1830.] RECORDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. the disposition to the interest of our country, so far as as we might be able to do it, consistent with our respective stations in life. Gov. Morris was afterwards pleased to accept of the present provided by us, and to deliver it in our name to the Indians. 361 of the country increased, that any attempt to elude the original intention and agreement of honestly purchasing the land of the people who had a native right in it will be ever condemned by all impartial and honest men. "At the second treaty at Easton the Governor by his "Upon the conclusion of this treaty, Gov. Morris candid and ingenuous treatment of the Indians (as the. thought it necessary to send Capt. Newcastle on a mes- Mohawks since aptly expressed it) "put his hand into sage to the Indians at or near Fort Johnson. But before Tedyuscung's bosom and was so successful as to draw he was set out, Gov. Denny arrived and succeeded to out the secret which neither Sir W. Jobnson nor the Six the government of this province; and we always appre- Nations could do." From that time it was generally hended that in his name and by his authority Capt. New-known that one cause of the alienation of their friendship castle went on that message, as we never interfered was some injustice they received or supposed to be therein in any manner whatever, and were not informed done them in the purchases and running out of their the particular business he was charged with. On New- lands. They complained of divers kind of frauds which castle's return, we found by conversing with him he had had been committed; repeatedly urged that an impargiven some offence to Gen. Johnson; and we have since tial inquiry should be made into the grounds of their had cause to apprehend that some gentlemen in higher complaints by searching all our records, and by the stations have been informed that we had sent Newcas- strong motive of a regard to our temporal and eternal tle on this message, and given him matters in charge to interest urged the Governor to give liberty to all perbe privately transacted with the Indians, after it was sons and friends to search into these matters. Thus we known to us that the King had by a special commission thought ourselves under the strongest obligations to authorized Sir William Johnson to negotiate all matters make all the inquiry in our power into the true state of of a public concern with them. But as we have not giv- the Indian claims; whether or not such care had been en any occasion for such a charge, nor were any way taken to purchase and to pay them for the lands as the concerned in sending that message, it affords us a par- proprietary agents had constantly asserted. The right ticular pleasure that the Governor has given us so favor many of us who hold large tracts of land under the first able an opportunity of clearing ourselves of the unjust settlers; the Governor's repeated declarations both in censure; and we hope that this ingenuous account of public and private, that those matters should be honestour conduct in the course of this business before the ly and fully inquired into; and the Indians' injunctions Governor's arrival, will fully evince that we proceeded that this should be done not only by the persons thus therein on just motives, and with the regard due from us complained of, or their agents, but by others likewise to the Governor of this province. interested therein: united in engaging our particular at"It is well known to the Governor, that on his arrival tention, and gave us a reasonable prospect of meeting here some of us waited on him, and one of us assured with the Governor's approbation. And though the Sechim of our sincere desire to proceed in contributing our retary refused to permit us to proceed therein, by inassistance towards the restoration of peace, in a manner specting the records in his office, we still had cause to most agreeable to him and consistent with our character think our farther application to the necessary and im-. and stations. He was then pleased to declare his appro-portant concern of regaining peace was not contrary to bation of our purpose; and when we waited on him with our address, before the second treaty at Easton, the Governor by his answer declared his approbation of our proceedings, and his being willing to receive the present we prepared, and invited us to attend the treaty. We had reason to conclude that our conduct then had given the Governor no occasion of offence, as after the business was finished, on our acknowledging his integ-conduct towards us; which from the answer now receirity and candour in the public transactions there, he gave us such an answer as fully expressed his being well pleased with us. And the Secretaries and provincial Interpreters very liberally declared their satisfaction and approbation of our conduct, and the latter fully testified that we had thereby evidently promoted the public interest, and been instrumental in bringing the business so far towards the desired issue. the Governor's inclination, as on our informing him of our intention to attend the treaty at Lancaster, and our willingness to contribute towards the expenses of the present to be given there, the Governor with the ut most readiness expressed his approbation of our proposal. And we are not conscious at that treaty or since, of having given the least occasion for the alteration of his ved and the conversation consequent thereon, we have occasion to observe. We have no views inconsistent with the honor of our gracious King, and the interest of our country, both which we sincerely endeavor to promote. We have heartily desired that people of every denomination in the province would unite in the same good purpose, and particularly on this business that the same harmony and good understanding which subsisted between the first settlers of the province and the natives, might be revived and maintained. And we have have raised funds and are ready to apply them towards restoring peace; and if the complaints of the Indians appear to be just, and the proprietaries and their agents should refuse to make them such satisfaction, as in justice they ought to have, rather than the lives of our distressed fellow subjects should be sacrificed, their properties destroyed, and so large a part of the King's dominions be laid waste, they will freely join with us in contributing towards the satisfying such just claims of the Indians, or at least to pacify them, till the immediate authority of the King (of whose justice and paternal care we have not the least doubt,) can be interposed, and justice, equity and mercy, be again restored and maintained among us. And if we are now so happy as to convince the Governor of the integrity of our intentions and conduct, we shall have reason to hope he will concur with us in taking the first opportunity of convincing the nobleman he has named, that it must be from some unjust representation that he was induced to think we "had presumed to treat with foreign princes, or by "From that time till the late treaty at Lancaster we know of no part of our proceedings which could displease the Governor, unless our application to the Sec-happily succeeded with several religious societies who retary for the inspection of the records in his office had that unexpected effect. Least that should be the case, and the intention and manner of that application misrepresented by any of the proprietary's agents and others engaged with them in the measures which have contributed to the present unhappy circumstances of this province, we think it necessary to inform him, this province was settled on terms very different from most of the other Colonies. The first adventurers were men of sub. stance and reputation, who purchased their lands of the Proprietor; and as he obliged himself and his heirs by an express covenant contained in their original deeds "to clear the lands from all titles, claims or demands of the Indian nations, or any other persons whatsoever," they agreed to pay an annual quit-rent, more than sufficient to enable him to satisfy the Indians and obtain a peaceable possession of the land; and during the lives of the first proprietor and the first settlers we believe this was faithfully performed, and so large a balance remained towards making further purchases, as the settlement VOL. V 46 acting as mediators between the government and an in- "May it please the Governor. Nothing less than a dependent people, invaded the King's prerogative roy-regard to the public interest would engage us to deal." cline a full compliance with the Governor's advice 'not to attend the ensuing treaty,' though we have reason to believe the proprietaries instructions to the Governor on this occasion are grounded on some false and unjust informations sent from hence. We apprehend our duty to God, and the King, have engaged us in this business; and some of the good effects thereof have already appeared. We, therefore, now again offer the Governor to contribute something considerable towards the present necessary to be made "Our application this day was to desire the Governor to the Indians at the ensuing treaty; and by our personal would be so kind as to inform us whether he had any attendance to improve the confidence and good opin-objections to our printing his answer, in which the Earl ion these people have of us, to the public benefit. of Halifax is said to have called the Indians 'foreign Should the Governor persist in refusing to accept our princes and independent people;" but the answer the present, we assure him we shall not by any part of our Governor has now been pleased to send us, relates soleconduct give any just occasion to charge us with a dis- ly to our address; and as it is contrary to our intention respectful conduct towards him; and we desire our at to misrepresent any transaction before or since the Govtendance at the treaty may not be considered as such. ernor's administration, we shall esteem it a favor to have The business to be transacted there is of so much conse- those parts pointed out which the Governor thinks in quence to the lives, liberties and properties of the peo- any respect exceptionable. What we have said conple of this province, that should we omit to attend there cerning the proprietaries and their agents is grounded and depend on the Governor and the King's agent re- on the public records. ceiving all their information on this important occasion, "The Governor's refusing to consent to accept of our from the proprietaries agents and others, who have for contribution, or of our offer of attending the treaty, has some years past been concerned in the transacting Indi- given much encouragement to the adversaries of the an affairs, we should be deficient in our duty as Christ-peace of the province, to repeat their malevolent asperians and Englishmen-denominations we hold more dear sions and calumnies against us. But to manifest our reto us than any other titles or appellations whatsoever.-gard to the public interest to be greater than to our priSigned on behalf and by the appointment of the said Trustees and Treasurer, 13th July, 1757, by ABEL JAMES, Clerk." On considering this long address the Council were of opinion, that though several things set forth therein were false, and many others misrepresented, it was better at this time for the Governor to overlook all and be content with repeating his advice to them. July 15.-Letter from Governor in reply"Gentlemen-As you know I am desired and most strictly enjoined not to suffer any particular body or society to concern themselves in treaties with Indians, or on any pretence to give présents to them-it is out of my power to permit the presents to be given. I shall once more repeat my advice-You would do well to decline appearing at the ensuing treaty in a body; your attendance at treaties as a distinct society having given great offence to the ministry." As Mr. Peters was going to deliver the above, he met Mr. Pemberton and the other deputies at the Governor's door, and gave it to them. After reading it, they desired the Secretary to acquaint the Governor that "they purposed in vindication of their character to publish their address, and should be glad to know if it would be agreeable to him that they should publish at the same time, the answer he was pleased to make to their offer of contributing to the public expense; which gave occasion to their address. vate character, we shall for a few days suspend the [Here follow the minutes of Council, and Conferences during the treaty with the Indians. The minutes of Council were taken by the Secretary. The minutes of the Conferences by three persons separately, viz: Mr. Croghan, Dep. A. I. A.; Mr. Duche, for the Governor; and by Mr. Charles Thompson as pretended Clerk to Tedyuscung.] [TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT.] THE SENTENCE of the United States District Court, delivered by Judge BALDWIN, upon Wilson and Porter, Mail Robbers. George Wilson and James Porter: You appear for the last time before a human tribunal, whose solemn duty it is to pronounce a sentence which forever closes your accounts with the viclated laws of your country, and in a few short days will cause you to disappear from among your fellow men. Hitherto you have appeared in this court as men accused of a crime of deep and black atrocity indeed, but under the protection of our mild, and benign laws, which presumed you innocent, until a jury of your fellow citiIt was observed that they did not ask leave to pub zens have, on their highest obligations, pronounced you lish, but declared positively that they purposed to do gilty of the high offence charged against you; and the it; which could be done with no other design than that Court adjudged that such your guilt has been made the Indians should be made acquainted with it, and manifest according to the strictest rules and well estabtheir minds thereby inflamed, and therefore the Gover-lished laws of judicial proceedings. But the time has nor sent them the following letter: passed, when the presumption or even possibility of "July 15, 2 o'clock. your innocence, or the most remote doubt of your en"Gentlemen-Your address in some parts of it which tire guilt can exist. The evidence which has been relate to transactions that have passed since my adminis-brought to bear upon you was full, undoubted, uncontration misrepresents several important facts; and con-tradicted and decisive; nay, it was so powerful and overtains some reflections on the conduct of the proprietaries and their agents here, in managing the affairs of the Indians, which I hope will be found to be without the least foundation. I cannot, therefore, conceive it reasonable or proper at this time for you to print it; especially when it is considered that the publishing it may tend to inflame the minds of the Indians and obstruct the business of the ensuing treaty at Easton; where the complaints made by them will be fully and impartially heard and I hope finally accommodated. WM. DENNY." In answer the Governor received the following pa per whelming, that you could offer nought to explain, extenuate, mitigate, or in any way to soften its force; it burst over you with a strength which paralysed the noble efforts of your counsel to save you from your impending fate. Had you been innocent-had you been about to become the victims of persecution, perjury or error, a ray of hope was still left, which seldoms fails to save the unfortunate. Good character resulting from good conduct, furnishes an almost certain resource in an appeal to jurors. In a community like this, whose prevalent feeling is philanthropy, it is never to be feared that the life of a prisoner is in danger wherever there exists a fair apology to save it. But neither the history of your past life nor the esti mation of your fellow men, enabled your counsel to present to the jury one mitigating, one redeeming feature, in either of your cases. In the hours of your deepest distress, no human being could be found who would peril his soul by his testimony in your favour, and no jury would have acquitted you, without affixing to their own characters a stain approaching to the hue which they would have effaced from yours. No alternative was left them but to obey or violate the laws of the country, to perform their duty in enforcing them, or leave you free to renew your depradations with impunity. The Court have well grounded reasons, for believing that your past history affords little else than a list of crimes-that the punishments inflicted on you for past offences have failed in the effect hoped and intended, by the mild and humane spirit in which our criminal laws are founded-that example has been disregarded and reformation become hopeless-that impunity for the past has emboldened you in the commission of new crimes, and that humanity to you would be cruelty to the innocent, unoffending, unprotected victims of your future avarice or revenge. There is a time when humanity to prisoners is the high and imperious duty of all concerned in the administration of criminal justice-it is on their trial, to impart to them the full benefit of that bright and noble principle of the common law, which considers every man innocent till his guilt is proved beyond all reasonable doubt; whose rules apply alike to every one accused, high or low, rich or poor, good or bad. Every security which the constitution or laws have thrown around innnocenc, every possible means of defence which could have been allowed to individuals of the most unblemished reputation, or most exalted stations in society, have been accorded to you.. Able counsel, process for witnesses, time for preparation, an impartial, intelligent, upright jury, free from legal exception or moral imputation, instructed to acquit you if they doubt ed of your guilt, solemnly cautioned to act under no influence which did not arise from the evidence, and fully advised of their power as to the law, twenty-four of your fellow-citizens have, under the most solemn obligations which man can Owe to his fellow-men or his God, pronounced you guilty. But the humanity of the law has not stopped here; on a motion for a new trial, your cause has been before the court again on its merits, and on a motion in arrest of judgment, on the form of the official accusation presented by the grand jury. Had the able arguments and laborious researches of your counsel, or our own reflections, led us to entertain a rational doubt of the correctness of any opinion we expressed during the trial, in our charge to the jury, or even as to the form of the indictment, you would have had the full advantage of those doubts by a new trial. But no doubts have clouded your case; no shadow was thrown over the minds of the jury which was connected with the evidence, there existed no legal or technical subtlety which would justify the court in setting aside or arresting the consequences of their verdict. We had only to decide whether your trial should terminate in the vindication of the offended laws of the nation, or the triumph of acknowledged guilt, referring the close of your sad career for the commission of some act of still blacker and more complicated atrocity, at the thought of which humanity shudders. Your counsel have declared that they have no further reason to offer why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon you, and none exists in the mind of the court. The safety of our citizens requires-public justice demands, our judgment, awful and dreadful as it is; our duty and our oaths compel us to render it. The humanity of the law has reached its end; its doors of mercy are for ever closed to you in this court; your days are numbered, and you must soon die the death of felons, unless there is found elswhere an arm stretched forth to save you from a fate which we cannot avert-a hope which we most solemnly caution you not to indulge, 363 Much as we admire the mildness of our criminal code; opposed as we are to capital punishments, where the peace of society and the security of the lives of our cit izens do not imperiously exact them, we should have much cause to question the justice or wisdom of the national legislature if, in their opinion, such a scene as has been disclosed on your trial, did not call for the highest punishment. An atrocious crime deliberately planned; deadly weapons coolly prepared for its execu tion; the crime committed in the dead of night; the public mail robbed and plundered; the life of the driver threatened, with pistols directed at his person, and in the hands of men ready to execute the most horrid purposes; presents a case at which even the enthusiast in philanthropy must pause. Even murder may have its palliatives, when committed under the excitement of passions, which the laws may condemn, but for which, those who administer them may be excused the indul gence of some feeling of commiseration; but for those who in cool blood resolve on a desperate offence, under the instigation of no passion but for plunder, reckless of the innocent lives that its gratification may cost, false humanity alone has a tear. It is a wise and just law that dooms such offenders to atonement by their lives-they justly forfeit life by such offences, and so the laws have ordained. Our only remaining duty, is obedience to its commands. Our sentence, therefore is, that you be taken hence to prison, whence you were brought, and there safely confined, till the day appointed for your execution, when you shall be taken to the place of execution, and THERE BE HANGED BY THE NECK UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD, AND may God HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOULS.-U.S. Gaz. FRANKLIN, (Venango co.) May 30. The Steam-Boat "Allegheny," made her appearance here on her third trip up the Allegheny river on Monday last. She had on board nearly forty tons freight and about seventy passengers and their baggage. A few tons of her freight were put out at this place, and four or five passengers took passage in the stage for Meadville; after which she moved off in gallant style up the river. Several passengers were taken in here for Warren. She is destined this trip for Olean point in New York state, about 70 miles above Warren, and we have no doubt she will reach that point with little or no difficulty. We think it requires no great share of forecast to discover that Nature has fixed Franklin and Warren to be, at no great distance of time, places of great commercial importance, however their natural advantages may have been heretofore overlooked. They require nothing but a little assistance from art, to render them such. We understand the legislature of New York, at its last session has authorised the construction of a canal from Rochester to Olean point-a trifling expense will render the Allegheny river navigable for steam boats built on Mr. Blanchard's construction from that point to Pittsburg, at any time when the Ohio is navigable for the ordinary steam boats. This beautiful river would then form a part of the most direct line from New York to New Orleans. By the Conewango creek, which discharges itself into the Allegheny river at Warren, no doubt is entertained, that individual enterprise alone, will, in the course of one or two years more, effect a good steam boat navigation, in every respect equal to that of the Allegheny river, into the Chautauque lake, the head of which is only nine miles from Lake Erie, at Portland Harbor. We understand a small expense would open a canal to this point, and thus would a great line of communication be opened by the lakes Erie and Ontario and the great Welland canal from the gulf of St. Lawrence to that of Mexico. These two great lines will meet at Warren, and the effects upon that place in a commercial point of view, cannot be conceived by the principally made of wrought iron, two stern wheels, extending 12 feet behind the boat, drawing with wood and water, about 12 inches; left Pittsburg on the 14th May, on her third trip up the Allegheny, with 64 passengers and 25 to 30 tons freight, stemming the current of this noble and most valuable river, (affording lumber in the greatest quantities,) at the rate of three miles per hour. The great Pennsylvania Canal passes up on the bank of this river thirty miles, crossing by an aqueduct at the outlet of the Kiskeminetas river, at Freeport, Armstrong county, a handsome, thriving village, pleasantly situated, containing four or five hundred inhabitants, forty-five miles up. Lawrenceville, near the mouth of Bear creek, is 18 miles above Freeport; Foxburgh, two miles above Lawrenceville. Patterson's falls, one most lively imagination. From the mouth of French creek to Erie, a canal can be opened with an expense not exceeding 500,000 dollars, and we have no doubt the legislature of Pennsylvania will authorize it at its next session. This will form a line of communication from all the great lakes-a sloop navigation of more than 1500 miles, stretching along the shores of Upper Canada, and all the western territories, to Philadelphia, by the Allegheny river and the Pennsylvania canal.This great line would intersect the other two above mentioned, combined, at Franklin. What an important point! Its destinies are fixed at no distant period, and although its great advantages, have as yet been in a great measure overlooked, they must shortly come to the light. Where are there more natural resources?Our soil is prolific-no part of the world affords a great-hundred and fifteen miles up, is one of the worst rapids er water power for manufacturing purposes-no where on this river: here a very useful improvement aided the is there a greater abundance of pure water-no where engine, a poling machine, worked by the capstan or is there a more salubrious air, and no where is to be windlass, in the bow of the boat, which drew her over found a greater abundance of all the natural produc- with ease. Montgomery's falls, five miles farther, neartions of the earth suitable to our climate. Where couldly as bad. Franklin is situated at the outlet of French the capitalist settle himself with brighter prospects of creek, (which is navigable for keel boats to Le Bœuf, increasing his capital, and at the same time enjoy the above Meadville, forty-six miles;) this is an old village, richest of all earthly blessings, health to its fullest ex- and surrounded by iron furnaces, where also is now made tent? Where could the poor, industrious man, seek a good quality bar iron, one hundred and twenty-five home for his family, with a more rational calculation of miles up. Oil creek is seven miles above. On this advancing himself in the world, and procuring substan- stream there are quantities of Seneca Oil gathered; its tial happiness for himself and them, than by purchasing smell is very perceptible at its outlet; here there is a some of our good lands in this or Warren county, which valuable furnace. can be bought at, from one to four dollars per acre? Our We arrived in Warren, a beautiful village, situate at bills abound in iron ore-our ridges are covered with the outlet of Conewango creek, at 9 o'clock, on the 19th the finest timber, from which lumber to almost any ex- May, near two hundred miles above Pittsburg, in three tent may be made. Our population is rapidly increas- and a half days running time. Conewango creek is ing every year. Weekly do we see the family wagons navigable, in the rafting season, until within 7 miles of arriving, and settling themselves in the neighborhood, Chautauque lake, where it is expected ere long a canal or passing to the neighboring counties. Our forge ham- will be cut through. It requires from 18 to 25 days for mers are heard at day break in the morning, and the canoes and keel boats, manned in the best manner, to coal and metal wagons produce a constant din in the perform this trip. This is the highest point on the riv neighborhood of our furnaces. Our saw mills are rapid-er that ever had been made by a steam boat, and to this ly converting the lofty pines into every description of point only by this boat However, the usual enterprise lumber, and the wilderness is gradually giving way to of its owners prompted them to explore further this valthe simple arts of the happy husbandman. In few uable river, and on the evening of the 19th May she decounties, is there so great an abundance of metallic parted from Warren, for Olean, in the State of N. York, wealth as Venango, and no county in the state produ- 75 miles above, (by water,) with freight and passengers ces so great a quantity of beautiful lumber and building from Pittsburg. At nine o'clock next day, she arrived timber as Warren. The agricultural productions of both opposite the Indian village of Cornplanter, 17 miles up. are luxuriantly abundant, and a constant market can Here a deputation of gentlemen waited on this ancient never fail. When these natural advantages are all con- and well known Indian King, or Chief, and invited him sidered in connection with the great lines of communi- on board this new, and to him wonderful visiter, a steam cation above referred to, we think we are safe in risking boat. We found him in all his native simplicity of dress the assertion, that no section of the state of the same and manner of living, lying on his couch, made of rough age of improvement and of equal extent, holds out fair- pine boards, and covered with deer skins and blankets. er prospects of either agricultural, manufacturing or His habitation, a two story log house, is in a state of decommercial prosperity than Venango and Warren coun- cay, without furniture, except a few benches, and woodties. Venango Dem. en bowls and spoons to eat out of. This convinced us of his determination to retain old habits and customs.— This venerable old chief was a lad in the first French war, in 1744, and is now nearly one hundred years of age. He is a smart, active man, seemingly possessed of all his strength of mind, and in perfect health, and retains, among his nation, all that uncontrolled influence he has ever done. He, with his son Charles, sixty years of age, and his son-in-law, came on board, and remained until she passed six miles up, and then they returned home in their own canoe, after expressing great pleasure. His domain is a delightful bottom of rich land, two miles square, nearly adjoining the line between Pennsylvania and New York. On this his own family, about fifty in number, in eight or ten houses, reside.Cornplanter's wife and her mother, 115 years of age, are in good health. The lands of the tribe, being forty miles long, & a mile wide, on each side of the river, lie above, in the State of New York. They have a number of villages, and are about seven hundred in number, scattered all along this reserve. Many of them have good dwellings, and like the whites, some are intelligent, industrious, and useful, while others of them are FROM THE PITTSBURG GAZETTE. In our paper of this day will be found an interesting account of the first passage of a Steam Boat from Pittsburg to Olean point. The village situated near this point is commonly called Olean, but is designated on the maps as Hamilton, and is in Cataraugus County, in the State of New York. From this village to the nearest point on the Genessee river, is about 25 miles, and from the same village to Buffalo, by the post road, is about 68 miles. From a point on the Allegheny, about 18 miles below Olean, the distance to Buffalo cannot exceed 58 miles. We would cheerfully say much upon the subject of this extension of steam boat navigation so far into the state of New York, but circumstances forbid it. The New Steam Boat Allegheny, built on an improved plan, by Mr. Blanchard, of Connecticut, 90 feet long and 18 wide, cabin on deck, separated lengthwise, giving each 30 feet, worked by a distinct double engine, the reverse. On the whole, they are becoming civilized and christianized as fast as can be expected. The natives appeared in great numbers, (we counted four hundred,) who were attracted to view this unexpected sight on their waters. Their lands terminate eight miles below Olean. 365 The City Commissioners made a communication suggesting certain improvements in the mouths of the sewers in Dock street and Cedar street. Referred to the committee on the drawbridge lot. The Mayor, Recorder, and City Surveyors, made a report recommending a new regulation of Ninth street, between George and Walnut street, to meet the views of the property holders in that neighbourhood. Referred to Messrs. Boyd, Thompson, Donaldson and Gerhard. The following memorial from the vaccine physicians, was referred to Messrs. Troth, Baker, Horn and Thompson. To the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia. The undersigned vaccinating physicians for the city, would respectfully ask for an increase of salary, as the salary at present paid them cannot be considered a compensation for the duties they have to perform. They would at the same time respectfully call the attention of Councils to the circumstance, that the sum paid at the termination of the last quarter to the Collectors of Cases, exceeded the amount received by the Physicians. We found many rapids, and generally very strong water, until within twenty miles of our destination, at the Great Valley. Here the mountains began to decrease fast, and the current became easy, until, gradually, we seemed to have reached the top of the mountain which we had been so long ascending; at 11 o'clock, A.M. on Friday, the 21st May, we landed safely at Olean Point, nearly three hundred miles from Pittsburg, amidst the loud and constant rejoicing of the hos pitable citizens of the village. The first person landed was Mr. D. Dick, of Meadville, the principal and enterprising owner of this boat, and the first passenger, William, the son of Mr. Nelson, a child of seven years old, who may live to tell, some thirty or forty years hence, the great interest created on this occasion. Here we found ourselves on the highest ground ever occupied by a steam boat, 600 feet above Pittsburg, nearly 1400 feet above the level of, and 2500 miles, by the course of the river, from the Ocean, Olean village is half a Under these circumstances they would respectfully mile from the river. Olean creek is navigable 30 miles ask, whether the time of the Physicians, or that of the up, and Allegheny but 4 miles, on account of a mill Collectors was of the most value? But even in regard dam. One hundred and thirty of the inhabitants assem- to the time occupied, the Physician gives much more bled, and took a pleasant excursion 7 miles down the than the collector, for admitting that every case sucriver and back, which was performed in 30 minutes go- ceeded, on the first insertion of the Virus, (which it is ing, and 55 minutes returning. The trip up from War--sometimes necessary to repeat several times before the ren to Olean was performed in about 20 hours, and she individual, from constitutional peculiarity, will receive returned the next day safely to Warren, in 6 hours run- the genuine disease) they are obliged to see them twice ning time-thus performing, in this day of wonders, afterwards. They would therefore respectfully ask of what the most sanguine mind, a few years ago, never Councils that the salary might be increased so that each anticipated. No doubt but in this same channel, ere Physician would receive two hundred and fifty dollars long, a valuable trade and free intercourse will be open- per annum. ed for the mutual advantage of the enterprising citizens of the State of New York, and our own prosperous and flourishing city of Pittsburg. The scenery along the Allegheny river affords the greatest variety, and is in many places truly sublime. It would generally be very much like the celebrated North River scenery, if equally improved and cultivated; more particularly so from Warren up to the Great Valley. Here the hills rise higher, and the river narrows. Its courses are in all directions, and its mountains in all shapes, dressed, at this season of the year, in its richest robes. The wild flowers along the shores, the beautiful evergreens, and towering pines and hemlocks, interspersed with the lighter maple green, give to the whole scenery an indescribable beauty. One particular spot surpassed all others. In the evening, after a heavy shower, above the Kenjua Island, all at once the sun beamed forth in all its glory, and a brilliant rainbow presented itself. The mountains are unusually high, and the river narrow, so that we could only view these extraordinary works of nature far above us, tinging the tops of these lofty hills, and convincing us that nothing but an Almighty power could furnish the imagination with such a feast. Upon the whole, as a trip of pleasure or health, we would recommend this route before any other now known. The boat left Warren on the morning of the 23d, and landed at Pittsburg at 4 o'clock, P.M. on the 24th, with a number of passengers, 18 tons pig metal, and 9 tons bar iron, in perfect safety. The time employed in running, during the trip, was. 7 days, (running by daylight only,) exclusive of delays at Franklin, Warren, and OJean, but including stoppages for wood, &c. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. DAVID C. SKERRETT, Messrs. Troth, Lippincott, Boyd, and Kittera, were appointed a committee to take charge of the property bequeathed to the city, by the late Dr. Elias Boudinot. The Commissioners were requested to suspend any further proceedings in relation to paving Cordwainer's Alley, till further orders. Mr. Donaldson, from the Paying Committee, made, the following report. To the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philudelphia. The Paving Committee recommended to Councils the adoption of the accompanying ordinance and resolution. Ordinance providing for the paving of certain streets. Whereas, the City Commissioners did, under the direction of the. Paving Committee, advertize in the public papers of this city, for sealed proposals to do certain parts (such as digging out and removing the earth, hauling gravel and paving stones,) of work necessary for paving those streets ordered by Councils to be regulated, curbed and paved the present year, and propos als having been so received, opened and examined, and on examination they find the proposals to haul the paving stone and gravel, and digging out the streets and removing the earth, are at so high a price that it will cost more than it can be done for by employing one or more persons to do the paving entire and furnish all the materials such as stone, brick and gravel, and dig out, remove the earth, and finish completely in every respect to the purpose of economy therefore. Sec. 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the citizens of Philadelphia in Select and Common Council assembled, That the City Commissioners be, and they are hereby instructed under the direction of the Paving Committee, to contract with such person or persons as said committee shall direct to dig out and remove the earth, furnish |