Canal Progress; Laborer Numbers

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.— There are one hundred and two miles of the Canal let out, under an obligation, on the part of a selected body of contractors, to finish it by the first day of September next, thirty-five days before the expiration of five years from the commencement of the work; and there is no reason to believe that the work will not be completed within the stipulated period. On the contrary, such is the progress already made, and now making, towards its completion, that it is expected sixty-four and a half miles will be in use before the first of June next, and the residue by the first of September. There are 4,500 men at present on he various works, aided by the weekly consumption of 7,000 pounds of gunpowder, and the labor of 800 horses, oxen, and mules, and a full complement of wagons, carts, &c. Success to the great enterprise! —[Alex. Gaz.