Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 42, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 27 October 1827 — Page 2

MAGNIFICENT PROJECT. From the Netr-Wk Statesman. Canal Sleam navigation route to the Mis sissippi. In contemplating the stupendous en terprizea of this ace of internal improve

ment, we naturally look forward to the consequences and results, which a few vears will produce. One public work completed becomes a stepping stone for th? commencement of others; and thus are we going forward with a progress, which receives new impulses from year to year, to an unparalleled degree of narioaal greatness. It would not, perhaps, be too much to say, that but for the making of the Erie canal our country might have been half a century behind what she is. We now see canals meandering in every state, ascending the Green maintains of the north, and belting the1 towering Alleghanics; at the same time new routes are exploring, and engineers traversing every stream and ravine scattered over a country, extending from the Kennebec of Miine to the Illinois in the west. With many other public works that are adorning our country, are those magnificent watery arches. commencing with one foot on (he Hudson, bending over to the Delaware and Lehigh, and from the Delaware and cru...,iu:ii c .1 I mng the lofty Alleghanies, to the 'Ohio, at Pittsburgh, and with one step more encircling the Ohio ridge, and reaching the shores of our vast inland seas. My object in this article, is to suggest a steam navigation route irom the head of L ike Erie, across the country, pass ing about 30 miles south of the southern extremity of Lake Michigan, to the Mississippi at the mouth of Rock river, in lit. 41, 30; the distance by Vance's map of 1825, is only 370 miles. From this point on the Mississippi it is only 250 miles due west to the mouth of the PI itte, on the Missouri, in lat. 41 degs. From St. Louis to the Platte, the distance is 600 miles. Up the Platte is the modern route to the Rocky mountains and the Columbia river. The data which would be required in making any calculations are, of course, quite imperfect; but the most important thing which the engineer looks at, is a supply of water on the summit levels, and a moderate amount of lockage; and; here it may be remarked, that no part of our country has less obstacles for internal improvement than the district embraced within the Ohio, the Mississippi, J and the Likes; the greatest elevation, of the interior in no place, exceeding 400 from these waters, in some only 300 feet, in a. triangular area of 140,000 square miles. Were these proportions traced on a map or delineated in a diagram, the elevation would appear as a point; indeed, the whole district may be looked upon more as an extended plain than otherwise, as the great valley between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains. Such is the general aspect of a country equal in extent to that part o the United States north and east of the city of Washington. This route would be from the mouth of the Maumee river on Lake Erie up that river in a south-west direction 100 miles to-Fort Wayne; then going over to the head waters of the Illinois 30 miles, and probably the most diificult of any part of the route,, crossing the Little and Eel rivers head waters of the Wabash; then down the Illinois which runs a west course for upwards of 100 miles before it takes its southern direction, to the confluence of the Robertson or the Vermillion up the former or across the country to the R uk river, and down this stream to the Mississippi, 70 miles from the Illinois. From Fort Wayne to the Mississippi, the route will be nearly a west course. From surveys made in the state of 0:uo, from Like Eric to the Ohio river, the summit level on a route in the northeastern part of the state, is 342 feet above L ike Erie. The grand summit of the Ooio canal is 395 feet, and on a route in th western part of the state, the summit is 378 feet above Lake Erie. By the surveys, the Ohio river at Beaver creek, 30 miles below Pittsburgh, is 124 feet higher than the-lake At the mouth of the Scioto, or southern termination of the Ohio call )r it is 90 feet lower, and at Cincinnati 133 feet lower. According to the surveys of the western route, Fort Wayne will be about 3S0 feet above Lake E rie. In a-discussion in Congress list winter, of a canal from the Maumee to the Wabash, it was stated, that with a little deep cutting of 20 feet, for a short distance, a level might be obtained from one river to the other. By the report of commissioners on the Chicago ca- . Waft . . nal route, the Illinois, at the mouth of the Vermillion, is 158 feet lower than Lake Michigan this lake is 30 feet higher than Lake Erie. The Mississip pi, at the mouth of Rock river, is proba bly on about the same level with the Illinois at the Vermillion. There will . a tnen be three or four summit IpvpUthe lockage will be to Fort Wayne 380 fect, thence to the Vermillion 508 feet, thence to the Mississippi, say 100 feet in all, 1,000 fret and from the Mississippi to the Hudson, 730 miles artificial ,"'wu, luciiae will be 1,660

feet about the snme ns that of the Morris canal. The length of that pari of this canal, in the state of Ohio, would be 75 miles; in Indiana, 140; in Illinois 155 miles; it would accommodate for (say 30 miles on each side) a territory of 21,000 square miles, and indirectly, 100,000 more. The Erie canal benefits 12, 000 square mile9 of territory through which it runs. I have hinted that this canal should be of a capacity to admit steam boats. Tfiis is practicable although we are al

most wholly without experiment. The i - ? r .1 a : l : siow iok oi ine lowinif-norse averaging r v not over two or three miles an hour will be found altogether too slow for the pur poses of the rapid communication, which society will require in a few years. The principal objection to steam-boats on canals, is the washing of the banks. In this age of invention it would be strange if some way could not be devised to navigate canals by steam. The canal should be adapted to the steam-boat, and the steam-boat should be adapted to the canal. Oil the Erie canal they are securing the banks against the wash ing with stone and timber. Some other method perhaps in the form of constructing the canal may be made to attain the same object at less expence. Boats may "be made to navigate a canal by steam, constructed for their accom modation, carrying 100 tons or more of freight, and not draw over 3 feet of water. The steam-boats of the Hudson river draw from 2 1-2 to 4 1-2 feet, of from 200 to 4 50 tons, the machinery of some of them weighing 100 tons. We lately heard of three keel boats attacn-j ed to each other with an engine in one of ! them, carrying GO tons of freight, cending the Wabash 450 miles. The Maumee beinjr in the direction of this line of communication, with locks and dams, would afford a navigation for the steam-boats, so also would the Illinois for a. . . a considerable distance, and the two streams thus navigated, would be 200 miles, or more than half the route; this improvement of these rivers could be done at less expense than making an en tire canal along their vidlies. At the western extremity of this route of commu nication thre would be the noble Mis sissippi in a transverse direction, where the same steam-boat would ascend 600 miles to the Falls of St. Ahlhonv; and this place, so loner known onlv as a taut military post, or to the geographer ns the principal or only break in the wa ters of this mighty river, would become a second Lowell, full of the humand hurtle of a manufacturing town. From St Anthony's to Rock river is GOO mile?; thence to Lake Erie, 370; to Buti'al.-, 280; to New-York, 450, in all 1,700 miles: to say this distance mav yet be travelled in eight or ten days, would nol be so much of a prediction as a few vears aero to have said a steam-boat would go from New-Orleans to Lauisville, 1,500 miles, in 8 days, or that another would go from Albany to NewYork, 150 miles in less than 12 hours. Even now, without reference to the great improvements that still await if, we look upou the steam engine as of

more than Archimedean lever-power, at, '"Bring hither the eagle," ke embraced

least in utility.

Its Cost. We can now estimate the.cnr, may the kisses I bestow on you long

the prooable costTof a tow-bout canal from resound in the hear is of the brave! A.i'eu, but impartial surveys. It is believed a my children adieu my brave cunpannavigation from Lake Erie to the Missis- ioos, surround me once more A .i u?" sippi for steamboats of 100 tons or more Droicnca 'in griff, the veteran Soldiers heard may be made for a sum not exceeding 'the farewell of (heir dethroned leader; the cost of the Eric canal. The Lan- und murmurs broke from their rank-, but guedoc canal is 144 feet wide, six feet the emotion hurst out in no threats or redeep, and cost 3,000. sterling a mile., monstrances. They appeared resigned The Holsfeiu canal connecting the G-r- to the loss of their general; and toyield

man ucean wun ine rjauic, is iu'J reel wide at top 54-at bottom, 10 feet deep, cost 30,000 a ri!e from 2,000 to 3,000 ships have passed in a year. The' - land alone for one canal in England 16 miles loog, cost 90,000. sterling, which is aboat 25,000 dollars a mile. In the'

states ot Uhio, Indiana, and Illinois, are grave, thus addressed the immense asprobably sold of the government lands, semblage, in a voice solemn and full of to the amount of more than half a mil-! feeling. We translate the remarks from lion of dollars yearly. In all the expen- the printed pieces verbal of the ceremoditures of government nothinrr wouldinv. which ivc roeeivod hv the last Dack-

seem more equitable than that a part of . . . . o -1 the Land sales should be applied towards making improvements on the same land. This work might be made by the gener al government, and become the property! ot mese states on their paying tor it.

tJut this is touching a subject hitherto! est emotion that I approach thii tomb, fruitful with discussion, and tontinuingjabout to close on the eloquent defender

to prevent in a measure the prosecutionof ot internal improvements with that z -al which the increasing wants of a widely extended country demands. I may be thought proposing a work which will be soon enough for the next generation to think of; be it so. The Erie canal was commenced within ten years from its first public suggestion, in a series of essays published twenty years ago, and completed in eight years. The Erie and Mississippi canal, for such I call it, cannot be thought a work too great to be accomplished, if we consider what has heen done, what is doing, and the omnipotence of a free people, which needs only persevering and steady appli cation to complete enterprizes more; difficult than any our country has yet undertaken. We wonder at the prodigious labor of the ancients, some of whose works will alwavs remain the monu-

mcnta or records of the application and

achievements of human power. Ijlaurtlus, a Roman emperor, employed 30,0 men 12 years on a single canal. V 0,000 years on a single canal. i ne 11 same labor now would be worth 70 or 80,000,000 of dollars. The making of the Eric canal may be considered equivalent to the labor of 5,000 men G years. The Chinese canal was 43 years in making, and employed 30,000 men. This labor would now be worth 250,000,000

of dollars. The great pyramid of Egy pt jgranl injustice that ever consigned 10 inrequired to build it 100,000 men " 20 1 significance a deliberative assembly, was

vears. An equal amount ot lanor now would cost 400,000,000 of dollar. were this canal made on a scaie wnicn I have suggested, going as it would

through the heart ot the western coun- lisnmt ni oi du, aiwai uevtueu io me try, and formi g a great vent for the cause of liberty, equalit, and public orimmense products which the Wabash, der whose remaikal le erices, interthe Illinois, the Rock river, and the i:u- mpted at three signal periods are a sure merous tributaries of the upper Missis- guaranty of its future revival, and a persippi would ntF.rd; how grand would be j feet return to the piinriples of its primithe chain of communication : Like EiieUive organization. You have been told,

with a canal at each end, thn Mississippi linked with the lakes, the Erie canal, and the Hudson. 1 see in that country the elements of a solid and durable prosperity; a country larger in territory, more fertile in its soil, and capable of sustaining a denser population than Great Biitain, whosennnualrentsforland are 200,000,000 of dollars, a sum that would buy nearly the fee simple of the whole diss i ict of which I am speaking; a country, whose natural powers of soil are as rich and good as the sun ever warmed, ami whose productions shall far exceed the storied feriiliu of the Nile. HERCULES. JVezo York, August. 1 827. LIFE OF JVAPOLEOJV DOJVAPARTE. B) bir W -ilx r Seoit. A'opolcons Farewell to his Guard. Nap.deon having now resigned himself entirel) to his fate, whether f.r gopd or evil, prepared on the 30th April to deput for his place of retreat. But first i:e had the painful las!; of bidding farewell to the body in the universe most attached to him & to which he was probably most attached his celebrated Guard. Such of them as could be collected were brought out before him in review. Some natural tears dropped from his eyes, and his features had the marks of strong emotion while reviewing, for the last time, as he must have then thought likely, the dis-fcomnan'mns of so many victori 'S. H advanced to them on horseback, dismounted, and took his solemn leave. "All Europe," he said, "had armed against him: France herself had deserted him, and chosen another dynasty. He might," he said, ''have maintained with his soldiers a civil var for )ears, hut il would h ve rendered France unhappy. Be faithful," he continued (and the words were remarkable,) uto the new sovereign whom France has chosen. Do not lament my fate; I will always be happy while 1 know you are so. I could have died nothing was easier but I will always follow the road of honor. I will record with my pen the deeds we have done together: I cannot embrace you all, but f embrace your g -ueral." (he pressed the general to his bosom.) the standard, and concluded Bt loved tike mm to necessity. At the burial of the Deputy Mannet, which caused so much excitement lately in Paris, after M. Lalitte had addressed the multitude, it appears thai General Lafayette advancing to the edge of the et, and of which by the bye, the sale v r had 'ieen obstructed in Paris. Y u have iust heard the touching. ind patriotic accents of public grief and j private friendship. Penetrated with the same sentiments, it is with the deepthe national liberties. Around me are those monuments, so intimately associated in every heart, with great misfortunes, noble recollections, sublime talent, and illustrious victims. Here, on this spot, sleep two honourable friends and colleagues the brave and generous Foy equally brilliant in political debate and the field of battle the genuine model of French honor--and the frank & courageous, Girardin, who in the Chamber of Deputies ponded out the violations of the Royal Chart' r, as in 1792 he defended the constitutional laws, which the sovereignty of the French people had enacted. We saw these three lending one another iu the discussions of the Chamber, a mutual, a patriotic, a disinterestd support. History will preserve the recollections of the life of Manuel. Vfien even a hov, io the wonderful campaigns of the republican army ofltalv,

She linked himself inseparably with the

-.surpassing gior oi ine ui-i imm u nag. When later, in the cri?i of the llund red Days, in the Chamber of Representatives he won rapidly admiration, esteem, and the general confidence. When at the tribune of the Chamber of Deputies he delivered those speeches now engraven in the memory and heart of every patriot. But let me dwell a moment on that 4th of March, when the most flaI . 1 i-ueu uu mm. c ...... jhnr.,socalm, so ta.thtul to his trust-.a., n i.u . m..u.a.u. .u. ,.. bu-M ot r.m that fortunate estaoand every friend of Manuel vsill confirm the declaration, that, from the day of. his retirement, to the last day of his existence, he desired, honed, longed for,! the liberty of his country. "As for us, ctiizens, here, among the tombs of the faithful servants of the people, we have only to strengthen more and more our respect for, and djvotion to, imprescriptible rights to regard them as the objects of our most fervent and virtuous aspiration the most important of our interests, and the most sacred of our duties." "Regulation of the Press." The follow ir g are extracts from late L'-ndon papers on the despotic and cowardly act of the Fiench government iu re-establishing the censorship of the press The London Morning Chronicle, says:"There can he hut one opinion with respect to the impolicy of the &iep taker, by the French government. It amounts to a confession that its measures cannot hear the light, and by extinguishing opposition, it deprives itself of eery mean of justification; for while the public will lend a greedy ear even to calumny against public functionaries, they will refuse to give them credit for the good they may do." The same paper says "The writers of most of the private communications from France, are remarkablv circumspect on the subject of politics, as if apprehensive of interference from the police. It is a fact within our own knowledge, that several persons who expressed their opinions rather freely on the state of things in France, not suspecting that their letters would be opened, had received an intimation from authority, to desist from the use of such language under penalty of being sent to the coast under a guard of soldiers." Tiie Courier mentions the same sub ject in the following terms: k4l he principle of this measure goes completely to fetter the expression of public opinion in France; what its prac tical operation may be, must depend upon the discretion and temper of the persons appointed to superintend its execution. Nor can we discover the pre cise mottveor such a decree at the present moment. We are not very inattentive readers of the Paris journals, and we confess we never discover in them any of that inflammatory or seditious writing which would seem to call for so vigilant a control over their labors. Be sides there have been sufficient proofs of late that the ordinary tribunals of the country possess an adequate power to punish any serious transgressions of the press. A government must either be very weak, or the people over whom it rules, very prone to disafl'ection, when it is considered necessary to resort to a censorship. But it is a gross error to suppose that an expedient like this can (meet either emergency. A government gains no accession of strength by betraying its fears; and a discontented people are not likely to grow satisfied under the pressure of fresh grievances Facts. A single mercantile house on Long wharf, has sold since the first of January last, thirty seven thousand barrels of Gennessee Flour of which less than 300 barrels have been disposed of coastwise the remainder has been sold to country trader-., and chiefly to those in the manufacturing villages. Another house has paid, since the first of April, 07ie hundred and fifty thousand dollars for American IVool purchased ofj farmers and wool growers belonging to the New England states nnd New York,; nuu esuiu out iigaiii iu uimiuiaciui ei t of New England. i ne tJoston ana canton r aciory company imported, during 5 months preceding the first of May last, one million pounds of Smyrna wool all of which is used in its own factor), in the manufacture of what is called negro cloths. Is it possible that our manufacturing establishments can be detrimental to commerce and agriculture, when a single establishment imports wool enough in five mouths to freight 3 or 4 ships, (to say nothing of other articles necessarilv used in the manufacture of the wool?) when a single dealer in American wool pay, io tiie same time, to the farmers

$150,000? and another individual r ceives from another portion of farmed and sells ofF to the country traders tlou enough to make its owners rich, if not ii dependent? Boston Courier,

A New York paper give? the follow ing information respecting Capt. Fran! lin's Arctic Lad Expedition: 4iThe enterprise, if not entirely sue cessfnlin the way originally designedthe plan of a junction with Capt. Beech being frustrated by unfavorable weather, as before announced has vet sufficientdetprmined the ra1j question so ,j agitated, and removed all reasona De0UDt respecting respecting the Northwest pas sage. 'Captain Franklin's private letters received since his arrival in New York inform him that Captain Beech proceeded in the Blosom 120 miles east of Icy Cape. If this account be accurate, there do not remain more than 40 or 50 leagues of the coast from Point Turnagain to Icy Cape unsurveyed : and ;:s the discoveries of Capt. Parry extended some degrees westward of the first mentioned Point, "the interesting fact of the practicability of the N. W. passage at certain seasons appears to have been determined." Washington, Oct. 3. The Books for receiving Subscription to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canm. were opened, as our readers know, at the several places designated, on Mon day last, and are to remain open from day to da. We have information only of the amounts subscribed, Monday and yesterday , in this City and Georgetown which were as follows: In this City, including the subscription of the Corporation, In Georgetown, including (he subscription of the Corporation, $1,066,30 425,000 1,491,300 As the Company is to go into operation when a million and a half of dollars is subscribed, that matter is now placed beyond doubt: for, in addition to the above, we are certain of the subscription of 250,000 by the Corporation of Alexandria; audit is supposed tint in this District alone, there will be iedividual subscriptions, additionally, to the amount of several hundred thousand dollars. "The work goes bravely on.?T Aaf. Intel. Collectors Notice. HAVING teen ppoin ed Collector of Tases for Dertiorn oumy for oe ye r 1&27, and re ceived the Duplicate, t'.-gethcr with a precept rtman ttdiug1 nte to oKtxt the same, 1 herebv ve nunc th.t 1 m prepared to receive the ttiwi:'.t - argvd to each irKtmdiiil, s also arrearages out -.ne for r.rmfr y,-rs I have been c -"l. C'.or. So fur-Jitr indulgences netd be ex-l-ecteJ by deli. -qu nis, s I -in dc-itrmtned to collect as the la p.esrnfKj. I vih pass through tar'toum) irnmu'iji' v fr he purpose of collrcting, A u'U.c h iii ;i jc to r- ctrive ihe little sums due, s-j as s.vf further trouble. Those indebted to m.: f.r ieej, notps, or ac- ; ounts will do well to pay the some immediately, s I will place them iri the hands of proptr ( m rprs for collection. I als wish to close the bu siness ot the Indiana Spectator, and to receirt the amount due me or. aul.scripliors taken o 'he Palladium for settlement. Hiving hereto f:ie s.j often r quested pament by advertisement to httle cffcc:,I have concluded that it is unnecessary to warn any more I must and wilt resort t- the auth;ruy given me by law for tbt: recovery of my d? ots. Notice is fv reby given, that I will on the f?ct Monday in Novemner, af'er cosposinir ot the per&oaal pr :pt-rty of delioq'ir nts, as charged m he duplicate (where he atme does not satisfy 'he demand,) offer for sale all the L-nd whereon the tax. 8 are not paid previous to that time, by their Number of Township, Rnge, Section, Quarter Section, or narts thereof. -j,Jso all town lots, or fractions, charged as aforesaid, and cootinue said 8 -tie from day to day until all are oi? fered fur sale. JOHN SPF.NCER, Collector, for Dearborn county. Collector's ofa :t. Liwrencebugh, i July 18 h, IS T $ 28REGIMEXTAL ORDERS. THE staff, the commissioned and non-commissioned officers, nd the atveral companies, composing the 55th regiment, JOth brigade, fifth division, of Indian militia, will parade, at the house of Henry Dils in Manchester township, on the 29ta day ot October 1827, armed nd equipt, as he law directs, for regimeu'al muster, precisely at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M The regiment will puss in review, of Major C-rneral Stapp, comd't.of the said division, Brigadier General Kec.i comd't of the said IQ'li brigade The line will be formed at 10 o'clock, the troops will pass in review at II, the regiment will be inspected at 12, after which the regiment will perform the neresary evolutionsBy order of J"hn Spencer C'jmd't. JAUES W HUN I ER Major 55ih K. I. M, October 17, 132 gtojen or Taken jn Mistake I? :" 'J the stb M the subscribe r, o he ernuot or i leht of the 3d inst. a XKIV SADDLE, Wrh an ex riordinary good BEARSKIN Hiu. n, hair very loii nd black, each of the skirts is stitched in two places with silver cord, one inch iu length, double plated stir'up irons, the stiriup leathtrs are stamped five dollars will be given to ny person who will bring the saddle to me safe, or if stolen, tea dollars for the thief and saddle. JOHN GRAY October 4-h ISOr The Revised Code AND PAMPHLET LI U S OF LYDMMS For sale at the iVlad:um Qfficr: