quired very solemn impressions of the magnitude of the in committing his family, as he did, on his death bed, to evils which the vice of drunkenness has brought on the the providential care of his Maker, he seemed to have country, and few persons, although much attention has acquired a calmness and submission that permitted no been given to it by some of the foremost men of the murmuring word to escape his lips, nor allowed of one time, had accumulated more of statistic knowledge on sign of impatience or wilfulness, to express his unwilthe point than himself. In the organization of the Penn-lingness to meet that fate for which he was prepared by sylvania Society for Discouraging the use of Ardent Spi- a blameless life. rits, as well as in its administration as Manager, he took a very active and discreet part. Dr. Emlen's private business occupied a very large share of his time. It had augmented rapidly during the last few years of his life, so that, with his public and private affairs, he had little leisure for visits of ceremony, or for any waste of that time which in his eyes was so valuable. We have said that a physician's life for the most part furnishes few materials for the biographer: and yet, could we trace step by step so good a man's walk; behold him as he carries into the haunts of sickness, pain and despair, the healing influences of his function; see him at the bed side of the declining and dying, calling the careless or amazed senses to a just consideration of the duties of the creature towards the Creator; could we feel each throb of that sympathizing heart, or sum up the numerous alms-givings of that ever open hand,what more should we need of events, to grace his memory or make his history interesting? The mad ambition of a conqueror may drive his headlong squadrons from the Granicus to the Indus over prostrate rights and bleeding bodies-may gather trophies, and wear them; but in the eye of sober reason and reflection, such are not half so lovely, so good, so beneficial in their day as the ceaseless and noiseless triumphs of a good physician, whose christianity adorns and at the same time is illustrated by a blameless life. Dr. Emlen was a christian: those who knew him will appreciate this praise. His religious diary, commenced in 1823, was continued up to the day preceding the invasion of his last illness, and contains a faithful, candid transcript of his feelings and views concerning the immortal hopes and desires that he experienced. It affords the evidence of that strained anxiety for improvement in morals, which he seems to have made a regular part of his plan, and of which he never lost sight in his conduct or conversation. We ought to remark that during his absence in Europe, he had been so much in the world as to have omitted some degree of that rigid observance of plainness that marks the dress and manners of Friends; but as his mind began to be more and more impressed with his religious obligations, he became more conformed to the practice of his society. His diary has an entry relating to the change he had effected in dress and demeanour, which was made for the pur pose of enabling him, with less embarrassment or inconsistency, to live up to the requisitions of his con science. He quotes an observation, "we become christians more speedily by changing that which is within than that which is without," and subjoins, that in order to enable him to restrain his conduct with less hesitation within the bounds of the cross, and feel as though he had no plea for appearing to act as a worldly man, he had assumed that plainness of stile which he doubtless considered as customary and useful aids in the christian warfare. In the year 1819, he married Beulah Valentine, who was like himself a member of the Friends' Society. In the tender relations which this union produced, he found the purest sources of happiness. To his children he bore an affection that might be called passionate. We presume to say that the fire of parental love glowed in his breast with redoubled intenseness, perhaps because of the habitual restraint under which he was accustomed to hold his passions: how lamentable must have seemed the stroke which divided him in this world from the care and watchfulness over his children, which appeared to be, for him, the best part of existence. Nevertheless, From the American Medical Review. CASE OF A HORNED WOMAN. MARLBOROUGH, Montgomery Co. (Pa.) 10th July, 1826. Dear Sir-I take the liberty of forwarding for your perusal the following case of an horned woman, hoping that from its very rare occurrence, it may not prove unacceptable. The account may be relied on, as many others besides myself have seen her, and as she resides but five miles distant from this place. Mrs. B, aged about seventy years, the wife of a farmer of Bucks county, of a robust constitution, was affected four years ago with a very troublesome itching over the centre of the parietal bone of the left side. In a short time she perceived a hard tumour of a horny structure occupying the place thus affected, which continued to increase, so that by the end of twelve months it had attained the length of one inch. Without any considerable pain, it has progressed in its growth an inch every year, and is at present four inches in length, and as thick as one's little finger. It is not attached to the bone, but is evidently an affection of the cuticle, commencing with a granular hour-glass-shaped tumour of three-eighths of an inch in length, from which the horn abruptly rises. After growing straight for one inch and three quarters, it takes a spiral direction, and has completed nearly a circular turn and a half horizontally, of about the diameter of a quarter dollar piece. In appearance it so closely resembles the horn of a buck sheep, that was it placed near a real sheep's horn, it would be difficult to distinguish between them. It is of the same colour, a dingy yellow; is as perfectly hard, and has all the rings natural to a horn of that animal, tapering also as it does, to the end. As it occasions no pain, except when a blow compresses its fleshy base between the horn and the bone;-as it is perfectly concealed by her head dress, and on account of what is of far more moment with her, a superstitious belief that it is a judg. ment from above, for some of her manifold sins, she resists all persuasion to have it removed. With sentiments of gratitude, I am yours, &c. Dr. B. Rush Rhees. GEO, R. MORTON. [The Hon. William Keith, Esq. had been appointed Govr. by ye Proprietor wth consent of ye Crown, as the Charter required. Mr. Penn Junr. after his father's death, had given him a Commissu as Govr, without that Consent; Keith doubted the Propriety of acting under it, and stated the case to Secry Craggs, who submitted it to the Lds Justice and they to the Lords of Trade and Plantations; upon this occasion the following Letter was written, and Keith's Scruples approved.] Extract from a Letter from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (dated Whitehall July 21st, 1719," and signed, "J. Chetwynd, Charles Cook, T Pelham, Marlin Bladen,) to the Lords Justices of England. "We think it our Duty, upon this Occasion, to acquaint your Excellencies, that we have been informed there was formerly an agreement made between her late majesty and Mr. Penn for this Province, and that Mr. Penn did receive part of the money in pursuance of the said agreement; We are not able to judge how far it may suit with the present Condition of his Majesty's affairs to compleat this agreement; but we cannot help thinking, that all occasions should be laid hold on to recover at least the Dominion of all the Proprietary Colonies into the Hands of the Crown."-Records of Council. mittee of Ways and Means. Counties, as Adjusted by the ComEstates in the City and the several Amount of the Value of the Real the Committee of Ways & Means Adjusted average price per Acre by the City and several Counties. Real and Personal property in Amount of the Assessed value of Assessed value of Personal property. Amount of Assessed value of Lands. preceding column. Unseated Lands included in the County. Total quantity of Acres in each Average value per Acre. Assessed value per Acre. AN ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS MADE BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA AND THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, In pursuance of a requisition of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives of the said commonwealth; and printed by order of the said house. To this Abstract is added, the date at which the several Counties were laid out-the number of Taxable Inhabitants in each-and the value of Real Property in the said City and Counties respectively-adjusted by the said COMMITTEE so as, in their opinion, to form a good Rule for Apportioning amongst them any Tax that may be ASSESSED upon the Real Estates of the Inhabitants of this State. The 12th, 13th, and 14th, columns are incomplete, in consequence of the imperfect Returns of the commissioners. The commissioners, in their Returns designating the quantity of Land of first, second, third, and fourth rate, in their respective Counties, had no reference to land in their neighboring Counties,-hence no judgment can be formed by a comparison of what is called first rate in-one County with that of the same rate in another: For what is termed first rate in one County, would hardly be fourth rate in another. And so of the other rates. for. After making the usual allowance for roads and highways, and ample allowance for rivers and rivulets, there will be something more than a million and a half of Acres unaccounted N.B. The Commissioners of the counties of Indiana, the quantity of Land in each of those Counties. Jefferson, Potter, Tioga and Schuylkill, having made no Returns, the Committee have supplied the defect by an estimate of 260419 50 86913 8 24 43 64 361804 15792193 36 13024944 Chester 8072 100 to 150 3 50 55 05 412537 $22710280 1233103 23943383 37 *15263869 1729 1749 17493 1750 1752 Lancaster 11346169380 64 254071 47 84691 10 6772 40909 40 to 75 34844 20 to 40 404308 1 5971 7682 80 166454 37 324044 29 Berks 7390/100000 60 160000 40 260000 5 20 20 42 83 508142 17 70 480061 21768295 6785284 28553579 8500079 48 24390816 75 18 21 23 25 498180 11584059 8500079 11584059 31 32 28 520000 16790000 16790000 35 1820000 This sum includes Lots and Houses in the Northern Liberties, Southwark, Germantown, &c. &c. Signed on behalf of the Committee of Ways and Means, Harrisburg, March 1, 1815. JACOB BUCHER, Chairman. EXTRACTS OF AN ORATION Delivered at the Church in Manayunk, July 4, 1828, by Dr. J. A. ELKINTON. Let us look back for a moment and compare the condition of our country at this time, with what it was twenty years ago. I well remember, at the winter fire-side, hearing my father recount the dangers and the trials in crossing the Allegheny, and the almost insurmountable difficulties which he and his fellow travellers experienced in 1800, during a western expedition. The high and imposing summit of the mountain threatening to overwhelm them on one side, and the deep daring precipice, which looked down hundreds of feet over rocks and sharp ledges of stone, on the other. No turnpike which now levels the irregularities of the mountain with that of the plain, was known to them at that time. What were the resources of the farmer who inhabited the upper counties along the head waters of the Susquehanna? And how appalling were the prospects of the husbandman in that quarter, in obtaining a ready market for the produce of his soil. When the waters of the Schuylkill moaned their uselessness, and those of the Susquehanna knew no attachment to its sister stream. Now mark the connection; one long chain of canals links together the different streams; and the hearts of the people, like their waters, are mingled in peace. Of what utility was the discovery of the coal mines at Mauch Chunk, or the endless supply of that valuable article of commerce, in the mines of Mount Carbon. Situate more than a hundred miles from the place of its principal consumption in regard to domestic purposes, how was the citizen to be benefitted by the disclosure of this important provision of Providence, secreted in the bowels of the earth, for the comfort of, and left to be developed by, the industry and ingenuity of mankind. The immense quantity of coal which is deposited beneath the surface of the earth is truly astonishing. Applied to the purposes of fuel, the stone coal is consuming day after day in invaluable quantities; and so great is the store laid up for our use, that there is no probability of its being exhausted for ages yet to come. Supposing its formation to be owing to the deposition of marine animal matter, as is asserted by some, the same process must be still going on; and the inmost recesses of the present seas, may be receiving the materials of fuel, for the inhabitants of new continents in the most remote period of the world. "Nature profusely good, with wealth o'erflows, And still is pregnant, tho' she still bestows." The question is answered by a knowledge of the great trade of the Schuylkill canal, and by the facilitated advantages of the rail road at Mauch Chunk. Look too at the advantages derived in New York as well as in this state from canals. Where the forest lately frowned, now the ploughshare glitters, and the harvests wave in verdant beauty! Where the dark and impenetrable ravine affrighted the traveller, the song of the husbandman now cheers him on his way! Swamps of lonely dreariness are changed to rich and lovely landscapes, and the march of human industry treads gently over their surface, and silently proclaims the civilization of the west. The howl of the retreating wolf, and the midnight shriek of the panther, are usurped by the morning song of birds! Such are some of the fruits of internal improvements, by the medium of canals. Who is the man among this large collection of people, that credited the prophecy, or would have supposed that America twenty years ago, would be able at this time to supply her own wants in all the various branches of Manufactures? Contemplations and prospects like these, elevate the feelings, cement the affections, ennoble our national character, and create in us a spirit of unusual industry, guaranteeing independence of all foreign countries alike honourable and dignifying. Our domestic manufactures, our canals, our rail roads, progressing as they do, and as we do as a nation, backed by the powerful dependence of a vast and fertile territory, kindles in us a sensation truly republican, a spirit of enterprise and patriotic pride, which holds forth the bold prospect of triumph and ultimate success. We will take for example a brief sketch of our own village, analyse the circumstances of what is before us, and take a retrospect of the past. I am indebted to Mr. Andrew Young, for the following animated description, which was published some months ago, containing a list of the Factories in the order which I shall give them. The changes which enterprise and capital are effecting in every portion of our country, are in many instances so rapid, as to appear almost beyond the limits which we are accustomed to prescribe to the efforts of human labor, and to make us think that the story of the lamp of Aladdin, by which he managed to erect a palace in the course of the night, is not so wonderful a matter, as we were wont to consider it. It seems comparatively but a few months since, in our favorite ramble along the banks of the Schuylkill, for half a dozen miles above the city, we were accustomed to meet with nothing more imposing than a gentle.nan's country seat, or an occasional farm house. To hear nothing save perhaps the heavy sound of a flail, wielded by some veteran thresher; or the clamourings of truant urchins, as they sported upon the bosom of our placid and romantic river. But now five miles from Philadel phia, where calm waters reflected only the stately chesnut or nodding cedar, we have the broad shadow of the cotton factory, and the swift rushing of the water as it hurries away from the mill wheel. The whole scene is changed. A flourishing and populous village has risen up suddenly, and where we but lately paused to survey the simple beauties of the landscape, the sloping hills, the green woods, and the winding river, the eye is arrested by the less romantic operations of a manufactur ing community, and the ear filled with the noise of ten thousand spindles." The following is a list of the establishments as they were six months ago. 1st. Richards, Rush, & Co's cotton factory is the upper mill, has 3,300 spindles, and 60 power looms, manufactures 10,000 yards per week, employs 115 hands. 2d. Is a grist mill, belonging to Schmick and Gorgas, manufactures 300 barrels of flour per week, employs 5. hands. 3d. Mr. Rowland's mill, for grinding and polishing saws; employs 9 hands. 4th. Mr. C. Hagner's mill, grinds drugs, cards and spins wool, and fulls cloth; employs 20 hands. 5th. Mr. Darrach's mill, manufactures wool for hats in one part, and cards and spins worsted in the other part; employs 55 hands. 6th. Mr. Rising's mill, has 2000 cotton spindles, and 30 power looms; employs 75 hands. 7th. Mr. Brooks' mill, has 8 power looms in one part, manufactures patent wool for beds in the other part; employs 12 hands, (has 400 spindles now in operation.) 8th. Mr. McDowell's mill, manufactures paper in one part, and has 1000 cotton spindles in the other part; employs 45 hands. 9th. Borie, Laguerenne, and Keating's cotton mill, has 4,500 spindles, and 120 power looms, manufactures 20,000 yards per week; employs 215 hands. 10th. Mr. Morris' mill, has 3,364 cotton spindles, employs 75 hands. This mill is now conducted by its present owner, Mr. Wagner. Making 636 hands employed in the manual operations of the mills. In addition to the above list, there is now building, and will be completed this season 1st. By Mark Richards, Esq. a rolling mill, and nail factory, adjoining the cotton factory. 2d. By Mr. Shippen of Philadelphia, three other factories, whose use is not at present ascertained. 3d. By Mr. Eckstein, a large paper mill, which will require 40 hands. 4th. By Moses Hay, a mill for the manufacturing of woollen and worsted goods. A friend has politely furnished me with the following interesting information: "Capt. John Towers' was the first mill started on the bank-began running November 10th, 1819. Mr. Isaac Baird was the first to start manufacturing. The first child born in this village was Christiana Margaret Baird, born January 23d, 1820. The name of Manayunk, is intended as the Indian name of the river Schuylkill. But on the authority of Peter A. Duponceau, Esq., the name ought to be Manajunk; signifying in the Delaware language, daughter of rivers-meaning it was one of the daughters of the river Delaware. Other buildings of less magnitude are going up in every direction. Some have it, that a town to be called Jacksonville, is in agitation, at the upper end of Manayunk. More than half a million of dollars is invested in the manufacturing interest of this place. An average sum of ten thousand dollars is paid away every four weeks for labour. The cash is put in immediate circulation. It comes from the employer to the hands; from the hands to the store-keeper, the butcher, the baker, the taylor, the shoemaker, the truck merchant, and the doctor all get their share. A new and vigorous spring is given to every thing. By a recent census the population of Manayunk amounts to thirteen hundred and ninety-four souls. It is supposed that two thousand people subsist at this time out of the operations and improvements, that are going on within the boundaries of Manayunk. The whole village is a kind of theatre, in which hundreds of people, composed of different countries, are grouped together, and each performs his part. In addition to the church, there is a school for free and pay scholars of both sexes, besides several other seminaries of learning. The "Roxborough Lodge" constitutes a prominent part of our local improvements, and may be consiThere is at this time a constant demand for mechanics dered a valuable acquisition to the place. In its governof every description, and good wages offering for la- ment, good order and harmony, with a remarkable debourers, by the people of this place. Stone masons gree of brotherly affection, characteristic of the fraterparticularly, mill-wrights, machine-makers, and carpen-nity, is found to exist. It is equally respectable with 'ters, would all find plenty of employment here at this other similar institutions. 'time. There is also a demand for hands in the factories. The following notice which has appeared in the Philadelphia papers, expresses the thriving state in which every branch of business is going on: "In addition to the great demand which at present exists in the interior of the state for labourers to complete the canal contracts, we learn from a gentleman well situated to judge, that the manufactories in the vicinity of the city are in want of hands, mule spinners' and weavers in particular, may make good wages, the former about two dollars per day.""* What can be more gratifying to the advocate of national independence, and the friend of domestic improvement than to behold an arrangement of factories animated by hundreds of inmates who attend to the operations of the machinery. This church yet unfinished, is the imposing monument of the growing state of religion and morals among us. Here the precepts of the gospel are regularly administered. I shall doubtles be excused if in this place I call to your remembrance, the indefatigable exertions of our absent and mutual friend, the Rev. Mr. Van Cleef. He first consecrated these walls, with the wholesome truths of religious instruction. Having in view the welfare of his fellow men, he enforced in language not soon to be forgotten, the great and unerring principles of religion and virtue. To his labours we may deservedly attribute the improving state of morality and religion in this place. His services will not go unrewarded. The people of Manayunk will continue to remember him with feelings of love and gratitude. While we unite in the expression of universal regret for the necessity of his leaving us, we are all eager to acknowledge an exalted and unfeigned appreciation of his professional abilities and righteousness, as well as an unqualified admiration and love for his talents and virtue.t The committee consider themselves authorized to contradict the publication which speaks of "mule spinners" making two dollars per day. In the vicinity of the city "mule spinners" can make on an average from six to nine dollars per week." We are correctly informed that the Rev. Mr. Sears, of Philadelphia, was among the first to establish the church. Aided by some of his friends in the city, as well as with the co-operation of the people in this quarter, it has rapidly progressed. Mr. Sears officiated in the exercise of the ministry a long time before Mr. Van Cleef came to the place. He still continues his professional services among us-prayer To what does Manayunk owe all this rapid and prosperous advancement? Six years ago, in a state of embryo, and comparative nothingness, no enterprising traveller sought the shores of the Schuylkill in this direction. Now we are becoming the wonder of the old, as well as of the new world. Rising up in a remarkable manner, we have received the appropriate and highly complimentary appellation, of the Manchester of America. meetings and the Sunday school, find in Mr. Sears a faithful advocate and a zealous friend. What we have said of Mr. Van Cleef, may be very justly applied to his acknowledged friend and fellow labourer, Mr. Sears. A library has lately commenced among us, and promises to be a means of much usefulness and improvement. It has already received unanticipated patronage and support.—AUTHOR. Pen. Gaz. JOHN SCOTT'S LEGACY. JOHN SCOTT, Chemist, late of Edinburgh, by his will, made in the year 1816, bequeathed the sum of four thousand dollars in the funded three per cent. stock of the United States, to the Corporation of the city of Philadelphia, to the intent, "that the interest and dividends to become receivable thereon, should be laid out in premiums to be distributed among ingenious men and women, who make useful inventions, but no such premiums to excced twenty dollars; and that therewith shall be given a copper medal with this inscription: To the most deserving. The Select and Common Councils, by an ordinance passed November 22d, 1821, intrusted" The Philadelphia Society for promoting Agricul ture," with the distribution of the aforesaid premiums and medals, for the term of five years; and on the 25th January, 1827, they renewed the ordinance for a further period of seven years. Successive committees of the Society were appointed to attend to the business, by which the following premiums have been awarded. 1822. I. To Samuel Goodwin, for a Front Door Locktwenty dollars. II. To Dr. James Ewing, for a Screw-cock Hydranta medal and twenty dollars. III. To Coleman Sellers, for a simple and effectual Cupping Instrument-a medal and twenty dollars. IV. To Thomas Barnitt, for a press to force out the unnecessary quantity of tar absorbed by yarn, in the manufacture of cordage-a medal and twenty dollars. V. To Isaac Conard, of Lampeter township, Lancas |