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This is a subject of hearty congratulation to the State, as well as to the

Corporations and individual stockholders who are interested in the harmonious advancement of these great works, and we cannot but repeat the sentiment that all hostile and improper feelings between their friends may be extinguished by the Compromise, never again to be revived. The proceedings subjoined will show the terms on which the Rail Road is to be carried along the side of the Canal from the Point of Rocks to Harper's Ferry. From the Washington Intelligence,; May 10. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL & BALTl MORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD. A COMPROMISE EFFECTED.

On the 7th inst. at our City Hall, a General Meeting was opened of the Stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, according to legal notice, when the following important Report was presented by the President of the company. To the Stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company in General Meeting. The President and Directors beg leave respectfully to submit, along with a copy of the act of the General Assembly of Maryland, in pursuance of which the present general meeting has been convened, a report, approved by them, of a committee of their Board, appointed to confer with a committee of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company. By order, and on behalf of the President and Directors, C. F. MERCER, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, Canal Office, Washington, May 7, 1833. The Committee appointed, by the order of the Board of the 6th of April last, to confer with a committee of the Board of Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, have performed that duty; and after several conferences with that committee, as well in Washington, as on the line of the 5