tion of the business of this Society in Pottsville, Port be applied. One only suggests itself to us at present, Carbon, and Schuylkill Haven. GEORGE PENROSE, Chairman. JAMES ANDERSON, Secretary. From the U. S. Gazette, June 27. The storm of Thursday night, was one of almost unprecedented violence. The vividness of the lightning and the noise of the thunder were terrific, and the rain descended not in drops "close chacing each other;" but, as if there were windows in heaven," it poured down a cataract, and the streets presented by the strong glare of the lightning, the appearance of an agitated, turbid stream. In many places, where cellars had been dug for building, the earth has been washed into the cavity, and instead of a smooth earth wall, there is presented the rough edges of a clay pond. The greatest extent of evil which has fallen under our notice, is in the immediate neighborhood of our office. Here the water is received from the height of land in Walnut below Fourth, in Third below Walnut, from Chestnut opposite the U. S. Bank, from Franklin at Market street, from Third by Market, and from the streets and courts between Third and Fourth and Chestnut and Walnut, and between Dock and Chestnut and Second and Third street, the few sewers at the corners not operating favorably under a heavy pressure of mud. At the corner of Walnut and Dock, the latter street is so graded as to throw the water to the east side of the street, where there is a sewer, but when the flood is so great as it was on Thursday night, it follows almost as a matter of course, that the mouth of the sewer is choaked with the debris from the streets. It will be rememberd that there is a rise in Dock street from the bend opposite Pear street to Second street, and this prevents a passage of water towards the river over the pavement, so that when the sewer becomes choked, there is consequently an accumulatation of water in the street; and on Thursday hight, we are told that it was two or three feet deep before it atrained the level of Second street. This height is so far above that of the curb stone, that the side walks were inundated, and the cellers of the buildings filled, literally filled with water. This was the case on the east side of Dock street, from Walnut to Second street, and of course much injury was sustained by the owners and the tenants of property. On the other side, the first cellar reached was that of Mr. Clark, at the corner of Dock and Pear street. Mr. Upton's eating house was next in order; here the celler was largely supplied with water, and when emptied of that part of the visitation, the slimy deposit was several inches thick on the floor. The next building, occupied by Mr. Toland, the Navy agent, was most amply supplied, the cellar being full to the windows. We regret to learn that Messrs. Webb & Co. the respectable grocers at the southwest corner of Dock and Second street, were sufferers to the amount of nearly $1,500 by the influx of water. Below Second street, some injury was sustained, but here the water had a clear course to the river, and of course was not directed towards the cellars. that has seriously occupied public attention, but has never been tested. We allude to the project of con. tinuing the Walnut street culvert directly down that street to the Delaware; thus giving two passages to the draining of the street, and providing also against the chance of obstruction of one of them by the influx of the tide. Against this there are urged two objections. The first is the elevatien of Walnut street between Front and Second; requiring such a deep cut as to endanger, it is said, foundations of buildings on that street. We do not, we confess, see much force in that objection. The danger is very small, and the difficul ty from the depth of the cutting far from insurmountable, as a similar height occurs in Walnut street opposite the Friends' almshouse, where the culvert was placed. The other objection is the rapid descent from Front street to the Delaware, and the danger to the wharves by the "debouchment" of the subterraneous current at their foundation. We confess ourselves unprepared to say that such an objection is not valid-the opinions of persons competent to judge of such matters, should be obtained. It is now evident, that the water cannot pass down Dock street at the existing regulations, and citizens. have a right to expect that their property shall be protected. The rain was renewed yesterday, between 12 and 1 o'clock, P. M. It came down in torrents, and added to the injury sustained the night previous. The rye and wheat in the country, is very much lodged. In addition to the instances of injury from the rain on Thursday night, we hear that a great many stores in Market street had their cellars partly filled with water, to the great injury of the merchandize, dry goods especially, contained in them. The cellars of many dwellings in the western part of the city were filled, and the walls of several houses being built fell down. In Little Dock street, a good deal of injury was sustained in the cellars, and in our neighborhood a baker, whose bakery was below stairs, has suffered much loss We regret to learn that our neighbor, Mr. Thomas Roney, had a quantity of leather injured in his cellar, at the corner of Dock and Third street, and a currier in South Fifth, opposite the Adelphi, suffered considerably. From the Philadelphia Gazette. We were visited yesterday morning, by one of the most violent thunder storms ever witnessed in Philadelphia. Commenced about half an hour after midnight, and continued until three o'clock, during the whole of which time, except a short period, when there was a temporary suspension, it thundered and lightened almost without any intermission, with a degree of violence scarcely ever known in our latitude. The rain fell in torrents, and probably a greater body of water has never been before seen in some of our streets. It gives us great pain to record that in a part Unfortunately the heaviest fall of rain occurred at of the city near which our office is located, extensive the time of high tide in the river, and hence the sew. damage has been sustained, and that the losses that er in Duck street, which it is known is rather a na-have occurred to many worthy individuals and families tural than artificial channel, was blocked up with the tide. Preventive. As this is not the first visitation of the kind that has occurred, to the serious pecuniary loss of tenants on Dock street between Second and Walnut, it may be proper to consider whether some preventive may not of moderate means, have been very great. It seems that at the time of the storm, it was high tide, which prevented, as is supposed, the discharge of the water from the mouth of the common sewer at the foot of Dock street. The consequence was that the sewer became filled, and the whole of Dock street which is more than a hundred feet wide, presented one sheet of water from house to house extending all the way from near Front street, where the ground is elevated, up to the Exchange near to Third street. Scarcely a cellar escaped inundation. Some of them were filled up to the ceiling, and in the case of Dock Ward Hotel, situated on the north side of Dock street at the corner above Second street, not only was the cellar filled, but the water was a foot deep in the bar room. The street called Little Dock street, as far as its junction with Second street, suffered in the same man ner. The scene exhibited yesterday morning in the designated neighborhood was truly distressing. Sugars and other groceries, hardware, casks of liquors with their bungs out, cotton yarns, and a variety of other articles were totally destroyed or greatly injured. A baker, whose oven was in the cellar, has had it entirely destroyed, and several persons have lost from a hundred to a thousand dollars. But this is not all. The length of time it will take the cellars to dry and the injury sus tained by the foundations of buildings must be taken into account, as a part of the damage. We have not heard how far the storm extended into the country, but we fear that injury must have been sustained by the wheat crop and by mill dams. From the Pennsylvania Inquirer. VILOENT STORM-DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Philadelphia was yesterday morning visited by one of the most violent storms that has occurred in this vicinity for years. The rain descended for several hours in one "continued torrent," while the thunder rolled and the lightning flashed, awakening feelings of awe, if not of apprehension in the bosoms of thousands of the community. Dock street from Front street to the Exchange was completely covered with water, which in some places rose several feet above the pavements.All the cellars in the vicinity were inundated, and at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, notwithstanding two pumps had been in use from an early hour in the morning, the cellar of the store at the S. W. corner of Dock street and Second was still flooded to the depth of se veral inches. The injury sustained by the occupant of the store, Mr. Webb, is estimated at upwards of $1000. We learn from Mr. Steiner the confectioner and baker at the opposite corner, that he will not be able to bake again for several weeks, in consequence of the injury to his oven; which is in the cellar. Two of his apprentices were asleep in the cellar at the time the storm When they awoke, the water was upwards of two feet in depth. But a little longer, and they would have perished. come on. Joshua Brown and Walter Carroll are also among the sufferers. They are dealers in second hand clothing, and occupy the cellars of the houses on the west side of Second street, just below Walnut. The proprietor of the Dock Ward Hotel, in Dock street, between Second and Third, has also sustained considerable loss.The cellar of his house was completely filled with wa ter, which rose to the depth of a foot in his bar room. Indeed, most of the occupants of houses on Dock street, in the neighborhood of Second, experienced more or less injury. It is supposed that the water fell in such quantities, that the sewer becoming filled, and there being no way to carry it off, it was forced through the cellar windows into the cellars. A similar storm occurred about two years since. THE TORNADO IN PENNSYLVANIA. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., June 24, 1835. 15 borough on Friday last, doing much injury to the property that lay in its course. The greatest injury was sustained by persons living on Lycoming creek. The dwelling house of Mr. Alexander Carothers was un. roofed, and otherwise injured: his barn was literally overthrown, and his store house much injured. The barn of Mr. Oliver Watson was completely razed to the foundation: and out of a flourishing orchard of about sixty trees, but one is left standing, and that one stripped of all its branches. Mr. Willhelm, had his house unroofed. There was doubtless much other damage done, of which we had not heard the particulars. From the Kingston Republican and Herald, June 24. On the afternoon of Friday last, the rain, for an hour or more, poured down in torrents. We have sel dom known so much fall in so short a time. We un derstand that a hard wind, bordering upon a hurricane, passed over the lower part of the township of Wilkes barre, which done immense injury. A number of houses were unroofed, or injured, several barns injured, and one of considerable size, blown to fragments.Many apple trees were levelled to the earth, fences blown down, and in some instances crops injured.Several persons were slightly injured-none seriously. The hurricane was confined to a narrow strip of country, almost the whole of which, we understand, presents a scene of destruction, rarely, if ever equalled in this region. A hurricane and heavy hail storm passed over a part of Greenwood township, in Columbia county, on Friday last. A gentleman from the neighborhood states that one or two barns and several smaller buildings were thrown down, and that hail two inches deep, remained on the ground after the storm had subsided. From the Pittsburg Gazette. For the improvement of the Allegheny River. Pursuant to previous notice, about 50 delegates from the counties of Warren, Venango, Crawford, Butler, Allegheny, Armstrong, Indianna, and Jefferson, met in the Presbyterian Church, in Kittanning, on Thursday last, the 18th instant. The convention was organized by appointing the Hon. HENRY SHIPPEN, of Crawford, President; Gen. WM. AYRES, of Butler and, Dr. ADAM HAYS, of Allegheny Vice Presidents, and Josiah Copley, of Armstrong, and Ephraim Galbraith, of Venango, Secretaries. The following, being reported by a committee previously appointed, were unanimously adopted: Whereas, The Allegheny River, from its magnitde, local position, and adaptation to Steamboat Navigation, is evidently destined to become the principal medium of communication between the North Eastern and South Western portions of our country, and may, at a compa ratively trifling expense, be rendered navigable for Steamboats at all seasons when uninterruped by ice, and be made productive of profit to those who may ef feet its improvement, and highly beneficial to a large portion of the Americam people; therefore, Resolved, That the improvement of the Allegheny would go far towards a union of the Susquehanna, the Genesee and Lake Erie, with the Ohio; and that it would be a great central channel from which lateral avenues of commerce would diverge in all directions, to the great benefit of no less that thirteen States of the Union. Resolved, That this Convention earnestly recommend to their fellow citizens of Western Pennsylvania, to urge this subject upon the attention of the Legislature, so as to secure at as early a day as possible, the prose cution and completion of this great work. Resolved, That application be made to the Legislature for the incorporation of a company or companies to improve the navigation of the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh to the New York State line, and that the Legislature be asked to guarantee the interest for ten years on the capital stock, and that should the State pre fer making the improvement of a portion of said river,that the company be authorised to make the residue of said improvement between those points. Union Canal.-During the week ending the 12th June inclusive, the tolls received on the Union canal amounted to $3,937 15. Former report 69,302 86. Total this season, $73,240 01. Schuylkill Navigation Company.-The total amount of receipts for tolls on the Schuylkill canal, from the opening of the canal on the 17th of March, to the 12th June inclusive, is $141,838 21. Of this amount $13,756 47 were received during the past week. Lehigh Coul Trade.-During the week ending the 12th June 119 boats carrying 3988 tons of coal cleared 27,545 tons. Despatched this season 884 boats carryat Mauch Chunk. Former report 765 boats carrying Resolved, That Thomas Blair, Joseph Buffington, and William F. Johnston, Esquires, be a committee for the purpose of drafting a Memorial to the Legislature of this State, praying for the passage of an act to incorporate a company or companies to improve the navigation of the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh to the Newing 31,533 tons of coal. York State line, in the manner recommended by the resolutions adopted by this convention. Resolved, That the following Address be adopt ed, &c. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal-During the week ending June 12th, 133 vessels passed by the canal from the Chesapeake, and 85 from the Delaware. Total 218 vessels. The business on this important work is rapid-' ly increasing. Resolved, That a Committee of Correspondence be appointed to inquire of and consult with such public State Tolls-We learn from the Harrisburg Reporbodies or private individuals as they may deem proper, ter that the amount of tolls collected on the Pennsyl to further the objects of this Convention, in the im-vania canal and rail road during the week ending the provement of the Allegheny River, so as not to injure 6th inst. amounted to $20,871 70. Of this amount the descending navigation, and that said committee $3,898 76 was collected on the Columbia rail road.communicate the result of their inquiries to the next Total amount of tolls received this season, Legislature, annexed to one of the memor als prepared in pursuance of the preceding resolution; and that said committee consist of A. W. Foster and N. B. Craig, Esq's. of Pittsburg, Hon. R. Orr, of Kittanning, Hon. J. Bredin, of Butler, Hon. J. Galbraith, of Franklin, Making a total of and Robert Falconer, Esq. of Warren. From the Harrisburg Telegraph. The Crawford Messenger states that a bed of culcari ous marle, or carbonate of lime in a clayey state, has been discovered near Brightstown in that county. The bed covers one hundred acres, and the marle is found about one foot from the surface. Its depth is not known, having been dug as deep as nine feet without finding any signs of other earth. This discovery will prove of incalculable value to the agricultural interest of that section, as it is one of the most valuable manures, and adapted, (so say the European agriculturalists) to all kinds of soil. From the extent of this bed, the soil and general features of the Western and North Western counties of this state, it is presumable that section of country abounds in this marle, which when burned, not only becomes a valuable manure, but a beautiful lime, fit for all the uses of life. The Wheeling Va. Gazette says "Since the completion of the Pennsylvania canals, much of the produce of the west, which before sought the New Orleans and Baltimore markets, has been drawn to Philadelphia. We have heretofore mentioned that two boats had com. menced running the present season, between Bridgeport, opposite Wheeling, and Pittsburg to convey pro: duce to the canal spoken of; and we have now to add that one will in a few days commence its regular trips between Warren, seven miles above Wheeling, and Pittsburgh. The boat has been built at Warren during the last two months, and received its engine here last week. It is owned by citizens of Moun' Pleasant, Ohio, and is intended to take the produce of the fertile Short creek country to Pittsburgh, for the Philadelphia market. We hope to see, in two or three years, this western trade, which Philadelphia is thus diverting, restored, by the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, to its natural channel. Just as we had put this paragraph in type, the new boat spoken of passed our windows. She is called the Mount Pleasant. Union and Schuylkill Canal, up to June 12, $301,314 46 215,078 21 $516,392 68 HAZARD'S REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. VOL. XVI.--NO. 2. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 11, 1835. No. 392. tion between foreign and domestic produce is fully car. ried out. There can be no doubt that the policy of the law was, to exempt from inspection all produce from other States exported as such. This may be assumed to be the intention of the Legislature, and is the distinctive feature of the Statute. The only difficulty arises from the difference of phraseology in the various sections of the act in relation to evidence of origin. The material From the United States Gazette. FLOUR AND TOBACCO INSPECTION. We insert to-day a professional opinion of great importance to our commercial friends. It relates to a recent statute with the provisions of which few are as yet familiar, and we are happy to say, embodies views which are not only judiciously but economically sound! That the transit of foreign produce through our public works and from other ports should be impeded by in-provisions of the act are: spection regulations, has always been a question of "Section 1. All flour of wheat, flour of rye, and doubtful propriety with us, and we are glad that the meal made of Indian corn shall, if designed for exporta legislature has at last corrected the evil. Much credit tion from either of the places mentioned in this section, is due to the firm of Riddle, Forsyth & Atterbury, who be liable to be inspected at the following places respecwe understand have taken the lead in the effort to di-tively,to wit: At the city and county of Philadelphia by rect this branch of business to our port, and who have the Inspector of flour appointed for the said city and had great difficulties and embarrassments to overcome. county, &c. A vast amount of western flour and tobacco will at once be shipped from Philadelphia, which heretofore has always been sent to Baltimore. THE INSPECTION LAWS. PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 1835. Section 5. Provided, That flour and meal manufac⚫ tured in any other State, and put up in casks which shall bear the brand or the name of such State, may be exported from this Commonwealth as the manufacture of the State from which it shall come, and not as the flour or meal of Pennsylvania, without being liable to inspection as aforesaid. Section 31. No person shall lade or ship for transpor ble to be inspected previously to exportation as afore tation out of this Commonwealth, any flour or meal lia. said, before he shall offer the same to the view and examination of the Inspetor of flour of the port or Wm. B. Reed, Esq.Dear Sir,-Your opinion is requested in reply to the following questions. 1st. Is it necessary under the inspection law of the last Legislature, before we can export flour, the manufacture of a neighboring State, to have it inspected in this city? 2d. Is it necessary that flour from another State should be inspected in the State of which it is the product, to exempt it from in-place where the same shall be laden or intended to be spection here, previous to shipment abroad? 3d. Does the act make a distinction between "brand" and "mark," directing the inspection of that which is marked (say with black ink) and exempting that which is branded? Very respectfully, RIDDLE, FORSYTH & ATTERBURY. OPINION. laden, or before the same shall be inspected and ap proved according to law under the penalty of seventyfive cents for every cask, one half to the use of the person who shall give information to the Inspector or any of his deputies, and the other half to the use of the said inspector or his deputies.” The inspection of beef and pork, salted fish, and pot and pearl ashes is provided for in the same way, except I have very attentively considered the provisions of that the saving clauses require that the article, when the law passed at the last session of the Legislature, the produce of the other State shall bear the brand of entitled," At Act relating to Inspections," particular- the name of such state or country, and declare that ly with reference to the points to which my attention it may be exported with the same name branded thereon, without being liable to inspection, &c. has been directed. The object of Inspection Laws is to maintain abroad the reputation of the products of the State. Their operation and result has been supposed to be, in the language of one of our earliest statutes on the subject, "to advance the reputation of the province, by the care of the Legislature in preventing frauds and abuses in divers commodities of our country produce, exported to foreign, markets.” (Act. 21, Ap. 1759, 1. Smith's Laws, 222.) Beyond this, the design of the most rigid inspection system does not legitimately extend. Yet, by a singular inconsistency, in all the laws anterior to the act of the last session, produce of every kind from other States, if exported or designed for exportation from Pennsylvania, was subject to the same inspection as our own produce. By the present law, the rule relating to many articles, among which are flour and tobacco, (to which the questions refer,) is materially changed, and the distinction as to liability to inspec • See these Laws in Vol. XV. p. 331. VOL. XVI Butter and hogs lard from other States are exempt from inspection and may be exported, if put up in the manner prescribed by the ac, in kegs, &c. which shall bear the brand or the name of such State, &c. with the same name branded thereon, &c. The provisions in relation to tobacco are as fol lows: Section 116. All tobacco designed for exportation from the port of Philadelphia shall be liable to be inspected by the inspector of tobacco appointed for the said port. Section 117. Provided, That tobacco imported or brought from any other state or country which shall bear the brand or mark of the name of such state or country upon the cask or package containing the same may be exported as the product of the State or country from which it came, and not as the product of Pennsylvania, without being liable to inspection, as aforesaid. A penalty is provided, as in the case of all other ar ticles, for the exportation of tobacco, liable to inspection. I am therefore of opinion, in answer to the specific questions proposed. 1st qu. Is it necessary before we can export flour, the manufacture of a neighboring State, to have it inspect With reference then to every product except flour and tobacco, there can be no doubt that to exempt it from inspection, it must be packed in the manner pre-ed in this city? scribed by the act, and must bear the brand of the name of the State of which it is the product. Nor can it be exported as the product of such state or country, unless it have the name branded thereon. In the instance of tobacco, the peculiarity of the language of the section must be considered with reference to the manner of packing the article. Tobacco imported into this Commonwealth, it appears, is usually packed in either hogsheads or packages. On the former a brand can and usually is made. Packages are marked and not branded. It is to be presumed that the Legislature had the usage of trade in view, and meant that hogsheads were to have the brand of the name of the State affixed, and packages the mark of the name of the State. From an attentive consideration of the section, with a view as well to its grammatical con. struction as to the policy of the law, I am however of opinion that it will admit a more liberal construction, and that tobacco from abroad, whether in hogshead or package, will be exempt from inspection, provided it have either the brand or the mark of the name of the State upon it. With regard to flour, there is another peculiarity of phraseology which has occasioned a difficulty of interpretation. The casks are to bear the brand or the name of the state or country whence they come. This phrase, "the brand or the name, &c," is used in reference to no other article except butter and lard, and there is an express provision, (omitted in relation to flour) that in order to export it free of inspection, it must have such name branded on the casks. The use of the disjunctive phrase "brand or the name-" and the omission of the express requisition that the name shall be branded, justify the conclusion that it was the intention of the framers of the law to adopt a less rigorous rule in relation to imported flour and that like tobacco, provided it comes from abroad, and as the evidence of its origin, has the brand-or the name (though not branded) upon it, it will be exempt from inspection. The construction is authorised by a strict interpretation of the language of the section, by regard for the policy of the law which was to exempt foreign produce from inspection, and by a consideration never to be lost sight of in the construction of a statute, that as it is severely penal in its provisions with reference to this very point, that interpretation is to be preferred which promotes the liberal principle of the distinction between foreign and domestic produce, and restricts the application of the penalty. The only substantial objection which can be urged to this view of the question is,that it seems to open a wide door to fraudulent practices, on the one hand, and invests the Inspectors with dangerous discretionary pow. ers, on the other. Fraud, it seems to me, is sufficiently guarded against by the penal sections of the law. If an inspector seizes produce as designed for exportation without inspection, the burthen of proof of origin will unquestionably be on the owner. The insufficieney of the brand or mark may be reasonable ground of seizure, on which official discretion may be safely exercised. Beyond this point, and with reference to this alone, does the law authorise or allow it. It is hardly worth the enquiry whether the presumption of law is, that produce imported from another State has been inspected before it left that State. Let the presumption be as it may, it cannot affect the result. The only enquiry is, does the produce come from abroad, and will it, when exported from this State bear the badge of its origin? It is of no possible moment whether it has been inspected or not. We guard the reputation of our staple commodities, and leave to our neighbors to take care of their's. Certainly not. Flour, the manufacture of another State is expressly exempted from inspection. 2d qu. Is it necessary that the flour from another State shall have been inspected in the State of which it is the product, to exempt it from inspection here previous to shipment abroad? It is not necessary that the flour be inspected in the State of which it is the product. All that is required is that it be the product of any other State than Pennsylvania, and be packed and marked in the mode prescribed. 3d qu. Does the law make a distinction between "brand" and "mark" in the barrel, directing the inspection of that which is marked, say with black ink, and exempting that which is branded? I am of opinion that in the cases of flour and tobacco it is not necessary that the name of the State should be branded to exempt it from inspection. The name of the State marked with black ink is sufficient prima facie evidence of origin. Flour and tobacco fraudulently marked like flour and tobacco fraudulently branded, are liable to seizure if designed for exportation. WILLIAM B. REED. Philada. May 19, 1835. To Messrs. RIDDLE, FORSYTH & ATTERBURY. I concur in the opinion given by Mr. Reed. It is fully warranted by the letter of the act, which must be regarded as sufficient. There is no ambiguity in the words used by the Legislature; on the contrary, they are clear and explicit. This being the case, there is no room for interpretation, especially where the in terpretation would have the effect of exposing to severe penalties. Penal laws are to be construed strictly. But the letter of the law, is, in this instance, co-incident with its spirit and intention. There can be no doubt whatever, that the Legislature intended to distinguish between articles produced in Pennsylvania,and those produced in other states, by providing that the latter might be exported without inspection, but that the former must be inspected before exportation. The obvious ground of this discrimination is, that articles produced elsewhere, cannot affect the reputation of Pennsylvania, even though they should be shipped from her ports. The Legislature might have rested the evidence, in this respect, upon the mere absence, of any mark of Pennsylvania inspection. But they have thought fit to require more, and this more is that the exported article shall bear upon it the annunciation of its origin—in other words, the name of the state or country where it was produced, branded or marked upon on it. As to flour and meal, the words are "the brand or the name," so that ether is sufficient. To reject one, would be to set up an interpretation against the words, which is inadmissible. As to tobacco the words are "the brand or mark of the name," equally allowing of the two modes of satisfying the law, so that neither can be rejected, without doing violence to the exactment. The substantial purpose of the Legislature is answered as well by the one as by the other, and to endeavor to impose other or more rigorous terms upon any opinion than those provided by legislative wisdom are insufficient, would thwart and defeat the intention, which is not to embarrass or cripple the trade of export, but simply te guard the reputation of our own produce. Indeed, one cannot fail to perceive in this act, a due appreciation of the character Pennsylvania is assuming, by reason of her noble improvements, and of the inter |