Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-04-18

turpentine, of which this country Is full,
and early horticultural productions OF much
warmer latitudes. Therefore, Port Royal
must become, other conditions being equal,
the port of Ohio. The Union Pacific, the
Northern Pacific, and other future Northern
routes, will meet at Council Bluffs; but Port
ROYAL is as near to Council Bluffs as Utica
or New York, and Chicago is as near to Port
ROYAL as to New York City, so that the nat
ural course of trade will seek it's terminus at
Port Royal as a. depot of the productions or
the country, south of line from Cape Fear,
through Cincinnati to Alaska, and OF the tea
trade of China. This last; think, will ind
its depot for the United States i'll the sand
hill region, near Augusta, Ca, as will also
great va. iety Of goods that do not keep well
on the salt water, or in moist climates. Now
Cincinnati is on the extreme northern verge
of this area, and may be obliged to depend
ON her custom east of the Mississippi and
west of Pennsylvania but could she cut
canal from Lake Michigan to her wharves,
she might secure the great wheat trade OF
Chicago, have her elevators on the deep
water of Port Royal, aud receive her foreign
exchange for the same at time when all the
more northern routes are bound by Ice and
snow. The earliest spring and latest fall
trade would thus enable her to supply the
whole country, while..N New York and Phila-
delphia, by the storms of Cape Hatteras and
frost were suffering blockade. Under these
conditions | suggest road from CInclnnatil
to Rabun Gap, and to the Air Line Railroad
from Atlanta to Baltimore would thus con-
meet it with the Georgia Railroad at
Athens"
The editor of the Gaz tie says in his edl-
torial comments, that Rabun Gap is un-
doubtedly the gate of the South Atlantic and
that if the South Atlantic be the objective
Jint Knoxville is the best route and will be
made by the Kentucky Central X. K. exten-
sion. As reg rds the canal from Lake Mich
igan to Cincinnati, that is improbable; but
canal from Lake Michigan to Lafayette,
the head of navigation on the Wabash river:
and thus gaining water communca ION to the
Ohio, is among the probabilities ofthe near
future. As regards Chattanooga as an OBJ
ectiye point for the Southern railway, it will
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