Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-01-12

attract the trade OF other States The competitors which
Virginia has the trade of the west are New York PHI
ladelpha, Baltimore, and New Orleans.
Let us examine for a moment the preensions of these
several dep0ts
lst .Ne,o York.-To reach this city tha por,on ornro
duce about which alone there could be any competion
between Virginia and New York, would be Obliged to
pass along the Ohio canal TO Cleavcand on Lake Erie
So1 miles in length At Lake Erie there must be tran
Shipment which believe the Engineer estimates as equal
TO on miles trans por;aon canal then il is embarked on
me ,ake, the navigation Of which is sometimes diff
hcult and perous than that of the ocean itself thus
reaches Buffalo at the mouth Of Lake Erie second tran
sPment becomes necessary: it is put aboard the canal
boat and passes the canal upwards of 800 miles when
reaches the city OF Albany; third transhpmcnt here
takes place; the produce then enters the vessels of tho
Hudson river and Is transported $50 miles farther 10 the
city Of New York. Thus would this produce traverse a
line Of communication than 500 miles in ex,ent To-
ing too, the whole of it in the northern portion of our
unon and consequently blocked up by ice during almost
the whole winterfor must recolect the trade which
we are now speaking lying at the farthest extremity Of
the line oil communication, is cut off the any por-
lion OF the line blocked up Even supposng New York
TO be the point which this trade would seek in summer
must necessarily desert it in winter take southern
route, where there would be impeachment. But the
in asserting that New-York has heretofore commandoS
TINS trade by her superior energy in pushing forward hes.
Improvements She must reinquish her more
soulhe N rivals enter the lists against her.
End Phifddelphia.-That portion of the produce for
which there would be any competition between Philadel
pha and Virginia. ascend the Ohio river TO Psburr.
then put aboard the canal boats passes along the Penn
ylvana canal TO Columbia there put upon The cars ON
the rail road, which trayerscs distance of So miles 10
Philadelphia believe there is perhaps one other rail
road before reaching Columbia but this is comparatiycly
unmportant Now this route longer than the line Of
The contemplated James river Improvement IL lies far
Their NORTH and consequently will be frequently and
longer obtructed by ice in winter Philadelphia selfis
frequently blocked by ice, and all external con-
sequeny stopped, making this city market
in winter.ln summer, too the upper Ohio is frequently
Tor long time so low that the trade suspended And
well know that this obstacle will naturally increase in
the progress OF society For in proportion countryis
drained and cleared will greater of the soil
be washed by the lateral branches into main river and
thus diminish the depth Of the stream. When a country
is covered with forest, the is mpeded in its pro-
grcss to the rivers and must lay the earth
and carried Off by evaporaon but when cleared and
drained by ditches the rain which descends carried off
the rivers along with so much ,rt
to tend fill up channels Here then is one great
and nestimabc advantage which Virginia has over ali her
rivals Her improvements will strike the rivers of the
west lower down the streams than any of those of the
north.
Virginia, then, has nothing TO fear from Philadelphia
IL has always been cheaper for Philadelphia and viii
be- if we complete improvements TO send goods to
Ohio by way of Richmond. The comparison stands thus
mode of TRANSFORMATION sa oy wagons ,ns iOme
from Philadelphia TO Richmond l5cts. per 100 pounds
Thence TO the falls of Kanawha rs
Receiving and forwarding at Rich
mond CovinSton and Kanawha %
Contingent expences 20
Making ST. rs
9-z cts cheaper than the transportation from Phila.
3dly Bain,ore-There is large portion of the north
eastern trade OF Virginia which and ought TO go to
3.
lection to this citys drawing herself all the trade
which Nature has intended for her. But Ohio, Ken
lucky Tennessee and the north portions of yir
gina arc certainty situated more conveniently 10 Rich
mond and Norfolk than Baltimore, and therefore the
naae OF nose States will more mutually centre
board Richmond is much to the mouth of the
kanawha than Baltimore The Ohio improve ments would
no doubt be pushed out to meet the Virginia improve
ments for IL characteristic OF those States
that they care not at what point the produce makes its exit
provided it reaches the market by the shortest and cheap
est route II is understood that few years ago. the Le
gislature OF Ohio incorporated company TO construct
turnpike from Chilicothe to Galopols, near TO Point
Pleasant, to which point supposed the Virginia
improvements would reach There is no doubt hut that The
enerpising State OF Ohio would Immediately construct
suitable communications from Chcothe Columbus the
centre oil the State, connecting with the Erie and Ohio
oanal and thus proceeding 10 Cleaveland the Lake
- wlii here take leave TO introduce extract from
mighty interesting letter from the Honorable S. f. Yinon
from Ohio, to member OF the last Legislature "Tbc
read from the mouth of the Great Kanawha to Portland
on Sandusky Bay, Zone of The important points ON
LAKE Ele and OF increasing commercial acvity0 divides
inc state INTO two almost equal parts, and is bsected at
ooumons The Seat Government, by the Cumberland
odu' aken as whole, this road passes through many
ouriShing towns, country Of great fertility and bpby
prosperous In It's circumstances. At about so miles from
he NOUN OF the Great Kanawha the Valley Of
the Scota, Zone of the fertile of the West) and Is
brought into the Immediate vicinity of the Ohio and Erie
Canai--The Touchdown the Great Kanawha through the
State of Ohio y Sandusky Bay, and thence by Lake
Ere TO Detroit Is the which Nature has clearly
pointed out as the line OF intercourse between much the
greatest portion OF the State of Virginia the State of Ohio
and the territory of Michigan. From ChiIicohe 70 SAN
dusky by the road of great travels and if an
a.
hawha ana thence extended into the Ohio as far
as obcoe may well be doubted, whether the inter
course oil Virginia with Ohio, through channel would
not DC equal III importance, if superior TO that with
kentucky through the branch Of tire turnpike now con-
suchng TO the confines of that State Throughout the
enhre distance from Sandusky Bay Chilicohe
stages run three times week, and over considerable
portion oil they pass daily From Chicoihe 10 CAL
iopolls, they run twice week" Now. the trade In
the west OF the line of Ohio improvements lust men
honed and all to the west oS the Virginia improve
ments, belong unequivocay 10 Virginia and New Or
leans and large portion TO fe East likewise will seek
the Virginia route IN prefeenee that Of BALTIMORE
!" nave no reason then, to apprchend injurious re-
suits from the riyaishp of either New York. Phadcph
or Baltimore. f
viii now close this comparison between the Virginia
ana me Northern impsoy by extract from LET.
ter OF Major Gib5o Collector Of the Port of Ricbmond
TO Gov Floyd TO whose kindness indebted for copy
Of IT. SCI was" says Major O., sat some pains two or
three years since TO ascertain the OF packages of
goods which passed through the from northern ports
say Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, des-
tined o.Oho, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kanawha and The
west andouh OF Virginia; the average number for two
years was ~ 900 packages and these evidently sent by
this route as the best and most expeditions. ex
tract speaks for itsclt needs Of COMMENT
shews concusively the great advantages of yrgiuas
position In the coniederacy, in relation to the West
4thly Neto Orle0ns-This city must, in spite of air
the disadvantages OF its climate become of the arg
est IN America, at some distant day. There great
staces, however, thrown in the way OF its
which cannot be easily Its situation suppos