South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-01-23

bs permitted to withhold from US the
tarday and imperfect indemnif patton
which, after years of demonstrates and
discussion, had at length been solemn
ly agreed on by the treaty Of 1881 ,and
to set at naught the obligation it inn
poses, the United States will not be
the only sufferers. The efforts of hus
mainly and religion, to substitute the
appeals Of justice & the arbitrament of
reason for the coerciye remedies usual
ly resorEed to by injured nations, will
receive little encouragement from such
an issue. By the selection & enforce
ment of such lawful and expedient
measures as may be necessary to pre-
vent result 80 injurious to ourselves
and so fatal to the hopes Of the phiaa-
thropist, we shall therefore not only
preserve the pecuniary interest of our
citizens, the independence Of our Gov.
ernment, and the honor of our country,
but do much, it may be hoped, to vim
dictate the faith Of treaties, and TO pro.
mote the general interests Of peace, ci-
vilization, and Improvement.
ANDREW JACKSON.
! WASHINGTON, Jaa. Is, 1886.
| o. We are sorry to observe, by the
advertisement Of the President and Di-
rectors ofthe Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal Company, says the National lntelli-
gencer of W ednesday last, that, from the
high price oflabor, and the inadequacy
| of the means in the hands of the Compa.
ny to complete the Canal to Cumberland
at the present price of labor, the Board
has Withdrawn from immediate contract
most of the work lately advertised to be
| let. 1t will however be some consola-
ton to the Stockholders and the Public
to find that it has been determined by the
| Board to construct Tunnel, and there
by save nearly five miles in the length of
| the canal; and that, as it must require
two years to make this Tunnel, the time
Of reaching Cumberland will not be pro-
| tracted by the present delay in the CON-
| mencement oftfe work.
The determination of the Board, un-
der the present state of things, to press
ton, appears to us commendable, as we
shall thereby have an aariy connexion
between the Cumberland Road and the
Canal, at Hancock.
.
We are afraid that it is not only or al
together on account of the high price OF
labor that the Board has suspended its
lettings, but because they have made the
I discovery that THEIR MEANS fall short oil
the end which they proposed to accom-
plish. The funds at their disposal are
not adequate to the work, at the loves,
| prices at which they could expect con-
tracts to be TAKEN Sooner or later, II
4 1t be 30, the fact must be disclosed. Il
cannot, then, be disclosed too soon; for,
the eaelief II Is known, the earlier and
more determined viii be the exertion to
procure the funds necessary to carry the
work through to Cumberland. We have
no fear of the work, now go fairly onward
to that desired point being allowed long
to be suspended for the want ofthe COM
paratlveiy small additional necessary
means to enable lle Company TO reach
Cumberland With the Canal.
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| o. The New Orleans Bee Of the
sIsl Dsc. says: It vas ramored last
evening in town that all the As1eri
cans aud other foreigners found in
Tam pico, have been plundered and
murdered. We have not ascertsineo
particulars !; but rumors are rife in this
city as regards all that now concerns
Mexico and France.
| c. Advertisements omitted to .da,
| will be attended to in our next.