Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-02-13

i" g; sho,o the gerry ogs and Jody Of the Times

The Canadian Parliament sent Commission
to Maine 10 Inquire into the workings OF the
prohbitory liquor law 10 force in that State.
The Commissioners were 50 we'll satisfied that
the effect has been bent fetal that they are about
to make report recommending the auactment
of similar law for the Dominion.
In consequence cf the detention ofcounSeIbs
the ice in East river, the proceeding III the Ill
tun- Beccher case were delayed yesterday TWO
hours. Upon his arrival Mr. E7arts, on the
prourd of iup Urtan; business claiming his atten.
lion, asked that the Court be anj"urued TIL
Monday, and it Was 50 ordered
The Grand Jury at Chicago has found irdlc,-
meuts Against the business managers OF the
mornug aud evening daily papers published III
that city, for publishing lottery advertisements.
The papers will contest the indictments 90 the
ground lnaL the advertls, ueDtS referred to are
not lotteries.
! The claim of the State OF Maryland against
! the United States iur arms taken during the
first days If Tie war, amounting to S64,272,
was yesterday considered by the House Com
mtlec Oh Military atfalrS, a&d II Is said that
! favorable report viii DC made thereon.
q
Davis has withdrawn from the Senatorial con-
test, and that neither Of the Republican contest
ants is pow a candidate. Everything, it is said
is now wide opeu. land every Republican member
may vote a. he pcaSes.
| |, is said that negotiations arc OF foot be-
tween tue Erie Railroad Company and Senator
! Stewart, Of Nevada fer the purchase OF the
Grand Opera House, New York aud were e1-
, expected to close last evening
A special telegram to Ottawa, from Winnie
peg, says: The outIawry Of Riel was completed
yesterday by means of proclamation ID the
Court of the Queens Beach.
la the Cauadian House Of Commons Oh
Thursday plight. the debate on the amnesty of
those implicated in the Northwest troubles was
commenced.
Urdcr decision of the Massachusetts, Sup
RENE Court yesterday, PouIeroy, the Boston
boy murderer will be sentenced TO be hanged.
EXTENSION or THE CHESAPEAKE AND
ONO CANAL. The Vice President laid before
the Senate yesterday preliminary report of
Major VIM. Il. Merrill, United States corps CT
engineers, submitted in compliance with the
act of June %, lo74 directing a survey and
estimate to be made for the extension Of the
Chesapeake ana Ohio canal FROM Cumberland
Nd, to pittsburg, Pa. 1t appears from this
report that the line of the proposed canal has
been d, fnitciy located from Cumberland to a
point two miles north of Ohio Py lie falls. The
sun allotted Tor the survey vas insufficient 10
carry the work beyond this point. The total
distance surveyed was seventy-elsht miles,
leaving seventeen miles yet TO be surveyed IN
order TO reach ConucllsvIle, at which place 1t
is expected that the canal will terminate, and
that the remainder Of the line TO the mouth OF
the Youghiougheny may be completed by
slack water navigation III the river itself. The
lower portion OF the river from West Newton
to its mouth, a distance OF une' cen miles, was
surveyed urder Major Mcrrlli's direction 10
1872 The distance between Cnnncllsvlle and
West Newton is twenty four miles. There is,
therefore, yet to be surveyed seventeen mics
Of canal aud rwenty.fnur ucs of river. The
reason why the survey did not reach Councils
Vile was on account OF the extraordinarily dlttl-
cult nature of the line, made yet more compll-
Gated by the occupancy Ct the narrow valley by
railroad built 90 the exact site originally
chosen for the canal The railroad fully doubles
the difficulties in .raversiDg tie valley of Wills
creek.
Tie conclusion thus far reached is that it is
simply Impossible to construct canal OF the
usual type between Cumberland and the sum-
nit level. This conclusion, Major Merrill says,
substantially holds for the route surveyed In
1873 by way of tie North branch OF the Poto.
mac and Savage rivers. Whichever route be
chosen for the canal, this portion of it must OF
necessity be wholly or partly built after the
style so long in successful use Oh the Morris
and Essex canal, that is by the ascent Of the
heavier grades by inlincd planes. On this
canal, at places where the lift is so great that
it would otherwise require many locks and
short-pools, the boats arc taken on carriages,
whose platforms are horizontal, but whose
wheels are at different heights, conforming to
the slope of the planes. These carriages are
drawn up by water power obtained from tur-
blue wheel placed at the lowest attainable po
sition, and supplied with wafer from the lower
level.
Major Merrill says no canal has ever been
built Oh a line presenting Such formidable OBJ
staces to be overcome as this Will 5 creek d.
vision, bur he considers it due to the import
ant interests which desire it that full report
should be made as TO its praclicatiIlty. He
therefore earnestly recommends that aO appro-
pItdtIOC VI l"Sulg lHOuSduu uOilals NC SlautCO
to complete the survey.
A REMARKABLE STORY.-A Philadelphia
dispatch says: Four years since VIM. r. Ha
worth, between ten and eleven years of age
disappeared mysteriousy from this city and
search by his parents proved unaYallug. Re-
Gently his father, Richard Haworth, received a
letter from his missing son, dated Shiloh, st.
Clair county, Illinois, and through the exer-
tons of Postmaster Fairman aud the postnas-
ter at Shiloh, the boy has been restored to his
family. The boy states tina: on the day he dis
appeared he had gone to his Uucle Sau 5, and
on his way back had taken street car In
the car he met John Morgan and went with
him to a saloon and took a drink of mead to
queDch his thirst. He was seized with diz
ziness afterwards, and wheu he recovered he
ti,und hin salf in q railr al car with the mau