Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-08-10

AL the New England States, will be lroueht To- mar
kot The object then 20 be ACCOMPLISHED y this stu
pcndous undertaking, is of more Importance to the
Eastern, Northern, and North Western states, than
any other ever can be and when executed, viii
iect more honour ON The enterprise and character of
the state oil New York, than be achieved by
any OTHER State in the Union.
Onc hundred and five miles of this Canal are now
completed, and the water let in for public use be-
ginning nine miles south of the village of Utica and
ending At Montezuma, &c miles west OF that village
The canal IS ~ feet in width, and ! in depth The
first level, beginning miles below Utica, is 90 miles
without any lock. On this Middle Section (as it is
called there Clocks OF these, fall, and rise
The greatest fall ut any lock, is III feet and the
least, the greatest rise is l2 feet, and the least,
q l-2.
Two basins harbours have been made Inv the
village of Ctoa in the limits of the village within
winch d great number of boats be very convent
emily accommodated for the purpose of taking in and
discharging freight. At Whilesborough, Oriskanv.
LenoN, Cansiota, and Cneseraga, are similar basins
AT Chiteningo is side-cut canal which runs TO the
turnpike road. AT Syracuse, is the junction of the
side-cnt canal TO Sana, being one mile from the
Onondaga Salt Springs in which are several spaci-
Gus basins. AT the village OF Goddess is large ba-
s'n ut Nne-mile Creek is q lock and basin at a
new village, called Weeds Basin, miles north of
Auburn, is an important basin, and in fine situation
for large village which doubt will soon rise into
commercial importance At Bucksvlle is Il loci, and
basin, and ut the Seneca River is large basin above
the lock. AT all these basins, stores and dwelling
houses are now erecting and all kinds of country
produce, together with salt and lumber, are there
/
On this Middle Section of the Canal the deepes,
cut into the earth is % feet and the highest embank
meni, sc. There are several aqueduct bridges con-
srucled of well-wrought stone into arches which
carry the the Canal from 20 TO 80 feet above
the level OF the streams which pass under it, These
| are all handsome specimens ofworkmanshp.
II ought 10 be here noticed, that in erectirr tho
| locks and other stone works connected with water,
| the builders have used what is called wa;er-n,c
which petrifes and harCens under water dixie The
Duke OF Bridgwaters lme) This lime is found adj
l fn fhn apol IN. e-rpn nI,,r
vel! be considered great acquisition in the United
States.
| Ii is impossible for the writer 10 state tho number
ana size OF the market boats now in vet he can
assert, that there many constantly passing and
requesting up and down the canal. There are two
packet-boats the Moae~anra and Oscida Chiefe own
ed 10y the Erie Canal Navigation Complny. (ncorno-
ratcd9 These boats are n feet in length and Is in
width are each navigacdby hands, viz a cnpain.
helmsmen, bowsnian, steward, Il cabin boy and
cook and employed exclusively for the conrev
ance ofpasscngers. The forward cabin is used FIR
lodgings and is handsomely finished OF with 70 births
each having coed bed or Mattress and every sui,a-
| hie accommodations Next, and in the centre, is n
dining cabin, 10 feet by ID, where 25 passengers can
conveniently lie seated at table and the sides of
tins cabin are seteeS; that, with these and mat
resses good lodgings for 80 passengers can be had
More than this number cannot he well accommodate
| ted in their boats. NeXt TO this cabin is a cnnrwoy
and bar, which rented the steward at S250 for
The season; AT which bar, passengers furnished
with as good refreshments as can he had on board of
our steam boats, and at rs cheap Next and
back of this, is kitchen, with all the cooking apnn
ra!us, and lodging for the crew.
These boats are drawn each bv two horses b,,
means OF Z rope from to rods in lenqtl Tho
horses are harnessed tandem with small rider on
| the hind horse, and are exchanged every miles,
Zach of these boats pass uu and down Ills secnn nj
the canal every day, Sundays excepted) The fare
OF passengers is cents per mile and includes every
| expense except such as may be voluntarily incurred
ut the bar The tables are well iurnished and every
attention is sten TO the passengers, 50 as to render
them perfectly satisfied with their accommodation.
The average number of passengers in these boats for
this season, thus far has been about 90 each trip up
| and down. ~
These boats pass and repass night and dav so that
although they are prohbiteda greater Roadway than
| miles IN each hour, yet, IN The course of 2Ihours
the progress sas great as that OF our best stages
The tow-path ON the side Of the Canal is about feet
above the level ofth water, about 10 feetn width and
| is made hard by gravel.
When two boats meet, each is bv law ren,ircd ,o
turn the right, and the horses drawing these boats
are obliged turn to the left so that the horses
which turn oil from the tow path, must stop as they
come abreast OF the other horses The boat beino nm
water; and in this situations tie boat mex, 10 the low
! path passes directly over tho rope SO Stacked and
hoti! proceed without any detention, and without any
casting OIL or hitcing to- In passing the locks whc-
ther the boats ascend descend the detention M zach
| viii not exceed minutes.
| In these boats, travellers arc regaed by viewing
alternately the richest productions of cultivated earth
and the rudcs display of forests, hills morasses and
swanps which together with the rapidly and ease
oil their passage, nIates the whole delightful stretch
of scenery, highly interesting all who have never
before witnessed any thing OF the kind
The Canal from montezuma TO Rochester on the
Genesee River, is understood 10 be in great forward
ness that from Utica to the Little Falls on the Mo-
hawk, is finished, and the thus far will be let in
next fall and the remainder down the river to the
city of Schenectady, distance of about 10 miles will
he completed in the autumn, but the water will not be
let in until next spring and, from the best informa
ton which could be obtained, the whole will be- COM
peted within two years from next November. Thus
the State OF New York will then have effected and
completed, thai which will rebound more TO her hon.
our, than any thing which she has before accom-
pished and more than has been done by any other
State in the Union. She has, it were, connected
two empires Those only who hest know the great
extent and interest of the new world and that, ms
connected with this canal, duly appreciate the
importance of this tstupendous work.
A. TRAVELLER
These packet boats, toll, Py fire doiLTs for each
passage, makiag co doiIars per peek Market bouts
ia4foH Uier freight, al he toll custom. houses
~ The canal Of lcLc, his Middle Section, there
INDIAN JUSTICE.
We were present at the Circuit Court held at Buff
falo, IN the county of Eric, the 10Th inst where
an Indian Chiefof the Seneca nation, called 500