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'~'~ S~ k'~ , ~ A g a ro 44 ~, peraiehamnount oae Menadjobrned utill half-pasi'2P commit~e&rb rtI'hat 2,098 'share's 6o' ih Ce htl 'Stock were repbested, - hereupon, theChairnian declaredl the '9 emsing duly organized.1 Gen.- Harllee, on behalfe of' the Presia ,t ent-and Directore of the' Company, read thoul adnoel JRepdrt:which; On uftdod if Mr. Wrm.4A. Wright; *ie &ied &tad'odabjei to be prined. O mntion of Mr. 0. G~ ,Prsley, si'o.' Dai1d andI G. J. Mc~1ee were. ap. . - paintedt a ommittee.,to :superintend Othe e JHatiigof the Report. Oi motion of Gen.. Hariee,' the report ofthd Trreasurer wvasread'ind referredl ' - & oedintied'honsistig of Rob't. H~ar- r Z dd~rnes Griswold * noto -.iE. Gregg, Messis. hEller, Haynesworth, George McCall, Win. A. Wright, Mausby and Gris. oLdwe appointed a committee to c - dmiateatPresident and 'Directors -for the'enil ig year. . Committee reported, and. in accord. - -ioe'with~their nomination, the following gpntlemen were unanimously elected: Gen. Harilee, President. . i -J. Eli Gregg of Marion. James 8. Gibson of Darlington. GA eoJW McCall of a -' 3Moore of Sumter, - o CMuldfrow of " Alred Smith " Colupihs, N. C. H ,Nutt, " Wilmington, N. C. E BDudley " ' N N Nixon "~ - *J ATaylor " "" v:On motion of G. 1. McRfee, the meet. ing authorized the Directors of the Com-. ptiny.to'appoint a Clerk to assist the Seo retary and Treasurer arid General A. t gent. 'On motion of Mr. W . A. Wright, the meeting adjourned, to meet at 11 o'loebk i tonorrow. - - - - m t Friday, Jan. 1th -1849. On' motion of Mr. John A. Taylor,w Mr Geo. Davis was called to the Chair.t Oituotion, 'Resolver, That the next anni ameting of -the Stockholde be held at -UNmtrvile on the Wednesday after the 4th Monday, in Jan. 1850. -Committee to whom the Treastfrer'iirre. port was referred reported' 'that thieg haie carefully-examined his vouctiers' and' find-all .1orreT o 1 4 14 ,On nmotion, the report was accepted and ordered to be filed. - - O m 'motion, of' Mr. Wm. A. Wright,. it wasa. - -Ueoaid,'Tihat Mathew P. Mayes, D. B3. McLaurin and George McCutchen, Sen., of Sumter District S C, M S McCall, B F Williamson and Rev Rt Campbell, of Dar Iington District, S C., Gen E B Wheeler, Dr D. Gilcrist andDr RIobt Harlec, of Ma. ron District, S C., Rev Thea A Beatty, ' SGraham, Col James Beatty, of Hlorry Dis triet, S C., Thes S Memony, John Meares and Adgustus Smith, of the County oh Co Iambus, N C., James R Grist, D D Allen aild: J' Hill, of the County of Brunswick, N C., J C Lee, John WV Powell and Thos A orment, of Robeson County, N C., John o Daniel, Kinchen Council and Levi Meare's, of-Bladen Co., N C., Dr Wm A Berry, James T Miller, P1 Nut, John A 'calo4r Miles Costin and 0 G Parsley, of the twn of Wilmington, James Griaold, Willis nall and Baugau Barnes, of Wayne Co., N (C., J M Middleton, of the County of Dnslin, and it S C3 Wnhitaker, of the County 'df Halifax, be anpointed commission ets in theIr respective districts of Country to solicit and obtain further subscriptions, to the capital Stock of the Wilmington and Man. chester Rail Road Company. On motion of Col Jno Mac Ran, it was Resolved, That the Directors of this Coin. pany,be'requested to ascertamn the probable cost of transporting Timber and Lumber freom Linsber river to WVilmington, and if deemed expedient that they shall have the trade with a-view to the transporting heavy burdens be. tween these points. -On motion of Col. Mac R ae, it was further I * Fsohvd, That the Directors of this Coin. psny be i'nstructed, in the construction of this Road, to use an Iron -rail weighing not less than fifty one to the yard. * ~ On motion Mr. Wmn. A. Wright, it was 'Rsored, That the Secretary be requested to digest and lhave printed in pampihlet from< the proceedtngs of' this meeting, for the use of the Stockholders of the company. 'On motion, the meeting 'adjourned, sine die. -F. J. H11LlI, Chairman. Dr D JCnIsRJT. Secretaries. ' Cizens and Stocklaolders iteet. ilag. THUnSDA Y EvENrlG,Jan. 18, 1840. At a meeting of the Stoc1 holders of the & Wilmington & Manchester Rail Road and of C the 'Citizens of Wilmington, convened at 1 Masonic' Hall, for the purpose of promoting the construction of the Wilmington & Man. c chester Rail Road. On motion, John Mcea, Esq., was called to the Chair, and W. A. Wright requested to act as Secretary. Mr. David Reid, upon the call of the meet. C ingtresponided 'in an earnest and patriotic ad. Is .degd. Gen. W.' W. Harllee, in answer to the call c of the meeting, for an hour or more, enhight. e enud and entertained the meoting in a speech of great eloquence and power, embodyirig a Taut amount of iriformatioin in connection with the proposed woith. The followimg Resolution was unanimous. ly adopted: h ietryo h Vl Resolred, ThatthdietrofheW mnington & Manchester Rail Road be instrue~. lA ted to -domplete the proposed line of Rail Road with ad-little delay as possible.n - - .IOHN. &JanRAE, Chm'n. -na, ~t oitio d i rmwoi u-'ei. to e;ed - ml "he-arptior ~uti h nu .' t enoAorville. on ihe It la rnsder.that a . vote, of and 4 their pefdreneto perform Patrol d.n )potherAnpayeih-anoery cor n, U Ositibn tax of #4.9 With -the fund derived rom is-I it ill is r 1o an bandonm e n Statebue a lsurepted that a 'rotele stores, and her buil du at hi reating, athlietngt )eot ~ -TeCz~a n c I fi if's is-so, it Will mbst probably O'blso~o bandonment ofStitesbur. lneof the* Charleston and V0o6lumbia Mwails, The mails due at this 'place, on the night f the l1th, from Charleston and Colum. 9 is, did not arrive. The fault did not lie a rith our mail fromthe Camden rail road. a t must then ive ben either with the 'harleston and Columbia publishern, or Gst offices, or with the rail road. These C Eliures have been numerous during the ti ast year. Our citizens hear it patiently a hough they are sixteen miles from a daily o ail road and have no daily mail. With tl ur tri-weekly mail, under such circum. o tances, we are saidto be firty years be. c mad the age; and tlis state 6f things eems likely to ofltique, Southern nights. b The.report or Mr. CAL WtUN has been re ommitted to the 22nd it *as principally c a the abduction and -non-surrender of fug!- b ive slaves. The whig members have with- t Irawn from the committee. This is a mat. er of very serious regret, as it prevents un. Dn among the southern members. A Boston Editor Hnumbugged. I Who would believe it, that the Yankees, n their eagerness to-catch at something iew, are freqdeptly deceived .vith ease?,< 11 is. a characteristie of that people, which ias been fregquely uth irners; thongh as t t - neat, It.must be ndmi r icute, entep~rg - heeflidig imo w nake good oir assertion, at least In this nastnce. - "The Boston Pos'bsays that two' young Peunsylvanians,now-'in Bosion, have in. eented a locomotive by which a vehicle is -ropelled at the ruto of 200 or 300 miles ier hour. Iee and snow are no impedi. nent to its operation. The Post .says it s precluded from revealing the method, I ut half endorses it, saying the inventors ire not visionaries but the authors of at eost one very use ful invention." Taking the above statement at its low. ist rate of 200 miles per hour, let us ex. Imine it for a mom'ent by the tests of mnowledge and reason.t A locomotive, proceeding with the inn. iidity of 200 miles an hour, would pass ver 1056,000 feet ini that time. In aC ninute, it woujld pass over 17,000 Ii; in second, over 203. At the rate of 300 midles an hour, a lo. ~omotive would pass over 438 feet in a se. ~ond. At the rate of 100 miles an hour, it vould pass over 146 feet in a seond. The velocity of tho most Curious hurri. anes is computed to be 100 miles an tour, or 140 per second. That or a cannon bull is 2000 ft. per ~ econd. Hero then is an engine, purporting to k nove, at its lowest estimated rate of velo. l r ity, with a furious speed twice as great as that of the most powerful hurricanes, " nad with a velocity, estimated het ween its r ocomotive limits of 200 or 300 miles per our, varying from one-scventh to one ourth of that of a cannon hall. A t such a rate of progrssion, an en. ~ ~ine would bound along with a velocity 0 ostruotiveoof life. TJhe slightest devia. r ion would throwv it frornm the track. It si vould truly proceed with double haurri. a ano power. 1 The idea then of the practical, useful i peration of a locomotive, propelling a ye. ielo at such a rate, is evidently, on sei. ntific, reasonable and experimental e rounds, p reposterous and ab~surd-. VTo editor of tho Boston Post, by half ndorsing the supposed invention, must at hor have intended to humbug, or been tI umbugged. He must hnve been nap. nt ing, and that, in a city which boasts her, a, sif to be "The A thens of A merica." a at BALTIMORE, Jan. 17, 0 p. m. at Gon. Cass has been elected Senator from ai lichigan.m The ch~olera is raging at DetroitL One to~ ember of the Legislature ha died. vi Thoro is a great flood in the Ohio river, at 'hich Is canning esive;, damag. a9 thr yh~ ll taT 8 ,itike 0 57xr s s Id mage in their, mythologywaq utzlct A of the -air, divinity, WhdpdurIng his -revik eico onearth, ir~Istucte'd thol*iatinar'ti itihe - goverme'nt. ; He was one of thdgi! eer etohr of thir spoeoies, doubtlesespl,; h ien deified- by th'o gititside j rit Sr f hijn, the eartheiaiiwith fruit" d ... -,q r, . - I . W ereih WAheall te ulture. 4A s oand nemm erasci s aarlto a sreing Ian Could carry-i .ThjPeI Co % itg-ow aek, of its owwaCcordthe rich.dyestoifpe wanet. ,The airtwai filedawiths hitxcajI ng perflumes and tlie sweeit miielody tid ho(rt, these were the halcyon dayswhIh nd a pladein the mythicystemosoe y niations in- th'6 oldWod.1'-st bkeltag Wof AnAua womsome causetex ad inh re Icoat incurred We wrath ofone of the prin ipal god, and, was coipelled to abondon, Wocountry. On' his way, he stopped atfruithe ity of Cholulu, -vhere -a te mple was dedicift r to his worship, the mas.y icuiri f .l'ch till form one of the most inteici~ng relics r anrtiquity in Mexico. .When ' he rtiee ie shores ofthe Mexican Gulf, he tk leave fehis followers, promisingInthat he oinxica endants wouhl revisit them hereafteys, th ntering his wizard sitfi made of.strpent kins, imbarked.on the great ocean for the fa led land Tiapallan. H Ie was said. to have een tall in stature, with awhite skin,- long ark hareand a flowing board. :The. MeQ ans .iuoked confidently to the return of the pnevolent dity; and this remarkape1e tradi on, deeply cheriswed, their stepe par d to ay, as wo sh l eeshereafter, fowhe ir success of the Spaniards." rol.cs -Note-"Quetzalcoati signifies' '9ah red serpent. The lost sylable meians, hkewises a "tw" which furnished tin ea. men r Dr. igsiuzato iddntify this Od rath aposjtleThomas,,(Ddimus. signify nanoul a twmi,) who,. he supposes,. cae ver h erica to ade o sorpent ieMbakin the g6treoefortef. eo Malnsaue, wihawies INb. akairana ftling o ar.nh ei e cor 00 e .was ouq-,onvcA ed, t Nutoalcoati, irculacoti ig nd h faith. n entrance in nitathon.of t an's mnuth, ristl ing with wAhicrp An u,rid n r or.'piiwth food. As thbeSpaiaris cast 'a furtive lance nto e'. troat of this -horriblemonster,- they iaw collected there implement of sgifyc ud other aoiation ofac tearu iportl.. [her"bod hartsn hudered at thI pcal udrkyls a4Ite th p antinaptyes ".u ne fthe d~ueiies of thne countt uggeted saluch istnsn anl i t Inentrne ais Quetzaato wit whaosmouth, looe wAs t hie mpand weain aunie glard, nho cae throf thiEst;rianonsater' they adm colectr therlen iadeents Anshuacriic ppeirebod as seriouslyr a the adctae, heyesigntatc ten Ap le roisdto trn a one ofuture dayths orteppearc vea~tas Queadcofor with web ah tuc eein geatin. aleayerae litaein tese. iinumtaner teolend oe of Cnhristiani. pueathe cuas anstiouslries he hdicom, fon eu, tat om thuodre ay hs reperaedh ctitin geeisTteil mitii eseo ruiding one of the monastic societies of the )ld WVord; that of the rites of confession ud penance; and the knowledge oven of the. -reat doctrines of the Trinity and the lIcar 'ation ! One party, with pious industry, ac umulated proofs to establish his identity pith the A postle St. Thomas; while another, ith less scrupulous faith, saw, in his antici ated advent to regenerate the nation, the pe dimveiledl, of the Miessiah !" Vol. 111, Trhe deiiberato conviction of Lord Kings-. orough, a writer on the Aztecs or ancient lexicans, was, thnt the "Aztec. had a clear nowledge of the Old Testament, and most robably, of the Now, though somewhat cor upted by time, and hieroglypahics." .After such things,' we cannot butt exclaim 'ith Sir Hudihras, in regard to his lordship ad all equally well skilIled with him in un weling mysteries, that they are those, "Whose primitive tradition roaches, As far as Adam's first green breeches." The Sacri/icial Stone.--T he sacrificial ones were on the summits of their teocallia temples, whicha "were solid masses of irth, cared with l)rick, or stone, and in their arm somewhat resombled the pyramidal ructurcs of ancient Egypt." "Thme top was broad area, on which were erected one or vo towers, foray or fifty feet high, the sanc aries in which stood the sacred images. of a presiding deities. Before these towers edthe dreadful atone of sacrifice, and two .fly altars. on which ilreq were kept, unam itmgguishablo as those in the temple ot es. ." Vol. 1. p. 72 Humnan victims were sacrificed on these oanes; and the numbler of yearly sacrifices roughuout theo empiro was estimated to noaut to twenty thousand and sometimes Ihigh as fifty thousand. The victim was led "to the sacrificial stone, huge block of jasper, with its upper surface mowit convex. On this the prisoner wias rotched. Five priests secured his heoid Id limbs; wihile thi'hixth, clad in a schrlet aintle, emoblematic of his bloody office, dex rously Zpo~ned the breast of the wretched r.tim with a sharp rarzor of itz1li,-a voloanic hstance, hard as fiint,'-and, inserting 'his and in the wound, tore oam th2 pmatp,.,:.... -,.4 hi ii "?R. iMM M S EERE o rpor wea Abe~b to1 ChaiA 914s 1 broker ce lggid] Og traysrpgl~4 lm~ftbeat j~a ta~ n4ei d CU tiviln moud a thut safely birrlo in e fohe..bs .1A andsAidm inendo d no animnas af- drsigh-I'ek i" -r" mn~ean ideas of their mechanicalikiiandof their teaclgipery an4 imlies'a deg-oedacl. tivation, little in i~~ toehat'demanded for; the geometrcal anionoihcal bcice diehi trans S tis reco ino Teozood."' Note. anEnglish travelleo-, suggeists 3ht s, great masses of.-*sme were.prans, ported f the matodon, whosetoe main ion ahsfintge in .th, Wh'ile b enif6Cu6ay a 'taste architetural'tni4ftcehidIn hi tnblet he contributod-his:n'.mhar tdWa-ds-th&1ed6' el nfa aharkny that the famoualeadir-stniighng,a probably, in its primitiye tons, Was tn .. ms nattye - nan leagues gs "atWts Ie aital still rms one of the moet curious innumu en ef Astec seieiuo. Iiid~b *hu ett on'the difficul t t, sun '11 meestin frmxti. h bs sti~?d ; aid of.rp jodli sucha faaaaaain ow ugert bys t ner in whuqmf i as enormo lb g a a a ins. Note. rho Montezunam Dig z ow insert ed in3theside of the north t ier of the ratlie drali at Mexico. Fo information, see tliwiti oC~rtsDerazD .Lord Ki~br~u GRAND CEINEBndifyd' The Quarterly Meetini'godflthe Gndedri$)s ion of the Sons-of TemprandeS~ill bpLhm!le brated in this place .1rridamy::eveningr26uh mnst at 7 o'cloc,at thoI'resbyterian Church, by WaICe.ee Divjsign No 9. : Brothers yamie Tunper, P. ,G. W. P., W#ill-i iam C. Ferrel and Johni'G. Bowman are eo pected to'diehver addresses.'The, ubic are repctul nited: to'Rttena.i rocessison will beheornedat1ths Lodgo. at 9 1 2 o' clock, in the folldlhigrmrdur:-.t-. Cold -Watei~Army,.: C amden WashngtonTempraneSociety Grand i ivision. Oratra. Srsof Temperance Gonrdy Tayor Division. Sumter Divls ion. * Famidk Division. Wateroe Division. The Sons of Tempernco, members' of Temperance Societies, and Cold Water Ar miues are pprticularly invited to join the pro cession. The procession will beourder the diretion of Brothers K. S. Moffat and F, L 'Villipigaiin and wailI be coniducted up Droad and 'Delkatb streets totjeiChurch.' K. B,--The cehtral powawill ho reserved for time Ladies, the ahort pews ,on .thme right, for the proegssion.-.Cadim JoturnaL 'IEMPERANCE CESRTq At tihe' re aflar'meeting of Wat'ero Dl visioh, No.- ,'84iis ITemperanceihfollow ingtResolution wa ado ted. h RsrThat this' Dvision !nivitate other Di visions. ia'thisiState; to attend athe public ,meeting durln# thoe SessIon: of-athe G.rand Division'.i:g. thus place on thme 20th inst.-Camden Jour. *-, . DEai-r OF MR. SaviRR---The fowing I the mostexp!icit accoutoftholetona. tor Sovier, of Arkanseas, that has yet beed, te. coived, which we find sin .the Cincimnati Eir quirer of Wednesday last: " Judge Wisoman, sybo arrived fromaboow yesterday, states that wvhen'tho'fhinnix, on which lie canie, ton'ched at Napocon'iooth of the Arkansas river', the' remains of'the' Hon,. Ambrose HL Sovier, late Senatot from Arkansas, were. there awaiting: 'confeyonce to his forimer residence..mHe'hiad died at Judge Johnson's,. about twenty' miles ' below Napoleon,. of wyhrt diseaso, J'udge W. did'ngt leari, 'but it was npt choler.", Cir.IoRN1A~-.it is. currently fimored that the governmrent at 'AAp jnto ha. r.eeived despatchea froni Ciol IW thuan those already publs'd,'Whiii thkacoinfldgte. former account of tnehe hO9if 'tbe (Gd' Mines. Indeed ltats ~ahrtedi~~t themda vaganceof thelanage'ised 4td6&dahu es is ths' cause as gned to iigh from the pubic~-eL ' ,'a T~717~ -& ~rRi hS1-Q ,~ ~X~ 4ing the Poe J~ee'~ riper, DOSI~ ~ ~ookZai~~r~ wore in~ta~iti .~iII4~j M~FarJan~ - t~u~p ac~ I IOP*dTh~' 4Church1 ~'W up,' the o4ler po abBe of~ te~ - theroud~4n~~~ liuntofo( thoKbatk of ~ it*~ li~r~Ii~ CWTOth Eti ~ ' 00 Staiiday the'l4thin ~ R~cb1~in& L~.~b~$ti6p~' - fr9mthoii at.ft~ ~2S~iI~ -~ -' horh*bd~auij '~Ah~ bp ~ ~ A1~,e,. 4 hi. :ReUaeft~hA u~M~ ~ C'O~rg .Mipi~t.! or~*in~and-E~6I raLjionipw~ th~, " Pari~ lb M~'. .77 ~.' Rome is nuich stbrb1)I~1~j posseiuioi~ oFtho goVeytIt~etwt~' part. ~ase Jv~do.~r~yUzW pora~ sovepsagnty.. ,.~ ~. ~ an~, the. cit U ,~ ~ t 8jn.6I~ Wednoadayisay.: k~ ~ It. Is *aid that a I~r~u numb~rof&a~ purpose otioviti bi? oIinev~ the ninth, to tuI~e up hw ~~~*jjjj~ U iirthis~iu~itry:' 8hoii1d~ ~ 4 of ~ ~,' likely thad:. may' finda~orn~1s6m' 'j('. ~,; *" Bishop Disesugge~ t~ta potri ~t tjcountry,,to~j resk~enbo. ih.' ~ -, ter6A1il 6Q WILMI1~GTON~ MAKO 3.d~AK~~4~ tTheFirq toiRfllesUb towa ~ia~hen ~,trt~ aae4., 4 of thq Road he o4-Tb. pqrd*be .~ twqmilpa4ot ~ !Ktldf 4 ~ Ic hau1~a4 a f~w~ra ~ which during Uie po4 n:flhon~~f~ 3iiW were fr~Ighteued wa bVth~ Yeturnln~Iq Iae1j4j~ p~o.ontl ft tying CQ~trastt~)~'~t l'h9?4CW.York is ~ a vo~y lag. vo U tonsioh Qf~1ltVe '.4 4 . 4- - ~4 '~J. .1.~ if 4~ 4~ 44~. 4~ /4 A