The Charleston Daily News

Rivervs. Railroad Transportation:

We find the following paragraph in the Augusta Constitutionalist:

"The steamer Carrie is still fast on Bugg's Bar, notwithstanding all her cargo has been unloaded on lighters, and thus brought to the city. From present indications, we understand that she is likely to remain grounded until a rise in the river. The Katie was compelled to deposit her cargo, on her last up-trip, on the Carrie, not being able to reach the city, and return to Savannah. The Savannah Republican reports the return to that city, on Thursday last, of the steamer Swan, which was unable to cross Herschman's Lake Bar in consequence of the low water, which was between eighteen inches and two feet deep, and was compelled to return to Savannah with her Augusta freight and passengers."

It would seem, from the above, that our sister city, Augusta, notwithstanding the fact that she has direct communication with the seaboard by two lines of railroad, still chooses to depend, in a measure, on an uncertain river navigation for freightage, and that, too, at a season of the year when the Savannah River is always dry, or nearly so. Formerly, there existed an understanding between the merchants of Savannah and Augusta that river shipments should be avoided from July to January; and it seems to us that our neighbors of the two cities would do well to renew the arrangement now.