Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-01-06


sing, is not very bright.
DR.. Trowbrdge has resigned the Office Of
Mayor of Buffalo.
The Steamboat Erie came into our port,
from Detroit, last evening, on her way to
Cleveland.
We extract the following passage from an
Act of the Legislature Of Indiana of 1886,
entitled an " Act to provide for a general
system of Internal Improvement" from the
Peru Forester. BY other provisions in the
same act, board of public works was crea-
ted and a system adopted in the carrying on
of those noble labors which are destined to
be a source of wealth and glory to the State.
The sections quoted provide for the building
of two important branches of the Wabash
and Erie Canal, and we copy them, not only
to make our readers acquainted with their
provisions, but to show the liberality with
which an infant State has provided for carry
ing into effect her true policy.
VIII some of the Indiana editors furnish us
with copy of the act from which the extract
is taken?
Sec. 4. The said Board of Internal
Improvement is hereby authorised and
directed to adopt such measures as may
be necessary to commence, construct,
and complete, within reasonable time,
the following public works, viz:
lst. The White Water Canal, COM
mencing on the west branch of White
Water River, at the crossing Of the Ma
tional Road, thence passing down the
valley of the same to the Ohio River, at
Lawrenceburg, and extending up the
said west branch of the White Water
above the National Road as,far as may
be practicable; also, connexion be-
tween the said White Water Canal and
the Central Canal, by canal, if pracli.
cable, if not, by rail road, to com
mence at some point near the National
Road, thence to be continued to some
suitable point on said Central Canal in
Madison or Delaware counties, as the
same may be found most practicable,
and best calculated 10 promote the in
terests of the State; and for the con-
struclion of said works the sum of one
million four hundred thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated: Provided. how
ever, That if the State OF Ohio shall ul-
timalely refuse to grant leave for the
construction of that part of the White
Water Canal which passes through her
territory, the said Board shall construct
a rail road from some point near Harri-
son to Lawrenceburg, keeping it wholly
within the territory OF this State, in lieu
of the canal as now located between
those points, ano pay for the construc-
ton Of the said road out of The moneys
appropriated for the construction Of,
said White Water Canal.
I'd. The Central Canal, commencing
at the most suitable point on the Wa
bash and Erie Canal between Fort
Wayne and Logansport, running thence
to Muncietown, thence 10 Indianapolis,
thence down the valley of the West fork
of White River, to It's junction with the
east fork of SAID river, and thence by
the most practicable route TO Evansville
on the Ohio river: Provided, however,
The said Boardof Internal Improvement
may, if it shall be found most practical
BILE and conducive TO the interests Of the
State, select the lower or Pipe creek
route in the line north from indianapolis,
then and in that case, Feeder shall be
made to commence at Muncietown and
communicate with said Central Canal at
some convenient point on the same.
which feeder shall be Of equal size and
capacity with the main canal, and made
equally convenient for the purposes of
navigation, and be constructed simuIta-
neously withthe said main canal, and in
all other respects provided for in like
manner with the same. For the con-
slruction Of which Central Canal and
navigable Feeder, the sum Of three nil
lions FIVE hundred thousand dollars is
hereby appropriated.
The following testimony to the honorable
and high-minded conduct Of the Federalis'
party, while in power, isfromthe pen Of Jchr
i Baihache, editor Of the Alton Telegraph, .ant