1828.] Brussels, Turkey and Wilton Carpets, 70c sq yd. Venetian and ingrain car peting, 40c sq yd All other carpeting of wool, hemp, or cotton, or in part of either, 32c sq yd. Patent printed or painted floor cloths, 50c sq yd.; other oilcloths 25 pr ct.; furniture oilcloths, and floor matting of flag or 20c sq yd. 25 pr ct. other materials 15c sq yd. 30 pr ct. Hemp, $45 ton, until the 30th June, 1829, then $5 additional annually until $60. Flax, $35 ton, until June 30, 1829, then $5 in addition annually until $60. Cotton bagging, 44 cts sq yd until June 30, 1829, then 5 cts sq yd. Sail duck, 9 cts sq yd ct addition yearly until 12 cts., and no drawback on less than 50 bolts in one shipment Distilled spirits, 15 cts gall. additional, (the duty on spirits was not altered in '24.) Indigo, 5 cts additional from June 30, 1829, to June 30, 1830, and 10 cts additional per annum until the whole duty shall be 50 cts. Molasses, 10 cts gall and no drawback on the exportation of spirits distilled therefrom Manufactures of silk from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, 30 per ct. after June 30th, 1829. [We do not see that the words "on all other manufactures of silk 20 pr cent." produce any change from the present rate.] Window glass, larger than 10 by 15, and in sheets uncut, $5 pr 100 feet. Apothecaries' phials, not $35 ton. 15 pr ct. 3 3-4c sq yd. 15 pr ct. Cape of Good Hope, and 10 pr ct. if from other places be deemed to have cost 35 cts pr sq yd and be charged with 25 pr cent. Delaware County.-Few counties in the United States posses the local advantages which the county of Delaware does; enriched by nature, with streams of water that add fertility to her soil, and wealth to her population. The unimproved mill seats, (which were fortytwo in number) on the principal streams, will doubtless 30 do do be improved. The passage of the Tariff will throw additional wealth into our county; factories will be erected, and we believe the period is not far distant, when the county will be one of the greatest manufacturing $30 ton. counties in the union. There is scarcely a part of the county, but what is benefitted by a navigable stream, admitting vessels from 25 to 50 tons burthen. For the information of persons who feel desirous of locating themselves in an advantageous situation, for manufacturing, the following list of navigable streams in our 20 pr ct. county will no doubt be acceptable to the public: 15 5 pr ct. Russia $2 ps Ravens $14 Holland $4. From other materials. 1st pf. 42c gl 38 cents. From Grain. 2d 45 38 15 cents. 5 cts gal. 15 pr ct. $3.25 20 pr ct. 15 pr ct. 15 5 pr ct. times, invaluable to the Farmers and Manufacturers of our county. There is at this time (and we believe only occupied as a saw mill,) one of the most valuable mill seats in the county of Delaware, on Crum creek, in Ridley township, at the head of tide water, head and fall about 15 feet, owned by George G. Leiper, Esq. which possesses the most desirable advantages for a Woolen Manufactory in the county. It is 13 miles from Philadelphia, and located near the great Southern Road; in the immediate vicinity of a handsome little village, and in the neighbourhood of some of the most extensive stone quarries in the county. Manufacturers who have capi tal, and desirous of locating themselves in a rich and fertile country, possessing natural advantages surpassed by no section of the union, we advise them to visit Dela ware county. It contains "200 mills and mill seats," and water communication with almost every section of it. The county is healthy; water good; and its inhabitants hospitable. The passage of the bill, appropriating two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to commence the Breakwater, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, will not only increase the population of our county, but will enhance the value of property. Quarries of stone, which have remained undisturbed for centuries past, will be made to cast up their hidden treasures; hundreds of labourers will be wanted; markets in every section of the country will be created, and the farmer and industrious mechanic will prosper. This statement of our country is not an imaginary one-but is really the fact.— Upland Union. Washington Square. On Monday the 26th instant, Washington Square, for. merly "Pottersfield," was opened as a public walk. At considerable expense and with much taste, this square has been improved by the Corporation, and we hope the respectable part of the citizens will, by their frequent ing it, render it permanently a place of fashionable resort, and preserve it from sharing the fate of the State House yard, which as a public walk is now almost entirely neglected, especially by the ladies. Southwark Church. On the 26th instant, the corner stone of the First Presbyterian Church of Southwark, in German_street, between Second and Third streets, was laid and an address delivered by the Rev. Dr. Beecher of Boston. STATEMENT OF THE COMMERCE Of each State and Territory, commencing on the 1st day of October, 1826, and ending on the 30th day of September, 1827. Treasury Department, Register's Office, April16, 1828. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. 1828.] COMMERCE. 351 A STATEMENT Exhibiting the Quantity of American and Foreign Tonnage entered into and departing from each District during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1827. ABSTRACT Of the Tonnage of the Shipping of the several Districts of the United States, on the last day of December, 1826. THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. I. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD, NO. 51, FILBERT STREET. EBELING'S HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 344.) CHAPTER III. William Penn embarks for America. His reception there. First General Assembly at Upland. Philadel phia founded. Treaty with the Indians. Act of Set NO. 23. of land, which extended from the Delaware nearly to the first and lowest ridge of the western mountains.Some Indian chiefs also made him presents of lands; the rest he purchased for goods, which the Indians held in high estimation, and for which they gave him that of obliged to acquaint them with the value which Eurowhich they had a superfluous quantity. Penn was not Peans set upon lands, he had a right to purchase at the price which was current in America, otherwise he would tlement. The lower counties united to the Province.Great Law. Second Assembly at Philadelphia. Ex-He must not therefore be reproached for having adopthave prevented all future settlements in that country. cellent Laws. Rapid increase of the colony. Emigra- ed a measure of cheap justice, by which both the contions from Germany. Germantown. General Assembly at New-Castle. Penn returns to England. tracting parties were equally satisfied. On the other side, however, his merit has been too much over rated, Mean while the proprietor had been some time pre- when this purchase of Indian lands has been extolled as paring himself to visit in person that country which al- being the only instance of the kind. (2) This mode of ready showed opening prospects of future prosperity.acquisition had been long before prescribed by the laws It depended principally on laying a solid foundation, of New England, and was not uncommon in New Jersey, and his presence might contribute in a great degree to Maryland, and other colonies. (3) That he made it a the attainment of that object. The renewed severity condition to the Indians, that they should not sell their with which the penal laws against the Quakers were lands to any but himself or his agents, was a wise regu now executed in England, inclined many of that per- lation, intended to prevent many disputes with the abosuasion to seek in that province for an asylum where riginal natives, although in the sequel it subjected him they might enjoy that liberty of conscience which was to the not entirely unfounded charge of monopoly. At denied them by the injustice as well as the folly of their first the general assembly thought it adviseable to estamother country. At the end of August, of this year, near blish this exclusive right by a severe law. Penn now a hundred of his friends sailed with him for his colony, thought proper to purchase of the Indians a small part where, after a voyage of seven weeks, during which of the territory granted to him by the crown, because at many died of the small pox, they landed at New Castle that time he did every thing with his own means. But amidst the demonstrations of joy of the inhabitants. Af- soon after as the colony increased beyond his hopes, ter taking possession of the lower territory on the Dela- and he was in want of more lands, the Indians rose in ware, he summoned a general assembly to meet at Up. their prices considerably. Therefore, matters were so land on the fourth of December, consisting of an equal brought about that the purchases of land were in fact number of representatives of the province and territory negotiated by the proprietary; but the presents and of which Nicholas Moore was chosen speaker. In the other expenses were mostly paid for by the general mean time, Penn laid the foundation of the city of Phi- assembly. Thence arose afterwards a fruitful source ladelphia, on a tract of land which belonged to three of disputes and misunderstandings between the proSwedes, of whom he purchased it, and he had the satis-prietary and the colony, which operated much to the faction of witnessing himself its rapid increase. The disadvantage of both. plan of that city was so well conceived and so maturely considered, that Philadelphia must regret to this day, that it has been departed from, much to the detriment of the general health. But above all things, Penn was uncommonly active in negociating with the Indians, and found means to acquire as well the favour of the Delawares, as the Iroquois, who at that time ruled over the whole country, not only by solemn conferences and treaties, but also by friendly visits and conversations in their own language, which he soon acquired; by assisting at their festivals; by presents, joined to repeated proofs of his invariable justice; by faithful counsels, and condescension, he secured their affection and confidence to such a degree, that for near a century afterwards, they mentioned with high veneration the name of their brother Onas (for so they translated the word Penn) as a pattern of all that was wise and good. (1) He purchased of them a tract 1 The six nations in their speeches and treaties with the successive governors, always called him by the name of Brother Onas. [The Delawares called him Miquon, which has the same signification. But the word Penn was improperly translated by Quill; in the Celtic language, from which it is derived, it means a head; me The first colonial assembly was called to carry into execution the plan of government agreed upon in England, yet a notable alteration therein took place at the very beginning. The freemen of the colony were summoned to appear in person, but instead of this they chose twelve men for each of the counties into which Penn had divided the country, (4) consequently only so many as were necessary according to that plan, to constitute one of the branches of the legislature. Nothing else could be done than to admit the apology that the freemen made, founded on the smallness of their number, on their agricultural avocations, and their want of experience in matters of government. Penn had himself recognized the principle, that there taphorically a Chief. Penn should therefore have been called in the Delaware language Sachem, or Sakima, which would have inspired the Indians with a still greater veneration for his person. 2 Raynal, Etabl. des Europeens, &c. 3 Belknap's Biography, vol. 2 p. 417, &c. Ebeling's Geography and History of America, vol. 3 pp. 13. 562. 567 ibid. vol. 5. pp. 133. 688. 4 Pennsylvania was then divided into three counties Philadelphia, Bucks and Chester. |