South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-07-18
CANAL CONTRACTS.

- Hy The WllllamSpOrt Banner OF OaLuf-
dav last. ys.-"AIl the contracts on the
Canal. between Dam No. S (Midd!ekauf's
mill and the mouth of the Cacapon
with the exception of the easy excava-
fions. and Dam No. 6, were given out al
the Company's Office in Washington, on
the Sd instant.
The Company contemplate a change
of the location of Dam No. 6, the new
site to be decided upon after personal
inspection by the Board, now on their
way up the Canal for this purpose. This
Dam, we understand, will be let as soon
after the new location as practicable"
We learn from the National Inteli>
pencer of Wednesday last, that the
President and Directors ofihe Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal Company,
accompanied by their principal Engi-
neer, were to have left Georgetown
that morning in beautiful iron boat,
eighty-fiv feet long, for the purpose
of inspecting the whole oftheir line as
far as to the bituminous coal beds at
Cumberland. They have also in com.
pany Joseph C. CabeO, Esq. of Vir.
gina, President of the James River and
Kanawha Canal Company, Col. H.
bert, Of the Typographical bureau,
and Mr.. FeatAerstonhaugh, United
States Geologist, the last of which
gentlemen is on tour to the "Far
West" to explore country, never
before examined.--Ib.
g We have read, we think, with some
attention the laboured speech of Mr..
BELL, delivered at Vauxhall, Tennessee,
the 23d of May. Our limits will not adj
NIT us to give the whole of it to our rea-
ders. This we regret. Speaking of the
administration ofGen. Jackson, he says,
GAS to the Bank, does any one ina.
CINE that if there had been no political
interests involved, an institution ia
which, an interest but little more than
a single years revenue Of the United
States is vested, could ever have
become the subject Of so many alarms
on both sides /; Of such intense interest
and zeal in its support, and Of such
tremendous efforts in opposition TO it 7
1t is only when party takes hold of
such a question, for its own uses,
that it can be made formidable in any
way. 1t is then only that such an
institution is dangerous. The slightest
movement of a popular administration,
in ordinary times, would be sufficient
tocrush such an institution. Nothing
but the extreme of party rage and
desperation could ever have convulsed
the country with such question,
important as it may be, as one merely
of financial policy and economy. Do
we not know that some of the oldest
and most inveserate opponents Of the
Bank, lately inclined to its support,
when, to do SO, appeared to favor
their political views; and, on the
other hand, that some who had been
its advocates and had always beivsd
in the expediency of such an institution,
turned against il, when the tide OF
political fortune and interest flowed
in that directiona What better proof
is wanting, TO shew that the great
combustion Of feeling and opinion
which recently kept the country 10
such alarm upon this subject, had its
origin in the Vaccinations of that com.
mon incendiary, in free governments
PARTY 7"
Here, we have no doubt, the case is
somewhat truly stated. The Bank was
TO be made party machine in the hands
of those in power--it was a question on
which the people might be easily deceiv-
ed f; and it is now the only prop sustaining
THE PARTY and Van Buren, at its head,
The people, TOO cREDuLoUs. have been
taught to believe that the Bank, as q
monied institution, was hostile to their
interests--to their liberties {; and that the
friends of the Bank were equally so.
But if the Bank had entered into the
schemes of the Administration, then it
would have been not only good adjunct
in the administration of the government.
but an institution indispensable in the at
fairs ofthe nation.
He draws parallel between the origin
ofthe Jesuitical order in Europe, and
Van Burenism in the U. States-the
Pope the commander-in-chief of the order
of the Jesuites, and Jackson the chief of