Morning herald., 1839-09-26

| light OF day The mind Of the gazer was ihstinc
lively carried back the days of the destruction OF
Jerusalem, Rnne, nr the cities oil Greece, oy hre
and sword; and one conld, from the imposing Por-
tiOn Of the before him, readily form an idea OF
the appearance of the magnificent buildings laid in
ruins by fire in the times Of the ancients
The Wafer Com snissieners nnd the CfOtOn
| Aqueduct.
Again and again are the commissioners blundering
in regard TO the Crotsn water works; and the result
Of all this wretched Encouragement is, that the
whole Of the works on the line Of the aqaeduct are
| to be suspended in less than month from this
date This noble work is to stand still for, heaven
knows how long period Of time. Let this fact net
4 be forgotten at the next November election. All
along the line, the laborers in state Of savage
indignation, because they cannot get their pay; and
they i'll feel still bitter when they all dis
charged in three weeks The locofoco leaders will
not bring them into the city this fall because they
would vote the whig ticket and this state Of things
has been produced by the gross mismanagemsnt Of
I the commissions s.
| The most insolent locofocos, and the warmest
friends that the commissioners have, all concur in
admitting that they doubled the expense Of the
Croton Aqueduct by their repeated blunders, and
also caused delay Of three years in its completion
Instead of putting under contract the dam and the
Harlem bridge before any other portions Of the
work, account of their requiring longer time to
complete, these important points Of the work were
contracted for last Of all The equenee is that
the bridge is scarcely commenced on, and it will
take five years 10 finish il; and the dam is in such
state that it cannot be finished under four years
the least calculation. The commissioners eter-
nay making alterations and gross bunaers in this
part Of the work At the original estimate $4,000
was to complete the dam; there has already been
over $780, 900 expended it, and last July an esti-
mate was made, and il ascertansd that Sl0S 900
more would be required TO complete il, according to
the commissioners present notions Probably be-
fore il is finished they will alter it 50 as to make it
| cost S200, 900 more.
We went again all along the line Of the aqueduct
last week, and the sad state which it will be
left this winter. The masonry and brick work on
every section unfinished and exposed to the frost,
will all have to be taken down and rebuilt spring
and all this is paid for BY the square yard that
expense falls on the people. Al the dam, the Com
mssioners have had little narrow, ridiculous cul-
vert made, through which they intend TO drive all
the waters of the Crcon River this winter, and build
up the dam across tho present bed Of the stream
The result Of this will be that the first great feshet
will carry away all the work of this summer dam,
culvert aud every thing else and sweep all before IT,
The whole will have t. bt krilt again ard paidf or
again.
There is another gross blunder that they have
made. In the early lettings of the sections, they
dered brick facing eight inches thick the stone
sonry; this very proper But on all the last let
tngs they have reduced the side brick facing TO four
inches aad the thickness ofthe arch at eight
inches The result Of this, that before The facing
can have time to set with the the stone
sonry, the weight Of the arch forces IL from the side
stone work and in course Of time IL will fall in. We
took stick and beat along this brick facing for miles,
and soanded hollow; thus proving that il had sprung
from the stone work, and the whole Of this ought
therefore to be pulled down and rebuilt
We might in short, 90 along the line of the aque-
Duct from end 20 the other, and find matter for
deep censurc at every hundred yards The brick wall
s badly constructed, a. have thus shown the
Of excavating directed by the ommissicners,
is very bad; they will not allow sufficient slope In
the deep cuttings, and the consequence Is that most
Of the excavations in and ill up, just the low
est part is svclled and graded, ready to receive the
co~crete. All this excavation is paid for by the
square yard, and consequently the people are made
to pay treble the necessary price for every yard Of
excavation Again, in digging cut very hard kind
OF material. in which sand and gravel are cemented
together the commissioners refuse TO pay for ac
cording to the original contract, and thus every
contractor will bring law suits against them they
will be sure 70 recover aud the increase % expense
thus occasoned by tho ignorance aud obstinacy Of
the commissioners will be enormous.
In short, the bunders made by the commits sioners
from the commencement, have been enormous; by
their ignorance and folly they have had law suits
about all the land purchased, and have been com
PEELED to pay trctle is value for every acre. by
sinking the aqueduct two feet lower, with addi-
tiona expense, they might have had beautiful car
riage road It, the whole forty-two miles. But
their line has been broken up by their bad arrange
mens the high bridge will be spelled in its appear
ance by descent In the line before spoken Of the
pipes will be too small, and must be taken up in
year; and now the works will have to stor cr want
of money. The injury to the city viii BE- enormous,
again, therefore, say, Jet the ral'ying cry be At
the next election, "Thc Removal sf the Water
Comms sioners"