Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-09-24

amongst US. The iandholdsrs would md fea.
DIV sale for their inexhausibe beds OF coal and
forests Of timber, and all the productions OF the
SOIL The honest and hardy yeOmanry ma con-
slant employment at high wages and ready pay.
And the industrious mechanic rich reward TOT
his skill and labor
According to the charter of the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road Company, g q is moi !a,gfaltor
aug other Company, or any person or persons
rha,soerer, to trarel upon oruse any q me r0aaS
OF said company or TO transport PERSONS mer-
chandize, produce, or property Of any description
,ohatsoerer along said road or any OF them wu",
om the license or permission q the pres'de"t ana
directors Of said company"-and they have pow
or to charge for tolls and transportation at the
following rates. From west to East one cent
per ton per mile for tolls and three cents per ton
per mile for transportation: and from East to
West three cents per ton per mile for tolls and
three cents a ton per mile for transportation;
and for passengers three cents per mile" There
is 10 provision for reducing the toll or rate OF
Transportation, however great the profits may be;
but they are to be divided amongst the "proprle-
tors of the stock of SAID Company in proportion
to their respective shares. p" Norris there any lmi
tation as to the duration; they are to have perpe
tual succession,on amount of the capital-''ltmay
be lawful for the president and directors of said
Company, or majority Of them, .from time to
time, to increase the said capital stock by the
addition of as many shares as they may deem
necessary"
Permit this gigantic company, having perpct-
ual succession & unlimited as to the means, to ar
rest the progress of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, in the completion of the great
and useful work they have commemorative Rail
Road Company will be the sole carriers of the
produce and trade of the western parts of the
States of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania,
and of all the Western States. Individual en-
teIprise will be pasied and all our energies swal-
lowed up BY this mighty vortex.
Twill hereafter present myvicw Of the subject.
admitting the Canal and Rail Road were COM
plete according to their respective charters.
MONTGOMERY.
We give below letter from our friend Abdal-
lah whom our readers will recognize as the Yam
kee Turk that paid us visit about year ago.
We can't say. that il is from the real genuine Alb
dallah; but here II Is, and each man may judge
for himself. We will only add that the Yankee
Turk was in Tennessee the last news.
Portland .4dU.
Bolivar. TENNESSEE .%Uousr, 1850.
My Dear fe'iow,--
Ego sun, t,rcus. Abdaah Mahomet: You re-
cOllect ne dare say. but if YOU have forgotten
who am Just drop line to the students that read
my Arabic, crow track Arabic. believe they call
ed it, and they will tell YOU was educated at
Samarcand, and that, though am Turk, awhile
g. nothing but Turk was there taught to speak
the "i'i,lam b,1gian,.'' Ay. how have hoax
ed you, all of YOUR Preachers, Lawyers, Judges,
Editors and Professors. Veto tell the truth, YOU
New EnslandeIs, are not half 50 guliish as the
Virginians. Shall give you an idea Of trick
of mine at William and Mary's University
Mind We could not speak word of English.
""r French, nor Spanish. nor German. The pro-
lessors and students talked tS g ne " Ep4hs
l answered nothing; they AGbto-uSted In Spanish;
| was dumb:-they pGrIemmi-ed in Italian my
mouth was wide open and was astonished, they
sprachs,-ed in German, l was thunderstruck;
they iegoafai-ed me in Greek, and bawled right
ont with fear. But when they came 10 the latin,
was up to them in that. "Potes deere Mtinam,"
said they after they had attempted every modern
language, .'cerfe domine,'' / replied. They
looked when spoke as if a volcano had opened
and thrown of its lava. l then spouted Latin
with the best of them. and told them of Samar-
cand and the piteous story of my adventure with
the pirates, of which YOU have heard before.
Do you want story Of my life? it has been
chequered enough. was fond of travelling. SS'of
reading travels Vermont was no place for me
for man ofmy capacity to tie up himself. there
fore set down TO the reading of all the travels
could find. and by the help of a Latin Dctiona-
nv and Liber Primus gathered up few Latin
scraps, which have made use of with all the
Literati met with. Would You believe that
educated men. not pretenders nor pedants. but
the best educated men in the country would be
hoaxed BY the huency with which spoke barbar-
Gus Latin? | was too wise to attempt the transla-
ton of the classics, for classical Latin was incom-
prehensbe to me. In such cases excused myself
by stating that having learnt only to speak the
monkish dialect was of course unable b construe
the more interviewer sentences of standard au-
thors. hoaxed you Maniacs. and played off my
Arabic in your capital to great advantage. Do
YOU recollect my la-ia-aicoh. and the fervent
CALCULATIONS was wont to offer up to Mahomets
ay, and the opium / took, for verify did take
opium, to deceive you the more?-Yet, the
fOols-I did talk Enolish in tho worry bear,