.::: • 7 _, • 447 k [I). 1:1)11%nt AND pi to iglu:Ton VOL. XVII.-I.j.t A soldier of tii. Legion lay dying in A Igieri. There wto lark of iva.n there wai doarth nt woman's Ilut a contrail' , stood beside hint, while his life-blood ebbedalloy, n And bent, with pitying glace:l. to hear what he mi g ht say. The dying soldier faltered its he took that eontrado's hand, And he said, I 'lover more shall son my own, my native land ; Take a inesago and a token to some list: nt friond of mind. For I was horn at Bingen—at Bingen on the Rhine. To hear my mournful story, in the pleasant vineyard ground. That u•e liaight the battle liravely,—anil when the day WIIA Full many a core lily ghastly pale beneath the settin!r . . . . And midst thy tioad and dcin} xvvre soon• grown obi in wars.— 'rho death-wound on Ilioir gallant broa..a.:l, thr. i.r.::t of nionv scars BM SI)11w wort , von toz,—anti suddenly hel u •ld life's morn tiorline,— A itd one bad runic (tout liing,ll,—lbir liiio.;eti 011 Ike 101111 V I. 'l't , ll my 'Alotlivr, (kit her other son: SllOll comfort her old age, And I nas n)•e a truant bird that lhonght his holm. a cage . : For nn• father %\'',lS a sohlivr, and ec,•n as a child hart lv.ipvd forth to liar hint tell of strtniglvs livree and wild ; And when dip died, and left us to dividi , his svanty hoard, I let them take tvhatr•er they would—but kept itly father's ett•nrd ; And with hovish low I limn; it when• Ow bright light itsvd to shin( (i the cotta,,•-w.tlf at liill4oll—calm Blll4l'll all the !thine. Tell my lister nut 1,, weep for no', nod soh with droo l head. drooping o. %Vi t en the t roo p s ale Inarehing home again, with glad and gallant tr But to look upon them proudly, with :realm niol steadfast eye, For her brother was a solder, too. and not afraid 'to die. And it' a comrade seek her lose. I :ink her in my mime 'fo rimer, to hint without regret of shame; A n d t o hang the old sword in its place, (my father's ,:word arid mil For the honor of old llingen—dear lain ;en ou the Rhine ! a ;—iii Ilu OU I 'V,' k !WWII We .y Il!' turrrim^nl 111.11 ::par: 'l'on innovent for opilirlry—t.o Jul;1 , for i,ll, ()I1 ! •liar t 1 112.11105 t 11,,itt lwavicA mourn 6a,7 Inclhi> 111,,,,n hr ri:.‘c:t illy hotly will he out Fain—to wntl lw out of prison,) dreamed I ,tood ‘vitlt nr.u, and s.t \v yellotv unli.lit shin ( I )11 the ‘int•-t•lad hills of I;togen—lair Bingen on the 'thine ! n I gt'lly the Idur nbilie ,:tveep along—T heard, (.1 ,:reni...l to hear, Tlw Gorman :::w.gs we used in t-ing. in chorn,,,Aveet :Ind clear. Anil duo; 114 the rlew:ant river. and up the sliiiitini T hill. - 'l'lll, erliniipz chums wonoled, through the ev‘ ning calm and .till: And her glad Nat; eves \Veil . on Me, w,. I , :[sse d ta n ; I)ovvn many n poult beloved of pm., !old well-rentemhored teal ; And her little hand lay lightly. confidingly in wine. lint we'll inert no more aViiingen—lo‘ tliw.cen on the Rhine. " 111 A VOll.l. grew Clint :old logirser.—his grasp was childish ‘NT:ik.--. Ills eyes put till a dyilot . look.—he !a u l le d ali d r _o .nNe d t o s p ea k t ..Ifiscolurade bent to lilt him. but nu. spark of 16 had The soldier of the I,egiul'i in a forei , 2li land was d ea d ! Allfi flit' sort 1110 , 111 T4l4i, u p slo‘vly. and calmly she look e d down (ht the red sand (df the hattle-lield, I%.ith rorp,a;s: 'drown : Vea., calmly it,, that dreadful scene her pale liultt seemed to shine. As it shown oil distant Ilingen—fair .I.tiluten on , the Rhine ISCE A N Ilope and Memory. By 118 F, s OrIC N 1" A little, baby lay i n on, ( .„„di e, „„d IToltr his immensity. Man alone lias said "there came and kissed it. When its nurse gave is 110 (.;1"/ !" Unite ill thought , at the it a cake, ii„ lte prom i se d „„„d icr to -„„, r _ same instant. the most beautiful objects of row ; and when its vont!" sister brought a nature ; suppose that you see at mire all d ower, over which it idappvtl its w i ng , the hours of the day, 'all the year, a morn and crowed, Hope told of brighter ones, jug 01. SPring• and a morning of Autumn ; which it would gather for itself. a night bespangled with stars, and a night The b a b e grew to a child, and „„„d ier covered with clouds ; a meadow enam friend came and kissed it. Ilex name was I ,'' . elletLwit'A beauteous dowers : forests Im:t -oter., rreilt snow and fields gilded ‘vith the Memory. She said ' , look behind and tell me what Cunt seest." The child tints of autumn—then ;antic You will have answered, "1 see a little hook." A „d a just conception of the Universe. While Memory sa id , „1 theehow to you are gazing titthe sun which is plung get honey from the book t h at ,vab, sweet ing under the vaults of thi; West, another to thee when thou art old." observer adniires him emerging• from the The child b came a youth. Once w .);;l' l ) : . g.ilded gates of the East. 13v what incon e he went to his bed, ;lope and Areinory eitlivitbde magic does that aged star, which stood by the pillow. Ikr sung a ineb;-' is sinking, fatigued and burning under the dints song, and said, "Follow me, and e y_ t shades of the evening, re-appear at the same instant, fresh and humid with the ro cry morning thou shalt wake with a smile, as sweet as the pretty lay saw,. th ee ." sy dew of.the morning At every instant oldie day the glorious orb is at once rising llut Memory said.. 6 '"l lope, is there any I need that we sliould con t en d ? H i , —resplendent at noonday, and setting in he mine as wel l as thine. Amid we shall the West ; or rather our sense.deeeives be to him as sisters all his life long." and there is, properlc speaking, no East or So he kissed 1 lope and -Memory, a s l i e i West to the. World. :Every thing . reduces was beloved of them both. Wink b e s l ept i.i t .s,ell to one single point, from whence the peacefully they t silently by his side, )kffig of D.y sends forth at once a triple weaving vainia „ into dreams. _ light, one single substance. When he woke, they came with the lark, to bid him good morning, and he gave a ,Bond to each. 11e la , catike a man. Every day ifope guided him to his labor. and every night he supped with Memory at the table of Knowledge. But, at leitgthA!re found him and turn ed his temples gray. 'l'o his eve the world seemed altered. .Nletnory sat by his el how chair, like an old and tried friend.— le looked a t her seriously, and said, [last thou not lost something that I entrusted to thee f" And she answered, "I fear so : for the lock of mr casket is worn. Sometimes I ant weary and sleepy, and Time pur loins' my key. But the gents thou didst give me when life Nvas new—l can account for all—see how bright they arr." While thus sadly eonversed, qpe put forth a wing that she hail not worn, folded under her garment, and tried its strength in a heavenly blight. The old watt laid down 'to die, and when his soul went forth front th e h ot ly, t h e gels tool: it. And 11einory walked with it through the open gale of heaven. But I lope lay down at its threshhold and irent lv .expired, as a rose giveth out its last odorg 11("i : p:111111 4 ,4" 51 , 411 NV:IS like the music of a seraph's harp. She hreutlietl it into a glorious fornt and Baia. "Immortal happi ness ! I hring then a soul that I have led through the world. it is 110 W Witte. .le ,lts rutletined .:• :. 11111 ;Is g . r.1 . f . :11: 1, azt• xvirr. 'I :!atitleter. a ~ . . .. ..... • . <43 . ; , . . .•/ . , • 5.,.. . . ..., -'• :, . - . . •• • . . . ' • ''... ' • . . 4 ~_ - . 4 1 . .. r. . '• .•••,- t . i. an:ll,yr • I*, ' ...it( 1 . , ~. it. • :sr 'Of. • <Zel' 4' 1 . 2.. 1 , •t?'" ?n . , • A BEAT TIF ('L PO E H I N E . ll= I EXISTENCI: OF A (;nu.—There is a (70d 11(.1'11:I nl the due el.dars of the mountain, bless inscels sport ill This bean's—the eltpliant salutes Ivith ! the dawning of the day—the bird sings to him ill the roliage—the, thtiffiler declares ryoND 'mu thtAvn.—The grave is a xvorld or gloom, dark and cheerless, with no ray alight to Winne its night of horrors ; hut abetter philosophy teaches us that that is not the end. That though a cloud of darkness may gather around' the closing scene, and the pall of death become the winding sheet of frail mortalitv---a bright er- daum begins to break uptin the soul's vast empire, while imperial thought links its fond immortality fast to the immutability of the Eternal Throne.—Ber. Tut: 14:ART AND THE Sworn.--It is recorded Of the Duke of Luxeinhourg that on his death-bed, Ile ddared NV that he 01111.1 ha VO cherished inor deeply th ni c etoor'y of having. given a enlof cold xvaterto one of his fellow-ercature.4 in poverty and dis tress, than all the vlctories he had aehiev ed, with their scenes of blood, desolation and death. An atlinirOii. lesson is con veYed in this brief ex)! ; ion or opinion. It is because we ar ' lissatisfied with ourselves that we are sci:;!'anxions to have others think well of us; - and were we von-. scions of malting 'their gond, we would rare less hot their ill opinions. ... ghat \vas a goo& remark of S.nleca's, when lie said :—"Great is he- who enjoys his earthenware as it' it were plate ; Mid not leis great is the Wall to whom allthis plate is no more titan earilumware." :11eti ;Ire like bogies ; -the more brass •eimthin the farther yoo mot hear thmo. Ladies :ire like : the more inotleit mid retiring appear, ;II • 52tim• )V 16V,4 gOIIP Lc CETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1 Gen, Washilltrion with his Mother, ! The Mail that the M il k Kicked. "s FOR 'PHE LAST TIME. I Many are the anecdotes and stories which our Vr.lio that has parted with an aged moth'• %,' t °. o l u!..,tteers, tell, the , scene of which has been tbe er, and,reeeived her last blessing as lie was ! ' Grande and many vet remain to be told.— Hie toll owe d g ood floe was yesterday related to about. to gli forth into a land of strange N us by our. fried Sewell Taylor to seek a home for himself, can read the i On a certain starless niold, in the latter ' following last,interview between Wt " itin g - i part of July, two volunteers—living edi ington and his mother, and suppress the tions of Milton and Ps -thins, so sincere rising tear that starts unbidden, at the re were their friendships, so mutually strong membranes of such a scene. Time may • were their nuaenments—weie sitting pu dim the rerollection of many of the loci- lumber in neighbor., , , . r r some the nood •ot dents of of youth when we come in contact i well's (the sutler's) tent. Tiles- had given with the world, hut there is a magic in the pretty strong proofs during the day of their mollier's voice—her well-remembered tone abhorrence of the water of the Rio Grande of admiration, her kindness and unceasing ,-. rare will, rise up before hint who loved in its.primitive state, by mixing it with a liberal component part of Sewell's braady, i her, and follow him as a guardian angel itt which, as Burns says, made them "unto a ll th e varied scenes of life. Happy the h app y. " 'They sat there for a considerable man who was blessed with such a moth time and talked of "old times" and new er, and loved her—happier he who, hay times—of times past, present, and to come ing such, forgets not her love, her kind -pf the indomitable courage and invinci , !less and instructions. ills power ofs.l,lnited States volunteers, Inuediau•l7 after the organization of 1 of • ' ano the cowardly, craven Mexicans.— the present Cioverninent, Gen. Washing- Indeed, from die mood they were in, ''they ton repaired to FredPi4eksburg, to pay his could," as they expressed it, “walk into humble dytydo his mother preparatory to Ampudia and his whole pusillanimous his departure for New York. An street- host r , ono . scene ensued. The son feelingly re- One of them had occasion to withdraw marked the ravages a torturing disease had for a few minutes, and after making in ad amidde upon the aged frame of his mother, vance due apology for his temporary ab thus addressed her : settee, he assured his friend that but little "'rile people, madam, have been pleased, with i time would elapse before he would rejoin the most nattering unanimity. to elect roc to the! him. Not returni ng, however, as soon as , rbiet .11,e4ktraey of the United ::,tates, but before l . 1 can a,, , tiitie the 1'11'1(1'10ns, of that office, I have conk to bid voii :111*(4:lion:tie rate Nell. So soon ruenunteied in arranging a new gnverninent, can he disposed of, 1 shall hasten to Virginia, and-- Ilere the matron interrupted him “YOll Will Sell Ml' no more. My great age.and the disease which is fast approaching my vitals, %%aro melthat 1 shall not long be in this world. I trust in God, 1 ain some•wl r tt prepared for a het ter. But go. George, I'llllll the high destinieS %%Inch lieu en appears to assign you son, and may heaven's and your mother's tiles ings be with you always.” President was deeply affected.-- lis head rested on the shoulder of his pa. - , , rent.' 'flint brow, on which Fame had wreathed the purest laurel virtue ever giv, en to cleated -man, relaxed from its lofty bearin!r. That loOk, which could have awed a Homan Senate in its Fabrician day, was bent in full tenderness upon the time-worn features of this venerable ma tron. The great man wept. A thousand re collections crowded upon. his mind, as memory, retracing scenes long past, car ried him hack to his paternal mansion and the days of his youth, and there the cen tre of attraction was his mother, whose! care,. instructions and discipline, had pre pared him to reach the topmost height of laudable ambition ; yet how were his glo ries forgotten while lie gazed upon her from whem, wasted by time and malady, he must soon part to meet no more. - The matron's predictions were the.-- The disease, which had so long preyed upon her frame, completed its triumph, and she expired at the age of 85, confiding in the promises of immortality to the hunt ble believer. Montuts.—Napoleon, after haying ob served to Madame Campan, that the old system of children's 'education was bad, inquired what she considered wanting to make it good. "Mothers," was the reply. As women were the first and perhaps the most influential teachers, we must have good mothers if we would secure good teachers. With them. rests the tuition of the heart, so much more important than that of the head. Sentiment precedes in telligence ; and it has been well obs - erved by ttte authoress of a deservedly popular work, that the earliest, smile which re sponds-to the maternal caress is the first lesson in the affection. - Mothers were meant by nature to inspiFe virtue even when they do not directly seek to teach it, anti they will rarely go wrong when they follow their parental impulses. P NTE t s LlNau.knu.—Thr, followinz or ders fronra foreman in a newt-riper printing of liCP don't mean half so much as would seem to the uninitiated : "Charley, put Gen. Washington in the galleys, and then liinish the murder of that young girl you commenced yes.terday.— Frank, do you set up entire, the ruins of Ilerculantum—distribute the small pox— you need not finish that runaway match have the high water in the paper this week —let the pie alone till alter dinner, but.put the political barbecue to press, and then go to the devil, and he will tell you abotit the work for the morning." A JUST SEsTimExT.—The Pennsylva nia Inquirer says : "the true glory of a na tion; the lasttn,g, the deathless glory, con sists as much in the lofty tone of its integ rity, the exalted character. of its morals, the tenacious adherence of its people to right and justice, as in the force of its physi cal power, the :;trength of its warlike arma ments, or the vastness of its internal re• sources." N EVI L Titounwr.—An evil thought needs but a nod to make it lodge. iu :moth ergnind , while arguments might fail to tix a good one thbre. A wink may speak to others hurt; and the best of volumes fail to do them good. How true the remark of a lady, 'I lied it hard work to he good.' A dandy at a hall, in a•hisl.iug about the room, ititti - Itis head against a ti incur lle apologised. "Not a tvord, sir", said the lads - , , •it is not 11;7,1 a•nrnt'h to !tort ~ ,„‘FEARLEss AND his friend thoturht he should, the latter "put out," too. 'He who first left, soon, in a zigzag course, returned, but instead of go ing up to where lie ❑nd his friend had been sitting, he tipproached to where a vicious mule was hlhered. "Come," Said lie, laying his hand on the hind quiver of the mule, "let us go to our tent." ce-CC4, his left hindleg at him, striking him in the abdomen, and sending him on the broad of his back in •imong the neighboring chapar ral. After recovering, he picked himself up and advancing again towards the mule, said— • "Look hare, 13111. this awful shabby eonduct !. I would'nt treat a Mexican so, letting aloue an old comrade. If you've any spite against me, .Mist say so, and I'm your man ; hut don't strike a fellow that Way, with the butt end of your musket in the dark. I tell you I felt that last:lick as if a draßoon's horse had kicked me.— Come, now, uo More of that ; let us shake hands ;" and again he went up within kicking distance of the mule. "Wee-ee-i-ee," growled the mule, and again he gave the intruder a kick Which laid him flat en the ground. "Murder ! murder !" cried he, "I'm shot—l'm stabed—he has run his bayo net through pie—he has broken my head with the butt end of his musket—l'm shot —l'm killed ! Guard ! Rounds ! Grand Rounds !" Attracted V the noise, a crowd instant ly gathered 'zotind ; lights were brought, and the Gre:o Kicked was picked tip out of the elinpatral. Two of his ribs were found to gel broken, and his friend and comrade, Bill, was the first to render him assistance. Of course, although he could not at the titie be made to believe it, it was at once seen kbathis enemy in disguise was the peevish !We, and not his friend and comrade soldier, SlNGui..kni---.A favorite cat, belonging to a foully at llovington, having lost her kit tens, of her own accord adopted a chicken of the pheasnt fancy breed, Avliivh was do mesticated. The chicken appeared highly. pleased witliher nurse, and puss ,on cap turing a mohse, or obtaining any other food, carefully carries it to the chicken, which has ittibibed 111811 V of the peculiari ties of the c. , and the two now lie comfort ably togethe , puss putting liar paw over the bird to i*otect it from harm.—York shire Ga...zette. A SISOli.Alt DEATH.-A lad twelve years of age; named Edward 0. Knowles, was killed a South Boston on Friday last in the following singular manner : Ile was standing itt a blacksmith shop, some ten or twelve feet from an anvil, where two men were forging a piece of iron, and one of the sledges missing the iron, struck on the anvil, and a small spliter was broken off, which 111 w otr, striking the lad in the thigh, cuttin the main artery, so that he bled to deatyn a few minutes. "Agriculttire," says SoerateS, "is an em ployment the l most worthy the application of man, the host atrient, and the most suitable to his nature ; it is the common nurse of all persons, in every age_ and con dition of lifd; it is the richest source of health, strenkth, plenty and riches ; and of a thousand sidier delights and honest plea sures. it is the mistress and school of so briety, temperance, justice, religion, and, in short, of virtues, civil and military." Goon "If moitT.—A gentleman has sent to the .iitor of the Petersburg Intelli geneer, a potato weighing like and a half pounds, and a, turnip weighing seventeen pounds. Lit has..a.cow that gives thirteen quarts of milt at a milking—che did, not Send the coy to the editor.) fills is pret ty well for Virginia. DisTEmetin.—The Delaware County Republican learns tlit this disease, so fatal to the horse', which has prevailed •xtensively, in Long Island and New Jer sey, has made its appearance in that coon and that selerul horses bait...died front cried the mule, letting fly , 18.16. From the Knickerbocker FANNY HALL* The sweetest girl of all I know, Is charming, FAN:vr ' rile wildest at a husking, . The gayest at a ball : Her check is like a Jersey peach, her eye is blue and clear, And her lip is like the sumac In the Autumn of the year. Canova never made a hand I.ike plump and fair; Poor Raphael had been crazed with her Madonr,a brow and hair : Anil I'm incline-I to think if Powers Could see her, he would grieve To find a romping Yankee girl Ilad'heaten :Mrs. Eve! There's n01.a.-194emil1 in her form, No fault about her flee; Sit down and gaze from morn till night, You'll . find her—perfect grace. And then, to finish all, her voice! From the sweetest bird's in spring You couldn't tell its Warble ;—but She " TIOPS N T KNOW A Tut NO !" From the I larrishurg Telegraph of April 111, 1813. AN ABSTRACT OF 'rm.', _ Pennsylvania, they did. ,icy prevent the RETIRKS OF )111. COOPER, completion of the work. ould go on OF ADAMS COUNTY, i whether the application of the Company' In the House of Ryresenlalives of Penn- was granted or refused.lly.,denying the sylvania, on the Bill granting' right o f , privilege asked for, they prevented none way through Pennsylvaniwto the New lathe mischiefs winch they imagined they Thrk and Erie Railroad. isaw, but rejected a certain advantage-:--the Mr. Coon:at:lid this bill proposed to advantage of a connection at Elmira, ,noW authorize 'the New York and Erie Rail- ()tiered to is. It he could see any possi- - road Company to cross the Delaware at or ; ble injury to Philadelphia,' or the' public near Port Jervis, into Pike county, and ; improvements of the Commonwealth, .he construct their road through that county, i would most assuredly oppose the applica tor a distance of some twentYy-four or five , lion; but he could see none, He would miles. In consideration of this privilege, Ibe as sorry to injure Philadelphia as the the company were to procure a right from gentlemen who represented her so credita the New York Legislature to connect the''lily on this floor; he was going to say, that Northern Branch Canal with the Chemung , lie was axious for her, prosperity, and -as and Chemango Canals in the State of New ; deeply interested in e successful Meals- York, and also a right to a connection wi th ; try of her PeoPle as they were. But this, the road proposed to be constructed at El- !perhaps, won't] be going too far. Kindred mira, or some other point, of any improve- ; sympathies and local attachments might ment which Pennsylvania should think .exeite in them stronger emotions of arum proper to make or authorize to be made ; ; ty for their welfare than in him ;. bitt he and that the company before using their ; could say with sincerity, the most perfect, road, were td consent to all of these con- ! that he felt a deep interest in every thing nections. . i that concerned her, because he knew; after 1 ' . He had listened patiently and attentive- all, that her interests ,and those of the Com e y to hear. a substantial reason against grant- ! mouwealth were to a great extent. identi i ing the privilege asked for.by the company; ' cal: Her industry, her skill, her 'enter ; and he hoped he would offend no gentle- prize and capital were subjects of interest man when he declared that no reason suf- 'to every - citizen. If these languish from ticient- to satisfiy any body had been giv- , any cause, the ()tract was felt throughout i en. If he believed that the State improve- ; the whole Commonwealth. He would re -motifs were to be rendered less valuable, 1 peat, therefore, that he wouid..dn nothing or the comniereial metropolis of the State ; knowingly, that proved detrimental to her , injure in the slightest degree, lie would ; interests. The passage of this bill could i oppose-the bill ; but, believing that it was; not injure her; on the contrary, she would the interest of both that the privilege should; be benefited by it. If he could ;see any-• be granted, he was bound to give it such I thing in the future, it was the day when feeble support as he could. ; the benefits of this measure would be felt 1 Let us, said he, look at the i - ' ques ti on ; and acknowledged by all. When all the 1 without permittng preconceived impres- connections authorized and provided ',for sion to bias our judgments. ; in this bill were completed—when the di- The first argument used against granting' versified productions of the regions which the privilege asked for by this company,; they penetrated should be poured through was, that another great channel of commit- I the channel's of our public improvements ideation would be opened between the ' into the lap of Philadelphia, stimulating lakes and the city of-New York over which ; her enterprise, rewarding the industry of, large amounts of produce would be carried: ; her citizens, all would realize the wisdom Let us see what force there is in this ar- ;of this measure, and wonder at the blind gument. The trade of the lakes, a ll th e ; ness which opposed it. 'l'nrn again, he vast commerce that floated upon them. now ; said, to the advantages which the proposed found its way to the city of New York, !connection would a ° fford to- Pennsylvania either by the New York and Eric Canal ; ! and Philadelphia. The whole trade of the or by the Railroad extending from Buda- lakes—all the productions which reached lo to the Hudson. Not a pound of tonnage, ; them from the valley of the Mississippi,' not a farthing's value of this immense trade' and the whole \Vet, now found their way ever touched our public works or reached : to New York by - the Canals and Railroads, Philadelphia ; all went to New York I already completed from Lake Erie to the through or over the great thoroughfares : Hudson. Now, by the money of others, which he had just named. Now, h ow e v _ I a great work is to constructed, along our er, a rival to these great works was about ; own borders, penetrating them at several to be constructed, running along the nor- ' points, if we will grant permission, and of them boundary of Pennsylvania, the en- : fering us for suoh permission, the right of tire length of the State, and proposing t o : connectimut such pleceS es we may se enter her territory-in several places, if per- ; lect. 'Mil work is to become the rival of mission be granted. The opponents of the' the other New York improvements in car bill under consideration, had asserted that ; rying the trade of the Lakes. This trade, this work was to become the great rival of ;on its way over this road to market, will the New York and Erie Canal, and of the ! pass several points at which the distance Railroad from I,3uffalo to Albany. in car-' is much less to Philadelphia than it is to rying,. to market the trade of the lakes.— ; New. York. This he had already referred This, he admitted, it would he to some er- ; to, and only adverted to it again for .the tent: and, ie his judgment, the more of, purpose of referring to other facts in con the trade it diverted from the other works, : nection with it: In late years, there had the better for us. This trade on its way ; been a crowd of travellers, every year, pas to market, would pass Aver the New York I sing from South to North on pleasure, or end Eric Railroad, through Elmira, a point ; business. They now go to New York, at which Pennsylvania was to be author-; thence to Albany, and over the the Rail ized to make connections by both canals; roads to the Lakes. If the NeW York and railroads. From this point, w h ere I ; and Erie Railroad were completed, and these connections arc authorized to be i the connections established, uniting it with made, the distance to Philadelphia, actor-; Philadelphia, this immense travel,. Wonld ding to the statement of GOVernor Porter, ; either go North or return South, over the in his message to the Legislature in 18-11,1 improvements of Pennsylvania. Shall was 71 miles less than to New York; and : .we then, he said, neglect the opportunity the practical difference in favor of phil,i‘vhich is afforded of securing a portion of delphia, he said, was far greater. Going the vast trade of the Lakes, now wholly eastward from Elmira, the New York and : monopolized by N. York? It is her's at pre- Erie Railroad' had to encounter grades, ! sent by virtue of her position ; but that plo iv !dell, but a few years ago, would have - sition would be relatively changed by ••the been declared impracticable. These grades ' construction of this great work, if Pennsyl-,. ; were, in many places, anti for long distan-; vania could but see her own true interests, ces together, from 50 to 68 feet per mile. and act in conformity with them. An il- From Elmira to Philadelphia, , there need :liberal policy, he Said, was almost always be no grades excepting3s ti!et to the mile ; 'an unwise one ; this, Pennsylvania. will and for the greater part of the way, trade one day realize, if slid refuse a privelege would pass over descending grades to mar- • which was itself, independenl of any. con- • let. This would give to Philadelphia, nection which it secured, an advantage: to an immense advantage over New York. i a portion of her citizens. If there:: were But it was said, he remarked, that there' no other advantages to result front 7this tvere at present no means of reaching Phil- ; measure, than stteh as were purely_ focal; adelphia from Elmira. That ; was true, he would still go for it. It would benefit but the cost of completing - a Railroad the Nor:lt—it "would open to it ,a. wiy to -7- which would unite Philadelphia with the market, enhance the value otproperty,und - New York and Erie. Railroad, by means ' enable that portion of the State , to contri of a connexion at Elmira, would be trilling bute more than* had hitherto done; idif the coin pared with the outlay whirl' New suppert of Vie Goveritment. Front' our yurk! Ifo.lon, alit' Whet' cum trierei;il cities system of internal inproventent. di:llo4%i TERMS-TWO I) . OLLA VCR A NNVIII DV 11 OL E NO. 597 k • were making to secure the trade - of tWant parts of the country. It was indeed true, he said, if Philadelphia stood still, while her competitors were striving around her, •: at the NOrth and the- South, to draW to themselves the pr o ductions of distant sec !' tions of the country, by the construction of Railroads and canals, she must lose :;her commercial position.' But if she exerted herself with an energyenniniensurate with the interest she had at stake, she had it in her power, he said ; to secure a portion and a considerable portion of trade, which per haps, naturally belonged to her great and enterprising rival, the city of New York. This connection insured it to her, if she did not stand in her own light, and,neglect atropportunity which might never present itself again. Iler representatives. here were opposed to it, hut they must pardon him if he suggested that in their. anxiety to guard imaginary' interests, they were sacrificing real ones, of immense magni tude•. •They must recollect that, by 'de feating the application of the New York and Eric Railroad Company to come into
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