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Show Cheni Transportation Con ven. lion, St. Louis, 15. There was a meeting meet-ing of prominent citizens at the Southern Hotel this evening, to adopt measures to call a national convention conven-tion to this city to momorializo congress con-gress to grant such legislation as will secure the construction of another railroad to the Pacific and to consider ; means to reduce tho cost of transportation trans-portation between the Atlantic and Pacific, to the lakes and the gulf, aud Mississippi valley and Atlantic sea-hoard. |