A Drawing room in the evening. Recognized a great variety of my old acquaintances
both in and out of Congress. But a vast crowd of entire strangers were here, principally
members of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal Convention which assembled today, I believe
for the purpose of counteracting the effect produced by the estimates of the cost
of the work as made by the board of U.S. Engineers. They are made in the most liberal
way, and perhaps after all, it would be better at once to accustom the public mind
to that amount than to cheat them by prices too low.
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