The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-02-22
mo Convention
Commercial.

low, copied from the Day Book, Norfolk,
Va. We have noticed, for several weeks,
long trains, heavily laden with cotton,
passing this place in tho direction indica.
ted. In advocating the construction Of
this line, some years ago, we then ex.
pressed the opinion that it would eventu.
ally have an amount Of carrying trade, as
we'll as travel, equal to its entira o.
and to secure that result il
regular and permanent syst
tons through the entire}
ruption at Knoxville U1(hf6dsi
travel, caused bynxIe Eture of the
East Tennessee AM train some
>r21H9 Is uipntes befol arrival of the
East n lssee and QStgia cars, we trus
WIN be speedy removed. and, as the
Spring opens, everything be made to move
throughout the line with the regularity
and order of clock-work. II can be done
and therefore must be:
From the Norfolk Vs. Day Book.
We are rejoiced to observe that oul
Norfolk and Petersburg Road has begun
to fulfil in part, the higher object fol
which, in connection with the other two
Roads of the South Side system, it was
conveived. This, the terminal link in
the great chain of iron rail, connecting
Memphis and the intermediate and CON
tiguous South West with the Atlantic
Seabord at Norfolk, is now bringing
I down heavy ladened trains of Tennessee
and Georgia cotton.
BY this route ofunbroken railway line,
via Norfolk, Memphis. the great cotton
centre of the South West, q distributing
point for five hundred thousand bales per
annunl, is nearer Liverpool and other
transatlantic ports, than New York, BY
more than three hundred miles, with go
per cent. advantage of rail transporta-
ton, and nearer than via New Orleans BY
two thousand miles.
The superior facilities at Norfolk by
means OF this channel of intercommuni-
cation with the South West, her railroads
canals, and rivers, penetrating every
part of Virginia and the State Of North
Carolina. for concentrating every species
of produce ordinarily demanded in our
foreign trade, besides her superior advan-
tage for concentrating the leading item
Of ali-cotton-and her facilities by reas-
on of these channels of inter communi-
cation for the distribution of merchan-
disc, ought to command immediate at
tention as prominent focal point in a
line of direct foreign trade.
The cities of Boston. New York, Phila.
delphia and Baltimore, by means of the
several lines of steamers running between
these respective cities and this port, in
connection with the Norfolk Road, are
presented a shorter. more direct, and ex-
peditious channel of communication with
the South and South West, than can be
found elsewhere. To and from Boston,
we have now regularly six steamers per
month. To and from New York four
per week. To and from Philadelphia
daily and semi-weekly line, and to and
from Baltimore daily line.
To the merchants of these Atlantic
cities and the country along this extend.
ed and now well directed and organized
line OF railway, we would commend the
low rates and superior facilities of this
route.
We are authoritatively informed, that
the several roads of this Norfolk and
Memphis line. have adopted q connected
Express freight schedule, whereby the tran.
sit between these terminal points will be
made in six days-and between Norfolk
and Nashville in five days. Norfolk and
Chattanooga in four days, Norfolk and
Knoxville in three and half DAYS, Nor
folk and Bristol in two and a half DAYS.
and Norfolk and Lynchburg in one day.
We would therefore assert that the car
dinal law of trade, to seek and pursue
the most direct and expeditions line of
transit between production and consump-
ton, will find higher degree of satisfac-
ton in this route, via Norfolk. than by
any other channel of communication,
connecting the same region of country
and fhn