Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-07


IorrosThe total receipt. Of cotton at this point
sources september l. 1859, TO July 1890
bales The receipts last year were sis7
bales M sn,n om S' % ship
677 bales and the shipments during the year
baie; '>'' '-''''
We take the above extract from the Memphis
Enquirer. II will be seen from it that the euor-
nous quantity Of 392. $50 bales Of cotton have
been received at that city for the past ten months
This cotton 10 sent there for shipment to European
and Northern markets. To facilitate its transpor.
tation. the most direct outlet to the ocean should
be sought. That outlet is, unQuestionsb!y, Nor
folk, and it should DO the exporting market for
this vnst amount of western production. AT pres
ent takes the circutous and tardy route via New
Orleans. where it is either placed on cOastng
sels and taken to Now York for transhipment. or
put directly on board ocean bottoms, which, like
as not, detained for weeks or months at the
bar, unable to cross that formidable obstruction.
The fine harbor of Norfolk receive the largest
vessels that navigate the ocean. The mammoth
Great Eastern could ride as we'll and a. easily in
her waters the smallest oyster craft Of the Bay
The cotton, If deposited there, could without de-
Law or hinderance, be shipped to Whatever market,
home or foreign, it might prefer. 1t ought to 20
there, according to oil the laws governing trade
and transport. There 10 Railway connection, com
pIets and unbroken. between the two points. A
car could be loaded at Memphis with cotton and
started for Norfolk and in sixty.two hours it
hight be at the wharves of that port, ready IT,
new it's journey on the ocean. No need for
shipment anywhere. The car which left the Mem
phis depot might dump its load at the docks of
Norfolk. In view of the immense advantage
which this freight would be to the Railroad con-
nections between the two points, we can but cx-
press surprise that greater efforts not made by
those having them in charge to secure it. A rea-
sonable but remunerative tariff Of charges, to-
gether with certainty and expedition in transpor-
tation would certainly bring to them great por
ton of that tonnage. We learn that shippers in
Memphis are anxious to forward by this route,
nut are not able to effect such arrangements with
the railroads o. would justify them in doing So
We also learn that the Memphis and Charleston
Company are unwilling for their cars to come
through, because when they have permitted it on
one or two occasions, they have experienced great
trouble and delay in getting them back-oth,r
companies, as they state, having put them to work
on their roads. Surely this objection should not
obtain and Eastern companies will not allow this
rcproach to attach to them. Let tho cars of sister
roads be promptly returned; let system and regu-
larity be observed in reference to this through
trade,--let reasonable tariff Of freights he adop-
ted, and the reads between tie Mississippi and
the Chesapeake will scarcely be able to accommo-
.te the food of tonnage that will flow over thegk
Our great road, the Virginia and Tennessee, laid
consequently Lynchburg itself is deeply interdst
ed in this matter. It's Golfers may I've made to be-
come plethoric and heavy by the perfection Of
iudicious system of throug h-freght transportation
Won't it be donei We leave the subject in able
hands. when We commit it to the efficient and sa
gaoious head.of that road-Presidens Mcdaniel
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