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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
Terms.
Daily paper 98 per annum.
Country paper - - 5 per annum.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE forthe coun
try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday.
AU advertisements appear in both papers, and
are inserted at the usual rates.
A KENTUCKY CANDY PULLING.
A correspondent of the New England Maga
zine, gives an interesting description of a Christ
mas amusment in Kentucky, called Candy Pul
ling, in high favor with the lads and lasses of
that state. The incidents which he describes
in the subjoined extracts, took place in 1833, in
the interior of Kentucky. A doctor and a law
yer were among the most conspicuous of the
company. The writer premises that, connected
with Candy Pulling, there are two important
preparatory movements—first, a quantity of mo
lasses is boiled, no matter how long, till it attains
a tolerable thickness, when it is poured out into
large plates and allowed a short time to cool.—
2d, it is cut in sections, taken in the hands, and
a system of pulling is commenced, varying in
kind as each one desires. He proceeds:
Phil. Gaz.
The first one who made an onset upon the
rolls, which lay in abundance on the table, was
the hopeful scion of the law whom #e have al
ready introduced to the reader. He seized one,
and giving one end to a young lady who stood
beside him—by the bye, it happened to be the
same one whom be threw into a melting mood
by bis temperance speech in the morning—and
they moved off to give w-ay for other applicants.
In a short time the whole were supplied, and the
most complete system ol tugging was com
menced that has been seen since the days when
“ Greek met Greek.” The grand object of each
person was to get the roll of candy away from
his or her antagonist. The lawyer was seen
struggling as if at the wrong end of a cause,
with the same unrelaxed longitude of counte
nance he had worn through the whole evening,
occasionally turning his head aside to disbur
den bis mouth of its gushing contents, while
his fair opponent, making the walls echo with
her laugh—for though she might have wept over
the graphic pictures of intemperance he had
. drawn, she was yet a laughter-loving creature,
and much more active than he,—managed to
preserve her grasp in spite of his stronger mus
cles. At iast, by a dexterous twitch, the roll
was broken off close to his hand, and she sprung
away through the crowd and re commenced
the play with a modest young man, who was
pulling the right hand against the left, in a cor
ner, to the manifest discomfiture of the man of
“said and aforesaid.”
Our doctor, too, was not idle. Indeed he exhi
bited strong symptoms of having his hands full;
for he was unfortunately linked with the large
lady in whose company we left him, and still
unfortunately had grasped a roll somewhat too
massive for his hold, but around which the
lengthy digits of the lady were firmly clenched.
The struggle was long and doubtful. It was
certainly one of the most difficult cases which
had occurred in the doctor’s practice, and soon
attracted the attention of the company, who
ceased operations, to follow, as well us they
could, by short cuts and heading, the devious
course the diminutive M. D. was forced to na
vigate. Hound and round, here and there, back
wards and forwards, and sideways, he was un
mercifully dragged by his more powerful an
tagonist. In vain did he brace his heels against
the floor; in vain did he pull back, as if he were
dragging at a refractory tooth; the lady was an
over match for him, and he might have been
performing nameless evolutions to this day,
had not the roll suddenly parted in the middle.
A universal burst of laughter followed this
termination of the doctor’s set-to; for the impe
tus he had received precipitated him over a
small rocking-chair, from beneath which rose,
simultaneously, the agonized aud heart-rending
squall of a ppaceable puss; and by a sudden turn
of his body, seated himself plump in a capacious
tub—not of water, gentle reader—but warm can
dy, which was very patiently waiting the ingoad
of the company. Now the contents were not
exactly hot, 'but of a temperature sufficiently
high to make a contact with them what might
be called not comfortable. At least, so thought
the doctor, for with the return of his scattered
ideas he scrambled forth certainly the most
candif e)d man in the company, and the very
personification of insulted dignity. As he stood
upon his feet again—his clothes literally plas
tered with the adhesive substance, which drip
ped in strings from them, in every direction—
his bands held away from his body, like an ur
chin’s who has been soused in a gutter; and the
skirts of his invisible green frock coat, his new
frock coat! gathered up into an indescribable
mass, and self sustained, standing out “ ingens
informt” from his back, a spirit of laughter un
governable, and outrageous to the doctor’s sen
sibility, prevailed, and burst forth in pealing ca
chinations, which to his astounded ears, seemed
the knell of his dignity and respectability forev
er. At length he seemed fully awakened to the
horrors of nis situation, and w’ith a stern and
measured gait, “ dispensing odoriferous sweets
on all around,” he made good his retreat
This e flee ted, and the merriment somewhat
subsided, the struggle was resumed with un
abated vigor. Restraint was thrown away, and
fun and jollity reigned supreme in every breast,
and shone in the laughing expression of every
countenance. If a comb happened to fall from
a lady’s head, setting loose her luxuriant ring
lets, there was no hand to replace it; or, if a shoe
chanced to slip from the delicate foot of its own
er, she went without it, tor her fingers were en
cased as within a gauntlet. All the rights ot
meum and tuum, as regards elbow-room, wore
forgotten, or, by common consent, abrogated;
and the room, for the space of an hour, present
ed the most animated picture of hiiaritous en
joyment I have ever witnessed. Old bachelors
and old maids, who, par parenthesn, seemed to
be constantly pulling against each other; young
bachelors, “ in the full tide of successful expe
riment” on the hearts of the young belles; and
blooming widows, were all jostled about in the
most indescribable confusion, without re ai d to
buckram sleeves or afflicted toes. Vain would
it be for me to attempt to give a distinct idea of
such a scene; to be understood it should be
looked upon.
At the end of an hour of tireless activity, the
candy was laid aside, and a general effort made
to disenthrall the hands irom its pertinacious
hold, and restore discomfited dresses to their
previous neatness. As soon as this was done,
the merry notes of the violin struck up, and,
with the dance, and the plays known to the in*
habitants of the country, the evening was pro
tracted to a late hour, with undirainished hie
and animation.
THE MORMOMS IN MISSOURI.
Current information from Missouri confirms
the apprehensions entertained of the breaking
out of a furious Civil War between the Mor
mons and the residents at Jackson county, in
the State of Missouri. The Fayette Monitor,
of the 21st, says “ By our next number we an
ticipate something (on the Mormon controver
sy) in an authentic form. The People may
look for the worst.” . . t .
The Missouri Enquirer (printed at Liberty)
of the 18th June, says, that, on the Monday pre
ceding, a Committee on the part of the citizens
of Jackson county, and one in behalf of the
Mormon People, met at Liberty, to take into
consideration the subject of compromising the
difficulties which occurred in Jackson county
last Autumn. No compromise was effected,
however, notwithstanding the exertions of the
People of Clay county, (in which Liberty is sit
uated,) a committee of whom were appointed to
act as mediators. On the contrary, the excite
ment among the People was such, that the con
ference was, inconsequence of it, obliged to be
adjourned. The proposition made by the Peo
ple of Jackson county to the Mormons, who
were driven out of the county last Autumn, and
are about to re-enter it with additional num
bers, in arms, is to buy all the lands and improve
ments of the Mormons, at a valuation by disin
terested arbitrators, to which valuation one hun
dred per cent, shall be added, to be paid within
thirty days thereafter; the Mormons thereupon
to leave (he county, and not hereafter to attempt
to enter it, individually or collectively. Or, the
citizens of Jackson county to sell their lands to
the Mormons on exactly reciprocal terms. To
neither of these propositions were the Commit
tee of the Mormons authorized to assent, nor
does there appear any probability that either of
them will be assented to. The Enquirer, after
narrating these facts, gives utterance to the fol
lowing melancholy foreboding: “ It is a lament
‘ able fact, that this matter is about to involve
‘ the whole upper country in civil war and blood
‘ shed. We cannot (if a compromise is not
‘ agreed to before Saturday next) tell how long
‘ it will be before we shall have the painful task
« of recording the awful realities of an extermi
‘ nating war.” The citizens of Jackson, it ap
pears, though inferior in numbers to the Mor
mons, are resolved to dispute every inch of
ground, and the Chairman of their Committee
declared, at the Meeting in the Court House of
Clay county, appealing to Heaven for the truth
of his assertion, that “ they would dispute every
inch of ground, burn every blade of grass, and
sufffer their bones to oleach on their hills, rather
than the Mormons should return to Jackson
county.”—Nation zt Int.
BALLOON ASCENT.
From the New York Journal of Commerce.
Mr. Robertson made his 18th seronautic as
cent on the 4th July from Castle Garden. He
left the Garden at 4 o’clock and 44 minutes,
amid the cheers of thousands ih the Garden, and
tens of thousands on the Battery and the neigh
boring piers and houses, as well as in vessels,
steamboats, small boats, &c. Soon after clear
ing the walls, he threw out a bag of ballast, af
ter which, he rose rapidly and beautifully for
about 15 minutes, his course inclining westward,
_when suddenly he entered the clouds, and in a
moment more the balloon was invisible. He
still continued to rise, till he had gained the
height of tiihee .miles, with the sun shining in
glory upon the ocean of clouds beneath, while
above was the blue expanse, constituting, alto
gether, he says, a scene which it is impossible
to describe.
About half past five, he again made his ap
pearance below the clouds,—not where he en
tered them, but several miles to the Eastward.
Consequently, the current of air above the
clouds must have been directly opposite to that
on and near the earth’s surface. The wind now
carried him to the Westward, and he continued
to float along at a moderate distance from the
earth, till he had crossed the East River, and ar
rived’ over Manhattan Island, three or four
miles North of the City Hall. He then threw
out more ballast, and ascended rapidly, till he
again entered the clouds, and was lost to the
eye of the beholder. After rising to about his
former maximum height, and judging himself
wafted near the ocean, he made his final de
scent. and landed without accident on the farm
of f Mr. Morris, about two miles South of New
town, L. I. He returned to the city the same
evening, and arrived at Castle Garden about
half past nine o’clock. Mr. K. remarked to us that
although this was his 18th ascent, he had never
passed through the cloude before, having al
ways, until now, clear weather. The ascent
was on the whole a very fine one, and highly
satisfactory to the thousands who witnessed it.
We forgot to mention that when over Long
Island Mr. R. was very much annoyed by the
firing of cannon, perhaps at the Navy Yard.
Every discharge made his balloon shake like
an aspen, and at times, he was not without ap
prehensions of danger from the circumstance.
The increase of his distance from the earth, did
not diminish the effect of the concussion.
Frederick, Md., July 2.
Death by Lightning.— We regret to state that
Mr. Christian Thomas, a highly respectable
citizen of this county, residing about one and
a half miles from this city, was killed by light
ning during the storm which raged so furious
ly on Thursday last. Mr. T. was sitting at the
dinner table, and died instantly after receiving
the stroke, whilst a lad who was sitting near
him escaped uninjured! Three servants, who
were also at dinner, received the shock with
such violence that they were thrown on the
floor, but not seriously hurt.—Herald.
The Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was re
ceived at Elizabethtown on Thursday last in an
enthusiastic and appropriate manner. A splen
did coach and horses were provided for his
conveyance, a salute was fired, at least five hun
dred persons werep.esent, and this distinguished
Senator again “ upon the soil of his adopted
County” is receiving the gratitude and sponta
neous enthusiasm which emanates from the bo
som of every lover of his country’s laws. There
were present at the reception, Ex-Governor
Williamson, William Chetwood, Esq. Ma\or of
Elizabethtown, John Taylor, and Stephen Dodd,
Esqs. of Newark, and many other distinguish
ed individuals.—PhiL Inq.
Receipt for a Wife.—Good temper, health;
good understanding, agreeable physiogomy,fine
figure, good connexions,domestic habits, resour
ces of amusement, good spirits, conversation,
talents, elegant manners—Money!
Columbian Horticultural Society.—Atthe An
nual Meeting of the Columbian Horticultural
Society, held atthe City Hall, Washington, on
the 5th instant the following gentlemen were
unanimously elected the Officers and Council
lors of this Institution, for the ensuing year, viz:
Gen. Nathan Towson, President.
Virgil Maxcy, 1st Vice President, Washing
ton City. .
Joseph Gales, Jr. 2d Vice President, Washing
ton County.
Walter Smith, 3d Vice President,Georgetown.
Henry Daingerfield, 4th Vice President, Alex
andria.
Richard B. Mason, 5th Vice President, Alex
andria county.
William Hewitt, Treasurer.
George Watterston, Corresponding Secreta
ry
William Hickey, Recording Secretary.
Members of the Council.
The several Officers of the Society—the Pres
ident of the Society being Chairman, and the
Corresponding Secretary being Secretary there
of—and
John Adams,
Robert Barnard,
John Boyle,
W. Cammack,
H. F. Camp,
R. S Coxe,
-Fowler,
Nathaniel Frye,
James S. Gunnell,
Thomas P. Jones,
James Kearney,
Adam Lindsay,
O. M. Linthicum,
Alexander McWilliams,
Joshua Pierce,
William Rich,
Joshua Riley,
William W. Seaton,
John A. Smith,
Alexander Suter.
By order of the Society:
W. HICKEY, Recording Secretary.
We have been favored with the following in
teresting letter from W. M. Haxtern, Esq. Uni
ted States Consul at Bathurst, Africa, dated
May 30th, 1834.—Pennsylvanian.
“ The English brig Matilda, Captain McKen
zie, 36 days from London, put into Bathurst,
convoyed by the French sloop of War Dunois,
eighteen guns, on the 28th May.
“ It apears that the Matilda left London with
126 volunteers on board, for the Brazillian Na
vy, bound to Rio Janeiro. That after being out
a week, a mutiny took place among the volun
teers, and they determined to kill the Captain,
Mates, and Surgeon, and take the vessel to
some of the West India Islands.
“ Their plans were overheard by the Captain,
in the detail of which they had prepared a car
ving knife, by grinding it to a double edge, with
which the Captain was to be despatched.
“ They next made a flag, with a Death’s head,
and two bones transversed, and allotted to each
mutineer his task of murder.
“ On the ensuing day, one of them being very
insolent, the Captain ordered him to be tied to
the windlass,—whereupon four others came up,
and told the Captain ho must release him, or
they would throw him overboard. The man
was released, and the Captain steered for Sen
egal, but finding the water on the bar at Sene
gal very low, he laid his course for Goree, where
the Dunois was at anchor.
“ On reporting his condition to the Comman
der of the Dunois, he was released, and twenty
six of the most desperate were ironed, and sent
on board of the Dunois, and ultimately arri
ved at Bathurst, and are safely lodged in the
jail.
“ For seven days and nights the Captain and
mates had no sleep.
“ 1 regret to state that there is one who is an
American, among the number.”
Episcopal Ordinations.—On Sunday last, an
ordination was held in St. Thomas Church, in
this city, by the Right Rev. Bishops B. T. On
cTerdonk, of New York, and T. C. Brownell,
of Connecticut. On this occasion, the follow
ing gentlemen, alumni of the general Theologi
cal Seminary of this city, who had received its
honors at the commencement on the preceding
Friday, were admitted to the holy order of Dea
cons, viz:—Messrs. N. E. Cornwall, Augus. F.
Lyde, Edwd. N. Mead, Peter S. Chauncey, Ed
mund Embury, Henry Lockwood, Marshall
Whiting, Henry Tullidge, John F. Messenger.
Lloyd S. Goldsborough, and Nathan W. Mon
roe. Divine service was conducted by the Rev.
Drs. Wilson and Mead. The candidates were
presented by the Rev. S. H. Turner, D. D. Pro
fessor of Biblical Theology in the Seminary,
and the Sermon was preached by Bishop Brown
ell. At the same time, the Rev. John Downey,
deacon, also an alumni of the Seminary, was
admitted by Bishop Onderdonk to the holy or
der of Priests. The candidate was presented
by the Rev. Dr. Lyell, who, with Drs. Turner,
Wilson and Mead, united in the laying on of
hands. The occasion w*as one of extraordina
ry interest to the members of the Episcopal
Church. The gentlemen ordained are men of
much promise. One of the number is expected
to proceed to China, as the first missionary of
the Protestant Episcopal Church to that widely
extended empire. Several of the others will
probably be sent out as Missionaries to the
South and West.—A’. V. Com. Jldt.
Accidents on the 4th of July.—The son of Bi
shop Onderdonk, we understand, had one of his
fingers blown on, by the bursting of a pistol he
was discharging. A man in Pearl street had
his hand badly burnt, by the explosion of a rock
et he was putting off. The roofs of two houses
were set on fire by rockets, but soon extinguish
ed. A cracker w’as thrown into a store in Pearl
street, which broke the glass case and set the
goods inside of it on fire. A little girl had her
clothes set on fire by a cracker in the Park, and
would have been dreadfully burnt, had not her
cries brought relief, when the flames were extin
Suished. Several ladies had their dresses set on
re and badly burnt, and a negro’s hand was
badly burnt by the discharge of a cracker—a
person’s face up Broadway was badly burnt by
cracker firing, and the sight of his eye endan
gered.
Mr. William Cook, a merchant of Albany,
while sitting at dinner on the 4th July, at Sara
toga Springs, expired without a groan, or any
indication of pain. He had for some time been
suffering with an affection of the head.
Two unfortnnate individuals met with a most
unlucky accident at Saratoga Springs, while
engaged in firing a salute in honor of the 4th.
The discharge from the cannon carrying away
the arm of one, and injuring those of the other
so badly as to make it necessary to amputate
them both.—N. Y. Star.
We learn with sincere regret, that the lady of
Admiral Vansittart, died on Tuesday last, af
ter an illness of a few hours, at Saratoga
Springs. At the time, her son and two daugh
ters were with her. The Admiral had preced
ed his family to his new location, at Blandford,
Upper Canada, to prepare for their reception,
and could not have been advised of his wife’s
illness. Thus a sudden dispensation of Provi
dence has thrown the mantle of mourning and
grief over a most respectable, religious and
amiable family, in a land of strangers, and far {
from their numerous connexions in Europe. I
. v V
A number of runaway slaves confined in the
Debtor’s Prison to be claimed by their owners
at the South, made a desperate attempt to es
cape yesterday—when they knocked down the
keeper and locked him in, when they ran out
but were pursued, after a strong resistance were
recaptured and returned to prison. They were
all armed—which must have been conveyed to
them by some villains outside. The abolitionists
have exerted themselves a great deal in their
behalf, and taken a great interest in their si
tuation.— N. Y. Star.
Virginia Gold.—Mr. Peale has just received j
and placed in his museum, a splendid collection ;
of Gold ores, surpassing any thing of this kind
we have yet seen; exhibiting the beautiful man
ner that this precious metal is distributed in the
veins and in the cavities, as well as being dif
fused through the mass of rock, commonly cal
led white flint. These specimens were received
from William Jackson, Esq., of Fredericksburg,
Va., the proprietor of gold mines in that neigh
borhood.—^V. Y. Mcr.
There can be nothing more touchingly beauti
ful, and more creditable to the vein of pure feel
ing which runs in the hearts of the American
people, maugre the waters of political bitterness,
than the spontaneous burst of sorrow, and the
warm and affectionate terms of regret, with
which the melancholy death of the great La
fayette has been every where received. Like
the spell of enchantment, it has for a moment
seemed to calm the hurricane of party passions;
it has penetrated profoundly into the bosoms of
our countrymen, and drawn forth from the se
cret fountains of unadulterated feeling, the true
expression of ennobling sentiments and sym
pathies, such as they ought ever to be, the true
type and mirror of human character, unmar
red by sinister motives, unalloyed by impure
associations — AT. y. Star.
From Liberia.—The brig Argus, Captain Pe
ters, arrived yesterday from Liberia, whence
she sailed on the 15th of May. The Liberia
Herald of the 29th of April, contains an inter
esting letter from the Rev. John Hersey, who
went out os the Agent of the Maryland Society.
Mr. H. returned some weeks since, and has
preached several times in this city to a crowd
ed audience.
The Rev. Mr. Spaulding and his lady sailed
for Salem on the 15th, in company with the Ar
gus.
On the 23d of April, Governor Pinney sailed
in the Colonial schooner Margaret Mercer, on
a visit to Grand Bassa Settlement—he would
probably be absent about two weeks.
N. Y. Com.
The Missionaries.—The ship Cashmere,
Capt. Hallett, sailed from Boston on Wednes
day morn ng for India. The religious services
commenced at about half post 8 o’clock, and
were conducted in a most solemn and impres
sive manner. A hymn was read by Dr. Sharpe,
and was sung by the Missionaries and their
friends—after which an appropriate prayer was
made by Dr. Sharpe. Another hymn read by
Dr. Wisner, was also sung by the individuals
who thronged the deck of the ship. The bene
diction was then given by Dr. Wisner. The
ship left the wharf under the influence of a ge
nial breeze from the west, while Heber’s “ Mis
sionary Hymn” was s mg by the assembled mul
titude, who were gathered on the wharf to wit
ness the solemn and interesting spectacle of the
depature of these pious and devoted individu
als, who have thus become voluntary exiles
from their country and their homes, stimulated
solely by the desire of being useful to their
fellow creatures.
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ALEXANDRIA:
•THURSDAY -MORNING, JULY 10, 1534
It is with emotions of the most sincere grie;
that we record the melancholy event which i<
the subject of this article. Seldom has it fallen
to our lot to notice a more heart-rending occur
rence—a heavier affliction upon friends and
relatives. Would to God that the stroke could
have been averted! Would to God that this
cup could have passed from the lips of those
who are now compelled to taste its bitterness!
From the information we have received it
appears that Archibald Henderson, Esq., 0l
Faifax, (son ol Richard II. Henderson, Esq of
Loudoun,) left Fairfax Court House, on Satur
day night last, for Leesburg. He must have
arrived at Goose Creek late that night, and
anxious to reach his family, attempted, no
doubt, to cross the stream, swollen as it was bv
the late heavy rains. The next morning his
horse was found alone, grazing on the banks of
the Creek.
It is but too certain, therefore, we fear, that
Mr. Henderson, in the darkness of the night
the depth of the water, and the rapidity of tJ
current, was drowned. His body had not vet
been found when we last heard from the scene
of the disaster.
We cannot conclude this notice of this sad
event, without paying an imperfect but sincere
tribute of respect to the memory of the deceas
ed. It was our fortune to have known him, and
entertained the highest opinion of his character
as a gentleman and his talents as a profession
al man and a scholar. He had a soul of honor
—a heart of goodness and benevolence. ne
was amiable and retiring in his disposition, but
firm and decided when called on to take a
stand, or when his own sense of duty led him
to adopt an opinion or espouse a cause. Young
as he was, he had commenced his career with
the most flattering prospects; and had he lived,
we have no doubt the fondest wishes of h:<
friends would have been realized by his succcs
How grievous the loss of sue!) a husband
must be to an affectionate wife—such a son to
bereaved parents—such a brother to beloved
brothers and sisters—such a friend to all who
knew him, we feel, but cannot tell. Providence,
in its inscrutuble wisdom, jias dealt the blow
and inflicted the w~ound. Time cannot heal it.
though it may assuage the grief which is how
so deeply experienced. IIu who is above all
knows best what should be, and doubtless this
calamity has happened for some wise purpose
We, and all of us, must bow* in humble resigns
tion to the Divine will, and, acknowledging its
omnipotence and justice, pray that consolation
may be poured into the bleeding hearts of those
who now mourn the heavy affliction which has
been laid on them.
APPENDIX
To the Remarks of “ Civis,” which appeared
in yesterday’s Gazette, relative to the Wash
ington Bridge.
The following is an analysis, sufficiently sun
pie to be understood by any one, showing the
competency of $130,000 to reconstruct the pro
posed bridge, on the site of the old, and in the
mode now required by law:
A woocen bridge, in length two-thirds of that of
the old bridge, with timber and materials the
same, viz: two-thirds of $100,000 $66,666 6*
For elevating the trussels of the new bridge six
fe« t above those of the old, which supposes
that addition to the piles, - - 3,333 31
Total cost of the wooden structure $70,006 07
Cost of an embankment of earth
•550 yards long, 10 yards wide at
top and 20 yards at bottom, and
8 1-3 yards deep, allowing 6 feet
of it, which is more than necessa
ry, to be below the river surface,
and 10 feet above, being in all 66,
000 cubic yards, at 50 cents for
the earth,. 33.000 00
For 6 perch of stone, to be loosely
thrown at the base and on the
slope of every embankment, to
cover it as high up as the danger
of abrasion by the river surge
may be apprehended to extend;
to serve as a substitute for a wall
along the whole embankment;—
6,600 perch at 75 cents, - - 4.450 W
Total cost of the embankment * 37,750 00
No credit is here allowed for the value of tb*’
present abutments, Sec. already constructed, for
which the United States have paid the late
Bridge Company $20,000 on valuation; and
value of the timber and materials of wmod, in
the present bridge, is also rejected from this
computation; though much of the plank cover
of the present bridge, and the whole iron work
of the draws, may be judiciously transferred to
the new bridge.
The total amount of the wooden structure
and embankment will then be - $107,000 0"
Leaving for the draw's, contingen
cies, and superintendence, - 23,000 00
Making total cost of the new bridge 130,000 00
The cost of quarrying stone is 30 rent'
per perch, by contract, at the quarries above
Georgetown, and 10-cents is the highest price
asked by the quarry owners; making 40 cent
for both: so that if the 6,600 perch were picked
stone, 25 cents W’ould be allowed, by the above
estimate, for its mere transportation. But the
refuse stone of the quarry is that here needed,
and it is valueless to the proprietor, and lie
loosely, in great abundance, below the present
quarries, at the river margin above George
town. The estimate for its delivery at 75 cents
a perch, therefore, is much too high. In like
manner the embankment of the 112th section
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was made
at much less than 40 cents the cubic yard; and
he average distance of hauling the material