Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-07-21

Proclaim ,he Of Fresdom's birth
Der every land and sea;
Till her pure spirit frees the earth,
Even heavens free.
From the N. Y. Commercial.
CROToN (N. Wy WATER WORKS.
Within few days we happcnel to pass down
the river road from Sing Sing to New York, and
IN doing Of course repeatedly passed the great
water works which are ultimately to supply our
city with pure and wholesome water What wc
saw, has enlarged idea Of the work, for al
though we had seen the plans, We had never Civ
en- them thought enough to realize their vastncss
In the first place, the aqueduct is to be forty
miles long. The length is equal to the Boston
and Providence, Of Boston and dorchester rail-
roads; and the ground over which it passes,
much more difficult to bring n general linc.--
as II is broken by cross ravines and deep water
courses. The road is exceedingly billy, as every
body knows who has passed over it, though the
number Of such is vefy small, compared with the
almost innumerabie Thong who people the
steamers tho bosom Of the river below. A.
long this broken and Precipltous bank, the great
aqueduct is marked out in unvarying descent
from Croton river, eight miles above Sing Sing
to HarlR", heights. where it comes out hun
dred and fourteen feet above high water mark
In Sing Sing the line passes over . cut more
than fifty feet deep,made by a small stream, and
rock is tunneIled for twenty or thirty rods. The
tunnel is bored through, and the ravinc will
probably be arched this season. There sew
eral other tunnels to be made which are moro
difficult, and these will delay the completion Of
the work much beyond any other obstacle; for
in tunnelinc no more hands can be employed
than ~~-A At che two snds OF sho opcr-
turc.
The work is under contract in sections thro'
the whole line, and an immense force Of men and
teams is employed. At many points the aquc-
duct is already completed 1t is seven feet wide
and nine feet high, and with descent Of fifteen
inches to the mile, a river Of very respectable
dimensions may pass through it, At any rate,
reckon it will put the whole city out Of breath
to drink it dry, though we were never to make
SO perfect a concert in the effort. The bottom Of
the aqueduct is inverted arch Of brick, the
sides are laid with hewn stone in cement, then
plastered ON the inside and then within the
plaster four inch brick wall is carried up to tho
top Of the stone wall, and thence the top is form
ed with an arch Of double brick work. In most
parts Of the line there is abundant provis-
ion Of stone. The cement soon becomes rs hard
as the stone,-and the structure, take it all IN
all, is such that generation after generation Of
the inhabitants Of this great and busy city will
undoubtedly be carried 10 their grave while this
noble monument Of liberality and skill Of the
|, present generation, shall stand uninj ned.
/ A SELF-MApE Mana Mr.. McDowall, a na.
tive Of Scotland, who has resided for several years
in Liberia, gives the following description Of q
seli-taught inhabitant Of tina, Colony:
"Among the entirely uneducated men, there I:
one who deserves a special notice. He was, be
; fore emiSrating, barber, in Norfolk, Virginia
3 aud has been in the Colony some years. During
b more prosperous days, when commercial specula
I tions were very profitable, he carried on at tn
same time the trades Of blacksmith, baker. mer
!, chant and hotel-keepcr. Bat more than all these
h he prac,iscd an attorney, and although he cal
neither read or write, there are few OF his NOR
learned brethren Of the faculty that like TO erte
D the lists against him. He carefully and accurate
Q ~ commits to memory those clauses in his book
e read over to him by his clerk-so that in tn
o course Of his pleading, when called for his ~
IS thority, he at once refers the honorable court
the page, chapter, section, &c. Of Blackstone,
v the Revised Statutes Of Virginia, opens the boz
at tho place marked, and appears to read accu
although setting all the rules Of gramer aud sh<
l. tor'c las might be expec,ed) at defiance, still b
70 ing characterised by strong good sense and shrew
E. logic, adding to these a portly figure, somewha
il digni6ed mien, and n pair Of green sPectacle'
il makes him very despicab!e opponent. He !
10 to boot, a .taunch friend Of the oppressed, an
e has often rescued their rights from within IN
grasp Of the learned sophistry Of his fellow Pra'
N iitiooers-and is always to be found strong Al
vocate in favor Of the government. Those - d
n have been in the habit Of visiting Monrovia. wi
$ at once recognise the individual here alluded 1
ie The proprietor u various newspaper establish
Il meuts throughout the country have suffered mot
r than any other Of our citizens by these time
- and yet they have said less about their losse
:. Their collections have been 'Sfew and far b
- tween,7 like plums in . school bo. = pudding.
!. N. Y. paper.
I, That's fact. Bangor W1ig.1
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drossiy to beseech thee 70 cisave unto me, and
r. come 6esh IL NY 1ssh, and bene of ny bone"
3e "Hum!-Tmly Obadiah, thou hast sid wisel
III and aasmuch ~ l. writaeo, that IL 10 cot 60
foe man to Be aloae, 10! and behold win soloo
with thee"