| From the Nashville Patriot |
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| January 29, 1861 |
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| The receipts for freight on
the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, going South, the first
fifteen days of this month, averaged $1,000 per day. They have not
diminished since. The height consists almost exclusively of corn,
flour, bacon, lard, &c., for Southern States. The Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, our St. Louis, Cairo and Cincinnati packets, come
loaded heavily with these articles. The depots and a number of private
warehouses in this city are filled with supplies of them, awaiting
transportation. Whilst the cars going South are filled to overflowing
daily, the return empty. The freights coming this way from the South,
would not pay for the greasing of the Locomotives pulling the empty
cars. Usually at this season, the freight receipts from the South are
large; but this year no one thinks of shipping goods by way of
Charleston and Savannah. |
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