, 1866-01-05

/ or = ,hou,der to tie other wil not do T. r.
musx be paid ont Of the national pEpdpctsL
by the cotton OF the soulh and tho srain Of
ito West, To be sure He arc Increasing the
dow ort With almost electric speed 10 Europe
10 nay for our imports At tho South tde
want Of o5Vauized llLor Will interfere for some
i;mc TO como with tbs production Of cotton,
ana when we turn to tho g7est staples Of The
| West, nc find ourselves embarrassed BY the
present imperfect neans Of transportation.
DO We pay for L.: By our bonds-our prom
lien to pay In the fusure-uot 8 payment in
fact. Now want to lnauguG1te system BY
| which We can pay cur national debt ont oi
| the earth. -
cesaities OF the country, think that Congress
ports. It Is well known that we aro sending
abroad not more than two or three per cent
| OF our food products to all the foreign mar
/ kets- England does not take enc per cent OF
| them this year. In the fiscal year ending IN
1850, the manufacturing centres Of Europe
Because the other continent brought, It 70
| those manufacturing centres cheaper than It
could be brought from the West, Only when
there i abort crop In Europe do we h91e
I anything like demand for our food, and that
Europe E. 70 s Is 80 desraaed that they cannot
produce food much, any, lower, Now II
We csu 80 materially reduce the cost Of trans
postation to che seaboasd as to create q de-
mand abroad for ten per cent Of our food, we
can get back the hundreds Of millions Of dol
export, nnd thus bring down tho premium
No portion Of the United States Is 80 much
interested In this question IS New England
Hence, preferred TO bring 1t first bcforo the
B9ata Of Trade Of ,his city; and tha Com.
appropriate committee to which first to sub
mit this plan. have come ho1o believing you
will appreciate tho subject and give Ii tho
consideration 1t deserves. I intend to submit
II to the different boards oi Trado at tho
Of the leading gentlemen Of the West, and
they arc alive On the subject havo found,
by tho way, that the West Is already u1anutac-
turing. agricultural implements. nails, tSe.
ton factory. Cincinnati clains to be-
the third manufacturing city in the Union.
It is because she Is 80 situated as to have
cheap transportation, cheap labor and cheap
food At Chicago found atnoug the leading
capitalists but one wish: i" Give rs some sys-
TEN by which we can get our gra1n to mar
kes." They are ready to co-opcrate In any
p1an. At Detroit found . large shoe factory
making boots and shoes by machinery. Last
year they made 9S00, 600 worth, and tho su-
Fcrhtendsnt. told me that some Of them were
sold TO merchants In Boston. New England,
| therefore, should look to her lntcrcats-to tho
| interests Of her children and her children's
children. II VIC can speedily lnaugurate
reduction OF the cost Of transportation to
one-haH or one-third, New England may hold
her way for another twenty -dvc years to come
without fear. The march Of Improvement l.
onward, aud New England should avail hcr-
| self Of every agency.
3fr. Day here submitted testimonials OF &C.
svcral eminent engineers in favor OF the prac-
t1cabiIisy or the plan, and stated that ho
had not found and did not expect To- fad on
engineer or standing In America who would
| fer mcmcnt question Its feasibility. It was
d question Of mere dollars and cents. and tho
application OF we'll known physical forces.
From all the Information be could ge: ho be-
ucyed 1t Wo1ld not cost as Eluch to build in-
I clfncd pfanes with double locks as It would to
blild locks In The locn!ity Of Niagara Falls.
He proposed to ask- the aid Of Congress In
| the great work OF internal improvement, but
not ill at once The first step was to make
connection between the lakes, around tho
Falls. That he proposed to got 1t this session
! OF Congress. Afterwards the connection with
the seaboaTd could be ELECTED.
| In response to Inquiries Of the chairman In
| regard to the relative cost and tho saving of
| time, Mr.. Day submitted the statements OF
engineers and others giving the time Of pass
Ing through the 1YeIlaud Canal as about thirty
hours each way A shipping merchant at
Toronto statea 10 Mr.. D. that the uniform time
Of passing through q lock wa5 halF IN hour,
ard thai the amount Of toll and other charges
Was forty-one cents ton with vessels Of 450
and SEQ tons, for the whole distance OF
twentY-nfne miles.
4 member Of tho committee inquired If
there was at present In use any inclined plane
approaching IN magmtude tho one now pro-
posed.
Mr.. Day-I do not know of any except in
the Morris Canal where they overcome IN the
aggregate 1,d00 feet elevation In the whole
distance. The size OF the vesscls on that
CANALS 100 tons; they arc not borne up in
tho wateP band the grades arc much sleeper
than those that propose.
The Chaitman-Etaye you examined the
question OF time sufficiently to be sure that
You will require no longer than 50 minutes by
your plan to pass vessels up $50 ieet!
eminent engineer Of twenty yeass' experience
in the use Of inclined plnnes, Mr. W. Il. Tai
colt, Superintendent Of the Morris Canal,
| who says:
~To construct canal with loek. VIII cost uors
than 10 eonht1uct 1t with inclined p1xnea.
"1he uansit!on from lake to hkt1 By means Of
planes, n2ny be made In one.tenth the time that
would b required to make the .aao BY mcans Ct
"Aye1perienceo OF twenty years on the No.r,s c.
E3l wherr 1!4D ieet elesation Il overcome BY mems
81 planes, and 43 feet BY means Of locks, warrants
ths asteE.ion, TIN, Inclined planes properly ton
tzucted and operate arr as certain md etcti,c or
The passage Of eonfs Or vessels = locks"
~ vessel Of coo tons caszo could be carried o,
y NIL. tae sessel was only 1e0 feet long. Of II
wheels Or rails 10 any greater service than those
now used en- 'ae Aesrts canal"
VI havc had charge Of hi. canal IS years, during
ali which time It has been used q. coal carrying
conaL y oscrcotues 1.ii9 feet e.c71tiou BY means
Of % inclined planes. When camc hcre tbs car
goes wcsc enl1 1S tons. Tie canal has been en-
lsrl and The planes adapted 10 100 ton cargoes
Tue planes work w1th tho SANG ccsta1nty Is the
ftct no detention at the planes.
"a mile Of eara1, embracing N # plane with
icy tcet eleSa,rS. = passed quite =. quick aa
n1i!e Of Iesel csnl. This Is my experience, with
As to tie question OF planss for large boats, my
/ opinlcn Is that they can be ADAPTED to any size
,a1io ara ,te Ere canal at Rochester, can s. over
cene by ONO p!anc, that would require bat fen
moments for its paEeaRe tha. planes could be SUBJ
anlutcd TOR locks, on the Etia e1na1 ii Lockport,
Little Falls, Cohees, nith great aaraataas Is tho
By which all yesecls That naElgate the upper is1es
tas:o- lhe plaucs on this canal have cost about
orehftd as much q locks would haye cost to over
% sc.1e re f, same nc ssvs;ton think that ha,f The
lsr:e ssnnatc fer the cost OF paucs for The saro
Nj. D. also read a letter from Messrs. &c.
cor 4 Co.. dry dock builders, of New York,
| giving their opinion very freely In favor OF
this plan, and stating that vessels can DO
minutes,
1ou cannot doubt the practisabflity Of this
pan when yon come to The faetsnn agures-
Let Your own chosen engineers examine and
report upon it. II an engaged in d thing
which is all wrong, and asking aid for II AZ
Washington, let your protest 70 forth there
against me- Put me down for rive you
notice that an going to work with all nv
my other that is not SO good. / apprchend
when new idea Of such importance as this
Is born, 1t Is going to march forward mud
mike It's way through the world I certainly
shall push ii with all my might.
= Al the conclusion OF the hearing Mr..
nously adopted. the following resolution:
Rtso!red. That Tho thanks of the Transportation
Committee Of ihe Boston Board Of Ttade be, and
and iate1esti9x pFe4entafion he. hss mads ot ths
subject Of Inclined planes as substiiuta Ior lock-
o a. es sh sa1 around s Fss
fhe cummtree Will gtse such consideration 10 tho
merit. OF tho question a. its great importance d.
1EAticc to Our SoIdiers-The BounkY
and Pension Question.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Dec 81, 1865.
NctNs. Editors:
An article In your paper Of the Goth Inst,
headed National Findnces'' and 4leucd
"Publc Good,' carries the idea very strongly
that because the Government Is In debt that
bounties should not be equalized AMONG the
soldiers by the present Congress- Now 1t
seems 50 plausible that the volunteer Of 1861
and 'Co kaould receive at least as much bounty
as il be had enlisted ia 1858 or 81 that your