Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-04-18

the Senate of the United States, upon
the bill for enforcing the collection of
the Public Revenue; extracts from
which we viii endeavour to lay before
our readers.
WILSON the celebrated ornithologist
once resided in the county of Berkeley,
land if we are to Judge by the following
extract from one ofhis poems, he could
not have been very wen pleased with
a his residence.
Farewell to virginia-to BERKELEY adieu.
Where like Jacob, my days have been evil
and few,
So few-they seemed really but one length
And so bad, that the devil only could have
sent worse"
Those were daysin which the claims
of genius were rather poorly respec-
4 ted-if indeed, the genius of Wilson
had then developed its varied and en-
chanting powers. At this time we
think, if he were living, we could pro.
mise him more hospitable and agree
able reception.
John Quincy Adams has been e-elec-
ted member of Congress from the
Il State of Massachusetts. Mr.. Adams
is essentially laborious man. Idleness
Z would be to him state of insupporta-
bic existence. His Parliamentary pro-
auctions are among the finest exhibit
tons of his genius. We allude to his
various reports from Committees, and
particularly to his recent minority re-
port from the Committee on Manufac.
lures, which we regard as one of the
most eloquent and splendid expositions
of the policy of the country, which the
annals of American legislation afford.
The first volume of a new work en-
allied "Ihe practice in the Courts Of
Laac and Equity in Virginia." has re-
Gently issued from the Richmond press,
by Conpay Robinson, Esq. This vol.
contains GA pages, and relates exclu-
sively to the practice in the Courts Of
Lac. "To complete his original de-
sign, says Mr.. Robinson a second vol
ame must be published hereafter. That
will embrace the practice in suits in
equity d as far practicable the princi-
pies upon which equity exercises juris-
diction."
Mr.. Robinson is advantageously
known in Richmond as a jurist of pro-
/ found research and extensive acquire
/ ments, and we have no doubt the vol
tune just referred to will be found highly
useful to the lawyers and clerks of the
State. Price $3.50.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.-We
are happy to observe the tone of re-
spect which is now habitually used by
the Richmond papers, in speaking OF
this great enterprise. Formerly it was
very fashionable to decry it. 1t has
already conquered prejudices and sur
mounted difficulties enough to crush
my ordinary enterprise, conducted by
ordinary men, and is already begin
ming, in the advanced and advancing
price of our lands, to diffuse its bene6-
cent influence over the country. The
following item of intelligence is from a
late Richmond Conipiler-Mr. Richie S
in official paper.
We understand that the President OF
this Company has called upon the Trea
surer OF Virginia, for an advance on the
instalment of $3.50 .00G, authorized bv the
last Legislature to be contributed on the
part of the State Much the greater par,
of the appropriation on the part of Mary
land to the same company, will be made
by the next month.
The work is said to be in rapid progress
More than $500 hands and 500 horses are
employed upon its different branches
and at least 1000 lbs of powder week
are consumed in blasting rocks 1t isex
pected that the line from the mouth of the
Tiber. up to Harper's Ferry, distance ol
"a miles, will be completed in the month
OF May-and the whole line, more than
+. 100 miles, within three and half years
short of the time allowed by the charter
The compromise, proposed by the late
Legislature of Maryland. between this
Company and the Baltimore Rail Road
Company, will probably lead to an AMIGA
BILE and complete adjustment of the differ
ences that have prevailed between them
and thus enable both companies 10 push
their works to their ultimate completion
The Treasurer Of the State has advert
sed for loan, for the purpose of raising
the instalment Il is true, the surplu.
sum ofS50,000 remains in the Treasury
and it was proposed at the close of ths
last session TO make some active invest
ment of it-but on account Of some differ
ences Of opinion upon the subject, no ar
rangement was adopted Compiler
6FWhy does the intelligence of Thu
county display itself so little in its eff
forts to enlightent the communitythrougl
the medium of the paper? We coulc
name many individuals within the limits
Of Onr cnnnfu whoro co,,nnnn,ninn tor,