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THE BANNER. "liberty and my native soil." CHARLES H. ALLEN, Editor. Abbeville C. 11, S. C.: ? WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 184G. ^RATL~ROAD~ ME ETING At Greenwood. At a meeting of the citizens of this neighborhood, held on Friday the 12th inst., ' recommended unanimously that a pub- i lie meeting of the friends of the contemnlfltn/1 R ? 1 1 nAni^/M?IAW kn#??.rtr?w ' JIVU1I J.IUUU (.UIIIIVAIUI1 UCKVCfll > Charleston and Greenville, S. C., should i assemble at Greenwood, on Saturday the < 1 Mh of Noveviber nexty for a full, free, i and mutual interchange of opinion in re- ! ference thereto. The citizens of this ] and the adjoining Districts are respect- < fully invited to attend. : Oct 28 as JjCr* Our editorials have been neces- ' sarily short for some time in conse- ' quence of the number of of advertisements and iob work on hands. - J I Wc are requested to say that the ^ Rev. Paul A M. Williams, will preach | in the Methodist Church at the usual | hour on to-morrow From l/ie Army.?We have received I but little news from the seat of war that i would interest our readers, there still i seems to be conflicting statements with ] regard to our killed and wounded in the ' recent engagement ai iMonterey. Why \ we have not as yet received intelligence | of that action more in detail, is a mvsierv I # / ?/ to every one. In the official reports of I Gen Taylor, we do not find that fullness 1 which characterised his reports of the ! battles of the 8th and 9th, in which was ] set forth the exact number of killed and < wounded, together with the prisoners < AM/4 ll ito ?*?V Atrn^AO f oil !/ *%.) A nn nl >? I iiuu liiiiiiui y oiuiuo \ji uit miiuo tapiuicu i from the enemy. We are induced to i believe from this fact, that our loss is < greater than represented, a few days we J trust will settle the mntter. 1 Of course nothing definite is known < as to the plan of operation which will be pursued by our army, although we '> find many set forth by knowing ones in I the orints of thfi tin v. Wo knnw thi? i r J - " - "" "*,w however that the Mexicans may now < gird their lions and put all their armour ' on for their will be no child's play for 1 the future, and the war will be pressed 1 vigorously. The crisis of this war has 1 just now arrived and each account we I receive from that oiiartpr will hp 'nil nf : -- ? wt interest. By the latest dates from Mexi- a co we learn that Santa Anna had left I the city at the head of 4000 troops on i his way to the scene of action in the < North, and it is believed an army of 12000 Mexicans if not more, would soon 1 be concentrated in the neighbood of Monterey. < Com. Decatur.?The remains of Com. ' Decatur, have arrived at Philadelphia. , The Washington Union, speaking of the removal of the remains from that city, says that care was taken to avoid all publicity, and no notice of the ceremony was permitted to appear in the papers. Few attended, of course, with the exception of the Secretary of the Navy, ana tne Heads ot the bureaus oi that department. The lid of the inner coffin was opened, and every lineament of the fine face was gone. Nothing remained but the skeleton, and a few fragments of the dress. Ta/mpico.?The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, writing under date of Oct. 26, says:?" 1 learn to-day that the Ex- 1 ecutive is anxiously expecting intelli. gence from Tampico. Advices were expected last night, but none were received. One of the Secretaries remarked, yesterday that we should certainly hear in a day or two, ol the result of the attack on Tampico, by Commodore Perry. As 1 informed you, some time ago, we ought to have intelligence of this at- i tack between the 25th and the 30th of i this month." Me further adds, "the government has i recently drawn heavily upon the Nor-1 i them banks of deposUe. and, during the last week, the amount of doposites in the i hands of Corcoran & Riggs, of Washing- I ton, lias been relieved about $150,000. ( (FOR TIH: cancer.) ^The utility of Rail Road's, and steam as motive power for the purposes of rapid travel, economical and quick transporta- ^ tion,are no longer problems to be solved. The experience of the civilized world, has given the solution, wherever these thoroughfares have been formed, the intelligence of the people has had an upward tendencv. tllft fnors nf in-rinr.'infn J ' 'O | superstition and prejudice, are by the intercouse of man, with his fellow man, j driven from the social slty. Rail Roads ire the cords that will bind this L'nion of ' States together, stronger than all the parchment in the worlJ in written documents. We see with patriotic pleasure, the bonds of intercourse traversing 1 in nil direction?, the broad extent of * these trophies of man's capacity, lor self jj government. The streams of the portion of our 1 State lying above Augusta, and Coluin- " bin, or in other words, in the slaty and 1 granitic region, which comincnces a J few miles above Augusta, are unfitted by nature for the purposes of navigation, ^ rocks and shoals are the predominant features. A precarious sort of naviga- * 1 o 1. r? nn ' null IO IU1IUWUU l/iJ VJU VU IllltliJ ItVCi HU UU miles above Augusta, ? v some of the planter?,but ilisofnogenera! importance. j This being the fact;the middle and upper parts of the State, arc of necessity compel led to seek in art a remedy for the de- * fects of nature. A rail road from Aiken !o Greenville, would in a great measure remedy this defect. In twelve hours the traveller could hear the noise of the c restless ocean wave, and see. the cloud ( 1 . * 1 I jitjipi-u iiiuuiiictui, nearly dUU milt'S ' distant; the dormant energies of the T man of llie mountains would arouse to ictivity: the fruits of the mountain and jlen, would team into the lap of Charie- 1 >ton; improvements of every kind ivould be the result, and our general ;ountry bettered. The whole world presents a scene of ! artificial productions, the result of inteligence. Air, earth and water, are the eady auxilaries of man's will?the fruit ' )f the orchard, the field and its rich har- 1 vest, the flower of the garden, with the 1 whole paraphenalia of artistic skill, by s which man has surrounded himself in his social capacity, are all the results of his mental and physical energies. One t achievements creates a necessity for i mother; this is manifest in the rail road 1 from Charleston to Augusta ; we expe- \ ricnce its efffcts, and feel the necessity ^ ;>f a like improvement. , To produce this improvement, needs but the will and energies of the people. ^ The motto should be whatever has been jj done by others, can be done by us, and j go at the matter, in a determinate right r manner, and certain success will crown r the result. Economy should be a ru- 1 ling principle, learning wisdom by the ^ experience of others j rigorously endea* j voring to keep out all speculation; guar- f ding every point of expenditure ; scru- a tinizing sensibly every part, as if an in- 2 dividual concern ; remembering the old | adage " that whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." S We have heard several nlar?? mnnto/l c f ? for the production of the road, one of which strikes us, as practicable and economical, and we think worthy the consi- c deration of the people; it is as fol- \ lows:? f 1st. That as a ballancing and compensating principle, should be the rule < of legislative action, it is due tn this mM. - die region of country, that we should t have more of the benefit of the geological survey. The low country has natu- I rally a geological advantage over the t slaty and granitic region. The survey has pointed this out clearly. f Now as a ballancing of benefits, ihe legislature should continue the survey by the present incumbunt, who knows the country better than any other man. and who has working energies, and mental qualifications united with a full knowledge of engineering, equal to the task of surveying a rout for a rail road Irom Aiken to Greenville. Under the continuance of the survey, this should be made a duty as it would strictly corne under the sensible meaning of the language. Chaileston and the Low country, should unite in the legislature with the up country as all will be partners in the benefits. 2d. That the legislature grant a charier for said rail road from Aiken to Greenville. 3d. That the right of way, be clearly ind distinctly obtained, and when ob :ained, that the road be opened out and cleared oftimber, under the act that regulates the opening of all new roads, on a principle, that all who work on the road tvill reap its benefits. 4th. When the above is done, the tvholc line should be laid off in contracts lot exceeding one mile in length, to be graded and furnished with the timbers iccessary for the road ; the contrac ors jeing bound to receive the one half of lie amount due for their rrmlr:?rts in ? ? -- ""-j ? .lock of the company subject to the same egulations as other stock holders. This Wan we think will insure the grading o o jeing done quicker and better, at the >uine time it will make a division of la jor; keeping out speculation on a large cale as well as calling for only oik? talf the amount in money. 5th. The shares should be one hunhed dollars, one tenth of which should >e paiu at tne lime ol subscription or at i time when sufficient stock was taken o warrant the execution of the Road. 6th. An amount of capital might be jorrowed sufficient for finishing the road or a term of ten years, for the payment if which eneh stockholder should pay ten iollars annually on each share with a jroportional of interest on the capital borowed, thus in nine years the whole imount would be paid. 7th. On failure at any time of paying u? i .1 .1.- J I* . iic uiiiiuui KiMtiiiuciiis nit3 ucunquini stockholder shall forfeit his previous instalments. 8th. To complete the above plan the noney borrowed should be due in nine innual payments. The above plan would come gradualy and would not be seriously felt by >ersons talcing stock, benefits received night somewhat balance the cost of the stock. ABBEVILLE. FROM HAVANA. Tho ~r r ~ ? t * uv vuuuio ui jut* mtui'iuu received hrough a friend a copy of the Diario dc a Marina, of the 8th ult, brought over jy a passenger who arrived here in company with Com. Sloat. The Patria ssued an extra during the day, from vhich we derive the information which Ae subjoin. The Royal Mail steamer Thames arived in Havana on the 7th ult., from Vera Cruz, with forty passengers and $174,000 in specie As we announced yesterday, Gen. Paredes reached Havaia by this arrival, though his name is lot in the list of passengers in the Dia in The dates from Vera Cruz received >y the Diario are down to the 30th of September?ten days later than our own lies, but not so late by six days as the ul vices brought by the Ewing. The idvices are not very important, save as hey reveal the movements of Santa Anla. It was announced in Mexico on the Mth of September that the first brigade >f cavalry left the capital on the 23rd for Monterey, and that Santa Anna would eave on the 25th. It was further anlOtinp.Hd that hp omnlnifo^ ViJo A.... I ? v?M|/?VJVU UIO IIIUI V lUUill :red it to expedite this movement of troops, vhich had been delayed for want of unda. The garrison of the capital would be :omposed of such bodies of the National i 3uard as had been rnised, and it was upposed the other brigades would leave i tic city on the 25th. " ' It is said that Gen. Ampudia has rc- i inquished the command of the Army of he North. < Gen. Arista arrived in the city of 1 Mexico on the 17th of September to meet ; the charges preferred against him in connection with the actions of the 8th < and 9th of May. According to a letter from Mazatlan, an American frigate had arrived there and captured the Mexican brig Malek Adel, which was at anchor there dis- i mantled. Senor. Yanez, the commandant ofJa lisco, marched on the 7th September for Topic and San Bias with a body of troops, for the defence of those towns in case of an invasion. r~\ xt ? vjicu. iiuut-z irunie nas Deen appointed Governor of the State of Tamaulipas. On the. 20th of September a decree was promulgated providing that a Council of Government should be formed to bu composed of thirteen individuals ; and that in the absence of the Provisional Executive head, the President of the n _ ? i _ i i i ? v^ouncn suouiii discharge the Executive functions. This Council was to be in sta I led on the 1st of October ult. The Government was adopting1 the necessary measures for providing funds to meet the national exigences. Nothing is said of a forced loan from the church. On the 17th ult, the Minister of Finance consulted with a committee ol merchants and capitalists toadjust the terms of a contribution and loan for the use of the Government. A similar meeting was held in Vera Cruz on the 23rd ult. In neither case are the results of their deliberations announced. The citizens of San Louis Potosi and Mexico arn dpsirmntpd h? iho SncrotHMt 0 J of War as the principal depots for the extraordinary contingents which several States have been ordered to furnish. The only other point upon which the Diario makes extracts of any interest, i touches our invasion of Chihuahua. The Government had been apprised of the advance of our troops from Santa Fe towards the Paso del Norte, and appeared apprehensive that the object of the movement was to advance upon Chihuahua It had been informed even that a body of American troops seven thousand strong, was about to attack Presidio -l?l TVT - - ?* tit*i i>uriCj a military post on the Kio | Grande, not half so "far from the city of Chihuahua as the Presidio de Kio Grande. As nothing whatever is said in the papers we have seen of Gen. Wool or his invasion, we suppose the Mexicans to bo apprehensive that Gen. Kearney would continue his march down the Rio Grande to Presidio del Norte and thence direct to their capital. But this is of little consequence. Whatever be the danger they dread, they are prepareing to meet it, the Legislative Assembly of Chihuahua having authorized the Governor to negotiate a loan o( five thousand dollars by pledging the revenue of the tobacco monopoly. Furthermore, the pay of the employes of the Department are cut down thirty-three per cent! Sr. Frias has been appointed Governor of Chihuahua in place of Irigoyen, whose health had failed him. Thevesselsof war lyingat Sacrificios on the 29th ult. were as follows:?The English frigate Endymion and Alarm, the sloop of war Electra, and brig of war Daring ; the French brios of war Merceure and Pylade, and baric La Perouse ; and the Spanish frigate Maria Christina, and brigof war Juenita. Of the United States squadron, our former advices are later than the present ones.?N. O. Picayune. From tJw Spectator, 5th September. THE Q.UEHN OF SPAIN. The Queen of Spain is half-married ?shr has been betrothed to her cousin, 1 Don Francisco de Assis. ft is rpnnrttrl ? . .. ? -_r~.( that France consented to the marriage, on condition that the Infanta Luisa should be married to the Due de Montpensier: but that part of the story wants confirmation. As to the choice for the 1 queen, it is, perhaps, the least of the evils that presented themselves. It does not provoke opposition from any side; which perhaps, could have been said of no other candidate. It is not undejstood *L unii me young pair nave any penchant . for each other ; on the other hand, it is not understood that either of them has J very tender feelings ; so that the union may be well enough as royal marriages go. Its political consequences are neg- ] ativc; all its domestic consequences, j probably, will never be known. Mean i while, it has the merit of being strictly c Spanish. c The Madrid Gazette of the 29th of c AI mil fit nllKlitho* ? rnirnl Aanm** U.. ??. r-v..v..?? ? u^bicc) uy ? which the queen makes known to the c nation her determination to marry her c cousin, the Infanta Don Francisco de I Assi3 Maria ; and her Majesty convokes a tne uortes lor the 14th of September. r The Journal des D< bats sticks to the ^ report ot a second marriage ; and oppor- o Umity supplies some particulars respect- o ing the young couples:? b "We are assured that the marriage tl the Infanta Donna Louisa, sister to U the queen, with the Duke de Montpeniier, is decided. " Queen Isabella was born at Madrid, on the IOth of October, 1830. Her majesty is, consequently, nearly sixteen years of age. " His royal highness, ?he Infanta Don r rancisco de Assis, was born on the 13th of May, 1822. He was twenty-four years of age in the month of May last. " The Dulce de Montpensier was born at Neuillyonthe3lslof July, 1824. His royal highness is, consequently, rather more than twenty-two years of age. lt Donna Maria Louisa Ferdinanda, Infanta of Spain, was born on the 30th of January, 1832. Her royal highness is lourteen years and seven months of age." The Madrid correspondent of the Morning Chronicle explains King Louis Phillippe's anxiety for the second marriage :? ' Should the queen have no heirs, {and ninny believe that the stale of her majesty's heal'It rendtrs a direct succession exceedingly doubtful,) the Infanta Luisa will become heiress to iho thrnn<?" Moreover, the princess is a very charming young person, and is one of the richest heiresses in Europe. Under the will of her father, King Ferdinand VII., she is already in possession of a fortune of sixteen millions of francs, (640,000/. sterling,) secured in &uch a way as to make payment certain. " Louis Phil lippe is not only a wise king, but a prudent father of a family. His eldest surviving son, the Duke de Nemours, as future regent, must, sooner or later. comJfepon the country for a dotation ; and then he is provided for. The Prmce de Joinville has secured a large fortune with his Brazilian princess; the Duke d'Aumalcisin possession of the whole fnrtunn nf ^ ^? - ui me ^icai vjumul's - una now the Duke dc Montpensier (?he only one unprovided for) is saddled for a handsome sum upon Spain." The Morning Chronicle publishes, in a second edition, some further gossip which prevailed in Paris yesterday, touching the marriages. These are the points ; that the queen and her sister will both be married on the same day, the 10th of October, the queen's birthday, lltnl t) ?- " nmv mo i tuyicaisiii pariy nave puDlisncd a declaration protesting against the proposed alliance with the Duke de Montpensier; that Mr. Bulwer was not invited to the meeting of council at which the queen's intention was announced, and that lie has entered a pro. test against the iVIontpcnsicr marriage^NOTILE Of Election for Clerk and Sheriff. The {State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE D1STKICT. Notice is hereby ?riven to the Managers of Elections for Abbeville District, in the Slate alorosaid, that vacancies aro about Jo occur in thi? offices of Clerk and Sheriff for Abbeville District, by expiration of the ? ~r u 1 * ctri us ui cauu J uuuKiii't'llL* | In conformity, therefore, to the late Act of the Geneiul Assembly of this State, and by the authority of the same, I do hereby specify the second Monday in January next, as the day of Election, to till or supply the vacancies winch will oc* cur in the aforesaid Offices of Clerk and ' Sheiiff. The Managers of Elections for i Abbeville District are therefore required to attend at their respective Polls, on the > d iy herein specified and appointed, and open the polls, between the same hours, and in other respects the aforesaid election for Clerk and Sheriff, shall be conducted in like manner, as is specifi d tor th?* election of members of the legislature, for one day only at each poll, as above specified. P The managers shall meet at the Coiirt House ol the District on the Wednesday W flflPI* till* tinlPQ Opu ntt'l An tl%o* -t day count out the same and declare the p * eh ction of Clerk and Sheriff. Given under my hand and S-wl of Office : as Clerk of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pl?-as for Abbeville District, tins first Monday of* d L S.November, in the yearol our Lord one , thousand eight hundred and forty-six i and the seventy-first year of the In-? f dependence of the United Stales of | America. & JOHN F LIVINGSTON, Clerk. k Nov. 4th, 1846. 36 lit J; PARTITION?IN ORDINARY.# Fane Miller applicant, vs N J Davi^j| Guard, ad litem:?Real Estate M.-, Lewis J. Miller deceasid. Mfc 3y order ot David Lesly, Ordinary Abbeville District, will be sold at Abbfl| n'lle C. H., on the 1st Monday in Dw sember next, or some succeeding saK lay, the Real Estate of Lewis J MillB leceasea, situate in ADDevme j^isiriK , ind consisting of two tracts of LatK mc of which contains 150 acres, mcS ?r less, on Long Cane Creek, adjoiniiE ands of Thomas Fulton and otheril md the other tract contains 200 acr A [lore or icss, aujuiiiiu^ iuiius 01 uuvb Vardlaw and others, and iies on wateS f Long Cane. Terms of sale, a credit $f ne and two years, the purchaser to gite ond and security, and a mortgage of le premises if deemed necessary. Cq|t ) be paid in cash. fr J. RAMEY, Sheriff. ; October 23,1846. 35. ?t