| From the Wilmington Journal |
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| January 4, 1864 |
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| The Wilmington & Manchester Rail Road |
| Attention is asked to the
notice of the President of the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad Company
in another column. |
| It will be seen that the
Company require a guarantee against loss or damage by fire, from parties
who desire to ship cotton over their road. |
| This we think a very proper
and wise regulation; from the fact that nearly all the cotton offered
for shipment is in such wretched condition that it could not be insured;
and besides the danger of not only burning the exposed cotton from the
sparks of the locomotive, but of losing two cars also containing the
cotton. If speculators and traders are so keen as to wish their cotton
hurried off with scarcely nothing around it, let them be compelled to
give a guarantee to the Railroad Compny that it shall sustain no loss
from taking it in that condition. |
| Darlington Southerner |