The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-06-13
From tie PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.
The Last Great Scheme for Plumber.
Shall we. be Compelled to Pay Taxes for
our own Commercial Ruin?

| i nat scheme so 1n0nstrouS as tnaL WHICH
seeks to enlarge and improve the railroads or
canals of particular State, at the expense OF
the people of the whole United States, is to be
vigorously forced through Congress if possible,
is evident from the concert of action visible in
the press OF New York. Yesterdays issue of
the principal metropolitan" journals all con-
tain concentrations Of the project The first
step was the passage of the Act Of Assembly,
to which we have already called attention. This
generous piece of New York legislation agrees
that the locks Of the State Canals may be en-
larged Immediately, 'whenever the General Gov
''ernment shall furnish the means either in mo.
''liey or in United States six per cent stocks" d"
Liberal Legislators! Noble New York! They
will permit their public works TO be infinitely
increased in value if the patient tax payers of
the whole country viii obligingly foot the bills.
And mark the amazing liberality of the terms
the jobbers in whose behoof this wholesale plum
der of the National Treasury is to be authoriz-
ed will take--either ".noney" or ''United States
six per cent. stocls!' Was there ever before so
sublime an example 4 otriodc devotion 't0
our noble selyesP'
Il But this is not ALL The disinterested act OF
the liberal legislature aforesaid actually provides
that after the General Government has paid for
the job, the boats and war munitions OF the ma
ton shall 90 through without toll There is an
intimation, too, that the National Government
which at this time has, of course, great deal
more money than it knows what TO do with
shall have the privilege of enlalging the Cham
plain canal on the same generous terms; and
the right TO build small canal OF twelve miles,
from Clyde to Lake Ontario, is also extended for
the consideration of the Government. Such o.
pen-hearted bounty stands without parallel, and
we cheerfully assist in blazonng it to the world.
Two questions, however, will obtrude them
selves upon prudent and inquiring minds-what
will be to pay! and whv should the whole peo-
pie of the United States be called upon to pay
it? As to the first, the minimum amount is ea-
SLY stated -Four millions dollars, at least, will
be required for the Erie and Oswego canals, and
three aad half millions for the Champlain ca
nal These are the estimates of interested par
ties. Double them, treble them, or quadruple
them, and YOU may be even then below the truth.
{ But what are seven, ten, twenty or thirty mil
|. lions, in these times!
J Now, with regard to the second obtrusive que
ry: Why should the people of Maine, or Mas
! sachusetts. or Pennsylvania, or Maryland, or
Missouri be compelled to pay their proportion of
even the least of these insignificant tens of mill
J lions The prime object of the prime movers of
the scheme is to create an enormous job. To
!; secure this, the Albany lobby, which has done
so much already 10 corrupt the Government and
TO plunder the Treasury during the existing war,
have been careful in their acts of Assembly to
, provide that the enlargement shall be done by
the "State Canal Board" 7Rey are to handle
ard disburse the cash. Otherwise, the country
may be assured Mey would never bother their
heads about it, Albany operators waste no time
upon any matters unless they pay. The hope
: of manipulating the millions involved is, there
fore. the potent motor impelling this scheme.
/, But this of itself would not do. According
I " New York city has been excited by the pros
, pect of a monopoly of the Lake and Western
. trade which the successful accomplishment Of
this scheme makes certain. The entire freight.
age of the boundlcss West is TO be concontra-
ted without transhipment in her docks and in
her harbor.
This rich and tempting prize is relied on
confidently and with reason to bring all the en-
eroes of the Metropolis to bear in favor of the
measure at Washington.
From these statements the merchants OF Bos-
ton, of Philadelphia, OF Baltimore, and the
the heavily burdened taxpayers OF all theState
may see the imminent danger of this neiarlous
unjust and oppressive scheme forcing its way
through Congress. And they will also perceive
in these statements why they should not be COM
PEELED to pay taxes for such purpose. 1t is
proper enough for New York to grasp the whole
trade of the West if she can, but she must not
he permitted to make other cities and States pay
the bills If she wishes to fattcn her greedy
iobbcrs, lobbyists and spectators with unlimited
plunder, let her throw open the specie vaults
and bullion boxes of Wall street, and invite
them to help themselves there
Will our merchants call the attention of their
Senators and Representatives to the matter, by
asking them to intermit their devotion to the
s'ocntlemen from Africa" long enough TO see that
our city and State are not compelled to pay tax
es to effect their own commercial ruin?
, erInouiry is frequently made respecting the
mode of putting gloss ON linen collars and
shirt bosoms like that on new linen This
! ross, or enamel as it is some times called, is
produced mainly by friction with warm iron,
and may be put on linen by almost any person.
} The linen to be glazed receives as much starch
as it is possible to chargeit with, then tbs dried
To each pound of starch piece of sperm par
! aine, or white wax, about the size OF a walnut,
! Is usually added. When ready to be ironed the
linen is laid upon the table and moistened very
slightly on the surface with clean wet cloth.
1t is then ironed in the usual way with fat
iron, and is ready for the glossing operation
, For this purpose a peculiar heavy flat-iron,
rounded at the bottom and polished as bright as
mirror, is used. 1t is passed firmly upon the
linen and rubbed with much force, and this frc-
tional action puts on the gloss. 'Elbow grease
is the principal secret connected with the art Of
glossing linen.