Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1815-11-08

OF few such vessels would be COMPARE
lively trDing, and might he betrayed ty a
suyao,e toll Hpon the trade which should
pass th~ Canal And who can calculate
the immense advantages which our country
would derive from such AN opeuiag TO the
Sea a Country, Astounding in de create st
variety OK the richest products of the
earth.
You will enquire why something of the
nature Of what have mentioned las not
been attempted to whicl ! can only an
swer. thatit IS for the want Of knowledge
and enterprise, and rs the best proof 0. 1t,
repeat that our wise men, instead of en-
& ns in some grand scheme Of this Sort
hrve concluded that they cannot get TO sea
bu thrnug Your State, as if you had Il pre-
scr'ptive right to our trade and therefore
they must have Canals from above the
falls of X anoSe Il Meherrin, and from
Chowan to Nanse mond by the way of
Drunmo1ds Point or from Sumnierton
Creek 20 Suffolk. Either Of which 4 K ing
OF France might do, because Il King Of
France has caused the canal Ut Laugul doc
to &c N de but, oar people un CIR cur 60
vernment, would not do it in leo years,
whereas | will be bold to say that a direct
communication with the sea might be eff
tected N very few years.
could more fully illustrate all this by
further explanations, but have ale. dy
been TOO tedious. / will therefore drop the
subject of Caaals, although some others
that miSat be highly beneficial have been
long contemplate, and few have been
cut, which are OF considerable local utility,
and proceed 20 say lew words upon our
Iurniiike@ if it can be said, that We have
any. II Is true, that we have many acts OF
Assembly upon the subject, yet do no,
know O. but Two pieces Of Road which are
called Turnpike. One through the Great
Dismal from the County of Gates to that of
HasqUotanc, called HAm,lton's Turnpike
but, 1t is not much used aud is generally
IN bal repair. The other, through
some great Swamp i'll the county Of Rich
mond, which believe is Of but partial uti;-
lty, and MT very important. The fact is,
we have not the same need CT TurnDiil,
as you have. Our great market Towns
for the Upper Country are IN other
States, and water carriage is rescrted to
mostly II The Lower Country a Wagon
S l. - thing tEsrs, SO that tne Roads are
not much cut up, and are very fine. We
hNi' Fever dc Il mach III Turnpi.Ses,
link flr, shouil cur trade be ever turn
Ell down our own streams, which hope 20
live tn see, vet tn Roads would not be as
muca used as in other St slr, we
should ha'e greatly the advantage OF most
II thsm in regard'c' water carriage. We
have streams in abundance, which might
easily be made navigableT
AS to our Summaries Of Learniuo. al
though we have s~arceiy any III t are well
endowed, yet we have many, very many
excellent Schools. There is scarcely q
County in which there is not Grammar
School. In some, there are more than ono.
In this small County, year or two ago,
we had no less than four, besides two eS-
celient Female Academies in the Town.
lheTe seems to be great 8tli15t pe1va-
ding The people for giving their Children
At least the Rudiments of learning but.
we are unfortunate III regard to the HIGHER |
branches ct Education. 1t is true, that we
have what is called Il Ui7fuers;.y ; but. Il il |
not in high repute, which IS not owing 70 !
the want of pscuniary aid 1or, it has |
been pretty literally endowed by a grant |
tro7a the State OF ccstl;n old arrear. ces of |
public debt, and all the conhscated and !
Escheated property, and lon of $4,000, |
winch will never be repaid, together with |
a considerable sum raised by private dona- |
ton ana by two Lotteries. \ considerable |
phe OF buildings has been erected at a |
place called Chapel Hill, in the county of |
49, vi II Nso PIT HSu on as the S2at |
CT the Institution but, which is a very I'M |
smt bic place for it; as there is no good
society in the neighbo' hood, and the i1sti-
tuition itself is a nursery for Federalism. A |
large majority of the Trustees, and l be-
lIeVe, all the Faculty as they arc called,
are Federaiists, and they seem determined |
to keep out the Republicans altogether,
which has given such disgust to many, that
they prefer sending their sons abroad to /
ilnish their Education, which is much to
be regretted, especially IS they are gene
rally sent to New-England, from whence
they are apt 20 return with habits and no.
tons. which are very much unsuted to the
people with whom they are to spend the
rest of their days,
/ have omitted to state, that there IS a fine
turnpike Road 10 the Western part of the State
On the borders Of Tennessee.
II is said, that the Baaks of the City ofNew-York