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only in this country, but almost throughout the civilized world, among the labouring classes. Many who have heretofore been enabled to remunerate the Physician, are now compelled to apply to the Charitable Institutions, and particularly to the Dispensaries; such individuals we are especially bound to succour.

The Managers, therefore, most respectfully solicit aid from the benevolent, believing that charity cannot be better disposed than in relieving those who suffer from disease. They acknowledge with great pleasure and unfeigned thankfulness the receipt of $74 92 from the New England Society of Philadelphia, as also 25 dollars from a person "unknown."

Published by direction of the Managers.

GEORGE BOYD, President.
JOSEPH S. RILEY, Secretary.
January 1, 1830.

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Of these there were belonging to Great Britain 12, Holland 1, Hanseatic Towns 2, Denmark 3, Colombia 1, Hayti 3, Spain 5-total 26. Americans 348. There were from England 64, British American Possessions 61, Hay ti 25, Cuba 61, Portugal 10, Spain 11, France 20, Sweden 2, Russia 1, Hanseatic Towns 8, Holland 7, Sicily 1, Madeira 4, Trieste 1, Canaries 1, Mexico 9, Guatemala 3, Colombia 23, Curracoa 1, Porto Rico 4, Swedish West Indies 3, Africa 3, China 3, Peru 3, Buenos Ayres and Montevideo 4, Danish West Indies 29, British East Indies 1, Brazils 11--Total 374.

The Coal Trade -The water has now been drawn off the canal, and our transportation for the present suspended. It may perhaps be interesting to draw a parallel between the state of trade now, and what it was at this period last year. During the season of 1828, 47,417 tons were sent down, and in 1829, the quantity was increased to 78,708 tons, making nearly double the amount. Although the quantity is still insufficient for the demand, still we think that the approaching season 760 will remedy the former difficulties, and bring an ade747 quate supply to the market. Many of the rail roads in our vicinity will be completed, if not by the beginning, 668 at least during the summer, and the canal will be nearly 292 occupied to the full extent of its capacity. The state of 400 affairs will assume a new complexion when those pow325 erful assistants to industry are finished. New openings 321 will be made, new tracts of valuable coal land brought 122 into actual usefulness, and new energies given to all the 441 operations in our vicinity. Miner's Journal.

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PITTSBURGH, January 1. Steam Navigation.-Some time ago we noticed the arrival of a quantity of pig metal from Tennessee. Since then another boat has brought to our wharves a considerable quantity of blooms from the same works. A more forcible exemplification of the advantages conferred upon the western country by the introduction of steam power could not be given, than is afforded by this single circumstance. Fifteen years ago, thousands of tons might have lain at the works on the Cumberland, and the foundries and the steam engine factories might have 509 remained idle for months, for want of materials. Indeed, 1 1441 if the metal hsd been delivered gratuitously on board 593 keel boats and barges at the mouth of Cumberland, the 1279 prices here would not have paid the freight. Descend1544 ing navigation could then be carried on cheaply and 2 389 advantageously; the natural current of the river was a 279 sufficient moving power. One great advantage which 572 we derive from the use of steam is in equalizing the as301 cending and descending navigation, and removing the 334 obstacles presented by the previously almost irresistible 192 current.

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Dr. Joseph Pancost, do. for south eastern do.
Dr. George Spackman, do. for N. western do.
Dr. Amos Pennebaker, do. for N, eastern do.
Benjamin W. Nicholson, Collector of Cases for Vac- With the full harvest of the gen'rous year.
cination, for Southeastern District.

And may their lives, as slow they roll away,
Ever in sweet, domestic bliss decay.
Wealth fill their domes, and plenty aid their cheer

Thonas Porter, Collector of do. for N. E. District.
John M. Fernsler, Collector of do. for N. W. District.
James Kerr, Collector of do. for S.W. District.

U. S. Gazette.

Dr. J. K. Mitchell, of this city, has invented a method of manufacturing caoutchouc, or Indian rubber, into thin and almost transparent sheets. When a sheet is folded and cut with scissors, the cut edges adhere with force, and after some hours maceration, as strongly as the uncut portion. The article is made so light that a bag composed of it, more than six feet in circumference weighs only six ounces. A similar invention has been announced by Mr. Hancock, of London; but he has not divul. ged the process. Dr. Mitchell effected it by soaking the caoutchouc in ether, until soft and capable of being rolled out.-Journal.

Statement of Rain fallen from 1810 to 1829 inclusive, the first 14 years by the gage of P. Legoux, Esq. Spring Mill, the following 6 by that kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital.

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36.005 April,
30.177 May,

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Their sportive offspring ev'ry grief beguile,
And each lov'd consort answer with a smile.
May social ease consume the wint'ry night,
And Arts and Letters shed their mingled light.
Then, while around them ev'ry joy they find
That glads the sense or beams upon the mind,
Fav'rites of Heav'n, unforc'd their sorrows flow
At the long, piteous sound of distant wo.

Beyond yon azure waste, where ceaseless roam
Our hardy seamen through the tumbling foam,
Think of the land where earliest hal its rise
Each art that now delights your mental eyes!
Where proud Philosophy her rolls unfurl'd,
And Christian virtue sham'd a guilty world!
Imagine there the rude barbaric knife
Flesh on the weak the long contested strife.
Black Afric pours her swarms. With sullen will
The stubborn slaves are taught the art to kill.
For their own wrongs unjust returns they know,
And wreak their vengeance on the Christian foe.
The warriors slaughter'd, cruelty invades
The helpless children and the shrieking maids;
The dagger ends the old; the younger mourn,
And pass to slav'ry, never to return.

Or look we to the north; where Scythia flings
Her countless tribes to bend the necks of kings,
inches. With modern skill and quenchless thirst for fame:
537 The conquer'd Balkan gives a chieftain name.
3.75 Deep groan the bending wains; with crushing sound
2.87 The wheel'd artill❜ry tears the solid ground;
4.99 The trampling myriads blacken all the shore;
2.68 And old Bulgaria feels one conquest more-
344 And where is he, the Proud, whose arms retain
4.35 Those ancient tow'rs, the wonder of the plain?
4.61 Owns he no force to meet this hated crew,
2.01 Since all in vain the Prophet's standard flew?
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Where are his disciplin'd Egyptian boast,
3.97 His million Arabs, and his Tartar host?
1.51 Where are his Janissaries? Ask yon rank
Of blacken'd corpses; or yon stranger Frank,
41.85 Who, in his suburb, on the farther shore
Imprison'd, heard the long repeated roar-
Three days and nights the sounds of slaughter came,
And the huge city almost swam in flame.

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REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA.

May each young year still bless the growing town, And valued gifts our PATRONS' dwelling crown!

Escap'd such scenes, the righteous doom revere,
And ye who burn with true ambition's fire,
And thank that Pow'r that plac'd your dwelling here.
Whose gen'rous hearts to human praise aspire,
Be public service still your proudest aim,
Nor envy warlike chiefs their blood-bought fame.
Bid education humanize the mind;
Aid laws and order to correct mankind;
Protect the weak, the vicious soul reprove,
And strive in arts that earn a people's love-
Teach the light bridge to span the rapid tide,
The gliding slope ascend the mountain's side,
The lab'ring engine overcome the steep,
The long canal seek out the distant deep.
Crown with new structures each o'erhanging hill;
Bid deepen'd rivers ampler channels fill,
Huge mounds of stone the thund'ring waves restrain,
And ships secure defy the dang'rous main.
Such tasks to you the laws of Heav'n decree,
Toils that improve mankind, and worthy of the free.

General Diebitsch Sabalkansky.

Printed every SATURDAY MORNING by WILLIAM F GEDDES, No. 59 Locust Street. Philadelphia; where, and at the PUBLICATION OFFICE, IN FRANKLIN PLACE, second

Gay health be theirs, which, when the heav'ns are kind, door back of the Post Office, (back room) subscriptions will be

Their bounty show'rs o'er manly frame and mind.
Strength nerve their limbs; and cheerful spirits fly
Bright o'er their brow, and sparkle in their eyc.

thankfully received. Price FIVE DOLLARS per annum, payable annually by subscribers residing in or near the city, or where here is au agent. Other subscribers pay in advance.

THE

REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE.

EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD.

VOL. V.-NO. 3.

PHILADEL HIA, JANUARY 16, 1830. NO. 107

GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON LUZERNE CO. ren range whose average height may be feet. This Written by Isaac A. Chapman, Esq. in 1817. extends from the east to the west branch of the SusqueLuzerne County was erected from the county of Norhanna river between which it appears to have no other thumberland on the 26th day of September, 1786, and name than those mentioned, except that in a small terreceived its name in compliment to the Chevalier de la Lu-ritory on the head of Fishing creek the inhabitants call zerne then French Minister to the United States. Its greatest length from North to South is fifty two miles, and its greatest width from E. to W. 42. It is of an irregular form and contains by careful estimation 1430 square miles or 917,200 acres.

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it the North Mountain. Westward of the waters of the west branch of Susquehanna it forms the main ridge of Allegheny mountains. It crosses the east branch of the Susquehanna at the mouths of Tunkhannock and Bowman's creeks, and extending north eastwardly, it is callThe soil of Luzerne is so various in its fertility as noted Tunkhannock mountain and terminates in Susqueproperly to possess any general character. The vallies hanna county where it is called the Elk Mountain. being generally rich arable land but differing very Mahoopeny Mountain is a spear only of Bowman's in their fertility; and the mountains generally barren mountain and terminates at the mouth of Mahoopeny and not susceptible of cultivation. The country is very creek. mountainous, and the mountains consist principally of Sugar Loaf mountain is a high conical Pyramid rising ridges running parallel to each other; and like the oth- from the centre of Nescopeck valley. It is not connecter mountains of Pennsylvania extending nearly paralleled with any other mountain and forms a very singular to the sea coast from E. N.E.to W.S. W. These moun- appearance. Its name is derived from its form and the tains are situated at different distances from each other, mountain has given name to a township. leaving fertile vallies between in which are fine settlements, forming the population of the county. The principal mountains of Luzerne are the following-The Wyoming Mountains situate on each side of the Susquehanna river forming the valley of Wyoming. That on the east side is called Bullock's mountain. That on West Shawney Range. The average height of the first is one thousand feet, that of the other 850 feet. from the summit of one mountain to that of the other opposite Wilkesbarre measuring by the road is six miles and a quarter. In an air line about 5 miles.

The character of these mountains is much the same, they are thinly covered with timber, generally steep, and in many places very rocky.

The Wyoming, the Lackawannock and the Buck mountains produce a mineral coal of an excellent quality called in the vicinity Stone coal from its excessive hardness. It is not bituminous and burns without smoke and very little flame. It forms an important article of export from Luzerne county; and is taken down the Susquehanna in arks. This coal was first burnt in grates in the year 1808, and is now in very common use.

The Vallies of Luzerne are the following:The valley of Wyoming lying on both sides of the Susquehanna river is about twenty miles long and five miles broad. The Susquehanna enters it at its northeasternmost extremity through a precipitious gap in the Shawnese range of mountains which appear to have been

At the foot of each mountain are small hills so that the broken ground occupies more space than the bases of mountains. At Wilkesbarre the level plain extends on the west side about a mile and a quarter from the river,on the east side about half a mile. On this last the town of Wilkesbarre is built. This plain is alluvial formed by the river and is the first quality of land, being extreme-made by the river itself .It flows in a serpentine course ly productive.

The Nescopeck mountain on the north side of Nescopeck creek is a range of nearly the same height with those of Wyoming and parallel to them. It forms a regular and almost unbroken ridge nearly destitute of timber on its summit. It extends from the Susquehanna nearly to the Lehigh.

The Buck mountain is a range parallel to the Nescopeck situate about five miles to the S.E. of the latter. It is a broken range loosing its name at both ends of Nescopeck Valley.

Hell Kitchen mountain commences at the head of Nescopeck valley and extending north eastwardly terminates near the Lehigh. This is a very high rocky and barren ridge, having no timber on its top, where fern and small bushes only find support. Down the north side of this mountain falls Hell Kitchen Creek a small branch of Nescopeck.

Lackawannock mountain is a continuation of the Shawnese range of Wyoming mountains. This near the Susquehanna is very high and steep but becomes smaller as it extends north easterly. It terminates in Susquehanna county where it is called the Moosic Mountain, and a part of it Mount Ararat.

Bowmans mountain called the Bald mountain near the western limits of the county is a high regular bar VOL. V.

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through the plains of Wyoming and leaves the valley through a gap similar to that at which it enters; forming as it leaves the valley what is called Nauticoke falls. In this valley stand the towns of Wilkesbarre and Kingston,opposite each other on both sides of the river. This is the most populous valley in the county. The soil is of the first quality and extremely productive.

Lackawannock Valley extends from the mouth of the Lackawannock creek up the same about 30 miles. -The soil is of second quality, the land uneven, forming no level plains of any considerable extent. to Wyoming valley is the most populous.

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Nescopeck Valley lies on both sides of Nescopeck creek and between Nescopeck and Bucks Mountains. It is about 20 miles long and 5 miles wide and does not extend to the river. In population it will rank next to the Lackawannock valley and the soil is somewhat bet

ter.

Bowman's Valley lying on Bowman's creek between Bowman's and Mahoopeny mountains is not very populous and the land generally poor. It is about two miles wide and 15 miles long. The principal population is near the river.

Tunkhannock Valley is very crooked and irregular, about a mile wide lessening in some places to half a mile; and about 35 miles long. It is, most of it, cultivated, is populous considering its small width.

Mahoupeny Valley lies on Mahoopeny creek, is very narrow and thinly populated-it extends irregularly a bout 20 miles from the river.

The swamps in all parts of the county produce Hemlock,
Spruce and Pine.

About one third of the arable land in Luzerne is best suited for grazing, the remainder for grain.

The only minerals which have hitherto been discov ered in the county in sufficient quantities to merit notice, are iron and mineral coal here called stone coal.Two forges have been erected for the manufacture of iron; one on the Lackawannock, the other on Nauticoke creek.

The Susquehanna River and its tributary streams water nine tenths of Luzerne county. This river is navigable for boats carrying about 20 tons at all seasons of the year when not obstructed by ice,which is generally the case from about Christmas until the middle of March. The N. E. branch of the Susquehanna is much less obstructed by rocks and shoals than the main river below Northumberland. The boatmen are getting into The population of Luzerne might probably be estithe use of sails, and I have seen during the last season mated at 9500. [In 1829, 4482 taxables or 22,410 inhts.] in a number of instances boats loaded with 20 tons as- Luzerne is at present divided into the following towncend the Wyoming falls by the force of wind only. The ships viz: only rapids in the Susquehanna within the limits of Lu- Sugar-loaf zerne, which are considered of sufficient importance to Nescopeck be called falls are the Wyoming falls and Nauticoke Salem falls. The former is a rapid about a mile and a half Huntingdon above Wilkesbarre which is never considered dan- Union gerous and has at all times sufficient water in the channel for the purposes of boat navigation. The latter is a rapid in the river where it passes out of the valley of Wyoming and as the water here passes very swiftly into the side of an eddy, rafts of lumber are sometimes broken by the sudden whirl of the water.

The other principal streams of the county I have giv en a general discription of in a statement forwarded to the Surveyor General last January.

All the streams of Luzerne are rapid and furnish excellent seats for all kinds of machinery.

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The towns and villages of Luzerne are the following viz:-Wilkesbarre, Kingston, Conyngham, and Stoddartsville.

can cause during the Revolution. The streets are laid
out at right angles having a square of about four acres
in the centre of the plot, the sides of which form an
angle of 45° with the streets, so that the four principal
streets enter the public square at its four corners.
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The plain on which the town stands is alluvial; appears to have been wholly formed by the river, and is elevated about 28 feet above the common surface of the river. The town contains 92 dwelling houses, besides

Wilkesbarre is a borough and the seat of Justice. It stands upon a level plain on the eastern bank of the The question "what proportion of the county is clear- Susquehanna river. It was laid out about the year1775 by ed and cultivated," affords ground for matter of opinion Col. John Durkee from whom it received its name in on which good judges might materially differ. The compliment to Wilkes, and Barre, two celebrated memopinion I shall form from an extensive practice of sur-bers of the British Parliament favourable to the Ameriveying and other means of deriving knowledge on this subject,is that not more than one fifteenth part or 54470 acres is cultivated and that not more than one third of the county is fit or proper for cultivation, unless indeed making rough pasture for sheep might be included in the meaning of the term. Even our rough and rocky mountains like many of those of Europe, would feed large flocks, which under proper regulations might no doubt be a source of great individual and national wealth. The timber natural to our soil varies in species in different places from a variety of causes; such as the posi-shops, &c. tion of the ground in relation to the sun, the quality of the soil,&c. On the mountains the prevailing timber is oak of the various kinds thinly intermixed with Yellow Pitch and White Pine, which grows short and scrubby, there being very little of it proper for any other purpose than fuel. On smaller hills where the soil is better the timber is larger and of a better quality and consists also of a greater variety; such as Hickory, Lynn or Linden, Birch of three kinds, two kinds of Maple, Ash of two kinds, Cherry and Beech. These being mixed in every part of the county where they are found with Hemlock, a species of timber improperly calledSpruce in many parts of the state, being the Pinus Canadensis of Botanical writers. In the northern part of the county and at a distance from four to six miles from the river, the Sugar Maple or Acer Sacharinum of Linnæus is found in great plenty and the inhabitants generally manufacture their supply of sugar from its sap.. In that part of the county where the sugar tree is found, Beech is the most common timber, Hemlock is next in quantity and the sugar tree holds the third place.

Kingston, is a village, built upon one street only, situate opposite Wilkesbarre, on the west side of the river, and distant about one mile from it. The village stands upon a plain about the same height as Wilkesbarre, and is in view from it.

Conyngham is a village and post-town, situate in Nescopeck valley, upon the turnpike leading from Berwick towards Bethlehem. It is 12 miles from the Susquehanna, at Berwick, and 18 from the Lehigh, at Lausanne. It is built upon one street, at the foot of the Buck Mountain.

Stoddartsville, is a village, situate on the western bank of the Lehigh river, at the Great Falls, upon the turnpike leading from Easton to Wilkesbarre. It is very favorably situated for all kinds of water works and machinery. The village is built upon one street, and upon ground descending towards the river. It is 18 miles from Wilkesbarre and 40 miles from Easton. There is a wooden bridge 224 feet long and 20 wide, over the Lehigh, opposite the village. A turnpike road is completed from Wilkesbarre to the Wind Gap in the direcHemlock generally grows where the ground descends tion towards Easton. Another from Berwick, on the towards the west and Maple or sugar tree where it de-line between Luzerne and Columbia counties to Lauscends to the east. The sugar tree is an invariable sign of a productive soil, but the country where it abounds is better calculated for grass than for grain.

In the southern part of the county the low grounds or vallies generally produce yellow Pine, white Pine, Cak and Hickory and occasionally Buttonwood. In the northern part the low grounds produce white Maple, Hemlock, Birch, Lynn, Butternut, Buttonwood and Alder and Walnut in many parts both North and South.

sanne on the river Lehigh. These are the only turnpikes which are yet completed in Luzerne. Three others are in progress-1st, from Wilkesbarre to Chenango Point, in the state of New York, to pass through Montrose in Susquehanna county; another from Wilkesbarre to Clifford, to intersect the Great Bend and Coch. etunk turnpike; and another from Pittstown towards Stoddartsville on the Lehigh.

The only natural curiosities worth mentioning in Lu

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zerne, consists of water-falls. Of these there are several. Solomon's Falls, is a cascade, on Solomon's creek, about three miles from Wilkesbarre, where the stream passes down the Wyoming mountain. It consists of two pitches between rocky cliff's on each side, which compress the stream very narrow. The whole perpendicular fall may be 30 feet.

Wapwallopen Falls, or Wapehawley Falls, is a fine perpendicular fall of Big Wapwallopen creek, about half a mile from its confluence with the Susquehanna river. The water falls in one sheet over a rock about 25 or 30 feet. Here are fine mills.

Buttermilk Falls, so called, from the colour of the water below, is a fall of about 15 feet over a rock,formed by a creek of the same name. There are fine mills at each of the before mentioned falls.

Hell Kitchen Cascude is formed by a stream of the same name (a branch of Nescopeck) where it passes down a mountain called Hell Kitchen mountain. The stream passes through a deep rocky glen, and falls about 140 feet over a rocky precipice, forming a very beautiful and romantic cascade.

Falling Spring Cascade is a beautiful fall at high wa ter. It is formed by a small stream which falls down the Lackawannock Mountain into the Susquehanna river. The fall is about 50 ft. perpendicular over a rocky ledge. In the valley of Wyoming are the remains of ancient fortifications, which might perhaps be ranked as artifi cial curiosities. Of these, the remains of three are said to be discernable; one of them situate in Kingston on the West bank of Toby's creek, upon the flat, about half a mile from the river was examined by myself, and found to be of an oval form, having its longest diameter from the NE to the SW, measuring 272 feet, and from the SE to the NW, measuring 337 feet. There appeared to have been a gate-way at the SW side.

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of his age, to the French commander on Le Bœuf, to demand that he should desist from farther aggressions. In performance of this duty, Washington arrived at "The Forks," on the 23d of November, 1753. While here, he examined the site immediately at the junction of the rivers, and recommended it as a suitable position for a fort. On the next day he proceeded from this place, and called on King Shingiss, near M'Kee's Rocks, who accompanied him on his way to Loggstown, where they met Monakatoocha, and other Indian chiefs, and held several councils with them.

While at Loggstown, it became a question which road he should take on his way to the French commandant at Le Bœuf,& Shingiss advised him not to take thefroad by Beaver, because it was low and swampy. Proceeding on his journey, he arrived at Le Bœuf, and learned from the French commandant that they were determined to take possession of the Forks in the spring. With this answer he left the French commandant in company with Gist, his guide, on foot, and arrived at the Allegheny river, below the mouth of Pine creek, on the 28th of December. The next day they spent in making a raft with tomahawks,and towards evening embarked, and attempted to cross the river; but the ice driving very thick, they made very little progress, and were finally compelled to take refuge upon Herr's or Wainwright's island-which of the two is uncertain.

During the night it froze so hard, that they crossed on the ice in the morning. This circumstance affords a pretty strong inference that it must have been Wainwright's island, it lying close to the eastern shore, the narrow passage between it and the shore would be more likely to freeze in one night, than the wide space opposite Herr's island. Having crossed the river, they proceeded without delay to Frazier's, at the mouth of Turtle creek. On the 31st December, while Gist and the other men were out hunting the horses, Washington walked up to the residence of Queen Allequippa, where M'Keesport now stands. She expressed much regret that he had not called on her as he went out. He made her a present of a watch coat, and a flask of rum, and in his Journal he states that the latter present was much the more acceptable.

The timber had long been cut away, and the ground cultivated, when I first saw it; but I was assured by the old gentleman (Mr. Pierce), and his relation has been confirmed by many others, that the timber which grew upon the rampart or parapet, was as large as any of the adjoining forest, and one large cak in particular, counted 700 years. "There were also old logs found upon these mounds, indicating that a former growth of timber On the 17th of April, 1754, the French commander, had preceded that which was then standing. The In- Contrecœur, with three hundred and sixty canoes one dians have no tradition concerning the origin of these thousand men and eighteen pieces of cannon, arrived fortifications, and their history is altogether conjectural. at "The Forks," where Pittsburg now stands, and comThe Population of Luzerne consists of a mixed peopelled Ensign Ward to surrender. This invasion is veple from various countries. Northward from Wilkesbarre, the inhabitants are principally from the Eastern States, and the descendants of New England people. Southward from Wilkesbarre, the inhabitants are principally Germans, and the descendants of Germans, with a mixture of Irish and Scotch descendants. It is, however, not common to find amongst them those who can not speak the English language.

I shall estimate the population of the several villages in Luzerne, as follows:

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ry properly called in the "Address," the commencement of the war, which terminated with the loss, by France, of all her possessions in America, east of Mississippi.

The incidents in relation to the subaltern who commanded the French and Indians at Braddock's defeat, were derived from La Fayette, during his late visit to this country.

The account of the remains of a deceased officer which were ploughed up during the last summer, near the Arsenal, are in part founded on fact. It is true that such remains were discovered, and that money and marks of military rank were found with them.

[Pittsburg Gazette.

Address of the Carriers of the "Pittsburg Gazzette"
JANUARY 1, 1830.
How changed the scene, since here the Savage trod,
To set his otter-trap, or take wild honey,
Where now so many humble printers plod,

And faithful CARRIERS hunt a little money!
How things have alter'd in this misty plain,

Since Allequippa hunted and caught fish,
Where Mrs. Olver, and her gentle train,

Now read of Indians in the Wish-ton-Wish!
How short the time, but how the scenes have shifted,
Since WASHINGTON explored this western wild-land,
And with his raft, and Gist, his pilot, drifted

Upon the upper end of Wainwright's Island!

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