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IMPROVEMENTS IN CHARLESTON. Saturday
last, apubic meeting of the inhabitants of Charles
ton, was held i'll the City Hall, having In view re-
sponse to the invitation of their brethren of the
West, to meet them In convention and fraternal
counsel, and devise means for the development and
improvement OF their common resources, and the
completion OF their commercial and social con-
neAons, by means OF railroads and otherwise
The following is an extract on the subject from the
Report OF the preliminary Convention. :" Neither
less important for commercial and military pur-
poses than the Western road, (the military road
from Memphis to the Western frontier) is the great
line OF railroad from Memphis to Charleston,
South Carolina-the construction of which has al
ready by private enterprise and State appropriations
been provided for and progressed in, TO near l30
miles ot Its completion from Charleston to Mem
phls, and % miles OF the remaining 130 miles dis
tance is nearly all graded This great thoroughfare
should be completed, and it might be speedily done
II an agreement can be made between the stock
holders and the States now concerned in il, and the
general government, that an appropriation shall be
made to 1t upon condition that the mail, troops and
munitions OF war shall be transported it free of
charge to the United States. When accomplished,
il will bring the traveller, at Memphis, within two
days Of Charleston, and within four days Of Wash
ington Clty-afiord the like speed and facility for


the transportation Of freight, and in case OF war; it
would place the dlsposablc forces of Tennessee,
Kentucky, &c, concentrated upon it, within two
days OF the Atlantic border, at Charleston"