Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-21
EsTABLIsHED 1910.
TIE ALLAN LINE OF STEAMERS.

THE ALLAN LINE OF BTEA@EES.
1t is not claiming too much to say
that the grandest result to come to
Memphis and all the surrounding
country out of the lease OF the
Memphis and Charleston railroad to
the Southern Security company Is
direct trade with Liverpool by the
Allan line of steamers from Norfolk
and Baltimore, and an immigration
70 be brought to Norfolk by those
steamers, and directed and carried
70 our vacant lands by Tom Scott
and his cosdjutors. Established for
some months as an experiment, We
regard this steamship line as now full
" guaranteed a permanency as en-
during as any Of the lines
between Liverpool and New York.
Memphis alone can give them as
much cotton as they can carry, which
Is all they ask. For cargo and pas
sengers from Liverpool the Aliens re-
rely upon themselves. They only
urge that we give them the gusran-
tee Of full cargoes ''out," they will
attend to the rest. Already they
have twenty-five flrst-elsss steam
ships sflOst, as follows: The Peruvi.
an, Nova Scotia, Caspian, Sar-
matian, Prussian, Austrian, Ger
many, st. David, Ottawa, Poly
nesian, Circassisn, European, Scan-
dinavIan, HISTORIAN, Moravian,
st. Andrew, North American,
Sweden, Corinthian, Norway,
Hibernian and st. Patrick. With
these they have perfected pas
ssnger and freight arrangements ram
ihed throughout England, Ireland, |
Scotland, Germany, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark and France, with through |
connections from Norfolk and Bslti- |
more by all the principal railway |
and river cities and towns OF the
southern and southwestern States,
presenting the most direct and cheap
est route between European countries |
aud the southern States now before |
the public, and deserving the earnest
encouragement and support of all the |
people of the South. For this we are
directly indebted to Major Wicks,
president of the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad, and the gentlemen who |
have so earnestly co-opersted with |
him, and in part to DonohO & Bulk
ley, of this city, who have been con-
spicuous for their lsbors in connection |
with immigration schemes since
1865. These gentlemen are agents for
the Allan line in Memphis, and are
the confldants Of the owners Of those
splendid steamships which they as
sure Us are fixtures in the trade |
between Liverpool and Norfolk to
carry cotton one way and immigrants
the other. Nothing, they tell Us, pays
50 well as immigrants, and nothing is
more needed or of greater value to
the South than Just such freight, and
by hearty cooperation Of Southern
communities and States these steam
ers can be constantly crowded and
our country will soon be populated
with q live, enterprising and pro-
Rressive people, who will bring rapid
sad large dividends to our railways,
to our lands, popula-
ton and prosperity 10 our cities and
active demand from redundant Eu-
ropean capital for our Southern seeuri-
ties. Southern real estate and immi-
grafton 90 hand in hand. The mil
Of ida acres need but the vital
izing influences Of millions Of intel
Igent producers to give to the South
the supremacy in agriculture, manu-
fsctures and commerce. And who is
not willing to work with viii COM
with such interests as are
here involved2 What citizen, at all
Identified with Memphis interests,
does not look with a strong and un-
faith for the time when the
Atlantic and Pacific, the lakes and the
gulf, the English channel and the
Mediterranean shall pour their null
titudes Of people and cargOes Of freight
20 and fro scross the great Mississippi |
railway bridgeat Memphis, the future
metropolis OF the Mississippi valley.