Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-02-07

The CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.-In 4 very
recent report to that body the Attorney General OF
the State of Virginia has advised the Virginia
Legislature to make that State party with the
preferred bond holders to suit for the transfer of
the future management of the affairs of the Chesa
Pcahe and Ohio Canal Company to their hands,
as per clause in the charter, or their agreement
with the company. which works such a forfeiture
in case of the failure of the work, through mis-
management, tU yi,ld ont rovonu. to 20 Tie.
interest on the bonds.
That such right ia vested i'm the bond holders
in such contingency, is as clear rs that the work
has been managed for years past by Maryland
Public Works Commissioners only to subserve
two ends. First; to prevent it from competing with
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by doing paw
ing freighting business; and, next as a sort of
hospital for decayed or hungry small politicians of
the party (politicaD controlling the Public w orks'
Board for the time being. AS managed under
under such auspices, we care not which party Is in
power, not only the State of Virginia. that now
holds more than a million of its liabilities but
corporations and thousands Of ind viduals who al so
hold them in some shape or other, are robbed mcst
fagrantly and shamelessly.
Such management of trust by an individual
as that of the canals affairs by Maryland-for the
State is responsible in this case-woud cause the
individual to be hooted out Of society as an un.
blushing swindler. The injured parties, among
whom are all the people of the District of Column
bia, as well as all the holders of Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal stock and bonds, it strikes us, may no
longer hope that the Legislature Of MARYLAND can
be persuaded to act honestly in the premises
Their remedy, If any there be, lies only in the
successful prosecution of the suit law referred
to above-the end of which will be an1iously
awaited here, as at length afording some hope
that the canal will eventually make good some
of its original promises to those whose honestly
earned money is locked upon it,
To MARISERs-NEw LIGHT. HoI,Es &C.-On
and after the LIST day of March, 1861 a light will
be exhibited from the lighthouse erected on East
Point, forming the eastern side of Madonado BAY.
on the north side Of the entrance to the Rio de la
Plata.
The light is now exhibited from the liy ht tower
recently erected OH the western point Of Grind.
stone island, on the New Brunswick shore, at the
head of the Bay Of Fundy
On the night Of the 3lst Of March, 1860. and
every night thereafter. light will be exhibited
from sunset to sunrise at the lighthouse now in
course Of erection at Cay Lobos, situated IN the
old Bahama channel, on the southwestern edge
of the Great Bahama Bank.
light is now exhibited from the licht-tower
recently erected on the hill Of the Torreta in thu
province of Barcelona, OH the south coast of
Spain.
Official Information has been received from
Lieut. w. II. Stevens, Engineer Of the Ninth
Llght-House District. that the new light house
at Ship shoal has been completed. 1t will be
lighted for the first time at sunset on the evening
Of Wednesday, the 29th inst, and will be kent
burning during that night and every night there
after
From recent survey 1t has been found that the
east point of the island Of Buda, at the mouth of
the river Ebro, province Of Barcelona, Spain, had
advanced considerably lit is said four miles) TO
the eastward beyond that marked In the Spanish
chart Of the year 1888
P THE AGRICULTURAL BrREAU.-We perceive
that it has been determined to divorce the Aori
cultural Bureau of the Interior Department from
its late connection with the Patent Orice-a sep
sible move, for which Secretary Thompson de
serves the thanks Of the country Its connection
with the Patent Bureau never was legitimate, and
always was a source Of embarrassment to both
The new head of the bureau Mr. Clemson. we
regard as being better fitted to make il of sub
stantial value to the country at large than any
other gentleman We know Of. First, because he
is entirely above and beyond the reach of sinister
influences in his conduct Of the trust Next, be-
cause he is one Of the best informed scientific ae
riculturists, and one Of the most experienced
practical farmers in the land and person of great
industry, intelligence and energy of character
and, lastly, because be is impelied &c undertake
the labor only through the ardor CT his devotion
70 the cause OF American agricultural progress.
The public will look 10 him not in vain, we
know well, to correct at once hatever abuses