Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-01-06


lance which nature had given towards it, he omitted to
inform us, that place that Canal at the outlet
of Cayuga Lake IT was necessary TO make an embanl-
ment 100 feet high and mile in length, the cost of
which alone estimated at near half million of
dollars; that at another place it necessary to build
aqneduci brdgoeighty three feet high crossing the
mouth of Seneca Lake, that another place uuon the
Canal, the cutting was upon average upwards of
twenty feet deer, for upwards of four miles the greater
part OF which was through lime rock; at ano-
thcr place the cutting thirty feet deep for another
mile through solid rock. The expencc of this alone
would amount 10 nearly much probably as the whole
OF the iockage, from the mouth OF Savage the Fast,
over the summit level of the Ohio and Chesapeake Ca
nal, TO the mouth of Bear Creek west But be-
sides, there very many other deep cuttings, high
walls and ernbankments, and daus and aqueduct brdg
es on the New York Canal, that upon the whole II
be safely calculated that the Chesapeate and Ohio
Canal vii! not cost more in proportion its length (t
being one hundred miles shorter than the York Ca
nal And 1t may also with safety be aGir ed from the
best that there IS much ground favorable
for caDaillng 90 the line of the Ohio and Chesapeake
Canal III proportion there that of New York and
also mat lie advantages that viii evidently result from IT
VIII make the COST OF IT OF little consideration
when SET IN opposition. The Farmer is much msta
ken when he supposes that the people of the west VIII
choose rather TO float down the OHIO with their produce
TO New Orleans, rather than bring this wa, on the
Canal The facts and experience of every day, prove
TO the contrary The people do bring heavy ari
cles OF produce from the State of Ohio, the Ale
gany In their Wagons for sale; such clover seed,
hemp, whskey, tobacco wool and other articles rather
than rsque them al such MAJ ket as New Orleans is
and always must be- and is always consde ell most
hazardous adventure among the people OF the west,
lake cargo OF flour TO that place, where from climate
and DINER uncomfortable circumstances il seldom sells
fer than so per less than in the eastern mar
fets, and is often entirely sacrificed There are pema
nent disadvantages attending that ket which 10
enlargement of the CITY, changing its sce increasing
ITS smoke VIII cure as the Farmer has supposed Mere
over the people from the parts Pennsy Iva
ma do now otien bring Their -four the of Cum
beriand to send IT down the Potomac by procarous
Z thoT a.. tI,o(
another view of the Ohio and chesapeake Camel
which the Farmer did take. lfit is carried no high
er at present than the town of Cumberland where the
great United States Turnpike commences, rail road
may be made from thence along ta! turnpike to Smith.
held on the Houghogany, the length OF which would
only be thirty two miles, and two thirds OF the work
done upon tie turnpike in making it, il my information
is correct would be SO much done towards preparing
the bed Of the rarl road. Here would be a coumuni.
cation al once, highly spoken of BY some Engineers
as to be brought into competition with Canals especi-
ally Tor short distances. presume will pretend
to say that there great difficulty in analling the
potomac river TO Cumberland or the yong NJ
from Smithfeld into the Monongahela. This would
avoid all the loCkage which has been lwelt uuon so
much from the mouth of Savage the east over the
summit level to the mouth of Bear Creek on the west
and would shorten the distance one half betw those
points Even .uch n communications though, inferior
10 continuous Cacai would be of nestinable valne
and Importance 10 the people OF all great Middle
section Of the United States from east TO west But the
most sIcul men viii tell that the success of the
efoItIs made TO effect it, NUtw outstanding the height
OF the summit level, it can be demonstrated that ca
nal cannot fail where there such abundant sDuly
OF wafer at any summit level Of the height more
especially when II possesses such advantages as are
here afforded by nature Tor immense basons rcser
voTs Aud when we take the compound ratio of the
difficulty and utility the eXPencc and profit of this ca
na II VIII be found not only be cheap, but il vii! be
matter Of wonder to many why ii not discov cred
and completed sooner rs he Farmer has expressed HIM
self with regard TO the New York Canal. There is
another and further view be taken this Canal of
which suppose the Farmer entirely ignorant
which certainly gives it great additional importance
vast quantities of coal will be brought from tile coal
mines IN the vicinity of the of Cumberland dow N
the Canal, when it IS completed Cumberland ONLY:
and 1t 1t should be continued to the mouth of Savage !
only II miles further, the quantities there immense
aud Just at the waters edge; The whole basis of tie
mountains forming the raviRes of the appear IL
many places to consist of coal and from MANY of the
banks 1T can be thrown by the shov ell or poured by
spouts INTO the boats in tie river. II therefore be
procured always CHEAP those bar ks as will make
IT constant article OF freight the Canal the whole
length downwards 1t is well known TO be The case in
England without an exception that wherever Canal
was used the channel Of conveyance for coal from,
the nine to market that it produced great or i 10 the
stockholders, seldom less than double the ncree on
the PRIME cost OF sock and often times four and five
ID II there "as no oil er for the (auai but 20
carry COAL 1t would be sufficient. if profit The ock
only sought TO iustf, tho making of il TO the tno ni
The ALLEGHENY, al least high as those great g. al beds
And as The quantity of his coal is nexhaus The, So
we puHhN IS superior 10 an Known on The side Of
the Allegheny. The demand Tor it now great end is
RAPIDLY increasing, wood for fuel is becoming scare
on fertile lands near the scaports 1t bag us, been
observed and clearly appears, that the coal England
ia the foundation Of al her wealth. because u gives her
the advantage all the Daon of Europe for carr,
ing on her manufacture 4 u tins, and much more thar,
can here be specified going shew that the magnitude
OF the Ohio and Chesapeak anal profit and ut
NV Us commercial and political advantages has been
kept ont view by the Farne because ms object as #
appears IS to defeat any application which may be
maize TO The Virginia Legislature subsc be FOR part
o the Stock Contrary TO the pledge given by the James
RIVER friends TO the people of the Potomac section be-
nor and Justice but he erts himself 10 the almost 10
prevent The State from subscribing te of $50 900
or any other sum- II appears. for stock in tsC anal
The people Of the James River section Of the State have
the whole state pledged TO them for the improvement Of
ther yer to the amount Of two millions Of dollars
least and an indefinite sum beyond tiff necessary 10 com
pete That NAVIGATION. hnfnre n