Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-14
Erom Tie Rochester Republican.

From the Rochester Republican,
OPENING OF THE CANAL.-ln the affairs OF
our good village this is no unimportant event,
and the change in activity OF business, as we'll
as of citizens or sojourners, Is considerable -,
Our wharves, basins and slips, assume an appear
ance of life and business which contrasts finely
with their dull, naked and m0notonOus appear
ance during the Winter months. The hurryiEg
to and from the restless eye Of the business man,
the crowd of carts and cartmen, and the alert
porter stealing along in search OF prey, pack
ages lare all indications that Spring has returned.
the canal open, and that the commerce OF the
Hesfern Horid is ahoat upon its humble but not
less useful waters. What was once SAID by
Goldsmith of country whose commerce rival
led the world and whose citizens had grown rich
with the united tribute of nations. can no longer
be applied to Holland, but westward wings It's
way, and long ere another traveller shall sing
as sweetly our own country will boast
"Ihe broad canal. the yellow. blossom'd vale,
The willow tufted banks, the gliding sails,
The crowded mart, the cultivated paln"--
and all the wealth, and commercial splendor
which then rendered country, otherwise lnslg-
nifcant, the admiration of the world Nor Is
it presumptuous. that the Erie Canal, the proud
monument of departed statesman and phiioso'
pher. will then be looked upon as the corner
stone the fabric of our national prosperity. But
to return, with the opeing OF the canal, business
commences with every prospect OF abundance
and increase. alike advantageous to the revenue
of the citizen and the government On Monday
last twents eight boats. deeply freighted with the
products of eastern enterprise, cleared from
this port, for the western waters, paying into
the Office of the Collector of Tolls, the sun OF
Se.l77 40. While we envy the commercial
emporium of our county her happy location, seat.
ed as she is under the very oupourings OF the
horn of plenty, we CONSOLE ourselves that we all
are but parts of one great whole, and that, not.
withstanding the vide disparity between them
in advantages, size and wealth, Rochester Is as
necessary in her sphere, as New York, and in
proportion to her means is equally deserving oil
respect and credit"
Mirror, Northumberland County, May =
There have beensx arrivals of Canal boats tins
spring, at the landings in this place. from Phila'
notwithstanding on an average 90 tons each,
making total Of 100 tons, at an average cost OF
$40 per ton, which would amount to $1,000, ia
carry which required horses, IL men and
bows. To carry the same number OF tons over
land by wagons, it would require 60 wagons, &c
men. and $40 horses, and at Gust OF 30 per
cwt. would amount to 1900. leaving balance
in favor of canals of 80 400.
| BLNRsv1LLE, Indiana Cy. May 5.-Cdno
! Toll As an evidence of the increasing bust,
ness on the Canal, we have the satisfaction tC
state. nat the tolls received at the Collectors Of
fee in this place, since the 9TH OF April last.
the day on which the canal was opened this spring
amount to sirieen hundred and eighty-nine dot
lars, being several hundred dollars more than
thew have ever amounted to liz the same length
of time, in former seasons.
During the past week there have been 90 ar
rivals, and ls departures, Of Canal boats, a
and from this place.
The accounts from the Union Canal are most
encouraging The trade. since the oommunica
ton to Pittsburg has been opened, is daily In
creasine. The number of boats which passed
the Canal from Friday, 2sth ult to Friday, 9Th.
inclusive, were 226, paving S5,19s % cts toll
-sae0eas-
New York, May IL.
Cify Temperance Socieiy.-The Anniversary
of the New York City Temperance Society was
celebrated last evening. in the Murray Street
Church-Eleazar Lord, Esq. President OF the
Society, in the chair. Being unable to attend,
and finding no detailed account of the proceed
inss in the morning. papers, we are unable to go
into particulars ourselves. We hear, however,
that the meeting was addressed BY the Rev.
Messrs. Hewitt and Marsh Of Connecticut
And WE also learn that the leading object of the
former gentleman, vas to defend certain lnde-
fensible propositions, connected with the temper
ance cause, which have been discussed at large
in the New York Observer. In our humble opln-
ion the discussion, on an occasion like the pre-
sent, was both impolitic and out Of place. Still,
the meeting is said to have been an interesting
one, and the most gratifying evidences were adj
duced of the steady and onward march OF the
great moral reformation begun under the ausPi-
ces of the parent society.
!Ssamens Friend Society.-The third annl-
versary of this noble society was attended IN
Murray Street Church on Monday evening,
n Foo in tho Chair