Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-10-01
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.

CHESAPEAKE AMI of1iO CAi>f,h'
The following information is cheering in pro-
portion as the prospects of the Chesapeake ana
Ohio Canal Company have lately been gloomy:
From the Hiifamsport (Nd) Banner, Sept. e.
CHESAPEAKE AND Ono CANAL.-The late
loan TO the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
pany has been promptly improved py inc
necessary arrangements for the earllest com
pletion of the work to DAM NO. D at miuole-
| kauff,s mill, miles above this place. CON-
mittee of the Board Of Directors, consisting OF
Col. Albert and DR.. Gunton, accompanied by the
clerk of the company, J. p. hgte, Esq, paid a
visit to this town in the beginning OF this week,
and succeeded in re-Iettlng all those portions OF
the Canal and its works, which are IN an unnn-
ished state, and had been abandoned. Inc
principal Of these is an extent OF apou. TWO
miles of the difficult rock excavation, and one
or two culverts The remainder OF the unhn-
ished work under contract, including Dam. No.
5. is in an advanced state, and probably Will not
require none than six weeks for It's entlfe COM
pletion But the time limited for the compile
ton all the constructs is the first day OF Marcn
next; when the public may most cohndently
calculate upon the whole Canal, TO the point De-
fore mentioned, distance of ITO miles, being
opened for navigation. Dam. No. will tack
the water ofthe Potomac to the vicinity oil Han
cock, where the constant navigation OF the Ca
nal will be connected with the National Road
4 The communication of the city OF Baltimore
and the District cities with the W est VIII be mus
greatly facilitated, and an active and profitable
trade carried on, which will at once prove the
importance of the Canal, and stimulate to its
further extension.
With the Canal in use next spring, the coal
trade of Allegany can be commenced and con-
tnaed with advantage TO the public; and the
company will begin to realize, what they have
not yet had fair chance to do, a large revenue
from tolls. These circumstances are of an inter
esting character to all concerned in the pros
poets and success Of the Canal, and are the more
interesting since their fulfilmenti is at hand. We
congratulate the public upon the favorable events
which have enabled the company thus oppor-
timely to secure to them the advantages of so
great portion ofthe Canal. Welook upon these
things too as the sure presage OF more succ essful
operations in future.
! We are authorized to say that immediate
employment can be given to five or six hum
dred iaboring hands on the parts of the Canal
recently re-let, in the neighborhood of this place.
From the Piftsburg Adrocate, Sept "a.
J 1t is stated in the Baltimore papers that the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company have
succeeded in negotiating loan Of 100000
with the Bank of the United States, to enable
the company to complete their great underta-
king to point about eight miles above the town
Of Williamsport, in Washington county, Md
But for this timely extension of aid, this great
work must have been inevitably suspended, per-
hapS in view of the inauspicious aspect OF the
| times, entirely abandoned. Perhaps no work
! now in progression or in projection is of such
vital importance to the interests of the west,
and more particularly to Pttsburg. Its ultimate
success We regard certain; but it can only
be accomplished when a more liberal policy
shall govern the councils of the country and
some other aid shall be given than that of mere
private subscription 10 its stock. There is no
work which has stronger right to the fostering
aid of the government and none to which
congress governed less than the present by par
ty spirit and more by extended and liberal
views, would sooner extend that which was
promised at its commencement.
We are glad to perceive that the city of Bal
timore is beginning to awaken to full sense Of
its importance to their own city, and that de-
termination is growing there to press it forward
in despite of all the obstacles which may inter
pose. The resources Of that city are great, and
the energy and public spirit of the inhabitants
are sure guaranty for their prosecution OF the
work, until such a reaction in public sentiment,
may take place, as will ensure that encourage
ment from the government which must one day
or other be extended. In the meantime 1t is
equally incumbent upon us of the west to Sc
cond the efforts making in the caSt-we cannot
remain passive orindf1erent spectators Of exer-
tons in behalf of work which is destined TO
open a new channel for the products OF indus
try and enterprise, and render our city the great
depot for the commerce and trade of the west
ern world.