The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-02
FRIDAY, JUNE ?, 1865



The Macon (Ga) Telegraph of the
23d Of May, commences an article upon
the vast Importance of Immediately
opening railway communications with
the North, with the following para
graph:
The South is bare of goods-the PEG
pie destitute Of the ordinary sppllS
ances Of comfort and convenience
which they had before the war II Is
true this destitution has come upon US
80 gradually, and existed so long, that
we have ceased TO feel il IS we should
once have done: but when the re-lntro-
duction of goods, wares and merehan-
disc ono begins, then we shall oegln
pan passu- 10 discover on destItutlon
and our necessities. We shall dlscov-
that we are without good agricultural
and plantation utensils, and very short
Of mechanical stock and Implement
clothing scarce and scanty-furnlture
dilapidated-crockery broken libra
ries out of date-school books worn and
worthless-in short that whichever way
We turn there is q peremPtory demand
for re-inVestment. =
The sagaciOus merchant viii dlscoY-
in these statements of the Telegraph
valuable facts as to what he may DO to
wards supplying the destitute South,
and accommodating fortune. The mer-
chants of Nashville are deeply inter
ested in the matter. Previous to the
re5elhsn Nashville was the market for
all that part of Georgia which lies
North Of Atlanta, and in the immedi-
ate vicinity South of that place, for
North Alabama, East Tennessee, and
Middle Tennessee Millions Of dollars
worth Of goods were sold annually by
q Wholesale merchants, who amassed
wealth, and built up regulations for en-
terprise, intelligence and honesty
They made il a point to sell their goods
at prices which prevented Southern re-
tail merchants and traders from pass
ing by them, and trading with Louis
vile and Cincinnati There assort-
ments were general, embracing every
article kept by the retailer, and they
would duplicate any bill Of eastern
iobbers. What was done then can and
must be done again. The majority of
the merchants doing business here now
are new men. They located in
our midst when there was little
prospect of any trade beyond
that necessary to supply the
local demand, and prices have been in
many instances exhorbitantly high.
Vow that q wider field of operations is
opening TO them, we take it for grant
ed that they viii adapt their business
TO the altered state Of affairs, and make
it 20 the interest Of those sections of
country which formerly dealt with
Nashville aud enriched her merchants,
10 return 10 her again. 1t Will not be
many weeks before the railroads will
be working from this city to Atlanta,
aud in short period thereafter we may
reasonably expect 8 demand 70 spring
up for goods, wares, agricultural imple-
meuts, furniture, etc, increasing with
every passing month. Let our mer-
chants, therefore, begin TO prepare for
the good day that is coming-iucrease
their stocks, and make them attractive
ia quality, styles, and prices. If they
begin right they viii at once reap the
advantages Of their enterprise. If they
begin wrong, Nashville will be for some
years, or until skrewder men engage in
mercantile and manu- acturing pursuits
here, be but a way station for Louis
vile. Cincinnati snd other localities.