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T JIU.UAS L01UNG, Editor ani Projirielar: TWO.DOLLAiiS Per Aaaum, invariably, in Advance, - i . . " - VOL- 5. WILMINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 8o2. NO 24 , ...... ... .. . PRESiDBSf S REPORT. FFICE OF THE W. &. M. R. R. CO. Marion C. II., S. C. Jam-art 28, 1852. j'u the Stockholders of the Wilmington and Manchester Rail Road Company. . Gentlemen: The President and Direc tors bc leave to submit their Fourth Annu al Report Upon the condition of your Cou. p.,y. the nrogress of the work, and the projects before you. For the financial condition of the Compa jiv's affairs, you are referred to the Report of the Treasurer, herewith submitted which 'ghovvd the cxpendituies o:i account of the work, to the first instant, to amount to $397, S6i) 42.' This sum includes all payments maJc for excavation and embankments, brid ges and trestle work, as well as payments lor froo. machaiery.-suoerstrueturs, and all oth er expenses. . The amount collected as reported upon the capital stock of the Company, including contracts not vet comnieieu anu not creaiteu "to Contractors; is 01" this sum the collec tions ! have been: on the subscription of the State of South Caroli na in South Carol ina $7? 4.356 76 -Rail Road Slock at par value In subscription of State of North Carol ina in Wilmington & Ral iegh Rail Road Stock at par value Subscription of the town of Wilmington. in B nds of the Corpora 'ifnf - $150,000 203.000 100.000 453 000 00 Of the Stocks and B nds above mention ed all are now in the possession of the Com pany, except $50,000 of the South Carolina lliil Road Stock.- whiclrwas- sdd during the last Spring to aid i i ineeling th c payments '3200 .tons of Iron Rails reported in our Tiist Annual Report, as having been con Wc ted for with .Messrs. CruUivell. Allies & Co." ' . All of this Iroahus been received, except from one to two hundred tons, and advice? lliave been received that the remainder is on u way to Charleston. By the aid f a loan from the Bank of the State of South Caro lina, made upon the pledge of our South .Carolina Rail Road Stock, together with the 'proceeds of the sales of the Company's mort gage Bonds, payments have been regularly ni'-taslthis Iron has arrived. The Company now own $100;000 of this Stock at its par value, and have received up on that sum the last two semi-annual 'divi dends declared by the South Carolina Rail Road Company. By the sales of the $50,000 above mention ed, which was made at SI OS,' and the div idends on the rest, the Company's' note in Bank has been reduced to $30,000 ami will be met when required. will perceive by. the treasurers re loss on the sale of the South Carolina Road Stock of $6,537 50. This has This 3300 Ions of Iron, as well as that con tracted lor with Mes Baily, Brothers & Co.. (7000 tons and all that is required! for our entire Ro td) to be noticed presently: the Board have determined to Bond in the Cus torn House at Charleston a. id Wilmington, and pay the duties wiien required 1 lbr the work, provided they should not succeed in an application to Congress. - now pending, to grsint an extension of time to them upon the duties, and receive the payment thereof in mail .-service, (an arrangement made with the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Compa ny, a few years since.) It is hoped, howev er, thjs fatter arrangement may be .effected in -Congress.' and if so, our Company will b relieved of a cash expenditure for duties alone amounting to hear' $100.000, which they can appropriate to the more speedy completion of the Road J I At an adjourned meeting of the Company, held here in March fast, discretion was given to the Board of Directors to accept or reject the subscription of $200,000 on the part of the State of North Carolina, tendered by the Legislature in January last.j j This sub scription you are aware was provided to be n;tifl in thfi stork nf VVilmiinrtnn &. R:i1Irrli Rail Road Company, owned by the State'at its par value. The Board defered a decis ion on this subject till October last, when upon ascertaining from the increased receipts of the Company and a steady increaeing bu-siness-'witlVa l irtrfi reduction in itsexnenses. . i I consequent upon laying the new and heavy f r I 1 In Ill-ion t( t ti n fl-l f Ko nnvYAtrml tt-ii IIIIIC III Ul lilt; IJill UUIO . l UUVtU. llJljJT. the Company would not only commence ps?y ing dividends, but hadieverv prospect hfcon- tinuiuir to nav !arrer dues in f utureundilhus You port, a Rail . teen much more than made up by the divi dends ieeeived on the balance now held by the Co'nipany, ntnl the reason it lias not been sooner disposed of is, that it was regarded the better policy to hold- th it Stock yielding a dividend equal to the interest on $100,000 ' of our Bonds, and uselhe proceeds of the sale of the Bonds in, lieu of selling off this Stock at a sacrifice, when the funds in our hands from the sal u of Bonds were not oth- . erwjse; imperatively needed. "". j Nor is it now deemed the policy of the company to throw, this Stock upon the mar 'kel at present, or until exigences require it. as thfij increased receipts ol the South Rail Uoad Company, and the uniform 'dividends paid by it, are such with its prospects of fur tlier increase, ol business for many years t -come, jas to justify the belief in a reasonable mind hat the Stock must increase in value and will hold a better price even after the Exhibit of its affairs bv the present adminis- tration is laid before the public. j A.s was anticipated in our last report the Corporate authorities of the Town cf" Wil- '.mington, in April last, issued their Bonds pursuant to their subscription made under the authority ol the Legislature of North Carolina, for one. hundred thousand 'dollars hearing 6 per cent interesLpayable annually, . and. redeemable in ten and twenty years, which were accepted by the company ac cording to the termsof agreement made with pertaiii citizens of Wilmington, in January, .1850, and confirmed;, by the- Stockholders at their Meeting at Sumterville, in the same month. Of these Bonds it appears by the Treasurer's Report $75,000 were sold on 1st jnst., by Messrs. DeRosset & Brown. who ere appointed by the Board of Directors, Agents 'lb make the sales. These sales were ull at par value, and it is believed that if ar Janwenients are not already consummated, they s )on will be, to dispdse of the remaining $245 p on the sane terms. ' . Thii nrnr.ppiU nf these bonds were special ly appropriated by the meeting of Stockhol ders in January fast, for the purchase of 'Iron to be delivered in Wilmington. A- con- tract for 15000 tons of Iron rails was'roade in "April last with the Ellbervale Company to be delivered in Wilmington during the month ,f November last, and the present month. The contract is herewith submitted for your examination. Thfe Iron has not yet arrived ; but Mr. -Flemjng, the Resident Engineer, has receiv ed advices that 723 tons "are on the way and a portion will reach Wilmington by the first '"ox1no0; an you will see by. his Report, herc "yth feubmitted. enhance the value of their' Slock Jo near" if not qujte to par value in nognrtime. deein ed it to the interest of this Company to ac cept that subscription as t'-.ey had done that on tho part of the State of South Carolina, in the South Carolina Rail Road Stocky The difference-in thejrespeelive market val ue of tiie two blueiio was very snnfll at the period of their acceptance by our Company that of thcSouih C irolina Rail Road Conit papy. at the time it was authorized to be subscribed, be'i nr at 62 for S100 naid io. and f that of the Wilmington cc Raleigh Rail Road Uotnpany being ahout bu, at the time ot its acceptance. To this sum i!. I ad rapidly ri-vn from a very low figure in the course of a few vi'iirs find the Hoard now shi nn reason wliv it should not rise in proportion to the Slock 6f the feouth Carolina Hail ltoau Lvomjany.as the respective debts of the two Companies, in propo-tion to the - cost of the Roads, are not such as to create much difference n the tf;ili:ipf fliP'r R?nrk. Cerl if?r.n far two thousand shares oV the Stock of this Compa ny were consequently issued to the State of No'lh Carolina in exchange for two ! thou sand shares owned by them in the Wilming ton & RaJeigh Rail Road Co'nipany. The President attended the meeting of the Stock holders of that Company, in person, in No vember last, when the dividends on the Slock owned by us were received an'd, deposited in Bank to "the Company's credit.' The Report of the President and Directors, shewing the business, condition and prospects of that Company, and the proceedings of that mee ting, are herewith submitted for your consid eration. ' " This subscription added to that heretofore reported, will increase the subscription of the capital Stock to within it fraciitjui of $1,200. 000. In fact, it is not certain 'when all the contracts to le paid for and credited, not for mally subscribed on the Books of the Com pany, that the' subscription of the Stock is not fully $1,200,006. . - !. In pursuance' of authority given by the adjourned meeting of Stockholders, held in Wilmington in Apn'i last, and under the di rections of the Board of Directors, the Pres ident proceeded to the city of New York du ring the month for the purpose of issuing and negotiating the mortgage. Bonds of the Com pany lo'the extent of$S00.000, bearing inter est at 7 per cent, payable semi-annually and redeemable in' ten to twenty years.1 us might be "deemed 'most advisable. 1 , Two members of the Board of Directors. Messrs. Nutt and Gregg, at his request, me' him there for the purpose of deciding upon the best means ol presenting the 'Bonds of the Company to the public, and to appoint agents for the purpose; 'of negotiating their sale. Upon a full discussion and considera tion of the subject with Messrs. Winslow, T .niiar Sr. f!o Bankers of that city, whom 1 1 1 v 7 they appoiiited agents for the sale, &c. it was deeriiea tne mosi, utoiauic unj m iouv mortgage Bonds for $600 000, redeemable on th itf Thiv of June. 1866. beariiiir 7 uer cent III V J r J ' ' ' t' i intPi-Hsf navable in June and December ot pm.h vpnp at the Merchants' Bank of New consequently issued for the sum of $600.000 ! with interest at 7 per cent, payable as before stated, and redeemable and convertible in the manner set forth, to secure the pajment of which a mortgage of the whole Road, to gether with its property and effects, was ex ecuted to Hon. Edward Sanford, Trustee, which has been duly recorded in the respec tive Counties and Districts in the two State traversed by our line of Road. A contract virus made with -Messrs. Wins low, Lanier & Co., which is herewith sub mitted for your consideration, and the Bonds accompanied by a' full Exhibit of the condi tion, and prospects of the Company were left in their hands to be negotiated. With the sales made of these Bonds and the prices which they brought, you are fa miliar, as they! were reported in the press of theuountry. They were such s few of us at our last meeting had anticipated, and it is believed will bear a favorable comparison, with the sales of the first rgfmugage Bond of any Rail Road in the country, with no part of its track laid and na'more favorable con dition.than we occupied. Since then our Agents1 in New York have made a contract for the. purchase "ott 7000 tons of Iron rails with Messrs. Btiiley. Brothers & Co., of Lon don. which' submitted for your examina tion to )p delivered in .Wilmington and Charleyrfon. in March and June of the pres ent vear,at $11 50 per ton, freight duty and I'n-frnnnft mr! tided, tvovable in these Bonds j&l 90. For all but the prime cost of the Iron. however. $200,000, (amount of tfonds to be delivered) the Company have to provide the cash, which is to be deducted from the price to be paid. $41 50 per ton. In August last, as you wjll see, by the re port of Mr. Fleming, he contracted for eight Locomotive Engines, to be pant lor in mese bonds at the price therein stated. The sales made of these Bonds, and the contracts in which they are to be received in payment, have disposed of $159 000 out of the $600,000 issued; leaving yet to be sold $141,000 of them. After securing the whole of our Iron and the quantity of Locomotives we had done, it was not deemed advisable to put the remainder of these Bonds on the market for the present, as it was believed that as the completion of the Road was ap proached.' with the expenditures for work and materials a iding to the security of the holders, a confidence would be given them, raising their market value, and the Company thereby might avoid the interest as well as sacrifice by holding them as long as we pro perly could. Under any circumstances we mh'htbe able to hold on to them during the greater part of the year, by tiie end oi which it is believed from lOO to 125 miles of our Road will be finished and in operation, when they would command a more favorable con sideration. from the public. With tiie means above indicated in the hands of the Company, it may reasonably be expected that some Exhibit of the cost of the work and the asseist'o meet it, will be given to the Stockholders, and the public, in order that their judgments may be satisfied as to our ability to carry out the undertaking and successfully complete it. The following table shows the estimated cost of the work, the amount expended, arid the available means in -the power of the Company at the par value of the securities for Stock, and our mortgage, Bonds unsold: A Estimated cost of the Road by the Engineer, ;u h:s last re port j From which deduct Expendi tures per Treasurer's Report LMviuenq on vy.n' mington t Raj eigh Rail Read Stock, estimated same rate as last vear 6.300 From which deduct ! . estimrtle , $1,070,105 92 Ap'ouut required, 926.139 53 And it leaves $143.966 34 subs 'crip- without 6ome pecuniary con 4'oVover Iosse3 from Stock's Bond tion lists, wliicli it ?s now impractible to estimate, from theTiaiure of the securities we hold. It is believed however, r.haniTfr unfavorable to the "O ! 1 dition of the Comn'any, or some contingencies increasing the ctfst of the york by the liigh price of labor and materials', that the Com pany may be able to complete the Road with their present means, without incurring any permanently ..new liabilities, or such at least as the present means of the Company, when made available, may not discharge. Exhibit appended to this Report, shews an estimate of the casn payments required this year for the various portions of the work' ,and the items to which it can be convenient ly approximated, and also the means in tiie control of the Board to meet them. Itis thought that this c?n be done with the means in hand even if it should be necessary to sell some of our securities al their present mar ket value, whL-h they suppese may be avoid ed by pledging jlhem'if necessary in getting accommodations fr present requirement of money, and'thus hold them until they can be redeemed by other funds of the Compa ny from subscriptions and otherwise, j PROGRESS OF TIIE WORK. You will nerceive by the; Report of Mr. Fleming, that 15 miles of our Road from its Junction with the "Camden B anch to Sumterville, is completed and in operation, and though an accurate account of the cosi cannot now be ascertained from the unset tled state of some of the account, yet th-iy appear sufficiently to shew that it has not ex ceeded the estimates, though that portion of the Road has. from its location and difficult grades hi the Waier Swamp,1 nn-d the scarcity of timber beerr estimated as the most expen sive. ; - The business on that portion of the Road, you will perceive, is such as to warrant the conclusion that it- has not heretofore been over estimated. '; f ' " 1 York," and convertible into the Stock of the Company at the option of the; holders, at any time previous 1o the first of June, 1865. The smaller sum was decided upon in rentempla tinn nf i h nmhuhlr acceptance of the sub- snr;nii,-,n rr Iip Staffi of North. Carolina, of $200,000; and under the belief that as no part of the Road was then laid or in opera tion, by issuing a larger amount brr themort A lhpir value would' be di minished, and the Company would be forced; .i : . .. . . .;fT fSon tit kcik io suoiuib iu a grenier sunui - $200,000 on a second mortgage of the Road, ii npcpssnrv. when it wns more nearly com pleted, and. large expenditures made, which woutu give aouiuonai security anu uumiuEii to the purchaser. The additional itenrof in terest, also, was not overlooked in coming to the conclusion. They. were 1 encouraged; in this conclusion, also, inasmuch as; the experi ence of other important enterprises had de monstrated that their second mortgage Bonds, issued after a larger part of the Road had been built and in operation, had general ly, if not universally, commanded a much higher market price than the Bonds 6old ior. secured by the first mortgage. Bonds were $L550.000 397.860 42 $1,152,139 58s From which also deduct pur- ' chase of 7000 tons of Iron Rails at prime cost, and tight Locomotives, to be paid, for in ' mortgage Bonds $2j6000 Add Bills payable at Bank State ol South Carolina. $896: 139 $3 ! . j $30,000- $926,139 58 To this sum. the Company have the fol lovvitig assets, estimated at par value : -Bonds'of the Town of Wilmington N. C. Note's of Stockhol ders in Wilming ton. 800 Shares S. C. R. R!- Slock at par vaWe 2 100 do. Wil. & Ral. R. R'. Co. t. do. do, 1 41 mortgageBonds. $1,000 of do. do. ' Balance due onSub- scriptionsto Capi- 'tal Stock. J.Q be called in future in ' stalmeuTs -Cash and io hands oPAgentssubject- to Dra't Dividend onS. Caro lina Rail Road Stock, (received since J in. 1) Received from sales of Sti4ls &c, sold since January I $24;500 39,536 50 100.000 240.000 141.000 437,394: 97,975 42 3.400 1.600 $1,055,405 92 To w h ic h m ay fa i r ly be added Divi- . dends on 1200 shares SouthCar- ...... t olina Rail Road ; Stock assuming tTiey pay the game . rate us last year. the Bridge over by 'Which it was roin toe scarcity ol lor i construction. relieved. It - was except at a price 8.400 At the commencement of this year it was thought advisable to secure a permanent force for the year, a large portion of-which was needed to keep the Road in good condi tion, the water stations and freight cars properly attended, and which in emergencies can be concentrated at points where it may be necessary to prevent delay in laying the track ; and such a force is engaged as it is be lieved will -be sufficient to i push the work with alf the lapidity practicable'. From Sumterville to the Great Pee Dee, the pre paration of the Road is such that it is riot regarded promising too strongly to say that we shall reach point sufficiently near the Pee Dee to take off the crops of that region the present year, if offered j The ca lses mentioned in j the Engineer's Report for the delay in completing this part of the Road, could not have easily been ob vintn nr forseen at vour last meetinjr, and even if they could, (such as the. abandon ment of contracts, and the scarcity and high price of labor) we had not then the control of sufficient means to have fully 'obviated them. When it was necessary to. hire a force and commence on the j Coipany'3 ac count the unfinished grading,-contracts and others, ii was at a season ofhe year and in a location which rendered 'the obtaining a sufficient force utterly impracticable," except at exorbitant prices, which it w is not believ ed prudence and propiiety j would justify. -The work, however, has been steadily push ed by Mr.' Fleming with all life force at his control or m his reajch"; Under the personal superintendence of Mr. Solomons, with a zeal and fidelity, it is felt but an act of sim ple duty to mention in terras of commenda tion.. ' ' For a full and succinct account of the pro gress of the whole work, the condition of the contracts ami the probably, length of the Roaci which xvllf be put in operation during the year, you are respectfully referred to the Report of Mr. Fleming. His experience in the wo: k for the last few years, and h:s knowledge on the condition of the contracts, and what, will be required and done, entitle his conclusions and opinions on these subjects, in the opinion of the Board, to strong confi dence, anil they have been given frankly whenever it is practicable jto form and ex press them. On the Eastern end of the Road as large a force has not yet been collected as was de sired and stilUmended, though every exer tion has been made to do so; No exertions will be spared to increase the present force there and to hasten the laying the track from Wilmington westward. The Causeway from Brunswick Ferry to that opposite the Town ol Wilming ton, you are aware, was intended as the location of our track across Eagles'- Is land. Its purchase was advised by Major Gwylin. who was familiar with the Island, as atfordihg the best track for the Road, and was made reported to. and confirmed by the meetinc? of Stockhold rs at Wilmington, iu January, 1819. In 1850 a survey waa direc ted to determine if this were the best route, and in the Spring of that year, a thorough instrumental survey was had. and the cause wav recommended by the Engineers, lr was .i.,-: k rr th Rhrd to locate the Road there, and work was commenced west ol the Brunswick utver. ascertaining thatns a pubfic highway there might arise some djfficultyjin its use. by the Company, apjplicafion was made to the County Court of Brunswick, the. formal con sent cf which it wa believed would remove all objections to its use. i'he President ut teuded the Court in pecek ber jast. in ; per son,' bill Voiibl hof iucceedlin effecting an ar rangertierit without incurring expenditures which 'ivas deemed disproportionate to the advantages of that route, and under the ar rangement assented to by the Court it was not certain that all legal obstacles were re moved. The Board then determined to lo cate another routt which would relieve them from strife and litigation of both a public and private character. The location has been made and reported by Mr iFleming. and from its favorable character, it is believed cannot fail 'to meet general approbation. T'he only loss which tjie Company will sustain of any moment, it is believed, will be the grading which will bi left by the new line, as it is yet believed to have been a most fortunate and timely purchase to have se cured the Ferry and Causlway and Charter, which was perpetual. By it, (the Charter) all persons were prohibited fr-m transportiag passengers across the Islniid, except over the Causcwaj. for pay, under a penalty of $5 each, whic would have lorced the Company to have stopped their Road at the Bruns wick River, or to have purchased the right to do so from the owners 'of the Ferry, and there is now little doubt if we had not bought the Ferries at the lime we did. that the cost ol the right to cross the Island with passenger trains would have been quite as great as the whole purchase to i lie Company After exhausti ig every means in our pow er to zet a constructor lor? the Great Pee Dee River thought the Company, fro the necessary 'materials would have been irreatlv iound impracticable to do s which it was thought bv o ur Chief E nimicer ....... - j j 0 . Major Gynn could not bojSiibm.tted lo with out great sacrifice. He was consequently in structed to beiriu t ho worjk on Company's account, and the contract for casting and sinking the piles on the pfan mentioned in the Report cf Mr. Flemming was entered in to, and is herewith submitted. Major Gwynn has entire confidence in the success of this plan, and wjiSl commence the work so soon as the materials can be collec ted and preparations made at the point re quired; and will continue till completed with out intermission. In the saving ot time and expense, as well as the safety and security of the structure on this-plan.1t w thought to be preferable loany other wliicn could be adop tedfor this Bridge. With the prospect beloff- us we think there is every reason for encrvaragement and cause for congratulation. The recent issue of ouri Bonds has placed in our control the whole aft the Iron needed for the Road and a sufficient number of Locomotives to put it in full oper ation. ' With the condition of the work, its state of preparationand the increased force now en gaged and to be added, will hasten the lay ing' of the track as rapidly jas it is practicable, from both the termini until their junction at the Great Pee Dee. ' J ; There is no reason to be dissatisfied with or tS apprehend that the jestimated business of the Road after its completion will not be r:t Ii7tr! . That norlion of thf work nlre.adv in operation is one which Reflects the highest cre'di: oii'the "Eiigineer department, and has met with the universal conlmendation of those who have travelled over t: The time since which freights have been taken, is too short to make it any practical lical test as to that business. It would would doubtless be increased and made more favorable- to the publjc if satisfactory ar rangements could have been made with the South Carolina Rail Road Company for au thority on our part to have delivered and re ceived freights at ihc junction of the Camden and Columbia Branches but although no exertion has been spared by those charged with this duty,' we have not been successful in coining to terms which it is deemed advi sable or proper frr this Company to accept. U is sincerely to be hoped, however, that some plan may be devisejd which will make it to the mutual interest of the Companies to gowfnjr out of the rcrolt ot 184S. and I hare directed them to be held in ihc Dcpartiaenl ol Slate. : ; . Although the early and long settled policy of this Government must uecesrariljr pre clude ihw matter from being made th ground of any official action on its part, yet I urn happy to say that such measures uavo already been taWen to acroroplieh " the ob ject sought by the ptt toners as it was thought were most iiKeiy to procure mc uc sired resulU Accordingly, the Secretary ol State has, with my approbation, addressed a priyat letter to oar Minister to England, re questing him to make ivery effort in the ease that he could with propriety. 1 shall continue to do what! can conpitt ently with the honor and dignity of our coun try, and sincerely hope that the strong de sires of their friends in this conntry may soon, be gratified by their release. T Very respectfully ami sincerely, yours. I MJLLARD FILLMORE. W. It.' Romeyn, &sq, Kingston N. Y. MONARCHS, OF EUROPE. The followjug are the ages of the mon archs of Edrope, :s given by the Courier des Etats Unisi ; . ' " . '-: ": V Pius IX. .0 years;4 William 1st, Kingof Wurtemburg, 70 years; Leopold 1st, King of the Belgians. 74 years; Frederick Willi am IV., King of Prussia, 56 years; Nicholas 1st. Emperor of lliisMa, 55 years ; Francis Joseph Oscar, King'of Sweden, 52 year j Frederic VII.. Kiitgnf Denmark, 43 ; Louis Napoleon, Presideit'of ihe French Reptibr lie. 43. Ferdinand 11M King ol the Two Si cilies. 41; Maximilian 11., King of Buvnna, 40; Louis Charles d'Orltou Unc de Nem ours, 33; William III., King of Holland, 31 ; Francis Ferdinaml. Prince de JomviIIe, 33; Victoria. Queen of Great Biitain. 32; Maria II., Queen of Portugal. 32; George Freder ic, King of Hanover; 32; Henry V., head of the Bourbons, 31 ; Victor Emannel II.. King of Sardinia. 31 ; Henry-Eugene, Duc d Au male. 30 : Abdkl Mediin, Sultan, 28; Anto- nie. Ducde Montpensicr, 27 ; Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 21 , Isabella II., Queen of Spain, 21 ; Louis Philippe. Count de Par is, 13. , MONARCHS OF FRANCE. As the lust of the' Kings of France has passed away, we subjoin a chronological list of the gentlemen, commencing with King Pepin, first monarch of the 2d or Carloving ian race, A no Domino, 752 ; , Chronological .Table of the Kings of France, repm Cliarlemagne Louis I. (Le Debonnaire) Chailes II. (Le Chauve) Louis II. (Le Begue) Louis III and Caroloman Charles III. (Le Gros) Eudes Charles IV. (Le Simple) Raoul Loui3 IV (d'Outremer) Lothair j touie V ! Hugh Capet i Robert Henry I. . Philippe I. Louis VI. (Le Gros) Louis VII. (Le Jeune) Phillippe II (Auguste) Louis VIII. Louis IX. (St. Louis) Philippe III. (Le Hardi) PhiFippe IV. (Le Bel) Louis X. (Le Hut in) Philippe V. (Le Long) Charles IV. (Le Bel) Philippe VI. De Valois Jean II; Le Bon Charles V. make this arrangement. proaches 1 the Gieat Pee Dee River, as it would attract a much as our Road ap arser amount of freights to - our Road and constitute a new business to the other. f The inability to effect any arrangement at presen:, has made it nece sary to establish .Ware house atTthe junction of our Road and the Camden, Branch, which will be commen ced atari early day. With this we must en deavor to get on till an arrangement can be effected, or if not, it will for the Stockhol ders to say what other a(:tiou in the matter may be had. .Ws ' . t Respectlully subraittea oy oruer oi ine Board. W. W. HARLLEE, President. Charles VI. . Charles VII. Louis XI. Charles VIII. Louis XII.. Francis I; Henry II. Frances II. ... Charles IX. Henry III. 1 Henry IV. Louis XI 1L. Louis XIV; Louis XV. Louis XVI. Stales-General , Constituent Assembly Legislative AfscrobJy Republic. N Convention Reign of Terror Directory i -Consulate Napoleon. Emperor -Louis XV11I. Charles X. Louis Philippe I. 752 ! 768 814 840 - 877 879 884 888 898 923 936 954 9S6 -987 996 1032 1060 1108 , 1137 I 1180 1223 1226 1270 lfc85 1314 1316 1328 1328 , 1350 . 1364 1380 1422 1461 1483 1498 ; 1515 1547 1559 156a 1571 15S9 1610 I 1643 1715 --1774 1789 1789 1791 1792 1793 1795 1799 1804 1814 1825 1830 THE PRESIDENT AND THE IRISH EXILES. The Kingston. N. Y. Journal publbdiesa reply of the President to Mr. VV. H. Rom- rV' who had addressed him a lette'r in be half of a number of the residents of UUter county, New York, asking tor the Pres ident's interposition in favor of the Iriah ex iles now coufiiiea in the British -penar cp)- uies: '". ":;'. , "'- ; V. r : , ; '. . -; - j .'w. - ' Washington, Monday, Feb. 2. 1852. Dear Sir : I am'in rceif Vof your favor of the 26th and 27th ultimo, together with ih fcromnanvinr petitions, soliciting the in- f this Government wi'h that of Tbe first king of the 3d or existing rsce. TERRIBLE CALAMITY FROM QA8. A family of five arsons in St. Louis Io.t their lives, Jan. 27. by the inhalation of gas during the niht and morning, which escaped by the burst in or a metre in the cellar of the houxo. Two' dos in the room were also Millbcnted. The fami ly occnuied a chamber over a store, and the gas rVom-H-o lUrM M? building so completely that but few'conld sfaod it the day after the dls mrvr.f it victims. The terrible catastroohe ai.nta ivrvH as a warninr to those who ue eas. mud-where its suffijcatin etfect can can possibly reach their sleeping apartments.;, . Proposed lAan of Aral foIIun;ary by Ohio. A reolution is before the S.mate of Ohio.'aa thoriziug the Governor to loau all the undistribu ted arm and materials of war belonging to4!ie State to Kossath. to-be returned sfter the resto ration of Hungarian liberty.- Aftvr a warm, de- K-.it it wil! n-tfrt-wl to ft Ciiiflmuicc vt vuc, tnu . -Rritotn fnr ihf 'IJhpratin of the Irisfl mlu.rt irpnomllv innhfed their DOrvr tC Liako b commeDceu wesi oi we wuai. -..-z .... . j ... opposite to it. But upon prisoners now in exile for polnxa! offence t her proposed loan. ' , ... . i