Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-10-10

trail College WAS laid at Charlottesville OF
Mon,iay last, and with all tie ceremony
and solemnity due TO such on OCCASION.
The Society," of the Free Ajasons, and a
large company of citizens attended. The
scene was graced by the presence OF Tho
mas Jefferson and James Madison, late
Presidents of the United Siatts and of
James Monroe, the actual President.
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Facility of connecting tie North AID South
Seas by a Canal
The Edinburgh Review, on the subject
of AIoIina's Account Of Chill, furn shes
the following curious and highly interest
ing paragraph:
&c In the year 1895, a spherical chart of
the sea of the Antilles, and of tile coast
of Terra Firma, from the ialand of Trni-
dad To the Calf OF Honduras, was con-
structed in the photographed depart
ment, by order of the Spanish govern
ment from scientific su veyS. By this
chart an important discovery was made.
The bay of MaHhinga, an immense inlet
of lie sea, commencing about 10 leagues
to The eastward of Porto Beilo, penctrates
into the istl,mus to within five leagues OF
the Pacific ocean. This prodigious ba-
sin, which is almost closed by Chain OF
Islands, running close 10 one another al
the mouth, has never been navigated by
any European, except Spaniards; and
was never supposed TO run back, 10 any
considerable extent into the country, as
all the old charts in which il is marked a
bundantly testify. A river, from the
name of which the Bay is denominafed,
falls into the bottom OF this gulf. This
river is navigable, and, we know, comes
very near the branch of the Clepo,
large river which falls into the CALF of
Panama. We are not yet furnished with
any satisfactory details on the navigable
state OF these rivers but from what Al
cedo tells us-from the circumstance of
their navigation being prohibited by the
Spanish government under pain of death,
OH the express ground, that ii might dis
cover the facility OF the passage 10 the
South Sea--and from the fact OF the buc-
cancers having actually penetrated from
sea To sea III this direction, we are emit
tied to conclude, that extraordinary fact
lilies for the great enterprise are here
presented The bay has ten iathoms of
water Al the entrance, which increases TO
eleven in the middle, and il has six faith
oms to the very bottom."-The Review
ers, after proceeding TO adduce some
statements of Herrera, the famed histori-
an of South America, draw the fol-
lowing conclusion" By this in9ubita6te
authority, then, it appears, Mst canal Of
niue ieagnes, through cOaHtry mostly fiat, as
all that IS ivanting to complete tie navigation
aeroSs tie isthniuS Of panama."
In the event ola complete and perma-
ncnt independence ofSouth Amerca-an
event highly probablc-it is not unrea-
sonable to expect, that within fifty years
The North and South Seas will be con
nected. And what u siupendous revo-
luton it would produce in navigation
and commerce Tile distance 10 India
aud CHINA would be shortened more than
10000 miles. Conn. Csmrant
Since the new order of things the Russians
have borrowed from Europe not only Its higher
sciences, Int all the familiar means Of diiiISin.
Just such knowledge Us the government might
find TO be profitable. The Petersburg Ga
zette, the oldest in Russia, has been published
In Russ aud German, under tie academy of
sciences, embracing all foreign affairs, and
siicii commercial notices as the interest aud
convenience of commerce might require. The
NOrthport or New Gazette, twice week be-
gan III 1909 under the minister OF the interior,
tor the purpose of the police aud for such other
objects as tie tranquility OF Russia might adj
INIT. The Russian Invalid, which had as us
first object military affairs, appeared in 1873
continued till ioI5, aud contained all the mill
tary arrangements and documents of Tie En-
pure, with Such use OF tbe papers ut Hamburg
aud Berlin us might fulfil its purpose. To this
was added the Patriot, which appeared in 1912
aud continued till the end OF lol3. It's editor
belonged to the Petersburg school establish
ment, and It's object was fOEpotical, historical
and literary information. Ia contained manV
articles which might assist the history aud &c
Ogrdphy of Russia, ~ well as of the state of the
press ia that county. The Spirit OF tile FINES
was also another paper which appeared y eekIV
III tStj, OF which the object was general, but IL
~ said to have contained interesting original
documents. The persons 10 whom these Pr
perS were committed, were persons of Teputd-
ton, aud undcr protection OF lie government.
such publications were mot confined to Peters
burg. Al Moscow IN tSlJ, several papers ap-
peared. AltCady ia 1902 had been published
tie Enr0peau Herald, from karainZiu, the cell
eDratG3 poet and Traveller. aud afterwards l,V
ether bands. In this work was mttch liter;-
tnTe, history and useful information BESIDES
this, ~ the same place was the russian Her
ala under Mayor CltBka, containing much do
nestle biorJatlon, with all the aTdOr Of ma
ttOnal attachment. The Moscow Newspaper
common paper, twice "a week, was under
the direction OF the UNIVERSITY In ASfra.
char, twice aweek appeared tie Oriental
Advertiser, a political and literary papcr
~ the Russ and Armenian. The Casan
Advertiser was wei conducted aud appeared
once week, aud WAS under tie authority of
the university at Petersburg. Iu Chaikow
was thc Ukraine Herald, a literary paper from
TIE yOnth at The University. Another paper
also appeared III dis T. zee called Denocritns
ln Ch"kC", q 'Gon,ihy saiyrcal paper from a
teacher ~ that place. In Riga was a Russ
weekly paper, under tic dtgcc tinn OF some dis.
tlngnishcd persons ~ that place. directed 10
al TIE Olgec,s Of ,nc common news papers in
o'"T' parts VI L"iope. li,asm LEICESTER.
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