if this canal bad been it - Would . not haire stuk, eitittordinary amount of $5OO, thou This ii Att. iniptutatit 1: improvement.. While ion, sixty_ miles lcMg, amount of thirty thou have a line of ninety-f. rind thui far constru from the -highest fl.. within the past silty y —Another important cost of completing the should not be omitted Thelands to beoccupie released to the Cotnffi and occupancy of ca by, or "under the oath Pennsylvania." This tious and costly one i public works, is marl so far as concerns thi maining cases, where tamed, present no; se way of its progress; a ixens and owners of In this improvement is so tion, that 1 do not ap , barraument or difficull Tun Uspllvisazio L The-connection of the with the Cheroung C. Elmira, being essentia tire line of inland Hari , terto the great Lakes, advantages to 'be !de will be but partiallyirea it not improper to :brid although not emhnines North Branch Canal fora canal from the s• pursuance to an ,act - State of New York in Allen, Civil Eagineer its cost mode at the tij the Board of Cnnal State. I have before t' Allen, in which the di viding line of Pennsyll and the termination o at Elmira, is stated by 32-100 miles—the Loc and the estimate cost t ty-seven thousand six lays. 1 have myself,- ,rec ' ground along the vall surveyed by Mr. 411 e favorable to the etins have alsaexaminetl th him for that work, and expressing the opinion for its completion. Eaws for the incorp to construct this con that by the north-ea quehanna with the Chl hamton, a distance of ; lately passed by the York, containing ver and no d?ubt is en i e • these connections sf as the North Branch C have finished their *or' If, however, neithpr should immediately be Branch Canal Cornpan terred from pushing vig" project; as nthout ei havers most valuable a' York and Brie Rail R located within a few . 'r the State line, and p cured by law, for_crinn • Having considered work, and the cost of now proceed to brief GLANCE AT 'THE SV upon which it Must 4e . 1 ance, and for prqducl stockholders, will be 1 Anthracite and Shorn •1 1 sum, Salt, lime, Stave chandize, Agricultural cellaneous Freight, fne upon; but as before rem :1 Bence of large rerwine be a mineral tonnage wl bear. The Wyoming Coa known, that it is Oar more than to mention ness of the veins, the q the facilities for mining the canal, are not in an if equaled, in any othe sylvania. Indeed, as ' advantages beyond ,all it is a fact, that no in of Wyomin , 7 coal are n hundred mile s, to tide u market of the Atlantic i with coal transported but half that distance fr If, by opening an 'pv, _ northward, where no o bly - enter into coin petit their charter, the North pan); have the exclOsiv of the Susquehanna; a as that 41 . 0 W going on Schuylkill can spring such an avenue, a war 1 200,000 tons ofcoal--i ted; that in this one art and reliable towline, eight per cent. ' iiphn complete the work i judgment, the ams ' ini P pal in the manufacture )dries and oilier matiuf *estic purpies, thriing led,* on- the lakes, 'We '"would amount to mu Pei:jaw out of the 'es#,M `be aped at bsiregO 'markets on the lakes, she 40'4 steamboats. 1,, iiieffitioilit by R. W. ;ROisisio 7 ihi - Manage -litiirigatiok , oo4any, liii:jiad seen in `St LawretipiiNnoVv %rougbt by . iii*iiitilti referregixi'ifie--, <Wake - Ity l th r eliiiiiki , 'lnom ~ sa Lake irjoieffm,Aiir kii 401 r. -,:' 'Sidi Siou)d'ihei Witlisi:ind NeliToiC I •' l .' .-. Dr;:r. s .,x. - .ll.iifris.',l3f ] „WiterSeiteilAir" 4 0. 0 ;61.144 , 'i - Oillii0*: oiilia ,% ir ::, Iwo* iiiiai , eV 4 ' .. - : 1 1301te00 4 4ndr =sem 'IA i*, , ,,vok; : rwini. ,0 4 4 16! 411114 a Ohio - (bitiis Anithed and i l ined dimage; ' n the, river, .1 hout its entire r et in reference the- Delaware was daMaged d dollars, I r miles, so '1 I ted, as to be d that has oc use, I,y t hi s s :0 the I.ngth. 1231 Divis o the ; re we • ted ecure urred ict in referen orth Branch n the , presen .._ , h aye nearly a .nwealth, for t al, to be cons ',it!, of the S item, often the construe. out of the q work. The I. eleases were ious obstacle the desire of .ds Moor , the , 0 strong for its irehend the lea from this so E is NEW Y North Branch nal of New 2 1" to complete t :ation, from Ti ud without wit !'ved from the 1 ized-1. have d i y notice this 1 in the charter 1 ompany. A. ..to line to Elm of Assembly 1839, by Jose and an esti .. 6 , e, and submi lommissioners I c this report . tance between 9 ania and New 1 the Cliemung him at sevetne age seventy-fii , ree hundred as undred and fit I to the anal view. I been e use ucted te of vexa on of ',estion w re of ob n the e cit me of mple !em- rex. Canal rk at e en e wa ch the ormer erred York, Canal n and 1 e feet , I d d for: l e dol- -ntly examin; •y of the Che , and found i action of a ca !ti the ung, very l al. I I de by ion in mple • estimates m. have no hesita that they ate ration of a coil l ecting link, al branch of th ango canal at I , rty miles, bay: • • Mature of liberal provi fined that one o II be made, as al Compan • I f these conue rosecuted, the Irm orth de -1 their /L still New ess, d, se- should not b l •rously forwaril er, they woul,l I , ciliary in the d, now in pre' I. s of the can' A ll uaons has be: cting with it. Ihe condition ompletingit, I f the shall :itra.—The tol • nd for its tnai g dividends hiefly minera us Coal; Iron, and_Heading, ' roductions, ani safely be ealei rked, the chief d Ming dividends deb it is destiu region is .so -ly necessary' here, that the ality of the coa and shipping I . respects excE coal region iii acing these sui possibility of siderable gum .w carried ore] ater, and go in ities, in comp( rom other rel orn the sea boa nue frohi this n her work can on, (by the ter Branch Canal !well o do tek 1, and lit on ceded, F enn- error oubt, l itities three I to the titian In looking at the probable revenue - of the North Branch Canal, one 6f the most irnpdr tent considerations which ?occurs, is that ll lcatrated by reference to the „map ; and Its also graphically sketched 'in an_article froM the Philadelphia North American, given in the App'endik to this Repdrt. ' I refer to the extended and unbroken chain of canal nav igatiod, of Which it forms a central and uni ting link; and the immense routes and in lets with which it will be Connected. Shan and insolated improvements are seldom pr - ductive ; ' btit always, in,thiscountry, alwell as in Europe, long canals', and railways fif ford the reheat returni fdr the cost and 1- bor of construction'. It there be any exce - ons to this , rule, it is in rdgard to those Tines upon which the coarser minerals are trans ported. Now it is upon !these minerals coal, !hilt, iron and gypsutn, that the North Brandt' improvement will;mainly rely. It has "b o tcdrne ,Cotla*u-p!alpe to refer to the extra dittaiiinerease in the value of the stock dr tlie,Englisii canals engaged in - the coal trade . - : All of them 264 an enormous advance equal in some instances to tide hundred , per tentual. "In stir own cOuntp't li f to the. Schuylkill Na lati n, the - Reading I' Raitroart thabsta are; iitE 'Hudson, iO lko l the Lehigh canals',ha ve been construct. ed solely liii . the ii se fifths coal trade Of their respeCtife ragi ns. ;mai* Bikini' a`brielinmitiiiian . ,ct - i tose - Or 'rheas itninnteuien* -- and ti so e` Ottei::pifticii. lam' With the Work tinnitler le.cirmaderttioo. The Ar4 . 'latent i to - *ration - 1i 182 8 ; the. toll s Iraisived n Cosa the ' :first y ear, iimoini*d'a onl y 4 00 0 .1 Ii I €44lafierja steady 'fittlira ye:air, - 4 had:*44 fifi..'i ' art'fi,4-144,ati - -iii qt:fieved#io - 04414 six' h4ittliiiitand eighly -iv atne'dollarlil 'Wit'', nine - ' *nil T :_This lac provenient is , 109 ]miles OW leiigth . ; coating $4,801, 4 270!4!" an, a crap! of' $ .14,456 per i .. 1 right to the d po such aliey riv n ite ii up , ) if, by op et can be 'fou is easily demo le, we have ufficient to p capital neces question. I ion of the anti) of salt, in iron ctures, and f. out the county tof Utica , incl h 'Endre than . tes the quanti nd Buffalo fo tt Canada, au Aninterestinr sure I t • uce ry to acne oun ,,, do ;. fir : sire, _t s 4 rte, E,l of the Selo+ ade ie Mita; steambilat`o' els anthracite! York ; .an - . - bomight 1 , 1 ,ch Canal,' ! !' "eta be deli . ' .0 pee 7 ' .4;:-,,, i 454, 44,01 r-, - .1000:,*".:! al in:. at an . !Il an ;sii ~+~w~X ~~,y: !I - Weni ~ i nfius) coal is ploy.. for mehtutac erin e g iitirPosei : enthri cite is used,in connection with" it.'_:, Alts 'cent. sumption it _Bufillol'ie increasin g, and lb' reaSon why ii iiinot more ittensivelY ., used; is its thigh 4l ice; ''teirtir beyond the re ach' of most Of our citizens. If the Pennsylvania North Branch Canal be extended to the New York improvements, coal could then' e Midi here at a profit at $6 50 per ton." • In •conseluence, of the superiority of this species of coal in many' branches' of manu factures, as Well as for the ordinary purposes of fitel,it• is iiifficult to'set any limits-to the. probable •extent of its consumption. An in telligent kiln-aster of Monmouth county, New Jersey, "a late publication describing 4 ti the " iron-m untain" of Missouri which he had visited,Mentkins that. he saw Peornkfl- vania anthracite used-at Springfield, Illinois, one hundred mileii north orSt. Louis, which cost„twp j cents per pound, or $44 80 per ton ; and used too, by a tt practical -matt," with advantageous results. At pres ent, in Western New York, and throughtnit the thriving and populous region bordering on the great lakes, anthracite coal is not in use, except in carrying on a few branches of manufactures. Yet no country needs a Substitute for wood, ns fuel, more than this. ' Twenty years since, Governer Clinton, with characteristiC sagacity, lament ed the failing forests of that ,beautiful and fertile region, and pointed out the necessity of securingnn access to the Mineral coal of Pennsylvania. There is now no avenue 1 through which an adequate supply can be 1 1 procured ; but complete the North Branch Canal, and the object is at once attained.— This done; and we could at the very least,, supply all the country west of Utica, inclu sive, comprising a geographical area Of more than one Half of the State of New York. There being no duty on this descrip tion of coal in Canada, it would be introduc ed there, and find its way throbgh the Wel land canal, upon all the upper' lakes. I have' no doubt when this work shall be com pleted, Pennsylvania anthracite could be de livelid in Buffalo forss 56 per ton, and at Oswego, on Lake Ontorio, for $5; paying at these priceS a better profit duin it now sells for in the Atlantic cities. At Elmira, as will be seen by reference to a schedule in the Appendix,!' the price would be short ,of $3; at Geneva, $ 3 50; at Syracuse and other :ialt villages $4 ; and so on at Roches ter, Utica, Canandaigua and other large towns; so profusely scattered through West ern New York—its prices would i be in pro portio).l to their respective Instance from El mira, and the price here stated for timepiece. Now, .these are but little more than the aver age prices . of seasoned wood in the towns mentioned ; and the *. ost • of preparing the wood for stoves and of additional attendance, is to be added to thelaecoant. - Including what 4ould be used in mann lecturing establishments, by steamboats, in smith's forges, and for theordinary purposes of fuel, I feel the utmost Confidence that not less' than 500,000' tons of anthracite coal would, in a short space of time, find every year a ready sale in the:region of country to Which :1 have referred. A committee of the principal citizens at Geneva, published an estimate ten years since, itt which the an nual consumption of coal at the,salt villaes alone, is set down at 30,000 tons. There is now consumed in the -saki manufactures of Syracuse and other salt villages, not lest: than 400 cords Of wood per day ; and it is brought, in some cases, a distance of twenty or thirty miles. Nor shall the bituminous coal of Bradford county be left out of view.;' This coal-field is much less known than it( deserves. Its po sition on the north-easterd verge of the bitu minous cotil region of Pnsylvania; within twenty-fiv* miles of the Sate of New York is extreme y favorable.he area occupied by it is no less than one hundred and fifty square .milies ; and intertermingled with coal, are rich deposites of argillaceous carbonate of iron. I have often wondered that a re gion of this description, should as yet have escaped the eagle-eye of capital ; and thht it has not, long ere this, been filled with far naces and forges. The coal of this field, for every purpose,.is said to he eqtial to any bi tuminous Coal in the United states. eon - pared with the ordinary English coal, it,con tains a much larger proportion of carbon ; the former contains 58 pet cent., while the average of the Towanda coal is stated to be 68. The volatile matter of the latter, ac cording to a n analysis of Professor Johascin, is if compared with must i other coal, of the same variety, in th is country ; and adds en other proof'to the positiciri taken by many geologists, that the quantity of volatile mat ter in bituminous coal, gradually increases as we advance from - the; Atlantic region, across and beyolid the Alleghany, over the, great coal fields of the western arid north western 1 States. RPM I c 1 • 1 . • mile.: •'P us n i r ßeading Railroad, from? the_ gaine c oal colt in `. -=round numbers, - ' 5iN500,000,1 0r2599,425 per mile ; 'making tife ainotinfex*deii: for 'the accommeida-] do n of the Schuylkill coal trade, $13,301,- 270. Yit such is the enormous increase of thii trad e both , of these works will probably be Predu five investments. The Delaskre and Hudson Canal was conime4ed in. 1825, and finished 1829. It is 108;miles in length, to which shguld be added a radii* , of 15 miles, having five in clining Planes. These' improvementi cost $3;910,658,‘ an average of $23,412 per mile. %!lie amount of coal sent to market by this route, in 1846, was. 224,121 tons.— The profits of this Company must be very great; and ,there .are doubtless very good teaaons why none of this stock can be pur chased. am aware that this company mines nail markets its own coal, as also does the, Lehigh Company. But it should be remembered, both Companies have repeat edly dee)ared in their Reports, - that • could they be assured of a requisite tonnage fur nislied by others, they would abandon min ing altogether. The Lehigh improvements, (connected in the estimate. for the purpose of illustration, with the Delaware Division of the Pennsyl vania Canal as far down as Bristol, the whole distance being 152 miles,) cost in the aggregate, $7,197,206—an average of s47,34o r per mile. By these improvements, 522,9901t0ns of. coal were brought to market in 1846., • The length of the North Branch Canal Company's works will be 107 miles, costing to complete them, only $1,106,0002-42r an average of $10,336 per mile ! And the sev enteen . miles in the State of New 'York, where no wqrk has been done, will cost on ly $20,000 per mile. - ' There, is another particular in regard to which, lideeni it fair to extend the compari son. In order accurately to compare'capa city, as "'dims to ascertain the expense of transportatiUn on canals, reference should be had to the amount of lockage; In length of time, (in,' the otdinary sense,) the Dela ware and Hodson, the Schuylkill, the Mor ris Canal, and the North Branch, improve ments are all about the same ; but reduced to a level, allowing twenty feet of lockage to be equal to a mile in distance, which is a fair ratio for ; crowded canals, the account would stand thus: : The Schuylkill navigation is 103 milCs long, and has 588 feet of lockage. Reduced to :a level in the above mentioned Ratio, and disregarding fractions, it is 137 miles. the, Delaware and Hudson is also 108 miles in length, has 1037 feet of lock age ; and istherefore equal to 161 miles of level canal. Bringing the Morris Canal in to the seine tategory-101 miles in length, with 1674 - feet of lockage equals 184 miles of'level canal. The North Branch:improve ment, say 108 miles long, has not more than '3OO feet bf lockage ; extended by the same rule, its length is only 118 miles ! I will .nor take up time in pursuing this conipari4on wall the Lehigh improvements. It must be sufficient for any farther illtistra tion of the value of those canals in this country,!wWch forms avenues for the coal trade, to: adtert to theAzre Division of the Pennsylvania Can • solar, the wily productiye ; canal (regarding the original cost) belonging to the State of Pennsylvania. It would 10-Clay, sell at .public sale for mote money than it cost the State ; because it is a coal carrying canal, and connected with the cod region. One o' the most surprising features in the rapid prOgress our country exhibits in•ev ery. departmnet of human enterprise, is the increase in the consumption of coal; and es pecially cif the anthracite coal of Pennsylva nia. In 1820, there was taken'from the Le high coal region 365 tons. Within the past year there has been taken from the same re pion 0ver520,000 tons. In 1825; the Schuyl kill coal trade amounted to 6,500 tons. In 1846, it had reached 1,300,000 tons. The aggregate increase in the whole State, is in the same,' ratio. Prom 365 tons in. 1820, it has amounted to upwards of two millions four hundred thousand tons in 1846: The increase of the last year over that of 1845, is 370,000 tone„ and the supply is short of 'the demand, It wotild swell this report beyond any reasonable limits, to refer in detait;_to the trade in iron, - salt, plaster and lumber, which the North Branch improvement would facil itate, and which would add largely to its revenue. lt must be obvious to every se fleeting mind, that an immense, increase in the sale of Pennsylvania iron would result from the completion of this work. We could send bar and pig iron from the Sus quehanna valley to Buffalo, at a less price than it now costs there, brought from Lake Champlain,' , a distance of three .hundred miles ; and we could also supply all the country iliterveningbetween the Susqflehan na and Lake Eric i the State of Now York-. There being 'no duties charged on American iron' in the Canadas, we might miter even into those markets. I have been assured by a gentleman residing in the part of the State of New York to which I refer himself engaged in the iron business, and well ac quainted with the subject, that not less than 40,000 nins of Pennsylvania iron would find an outlet annually; through the North Branch route, The boats taking coal and iron to this region, would almost uniformly find return freight in salt, plaster and water lime. Oh the Schuylkill, on the 'Lehigh, a6d on the Dealware and Hudson Canals, very hull return freight is afforded. All the country contiguous to the Susquehanna and its branches, would derive their supplies" of snit, plaster and water-lime, from the State or New fork, through the Susquehanna and North Branch improvements. I connilt conclude this general view ofthe piobablejiource or the levnue of these im provemelisolithoutre&Tring to the fact, that lumber will be for many years an impor tant article ortranspoitation. The citizens o r t he NOithein counties in their memorial to the Legislature in, regard to the cOmpletion ojr the *ph Branch . line, say "could lhoie - who ire.thus, engaged have an ' easy a6d safe transport ation to an unikkrin mar ket, (initial! of depeeding upon ihe'cOld 'and dingeroui -freshet of the spring,)' without hazard of life or loefof,property, they would convey theii lumber seasoned" - end 'seaiona. Wy to thelenost cOnimanditig market. had' 'the -addl)44r coMpleted ',during the last Ilia 3011; we hoitate . not te 'say that the State Would havii t ieeeiVed sixty thoulaiid dollars, iii :tollelfrienilitiitier which lay 'over 'in`con tesq-nenee of no' freshet last veer, and' a large c*ticin . Of - Whifih' ii' now !Oaf- fore - ver to "tile euteipeising . .dud hardy owners, by j subsequent unp anted high. Water it is estitriated athe Memorial, that' 000,009 feet of 1 l ibel.descent the Susquehanna and Oat:- o_the value Of shingles inandactOred, is 'rather more thnn one third that of boards." Some idea can. thus be formed of the amount of tolls which may be received op the North Branch, from the single articleOf lumber. The sum es timated by the intelligent author; of this me morial, is, of itself, nearly sufficient to pay the annual interest of what it Would cost to finish the canal. 1 Taking into Vier the peculiar advantages which the work ifT question will possess, the extent of country it will penetrate, the int mense chain, of canal communication it will unite—the valuable character, and variety of trade fur which it will form an avenue,; I am inevitably led I to the conclusion, that ;it will almost immediately become one of tile most productive lines of public improvement in the country ; and that in a •very few years after its completion, will be crowded- with all the tonnage it will bear. I regard it as an opportunity to capitalists of a safe and prop er investment, suph as is rarely, to be met with : and as a Peensylvanian, I regret Ox trernely„the necessity which compelled the State to part with it. I thus, speak confi dently and earnestly, after the the fullest re flection and most careful examination of the subject in every ferm. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAhI B. FOSTER, Jr., CIVIL ENGINEER. limuttsputto, January 20th, 1847. FROII THE ARVIY ! From die Public Ledger. Late from Mexico. General Scott at Puebla, awaiting Rein forcements—No Quorum of the Mexican. Congress—Mr.: Trist with Gen. Scotti— Every Avenue to the Capital fortifie4— Obstinate Resistance to General Palmer Advance—His: Loss Severe—American Prisoners at Libertyln the Capital. AirAsitINGTON, July 15th, 1847. By the arrival Of the Steamer Alabama, the Picayune hastdirect advices from the ci ty of Mexico to the morning of the 26th tilt, and Puebla to the 3%& Gen-. Scott still remained at Puebla, awtiiftg the reinforce ments on the road, under Generals Cadwal ader and Pillow. The news from the Cap ital was. indefinite. General Scott states that he had infortried the Mexicati Govetn meat that Mr. Trist was with him, and au thorized to enter into negotiations.of peace. Santa Anna had vainlyendeavored to pro cure a quorum of the methbers of Congress to consider Geb. Scott's proposition. It is supposed that General Scott will have to march into the city to secure pea Ce. The censorship of the press prevents the knowledge of what measures of defence are contemplated. Santa Anna was to leave.in three days from the 30th. It is stated-that every avenue to the city is fortified, but the success of the Americans was not doubted Gen. Yilhnv, Wig said, had to contest the ,road with Guerilla parties until beyond Cerro Gordo. They took ad vantage of every defile to arrest his progniss. His loss is said to have been severe. The Government of Puebla has been en trusted-to Col. Belton, of the 3d artillery. General Alvarez was at Alixco on the 14th June, with 300 cavalry. - The American Star of Puebla says there is three month's provisions for our troops in the city, and that the fields around supply the necessary forage. A Mexican has been detected by his codn trymen s=hile on the way- from the Capital Ito Puebla, with drawings of the .different fortifications around the capital. He was tried and sentenced to die, but escaped. The Mexicans use every Means to induce our men to desert and then use them shame fully. A party of eight Americans, not con nected with the army, left Puebla for a ha cienda on the road to Mexico, to purchase mules, encountered a party of lancers, and could not escape and were forced to fight them. All the Americans were wounded and it is supposed one was killed. Five are believed to have been taken prisoners. A, letter from Mexico to the American Star, says the Atherican prisoners were at liberty, and no one - troubles them. Tie writer sees Major Gaines daily. The decree ordering the Americans away had not been extended to them. It is be lieved they had been re-incarcerated atSan tiago. Majors Gaines and Borland may be at liberty but doubtful as to the rest. The Prefect of Puebla recently decamp ed to Alixco, with all the city funds. Perry's expeditiOn to Tobasco was entde ly successful. • - A rumor was current at Vera Cruz on the Ist, that Gen. Scott had entered the CO.. ital, and that General Pillow had been cap tured by the guerillas. The former is &lie, and no faith is placed in the latter. STEAMBOAT DISASTER.—An ex:ra of the N. 0. Commercial , Times, of the 30th ult, says: " - We learn from the officers of the Missouri, that the steamer Star SpangNd Banner, Capt. Pearce, struck a snag on i the 29th inst., near Thomas' Point, 10 miles above Baton bogi e, and sunk in a rely, minutes. Four or Ave persons drowned.÷ A great portion of the cabin baggage saved —nearly all elita , total loss. The cabin floated from the hull, with a number of pei2 - sons on it, and was ; landed some eight miles below. • A portion of the Third Indian a Regiment was. on beard, bound home. Also, a large number of Lerman emigrants, who, by this l account are left qui,e destitute. A fireman named Cbas. F. was kicked, over board by a horse, and drowned, near Bayou Goula. The St., Nlary ' brought from the wreck some one hundred _ passengers, and landed :them at BatOn Rouge. ! Two -MEN Throwento..—On Saturday last, John Sottrbeck, of Dauphin, and Thomas Graham, of Newport, Perry county, were e drowned in the riv e r at'Dauphin, (a !mill town above this ,) w h ile - on a fishing extol.- viol. Sourbecklea a a wife and : fourteen Is children-to mourn' untimely aid. Gra-- barnhas left a wife Slut three children to - regret his loss. Th bodies of the drownid men ' ' have -been retcovered.--HevrisNi4o - Union. i , mit Poll men PITH ' Here ekeli. the People ' s Unawed by i n fl uence and uniet naietebt, ) WYROSE. JULY. U. 1647. DEMOC&ATIC NONIBTIONL FOR GOVERNOR; FRANCIS R. MUNI& of Allegheny co. , CANAL comussNiNgs, NORRIS ILOINGSTRETH. of Mcrneffbmiery co. • WHIG NONIALTIONR. For Governor, JAMES IRVIN, . of Ce4are co. Canal Commissioner, JOSEPH W. PATTON, of Cumberland eo W . We acknowledge the,receirit of 14, 10 of" The Treasury of History,'.publish. i ed by Retie' Adee, 107 Fulton-street,iNeiv York, and Nd. 13 of ",Chambers' Cycilopp e dia of English Literature," publish d by i Gould, Kendall & Lincolo;s9 Washin toit street, op street, Boston—both of which we cheFerfal ly commend to the patronage of the public. E " Blackteoods Edinburgh Magaiine" fir Jime, comes to us richly freighted with good things. The reputation which'-this periodical has built up and sustained in Eu rope is a pretty sure evidence of its intrinsic merits. The American edition, an exact re-print, is published by Messrs. Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton -street, corner of Gold, Neiv York, rit $3,00 per volume. • HOUSE BURNT.—We are informed taut the dwelling house of Mr. David. Bushnell, in Rush township, was entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning lug. not lenrned hOw the fire originated,. nor .the extent of the. loss. At this. season of the year when framed buildings- are es dry its tinder, too much care cannot be taken to prevent their destruction by fire. THE NORTH BRANCH CANAL. We this week publish the Report of Will. B. Foster, jr., of a late re-survey of the oh finished part of the North -branch Canal, made under the direction of the Company. It will, be seen that Hitt Foster estimates the amount necessary to complete the line to Athens, Bradford co., at $1,006,037 . 00 ; he alsa gives a most flattering and we belieie just estimate of the probable dividends the Company will receive on the completion of the line. . • ' The importance of a speedy completibn of the N. B. Canal has been so frequently brought to the attention of the tkople and Legislators of our State, and the great bene fits that would accrue on mph, completibn are so, well known, that it would seem- Most superfluous to reiterate them ; yet the able report of Mr. Foster presents the who e matter in so clear a light, that its interest will amply excuse the space it - occupies our columns. • The project of connecting the North Branch Canal with the N. Y. & Erie Rail road, thus opening a direct channel tojhe New York and Eastern markets for the coal and iron of the Susquehanna valley, is one which, at this time, commands considerable attention. Qf the speedy completion of the N. Y. & Erie Railroad, at least as far :Hs Binghamton, N. Y., there is now no douht,L it remains to be seen whether the Canal Company will push their work' so far that' a Railroad connection with that improvement, at some point, may become practicable. Partizan Candidatcs. The Br d .rd Reporter of week in one column lishes the letter. from .Gen. Taylor to t kncinnati Signal, and in anO.. tber colum ys: " But • Whether Geh. Taylor will .4 . . ' ntenance such a scheme •lif rascality, (running as the candidate df the People, irrespective of party,)'there can be but one opinion—it seems to us that he will promptly rebuke the conspiracy." It seers then, according to the Reporter, that Gen. Taylor's own determination to-have nothing to do with the manouvreings and' corrup tions of party, is a piece of "rascality" that the " old man," notwithstanding his de votion to his Country, notwithstandingll/s having laredfrhis breast 'to the bullets arid bayonets of a tbreign foe, is still a raseall' And why 1 Biniply because, having been annoyed with thd importunities of this clique, and that faction to become the can didate of such and such a party; he has the patrioticfirniness to give them all a con! shoulder, by peremptorily refusing to be the candidate of any party or thane." • There are 'partizan journals that can nit see• any patriotism or purity outaide the pale of party—they can not see that nny demott stration the great mass of 'the People, which has not the sanction of party guardi ans, is anything but "rascality"--4 , a col- But these pure patriots watch with lese zeal the vaunted principleser their party than they do the 'movements of the People, 'lest thi:y should steislA march itpof theirleadera, *mom petent talisotiat'thab the, prin eiples which they profess to cheriO prompts them 1 to.draw strict. partylines Fat offices are to"-ba filled - -ffier five laws* and tin fishei are.to be diatittputed anion( , the taik*usaid,, all toldi_itti if a breaelt 00 0ltsitie-thetightly-stvetched.lines-iliat di vides p#ty and , the ',People,: there z MIC=I3 ovocate,_, knoiring iiPon .4 - 4 L Hence theiveariety pieserre those lit* unbroken end undacketnni4,the inneirtain- pie, where the'tipiiite*edistributed, onus not be polluted with . thelanVtread Off& Democratic nsshiQe: If Gen; Taylo4 One of the PeOple, Witbeut the aid of , eatt. cusses, committee!, scieret circulars a nd uB the machinery of-party organizatkon, be called "by the spontaneous action and free will of the nationiat large"!te, the Cruel Magi - Sir - ley of the Union, the preceilent would be n death-linellte the hopes ortliose cormorants who have thought, from fid4ity to party only, they would be enabled toilet in the spoils of office.: =ll . - It is very - true that the principljes of a can didate should be cleariy avowed and distinct- P understood, that thPeople in depositing their votes maY • knovi what they are attain ; yet it will not. be • tiUnied,- that among 'the gaunt and grasping office-seekers of party,• instances r are not rarii: where the practice of the officer has been very different froni'the promises of the'canAidate. That political integrity is as requisite in a public officer as capability seems to have beenlorgotten- in the desperate struggles of party for the as pendency. It is of little consequence7to the great mass of die People to whatp,arty a candidate belongs, or what principles he 1 1 may profess, so long, as they have tie sure 'guarantee that he will not prove faithful to his trust and' his Promises. The . People 'want to know the man as well as his prieci- The various movements which have bro't pen. Taylor's name Forward for the Presi dency have been so Much like the tloor-or ders of a dancing master, " forward two,'* " back again," " cross over," &c., that we scarcely know what to think of them. item ocrats claim him, Whigs claim him, and by each or them, , in primary meetings,' his name has been brought forward—we can Onlkliken it to ,a genbral mixing of waters, prep ratory'to a grand' rush and roar, which shall safely land she-old hero in the l'resi dential chair. But, we can understand his late letters—they aretoo emphatic to admit Of a quibble—and for the noble sentiments They contain we honor him quite as much as we do for his heroic 'conduct on the ,battle field. 3 • , I ' GEN. SCOTT'S -AbVANCE.—The intelli ence, from Mexico; which we f/ÜbliSil to day, renders it very uncertain that themitici pined revels in the Halls of the Monteztimas occurred on the 4th of July. Scott, i:Pr the 30th ult, was still at Puebla, nbout.lo}Miles from the city of Mexico, waiting 're-Wince ments under Cadwallader and-:„Pill9v0, - on the road. Some of tbe papers state that the former had arrived tit Puebla, on the l 3oth !ult. He was at Perote on the 20th'ult.; which !is SO miles from Puebla waiting for Pillow's arrival, who .had to fight the guerrillas at ]every step until! he 'bused., Cerro Gordo.= :The force under Scott was about 6000 rnen. ;The two Generals on the ioadwould I add '3OOO to the number, ; making' a force of 9000 ]men to march into the city of Mexico. ' On ;the 29th ult. there were 4 Vera Gritz' in icamp 2500 men; wii,4 l 3 wekto .march in a ;few dqys to join Gen.': Scott. Some of the Mexican journals are making merry. : at the den that Scott will be disappointed in taking , iis 4th of: July dinner in their capital: It will only be postponed for a few days but that will give him a better appetite for it when t'does take place. . 1 I Mr. Kendall, yttikg from Ptiebla on the Id ult., says :---sl i All the talk now is oilleace, mmediately with tl4. great Mexican nation, land those who talliCd but a short Week 6ince of revelling in this halls of the Montezu . as now appear to think they are just about s near the aforesaid balls as they rirei. will t a be. What, the propaiitio'ns are that have been made to the MeXican Government few Mere know : but what with British lintirfe rence, and the timidity' of the AtexiCitti' lea ders they hare evide4tly been liatened to. WEI.COME RAIN..4OI' the pest feiy dayi Ithe atmosphere has been at a sciorching h eat, , the earth paithod, and the streets and roads filled with dust but this (Wedriesday> horning an ever-mindful Profidence has ahowered upon' us a plentiful and reviving Fain. The crops in , this county generally took well, and promise a more than , usually bundant harvest. • . The long talked of Convention for the mr-- provement of . Wester Harbors . nd Rivers, issmbled at Chicago on the sth inst. Del igates appeared , from (nearly all the States iind Territories, which shows pretty' clearly Oat public feeling is 1. awakened to die Ibis- Portance of developing the indefinite resew. Os of the giant West. i Ron:EdWard Bates,. . d' Missouri, was chosen to preside civerl the I Convention, assisted by a laigeinumber of` Ticer-a t a'Secretar i es.'Leiters i rest en s all I , Were read 1 from. Mri Xtin Boren, 4ork Clay, Silas Wrigh4 - 4 . hoinas H: Benton.,, Lewis bassi, aminthei distinguished*entle men, all ofl whom. had been specialty invi- - , ed , but were - prevented frOm atterding• here seetiied ta be grent unaniinity of - lag amoncall :With , ipgatd io,iir.t.-,a,v 4 iiritd! 'object °fibs - Convention. : Miiii,us.: Renton nd Wright; il% . tbeitl.tt,tiris 'clig 4 ' . .l -t .: 14). .10410' somewhat it-litielt„',4iiik#od. 1g !Imi,tfilip'jiriO(ifili!Pa!; , ??: * *l# 4 l:r"i)4 l ' - .. on and R l ivers;inis strictly -withiiC*lii -0 d ad the_control of on ~u er _., . _ .. elist Glivernmatit. - - -.' -.-. '.':- - 1' . .:.4 i• r.:.:1, , 1 , :• Tke P9lll'ePti#P - wasinfilre tied : lits#o2- at of the Delegatii,"iiidiiii-ifilibillilieeed, : ,,,,,,, 4 , ;"' ,- . ,1 . , -,.?,,,,..%!', The Chicago` Convention: is
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