Meeting for the Completion or the New York


and Erie Railroad.
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Meeting for the Completion or the New York
and Erie Railroad.


| In pursuance OF call made some time since the
mechanics of the city of New York, favorable TO
the completion of the New York and Erie Rail-
road, assembled last evening in the rooms of the
Mechanics Society, in Crosby street. Mr.. Thomas
C. Shardavayer was elected President, and Mr. Jas.
Van Norden, Secretary.


Mr. WM +. Dopcs, of the firm of Phelps, Dodge s Co
said that all present aware the meet.
ing called for the purpose of seeing what mocha
MICS would do towards the completion Of this road the
benefits OF which cannot be appreciated with
sufficient force He was requested to make a statement
to the meeting OF its advantages to this city but he did
not think it to enter into detail that during
the suspension OF the work the road all Of the
tages which had induced capitalists to invest
terprise had been augmentng. They then looked only
TO Indiana and Ohio and now look to the States which
did not then exist it computed then rs tons OF
freight would pay handsome dividend and that
the late great improvements in locomotives they can
take 25 that they are aware Of the great avan
tage to subscribe the State had renu
ed lien of 50 900 inducement to have the road
finished The portion of the road completed has paid
much better than expected, and when all finish.
ed must be large divdendpaying road that it will
connect with other roads which will bring Cincinnati
within as hours of New York, where 1t is now ~ days
One great object in finishing the road is that by Boston
Providence, country merchants can buy their goods
and them home before the Erie canal opened and
the shutting OF the Erie canal exiting
upon the business of New York and by the Erie slroad
transmit goods faster than by any other route.
The city OF Cincinnati has been growing amazingy it
will hardly be credited that within five years past
buildings have been erected there than in the city
New York Mr. Dodge then illustrated the effect which
IT would have on the provision market in New York
by contrasting the price milk end other articles before
the road was laid to Goshen and and that shall
be able when the road is finished get turkeys for 80
lor wnicn we now pay ios IN regard 10 me certainty
have but set OF officers and in that respect will
be more expensive than road forty miles long and that
person who has watched the progress of the mighty
west for twenty years past and the progress which it
destined to make in twenty years cannot entertain
any other railroad in the world and that roads in Eu
rope only forty miles in length, pay FIVE per
stock 100 per above par gentleman in Balt-
told him. few days since, that they could


find arithmetic extensive enough to compute the profits
of the work. that and half millions of dollars have
been subscribed within fifteen days in small sums.


Mr. LopER then came forward and said that all were
anxious to have subscriptions to the stock much du
sea as possible and that far the subscriptions varied
from 500 shares to and suggested that all present be
invited to come and subscribe; that he was informed
scrption and to set the matter right he read the
The railroad is completed for So miles, and the
will be sufficient to pay the interest the subscriptions
nowmade and the successive portions of the roadwl pay
the interest increases and that meetings enough have
been held and 1t is now time TO act aud the cooperation
OF every man in the community is wanted. 1t may
be understood that the aggregate railroads in the United
States pay 6peI cent many pay per cent and "a pay
cent above par Roads in Great Britain which f3O,
600 mile pay dividend per cent and charters for
$500 miles Of railroad have lately been granted by
the government 1t cheerful to the spirit which
the people of New England manifested on this subject
and that alone in Boston contributed $4,000
the Brateboro Railroad which considered there as
the least beneficial OF all the roads in New England In
five wears there will be railroad from Portland TO
Montreal, from Boston to Montreal, to Leba.
non Montpelier and Burlington, reaching Lake Ontario
and within the time there will be communication
roads paying dividend of twelve per cent and
that will pay fifteen per cent The Erie Railroad
will be the longest in the world and one from which the
way.busness alone will pay per cent the cost,
and in year from its completion will doubt pay
the road would give property in New York, the citi-
zens OF this city should hurry with its completion The
stock of the Great Western Railroad in England cost ESQ
per share, and it is now worth f230.


Mr. LoDER said that no road IN England will pay
well as the Erie when completed and that the average
costs OF railroads in England Sl50OO0 per mile,
while in the United States it was only 100000.


Mr. DODGE said that they must request all who sub.
scrbed adopt the rule of the temperance men, and
that every subscriber must bring subscriber until the
whole OF the stock was taken up. And in speaking of
shutting of the Erie Canal by ice, would not, in few
years, be even noticed in the papers.


It was then moved that committee be appointed TO
solicit further subscriptions, and the following gentle
men were named and accepted, who will meet at the
same place on Monday evening, at O'Clock to make
Carlies, VIM. H. Sweet Alex Lawrence, Robt Smith,
Freeman Campbell, VIM; Harry Andrew Lockwood,
Sylvanus s. Ward, Thos. Fisher, Jacob A. Westervet
L. W. Stevens JOS Harriot Otis Pollard, Jas Harriott
J. X. Smith.


subscription the stock was made, and if the ieel
ing which was manifested last evening was more gene
Il
sary amount Of stock will be taken and this great work.


in which the highest and lowest of the people
cerned will at length be brought to completion; indeed


it is expected that the committee will in their report
have enough stock taken to accomplish this most desi
rable object.


The EPISCOPAL CoNvENrIoN-MoRALITY OF THE
RELIGIOUS CIRcLEs.-We give in another column
report OF the proceedings of the Episcopal Con.
vention yesterday. The reverend fathers were not
able to decide upon presiding head, but it is to be
hoped that to-day they will settle that question, and
proceed the great business of the Convention-the
Onderdonk question.


One of the most remarkable features yesterday,
indeed the feature of the day, was the extraordinary
number of females in attendance. Hitherto these
convocatons of the clergy have attracted little
attention on the part of the I" faithful but
now that Bishop OF the church is to be passed
upon for offences againt the laws of morality, the
church Is crowded to excess by the fashionable and
plous sisters and daughters in Israel. This opens
up rather interesting subject in the philosophy of
the churches TO which we will have occasion to
refer hereafter.


AMERICAN CONSUL AT TANGIERs-A story has
been circulated for some days in certain papers
latve to Mr. Carr, recently appointed Cousul at Tan
giers, in place of Mr.. Mullowney. This story re-
presents that the Emperor of Morocco will not &C
cept Mr.. Carr as Consul from this country, on ac-
count of some difficulty which took place when ne
Yves formerly in Tangiers Consul.


| We doubt the accuracy of this statement Alto
gether. The difference which took place between
the Consul and the local authorities of Tangiers had