niscient Creator, who has not only prevented him carrying it into execution, but has thrown into our hands 3,534 38 ANDRIE, the Adjutant General of their army, who was detected in the infamous character of a spy.

3,965 14

For the support and employment of the year ending 26th May, 1828, a levy was lows, viz.

91 58 8,450 06 $16,722 25 Poor for the made as fol

For the District of Southwark,

5,856 31

For the Northern Liberties and

Kensington

16,109 38

For Penn Township

6,549 37 $89,455 22

Examined and adjusted,

RICHARD PALMER,

JOSEPH BOCKIUS,
SAMUEL M. SOLOMON,
Auditors of the County.

PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF ARNOLD.

A Concise Description of the Figures exhibited and paraded through the streets of this city on Saturday lest. (Sept. 30, 1780.)

A Stage raised on the body of a cart, on which was an effigy of General ARNOLD sitting; this was dressed in regimentals, had two faces, emblematical of his traitorous conduct, a mask in his left hand, and a letter in his right from Belzebub, telling him that he had done all the mischief he could do, and now must hang himself. At the back of the General was the figure of the Devil, dressed in black robes, shaking a purse of money at the General's left ear, and in his right hand a pitch-fork ready to drive him into hell as the reward due for the many crimes which his thirst of gold had made him commit.

"The treachery of this ungrateful General is held up to public view, for the exposition of infamy; and to proclaim, with joyful acclamation another instance of the interposition of bounteous Providence.

"The effigy of this ingrate is therefore hanged, (for want of his body) as a Traitor to his native country, and a Betrayer of the laws of honour."

The procession began about four o'clock in the following order:

Several Gentlemen mounted on horseback.

A line of Continental Officers.
Sundry Gentlemen in a line.
A guard of the City Infantry.

Just before the cart, drums and fifes playing the Rogues'
March.

Guards on each side.

The procession was attended with a numerous concourse of people, who after expressing their abhorrence of the Treason and the Traitor, committed him to the flames, and left both the effigy and the original to sink into ashes and oblivion. [Penn. Packet.

REMINISCENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. About 1787 the City had a much more primitive appearance than at the present day. Porches at the door were in the summer evenings filled with neighbours in friendly gossip about the news of the day. A family coach was a rarity. The pavement or footway was defended every where by posts, thickly planted. Curb stones were unkown. Pump water to drink; and "rain casks," for washing clothes, was of importance. A "good pump" of water was considered a jewel, and its fame spread far and wide, There was great horror expressed by the people in conversation, about a merchant who they said had "Broke." He seemed like a "doomed man," as he passed along the street, and the Reminiscent was informed in a whisper, "There's the man that broke!" He was shunned like a pestilence. A twohorse stage, on Sunday morning, took passengers to "Hesser's," in Germantown, and returned in the evening. One George Hill, kept a famous Tea Garder at the end of Race street on the Schuylkill. The famous John Murray, (1790) commenced preaching Universalism. He was spoken against' by a Mr. Wetherill in the Old Academy-which made a 'great stir' in the city. The Friends' Ground had at that time a low wall, easily climbed by the boys making a short cut' to the Academy in Fourth street, which had at that time a bell for school hours. Arch street Presbyterian meeting pos sessed a steeple, nearly the heighth of that of Christ Church. High street market extended only to In the front of the stage and before General Arnold, Third street,-at the end of which stood the Pillory and was placed a large lanthorn of transparent paper, with Whipping Post, which, from the Old Jail, at the S. W. the consequences of his crimes thus delineated, (i. e.) | corner opposite, had their regular customers every Sa on one part General Arnold on his knees before the De-turday. The first five or six cuts of the 'cat-o'ninevil, who is pulling him into the flames-a label from the tails' would give a snowy whiteness to the skin of a General's mouth with these words. "My dear sir, I have black man, but soon changed to the bloody purple. served you faithfully:" to which the Devil replies; "And A gentleman' for Forgery, was placed in the Pillory, I'll reward you." On another side, two figures hang- and pelted with eggs,' one of which hit him on the ing, inscribed, "The Traitor's reward," and wrote un scull, which caused him to utter a dismal outcry. The derneath, "The Adjutant General of the British army, Laws of the Land' being at that time more in the Lonand J** S****, the first hanged as a spy and the other don fashion than now, the citizens were frequently as a traitor to his country." And on the front of the drawn by curiosity to the "Hanging Ground" the south lanthorn was wrote the following:side of what is now the Centre Square,' being then an “MAJOR GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD, late open common, with Market street' running right thro' COMMANDER of the FORT WEST POINT. to the Floating Bridge' on Schuylkill. The ReminisTHE CRIME OF THIS MAN IS HIGH TREASON. cent saw the Five wheelbarrow men' executed at one "He has deserted the important post West Point, on time. The Common Sewer running along Fourth from Hudson's river, committed to his charge by his Excel-High street to Harmony Court, (tan yards at that time) lency the Commander in Chief, and is gone off to the was digged by wheel-barrow men convicts, secured by a enemy at New York. ball and chain to each other, and watched by officers "His design to have given up this fortress to our ene-armed with sword and blunderbuss. One half of their mies has been discovered by the goodness of the Om-jacket and trowsers was blue, the other half drab, and

the hair half shaved off the head of each convict-a hor-West,' stood within the railing of the garden, like
rid spectacle. The top of the new jail on Sixth street Bunyan's Pope and Pagan, to enforce a shilling en-
was covered with the broken glass of bottles. Pot- trance.' A noted sailmaker wished to pass without
ter's field' (now Washington Square) was surrounded paying, which brought the inside crowd to the railing,
by a post and rail fence, where, in the midst of the 'si- and pressing hard to see the squabble, the railing gave
lent dead,' stood a willow tree, and a vault wail. Ben- way, when they came tumbling down the flight of stone
jamin Franklin being in old age, was carried to and from steps. "Huzza for liberty" (being the 4th of July,)
the State House in a sedan chair, the only one in the was shouted out, which brought the crowd across from
city. It may be news to thousands who have read him, the east end of the bridge, without paying toll, carrying
and of him, that in Christ Church burying ground about all before them-stones, sticks, and shouts abounded
20 feet west of the Arch street gate, even with the every where through the garden, and on the opposite
ground, and close to the wall, may be seen a marble hill, when a stone crushing in one of the east windows,
slab on which is lettered Benjamin and Deborah Frank- brought Mr. Gray, Old Carlisle,' and West' forward,
lin. Imagine a pair of large rimmed spectacles on the waving their large straw hats like flags of truce, when all
head of the statue over the Philadelphia Library, and hostilities ceased, on permission to enter the Garden,
you have him as he lived. About the same time every and 'no shilling.' These all happened before 1793, and
thing partook of the military character-Col. Patton should you see proper to encourage the Reminiscent
held the City Auction,' and Col. Febiger the North- from that time to 1800, he could relate many interesting
ern Liberty Vendue.' Col. Cowperthwaite was Sheriff, matters, almost forgotten by many.
and Major Stricker Bomb.' Col. Nicola had the
LANG SYNE.
Debtors' Apartment, and Capt. Reynolds the Jail. Gen.
[Amer. Daily Adver. Jany. 19.
Mifflin Governor of Pennsylvania, Col. Hamilton Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and General Washington President
of the United States. A great sham battle was fought
on an eminence overlooking the Schuylkill where the
old Engine House now stands. The old British redoubt
which stood there was stormed by the Americans (of)
course) and the (supposed) British troops marched out
as prisoners of war. Spring Garden was a kind of open
common, very useful to the uptown boys in kite time.'
The kites while flying were often pressed' by the
butcher boys from the vicinity of Pegg's Run.' Stand-
ing near the old Glass House in Kensington, on the ri-
ver shore, the Reminiscent beheld a steam boat, with
paddles behind, striking out backwards like a swimming
duck. Fitch was named as the inventor. She lay for many
years afterwards in one of the Kensington docks, high
and dry, and finally went to pieces. Gen. Washington
on his way to the first seat of government at New York,
passed through the city, which produced an excitement
in the public mind not unlike the Lafayette spectacle.
He rode on horseback, with his hat off, giving an occa-
sional obeisance to the huzzas of the citizens. The day
was windy and dusty, and the weather very hot, which
made him and all the crowd, look

"With doost and zweat like nutmeg brown.” The most imposing spectacle ever exhibited publicly in this city, was the Federal Procession, of 1788.* It was a succession of wonders, two hours long. Every trade was preceded by a stage, on wheels, and the business of the shop in full operation. The Cordwainer's Shop stopped at the corner of Vine and Third, when the master, seizing one of the apprentices, gave him a "dose of stirrup oil," which made the boy roar lustily, to the

merriment of the beholders. The windows and house tops, on the route, were crowded, as at the Lafayette Procession. The eagle shaped Car, the Temple of independence,' The Plough-The Brass Founders' Furnace-these all were dismissed from the imagination, on the approach of the 16 gun ship and tender on wheels, complete, drawn by 16 horses; the wheels hid by painted canvass, representing waves of the sea. She was the Lafayette of the whole procession. The ship was afterwards moored at Gray's Ferry, where, on each succeeding 'Fourth,' she was decorated with flags and streamers in honour of the day. Many of the ornaments of the procession were afterwards placed in the garden, which gave it a very splendid night appearance, when illuminated, (as it often used to be) with coloured lamps in the Vauxhall (English) style. The Garden, at present, is but the skeleton of its former magnificence. The Reminiscent was present at Carlisle's Defeat,'-which took place at Gray's Ferry. Carlisle was High Constable, and a terror to the 'lawless' of all descriptions, being of Herculean size and strength. He and the famous

* See Register, vol. I. p. 417.

LORD HOWE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS OPERA-
TIONS IN THE DELAWARE.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

Admiralty Office Jan. 8, 1778.
The following is an extract of a letter received last
night by the Eagle Packet from the Vice Admiral Lord
Viscount Howe, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's
ships and vessels in North America, to Mr. Stephens,
dated on board his Majesty's ship the Eagle, in the De-
laware, dated 23d November, 1777.

Eagle, Delaware, Nov. 23, 1777.
Sir-The General advising me of his intention to send
a packet immediately to England, I avail myself of the
opportunity to acquaint you, for the information of the
Lords Commissioners of the admiralty, respecting the
progress of the military service in which the ships of war
have been concerned, since the date of my last letter of
the 25th of October.

I mentioned in that letter that the preparations making
for the attack meditated on the works the rebels had con-
structed on either shore, for preventing an open com-
munication by water with the army in Philadelphia,
on which it was obvious to them that the farther opera-
tions of the campaign would greatly depend.

The wind still continuing to prevent the Vigilant from passing to the rear of the enemy's works on Fort Island, by the only channel practicable for that purpose, the opportunity was taken by the king's forces, and by the enemy with equal assiduity, to strengthen the preparations judged expedient on either part for the proposed attack.

The officers and seamen of the ships of war and transPorts were employed in the mean time, with unremitting fatigue and perseverance, to convey provisions, artillery, and stores, to the Schuylkill, between Fort Island and the Pennsylvania shore; six 24 pounders from the Eagle, and four 32 pounders from the Somerset, transported in the same manner, with the requisite proportions of ammunition, were mounted in the batteries erected by the General's appointment on Province Is

land.

The wind becoming favourable the 15th instant, that first occasion was taken for ordering the ships upon the intended service.

The Somerset and Isis were appointed to proceed up the eastern channel of the river, to act against the fort in the front. The Roebuck, Pearl, and Liverpool, with the Cornwallis Galley, and some smaller armed vessels, against a battery with heavy artillery which the rebels had lately opened on a point above, and near to Manto creek, in a situation to rake the ships anchored to fire upon the fort, and more advantageously chosen, as the shoalness of the water did not admit ships to approach within a desirable distance of the work.

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