Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-10
From the Georgia Conrier
GRAND PROJECTS.
THE March of Mind. !

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BE WITT CLINTON. Esq of New York. has pro
iJocted railroad of national gigantic nagn,u.e-a
thousand uaiies IN ieng The majestic Aiiepha
nes! with one end resting on he a lantic and the
other on the State Of Missouri which, time and Amer
cnn Gcrius and enterprise will doubt verify by
practical demonstration of that gentlcmans predic-
ton.
Such work would be nothing TO compare with the
CHINESE WALL, OF fifteen hundred miles i'm length
and at no point less than twenty feet high and thick
enough at top to drive two carriages alb east upon tho
summit Among the many grand objects of human
conception and enterprise, to which the God of ma
lure invites tho genius and capital Of tic United
States. the writer, with due modcsty and Difference
would put in for his share of applause by projecting
an undertaking, no less practicable and magnificent
han that OF MIR. De Witt Clntons rai! 1oad:--To
wt-ihe rcciatming or DRYING Of millions Of
acres of the FIRST bottom and wheat lands. bv
draining Lakes Ere, Huron, Michigan, Superior
| and heir smaller tributaries.
The grand object is practicable. and can be effect
ed by thorough cut rot - the Fails of Niagara be
ginning al high wa'cr mark below falls and car
ryns water level Of twenty feet at bottom through
into the outlet Of Lake Erie, O distance Of 10 or 20
ishes: result you'd he that at least, two hun
dred feet OF the surface of oil the above mentioned
Lakes and their tributaries would b. drawn off into
the Gulf OF ST. Lawrence by way Of Lake Ontario
and The river ST. Lawrence;-and millions of acres
OF Land which are now covered with water (say two
thirds OF the first mentioned Lakes and ath ris
utaries) would Lecone The most fertile and produce
tive IN that vast region Of the American Continent,
both upon the Amer;can and English side Of the chan
mel, which would still be left the line of national
boundary, as well for S cam Boat and Shin
Navigation. through the main channel of that chain
OF Lskes;-which navigation would be far less hsz-
ardous OF lives and property han the present bolster
out conveyance upon those reat inla nd seas
a cut dscharging double the auaniity Of yater of
the Falls would drain oil those Lakes and their trib
u'aries IN Six months, without producing any thing
more than high river along the banks of the ST.
Lawrence during that time---and a case containing
thirteen thousand pounds of powder, properly secu-
req under the Falls, and blown up by slow match,
would facilitate the object Of draining the Lakes
above.
These ideas are merely thrown out for the con-
slderntion o erprisng capitalists of the Northern
states and Europe; In the Of which the Ia
ter would be vastly benefited by the extention of the
Agricultural limits of Canada, which would enable
England to increase the flood femlgration to her Co.
onles on that part OF this Continent and thereby al
evate the distress Of the majority Of that class Of the
English and Irish population IN Europe; and OF The
same time relieve the Government, of that coun,rv
from pending internal commoton, arising from the
pressing wants and distress of too dense population
OF poor people
1t Is hoped however, that the protector. Glough n
Georgian may not be forgotten in The execution nd
uiate blessings OF the enterprise to both countries
W. b. DAVIS.
From the Salem Gazette
TnR MURDER AGAIS John C.. r Palmer tho
person arrested few days since at Belfast in Maine
was brought to town last evening in the custody of
Mr. Jones, one Of the Boston Constables. Palmer
was Immediately committed to our gaol.
The whole number now in gaol, charged with the
murder OF Mr. White, either as principals or access
ares, IS seosn VIZ Richard CrowninshicId, Jr..
George Crowninsheld, Daniel Chase. BENJAMIN Sell
man. Joseph j. Knapp Jr. John Francis Knapp, and
John Carr r.. Palmer F'' ~
raime Ike the Others, is q young man of good
personal appearance prcpossessIng manners and of
good education lie wasa prisoner two years in the
lhomaston State Prison, and had for many wears be-
lore beeD the intimate associate
Inc hnapps are the young men who a few
weeks ago pretended 10 have been attacked Inv high
wsymen, on the road, near Wenham pond. nm acconn,
OF winch was published in the newspapers. !. ]. x
acknowledges that the whole was a fsbrication
In speaking of the cold booded barbaritv of tho
recent murder at Salem, the Providence Journal
says "'
Gould the desperate and guilty wretches ubo
pcrpotraed the deed suffer alone public indions,on
and justice would assign them to the most ionom;n;
Gus death. Pity would be cboakcd in contemnla,;no
tne'r MANY, and refuse her humber Offering in the
cause OF human suffering. But unfortunately for
the community they moi isolated beinpstbey are
not mere hangers on to thrs kirts Of society. Tbev
ns~H connections the most tender relation, tho mos,