1830.] METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. other bulky articles, which require a very large wharf front. The 3,850 feet south of the bridge, in a few years, will be entirely inadequate to accommodate this immense trade; and the 4100 feet north must be opened for that purpose. The wharf property of the Schuylkill will then be 7,950 feet, instead of 3,850 feet. The citizen, the farmer, and the trader, are all equally interested in preventing a monopoly of the trade-in the holders of wharf property to the south of the Permanent Bridge. The plan that we have proposed, of crossing above the tide water, obviates all the difficulties that must be encountered in passing at any point below, and gives to the inhabitants of the interior a choice of markets. A case in point occurred in 1826, when the inhabit· ants of the city of Pittsburg complained of the location of the termination of the Western Canal. The board of canal commissioners, in their report, which is to be found in the 2d volume of the Journal of the House of Representatives for 1826-7, pages 60 and 61, stated the matter to the Legislature, and requested their opinion and interference. This was referred to the Committee on Roads and Inland Navigation, of which Mr. Leliman was the chairman, who reported (see same volume, page 332) that they considered the existing law as wise and sufficient, and recommended that the Legislature should not interfere, but that the responsibility of a decis on should be thrown upon the canal commissioners under the requisitions of the law. This report was adopted, and the subsequent proceedings of the board are to be found in their report to the Legislature, read in the Senate, 4th Jan. 1828, pages 8 and 9. The Legislature, in that instance, decided that no Canal or Rail road should be located without the three requisites that have been already stated,-the decision of a majority of the board of canal commissioners, the approbation of a skilful Engineer in the service of the State, and the consent of the Governor. The Peters' Island route has had all these three requisites of the law, and not merely the approbation of one skilful engineer in the service of the State, but of four. The Fair Mount route has but one requisite, a majority of the board of canal commissioners, and it wants not only the approbation of the engineer, and the Governor's consent, but has been reported against by four engineers. The Market street route, or any crossing between the two bridges, wants all the requisites of the law; it has neither decision of the Board, approbation of an Engineer, nor consent of the Governor. Can there be a doubt as to what ought to be the final determination? Let the law takes its course, and we have no fears for the result. PITTSBURG, March 23. The navigation of our rivers commenced on the 22d of February, just four weeks ago yesterday, and during those four weeks, 65 steam boats have arrived here, and 70 have departed. er. On Saturday last, Mr. Blanchard launched a Steam Boat, intended for the navigation of the Allegheny rivShe is ninety feet long, and seventeen feet wide, and is calculated for the conveyance of passengers and freight. She was built for a company in Pittsburg, Meadville and Kittanning. Mr. Blanchard has stipulated that she shall not draw more than 10 inches, with her engine, water, wood, and furniture on board; and not more than 24 inches, with forty tons of freight and 100 passengers. She is built upon the same plan that has succeeded, we believe, on the Connecticut river. If this boat answers the expectations of the builder, a new era will have arrived in our steam boat navigation. We pretend to no great judgment in such matters, but after the best examination and consideration we could give it, we believe it will succeed. Pittsburg Goz. 235 1|34|38|34|35||29 30|29 25129 20129 251E 29 15 29 23 2 26 36 33 31 326 39|35|33| 05 03 0829 05 E 25 35 40 29 33 NW 427 44 31 35 50 50 50 29 50 NW 5 17 47 4235] 639 53 46|46| 25 29 21 NW Monday 1 44 24 1 Males, 162. Females, 135, of whom 77 are,boys, 76girls. Whites, 255-Blacks, 42-From Alms-house, 41. The city and liberties have remained free, during the past month, of any epidemic disease-the measles and scarlet fever, a few cases of which occurred in the months of January and February, do not appear to have increased. The sudden transitions of weather, peculiar to the season, have produced their usual amount of cattarrhs, pleurisies and rheumatic affections. But the entire amount of disease which has prevailed must be pronounced small in comparison with the extent of population from which our bills of mortality are made up. Very few cases of the Small-pox and Varioloid have occurred for some time past. Deaths in MARCH, from 1807 to 1830. 10 7 5 102 87 189 1823 122 85 207 2 105 1817 2 106 1818 1 151 66 182 | 1827 156 149 305 88 193 1828 141 151 292 79 209 405 89 153 297 Mob of 1779.-An article with this title is to be found on page 316 of the first volume of your Register; a person who was present is desirous of correcting an error in the statement. The account mentions, "At the crit ical moment when the door yielded to their efforts the Horse made their appearance." The fact is, that there were but three persons on the ground at the moment the Mob desisted from their efforts, these were Gov. Reed, D. H. Conyngham and one other, (name not recollected,) when they rode up the cry was, "the horse" "the horse," and the Mob were already flying when Lennox and his party arrived. I could give many par ticulars, but think it unnecessary at present. 1830.] UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. At a Medical Commencement, held March 24th, 1830, in the Musical Fund Hall, Locust street, the Degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon the following gentlemen. Names. Samuel Abernethy, Pa. Alfred Anderson, S.C. Abram Maury Allen, Va. John W. Anderson, Md. Hugh H. Abernethy, Pa. Richard D. Arnold, Geo. Levin H. Adams, Del. Thomas M. Boyle, Va. Randolph Brearley, N. J. Daniel J. Bruner, Pa. Robert P. Brooke, Va. William G. Britton, Va. Bennet A. Bouton, Pa. Thomas D. Brown, Va. John Foulk Bullick, Pa. P. H. W. Bronaugh, Va. Armistead F. Brackin,N.C. Thomas Barbour, Va. Joseph Baldwin, Pa. Charles H. Black, Del. Horace M. Belt, Va. Cyprian Cross, N.C. Jonathan Clark, Pa. James S. Carraway, Miss. Jesse Carter, N.C. Felix G. Callaway, Geo. Augustus H. Cenas, Lou. William M. Cross, Va. Wm. Cunningham, do John F. Charles, Pa. Joseph Carson, do Robert M. Dunbar, Va. A. Franklin Dulin, do William R. Derickson, Del. B. Rush Erwin, N. J. John R. Edmonds, Va. Joseph W. Farnum, R. I. George Fitzgerald, Va. Henry M. Fuller, S. C. George F. Fort, N. J. James Burette Ford, Va. John F. Fauntleroy, do Richard Garland, do Thomas H. Green, Pa. William W. Gerhard, do Selah Gulick, N.J. Robert M. Garrett, Va. Michael F. Groves, Pa William A. Gray, Va Lewis M. George, do John R. Garnett, do Ezra Gildersleeve, Pa Lemuel Gustine, do Thomas Hun, N.Y. Edward Hallowell, Pa. Geo. Jacob Janeway, do William Jones, do Robert H. Jones, do Robert B. James, S.C. William Keith, Pa. William H. Klapp, do Subjects of Essay. Rupture of the Uterus Typhus Fever Pneumonia Biliosa Cholera Infantum Bronchitis Acuta Variola Vaccina Peritonitis Puerperalis Secale Cornutum Hydro-arachnitis Infantum Dysentery Lithotomy Cynanche Trachealis Conduct of the Practitioner Structure and Functions of the Mucous Membranes Pathology of Local Inflam mation Peritonitis Hæmoptysis Rubeola Enteritis Intermittent Fever Cholera Infantum 237 Bilious Remittent of South ern States Acute Peritonitis Trachitis Gastritis Datura Stramonium Acute Gastritis Bilious Colic James B. Livingston, N.Y. Cynanche Trachealis James D. Mead, do Tenn. George Norrris, Pa. Thomas H. Nelson, Va. Josiah H. Phelps, Vt. Walter R. Puckett, Va. Edmund P. Pollard, Md. James R. S. Purnell, do James T. Persons, Geo. Thomas Payne, Va. Chillian Palmer, N.C. William J. Pendleton, Va. Jeffrey D. Palmer, do David John Rodgers, Pa. Edward Florens Rivinus, do Joseph Rittenhouse, do Robert C. Randolph, Va. Lewis Roper, Pa. Zachariah Reed, N.J. James H. Ragan, Geo. Nathaniel W. Roan, N.C. William S. W.Ruschenberger, U. S. Navy G. F. H. Strawbridge, Pa. Wilson C. Swann, D. C. Albert H. Sheppard, Geo. Daniel B. Searcy, do William Selden, Va. Dysentery Causes of Yellow Fever Varioloid & Vaccine Diseases Cholera Infantum Inflammatory Dysentery Diet in Disease and Con- Operation of Physical Cau- Physiology and Pathology Idiopathic Hydrothorax Diseases of the Liver Ol. Terebinth do Endermic Applications Rubeola Thomas Stewardson,Jr. do Digestion Charies P. Street, Va. James H. Smith, Pa. William P. Garrison, Azel Compton, Simon Miller, William Grosyener, Fenno Downer, James Van Keuren, Dysentery New Jersey. Dysentery Pertussis Secale Cornutum Use of Amesbury's Appa ratus Connecticut. Delirium Tremens Trade of French Creek -We are informed on good authority that between Waterford and Bemus' mills, on French creek, a distance of 22 miles, from 90 to 100 flat bottomed boats have started, or are about to start, for Pittsburg. These boats are built principally by individual farmers, and are freighted with hay, oats, potatoes, and various other kinds of produce; also, salt, staves, bark, shingles, cherry and walnut lumber, &c. The average freight of these boats is twenty-seven tons, and the average value of boat and cargo at Pittsburg, is estimated at five hundred dollars-calculating the number of boats at 100, the total tonnage would be 2700 tons, and the product at Pittsburg fifty thousand dollars. From Bemus' mill to the mouth of French creek, the number of boats of the above description is equal, if not greater, exclusive of rafts, which make a very consideObservations on Therapeu- rable item; so that the trade of French creek this sea son may be safely estimated at 100,000 dollars. New York. Dysentery ties. Kentucky. John W. Hood, Croup Virginia. SAMUEL M'CLELLAN, M.D. RECAPITULATION. Delaware,... Connecticut... New York,... Kentucky. Virginia... Cuba,.. .19 .3 .6 .3 1 1 .1 .1 -35 Total. Erie Gazette. PITTSBURG, March 50. Floating Dock-Several of our steam boat owners are now engaged in building an immense flat boat, to be used as a Floating Dock, for repairing steam boats. This boat is one hundred and forty feet long, and thir ty-two feet wide. We have no doubt this dock will prove highly useful. Hitherto the methods adopted for repairing steam boats have been very tedious, ineffi cient, dangerous, and expensive, and it is high time that some better plan for preserving this valuable species of property from early decay should be devised. Pittsburg Gaz. OBITUARY. DIED, on Saturday morning, the 27th ult. at his residence in the borough of Bedford, JOHN TOD, Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, aged fifty-one years. The loss of this eminent and useful man will be seriously felt and deeply lamented throughout the state. Destitute of every resource but that which his own talents and industry supplied, he arrived when a young adventurer, in Bedford, and commenced his career as a lawyer under circumstances which were peculiarly unpropitious and discouraging. While on the one hand he was entirely without friends, and forced to contend with those evils which are inseparable from poverty, we have every reason to believe that on the other a selfish and illiberal feeling was at work to repress his ardour, and stifle at once that determined resolution which led him at last to distinguished success and usefulness. A mind like his might be cramped, but it could not be subdued or intimidated. It was not long before his industry and application at tracted the notice of the public. He acquired an extensive share of practice-be was repeatedly called to preside in the councils of his country-a series of years placed him on the bench in the district in which he had commenced his profession, and soon after he was elevated to one of the first honours in the state by being appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. The character of Judge Tod was that of a plain practical republican-a downright honest man. Without the least ostentation or disguise, he remarkably exemplified in a Spartan simplicity of manners the truth of his own sentiments-that there may be a social equality in the intercourse of men on all proper occasions, without at all interfering with the difference conferred by intellect and education. He was too humble to think himself wiser than others, and too honest to account himself better. His unbending integrity, his inflexible resolution, and his unceasing application to business, were the chief causes of his being successful in most of his undertakings. Had he possessed these last qualities in a less degree, we have reason to suppose he might have lived longer-but a prolonged life is not always either the most glorious or useful. At a meeting of the members of the Bar of Bedford county, Pa. at the County Hall in Bedford, on Saturday the 27th day of March, 1830, James M. Russell, Esq. was called to the Chair, and Francis H. Murdoch, Esq. appointed Secretary: Whereupon the annexed preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted. ROMAN CATHOLIC SOCIETY OF ST. JOSEPH. 239 The Managers of the Roman Catholic Society of St. Joseph for educating and maintaining poor Orphan Children: TO THE PUBLIC. Experience in the history of charitable institutions, proves that their establishment is a much easier task, than their subsequent preservation. The zeal that usually swells the list of subscription at first, may be compared to the spring-tide, with this difference that it flows but once. Hence it is that so many of them commence with bright prospects of support, and are afterwards permitted to languish for want of means. Year after year, you see their condition spread out before the public, in detail; but even this does not arrest the decrease of subscription. Now and then, indeed, we see with delight an establishment of this kind, placed, by the stroke of some generous pen, far beyond the caprices of public patronage. But the instances are as few, as they are honourable. The managers of the St. Joseph's Asylum, have the satisfaction to state, that, if the institution under their care be not yet as extensive as its object requires and as they hope to see it, it is at least placed on a solid foundation. Without the aid of the charitable it will not advance, but it cannot retrograde. It will be seen by a brief outline of its history, that it has struggled with its primitive embarrassments, and arisen to what it is, in comparative privacy and silence. The Society, under the name of "The Roman Catholic Society of St. Joseph for educating and maintaining poor Orphan Children," was incorporated on the 18th of December, 1807. In the year 1811, the house and lot where the Asylum now stands were purchased, and cost including subsequent improvements, $6,927 28. The Society in consequence of this purchase and the current expenses was not out of debt until the year 1817. On the 19th of March of that year, the society found itself for the first time out of debt, with a balance of $63 09 in the Treasury. In the year 1821, it was unanimously resolved by the society that the then existing capital should be increased to the sum limited by the Charter, which the Managers have not yet been able to realise. In 1814 an association of ladies was formed, who took upon themselves to supply the children with clothing and other domestic articles. These ladies have continued up to this time, to prosecute the object of their assciation with a zeal and perseverance, worthy of all Whereas it has pleased Divine Providence to call from praise. Their subscribers, however, at present are only his earthly labours in the midst of his usefulness, our a small remnant of what they once were. The manag eminent and valuable fellow citizen, the HoN. JOHN ers have to mention also, with regret, that the male subTOD: and it becomes us as citizens of his adopted coun-scribers have decreased from 180 in 1816, to 10, in ty and residence, and as professional associates, warmly 1829. and affectionately attached to him, to offer some public manifestation of our regret on this solemn occasion. Therefore Resolved, That we sincerely and deeply lament the loss which our society, our country, and our state have sustained in the death of our eminent and highly valuable fellow-citizen the Hon. John Tod. Resolved, That we cherish the recollection of the virtues that ennobled and adorned his character-of his usefulness as a citizen, a statesman and a jurist, and of his private worth which endeared him to all his acquain tances. Resolved, That we sincerely sympathise with the family of the deceased, in the melancholy bereavement which has deprived them of a watchful parent, a kind relation, and a warm and devoted friend. The care of the orphans and the domestic economy of the house are superintended by four "sisters of charity" obtained from Emmetsburg in 1814. The advantages and saving resulting to the institution from this arrangement are incalculable. These ladies, in accordance with their religious profession, devote themselves to the service of the orphans without any remuneration beyond food and. raiment. In them are united, the mother's tenderness and the guardian's economy. With the aid of the larger children they do all the house work themselves. Since 1810 upwards of 100 orphan children have been admitted from the age of three to seven years, and have remained generally until about 12 years. Thus the above number have enjoyed the benefits of the institution, food, clothing and education, each during an average period of seven years. In making this statement, the Resolved, That in testimony of these feelings, we will managers beg leave to observe that St. Joseph's Orphan wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. Asylum has never received either from the State or Resolved, That these proceedings be published-and from the Guardians of the poor, any of those aids or apthat copies thereof be presented to the family and trans-propriations, which bave been extended, and properly mitted to the brothers and sisters of the deceased. so, we think to other and similar charitable establishJAMES M. RUSSELL, Chairman.ments. The managers feel that the claims of this humFrancis H. Murdoch, Secretary. |