be adopted for the flooring of the Rail Road way, under the flooring of the present structure, that would bear its own weight.

A quaker lady advised pastor Schmidt to leave Germantown, so earnestly, that he without delay availed himself of her kind and friendly advice; the day after

It must therefore be suspended to the present super-some official duties induced him to go back to Germanstructure, as weakened by the cuttings proposed, and depend upon it entirely for support. This would not strengthen, but weaken the present structure; and, by the increased burden of the two travelling ways, the vibration of this bridge would be so great, as in the course of time to render the upper and lower bridges entirely unfit for use.

March 6th, 1830.

FREDERICK GRAFF,
FREDERICK ERDMANN.

Opinion of Major Wilson.

town; on his return it being dark, he had concluded to stay for the remainder of the night at a public house a bove Germantown, kept then by a man, who was called Butcher Michael; he had not been long there before a detachment of 15 American horsmen arrived. Pastor Schmidt now concluded it best to continue his journey home; the officer warmly pressed him to remain, stating that he considered the road dangerous for travellers at night; he at length partly consented to stay and strongly advised the officer to place sentinels on the road below, and above the house; this the officer declined doing, as quite unnecessary, but at length was persuaded PHILADELPHIA, March 6, 1830. to place a sentinel on the road below the house; the Having been applied to by the President of the Per- horsmen were soon asleep on the floor. Pastor Schmidt manent Bridge Company, to give my opinion respect became so uneasy, that he determined to depart, and iming the proposed plan of making an opening through mediately ordered his horse to be saddled, and rode the abutments and piers, for the purpose of construct-way; half an hour after his departure, a troop of British ing a Railway bridge, to be suspended or supported by horse came by the road above the house, surprized the the arches of the present bridge, I have no hesitation in American detachment, and killed all but one man, who saying, that the execution of such a plan would be de-after firing his pistol, was so fortunate as to make his cidedly injurious to the Permanent Bridge, and, at the same time, would fail in answering the purpose for which it is designed.

escape.

SALE OF REAL ESTATE.-Sheriff Alison, at his sale last week in Upper Oxford-struck off the well improv ed farm of 102 acres, and 99 perches, belonging to James Parker, for

The Factory establishment with numerous
buildings, 165 acres and 50 perches of
land, for

$2,180 00

13-5 feet,

27.5

The tract of land adjoining, containing 90
acres and 47 perches, for

6,000 00

1,195 00

14 feet

Another tract of 337 acres, with some build-
ings, for

2,800 00

300 00

30.00

A tract of 98 acres in West Fallowfield, from
which the timber had principally taken
leave, for

And the cut-down timber thereon, for

Making this amount, 12,505 00 for the real estate of Mr. Parker; which left a large mount of debt unsatisfied.

At the public sale, on Saturday last, of lots belonging to the estate of William Hemphill, dec. in West-Chester. Lot No. 1-Situated in Gay-street, near the Catholic Chapel, 50 feet in front, sold for 16 dollars and 6 cents per foot-$802 50 for a building lot. No. 2, same dimensions-$15 10 per foot in front. No. 4, do 11 00 do do-V. Rec.

do

EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT. On page 142 of the present volume, we published a General Table of the Expenses of "Government,” from 1791 to 1829 excepting 1804, which was omitted in consequence of not being able to procure the auditor The house in which pastor Schmidt lived, was general's report of that year. This we have, however, one of two houses which now form the double by the kindness of a friend at Harrisburgh, since obtain. house at present, or lately occupied by Mr. Billed, and in order to render the whole series complete myer, printer. A party was sent by the enemy to burn the house, but with orders to spare the one next to his, then belonging to Mr.- a good and loyal subject of his majesty; accordingly they made a large fire in the kitchen chimney, before which they placed a large door, which taking fire communicated the flames to the building; the fire raged so furiously, that the next house was in iminent danger of being destroyed, which being reported to the commanding officer, he sent a detachment to extinguish the fire, which was done; but the house had been so much injured, that on pastor Schmidt's return to Germantown, he could not occupy it, but rented the house next to his old dwelling, where he continued until he left Germantown.

we now publish the expenditures of that year. Agree. ably to promise we now offer another table exhibiting the expenses of the "Legislative department," more in detail, and a second table, showing the duration of the sessions, laws passed &c. &c. We will hereafter furnish similar tables, of the other departments. Though embraced in a small compas, these tables, cost us much time, labor and research, but when completed, will we think furnish such a view of the statistics of our state, as has never been presented to the public, since the organization of the government.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT OF PENNS’A.

1796

9132 40 2458 00

1070 82

2770 80

1796 30238 00.2958 00

1797 30886 80 2393 48

1801

8721 40 1901 54

933 62

3542 89

124 75

1808 32472 80 1853 20

1809 11866 00

18204 38

1809 36090 80 1823 20

3291 37 48611 37

66815 75

1810 10652 40

1730 00

16382 78

1810 32422 80 1711 20

1850 00

2935 73 44263 55

60646 33

1811 11807 40

1810 00

900 00

2959 79

1162 18

18639 37

1811 56450 30 1802 00

1150 00

3625 25

1850 00

4294 30 49171 85

67811 22

1812 11974 00

1810 00

1120 00

2833 14

1657 76

19394 90

1812 36555 90 1810 00

1140 00

4604 18

1850 00

3367 28 49327 36

68722 32

1813

11480 70 2052 00

1005 25

2644 91

1732 98

18915 84

1813 36198 50

2327 00

1195 00

3773 50

1850 00

1734 48 47078 48

65994 32

1814 15017 50

2505 62

1188 00

2195 75

1707 30

22614 17

1814 45792 40

2146 00

1204 25

3866 87

1850 00

2288 95 57098 47

79712 64

1815 13247 15

2384 00

1034 39

2636 50

1203 40

20505 44

1815 39953 40

2196 00

1039 00

3097 50

1850 00

2231 98 50367 88

70873 32

1816 13737 15

1873 00

1055 00

2316 00

500 00

1789 07

21270 22

1816 43798 80

2098 00

1212 00

5090 50

1898 00

4030 28 58127 58

79397 80

1817

15113 10

2154 00

1228 00

2569 00

500 00

1742 64

23306 74

1817 46445 00

2154 00

1249 75

4897 50

2300 00

3616 15 60662 40

83969 14

1818

15161 80

1954 00

1099 752732 52

500 00

2056 99

23505 06

1818 46999 33

2154 00,

1305 37

4862 50

2300 00

3760 32 61381 52

84886 58

15749 90

2010 00

1208 50

2954 51

500 00

1982 51

24405 42

1819 49687 70

2210 00

1320 00

4572 55

1800 00

6334 45 65924 70

90330 12

24033 74

1820 56067 66

6971 89 64523 05

4606 29 54357 49

THIS sum includes 1560 40 expences and fees for trial of Judges-also transcribing amount not specified. Includes extra Session.

Although there has been a gradual increase of expenditure within ten years, yet the average daily expenses of the Legislature appear to be less than the aver age of the whole series, and the cost of each act is not very materially increased; this arises from the circumstance of the greater length of the sessions and the greater number of laws now passed at each, than the whole average gives.

The shortest regular session was 97 days in 1814-15. The present session, if the Legislature adjourn at the time now fixed, will have been the longest session.Of the number of acts passed we have as yet no account.

† Extra Session, in consequence of Western insur-long the middle of Broad street until it crosses the line

1830.]

RECORDS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

207

for North America. The Governor communicated this
intelligence to the Assembly, April 3, and called upon
them by message "to enable him to put the province in
posture of defence, by establishing a regular militia,
and providing the necessary stores of war."
The bill to prevent the exportation of provisions and
naval or warlike stores to the French, was passed by
the Governor.*
April 8.
Governor Shirley and Governor Delancy
arrived and set out (April 9) with Governor Morris to
Annapolis, to meet Gen. Braddock, Gov. Dinwiddie, of
Virginia, and Gov. Sharpe, of Maryland. An embassy
from the Indians dwelling on the Susquehannah, came
by way of Bethlehem to Philadelphia, consisting of
Scarooyady and seven others. They begged for clothes
to enable them to go to Augwick. The Governor re-
commended this to the Assembly. The latter, in an-
swer, proposed that they should go to Frenchtown as a
place of refuge for them and other Indians, who contin-
ued to take refuge among us; where they might plant
corn and hunt, and occasionally receive help. But the
treasury was now much exhausted.

April 14. A conference between the Governor's Council and the Indians, at the council chamber in the state house. The latter stated that they had no particular business, but to renew the old covenant of friendship with William Penn.

aminations to be made from the said inclined plane, to
such other point on the line of the city, and also to
such point on the tide water of the Schuylkill at the
head of sloop navigation as they may deem expedi-a
ent; and also to make an estimate of the cost of con-
struction, and ascertain the amount of damages to pri-
vate property, as far as practicable, on the respective
routes, and such other routes as they may deem expe-
dient to survey, and make report to the next legisla-
ture; and also whether in their opinion it will be the in-
terest of the state to make more than one line of rail
road from said Peters' farm, and if so, which: And
whereas, the board of canal commissioners did appoint
Major Douglass, of West Point, their engineer, to make
the re-examinations and surveys required by the fore-
going resolution, and the said engineer after making
the re-examination sand surveys as aforesaid, did report
in favour of the line recommended by Major Wilson,
and adopted by the board of canal commissioners, and
the said board did by their report made to the present
legislature, recommend the location of said rail road
down the western side of the Schuylkill, to cross the
said Schuylkill at Fair Mount, and thence down its
eastern side to sloop navigation, between Market and
Chesnut streets, in opposition to the line preferred by
the engineer Major Douglass, and to the line recom-
mended by all the engineers employed by the state to
survey the same, and without assigning any reasons for
the decision at variance with the reports of all the engi-
neers. And whereas, it appears that the crossing the
Schuylkill at Fair Mount is now abandoned, and it is
proposed to carry the line down the western side to
Market street, and cross the river on the permanent
bridge, which said line from Fair Mount to Market
street and thence to cross the said river has never been
recommended by any engineer acting under the au-
thority of the board of canal commissioners. And where-
as, there never has been any line of rail road from the
inclined plane of Peter's farm down the western side of
Schuylkill to Market street, or any other point on said
western side on which a location could be made with
the approbation of a skilful engineer, and with the con-
sent of the governor which is required by the act pass-
ed the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred
and twenty-six. And whereas, it is believed that no ap-
propriation is contemplated or intended to be made by
the legislature during the present session to the said
rail road from the inclined plane to the city, and under
all circumstances it would be more expedient to author-
ise private companies, to conduct said rail road from
the inclined plane on the Schuylkill, to the city or to
tide water on the eastern or western side of the Schuyl-
kill, the committee therefore offer the following resolu-

tion:

April 16. Conference renewed. The purport of the speech made by Scarooyady was, that he desired always to live in friendship with the Governor and the 6 nations. That they made one family; and that if the French should attempt any thing against any of them, they (the Delawares,) would be ready to resist them.

April 23. The Governor (having returned) addressed them in answer: reciprocating their assurances of friendship, and desiring them to remain where they were for the present.

The Indians having withdrawn, the Governor communicated to the Council the minutes of what passed at Alexandria, in confidence, not to be divulged. A Council was then held on the 14th of April, of this year, at which were present General Braddock, Commodore Keppel, Governors Shirley, Dinwiddie, Delancy, Sharp, and Morris.

The General's commission having been read, and the articles of his instructions relative to a common fund, to be established in the Colonies, for carrying on the services under the General's directions, and also the article relative to the measures to be taken for engaging the Indians to his majesty's interests. The General made the following proposals:

First. That a fund should be established conformably to his instructions and to Sir Thomas Robinson's letter of 26th Oct. 1754.

Secondly. It being of the utmost importance that the nations of Indians and their allies should begained, & secured to the British interest, that a proper person should be sent with full powers from him to treat with them; and that Col. Johnson should be employed in it. And in order to promote the success of the treaty the General proposed that presents should be made to the Indians; in which he desired the opinion of the Council as to the value to which the said presents should be made,and the manner of their being supplied.

Resolved, That it would be inexpedient for the legis-5 lature at the present session to authorise the extension of the Pennsylvania rail road from the inclined plane, otherwise than that, the committee recommend to the house to incorporate companies to make branches, extending from the inclined plane to the city, and adjoining districts, and to tide water on the eastern and western sides of the Schuylkill.

RECORDS OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Abstract of the state records at Harrisburg, made by Thomas Sergeant Esq. when Secretary of the Commonwealth, and by him presented to the Historical Committee of the American Philosophical Society, Nov. 3, 1819.-1748 to 1758.

(Continued from vol. 4. p. 356. )

1755, April 5. Intelligence received by the Govern or, of the French having fitted out 15 sail of the line of battle ships, and sent in them 6000 land forces. destined

Thirdly. His Excellency acquainted the Council that he proposed to attack the French forts at Crown Point and Niagara, and desired their opinion whether it was advisable that the reduction of Crown Point should be undertaken with the forces agreed to be supplied by the several colonies concerned in it, amounting in the whole to 4400 men; and whether it was their opinion that Col. Johnson was a proper person to command in chief in the said service.

Fourthly. His Excellency considering the fort at Oswego as a post of the greatest importance for facilitating the proposed attack of Niagara, and securing the

*See Register, vol. 4. p. 335.

retreat of the troops to be employed in that service; and having been informed of its present defenceless condition, and of the weakness of its garrison, acquainted the Council that he should order it to be reinforced by the independent companies of New-York, and two companies of Sir William Pepperell's regiment; and desired to have their opinion, whether it would not be proper to build one or more vessels upon the Lake Ontario for asserting his Majesty's right to that lake, as well as for a security to the forces to be employed in the attack of Niagara, and of what burthen or force the said vessels should be.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The first SHAD this season was in market on the 15th or 16th instant.

The writer of the essay on imprisonment for debt, begs leave to correct an error, into which he has fallen through inadvertance.

To all which the members of the Council made the following memorable answer-"That they had severally made application to their respective Assemblies for the establishment of the common fund proposed, but had not been able to prevail upon them to agree to it; and gave it as their unanimous opinion, that such a fund can never be established in the, colonies without the aid of Parliament. They likewise declared that having found it impracticable to obtain in their respective govern. The 817 persons stated as being in prison, from June ments, their proportions expected by his majesty to- 1829, to February 1830, were persons against whom exwards defraying the expense of his service in North Aecutions had been obtained, but by far the greater part merica, that they are unanimously of opinion, that it of whom had escaped imprisonment, by giving bond and should be proposed to his Majesty's Ministers, to find out security to appear at the insolvent court, and take the some method of compelling them to do it; and of assessing benefit of the act. the several governments in proportion to their respective abilities,their shares of the whole money already furnished, and which it shall be thought proper for them to furnish towards the general expenses of his service. They also assured the General that they would still continue to use their utmost endeavours to raise all possible supplies, but were unanimously of opinion that the King's ser vice in the colonies and the carrying on the present expedition must be at a stand unless the General shall think proper to make use of his credit upon the governments at home, to defray the expense of all the operations under his direction. They likewise agreed on the propriety of a person being sent to treat with the five nations of Indians, and on the fitnesa of Col. Johnsonand that for that purpose the sum of £800 should be paid him; to procure presents to the amount of £500 for the Northern and Western, and £300 for the West

Singular Anomaly.-A ewe belonging to Mr. Martin, of this borough, a few days since gave birth to a lamb, with two heads, two tails, four ears, and six legs. It was born alive, but survived but a short time. We understand it is now in the hands of a person who will stuff and preserve it.-Erie Gaz.

Relations worth counting-We are informe (says the Erie Gazette,) that Mary Marvin, of Waterford, in this county, a grand child of Colonel Henry Colt, has now living seven grand parents and sixty-one uncles and We wonder how many cousins she will have thirty years hence.

aunts!

We learn that a number of arks loaded with Anthracite ern Indians, to be given at Oswego. And that if the Coal, destined for Baltimore, arrived yesterday at MariGovernors would advance the money, the Colonies etta from the Baltimore Company's Mines on the Susought to replace it, according to the proportions set-nehanna. The Coal is reported to be of a superior tled in the plan of Union by the Commissioners at Alba-quality. We believe the day is not far distant when it will become a valuable article of export on account of ny last year, together with all contingent charges; and its vastly superior strength over any other kind. that it was their opinion the several governments would Baltimore Patriot. readily consent to do it within the space of three months. They agreed to the proposed attack on Crown Point On Thursday evening last, five stages arived in this and Niagara, and that Col. Johnson was the properest borough from l'hiladelphia, all crowded with passenperson to have the command of the attack on Crown Point. They also agreed to the necessity of strengthen-gers.-Pottsville, M. Journal. ing the fort, and advised the building of two vessels of 60 tons upon the Lake Ontario with all possible dispatch, according to a draught to be sent by Commodore Keppel. In case of the reduction of Fort Duquesne, it was agreed that whatever garrison the General should think proper to leave, there should be defrayed by the governments of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; and that if the General should think it necessary to build a fort upon Lake Erie, and to order one or more vessels to be built for the defence of that lake, the ex

pense attending both, those measures should be defray

ed by those three governments."

Accounts arrived from the Commissioners for laying out the road, dated Fort Cumberland, stating that it was laid out to about 18 miles this side the three forks of Youghiohgany, and intimating a wish to know if the Assembly would pay the expense of opening it.

In conformity to the request of Gen. Braddock, the Governor sent a letter to Mr. George Croghan, with a large quantity of Wampum, made up in belts and strings, requiring him to convene as many Indians of the six nations as he could at Aughwick, and inform them that Gen. Braddock was on his march, and intreat them to

Ecclesiastical News.The corner stone of a new church for the congregation of the Rev. Mr. Chambers, was laid on Tuesday last. The edifice is to be built at the corner of George and Broad-streets. This congregation now occupy the church in Thirteenth street, called the Ninth Presbyterian, or more usually Mrs. Duncan's— having been built in pursuance of her last will.

elected Pastor of the First Presbyterian church, in the The Rev. Mr. Barnes, of Morristown, N. J. has been room of Dr. Wilson, resigned. Mr. Winchester, of Baltimore, has been elected Pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian church, in the room of Rev. J. H. Kennedy, resigned.Morning Journal.

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