The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-19

rpeal, which rings like the shout of Partisan mob
from the Nsrth. Public arming in South Carolina
and battle and bloodshed in Michigan The espe
| cial endorsement Of Seward in the New York WINS
Convention, and the humiliation of the wings raj
lying upon the administration platform of the tarif
| in Pennsylvania.
We spprehend that the endorsement of Sewarc
| by the wing convention, will be endorsed by the
| New York wing party. Deserted in his own
| State, defeated in Pennsylvania. and left to the
mercy of an opposition majority in both houses OF
country is dstracted-partes are distracted dislo-
Gated and broken up; there is no fraternity among
wings, North and South, and the only elements
united appear TO be the elements of discord.
What, then, can Mr.. Fillmore'do in any great
measures Of wing policy! Nothing WhaI can
he do to re-unte the wing party Nothing. What,
to secure the ascendancy of the wings Nothing.
lie Is at the mercy Of the democrats, and they are
advantages in his favor. he is in position almost
as much entitled to sympathy as John Tyler.
WASHINGTON, Oct. rs, 1850.
kmporf0nt Epents-Openingo # the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal TO Cumberland, Nd.
There was celebration in Cumberland on the
10Th instant, of the opening of the canal from this
District up to the foot Of the Alleghanies and the
coal mines This is event Of great importance
to this District.
The city of Alexandra, alongside of river
seven miles up, TO point opposite Georgetown,
and at an expense of million of dollars, has con-
structed across the Potomac, with the help of
Uncle Sam, an aqueduct, upon which the canal is
carried over the river and joined to the main trunk
Of the canal to Cumberland And why! Because
of the water power for manufacturing purposes
which this canal gives TO Alexandria, and because
of the immense trade expected in the Cumberland
coal by the merchants of Alexandria, in supplying
the neighborhood, and the cities Of Norfolk,
Charleston, Savannah, and the Pacific coast, with
this Cumberland coal for the ocean steamers
On the 4,h Of July, 1923, John Quincy Adams,
then President OF the United States, before an i'm
msnse multitude, assembled at the Little Falls,
four miles above Washington struck The first spade
in the work of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
In putting his spade into the ground il struck root,
SO that with all the pressure Of his foot he could
not sink it. But he was not TO be baked in that
way. He threw oil his coat, took up pick, and
cut out the root, and then applying his spade
in the precise spot where he first struck it, COM
menced the immense work Of the excavation
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal in good earnest.
That was twenty-five years ago. And the canal
has just been completed TO Cumberland. Various
causes have retarded the work-the want OF money
being the principal obstacle The distance from
Washington to Cumberland by the canal is about ITO
miles; and there is no canal in the United States
which, in equal distance, has required 80 much
cutting through solid rocks, or so many locks,
culveIts, tunnels, and aqueducts this, always
excepting the Croton canal, which supplies New
York city with water.
The direct advantages to the cities of the old
ten miles square, Washington, Georgetown, and
Alexandra, will be to reduce coal from some %
and Is cents bushel TO 10 and l2s cents, equal to
round saving OF nearly fifty per cent in fuel.
But Alexandra expects a large business in the
shipment of Cumberland coal to supply the cities
below, and the ocean steamers. Every day the
first boats of coal from Cumberland are expected
at Georgetown and Alexandria, when there will
be celebration of the event, by the corporate
authorities and citizens.