| From the Raleigh Standard |
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| September 24, 1862 |
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| At a recent Rail Road Convention, held at
Columbia, S. C., the price of transportation for troops, soldiers,
discharged, or on furlough, was fixed at 2 cents per mile, and freight
of first class, at 65 cents per hundred pounds for 100 miles. The Rail
Road companies of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, it was
agreed, should unite in establishing foundries, &c., on Deep
River, to manufacture rail road iron, &c. The Convention resolved
to afford every facility possible to the government, and request
President Davis to issue orders preventing Government officers from
interfering with the loading or running of trains, &c. |
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