The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-22
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RAIL ROADS AND CANALS.

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There are constructed or now construct
ing, with all the surveys completed, all the
necessary laws had, and all the funds raised
and ready, with enough done to show the
whole character and cost OF the WORKSHOP
miles of canal and rail road in the United
States. Most Of this communication is
made by the public authorities; not more
than one-fourth by companies; and as far
as experience speaks, We are warranted
in saying, it will generally yield interest ON
the expenditure. We deduce from the facts
before us, the following curious results-that
the average cost per mile of our canals Is
about $4,000, and our rail roads 10000
dollars, whilst similar works in England
have cost about as many pounds-that our
population Of II 100000 have attempted one
fourth more than England with $4,000, 900,
and infinitely more than the population of
the continent Of Europe-that according to
the population, we are doing nearly Us much
again as England five take abstract
edly the work Of New York, she has done
proportionably to her population, s times as
much as England. Notwithstanding that
so much is done and doing, We feel that
the spirit of the country is just awakened !;
we speak confidently of more than doubling
all this within the next 10 years. Already
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certained the cost and practicalility of about
1000 more of artificial communication. The
federal and local governments, and indi-
vidual companies, vie with each other in
such works. The effect of them in this
scattered nation has been signal they have
stimulated our whole population; have car
ried sort of creative faculty with them
into the interior have brought into notice
and given value to numberiess articles OF
agricultural and native products, that never
were estimated, or sought market before !;
they have given an activity to the people
corresponding to the facility afforded; they
carry intelligence and diffuse it into some of
our most uncultivated settlements they are
developing our coal, iron, and all other re-
sources, and founding upon them the arts
and manufactures which create a home
market, and enrich our commerce with all
the interchanges incident thereto; they
insure that independence and comfort to
the nation, which it looked for in vain,
whilst it depended on foreign commerce
for necessarles; they are uniting and ANAL
gamating the people, and imparting to
them unity of design, community of in
terest and CELEBRITY of movement, that will
insure to US a wealth, polish, and a politi-
cal influence worthy of such people, pos
SGSSlIlg SuCH Il CUuIlEys
This system of INSTRUMENTATION will
build up home market, and we will sus-
tain circle of commerce with one another,
infinitely more complete than that which the
different European states have among them
selves; because embracing more variety Of
climate, and q richer series of productions.
Imagine the time not distant, when each
district of our country thus connected, will
have developed its own peculiar resources,
and be ready to, throw them into the great
circle of interchange, and swell the active
stream OF our internal commerce Penn
sylvania, with her iron, coal, marble. lead,
glass, lumber, -four, wool, butter and beef,
all her handicraft employments New
York, with her salt, fionr, gypsum, and for
eign commerce New England, with her
fish, oil, lumber, ships, and manufactures
Maryland and Virginia, with their tobacco,
-four, Indian corn, fish, and lumber, and
South Carolina and Georgia, their cotton,
rice, sugar, indigo, and lumber; Louisiana,
Florida and Mississippi, their sugar, molas-
ses, rum, cotton rice, indigo, olive oil, and
wine; Kentucky and Tennessee. their
Hour, whiskey, hemp, tobacco, salt, coal,
iron, mules, horses, pork, and live stock /;
Ohio, her pork, lard, butter, cheese, -four,
cattle, wool, horses, salt, and coal Nilsson
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Der; Indiana, her whiskey, corn, and pork
and the northern lakes their white fish, fur,
and copper. Add to the above, all the
richness and variety of shapes into which
our manufacturers and artists will elabo-
rate those products, and the wealth and
splendor that foreign commerce will throw
over them, and we will have the picture
that the next twenty years will present to
as, and which even now is half finished.
All this development awaits but a few
years; it proceeds with the certainty of
mathematics; time, not tariffs, conducts it
on; it is the result of our growth, our free
institutions, our wants, our well-establish-
ed enterprise; no system can retard nor
much accelerate it.
EVILS OF TIGHT LAcING. DR.. Warren
reports in the last number of the Boston
Medical Journal, case of " Neuralgia of
the Trunk" At the conclusion, he re-
marks -
,,At what period of life the distortion in
this girl occurred, / was unable to ascer-
tain. l was led to suspect it to be brought
on by girting her chest, with the intention
of improving her shape. 1t is well known
that this practice is frequent cause of
Pleuralgla in young ladies. The pain thus
caused is generally in the muscles"
A note appended to the article contains
the following statement -
IL cannot omit the present opportunity of
stating, that the same practice frequently
causes deep-seated, obstinate pain in the
head, which no bleedings relieve for any
length of time. The cause of this pain is
the interruption of the blood through the
descending aorta in consequence of which
IL IS thrown with unnatural force on the brain,
and brings on permanent arrangement of
the organ. The pain in the head, thus pro-
duced, has terminated in insanity, in three
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