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duty of the Board to make contracts on some portion of the line not exceeding in amount 100,000 dollars. The lower end being recommended for this purpose by strong considerations of convenience and economy, it was also necessary to fix a point of communication with the tide water of the Delaware. After full reflection upon the subject, they were unanimously of opinion that to terminate for the present at Bristol, keeping such a level as to allow a future extension to Philadelphia, was preferable to any other plan proposed. They therefore located a line of 18 miles, commencing at Bristol, and extending upwards; and directed Mr. Kennedy, whom they then appointed superintendant of the division, to advertise its excavation immediately for contracts.

struction of the Delaware and Raritan canal at the expense of the state. Meeting as they had anticipated with a corresponding feeling, there was no difficulty in removing those erroneous impressions as to the motives of Pennsylvania which had previously existed, and they became convinced that the two states might advantageously agree for the mutual use of the Delaware, upon a basis at once equal and just.

The indications of public opinion in New Jersey have produced a very general belief, that the construction of the Delaware and Raritan canal at the expense of the state, cannot long be delayed. It is thought not improbable that the approaching session of their legislature may produce a law for its immediate commencement. Of the capacity of the Delaware to furnish water for both canals, without injury to its natural navigation, the Board have no doubt. That it is the policy of the two states, to cultivate the most harmonious feelings, and to extend the facilities of mutual intercourse is equally certain. The propriety of authorizing this board under proper restrictions to enter into an arrangement with N. Jersey for the use of the Delaware, is therefore most

On the 13th of October, contracts for excavating the whole distance were made, at a rate somewhat below the estimate of the engineer, and since then nearly all the sections have been actually commenced. The engagements thus made are estimated by the engineer to amount to 71,922 dollars, and do not include the building of locks, bridges or culverts, all of which have been postponed to another season. No payments were made on account of work till the last week, too late to be in-respectfully submitted to the wisdom of the legislature. cluded in the superintendant's report, and not of sufficient magnitude to be noticed here. For all practical purposes it may be assumed, that the sum above stated will be required to fulfil the existing contracts on the Delaware line.

To one or two remarks connected with this subject, the attention of the legislature is particularly invited. In the Act of Assembly which authorized the commencement of a canal on the Delaware, a proviso is contained "that the existing natural navigation of the river shall not be obstructed or injured by the construction of the eanal." What particular class of works in the Delaware are forbidden by this clause, and what would amount to obstruction or injury within its meaning, would perhaps be a question of considerable difficulty. To avoid touching upon doubtful ground, and to keep from collision with the state of New Jersey, the board have proceeded on the idea that the whole line of canal shall be supplied from the Lehigh, there being no intermediate stream tributary of the Delaware, whose aid could be depended upon in the summer season. That the quantity afforded by the Lehigh is abundant for the purpose, and that the use of its water will not so lessen the volume of the Delaware as sensibly to injure its natural navigation, is confidently believed. It is nevertheless true that to supply such a distance from a single feeder at the upper end, is a serious inconvenience, which a resort to the Delaware at some middle point would entirely obviate, and that a great saving might be effected in the neighbourhood of Easton, accompanied by considerable advantage to that flourishing town, by drawing the original supply from the Delaware also. From these facts the observations about to be made, will derive additional importance. The intention of this commonwealth to construct a canal along the valley of the Delaware, has attracted the more notice among the people of New Jersey, from their recollection of the course pursued by the legislatures of the two states, in reference to the Delaware and Raritan canal, by which the principle was understood to be recognized that neither state had a right to use the water of the Delaware without the consent of the other. The citizens of New Jersey regarded our late act of assembly as a departure from that principle and were not aware of the distinction between appropriating the water of a tributary stream whose course is wholly within the limits of Pennsyvania, and drawing more directly from the common highway. The existence of such opinions to a considerable extent having early come to the knowledge of the Board, they conceived it to be their duty by proper explanations to remove all cause of excitement or alarm.

In this spirit of conciliation and friendship they embraced the first opportunity of an interview with some gentlemen of New Jersey, who were urging the con

The particulars of the plan most advisable to be adopted need not now be specified. It should be based on the principle of equal rights and concurrent jurisdiction, and its details so adjusted that the separate interests and exclusive sovereignty of both may be preserved from violation. It is believed that the state of New Jersey would cordially meet us on this equitable footing, and that thus a series of acrimonious and unprofitable contention, limited only by the period when the waters of the Delaware shall cease to flow, may be happily prevented.

EMIGRANT SOCIETY.

To all those who may be desirous of Emigrating to the
Western Country.

A number of the inhabitants of western Pennsylvania, many of them formerly from different parts of Europe, the New England states, the states of New York and New Jersey, and the eastern counties of this state, having taken into consideration the embarrassments and difficulties to which emigrants are too often exposed for want of proper advice and assistance; have formed themselves into an association, under the name of the "Western Pennsylvania Emigrant Society."

The object of the society is to furnish to emigrants all the information and assistance in its power, in procuring employment for them, locating them to the best advantage, according to their different situations, trades or occupations; in aiding them to make a judicious choice of the lands they may wish to purchase; in procuring these for them on the most advantageous terms; and in rendering them all such services in establishing themselves, that they may need. Believing that the inducements this country holds out to emigrants, only require to be known, to be duly appreciated, the society have appointed a committee of correspondence, to make you acquainted with this portion of the United States and its advantages, natural and artificial; and to point out a few of the errors into which emigrants, particularly those from Europe, are liable to fall, on their arrival in this country.

The United States of America possess advantages which are not to be found in Europe, nor in any other quarter of the globe. Enjoying an almost total exemption from taxation, the whole earnings of the inhabitants ensure to their own use, and every emigrant who settles here, can by industry and economy not only provide amply for the wants and comforts of himself and family, but render himself independent, provided he is careful in the first instance in choosing a proper situation.

It is an error into which emigrants too frequently fall, to settle in the large citics on the coast, or in the thick

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ly settled country in their vicinity, where property is high and competition great, instead of moving directly to the west, where an excess of lands, and a less abundant population create a greater demand for labour; and where in the course of a few years industry, he may become the independent proprietor of property sufficient for the wants and comfort of himself and family.

In the western country, not only the labours of the field, but those also pertaining to the mechanic arts, are in great demand. The emigrant therefore, immediately on his arrival, should move thither; but in so doing, he should avoid another error into which many have fallen, by moving too far to the south and west, down the Ohio and Mississippi and their tributary streams, not only because in that case the length of the journey tends to exhaust too much the means of the emigrant; means which are essential to his welfare in procuring him cattle, implements of husbandry, and subsistence for his family, while making his improvements; but because this southern portion of the United States is subject to other and more serious objections. It has but one market, and that a very distant one, viz: New Orleans; and which, situated as it is, in a very hot and moist climate, is calculated to destroy almost every description of produce which may be stored there for any length of time: and neither the consumption, the trade, nor the capital of that city, will bear comparison with those of the great commercial emporiums of the middle states. Hence the produce raised to the south-west will always go to a bad market, and the cultivator will never be able to dispose of it to the same advantage as those whose export trade is to Quebec, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. But the last objection to a settlement in the south-west part of the United States is the most formidable. The climate of that country is inimical to men from more northern countries, subjecting them to agues, fevers, and bilious disorders, which, though they do not always prove immediately fatal, yet tend to undermine the constitution and bring on premature old age; and as these seize on the emigrant during the first years of his residence, they deprive him and his family of the power of exerting themselves in the commencement of their settlement, when all their efforts are needed to clear their farm, and provide for their support-Hence many are plunged into a state of poverty and want, from which it requires years to recover.

The principal requisites for which the emigrant should look, in determining the place of his future residence, are a healthy climate, good water, a large extent of fertile land, not too thickly settled, and a good market. Now, an experience of more than twenty-five years enables us to assert with confidence, that no portion of the United States possesses these advantages in a higher degree than the western parts of Pennsylvania. The counties of Crawford, Mercer, Erie, Venango and Warren, bounded on the north by New York and Lake Erie, on the west by Ohio, and having the beautiful Allegheny river on the east, contain a body of uninterrupted good land, equalled by few, and perhaps surpassed by no district of the same extent, in the United States. Situated between the 41st and 42d degree of north latitude, the climate is delightful and perfectly healthy. It requires no seasoning to habituate the emigrant to it; and those agues and fevers and other bilious disorders to which the southern and even some of the more northern settlements have always been subject, have been totally unknown since the first settlement of this country. This country too, is better watered than any part of the United States we are acquainted with. Besides the Allegheny, the French creek, the Shenango and their tributaries, the small rivulets, and springs are so numerous that few farms of one hundred acres can be found which are not provided with a spring or rivulet of the best and most wholesome water during the whole year. The emigrant can here cultivate with success, those fruits, grains and grasses to which he has been accustomed in his own country, while the climate is warm enough to

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bring to perfection many productions to which that of Europe is not congenial-such as the Indian corn, the peach in open-field culture, melons, apples, pumpkins, &c. of the finest kinds, and in the greatest abundance. As a grazing country for raising cattle, this portion of Pennsylvania is perhaps unrivalled in the world.

Our local advantages are also great. By means of our connection with Lake Erie, we have an easy water communication with the vast extent of country on the upper lakes, and with Montreal, Quebec and New York markets. Our communication with this last city has been immensely facilitated by the completion of the great western canal, which has now for upwards of two years been in successful operation throughout its whole extent. We are enabled by means of it to carry the most bulky. of our products to an advantageous market, at a cheap and easy rate. To the east we are connected with the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore, by excellent turnpike roads; and to the south, we have an easy water communication with Pittsburg, New Orleans and the intermediate cities, by the French creek and the Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The grand Pennsylvania canal which is intended to unite the waters of the Delaware and the Susquehanna with the Ohio and Lake Erie, is now vigorously progressing, both on the eastern and western side of the Allegheny. That part of the line which passes through this country, has been placed under contract. Already has the ground been broken, and the work commenced. There now is and will continue to be an immediate demand for labourers of every description, who will meet with constant employment and liberal wages.

The government of the United States have it also in contemplation to unite the Chesapeake and Potomac with the Ohio at Pittsburg. When these great works shall be completed, which there is every reason to believe they will be at no distant day, this section of the country will stand upon enviable ground. Situated in the centre of trade and navigation, we can carry our produce to the east, or to the west, to the north, or to the south, according to the fluctuations of the market, while at the same time we can procure the articles we need, whether for comfort or luxury, in the shortest time and at the most reasonable prices.

Nor will the emigrant here find himself transplanted to a dreary wilderness, secluded from intercourse with mankind. Already are these five counties inhabited by a population of from fifty to sixty thousand souls. Many flourishing villages, such as Erie, Meadville, Mercer, Franklin, Waterford and Warren, have been founded, roads of communication through every part of the country have been opened; churches for the different denominations of christians have been built; schools organized for the instruction of youth; in short he will find every thing requisite to supply the real wants, or that can minister to the real comforts of civilized life.

With all these advantages, unimproved land of the best quality can yet be had at very moderate prices, say at from two to four dollars per acre, and on such a liberal credit, that an industrious man can pay for his land by the produce of it, while to the person whose means enable him to pay cash, a generous deduction is made for prompt pay.

Such are the inducements which this country presents to emigrants in general. To Irishmen it holds out an additional one, which must be dear to them on their arrival in a strange land.

This country is already in part settled by emigrants from Ireland, and the Irishman, on his arrival here, will find countrymen from every county of his native land, who with their characteristic hospitality, stand ready to welcome him, and to use their best endeavours to promote his views and secure his interests, in this happy country.

To emigrants from other parts of Europe and the different sections of the United States, it may be remarked, that they too will meet with friends and acquaintances,

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will not be behind-hand in the offices of kindness and hospitality. The Germans in particular, are informed that there is a large and respectable body of their countrymen already settled in this country, which is receiving almost daily accessions.

To those who intend emigrating to the western country, this is the most favourable time. The projected improvements have given a spur to the industry and enterprise of the inhabitants, and the money they will distribute among us, will furnish a brisk circulating medium, and add considerably to the wealth of the country. With these additions to the manifold advantages this country already possesses, it must flourish. Those who come first will have it most in their power to profit by the opportunities it offers.

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season, and in some respects resembled it, as will be shown by the following extracts:Dec. 31, 1801-Very little cold weather, thus far, this season-this day pleasant, Wind S. Jan. 1st. 2d. and 3d.-Wind S. and weather moderate. Jan. 4th. Rainy, wind S. and warm. Jan. 6th. 8th. and 9th. do.

Jan. 10th.-Cloudy and moderate wind, S. W. Jan, 11th.-Morning cold and clear, tolerably pleasant. Jan. 12th.-Morning cold. Jan. 14th. and 15th.-Remarkably pleasant, wind S. W. no Skaiting for the Boys this season, not one cake of ice in the Delaware, and even the ponds have not been frozen hard enough to bear for two days together.

It now only remains to point out the most eligible Jan. 16th.-A remarkably pleasant day, clear, and wind routes for reaching this country. By the way of Quebec

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Prescot to Fort George

Fort George to Buffalo

Buffalo to Erie

Erie to Meadville

190 miles.

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150

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S.W.

Jan. 17th. 18th. and 19th.-Moderate.

Jan. 20th.-Clear and beautiful day, wind S.W.
Jan. 21st. 22d. 23d. 24th. &c.-Moderate.

Feb. 5th. By far the coldest morning this season, wind

west.

Feb. 6th.-Morning clear and very cold, Schuylkill
Frozen over.

Feb. 7th.-Moderate and cloudy.

The whole of the above route is by water carriage, Feb. 9th. and 10th.-Moderate and pleasant. except about 40 miles.

Feb. 8th.-Morning cloudy, day clear and very pleasant.

By the way of New York.

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Feb. 12th.-Snow on ground this morning four inches deep, day cloudy with rain, and moderate, wind S.E.

Feb. 13th.-Dull and cloudy, wind E.

Feb. 14th. and 15th.-Dull and cloudy.
Feb. 16th.-Clear and pleasant.

Feb. 17th. and 18th.-Pleasant and moderate.

Feb. 19th.-Morning cold, a fine shad in Market on the morning of the 17th; this is considered remarkable, but the following is still more so, "Extract from the Diary of an aged gentleman of this city; Jan. 19, 1793, the extreme temperature of the weather, exceeds all winters I have known, the present may be compared to part of April, as one day this week a shad was caught, and carried to Erwin's tavern,"-H.-Poulson.

WM. PENN's LETTERS. The following letters from Wm. Penn, are extracted from the 2d vol. of the Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, lately published. The first letter was addressed to King Charles II. and the second to the Earl of Sunderland. They were copied in London from the originals, by J. R. Coates, esq. and are accompanied by certificates of the fact from the possessor of the original, P. A. Hamott:

"Great and Gracious Prince.

It is a barren Soyle that yields noe returns to the dew that feeds it, and they are mean and ungrateful Mindes that are oblivious of the favours they receive. I would fain excuse this freedom, if I were not bound to use it, for being destitute of better ways, Gratitude makes it necessary to me, and necessity is a Sollicitor that takes no deniall. Lett the King then Graciously please, to accept my most humble thanks for his many Royall favours, conferr'd upon me, more especially this of Pennsilvania, I only lament my selfe, that my own Inability will not suffer me to express my selfe, in a way suitable to the sense I have of the great obligations I lye under. But because the Alter was not ordain'd for the Rich & Great only, and that Offerings are to be accepted by the heart that makes them; I perswade myselfe to hope that the King will please to receive my dutifull Acknowledgements by the integrety that humbly sends them, And to beleive, that among the numerous subjects, as well of his Goodness as of his powr, there is none that

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with more truth, zeal and affection loves and honours him.

Give me leave next, to say, so soon as I was arriv'd and made any settlement of this Province, I thought it my duty to waite upon the King by some Person of the Province, In Condition of an Agent extreordinary, which is the Bearer my kinsman, Markham (formerly deputy in this Government) and tho this would not look wholy free of vanity, (Considering my late private Capacity) yet I take it to be the duty of those Persons whom the Goodness of the Kings of England hath at any time cloathed with extreordinary Powrs in these Parts of the world, to show their deferrance, to the Imperiall Majesty they are tributarys to, and their dependence upon it, by the Mission and Attendance of Agents in their Names at the Court.

I have only now, Great Prince, to pray pardon and acceptance for a poor Present, of Country produce, and that it would graciously please the King to take me still into his favour, his young Province into his Protection; and God, the Bountefull Rewarder of good and gracious Acts, Retaliate them both with temporall and Eternall Glory. I am with Reverence and truth Great and Gracious Prince

Thy most thankfull, humble
and obedient Subject and
Servant in all I can

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It is an unhappiness incident to great men, to be troubl'd with the respects of ye small folks their kindness obleidges-howeɣer, I had rather need an excuse then be wanting of gratitude to my noble Benefactors, of wch the Lord Sunderland was one of the first, in ye business of my American Country; & tho I have nothing to turne, but humble thanks and good wishes for all his generous favours, yet they have engaged me in a most firm resolution to embrace all occasions by wch I may express my sense of them & gratitude to him. And being thus obleidg'd to interest myselfe in his success and prosperity, I must take leave to Congratulate the happy restoration of the King's grace & favour, in wch without flattery I take the freedom to say I think he has done right to ye Lord Sunderlands abilitys & his own business; for ever since he yielded me the advantage of his acquaintance in France (a Time of twenty years Standing, or running rather) I have said, many times, to many people, I remember not to have mett a young Nobleman, promessing a sharper and clearer Judgemt & of closer & better sense, and pardon me if I wish that this occasion may give thee time to prove it yet more abundantly to the world.

I was a little elevated wth the hopes of a free discours & censure upon my American enterprize, when it pleas'd thee to give me to beleive I might meet thee some evening at Col: Henry Sidneys; but some greater Affaire diverting rob'd me of the advantage I had reason to promess my selfe from so correct a Conversation. But tho I mist that expression of thy favour, lett me not want the effects of it: I am now in a station, where my own weakness or my Neighbours envy may happen to hurt my honest interest, & the good work I have in my eye: please to take me & my poor feeble Concerns into thy Protection, & give us thy smiles & Countenance, and I will venture to say; yt by ye help of God & such noble Freinds I will show a province in 7 years equall to her Neighbours of 40 years planting.

I have lay'd out the Province into Countys, Six are begun to be seated, they lye on ye Great River, & are planted about 6 miles back. the Town platt is a mile long & two deep-has a Navigable River on each side, ye least as broad as ye Thames at Woolwych, from 3 to

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8 fathom water. there is built about 80 houses, & I have settled at least three hundred farmes Contiguous to it. We have had wth passengers 23 Ships, & tradeing 40 great and small since the last Summer. not amiss for one year. the Country is in Seyle good, aire sereen (as in Languedock) & sweet from the Cedar, Pine & Sarsefrax, wth a wild mertile yt all send forth a most fragrant smell, wch every brees carrys wth it to ye Inhabitants where it goes. Cyprus, chesnutt cedar, Black walnutt, & poppler (ye largest in ye world) Oake of six sorts, white, Red, black, Spanish Chesnutt and Swampe, are the timber of thes parts, ash there is also, but not so frequently here is a hickery nut tree, mighty large, and more tough then our ash, ye finest white and flameing fire I have ever seen.

I have had better venison, bigger, more tender, & as fatt as in England. Turkys of the wood, I had of 40 & 50 pound weight. Fish in abundance. especially of Shad and Rock, wch are here an excellent Fish. pearch & trout; but no Salmon hereaways yet as I hear of, but oysters, yt are monstrous for bigness, tho there be a lesser sort. here are of Fruits, divers wild, the Peach, Grape, & plum, & yt of divers sorts. We have also in ye woods, flowers, yt for Colour, largeness & beuty excell, I intend a Collection of ye most valluable of wt this place affords for Arstrope ye next Season. For the people; they are Savage to us, in their Persons, & furniture; all yt is rude; but they have great shape, strength, agility; & in Councel (for they (tho in a kind of Community among themselves)observe property & Governmt)grave, speak seldom, inter spaces of silence, short, elegant, fervent, the old sitt in a halfinoon upon the Ground, the middle aged in a like figure at a little distance behind them, & the young fry in the same manner behind them. None speak but the aged, they having Consulted the rest before; thus in selling me their land they order'd themselves; I must say, yt their obscurity consider'd, wanting tradition, example & instruction, they are an extraordinary people, had not the Dutch Sweeds and English learn'd them drunkenness (in wch condition, they kill or burn one another) they had been very tractable, but Rum is so dear to them, yt for 6 penny worth of Rum, one may buy yt fur from them, yt five shillings, in any other Commodity shall not purchase. Yet many of the old men, & some of ye young people will not touch wth such spirits; & Because in those fitts they mischief both themselves & our folks too, I have forbid to sell them any

Pardon my Noble Freind this length (longer too in my scrawling hand then in it selfe) I thought it my duty to give an account of ye Place to one whos favour had helpt to make it myn, & who was pleas'd more then once to discourse the settlement of it.

I have only to recommend the Bearer my Kinsman, Capt. Markham, & to pray access in my affaires, yet not fully fixt, by ye unkindness of my Neighbour, ye Lord Baltimore, & yt it would please thee to accept a poor present, of our growth, remembring, yt the Ancients vallued offerings by ye heart yt made them; & finally to give me leave to ware the character of

My Noble Friend
Thy very sensible and faithfull
Frd. & Servt. to my powr
May I present my humble
duty to the King?

For the EARLE of SUNDERLAND.

WM. PENN.

The Bank of the U.S. yesterday declared a dividend of 3 per cent. on the capital stock for the last 6 months. The Bank of Pennsylvania last week declared a dividend of three per cent. for the previous six months.

The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company yesterday made a dividend of 3 per cent. for the last 6 months; and the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge Company a dividend of 4 per cent. for the same period.

The Bank of North America yesterday declared a dividend of 2 per cent. for the last 6 months.-Aurora.

MANUFACTURES.

For the following information respecting the number of hand Looms in the city for weaving cotton goods, we are indebted to a member of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Domestic Manufactures, who addressed a number of queries to the Society of Weavers, of whom thirteen of the most extensive and respectable, have signed the certificate. As all facts connected with this subject, which occupies at present so large a share of public attention, especially in this state and city, are important, we give place to this article with pleasure; as we will also to all articles communicating facts calculated to exhibit the real situation and extent of the various branches of domestic industry throughout the state.

"We, the undernamed, having to the best of our knowledge inquired diligently, give the following statement in reply to queries sent us:

"There are in Philadelphia and its vicinity 104 warping mills at work, each of which is sufficient to employ from 40 to 50 weavers, making the number of weavers about 4500. Dyers over 200; spoolers 3000, bobbin | winders 2000.

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35 bbls. flour used for sizing per week or 1820 per annum, at 5 dols

81,000 yds. goods per day, or per year of 300

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working days 24,300,000 yds. at 16 cents 3,888,000 which at 4 yds. per lb. of cotton, would require 6,075,000 lbs. or 20,250 bales of 333 lbs. eachor about 67 bales per day, or 400 bales per week6,075,000 lbs. cotton at 10cts. is 607,500 dols.

The gentleman from whom we have obtained the above information, further imformed us, that these goods are of the denominations called ginghams, checks, bedtickings and stripes, and are exported in large quantities for the supply as well of the eastern and western, as of the southern states-large quantities being sent to Boston by almost every packet.

INFORMATION REQUESTED.

In the article in our last number, entitled "Commerce with Great Britain," we have mentioned upon the authority of the work there quoted, that copper ore was one of the exports of the state. As this is a curious fact, if it be a fact, we would be glad if any of our readers could inform us from what mines the ore was obtained-we do not recollect to have ever heard, that copper ore existed in this state, of the quality and in the quantity necessary to render it an object of export. Upon examining "Cleveland's Mineralogy," we find the following species of copper noticed as found in this state, with their localities, viz.

Native Copper.-In Hamilton Ban, Adams county-at Morgantown in Berks county-at Pottsgrove in Montgomery county, and at Perkiomen lead mine.

son's Gap on the Blue Ridge. Sulphuret of Copper.-Two miles north from Nichol

Pyritous Copper-At Perkiomen lead mine, Montgomery county; and near Chester in Delaware county, with sulphuret of molybdena. From this species a large portion of the copper of commerce is extracted, which yields only from 2 to 20 and sometimes 36 per cent.

Red Oxide of Copper.-AtPerkiomen lead mine, where it presents small octaedral and translucent capillary crystals; also near Lancaster with malachite.

Carbonate of Copper.-Blue, at Perkiomen lead mine, in minute, dark blue crystals in veins, which contain galena and blende and traverse the red sand stone formation; the earthy variety occurs at the same place.

Green, both fibrous and compact, at Perkiomen; the latter also two miles from Nicholson's Gap.

The Schuyler mines in New Jersey were worked many years since: but we presume the ore would not have been sent to this city.

NORRISTOWN BRIDGE.

The Governor of this Commonwealth last week issued

4500 weavers at $5 p.week, amounts p.an. to 1,170,000 letters patent agreeably to the provisions of the act

200 dyers

at $5 do.

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3000 spoolers at 75 cents do.

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52,000 for erecting a Bridge over the river Schuylkill, at De 117,000 Kalb street in this Borough. It now becomes the duty 104,000 of the Commissioners of the county to subscribe on be27,040 half of said county, for one thousand shares of stock of the aforesaid Bridge-and the six persons first named in 1,470,040 the letters patent to proceed to organize the said company, and hold an election for one president, six managers and one treasurer, who are to serve until others are lawfully chosen, and make such bye-laws, rules, orders and regulations, as shall be found necessary for the well-ordering of the affairs of the said Company.

114,000
228,800 Herald.

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