way, and the eye of the English capitalists will be turned to Norfolk.
Then, in place of shipping thirty or forty thousand bales of cotton to
the North, we will eventually ship hundreds of thousands to Europe." |
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