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Your petitioners are informed that there is a culvert
in Tenth street, into which the waters may be carried
on the west side of said street above and below Locust
street, and if Councils should direct the water so to be
conveyed, it would be a great relief to the petitioners
and the public-and your petitioners accordingly pray
you to direct the same to be done, and they will ever
pray, &c.
May 30, 1833.

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charge made for commissions by the Executors of Stephen Girard, on their accounts filed in the Register's Office, which in the opinion of these Councils is excessive.

Resolved, by the Select and Common Councils, that the Clerks of Councils be requested to obtain a certified copy of the account or accounts as filed in the Register's Office by the Executors of the late Stephen Girard, and have the same printed for the use of Councils. Mr. J. P. Wetherill presented the annexed commu. nication from the Commissioners of Kensington Dis-petition from the Farmers attending the new Market, in COMMON COUNCIL -Mr. McMullin presented a trict, and offered the following resolution, which was Second street, which was referred to the Committee on adopted.

Kensington, June 7th, 1833. By the Commissioners of the Kensington District: Resolved, That the Committee on the introduction of the Schuylkill water, be and they are hereby directed to confer with the City Councils relative to the terms on which a supply of said water can be obtained from them.

Extracts from the Minutes.

R. HODGSON, Clerk.
Kensington, 12th June, 1833.

To the Honourable the Select and Common Councils of
the city of Philadelphia.

Markets.

Mr. Smith presented the annexed petition which was referred to a joint committee of two members of each Council, and Messrs. Smith and Elliott were appointed the Committee on behalf of the Common Council, but the Select did not act on it.

The petition of the subscribers, builders and others, respectfully showeth:-That they experience much difficulty in getting their lots regulated ready for build. ing, in consequence of there being but one acting re gulator in the city.

They respectfully ask of Councils to make such alterations in the existing laws relative to regulators, as will prevent any person holding that situation who is not a resident citizen of the city, ready at all times to at tend at the call of the citizens."

I propose to make a statue of the late Stephen Girard, at least as large as life, of the best Italian marble, to be

Gentlemen: The undersigned a committee of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Kensington, in the Township of the Northern Liberties, of the counMr. Gilder, as Chairman of the Committee made the ty of Philadelphia, would respectfully represent, That following report, accompanied with the following do the aforesaid District and the Commissioners of the in-cuments and resolutions, which were adopted by the corporated part of the Northern Liberties, are now Common Council, but were amended by the Select about to close upon the terms for the use of the main Council. sections which convey the Schuylkill water into said Districts of the Northern Liberties. Previous however to a definitive ratification of the agreement now in consideration, the undersigned deem it necessary to be in- dy made and exhibited, for the sum of $9000, to be formed whether or not it will be the sense of your ho- paid in three instalments, the first of $4000 to be paid nourable body to adopt an agreement, the memoranda before he commences the work, the second of $3000 to of which you herewith receive, made some time since, be paid eighteen months after the first payment, and and which was then, and now is, satisfactory to the the third of $2000 to be paid when the work is finish Board, which the undersigned have the honour to re-ed. I will give William Strickland and John Struthers present. Very respectfully, as security for the performance of the contract. June 11th, 1833.

MAHLON DUNGAN,

an accurate likeness and similar to a model I have alrea

NICHOLAS GEVELOT.

Building Committee for the Girard College for Orphans,
June 11, 1833.

Chairman of the Watering Committee. Resolved, That the application from the Commissioners of the District of Kensington asking for a supply of Schuylkill water, be, and the same is hereby referred On motion, Resolved, The proposal of Mr. N. Geve. to the Watering Committee, who are hereby authorized and directed to enter into an agreement with the Com-lot in relation to executing a statue of the late Stephen Girard for $9000 be accepted, to be approved of by the missioners of the same, for the purpose of supplying the said district with the Schuylkill water, to be condi Building Committee. tioned in the same manner as the agreements entered into with the districts adjoining the city, giving and receiving a supply of the water aforesaid, and should the said Commissioners of the District of Kensington in stead of attaching to the city main on Vine street, attach to the pipes of the Commissioners of the District of the Northern Liberties, that, the committee aforesaid, be, and they are hereby directed to have all the rights and privileges of the Mayor, Aldermen and citizens of the city of Philadelphia, effectually provided for and guarded through the Commissioners of the District of the Northern Liberties, and those of the District of Ken sington, and the Mayor is hereby authorised and requested to affix the city seal to the same.

Mr. Neff moved that the Select Council go into a committee of the whole, relative to the compensation of the Trustees of the Girard Bank, which was not agreed to, and the Select Council non-concurred in the resolution passed by the Common Council.

Mr. J. P. Wetherill, offered the two following resolutions, which were adopted.

Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Girard Es tates be instructed to take measures to contest the

to be paid on the execution of the contract; $1000 to
On motion, Resolved, The first payment be $2000,
be paid on the commencement of the work in Philadel
phia; $1000 to be paid every six months, as the work
progresses, for 18 months thereafter; and $3000 on the
completion of the work. The securities offered by Mr.
Gevelot, were, on motion, approved of.

the sub committee to complete the contract, and report
Resolved, The subject of the statue be referred to
to Councils on Thursday next.
From the minutes.

JOHN GILDER, Chairman,
Attest-John P. Binns, Secretary.

Resolved, That the proposal of Mr. N. Gevelot in
relation to making a statue of the late Stephen Girard
for $9000, be accepted. The statue to be approved of
by the building committee of the Girard College.

Resolved, That a contract be made with Mr. Gevelot and his sureties, and that $2000 be paid on signing the contract; $1000 on the commencement of the work in Philadelphia; $1000 at the expiration of every six months during the progress of the work, for eighteen months, and $3000 on the completion of the work.

Resolved, That the securities offered by Mr. Gevelot are approved of.

Resolved, That the building committee of the Girard College be and they are hereby authorised to carry these resolutions into effect.

Resolved, That the Mayor is hereby authorised to draw his warrant on the City Treasury for the several instalments payable to N. Gevelot, as above.

The Common Council did not act on it.

Mr. Haines, as Chairman of the Committee to whom was referred the memorial of Mr. Frederick Graff, made the annexed report and resolution, which were laid on the table.

openings into the same, and charge the expense thereof to Appropriation No. 4.

Mr. Lapsley, as chairman of the committee on Markets, made the following report which was adopted. The committee who were requested by a resolution of Councils, to inquire into the expediency of purchasing a lot suitable for a Western Market, report:

That they have had the subject under consideration, and are unanimously of the opinion, that it would be not only inexpedient but quite unnecessary to incur an expense of at least thirty thousand dollars for any lot of ground when that amount might be saved by the erection of Market houses in the centre of Market street.

mitted.

To the Select and Common Councils. As appears from the number and respectability of the names to the petitions lately presented, your committee The Committee to whom was referred the memorial are of the opinion that the building of them in Market of Frederick Graff, asking a fair and just compensation street would give most general satisfaction and would for extraordinary services as engineer, superintendent, respectfully suggest to Councils the propriety of locataccountant, and draftsman of the City Water Works, ing them in such part of that street west of 11th street, for the years 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822. And also the as would be most for the convenience of the inhabitants resolution directing them to inquire into the expediency in the western part of the city, in such a situation as of appointing an assistant superintendent-report, would produce a greater revenue in proportion to the that they have had a conference with Frederick Graff cost, and might be removed at any future day without on the subject referred to them, and after a careful ex-any serious loss or disadvantage. All which is subamination of the statement submitted by him to Councils, in the said memorial, (to which they refer for all the facts in the case,) they are unanimously of the opinion that Frederich Graff has rendered the services there detailed, and for which he is justly entitled to compensa. tion, the amount that they believe to be right and just, they submit in the resolution hereto annexed. After a full inquiry the committee believe it inexpedient at this time, to appoint an assistant superintendent, as there are no extraordinary services to perform during the present year: they respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolution-all of which is submit

ed.

Resolved, by the Select and Common Councils, That the Mayor be and he is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the City Treasurer in favor of Frederick Graff, for four thousand dollars, and charge the same to appropriation No. 16.

Mr. Gilder as Chairman of the Paving Committee reported an ordinance, which was passed.

Mr. MORRIS as chairman of the committee, made the following report, which was adopted.

made the following report and resolution, which were Mr. Gilder, as Chairman of the Paving Committee, adopted, and were referred to the Paving Committee:

Philadelphia, June 8, 1833. Gentlemen,-The accompanying plan will show to you the wharf which I propose to build for the city. My proposition is to build the wharf to the satisfaction of the city, and complete the same on or before the 1st day of September next, and as much earlier as possible

for doing which I ask the privilege of occupying the same for two years from the time the wharf is completed, and Water street and South street and Bank street are paved.

At the expiration of two years, to give it up to the city free from all incumbrance, and in good order.

THOMAS HAVEN.

The Paving Committee, to which was referred the proposition of Thomas Haven, report:

That Mr. Haven proposes to build a wharf under the The committee on the navigation of the river Schuyl-supervision of the city authorities, at the foot of Schuyl k'll, to whom was referred the letter of Thomas Mitchell, relalive to a lot of ground on the south side of Lombard street, and the east side of the river Schuylkill, Report:

That in their opinion it is inexpedient for Councils to purchase the same.

Mr. GILDER as chairman of the Paving Committee reported the annexed ordinance which was laid on the table.

An ordinance to alter and establish the regulation of Delaware Sixth street, from Vine to Sassafras street, and for extending the sewer thereon.

Sect. 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the citizens of Philadelphia, in Select and Common Councils assembled, That the regulation of Delaware Sixth street from Vine to Sassafras street, shall be and the same is hereby fixed and established according to a plan of the same made and presented to Councils by Samuel Hains the city surveyor, dated the 12th day of June 1833, any existing regulation or Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sect. 2. Be it further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the City Commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized and required, (under the direction of the Paving Committee,) to cause a sewer to be constructed, not exceeding four feet diameter in the clear, commencing at the south end of the present sewer in the said Delaware Sixth street, between Vine and Sassafras streets, and extending southward to a point not exceeding feet south with suitable

kill South street, by the 1st day of September next, the city allowing him the occupation of the same, rent free, for the space of two years, and at the expiration of that time to deliver up the same to the city, free from all incumbrances and in good order. The committee recommend to Councils the acceptance of the proposal, and offer the following resolutions, viz.

Resolved, That Mr. Thomas Haven be authorized to build a wharf at the foot of Schuylkill South street, according to the accompanying plan, he to have the use charge, for the space of two years, and at the expiration and occupation of the same, when finished, free of the city authorities, free from all incumbrances, and in of which time, the said wharf shall be delivered up to good order.

Resolved, That the City Commissioners he and are hereby authorized to pave Water street, between South and Lombard, and South street from Bank street to the wharf, on the river Schuylkill.

JOHN GILDER, Chairman,

Mr. Huston, as Chairman of the Committee, made the annexed report, which was adopted.

The committee appointed at the last meeting of Councils to make suitable arrangements for the reception of the President of the United States, report:

That they caused the Hall of Independence to be fitted up in a style suitable for the occasion: that the President arrived in the city on the afternoon of the 8th instant, and was immediately waited on by the committee, who informed him of the order taken by Councils,

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On motion of Mr. J. R. Chandler, Councils adjourned to meet again on Thursday evening next, at half past 7 o'clock.

SCHUYLKILL CANAL.

and tendered to him in their name the Hall of Indepen-
dence, in which to receive his fellow citizens during his
continuance in the city. This offer was accepted by
the President, with the expression of his grateful ac-
knowledgments for the kind attention evinced on the
occasion; and he appointed the following Monday, (the
10th instant,) at 10 A. M. to meet the city authorities in The following statement shows the amount of the va
the Hall of Independence. The committee of arrange-rious articles transported on the Schuylkill Canal, from
ment therefore issued notices to the Mayor, Recorder, the opening of the navigation to the 30th June, inclu-
Members of Councils, Aldermen, &c. &c., who accord-sive. Every friend to our system of internal improve-
ingly met at 9 A. M.; and between 9 and 10 o'clock, ment, we feel assured, will be gratified with the pros-
the committee, agreeably to the appointment of the pect here presented, of the value of these works, and
President, waited upon him at his lodgings and escorted of their vital importance to the interest of Philadelphia.
him to the Hall, where he was received by his Honor the
Mayor, in a manner becoming his high station, and in-
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troduced to all the officers of the city in attendance,and
of the Girard Trust under the care of the city, and af-
terwards to his fellow citizens generally.

Mr. Yarnall as Chairman of the Committee made the
following report and resolution, which were adopted.
To the Select and Common Councils.

The Committee appointed to purchase wood for the
necessitous poor, report:

That the annual product of the "Fund for supplying the necessitous poor with fuel," amounts to about 450 dollars, but that in consequence of over drafts which have heretofore been made upon it, the sum left to be expended this year will amount to 200 dollars only.

The proceeds of the Girard Fund will on the 1st of
December next, amount to $454 44, making an
aggregate sum of $654 44 to be applied to the purchase
of fuel. The Committee have accordingly purchased
125 cords of wood at an expense as follows:

594 cords green oak wood at 3 75 per cord $223 12
65 cords
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Piling at 15 cents per cord,

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From the Union Canal,
Kernsville,
Reading,
Below Reading,

FLOUR.

Equal to 68,659 barrels.

From the Union Canal,
Reading,
Below Reading,

tons cwt qr 4827 10 0 36.00 0 340 13 0 1334 18 0

6539 01 0

GRAIN.

4376 13 1

Equal to 180,622 bushels.

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Kernsville,
Reading,

86 18 0 52 00 0

4515 11 1

WHISKEY.

690 15 1

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LUMBER.

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6429 11 0

Mount Carbon,

452 00 0

Schuylkill Haven,

63 12 0

Kernsville,

188 18 0

7134 1 0

944 8 0

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2 10 0

189 16 0

354 15 1

176 0 0

1670 13 1

LEATHER.

93 7 1

The committee having thus accomplished the object of their appointment' submit the accompanying resolution and request to be discharged.

Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the Girard Trust in favor of B. H. Yarnall, for four hundred and nineteen dollars and 12 cents to be charged to the "Fund to purchase fuel for poor white house-keepers and room-keepers." Also his warrant on the City Treasurer in favor of the same for one hundred and eighty-six dollars to be charged to the "Fund for supplying the necessitous poor with fuel." Mr. Gilder as chairman of the Paving Committee, made the annexed report and resolution, which were adopted.

The Paving Committee having named the following streets and alleys, recommend the same to be paved and repaved, viz.

Spruce street from 12th to 13th street to be repaved. Brown street running south from Cherry to Budens street to be paved.

A certain 20 feet street running from Sheaff's alley northward, to be paved.

Third street from Willing's alley to 30 feet south from the line of St. Paul's church yard, to be repaved so as to conform to the established regulation. Resolved, That the City Commissioners be and are hereby authorized to pave and repave the said streets. JOHN GILDER, Chairman.

CASTINGS, BAR IRON, BLOOMS, &c.

From the Union Canal,

Mount Carbon,
Schuylkill Haven,
Kernsville,
Reading,
Below Reading,

From the Union Canal,
Reading

From the Union Canal,
Schuylkill Haven,
Mount Carbon,
Kernsville,

1 19 1

95 62

COAL.

551 13 0

25,898 0 0

54,113 0 0

12,002 0 0

92,564 13 0

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We took a ramble for two or three days of last week among the hills and forests of Schuylkill county. We embarked on a rail road car at Port Clinton and winged our way to the thriving village of Tamaqua, the principal seat of the coal operations of the little Schuylkil Company. The rail-road ascends at the average rate of twenty feet to the mile and one who leaves Port Clinton for Tamaqua will find himself at the latter place four hundred feet higher than at starting, without hav ing been sensible for an instant of any elevation in the road by which he came. The rail-road is the best we have seen, and so nearly level that the horse which drags the car, goes up it at the rate of ten miles an hour. From the winding course of the river it was found necessary in the construction of the rail-road to cross it several times, which is done on covered bridges, erected by the Company. Those who delight in mountain scenery will be fully gratified in a ride up this rail-road which runs its whole distance by the side or in the neighborhood of hills, lifting their wood-crowned summit above the clouds. Tamaqua is situated in a dell between the Sharp and Locust mountains, where scarcely ground enough was found for sites for houses and gardens by scraping away the rocks that encumbered it. It flourishes however like a rose in the desert, haying already about a hundred houses and four or five hundred inhabitants. The river flows by at the distance of about fifty yards and hides its diminished head some miles above. We were gratified by seeing the locomotive in operation and a magnificent spectacle it was, winding along the foot of the hills and dragging after it a long train of heavily laden cars with the ease and equable motion with which a boat carries its burden over the surface of an unruffled stream. The Company have two engines, the Comet and Catawissa, each capable of dragging forty five tons of coal in fifteen cars and of making two trips a day between the mines and the place of deposit. We left Tamaqua much pleased with the appearance of business and prosperity observable in and about the town, and travelled across the country by means of stages and the Valley rail-road car to Pottsville-Pottsville is a theme of itself for a tourist to write a book upon, but as most of our readers have visited and admired it for themselves, we deem it unnecessary to dilate upon its beauties or its wonders.Berks Journal.

The property of No. 164 Market, between Fourth and Fifth streets, was sold a few days since for $25,000, the building on it is "being taken" down. The size of the lot is 13 feet front by 83 feet deep.

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CAMDEN AND AMBOY RAIL-ROAD.
At the meeting of the directors of the company at
Bordentown, on Monday the 17th inst. a new locomo-
tive engine, constructed by R. L. Stevens, Esq. was
exhibited, and a trial made of its speed and power, as
well as of the adaptedness of the road to this mode of
transportation. The engine is the third one on the
road, and is the lightest, and is manifestly an important
improvement on the English engine heretofore used
with very satisfactory results.

part of the evening, was nearly three and a half inches, by far the greatest amount that has fallen in so short a time, in this neighborhood, perhaps, for many years. It raised the Swatara and other considerable streams, higher than they had been known for a long while. The Swatara was entirely over the top of the tow-path of the Union Canal, in several places, between the water works and Middletown, a circumstance that never oc⚫ curred before, as this stream has not been so high since this canal was completed. It occasioned several breachThe experiment in the present case was entirely suc- es in the banks along the tow-path, and also did some cessful, and surpassed the expectations of those pre-injury to one or two of the locks, which interrupted the sent. The engine, with a train of cars, passed from navigation for a few days. The canal was soon put in Bordentown to Hightstown (more than 13 miles) in order again, and the boats are now running as usual, 36 minutes, and returned in 31; being at the rate of 25 although several of the breaks were serious, and the miles per hour, and it was obviously not at full speed. damage done between here and Reading was consid. It was obvious also, that there was no diminution of erable. It is now in good condition throughout. speed at the curves, and among the greatest curves on Respectfully yours, &c. L. the whole road, are those on this section of it; and the greatest curve on any part of the road has been passed at a rate exceeding 40 miles an hour. The highly important device by which this is accomplished, is a recent invention by Mr. Stevens, as well as another, by which the capacity of the boiler to generate steam is greatly increased, probably doubled. These two properties are fully exhibited in this engine, the motion being unimpeded by any curvatures on the road, and a surplus of steam during the whole experiment being quantity thrown off. The partial use of anthracite during this trial, induces a confident hope that this fuel may be ap. plied entirely on the locomotives on the road.

Six or seven engines, in addition to the three now on the road, will soon be in readiness, when horse power will be dispensed with, and the trip between New York and Philadelphia may be accomplished in six or seven hours.

BRIGADIER GENERAL.

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The "Camden and Amboy Rail-road and Transpor- 108th
tation and the Delaware and Raritan Canal Companies,'
paid to the Treasurer of the State of New Jersey, on
Thursday last, the sum of 15,000, for the first six
months running passengers, &c. via said Rail-road, being
the half yearly payment of the $30,000, stipulated by
said companies to be paid to the State of New Jersey,
for privileges granted.

We understand that a contract has been entered into by the operators of the Marble quarry of JOHN R. THOMAS of the Valley, to furnish two hundred thousand feet of Marble for the Girard College. The Pennsylvania Rail-road, when completed will give value to many productions of the country which without it, might have lain dormant for centuries. We state as a fact deserving of notice, and with the hope that it may be useful to those who have Limestone or other quarries or mines, which they have either abandoned, or wrought with difficulty, from the quantity of water which impeded their progress; that a SYPHON has been constructed and introduced into the quarry, which conveys the water off by a constant stream, permitting and facilitating the operations of the workmen.-Village Re

cord.

LEBANON, June 29, 1833.

To the Editor of the Germantown Telegraph. Dear Sir,-Having read in your paper the account of the great rains and flood, which occurred on the 20th and 21st instant, in your part of the country, which raised the Wissahiccon and other streams higher than they had been known for many years, and caused great damage to milldams, bridges, &c. in various parts of the eastern section of our state-I will give you a slight history of the freshet in this quarter.

It rained gradually nearly all day on Thursday, (20th st.) until towards evening, when it commenced pouring down, and rained very hard for two or three hours, in which short space of time nearly three inches fell; the whole amount of rain in the course of the day and

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I do certify that the above report is correct.
(Signed,)

Brigade Inspector's Office,
Philada, July 6th, 1833.

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DANIEL SHARP,
Brigade Inspector.

George Boyer, Esq. of West Whiteland, has left with us two specimens of marble for the inspection of the public. His quarries are within a few rods of the Pennsylvania Rail-way. The marble can be easily removed from the quarries, and is considered by judges to be of a superior kind. Those in the city who trade in that material, would find it to their interest to visit Mr. Boyer, and we have no doubt arrangements could be made with him, to deliver marble in the city, cheaper, when the Rail-way is finished, than it can be had from any other place in the union, and equally as good.

A LARGE CARGO.-Mr. William P. Orrick's fine large boat Alabama, built by Joseph Morton of Kensington, and commanded by Captain Anderson, descended the Schuylkill Canal from Reading with a cargo of 501 barrels of Flour, which she brought safely round into the Delaware, and this day delivered it (in good order) to Mr. Paschal Hollingsworth on Spruce street wharf. This is the largest cargo of Flour that has ever descended the Schuylkill Canal from that place.

The Crawford Messenger says "the wife of Mr. Chester Beard, of Rockdale township, is lying dangerously ill. Near a year since she was picking her ear with a pin (a very common practice among females) the head of which coming off lodged in her ear, and all attempts to extract it proved unavailing, and it is supposed that this will soon be the cause of her death."

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