The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-24


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 Erom the " y. Spsctator
 COMMENCEMENT OF THE CHESAPEAKE
 AND OHIO CANAL.
 Among our extracts last evening. we gave a brief account of the celebration of the Fourth of July in the District of Columbia, of which occasion the Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company availed themselves to commence the Great National Work. The National InteIIigencer gives full and glowing account of the ceremonies of the day, which we should like exceedingly to transfer into our columns entire. were it convenient. The length of the Presidents speech, which can- not be abridged, renders it necessary for us to condense the other details as much as pos- sib!e.
 Amongst the gentlemen composing the company assembled on the occasion, were (besdes the President of the United States,l the Secretaries of the Treasury. War, and Navy Departments, Mir. Rush, Gen. Porter, and Mir. SOuthard; the Post Master Gener- al, Mir. M'Lean: Senators of the United States, Mir. J. $. Johnston and Mir. Bouligny; and Mir. Washington, Representative in Con- gress MT. Vaughan, the Minister of Great Britain to the United States; Baron Krude- ner, the Minister of Russia, and Baron Ma,- titz, Secretary of Legation from the same Power; the Chevalier Huygens, Minister from the Netherlands; Baron Stackleberg, Charge dAfaires from the King of Sweden; MT. Lisboa Secretary of Legation from the Emperor of Brazil; Mir. Hersant Vice Coun- Cll General of France--c0mprising all the Representatives of Foreign Powers at that moment in the city and able to attend. A mOng the other invited Guests was the Com- mander of the Army, Gen. Macomb; and Gen. Stuart and Col. Brooke, Surviving Off, ctrs of the Revolutionary Army.
 The steamboat Surprize, followed by two other steamboats and line of barges and other boats, led the procession up the Poto- mac, coursng the wild margin of what was once the Virgnan shore--stil bordered as when it came from the hand it's Maker, with primitive rocks and crowned with the luxuri- ant and diversified foliage of it's natural for ests. A kindly sky shed its refreshing influ- eace over the water, whose surface the West wind gently rufled. The son shone now and then from the Heavens through feecy clouds All nature seemed to smile upon the scene Along the road on the Maryland shore, crowds of moving spectators attended the voyage of the boats, and met the procession { on landing above the lower termination of the present Canal. On leaving the s'River of Swans" as it has been lately happily surna-. med, a march of few hundred yards con- ducted the company in the same order in which they embarked, to the Canal boats 1 prepared to receive them at the Uper Bridge ! across fine Canal. Seated in these boats, gently gliding along the tranquil stream, like l "the Swan through the summer sea,' the senses of the company were regaled by a scene at once novel and really enchanting.- l From the banks of this Canal of more thal, forty years antiquity. there shot up along it's I entire course variety of the most beautiful native trees, whose branches, interwoven a. bove, would have excluded the rays of the most piercing sun. Beneath these trees, as 1 far as the eye could penetrate on either side. were seen in bright luxurience growing, every species of plant and wild flower recorded in the Potomac Herbal. They looked as if they had never known the toststep of man, as they refreshed the sight of the voyagers. whilst onward each gallantly moved
 By cliff, and copse, and alder tree"
 There wasa part Of this passage, when the music of Moor's sweet song of ''The meet ing of the Waters poured its melody on the ear, so as to suspend the labor of the boat men, and charm to silence every voice. NoseIess, but Tn crowds the people moved forward on the bank of the Canal, keeping even with the long line of boats, whilst airs, now animated, now plantive, from the Marine Band, placed in the forward boat, frightened the toll of the walk. As the boats neared the ground destined for the commencement of the Canal,the procession discovered, post ed on the bank, two companies of Ri6emen, commanded by Capt. Thomas and Capt. Haller, scarcely to be distinguished, in their uniform of green, from the trees in which they stood embOwered. who paid to the President of the U States, both going and returning, the military honors due to his sta- ton. The multitude now visibly increased. Thousands hung upon the overlooking hill to the North, and many climbing the unbrageous trees bordering the Riyer and the CaAal.--- Perf1kt order every where prevailed Arriving at the spot selected for breaking ground, General Mercer, President of the Company. addressed the assembly as fol- 1 lows :-- Fellow Citizens There are moments, in the progress of time. which are the counters of whole ages. There are events the monu- ments of which. surviving every other memo rial of human existence, eternise the nation to whose history they belong, after all other vestages of its glory have disappeared from | the nInha f Such spnmant have Wa nOVup