| From the Charleston Mercury |
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| April 16, 1862 |
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| Difficulties of Trade |
| An Atlanta paper states that a leading
house in that city had a large lot of sugar and syrup at a point on a
railroad near the Mississippi, below Memphis. It was on the platform,
exposed to the weather. The freight from the point to Atlanta would
have been about twenty-six hundred dollars, and knowing it was wanted
at Atlanta, and that his regular customers were anxious for it, offered
to pay ten thousand dollars freight! -- four times the regular
rate Yet it could not be transported because the Government had
control of the road. |
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