The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-30

OF them to Eastport, Mississippi. Thesl
ooats are Of light draft of water, snC
Weti fitted for plying in the Tennessee,
river st all seasons, with q capacity fol
freight equal to the general stages O
me river, and supplied with every com
Tort and convenience for passenger bus
iness.
The company have two whsrf-bosts,
one at the foot Of Poplar street, st.
Louis, where they own and possess val
liable rights and privileges on the leVee.
aud one at JohnsonVille, Tennessee,
which is in close proximity with the
railroad, and through which Sill drsyage
between the railrosd cars and the steam
ers is saved"
He also states that the freight bust.
ness Oh the line exceeds 2300 tons per
week, and that the average number of
passengers was fifty per day each way.
The piles Of freight and the hustle of
people at the landings of the company
IN 81 Louis and JohnsOnville, are plain
evidence of the magnitude of the BUSH
ness done on this line.
1t may be advisable for the company
TO increase the cash capital 10 $780,
wv, IN order to extend their agencies
and advertisements, with 3 vide and
repaYing hberality, 70 build or buy
two other aud still better boats. and
TO improve the wharf boat facilities.
particularly at Cairo and Psducah'
where 3 portion OF the trade of Nash
yile, as well as Of ST. Louis, can be
fostered
The population Of St Louis being
only three times greater than Nash !
vile, and both cities being equally in
terested in the prosperity of this en-
terprlse, It might be supposed that |
Nashville would take one-ffth of the 4
stock, SlOO 600; but the suggestion com
ing from St Louis, is that Nashville |
might take only one-tenth, $4,000. as
thar would be sufficient evidence ofput> /
tug the shoulder to the wheel, aud
then the genuine cooperation of Her
eoles could be relieved on for q perfect
~ successful movement
Let one hundred men take, each, on
an average, $500, and then the result
5 secured.
II this opportunity to manifest a CO.
Operating spirit on the part of Nash
vile with ST Louis is lost, then the ex-
tension Of the Iron Mountain Railroad
VIII be more surely aEerted from Hick-
man to Columbus, or to Memphis.
through which the trade and travel
Of Chsttanoog, will be drawn !
to ST Louis, without touching Nash. :
VILE as vas the case, to a remarkable !,
degree before the war, by the aid of =,
the 81 Louis and Memphis Packet
Company
But should this opportunity be cor
Tally and substantially embraced by S
Nashville, then the business of your
Northwestern road and this Packet
company proceeding from its already 7 !,
highly respectable condition, might :
Don rise and expand into proportions ;
urpassing even the distinguished ST. =
louis and Memphis line, and thus cause \
N imperative demand for the compile l.
ION OF sour Northwestern Railroad to :,
where larger boats from ST. !,
louis would promptly form a connec- i
ion, re-energizing the cooperation; and \
There, by the logic Of trade, the Iron =
1ountain road would be drawn to
mite with your Northwestern link,
trough which result the chain of rail r.
oais would be completed from St. u
.ouis, directly through Nashville to q
aVannah, Georgia, the distance by rail d
et8een the-extreme points, being only Al
81 miles, which is a gain to st. Louis ~
more than 100 miles over the New y
'ork route in resching the Atlantic
kean. q
Let all other lines Of trade flourish as Il
ley may, but if Nashville and St N
oUis now cooperate with heart, head, st
ID hand, my fOndly cherished hope,
! which you doubtless unanimously n,
anticipate, for the prosperity of the W
outh, along this line, may quickly be- tt
one bright and practical reality.
HENRT Coma ~
Nashville, December Is, 1868. 70