1835.] EMERSON ON THE MORTALITY IN PHILADELPHIA, &c. 339 Infantile Mortality in Philadelphia in the Years 1832, 1833, and 1834, from the most predominant Causes, with the Number of each Sex for the different Years. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. Extract from the Meteorological Register, taken at the State Capital-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. BY JAMES WRIGHT, Librarian. AUGUST, 1835. Minimum on the 21st, 74 Mean, NEW TOWN. 1835, the following persons were elected officers for President-Joseph P. Norris. Vice President-Peter S. Duponceau. At the Junction of the Columbia and Philadelphia the ensuing year: Rail-road with the Harrisburg Turnpike, about half a mile from the Court House, within the bounds of the City, Col. Mosher has laid off a number of town lots, which, we understand, will be offered for sale in a few days. They are eligibly situated, having an extensive front on both sides of the Rail-road, and a portion, of them fronting on the Rail-road and Turnpike, and are nearly on a level with the Rail-road. From their convenience in every respect, they are admirably adapted for receiving ware houses, the coal and lumber trade, and for business generally. The lots will be sold clear of ground rent.-Lancaster Journal. George Vaux SOCIETY FOR COMMEMORATING THE LAND- Edward S. Burd, At an annual meeting of the Society, held November Thomas Dunlap, DIRECTORS. Joshua Longstreth, Oct. 24th, 1835.-The Society met agreeable to adjournment, when the above mentioned committee made the following REPORT. The committee, in obedience to the instructions of the meeting of the 1st inst., beg leave to state, that they have obtained the names of the following persons, who have cut and housed their late harvest-the great-a er number without the use of any liquor, and a few with but very little in comparison with what they used in former years, as will be seen below. John Walter 132 20one. Wm. C. Griffith 26 35 Matthew Hair 16 6 "6 Michael Stufft 22 10 66 35 ་་ 20 Your committe would also remark with pleasure the willingness with which their inquiries were answered— they unanimously stated that their grain was cut in less time and with less waste than formerly, and of course in peace and quietness. Some of them heretofore used from 5 to 20 gallons of a harvest-now they are well satisfied that any kind of spirituous liquors, is neither needful nor useful, but positively hurtful--a moth and curse-a thief upon health, strength, time, peace and substance; and they are determined henceforth that their harvest fields shall not be disgraced with the presence of the Rum-jug-that the waving, yellow grain, the gift of a bountiful Providence, shall be secured amidst sobriety and innocent hilarity; and we sincerely trust that their noble example may be followed until Intemperance with its multitudinous evils shall be banished from our country, and from the whole earth. On motion, Resolved, That we regard the above report, with feelings of joy, as exhibiting a practical triumph in the cause of temperance, and although but one of the above named farmers is a member of our Temperance Society, yet we hail them as co-workers in the glorious cause -viewing their conduct as indicative of a return, by them, to the sole use of that wholesome beverage with which the God of Nature has so abundantly suppled them. Resolved, That the Editors of all the Somerset papers be requested to publish the above report and reso lutions, as soon as convenient, for which they shall receive our hearty thanks. HENRY LITTLE, President. R. MARSHALL, Secretary. From the Pittsburg Gazette. RAIL ROAD MEETING. General meeting of the inhabitants of Brownsville, Bridgeport, and their vicinities, (Penn'a,) November 3d, 1835. At a large meeting of the inhabitants of Brownsville, Bridgeport, and their vicinities, convened at the Town Hall on Tuesday, the 3d of November, 1835, at 3 o'clock, P. M., in pursuance of public notice, to consider what measures should be adopted to promote the immediate construction of a Rail road between Cumberland and Brownsville, and thence to Wheeling and Pittsburg. The meeting was organized by calling Geo. Hogg, Esq. to preside over it, assisted by Michael Sowers, and David Binns, Esqrs. and appointing Goodloe H. Bowman and John L. Lawson, to act as Secretaries. The meeting being organized, James L. Bowman, Esq., addressed its members on the important subject which they had assembled to consider. It was then proposed by George Dawson, that a com. mittee should be appointed to prepare and submit a 18 not 2 quarts preamble and resolutions declaratory of the opinions and wishes of this meeting, in favor of an immediate construction of a Rail road from Wheeling and Pitts amoant not known. Inot 2 quarts burg, to Brownsville, and hence to Cumberland, which being agreed to, the following persons, to wit-James L. Bowman, Robert Clarke, John Snowden, jr., Jona. than Binns, jr., George Dawson, James Martin, and William Sloan, were appointed said committee, and soon afterwards reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were severally considered and unani. mously adopted: Acres. Acres. Amount unknown. Liquor used. 3 quarts. Mr. Mowry also completed from the foundation, a new bank barn 84 by 64 feet, without one drop of liquor used. Whereas it has been ascertained by the examination lately made by the Chief Engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company, that a rail road can be constructed between Cumberland and Brownsville, and hence to Wheeling and Pittsburg, at a graduation without any inclined planes, and so that not only passenger trains but burden cars may be drawn by locomotive en gines up the highest elevation, at a velocity exceeding 1835.] SUSQUEHANNA CANAL. 343 10 miles per hour:-and whereas this meeting, being walls or river embankments in nearly a direct line from fully satisfied that an immediate construction of said point to point, which, while it will shorten the embankroad would greatly promote the welfare of the people ments, will present, occasionally, fine sheets of water, of Maryland and inhabitants of the District of Colum- | affording ample space for landings, and allow the boats bia, and of a large part of the States of Pennsylvania, to pass with greater speed. Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia, deem it proper and ex- From Buckholder's Ferry to tide, there is an opinion, pedient that the deliberate opinions and anxious wishes founded on actual survey, that the Canal can be conof the inhabitants of this vast region should be clearly structed at a much less cost, on the West than on the and fully expressed on this most interesting subject, East side of the river; and, consequently, be kept in re as well to their municipal, as to their respective state pair at a much less expense. The situation for a landGovernments-therefore be it, by this meeting unani-ing, for wharves and for a port to facilitate trans-ship. mously, 1st. Resolved, That it is expedient to hold a Convention in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, at 10 o'clock, A. M., on Wednesday, the 25th day of November, 1835, to be composed of three or more Delegates from the towns, cities and counties, of the District of Columbia and the several states that feel an interest in the immediate construction of a rail road between Cumberland and Brownsville, and hence to Wheeling and Pittsburgfor the purpose of considering and adop ́ing such measures as shall be considered most likely to cause said road to be soon constructed. 2d. Resolved, That Wm. Hogg. Jacob Bowman, Joshua Wood, Michael Sowers, Andrew Hopkins, Robert Clarke, George Dawson, David Binns, Joseph Thornton, James L. Bowman, E. L. Blaine, Thomas Sloan, Cephas Gregg; Henry Sweitzer, John Cock, David Porter, William Cock, and Eli Forsythe, be, and they are hereby appointed the Delegation to represent Brownsville and Bridgeport, in said Convention, with power to fill vacancies or add to their number, and to make arrangements for the accommodation of said Con vent on. 3d. Resolved, That Israel Miller, Jonathan Binns, jr. | Thomas Sloan, Samuel J. Kreeps, Zephaniah Carter, Eli Abrams, Wm. R. Campbell, Hugh Keys, James Miller, William H Clarke, G. H. Bowman, E. L. Blaine, John L. Lawson, John Snowden, jr., Westly. Frost, William Barkman, Nathan Graham, Wm. F. Coplan, G. Shunman, John A. Gormly, and D). N. Robinson, be a Committee of Correspondence, charged with the duty of publishing and communicating these proceedings to such persons as may be disposed to promote the views of this meeting-and also that they be empowered to invite a representation from their particular city, town, or District in said Convention. ment, is unquestionably preferable on the Havre-deGrace side, than at any point that can be selected on the Eastern shore. It is to be regretted, that so much delay has been occasioned by fruitless attempts to come to an understanding with the proprietors of the Maryland Canal. The work will now, however, progress; and should the obstacles to an amicable adjustment between the two companies continue, the public interest will not suffer by changing the Southern division of the Canal to the West side of the river, however it may operate to the disadvantage of a few interested individuals. The annexed article from the Baltimore American, shows the estimation in which the citizens of Baltimore hold the plan of connecting the valley of the Susque hanna with the Chesapeake Bay, by a continuance of the Pennsylvania Canal from Columbia to tide. Great as are the advantages contemplated, we do not believe they are yet appreciated at one tenth their value. We may form some idea of the immensity of the Anthracite coal trade from the mines of Lykens's valley, Pine Grove, and Luzerne, and the bituminous from Colum bia, Clearfield, and Lycoming, by the Juniata and West Branch of the Susquehanna, and of the lumber trade; but we can form no estimate of the wheat, flour, corn, whiskey, tobacco, pork, beef, butter, lard, tallow, hemp, cotton, wool, furs, iron, lead, copper, &c. &c. which will pour from the North and West into the lap of commerce, the Great Chesapeake Bay, destined to become before long, the centre of the greatest trade in the world. That the Pennsylvania Canal will be totally inadequate to afford vent for the business which must offer in a very few years, is certain; and that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the James river and Kenhawa connection with the Ohio, instead of becom 4th. Resolved, That copies of these proceedings being injurious rivals to the Pennsylvania lines of canals forwarded to Editors of Newspapers printed in the District of Columbia, the States of Maryland, Ohio, and Kentucky, and the Western portions of Virginia and Pennsylvania. GEORGE HOGG, Chairman. THE SUSQUEHANNA CANAL FROM COLUM- Mr. Gay, the Chief Engineer, is now engaged making a final survey of the first twelve miles of this important work, commencing at Columbia, and extending along the east bank of the river to Burkholder's Ferry. It is expected the whole of this distance will be ready for letting by the first of December, and that the work will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor throughout the winter. The general width of the Canal will be 50 feet at the water line, and five feet deep. Where excavations are through rocky precipices, it is probable the width will be reduced, which will be amply compensated, by the frequent occurrence of indentations, or natural short bays of the river, by running the sea and rail roads, will only prove useful auxiliaries, acting in concert, and relieving the immense business, east and west, from all apprehension of being interrupted or delayed by an inability to accommodate at all times the trade of which they are the destined channels. We observe we have, perhaps without thinking of the full strength of the expression, denominated the Chesapeake Bay, "the Lup of Commerce." As regards the trade of the United States, nature has conspired to make it so, and human sagacity and foresight cannot neglect so magnificent a gift. View all its advantagesits position in the centre of the Union-its numerous rivers, washing the richest vallies of three of the Atlan tic States, and its immediate connection by different routes with the great West-What can prevent it be coming the centre of the commerce-of the wealth and strength of the Union? SUSQUEHANNA CANAL TO TIDE. Our city readers will be truly gratified to learn, that at the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Susque hanna Canal Company of Pennsylvania, held last week, a resolution was adopted directing their Chief Engineer to proceed forthwith with the detailed survey and loca tion of one of the upper divisions of the Canal, with view to its immediate commencement. This division embraces the most difficult portion of the route, and it was therefore deemed advisable to begin operations |