Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-05-01

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how much sooner lake Ere is free lsom ice at Cleveland,
than at Buffalo. Cleveland is the point al which the
OHIO canal enters The lake, and when that canal is con
nec'ed with the Pennsylvania canal, there will he a d-
phia.
The frst arr;rai az Cicreldad. The Cleveland tO)
Herald OF the 2lst ult. says" The schooner John q.
Adams arrived az this port from Sandusky last evening.
She reports that the navigation between the two places
was unobsirucicd. The Atlantic, which she spoke on
her passage down, is hourly expected. The John q.
Adams IS the first vessr! which arrived this season
Inc engineer OF the Chesapeake and Ohio C0nai reports
me completion of that work to "A point eight miles above
NilliainspoIt, so far as to open it fer trade. Sixty boats
had already descended the lock below Williamsport, laden
with flour, coal, Sc.
The Bttim'ore Ga-ttc says-Our readers are aware
int u contest has been going on fer some time, between
John Randall and the Chesapeake and Delaware ca
nal company and others, in relation TO the right TO col
lect the tolls upon the canal. MIR. Randall having Il
judgment Tor n large amount, has proceeded to de-
mand the tolls acoruing from the use of the canal
Inc SUBJECT has been brought hcfoie the chancellor
upon a bill filed by Joha Scott, Esq. of This city, Que
OF the counsel for the plaintiff. We have seen an order
just issued by the chancellor. sustaining the ground as
sumcd by the counsel of Mr.. Randall, and appointing 4
receiver, with directions To collect the tolls for entering
into and passing the canal from this State into Delaware
and deposit the same with the court; while the whole
amount to he received from the other end OF the canal is
10 be- collected by the company as heretofore. and To lc
applied by them TO repairing the whole line of the canal.
A railroad from Portland, in Maine, is proposed to be
made to Quebec. Lord Aylmer, the Governor General
OF BRUSH America, heartily untes in the project, and
AIainc.
IL Is expected that % or 30 miles of the railroad from
Richmond to the Potomac, will be completed III the pre-
sent year.
All the stock has been subscribed to make a railroad
from Saratoga Springs to Whitehall. .Nc.p Yoyk-nnd
when this is completed. as it soon will be. persons will
lie carried by steam from the city of New York TO Que
bee, to wit:-from New York to Albany by steamboats,,
frour Aihruy rdr Saratoga, to Whitehall, d, the raiLroud
from Whitehall to ST. Johns, in Canada, down Lake
'ChampleiD by steamboat-from ST. johns TO Laprairic
oy a railroad now nearly completcd-iron Laprairic to
Montreal, and thence to Quebec. by steamboat
Ihe Journey from New York to Washington will he
made IN about ~ hours, after July next-from N. York
10 Philadelphia in six hours from Philadelphia to Balti-
more, eight from Baltimore 10 Washington. two.
The Philadelphia Herald says-Perhaps no single cir
cninStancc has yet transpired, showing more conclusive
the Importance and value of the Columbia rail road TO
the trade OF our city, than the folCwing:-On Wedncs-
Gay last at live % clock, A. Ma parcel of fny.six barrels
of flour from Ohio. left Columbia on the riil-road. and
was delivered in Broad street, Philadclplia. the SANG
day before o'clock, 7. Nj, by 2 it was inspected, and
before three o'clock it was sold and taken away by the
portaiion line.
Several packages of goods purchased in New York. in
the afternoon of Saturday, the first instant. by a mer-
chant of Edgcicld Courthouse, S. C., had arrived nt
lioken, ). g., go miles beyond Charleston on the
morning of Saturday, the Sth, having remained \ dav in
the latter city. They reached Edgcfcld the same
evening.
The Charlestown Free Press of the 10Th inst. states
that the "lour despatched at Iiarpcr's Ferry for Bali
more by the Baltimore and Ohio rail road has been aver
aging. for some time, 500 barrels per day. On some davs
inc transportation has amounted TO a Mo"Sand barrels.
The same paper observes Travelling between Bal
timoTe and Harpers Ferry has been greatly facilitated
We can now start from the Ferry at 5 in the morninr.
and dine in Baltimore Mt /. Returning. the cars nrriv,.
about l o'clock at the Ferry, where passengers tnl,e
stage, pass through this place at 3 p. Nj. and arrive AT
nv u1chcster the same evening."
p&Ihe subscriptions in the city ofNcw York 10 the stool.
Poi the Erie railroad company, continue TO be made with
spirit. At ] o'clock, p. NJ, ON the second day. they had
reached one million eight hundred Thousand dollars.
lOnly two millions are wanted, at PRESENT.
The n. \. American thus speaks of the prospects
OF tins road-'Ihe immense commercial importance of
the direct connection to be effected by means of the pro.
posed road and the Ailcghany river, between the city of
New CORK and the valley Of the Mississippi. is but vet
imperiectly realised or understood. Let il then be dis
tncty known To our merchants, that the moment The
line OF the Erie railroad reaches the Allegheny liycr. their
merchandise can be delivered on its banks from their
warehouses IN tins city, teintin 80 hOurs!-tlal it can
thence descend down the safe, though rapid, current of
that stream, en- less HtaR toO dayS 10 ihe wharvcs at Pitts
burgh-that tins navigation is always available precisely
1.-THE period whcnIt Is most needed, to wit. in the months
-s end4 y n"i and iLei ''z-f-~~. .rs.t--D -
pcnsc, can be rendered nayigablc throughout the whole
summer and autumn. The enormous Importance then
oil accomplishing this connection, with the utmost prac.
teal despatch, must then be evident. II is the only
mode IN which New Yorkcan neutralizc the gigantic Il.
forts making hy Philadelphia TO deprive her OF the com.
IncEcc OF the Wcst-but when completed. will most effec.
tually accomplish that object. Pittsburgh will thence.
forward cease to be the western emporium of Pennsvl-
wanna, and with her long line of sister cities and comniu-
hitics along The valley OF the Ohio, will become attached.
as a commercial dependency, to this metropolis"
BdhsImore "nd OhiO Rad INSTRUMENTATION for The
week ending the lltI april, was, viz:
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