The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-17
The Rest Route for Eastern Freight.

| overlooked by our shipping merchants.-
From Evansville, which is two hundred
miles above Cairo, and the same distance
below Louisville there is an excellent ana
well-managed railroad, running Nortn 10
Terre Haute and intersecting all the Eastern
lines running through New n i,o,, anu
Pennsylvania to Baltimore, Pnliadelphla,
New York and Boston. The Tobacco from
! Green river and Southern Kentucky is sent
over this road to the Eastern markets for
about the same cost of freight that is paid
ON the same article from Louisville over the
same routes. By the former route the ship
per saves the freight on two hundred miles
of river carriage, and two or three days of
time in its transmission.
What is done with Kentucky tobacco, can
be done with our cotton. 1t can be shipped
to Evansville as. cheap or cheaper than it
can be sent to st. Louis, and at the former
point it will be three hundred miles nearer
the Eastern markets than at the latter.
From Evansville its transportation to New
York and Boston will cost no more than
from Louisville, and but a fraction more
than from Cincinnati, and there will be a
saving of several days in time and two hun
bred to three hundred and fifty miles of DIFF
fcult and precarious river navigation for
six months in the year. Below Evansville,
in dry seasons, the water of the Ohio is
always much better than above, and it is
far less frequently INSTRUCTED by ice. 1t is
a matter of surprise that this eligible route
for Southern travel and freight has not at
tracted more attention in this vicinity We
learn that the Board of Trade of the enter
prising and flourishing IIoosier Commercial
Metropolis have it in contemplation to es-
tablish regular line of packets from their
town TO Memphis. Evansville is the ship
ping point for all the rich products of the
Green and Wabash river vallies-its exports
of agricultural products South greatly ex-
coed those of Cincinnati or Louisville. She
is sending us n large supply of our corn,
-four, pork, bacon and whisky, and has a
to supply n line of packets with downward
freights. If our cotton shippers will give
such n line part of their cotton freights up,
its success will be insured.
From Evansville there is the longest line
of canal in the world extending from the
Ohio river to Toledo on Lake Erie. Here
tofore this canal has been wretchedly man
aged by sinecurists of the State and the
bond-holders, and its navigation has been
tedious and uncertain. But it has within
the last year been transferred to private
companies, and shrewd, energetic, private in
terest is restoring it to order and rendering
its navigation cheap and certain. 1t termi-
mates at Toledo, one of the points at which
the Grand Trunk Railway gives receipts for
freights to be deliveredEin Liverpool at less
than twenty days from their date, and at
twenty per cent. less cost than the same
freight can be sent through Boston or New
York. IF during the approaching summer,
this canal shall be put in perfect order and
its navigation made reliable, it may afford
the cheapest and quickest medium OF con-
nection with the Canada Grand Trunk Rail-
way, and through that, the best route for
cotton from here to Liverpool. We believe
heavy freights are taken through this line
of canal from the Ohio to the lakes for So
or 81 so per ton, which would be equivalent
to so or Sc cents per bale on cotton.
A steamer could afford to take cot
ton from here to Evansville for GA or IS
cents per bale. So that by this route cot
ton ought TO be delivered from here at To-
ledo for $l.25 or 1.37per bale. The Grand
Trunk Railway takes it from that point to
Liverpool in fifth of the time and at a
little over half the cost of shipping it from
New Orleans. These facts foreshadow a
coming change in the course of trade, and
encourage the hope that, annually more and
more cotton will come up stream to be sold
here on its way to Europe and the East,
over the new routes at the North, and that
Mem phis will become the largest home mar
ket fer the great staple. If these Northern
Routes of Transportation become permanent
ly established, the future destiny of Men,
phis as the great home market tor cotton is
fixed. Every new packet line in the river
helps to secure this ascendency. tga+
If a line of packets be established with
Evansville, the 5000 hogsheads of tobacco
which she sends out by her packets to be
re-shipped at Cairo, will probably be brought
here, where it can be re-shipped for New
Orleans for one or two dollars less per hogs
head than at Cairo. Our New Orleans pack
ct line might be essentially benefited by a
connection with an Evansville line.