Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-09-24

rneement with the several States through which the road
passes TO establish tolls each within its limits for the
purpose Of deayng the expense Of future repairs and
Of providing ALSO by suitable penalties for its protection
against future injuries
Before his retirement Mr.. MoSRoE had given in his
adhesion system Of policy adopted at the close Of Mr.
Madisons term, (but repudiated by modern Demo-
Gratis embracing national bank plan for the gradual
payment Of the public debt for terrifying the coast and
increasing the navy and for encouraging by adequate
protection the manufactures and the country And
to these "a fair bogrxpher adds Mr., Monroe
finally after long delberation and with the entire
renee Of lis ,ehole Cabinet By repeated demonsa
tons Of Congress- determined TO add system of internal
improvement. This dsae on the 30th April, 1924,
when the act appropriatag 1000 for the survey Of
such routes for canals and public roads the President
might direct received his sanction The public feeling
at that time in favor of internal Improvement.
In his eighth annual (and last message December Z
1924 President Monroe thus refers the subject of in
terna improvements
The provisions the several acts of Congress of the
last session. for the improvement Of the of the
Mississippi and the Ohio, of the harbor of Prcsque Isle
on Lake Erie and the repair of the Plymouth beach,
in of regular execution; and there is to
believe that the appropriation in each instance will be
adequate to the object To carry these improvements
fully into effect the superintendent Of them has been
assigned to officers of the corps Of engineers
under the of the 30th April last authorizing the
President to cause survey to be made, with the
sary plans and OF such roads and canals he
might deem OF national Importance in a commercial or
military point of view, for the transportation Of the
mail board has been instituted consisting of two dis
ngaished officers of the corps Of engineers and dstn
gushea civil engineer with assistants who have been
lively employed in carrying into eect the objects of the
act They have carefully examined the route between
the Potomac and the Ohio rivers between the latter and
Lake Erie between the Allegheny and the Susquehnna;
and the routes between the Delaware and the Rartan,
anHR NIL afx Raatop har-
ker and Narragansett Bay Such portions of the
Of typographical engineers could be spared from the
survey Of the coast have been employed in surveying the
very important route between the Potomac and the Ohio
Considerable progress has been made in it, but the
be completed until season. 1t is gra-
thyme run the view already taken, that there is
good cause to believe that this great national object
| be fully accomplished
It is contemplated early in the
the execution of the other branch of the act that
which relates to roads, and with the survey Of route
from this city, through the Southern States to New Or
leans the Importance of which cannot be too highly esti
mated All the officers Of both the corps of engineers
who could be spared from other services have been
loyed in exploring and surveying the routes for canals
To digest plan for both objects for the great purposes
specified viii require thorough knowledge of every part
OF Union and Of the relation of each part the Others
and Of all to the seat of the General Government For
such digest it will be necessary that the information be
full minute, and precise With view to these import
ant objects submit to the consideration of Congress the
proprety Of enargng both the corps of engineers the
military and typographical"
Mr. MONROE was nearly fftyeight years Of age when
he entered upon the Presidency. He died at the age Of
seyenty-two.l