The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-02

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JoHSseN's restoration plan. Why, then,
are these evil deeds permitted Why don't
the citizens of Hampton send deputation to
Washington to protest against these petty acts
of petty tyrants Let them try this remedy,
and they will find that these little snails will
soon haul in their little horns. In this course
they will find corrective Of the evil and
they cannot try it too soon. 30
steam between Norfolk and washing
ton, N. G.
The steam line between Washington and
this city, which we hope will be an accom-
plished fact very shortly contemplates boat
of sufficient capacity to carry from four to
five hundred bales of cotton, and to run regu-
larly once a week Besides this quantity of
freight, she should also be provided with suf-
fcient accommodations for fifteen or twenty
passen gers-and she should not draw over
five feet or less, as she might be detained per-
haps, in coming through the canal; the water,
elsewhere being ample to accommodate boat
Of the capacity needed. The Tar river, which
runs to the northward and westward from
Washington, is navigable to Tarboro during
the whole year, except three months in sum
mer. During what is called the crop season,
an immense quantity of cotton and naval
stores, tar, pitch, turpentine and rosin, and
indeed, all other kinds of produce to which we
have recently alluded, as being produced in
the counties tapped by our canals especially
the Albemarle and Chesapeake, are sent down
from Tarboro and Washington. These pro-
ducts come from the contiguous counties
Edgecombe, Wilson, Green, Lenoir, Pitt, and
lower down, to the South, from perhaps the
entire county of Beaufort
This district of country is said to be the
finest cotton region in North Carolina. No
cotton had been sent to Norfolk from this
portion of the Old North State, previous to
the year 1860, either direct or in ransitu
During this year regular line of steamers
and barges Was established. We make men
ton of this fact in order to show what the
business of this line was. This line brought
to Norfolk, $4,000 bales ofcotton--much of it
however, was in hansitu on its way North
Since 1860, the only mode of transportation
or conveyance has been by sailing vessels by
the Cape Hatteras route. This is well known
as very boisterous and hazardous region,
besides disadvantages of delay, increased in
surance, with the additional hazard attendant
upon a deck-load, as was, and perhaps is,
frequently the case, which renders it liable
to damage and consequent loss on its arr al
at New York, where it is generally destined
In addition to these manifest objections to
the Hatteras route, there are delays in ship
ment from Washington, where it has re-
manned perhaps as long as six weeks, wait
ing for vessel, which regular and expedi-
tous steam line would obviate The route to
New York, too, is not always direct, but in
termediate points are stopped at, before the
the cotton crop on the Tar and Pamlico ri
vers was from 1000 to $4,000 bales. There
were shipped from Washington in 1860, from
1900 to $4,000 bales $4,000 of which, as
we have stated, came through the route by
the Pamlico and Albemarle sounds, up North
river, through the Albemarle and Chesapeake
Canal to Norfolk
s In addition to the cotton, there were 40 900
barrels of naval stores, small quantity of
which came by the last named route to Nor
folk, portion of it in transitu. If we had
the facilities of transportation which regu-
lar steamboat would afford, running to and
fro weekly, mSch larger quantity could be
brought into our harbor. Besides cotton and
naval stores, considerable quantity of lum-
Der was shipped to Baltimore and Philade-
phia, and to the West Indies.
Hyde county alone, one of the most prolific
corn-producing counties, would help to sus-
tain the line. The farming interest above
Washington is strongly in favor of such
line. Besides freight, the boat would get
mparativelya large number of passengers
Washington being Fifty miles Fl omany railroad,
and going north there is staging for thrty-five
miles. From this point steamer plies up
the Chowan and Blackwater to Franklin, and
thence by the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail-
road to Portsmouth, or, from Suffolk, en- the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad to Norfolk 1
The proposed steam line from Washington
would be equal to this route in point of time,
and decidedly more pleasant A permanent,
nd a1y