On an island called Tenecum, sixteen miles above this town, the Swedes erected another fort, which they named New Gottenburgh; and John Printz, their governor, built a fine house, and other suitable accommodations; planted an orchard, and called his settlement Printz's Hall. The principal freemen had also their plantations on this island. About this time the Swedes also built forts at Chester, and other places. In the same year Chancellor Oxestiern, embassador from Sweden, made application to king Charles the first, to have the right the English claimed by their being the first discoverers yielded up: it was, (as they say the proof an uncertainty) given up accordingly. They also said they had purchased the pretence the Dutch claimed by virtue of the prior settlement, and buildings here: most of which were destroyed before their arrival. If this be true, the Dutch it seems did not think proper long to abide by their contract; but gave the Swedes disturbances, by encroaching on their new settlement; and both of them joined to dispossess the English, who also attempted to settle the eastern side of Delaware: one Kieft, a director under the states of Holland, assisted by the Swedes, drove the English away, and hired the Swedes to keep them out. The Dutch complained, that the Swedish governor judging this a fair opportunity, built fort Elsinburgh on the place from whence the English had been driven, and from thence used great freedom with their vessels, and all others bound up the river, making them strike to the fort; from which they also sent men on board to know whence the vessels came: This the Dutch deemed exercising an authority in a country not their own. But the musketoes were so numerous, the Swedes were unable to live here, and therefore removing, named the place Musketoeburgh. The Dutch seem to have had a very great opinion of the land near the Delaware, and were under great apprehensions of being dispossessed by the English, who they complained had divers times attempted to settle about that river, and judged if they once got footing, they would secure every part, so that neither Hollander nor Swede would have any thing to say here; in particular they mention Sir Edward Ploeyden, as claiming property in the country, under a grant from king James the first, who they alledge declined any dispute with them, but threatened to give the Swedes a visit, in order to dispossess them. them notice, & desired the like notice from the Swedes, if they understood barm was intended them; the Swedes then desiring the Indians in general would give them some signal that they all assented to what was said; they gave a general shout of approbation, and in the conclusion were entertained by the Swedes with victuals and drink: It was observed the Indians kept this league faithfully. The Swedish ships sent to succour this new colony, being obstructed in their intended voyage, by the Spaniards; and the Swedes unable for the want of money to keep their forts in repair; gave their more powerful neighbours the Dutch, opportunity with less danger to make encroachments upon them. Accordingly, in this year, the Dutch who inhabited near Virginia & New Sweden, gave the Swedes disturbance, seeking to regain the forts they had formerly possessed. But this by means of the Swede governor, with Peter Stuyvesant, who commanded under the Dutch, at New Amsterdam, was in appearance settled; yet in the year following, the Dutch fitted out seven vessels from New Amsterdam, with 6 or 700 men; who in the summer, under the command of Stuyvesant, came up Delaware, and took their first quarters at Elsinburgh, where they made some Swedes prisoners. Next they sailed towards a fort cal led Holy Trinity; having landed their men at a point near the place, and intrenched themselves, they soon af ter went up to the fort, and demanded a surrender, threatening what they would do in case of refusal. After which, by treaty or otherwise, they gained possession, took down the Swedes flag, and hoisted their own, securing all places with their soldiers, and sending the Swedes they had taken prisoners, on board their vessels. An acquisition deemed considerable, because this fort was looked upon as the key of New Sweden. On the second of September, they besieged Christiana fort and town; and destroyed New Gottemburgh, with such houses as were without the fort; plundering the inhabitants of what they had, and killing their cattle; the Swedes endeavoured to persuade the Dutch to desist from these acts of hostility, but to no purpose. After 14 days siege, they (in want of ammunition) were obliged to surrender upon terms: That all the great guns should be restored; to which purpose an inventory was taken; the Swedes had also the gratification to march out of the fort, with their arms, their colours flying, and drums beating. The officers and other principal in habitants among the Swedes, were carried prisoners to New-Amsterdam, and thence to Holland; but the common people submitting to the Dutch remained in the country. The following essays have lately appeared in "Poulson's American Daily Advertiser,” and being written by a practical man upon a subject which is at this time exciting considerable attention in the U. States, and especially in this state-we think deserve consideration. The experiments having been made in this state, and so fa vorable an opinion being expressed of the quality of the article produced here, we think give to the subject more than common interest. In the present discouraging aspect of the usual agricultural products, it is important that attention should be turned to others which promise more advantageous results-and silk is one of those which we think must assume an interesting rank among the domestic articles of our country. AMERICAN SILK. No. I. John Printz continued governor of the Swedes from his arrival until about the year 1654, when he returned to Sweden, having first deputed his son-in-law, John Papegoia, governor in his stead, who also some time after returned to his native country, and left the government to John Rysing. He renewed the league of friendship with the English and Dutch in the neighborhood, and formally with the Indians; for this purpose a meeting was held with the sachems or Indian chiefs, at Printz's Hall, on Tenecum island, where a speech was made to them in behalf of the queen of Sweden, expressing the desires the Swedes had to renew their friendship. The Indians had before made complaint, that the Swedes had introduced much evil amongst them; because many of the Indians since their coming were dead; but the Swedes now making them considerable presents, these received and divided amongst them, one of their chiefs, whose name was Noaman, made a speech rebuking the rest for having spoken evil of the Swedes and done them harm; telling them they should do so no more, that the Swedes were a good people, and thanking them for the presents, promised for the future, that a more strict friendship should be observed betwixt them. That as formerly they had been but one body and one heart, they should be hence-ucation in an extensive manufactory of Silks, at Nimes, forward, as one head, as a token of which he waved both his hands as if tying a strong knot, promising also that if they heard of any mischief plotting against the Swedes, although it were midnight, they would give The subscriber having received a part of his early ed in France, and by that means having become familiar with all the processes of that kind of manufacture, from the raising of the silk worm, and reeling off the silk from the cocoons, to the fabrication of the most delicate stuffs, has thought that it would not be unacceptable to the American public to lay before them the results of some experiments that he has made upon the produce of the American Silk Worm, in the short space of less than two months that he has been in this country.These results are truly surprising, as they show a superiority in the silk produced by the American worm, (at least in Pennsylvania,) over that of any other country that he has ever seen, which he was far from expecting, when he began his experiments, and which, he believes, no one had yet suspected or imagined. They promise an immense source of riches to the U. States. Those experiments were made at the farm or place of Messrs. Ter Hoeven, a Dutch family, who have a small, but thriving nursery of silk worms in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The first thing that struck the subscriber in the operations he made, was the extreme, and he may say, the dazzling whiteness of the silk obtained from the American worm. It is well known, that the raw silks of Italy and France, are in general of a yellowish colour; a comparatively small quantity of white silk is produced, and that is in very great demand, in consequence of its capacity to receive the most delicate dyes. Here, on the contrary, the white cocoons appear to be very numerous, and their silk is beautiful. This will make the American raw silk sought for in preference to any other. This, however, is not the only advantage which American Silk possesses over that of other countries: the following experiments will show what a mine of riches is opened to the industry of this country. EXPERIMENT I. Weight of the cocoons.-One cocoon, without chrysalis, was found to weigh six grains, avoirdupois. Three cocoons, also without chrysalis, weighed together, eighteen grains. The cocoons were not selected, and were taken at hazard. This weight is superior by near one half, to that of the cocoons of Europe, and this experiment shows that the American cocoons are nearly equal in weight; whereas in Europe, there is a pretty considerable inequality between them. EXPERIMENT II. Produce of the cocoons.-Eight ounces of cocoons with their chrysalides, not selected or picked, produced two ounces of raw silk of the first quality. It would require more than one pound of European cocoons to produce the same result. EXPERIMENT III Proof of Experiment I.-Seventy-five cocoons, with out chrysalis, weighed together 450 grains; which gives exactly six grains for each cocoon. These, however, were in some degree selected, though not with any great care. These 75 cocoons produced 419 grains of raw silk, superior to those of France and Italy. This may appear extraordinary, but it may be attested by several persons of respectability who were present. EXPERIMENT IV. Produce of bad Cocoons.-Thirteen bad cocoons with their chrysalides,--(by bad cocoons is meant those of which the worms have suffered from want of care or proper feeding,)-have produced 47 grains of superb silk. The subscriber will content himself at this time with laying the foregoing experiments before the public. He may, perhaps, at a future day, present them with some of the results of his experience in this branch of business, which he thinks may not be useless if it should be thought advisable to introduce it effectually in this country. No. II. The liberal manner in which my former observations have been received, and the interest which they appear to have excited among the enlightened friends of the prosperity of this country, have encouraged me to proceeed in laying before the public further views, which, 1 flatter myself, will not be found without some degree of utility. 77 I am a foreigner and a stranger in this country, and my residence in it has been but short; I shall, nevertheless, have to speak of what has been hitherto done by the citizens of America to introduce the Silk Worm, and even, to some extent, the manufacture of Silk, into the United States. In so doing, I shall speak with the caution and modesty which becomes me, from the lights (no doubt very imperfect) which I have been able to obtain; and if I shall commit unavoidable errors, I hope they will be forgiven, in consideration of the motives by which I am induced to communicate the results of my practical knowledge, for I pretend to no more. Since my last communication, I have made an additional experiment, at the same place as the former was, in the presence of a gentleman, who has permitted me to mention his name- -Mr. Duponceau, of this city, and his family. The result has confirmed the former ones. I put seventeen bad cocoons into the tub, in order to wind off the silk from them. Five of those cocoons immediately filled with water and were useless. The remaining twelve produced fifty grains of beautiful silk, which I have left in the possession of the gentleman above mentioned. From the best information which I have been able to obtain, I believe that the same quantity of silk has never yet been drawn from the American cocoons, any more than silk of the same fine quality, and that for reasons which I shall have occasion to mention. Nor is this to be wondered at. American genius and industry (to which the world is already indebted for so many useful inventions and discoveries,) have been exerted to the utmost; but practical knowledge was wanting, and what has cost Europe the experience of ages to acquire, no genius or talent could supply in the short space of time that has elapsed since this happy country has had the control over her destinies. The knowledge that I am speaking of, it is out of the power of books to communicate. Practice, long prac tice, is indispensibly required. The mode of raising the silk worm; indeed, may perhaps be acquired by theory, aided by diligent observation. But beyond that all is art,-complicated, difficult, and requiring experience and practice. The knowledge ofit, in its extent, is in Europe confined to a few whose business it is to direct the works. Those who execute the details, in their various branches, can only instruct in the parts which the minute subdivision of labour has assigned to them. It will not be, therefore, the art of extracting silk from the cocoons in its various quallities, or that of manufacturing that silk into threads or stuffs, that I shall un dertake to teach in these-successive communications. That would be attempting what is admitted to be impossible. But I think I can present views respecting the use to made of the immense riches that Heaven has bestowed upon this country, which I hope will not be uninteresting, and I can flatter myself that they will be found conducive to the national prosperity. What astonished me most, when admiring the beauty of the silk produced by the American cocoons, and its great superiority, both in quantity and quality, over those of Europe, was that these results should have been obtained in a country which more perhaps, than any other, is liable to those sudden changes of temperature which theoretical writers, as well as practical men, agree to be of all things the most injurious to the health of the silk worm. This I can ascribe to nothing else than to the particular, and, I must add, the skilful care of the American farmers to prevent the worms from feeling the effect of those changes. This requires more care, attention, and sagacity than might be believed by those who are not acquainted with the constitution of that delicate insect. I doubt much whether it will be credited at first in Europe, when the fact shall be made known there. All I can say is, that it has excited the astonishment of gentlemen from France, well acquainted with the silk business, who would not have believed it if they had not been present at my experi ments. I do not mean to write much nor long. What I have to say I shall endeavour to condense as much as possible. In addressing an intelligent nation, all useless details, and still more useless reflections, should be avoided. From what I have said of my not having been two months in this country, it may be asked, perhaps, how I came to write in the English language, with which I confess I am unacquainted. I shall only say in answer to this question, that the language of these communications is not my own, and that a gentleman of this city, to whom I communicated my ideas from time to time, has the kindness to clothe them in his own words, which he afterwards translated to me, as literally as possible, and to which, when possessed of the full meaning of ev-erscroy, and the Inspector of the National Manufactories, ery sentence, I affix my signature. No. III. his dominions; he has patronized and encouraged them; and I am informed that by means of these exertions, that branch of business in the Prussian provinces already begins to excite the jealousy of other nations. The King of the Netherlands, for the same purpose invited from Spain the Chevalier Barramendy, and assigned to him the Castle of Manoge, in the vicinity of the town of Ath, at the distance of ten leagues from Brussels, with a number of acres of ground belonging to it, which he has planted with the white mulberry tree. The King supplied him with considerable sums of money,as well from his private purse as from the public treasury. The silk which was made from the cocoons produced upon this establishment, proved, however, as I have been assured, of a very inferior quality. Nevertheless, the Minister of the Interior Van Grob Mr. Netscher, continued to encourage this undertaking. The Prince of Orange himself, the presumptive heir of the crown, went in person to Manoge to inspect the establishment, and give it the sanction of his pat ronage. In the new Republics of America the same spirit appears to prevail. Messrs. Chubaut and Latour, of Nimes, my native town, were called to Mexico some years ago to introduce the culture of silk. What success they had I do not know. They died in that country, and it is generally understood at Nimes, that they both died rich. It is the privilege of every writer to endeavour, by preliminary observations, to convince his reader of the importance of his subject. In the present case, there is perhaps less need of this than in any other that may be submitted to the American public. The immense riches which some nations of Europe, particularly France and England, have derived and are deriving from the silk trade, are within the knowledge of all who have attended to the general affairs of the world. Nevertheless, as I have been informed that it was not without considerable pains that the inhabitants of the Unit- But I have to relate a more striking fact, of which, by ed States were convinced, some 30 years ago, of the a circumstance which could hardly have been expected importance of the article of cotton, to which they owe the proof is here at hand. I have said that in Great Britin a great degree their unexampled prosperity, I shall ain the high degree of prosperity to which the manufacnot forego the good old custom, and shall show by some ture of silks has risen, had been obtained chiefly by inexamples, what exertions have been made and what ex-dividual exertion. Here is a remarkable instance of it. pense incurred by other nations to introduce the silk into their respective countries. In or about the year 1823, a Mr. Despoulies, a silk manufacturer of Lyons, went over to England, at the instance of individuals, for the purpose of introducing there some particular branches of his art. At the end of the twelvemonth he returned home, with the sum of thirty thousand pounds sterling. He was prosecuted by the government, for having introduced into a foreign country the art and industry of his own. The trial took place at Boulogn sur Mer. but, by the skill of his advocate, the defendant and some of his companions who were joined with him in the accusation, were fortunate It is well known that for several centuries Greece at first, and afterwards Italy, were the only countries that produced the article of silk and silk stuffs. France followed by slow degrees. Henry IV. was the first of their soveriegns who encouraged that branch of industry with a liberality worthy of that great morarch. He in vited one Michaeli from Italy into his dominions, and gave him, for the purpose of forming an extensive plantation of mulberry trees and raising the article of silk, the Castle of the old Marquis de Fournes, situated only acquitted. One of these gentlemen who was a dethe river Gardon, in the vicinity of Nimes, and the place which has passed into other hands, still bears the name of Michaeli's Castle. This ingenious foreigner was the first who began the manufactories of silk stuff's that now enrich that city; and tradition informs us, that the king expended on those establishments the immense sum of near one million & a half of French livres,which are equal to about three hundred thousand dollars, an enormous sum in those days. Of the manner in which the great silk manufactories of Lyons were first established, I am not so well informed. The silk manufactories of Great Britain began at a later period. They have been of slow growth, and were more promoted by individual exertions than by the aid of the government. Encouragements, indeed, by bounties, high duties, prohibitions, and the like, were freely given; but the rest was abandoned to the spirit of enterprise for which that nation is so conspicuous, which at last produced the brilliant success that we now witness. fendant in the suit with Mr. Despoulies, is now respectably established in this city, and by him I have been informed of the facts which I have stated. The importance of the silk business was felt in Pennsylvania even before it became an independent state.In the year 1770, the American Philosophical Society took up the subject, and petitioned the Legislature to provide, during five years, the annual sum of £500 for the encouragement of the filature of silk from American cocoons. This, however, was not carried into effect. By the exertions of individuals, the sum of about £900 ($2400) was raised by private subscription, and a filature was established at Philadelphia; but the undertaking was shortly afterwards abandoned, most probably for want of persons skilled in the art and able to extract such silk from the cocoons, as had been produced, would infallibly have been greedily purchased by the British manufacturers, and its further production immediately and effectually encouraged by the government of Great Britain. No. IV. In latter times, and since the termination of the wars which grew out of the French revolution, the sover- I now proceed to the main subject which I have un eigns of Europe, even of those countries whose climate dertaken to elucidate. I shall endeavor so to arrange would rather seem to forbid such undertakings, have the explanations that I shall give, that each number turned their thoughts to that branch of trade from may facilitate the intelligence of those that are to follow, which their neighbours have derived so much riches. This is indispensable, when speaking of an art compli The King of Prussia has made considerable sacrifices to introduce into his state the culture of the mulberry tree, and the manufacture of silk stuffs. He has at a great expense procured skilful Italians to migrate into cated in its nature and in its details, and the language and phraseology of which are only understood by those who are skilled in it. The art of the silk manufacturer, taken in its most general point of view, consists of three principal branches. 1. The first is the art of extracting from the cocoons, by the process of reeling, or filature, as it is called, the greatest possible quantity of silk of the different qualities used in the manufacture of silken stuffs, and so to extract it that it may, after undergoing other processes hereinafter to be mentioned, be safely and advantageously employed in those manufactures. The article thus produced, and wound into skeins, is called raw silk. It is the raw material of which silk stuffs are made, from the velvet down to the levantine. 79 of the silk which I have extracted from American cocoons, has already attracted the notice and excited the admiration of some of the most eminent French silk merchants who reside here and in New York; and they have applied to me for samples which they have transmitted to their correspondents at Lyons and Nimes, who, no doubt, will be equally astonished at the singular beauty of this American production. II. The next branch of the silk manufacturing business, is the preparation of the raw silk for the weaver's loom. This is done by a number of distinct and successive operations, performed by different machines, the principal of which, the mill, has never, as I am informed, been introduced into this country, and yet cannot be dispensed with. The silk, when thus prepared, is said in French to be moulinee, or milled; in English, I beleave to those who are better acquainted than I am with English technology. These operations are nice, difficult and complicated; their methods vary according to the kind of silk that is to be produced, whether singles, organzine or tram silk. Their success depends much on the manner in which the raw silk has been prepared before it is brought to the mill. After going through these various processes, the silk is wound into short skeins, for the greater facility of the weaver, and, after being dyed, is fit to be immediately employed in the manufacture of silk stuffs. I shall not undertake here to describe those processes, as it is entirely foreign to my object; and no descriptions that I can make could supply the place of skill, experience and practice. There are three qualities of raw silk, graduated according to their different degrees of fineness. While in that shape and until they have undergone the operations that are to fit them for the loom, they are called first, second, and third, beginning with the finest.-lieve, it is called organized or thrown silk-but this I They assume other names as soon as they have been prepared and made fit to be used by the manufacturer. Then they have ceased to be raw silk, and they are cal led singles, organzine and tram silk, according to their different degrees of fineness and the manner in which they have been passed through a certain machine called a mill. Singles, called in French le poil, that is to say, hair silk, are made of the first quality of raw silk, consequently the finest, as the name sufficiently implies.They are made of a single thread. This silk is used for the woof of the lighter stuffs, the warp of which is made of cotton thread. Organzine, in French organsin, is the next in fineness. It it employed in weaving to make the warp of those stuffs that are made entirely of silk. Tram-silk, called in French la trame, or soi de trame, which means woof silk, is the thickest of the three, and is the thread of which is made the woof of silk stuffs. It seems the English have preferred retaining the French name to translating it. Of the three qualities of raw silk, of which those different threads are made, the second, that which makes organzine, is the most in demand in foreign markets.— The silk which I have extracted from American cocoons, as mentioned in former numbers, is of that quality. In performing those operations, I have for the first time discovered the superior fineness of the American silk, by finding, to my great astonishment, that it required a much greater quantity of threads to produce the different qualities of raw silk above mentioned, than with the cocoons of Europe. Singles, or hair silk, made of the same number of threads as in Italy or France, would be almost impalpable, and entirely unfit for use. This superiority will give to the American raw silk a great advantage over all others. Raw silk is an article of commerce of great value to the countries that produce it. Great Britain imports it for the use of her manufactures from Bengal, China, Turkey and Italy, to the amount of one million eight hundred thousand pounds sterling annually. France imports it to the amount of 30,000,000 of francs,although she makes it herself in very large quantities, estimated at three times that amount, and more. A Mr. Enoch Durant, a silk broker in London, on his examination before a committee of the House of Commons, in 1821, ventured to say that no organzine silk is made in France. Whether by that expression he meant the raw material from which organzine is made, that is to say, raw silk of the second quality, or that that silk was not prepared there for the loom in the form called organzine, he was equally mistaken. The mulberry tree and the silk worm are extensively cultivated in France, and with great success, and the raw silk is manufactured there in all its possible shapes. I could not help noticing such a strange assertion thus made in the face of a British Parliament, and of an enlightened world. Be that as it may, if France does not make the kind of silk which Mr. Durant calls organzine, she will have the more to purchase from this country. The beauty III. The last branch is the weaying and manufacture of silk stuffs in all their varieties. It is sufficient for my purpose to indicate it. Having thus shown, as briefly as I have been able, the use that is made of the fine silk extracted from the cocoons, I shall proceed in my next number to speak of those articles that are manufactured from what is called the floss, and from waste and refuse silk. Philadelphia, 23d July, 1829. J. D'HOMERGUE. PENNSYLVANIA CANAL. HARRISBURG, July 27. The Canal Commissioners met in this town on Thursday last, and adjourned on Saturday. They ordered as follows: That the acting commissioner upon the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania canal be directed to employ such force and apply such funds as may be necessary to insure the completion and opening of the canal for navigation from the mouth of the Juniata to Middletown, on or before the first day of September next, and particularly that he be directed to repair the dam at Duncan's Island, by laying on stone so as to insure a sufficient supply of water by the above time. That the acting commissioner on the Western Division be directed to adopt such measures, to employ such force, and apply such funds as will insure the opening of the canal navigation from Blairsville to Pittsburg, by the first day of September next. That the superintendent on the Susquehanna Division be directed to place the canal from Northumberland to the dam at Duncan's Island in a situation to receive water for its navigation by the first day of September next, and that he be specially directed to see that a force be employed upon the Shamokin dam, sufficient to insure its completion, at or before the time specified in the contract. That the acting commissioner upon the North Branch Division be directed particularly to urge the prosecution of the Nanticoke Dam, so as to insure its completion and perfect security against the next fall and spring floods. That the superintendent on the Delaware division be directed to prosecute the work on the Dam across the Lehigh so as to insure its completion this fall. That the acting canal commissioner on the Juniata Division, be directed to employ such force, and apply such funds, as will insure the opening the canal from Lewistown to the junction with the Susquehanna division of the Pennsylvania canal by the first of November next, and if necessary, to employ a superintendent, specially to take charge of the aqueduct across the Juniata, and the work thence to the said junction. before 3 o'clock-the shortest passage ever made be- Despatch.-A gentleman who took passage in the Union evening line at 5 P.M. arrived in Philadelphia in time for the morning boat for New York and reached that place at 5 P. M. making only 24hours from Baltimore to New York city. FIRST BOATS.-We have delayed the publication of our paper this morning to a later hour than usual to announce (and we do it with much satisfaction) the arPresident Jackson bas ordered from Messrs. Bakerival of the first Packet Boats, the Pioneer and Pennsyl- well, Page and Bakewell's, of the city of Pittsburgh, a vania, at the port of Blairsville last evening. They are set of Glass for his own use. That order is nearly comowned by Mr. David Leech, whose enterprise and per- pleted. We had last week an opportunity of witnessseverance entitles him to much credit. A large partying this very splendid exhibition of American skill and of citizens and strangers met the boats a few miles be- ingenuity. It consists of large and splendid bowls, with low this town, and were received on board with that and without stands-celery glasses, pitchers, quart and politeness and attention for which Mr. L. is proverbial. pint decanters, tumblers, wine and champaign glasses, The Pioneer passed the first lift lock below this place salts, &c. &c. the whole tastefully executed in the very in the short space of three minutes! The boats are hand- best style of workmanship. The glass is as pellucid as somely fitted up and well calculated to give comfort | chrystal; and the beautiful cuttings give a brilliancy of to passengers. They were welcomed at our wharves effect not easily described. We think this specimen by the presence of many of our citizens of both sexes. of American workmanship will vie with the best producThey depart at 9 o'clock this morning for Pittsburg. tions of the French and English artists. It is very gratBlairsville Record. ifying to witness the great perfection to which our art. ists have arrived in the various objects to which their POTTSVILLE, July 25. skill and enterprise have been directed. We understand that the order is valued at about $1500.-Mercury Twenty buildings have been completed in this borough already, and we have been informed that fifty more have been contracted for, all of which are to be finished before winter sets in. Fifteen will be built of brick-the remainder of stone and frame. We speak within bounds, when we state that at least one hundred dwelling houses would be built this season, were it possible to obtain the materials and workmen on reasonable terms. At Port Carbon about fifty lots have been disposed of, which, according to the conditions of sale, are to be improved in the course of a year. Such is the march of improvement here, and still we have not more than one half the buildings we ought to have, to accommodate our present business. Our fellow citizen, Mr. Moore, is attaching an addition of twenty-five feet to his storehouse at Mount Carbon, which was found too small to accommodate his share of the transportation business. A potatoe stalk was cut last week at Port Carbon, which measured seven feet eight inches in height. It was in full health, and of a proportionate thickness. This is something extraordinary for our mountainous district; and we challenge the state to produce one of equal length. During the past week a canal boat, while laying at Port Carbon during the cessation of the navigation, was changed into a boarding house. The boatmen unwilling to lose time, worked on the rail road, and kept boarders, without being troubled with ground rent. EASTON, July 24. Our borough presents a livelier appearance this season than ever it did. Day after day, stages and carriages, gigs and buggys, drive up to our hotels.-The Lehigh Canal is now in the full tide of successful experiment, and the Company are sending down coal as fast as practicable. Two packet boats run regularly on this canal to Bethlehem, Allentown and Mauch Chunk, thus furnishing travellers with an inducement to visit us, and take the pleasantest route to the above places. The High Constables report, that 734 dogs have been killed and buried between the 16th day of May and 17th day of July, 1829, agreeably to an ordinance passed the 29th day of May, 1828. The Union Line arrived Tuesday, 21st, at 10 minutes GREENSBURGH, Рa. July 17. Died, on Sabbath night, the 5th, inst. at his residence in South Huntingdon township, Andrew Finley, Esq. after a lingering confinement, in the 79th, year of his age. The deceased was one of the pioneers of the west-one of the first settlers of Westmoreland county, and one of the remaining few who held a commission under Washington in the regular service during the Revolutionary war. As a man he was mild, judicious, and unassuming; as a parent, affectionate; as a citizen, respected; as a member of the Church of Christ, consistent; and as a justice of the peace, which office he held for many years, dignified and correct in the discharge of its duties. We know of no place in this neighborhood, according to the number of houses heretofore in it, which has increased in number of buildings faster than the village of Williamsport, vulgarly ycleped 'Snuff-town,' across the mouth of the Lehigh from our borough. Within the last year there have been 8 new dwelling houses (such as they are) erected in it, and a hotel licenced, kept by our friend Mr. Thomas Downey, and receives a liberal patronage. We have heard some talk about their wishing to be incorporated into a borough. We understand that the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company have changed the name of "Hammelton," to "South Easton." It is situated at the locks south of our borough, and is a flourishing village. But from the advantage of situation and water power, it must ere long be a busy manufacturing town. The Company have not yet laid out the town plot, nor come to any determination in relation to the amount of water privileges which they mean to dispose of. Easton Whig. The Easton Argus of Friday, says, that the farmers of that vicinity are busily engaged in getting in their grain, which has turned out remarksbly well. The corn crop, too, promises to be unusually good. 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