Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-04-27
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Amusements, &C, Tonight.

amusements, &c. Tonight.
NATIONAL TERATKR--.UncIe Toms Ca,in. =,
SAhTEkEu ny HALL.-Pantomime, ballet and
CtLsT attractions.
PROF. SMITHS Art Gallery, 3Oi Psnnsvl-
vAnia avenue large number Of new cnromos
lust received
METROPOLITAN HALL AND VARIETY TaEa-
TIRE. Pennsylvania avenue, between lin ard
18th streets. open every night-with a first
class entertainment
WALLS OPERA HoUsE.-Robert NickIe, the
great Prestidg ateur.
LEST's NEW YokK CIRCUS, Iith stree, near
pennsylvania avenue.
MARKRITERs, isG 7th street.-The pictures
On exhibition.
CARROLL HALL.-Readings from the Poets.
by Mrs. ID. Ruth.
TEE WASHINGTON CRY CANAL-THE PROF.
csITlON TO DlsPOSE OF lila night Mr.
l. b. >. Miller. the Board of Common
Council. submitted a lengthy report as chair.
man Of the committee 10 whom was referred
ne OIL providing Tor transferring the city
canal 10 The Chesapeake and Potomac Canal
Company. The report states that tie CONTRA
tors OF me Chesapeake ana Potomac Canal
company, 70 whom IL is proposed 10 transfer
n. canal are men OF chaTaCte and er tarprlse
who VIII carry out what they agree 10 do; ma
he survey mace IN lSOJ by =. III. Sweet, engi.
nser II CLaTge shows that n canal from the
Eas-e-I Branch 70 Annapolis i feasible IN.
distance being less than twenty-five mile.
That he Oh 80 Of the Chesapeake and Poro
y = no.
Ieake ana OAio Canal where it was originally
desires 10 b. carried. viz 70 the Chesapeake
oaN. and that can only be done by pissiug
,LIoC-n me Washington Canal 10 tie Eastern
BiSncE. After referring 10 the acts RELAXING 20
me "a canal and giving a sketch OF the s..ms.
M ~ says That IL an action % recover
wharfage o. ths Cooperation against party
VINO hao landed fTetsht upon the wharf near
l9th .-He' wes-, IL was decided by the Judge
oe-o:e hOm The cause was tried that the c;ty
Esd -J-:ri.e6 ali rights 70 the canal, aud there
+ar-- Toll ar harF P1rffd
charged by ne CIiy, and the Mayor, IA re-
moving the Engineer of the Canal and he IA
nal Commissioned. recognized the fact that tue
City had forfeited all right 10 the canal. He
also refers 10 tie Corporation having beer in.
GIcred Tor maintaining nuisance in permit
ting the canal TO remain ITS present condition.
Tue hartman of the committee believing that
The Cooperation has nc legal or eq uitable right
20 The canal, and thar in entering into the agree
ment proposed by The bill in question. the Cor
pOraiion merely transfers a posSessory right or
tiile- The passage of the bill in question IS
earnestly recommended for the following
among other reasons
I. The canBl Is the only means OF conducting
The accumulation of the various sewers from
eyerv direction 10 the river, commencing rear
the Eastern Branch and running TO Rock
Greek, because II lies between a large part of
the city north and east OF the canal and the
Potomac river; and the water from al least
seyen-eghths of the Seventh Ward naturally
hOws INTO the canal. and IL is therefore an abso-
lutte PHYSICAL necessity 10 keep this canal open
ae receptacle for the sewers. The waters of
TIber Creek must also be taken care OF which
precludes the possibility OF covering the canal
over ana by deepening IL so that boats draw.
ing four feet of water can constantly pass
through ~, with the fresh water from Ro,k
CTeek and the Tiber. and the tide from the
ta>tefE Branch. there is not the slightly poss,.
biEty that any offensive smell would ever
eIEanaie from IL, the water being a perfect
deodoriIer OF any filth or debris that would
ever enter the canal.
Secord- The commercial advantages 20 be de.
ri'ed from ihe passage OF the bill can scarcely
De estimated. The trade and commerce result
lIs iIom conttp UOUs line OF canal and river
navigation from the Erie and PepusyIyania
canals-the great cities of the North ana the
Distinct OF Columbia, and the Cumberlaue coal
mines and the Ohio Nalley-would be meal.
cElab.e- When bvats that now navigate the
Erie canal Of TWO hundred and forty tons bur-
thrn can load IN the city OF Buffalo, or any
other city on the Erie canal-or the Hudson
rlver-or the Delaware or RarItan canaI-or
the Delaware riyer-or the SusQuenauna
riveT-Or chesapeake bay-and dis barge their
caTgoes IN the spacious harbor az west Seven
trehtn street and washington canal. and there
take IN TWO Chesapeake and Ohio ca nal boat
loads OF Cumberland coal and return through
me Washington canal ana the Chesapeake ana
Potomac canal TO Annapolis, up the bay 10 tne
Chesapeake and Delaware canal, Constructed
IN 1893. thence up the Delaware river past
Philadelphia, % Bordentown, thence through
Inc Delawar- and Raritan canal 10 New York
CITY or other destination, the monopoly of the
Baltimore and Ohio and other RAILROADS VIII he
broken. and Washington city will begin 10 as
Il e.
sired ny all classes Of her citizens and hum
dreCs Of her idle lahorers VIII b. enabIed 10
md employment The distance from wash
IEgtOn 70 New York by this route Is 56i mites
sIc 70 PhIladelphIa bur I52 miles And b. ms
route the canal 70 Annapolis from Rosk creek
VIII De but twenty-eIght miles, the Cnesapea
and Delaware canal Il miles. and the Della.
ware and Rarltan canal IS miles, makIng less
Than stgAty.trc Hstss q ana, the tolls O: which
Will BE- very little more than the insurance by
Sea-going vessels. TheamcUnt Of Cumberland
.. -r-Q Ias
L5@iiO % tons. Of which amount abou, l.lOJ,UOO
tons was carried oy rail 10 Locust Point, Bal
1mOTe and shout $4,000 TONS came DOM the
tLesapedke and Ohio canal. Is II not safe To
assume that. upon the completion o: the ChaS.
apeake and Potomac canal, and the conue,-io1
made with the Chesapeake ana Oaio canal
through the washington canal &. Rock c-.ek
a. proposed by the bill under Consideration a
very large. aye, the malOr, par; of all the
tunoerlaEd coal yearly reaching tide water
VIII pass through this city; and II SO, is MOI
the material prosperity OF washington, OF
Vhleh our leading business men are won't 10
iaHe 90 deep an interest, almost assured,
he says that be Is constrained 10 believe
ECrn ne consideration which he has been able
10 give the SUBJECT and the facts herein So
form. that this project - one OF vital Import-
ahSe 70 the taxpayers OF this city; because IL
Will -eLeve hem CT the btrden OF sooner or
later thoroughly cleansing out the canal and
he Dram On their pockets will not stop tlere
An appropriation viii necessarily We 10 be
mace yearly 70 Keep A. clear, ana af,e- that -
done j. VIII be OF very little sonseouanc. an a
commercial point Of view. The proposed
MEASURE IS the only enc that viii meei one of
cur commercial wan;s-a cheap conuection
with ne North and West
NJ. Miller SUBMIT the report as from The
tSllli.--Te' bdt co'eC'ioH having been made
ma me uo5ect no. having been considered IN
committee meeting Tas not properly a raport
q he committee. NJ. ii. Agreed H. l. should
D. SOEs.GsTed simply as tue report OF the CHAIR
I1an-
tlIl- RNsHiP EN MARRIAC E.-Thp Supreme
toUTF % he nItst S-a-eS has rendered ne
following decision n the case OF Eden Kelly
As hcNaro Owens OF appeal from he Su-
PRIME OUTt OF lie DIstiISt CT CllumbIs -
-; Eat any alien White woman married 10
a ti-llen OF me nItSd States i a c.tiZen und4-
r. AZ O. ION February, l-Jj, which Is Ip the
lCi.C'' nG EeJagn- Any women who might
ia' iG4!y IL Aa.B-a4llsd under existing In VS.
married or who shall oe married 20 q citizen Of
ne Ei'1d STATES -baii b. deemed and tas-p
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