Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-11-16
Washington, Nov. IA.


We hail the following as an acceptable
omen Of the interest which the people of
the West are about at length TO feel, in an
objec: Of so great importance 10 them as the
improvement OF the navigation Of the Poto-
mac. We begin to have hooes. when we
6nd that We are TO have efficient aid from
that quarter in support of an object tran
scendsntly important, not only to the Dis
trict Of Columbia, nor yet TO all the country
on the waters of the Chesapeake, but to the
" ole nation - Vat Intel
Ero,r "a. Csxi4so Of tGsert priat-fa! Union. Pa.
Petitions sre IN circulation, addressed
10 Congress, for the Improvement OF the
Poten7c Rrpsr. Without this additional
link in the chain Of communication. the
great object OF the National Legislature in
making the Cumberland road. connecting
The eastern and western waters, will not be
accomplished BY it the land carriage be-
tvesn .Ssr Orleans and the city Of Flushing
ton IrW Be reduced 10 about 10 mites. Thus
calculated to fecitItste Intercourse, and
bring more closely together The distant
parts ot our continent, il becomes an object
OF the hrst importance, in political a well
as commercial point Of 'iew-seTving To
strengthen and confirm the bants ILa; unite
Us as people.
But to his district OF COUNTRY this in.
provement is peculiarly advantageous. Ii
will bring Us within 60 miles, by land car
rage, of Washing;on, and open to US the
markets OF he Atlantic cities. To them, in
future, we must lcok fer market; the CON-
petition has become too Formidable in the
west. The immense regions at fertile lants
daily opening themselves near to New Or
leans. bought :Gr at least one-six,h q; the
price PAID Tor lands IA this country. and al
ne same time more productive, together
with a certain AMI safe navigation al all
times, will eHeclualiy exclude US from this
market. To cunpete asains, such odds must
END in ruin. To the east, however. we find
a populous. and mostly poor and e,hauste d
country, wanting our supplies; and suffice
1t 10 state the fact, that al this time toe price
OF -four ia New Orleans i, stated to vary, &C..
cortius to quality, from Dc 50 to d. 4 80
per barrel; in The eastern cities from D 6 to
DIS per barrel. This improve me ut couple.
ted, We could carry all our surplus pruduse,
-four. beet, PORK, grain, glass. whiskey. &c
TO the eastern cities cheaper than 10 New
Orleans.
These ere bu. a few of the advantages Of
this important work, but they are certainly
sufficient to induce any one who has the in
,erest OF our country at heart 10 promote the
object in view"
We are indebted to the editor of the Bos.
ton Daily Advertiser for Halifax paper
Of the Sd of November In nosici, the late
wet weather in England, the pa Ter SAYS in
Nova Scotia also considered bic loss was
sustained by the insuspicioUs weather.
which prevailed in the end of august and
beginning of September A perpetual
drizzling rain interrupted the cheerful
tolls of the reaper. and some grain stood
on, three weeks in stock from the want
of dry weather of sufficient permsnence
20 have it housed. Several fine fields on
the peninsula were urenched with wet:
and the crops being beat down before
thew were thoroughly ripe were in some
cssax altogether destroyed