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the credit of the Government; and has actually made,and! The expenditures purporting to have been made persists in a demand of fifteen per cent. or $158,842,77, as damages, when no damage, or none beyond some trifling expense, has in fact been sustained, and when the Bank had in its own possession on deposite, several millions of the public money which it was then using for its own profit. Is a fiscal agent to the Government, which thus seeks to enrich itself at the expense of the public, worthy of further trust?

under authority of these resolutions, during the years 1831 and 1832, were about $80,000. For a portion of these expenditures vouchers were rendered, from which it appears that they were incurred in the purchase of some hundred thousand copies of newspapers, reports and speeches made in Congress, reviews of the Veto Message, and reviews of speeches against the Bank, &c. &c. For another large portion no vouchers what

There are other important facts not in the contem-ever were rendered, but the various sums were paid on plation of the House of Representatives, or not known to the members at the time they voted for the resolution.

orders of the President of the Bank, making reference to the resolutions of the 11th March, 1831.

On ascertaining these facts, and perceiving that expenditures of a similar character were still continued, the Government Directors a few weeks ago offered a

Although the charter and the rules of the Bank both declare that "not less than seven directors" shall be necessary to the transaction of business, yet the most im-resolution in the Board, calling for a specific account portant business, even that of granting discounts to any extent, is entrusted to a committee of five members, who do not report to the Board.

To cut off all means of communication with the Government in relation to its most important acts, at the commencement of the present year, not one of the Government Directors was placed on any one Committee. And although, since, by an unusual re-modelling of those bodies, some of those directors have been placed on some of the Committees, they are yet entirely excluded from the Committee of Exchange, through which the greatest and most objectionable loans have been made.

When the Government Directors made an effort to bring back the business of the Bank to the Board, in obedience to the charter and the existing regulations, the Board not only overruled their attempt, but altered the rule so as to make it conform to the practice, in direct violation of one of the most important provisions of the charter which gave them existence.

of these expenditures, showing the objects to which they had been applied, and the persons to whom the money had been paid. This reasonable proposition was voted down.

They also offered a resolution rescinding the resolutions of November, 1830, and March, 1831. This also was rejected.

Not content with thus refusing to recal the obnoxious power, or even to require such an account of the expenditure as would show whether the money of the Bank had in fact been applied to the objects contemplated by those resolutions, as obnoxious as they were, the Board renewed the power already conferred, and even enjoined renewed attention to its exercise, by adopting the following in lieu of the propositions submitted by the Government Directors, viz:

"Resolved, That the Board have confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the President, and in the propriety of the resolutions of 30th November, 1830, and 11th March, 1831, and entertain a full conviction of the necessity of a renewed attention to the object of those resolutions, and that the President be authorized and requested to continue his exertions for the promotion of said object."

It has long been known that the President of the Bank, by his single will, originates and executes many of the most important measures connected with the management and credit of the Bank, and that the Committee, as well as the Board of Directors, are left in Taken in connexion with the nature of the expendi entire ignorance of many acts done, and correspondence tures heretofore made, as recently disclosed, which the carried on, in their names and apparently under their Board not only tolerate but approve, this resolution puts authority. The fact has been recently disclosed, that the funds of the Bank at the disposition of the President an unlimited discretion has been, and is now, vested in for the purpose of employing the whole press of the the President of the Bank to expend its funds in pay-country in the service of the Bank, to hire writers and ment for preparing and circulating articles and purchas- newspapers, and to pay out such sums as he pleases, to ing pamphlets and newspapers, calculated by their what persons and for what purposes he pleases, without contents to operate on elections, and secure a renewal the responsibility of rendering any specific account, of its charter. It appears from the official report of the The Bank is thus converted into a vast electioneering Public Directors, that, on the 30th of November, 1830, engine, with means to embroil the country in deadly the President submitted to the Board an article publish- feuds, and, under cover of expenditures, in themselves ed in the American Quarterly Review, containing favo-improper, extend its corruption through all the ramifirable notices of the Bank, and suggested the expedien-cations of society.

cy of giving it a wider circulation at the expense of the Some of the items for which accounts have been renBank; whereupon the Board passed the following reso-[dered, show the construction which has been given to lution, viz.

the resolutions, and the way in which the power it confers has been exerted. The money has not been expended merely in the publication and distribution of speeches, reports of Committees, or articles written for the purpose of showing the constitutionality or usefulBy an entry in the minutes of the Bank, dated March ness of the Bank. But publications have been pre11th, 1831, it appears that the President had not only pared and extensively circulated, containing the grosscaused a large edition of that article to be issued, but est invectives against the officers of the Government; had also, before the resolution of 30th November was and the money which belongs to the stockholders and adopted, procured to be printed and widely circulated, to the public, has been freely applied in efforts to denumerous copies of the Reports of General Smith and grade, in public estimation, those who were supposed Mr. McDuffie in favor of the Bank, and on that day he to be instrumental in resisting the wishes of this grasp. suggested the expediency of extending his power to ing and dangerous institution. As the President of the the printing of other articles which might subserve the Bank has not been required to settle his accounts, no purposes of the institution. Whereupon the following resolution was adopted, viz.

"Resolved, That the President be authorised to take such measures in regard to the circulation of the contents of the said article, either in whole or in part, as he may deem most for the interest of the Bank."

"Resolved, That the President is hereby authorised to cause to be prepared and circulated, such documents and papers as may communicate to the people information in regard to the nature and operations of the Bank."

one but himself yet knows how much more than the sum already mentioned may have been squandered, and for which a credit may hereafter be claimed in his account under this most extraordinary resolution. With these facts before us, can we be susprised at the torrent of abuse incessantly poured out against all who are supposed to stand in the way of the cupidity or ambition

been

of the Bank of the United States? Can we be surprized at sudden and unexpected changes of opinion in favour of an institution which has millions to lavish, and avows its determination not to spare its means when they are necessary to accomplish its purposes? The refusal to render an account of the manner in which a part of the money expended has been applied, gives just cause for the suspicion that it has been used for purposes which it is not deemed prudent to expose to the eyes of an intelligent and virtuous people. Those who act justly, do not shun the light, nor do they refuse explanations when the propriety of their conduct is brought into question.

With these facts before him, in an official report from the Government Directors, the President would feel that he was not only responsible for all the abuse and corruptions the Bank has committed, or may commit, but almost an accomplice in a conspiracy against that Government which he has sworn honestly to administer, if he did not take every step within his constitutional and legal power likely to be efficient in putting an end to these enormities. If it be possible, within the scope of human affairs, to find a reason for removing the Go. vernment deposites and leaving the Bank to its own resource for the means of effecting its criminal designs, we have it here. Was it expected when the moneys of the United States were directed to be placed in that Bank, that they would be put under the control of one man, empowered to spend millions without rendering a voucher or specifying the object? Can they be considered safe with the evidence before us, that tens of thousands have been spent for highly improper, if not corrupt purposes, and that the same motive may lead to the expenditure of hundreds of thousands, and even milllons more? And can we justify ourselves to the people by longer lending to it the money and power of the Government, to be employed for such purposes? It has been alleged by some as an objection to the removal of the deposites, that the Bank has the power, and in that event, will have the disposition, to destroy the State Banks employed by the Government, and bring distress upon the country. It has been the fortune of the President to encounter dangers which were represented as equally alarming, and he has seen them vanish before resolution and energy. Pictures equally appalling were paraded before him when this Bank

came to demand a new charter. But what was the re

sult? Has the country been ruined, or even distressed? Was it ever more prosperous that since that act? The President verily believes the Bank has not the power to produce the calamities its friends threaten. The funds of the Government will not be annihilated by being transferred. They will immediately be issued for the benefit of trade, and if the Bank of the United States curtails its loans, the State Banks, strengthened by the public deposites, will extend theirs. What comes in through one Bank, will go out through others, and the equilibrium will be preserved. Should the Bank, for the mere purpose of producing distress, press its debtors more heavily than some of them can bear, the consequences will recoil upon itself, and in the attempts to embarrass the country, it will only bring loss and ruin upon the holders of its own stock. But if the President believed the Bank possessed all the power which has been attributed to it, his determination would be only rendered the more inflexible. If, indeed, this corporation now holds in its hands the happiness and prosperity of the American people, it is high time to take the alarm. If the despotism be already upon us, and our only safety is in the mercy of the despot, recent developments in relation to his designs and the means he employs, show how necessary it is to shake it off. The struggle can never come with less distress to the people, or under more favourable auspices than at the present

moment.

All doubt as to the willingness of the State Banks to undertake the service of the Government, to the same

extent, and on the same terms, as it is now performed by the Bank of the United States, is put to rest by the report of the agent recently employed to collect information; and from that willingness, their own safety, in the operation may be confidently inferred. Knowing their own resources better than they can be known by others, it is not to be supposed that they would be willing to place themselves in a situation which they cannot occupy without danger of annihilation or embarassment. The only consideration applies to the safety of the public funds, if deposited in those institutions. And when it is seen that the directors of many of them are not only willing to pledge the character and capital of the corporations in giving success to this measure, but also their own property and reputation, we cannot doubt that they, at least, believe the public deposites would be safe in their management. The President thinks that these facts and circumstances afford as strong a guarantee as can be had in human affairs, for the safety of the public funds and the practicability of a new system of collection and disbursement through the agency of the State Banks.

From all these considerations the President thinks that the State Banks ought immediately to be employed in the collection and disbursement of the public revenue, and the funds now in the Bank of the United States drawn out with all convenient despatch. The safety of the public moneys, if deposited in the State Banks, must be secured beyond all reasonable doubts; but the extent and nature of the security, in addition to their capital, if any be deemed necessary, is a subject of detail to which the Treasury Department will undoubtedly give its anxious attention.

The Banks to be employed must remit the moneys United States now does; must render all the services of the Government without charge, as the Bank of the which that Bank now performs; must keep the Government advised of their situation by periodical returns; in fine, in any arrangement with the State Banks, the Government must not, in any respect, be placed The President is upon a worse footing than it now is. Banks which he has consulted have, in general, conhappy to perceive by the report of the agent, that the sented to perform the service on these terms, and that those in New York have further agreed to make payments in London without other charge than the mere cost of the bills of exchange.

It should also be enjoined upon any Banks which may be employed, that it will be expected of them to facili. tate domestic exchanges for the benefit of internal commerce; to grant all reasonable facilities to the payers of the revenue; to exercise the utmost liberality towards the other state banks; and do nothing uselessly to embarass the Bank of the United States.

As one most serious objection to the Bank of the United States, is the power which it concentrates, care must be taken in finding other agents for the service of the Treasury, not to raise up another power equally formidable. Although it would probably be impossible to produce such a result by any organization of the State Banks which could be devised-yet it is desirable to avoid even the appearance. To this end it would be expedient to assume no more power over them, and interfere no more in their affairs than might be absolutely necessary to the security of the public deposites, and the faithful performance of their duties as agents of the Treasury. Any interference by them in the political contests of the country, with a view to influence elections, ought, in the opinion of the President, be followed by an immediate discharge from the public service.

It is the desire of the President that the control of the Banks and the currency shall, as far as possible, be entirely separated from the political power of the country, as well as wrested from an institution, which has already attempted to subject the Government to its will. In his opinion, the action of the General Govern

ment on this subject, ought not to extend beyond the grant in the Constitution, which only authorizes Congress, "to coin money and regulate the value thereof;" all else belongs to the States and the people, and must be regulated by public opinion and the interests of trade.

and will, unless counteracted, direct to that city much of the trade of the fertile and improving country through which it passes. Fortunately, however, for this state, this counteraction may readily be effected; and all the expense, and enterprize, and labor of the citizens of New York, may readily be converted to the advantage In conclusion, the President must be permitted to re- of Pennsylvania. Several different plans have been mark, that he looks upon the pending question as of suggested for this purpose. One, which has been stre higher consideration than the mere transfer of a sum of nuously urged by the citizens of Columbiana and Starke money from one Bank to another. Its decision may counties, Ohio, and by many of the citizens of this city, affect the character of our Government for ages to come. is the completion of a rail road from this city to MassilShould the Bank be suffered longer to use the public lon, and its extension in a line nearly due west, to the monies, in the accomplishment of its purposes, with Mad River Rail road, near upper Sandusky, passing the proofs of its faithlessness and corruption before our through, or near the county towns of Wooster, Manseyes, the patriotic among our citizens will despair of field, and Bucyrus. The distance from Massillon to the success in struggling against its power; and we shall be rail road would be about ninety miles, making the whole responsible for entailing it upon our country for ever. distance from Pittsburg, a little less than two hundred Viewing it as a question of transcendent importance, miles. Another plan, is to complete the most eligible both in the principles and consequences it involves, the connection with the Ohio canal, and then extend a rail President could not, in justice to the responsibility road from Cleaveland to Sandusky city, along the lake, which he owes to the country, refrain from pressing a distance of about fifty-seven miles by the present road. upon the Secretary of the Treasury his view of the A third plan is, to complete the best connection with considerations which impel to immediate action. Upon the Ohio canal, and to rely upon the advantage which na him has been devolved by the Constitution and the ture gives us, in contending for the trade afloat on lake suffrages of the American people, the duty of superin. Erie, by its earlier opening at Cleaveland in the spring, tending the operations of the Executive departments and its long continued navigableness at that place in the of the Government, and seeing that the laws are faith- fall. The latter plan has the recommendation of being fully executed. In the performance of this high trust, the least expensive, and it can be the more safely it is his undoubted right to express to those whom the adopted because it is of itself a most important improvelaws and his own choice have made his associates in the ment, and because, if it should prove insufficient to seadministration of the Government, his opinion of their cure the trade of the Mad River rail road, it would at duties under circumstances as they arise. It is this least secure that of the country through which the ca right which he now exercises. Far be it from him to nal passes, and might afterwards be perfected by a rail expect or require, that any member of the Cabinet, road, either from Massillon, or Akron, or Cleaveland, if should, at his request, order or dictation, do any act deemed necessary. which he believes unlawful, or in his conscience condemns. From them, and from his fellow citizens in general, he desires only that aid and support which their reason approves, and their conscience sanctions.

The New York editor takes great credit to his fellow citizens, for their enterprize and public spirit-they well deserve it; and we trust their example will be followed by the citizens of the metropolis of Pennsylvania.

In the remarks he has made on this all important-Pitts Gazette. question, he trusts the Secretary of the Treasury will see only the frank and respectful declarations of the opinions which the President has formed on a measure of great national interest, deeply affecting the character and usefulness of his administration; and not a spirit of dictation, which the President would be as careful to avoid, as ready to resist. Happy will he be, if the facts now disclosed produce uniformity of opinion and unity of action among the members of the administra

tion.

From the New York Spectator of Sept. 9. Owing to the fortunate position of our city by nature, and the aids she has received from art and industry, it happens that almost every improvement that is made in the interior, whether in this or in the remoter states, redounds to the benefit of New York. All the canals and rail roads that are constructed, do, in effect, by their connection with existing means of communication, facilitate the conveyance of goods from this city to their places of consumption, and of the produce of the country in return. Hence it is, that the people of New York have a direct and palpable interest in giving encourage. ment to works of internal improvement, far beyond the local limits of our state.

The President again repeats that he begs his Cabinet to consider the proposed measure as his own, in the support of which he shall require no one of them to make a sacrifice of opinion or principle. Its responsibility has been assumed, after the most mature deliber ation and reflection, as necessary to preserve the morals of the people, the freedom of the press, and the purity of the elective franchise, without which all will unite in This subject has been brought more directly under saying that the blood and treasure expended by our our consideration in consequence of perceiving that ef forefathers in the establishment of our happy system of forts are about being made to carry into effect a law of Government will have been vain and fruitless. Under the state of Ohio, which was passed in January, 1832, these convictions, he feels that a measure so important to incorporate "the Mad River and Lake Erie Rail to the American people, cannot be commenced too soon; Road Company." and he therefore names the first day of October next as a period proper for the change of the deposites, or sooner, provided the necessary arrangements with the State Banks can be made.

ANDREW JACKSON.

MAD RIVER AND LAKE ERIE RAIL ROAD.

We select to-day, from the New York Spectator, a very full account of this great and important contemplated improvement, and of the country through which it passes. This Rail road is a work well worthy the enterprize and public spirit of the citizens of New York;

the true character and object of the work, which is to Its style does not disclose to the superficial reader unite the waters of Lake Erie with those of the Ohio

river.

The route of this road, as we learn from a western correspondent, will be nearly parallel with the great Ohio canal, seventy or eighty miles west of it, and passes through a section of country unsurpassed for the richness and fertility of its soil, by any other in the union. The beauty of the country may be managed by those acquainted with western scenery; but to such as are unacquainted with the capacity and inexhaustible fertility of our southwestern states, their noble rivers and

York in works of internal improvement. We, as a state, have much-we have taken a lead in canals and roads that places us in bold relief amongst our sister states; but we have not done enough, if we now suffer the advantage gained to pass away.

From the Kittanning Gazette.

streams, fitted for navigation and hydraulic purposes, its boundless prairies and plains, and its majestic forests, an attempt at description would be labour lost. The distance from Sandusky to Dayton, by the course of the road, as laid down in the preliminary survey, which has been completed by the corps of the United States' Engineers detached for the purpose, under the direction of Col. Stansbury, is 153 miles. From Dayton it connects with the Ohio river, at Cincinnati, by means ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT GONE. of the Miami canal, sixty-five miles. The principal places on the route of the road are Tiffin, Bellefontaine, Died, at his residence in this borough on Wednesday Urbana, Springfield, and Fairfield. The four first men the 4th instant, in the 89th year of his age, the venerationed places are seats of justice, of the counties of Se- ble ROBERT ORR, one of the Associate Judges of this neca, Logan, Champaigne, and Clark, respectively. The county. Judge Orr was born in the county of Derry, route passes near to Upper Sandusky, in the Wyan- Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in the year dot Reserve, the head quarters of the Wyandot Indians. 1766, and from that time until the year 1773, resided Tiffin is on the Sandusky river, thirty-five miles south-east of the mountains; in which year he married a young west of Sandusky city, (as Sandusky on Lake Erie is lady by the name of Culbertson, of respectable family, called, to distinguish it from Lower Sandusky, Upper in the (then) county of Cumberland, (now) Mifflin. In Sandusky, Little Sandusky, and several other places in the same year, he settled with his wife at Hannahstown, the state, bearing the same soft cognomen,)-thirty-in Westmoreland county. Immediately on the Declanine miles south of Tiffin, the route crosses the Scioto ration of Independence, Mr. Orr took a very active part river, which is here quite a small stream, and from in favor of his adopted country, and as the frontier was thence to Bellefontaine is twenty-three miles. Urbana at that time unprotected from the excursions, depredais eighteen miles south of Bellefontaine. Between the tions, and cruelties of the savages by any regular force, two last mentioned places, the route crosses the Mad he was always found foremost in volunteering his ser River, along the fertile valley of which it runs for most vices, and in encouraging others to do so. of the distance to Dayton. Springfield is fourteen miles In the summer of 1781, Gen. Clarke, of Virginia, south of Urbana, and is distant forty-three miles from having determined to make an excursion against the Columbus. This is a delightful and flourishing town, hostile Indians, down the Ohio river, requested Archicontaining about 1,500 inhabitants, enjoying the ad. bald Laughrey to raise in Westmoreland county, 100 vantage of considerable water power, derived from volunteers, and on communicating this request to Mr. Buck creek, on which are situated several mills; and Orr, he immediately raised a company of volunteers, receiving, at its eastern entrance, the great national principally at his own expense, furnishing to those who road, which passes through the centre of the states of were unable to do so, out of his own funds all the neOhio, Indiana, and Illinois. The route of the road then cessaries for the intended expedition. Early in July in continues from this point fourteen miles to Fairfield, the same year, Captain Orr marched his company to which is situated nine miles north of Dayton, the point Carnahan's block house, where three other companies of its proposed termination. associated together, to wit: Capt. Campbell's cavalry, Capt. Stokeley's and Capt. Shannon's, of riflemen, and Capt. Orr's, all under the command of Col. Laughrey, with a view of joining Gen. Clarke at Wheeling, who instructed Col. Laughrey that he would wait his arrival there. On arriving at Wheeling, Col. Laughrey found that Gen. Clarke had proceeded down the river, without leaving at the station any means of subsistence for the men, or forage for the horses. Col. Laughrey's regiment,however, proceeded on, with a view of overta king the main body under Gen. Clarke, until they came near the mouth of the Big Miami, where they were attacked by a body of Indians, three to one in number under the command of the celebrated Capt. Brandt, on the 24th August, 1780. Early in the engagement Capt. Orr received a shot which broke his left arm. Of the whole detachment not one escaped; the wounded who were unable to travel, were all tomahawked on the ground; the remaining few (among whom was Captain Orr) were brutally dragged through the wilderness to Lower Sandusky, regardless of their wounds and sufferings, where he was kept for several months; and the Indians finding that they could not effect a cure, took him to Detroit, where he remained in the Hospital until the ensuing spring, when he was transferred to Montreal, and was Hence it will be seen that this improvement is of exchanged early in the spring of 1783; when the few great importance to the commercial interests of our that remained of Col. Laughrey's regiment returned to city; and the capitalists who have embarked in the their homes. On the 13th July, 1782, (during the imSchenectady and Utica Rail Road, cannot fail to discern prisonment of the deceased,) Hannahstown was attackthe expediency of giving it encouragement and sup-ed and burnt down by the Indians, and Captain Orr's

A meeting of the commissioners was held, as we learn, at Springfield, Ohio, on the 31st ult. H. G. Phillips, Esq., of Dayton, President of the Board, Ge. neral Vance, of Urbana, and Judge Mills, of Connecticut, were appointed representatives of the company, to open the subscription books in the state of New York. These gentlemen will probably visit this state in the approaching month. There was a disposition manifested, as we are informed, at the meeting of the commissioners, by the friends of the project, to take additional stock, sufficient to enable them to organize by the choice of President and Directors. This was overruled, believing it just that foreign subscribers should participate in the choice. New York, Albany, and Buffalo, were the points designated where it was thought the books should be opened, of which it is expected due notice will be given.

minds of our readers.

We have been thus particular in stating places and distances, that no misapprehension may arise in the It will be perceived that the distance from Lake Erie to Cincinnati is reduced by this course to 213 miles. By the way of the canal, which unites with the Lake at Cleaveland, the distance to Cin

cinnati is 412 miles.

port.

A struggle is going on for the advantage of the trade of the Valley of the Mississippi, and the country lying intermediate between the father of rivers and the country of the Lakes, including the rich vallies stretching up the navigable streams that in every direction are sprinkled over the fairest portion of the habitable globe. Maryland and Pennsylvania are trying to redeem their lost ground, and to place themselves along side of New

house and all his property destroyed. On his return to Westmoreland county, in the summer of 1783, Captain Orr raised another company for the defence of the frontier, to serve two months; marched them to the mouth of Bull creek, N. W. of the Allegheny river; built a block house there, and served out the necessary tour.

In the fall of the same year, 1783, he was elected sheriff of Westmoreland county.

In 1805, when Armstrong county was organized for

the township of the Northern Liberties-price $475. The whole amount of real estate, sales by Mr. Wolbert, on the above evening, was about $75,000.-Phil. Gazette.

judicial purposes, Capt. Orr was appointed one of the Associate Judges of the county, which situation he continued to fill with honor to himself, and satisfaction to the community, until his death. Of the deceased it may be said that, as a soldier he was brave and fearless as a military officer, he was vigilant and kind—as a EELS. Twenty-five hundred eels were caught in the prisoner, submissive and patient-as an executive officer, he executed judgment in mercy—as a judicial offi- Wintermoot wear, on Sunday night last, and secured cer, he honestly and faithfully discharged his duty-as and John, whose shares amounted to one thousand of by Capt. Jeremiah Blanchard, and his sons, Jeremiah a husband he was kind and affectionate-as a father, he the number. This is said to be the greatest haul caught was all that a father could be to a child-as a Christian, since the march of Gen. Sullivan's army through this he was not only by profession, but by practice, that valley, near the close of the Revolutionary war, more which should exalt the Christian, and set at nought the than half a century ago; at which time the weary sol mocker. As a man, he was kind, benevolent, and cha-diers had a fine feasting on this delicious "genus of ritable, and if even possible to exemplify the command of our Saviour, that "We do as we should be done by," the subject of this obituary has fulfilled the command.

SALES OF REAL ESTATE.

Mr. Wolbert's first great sale of Real Estate for the season, took place on Thursday evening of last week, at the Merchants' Coffee House. A large number of persons interested as owners or purchasers, attended the sale, and the prices obtained were such as generally gave satisfaction to all parties. The following are the prices given for the properties.

The three story houses Nos. 175 and 177, Chesnut street; opposite the State House, 25 feet 7 inches front by 178 deep, to a court, subject to a ground rent of $900 on the whole lot, sold for $11,450,-equal in fact, the ground rent considered, to $26,450.

Three two story brick houses and lot, in Lancaster street, Southwark, each 12 feet front by 15 deep the whole lot being 46 feet deep, subject to a ground rent of 72 dollars, on the whole-price 320 dollars, for the

three.

creeping fish."— Wyoming Herald.

THE REGISTER. PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 28, 1833.

We have inserted this week, the reasons of the President of the United States assigned to the Cabinet to justify the removal of the deposits from the Bank of the United States. This paper, and the removal of Mr. Duane from the Treasury, have excited a strong sensation in this city.

Several articles will be found in the present number in reference to the navigation of the Susquehanna by steamboats. This, by many, is deemed practicable--and as the object may well be considered of national importance, an appeal is proposed to be made to Congress for assistance in prosecuting an enterprize so very interest

A double two story frame house and lot, 20 feet front on Hanover street, Kensington, by 70 feet deep, clearing to our state. of all incumbrances-price 700 dollars.

The three story brick house and lot, at the northeast corner of Fifth and Lombard streets, 20 feet front on Fifth, and 58 on Lombard street, with a ground rent of 38 dollars-price 475 dollars. This property now rents for 375 dollars per annum.

The three story brick house, at the southwest corner of Front and Race street, price for houses and lot 13,400

dollars.

The two story brick house, frame shop, and lot of ground, No. 226 Green street, above Fifth, 16 feet front by 75 deep-price 1700 dollars.

A three story brick store house in the rear, No. 127 north Third street, 34 feet front by 195 deep, formerly occupied by Mark Richards as an iron store, and recently by Alexander McCaraher, price 17,500 dollars. A house and lot in Fifth between Arch and Race streets, 19 feet 2 inches front by 50 feet deep, subject to a ground rent of three pounds currency-price 2,325 dollars.

A quarter section, of land in Starke County, Ohio, 14 miles from Canton, containing 190 acres-price 3 dollars per acre.

The three story brick house and kitchen, No. 37 Coates street, 16 feet front by 67 deep, subject to a ground rent of twenty dollars,-price 2250 dollars.

The frame house and lot, No. 125 Brown street, 18 feet by 61-ground rent of $15 61-price 1100 dollars. Two two story brick houses and one two story frame house, with the lot 52 feet on Budd street, by 37 feet on Laurel street, price 2500 dollars.

The two story brick store and dwelling No. 366 north Second street, with extensive back buildings, 18 feet front by 115 deep to Lilly alley, subject to ground rent of 24 dollars-price 6700 dollars.

A brick house, with one acre and eleven perches of ground, on the road from Frankford to Nicetown, in

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OPEN BURNING BITUMINOUS COAL.-One thousand tons of this article have been recently received from the interior of Pennsylvania. It is found to be very supe. rior coal for air furnaces, steam engines, and many er manufacturing purposes, where a strong heat and an extensive blaze is wanted. It has been tried and highly approved by the air furnaces in Philadelphia: also in several engines, at the U. S mint, in locomotive engines, steamboats, breweries. &c. It is highly recom mended by all who have tried it for the above, and various other domestic manufactures.

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