JULY] CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL.. not having received any timely knowledge of the same which in respect to the Government of the place they ought and were obliged to have done wherefore upon the consideration aforesaid it is desired and entreated from the General of the aforesaid men of war or ffrigatts as also from our deputed agents. whom we desire your honours civilly to treat and to give and render to them the occasion of your arrival here upon this coast and you will give an opportunity (that after our hearty salutes and well wishes of your health) to pray that you may be blessed in eternity and always remain Right Honourable Sir your honours affectionate friend and P. STUYVISSANT. Servant By order and appointment of the Governor and Commander in chief of the Council of the New Netherlands Cor Ruyven Secret Dated in ffort Anill in new Netherlands the Nineteenth of August one thousand six hundred and Sixty four COLLONELL NICOLS his answer and Summons. To the Honourable the Governor and chief councill at the Manbatanes Right Worthy Sirs I received a Letter by soume worthy persons intrusted by you bearing date the 19th August desiring to know the intent of the approach of the English ffrigatts In return of which I think it fit to let you know That his majesty of Great Brittain whose right and title to these parts of America is unquestionable well knowing how much it derogates from his crown and Dignity to suffer any foreigners how near soever they be alleyed to usurp a dominion and without his majestys Royal consent to inhabit in those or any other his majesties territories hath Commanded and in his name to require a surrender of all such Forts Towns or places of strength which are now possessed by the Dutch under your Command and in his majestys name I do demand the Town situated upon the island commonly known by the name of Manhatoes with all the forts thereunto belonging to be surrendered under his majesties obedience and protection into my hands I am further commanded to asssure you and every respective inhabitant, of the Dutch nation that his majesty being tender of the effusion of christian blood doth by these presents confirm and secure to every man his estate life and liberty who shall readily submit to his government and all those who shall oppose his majesty's grasious intention must expect all the miseries of a war which they bring upon themselves, I shall expect your answer by these gentlemen Colonel George Cartwright one of his majestys commissioners in america Captain Robert Needham Captain Edward Groves and Mr. Thomas Delaval whom you will entertain and treat with such civility as is due to them and your selve and yours shall receive the same from worthy sir your very humble servant. province as also of our discovery of the news from Hol- To the Hono'ble the Governor of the Manhatoes. In answer to yo of ye 4th of September new stile by the hands of John Decker Councellor of State Cornelius Van Rivan Secretary and Receiver Cornelius Stenwick Burgo Muster and James Cousseau Sheriffe I do think it once more agreeable to the Kings intentions and my duty to his strict Commands to propose and receive al ways and means of avoiding the effusion of Christian blood of which sincere intention I suppose you are already ffully satisfied and shall have no cause to doubt it for the future as alsoe that I doe insist upon my first summons and message to you for a speedy surrender of the Town and fforts now under yo command into his maties. obedience and protection. You may easily believe that in respect of greater difficultys which are ready to attend you I should willingly with your proposition to appoint deputies places and times to treat of a good accommodation but unless you had also given me to know that by such a meeting you doe intend to treat upon articles of surrender I do not see just cause to deferr the pursuance of his majties. commands my first demand and my last answer of reducing your towne and fforts to his majtics. obedience wch. why you call acts of Hostillity I see no reason However since you have Honoured Sir-The neglect of signing this enclosed given yo selfe and messengers this new trouble I shall when it was first brought to your hands By Collonel alsoe take this fresh occasion to assure you that I heartGeorge Cartwright, was an ommission which is now a-ily wish health and prosperity to every inhabitant of mended and I must attribute the neglect of it at first to your plantations and particularly to yo self as being RICHARD NICOLI. gravesend the over-hasty zeal I had in dispatching my answer to your affectionate humble servants. 25th Augst 1664. the letter I received from you dated the 19th-29 instant I have nothing more to add either in matter or fform than is herein expressed only that your speedy answer CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL. JULY 4. is necessary to prevent future inconveniences and will very much oblige, your affectionate humble servant RICHD. NICOLLS. Dated on board his majesties the Ship Guyny Riding before Nayck the 20th-30 August one thousand six hundred and sixty-four. These to the honourable the Governour of the Manhatoes RI NICOLLS At two o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, the anniversa By the hands of Captain William Hill Captain Ro-ry of our National Independence, the embankments at bert Needham and Captain Math. Nicolls Governor Stuyvesants Letter to Collonel Nicolls. My Lord-Upon our £re the day before yesterday and upon the communication by word of mouth of our Deputies touching the just right and possession without dispute of my lords the states general of the United the summit of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal were The President, Directors and Secretary of the M in a barge, proceeded along the Canal from the locks at the western extremity to the summit bridge, near which the last embankment was removed. Here they were welcomed by a great concourse of people, a large body of troops from Baltimore, and repeated discharges of artillery. After remaining for some time, the barge proceeded eastward to the tide lock of the Delaware, thus navigating the whole line of the Canal. To those who had not before seen the work, the vast excavation of the deep cut, the length and height of the stone walls by which it is lined, the width and loftiness of the summit bridge, the broad sheet of water, and the large scale on which all parts have been executed, could not fail to occasion much surprise and admiration. The repairs at the Delaware tide lock, and the completion of such portions of the Canal as have been necessarily left to the last, will not it is said, occupy many weeks. We may therefore, expect to see the regular intercourse between the bays soon carried on through a channel so long desired and expected. Nat. Gaz. We learn that the barge Chesapeake passed through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on Saturday last, and arrived at Delaware City on Sunday morning, at two o'clock. JEFFERSON COLLEGE. Canonsburg, Pa. It "Liberia," and "J. Ashmun," built and owned by J. First arrival of Coal from Mauch Chunk by the Lehigh We have the pleasure to state that seven boats loaded with coal, arrived this day at Philadelphia, from Mauch Chunk, being the first shipment via the new canal. A large supply of Lehigh coal may now be expected to arrive regularly during the remainder of the season, which will be sold at $6 50 per ton delivered, as beheretofore. MAUCH CHUNK, July 2. We understand that the Packet boat Swan, (which has been a few weeks past waiting at Easton for the completion of the Lehigh canal) has been up as far as Allentown, and on Sunday last returned by the canal to Bethlehem, with seventy passengers, who were greatly gratified with the novelty of the voyage. We are also informed that the boat went six miles in one hour and three minutes, passing through three locks. The Swan is intended as a regular passage boat between Easton and Mauch Chunk.-Lehigh Pioneer. Notwithstanding the coldness of the weather, we observed, on looking over the register at Mr. Kimball's, on Tuesday, that there had been an arrival during the day before of about fifty persons, ladies and gentlemen, from Philadelphia, New York, &c.—Ib. The Tank made to guage the canal boats, and to hold one ton of water, was filled with pump water, at a tem49 deg. 69 deg. With river water, at the temperature of It required 2lbs. 2oz. and a half more, in bulk of river water, to make one ton. The temperature of the atmos phere at the above period, was 75.—Ib. Dear Sir: This College, it is believed, has strong claims on the patronage of the friends of literature. was the first Literary Institution established West of the mountains; has been the principal nursery of literature in that region; has been growing in numbers and importance, and now occupies a prominent rank among the Colleges in our country. The number of graduates for several successive years has been about 30-the number of Students 120. Important additions have been made to the library and apparatus. The Trustees are determined to afford every facility and advantage which the growing importance of the Western country de-perature of mands. It has been resolved to erect additional build. ings, so as to afford a convenient and spacious hall, rooms for recitation, for apparatus, and the literary societies-also a refectory and dining room. The present building to be appropriated exclusively for lodging rooms. It is also contemplated to purchase a farm adjacent to the College with a view of connecting agricultural labour with the exercises of the students; and to apply the proceeds to reduce the expenses of educat.on. By these arrangements it is expected that the expenses of education, which are now as moderate as in any college in the U. S. will be still farther reduced. Agents have been appointed to solicit contributions at home and abroad, to accomplish this important object. To such persons as feel the importance of imparting an enlightened moral influence to the rapidly increasing population of the West, it is confidently believed no Institution can present stronger claims on their benevolence. I take the liberty of addressing this to you, as having some knowledge and, I trust, feeling some interest in the prosperity of our institution. I have been requested and authorised, by our Board to act as their agent in procuring some pecuniary aid. The college has always been very limited in funds and dependant on the private contribution of the friends of religion and literature. The erection of the building and the purchase of ground will cost about $12,000-without some foreign aid we cannot accomplish it. Very respect'y M. BROWN. It appears from the following that we were mistaken with respect to the first arrival from Liberia. We are informed by the best authority, that two ves sels, one with 300 tons and one with 350 tons of coal, loaded and sailed down the river Schuylkill and over the bar, without the least difficulty; and there is never less at common tid: than 13 and 14 feet water, and nơ doubt can exist that ships of 3 and 400 tons can readily load with common cargoes on said river.-U.S. Gaz. different Auctioneers of the Cty, during the last quarThe following is the amount of duties paid by the ter. J. Jennings, R. F. Allen, York, Penn.) June 23. The Crops.-It appears from the papers we receive from different parts of the country, that the husbandman has a prospect of an abundant harvest. The prospect for fruit would be equally auspicious, were it not Mr. POULSON-Observing in your paper of this mor- that the hope of fruit if not extinguished, is much dampning that the schr. Hannah was the first arrival at thised, by the despair of destruction, which, it is feared will port from Liberia, I feel it a duty to correct that error, be made by the caterpillars, which have taken possesby informing you that there are two splendid brigs, the sion of the fruit trees. - Gazelle. THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. IV.-NO. 3. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 18, 1829. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF MAJOR GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE. [From the Casket.] (Continued from page 38.) So perfectly convinced were the President and Council of Pennsylvania, that the long and arduous military services of Brigadier Gen. Wayne richly entitled him to promotion, and that other officers of the line were fully derserving of higher rank than they then held, thus addressed the delegation in Congress on the subject: State of the general officers of Pennsylvania. "By the several regulations of Congress, and practice of the army, the apportionment of general officers ceases upon the promotion of a Brigadier to a Major General. He is then considered as belonging to the Uuited States, and local connection is supposed to cease. So that in determining what general officers a state ought to have, Major Generals ought not to be included. However, at most, we can be charged but with two, viz: 1st. Major General Mifflin sent in his resignation, August, 1778, on which nothing was done, and he has been out of service. 2d. Major General St. Clair. By the resolve of Congress, dated the nineteenth day of February, 1777, it is declared, "That in voting for general officers, a due regard shall be had to the line of succession, the merit of the persons proposed, and the quota of troops raised, or to be raised, by each state." Pennsylvania having eleven battalions in the line of the state, and half of the German battalion, in company with Maryland, is entitled to four brigadiers, reckoning the whole number of battalions in the continental service, at eighty. Whereas, she has but two:-viz: Brigadier General Thompson, and Brigadier Gen. Wayne, which latter has, for almost two years, commanded a division, while the Pennsylvania brigades have been commanded by colonels. Resolved,therefore, that it is the opinion of this board, that as well in consideration of General Wayne's merit, having been highly distinguished in sundry letters, from the commander in chief to Congress, as from his long standing in the army, he be recommended to the rank of a Major General. 2dly. That colonel Robert Magaw, the senior colonel in the line, should be advanced to the rank of a Brigadier General, as soon as he shall be exchanged, or otherwise released from captivity. 3dly. That colonel William Irvine, the second colonel be promoted to the rank of a brigadier, with a saving of the right of colonel Magaw, when he shall be promoted. 4thly. That this board (without any disparagement of the merit and character of General Hand,) do protest against his being considered in any respect as a Brigadier General,upon the nomination of this state, it appearing most clearly by the admission of the field officers of the state of North Carolina, as well as of their delegates in Congress, when the committee of arrangement made their report, that General Hand was nominated by the state: There being then two senior colonels in the Pennsylvania line of unexceptionable character, who, upon military rules, would have been entitled to a preference. But if Congress choose to continue General Hand, upon the general line of the continent, this state VOL. IV. 5 NO. 81. 5thly. That the claim of rank made by Major General St. Clair, over Major General Arnold, if warranted by military rules, ought not, in justice to the interests and iuclinations of this state, to be relinquished upon any principles of civility or personal complaisance. And that the delegates of this state in Congress do support the same, if warrranted as aforesaid, with their whole weight and influence, in case it should be there debated." However strongly disposed Congress may have been to comply with the request and wishes of the President and Council, for an additional Major General to the army of the United States, yet the notion of a speedy peace, the number of foreigners and Americans, already appointed to that rank, the latter by seniority, clashing of interests, rank, &c., opposed the measure. Indeed it would appear from the following letter of General Wayne, to the venerable General John Armstrong, then one of the Pennsylvania delegates in Congress, that he was not ambitious of promotion, that his desire was to continue in command of the Pennsylvania line as a Brigadier. Philadelphia, April 21st, 1779. Dear Sir, I did not clearly apprehend you, when you inquired of me whether I had thought of any mode by which I could be promoted, without giving offence to senior officers; lest that my answer should have led you to suppose that promotion was my wish-I must beg leave to assure you, that my only ambition was to have continued as a Brigadier, commanding the Penn. sylvania line; a command I had long enjoyed, and in which I esteemed myself more honoured by the confidence & affections of my officers & soldiers, than I possibly could hope from any thing in the power of Congress to bestow; this, together with the approbation of my Gen., and consciousness of having done my duty, was to me a rich reward for every toil, difficulty, and danger, which I have experienced in the service of my country: and although I have been deprived of that, I never wish to hurt the feelings of other gentlemen, by any undue promotion; nor can I, under existing impressions, deprive my colonels of alternately commanding my brigade, a service which they have most faithfully executed, since I have been honoured with the conducting of the Pennsylvania line of the army. When Congress, or his Excellency shall think proper to honor me with the charge of troops, without wounding the feelings of other of ficers, I shall gladly accept of it, but upon no other consideration. Believe me, most sincerely, under him, and soliciting his interest with the Commander-in-chief for that purpose-a circumstance which induced General Wayne to address the following letter to his excellency :- Philadelphia, 10th May, 1779. "Having maturely reflected on the propriety of my being present during the formation of the Light Corps, I am decidedly of opinion, from the numerous letters which I have received from different officers, that I had better be absent, lest it should be supposed, however erroneously, that partiality of mine for certain officers had tended to bring them into the corps. If your Excellency should concur in this opinion, I then beseech you, in the mean time, to employ me in any other way by which I can render either you or my country any 'service." The Commander-in-chief replied, "As soon as the Light Corps is organized, you shall have notice of the fact." The few weeks interval which this communication afforded, was spent with his family and friends in Chester county. The pleasure which General Wayne derived from those hours of domestic comfort and tranquillity, may be discovered from the following letter addressed to one of his officers-Col. Walter Stewart. Easttown, Chester co. 7th June, 1779. middle states, that, during the preceding autumn and winter, so many of the British troops had been detached to the south, that Sir H. Clinton was incapacitated, in a great measure, from carrying on, early in the season, such a predatory war as his government had resolved on, and himself and his officers were determined literally to execute; and such a one as was then waged in Georgia and South Carolina. To pave the way for murder and rapine, the Indians were bribed to pursue their savage mode of warfare, whilst proclamations were issued, holding out the most tempting allurements to our citizens, to plunge the dagger into each other's hearts-instances of which but too frequently occurred in the south, and were much dreaded in the north. Early in May, Sir Henry Clinton resolved to commence a predatory warfare on and near the sea-port towns of Virginia, as well as those in the eastern states. General Mathews and Sir George Collier, with 2,500 regular troops and mariners, were despatched by Clinton to make a descent on Virginia. On the 10th of May they effected a landing, and immediately proceeded to their work of destruction. Within a fortnight, that the fleet and army continued on the coast, the loss of the Americans was enormous; whole towns were laid in ashes, and all the principal houses of gentlemen, in their route, shared a similar fate. Such outrageous conduct could only be remonstrated against; there was no force to oppose it. Dear Sir,-Whatever crimes I may be guilty of, want of gratitude and sincere friendship is not among the number; but you will say, you have been guilty of ne- About the 1st of July, Generals Tryon and Garth glect in not sooner acknowledging the receipt of my were ordered, with 2,600 troops, on a predatory expeletter, of the 3d ultimo-true, but then the pleasure of dition in Connecticut. Before landing the troops, the a rural life, from which I had been so long withdrawn; Generals, on the 4th of July, issued their proclamation the many little endearing amusements it affords, toge- to the inhabitants, inviting and urging them to return to gether with the thoughts of shortly bidding a long, per- their allegiance, and also promising all who should rehaps a last, adieu to them, will plead powerfully in miti- main peaceably in their usual places of residence, progation of the neglect; especially with a gentleman in-tection in person and property, excepting the civil and formed by so congenial a spirit, and whose heart is military officers of government; but threatened with equally susceptible with my own. Do you not often vengeance those who neglected the warning. An histo find it troublesome, and sometimes inflicting pain? but rian of the time says:-"The address, or proclamation, does it not richly compensate for that? Is it not of such was merely farcical, for instead of leaving them to consult a texture that, take it “all in all," you would not wish each other on the occasion, they employed force before to exchange it for one more callous?—You agree, and the people had time to convene after the invitation was pardon me. I thank you, my dear Watt. received." On the 5th the troops were landed, and the Generals immediately proceeded to the most shameful and wanton destruction and abuse. Towns were delivered up to promiscuous plunder. "Whigs and tories had, indiscriminately, money, plate, rings, and other articles taken from them;" even cattle, by hundreds, were wantonly shot down in the fields. At Norwalk and Fairfield, alone, the British consumed four houses of public worship, 162 dwelling houses, 142 barns, 59 stores and shops; independently of those consumed at Green Farms, New Haven, and East Haven. During those villainous depredations, the militia of the country gave a gallant but ineffectual resistance. Now for the field of Mars. I believe that sanguine god is rather thirsty for human gore. The horrid depredations of the enemy, to the southward, indicate an inundation of it. For my own part, I have never ceased, since the commencement of this war, sincerely to wish that it could be conducted with more liberality; but if that is not the choice of Britain, let us, however reluctantly, adopt the alternative, by neither giving nor receiving quarter; the sooner we close with them on their own ground, the better-as then, we shall know what we have to depend on, and our lives be no longer the sport of premeditated and cool villany, but become the price of much blood, and at too great a hazard for Britons to make many purchases. 1 expect soon to see you; till when, and ever, believe me, your's, ANTHONY WAYNE. The campaign of 1779 opened under circumstances the most gloomy. The winter had been permitted to pass away without the necessary preparations for a continuance of the war. Congress and the nation, as has been said, were lulled into an almost fatal lethargy, in consequence of a belief that peace was about to take place, without further exertions to secure it. At the time a competent army should have been in camp, the men were yet to enlist, owing to the late provisions which Congress had made for recruiting, &c. The bounty offered was so low, that men could not be procured to enter the service, and the individual States had to be called on in the most pressing manner, by the Commander-in-chief, and ultimately by Congress, to increase the bounty, and use every exertion to forward their respective quotas of troops. It was a fortunate circumstance for the eastern and It was impossible to say where these ravages would have ceased, had not Sir Henry ordered the immediate return of the devastating detachment to New York, for the purpose of aiding in another and more honorable enterprise. The great and good Washington, although surrounded with difficulties and dangers in the neighborhood of his immediate command, had, nevertheless, sent from his small army two considerable detachments; the one destined for the south, the other in aid of the expedition which, under the command of Maj. Gen. Sullivan, was about to march against the inimical Indians of the Six Nations, dwelling on and near the waters of the Allegheny and Susquehannah rivers. By these detachments his army was so much reduced that the Commander-inchief was not only compelled to act exclusively on the defensive, but in order to prevent an attack on his weakened army, he was induced to resort to every honorable means to influence his enemy with a belief that his forces were much larger and easier of concentration than they actually were. To add other embarrassments, alarming discontent existed, at this crisis, in part of the 1829.] ANTHONY WAYNE. 35 General Washington, by those means which he never failed to provide, was early apprised of Sir Henry's preparations for some enterprise, but it was doubtful whether the American army at Middlebrook, or the forts or the North River, were his real object. The American commander therefore concerted a plan with his officers, then conducting different detachments, for the most speedy concentration of the troops, in case of emergency. With this view he resolved to move that part of the army under his immediate command from Middlebrook to the Highlands, which was accomplished early in June. Jersey line--at the very time they were under marching before all the defences on its margin could be comorders to join the western army: an event which Gene-pleted. ral Maxwell thus announces to the Commander-in-chief: "The officers of the first regiment have delivered to their Colonel a remonstrance, addressed to the Legislature of the State, declaring that, unless their complaints on the subjects of pay and support should obtain the immediate attention of that body, they were, at the expiration of three days, to be considered as having resigned, and requesting the Legislature, in that event, to appoint other officers to succeed them. "This," added the letter of General Maxwell, "is a step which they are extremely unwilling to take, but it is such as I make no doubt they will take; nothing but necessitytheir not being able to support themselves in time to come, and being loaded with debts contracted in time past, could have induced them to resign at so critical a juncture.' The Commander-in-chief addressed those officers in most eloquent and pathetic terms, and the Legislature promised redress of grievances. In reply to his excellency they said, "we are sorry that you should imagine we meant to disobey orders. It was and still is our determination to march, and to do the duty of officers, until the Legislature have a reasonable time to appoint others, but no longer. We beg leave to assure your excellency, that we have the highest sense of your abilities and virtues; that executing your orders has ever given us pleasure; that we love the service, and love our country; but when that country gets so lost to virtue and justice as to forget its servants, it then becomes their duty to retire from its service." In communicating this transaction to Congress, Gen. Washington says, "that the distresses in some corps are so great, that officers have solicited even to be supplied with the clothing, destined for the common soldiery, coarse and unsuitable as it was: I had not power to comply with the request. The patience of men, animated by a sense of duty and honour, will support them to a certain point, beyond which it will not go. I doubt not Congress will be sensible of the danger of an extreme in this respect, and will pardon my anxiety to obviate it." Most happily a short time previously to this event, the assembly of Pennsylvania, much owing to the strenuous and well-timed exertions of General Wayne, had tranquillized the officers of that state, not only on the above, but other subjects of just complaint. In the mean time Gen Washington was industriously endeavoring to fortify West Point and the Highlands on the banks of the Hudson, objects which he never lost sight of during the war. Some miles below West Point, about the termination of the Highlands, is King's Ferry, where the great road affording the most convenient communication between the middle and eastern states, crosses the North River. The ferry is completely commanded by the two opposite points of land. The one on the west side, which is a very rough and elevated piece of ground, is called Stony Point, and the other, on the east side, which is a flat neck of land projecting far into the water, is termed Verplank's Point. To secure those points was a matter of vast importance, both to the British and American General; hence the latter had extended the plan of fortifying the Highlands, so as to comprehend within it this valuable position. However industriously the officers who had charge of fortifying Stony and Verplank's Points, labored for that purpose, yet only on Verplank's a small, but strong work, had been completed and garrisoned by 70 men, under captain Armstrong, whilst the works on Stony Point, of much greater extent, and incomparably more importance, were unfinished. It was at this juncture that Sir Henry, being reinforced by the return of Gen. Mathews by his disgraceful predatory expedition in Virginia, resolved to open the campaign in the middle states with a brilliant coup de main up the Hudson, General Mathews, with the fleet from Virginia, hav ing arrived at New York, Sir Henry, without debarking the troops, on the 30th May united those under his immediate command with them, and the whole proceeded up the North River, under convoy of Sir George Collier. The next morning the British troops landed in two divisions, the one under General Vaughan, destined against the works at Verplank's, on the east side of the river, the other under Sir Henry, in person, destined against those of Stony Point on the west side. The fortifications on Stony Point being unfinished, were abandoned without resistance, on the approach of the enemy, who immediately commenced dragging some heavy cannon and mortars to the summit of the hill, and on the next morning, about sun-rise, opened a battery on Fort Fayette, erected on Verplank's, the distance across being about one thousand yards. The cannonade during the day, from the very commanding position of Stony Point, as also from vessels and gun-boats in the river, occasioned much injury to the fort; which, being invested both by water and land, and no means of saving the garrison now remaining, Captain Armstrong, after a gallant resistance, was compelled to surrender himself and troops prisoners of war. Sir Henry proceeded immediately to place both forts in, what be supposed, a perfect state of defence, especially that of Stony Point, which he garrisoned with 600 men, under the command of an officer distinguished for his bravery and circumspection. Sir Henry, in consequence of the advance of the American General towards West Point, declined a further movement up the Hudson, and returned with his army to Phillipsburg, about half way down the river to New York, with the view of more readily supporting Stony and Verplank's forts, in case of an attack on them, or any other of his garrisons on the Hudson. The loss of those posts obliged the inhabitants of New Jersey to make a circuit of about ninety miles through the mountains, to communicate with the eastern states. [To be continued.] PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. A petition was received from sundry citizens praying that Rittenhouse Square, in the south west quarter of the city, may be improved. Referred to committee on the square. A petition was presented praying that 13th street may be paved from Spruce street to Cedar. A resolution was adopted directing the work to be done. The following communication was received from the Mayor. Mayor's Office, July 9th, 1829. To the Presidents of the Select and Common Councils: Gentlemen-I enclose a letter from the City Solicitor, on the subject of the settlement of the accounts of one of the Tax Collectors, to which his attention has been directed. Some authority to release parts of the property refered to, upon receipt of equivalent sums of money, (which may be done without abatement of the security,) will much facilitate the final settlement of the account. Very respectfully, yours, B. W. RICHARDS. |