Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-22

For deepening Psscagoula river .......... la,sOol
For improving the navigation Of Red river 2O,OOOl
For work on Delaware beakwater i. ........ 270,0O0l
For repairs Of Cumberland road for 1881 . ... 5,s6sl
For repairs Of United States military road between
Pensacola and Tallahassee I. 1000
For repairs Of military road from St Augustine to
Tallahassee . ... ............ a,5oOI
For Improvement Of harbor at ST. Marks. 4,5O0l
For repairs Of piers Kennebunk .... l,700l
For removal of distractions in Berwick branch,
Piscataqua -. " 52bOl
For sea-walI at Deer island Boston harbor... 60000I
For breakwater at Hyannis harbor ....... 7,600l
For removal Of bar at Nantucket harbor. $1,000
For completion Of breakwater dixie, and channel
at Mill river Connecticut. ........s. 4,4s0l
For pier and mole OF Oswego, New York... $4,000
For removal Of distractions at Big Sodus bay l7,O00
For improvement of entrance to Genesee river l6OO0I
For pier at the mouth of Buffalo harbor 10000
Far work at Black Rock harbor. : ........... 5,l00l
For work at Dunkrk harbor ............... l0,200l
For improvement Of harbor Pressure Isle, Pa. 4,5OO
For improvement Of harbors at Newcastle, Marcus
Hook, Chester, and Port PENN on the Delaware 100000
For improvement of Ocracock inlet ........ $4,000
For improvement of Cape Fear river, below Will
mington ......A $4,000
For improvement of navigation of the Ohio Mis-
souri, and Mississippi rivers ..... so, 900
For improvement Of navigation Arkansas river $4,000
For improvement of mouth of Conneaut creek, o. 7,s0O
For removal Of distractions at the mouth Of Ashta
bua creek !. ................... $500
For pier at Cunningham creek, Ohio ..... I,5O0I
For the removal Of distractions at the mouth of
Grand river, ohio... .... 1900
For improvement of Cleveland harbor, Ohio.. $1,000
For removal of sand bar at the mouth of Black
river, Ohio OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $1,000
For removal of distractions in Huron river Ohio. l5O0I
For piers at LA Plaisance bay, Michigan. $1,000
For Improvement navigation Of Cumberland river 100000
For removal Of obstructions in Savannah $4,000
For expenses for examinations and surveys under
act of April 80. 1924 .............. $4,000
For repairs of the Cumberland road east Of the Ohio
river, and other needful improvements said
road, carry into effect acts of Pennsy vania and
Maryland the assent Of Congress being given l50,00O
For repairs and bridges to road Mars Hill 81, 00Ol
For road from Detroit to Chicago. ......... 10000
For road from Detroit Fort Gratio Is, 000l
For road from Detroit to Saginaw. ....... 100000
For repairs Of Little Rock and Memphis road, from
Little Rock to st. Francis river ...... 100000
For Washington and Jackson road Arkansas 2,000l
For Cumberland road in Ohio, Of GAINESVILLE loo,
For Cumberland road in Indiana ......... 100, 00Ol
For Cumberland road in Illinois,. ........ 70,OOOl
Land and sea; roads, bridges, surveys; fresh
water, salt water, no water bar, channel, beach,
piers, dkes lakes, bays, creeks; great rivers small
rivers the mighty Mississippi and its two great
continents and not only its tributaries, but tribu-
taries Of its tributaresall these are locked in the
liberal embrace of the Jacksonian strictconstruc-
ton Of that day Now, which is here the true and
which the false Dromio! Of two SO dissimilar,
which is the real Simon Pure Shall we take the
the master 1.-THE copy or the original q
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be false, il either is genuine Personally we care
not which it is, impartally holding the idols and
his worshippers political notions in Just the same
respect; but still we stand warranted TO claim in
argument that the latter shall fly in the face of
the former and denounce the apostle of his own
creed. Surely the teachers wisdom must be little,
if the scholar knows much the more.
But let us now look at the course of reasoning
which conducts the submissive adorer of Jackso-
Man interpretations to conclusion in utter over
throw Of tho great oracle's decisions.
First, President Polk objects to the bill lately
vetoed by him. that it embraces objects of local
character and that if such appropriations those
in this bill are constitutional there can be no limit
to the power it can reach every where.
Now, this may be very true but, as we have
seen, II is so written in Jacksonian law the bills
that we have cited contain items strictly local, Just
much as does this bill. But the distinction be-
tween local and national is impracicable for, un.
less that only De national chich is directly benef
ciai 10 every individual Of the nation al once, and
that only local ,0hich adds an Advantage enfirsiy
confined 10 the spot improved, what human wit can
draw the line at which things cease to be local and
begin to be national The whole is but an agrre-
cation of the parts and benefit not only to each
locality, but to every individual, is so far gain to
the entire society. In all things, and particularly
in physical Improvement, there is no local good
which is without its national effect nor no national
good which does not confer much greater benefit
at particular place than at all others. The dis
tnction is impossible, then, except TO word-catch-
ers the moment you come to things and practice,
1t must be given up. And so Mr.. Polk himself
presently shifts to other rules, rreconcable with
his hrst; an Improvement within a State is, he
thinks, beyond the Federal power; an improve
ment out of salt water is, he AYERS, forbidden; and
all improvements for commercial purposes must
reach from State 70 State embracing al least f,oo in
their effects. Now, an Improvement within State
las the Louisville canal may connect whole regions
Of States: lake harbor may be hundred times
more important than little seaport; and certainly
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