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SATURDAY. APRIL rr, 1569.
WE MINT on the inside pages of this
morning's flu Errs Second page :
Poetry, Religious Intelligence, Clippings.
Third and Sixth pages: Financial, Com
mercial, Markets, Imports, River News.
Seventh page : Jack Shooting, Amuse
ments.
11. S. BONDS at Frankfort. 871
GoLD closed In New York yesterday
at 124.
Cmcaoo lost but little over half a mil
lion of dollars last year by fire. Is this
evidence of the efficiency of a paid fire
department ?
Ip we are to have a bit of trouble with
Spain, the brave Gen. Dim Simms will
'accept a mission there, but he can't bear
to be accredited to any court where there
is no trouble brewing, or no prospect for
field duty.
Taus is more building enterprise ex
hibited this spring In these communities
than has been observable for the last
twenty year& Pittsburgh especially is
fairly leaping into position as a greet and
powerful city.
Tux most profound satisfaction is felt
in oil circles over the killing, in the Leg
lature, previous- to adjournment, of the
odious bill taxing petroleum. The State
cannot well afford to cripple that great in
terest in any manner.
Ix Tin Street Committee of Councils
Ordinances were favorably acted upon
providing for the laying of Nicolson
pavement the full length of Smithfield
street'and of Fifth avenue from Ross to
Dinwiddie street. These are improve
ments much needed and we hope Conn
ells will not hesitate to endorse the action.
Him To= ratifies the KWh Article,
being the twenty-first State to give a con
stitutional assent. Included in the twen
ty-one, are Louisiana and Kansas, whose
Legislatures did not legally perfect their
action. These will amend their records
at their next. sessions. But seven more
States are needed, for the Constitutional
adoption of the new Article.
A RECENT Report to the Ohio Legisla
ture puts the number of insane persons
in that State at 5,000, of whom 950 are
confined in the county jails and infirma
ries, under circumstances of the greatest
exposure and neglect. A. very large in
erease•is recommended to be made in the
charitable provisions of the State, through
its various asylums, for the special treat
ment of this unfortunate class.
A insrerca from Washington, Pa.,'
announces that $242,000, or more than
two , tbirds of the conditiona,sum requir
ed has beelisabscribed to the Chartiers
Railroad stock. The remainder, $BO,OOO,
should be raised without difficulty, more
especially,since arrangements are being
made for the immediate commencement
of work on tho . road, thus giving ample
assurance that the long entertained pro
.ject has assumed the air of reality.
Ativicsa from Washington assert that
the somewhat important mission to Portu
gal was tendered to Mr. SECELLABARGEB:
and by him declined, and that it has. again"
been offered In the hope that he may ac
cept. • The name of , a very worthy gen
tleman of this county has been presented
for the post by influential gentlemen, and
should Mr: S. again decline the honor no
doubt the appointment will fall in that di
rection.
Ws recently suggested. that the
"clamor of certain Eastern journals, in
behalf of the speedy recognition by our
government, of the Cullen " movement for
Independence" is generally to be ex
pbihied, and quite to the public satis
faction, by the notorious venality of
those journalists. We specified none of
those by name, but we perceive that the
Philadelphia Press seems to have been
badly hit, and indiscreet enough to con
fess it. We are now more than ever
convinced of the literal justice of our
suggestion.
Ur Tux, wrrnns a 'very late date the
importance of canals for the moving of
freights was greatly under•estimated, and
few • there were but believed that they
would be entirely abandoned as useless
before the march of railway" improve
ments; It has been found, however, that
these internal systems of communication
have not outlived their usefulness, but as
a means for the transportation of heavy
freight at cheap rates, are vastly superior
to railroads. = The disadvantage of slow
seas is the only great drawback to canals, .
*but it s highly, probable that steam will
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soon. take the piece pf horse- power,' and
that cheap and. comparatively swift
water carriage will be established to
meet the imperative demands of the
times. Pennsylvania, owning nearly a
third part of the four thousand miles of
canals in the United States, is deeply in
terested in bringing . them to greater per
fection- and usefulness, and our people
would hail with pleasure and satisfaction
any improvement in—the system which
looks towaidti cheaper trarisportition.
SINCE WEDNIC6DAT morning at ten
o'clock, up to the present hour (three
o'clock A. sc. 'Saturday,) there has been
raging a fearful fire at a nest of oil refia.
eries in the XIIId ward. The lose thus
far, in the estimation of .those posted,
will closely , approach $300,000, and be
fore the conflagration is ended it is highly
probable that it will reach half a million.
The refinery where the fire originated
was constructed on the most careful plan
and thought to be fire proof in every par
ticular. Indeed. one of the owners ven
tured to wager, on being informed that
the •place was in flames, 'that the loss
would not be over ten thousand dollars,
so certain was he that the shields against
the element were sufficiently strong to
ensure against its encroachments to any
great degree. Thus far two lives are re
ported 'to be lost. At twelve last night
fresh aid was called to the scene and it is
possible that much more damage will be
reported to-day.
The meeting of citizens at the Mayor's
office, yesterday, was much the largest
yet held in this city, for the discussion of
the bridge.question, and included a very
full representation of the leading interests
in this community. We have satisfactory
assurances of the hearty co-operation of
all our citizens in the purposes of the
meeting, and that, whenever the question
shall be brought to a square and practical
issue, the friends of every material inter
est in these cities, will be found 'acting
together, cordially and efficiently, an
unit for the protection of the endangered
rights of all our people. The laboring
oar, in the movement for their vindica
tion, has been for. the present - committed
to the capable hands which have been
specially detailed to initiate measures foi
the general relief, but at the needful
meat, we are fully authorized to pleige,
from the raining, manufacturing and
commerciai interests of the Upper Ohio
and its tribu Caries, a long and strong pull
altogether, for there-establishment of the
inalienable rights of the people.
We surrender large _space to the pro
ceedings of the meeting, in our columns
this morning, and invite to this report,
and especially to the resolutions which
were adopt, the attentive consideration
of onr readers. These cover a fair and
disp4sionate statement of the entire case.
The 4tural and legal rights of the peo
ple are calmly, and clearly presented;
how these rights have been intaded, and
are still more seriouly threatened, is set
forth, faithfully in consonance with the
facts; no compromise is recognized with
existing mischiefs, and no submission is
promised to the erection of fresh obstruc
tions, against the absolutely free enjoy
ment of a right from which no legislation
can legally exclude two millions of people.
It is seek that, the resolutions frankly
and mantully take the broad and impreg
nable ground that the people, not by
specially created privilege, but by the
rights of the people, which o,ur constitu
tions recognize and which no laws can
impair, do assert and will maintain this
indefeasible title to the utmost freedom
in the pursuit of an unobstructed com
merce upon this great natural highway.
Our use of this navigable stream cannot
be legally impaired, to us or to our chil
dren. We claim as clear a right to its un
impeded enjoyment, as that which ne
cessitated the transfer of the lower Mis
sissippi, and of its debouchure with the
Gulf of Mexico, from a foreign Sovereign
ty to the American ownership. Itls
sixty years since the meagre American
population of this Valley of the Great
River, and its tributaries, demanded the
acknowledgment of their natural and in
detelisible privilege — of transporting their
traffic upon its waters, following those
from their various sources down to the
ocean. The sea, said the American doc
trine of 1909, was no more justly the
highway of nations "than were the Mis
sissippi, and all of its tributary navigable
streams, the natural highways of the poit
ulations dwelling ! upon their blulks."
Neither Spanish jealousy nor the ins();
lent pride of French power availed them,
to resist this clahi, or even to refute its
equity. A. purchase effected what, other
wise, a *ar would have achleved—the
absolute and perpetual removal of the
barriers with which a foreign domination,
over the lower banks of that great stream,
proposed to obstruct its free navigation
by 'the Americans posaessing 14 upper
waters. "
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OUR NATIONAL HIGHWAYS.
The acquisition, of Louisiana from
France was urged, and consummated ex
pressly for the vindication of the simple
principle to which the people of this tribL
ntary valley once more appeal. The ar
tificial ;barriers of masonry which are
now, sought to be protected by Congress
ional authority in the channel of the
Ohio, as clearly conflict with the inalien
able popular right, as did the usurpations
of an European power Louisiana, two
generations ago. What matters it,
whether that right be assailed -by hostile
guns, or by doniestie eneroachnients?
By the espionage of =friendly custom.
houses, or by Ike phplealobatadea which
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PITTSBtJRGH GAZETTE : SATURDAY, APRIL 17,
oprivatn usurpations would - stow interpose?
Now as then, the people of all that im
perial:territory which thes?" rivers drain,
assert the absolute freedom of their right
of navigation, agitinst no: matter whai
invasions, from abroad or at'home.
_ This right has been once awarded, and
it still , stands disputed, in the erection, by
a private corporation, of the 'structure at
Steubenville. Our people 'deny the law.
fulness of that erection; they will never
consent to it, as long'as one stone shall
stand' upon another in the channel.
They pledge themselves, yesterday and•
to-day, as ever, to the earliest possible
abatement of that structure. as an unjus
tifiable nuisance which no legislature can
sanction, which no policy, has ever ex
cused, and which no lapse of time shall
ever protect' It has been built by Penn
s lvania czterprise and' Promotes a
eat highway in which Pittsburgh
j stip feels an interested pride. But that
di es not justify it.in the judgment of our
people. /t stands a corporate invasion,
• the interest of the few, of the clear
rit,hts of the many, and that condemns it.
A king no favors for a favorite exception,
we ask for no compromises of the one
bioad principle, which the Steubenville
structure denies, end which is again
menaced at other points in the same
valley. •
If thebridges at Bellaire and Parkers
burg are to be constructed; this season,
in defiance of the public sentiment and of
popular right, , the - corporation which
builds them has fair warning that their
structures must ultimately be abandoned.
We do not propose an attempt to deter the
B. 0. Railroad Company by any
threats. We wish only to admonish the
.^.4:nnPany that the people . o f the Upper
Ohio Valley are in earnest, 412 d will not
rest in their efforts until this navigable
stream is once more relieved from these
needless and indefeasible encroachments
upon navigable rights.
The law of 1802, whether it be uncon.
stitutional or not, 21111 be repealed. Fair
notice of this has been given to all con
cerned. And this repeal will be speedy.
The popular movement in that direction
is organizing and is bound to win. There
is a way to reach Senators and Repre
sentatives, as well in the interests of the
people as of private corporations; that
way will be found and followed, to a
final popular triumph. There is nothing
surer than this l
It is not only Pittsburgh that moves.
Behind us stand the people of Western
Pennsylvania, of Eastern Ohio, of South
western New York, and of nearly one
half of that West Virginia which Senator
BOIMIAN has been unfaithful to. Two
millions of people are yet to be heard in
this matter. If they are not heard, and
to a good purpose at last, it will be some
thing new in our republican experience.
The proposed Convention will be a step
in the right direction, and we shall look
to its deliberations for,the most profitable
results.
OHIO RIVLR NATI4iITION.
Meeting of Citizens—The Question of
short Span Bridges—Report 4Comm
'Mime Appointed to Visit Washington.
.:—Remarks of General J. K. Moor.
head, Col. J. K. Kery and Hon. T. J.
Bigham—Resolutions Adopted.
Friday wonting, in pursuance of a
published notice, a large number of
citizens interested in the navigation of
the Ohio River, assembled in Mayor
Brush's private office, to hear the report
of a Committee appointed to visit Wash
ington City, and ask Congress to piss an
act prohibiting the erection of short span
bridges' over that river.
On motion, at half past eleven o'clock,
the meeting was organized by.calling
Mayor Brush to the chair and electing
Simpson Homer, Capt. Jas. Blackmore,
Capt. George Miller,Michael Whitmore,
William O'Neal ice Presidents, and
Wm. M. Smith and Fred Wilson, Secre
taries.
The Chairman having stated the ob-
ject of the meeting, on motion. John F.
Dravo, N. J'. Bigley, John C. Risher,
William Oliver and William Dunseath
were appointed a Committee t 9 prepare
resolutions.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Capt. M. W. Beltzhoover, chairman of
the Visiting Committee, now presented
the following report:
GENTLEMEN : Your Committee, ap
pointed to visit Washington City for the
purpose of getting Congress to pass the
bill authorizing the Secretary of War to
appoint a Board of Engineers to survey,
examine and report to the next Congress
upon the practicability of allowing only
three hundred feet spans Rail Road
bridges to be built over the channel way
of the Ohio river, and prohibiting any
bridges being built in the meantime with
less than four hundred feet span over the
channel, beg leave to report:
That immediately upon our arrival we
went to the Congressional Committee
Room on roads and canals, In hopes of
finding them in session. The time for
adjournment having been fixed on Sat
urday we knew that no time was to be
lost in procuring legislation. They were
not, lowever, in session. At the door of
the committee room we met the paid
agents of- the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company waiting oar arrival, ready
as usual to use all means in their • power
to procrastinate legislation this session
upon the bill, in order that they might
proceed in building their two bridges
this summer under the existing law,
passed in 1862, allowing bridges to bt;
nuilt of only three hundred feet span
over the channel of the river,and
two hundred feet between .
the
other piers. Through the Influence,
of our representative, General Neg.
ley, the Chairman 'of • the Com
mittee called them together on Satur
day;morning that we might heard. We
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presented our statements of facts to
prove.that spans of three hu n dred feet in
width, no matter where the are placed
in the river, are a dangerou s obstruction
to• navigation, and under no circum
stances . could our tows o coal pass
ti t
through with any degree - f safekv at
night. We called the atte nt ion of the
Committee to the sworn s ta tements of
sixtpone pilots and cap Jove of tow
boats to this faot, and a ft er presenting
many other incontrovertthl prooft in
support ofony side of the q, esticin; we
largedupon them the lottiortalstwortheir
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immediate - action, as Monday vorettld be
the last day of the session for offering
bills.`
The paid agents of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, who were pres
ent during our examination, insisted on
postponement of action, under the plea
of being able to offer rebutting testimo
ny, but in fact for the purpose of post
poning action until after the morning
hour-of Monday's session, and although
their side of the question had been ar
gued before the Committee by the Presi
dent and Engineer of the Baltimore and
Ohio R.silread Company on the Wednes.
day previous, nevertheless they granted
the postponment until Monday at three
o'clock P. at., when the representativiki
on both sides appeared, made statements
and presented facts both pro and con to
the Committee,, after hearing which they
agreed almost unanimously to report the
bill through their Chairman, Mr. In
gersoll. who made every effort to do so
on Tuesday morning. It being out of the
regular order of business, it required a
two-thirds vote' to get it before the House.
The attempt called forth a vote of seven
ty-five for, and , fifty-six against taking it
up. There being only three days of the
session left for passing. upon the. unfin
ished 'business; it was impossible, under
the circumstances, to have taken it up
and acted upon. Your Committee on
learning that postponement had been
granted by the' House Committee until
Monday afternoon, consequently fearing
the fatal result that did occur, went im
mediately to Governor Morton, of the
Senate (who frilly appreciates the impor
tance of the subject) and requested him
to bring it before the Senate, which
he did. He had it referred to the
Committee on !Post Roads, asking their
immediate action. The Chairman of
the Committee, Governor Ramsey,
called them together to hear us on'
Thursday morning. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company agents, as usual,
were present, and the same game of post
ponement gone through. Mr. Garrett,
their President, telegraphed he could
not be present until Friday morning,
when both sides were again heard pro
and con with, the same result. The bill,
favorably reported, laid on the speaker's
desk twenty-four hours before adjourn.
ment, and of course could not be called
up for want of time. W. Milnor Roberts,
Esq., Engineer; in Chief, engaged by the
Government in' making surveys of and
removing obstructions from the Ohio
river, and perfectly familiar with the
present , necessary economical mode
of transporting coal in large quan
tities by towboats and barges down
said river, being struck with the
stupendous absuidity of the Govern
ment's allowing obstructions to be placed
in the river of much greater magnitude
than any he was authorized to remove,
thought it expedient to accompany us be
fore the Committee of the House of Re.
presentatives, to whom he gave valuable
information, presenting maps of the river
where the proposed bridges are to be
built this summer by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, also drawings of tow-beats
with their barges, elucidating clearly the
fact that bridges, with their widest sp.n
only three hundred feet, would be a dan
gerous and serious obstruction to navi
gation on this river, and also that rail
road bridges of five hundred feet span
could be built as strong and safe as any
of three hundred, the - question of cost
being the only difference.
For Mr. Roberts' earnest Sand able
efforts in endeavoring to prevent obstruc
tionbeing placed in the river, he has
our hanks and we have no doubt will
recel e, the thanks of the' mi ll ions of
peop interested in the non-obstruction
ohi great highway.
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Thl same resolution or bill, asking that
the cretary of War should appoint a
Board of Examiners , with authority to
report to the lapt Congress as to a three
hundr d feet span over the channel of the
riverbeing an obstructiOu or not. was
before the Senate Committee of the For
tieth tigres. Those interested in river
naviga ion and others opposed to, the
obstruttion of the river ,
and those inter
ested iU the building of railroad bridges
over it, appeared before said committee
and presented to them arguments and
facts for and against it. The result was
that the bill was reported favorably, and
passed, the Senate. It then went to the
House and was referred to the House
Committee on Roads and Canals, where
it died. '
At the last session of the Fortieth Con
gress the same routine of evidence was
gone through with, both sides appearing
belore the Hoxise Committee on Roads
and Canals, with the same result. The
bill was reported upon favorably to the
House of. Representatives, and passed on
the Monday previous to adjournment;
went to the Senate, was referred to the
Committee An i Post Routes; and never
more heard of that session.
Thus, by the powerfully concentrated,
active and overwhelming influences
brought to betir upon Congress by the
Baltimore and Ohio. Railroad Company;
just and proper legislation has been pre=
vented until now, when they are ready
to build their bridges under the law of
1862. ' ,
Your Committee feel assured, from in
formation they ! have received from mem
bers of Congress who have . examined
this subject, that the law of 1862 has
proven to be a great mistake, will be re
pealed, and all , bridges built under it
must be takenflown.
With this, - Our report, we leave the
matter in / the ; hands of the people for
action, ,to use all honorable and proper
influences in their power to prevent any
bridges from ever being built over this
great and important highway of less than
four hundred feet span.
JOSEPH WALTON,
A V M. W. BELTZBOOVER, •
, Committee.
The report was read and adopted.
REMARKS OF MS. 310011 HEAD.
Following-the adoption of the paper
General Moorhead, who was present,
was called upon and made a few re
marks. He said he was interested.in the
free navigation of the Ohio river equally
with those who Were engaged in ship
ping coal and other 'Products to the cities
along its banks; and he heartily. opined
dad with the sentiments expressed in
the report.' Re'had been for some time
acquainted with legislation in reference
to this matter and had been 'aingularly
impressed with the . fact that when
ever the question of 'bridging any
stream of any else was brought up,
before Congress, it seemed as If the en
tire railroad ; interests of the country
were arrayed against the measure, and
the present matter was no exception; it
had several times been before the appro
priate Committee in Congress m in the
manner substantially as represented in
the report and with a- uniform result.
He gave a detailed account of his efforts
in favor of the passage of the desired act,
in Congress and before the Committee.
He thought the act of 1862, a very unfor
tunate one, and on this ground had so
pressed -the matter before the Com=
mittee at one session of Congress,
that he felt - persuaded that a tall favora
ble to a repeal would be reported. At
the next ses.sion, however, a new com
mittee had been appointed; and the bat
tle had to be fought again, and the
matter had been •undergoing discussion
ever since. If the act were repealed, al
though no bridges now erected could be
directly removedoet no new ones could
be built, and; the old ones would ulti
mately be removed. ' The lowa 'oooa
'atoned by these bildges would fall -upon
the nompsnlei owning them, mid: not
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Wpm navigators of the rivers as now.
He thought the principal point to be ar
rived at was the repeal of this law of 16 1 32.
Upon this object every effort should be
concentrated.
MR. KERR'S REMARKS.
Colonel J. K. Kerr was next called
upon. He said he had for a long time
entertained similar views to those which
had called the citizens together in refer.
ence to this matter. He agreed with
General Moorhead as to the necessity of
aiming particularly at the repeal of the
law of 1862. The Onio river was the great
outlet for the commerce and trade of
Pittsburgh and surrounding country and
the tributary by which the needed sup
plies of coal and other products were
carried to the cities of the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys. President Gar
rett, of the Baltimore and . Ohio Railroad,
had stated before the Congressional Com
mittee that there was no occasion for
bringing in use, by Pittsburgh shippers,
the large towboats and other crafts,
which demanded a full sweep of the river
channel. This was altogether a mis
take, and an attempt to infringe upon
and circumscribe the rights of naviga
tors of the river. Plttsburgliers and oth
ers interested should insist Upon possess
ing every needed inch \ of chan
nel from this port to New Orleans. In-
stead of asking Congress simply to protect
navigation froth further obstruction, he
thought, Congress should do', something
toward the improvement of the present
navigation of this importantistream., It
was well enough to talk about railroads,
but transportation never could be fur
nished as cheap by rail as water, a fact
to which the great cities along our west
ern rivers chiefly owed their importance.
Hence it was but simple justice, that
these cities and the populous country ad
jacent, should not deprived of the priv
ileges afforded them by •their natural
position by the crY of local prejudice
which had been raised. The epeaker, in
conclusion, said .he thought /the whole
matter might be adjusted by an exhibi
tion to Congress that the trade of the
upper Ohio could not be conducted, as
formerly, with small craft, but demanded
the largest sized boats, and the least
possible obstruction of the channel.
Thus President Garrett's argument
would be answered, and one of the
chief objections made by the opponents
of the act done away with.
BIGHAIeB It&MAREfi.
Hon. T. J. Bigham was the last speak
er. He said that the matter had already
been fully treated upon. He said that
he had heard Senator Boreman of West
Virginia use the argument that the ob
struction of the river at Parkersburg
would not inconvenience the residents of
lower cities, as the coal-fields of West
Virginia, Kentucky and in the Western
States would be sufficient to supply
every demand. He thought such an ar
gument simply impudent, as It practi
cally urged the closing up of two hundred
miles of navigation. He then referred
to the damage which would result by the
present policy of constructing bridges,'
and contended that the' people should
assert their rights and endeavor to pre
vent the erection of bridges with spans
of less than four hundred feet. He said
the objection made by companies to the
erection of long span bridges was simply
because of the increased cost of such
structures. He was surprised that so
shrewd a man as the President of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
should allow his actions to be controlled
by such trifling considerations.
Mr. John R Dravo, from the Commit.
tee on resolutions, now presented: the
following report, which was unanimous
ly adopted:
• WHEREME . I, The Ohio river is one of the
great National highways of the country,
through which the inter-state commerce
must flow, in a normal and, healthy con
dition of the country, drained by said
river;
AND WHEREAS, Many of the principal
centres of population, inland, festoon
said river, because it is the great artery
through which their daily recurring
wants are supplied;
AND WHEREAS . Without its free and
unobstructed na v igation' the immense
bituminous coal fields of Western Penn
sylvania, and especially the coal and oth
er interests of Pittsburgh and its depen
dencies, will not only suffer, but languish.
and perish, and along with .them the
wants, interests and prosperity of all the
cities and towns which represent • the
large, active, growing, prosperous and
rapidly developing States, which aggre
gate their population, commerce and
manufactories in said cities and towns.
AND WHEREAS, It is an act of na•
tional iniustice for Congress to authorize
or permit any rival interests, either cor
porate or individual, to obstruct the nav
igation of said river, and thereby injure
or destroy either the growth ar prosper
ity of the cities and towns situate on or
near said river, or the inhabitants inter
-
'sated therein;
AND WHAMS" The railroads of the
country demand the privilege of ! cori
structing.bridges across said river. with.
out regard to the natural rights of cities
and towns aforesaid, and in direct viola
tion of the good faith of the Government,
to assure to them - the free and uninter
rupted navigation thereof, for the benefit
of cities more highly favored, whose wa
tern cannot be obstructed, and also for
the benefit of capital which otherwise
has," acquired privileges sufficiently
gret without wiping out from the maps
and geography of our coun ry, cities,
which would to-day be the pride and or
nainents,of Kingdoms and Empires.'
AND WHEREAS, In this country cities,
towns, and manufactories are the effects
of greiit and prevailing natural causes,
and therefore it is that all our large
cities are built on some navigable water;
AND WHEREAS, Congress has and ex
. ercises exclusive control and jurisdiction
over said river and the commerce car
ried thereon; therefore,
Reso/ved, That the erection of bridges
across said river with spans covering'
the main channel less than four hun
dred feet is a dangerous obstruction 'to
the navigation thereof by steam and
towboats, and will ;greatly increase the
dangers and risks of navigation, and
tend to destroy the commerce carried
thereon. .
Resolved, That it is an act of bad faith
and gross injustice to tulle cities, towns ,
and people living along said river; whose
jprosperity and very existence depend on
'the free and unimpaired navigation
thereof, to destroy or impair it, to aid re
mote and rival interests. ,
Resolved, That the neglect of Congress,
at its last ses , ion, to repeal the act of
July 14, 18E12, legalizing the bridge at
Steubenville. and authorizing similar
bridged. to be erected across said river
above the mouthof Big Sandy, evinced
on the part of that body a flagrant disre
gard of the rights, interests and -welfare '
of the people living in the great valleys
of the Ohio and Missrssippi.
Resolved, That the attempt of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company to
create in themselves vested rights by the
erection of their short span bridges, du-
ring the vacation: of Congress, is e de
liberate, unreasonable, unnecessary and
unjust attempt to forestall and prevent
action in the premises by Congress, and
therefore cannot give them any greater
rights thad they now have. ''
Resolved, That we do hereby give no
tice to all parties proposing to erect oar
rowepan bridges over the Ohio river,
.dnring the present season before 'Con
gress shall have determined the rights
of the parties, shat IWe will continue to
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agitate and appeal to Congress until such
nuisances, if erected, shall be abated, and
that we will ignore all party fealty, and
in casting our votes, vote only' for such
men and parties as will guarantee to us
and the people of the
`national
Valley our
rights upon this great national high
way.
.Resolved, We do hereby denounce this
deliberate and wanton attempt to destroy
pre existing rights—the rights of trade
and trayel upon the free waters of a free
river, merely to save .the emziendi
tura of a few additional dollars' by rival
routes. •
Resolved, That the Committee of Cor
respondence be aulhorized to secure legal
counsel to carry into effect the objects of
this meeting, and also the recovery of
losses sustained by the Steubenville
bridge, and to inaugurate measures to
have the same obstruction abated.
Resolved, That we deeply regret the
narrow and illiberal views 'of Senator
Boreman, of West Virginia, which in
duced him to lend his influence in oppo
sition to our interests and those of his
State, thereby betraying the confidence
reposed in him by the oitlzeni of the
Great West.
Resolved, That a Committee of five be,
appointed to confer with the citizens of
Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville and
other points along the river, with the
view of holding a convention at an early
day, to devise ways and means to protect
the free navigation of the rivers of the
national domain.
Capt. R. C. Gray next read the follow
ing resolutions, which were adopted:
Resolved, That John F. Dravo, William
H. Brown, , Thomas Fawcett, John Wit
lock and John Watson be appointed a
committee to open 6rrespondence with
the President of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, with a view of Indu
cing him to accede to the same compro
mise made between the railroad compa
nies building bridges over the Ohio river
at Cincinnati, Louisville and Paducah,
and build his bridges with four hundred
feet span over the channel Way.
Resolved, That the earnest thanks of
the commercial interests of the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys are especially dne to
W. Milnor Roberta, Esq., Chief Engineer
of Ohio River Improvement under Gov
ernment, for his persistent efforts and
emphatic protest against the obstruction
of our great national highway by the
erection of three hundred feet span
bridges.
The resolutions were adopted, after
which the meeting adjourned.
The Titusville Herald says: A few
days ago a new well was struck near Ti
onesto in the second sand rock and test
ed, but it produced only three barrels
during twenty-four hours pumping, and
the owners concluded to sink it into tbe
third sand rock.
A new forty barrel well was struck
last Monday on the black oil belt on the
Independent Oil Company's tract, which
adjoins the Mill farm on the west. The
working interest is owned by Messrajlar
ris, of Titusville, and Fleming of Sham
burg. This well is the most Important
one that has been struck in some time.
It is located between Shamburg and
Pleasantville, and determines the valua
ble nature of, the territory situated be
tween the two, places, as it Indicates be.
yond a doubt that the black oil belt un
derlies it.
Four new wells have been struck on
Cherry-tree run within the past ten days.
The productiOn of each of them will be
reported as soon as it is accurately as
certained. ') I
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The sad and deplorable condition of many who
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are afflicted with 4 hemia or rupture of the bow- •
els. calls loudly r some efficient and unmistak
able remedy that, will not only in every case give
efficient relief, bid in many ca. ea effect a radical
and thorough cni6.. These eases of hernia have
become so frequent, that It Is computed that one
sixth of the *tide population are said to be
troubled, in somew ay or another, with this ter
rible alment; anin very many eases do not..
know where to artily for an appropriate remedy, r_
oftentimes not knowing whether an appliance is
really needed or nbt; and If it should be needed, '
they ofteddo not know where or to whom they
should make appli.latlon• The world is full of
Trusses for the retention and cure of this lamen
table evil. oftentimes an incontestable proof of
their total-and inadequate fitness to relieve the
sufferer. This need not . be; Dr. Keyser, at his
new medicine store, No. 167 Liberty street, is
abandantly supplied with every appliance, need
ful to the retention and relief of this terrible
affliction, so that every one is.,,n be
fitted at a moderate cost, with the full assurance
that the appliance is the best that the mechanical
department of surgery can allord. The Doctor
has purscied the investigation of hernia with
more than ordinary care for over thirty years,
so 'that the afflicted can place implicit • re
liance on his skill and Integrity with the full as
s urance that they will not only get the hest!truss,
suitable to tee case, but likewise a thorough and
efficient knowledge of its proper application.
There are many persons who not only sacrifice
their health, but even th, ir lives, for want of a
proper truss, or a. truss properly applied. .Stran
gidated and Irreducs.hle rupture, is a far more
common ailment-now than in former years; and
may we not. Justly, arrive at the conclusion, that
its frequency is often occasioned by the neglect
and carelessness of the sufferers themselves. N'e
one would be regarded as sa,,e or excusable who
would go for a whole winter without the proper
clothing to shield them from the Inclemency of
the weather, but, at the came time, it is thought
,
alight affair to suffer for years with a prottuslon
that, not only subjects the person to inconvent-
ence, but even places life itself In jeopardy.
Those of our readers who may be unfortunate to
need appliances of this kind cannot act more
wisely \ than to cat this advertlst•ment out and
preserve It, so as to enable diem to retain the
place where such Important preashvers of life and
health c are to be procured.
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NO. 167 LIBERTY STRFET, TWO. DOORS
FROM ST. OLAIR. CONSULTATION ROOMS,
No. 1510 PENN STREET, from 10 . A. M. until
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