Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-26
TUE THRoUGH ROUTE no NORFOLE

THE THROUGH ROUTE TO NORFOLK
On Wednesday last, in an article com.
menting upon the new schedule of the
Charleston railroad, we promised to re,
cur again to the subject of the through
route from Memphis to Norfolk, which
must become sooner or later the great
Northern and Southern highway of the
nation traversing, as it does, a country
that, for picturesque scenery, interesting
localities and agricultural and mineral
wealth is not surpassed by that through
which the Pennsylvania Central, the
New York and Erie, and New York
Central passes. OF this fact we
are perfectly eognizant, by re-
cent travel over all those roads. 1t is
true the States of New York and Penn
sylvania are more thickly settled and
are better developed than Virginia or
Tennessee, and that consequently,
thrifty towns and cities abound as an
offset to our scattered, bat often pie
turesque villages; but, neither in nine
raj wealth or agricultural, can the Key
stone or Empire States surpass the Old
Dominion or the Volunteer State.
Traversing the rich alluvian of the Wes-
tern District of Tennessee, the Charles
ton railroad strikes the Everlasting
hills" near Florence, Alabama,
a most favored and delightful
section of country for wealth and
health, and thence on through q high
and mountainous region, rich in build
ing stone and marble, coal and iron.
At Chattanooga il connects with the
first of the lines that, united to it, COM
plcte the tie that binds US to the At
lantic-the East Tennessee and Georgia,
and, at Knoxville, with the East Ten
nessee and Virginia, and at Bristol,
with Mahone's combinations, known as
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio rail-
road-a name significant of the work
the Southern Security Company, in their
lease Of our Charleston road, have de-
termined to accomplish. About Chatta-
nOOgCs and in the neighbOrhOOd,
the scenery is sublime, and peculiar
as it is sublime challenges the admira-
ton Of the tourist, who will find not only
plenty to satisfy his taste for the grand
in nature, but watering-plaees at which
he cannot fail to enjoy the company of
cultivated men and women, forming a
society as charming as the scenery and
surroundings are delightful. And so all
along this series of roads. At every
twenty miles, sometimes nearer, there
are springs of more or less excellence as
to the efficacy and healing properties Of
their waters. Many Of those Of Tennes-
see have been favorably known for years,
and though not, perhaps, as fashionable
as the wells of Virginia, historic
as the summer resorts of the great men
Of the Republic past and present, yet
destined to fullest restoration to the
ancient renown that crowded their no
tells in the days Of stage coaches and
private conveyance. But ii IS not Of
these particularly, nor Of the seats of
learning of all classes that T scattered
equal profusion in this mountain
that We desire to call attention,
they are by no means of minor
Importance; nor of the MAGNIFICENT
farms that attest a closeness Of cultiva-
ton fast approaching that Of the almost
perfection Of the farms Of Penn
and New York. But
10 the fact itself, that through this mag
niicent and heaven-blessed land there
passes a continuous line Of railroad from
Memphis to Norfolk, from the Missis-
iippi to the Atlantic, that guarantees
'apid and safe travel for passengers, with
NJ the modern comforts Of sleeping
and elegantly appointed cans;
md The delivery Of goods in New York
II Memphis, on the ninth day after de-
,aTtuTe for either point. To accomplish
bis desirable dispatch, much of the best
abroad ability Of the country has been
and an accumulation of
and cars that, from
inspection we can safely
ay is equal to the best on any Of the
reat lines of the North or Northwest. !
every observant man who has travelled
N MahOne's road must have been es- ]
struck with the marked superb
rity Of bis rolling stock and the gener-
ny excellent condition Of his roadbedA I
5lidIy ballasted, the rails joined BY the i
joint-and the neat and bust (
ess1ike Appearance of the stations. ]
he work Of his OWL supervision, and :
with but little money in I
and, it is something he may Justly c
'el very proud Of, and upon which I
he people Of Virginia may felicitate :
lemselves. No less sOlidly constructed n
nd well appointed are the roads from v
'ristol to Chattanooga, and our own =
CHARLESTON, which, under the new man. a
cement will be put in first class order, &
oeing the determination Of the Secu- 1
" company and General Malone that y
aell lnes must rank with the very best ,
any part Of the world. Local travel 8
ea Heighls are rapidly increasing as
le country RECEIVERS rom the effects of =
ae war u 70 this, no less than the = :
lrough travel and traffic, viii the com n-
any address itself with a view ~
5 becoming a paying route as weu az d'
n accommodating one 10 ihese fea- ie
lres OF the new arrangement we inv5fa M
earnest and particular attention Of ii
iraers along the line and merchants in IL
u the towns and cities between here N,