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24-Kensington Library and Reading Room,
25-Library of the Carpenters' Society,
26-Youth Library in the Arcade,

This Library contains several thousand more volumes,
and we believe decidedly the best collection of valua.
ble works, of any similar institution in the United States.
In addition to this extensive collection, Philadelphia
can boast of the Library belonging to the American
Philosophical Society, containing 9,000 volumes,
amongst which are to be found the best collection in
this country of Memoirs and Transactions of the Euro-
pean learned societies. The Library of the Academy
of Natural Sciences, contains the most valuable collec-
tion of works on Natural History in the United States.
In the Library of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, one single donation from Napoleon Bona-
parte, is valued at ten thousand dollars-this Library,
though small, is rich in scarce and highly embellished
works; among them is a complete copy of Pyranesi,
and the Garden of Malmaison. The Library of the
Pennsylvania Hospital contains 6,500 volumes, princi-
pally relating to Medicine and the Natural Sciences.
The Apprentices' Library Company comprises 7,000
volumes, furnishing annually to 1000 boys, works re-
lating to the Arts, Sciences, and Instructive Literature.
The Library of the German Society contains 4,000 vo-
lumes, many of them scarce and valuable German works.
There is a Library attached to the University of Penn-
sylvania, to the College of Pharmacy, and to the Medi-
cal Society of Philadelphia. The collection at the
Athenæum, amounts to upwards of 6,500. The Society
of Friends have a large and valuable Library. There
is an extensive Law Library; a Foreign Classical Libra-
ry; a Mercantile Library; Philadelphia Museum Com-
pany's Library, on Natural History and Travels; St.
Augustine's Library; Northern Liberties Library; South-
wark Library; besides the increasing and useful Col-
lection belonging to the Franklin Institute.

From this statement it will be perceived that our city
stands second to no other on the continent, as to the
number, as well as usefulness, of the various works
with which her depositories of learning are stored.
In our enumeration we have not included any of the
numerous circulating libraries belonging to individuals.
-Commercial Herald.

LIBRARIES IN PHILADEPHIA.

2,800

500

6,500

4,000

7,000

2,100

2,200

250

350

1,500

111,550

Many of the works in these various depots are scarce, and not easily procured at the present time. The Library of the University contains a donation from the unfortunate Louis XVI, made during the Revolutionary War-all of which were printed at the royal printing office, and treat of mathematics, natural history, &c. The Library of the Academy of Fine Arts, contains a donation from Bonaparte. The Libraries of the Hospital and Alms House contain the best works on Medicine, Surgery, and the Sciences, while those of the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Museum, are devoted to natural history and travels. The Library of St. Augustine's Church contains, we believe, the only complete copy of the "Fathers," in this country.—Ib.

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Some time since it was determined by the Managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, to dispose of the square belonging to the Institution, situated between Seventh and Eighth and Spruce and Pine streets. A street has been laid out, running from Seventh to Eighth, and called Barclay street, leaving the lots on Spruce street 250 feet, and those on Pine street 1834 feet deep. All the lots fronting on Pine street, eighteen in number, have been sold at $3000 each; and on Tuesday last the workmen broke ground, and commenced digging the cellars of some of the houses that are to be erected thereon. They are to recede five feet from the line of the street. Fronting Spruce street there are sixteen lots, each 24 feet 9 inches wide, and the houses are to recede ten feet from the line of the street. Six of these lots have been sold at $6000 each, and it is expected the residue will speedily be taken at the same price. We trust the owners of these lots will adopt a uniform plan for their buildings, with something like architectural proportions, instead of following the present fashion so prevalent in our city.

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5-Library of the University of Pennsylvania, 2,000
6-Library belonging the Society of Students, 2,000
7-Library of the Friends in Philadelphia,
8-Library of the Alms House, upwards of
2,700
9-Library of the Pennsylvania Academy of

Fine Arts,

3,000

Öne hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be added to the funds of the Hospital by the sale of this square.-Ib.

RAIN. During the month of June the quantity of rain that fell, as ascertained by the guage at the Pennsylvania Hospital, amounted to 5 inches, 28-100; and during the month of July, to 4 15-100 inches.-Ib.

IRON MANUFACTURES.

The following is from the Albany Daily Advertiser: IRON.-It is not only our own opinion, but we are confirmed in the belief by many with whom we have 10-Library of the Law Association, upwards of 1,400 to greater perfection in Albany than in any other place 150 conversed, that the manufacturing of castings is brought 11-Library of the Medical Society, 12-Library of the College of Physicians, 13-Library of the College of Pharmacy, 600 in this country, and we may add, even Europe. The 14-Library of St. Augustine Church, upwards 500 hollow ware of Bartlett, Bent & Co. is preferred to the 500 best "Scotch Hollow Ware"-the stoves of Dr. Nott, receive the preference wherever they are known, and 3,000 the machinery castings of Many & Ward, and others, 4,000 are equal to those of any foundry in the world.

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We are are glad to see this notice. It prompts us to look a little about us, and to inquire, as we have done, into the matters written about.

We respond to the above paragraph. We do so with some pride. We revert to Berks county of our noble Pennsylvania, as one among the many constituting this "Mammoth State," being able not only to compete with, but claim a superiority in the quantity of iron manufactured, but in the quality. The Hollow Ware of the old Joanna Furnace, has been proverbial for its excellence for many years; and the Scotch patterns in the possession of Jones, Keim & Co., of Windsor Furnace, rank with any, as to character or appearance.

The quantity of Stove-plates supplied for Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Portsmouth, &c., from this source, would surprise any one not conversant with this branch of manufacture; and the annual aggregate of iron made, in the shape of castings, bars and blooms, (and furnished us from data carefully revised and examined,) would present the formidable quantity of eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-three tons.

In these different Works, nearly one thousand hands are directly employed, and five thousand others, more or less dependent on them; upwards of 500 horses are used, 77,500 cords of wood burned, 94,132 bushels of wheat, rye and corn, and 542,321 pounds of beef and pork, are required for their consumption.

The Reading Furnace alone has yielded in one blast 1,347 tons of pig metal, for which, such is the demand, that Forge teams are frequently obliged to wait the cooling of the metal, to secure and take it away.

Dr. Nott's beautiful stoves, which yield in comfort and taste to none that have preceded them, are also cast at Windsor Furnace, the bank of which is clustered up with piles of them, presenting in a remarkable degree the delicacy of Saracenic tracery, with which they are ornamented. We concur in pronouncing them a decidedly popular and beautiful casting, and are gratified at such an important auxiliary to the consumption of the Anthracite of Pennsylvania, We are gratified to learn that one of these stoves has already found its way to the summit of the Alps, and that the charitable Monks of the Hospice du St. Bernard, in realizing its comfort, had no "boundary to their joy."

Were we beside, to estimate, in the city of Philadelphia alone, the quantity of iron used at the air furnaces, cupolas, &c, it would display an equally imposing ap. pearance compared with that of perhaps any other city; also, in the consumption of foreign and domestic iron for the various purposes of machinery, &c.

the borough of Conemaugh, and were much pleased with the appearance. It would be worth a three days ride to any person to see the excellent manner in which skill, industry and science, aided by money, have overcome the difficulties which presented themselves, and broke through the obstructions which nature had thrown in the way, in a rough and rugged section of country.

A few miles below Croyle's Mills the Conemaugh river bends to the south, and after traversing a sinuous course of more than three miles, is again seen across a narrow hill at the distance of about three hundred feet from its place of departure. At this point the road is cut through the hill and carried over the river on a viaduct supported on a strong and neatly built semicircular stone arch of eighty feet span, rising from the abutments at the height of twenty feet above the river. The whole distance from the water to the arch being sixty feet. The arch is now complete and the centres removed. It presents a grand and bold appearance, and seems capable of resisting any thing short of the concussions of an earthquake. This work does credit to the engineers who planned it, and to the worthy contractors, Snodgrass and Durno, who constructed it.

The viaduct is connected with a hill at the west end of an immense embankment, some parts of which are seventy feet in height.

The vicinity of this viaduct will be ere long the site of extensive water works. The whole stream, which is considerable, can be conveyed through the Hog back hill, by a deep cut or a short tunnel, and thus gain a fall of more than forty feet.

A few miles below the viaduct the road passes through a tunnel, nine hundred feet in length, the greater part of which has been excavated out of a solid rock. About one hundred feet at each end of the tunnel, is handsomely arched with cut stone, and the entrances will be ornamented with columns of the same.

Many of the rails are laid upon the section of the road which we visited, and preparations for laying the resi due are in rapid progress. This is the case, we are informed, on the whole line of the portage, and the prospect of traversing the whole course, from Hollidaysburg to Conemaugh, during the present season, is now very certain.-Ebensburg Spy.

LITHOTRITY.

Letter from the Rev. Joseph Caldwell, President of the University of North Carolina, to Charles A. Poulson.

Dear Sir,-In reply to your inquiries respecting my complaint, and the treatment for its removal, I will briefly_state, that I had been afflicted with the symp toms of stone in the bladder for about six years. For the last three years these symptoms had occasioned me so much pain and distress, that I determined to visit Philadelphia, in order to seek for medical assistance, and obtain if possible, relief from this terrible malady.

I arrived in the city in the latter end of April, and immediately called upon Dr. Physick, who having ascertained by sounding, that a stone was actually in my bladder, advised me to put myself under the care of his son-in-law, Dr. J. Randolph, giving me the assurance that Dr. Randolph had succeeded in several instances in ef fecting a perfect cure of this complaint by removing the stone, by means of the operation called "Lithotrity," in These remarks have been thrown together to convince which case the knife is not at all used. This operation, I our sister state, that Pennsylvania is second to none in am told, is most successfully, and almost universally em her resources, which are of such a character as to per-ployed in Paris. I cheerfully acquiesced in this advice petuate her importance, her wealth, and the happiness of her citizens.-Com. Herald.

THE RAIL ROAD.

We have lately viewed that part of the Allegheny Portage Rail Road, which lies between Croyle's Mills and

of Dr. Physick, a name I must think no less illustrious for benevolence, than for eminence in medical science and practical skill. Dr. Randolph took charge of my case, and having properly prepared me for the opera tion, he commenced it on the 19th of May, in the pre sence of Drs. Physick and Horner, Messrs. Kennedy,

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Cook, and Henn.
The pain which I endured from this
operation was not severe, nor did either of the neces-
sary repetitions of it occasion me so much inconveni- The Susquehanna and Delaware Rail Road extends
ence as to oblige me to keep my bed for more than a from Belvidere on the Delaware, through the Delaware
few hours. On the 23d of June, Dr. Randolph perform Water Gap, Stroudsburg, up the Pocono Brook, down
ed the last operation, which occupied but a few mi- Roaring Brook to its junction with the Lackawana, at
nutes. A few days from this time I found myself free Centreville; and down the Lackawana to Pittstown, on
from the pain which I had previously suffered. The the north branch of the Susquehanna. This projected
Dr. now examined me very carefully, and declared his improvement is said to present many advantages.
conviction that I was entirely rid of the stone, and I had Passing through a fine coal region, immense forests of
the heartfelt gratification of having this declaration con-excellent timber, and in a country rapidly improving in
firmed by Dr. Physick, who after a minute examina-its agriculture and mechanic arts. The amount of ca-
tion on the 4th of July, stated his belief that I was compital required is estimated at $1,000,000. The Com-
pletely cured.

I am yours, very respectfully,

Philadelphia, July 10, 1833.

JOS. CALD WELL.

Bucks County Intelligencer.

THE RAIL ROAD.

missioners appointed are Henry W. Drinker, Daniel Stroud, Wm. Henry, John Coolbaugh, A. E. Brown, Stogdel Stokes, David Scott, and James M. Porter. They have given notice of the time for opening the books for the subscription of stock, on the 29th ult. at Belvidere, the 30th at Clinton, the 31st at Newark, and on the 1st, 2d and 3d of August, at the Exchange, in New York.

The Leggets Gap Rail Road, extends from CircleFrom what has already been said in the public prints, ville, where the Delaware and Susquehanna Rail Road and private circles, we are led to believe the public are enters the Lackawana valley, through Leggets Gap, prepared to enter upon the incipient steps for such an across the south branch of Tunkhannock to the mouth improvement. We have heretofore taken an abstract of Martin's creek, to the head waters of Salt-lick creek, view of the subject, believing it better that the people and down Salt-lick creek to the northeast branch of the themselves, should lead the way, than that we should Susquehanna, below the great bend. The capital required advance arguments or views in its favor, which might to make this rail road is $500,000. Books for subscripbe thought premature, visionary or chimerical. Enough tion to be opened at the same time and places as above. has come to our knowledge, to satisfy us, that on the These are improvements designed to benefit in an route through which it is contemplated to pass, the peo-eminent degree, all the northeastern counties of our ple have not been idle in comparing opinions, collecting facts touching its practicability, and minutely scanning the probable utility or advantages to be derived from it. To aid, therefore, in getting a right view, we have put ourselves to some trouble, to obtain information, relative to the work, its prospective advantages, its importance as a necessary link in the chain of improvements now making, and the opinions of our citizens, most likely to be affected by it.

state, and those counties of New York bordering thereupon. They pass through the most populous parts of Susquehanna, Luzerne, Lehigh and Northampton coun. ties, opening the most direct and nearest communication with Philadelphia via Easton. The products of the lake countries-the mineral wealth of the mountains of our state, and the vast forests which have scarcely yet been penetrated, will all be thrown open to the markets of our atlantic cities, presenting new objects for their enterprising citizens to engage in, and where capital may be profitably invested and employed.

At this time there are several routes for rail roads, mentioned in the public prints, designed to bring the trade from the head waters of the Susquehanna and Delaware, to Philadelphia. The increasing demand for coal and lumber, has turned public attention towards the northern counties of our state, and as population there increases, so do the necessities for a better communication to market become more manifest and important. A connexion has long been deemed necessa ry between the valley of the Susquehanna and Lehigh. This long wished for improvement, is now in a fair way to be accomplished, by a rail road from Wilkesbarre to the mouth of Wright's creek,on the Lehigh river,25 miles above Mauch Chunk. From a report of an examination of this route, just made, we glean the following facts: The distance between the two points is 14 miles. The In view of these several improvements, which are elevation of the summit above Wilkesbarre is 1251 feet, now about being commenced, we cannot but regard the and above the Lehigh 604 feet. The estimated cost, project for making a rail way, from the Delaware at permile, is 6,500 dollars, amounting for the 14 miles to Lumberville, via Doylestown, to the Germantown Rail $92,625, and making a liberal allowance for contingen- Road, as of vast consequence to the people residing at ecies would be $130,000. The interest of this sum and above Easton, and of no less amount in magnitude, would be $7,800. It is estimated by persons of intelli- to the interests of Philadelphia, than almost any other gence, that 200,000 tons of coal, and 3 millions of feet improvement which through the vigilance and enterof lumber, at least, will pass along this road, which prise of the citizens has been accomplished. These alone, saying nothing about produce, iron, copper, mer- once finished, and the great sources of trade, which chandize and other articles, would yield in tolls, 47,000 have heretofore only reached her market by circuitous dollars. Suitable materials for the construction of the road, are every where found upon the line, and the whole ground is represented to be highly favorable, passing a number of valuable scites for water powers, &c. Books for subscription of stock have been opened, but we are not informed as to the amount subscribed. The Beaver Meadow Rail Road, which is now being surveyed, will likewise contribute to encrease the amount of descending trade, on the Lehigh Canal to Easton, and it is in contemplation to form an extension of

The citizens of New York and New Jersey seem to have been fully apprised of these important improve ments, and the great benefits to be derived, by diverting this trade through the upper part of New Jersey, in a direction to reach the city of New York. A company is being formed for the purpose of making a rail way from Belvidere and Easton to Somerville, being an extension of the Elizabethtown and Somerville Rail Road. The distance from Belvidere to Somerville is said to be 45 miles-the average cost of making it will be about $12,000 per mile. Commissioners have given notice of the time and places for receiving subscriptions of stock.

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routes, will be put within her immediate grasp. The profitable trade of the Susquehanna, will be tapped at four different points-at Berwick, Wilkesbarre, Pittstown, and at the Great Bend. Easton forms the point to which they severally are to be directed. It would seem a necessary consequence, that the trade passing upon those roads should proceed to Philadelphia; but if our natural advantages are not seized upon, the superior skill and management of those interested in the trade of New York, by continuing the same kind of im

provements, may direct it out of its natural channel to that city. The Delaware Canal in the Summer season, may compete with the Morris Canal; but when a rail way shall be made from Easton to New York, it will be perceived that at the most profitable season of the year, the trade will be carried to New York. To be on a footing therefore, with the New Yorkers, the Philadelphians should have a rail way to Easton, or at least to some point by which a fair competition might be main tained, When the Delaware Canal is most flourishing, we should much question, whether it would be more than half sufficient, to pass the carrying trade of the northern country, and a new channel will be sought

out.

We have allowed our pen a little more latitude, than we had designed, when we commenced this article. It seemed to strike us in a more forcible light, as we traced upon the map, the courses of the above enumerated rail roads, and a more than passing notice we thought necessary. We shall now, without further delay, close, by making a few observations about our own rail road, presuming that the reader has come to the conclusion, with us, that the amount of the northern trade, will amply demand some new thoroughfare, and the growing and increasing mercantile prosperity of Philadelphia, requiring all the aids which can be afforded, from additional sources of internal communication.

The distance from Lumbervi le to Doylestown will be about eight miles, thence to the intersection of the Norristown Rail Road, about 20 miles. Estimating that it would cost as much as the West-Chester Rail Way, about 9,000 dollars per mile, it would require $252,000 to make it. The interest of this sum, at 6 per cent. would be 15,120 dollars. Now the question presents, would the tolls on this road produce a sum sufficient to

pay that interest? We have no hesitation in saying that the passengers now going on this line to and from Philadelphia, with the carrying trade of lumber and coal from the Delaware, and lime from Whitemarsh, if a correct estimate could be made, would amount to that sum. As in all works of this kind, it would have a tendency to increase the amount of travelling and transportation, and in one year from the time the road is opened, would probably be doubled. There are at this time, three daily lines of stages running to Easton, one by the state or river road, one through Doylestown, and one by the old Bethlehem road. The passengers to Wilkesbarre, Mauch Chunk and Bethlehem, would be conveyed upon it as far as Doylestown, and there is no doubt, should a bridge be erected, which is in contemplation, across the Delaware at Lumberville, stages would run from thence to various places in New Jersey. Besides these, there would be the Doylestown passengers, sufficient now to support a tri-weekly stage. The quantity of lumber and coal hauled annually from Lumberville and Point Pleasant, we have not been able to ascertain. The annual sales of lumber by the Messrs. Dilworth, at the former place, are from eight hundred thousand to one million feet. There is a large amount of business done there likewise, by other persons, in coal, &c. and we should judge the sales at Point Pleasant are not much below those at Lumberville. We pretend not to give any estimate of the quantity of lime brought from Whitemarsh to various points upon the road. used in the erection of almost all the new buildings in his vicinity, and extensively by farmers as a manure. The country between the Delaware and Germantown, is highly favorable for the construction of a rail way, and occupying as it would, an intermediate position between the Schuylkill and Delaware Canals, will greatly benefit a large district of country, hitherto deprived of all advantages from works of public improvement.

It is

We understand from a very respectable source that a rail road is in contemplation from Fitzwatertown, to connect with the Germantown road on the east side of Germantown, passing through a gap in Chesnut-Hill, near the Lime-kiln road. This would probably be the

most eligible route for our rail way, and the distance would be somewhat less.

A meeting of the citizens of Doylestown was held a short time since, and a committee appointed to procure a person to make the survey from Lumberville to Doylestown, the necessary funds being provided to meet the expense. That committee have engaged a gentleman, who will shortly make the necessary exami nation and survey of the ground.

Before this is done, we would respectfully suggest the propriety of calling a public and more general meeting-including the citizens of Philadelphia, Montgomery and Bucks counties, interested in the contemplated road. We should deem it a useless and idle waste of time and money, to attempt the construction of a road simply from Lumberville to this place; but if it is extended on to the Germantown road, we believe it would produce as much revenue as any road that could be made in this part of the state. The people who have become interested in the construction of a road between this and Lumberville expect it to be extended on to Philadelphia, and it is better that this should be the primary and leading object, and that our measures should be in reference to a survey and examination of the entire route.

It is proper in all works of a public nature, that a broad and liberal view should be taken, that no contracted or local interests should be allowed to retard its progress; but that all should join in it with one heart and mind, and that the route selected, should be one most likely to accommodate the public at large, and presenting the best natural advantages for the economical construction of the road.

BRISTOL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.

A new Institution for the instruction of youth, is about to be established under the above title, on the beautiful farm, called China Retreat, on the Delaware river, three miles below Bristol in this county. The es tate belonging to the institution, and upon which the College edifice and other buildings are erected, embraces a tract of near 400 acres of fine land.

The prominent objects of this institution are to prepare young men, by a regular course of study, for the ministry, or for any of the liberal professions. Manual labor as affording exercise indispensable to the health of the students, will be specifically required, and they will be employed three hours in each day in the week, upon some manual labor in shops or upon the farm. The avails or profits of their labor for five days in the week, as estimated by the actuary, will be allowed to each. It is thought that they will be able to derive sufficient gains from this, to furnish themselves with private libraries, text books, clothes, &c. and in many instances defray all their necessary expenses. Students upon entering the institution, will be required to make a distinct pledge, that they will cheerfully engage in manual labor the prescribed time each day, and that they will abstain from the use of ardent spirits, during their connexion therewith.

The Collegiate year will begin on the first Wednes. day in October next, and end the fourth August. There will be four classes, of about 30 each, and the course of studies will be comprised in four years.

There will likewise be an academical department for boys over 15 years of age, who are preparing for a course, when they will enter the Freshman Class in the College. For boys from 12 to 15 years of age there will be a select preparatory school subject to the same regulation as the collegiate students.

By several liberal donations to the Institution, and the exertions of the Education Committee, belonging to the Episcopal Church, a large number of indigent young men will be educated upon application, and presenting suitable testimonials of morality, &c.

It will be under the direction of the Rev. Chauncey

Colton, of Washington city, distinguished as the late head, of one of the most popular institutions in this country. Suitable professors will be engaged in all the different departments, and it is designed to make this institution rank with any of its cotemporaries in this country. The best classical and literary education will be given, together with all the most useful branches of science and learning.

ness of primitive form is lost; bold relief subsides into the general mass; till at length new forms arise-new combinations are generated, and while the ancient ma- · terials remain, the shapes they originally bore, are to be sought for only in the records of history. This fate has not yet befallen our great national festival—the annual celebration of our natal day. Its approach is still hailed with universal joy; the event which it commemorates We cannot but greet this institution with our best is as green in our memories as the sod of our beautiful wishes, and feel persuaded it will be truly beneficial to valleys: the aged and the young still unite in peans to the country at large, and we deem its location in our Liberty: and were it possible for us now to look down county, of important and immediate consequence to from some elevated spot in the blue vault of heaven, our citizens. Whatever is calculated to promote the and with supernatural vision embrace in one glance the intellectual advantages of any portion of the rising ge-expanse of our country, we should behold millions of neration, we doubt not, will be properly estimated and freemen uniting in the spontaneous effusions of joy, of encouraged, and its influence and usefulness should be praise, and of gratitude. It could not be otherwise: the promoted to the fullest extent. event which stamps the day, though its authors are silent in the tomb, is still a living and a speaking event→→ speaking to the oppressed of all nations, a language which is teaching them to break their chains-to undermine the huge fabrics of oppression reared in the darkness of human intellect, and cemented by the pressure of ages: which is instructing the natives of France, of Germany, of England and of Ireland, in the true story of their rights: which is carrying conviction to the hearts of hereditary monarchs that power has passed from their sceptres-and to the bosoms of the people, that the world was formed for them and not "for Cæsar." An event glorious in itself-in its con. sequences without a parallel.

There are some peculiarities about this institution, which renders it rather dissimilar to any other College. The terms are put so low, that its advantages may be embraced, by the sons of persons in very mo derate circumstances; and young men, who design to pursue the profession of school teaching, will have granted to them several important privileges. Besides the free scholars, young men of studious and industrious habits, will be able in the hours allotted to labor, to pay, almost entirely for their education. The union of bodily labor, with the mental exercises of pupils, will tend greatly to strengthen and invigorate the constitution, and as the mind is improved and cultivated, the physical powers of the body will be strengthened, and rendered capable of sustaining the health and independence of subsequent life.

Although the regulations of the Institution, will be strictly in conformity with the ceremonies of the Episcopal church, it will not partake of a sectarian character, in the admission of students. All that is required of a candidate for admission, is that he possesses strictly moral and temperate habits, without reference to the religious tenets, or the profession he may choose in after life. Conducted as we believe it will be, in the ablest manner, and upon principles liberal and catholic, with exercises calculated to promote the health and invigorate the constitutions of students, we sincerely hope it may be eminently successful.

Still, in the mode and fashion of the celebration, time has begun to work a change. At first, and for many years, that in which our ancestors rejoiced, was sim ply, and by itself, the independence which they had achieved-the splendid triumph gained by the persevering fortitude of an infant people, over the gigantic strength of an enemy renowned in arms, and rich in all the sinews of war. It was enough that they were independent. That the colonies were converted into a nation-self-poised and self-governed. This sentiment filled all hearts-animated every breast-was the key note of every harangue. The battles which led to it, the victories which won it, were rehearsed to ears that never wearied of the theme. The struggle was overthe victory was theirs-but that struggle might recur; The Rev. G. W. Ridgely, recently pastor of the that haughty nation might again call her stripling antag Episcopal Church at Bristol, is the Corresponding Se- onist to the field-might seek to crush the rising enercretary and general agent for the Collegiate Institution.gies of her rebellious offspring-and, therefore, with To his kindness we are indebted, for a copy of a pamph. prophetic caution, the story of the Revolution was told let, containing the terms, course of studies, &c. which from year to year-its battles fought again and again: may be seen at this office.-Ib. and Princeton and Trenton, Germantown and Monmouth, Saratoga and Yorktown, were the themes of their orations. And in thirty years the second struggle did come; while yet some of the fathers of the nation remained upon the surface of its soil: and it was metfearlessly and manfully-and the tide of invasion was turned back from our shores, crimsoned with the blood of the invaders-and the trident they had so long wielded in undisputed supremacy, was seized with a grasp, and held with a pertinacity ominous of its future fate.

ORATION,

Delivered in the Second Presbyterian church, before
the Philadelphia Association for celebrating the Fourth
of July, without distinction of party-by Jons Mo-
RIN SCOTT, Esq. July 4, 1833.
Gentlemen of the Association:

We are assembled to render our annual homage to
freedom. More than half a century has elapsed-entire
generations of men have passed away-since the day
rose upon our country which gave to it a place among
the nations of the earth, and proclaimed it the home of
the free and the brave. Every individual who then
signed that instrument, which, as the chances of war
might determine, was to prove his death-warrant, or the
imperishable record of his fame, sleeps in the silence of
the grave. Their children have followed them, or if
they survive, show already the silvered locks and fur-
rowed cheek of age; and we who are met to discourse
of our great forefathers, look back upon them, through
a series of years, which consecrates their memories,
and unites their fame, with that of the mighty dead of
ages and of all nations.

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That war was ended too, and like the war of the revolution, ended gloriously. It taught the nations of Europe, whose rapacious conduct had shown their disbelief of our stability, that we were able to maintain by our arms, our rank as a nation. It gave to us respect and admiration abroad, not as an infant people which might become great, but as an established nation, which had already appropriated all the elements of power. That second war and its incidents then became the living topic of interest; its heroes, and its victories succeeded in their turn, to the heroes and the victories of the war of the revolution, which then, as belonging to another age, assumed their high and permanent stations in the ever-during temple of historic fame.

It belongs to the institutions of man, as well as to man That second war of our country independent, is in its himself, to change; to perish. By imperceptible de- turn becoming history. Many who won its victories grees, the freshness of original creation fades; distinct-have gone to join their predecessors of seventy-six, and

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