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nui- A'siiOUoLii :s ( ,f uuNhpiUl, -SEPTEMHEU jo, 1825.
NO 2
IV li
THE FilTFJEQT,
Is printed '.u.! pui'lihed wei
7'. i.mi.Y .stilly;::.
At 'I'wp Hollars ,.cr nriMim ):.)
all'1 within three unii's frum ihe
rec ipt of tbe first number, ir I i r '
D'-'iars after 3te ex;i rat ion J' tht
time
No paper to be discontinued until
al' fi r rara gs are paid, unless at tlip
- , ar.d th" ( 'Ci.fort ami conveniences of -.- 3..U1 lhee routes would pass ,li.e consumers of the produe
of
The additional lacitit y titr(oilijh s.i;ne iwie-ui of couutM , w lii.se j t!u-r rotimn s, which I : ey w nlil
restYtt'ijc". h iwiu natural w lib w ould fit n by lher Ubor. I hey ww'dor
mi do hf an,.ply eunij)enal fur the .course cwtstiqie the teas aid 1 1 k t of
xifned distance of navigation.. Bui C'hmf the uar of tin? Went Indie?,
! ite art of civil engioeermj;, ami (lie and ( he wine? of Lurope. Hu' llioy
niodt ru life
of iraiispurtati'iu I.y the C.tpeof Gnml
H'pe ciIVrrei! iuiin it( . i : tuf fun
nn aseu l)e aoi i, who fust eiicou.i
lerc.l : ini C(i(:(ijercl
''i ?t(ni. spirit oi'tl.c Cape,"
l.i.t Jvi'jj'ut'd. France, ami Uhas a
i.nve :ti vnin i ll r. i! tmnuii and re
v, ri!i . s : . if 1' 1 s " 1 1 1 '
w I ,T
force a
10 1 he
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ii of lit- am! v .i!ir're to f'nd ti ? Tf .,(' ;.i V. pe Horn ,re-
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noul'v a diiconiiuuaiice will u con.si
dered a iww engagement.
ADVKI& riSKMBXTS
Not oxcteding ll line, neatly in
serted three tunes for one doflar. ad
25 cents fir every aucccedirij; pfiblie
cation ; Ihuse
sa:no -proportion Letters to ihe-Edi
tor mu-t he post pan!.
sent an impracticable, though not ru
iinpassmlc barrier to the etifefpnze.
I he tru plan in. hle Napnlenn, to
atUtk thctJlre; aifd ; he object of
thtv& pap1! ik to Bhv I na, between
mr ihu cuuuuBun vi 4 in riea the
road lien Vu i China and .Hindustan.
Mtalti f riatioiih is at but'h a luitlit would be of tiie most iiupni tacce to
a' p'ileni llutt h.y are lully eornp the Western country of the IJnmd
eru iii;iiiupiei a more oireci mute. Man s, aeu ine inintonanifi 01 me vn-
I'Von
ai,r
lie Cove between I'oint M. fev of the Missisinni, mid ofuho
m
id J'or.to lit llo, on the A 1 taritie, lake. '1 In y could not send to the
tt thejUay of PaiMiim, m the I'aeilic, Baltic or the Mediterancan for tl eir
c, no'i he mate t hut I'ttO untti: and breads! nil!, but they inu-t m ur.i'ly
m itif wate.-s I the Atlantic. lrced look to us tor their wheal, their rye,
rito the Caiibean Sea by ttie impetur and their barly.
osity of the luif Stream, nccessarjly Hence, tbey would constitute a
e evate theinse Ives on theKasiern market for the whole country betw een
Shore atl. Bias, an excavation suf ihe Apalachtan and the Koeky Moun-
firient fo canal, or more certainly, a tains, which, by aii easy navigation
prand tunnel, might be made, which down the Mississippi, and across the
would directly eonneot the i wo Gulf of Mexico, would ensure subnis-
l'hii idea ba, of orse, beettrnter ! oceans, i he .unnels on the Duke of lence, empIoment, and wealth, to
of renter lengtti in the jinlltS, ,li0y, or fear. Ijh now first ' iijado und r the direction of the truly from the loins of the kepnbli'e an of
withdrawn her veto ami her -mantle, iBustrioui and useful ISrmdley, a poor the est. All-woulr come in lor
(1 inight mill, her dagger,) ffom the man, exceed hall' that disiauee. their share of the w. alth derived from
Isiiiniis of Darien. A canal to join I lence thli project I tcomoend. Let iIm;u cities ami their eanah, and that
the iw cenns. ta u.- and Pacil)c,;Our (joverum i:l unileNlT; resources by tb eny means of a skill', a etnoe.
CNAi, OF N1CAUAHLM.
T'e following article in 'aken from
thel ffrson (Ohio)'O izette,' where
it appears as a cnmnrunieatioii
1. Fhe -Lake Country of North A"'
meriei may b? considered a a pro
longation of the Arab an (Julf, ed
Setu in! "Mediterranean.? far ns re
gard the roui'sft-of commerce; and
the NVw-l oikitWelland. Ohio, IVun-
with those tio eruments of .Mt :;ic .a Hut boat, a keel bout, a steamboat,
andouto A1"' "tfa- Let tlns excava-'or, at most, a schooner. How much
tion of turiiiel he made at -his iilace, ; suh a market is win ted. a. id what
and wheje t tie ground ado. tied of it.
must be its value, maybe determined
Ohio, Mississippi. Missouri, Illinois,
Otiiseonsin. St Croiz. Ued. YMow
wtoi;e, (lortis, Qu coarne, !a Plat!.(ft
K'isas, A r kauai, Osage, .and Ued
Jiver, -f L'iiiisiana, with their thou
sand tributary waters, may, for same
purpose, he conside.'iMf a cant i tin n lion
of the O.naN of China, the Uiver
Ni!e, and ilie Canals ol Holland, and
the Manufacturing pails of threat
Britain which enuntrie. like," those
of liussia and France, owe their in
ternal weatlh to tliest ( dials, as the
AVestern eountrv now o'vrs her pro
Dfrilv to her Rivers, and will nve u
lias ny actual survey been p oo.unced
.pract.ienoie. byjhrr oufes at least,
and a company i t;v lus'tiuted in
linian i la commen operations un-i
m d Aieiv at nie I our.tt. however, let f?ood roads be male alongside and fnm the present e'xnei ier.ee and nrcs-
to be a national w rk, and the hum adjacent to the canal-lbe distance pecs of this fertile region. wlMi
nessjif the -rejiuiilicans of, Western ' h s than from Philadelphia to Lan-; prodoe; rots in I he barn for want of
Am rica. The pruliu will be theirs, caster, or Pittsburg to eeling. Let j a i.iaikcf. TJieje People wouid eon
and Hi1 magnitude ill the imd.rtak- iha.cnuotry be divided into" small i cunie not only our breadiulTs."Tlut, as
matt-uaetari4uiincr4iie--4ve-):Mu.tM-nj.J
-T f IT t ..T. r.,. I ... : .1. .1... "!:....' . . 4 ' I'. .. . - . . -. .. ... " . ... " .
linn ivnm in ' nunn, nini nir intern n 1 inei ichs: CM l iiOXJicii r a r
ly i orlii or given
Ml I . I . .
meri i. as 1 shall attempt to show . i Let lare cities be laid out :js empa
thise. nal is the 'crown and cane
stone of alt the oibein that are or vHi
be mad in lln country.
U. In the memoirs of lh. Mexirih
Ke')lutiu by I)r Uutiinson, quern
honor'1 et jftctwne nuiniw), pine dif
ferent rouit-. for 'iif canal was ac
tually made in I7i3 called ihe Uas
padeirn Canal, l) a Priest, through
which loaded canoes pae! with the
assist nee of the Indians the remain-,
are visible to this da), and the
f'ict is mentioned by Humboldt and
Kol)ii;.n. Others have been survev cd
I'he vltrato
million time more to those J?iver, and f until oraetreanle.
and the Canals which they i!l feed, route, by the Hull' of Darien, and the
Indeed, there "is no eomitry on the river SiJuau de Chiratnbira, empty
face of the globe, of the same exteri, ing .into the Pacific and fliwiii!
belter adapted to nn iinmf nse, ui"! gi-( through magnilicenl forests of dye-
ecus, iiaiter and cotton
1
goon's, of China and India: and our
timber, iron, earthenware, tobacco,
frinls. and m ock, or salud provisions,
villi all, in short, of ehtcrn pro
dir:!::, would find there & natural and
rca!y
(1 (i.i iie w eoilen, and on all o;hcr
manul lie! urers, or on wooilen giow
gantie vitfifri'of Canals, which, cir
diluting throug'i every part, will
hrinq; the whole ofho extended val
ley of the Mississippi Mito eulliva
wood, and inahog.iny would require
a canal of only lour miles and a half,
over a evi l inble lam!, and a lockairo
on the twi river- Atruto and St. Juan,
tion and wealth Its poputation will of ubaut or 40 unify; and to the
increaap in proportion, so thi in ls poinis of lot kagf these "rivers, draw
' than a hundred year, it may rejieh from bpvcii to i unity feet of water,
the enormous amount of one hundred clea navigation The Nicaragua
and fipy millions of , People. Nw. route, recouimended by Uoliertson,
though on internal commerce, eon- is now ucd itakm by an Kuglish
ueeled with manufacturing industry, Company, which ha a bill before
will undoiihtrdlv sustain even litis Parliament for its incoi noration.
immense multitude, greater than has
ever vet been united under one Gov
ernment, with the same language,
cumtoms, and laws, yet it seem to
. me that Providence has provided a
further help, and has given to the
enternnze of Americans a nobler
boon than any yet conferred on a com
riiprcial nntion. It is to turn the
whole tide and stream of Commerce
hnek wards, and make it run from
AV-"t o Fast, instead of from Mast
to West. For ibis is Ihe course of
that mighty flood of wealth which
has ever enriched options, from Pit
sia, the Kastern Indies, and the An
tid'duviau natioa of China, whic'
million sF'o f c i a" r a "v h ns?"wt r h Tit c r d irii
,icT:t.iiprteil --nvr-''- fri?.t!litiu4.
8noVS of
Mongnlie and Tobolsk, or which
Pl ceii'cian and Kgjp'ian ship ,i
""Avrvrdbythr-Persramrnlf,"-1 he trr
Si a. Nile, and Nlediteranean ami
JCuphr'rites, to conti'uto the weali.
of Babylon, the luxury and glorv
5r.iomo(h tfie Indignation ol the Pre
phetj tho envy and pride of K6me,
I he map will ilmw that the waters
of this Lake flow into the Atlantic
through 'luatemala at. ihe distance
only of 00 miles; while on the other
side litis Lake connects with Lake
Leon, from which the Picilie is only
15 miles. The whole height to be
overcome by lockage, does not equal
one half ol the loi'k ige necessary on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or
on tljat of tite.,Sii.ii -hatm ah, and
Alleghany; t'lat the Lake, on the sutn-
uiit lev I nearly, wouid furnish an
inexbauslitiltj siipp'y ulV water. The
Mexican G ivermu nt ltis also offer -'
d pt'oposals'for a contract to carry. a
canal by t e river 11 u a s cec u a I a, (hat
uT$e"(iii'. gTrTa' t be u I f of Vera Cruz.'.'
iluHg .'"the-Iretgh t of 'Ch I tt sta or La
(ineta; to 'he Bay ol re'iMautepeek
0 tSivPaeilic Phis 1 sib in us is but
1 mites 'wide; ami from the summit
fever, both of the grat ociain"of the
wirld can be seen at the samo time
ii a iear d.iy. Other routes migh;
designated, biii thee are euoug;;
i 'mw-tbe pT ve iMfjihty, nay, the
facility of the projeetr. ,
riums or derosiles of commerce, and
iet them be regTilated by taw purely
commercial, and guai anted hy all the
Governmerfls concerned. Lei fureigu
me reliant s and capitalists he invited,
proiecleu, a:id encouraged, by e; ry
privilege w!i:ch can" be granted to a'
eommuiiii'y pari ly commercial. Let ers. alone, the advantages of this ea-
themovern th-. us he-j like the liuus.nal would be most auspicious, mid not
'Pawns, the Cit;li l . States' I k. or : remote Tl; concentration f trade
the Kn:lib iia! India Companv but at thai spot .)uld enable the Ves
remain under the r olee ! i a "'and tern growers end manufnetur rs of
guard of the Americuu jiatinns; and wool to supply, not only that ma: kef,
let the territory attached to th.se ci- but the whole of the Spanish Main
ties or emporia. he limited to tlte ex- an I inimen-e popnlaiion of Mexico,
lent of lea or. fiflceti miles on eacii by ihe ca-iv, safe, and eToip naviga-
j side of the 'canal. By the consent of tion of Mississippi and Mexican (ulf,
nations, let this $pot enjoy aii imuiu- so as to undersell all I.uropenn or
nity from the exercise of any military Knlisn competitors whose long voy
authority. And now let us view the. ages in expensive vessel, nrd in a
consequences hot climate, dcstiuctiv to the rigg
1. These cities must necessarily in, atrl lb lives ol Mieir sailors, ex
become, the empuria of iho commerce posed also to other dangers, and tho
of the whole w arid. The canal and expense of insurance, could be ren
theroad uetwten them, would be a dered abortive by the more simple
street or passage lluo gti which ihe and less expensive transportation of
com nerQe of the Kait Imhcs. China, Hat boats, steamboats, light sloops, or
Asia, and the West coast of America, sehoonem, vh:e voyages ond arri
uuist meet tho commodities and the vals besides w r.'A I be unire certain in
capital of Kurope, Africa, t!ie Me- paint of lime. Add to this, the sup
diterranean and l!ie Atlantic, or Lias- ply of the Fas tern coa-?l of Asia, ihu
tern coast of America, arid of l he va!- innti merable Islands or the Pacific,
ley of the Mississippi, with all its part of the liussian Kmpire, ami the
canals and tributary rivers. Ii may whole of the Western and Northwest
be stated as an axiomatic truth in erti coast of America, and what limit
I commerce, that these depots or empo shall we ussigu to the - hopes of the
ria, necessarily nourish anil become woollentrade ol the valley of the
rich, while they retain the tr.inspdr- WTes? ft is within tho range fpro
tation or carrying tragic, a id keep a bability that an intmediute trade a
it were the sioiehouse of ihe world. cros the Pacific, earned on par:nly
What Alexandria, I y re, Carthage, also ly the Chinese merchants them
Bagilat, Venice, Constantinople, C;in- selv -i, might so fai dissipate t!e pre
ton, Calcutta, Amsterdam, and L i:i- in. iieps of the Celestial IOtnpire, par
don, have been, or are, wou'd ?: at tit::jlar ly when peltries heenme dear
i.i i i i i . .i ' . i ii
eriuat me prwoauie opuiene.? or a-jor ex; etisive. oniieu cjo .iy.
ill of business cojiceai: uIimI m grown in t he banks ol t ! e Ohio, ;nd
'I on I
ihese; because they, have suee . lively n itnifac! ured by the Wells's ol'Sieu
enjoyed iHily pari of that trad:-, the, biv-iii.r ...migbJ bi-ii.U -tn-ril fo the
rjw:y!l'l' -MfwWfbere-utrt te-in ? rrnnnt-'fUntt -"B'JscTjfir1 .''ii11"'Hf il''".V
Mongolia, in the mar!pi . .f N;:nk;n"
or ft-kin. it is no objection u. sn'y9
lb ,t the n 'yal and eouim' rt i.i' p v-
er (if France and Fnglai d have ,n
v aia'aUe m pT elf- 1 17 "JlTiT " rrTe, Ti' ,f
ir fftram! interest, of pilie r.i.d r
iU .!).). of fijendly ami diti'cl r-
eours are more p-wr-rfoi 'b ii'jjo
. .' i- 1 if i
:eT! ?Minu j var a o
mass. Like lexaadria, too, we
might co.nfe.roij these cities the names
of Wasbingloa and Bolivar, the one
the hero oi true palribtis.n. the other
orTriie-tiTfy- L- -
ff The People of t!ies! ciliej nnd
oft.bei.r. ..ler.ritorrr'-bi'ng totally en
2 ? .d'in trad", au l in the lUrnes
of buyingjind sjJlijrg,,au f of tr.in
portationj must necevari!y ...become
USL
d y fo. .M r. DirvtNs'Ov, it a(a f1
.