Wilkesbarre, and to Lycoming, and Clearfield and Cen tre counties, where bituminous and anthracite coal, and iron ore, in quantities not to be exhausted in a dozen centuries abound! When the transportation of flour, grain, ashes, salt, lumber, lime, and various other commodities, the products of Pennsylvania,-and the cotton, tobacco, hemp, pork and lead of the western states are added, is it not reasonable to suppose, the receipt of tolls in Pennsylvania will be far greater than in New York? There can be no doubt of it, notwithstanding the receipts in New York last year, exceeded a million of dollars! and the calculation predicated upon receipts as far as they have accrued this year, is still greater. What a grand prospect!-Ought it not to silence opposition to the cost of internal improvements every where? When we take a fair view of the advantages to arise from these connecting links of improvement in Pennsylvania, and the abundance and cheapness of lands in more than twenty counties of the state, may we not cherish the hope that the emigrant from foreign countries, will be better satisfied to settle here, than to seek a home, where the sickly fogs of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri abound;-where the noxious vapours of Alabama and Mobile, of Pensacola, New Orleans, Natchez and Louisville, and the countries they encircle, prevail in what are termed the sickly months, July, August, Sep. tember and October;--is it not, I ask, probable, when we take these things into consideration, that our population will soon greatly increase by settlements from abroad and at home? I do not wish to make invidious comparisons, but to state plain and honest facts, for the consideration of the stranger, who may be in search of a settlement, in this free and happy country. Pennsylvania is blessed with a fine climate, minerals in abundance, a copious supply of pure water every where, and a population exceeding 1,350,000 industrious inhabitants. She is rising majestically in the eye of nations, as a state of the first order; and as her laws and institutions are admired, and in many instances imitated by the great family of civilized man, she will long hold a pre-eminent station in the religious, moral, and commercial world. CIVIS. For the Register of Pennsylvania. temporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. This seems to be the language of a man who however he might be pleased with the approbation of his age, would not have been satisfied with so fleeting a reward. His soul took a wider and more extensive flight; his eagle eye was fixed upon a brighter and a higher destiny; and the anticipation of living in the grateful recollections of men long after his form had mingled with the dust and been assimilated to its nature, buoyed him above the influence of present neglect and contemporaneous censure. It is this longing after immortal honours which seems to distinguish the children of genius from the common herd of humanity. He who is conscious of possessing merits which entitle him to the admiration and gratitude of the future, is comparatively indifferent to aura popularis of his time. Amidst all the neglect of dullness or ignorance--amidst all the censures of the censorious&malevolent-he stands collected and confident-sensible that his drafts which are protested now, will one day be repaid with interest. When the drivelling time-server for whom the trumpet of applause had been sounded at its highest key, is forgotten, together with the cunning follies and silly stratagems to which he resorted to perpetuate the music, the man of true genius who lived unknown and unhonoured, shall revel in the glory of an universal fame. The desire to live in after ages is sometimes unpro Sales of Public Stocks in this city during the week end. pitious to success in the present life. The mind that is ing 2d inst. $3900 United States 44 per cents, redeem- at 100 Par. 51 02 Penn'a fives redeemable in 1846, at 109 100 50 525 5000 2000 Do Do Do do do do do 100 100 1853, at 110 108 100 (With interest from 22d June,) Do Farmers and Mechanics' Bank, at 694 at 49 35 20 intent upon future glory and is sedulous in the prosecu tion of those great schemes which are necessary to secalculated to inspire. It is heedless of the present throng cure it, riots by anticipation in the pleasure which it is becomes careless of their sentiments and pursuitsand breaks the cord of sympathy which unites mankind in the bond of social brotherhood. Is it surprising that at 131 ne who nourishes feelings adverse to present enjoyment at 115 100 and participates in few of the amusements of his comat 1152 100 should experience little of their love and esteem? peers, at 116 100 Distance and obscurity so completely surrounded him 50 as either to make him inaccessible, or to identify him with the mists which he has conjured. By allowing his imagination to wander and his heart to commune with spirits of a different age, he is unfitted for the appreciation of present approval and totally disqualified to relish any thing having actual existence. This is so frequently the temperament of men of genius that they are neglected by the age which would otherwise testify an admiration approaching to idolatry. I know it is a popular sentiment that slights cast upon him whose worth and genius are destined for perpetual acknowl, edgment, are owing to contemporary incapacity or malevolence; but while much may be ascribed to the influence of these, it cannot escape observation that the conduct of the individual himself may sharpen the edge Bank of the Northern Liberties, at 48 ristown Rail-road, 100 Furnished by SYLVANUS LEHMAN, Stock and Exchange Broker, No. 4 south Third street. 1831.] THE ALCHEMIST. 29 of malice and increase the dulness of a voluntary ina- the misery attending its possession, presents sufficient bility. discouragements. Behold the sickly, solitary student, But whatever may be the consequences of these aspi- in the lurid shade of his midnight lamp, whose flickerrations to the individual himself, they sometimes forming and expiring light is but too typical of its animated the great lever by which the most astonishing operations of wisdom and power are brought into action. They constitute the secret spring of our most active and elevated movements. They annihilate difficulties or render us insensible to their existence by giving us fortitude to oppose and power to overthrow opposition. If then this principle of the heart of man be so indissolubly connected with noble achievements-if its tendency be to exalt-if superior blessings are produced through its instrumentality—we must, notwithstanding its abso-sence of an unreal phantom, an airy nothing, whose unlute selfishness, regard it as one of those agents in the hands of Providence by which his noble purposes are accomplished or subserved. Few men have arrived at eminence but through 'a sea of troubles,' deep, turbulent, and angry enough to overwhelm them. Let a gifted spirit start out from the common track in which his family and friends are accustomed to move-let him show the possession of more than ordinary powers and he is watched with invidious glances-with a jaundiced eye which invests every object with its own yellow. Among his family he meets with distrust-from his acquaintance he encounters the bitterness of envy-pretended friendship abandons him in jealousy, and he is left to mourn the isolation which his very superiority confers. In the zenith of his glory, when the sound of fame unnaturally suppressed, is bursting from a million voices, he still meets with the rancour of disappointed enmity, he still feels that he is scrutinised by censorious visions, that his path is slippery, and lies over trap-doors and along frightful precipices. Let the man who is intent upon distinction, take heed of the penalties which that distinction requires. Let him pause before he leaves the beaten track of life and adventures upon those dizzy heights from which while he can take a broader and more comprehensive survey of nature, a pebble may tumble him into the depths of the contiguous valley! Of all the men of this or any other age, there is no one who more fully elucidates or truly exemplifies these remarks that Napoleon Bonaparte. Born to no fortune, surrounded by no friends, he made his way over every accumulations of obstacles to the most exalted station of Europe; acknowledged as a conqueror, and admired as a most favoured child of genius. In this plentitude of power while adulation the most servile and fulsome was ministering its incense, the air was filled with poignards thirsting after blood or vengeance. After filling the world with the terror of his name and the greatness of his exploits, and subjugatting the finest portions of Europe, at the instant when every heart beat high with the anticipation of victory, fortune hurled him from the pinnacle he had occupied, and consigned him,unfriended,to a remote island in perpetual exile. The numerous examples which life and history furnish of disappointed promise and blasted hope, are sufficient to deter a prudent man from setting Bail upon the fickle sea of ambition. But the price which the world has generally set upon fame, in respect to the difficulty of its acquisition, and companion! Behold him care-worn and exhausted, turning the leaves of a ponderous folio to extract the treasures of its pages! Follow this devotee in his ardent career-witness the self-denial and austerity of his lifethe heart-sickening toil to which he willingly subjects himself-the morbid sensibility of feeling which he nour ishes-the calm delights and varied pleasures he foregoes-and tell me whether the fruition of all his hopes is a recompense for these? Tell me whether the pre substantial form may forever elude his grasp, can compensate for the extinguishment of the ardours of animal nature, the social joys, and the serene pleasures of existence? The man who has really embarked upon the stream of science with a view to eminence, must pass unheeded the green banks and pleasing echoes on either side, and the charming prospects of verdant spots and pebbly shallows with which the current is studded, for the great objects of discovery which induced the voyage. He must turn a deaf ear to the seductive strains which would allure him from his course, and steer his little bark amid the conflicts of the warring elements, and from the shoals, the whirlpools, and the rocks which solicit his approach or yawn for his destruction. But let me pass the difficulties which the aspirant for intellectual honours must encounter in the chase-let me forget the malign glances of pretended friendship— the general predictions of ultimate miscarriage-the inroads of disease-and the probability that his life which hangs by so attenuated a thread, may be clipped by the relentless scissors of the Fates-let me forget all thisand suppose him the possessor of that desired spot, "Where Fame's proud temple shines afar." Has he attained a mansion whose tenure is indefeisible distress? Follow this ambitious votary and witness the difand whose glory will exclude the admission of pain or ficulties he encounters in defending his possession from the assaults of the midnight marauder; see him perhaps ejected from his lofty seat, or while invested with its glare and effulgence, stripped of domestic happiness or suddenly precipitated into the grave! Where are now all his watchings and anxieties, the accumulations of his knowledge, the stores of his wisdom, the feverish restleness with which he toiled after greatness and distinction? What boots his silent corse that his memory may live in the sympathies, the gratitude, the admiration or the love of future ages? In the whole circle of English literature I cannot point to a finer, a truer, and a more painful exhibition of the miseries attendant upon ambition than the tale of "The Statesman,' by the elegant author of "Sketches of the Diary of a Physician,' now circulating in our daily newspapers. The description is touchingly simple, and goes home at once to the mind and the heart. It is inconsistent with the nature of our moral elements that fame should not be of difficult attainment—that the path to the temple should be otherwise than circuitous and untoward. He who winds the intricacies of this path, who threads this labyrinth, finds him, alas, a prisoner for life! Is it not then the dictate of prudence to be indifferent to the hollow whispers of a world so vigilant for censure and so prone to fickleness? If we would listen to philosophy it will tell us to pursue science for her own sake, regardless of the success or the applause of the multitude. She is attractive enough to induce a lively devotion to her cause; and if after employing a life in her investigation, uninfluenced by hope or fear, the voice of approbation should be heard, it may be listened to with that tempered gratification which shows that a pruriency after fame did not excite the exertion. If however neglect or displacency should appear, it is enough that we have not sighed for a precarious reward—it is enough that our pursuits have imparted sufficient ele vation of character and sufficient self-respect to view as an empty bubble that which would put to the torture a less philosophical temperament. While therefore the votary of fame is driven to the dilemma either of trimming between opposite errors or of renouncing his hard-earned reputation; the man who cultivates truth and knowledge for their own sakes, stands independent of the popular hurricane, can oppose himself to its unreasonable phrenzy, or can give to it a salutary direction. From the Friend. PLYMOUTH MEETING. H. FRIEND SMITH: In the notices publishing in "The Friend," of the first settlement of Friends' meetings, I observe the writer appears conscious of possessing but an imperfect knowledge of the first settlement of Plymouth meeting; and having access to a record which will no doubt be deemed authentic on the subject, I thought I would furnish thee with a copy of it. The following minute was made at the first opening of Gwynedd monthly meeting, on the 22d of 12th mo., 1714-15. "There was read in this meeting a short account of the first settlement of this place, and of the rise and progress of truth, until the establishment of this meeting, which account this meeting orders to be entered in the beginning of this meeting book; likewise, when Plymouth Friends bring in their account of the like nature, this meeting may do as they see convenient, and make a minute thereof." At the next monthly meeting, which was held 29th of 1st mo., 1715, the following minute was made, viz. "Plymouth Friends having brought to this meeting an account of the first settlement of that township, and some hints of the progress of truth among them to the establisment of this meeting, the which was read, and ordered to be affixed in the beginning of this book as Gwynedd Friends' account was brought in last meeting." follows: The account thus sanctioned and recorded is as "About the year 1685, the township of Plymouth was originally purchased and settled by James Fox, Richard Gove, Francis Rawle, John Chelson, and some other Friends that came from Plymouth, in Old England, who dwelt here for some space of time, and kept meetings for worship at the house of the said James Fox, but, being most of them tradesmen and citizens, and not used to country life, removed to Philadelphia, by which means the place became vacant for a time; See Register, vol. vii. p. 100, 116, 132. but being again purchased, chiefly by Friends, viz. David Meredith, Edmond Cartledge, Thomas Owen, Isaac Price, Ellis Pugh, Hugh Jones, and divers others, as several adjacent settlers, in Whitemarsh, viz, John Roads, Abraham Dawes, and David Williams, and several more Friends. These, in the year 1703, by the approbation of Haverford monthly meeting, unto which they then joined themselves, kept their meetings for worship at the house aforesaid, being then in the possession of Hugh Jones, where it continued for some years, and then, by consent, was removed to John Cartledge's house, where it also continued for some years. But settlements increasing, and young people coming up, it was agreed to build a meeting house for the better accommodation of Friends belonging thereto, as also the conveniency of a public place of worship, near the burying place which was prefixed some time before, in Plymouth aforesaid, and several deceased Friends being there interred before the meeting house was built. And in the year,the meeting house was erected, and on the thirteenth day of the month the first meeting was kept therein. And our number increasing, and not having the conveniency of a monthly meeting among ourselves, we joined with Gwynedd Friends to apply to Haverford monthly meeting, for their approbation to hold a monthly meeting, of business, the which, together with the consent of the quarterly meeting at Philadelphia, was obtained." The blanks above, respecting dates, (I regret to say,) are in the original, and I know not how to account for it, especially as they have stated the day of the month, when the first meeting was held in the meeting house, though not the month. Extracts from the ancient minutes, of Gwynedd monthly meeting, relative to ihe establishment of certain meetings subordinate thereto. Minute of 25th of 5th mo., 1721. "John Rumford produced a certificate from Haverford monthly meeting, and George Boone one from Abington, in order to join themselves to this meeting, both which were read and received. The said Friends also requested the concurrence of this meeting, to fix a convenient place for a burial, and liberty to build a meeting house thereon, to accommodate the few Friends residing in these parts. It is agreed to propose the same to the next quarterly meeting for their concurrence." The quarterly meeting concurred therewith, and drected the monthly meeting to take necessary care to have the meeting house built in a proper place. The meeting thus commenced was called " Oley," and I suppose it to be that now known as Exeter, or at least that Exeter monthly meeting has grown from this beginning." 25th of 12th mo., 1723, I find the following minute. "This meeting being concerned that care be taken in keeping true accounts of births and burials, a book being provided for that purpose, Hugh Foulke and John Jones are appointed for Gwynedd meeting, John Rees for Plymouth, George Boone for Oley, Andres Cramer for Perquiomen; none from the Swamp being present." Minutes of 29th day of 4th mo., 1725. "George Boone proposed on behalf of Oley Friends, for a preparative meeting, which, after some discourse, was referred to next meeting. "A proposal from the Swamp Friends for a preparative meeting has been considered awhile, and is granted, leaving the appointment of the time to themselves, acquainting the next meeting thereof." Minutes of 27th of 5th mo., 1725. "The proposal of Oley Friends for a preparative meeting is granted: the time to be appointed by themselves, and account given at next meeting. "The Swamp Friends report they have agreed to keep their preparative meeting the fifth day next pre ceding our monthly meeting, which is agreed to by this meeting." Oley Friends reported soon after that they concluded to hold their preparative meeting the 6th day preceding monthly meeting, which was approved. Minute of 29th of 11th mo., 1733. "Friends at Maiden Creek proposed for liberty to build a meeting house, which is agreed to be proposed to the quarterly meeting for advice." Minute of 28th of 8th mo., 1735. "Our Friends at Maiden Creek proposed for liberty to hold a preparative meeting, which is granted, and that it be held the next 4th day preceding this monthly meeting." 29th of 1st mo., 1737. "The Friends of Oley and Maiden Creek signify an inclination to have a monthly meeting amongst them. It is referred for further consideration." 26th of 2nd mo., 1737. "The proposal of Oley Friends for a monthly meeting was renewed, considered and debated a considerable time, and the result of this meeting is, that it be carried to the quarterly meeting for advice and instruction." 31st of 3d mo., 1737. "The proposal of Oley Friends for a monthly meeting was carried to the quarerly meeting, which was granted, but not yet having got the minute, Samuel Morris is desired to obtain it by next meeting." 28th of 4th mo., 1737. "The quarterly meeting minute respecting the establishment of the monthly meeting at Oley was obtained, and brought to this meeting; but no Friends from thence being present, the affair is referred till then." 26th of 5th mo., 1737. "This meeting unanimously agrees that the monthly meeting for Oley and Maiden Creek be called "Oley Monthly Meeting," and held the last 5th day in every month." J. S. CHAMBERSBURG, July 5. A FRESHET.-On Thursday evening last, a rain fell, in the course of five or six hours, in this neighborhood, which raised the Conococheaugue and Falling Spring, that pass through our borough, to a frightful and destructive extent. About the middle of the night, the latter stream overflowed its bed, and the water formed currents through the tanneries and gardens situated along it, carrying off the contents of the yards, garden fences, &c.; and inundating the cellars and lower stories of a number of houses. Females and children were carried out of houses which were so inundated as a precautionary measure; and there can be no doubt that some of the tenements would have been swept away, with their inhabitants, had it not been for the flat grounds on each side of the stream. It was truly an awful scene to our citizens, and especially to those who were suddenly aroused from their beds amid the tolling of bells and the roar of the waters. We are happy to state that no lives have been lost. On Friday morning hides of leather were seen lodged against the trees, &c., and the whole course of the spring stream presented a scene of wreck and destruction. The principal sufferers are Mr. Alexander Fleck, in the loss of hides, &c., from his tannery, and Mr. John V. Kelly, in damage done to his fulling and oil mills.The paper mill dam, and all the foot bridges in our borough are swept away. The dam of Messrs. Berlin & Heyser, on the Conococheague above, and that of Mr. Overcash below the town, and the bridge over the Falling Spring on the turnpike at Mr. Stouffer's mill, are carried off. The loss to Messrs. B. & H. is peculiarly hard; as it is the second time their dam has given way this season. From the quantity of hay and lumber that have floated down, the damage above on both streams must have been great. We learn that great damage has been done in 31 part of Guilford and Washington townships, by the rain on Thursday. In the latter township, several mill dams have been swept away.-Franklin Repository. MAUCH CHUNK, July 4, 1831. FRESHET.-The rains of Thursday and Friday last, produced on Friday night a tremendous freshet in the Mauch Chunk creek. It overflowed the banks, and the water made its way in every direction through the roads and streets into houses and cellars. Broadway was a complete cataract, filled the whole width with the flood. The scene was quite unique-the roaring of the water, hallooing of the people, dodging about in the darkness with lamps and lanterns, gave a good specimen of the ludicrous and alarming. We heard of one man, whose house was flooded, being awakened from his sleep by a cry of alarm from a neighbor, who, springing from his bed in affright, measured his length on the floor in about seven inches of water. We have not heard of any serious damage, as yet.The Lehigh is not at a great height, the showers which gave such a sudden impulse to the waters of the creek having been local. Broadway is impassable for carriages, the waters having literally rendered it a gully.-Pioneer. LEWISTOWN, June 30, 1831. For the last few days we have had heavy rains which have caused a considerable rise in the Juniata-six or eight arks were loaded at this town yesterday, destined for the Baltimore and Philadelphia markets. Much bay and grass will be destroyed by the rain. YORK, June 7. EMIGRANTS.-Between seventy and eighty emigrants, from the neighbourhood of Weissenberg, department of the Lower Rhine, in France, passed through this place on Saturday week. This part of France is inhabited by Germans. These emigrants are of the religious sect called Dunkers, signifying that their baptismal rites are performed by immersion. It is said, they are in good circumstances, so that it was not poverty that impelled them to leave their "Vaterland," in search of happiness and home in this western hemisphere, but probably were induced by the present state of Europe, which portending war, to seek a retreat where they may escape either direct or indirect participation in scenes of blood and carnage, which are so incompatible They have gone with the pacific tenets of their sect. to Lancaster county, where they intend to settle among their family relatives and religious friends. About twenty-five or thirty arrived here since, from the same department of France; but they are not of the same persuasion, and whether it is owing to this that they are not in the same comfortable circumstances, we will not undertake to decide. But so it is, while the Dunkers have money plenty, the others are poor and destitute. They are, however, in a country-if they brought no property, if they only brought with them the frugal and industrious habits of their "Vaterland"— where the misfortunes of poverty can be repaired. BEDFORD, June 17. EMIGRATION.-During the present week, more than two hundred foreign emigrants, of all ages and sexes, from the sucking babe to the man of grey hairs, passed through this place on their way to the west. Though the greater part of them were stout, healthy looking fellows, yet they asked charity from almost every family in our borough. In one wagon we counted twenty-five men, women and children. EASTON, June 30. On Friday morning last, so heavy was the frost on the Pocono Mountain, that Mr. Sox, we are informed by a person who put up at his tavern, made a large ball of some he gathered before his door, and discharged it at the face of the stage driver to wake him up. 3056 Inward Coastwise-62 vessels-Tonnage, 5895. Where to. England, Outward-For June, 1831. 632 409 245 242 765 579 172 200 267 228 8629 Schrs. Sloops 4 1 2 8 25 13 212223 1532133 On last Saturday, hundreds of our citizens witnessed the launching of the "James Clarke," a new and very handsome Canal Boat, into the basin, at the west end of the borough; owned by Messrs. Williams and Miller.— When safely launched into the basin, she was greeted by the hearty acclamations of those who witnessed the pleasing and interesting sight. What! a canal boat launched in the vicinity of Huntingdon! Had any one predicted an event of this kind, some years back, he, in all probability, would have been 'yclept a wizard. or set down as beside himself. When the mail stage commenced running once a week, from Philadelphia to this place, our older citizens considered it a marvellous affair-what will they say now? HUNTINGDON, June 22. On Thursday last the citizens of this place were much delighted with an acquatic excursion down the canal, in the boat "JAMES CLARKE," owned by Messrs. Williams and Miller. About 10 o'clock in the morning, upwards of eighty ladies and gentlemen went on board of the boat, at the basin, accompanied by the “Huntingdon Band''--whose performance on various instru2052 ments of music, is not excelled for taste and talent be100 tween here and Philadelphia. The boat proceeded 197 down the canal, to Clintonville, a distance of 13 miles, 378 and returned at an early hour in the evening; without 181 any accident or detention, to mar the pleasures of the 796 day. Among those on board, we observed James Clark, 895 Esq. and lady. The canal banks, at every lock and 232 bridge, were crowded with anxious spectators, who 110 evinced their delight at the approach of the boat, by 567 hearty cheers and huzzas. The re-echo of the soul649 stirring drum, shrill fife, melodious flute, &c., added 113 double zest to the excursion. The sublime and roman479 tic scenery, particularly at Drake's ferry, is not excelled in any part of Pennsylvania. The imagination cannot paint any thing so beautifully striking-old nature sits there, in fearful grandeur, unmolested by the hand of time, or art of man. 7626 Outward Coastwise- 104 vessels-Tonnage, 9343. [Pennsylvania Inquirer. The time occupied in passing through the locks was was from 1 to 2, and in ascending from 5 to 8 minutes. DIVISION OF THE COUNTY.-At a highly respectable-Gaz and numerous meeting of the inhabitants of Bristol township, in the county of Philadelphia, held pursuant to public notice, at the house of John Felton, Esq., on Thursday the 23d of June, 1831 JOHN DE PREFONTAINE, Esq. was called to the chair, and GEORGE F. M'CALLMONT, and WILLIAM JACKSON, were appointed secretaries. The object of the meeting being stated from the chair, it was after due deliberation, on motion THE REGISTER. JULY 9, 1831. We are glad to hear, from many respectable quarters, the high estimation in which the papers of "The Alchemist" are held, and that public sentiment justifies the Resolved, That this meeting go into an election for encomiastic terms, with which we at first introduced three Delegates to meet other Delegates that may be him to notice. We have no doubt, that the reputation appointed by other townships, or districts, or parts adjacent, to meet in General Conference, at such time and he has acquired will be fully sustained, by the good place as may hereafter be agreed upon, to take into con- sense and literary merit of his future essays. The intersideration the propriety of a division of the county-ruptions in his appearance having arisen from accidental whereupon, Jacob Medary, Algernon S. Logan, and John L. Williams, were appointed said Delegates. Resolved, That the Delegates herein named, be also appointed a Committee of Correspondence, to confer with the citizens of other townships and districts, giving them a cordial invitation to join in the proposed measure to call meetings and choose Delegates. Resolved, That the Delegates appointed have authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in their body. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting, signed by the Chairman and Secretaries, be published in the Germantown Telegraph, and such papers in the city of causes, will be guarded against hereafter. His twentieth number will be found in to-days paper. During the past week, an unusual quantity of rain has fallen in different directions-and we fear that much damage has been sustained, in the destruction of crops, and the removal of bridges, &c. The Fourth of July, was celebrated in this city by military parades, public dinners, orations, speeches, &c. |