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From the Baltimore it trican of Xuv. 5.BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD— EXTENSION TO CUMBERLANDThe completion of the Baltimore ami Ohio Rail Road to Cumberland has been ncconi-plufhcd some days earlier than was intimated previously. On Thursday last a train of cars, containing the President and Directors, and alew gwrnlcrrten ihvitfed to accompany them, Ii?It. the Depot in Pratt street, at seven o’clock A. M. to traverse the entire length of the road from Baltimore to Cumberland. The day was pleasant and the expedition throughout proved to he very agreeable.The route from this city to Hancock has been for some time open to travel. From the latter point to Cumberland, a distance ol fifty five miles, the road is just finished, and for the first time on Thursday, the inhabitants of theWild regions of the Alleghany beheld a train of cars drawn by a smoking locomotive among their hills.The rails are heavily laid, of the bett iron, and after the most approved stylo of construction ; and so well graded is the road, and so firmly settled, that the cars rolled smoothly onwards at a velocity unusual even in railroad travelling. The entire distance from Baltimore to Cumberland. 178 miles, was performed, in-cltldiug stoppages, in ten hours: and upon the new portions of the road the rate of speed was considerably beyond the average of the rate on that part of the road between the city and Harper’s Ferry, which is constructed with a different rail.The route from Hancock to Cumberland pursues the margin of the Potomac river, with tour exceptions. The first occurs at the Doe Gulley, IB miles above Hancock, where by u tunnel of 1200 feet in length a bend of the river is cut olT, and a distance of nearly four miles saved. The second is at the Paw Paw Ridge, where a distance of nearly two miles is sued by a tunnel of 250 feet in length. The third a lid fourth are within 0 miles of Cumberland, where two bends are cut across by the route with a considerable lessening of distance.In advancing westward from Hancock the line passes along the Western base ot W arm Spring Ridge, approaching within a couple ofold Maryland, which, having left at Harper’s Ferry, we kept out of it for a distuuco of 91miles.The route thence to Cumhcrland is across two bends of the river, between which the stream of Evelts Creek is crossed by a viaduct of 100 Cggl iMp. , ... . ' :The entrance to the town of Cumberland is beautiful, and displays the noble otnpitheatre in which it lies to great advantage — the gap of Will’s mountain, through which the road is to wend its way westward, being a justly prominent feature of the view.The Company’s depot in Cumberland is in a central position at Hie intersection ol the Rail Rond and National Turnpike.We may congratulate our fellow-citizcns upon the new connections which the road now forms with the groat West, and upon the promising aspect of the Company’s allairs which give assurance that no efforts on their part will he wanting to complete those connections by bringing the Ohio river into direct cmnmuni-cntion with the Chesapeake. The Allegliani-es are now near neighbours; they may be almost considered as forming the Western ridge of our horizon. For the first time the sound of the locomotive lias been heard in those fastnesses. In no part of the country has the enterprising spirit of the East penetrated ho Inr lo the We-t through such mountainous dilli-culties; and the point now attained in the bosom of the distant hills is but a resting place from which a new advance will be speedily made with fresh energy.miles of the Berkeley Springs, which are at the eastern foot of that ridge. It thus sweeps around the termination of the Cacapon Mountain, opposite the remarkable and insulated eminence called Round Top.” Thence the road proceeds to the crossing of the great Ca-PORTItAiT OF JOHN TYLER.BY A MASTER HAND.The Boston Atlas has published in full the address of the Hoii. John Quincy Adams to his constituents, delivered on the 17th September. It is a general review of the great political questions which li vo for years engaged the attention of the people of this country.— Every portion of it displays that eminent ability which marks all the efforts of (his distinguished statesman. We copy Ins portrait of the President of the United States, which, however accurate, cannot be regarded as at all flattering:“ John Tyler who stole into the camp of the Whigs in 1810, in their triumphant struggle to put down the standard of the Northern man with Southern principles, tinder the colors of retrenchment, reform, and Whig resistance to Executive usurpations, has crept up to the summit of power, and there proclaims himself a democrat dyed in the wool —claims to be ancapon river, nine ami a half miles above Han- Independent cu-oidinnte department of the cock which.is crossed by a bridge about 40b legislative power—declares in so many wordsfeet in length. Within the next mile it passes dam No. (», the present termination of tfie finished pait of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and soon after, it enters the gap of Sideling Hill, that famous hug bear of the traveller,that Congress can enact no law without hissanction, stigmatizes the leading members olCongress, of the party by which In* was chosen ■s the coadjutor of Harrison, to achieve the great ami glorious work of reform, as mousingwhtch on the National Turnpike opposes such ! politicians—sets all the trumpets of the* press,n formidable barrier to his journey, but whichhere is unnoticed except in the line profile which it exbibilson each side of the river as it declines lapidify to the water level.In the gap of this mountain arc the coal veins which It. Calon Esq. with that zeal which has always distinguished his researches in this branch of practical geology, is endeavoring to turn lo profitable account. The alack water of the Canal dam extends some two miles above Sideling HillThe next point of interest reached is the Tunnel nt the Doe Gulley. The approachesfo this formidable work arc very imposing, as for several miles above and below the Tunnel they cause the road to occupy a high level on the slopes of the river hills, and thus afford an extensive view of the grand mountain scenery a-ouiul. The Tunnel is, as before mentioned about a quarter of a mile in length, through a compact slate rock, which is being arched with brick to preserve it from future disintegration bv atmospheric action. '1 he fronts or facades of the arch ; re of fine white sandstone procured frcin the summit of the neighboring inountu n. The work of arching is proceed-paid by bis dispensation of patronage with the public money, mid all the hungry and uiiprinc -plnd oftice-hunters throughout the Uuiotf, to railing against Congress, the real legislative power, for failing to restore the public prosperity. while he defeats l»y his vetoes almost every salutary measure devised and matured by them and believed by them to he indispensable for ihat purpose; turns out of the Executive offices under his control, honest and honorable men, true republicans and ardent patriots, like Jonathan Roberts, and foists into their places sycophants and timw-servers—levies money upon the people, upon authority ho questionable, thut his own Secretary, of the Treasury believes it lo be without and against law; to crown the whole system of misrule, approves and signs an net ol Congress, and depm-itcs in the Department of Stale, an argument to nullify the most important and the most wholesome oi its provisions.Fellow Citizens, it was this glaring act of double-dealing, that stamped the character of the man in my estimation in letters never to he effaced. That duplicity was his uneradicable 1 had long had reason to suspect, but was - 1ing without interruption to the travel. The I extremely reluctant to believe. Long before hewidth of the Opening within the brick work had been thought of as n candidate for. the of-peniugwill bo 21 feet, and the height 20J, affording room for two tracks. The height ol the hill above I lie roof of the tunnel is 110 feet. 'I he excavation and embankments adjacent are very heavy and consist of the slate rock through vyhich the tunnel is cut.Above this point the line pursues the very ni noons part of the river lying between BiddingHill ou the east, and Fawn Hill on the west. Tite curves are not however abrupt, but form fiue sweeping circuits, passing sometimes along beautiful alluvial bottoms and again at the foot of precipitous cliffs.The Paw Paw Ridge Tunnel was next reached, thirty miles from Hancock, and twenty five miles below Cumberland. J his J unuel is through a soft slate rock, and is curved horizontally wiih a radius of 760 leet. It is of the Name sectional dimensions with the Doe Gulley Tunnel,and is completely arched with brick, and fronted with white sand stone. Thence the route reaches Little Cacapon Creek, 21$ miles from Cumberland. At the mouth of this stream there nre fine ll.its and a beautiful view of the mountains lo the eastward.The viaduct over the Creek 113 feet.— About 5$ rut.es further on, the South Branch of the Potomac was crossed on a bridge 4111) leet long. This is in fact the main Potomac,and would have been (as the story runs) so mated by the Commissioners who determined ihe boundary of Maryland and V irgiuio, but that the North Branch has the appeuraucc, at the confluence, of being the larger stream. Theriver bottoms liero wide tmii cxccou oyly fertile, and the scenery very beautiful. Hie OicAing of the strata in the section ol the South Branch Mountain, just above the junction, is most remarkable and grand.Some two miles above we pas.-ed by a fine straight line, over the widely expanded ilats opposite the ancient village of Old Town, in Maryland. These me the finest bottom lands on the river, and from the upper end of them wc obtained file fir.-t view of ih** Knouly Moutturn. th .t remarkable range which lies it. a line with the town of Cumberland, and is ho s.ngu-l.irly diversified by a profile which makes it appear like a succession of artificial mounds— Dan’s Mountain lowers over H, forming .i hue back ground to the view. Soon after, the routebasses the high cliffs known by the name ot Keefy'a Rocks, where there lias been very heavyexcavation.pjttorsou’s creek, eight miles from Ctimber-fice of Vice President of the United States, I had lead a letter from the late Henry Lee to him, charging him with that pollution of the heart in other transactions of his life, upon testimony which it was not easy to withstand. I hud witnessed his wavering, inconsistent, and yet obstinate conduct, throughout the whole of his proceedings with his first and second bank vetoes, and had noticed the direct issues upon his voracity, made by the seceding members lt;f the Harrison cabinet. I knew not all indeed of the masses of irrefragable evidence on that point, which has since been disclosed, but it was already exposed in such burning light that I could barely keep with him upon terms ol such personal civility as may he obscsved with political adversaries, whose personal integrity is uniinpeached. The approval of the apportionment bill, with the caveat deposited in the Department of State against far the must important section contained in it, was in my opinion a fraud, w liich no man of moral honesty could have committed; which no sophiutry couid disguise, and no ingenuity could palmtc. 1 could have no further voluntary friendly personal intercourse with its author, and I deemed n my indispensable duty to expose its true character lo the House and to the country»»Mr. Clay’s Stump Orations.—“The 'jubilant orator’ of * Whiggery' ihe modern peripatetic philosopher, who lately left his residence in Kentucky to scatter the seeds ol know ledge.”We find the above elegant extract in the 1 Court Journal,’ the official exponent of Mr. Tyler. Who was the ‘Jubilant orator' of ‘ Wliiggery,* in 1840 ? Did not Mr. Tyler leave his residence in Virginia and become a ' peripatetic philosopher,’ ' to scatter the seeds ol knowledge,’ through Pennsylvania and Ohio? Unless our memory i* more treachmous than , we wont say who—such was the fact ;land, was next reached. Immediately below this stienm is a lolly mural precipice of limestone and sand stone rock singularly perforated hi some of the ledges by openings which look I'ke Gothic loop holes. The valley ot tint creek is very straight and bordered by beaulKol fi is. The viaduct over the stream is 1W f^et long. Le*» than two miles above, and MX in lies from Cumberland, the North Branch of the Potomac i.t crossed by a viaduct 70U feet long, and rising in a succession of -ti ps—embracing also n crossing -of thflt Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Thia extensive Bridge carried us vu\ of Virginia «nJ landed us oncemore toand how comes it to he such a crime hi the eyes of Mr. John Jot;os for another to do in 1842, what his ' glass of fashion’ did in 1810? If wc have been correctly informed, Mr. Ty lerPittsburgh, over which his present Secretary of the Treasury, presided. Will Mr. Jones favor uswith the sentiments expressed by b Oh thesegentlemen on that occasion ? Wc shall then .sc*’, w hat Whiggery was considered to be by them at that time.— V. S. Gazelle.addressed a meeting at Mr. Forward,Tooth Achn.—Pulverise borne alum, m'X it with salt moistened with water, and placed oil cotton in the hollow tooth, stops the pain.[A*. Y. Union.The flowers of life are fruitless. Most of thorn wither, and leave no trace behind ; of the* remainder, how fc w yields us any fruit, and of the fruit, how little ripens f _Penalty of- Gossip and Slander. Mrs. Margaret Young, of Madison, Ind., has recovered fclOOO Of Mrs. I). McIntyre for blander. The ladies must use their tongues cautiously.
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