Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-02-03

aS any mans team and thai their com
moa load is three thousand weight
Tell him. that il is practicable TO make
his leading horse convey the loads OF ten
such teams al once, over Chester's gap,
he will not believe you; because he has
never seen II done. and has, contented
confidence in his own knowledge aud IN
dustry. Slew him, by one simsie short
xamplc, that it is practicable: he wiil
stand amazed True it is, nevertheless,
that such Is practicable, and ! have clio-
sen Chesier's gap as scite iorllins,ration,
because il abounds with uncomfortable
common obstacles; but with infinite sci
entihc and practical resources, and sup
plies.
Canal navigations here, are III their in
fancy: railways and railroads still more
so; and neither of them understood BY
our people, much less improved by them,
and economical, as Ne have power 10 do.
Ousbest Pennsy lvania wSggnns count
three tons, an average load on The Lam
caster Turnpike. One man, on the rail
ways i'll the Duke of Bridgewaier's coal
mines, constantly Stoves a Wagon lad
Ell with ten hundred weight, before him
and one horse (taken By chance from
wood Cart conveyed SIS ions, 6 cwt.2 qrs.
on the Waudswurih railroad.
III thc DuhCOi l>itisFNiteI = SuDitfId-
neous canal, boy of II years old has
drawn, by the hand-rails, 2l boats OF 2
tons each, l47 tons: in Liverpool, in
1859, sawa country BOBBY, IN scram-
bling from a ship of 500 tons, 10 get up
on the key of the dock, shove her ntf BY
his awilNarduess, and drop into the wa
ter! Such are The nature ofkyLraattc pow
ers and, as on the summit of Chester's
GAP, there is an unlimited source of wa
Ter, il can scarcely be doubted that the
Duichman's leading horse would make
light work OF his proposed task.
To be more particular, if | am asked
how this is TO be done? Ga very common
loose question, though too seldom put as
professional neil answer that, 1t is not
TO be done by talking or by speechiiying !;
although the practical exercises OF William
and Mary should be lawfully restricted
like the sales of the East India company, }
By inch Of candle =
By thinking, by calculating, and by
| working Ct1yine' to ito something more than
TO taM Gnd dictate tie natter into Imaginary
dou5ts) Chester's Gap may be passed
by any of The following methods
LIST The summit level containing a
source of water competent TO The whole
commerce of the country both Ways, has
greatly the advantage over The canal of
Lanruedoc for Il reservoir and feeders TO
pass by pound locks.
I'd. If minute investigation, and a com
parative estimate should demand il, IL is
practical TO tunnel through lower level.
Sd. 1t may be passed by means of Wei
| don's Caissoons, Air Chests, diving box
es, or buoyanl balance.
9TH. The situation is good one TO
change levels by simple wells and lun-
| ne!s.
5ih. 1t may be passed by inclined
! planes and rail ways, worked by water.
9th. 1t may be passed, uninterrupted
ly, by similar means, where no wafer ex-
| ISIS and without the Intervention Of qua
druped labour. SENEA, JR.
| TO THE EDITOR OFTHE ENQUIRER.
The last mail brought It's your paper,
| by which l see that MIR. Thweatts resolu-
! tons have been rejected. | am not dis
! appointed TO find that they have been re-
! iecicd BY great majority. BY those who
! are acquainted with tue course of events
| In our state, no other result could have
! been anticipated The power incident
| TO great monled corporations, compose ed
too of all the dighitarieS of the common
wealth, is such, that the old fashioned prin-
ciples oil the bill of rights cannot compete
with it. InnOUation and Improvement are
the order of the day, and the golden max
i'm, of ID frequent recurrence 10 tunda-
mental principles, Is exploded and for
gotten.
You will not understand me, sir, as be-
ing, in any degree, indifferent to Tie great
| objects for which the corporations IN
question were Instituted. Tue diffusion
| of knowledge and the internal improve
ment of our country, are among the objects
the nearest 10 my heart. They require
and demand the uncsasing attention OF
| the legislature. But have supposed that
! the legislature was Itself competent 30 Ell
| fectuate them Ill plain way, and without
violating the principles of our constitute
! OF. / have not seen the necessity of set,
Ting upenormons corporations, which OBJ
! scure, and throw i'll The back ground,
! the actual departments of our govern
ment, and infringe allthe principles of the
| bill of rights. | have not seen it proper
that after, as the Immortal Henry has said
! The erection OF the general government
has only left 10 the stale legislatures the
care OF our schools, roads and bridges,
&c. these last subjects should be, also
put into commission. All these things
are new to me ; they were unknown Ia
our fathers of 1879 they find no couH-
trrpart in the excellent principles of our
bill of rights.
1t is principle of common sense, Mr..
Editor, as we'll as of common law, that a
deputy cannot make deputy. The
| power conferred is merely personal. II
caunot be deputed. The legislature oil
this commonwealth cannot make a sub
legislature. They cannot devoive ON Mei1
deputies the power OF Iesislating for then
constituents. The bill ofrights provides