| From the Tarboro (N. C.) Southerner |
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| June 11, 1864 |
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| Piedmont Rail Road |
| We understand that this important line of
communication, connecting the Richmond & Danville rail road with
the North Carolina rail road at Greensboro', a distance of 48 miles,
has just been completed and put in operation. This secures at once and
renders safe from Yankee raiders, for all time to come, the connection
of the seat of Government with the South. Averill may range on one
side and Spears on the other, and make as many temporary interruptions
of the other roads as they please, but this middle line cannot be
touched. Moreover, it is the shortest route to the South. Even from
Petersburg to Greensboro', by the Southside and Richmond &
Danville rail roads, the distance is 54 miles less than it is by
Weldon and Raleigh. It will be seen in our advertising columns, that
the Southside Company already advertise this line open as a traveling
line. It will no doubt be as important as a freight line; and it is
probable that it will relieve the press of government business so much
on the Southern road, that we may soon expect to see supplies come to
our market by that line, and thus help our people. In a word, this new
route will exercise a beneficial effect all around, and we cannot too
much commend the government agents and others engaged on it, for being
able to push a work of such magnitude through in so short a period in
times like these. |
| Petersburg Express |
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