Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-12-20

ais around The FdHs-RdH Road TO The Ms
sissippi-Pork Business, Sc.,-Ddyton Rail
Road-Litera,y Lectures.
CINcINSATTI, Dec. 6, 1851.
To The Editor Of The Bugle: Since my last
we have had a moderate degree Of rain, and
not little cloudy, damp, disagreeable, win
try weather. The River has not risen TO as
high stage as was desired, but there has
been water enough to bring down large
quantities of coal from above, to reduce the
price of Fuel, aud give a start TO all kinds OF
business. Our wharves nre at present crowd
ed with steamers for almost every point
above and below, aud transportation has set
in in good earnest. However, large mny be
the quantities of freight offered for shipment
this winter, there will be sufficient num-
Der of boats to take it all away. Quite u
number of fine Steamers have been building
here during the past summer and fall, some
of which have come out and entered the
trade, and others are now in process ofcom-
pletion.
Among the latter may be mentioned the
james RoJb, large Boat nearly finished,
which will surpass in size and magnificence
nny thing ever turned out of our ship-yards.
She measures on deck 300 feet in length;
her wnter wheels are 80 feet in diameter,
With IL feet bucket she has five boilers
AZ inches in diameter, and 30 feet long; her
engines 26 inches cylinder, and 8 feet
al. INN
we'd s,yle, and it is thought will exceed in
costiness aud beauty any thing of the kind
on the Western waters. The main cabin
will be 275 feet in length. Under the ladies
cabin is an apartment for n nursery, for chill
dren aud servants, so constructed that 1t will
be impossible for children TO fall overheard,
nffording at the same time fine play ground
for them, This will be the most spacious,
costly, and perhaps flcetest boat that ever
left our landing. She is intended for the st.
Louis and New Orleans trade.
A vigorous movement has been commen-
ced by the Steam Boat Owners and others
interested, in ST. Louis, Louisville and this
city, to get the distractions to the navigation
of the Ohio ut the Falls, removed. II is well
known that the Louisville aud Portland
Canal only partially overcome these diff
cuties, being too contracted TO admit large
Boats such us are now built, and charging
such heavy rates for toll, that the Boats can
not afford TO pay them. This has been
subject of complaint for the last twenty years,
md petitions are now circulating, asking
Congress to purchase all private stock in the
present Canal, and abolish the tolls entirely,
making the passage free; and also to make
an appropriation sufficient to construct an
other capable of receiving the largest ves-
sells built on the Western waters. The locks
in the present canal are only l95 feet, while
boats of from $50 to 300 feet, are now fire.
auently built The vast amount of Tonnage
passing through this Canal, or over the Falls
every year, and the rapid increase Of busi-
ness of late years-the prospective magnl-
tude also of the Commerce of the Great
West, make these improvements of the high
est importance and are ably set forth in me
MORALS. 1t is fragrant shame, that while
the most munifcent appropriations are nn-
nually made for harbors at the East, Con-
gress should refuse to extend fostering care
over the interests of the West, which are just
MS National in their character.
1t seems that the great enterprise of con-
Meeting ST. Louis and CINCINNATI, by dl-
rect line of Railway, is no longer problem
ntical. The contract has been given to
company in New York, of ample ability 'i
fulfil their engagements, and who have them
selves taken Five Millions of the stock a
par. The right OF way through Illinois ha
been secured; tho route of the Road lVi'
Vincennes) located; and the Directors at 81
Louis have made preparations for commen
cling the work at nn early date. The Rao'
is to be completed in five years. The ad
vantages ofthis great work are so apparen
to the Commerce, the intercourse and all tn
great interests of the West, need not en-