The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Washington and New Orleans Telegraph company.

A meeting of the South Carolina stockholders of this company was held in Charleston on the 29th ult.. A voluminous report, embodying various recommendations, was adopted, and the following resolutions passed:

Resolved, That the report of the committee be accepted, and that to carry out the recommendations contained in it, the shareholders of the company in the Confederate States be requested to meet on the 27th day of August next, in the city of Augusta, and that notice of the same be published in such journals in this and other States as the committee may deem expedient.

Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting be requested to appoint two gentlemen to represent the shareholders of this city and State at the proposed meeting, to whom proxies may be sent.

Resolved, That Mr. Dowell, Dr. W. S. Morris and Mr. Thomas H. Wynne, are entitled to the thanks of the company for their prompt conduct in rescuing the management of the company and its funds from Northern control, under the circumstances as stated by them; and that the same be tendered to them as an expression of the approval of their conduct by this meeting.

Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings be sent to Dr. Morris, Mr. Dowell and Mr. Wynne, with a request that they will attend the proposed meeting of stockholders, with full reports of the condition and business of the company, for the information of the shareholders.