Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-05-20
Erom the National Journal.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
r., r5,,cpeqks and Ohio Canal. This great
ysop,l Work is in STATE OF rapid aud unin>
1000 orcyrrss. Ninety-lwo sec Iions have
:, ont under contract, embracing distance
fs,r.six miles. About eighteen bundled
49,, are employed, and about four thousand
ii,oal hands could with ad, antage be put
-, The work There is no la k Of funds for
!. ocular employment and payment ut this
,,r,er Of hands; and as proof OF the healhi>
..,oi,he situations through which the route
,,,,ds i, may be stared ,har only SINCE death
a thai The result, Of acciden' or lrelessness,
i, occurred, during he ten months which nave
,,,,.d ,nee the work was commenced he
,,ir., given for common labarerS 'ary from 10
y & dollars month and masons and stone
res receive from Sc 20 81 50 day. In the
i, niy Of this DISTINCT there are some interest
i, processes going on, which would well re-
md our ciuz rs for the time occupied In VI
n. On h. 18th s'c,inn, which is near the
|I,.' F rs Of the Pc omac, there is prodl
nus shaw Of exca,a ion, Quarrylng and ma
nr This section i, lei TO Mr. G o,ge kstch-
|nofNtw York. aud no one, as far as We have
arssogr Of the character Of the route, could
.mo'e appropriately selected to shew the ar
oa, nagrt Of he gn der and lie dfgEss
a., =, "r;,ed 70 cary it successfully through
r.. ,,r,l m this section runs along ROCKY
~. which, a, every foot OF progress mus oe
..E,,,.d sb;yered and removed from us oen,
(, Sb,,ios. Kegs Of powder are used lot .'''
,,rDo,. cf >uffi eut quan'iy 20 separate i'n
n.I,, m,,,es Of the rock at blast, and 'nese
g.. sorov each other in rapid succession
,.,o,, m. sparse population OF that region Il"
.,,s,r, pxci,emest by their frequent expio-
Y,,, A crane worked BY horses lifts the stone
rom the quarry, and i, is then run on wooae"
all, to the wall ON " hio h it is reqiirrd 70 FORM
n,r,. anil which is Of fifty fee, elevation. ih'
anr,ndous character Of this part OF me WORK
a, oDIv B. understood by personal observation
Sd.yripricn, however vivid can come up 10
h,rai,y.
h,,oold he remarked that this great wo'S
IA, been sustained principally by the P1n'ie
,,Iri. exhibited in this District, and that I'M,
,S.i.n, ,pirit has not been called fortn aho
kOl ID by constant provocarives from the pao'
lie prss The support which has Dee" spo",
r,neously given 10 this canal is at once proc
girhr yss, importance which is atacheo 10 ~
tOnplrtion, and Of the effective energy wniCt
xsi, among that part Of the ci,iz'ns "i ,n.
Union, which i; has been the f'shion 20 WIN
and proscribe, ami which is ready 10 snow II
SELF whenever an adequate occasion ca"s '.i =.
tr,eiopement. We nave been reproaon eu, "
caas- his $40, was selected for The seat oil n
F-d,ray Government, for our dependence on III
public Trsa,ury TO- support. In what we 's
dure toward, he construction OF this lana
Ne give hack 10 the Union an opnIsh' cou'ioe'
zion lnr I'll we have received.
0f,he eR'rts Of mis- canal upon the prosper
y 6 this District and the country lhroah
which il runs, some idea may be torm-c iron
/ view Of the Effects produced upon other sec
ions Of roan,ry, By works similar IN their cha
nc,er, although inferior in their magnitude d"
importance. The extracts which we nave re
Gently made ON the subject OF the happy cons'
qlences OF The completion Of the Dismal Swan
Canal in Virginia and North Carolina, are SUI
fcieO,ly conclusive on this point. In The S'a'
d D-laware, the new excite,nents to indus't
'Nd the rise Of property which have aireao
been the consequences Of the near compiene
Of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, a
equally satisfactory