The canal authorities are about to repair and build higher the dam at No. 6. The old dam leaks badly, and is not high enough to furnish a full head of water when the river is […]
The water in the Georgetown level of the C. & O. Canal has been drawn off and will likely be off for a week for the purpose of repairing a leak at the first lock and […]
The blockade of boats belonging to the striking canalmen has put a stop to all travel on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. There is a squadron of about forty boats used for blockading purposes, and so […]
BOATS BURNED.– On Saturday morning last, the 9th inst., about 3 o’clock, the cry of fire was raised through our town, when it was discovered that three boats, the “Adam Sherman” and “Arthur Cropley,” belonging to […]
FRESHET. — Rain commenced falling on Monday and continued with slight intermission up to Wednesday noon, causing the Potomac to swell higher than it has been for eight years. The freshet extended along the line of […]
The breaking up of the ice on the river has proven injurious to Dam No. 5 on the C. & O. Canal. About 80 or 100 feet of the old Dam has been broken and washed […]
N. P. Willis in a recent letter, detailing a trip over the Baltimore & Ohio Road, thus mentions a novelty in keeping swine: “And by the way, there is another novelty of railway sustenance, which I […]
War! War! War!— “Ould Ireland” proclaiming Hostilities against “Amiriky” at Dam No 4— the “Hamtramck Guards” ordered to battle. On Saturday morning last, the 9th inst., our town was thrown into considerable commotion by the summoning […]
The breach at Dam No. 4 is about to be closed, now that the stage of water will permit operations. Over 100 hands, (chiefly boatsmen, whose all is dependent upon the Canal,) are employed night and […]
Lime-Boat Burned.A lime-boat belonging to Mr. CALLEN, was burned in the Canal near this place, a few days since, while on its way to market with a heavy cargo of lime. The fire occurred from a […]
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was navigable, during the past year, only about six months, yet the descending tonnage reached 151,369 tons, and the ascending tonnage to 16,226 tons– total tonnage 167,595 […]
From the Baltimore Saturday Visitor.THE SPIRIT OF BLOOD. Are bowie knives and pistols necessary?— A correspondent of the “Oasis,” a neat and spicy exchange published at Nashua, N. H. writing from Gallatin, Miss. under date of […]
GREAT FRESHET IN THE POTOMAC.– The rains of last week melting the masses of snow on the Alleghany Mountains caused a sudden and heavy freshet in the Potomac River. The water rose higher than at any […]
PROCEEDINGSof theCHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL COMPANY. […] Mr. J. P. Ingle presented a memorial from Easby & Hanly, and one from James Flanagan and Samuel Knott, asking that the rate of tolls for the transportation of […]
WORKING MEN, HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? — The Hagerstown Torchlight says that “the laborers on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, west of Harper’s Ferry, at the commencement of that work received $1.25 a day — […]
DISTURBANCES ON THE CANAL.A correspondent of the National Intelligencer writing from Clear Spring, under the date of 31st August, thus speaks of the measures adopted by the military who have marched to the line of the […]
RIOT ON THE CANAL.– The Hagerstown Herald of Freedom states that a riot on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal occurred in Washington county, about 58 miles above Hancock. The fight took place between the German and […]
There was a riot among the laborers on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal a short time since. They assembled together to the number of 1000, nearly all of whom were Irish. The paraded through Hampshire and […]
