The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-03-05
Trade with the Interior.
CHEAP TRAVEL BY RAILRoAD-A GOOD CHANCE
FOB CITY AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS.

FOB CITY AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS.
Some time ago committee Of Charleston
merchants made an application to the Presl
don't of the South Carolina Railroad Compan.
for increased facilities of travelling between
Charleston and the interior, and urged the I'M
portance of removing every obstacle that stoot
in the way of the rapid improvement of trade
They asked that the company would issue
tickets to merchants and others, travelling IL
the country to secure business, or coming t6
the city to make purchases, at the rate o.
about one cent per mile of travel.
The application was at once taken into con-
sideration, and plan has been adopted which
will satisfy every reasonable man, and prove
incontestibly the determination OF our main
railroad to do all that can be done for the CON-
mercial good Of the city and the State. For
the sum of twenty-five dollars the South Caro-
lima Railroad issues ticket for one thousand
miles of travel. Each ticket may be used by
any member of the firm to which it is issued,
the names OF the persons so privileged being
endorsed upon the ticket itself. The ticket Is
good for one year, and is divided into sections
each representing twenty miles Of travel. For
every twenty miles, or part OF twenty miles, that
may be travelled, one OF the sections ispuuched
out, so that person travelling one hundred and
thirty miles would cancel sections representing
one hundred and forty miles. At twenty-five
dollars for tho thousand miles, the rate is t,co
and half cents per mile; so that the cost OF
travelling for merchant from Charleston to
Columbia, or oice cersa, would be only three
dollars and fifty cents.
The tickets are not good unless stamped by
the agent issuing them. and conductors are
instructed to take up and forfeit the tickets If
they are used for other than business pur-
poses, or if they are found in the possession OF
any other persons than those whose names
are endorsed as being entitled to their use.
1t is now evident that the railroad has done
its part, and our merchants and factors must
not be backward in doing theirs. The strong
point is to persuade country merchants to make
their purchases every quarter, or every month,
instead of twice or once year, as is the usual
custom. In Charleston they can find fine Sc
the merchant frequently prefers to buy his
goods in Baltimore or New York when con-
siderable quantity is required. This can be
overcome by demonstration OF the fact that
Charleston is good market, and the diffusion
Of the knowledge that man can now come to
Charleston every month or two at really til
fling cost. In this way he saves interest, avoids
the losses of dead stocks, has fresh goods every
few weeks, and can attend in person to supply
ing the special wants of his customers.
The merchants of Charleston must at once
go actively into The field. They must be con-
tent TO do business at small profit, they must
hunt up the business that does not come Of its
own accord, they must keep before the public
the advantages they con offer. All over the
country they can send their agents. Commis-
sion merchants and brokers can solicit con-
signnents, merchants can find customers for
their wares. One interest will act favorably
upon another, and where farmer sells his
crop there will he purchase his supplies.
These are racing times, and those who are
dull and weak must be.distanced. Let every man
press to the front, and show his friends
through the columns of the inimitablo DAILY
News what his colors are.
Charleston can do q large business, and if
Charleston business men are active, energetic,
and wlde-awake, they will drum zealously for
custom, advertise in The DAILY NEWS, and,
in the end, win petroleum"
The PROMENADE CoNCERT.-The hall over |
Adams Express Company last evening was |
thronged with an array of beauty and broad |
cloth that reminded one Of old times. The |
post band was in attendance, and made the |
sweetest of music; the refreshments tickled
the diaphragm hugely, and altogether the oc-
casion and its votaries wero pleasantly filled
up, If to be sandwiched between two pretty |
girls, with their white arms resting in the
crook Of your elbow, and their little ieet keep
ing time to the intoxicating melody, and now
and then halt to mix sugary compliments
and stewed oysters at one of the tables, don't
make q Heauyun in the heart, then we know
nothing about Paradise. It's sublime. Spend
quarter tonight to get in, and several other
quarters before you get out, and you'll say SO
too.