Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-06-30

provement from Hartford to Barnet, (Vt) 220
miles, navigable by Steam Boats drawing 3 feet
water. The expense little more than million;
and 500 900 dollars TO purchase the propretors
Of the present locks and canals.
New YoRK.-On TIE 18th instant q culvert
gave way on the Erie Canal 6 miles west of
Rochester, the water is of the canal for several
miles, and days will be required to repair the
breach On the Sth the pounding mill of Hubbard
and Parsons in Monroe county blew up, man
killed.-The Globe and Emerald, weekly news
paper Of n Y is to be discontinued, and the pros
pec,us of semi-weekly paper is announced.-A
Utica paper estimates the number of travellers who
arrived in that town the last year by the stages
alone at 40 600, and from reference to the record
OF arrivals the present season, presumes that not
| less than ninety Thousand travellers will pass
through Utica in all the current year, being about
| one third more than the number in 1925. This
great travelling is owing to the interest taken by
strangers in The improvements OF N Y, the beauti-
| fu! scenery of the Niagara, the Hudson, Trenton,
Lake George and Champlain; the resort to the
| Springs, and TO the cheapness and convenience oil
travelling, and the excellent accommodations to be
had every where. These are said TO have been i'm
proved since last ycar.-The Auromason Chess
Player is about to be removed to Saratoga. On
the l7,h the foundation stone of the N York Thea
tire now erecting in the Bowery, was laid with
much ceremony leaden box was deposited be-
| he"'h ~ VIII dC-
counts OF the grand celebration of the Erie Canal
in lS2o-al the N. Y. papers of the 18th June '26;
Picture OF N. Y. sc. SC. The company then
| addressed by the Mayor of the city in a short but
very neat speech after which the company sat
down TO an elegant desert OF fruit and wine at
| Norse's Hotel. Toasts were drank as usual, adap-
tied 10 the occasion.-Great complaint prevails OF
the effect Of the drought; not only the usual vege-
tables nj the seasons have been off; but the crop
OF Hay almost wholly destroyed, and particularly
on Long Island.-A Mr.. Stone of Elizabeth town,
mas constructed a steam gun, which has discharged
.uO times IN minute, throwing each ball with
much greater force than rifle. The gun w echs
only cwt., and can be transported on wheels
lie has constructed fowlng piece and with pow
DEF ami ball discharge ii 10 times in minute
| lie claims no originality; but only much improve
ment on known principles The sudden specula
ton in Western wheat has given way, and a cor
responding depression has followed. The Onon-
daga Register of the IL inst states that the price
OF wheat on the canal was then 63 cts. per bushel
II Is quoted in New York at 81 and 81 IL Sales
OF the first quality western wheat were made in
Albany, at 81; but the average price is several
cents less Western flour prime brands, is selling
at 81 6O.-A Baker in Brooklyn keeps his friend 5
horse at Sl2 per month, and feeds him on light
wheat bread, made from the same -four that he
serves his biped customers with, when made into
excellent bread. He says ii is less expensive than
oats for feed AT the late circuit in Tomkins coup-
~, two were tried for breach of the mar
riaSe promise; in one of which the fair one recover
ed verdict of five hundred dollars, Gall the recre-
ant was WORTHY and the other one hundred as
compensation fof " hopes deferred" At the same
court faithless gallant mucted in the sum of
$3.50 tor seducing and abandoning the girl whom
he had taught to love.-A scientific English enci-
neer, Dir. FLEMING, is now engaged in taking the
levels for .he rroPV-ea rail r~ad Lrrween Albany
and Schenectady of which General Van Rensselaer,
is one OF the projectors. The transportation of
goods, SC. viii be effected by locomotive steam
engine AT the late court of general sessions held
in the State of New York, for Oneida county,
Judge Stcrs presiding, Jonathan Wbaey, Justice
of the peace, was fined one hundred dollars for
ertortioa - John w. Taylor, Speaker of the
House OF Representatives. is to deliver an Grafton
at Balls,on Spa, IN. " the coming anniver-
sary OF national independence. Revolutionary
soldiers are invited to partalse of the public dinner
free OF expense Another instance of the bad CON-
sequences of slight buildings, has occurred in
n. 7. On Monday night, the 18th inst the lounda-
ton OF new TWO story brick house, in Cherry
above hiarket street, gave way, and the whole of
the end wall fell 10 the ground The house was
nearly finished The inhabitants of Livingston
county, N T. have had meeting to adopt mea-
sures TO renew exer'ions for the Construction of
Canal, to connect the Allegheny with the Erie
Canal, through the valley Of the Gennessee river.
- The steamboat Cadorus has gone up the Susque-
hannah, through all Pennsylvania; the last account
LETT her at Chenango Point, in ~ York. She has
enjoyed most triumphant and promising ascent
NEW JERsET.-The citizens of Monmouth
county, have resolved 10 celebrate the ash ami
versary OF the Battle of Monmouth, (the 2sth of
June) by military parade upon the battle ground,
and by having an Grafton delivered on The occa-
son.--The Morris Canal, intended to unite the
waters of the Delaware with those OF Passaick
ia Tar he r..
under contract. Operations have commenced in
the vicinity of Patterson Ground is expected to
be broken in other directions in a few DAYS. The
track OF the canal, after leaving Denville in Nor
rls county, and passing in the vicinity OF Dodd's
Tavern, will cross into Essex county, at the Lit
lie sis; thence, pursuing the Eastern bsnl OF the
Passaick, it will go to Patterson; from thence
East OF the Notch, along the valley, TO Stone
House Plains and Bloomfield, to the Quarries afore
SAID. At this point, the elevation is such as to
enable the company 10 convey the waters through
any part OF Newark, or even to make the ultimate
termination al Elizabeth Town Point.-Mr d.
Henderson OF Jersey City, has exhibited some
specimens oil photographic printing, in the form of
bank notes, which he thinks will be less liable 10
be counterfeited than engrsvings.--A FIRE broke
out IN the woods between Bridgeton and Millyille
on Thursday the 18th inst. and continued to burn
rapidly until the next morning, when, after great
exertions, it was checked in its progress 1t is
supposed that nearly 1000 acres of young and
flourishing timber destroyed. Another FIRE al
little distance from the one Just described, broke
out nearly at the same tiine and destroyed the tim
Der on two hundred acres Of land
PEENsYLvAT1A.--A body of iron ore has been
discovered near the Scbuylkill canal, miles r oil
Heading, OF excellent quslity.-In the District
lately represented by Mr.. Thompson, Chauncey
Forward and Abraham Morrison are announced az
candidates ttOnOrpaq he fofI