Public Meeting.
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Important 10 The citizens and city Of Bur-


Angton, and those sCho trade at this point.


Il will be seen by the subjoined pro-
ceedings, that the citizens Of Burlington
met on Thursday evening last, to delibe-
rate upon matters at once important to
them-to all those who market and trade
at this city-and to the future prosperity
Of the city itself. That the freights which
our traders and others have to pay for
transportation Of goods from St. Louis, and
intermediate points On the river, in times
Of low water are not indurable, and ruin
Gus to them, their customers, and to the
growth Of the city, no one will for mo-
ment deny. Our merchants are driven to
the alternative, either to purchase q years
stock Of goods at one time, SO that they
can be brought here in times Of high
water, or they must pay for freight in times
Of low water all along from 75 cents to
ST. SO per hundred. In either case the
ruin to traders and to our city friends and
our neighbors in the country is equally
sure. For if our traders are forced at
every spring to purchase stock sufficient
ly large to last until the next spring, they
must pay heavy interest on the amount
Of money invested in such stocks Of goods.
That is not ALL. The goods being 50 long
on hand become shop-worn, damaged, and
in various other ways become dcteriorated
in value, 50 that the purchaser gets poor
er article for the saine money, and the tradr
. less profit than they otherwise would
have received. If he does not buy in the
spring, or at such. times that he can recsive
his goods in time Of high water, why, he
must pay his 81 Is or 81 so for each
hundred weight he receives. Now on the
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his price sufficient to meet this extra charge,