The other half, 29,000 tons, by persons paying the toll of 90 cents the whole distance Carriage of passengers on their way to and from New York and Philadelphia, and the western towns in Pennsylvania, and persons who now travel through Ithaca via Newburg, Catskill, Cooperstown, Jersey City, Cayuga lake, and Auburn, at least 80 a day, at $1 each person, for 300 days, Country travel between Ithaca and Owego on the burden cars, now done in country wagons, which often bring in 200 persons a day, say average of 50 persons, at 50 cents, 300 days, The annual expenses of the road, of every kind, upon the most liberal scale of calculation, are expected not to exceed Leaving a nett revenue of Which supposing you allow the road to cost the capital, And for cars, horses, and extra improve. ments, $58,000 26,100 The engines, the smallest curve being not less than two The nature of its sources of revenue makes this road an exception to most rail-roads contemplated in this country. It depends for its principal support, upon a more unfluctuating source than the conveyance of passengersthe transit of immense quantities of merchandize and produce. From its advantageous location, it must of 24,000 necessity command the entire transportation of business, as it will enable the carriers to carry their freights at a diminution of about fifty per cent. upon present rates, or rather upon every possible rate at which the same could be effected by the ordinary modes of conveyance. This business, which at the present moment, if our statements are correct, will yield a very large income for capital employed, will be very rapidly increased by the natural increase of the commercial resources of rich country with a rapidly growing population-by the opening of new markets for commodities, in conse quence of the cheapness of transportation, and by the introduction of new staples of great value, as coal, lime, 7,500 $115,600 20,000 95,600 $300,000 50,000 $330,000 Will leave the earnings on the investment at more than twenty-eight per cent. The results of this calculation have appeared so very astonishing to many, to whom they have been shown, that I have been more than once reminded of the unfortunate results of the recent rail-road stock speculations in our state-speculations founded upon estimates apparently as plausible as these. This demands a remark or two, and in reply to this suggestion, I would say that in the first place, it is a matter of public notoriety that, the road with which those speculations have been principally connected, has been most grossly mismanaged, and has cost nearly double the sum for which it might have been made: in the second place, it is very far from an ascertained matter, that its stock is not intrinsically worth the highest sum ever paid for it; on the contrary, with prudent and economic management, there is great reason to think that few stocks in this country would produce a larger income. But in the third place, the Ithaca and Owego Rail-road, from the peculiar character of the route, and the nature of its sources of revenue, and of its future prospects, admits no comparison with any one now in contemplation. The character of this route is very peculiar. In importance-Being the grand portage between the inland waters of the state of New York and those of Pennsylvania, debouching into the Atlantic. In physical advantages for construction-The road commencing at the waters of Cayuga lake, after traversing the village of Ithaca, will overcome the principal ascent by an inclined plane within the compass of a mile: from the summit of the plane the road will rise by a trifling elevation for the distance of eight miles to the highest summit-from which point, by a descent scarcely perceptible, it will wind through a fertile valley almost populous enough to be considered a continued village, for the distance of twenty miles, where it will terminate on the river, within the village of Owego. Through the whole route, the ground is so favorable, that in grading the road, it has hardly been found necessary to resort to deep cutting or high embankment, although the horizontal curves are so slight as to allow the employment of the fleetest If the company should become the sole transporters, at least $15,000 might be added to this amount. &c. The future prospects of the Board are vast, beyond calculation. By the aid of the Ithaca and Geneva Rail Road, the Ithaca and Owego Road will form the great connecting link or thoroughfare between the two great rail roads contemplated to be built, the one from Buffa lo to Schenectady, and the other, which is already char tered, from Lake Erie, through the southern tier of counties, to New York. Upon the completion of these works, and who that has seen the spirit and progress of public improvement in this state, can doubt of their ultimate existence, the products of the western part of our state, and the shores of Lake Erie, will pour through this channel, to that point from which the choice of a market can be made with the greatest advantage of the three great marts, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is no trifling characteristic of this Road, that it will not only be the means by which the resources of the great West can be brought to the best point, for availing themselves of three of the best markets in the United States, but that it will also be the great means of bringing into active competition for the commerce of the State of New York, the emporiums of the States of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. For the same reasons, a very considerable portion of that immense concourse of travellers who annually pour down the valley of the Mohawk on their way to New York, will be attracted by that route, which is both their shortest route to the city, and at one of its points, in a business view, central to the three great commercial towns. The facts of the great amount of transportation, at present existing on the route of the Road, having been stated, I will now mention one of the great causes why such a trade is attracted to it, and its consideration will probably diminish both surprise and scepticism as to the calculations for the future. It is a well known fact that the Susquehannah river is open five or six weeks in the spring earlier than the eastern section of the Erie canal, and two or three weeks later in the winter. It is also well known that the western section of that canal can be navigated a fortnight earlier than the eastern section. Hence there is an inducement late in the fall for the western merchants to send their produce to Ithaca and Owego, to avoid detention by the sudden closing of the canal, and to avail themselves of the early Philadelphia and Baltimore markets. As an illustration of the advantages of this course, I state the fact, that a merchant has been known to accompany his produce down the river in the spring to Baltimore; with the proeeeds of it in New York, buy his spring goods, and then be detained, for the opening of the canal, for near a fortnight. He found his advantage on reaching his des tination with his articles at a time when his neighbours had scarce shipped their's to market. There is one feature in the charter of this Road, which as it gives great advantage when compared with some others, is worth noting. It is the fact that the charter cannot be taken by the Legislative from the stockhold ers. In some charters a clause intended to guard against too great monopolies, is inserted, authorizing the State, on the repayment of the capital stock, with a fixed rate of interest, to resume their grant. This feature of course limits the value of the stock, and fixes a price beyond which it can never rise; but in that of the Ithaca and Owego Rail Road Company, the grant for fifty years can never be recalled, except for the misconduct of its managers. I annex to this, copies of the statistical tables referferred to, which I beg you will read with attention, as you will find some astonishing facts stated in them, as for instance that there are 299 mills within 12 miles. The wings consist of a granite basement, supporting a marble superstructure, three stories in height, with piazzas or verandas on each story of the front and rear, raised on 88 cast iron columns, resting upon the granite piers. The interior of the building is vaulted throughout, and is in every respect completely fire proof. The roof of the centre is covered with copper, and that of the wings with slate. The dormitories, on the flanks of the centre building, contain 180 rooms, all of which are well lighted and ventilated, and are calculated for the reception and accommodation ‹f about 400 men. The extremities of the wings contain a hall, workshop, operating room, and offices, all of which have a communication with the piazzas on the outside, and the passage from the centre of the building. The basement story of the centre building contains a dining room 113 laundry, pantries, store-room, office, and warming apfeet in length, together with a kitchen, wash-house, paratus. This story has an immediate communication with the principal and third stories, by a flight of marble steps leading to the portico on the outside, and by a double flight of steps, of the same material, from the hall on the outside of the building. The principal sto of the centre building contains in front 8 parlours, intended for officers' quarters, and a chapel in the rear 56 feet square, which receives its light from a lantern in the dome, and has a direct communication with the pas I have now as far as it is in my power given you what I deem the proper statement of the causes which are expected to give its intrinsic value to the stock of our Road. I say our Road, for a considerable investment in its stock not only identifies its interests with mine and that of my friends, but shows our faith in its value. You are sufficiently conversant with these matters to judge of its probable value, either as a stock specula-sages in the centre, and the piazzas on the outside of the building. The surgeon's apartment, infirmaries, tion, or a permanent investment of capital; an opportu- apothecary's rooms, bath rooms, and closets, are adja. nity to do which will shortly be offered to you by origi- cent to the chapel and main interior passage. The attic nal subscription to the new stock. for the officers, and governor, or manager of the instior third story of the centre building, includes chambers tution, apartments for the insane, bath rooms, closets, If you wish any further information on the subject, I refer you to any intelligent resident of Ithaca or Owego, or of Tompkins or Tioga county, who will doubtless be glad to give you, not opinions of future events, but the facts of the present time-which you will find abundantly confirming the statements made in this communication, and affording the strongest presumptions that the most sanguine expectations of those interested in this important work will not be disappointed. ALBANY, Sep. 1. 1832. Yours, &c. UNITED STATES NAVAL ASYLUM. From Report to Congress-1830. "The asylum which has been erected on the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, was designed as a place of permanent abode for such of the officers, seamen, and marines of the Navy, as might need a home on their retirement from its service; for those who might be disabled, or who might, from the advances of age and infirmity, be incapable of performing those duties for their country, which, in the manhood of life, they have most faithfully discharged. This design has been executed with a liberality bordering on extravagance; but, it will at least prove, that the nation is not unmindful of the debt it owes to the prowess of that class of the defenders of its rights, for whom this commodious and magnificent edifice has been prepared." Copy of a communication from William Strickland, Esq. to the Commissioners of the Navy Hospital Fund. Philadelphia, December 1st, 1829. Gentlemen-Agreeably to your request, I have the honor to submit for your consideration, a report of the progress made in the building of the United States' Naval Ayslum, at Philadelphia, together with an estimate of the whole amount of funds necessary to its final completion. The building is situated on the river Schuylkill, a short distance below the junction of South street with the Gray's ferry road. It is 385 feet in front, including a centre building 142 feet, by 135 feet in depth, which is embellished with a marble portico of eight Ionic columns, 3 feet each in diameter. &c. &c. The whole of the interior of the building will be finished in about three weeks from this date. The carpenters have but a few doors and sashes to hang; the plasterers will complete the plastering in the course of next week; and the painters have but the finishing coat to put on. The whole of the marble work of the building and portico, with the exception of a small part of the raking cornice and tympanum of the pediment, and of the flight of steps in front, leading to the portico, is finished. These parts of the work would have been completed at this day, but that I have been unable to procure, in season, from the quarriers, such blocks of stone as are necessary to their completion. Under these circumstances I have, however, deemed it expedient to close, in a few days from this time, the operations of the marble masons until the ensuing spring. The work which will remain to be done, after the end of this month, will not require of me that kind and degree of attention which I have heretofore devoted to it, and I shall therefore, with your permission, consider the ar rangement for my salary as closing with the present year. The magnitude of the work, and the substantial character of the materials which have been employed in constructing the Naval Asylum, will of course be recollected, when the amount of expenditure, and the propriety of its application, shall be made the subject of consideration. Every attention has been paid to economy in the disbursement of the public funds, from the earliest commencement of the work to the present day. The contracts which were made by myself, at the laying of the corner stone of this edifice, for marble, bricks, lime, &c., were, at the time, and still remain, considerably below the, market price of these articles: the work throughout has been done with the great est fidelity, and at moderate prices; and in fact, I am not aware that, in this country or in Europe, the same quantity of labor and materials has been procured either for the government or individuals, by the expenditure of so small an amount of money. The actual expenditure on account of the building is, at this date, $198,000. The amount due on the building may be estimated as difficulty, having on board a freight amounting to seven follows: For marble, Marble masons and laborers' wages, Bricks, Lime and sand, Painting and glaizing, Carpenters' work, Lumber, Plasterers' wages and materials, hundred and sixty-two dollars. This vessel was con$4,500 structed expressly for the purpose, is called the brig 2,500 Pavo, and commanded by Capt. McKensie. 500 1,500 SCHUYLKILL NAVIGATION We understand that the 900 Navigation Company have made arrangements for dou3,000 bling the locks throughout the whole line of the canal. 1,500 This work has already been commenced in several 500 places, and will continue to be prosecuted with vigour. 450 The advantages which will resuit to the business of 1,500 transportation from the adoption of this measure are sufficiently obvious. The disposition manifested by the company to make timely provision for the accommodation of our increase of trade, which will thus avoid any check or interruption, is certainly laudable. The mutuality of the beneficial con equences does not lessen our obligation. The new section of canal in the neighborhood of Reading will be ready for use in the spring, and the reservoir at this place will also be completed by the same period. - Miner's Journal. $17,500 The amount required to complete the building is as follows: For marble now contracted for, and workmanship of the pediment and steps of the portico, Marble mantels throughout the building, ontracted for, and part executed, Iron railing in front of the piazzas, contracted Plumber's work in fitting up baths, water $5,500 800 6,500 $27,300 Making as the total cost of the building and appurtenances, when completed, about $242,000 Respectfully submitted, by your obedient servant, WM. STRICKLAND. The Hon. JOHN BRANCH, JOHN H. EATON, Commissioners of the Navy Hospital Fund, Washington. 4,500 In conformity with previous notice in our columns, the sale of coal lands announced by the New York and 5,500 Schuylkill Coal Company took place on the day appoint3,000 ed at the Merchant's Coffee House, in the city of Phil1,500 adelphia. The result, we understand, was very satis factory, fully realizing the most sanguine expectations of all interested. Lands amounting to seventy-six thousand dollars in value, were disposed of, together with several shares of rail road stock at a fair valuation, which stock at no distant period will, in all probability, command a handsome premium. Notwithstanding the universal scarcity of money and general commercial depression, occasioned by recent political events, capitalists were still found able and willing to embark their funds in real property of such intrinsic value, and of so productive a character, as that which abounds in this vicinity. At so unfavourable a crisis a disappointment would have been no marvel. But the reverse has in reality happened, which must be considered a circumstance of no ordinary weight, and furnishes another very conclusive proof of the estimation in which our property is deservedly held abroad. Something like a thorough conviction of the importance of the region we inhabit will doubtless be produced on the most prejudiced minds when the close of the present season shows the full amount of our exportations.-ib. A Grape Vine consisting of a single stem, standing in the garden of Jacob Miesse, Esquire, in Bern township, produced on its branching vines 1238 bunches of Gapes, taken down a few days ago. Mr. John Boss and Dr. Quenaudon of Reading, besides other persons, viewed the vine a short time before the grapes were plucked. PITTSBURG, Oct. 26. CHOLERA. On the 22d instant, at one o'clock, A. M. William Lyon, a coloured man, just from Cincinnati, died of this disease, in this city. During the same day, Mrs. Bender, from Cincinnati; John Smith, a steamboat hand, also from that city, and Polly Coleman, a colored woman, a resident of this city, i and intemperate, were all attacked. The former is almost entirely recovered; the two latter died on the 22d. On the 24th, a man, who had lately arrived from below, on board a steamboat, and who had been committed to jail, on a charge of larcency, was seized with this disease-he is now convalescent. These five cases, and three deaths, are the whole amount of the visitation which has yet fallen upon us. Our atmosphere, we believe, is now as pure, and healthy as it ever has been; indeed, if we may judge from our own feelings, and from our conversation with various persons, decidedly purer and healthier than it was three or four weeks ago -No new case had been reported up to the 29th October. NEW COLLIER.-A vessel carrying three hundred and five tons of Coal loaded last week, in the river Schuylkill, for Boston, and passed over the bar without APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR. WILLIAM SHOENER, Esq. to be Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, in the place of P.L A. Good, Esq. deceased. Barnabas Davis, of Easton, to be inspector of flour, for the port of Philadelphia, in the place of Jacob Holgate, Esq. deceased. Reported for the United States Gazette. DISTRICT COURT OF PHILADELPHIA. FRIDAY, Oct 26th. -- DOGHERTY vs. DONOGHUE This was an action brought by Thomas B. Dogherty against the Rev. Mr. Donoghue of the Catholic Church, (formerly of Ireland) to recover the penalty—assigned by an act of the Philadelphia Legislature about a century ago-against any Clergyman or other person, who should solemnize the marriage of a minor (or one under 21 years of age) without the consent and knowledge of his parents. The penalty specified by the act is £50 sterling. Brewster for the plaintiff, and Haley for the defendant The marriage of Dogherty, son of the plaintiff, with Ann McAlister, by the defendant, was proved by the groomsman and bridesmaid of the parties. She (it was evidenced) was not under 20 or 21 years of age; while 286 her betrothed was born on the day in February 1815, when it was first announced in this city that peace had been concluded between the Union and Great Britain-but she proved to him "That fairy form which first love traced." In the defence it was contended that the father had not been aggrieved or sustained any injury by the marriage of his son, who being poor as he was young, could not require a compensation for his loss-that the defendant did not know the age of the bridegroom, and was not aware of the law prohibiting the marriage of minors, or of any person under a stipulated age. The penalty of £50 was considered enormous, and the statute almost obsolete-it was urged that the defendant was rather poor, and that the plaintiff had not justly (however legally) aright to recover compensation solely from the ignorance of the defendant, not from any personal injury or loss. It was also said that the evidence was insufficient. Brewster replied with some acrimony on the plea of ignorance of the defendant of the law of the land, and the age of the bridegroom-not sparing the profession or persuasion of the Reverend defendant. He considered it a sufficient injury or grievance to any father to be deprived of his child in nonage-and particularly if that deprivation be by a luckless and improvident marriage. Judge Hallowell in his charge to the Jury, admitted the existence, necessity and advantage of the law prohibiting the marriage of minors without their parent's knowledge and consent; that the act had frequently been enforced, and that it stipulated £50 as the penalty of its infraction. He regretted that any counsel in the Union should in a court of justice stigmatize any persuasion or profession, religious or civil-and asserted that in the Statesland opinion, were not coerced, and should not be reprobated. If Au the Jury believed the evidence, the penalty was assigned; whether it should be mitigated or enforced, was at their disposal. The Jury retired; but took so long time to consult, that the Court adjourned till 10 o'clock this day, (Saturday.) [In the above case the jury have returned verdict for the plaintiff of $133 33, with six cents damages and six cents costs.] Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a young horse attached to a dray, and under the guidance of two young men, became restive on the lower side of Market street, between Sixth and Seventh, and sprung away from his guides, running directly down Decatur street, demolishing at an awful rate the market wagons tastefully arranged on the lower side. Dashing onward, with the heavy dray still attached to him, he rushed up the five marble steps on the north side of the Arcade, sweeping away a portion of the heavy iron railing, pursued his way along the eastern avenue of that spacious building, scattering far and wide the shopkeepers' boxes, passed down the steps of the south front, taking with him at the dray wheels another portion of the iron railing, and continued directly across Chesnut street, into the Messrs. Loud's Piano Forte Manufactory, and here (Continued from page 159.) Residence. Knoodle, near Walnut Lombard, near Schuylkill 3d 12th, between Spruce and Pine 1 do 5th, abo. Catherine, 1 do 6th, below Shippen Male. Femal. White. Black. Result. 17 dead 30 3C 1 1 52 1 30 1 Corner Adams and Fitzwater Filbert, do do do Corner Schuyl. 4th and Market Shippen, between 6th and 7th Water, below South 18 Queen, near Wood 4th, between Shippen and Plumb Atkinson's court 1 11 1 26 1 20 1 36 11 1121 dead Race street, 1 case Sugar alley, below 7th Schuyl. 8th, above Race Bird's court, No. 170 Shippen Brown's court, near 8th 85 Shippen 160 Lombard 70 9 11 5 5 40 1 11 60 1 1 30 1 1 Broad, bet. Ship. & Fitzw't, 1 case Plumb, below 5th 3 Moyamensing road, opposite Plumb Prime, near Front Front, below Almond 8 No. 60 Perry street Filbert, bet. Schuyl. 7th and 8th Third, above Brown 28 1 40 1 Bet. Apple st. and Old York road Elfreth's alley, near 2d street Front, above Coates 65 1 1 Spruce near 2d Race, above 13th 45 1 do do 13th, bet. Race and Cherry streets Front, below Washington West Philadelphia 1 case would have been a signal crashing of the "beautiful and frail," but that. fortunately, the horse in his haste made no calculations for the width of the dray, and while the animal found ingress for a part of its "person," the shaft of the dray struck violently against the lintel of the door, making an indenture as deep and large as if a nine pounder had been let off against the premises. Considering the number of persons usually assembled in the places through which the animal passed, it is marvellous that no personal injury was sustained.[United States Gazette. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. THURSDAY, Oct. 23, 1832. Mr. TOLAND requested to be discharged from the Watering Committee, and Mr. Lippincott was appointed in his place. The President of the Select Council appointed the following gentlemen on the Standing Committees, Ways and Means.-Messrs. Lippincott, Massey and Lewis. Paving Committee.-Messrs. Worrell, Neff, Massey and McCredy. Committee of Accounts-Messrs. Lippincott, Toland and Groves. Committee on Markets.-Messrs. Worrell, Fox and McCredy. Library Committee.-Messrs. Lewis and Neff. Committtee on Fire Companies.-Messrs. Groves, Worrell and Wetherill. Committee on Franklin and Scott's Legacies.-Messrs. Worrell and Wetherill. Committee to take charge of Franklin Square. Messrs. Groves and Massey, Wetherill and Sailor. Committee to take charge of Logan and Penn Squares.-Messrs. Lippincott and Fox, Gilder and Smith. A committee to take charge of Washing ton and Rittenhouse Squares.-Messrs. Toland and Eyre, Lapsley and Maitland. Committee to take charge of the State House and Independence Square-Messrs. Worrell and Lewis, Morris and Toland. Committee to have the necessary superintendence of Wills' Legacy.-Messrs. Lippincott, Neff, Groves and Worrell; Huston, Lapsley, Yarnall and McMullin. An item of unfinished business, relative to the improvement of the City property at Chesnut street wharf on the Schuylkill, was referred to Messrs. Worrell, Groves, Fox and Massey; Gilder, Aken, Wetherill and An item of unfinished business, relative to the improvement of the Girard Lands in Schuylkill County was referred to Messrs. Groves, Lippincott and Neff; Toland, Elliott and Morris. Mr. Eyre presented a petition praying that South Alley continued, be paved, which was referred to the Paving Committee. Mr. Lippincott offered the annexed resolution which was adopted, and Messrs. Lippincott, Wetherill, Eyre, Merrick, Huston and Gilder were appointed the Committee. Resolved, That a committee of 3 members from each Council be appointed with instructions to inquire and report the expediency of constructing works to light the city of Philadelphia with gas. |