Muskingum side-cut from Muskingum river at Dresden, Navigable feeder from the Walhonding river, Total length of Ohio canal and branches, Main trunk, Miami Canal. 65 > 66 iniles. Hamilton-side-cut, Total length of canals in Ohio, constructed at the public expense and owned by the state. Lancaster Lateral Canal, now constructing by the citizens of Lancaster under an act of incorporation, Total length of canals in Ohio, Of these canals, 343 miles were, in July, 1832, navigable and in constant use, to wit: Main trunk of the Ohio canal from Cleveland to Chillicothe, Total length of canals navigated July, 1832. 259 miles, 18 66 66 'દ 343 The portion above exhibited as unfinished, in July 1832, was then nearly prepared for the introduction of water, and was expected to be completed within two months. The total sum expended for the Ohio Canals, including all incidental expenses, to December 1, 1831, Necessary to complete the canals, as then estimated, $4,778,099.65 320,503.58 The ceremony of commencing the construction of these canals took place on the 4th of July, 1825; but the substantial commencement of the work was deferred till August in that year. The Miami Canal has been navigated from Dayton to the head of the Main Street in Cincinnati, since the spring of 1829. The locks designed to connect it with the Ohio river are now in progress, and are expected to be fully completed during the summer of 1833. It is expected that a second division of the Miami Canal will be commenced in the course of a year, under the provisions of an act of the legislature, passed at the last session. This division will extend from Dayton to the Valley of the Miami river, 30 or 35 miles. And it is believed that the time is not distant, when a still further extension of this canal will unite it, at Defiance, with the Wabash and Maumee Canal, now constructing by the state of Indiana; and that thence the two will be extended by a common trunk to Lake Erie, at Maumee bay. RAIL-ROADS. The following Rail-road companies were incorporated at the last session of the legislature. Richmond, Eaton, and Miami; Madriver and Lake Erie; Port Clinton and Lower Sandusky; Franklin, Springborough, and Wilmington; Erie and Ohio; Columbus, Delaware, Marion and Sandusky; Cincinnati and St. Louis; Cincinnati, Harrison, and Indianapolis; Pennsylvania and Ohio; Milan and Newark; Milan and Columbus; Chillicothe and Lebanon. Mad-river and Lake Erie Rail-road is to commence at Dayton, at the head of Miami Canal, and to extend to Sandusky on Lake Erie, thus, by means of the canal and rail-road, opening a communication between Cincinnati and the lake. Distance, about 175 miles. Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail-road is to commence at Fittsburg, Penn., and to terminate at Massillon on the Ohio Canal, about 50 miles south of Lake Erie. Distance, 108 miles. Cost, estimated at from $15,000 to $18,000 per mile. XXII. INDIANA. GOVERNMENT. NOAH NOBLE, Governor; term of office expires in Dec. 1834, Salary. $1,000 David Wallace, Lieut. Governor. — Pay $2 a day during the session of the General Assembly. James Morrison, Secretary of State; elected by the General Assembly for four years. Samuel Merrill, Treasurer of the State; elected by the General Assembly for three years. Morris Morris, Auditor of Public Accounts; elected by the General Assembly for three years. Senators, with their term of office from the 1st Monday in August, 1831. Number of Representatives, 75; pay of members of both houses, $2 a day. JUDICIARY. Judges of the Supreme Court. Isaac Blackford, Stephen C. Stevens, and John T. McKinney; who hold their offices for 7 years from the 28th of January, 1831: salary, $700 each. President Judges of the Circuit Courts. John R. Porter, Amory Kinney, J. R. E. Goodellet, John F. Ross, B. F. Morris, Miles C. Eggleston, and Charles Test. Salary of each, $700. The Associate Judges receive $2 a day. Wabash and Erie Canal. By the legislature of 1832, an act was passed supplemental to an act providing means for the construction of this canal. By this act, steps were taken to realize and render available the donation of lands, granted for this purpose, by the United States. Commissioners were appointed to borrow money on the credit of the state for the prosecution of the work, and a train of measures arranged tending to a speedy completion of a union between the waters of Lake Erie and Indiana. RAIL-ROADS. Eight joint-stock companies were incorporated by the same legislature for constructing rail-roads from Ohio river to Indianapo lis, the seat of government, and to different places on the river Wabash. Capital stock of all the companies, $4,000,000." An act was passed in January, 1832, to ratify and confirm an act of the legislature of Kentucky, incorporating a company to build a bridge across the Ohio river near the falls at Louisville. Capital, $500,000, divided into shares of $50 each. The privilege of subscribing one-fifth of this amount each, is reserved for a certain time to the states of Kentucky and Indiana, and the city of Louisville. Strict provisions are made for the security of the navigation of Ohio, by boats and vessels of every description. XXIII. ILLINOIS. GOVERNMENT. JOHN REYNOLDS, Governor; term of office expires on the 1st Monday in Dec. 1834; salary, $1,000. Zadoc Casey, Lieutenant Governor. Present number of Senators, 26; Representatives, 55. Pay of each, usually $3 a day. The judges of the Supreme Court officiate also as judges of the Circuit Courts. For copious information respecting this State, see the American Almanac for 1832. In that volume the number of slaves in Illinois was stated, according to the official census, at 746; and by a subsequent correction of the census at the Secretary of State's office, the number is stated at 747; but as a very intelligent correspondent from Illinois remarks, "Slaves should be indented colored servants: we have no slaves." There are now 200 sunday schools in Illinois, and 30 Presbyterian min. isters. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. Rail-road projected. The Illinois and Michigan Rail-road is to commence at Chicago on lake Michigan, and continue in a southwesterly di rection 11 miles to the summit-level: in this distance the ascent is only 25 feet. After passing the summit-level it is to cross and continue along the river Des Plaines to the foot of the Illinois rapids, the distance of 85 miles, with a descent of exactly two feet a mile: thus giving, in a distance of 96 miles, only 195 feet of rise and fall. XXIV. MISSOURI. GOVERNMENT. JOHN MILLER, Governor; term of office expires on the 3d Monday in November, 1832; salary $1,500. Daniel Dunklin, Lieutenant Governor. Number of Senators for 1832, 18; Representatives, 49. Judges, Wm. C. Carr, David Todd, John D. Cook, Priestly H. McBride, John F. Ryland. Salary of each $1,000. XXV. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The District of Columbia is under the immediate government of Congress. The city of Washington became the seat of the government of the United States in 1800; and it is the residence of the President and the other chief executive officers of the national government. The Congress of the United States meets every year at Washington on the 1st Monday in December, unless it is otherwise provided by law: and the Supreme Court of the United States meets here annually, on the 2d Monday in January. |