sioners "to treat with the six nations at Albany on the 14th June, and ratify former leagues and make the presents provided by the Gov. and assembly. attack was alleged in the capitulation to be not to disturb the peace, but to revenge the assassination of one of their officers carrying a flag and his escort, and to prevent any establishment on the territory of the King of France. After the capitulation the French demolished the works, and in some time after retired to the Ohio. It was said we had 100 killed and wounded, and the French double the number."Col. W. and Capt. M. told the writer there were many of our friendly Indians along with the French; sundry of which came up and spoke to them; told them they were their brothers; and asked them how they did; particularly Susquehannah Jack, and others that distinguished themselves by their names: it is also reported, that there were sundry of the Delawares there. We had not one Indian to assist when the action commenced or ended. The previous action in which the French prisoners were taken, is thus stated by Governor D. in a letter to Governor M. Williamsburg, June 21. "On the 27th of May, the Half King sent Colonel Washington notice that a party from the French army was hankering about his camp; if he would march some of his people to join them he did not doubt of cutting them off. Col. W. marched that night and came up to the Indians; one of the Indian runners tracked the Frenchmen's feet, and came up to their lodgment: they discovered our people about 100 yards distant; flew to their arms, and a small engagement ensued. We lost one man and another wounded. The French had 12 killed and 21 taken prisoners, who are now in our prison. The Indians scalped many of the dead French, took up the hatchet against them, sent their scalps and a string of black wampum to several other tribes of Indians, with a desire that they should also take up the hatchet against the French, which I hope they have done." June 2. Gov. H. to Gov. De Launcey. "It would have given me the greatest satisfaction could I have sent these gentlemen to you under instructions agreeable to your own plan, which I am convinced is extremely well calculated for his Majestie's service, and the interest and security of these colonies: and this I have not failed frequently to represent to the leading men of our assembly, in private as well as to the whole in public. But from the particular views of some, and the ignorance and jealousy of others, I have not been able to obtain from them any specific powers or advices in relation to this affair: and have therefore been obliged to content myself with giving them a general commission to renew the covenant chain with the six nations, and to frustrate as much as lies in their power any at. tempts which have been made to withdraw them from the British interest. I am in hopes, nevertheless, with you, that upon a full and free discussion of the state of the colonies at the treaty, something of general utility may be agreed upon, or that a candid representation of our condition may be made to his Majesty, and his interposition implored for our protection; since unless some proper measures be speedily taken, I can see nothing to prevent this very fine province, owing to the absurdity of the constitution and the principles of the governing part of its inhabitants, from being an easy prey to the attempts of the common enemy. Our assembly, after having met three several times to deliberate on the subject of the expedition to Ohio, at length presented me a bill for granting to his Majesty an aid of £10,000, and entrusted me with the disposal of it: and I pleased myself with the hopes of being able to employ it in such a manner as might have been serviceable to the general interest as well as to our own safety: but on perusal of the bill I found it so crowded with advantages to themselves and so entirely calculated to render them independent of the Gov. for a long term of time, that I could not consistent with my honour or the trust reposed in me, give my assent to it: and as, notwithstanding all I could say to them, they continued obstinately to adhere to the bill, I was to my great mortification, obliged to reject it, so that Mr. Dinwiddie is not like to receive any assistance from us for this year. Hence I am inclined to think they were more concerned to save appearances in regard to what his Majesty has been pleased to recommend to them, than to consult either the King's interest or the safety of the province; and further, that the progress of the French in possessing themselves of his Majestie's lands will never be effectually opposed but by means of an act of parliament, compelling the colonies to contribute their respective quotas for that service, independent of assemblies, some of which in this part of the world, are either so ignorant as not to foresee danger at the smallest distance, or so obstinate as to pay no regard to it but upon terms incompatible with all governments." July 20, 1754. Accounts from Col. James Innis, of Virginia, dated Winchester, 12th July, that Col. Wash ington, with the Virginia regiment, and Capt. M'Kay, with the South Carolina independent company, consisted together of 400 men, of which a good many were sick and out of order. On the 3d July, the French, with about 900 men, and a considerable body of Indians, came down upon the encampment, and continued to fire from all quarters, from 11 A. M. till night; when the French called out to our people they would give them good conditions if they would capitulate. A capitulation took place between Capt. De Villier and the English troops at what was called Fort Necessity, by which the English were allowed to withdraw with all the honours of war, and all their arms and effects, except the artillery, and taking Mr. Vanbram and Mr. Stobo as hostages for the restoration of some Canadians and French alleged taken under M. Gremonyille. The "I am very sorry your assembly is obstinate and disobedient to the King's commands I had a thorough dependence on you for a supply of bread, the want of which puts me to great difficulties. "I wish the bill for £10,000 supply had passed your upper house in any shape, as the exigency of our affairs so much want it. But you are the best judge of the cloggs on the bill and the inconsistency thereof in regard to your instructions; which probably at this time you could have got passed with a saving clause to prevent its being a precedent for the future, would have been of infinite service. I hope you have represented this affair properly at home, that they may see what little dependence there is in assemblies in this part of the world, and really I hope the ministry will take some proper course to bring all the colonies into a proper sense of their duty." (To be continued) TIOGA CANAL. We hope shortly to be able to lay before the public the report of the Engineer, who is now actively engaged in surveying and levelling the ground for this important link in the chain of Internal Improvement. As far as the survey has already progressed, the most satisfactory evidences have resulted, both as to the favorableness of the ground for constructing a canal, and of the sufficiency of water for all the purposes of navigation. The lockage as is ascertained will be considerable; but this disadvantage, it is believed, will be more than counterbalanced by the facilities of excavation and the proximity and cheapness of stone and timber necessary for the construction of locks. By the aid of dams, the canal may be carried the whole distance from Blossburg to the state line, the two extreme points, along the flats or river bottoms, without a rod of rock excavation. Of the propriety, however, of shunning all the narrows, which will increase the number of dams upon the Tioga, with a view to lessen the expense, by 1829.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE. avoiding rock excavation, deep cuttings, &c. a dif ference of opinion exists.-Yet all who have examined the subject, agree in the main question, of the feasibili ty of making the canal, and of its great and lasting consequence to our own county as well as to the surrounding community. A recent visit to Blossburg, and a personal inspection of the coal and ore regions, have produced, in our own mind, additional proofs of the immense value and importance of these minerals, as well as the necessity of combining every exertion to open a speedy communication for their conveyance to a market. Specimens of this coal bave been sent to Albany, New York, and various other places, which have been pronounced by competent judges to be of the first quility, not inferior to the best Liverpool; and of the quantity being inexhaustable, a single doubt no longer exists. Visitors from all quarters have expressed the fullest conviction of this fact; and the recent opening of several pits has confirmed the most sanguine expectations in relation to it. In one of these openings, into which we entered, and proceeded a distance of about 25 feet, the strata of pure coal is 34 feet thick, and is found to increase in thickness as you progress into the mountain. From these openings, which are made on either side of the deep gulf, penetrating the mountain at a right angle with the Tioga, and situated from half to three-fourths of a mile from Blossburg, the ground descends gradually to the river, affording every facility for a rail road, with a descent sufficient to propel loaded cars and draw up empty ones.-Openings have been made at other points in the mountain, some at a distance of a mile below Blossburg, all which go to show the extent and abundance of the article. Considerable progress has also been made in the iron mines, and two furnaces, one of which is upon a large scale, are nearly finished, and will soon be in operation. The ore is said to yield from thirty to forty per cent. A number of miners are now employed, and considerable quantities of ore have been thrown out, ready for use as soon as the furnace shall be completed. Blossburg, which a short time since presented to the eye of the traveller but a solitary dwelling house, built of logs, with a barn and shed of the same material, now contains not less than thirty buildings; including forges, mills, stores, workshops, &c. &c. either completed or in progress of building; several of which are large and commodious, and when finished, will present a handsome appearance. Nothing is wanted but the completion of the Tioga Canal, to render this place a second Mauch Chunk, and the din and bustle of business already experienced there, present a striking contrast to the silence which reigned in and about it, but a little time since, when the shrill screech of the owl or the howling of wild beasts, were almost the only sounds that saluted the ear. The fullest confidence, both in the practicability and utility of this canal, being now entertained by the commissioners as well as others having an interest in the welfare and progress of improvement in this section of country, and the expectations of the public being raised to a high pitch as regards the speedy commencement and ultimate completion of the work; we may expect the most prompt and energetic exertion of those who are entrusted with its superintendence:-And we confidently indulge in the hope, that before the expiration of another season, the different sections will be under contract, and in a state of rapid progress towards a final completion. [Wellsboro' Phenix. PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Wednesday, Nov. 4.-The following standing commit- Morris. Messrs. Logan, Hunt, King, Hay and 317 Claims-Messrs. Scott, Ray, Sullivan, Blythe and Jackson. Judiciary System-Messrs. Hawkins, King, Morris, Wise and Miller. Militia-Messrs. Ringland, Hambright, M'Kean, Cunningham and Piper. Banks-Messrs. Kerlin, Burden, Cunningham, Miller and M'Clure. Education-Messrs. Burden, Fullerton, Fox, Hunt and Houston. Road, Bridges and Inland Navigation-Messrs. Brown, Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures-Messrs. Vice and Immorality-Messrs. Sullivan, Seltzer, Fullerton and Houston. To compare bills and present them to the Governor for his approbation-Messrs. Hay, Scott, Bertolet, Drumheller and Blythe. On Corporations-Messrs. King, Wise, Hunt, Jackson and Blythe. Library-Messrs. Duncan, Piper and Burden. Thursday, Nov. 5.-The petition of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, praying for alterations in their charter, was presented by Mr. Duncan, and referred to the committee on inland navigation, WALTER S. FRANKLIN was re-elected clerk, and WILLIAM SHANNON SerLawrence L. Miner assistant. geant at Arms, and ROBERT DICKEY door-keeper. Welsh and Miller were elected printers of the English Journals, and Christian J. Hutter (three ballottings) of the German. Cryder & Co. of the bills. Friday, Nov. 6.-Bill reported, supplementary to an act, incorporating a company to make a lock navigation on the river Schuylkill. Item of unfinished business relative to providing by law for the sale of the real es tate of an intestate by the sheriff, when the heirs have refused to accept the same át valuation, and where the administrators have refused to act or comply with the order of the court by giving the requisite security. Saturday, Nov. 7.-Judiciary committee of the senate and house to confirm and report "a bill or bills, to consolidate, revise, and amend the penal laws of the commonwealth." Laid on the table. Monday, Nov. 9.-Resolution relative to consolidation of the penal laws adopted. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday, Nov. 4.-Mr. Wilkins presented a petition for improving the navigation of the Monongahela. Mr. Martin moved a resolution, regarding the postage of letters and documents to and from members, which was discussed and committed. An item of unfinished business relative to dividing Pittsburg into four wards, was referred to members from Alleghany county. Resolution to furnish two daily papers, or their equiv alent, to the speaker and members, and to the clerks, sergeant at arms, and door-keeper, passed. Standing hour for meeting fixed at 10 o'clock. Thursday, Nov. 5.-A petition from Schuylkill Navigation Company presented, praying an alteration in the charter. An item of unfinished business, relative to the Monongahela and Coal-hill turnpike road company, was referred to committee on local appropriations. An item relative to incorporation of Moyamensing Bank, referred to committee on Banks. On motion of Mr. Taylor, an item of unfinished business, relative to an act, to repeal an act, relative to the relief of the poor, was referred to Messrs. Taylor, Cox, Craft, Cummins and Dennison. Resolution respecting postage of letters, adopted"the postage account of each member to be entered on the Journal." The following standing committees were appointed by the speaker. Committee of Ways and Means-Messrs. Mallery, Leaming, Craft, Fuller, Laporte, Wagener and Patterson, of Washington. Judiciary System-Messrs. Banks, Ellis, Moore, (Beaver,) Parke, M'Sherry, Workman and Evans, (Mont.) Claims-Messrs. Middleswarth, Slemmer, Robinson, Ramsey, Carter, Myers and Buttz. Agriculture-Messrs. Fuller, Lobach, Cummin, Landis, Hoffman, Cox and Knepley. Education-Messrs. Parkhurst, Petriken, Thomas, Barlow, Morris, Anderson and Reed. Domestic Manufactures-Messrs. Patterson, (Wash.) Geiger, Wagener, Griffith, Hamaker, Warner and M'Minn. ferred to committee of ways and means. Petition presented for a state road from Connelsville, to the Robbstown and Mount Pleasant turnpike road. Petition for a rail road from Phillipsburg, by Emigh's gap, through the valley of the Little Bald Eagle and Little Juniata, to Alexandria, in Huntingdon county. Petition praying for compensation for lands in Luzerne county, certified to Connecticut claimants. Petition for aid to improve the navigation of the Monongahela river. Resolution adopted, requesting the Governor "to ascertain from the monied institutions that have taken the temporary loan, and ascertain whether they will consent to continue the said temporary loans, upon the same terms they were originally made, for a further period of time, and to be paid out of any permanent loan hereafter to be made." Resolution laid on the table. Judiciary com Accounts-Messrs. Alexander, Rahn, Byerly, Haw-mittee to inquire into the expediency of so altering the thorn, James, Kelchner and Newhard. Militia System-Messrs. Frick, Doudel, Power, Matheys, Eneix, Stanley and Pettigrew. ell. Election Districts--Messrs. Matthews, (Cam.) Stouffer, Long, Black, (Greene,) Pugh, Linville and MitchBanks-Messrs. Martin, Tomlinson, M'Quaide, Evans, (Philad.) Black, (Perry,) Fisher and Middlekauf. Estates and Escheates-Messrs. Waugh, (Wash.) Long, Heston, D. K. Miller, Miller, (Philad.) Rutherford and M'Conkey. Bridges and State and Turnpike Roads-Messrs. Fetterman, Rehrer, Statler, Workman, Beaver, Doudel and Lobach. Corporations-Messrs. Wilkins, Hassinger, Smick, Barndollar, Ferguson and Ritter. Inland Navigation and Internal Improvement-Messrs. Morgan, Dennison, Middleswarth, Power, Overfield, Moore, (Erie,) Bastress, Patterson, (Alle.) Blair, Galbraith, Sloan, Waugh (Mercer,) and Taylor. orphan's court laws, as to exonerate the executor or administrator of deceased persons, after a final settlement of accounts. Leave obtained to bring in a bill to regulate the general elections-special committee appointed. Items of unfinished business referred, viz: relative to an academy in Le Raysville; to making a turnpike from Blair's gap, through Sinking Valley, Birmingham, &c. to Bellefonte; relative to declaring East Sandy Creek a public highway. Message referred to different committees. Committee appointed to try the contested election of John Cummin, Monday, Nov. 9.-Petitions presented, viz-From inhabitants of Washington Co. praying that the fee bill of 1814 may be re-enacted, so far as relates to the justices of the peace and constables in that county-of Alex'r Wright, praying that certain monies paid by him into the state treasury for lands covered by warrants of the population committee, be refunded-a committee appointed to bring in a bill, relative to the duties of supervisors of public highways in Centre, Venango and Northumberland Co.'s. Items of unfinished business referred, viz. relative to hawkers and pedlars-to making a turnpike from Shippensville to M'Caslin's ferry-to deVice and Immorality-Messrs. Ramsey, Sellers, Bush-claring part of the E. branch of Oil creek a public high field, Ruhle, Pugh, Moore, (Erie,) and Evans, (Mont.) To Compare Bills-Messrs. Byerly, Rehrer and Purviance. Local Appropriations-Messrs. Petriken, Evans, (Philad.) Parkhurst, Middlekauf, Statler, Emlen and Parke. Library-Messrs. Ellis, Emlen and Anderson. FRANCIS R. SHUNK was elected Clerk, Welsh and Miller printers of the English journals, and Jacob Baab of the German, and Cryder & Co. of the bills, on third ballot. JAMES SMITH, Sergeant at arms, THOMAS WALLACE, Door-keeper. Friday, Nov. 6.-A petition from Fayette county, to open a state road from the Kiskeminetas salt works to the Virginia state line presented. way-to erecting part of Mifflin co. into a new county to be called Juniata--to erecting a bridge over the Youghagany at Robbstown-to authorizing David Noble, &c. to construct a canal or railway from the head waters of Wallenpaupeck to the Delaware Water Gap to incorporating the Tionesta Manufacturing Co.The following bills were reported, viz. authorizing a state road from Connelsville to intersect the Mt. Pleasant and Robbstown turnpike-authorizing a temporary loan for continuing the Pennsylvania canal and rail road, which was made the order of the day for Tuesday--estab lishing an academy at Raysville-declaring E. Sandy cr. a public highway. The resolution relative to altering the Orphans' Court Laws adopted. Committee of the whole sat and made progress on the bill for dividing Pittsburg into 4 districts. Certain contractors on the Pennsylvania Canal petition for Legislative aid. Petition for opening a state road from Connelsville, in Fayette county, to a given point. Inhabitants of Washington county pray for aid to improve the navigation of Monongahela river. Inhabitants of Washington and Fayette counties, pray for incorporation of a company to erect a bridge over the MononHARRISBURG, Saturday, Nov. 7. gahela, at Brownsville. Committee on judiciary, to in-houses: The Governor sent the following message to the two quire into the expediency of amending the laws, relative to holding circuit courts, so as to effect a speedy To the Senate and House of Representatives of the decision of causes removed thereto. Also to inquire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen--I have the honor of transmitting you a copy into the expediency of altering the laws regulating of certain resolutions adopted by the board of canal comelections, so that naturalized citizens may be enabled to missioners, together with a condensed statement of the prove their right to vote in a more convenient manner reports of the acting canal commissioners and superinthan producing their certificate of naturalization. On tendents respecting the amount due on their respective motion of Mr. Ritter, the committee on education to in-lines as also the probable estimates of the amount wantquire into the expediency of adopting a general system ed to meet the demands on said lines to the 2d day of of education. Reference, relative to the erection of a January next. bridge over the Loyalbanna river. Bill reported dividing Pittsburg into four wards. Bill reported for relief of certain volunteer militia. Memorial from Mifflin county, contesting the election of John Cummin. Saturday, Nov. 7.- Message from the Governor, with communications from board of Canal Commissioners, re J. ANDREW SHULZE. Harrisburg. Nov. 7th, 1829. Canal Commissioners' Room, ? October 6, 1829. Resolved, That the acting canal commissioners and superintendents be directed to report to the president of 1829.] PITTSBURG, &c. 316 this board, on or before the 25th of the present month, len, and Craft, has about 5,500 spindles in operation, F. R. SHUNK, Secretary. His Excellency Gov. SHULZE, SIR-I have the honor of communicating to your Excellency the annexed condensed statement of the report of the acting canal commissioners and superintendents made to me in obedience to the first preceding resolution. Very respectfully, sir, your obdt. servt. DAVID SCOTT, President B. C. C. Penn. Wilkesbarre, Nov. 2, 1829. Delaware Division. Amount due 15thOct. 1829 Probable amount which will be wanted from this date up to the 2d Jan. next Eastern Division. Amount due 23d Oct. Probable amount up to 2d Jan. next, $91,669 23 The Franklin Cotton Factory, owned by Asa Waters, has about 1,000 spindles in operation spins about 1,400 pounds of yarn weekly: Cotton and Woollen machinery are also made to order at this factory. In this establishment the power is given by a steam engine, built by Mr. Stackhouse, about nineteen years ago, and runs as well now as it did the day it was first started. Forty hands are employed. Waters' Shovel Factory manufactures 60 or 70 dozen shovels and spades weekly. Attached to this factory is a very extensive smith shop, where all kinds of smith work are done. Forty hands are employed. Juniata Iron Works, owned by Peter Shoenberger & Sons, works up weekly about fifty tons of pigs and blooms, and employs seventy-five hands. Juniata Nail Factory, owned by Shoenberger & Packard, manufactures about 30,000 pounds of nails weekly, and employs fifty-five hands. Broadmeadow & Co's. Steel and File Factory, manufactures English blister steel, common American steel, 110,000 00--201,669 23 and superior files. 26,666 00 M'Clurg & Co's. Foundry employs twenty-five hands. Susquehanna & W. Branch Div. Amount due 21st Oct. 75,499 00 Retained percentage due in November and December, 15,286 00 B. M'Lennan & Co's. White Lead Factory makes weekly 600 lbs. of white lead, and employs ten bands M'Kee, Clark & Co's. Flaxseed Oil Factory, consumes annually 9,000 bushels best flaxseed, makes for Probable am't up to 2dJan.next 77,000 00--167,785 00 ty-five gallons of oil every twelve hours, and employs North Branch Division. Amount due 20th October, 107,754 66 three hands. John Gibbs' Chemical, Soap and Candle Factory, em Prob. am't up to 2d Jan. next, 91,570 00-199,324 66 ploys eight hands. 112,000 00 Retained percentage on old line,45,000 00 Amount due 22d October, Final estimate on do. 15,000 00 Besides these, there are two Boring Mills, Rope Walk, Tan Yards, and sundry Mechanical branches. Beyond the limits of the Borough is Hurst and Brown's valuable Paper Mill, Messrs. Tilford's Domestic Plaid Factory, and Scholfield's Diaper and Coverlet Factory. The Borough of the Pittsburg Northern Liberties has increased very rapidly these last two years. There is not less than 1,200 working hands in it at this time. Manufactures of Iron in and about Pittsburg.-Upon 25,000 00-300,000 00 diligent inquiry, we learn that there are consumed annually, in the different Foundries, Rolling Mills, and 130,000 00 Steam Engine Factories, in and about Pittsburg, six 120,000 900-250,000 00 thousand tons of blooms and five thousand tons of pig meThese articles are brought principally down the Monongahela and the Allegheny rivers. Last year tal. 28,519 92 French Creek Feeder. 7,453 07 $1,342,065 46 Total aggregate amount now due and which will psobably be wanted to meet the engagements of the state up to the 2d of January, 1830, one million three hundred and forty-two thousand,sixty-five dollars and forty-six ccnts. Factories in the Borough of Pittsburg, Northern Liberties. The last Pittsburg Gazette contains the following account of the Factories in the Northern Liberties of that industrious and rapidly improving town:- There are nine Foundries, which use about 3,500 tons of pig metal, and employ about 225 hands. The Rolling Mills are eight in number, and are now chiefly employed in rolling Juniata blooms, of which they use about 6,000 tons. They also consume about 1,500 tons of pig metal, and employ about 320 hands. There are nine Nail Factories, which manufacture daily about eighteen tons of nails, and empley about 150 hands. There are also about seven Steam Engine Factories, in which are employed about 210 hands. As yet but three steam engines have been sent east of the mountains, four or five to the Northern Lakes, and one to Mexico. Within two or three years past, the casting of sugar kettles, sugar mills and small steam engines to drive them, for the planters of Louisiana, has become a very important branch of our manufacturing business, The Phonix Cotton Factory, owned by Adams, Al- |and is increasing. In addition to the metal and blooms above mention- premium of five dollars and the one thousandth part of ed, a large quantity of bar iron is brought to Pittsburg | a dollar on the 100 dollars. Inquirer. from Juniata. MISCELLANEOUS. [Pitts. Gaz. Lehigh Canal-We have daily accounts of new markets for Coal, and commerce of various kinds, resulting from the opening of this navigation. We understand that recently a quantity of Coal was sold at Easton to a gentleman for his own use at the Wind Gap of the Blue Mountain, where, but a year ago, a man would have been considered a fit candidate for a lunatic asylum to have predicted that Coal would ever have usurped the place of wood, in that wooden district of country. We also learn that the abundance of coal now lying at Easton, and the reasonable prices there sold for, has brought persons there to lay in supplies for the district along the Delaware: also, for forty miles in the interior of New Jersey. Mauch Chunk Courier. Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania. | Mr. Philip Stimmel, at the first tollgate below Harrisburg, Pa. on the Middletown road, has raised a pumpkin this season that weighs 170 pounds. The bridge across the Susquehanna at Duncan's Island is so far finished that foot passengers cross'upon it.' The Canal -The business on the Canal is fast increasing. The packet boats are crowded with passengers, and the freight boats now arrive and depart heavi ly freighted. The Gen. Merehand departed for Pittsburg yesterday laden with merchandize from Philadel phia. This is the first merchandize transported west, on this section of the Pennsylvania canal. The dif ference between carriage by wagons and boats per ton, from this place to Pittsburg, is a saving of about six dollars in favor of boats.-Harrisburg Chronicle. CUSTOM HOUSE, Phil. 10th Nov. 1829. The following abstract of a recent decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, on a case involving the question of the right to drawback on merchandise, transported from Philadelphia to Baltimore, and vice versa, by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, is published for the inform ation of those concerned: but it may be necessary to add, that merchandise brought to this district from anothor district, partly by land and partly by water, cannot be sent to a third district for the purpose of being exported for the benefit of drawback. "The sense in which the term transported coastwise is to be considered, under the existing laws, is a transportation by navigable rivers as well as along the sea coast." "When goods are taken by steam boats from and to the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore, to the mouth of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and there taken out and put on board canal boats, the change is not considered admissible in transportations for benefit of drawback, except in cases of distress." It appears, by a letter in our paper to day, that the Canal is now ready for navigation from Lewistown to the mouth of the Juniata. We may therefore expect that the navigation will be open next spring from Pitts"But where the voyage has the same points of deparburg to Philadelphia, except about 100 miles from ture and destination; and the goods are conveyed from Blairsville to Lewistown. What effect will this pro-and to the cities mentioned, without transfer from one duce upon the price of transportation from Philadelphia to Pittsburg? From Pittsburg to Blairsville, by land, is forty-three miles, and carriage is eight dollars per ton.-By the Canal, the distance between the same places is seventythree miles, and freight is two dollars and forty cents per ton. So that transportation by land costs at the rate of eighteen and three-fourth cents per ton per mile, while on the Canal it only costs three and one-third cents per ton per mile. vessel to another in the course of such transportation by the said Canal-such transportation by the said Canal will be considered as not having lost the right of drawback, provided all the other regulations prescribed by law shall be complied with." Large Radish.-On Wednesday last, a radish, measuring 32 inches in circumference, and 14 inches in length, was dug up in the Poor House garden, near this borough.-York Recorder. The probability is, that the freight on the Canal will be considerably reduced, but supposing it to continue Ever-bearing Strawberry.-We were presented a few as at present, we may make the following calculations: -The Canal reduces the land transportation, two hun- days ago, by our friend Mr. Samuel Iden, of Buckingdred miles, and in its place substitutes three hundred ham, with a plant of the Alpine Strawberry, on which miles of Canal Navigation.-Then three hundred miles We understand from Mr. Iden, that he has a number of were growing several ripe and unripe Strawberries.— on the Canal, at three and one-third cents per ton per the plants growing in his garden, which bear fruit conmile, makes ten dollars per ton, and one hundred miles upon the turnpike, at eighteen and three-fourth cents stantly from the latter part of May until the frosts of auper ton per mile, makes eighteen dollars and seventy- delightful flavor, and we have no hesitation in saying, if tumn check their growth. The fruit is large and of a five cents per ton. Total from Philadelphia, by the canal and turnpike, twenty-eight dollars and seventy- properly cultivated, would yield in as great abundance five cents per ton. Again, from Philadelphia to Pitts-as our common kinds of garden Strawberry. Bucks Co. Intelligencer. burg by land, three hundred miles, at eighteen and three-fourth cents per ton per mile, is fifty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. Difference in favor of Canal and Turnpike, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents. [Pittsburg Gaz The CITY LOAN of 33,500 dollars, at five per cent per annum, was yesterday taken by one individual, at a Printed every SATURDAY MORNING by WILLIAM F. GEDDES, No. 59 Locust Street. Philadelphia; where, and at the PUBLICATION OFFICE, IN FRANKLIN PLACE, second door back of the Post Office, (back room) subscriptions will be thankfully received. Price FIVE DOLLARS per annum, payable annually by subscribers residing in or near the city, or where there is an agent. Other subscribers pay in advance. |