| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| September 24, 1861 |
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| Sugar and salt |
| There are one hundred and fifty car-loads
of sugar {that would be about 2.4 million pounds
of sugar} at the Grand Junction
in Tennessee, awaiting transportation eastward. Much
of this immense supply has been at that point for some time; but the
railroads are not prepared to bring it away.--The half of it put into
our Eastern markets would bring the prices of sugar down to reasonable
rates. |
| There are said to be a hundred thousand
bushels of salt on the line of the Virginia
& Tennessee
railroad, and the capacity of the Satines of Smyth county is equal to
the manufacture of ten thousand bushels a week. Yet salt cannot be had
in Richmond
for less than six or seven dollars a sack. |
| It is said that the {Richmond
&} Danville railroad
company has proffered to send its trains — cars engines, and all —
to the Smyth county Salines for the salt, if the South-Side and
Virginia & Tennessee companies will permit but has yet succeeded
in bringing down only a single train loaded with the much-desired
article. We hope the Danville
company will be importunate in this matter and persist in these
proffers. The people have too much at stake in this matter for such a
proposition to fail. |
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In regard to the great
quantities of sugar and salt awaiting transportation,
it is said that powerful combinations of capitalists exist to prevent
their transmission on the public works. Thus, while Northern Yankees
blockade our seaports, home Yankees blockade our interior channels of
trade. We are fighting the Northern Yankees with cannon and bayonet.
What sort of weapons should we use against the home Yankees, their
aiders and abettors? |