Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-05

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The imports for this quarter are claimed
to be nearly double in value those for the
corresponding quarter of 1868.
Savannah has made greater strides in
the cotton trade than in any other branch
| of business. For instance, the receipts
to the close of January, 1870, amounted
to 334, S54 bales, against 231, 94l to the
corresponding period in 1869, and 146,-
543 in 1867 This shows a wonderful
increase in the receipts of cotton at Sa-
vannah, having more than doubled in
-four years. The exports of cotton to the
close of January, 1870, amounted TO
272, 907 bales, against III, 612 to the
corresponding period last year. This
shows an increase of 95, 295 bales The
greatest increase has been to foreign
ports, which show a gain of about l20
per cent. This indicates very healthy
growth of the foreign commerce of Sa-
yannah. There is no question that in the
cotton trade Savannah is outstripping
every other port in the South, and is now
second only to New Orleans. If the in
crease in the next four years shall be as
great as in the past four, Savannah will
stand the first cotton port in the South.
There are those who confidently believe
that this result will be achieved The
NeVs institutes with cOmmendable pride,
a comparison of the receipts of cotton at
Savannah with those at other ports, and
its figures will be interesting to the
business men and cotton planters of Ten
nesseee and North Alabama, where the
UNION AND AMERICAN circulates so large
w. The NetCs says:
"The receipts of cotton at Mobile in
1870, up TO latest dates, were 1913, 800
bales; to the same date last year 148, 1873,
showing an increase of 40, 457 bales.
"The receipts at Charleston in 1870
were 15S, 245 bales; TO the same date last
year, llS, 4+2 bales, showing an increase
of 80, 500 bales.
The receipts at New Orleans in 1870
were 500, $50 bales; to the same date last
year, 529, lS7 bales, showing an increase
of SO, 993 bales.
''The receipts at Savannah, to latest re-
port, were 334, S54 bales; to the same time
last year, 231, 941, showing an increase Of
III, 913 bales. As the Savannah report
comes up to a week later than those of
other cities, some Is, 900 bales should be
deducted from her receipts to make all
equal, which will still show large bal
anCe in favor of Savannah.
''This extraordinary increase at Savan-
nah is due not only to an increase of the |
crop, but in great part to the diversion of |
cotton in this direction, which formerly
found an outlet through the Gulf ports |
When the railroad connection between
Montgomery and Selma shall have been
completed, We have only to contemplate
the fact that cotton at Vicksburg will be
two weeks nearer Liverpool if sent over
land TO Savannah, then it will be shipped
through the Gulf, in order to form a IA
tiOnal conclusion regarding the future
course of the great staple"
The cotton factors of Savannah claim |
that the prices they pay for cotton make
it equally the interest of the planter to
seek market in that city with the other |
advantages claimed for Savannah.
The Ne1US makes another statement, |
which is worth reproducing, and that is |
in connection with railroads and steam |
ships. 1t says:
Savannah has built, almost exclusively |
with her own capital, two grand lines of |
railway, one stretching almost entirely |
across the southern portion of the State, |
and upwards of two hundred and thirty !
miles in length, with a branch extending |
into Florida, connecting her with the en-
tire railroad system of that State; and
line to Macon near two hundred miles in |
length, with branches to Augusta and Ea-
tOnton. Counting in extensions and con-
nections, it is safe to say that Savannah
has constructed nearly a thousand miles |
of railway and furnished nearly all the
capital. Her oldest work, the Georgia
Central, is the finest, richest, and best
equipped railroad in the South; and its
depOts, workshops and offices in this city, |
excel those of any road in the Union.
Savannah has four separate and indie
pendent lines TO New York, comprising |
eight steamships of the first class; one line
to Philadelphia. embracing two steam
ships: one 10 Baltimore, embracing three |
steamships one line to Boston, embracing |
two steamships; three steamboats, of the
first class to Florida ports and rivers; three
to Charleston, and some half dozen riv-
CT steamers to Augusta, besides other
steamboats, which ply on the smaller riv-
ers, and regular lines of sailing vessels to
the West India ports. We have now in
port one hundred and twenty-seven YES
sells, with a tonnage Of fifty thousand, and
manned by one thousand two hundred
seamcn. New York, New Orleans, and
perhaps. Philadelphia are the only ports
Of the United States that can make an
equal showing at the present fine.
One of the most powerful auxiliaries to
the growth Of the trade and commerce Of
Savannah, is the Georgia Central Rail
road, which commands capital of about
thirty millions of dollars. This road is
securing the control of railroads extend
ing into the interior, and has already
bought up the line extending 10 Mont