Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-06-07

part OF .be State, think proper 10 send TO
that place for the purpose.
have the honor 10 be, Sir, with much
respect, your ob't servant,
JAMES BARBOUR,
To His Excellency the Governor
Of Connecticut. r
The projected Canal, on which this
Engineer is employed, is TO continue the
navigation from the termination OF the
Canal from New Haven to Northampton,
up TO the Canada line; and the impor-
lance Of this undertaking is fully appre-
ciated by the people of that portion OF
country through which i, is expected to
pass, who are universally anxious 10 see
it carried into effect. OF the practl-
cabii,y Of this Canal no doubt appears 10
be entertained, and the prompti'ude with
which the War Department has acceded
to the wishes ofihe people, has extended
and confirmed that strong feeling OF at
tachment 10 the general government
which has always been conspicuous IN the
eastern states.
AT the same moment that an Engi-
neer is giving effect to the wishes CT the
north, We find, from Mobile paper of
the 22d ut. that a similar regard is dis
played to crafty the desires md promote
the interests Of the south. A survey is
to be made This summer OF ROUTE tor a
canal to connect Tennessee and AlaSa-
ma, by uniting the waters OF the Iennes-
see and Coosa rivers. The distance
which this Canal Will have to traverse IS
stated to be only nine miles and quar-
ter; and the greatest elevation between
The two rivers is estimated at no more
that IS feet The object of this Canal is
to open an easy commune alton With Mo-
bile; and its anticipated effects will be
10 raise that city into most toorishing
and important sea-port---the depository
OF the rich productions oil one hundred
and fifty thousand square miles, extend
ing from the Great Kenha1a to the Gull
OF Mexico, and from the apex OF the
Blue Ridge TO that of the Cumberland
nal also is loudly and universally called
for by that district OF our country which
is en- betldcd in the mouDtains, and be-
twixt which and The 4 lan,ic outlet eve
~ thing like profitable intercourse is i'm
practicable. II the conjsctures relative
to the ease with which this work can be
executed, and the advantages to be de-
rived from it, are we'll founded, we have
no doub, tina, the contemplated junction
between these important rivers will be
speedily effected.
Thus, stretch the eye which way we
please-from Canada 10 the Gulf OF Mex
leo, or from the Atlantic 10 the Missouri,
we see the vigiiant energy of the general
government keeping pace with the anxi-
ely Of the people, in pursuing that course
oil policy which the awakening enterprise
OF our country dem ands, and a sound dis
erection approves. We have never yet
understood the prodigious magnitude of
those sources OF prosperity and Ddepen-
dence which beneiicient Providence
has implanted within the bosom OF our
own soil. We are not doomed to per-
pe,uale this ignorance. A few years
nIore.wll be sufficient not only to deve-
lop the wealth OF the country, butte wit.
ness its transportation from one extremi-
iy OF the Union to the other, with IA
cility and speed which never until this
age was imagined, much less anticipated
Mat. Journal.
We have seen letter fro,n New. YORK