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Show 30o APPENDIX. I have made an experiment, and have no hesitation in pronouncin()! it equal if not superior to other plaister brought from different parts of the world. Therefore those who are desirous of improving their meadows (for a proof of its good effects) will please call on the sub-scriber, at the Black Horse tavern, 4 miles east of Pittsburg. . JOHN SERVIC~ . • No. IX. During the late freshets a considerable quantity of lumber has been Lrought down the Aleghany river, from Hamilton, in the state of New-York; and, it is said, that pot-ashes and plaister of paris may be expected from that place in future. Although the supply of these articles will not probably, for some time, be equal to the demand, yet when the enterprising spirit of the people of New-England, who have settled, and are settling on the heads of the Aleghany, is considered, it appears probable that the quantity of both of the above articles will increase rapidly in this market. So that the proprietors of our glassworks may look forward to the time when pot and pearl-ashes may be had on moderate terms, and the farmers may hope to supply themselves with what plaister they want. We shall stand chiefly indebted for these advantages to the liberal aid shown by the legislatnre of New-York, towards the improvement of Hamilton ; which, from this cause, joined to the advantages of its situation at the junction of the Olean with the Aleghany, must make speedy adv ances as a place of trade ; and we may, perhaps sooner than we are aware of, see goods from the city of New-York embarked at Hamilton for the states of Kentucky and Ohio, &c. It is no easy matter to divert trade from its old channels ; but it may be done by neglecting the improvement of those channels. When once done, it is not an easy matter to see it back again. This is become a serious subject for Pennsylvania in general, and for Philadelphia in particular ; and it is to be hoped, that the exertions now making to get tbe turnpike fini shed at Greensburgh, will not be relaxed till it is carried over the mountains of Cbarnbersburgh. This ought to be accom· plished in three years. New-York is wide awake. If we dose, we shall have time to repent when repentance will pot avail. . $YLVANUS. No. X. INLAND NAVIGATION. The important subject of internal improvement by Canals an~ Turnpikes, appears to have attracted universal attention.-ln. addition to the great canal from the Hudson and Mohawk rivers m th.e state of New-York to Lake Erie, which commenced in July last, 1t APPENDIX. 309 is proposed to cut another to connect the waters of Lake Champlain with those of the Hudson. A ~ urvey is nearly completed from the lake to the river. 'rhe gentlemen engaged in this business report, that the soil is uniformly favourable, and th at no obstacles of magni tude are in the way of this great object. A memorial is now in circulation in Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, to be presented to the legislature of Virginia and the Congress of the United States, in which a plan is laid down for connecting the waters of the Chesapeake with the Gulf of Mexico. It is stated in the memorial, that James' river is capable of being made navigable for boats of considerabie burden to the mouth of Dunlap's Creek, and even some miles higher by an increased expense ; that an artificial road may be fo rmed with an unusual facility, the ascent of which will not be more th an an angle of five degrees with the horizon, and the length if only carried to the nearest waters of Greenbrier river susceptible of navigation, will no t exceed tl:iirty miles ; Qr if extended to the navigable waters of the Great Kenhawa, below the great falls of that river, will not exceed one hundred miles; from which latter point, the waters descending with a bold, but gentle current, for an hundred miles, mingle wi th the Ohio, and afford a free navigation for boats of a large size to the Gulf of Mexico. By this plan an inland coiHmunication would be opened, from the head of the Chesapeake to the mouth of the .1\iississippi.Should this be accomplished, and canals from the Raritan to the Delaware, and ·the Delaware to the Chesapeake be completeJ, we shall It ave an inland communication from the extremity of Vermont to New-Orleans, a distance of 3000 miles, and we believe the expenses attending these several improvements, would be comparatively small when we take into view the immense advantages resulting to the eastern and western sections of our country.-In a pol itical view it would be of great advantage by drawing several 5ections of the United States more closely together. It would reduce the distance to New-Orleans more than one half ;-and would tend to remove in a great measure that antipathy which at present exists between our western and eastern brethren, resulting from conflicting interests. 'rhe valuable products of the fields and forests of the west, would find their way through thi.s ~hannel to the Atlantic, and be equally beneficial to the eastern merchant and western farmer. The apathy that prevails in this state on the subject of the canal from the Delaware to the Raritan is an evil ~reatly to be regretted.~ The bene11ts r esulting to N ew-.Tersey from this, and from a canal connecting the Chesapeake and Delaware, would be invaluable. We hope the enterprise of o~r northern and southern brethren, will awaken the peo· pie of t hi ~ state to a ~ense of ~heir true interests. No. XI. It was our intention to have given the time in which various steamboats performed their voyages from Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville to New·Orleans and in return, but have not been able to procure |