Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser., 1845-06-21
Ameficap Enserprise.

very novel feature in the marafim,
intelligence Of de ptesent week Is the q.
rival at this port of lie American bauo,,
Muskingnm, 273 tons register, w. II
Wells, comriaiider, and consigned u
Messrs. ]. and G. Kirkpatrick. This YES.
sei was built at Marietta, seventy mile,
above, Cincinnati, Oh the { hio. She man
literally be said 70 have been bnih In the
wilderness, Marietta being nearly 2,oOo
miles from salt water. Her enter pr;s;;na
owner. BY great perseverance and enter.
prise, has overcome every difficulty, both
IN her construction and the navigation d
the Ohie and Mississippi. The worEmeu
Who built her had liever seen full ricped
snip; the construction Of her was the sF6rk
OF her able captain and clever carpenter,
whom he took from New Orleans. Their
mode Of proceeding was most aboriginal,
thetress being felted in the forests, were
shaped under their direction, and nut to.
gether. She il t*iilt entirely Of green
wood, chiefly ~ native white oak, all of
which was growing on the 1st Of August
last, and which, byshc-bye, except for fel-
ing and carrying to the waters edge,
did not cost her owners cent. In lit
tie more than four months She was built
and launched-loadcd with western pro-
duce of about three afourths Of her tonnage,
and carried to Cincinnati, ard afterwards
10 New Orleans, on her way down, going
with the flood over the falls Of Louis
vile. She left New Orleans on the ] ST or
April with FIVE OF six other vessels for
this port, all Of whom ,le beat, and ar
rived here on the 18th Of Nav. Our
readers, on referring % the map Of the
United States, viii mark with surprise
the vast inland route passed by the Mus
kingum on her passage down the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans
and the Gulf Of MEXICO. Her course Law
through the very heart Of the vast con.i-
nent; and we canned loo inuch commend
that ardent spirit Of enterprise which has
thus overcome every difficulty and per-
petuated remarkable instance Of that 90
ahead principle for which the people Of
the western States ef Anne, lea are pre-
cminently distinguished.
Upon this subject The 'sEconomist," J" the
organ of free trade news, en!arges:--
'sHere I'VE have q direct communication
opened up, in one bottom, as the nautical
phrase is, between The rich plains of Ohio,
in the far West and our manufacturing
districts.
But what extraordinary reflections arise,
when we think that III reading the political
news from America, We find that the West
srn States are always reckoned upon as
hose which exhibit tie strongest anti Eng
fsh feeling. This Of things is too un-
isas SOr a6fty miles .sd sise coassi on
which provisions oan be landed from the
same ship in which they are shipped il,
central North America, where the fertility
If the earth, and the industry Of man, pro-s
luce every thing in such abundance, and
where alone those articles Of clothing are
scarce and dear, which are produced in
such abundance here; these parties cannot
ong be severed from fair and free mutual
exchange Of commodities; these parties,
who are now placed in an unnatural antsgi
'nism by artificial restrictions on the i'm.
port Of food on the one hand, and the inn
sorts of manufactures on the other hand
will not-cannot long BE- intercepted BY
he unnatural laws andself interests Of leg
slative classes. A ship passing directly
rom Cincinnati 10 Liverpool. seems to oyer-
cap all idea Of custom houses, and to shame
protection, that would interpose
between an exchange Of the good offices Of
mar, and the rich gifts Of Providence, in
liifetent parts Of the globe. The high way
IT Intercourse is opened, and we cannot
,ut regard it as an impious interference
with the great design Of Providence for the
benefit Of the human Family, to interpose
private interests against the benefits Of such
Sir Robert Peel talked Of sending mes
,age of peace to Ireland; but message Of
rec trade, Of mutual intercourse, unres-
ricted, would prove more etfectual guar
antee Of universal and lasting peace over
The whole world, than all other measures
which our Government could adopt With
Iree trade, where would be the antipalhy
Df the Western States against England?
With free trade, the Oregon dispute, and
all others would sink and blend into COM
mon muiuality Of interests. London Time.
gen. Houston and Commodore
Moore.
! The Texas papers containa long article
from the redoubtable Commodore Of the
Taxas Navy. In which hn indnlnos = soma