Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-18
ALEXANDRIA, ID. c.
F8JD.3Y MORNING. JUNE 10, 1850.

The subscriptions for Stock to the Alexandra
Canal, we are grati6ed to learn, are hlllng up
rapidly. Several of our citizens, with
able liberality. have subscribed to a large amount.
Our neishbors in the adjoining counties OF virgil
MIA, so much interested in the prosperity OF our
town as their most convenient market. must Ike
wise put their shoulders to the wheel.
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Canals and Rail Roads.-We this day re-pub-
lish Mr.. WHITES letter to the editor OF the Mauch
Chunk Courier, on the comparative value OF
Rail Roads and Canals; and from the experience
of the writer there can be no doubt of the advan-
tage OF Canals in the cost of transportation.
The cost of a Rail Road depends much on the
circumstances of its construction. The first d.
vision of the Baltimore and Ohio, to Ellicott's
| Mills. is stated to have cost an enormous sum
at all events, much beyond the cost of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, which. by the Report OF
the President and Directors of the late annual
meeting, will not exceed $4,000 per mile for
the first 48 miles, a considerable part OF which
has been cut through a country presenting almost
insurmountable obstacles.
Modern Improvements have done much to eX-
cite a warm feeling in favor of Rail Roads. How
far Time will sanction the hopes OF. the advo-
Gates of this system, cannot now be ascertalned:
Of one, VIZ. Winnan's Car, we were once flat
tered with the hopes, that on a Rail Road 1T
would do much towards annihilating time and
space. A few months has abated the expecta-
tons formed in its favor. But Long in recent pub
LEGATION, thus speaks:-.'On its first appearance
in Baltimore. it drew forth the widest %ejacula-
ss tions of astonishment at the wonders it would
ssperform, and the surprising revolution it would
:sproduce in the commercial world: One horse
"would draw 81 tons at the rate Of 8 to 10 miles
I" per hour"
After giving his opinion on the comparative me-
rits of this Car, as to construction, cost. sc. $50
per foot more than common ones,) he adds, that
one, constructed to move earth at the deep cut,
became unfit for use after having travelled about
500 miles.
Whatever may be the hopes of the friends of
this system, we feel no abatement of ours in IA
vor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal-and
whatever may be the issue as to velocity, and the
transportation of light commodities for heavy
ones at a good, sober pace, we are certain to
meet with support equal to our wishes.
We feel much rejoiced at the growing favor of
our lateral Canal; ere long we hope to be indulg-
ed in social ride, and enjoy in peace and safety
the highly interesting scenery adjacent to the
great Falls of the Potomac and Harper's Ferry.
ASsS
We notice, with pleasure, the appearance of
two new public ediices in our town-the Baptist
Church and the Associated Methodist Meeting
House-both of them plain, but built with much
taste aud neatness. An extensive Foundry has
also lately been built, and will, We understand,
shortly 20 into operation.
ASeN
We are pleased to learn that the Crops in the
adjoining counties bid fair to be abundant, and
the Grain of a superior quality.
&NsN 1
The last Augusta Georgia. Courier states that
the corn in that quarter was III silk, and musk
and water melons in market.
N>
The Western Review, by i. FLINr,-a work
which we always read with interest and ~satisfac-
TOMS hereafter to be published quarterly in
Cincinnati.
Miles KING, late Navy Agent at Norfolk. has
replied, at length, to the Report of Amos Ken
dali. We have not had time yet to read Mr..
Kings statement.
The Richmond Wing informs us that Doctor
White of Spottsylvania county, who owned a 1000
| acres of very poor land, for which he would have
been glad a few years ago to have taken S3 an
acre, having discovered that it contained much
gold, set some s or 10 hands to washing the soil
for the precious metal, and realized frequently
$500 a day-one shovel full of earth in some in
stances, producing gold to the amount of S25,
\ knowing Yankee was sent by two capitalists.
who heard a report of the fact, to spy out the
land; who after a minute and practical Obervation,
| made such a report that on Thursday last they pro-
posed to DIR. White to buy his land, asking him
to name a price. He asked $500 They gave
it instanter, saving after the bargain was closed,
that they would without hesitation, have given
him $50, 900 for his thousand acres.
MIR. f. S. DAVIS a candidate for the Legisla-
ture of South Carolina from Abbyville, Edgefield
District, thus honorably expresses himself, with
regard to the Union of the Country. We trust
that the next Legislature Of South Carolina will
consist entirely of such men as Mr.. Davis.
"This government was instituted for The good
Of the people. It'was never intended that their
political rights should be construed away by a