Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-01

The time consumed in ira nsp. tatien woulc
be +: Mem phis 10 New Orleans, 4 dRys ia New
Orleans, 5 ~dsys-whlch Is the necessary time
Consumed there; sailing vessel, IS TO 50 days
steamer, Is 20 ~ days average time by sail, s.
to e days BY steamer. z 70 81 Y
There aIe always SAILING vessels up " fol
Liverpool In New Oriean= steamship every
As near IS I can ascertsia these are the facts
should I De wrong, 1 shall be glad to be sci
Second, EorfsIk. This has been much talked
OF IS our great point for Tesehlng Liverpool
and Tor direct trzde. It is on q direct line ITcm
AenaphIs, distance S69 miles, ana there IS moth
iag Goat l know o. to prevents becoming the
great SsuLnern port except one, and That Is It's
great Conpsitor, New York, which has
a5so bed all the trade OF other cities directly
for Europe. YOU experience N Charleston on
| Esil-0Gc, might be quoted here IS the result Of
| these en- e~rerises. Ehy has PhnadeIphfa no
direct lzn5 10 Europe9 The PeensyITania Cen
trsl Railroad has IL terminus there, the city
| has certainly more trade than Norfolk, and yet
what has been their expefienee7 the Inman
line, now running nom he% York, was hrst
established as a JOINT line 10 New York and
P1tlsdeiphis, anc It nevsrWasa success until
! Il became sXctusiVaiy q New York line. Why
aSs the Cunard line Withdrawn their steamers
| from BJston 3ust because New York h2S
absorbed the business. YOur experiences will,
Memphis IN establishing a line OF steamers
rom Norfolk would not accomplish the
cotton would they be able to carry
every week. II requires a vary large
steamer 10 carry &Su n4leS OF COTTON. ana q
ve6Sly line from k9rfolk, would require eight
ste Amer at an average cost Of $4,000 sterling or
Sd. New York. Let me ask first. what
factIi ties Memphis has for resching New YORK.
Every cotton factor. buyer or dealer, in this
city, IS aware, TO some extent OF thssa facili-
Ties. Last year there were hftsen or sixteen
different well organized, well equlppe6 lines,
who had their representatives, here for the pur-
pOss OF securing the cotton Of Memphis for
transportation to New York and the East.
satisfies 10 not show how many bales they
carr.ed5 but one company alone carried over
D,0J0 bales, another 8,u3U, another 5000 bales,
and 50 on, and I do not think that I exceed the
figures, when I say that tWO-tbIrds Of the
cotton II this market was carried By Northern
transportation companies, to its destination,
be 1t, New York, New England, PhiladelPhia
or Baltimore.
to Louisville, from stsmphis, 44.u00 bales, and
,bI8 year are prepared 20 do twice thai amount
% business. Tine oe supfsd in tr2nsit4t0 New
Yofk varies, bat ny careful management II can
be domain 8 20 L days. and | believe that when
arrangements are perfected, even J days. We
York inside Ct theF Tune,
H1s fsVIlid=s n New York for carrying all
Produce 10 Liverpool ana Europe are unnmit-
Gamer ae4 s'a ana Thee fiaa fb4 GH8a 7sS fttE Ssen EBmgH fac fRs
have He3ry squal numb rs. Ths Anchor line,
the Allaa line, the National Steamship Com-
p1Uy, Williams & Green, the London Lac,
AL Tor Liverpool, whist ior Bremen there is
the 5eralsuiS Llryd-. an1 othsF lines fox Ham
burg, fr E2Vre and Bsssr, SO that from New
d orr an average Of three steamers leave every
day, and during last sssson on one dav 4
5 etmers lett that pert, bound for Liverpool.
Feeling sOue interest," in Memphis rs q city,
and 6nKfOus To see its rssog Tcus fully devsl
coed, 1 was instructed, whilst on my way to
Europe this past summe-. TO see these various
Steamship companies, sailing from New YORK,
aud ace tain their fe ealing. with reference TO
Z vieg through hills 0 laoing and ia company
with Mr. q. Taylor, OF the Great Western Dis
patch, I did 50, AID ia every instance we met
wiih q cordial response to the propositions
made them. and t1ey one and al expressed
their willingness 10 assist in every possible
manner ths enterprise.
7 70 md the following figures relative to the
rTlcs Of transportation nom Memphis to New
YORK, and thence to Liverpool:
On September /, 1857, Memphis to New
York. per bale Of SEQ los, compressed,