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Commmwationsu FOR THE FREE PRESS. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. In North-Carolina sec Act of 1819, establishing a Board and creating a Fund lor Internal Im provement. The following, from an official source, will shew the Receipts and Expenditures of the Board for Internal Improvements, since its orgenrization in 1319. RECEIPTS. In Cash and Notes for Cherokee Lands, at four several sales, Si 10,174 For dividends in the Newbcrn and Cape Fear Banks, 83,G10 T-v urecl'.ng 34,000 Speaking of the Cumberland Road, Mr. Dickerson says: "this Road was commenced in the year 1806, when it was thought it might possibly cost one hundred, or one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars. Bv a report of the Secreta ry of the Treasury, of the 19th of February, VoSS, it appears that the road at that time had cost 81,718,840 35 and there was appropriated for the improvement of the road, 25,000 making in all to that time, 1,743,846 35. The road is 130 miles long, and has cost us more than $14,000 per mile. By a report of the 29th ot April last, it appears that the road is in an extremely bad con dition, and that many parts of it are impassable and the further sum of 167,680 arc required for putting it in repair." From a Report of the U. S. Board of Engineers we learn, pa.crc 62 of that report, on the 7,500 Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, that its 2,513 estimated cost is 22,375,427 69. 127. The following is taken from a Communication in the Richmond 1,02 Enquirer, which goes to shew the 29 SG1 tem'en(y of the same system in S,630 Virginia: i "But all experience has shown, 4,79s from the foundation of our gov 1,154 eminent, that estimates always Sl8 r90 suort actual expenditures, Besides this expenditure on this' cv an m a injority of cases when ml, the Legislature, at the last session, estimates have been resorted to, directed a loan of $l2,ni.iO to be made experience has shown the neces to the Company. sjty 0f doubling them to complete The tendency of the system of the designated work. Let us rc Intcrnal Improvements by Con- sort to a more just standard, the gross, since its commencement in expense of cutting the Canal to 1824, may be somewhat under- Maiden's Adventure: and takino stood from the following extracts the expense bvthe mile, of execii from a Speech of Senator Dick- ting this work, and annlvin" to pifcon oi i. j. in the last Con- each mile o the unexecuted work- roads' and canals, from this place, coup de grace to the Opposition. I know not." -.From the death of Mr. Pitt, the Sl93,7Sl EXPENDITURES. On the works below Wilming ton, and on the Machine, Subscribed to the Cape Fear Company, to improve the Ri ver above and below Fayette ville, (only expended in part) 25,000 On tbe Clubfoot and Harlow's Creek Canal, On Iboad River, On Lumber River, - In making roads, principally to the westward, Salary and expences of the Prin cipal Engineer, Do. do. of Assistant do. Services and travelling of the Board, - Contingent expences, country has not seen so strong an administration, nor, with the ex ception of the short period ot 180G, has there been so feeble an opposition for half a century. An arrival from India brings in telligence of an unimportant in surrection having broken out in one of the Burnian provinces. Expresses had arrived from Lisbon, bringing intelligence that the Princess Regent was in a ve ry alarming state, and not expect ed to survive many hours. Much anarchy is dreaded in the event of her death. The Paris papers of the c22d, mention that the French Capitol remains tranquil, but that the spi rit of disaffection is spreading ra pidly among the citizens, and also over the other departments. The change of public opinion in France with respect to M. Villcle, is sin gular he is now, we believe, in general unpopular; though it is not long since the Parisians wor shipped him. Xatiborougi), SATURDAY, JULY r Funeral Sermon.- The Rev p y DO WD is expected lo preach the I'V ral of the late William JJreio ij? town of Halifax, on the 4th Snn,i this month. lie is also MpM (jiuauu ;u vuauivy napei, the dav h fore. Cow. y, The New Bridge over the Tar rr at this place, was compleled onV.? day last -and, we are gratified ling, to the entire satisfaction Commissioners. Mr. Green AVs'r Franklin, the builder, is justly enti to praise for the expeditious and w0d manlike manner in which the work 1-' been executed. The bridge is 325 t in length, and IS in breadth-Jit! Oi;ouu iouu lor the timl,- SlOOO for building. an! June Frosts. The Elizabeth Cilt Star states that "the thermometer u; at 58 degrees on Saturday and Sundv mornings (2-1 Ui and 25th) at 7 o'clock. We have understood from morcth-mnr- person, that there was frost both of h. -'above nirhts." The IVfprvt,n i." ... tJ . iU.. publican ol the 2Gth ultimo. siv- "We are informed, that there was a slight appearance of white frost on TV day, Saturday and Sunday morning' in that place. On the ni'lit of the Vf grcss, on a bill to distribute part the same ratio of expenditure, we ui inu luvununoi me u. states a- shall obtain the following result: mong the several States: This section of about J5 miles has "A grand national system of caused an expenditure of one Internal Improvements already million two hundred and fifty presents a front that is truly for- thousand dollars, a cost of $50,000 niidahlc. If not arrested, it will per mile. The distance to Cov destmy what remains of the fede- iugton is 248 miles. This at rati ve principle of our Constitu-, $50,000 per mile, will require non it will obliterate the lines! 12,400,01)0, which is double the by which State rights have been heretofore defined, and reduce our union of confederated States to a consolidate' government. r re jects arc already on foot, for ex pending more than a hundred mil lions of dollars, by the arm of the General Government. Our desks and tables groan with the number and weight of applications for, and reports on, roads and canals. This District, it seems, is to be the centre, to which many of these magnificent improvements arc to tend. The great National Cum berland road is to be continued to this place a great National Road is to be made from this place to New-Orleans a great National Road from this place to Buffalo; and a very great National Canal from this place to the waters be yond the Western mountains, with more than three thousand feet of lockage; and a great Na tional Tunnel, of four or five miles, through the rocky summit of the Alleghany, by which the waters of the Youghiogeny are to mingle with those of the Potomac to cost twenty or thirty millions estimate of the present Engineer and near seven times the amount of that of the former." Y here is all this money to come from! There is but one source the pockets of the people. Jfamcpn The Greeks. The Greek A gent in Paris has received news from Napoli de Romania to the 29th March. The threat of Lord Cochrane to leave the country if,: their disputes were not settled, had the desired effect. The two assemblies have decided to meet at Poros, and to abandon their - - i ... n '"v- i:t. pretensions which have caused alii (,,ce,lsl)Ur (enn.) was visited bv a me acrimony between them. On the (J5th, a very bloody allair oc curred before Athens," when the Greeks carried an important po sition. Lord Cochrane departed from Egina on the 21 st, in a steam boat, accompanied by four other vessels. Miaulis was to join him with two other vessels. The ex pedition is secret. The vessels sent from Leghorn, with ammuni tion and Hour, arrived on the '23d, Gen. Church was setting out to join Karaiskaki in the sicjie of Athens. From England An arrival at New-York, on the 26th tilt, fur nishes Liverpool papers to the 26th May. The extracts given relate principally to the formation of the new Ministry. A Liver pool paper of the 2Gth, says: "we have had an extensive demand for Cotton this week, both from spe culators and the trade; but from the weighty import of the two pre vious weeks (79,560 bags) and the still larger and unprecedented im port of the present week, (58,881 bags) lower prices were contend ed for by them, much beyond the views of holders. Hence, the sales are far short of what they otherwise would have been." The London Observer states that the final arrangements of the new Ministry, have caused mo-it of dollars and how many more' satisfactionthey have given the South America. A letter da ted the 2d of March, at Lima, in rem, says "Within -the last fif teen days there has been a revo lution here, the people refusing lo abide by Bolivar's Constitution and a Congress is about conven ing to elect a President and other government officers. Santa Cruz is at present at the head of afiairs. Ill the Colombian officers are sei zed and imprisoned. Rolivar is expected here from Venezuela, and on his arrival much distur bance is anticipated." Bolivar. The strictures of the journals of this countrv on the conduct and designs of Bolivar, have been noticed in the Gaccti dc Colombia, published at Bogo ta, and it is acknowledged that certain documents issued under his name afford color to them; but the editor adds: "We have the best founded hopes that all suspi cions will vanish before the new proofs of patriotism, disinterest edness and loyalty, which will be given to Colombia by her present President, always her Liberator. Thc meeting of the Congress of 1827, will furnish GcneralJ5olivar with a precious opportunity to pre serve pure and immaculate I lis own glory and that of his countrv." verv severe Irost. winch fr.t.illv-,!,.",,. - r m.niui. (Ml the beans and coi n in the gardens aw' fields. In some instances, it was ne cessary to re-plant whole fields of the latter grain. We noticed in our pa per of Saturday last, the unseasonabis weather experienced in this vicinity, at the close of the preceding neck, and which continued several days we have no thermometer to con.MiIf, but we ven ture to assert with warmth, that during the present week most of our reauei have found it "hot enough." JLirrisbnrg Convention. Themasi is off, and it is now openly produced that the "American System'' is the l.ob I)' on which Mr. Adams is to ride down the opposition of "that stupid race," (sJ he formerly characterized the Germans) and to convert them to the novel doc trines which are artfully introduced ifl perpetuate the ill-pjottcn and ill-uei power of the Coalition. When the lb: risburg Convention was proposed byti. "Pennsylvania Society for the pronr tion of manufactures and the incchanr arts," it was distinctly slated that ihii. proceedings were tobe confined to : union of effort among the "wool-grower-and manufacturers," in order to proi'ur? further protection from Conre: w any inteiferencc in the President question was utterly disclaimed. what surprise will the honest Pcnnyl vanians view a host of political ju1-1;-from different States, asemhlin with the avowed object of identifying ; manufacturing interest with the Admi nistration, to complete the revolution;' ready begun and much advanced, V verse to the prospects of Gen. Jacki and so confident mr ilirv nf the ?1!C' cess of this movement, that they a!13" dy tate with the utmost confidence, that Pennsylvania will not vole Gen. Jackson."' Fortunately, the b'J;'" hie burs ted hrfnm it tv.i full" bloun,--; the yeomanry of Pennsvlvania will np' ! be found so "ineffably stupid' a c gulled into the support of the Admn- " tratiou by the diplomacy of Mr. Adam nor the Jincsc of iIr. Clay, who ha- i already made his appearance on the t.n atrc of action. Our limits will not Pj1' mit us to insert the entire speech ot .n Clay, at a public dinner ai PittJ-buri, the 20th ult. in which the views ot tn1" -Coalition arc fully developed: but I ivo the passages directly appb":'"- 0 'l
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