Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-09-02
From the National MtelEgsncer.
= CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL

From the National bafelhgmcer.
y CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL. Z
The CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF THE CHEsA,
pEAKE AND ONO CANAL met pursuant to The
: adjournment, at Browns Hotel, when the adj
dress submitted TO the Committee on the pre-
ceding day was adopted-which, together with
the interesting correspondence subjoined, we
hasten % lay before the public.
The Central Committee of the Convention which as.
sembled in the Capitol of the United States on the
9th of November 1923, to consider the means of u
hitting the waters of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, &
of connecting them with the Northwestern Lakes,
by navigable Canals--To the members of the Con-
vention and 10 the inhabitants of such Countiesand
Corporations Of the States ofthe West and Pennsyl-
vsnia Maryland, and Virginia, ass feeling an inter
est in the object fthe Convention, have not hher-
to had an opportunity ofsending Delegates thereto:
4. GENTLEMEN: Pursuant to the intention OF
the Convention, which met in the City OF Wash
ineton on the 9th Of November, 1924, and In
compliance with the subjoined request OF the
Board of Commissioners deputed by The Pres-
dent ofthe United States, and the Executives
ofthe. States Of Maryland and Virginia, to o.
pen Books for the subscription OF stock to the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Central Com
Imittee beg leave 10 recommend feassemolage
OF the Members Of the Convention, al the place
Of their former meeting, on the Wednesday
next ensuing the first Monday, being the 9th
day of December next.
81 The Central Committee father recommend
TO the Delegates of the several Counties and
Corporations by which Representatives have
been already chosen, to cause TO be supplied, IN
due time, by ne election, any vacancies which
may have occurred in their respective delega-
tons, from death, removal, or inability.
In behalf ofthe Convention, the Committee
also, earnestly invite such Counties & CerPor-
ations Of the several States, interested in the
construction Of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal. as were not represented, at the last, to de-
pute delegates to the ensuing meeting
The period which has elapsed, since the Con-
Nyen,ion first assembled in this City, having
been employed in extensive surveys OF the
Mountains which separate the waters OF the
Ohio and the Potomac, and of the Territory
between the former and the great Western
Lakes, and these surveys, accompanied by MI
mute estimates of the probable cost OF the Ca
nal, being in readiness TO be submitted to the
public eye, il is deemed expedient, by the Com
mittee. that the sense Of the Convention should
be expressed on lhe pro priety of changing any
part of the line prescribed for the proposed ca
nal in the charter granted at the instance OF the
Convention, by The States of Virginia, Mary
land, and Pennsylvania, and the Congress oil Inc
United States.
# The late conhrmatoryact of the Pennsylva-
MA Legislature, being founded upon recent IN
formation, allows 10 the Company, which may
arise under the charler, authority to alter the
route of the Canal from Cumberland, towards
the Ohio, in such manner, as expectancy may
Z xvarrant or REQUIRE. But the charter granted
by Virginia and Maryland, allowing no depar-
ture IRON specified direction, can be, Itself, al
tered, only by amendment; and such amend
ment, to be valid, must receive not only the
sanction ofthe authority from which the char
ter ernanated, but that, also. OF the existing fo-
tomac Company, whose assent to the new char
,e. has been already obtained.
It's farther believed by the COMMITTEE, that
meeting of Delegates from the extensive Ierrl-
tory through which the Canal may be expected
. to bass, would afford the best opportunity OF
resting by reference TO actual experience, any
estimate of the probable cost of its construction
so far as that may depend, as it must, to great
extent. on the current price of those common
materials which it may require, and the wages
ofordinary labor.
s The agreement of the Convention, on such
principles of a just estimate as daily expert
ence can supply, would exert favorable inHu
ence in removing existing doubts, and prevent
inefuture misunderstanding, Where confidence
and harmony may be found essential TO success
Such information as mutual consultation and
comparison offacts might derive, from a source,
SO competent to supply il, would assist the
CONGRESS of the United States in determining
the exten, Of the aid that expediency will war
rant 10 an enterprise, which, involving, as the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal unquesdonably
/, does. not only the prosperity Of district, con-
Enthusiastically to their guardianship, but the
best interests, as well as one OF the strongest
bonds of the American Union, has, neserthe-
less. TO combat for existence with very power
full local interests and deep-rooted preJudiees;
interests. which will ultimately, II may oe mop
ed, surrender their jealousy to the reneclon
that every canal which. can be made 10 unite
the Eastern and Western waters, viii be requir.
ed by the growing and boundiess commerce o.
the Western and Atlantic States; and preJudi'
ces which win yield, in time, to the prevalence
ola just and liberal csnstrnsticn OF the Federal