Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-29
MEMPHIS AND PROVIDENCE, LA.
The Proposed vicksburg Packet
Line Hailed with Satisfaction.
Why Memphis Did Net and Why She
Should Establish such a Line.
A Providence Friend TO the Rescue
with all his Strength.

From the Providence Carroll (LA.)
Record Of Saturday we copy the fol-
lowing article in support of u pro-
posed Nicksburg Packet line, which
will no doubt be read with satisfaction
by our merchant friends: During our
recent stay at Memphis we were glad
to note that her citizens were stirring
themselves actively to reinSta5e Il
packet line between their tiourishing
city and Nicksburg, in the benefits OF
| which our town and country would
largely participate. When we passed
through Memphis, III July, we con-
Versed with a number of merchants
and business men, urging upon them
the vital importance Ofthis movement.
Every day that it is delayed Memphis
is losing Il fOOthold and a valuable
commercial oppOrtunity, and we won
dered that there should be any hesita-
ton and delay in the matter, but the
confession was frankly made that
Memphis was too much crippled yet
to avail herself of this and other OPP
pOrtunities that We're offered. Being
a cotton market, the disasters 10 the
planting cOmmunityOf the years 1867
had seriously affected her, rs they
did New Orleans. Her own capital
lists were embarrassed, while the dis
orders in the political affairs of the
State, and more particularly the
frightful dictionary incubus that rested
on her municipal government, pre-
vented anything like the introduction
| Ofcapital from other quarters. But
| now the status is different, and under
the new impetus impaired by the re-
cent change, Memphis will start anew.
\ feeling of confidence and security Is
inspired in the minds of her people,
capital will core freely for operation
| and investment, and we were assured
that one of the first steps in the new
progress will be to renew the Mem
phis and Nicksburg packet line. We
hope our citizens in Carroll, and along
the river generally will Incorporate with
Memphis and aid it in every
way in their power. 1t is
clearly to their interest to do
so. 1t is very true that we have
in the st. Louis and Nicksburg line OF
| packets Il convenient and prompt
mode of up river communication. 1t
is not with a view of ~disparaging this
line that we advocate the additional
one; though, now that it has become
a monopoly, were we disposed to go
fault-fnding, we would not likely
| search in vain. They make a heavy
discrimination against Memphis,
charging, we learn, the same freights
from Memphis to the Bend that they
do from St. Louis. In the interests of
St. Louis, where the line is owned,
they have a right to do this, and it is
the duty of Memphis to rectify it by Il
competing line; and it is cur duty to
aid those that furnish a cheaper and
more convenient transportation. In
the rapid development and progress
| of this portion of the Valley, there is
! ample business FOR both lines. And
the thing is that Memphis is as good
n cotton market and just as accessible
to us as New Orleans, and it is well to
encourage an enterprise that will
make US independent of a cotton mo-
nopoly at the latter city, should one
threaten. We are working chiefly
for the interests of Carroll parish, and
as the enterprise affects the material
interests of Carroll, we shall have
more to say about it hereafter.