The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Supplies of Railroad equipments.

--The Southern States had gotten into the habit of relying on the North for almost everything necessary for keeping up our railroads, as they did about nearly all their wants, and consequently some temporary inconvenience is felt since we have determined to separate from them. We are glad to learn, however, that a movement is now agitated to make us permanently independent of them as to all the important railroad equipments. We have seen a circular from Colonel Fontaine, chairman of a committee appointed for the purpose, calling a general meeting of the railroads of the Confederacy in this city on the 15th of February, to take into consideration the establishment of rolling mills in different sections, for making rails, boiler plates, and other things required for our roads. These are articles which only need a little enterprise to manufacture here as successfully as they are made anywhere, and we trust there will be a full meeting, and that they will resolve to make the South independent not only of the North, but of the whole world.