American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-06-27

noIseS, VINO may ne urged to the performance oil
i've or six miles an hour, will add proporlionally TO
THIS quantity. On the summit level that is between
the lit lock at Back creek, the water has been more
manageable, but still very abundant In fact, the
supply TO navigation, which is 10 be derived flom
THESE SOURCES, is very considerable. AS accessories
10 inns supply 1t may be mentioned, that the St
Georges mill pond will prove Of great service ;
and Lum's mIll-pond, now The property of the
company, will form another large and most conve
nlent reservoir. The springs which thus issue
from ,hc very bed ofthe canal however troublesome
Tor the present. will prove beneficial in another
srect; they will prevent that waste from soakage
which IS so common and Instantaneous in
o'ber canals 1t is also very satisfactory to know
that should he company hereafter incline to use
them the waters of Back creek aid Long creek
ca very easily he introduced into the summit level ;
hut in event can there be lack of water so
hing the tides in the Delaware continue to ebb
and 1ow.'
detailed statement Of the extent Of labor per
o'ned and the present condition Of the works, is
given, from which it appears that the excavation
end embankment amount TO nearly three millions
cubic yards of earth. The present force engaged
on the line is equal to 1900 men independent Of
all machinery. The excavation at the Deep Cut
has heen carried TO The depth of fifty feet. The
materials for the bridge the Buck are all provided
and il will be finished this season. The laborers
are healthy and much improved in their general
appearance and conduct, and this pleasing amend
ment is attributed to the decrease of tipping shops
which had infested the whole line, number OF the
contractors having expelled them entirely from
blacks, who formerly worked in separate gangs,
ncw lobor together, promiscuously, but are lodged
| and fed in separate chan,ees.
The Directors, after noticing the success which
has attended the attempt to navigate the river Sus
quehannah by steam boats and the importance Of
the trade of that vast river introduce the following
o,rsg' aph, which, if may Judge from the Bal,
'more papers, is not very we'll relished by the pen
lie Of that city.
When our canal shall be completed we may
expect to realize just proportion Of this increas-
+ gy valuable trade, unless indeed we indiscreellp
sufer ourselves to be deprived Of it, by means cal
led Cor neither by the public interest, nor proper
regard to thai liberal policy which we trust y i'll
ever characterize the inhabitants oil Pennsylvania,
and the acts of her legislature 1t is surely enough
tnat we permit our neiehbnrs 10 gather. with us.
the rich fruits Of our soil--they should not ex
pect us, while doing so, to lop off our right hand
No canal should be permitted from any point within
our own state for the express purpose oil conveying
The trade Of the river exclusively to neehboring
r,vaI No canal, constructed from York Haven to
Baltimore, should be without an efficient debouche
on the Chesapeake bay-let our public agents look
to that. The inhabitants of the countries watered
by the SusQuehannah river and its tributaries are.
especially interested in this matter. They should
suffer nothing shut themselves out from the trade
of their own metropolis-no distractions to their
k~f .sloIm lNLs
give and take-but let US not give all and take moth
ing
The concluding paragraph Of the report relates
to the state of the Company's finances and is part
y as follows
aThe treasurer's accounts will accompany this
Report, and exhibit view Of the financial transac
lions of the board. The subscription of the Uni
ed States having been received since the last re-
port. furnished with other resources, such ample
means for carrying on the works, that it was not
tho neht necessary to invite other subscriptions,
during the past year No money will be required
the present summer, but prudent forecast dictates
the propriey of adopting timely measures for re-
plenishng the treasury, either by additional sub
slriptons or loans"
In giving an abstract of the last annual report of the
of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company,
the baltimore American makes the following introductory
remarks
1T is hardly necessary for at this day. to point
out and enforce he advantages which would flow to
our city by the establishment OF easy, cheap and
permanent channels of water communication with
the interior. After all that has been said and writ
ten on the subject, and the striking examples which
are daily displayed in every section oil the Union,
such an attempt might well be termed an act of
supererogation on part, But while knowledge
OF these advantages and the force Of example have
as yet produced among US no efforts to enjoy the
benefits which our peculiarly favored locality has
placed at our command it should not be forgotten