Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-08-04
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THURSDAY. AUGUST A, 1886.


The CHEsAPEAKE AND ONO CASAL.-At an
adjourned meeting of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, held in the city Of Washington
on Thursday the 2sth ult, il was resolved by
vote of 4, l0l TO 1888, that the company accept
the late act Of the Maryland Legislature author
izing further subscription, on the part Of that
state, upon certain conditions, Of three millions
Of dollars to the stock of the company, by the
acceptance ofthis subscription, the Company will
be enabled speedily TO complete the canal 10
Cumberland, and thereby render it a source of
profit 10 those who own its stock, instead of
continuing it, as it has heretofore been, sinking
concern to all engaged in the enterprise.
The trade ofthe Canal since its completion to
Williamsport, has been, it is true, steadily upon
the increase, until it has attained no mean i'm
portance, but yet il is not sufficient to meet the
expectations Of the friends and projectors Of the
work, or TO save from loss those who have been
in ITS construction nor, in opinion, will it be,
until it shall be completed as far up as Cumber-
land. 1t must be made to reach those vast depo-
| sitorics of mineral wealth which are known to
| exist in the neighborhood of Cumberland, before
its trade will be so extensive as to render pro-
fisable-the moment it does this the antcipatons
of its usefulness formed by its friends will be
realized in their fullest extent.
Dy- The New York Star saws :-.General
Jackson is quietly and silently travelling to
Tennessee. No noise-no committees of citi-
zens-no parade--no addresses-no firing Of can.
non at the approach of the hero of New Orleans -
1t is even so. Never, within our recollection
has SO little attention been paid to a president,
by the people, when travelling through the coun-
try, as in the present instance. So quiet and
nobserved has been his passage to Teunes-
see, that the papers of those places through
which he has passed, give us no account of him.
whatever, further than that he has passed on
his way unnoticed. We cannot but look upon
the feeling thus manifested as an indication of
change in public feeling towards the president,
brought about by the many wrong deeds that
have been committed during his administration
How different the feeling manifested tow ard him
INV, " that tOWaGu Wlen he
made a trip 10 the northern states few years
since! Then he had Offices and gifts to dis.
tribute, and the sycophant fawned upon him; his
| early, honest, and sincere friends had not then
had their antcipations of his future useful
ness blasted by seeing him bow down at the
shrine ofperty and offer up the interest and vel
| fare OF his country upon tia sacrificial affairs
| They had not then seen him wrest the ire assures
ofthe United States from the depository in which
the laws directed that they should be kept and
| scatter them from one end of the Union 10 the
| other for the purpose Of showing favor to few
political parisans, and they gave him the sup.
port OF an honest heart, and the welcome of a
sincere friend. But now, the scene has chan
ged, those who looked forward to the usefulness
Of Andrew Jackson, public functonary have
seen the disappointment of their hopes, and feel
ing more sorrowful than angry, permit him TO
pass through the country without notice or OBJ.
seryation.