The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-08-30
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Since announcing the Cancellation Of
the Big Black river bridge ob ,bo line
Of the Southern Railroad. running
from Vicksburg 10 the Meridian. VIC
have been favored, through tho nolite.
ness OF Messrs. Sells a Co, Of this
city, with a condensed report Of the
annual statement of the President,
made 70 the stockholders in May last.
The facts embodied in this statement
are important to the citizens Of st.
Louis, and we deem ii our duty briefly
to lay them before the public This
Southern railroad starts from Nicks.
burg and runs due east from the
Mississippi river 40 miles to Meridian,
intersecting the n. o.. j. and G. n
Railroads at Jackson, distant ij miles
from Vicksburg, and connecting at
Meridian with the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, running North and south, and
with the Selma and Meridian Railroad
running east to Selma l05 miles. The
Southern road, with its Eastern con
nections, says the President affords
the shortest line of railway connecting
the Mississippi river with the Atlantic
sea board. The distance from Nieks-
burg to Savannah by rail is GO miles.
From Charleston to Memphis by rail
it is 1853 miles These are the only
two roads that admit of comparison,
as they are the only two east and west
roads between Cairo and New Orleans
that start from the east bank of the
Mississippi river. The advantage is,
therefore, claimed for Vicksburg of
being 50 miles nearer by rail than any
other city situated on the Mississippi
to an Atlantic seaport. Nicksburg, in
point Of time, is only four or five days
from St. Louis by steamboat naviga-
ton, and ten or twelve hours from
Selma by railway With the A miles
of railroad finished between Mont
gomery and Selma, three hours more
would take freight train to Mont
gomery; six hours more to Columbus,
Georgia, and six or seven hours moro.
to Macon. The President further OBJ
serves that st. Louis has not, nor can
she have, any direct railroad connec-
ton with the Gulf States. Her position,
200 miles above Cairo, ON the west
bank Of the Mississippi river, debars
her from that privilege, but she has the
finest navigation facilities in the world,
and her citizens are largely interested
in the steamboat business. She has
any amount ofmeans for water trans
portation, and Vicksburg offers her
the benefit of a road built 10 her hand,
and ready at once to transport her
cargoes of produce into new regions
which she has never heretofore traded
with. Such are the geographical lin
its and connections of this road, and
the advantages it presents for the dis
seminatIon of theproducts received ut
this market through sections of the
South which have heretofore been
closed against our trade. The finest
cotton districts of Alabama and Goor-
gia are opened up, and all that remains
to make the new field available is
little energy on the part of our mer
chants. five are energetic in secu-
ring the shipment of grain and other
produce from the Northwest, obliga
ton is imperative to find ready and
paying markets for their disposition;N
and rs receipts steadily increase, the
number Of consumers should be cor
respondingly enlarged. No effort,
therefore, should be omitted which can
mid in the increase of our trade rela-
lions, and all connections, wherever
which fixes on this point
The characteristic ofbeing the distribu-
ling center-the exchange mart for
Northern and Southern productions
should receive the attention and sup
port of our people.-St. Louis Demo
rat 18th.