18311 METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. —EDUCATION. ted States has tended in a great degree to maintain a sound and uniform currency, to facilitate the financial operations of the government, to regulate foreign and domestic exchange, and has been conducive to commercial prosperity, the legislature of Pennsylvania recommend a renewal of its charter, under such regulations and restrictions, as to the power of the respective states, as Congress may deem right and proper. Thermometer. Difference, Mean, 6. Resolved, As the sense of the Senate and House of Representatives, That as soon as the national debt shall be paid, the most equitable and just mode of disposing of the surplus funds which may remain in the Treasury of the United States, after defraying the ordinary expenses of the government, and the payment of appropriations which may be made to objects of great national importance, will be by a distribution among the 1 several states in proportion to their representation in 2 the Congress of the United States, and that the Execu- 3 tive Veto was properly exercised on the bill making an 4 appropriation to the Masyville and Lexington road bill 195 Barometer. Maximumon 29th, 29.90 in. 78° 59 Minimum on 3d, 29.50 On the 18th, noon, Thermometer at 78°-the highest. On the 29th, Barometer at 29.90 in., all day-highest. Days of month. 5 6 12 13 Clear Hazy sunsh. Cloudy Cloudy Rain 8 23 Cloudy FREDERICK SMITH, Approved 28 day of April, 1831. METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. Extract from the Meteorological Register, taken at the BY Light rain Heavy rain Sun thro'c'd Cloudy Hazy sunsh. Clear Sun thro'c'd Clear Sun thro'c'd Heavy show. On the 3d and 4th, wind North; 24th, 27th, 28th,29th and 30th, North-east; 6th, 7th, 8th and 31st, East; 10th South-east; 2d, 21st, 22d, South; 9th, 11th 20th, 25th, 26th, South-West; 1st, 5th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th 17th 18th, 19th, West; 23d, North-West; 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st. nearly dead calm. The wind has been ten days East of the Meridian, 16 days West of it, 2 days North, and 3 days South. There was rain on the 1st, 2d, 7th, 8th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 25th, 26th. The heaviest on the 2d, 8th, 22d, 23d, Thunder gusts on 2d, 21st, 22d, 23d, 26th. This month was half a degree. mean temperature, colder, than last July, and 44 colder than August, 1830. On the evenings of the 4th, and 5th, and on the mornings of the 16th and 17th, the sun appeared as pale as the Moon before rain,-It may be remarked, that thus far, through the summer, the solar light has W to E been defective, even when no clouds could be perceiv ed-Whether this has been owing to accumulated vapours in the upper regions of the atmosphere-spots on the sun, or to the luminary itself, may be matter of further observation, but certain it is, that such continued rains and storms must depend on causes beyond our comprehension. Calm NW SW EDUCATION OF COLOURED PEOPLE. The undersigned committee appointed by a general convention held in this city, to direct and assist the conventional agent, the Rev. Samuel E. Cornish, in soliciting funds for the establishment of a COLLECTIVE SCHOOL, on the Manual Labor system, beg leave to call the attention of the enlightened and benevolent citizens of Philadelphia and its vicinity to the important subject. In doing which they deem it unnecessary in this enlightened country, and at this enterprising era, to adduce arrangements, or multiply words by way of appeal. The contrast between enlightened and barbarous nations-between the educated, and the vulgar, is the plainest demonstration of the utility of their plan and importance of their appeal. The colored citizens of the United States, assembled by delegation in this city, June last, alive to the interests of their brethren and Monday Thermometer. 170|83|77|76||29.70|70|72|29.70|| Barometer. Tuesday 274 83 7376 64 53 49 48 52 50 Friday 556706864] Thursday 456|70|64|63| Saturday 65873 67 66 Sunday 763 73 66 67 Sunday 1464837875 Wednesd 17 72847878 196 ANTHRACITE COAL FOR KITCHENS. [SEPTEMBER PHILADELPHIA, September 7, 1831. community generally, resolved at whatever labor or expense to establish, and maintain an institution in which I wish success to every judicious measure for the imtheir sons of the present and future generation may ob-provement of the minds of the rising generation of the tain a classical education and the mechanic arts in gen-colored people in literature. eral. Believing that all who know the difficult admission of our youths into seminaries of learning, and establishments of mechanism-all who know the efficient influence of education in cultivating the heart, restraiding the passions, and improving the manners. All who wish to see our colored population more prudent, virtuous, and useful, will lend us their patronage, both in money and prayers. The committee, in conclusion, would respectfully state, that the amount of money required to erect buildings, secure apparatus and mechanical instruments, is $20,000; of this sum the colored people intend to contribute as largely as God has given them ability, and for the residue they look to the christian community, who know their wants, their oppression and wrongs--and more particularly to the inhabitants of this city, celebrated for its benevolence, and in which so many preceding steps, taken for the advancement of our oppressed people, have had their origin. They would further state, that all monies collected by the principal agent, Rev. Samuel E. Cornish, who is now in this city, and whom they recommend to the confidence of all to whom he may appeal, will be deposited in the United States Bank, subject to the order of Arthur Tappan, Esq. of New York, their generous patron and friend; and in the event of the institution not going into operation, to be faithfully returned to the several donors. The contem plated Seminary will be located at New Haven, Conn. and established on the self supporting system, so that the student may cultivate habits of industry, and obtain useful mechanical or agricultural profession, while pursuing classical studies. Signed in behalf of the Convention, by JAMES FORTEN, JOSEPH CASSELS, ROBERT DOUGLASS, ROBERT SURVIS, FREDERICK A. HINTON, Provisional Committee of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, September 5, 1831. It appears from the following extract, that the proposal is not seconded by the inhabitants of New Haven, and if the plan succeed, the location must be changed. "A great excitement prevails in New Haven, on account of the contemplated establishment in that city, of a college for the education of blacks. On Saturday last, a numerous meeting of the citizens was convened, including the municipal authorities, who adopted the following preamble and resolution: Whereas in the opinion of this meeting, Yale College, the institution for the education of females, and the other schools already existing in this city, are important to the community and the general interests of science, and as such have been deservedly patronised by the public, and the establishment of a college in the same place to educate the colored population, is incompatible with the prosperity, if not the existence of the present institutions oflearning, and will be destructive to the best interests of the City: and believing as we do, that if the establishment of such a College in any part of the country, were deemed expedient, it should never be imposed on any community without their consent-Wherefore Resolved-By the Mayor, Aldermen, Common Council and Freemen of the City of New-Haven, in City Meeting assembled, that we will resist the establishment of the proposed college in this place, by every lawful WM. WHITE, H. U. ONDERDONK. I do most cordiallly approve of the foregoing plan for meliorating the condition of the colored youths of our country; and being fully persuaded that the Manual Labor system is well adapted to the habits, wants, and peculiar situation of colored young men, I am of the opinion that liberal aid will be well and wisely bestowed on the proposed institution. THOMAS M'AULEY. My own views are entirely expressed in the above favorable notices of Bishops White and Onderdonk, and Dr. M'Auley. G. T. BEDELL. I cheerfully commend the Rev. S. E. Cornish and the object of his application to my Christian friends; particularly because I feel confidence in the wisdom and perseverance of Arthur Tappan, Esq. in his efforts to promote the welfare of our colored brethren. EZRA STILES ELY. From the Berks and Schuylkill Journal. Mr. GETZ,—Our neighbours in Schuylkill county have predicated unbounded prosperity to them and theirs on the extension of the consumption of Anthracite coal. We sincerely wish them all the success to which their enterprising spirit and industry so justly entitle them. We entertain no doubt that unlimited streams of welfare to be partaken of by us and all men: that is, all the citizens of our State, are about to flow from the same source. As the character of this fuel, which seems at present to be but partially understood, shall become generally known, we anticipate the extension of its use in geometrical progresssion. It has been applied with success to most of the objects which fire is an agent in effecting, and begins to be furnished at a price which must soon banish wood from our hearths and factory fires. It is but lately however, that the cook has taken it in hand. The sulphureous gas which it emits, though in small quantities, seems to have scared off that useful and respectable personage, become by general consent the constituted fiduciary of our gastric enjoymants. As the man who causes a blade of grass to grow where none grew before has been termed a benefactor of his species, so we with an humble ambition are induced to hope that a modicum of praise will not be denied by our coal dealing friends to bim who essays to increase the demand for the article, if it be only by the consumption of one additional fire. But we hope to do more. We expect to promote the introduction of a score or two of coal fires in our own town by calling the attention of our fellow-citizes to the facility and advantage with which it may be applied to the purposes of the kitchen. If we are correct in our conjectures it is to the kitchen at last that this important branch of industry, the coal trade, is destined to owe its greatest success. We know of no subject so generally interesting to mankind as that of Gastronomy, and the prejudice runs in favour of cooking what we eat, as strongly now, as when in the last century, Dictionary, Johnson pronounces "A cooking Animal" to be par-excellence the definition of man. In our adoration for the element we seem second only to the sons of Zoroaster and fire worshippers of the East. kitchen fire is as certainly the sacred Fire of the moderns, as that of Vesta was of the ancients, though it may be that the virgins who watch it, are not themselves so closely watched, as the vestals were by those uncompromising Heathens, the Romans. What is more to the purpose of the "coal dealing fellows;" however is the insatiable nature ascribed to it by the The wisdom of King Solomon, who ranks fire amongst the four things which never cry "hold enough." If it were not irreverent it might, by a bold figure, be denominated the fire that is not quenched. "It keeps the noiseless tenor of its way uninterrupted by the season's change or the vicissitude of human affairs, and is equally indispensible to our comforts, whether we shiv er in the frosts of winter, or swelter under a summer's We hazard the assertion that the consumption of coal will be augmented in a ten fold proportion just so soon as we shall find it generally introduced into our kitchen fires. sun. 197 substituting a coal for a wood fire is one of no slender consideration. Allowing a cord of hickory wood or a ton of coal per month for the kitchen fire, (and of the latter the allowance is a large one) a saving of two dollars per month is the result, which is about two thirds of the cost of the coal for the succeeding month. The simplicity of the contrivance is an important characteristic, rendering its construction practicable wherever a mechanic competent to lay bricks can be found, and reducing its expense so as to bring it within the reach of the poor: the introduction of the coal amongst whom has been regarded as a grand desideratum by those interested in the trade. We understand that our enterpriring to cast plates and grates adapted to the apparatus we have described, which will supercede the use of old stove plates and wrought iron grates, which cost about twice as much as suitable ones can be furnished for by the Iron-master. CIVIS. Impressed with this conviction, we beg leave through the medium of your Journal to introduce to our fellow-sing fellow-townsmen, the Messrs. KEIM's are prepacitizens a plan which has been adapted to the applica tion of Anthracite to all the purposes of domestic economy. The plan is not yet in extensive use, but is sufficiently so abundantly to test its utility, and after the experience of a twelve month or more has been pronounced by all who have tried it to have been attended with unqualified success. The apparatus consists of two parallel walls about four feet high and three feet and a half apart, resembling the side walls of a common fire place, with a back wall of the same height at the distance of two feet in depth. Within this fire place is a hearth elevated about eighteen inches from the floor, with a coal grate eighteen inches long, eleven wide and ten in depth, set in the middle about three inches from the front. Over the whole hearth is a castiron plate, being three and a half feet long and two feet wide, with an aperture of eighteen by eleven inches, so laid that the side of the aperture may correspond with those of the grate. The throat of the chimney is contracted by drawing in the brick of the back wall to the size of eight inches wide at the top, and is closed by a valve of sheet-iron moving on a hinge so as to be opened when required. A sheet-iron door hung in the manner of a window sash in front is drawn down to the hearth, closing up the opening in front and forming a spacious oven with moveable shelves for the occasions of baking. A coal fire in the apparatus thus described is fully competent to the business of the kitchen in all its departments. On the iron hearth kept continually hot, or over the grate if the occasion requires expedition, the operation of boiling, stewing and frying are performed effectually and with celerity. The space below the grate affords ample room, and a superior fire for broiling or barbecuing, while roasting is done in a tin kitchen before the fire in a manner not excelled by that of any mode in use. Touching the important periodical business of boiling Apple-butter, we must confess ourselves without experience, nor have our inquiries brought any aid to our own lucubratious on the subject, but as far as we may trust to a priori argument in a matter of such moment, we feel a confidence that it may be done over a coal fire as effectually and expeditiously as over one of hickory wood. There is no taste or flavour communicated to the provisions cooked in the oven above described, other than those which they possess when cooked in the ordinary manner. This may be verified by personal observation, if any one be found too sceptical to rely on our evidence. There are several grates erected upon this principle at present in our Borough, and for all the purposes to which fire is applied in a kitchen, they have been proved to be eminently useful. How greatly a coal fire is preferable to one of wood for warming houses is sufficiently known to all who are in the habit of using the former; but we conceive the difference to be far greater in favour of the coal fire when applied to the operations of cooking. From the Bucks County Republican. ESCHEAT COURT-REYNOLD'S CASE. The following is the Inquisition as prepared and signed by the Deputy Escheator and Jury, in the late trial of escheat in the case of the Reynolds tract of land in Buckingham. We shall endeavour to give a sketch of the trial in our next. BEFORE me, Thomas Ross, Deputy Escheator General in and for the county of Bucks, by virtue of a deputation from David Sturgeon, Esquire, Auditor General of the Com'th. of Pennsylvania, and in obedience to a writ from me the aforesaid deputy, bearing date at Doylestown, in the county aforesaid, the eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, directed to the Sheriff of the said county, commanding him to cause to come before me, the aforesaid deputy, 24 good and lawful men of his county, at the house of Joseph Burrows, in the village of Doylestown, on the 30th day of June then next following, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, to inquire whether Jolin Reynolds, late of the county of Bucks, dec'd. hath died intestate, without heirs or known kindred; and whether such decedent was at the time of his death, seized or possessed of any and what estate, real and personal, in the county aforesaid, and also in whose hands or possession the same shall be, which writ with the panel affixed thereto is hereunto annexed, appeared of the said jurors, to wit: Joseph Hough, Esq. Joshua Barker, Esq. Wm. H. Henry, Esq. James Horner, Wm. Green, Abel Lester, Wm. H. Rowland, Michael H. Jenks, Benj. Hough, John Robbarts, Thomas Stephens, Wm. Maris, Thomas Beans, John K. Paxson, Michael Walters, Esq. Richard Janney, Robert Lovett, Benj. Williams, Elijah Opdyke, Thomas Stewart, John Ruckman, Nathaniel Shewell, and John Fretz, all of whom (with the exception of John Ruckman, who was excused) were duly sworn and affirmed, on their oaths and affirmations to inquire of the matters in the said precept set forthAnd the same inquest having been adjourned to meet on the twenty-third day of August, next following, there appeared on the said 23d day of August, 1831, of the said jurors, Joseph Hough, Esq. Joshua Barker, Esq. Wm. H. Henry, Esq. James Horner, Wm. Green, Abel Lester, Wm. H. Rowland, Michael H. Jenks, Benj. Hough, John Robbarts, Thomas Stephens, Thomas Beans, John K. Paxson, Michael Walters, Esq. Richard Janney, Robert Lovett, Benj. Williams, Elijah Opdyke, Thomas Stewart, Nathaniel Shewell, and John FretzWilliam Maris being the only juror absent. And the said inquest having been adjourned from day to day unThe permanency of the fire, the ease with which the til this twenty-seventh day of August, 1831, do on their fuel is carried to it, the diminished bulk of fuel necessa- oaths and affirmations aforesaid, say, that John Reyry compared with that of wood and the general unifor-nolds, in the writ named, did not die intestate without mity of its quality, combine to assure us that all who adopt it will be greatly delighted and benefitted by the change. In point of economy too the advantage from heirs or known kindred, and that the land which was patented to him the eighth of July 1687, lying and being in the county of Bucks, has not escheated to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Witness our hands and seals respectively, this twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. THOS. ROSS, Dept. Escheator Gen❜l. (Here follows the signatures of the jury above named.) (SEPTEMBER improvements were made upon the land, and convey. ances by such settlers for valuable considerations also took place. In 1767; Ellicot and Kinsey obtained warrants to take up a certain quantity of land in Bucks county, and which they alleged was vacant. Upon a representation being made, that the land contained in the warrants granted to Kinsey and Ellicot was embraced within the limits of the Reynolds tract, In January, 1769, the Proprietaries did, upon the apthe Surveyor General was directed not to execute them, We have received a full report of the proceedings in this trial. The novelty of this kind of proceeding in this county, we might say in this Commonwealth, as well as the great interests brought in question, have in-plication of the persons under whom the present tenduced us to undertake the publication of a fuller abstract of the trial than we should otherwise deem proper for a newspaper report. Mr. Smith, one of the counsel for the land-holders, having taken short hand notes of the arguments of Mr. Morris, the concluding counsel on the same side, and of Mr. Ross, the Escheator, we shall be enabled to present a condensed view, corrected by those gentlemen, of both sides and the questions raised. The whole report is too long, and came to hand too late for this number. We shall, therefore, present our readers this week with a brief history of the case as detailed to the jury by the Escheator, and continue the publication as we find space and leisure. Messrs. Morris, Grantham, Smith and M'Dowell, on the part of the persons notified as the landholders. Mr. Smith appeared especially for certain of the "Settlers of the Reynold's Tract," who had petitioned the Legislature on the subject; and objected to proceed ing, on the ground that the case was not cognizable under the Acts of Assembly concerning Escheats, and that the settlers believing this to be the case, had petitioned the Legislature to pass a special act on the subject, which petition was not yet decided on, but referred to the Attorney General for his opinion, to be given at the next session. The Escheator decided that the cognizance of this question belonged to another tribunal, and that the decision of questions of adjournment and admission of evidence, rested exclusively with him. John Golder, of Philadelphia, appeared for himself as first informant, and presented a certified copy of his information, filed 16th April, 1817, togethor with a protest against the present proceedings. Mr. Markely then called upon the counsel present to state for whom they appeared, and objected that no one had any right to take defence, except the heirs of John Reynolds. The objection overruled. After hearing a considerable part of the evidence for the information, the Court was adjourned to the 23d of August. August 23d-Mr. Maris, one of the Jurors qualified, not appearing, the case proceeded, 21 Jurors present. The following is an abstract of the history of the case, as presented to the Jury by the Escheator in his Address to them, the whole of which will be given hereafter. "Before I proceed to an examination of these points, I deem it proper to present you with a brief history of the proceedings, that have taken place respecting this tract of land, as far as the same may be collected from the evidence thst has been adduced, In pursuance of a warrant, taken out by Zach. Whitpain, in behalf of Robert Reynolds, and a survey returned upon this warrant, a patent was granted to John Reynolds by the Proprietary on the 8th of July 1687, for 984 acres of land in Buckingham township, Bucks county. A resurvey was made of this tract in pursuance of a general warrant, dated 5th of November, 1702, and founded on the act of 1700; according to which re-survey it contained 1208 acres. After some time, settlements and ants claim, and upon their own representation, grant to the several possessors escheat warrants for the parts by them respectively occupied. Upon some of these warrants, surveys were made and returned; but upon the others so far as it appears from the evidence, neither surveys or returns have ever been made. The earliest 1789, and the latest in 1811. A representation having return of survey on any of the warrants was in March, been made in 1781, by the Escheator General, that this land had Escheated, a warrant was granted on the 30th August, 1781, for re-surveying this tract as an Escheat, found to contain 987 acres, exclusive of the vacant and a re-survey was accordingly made, and the tract land. In August, 1782, a caveat waa filed by Charles Carter, against granting a patent to Kinsey and Ellicot on the warrants obtained by them in 1767. The Board of Property, at a meeting held March 2d, 1874, in deciding upon this caveat, gave the preference to pre-emp. tion, to those individuals who obtained the Escheat warrants in 1769, provided they complied with such terms as should be judged reasonable. At another meeting of the Board, held on the 7th of June, in the same year; John Betts, and John Wilson, Esq. appearing as the authorized agents of the other settlers, offered at the rate of 721. per cent. for their respective surveys, to be paid within six months with interest; which terms the Board agreed to accept, and directed patents of confirmation to issue whenever the claimants complied with the terms thus agreed upon. James Bonner obtained a patent for 123 of this land, the 28th of September, 1786; and John Betts, also, obtained a patent for 79 acres, the 2d of June, 1787,-they having each of them, com. plied with the contract of 1784. It also appears that James Wood paid 32l. 12s. on account of his land, and that he afterwards offered to pay the residue, but that the Board of Property refused to receive it, on account of a caveat having been filed in 1788, by persons claiming to be heirs of John Reynolds, which had not been acted upon, but was then pending. At a meeting of the Board of Property, June 18th, 1794, this caveat was dismissed, and patents directed to be allowed the settlers, upon their complying with the contract. It also appears that a list of Escheated property was returned by John Nicholson, October 4, 1787, among which is enumerated the Reynolds tract. An informa tion of the Escheat of this property was also filed in 1817, by John Golder, who has filed a protest against these proceedings. A petition was presented to the last session of the Legislature, signed by 11 of the settlers, asking the State to relinquish any claim she may be supposed to have on this property, in consequence of the contract entered into in 1784. A patent of Robert Strettel has also been adduced in evidence by the tenants in possession, which states in the recital, that there had been surveyed to John Reynolds, a tract of 984 acres, in Buckingham township, but that the said tract had not been seated or improved as required by certain concessions agreed to between William Penn and the first purchasers; and that the Proprietaries were requested to allow 500 acres, part of the said tract, to be taken up, which request was granted and a patent issued for 500 acres; but which as it appears by the survey, of 1781, was not included in the Reynold's tract." (To be continued.) 1831.] RAIL ROAD MEETING.-CAUSE OF THE POLES. From the Gettysburg Compiler. At a meeting of a number of the citizens of Adams county, held in the Court-house, in Gettysburg, on Saturday last, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the next Legislature to grant an act incorporating a Company, to construct a Rail-Road from Gettysburg to the Maryland line, at the head waters of MonoCocy-GEORGE SMYSER, Esq. was called to the Chair, and ZEPHANIAH HERBERT, Esq. appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting being explained by JAMES DOBBIN, Esq. on motion of THADDEUS STEVENS, Esq. the following Committee was appointed to make a Report of a survey made a few days since by a number of citizens, viz: Samuel Sloan, Thaddeus Stevens, John Garvin, William S, Cobean, and Robert Smith, Esqr's. -who presented the following: The Committe appointed to furnish information to the meeting, REPORT: That we ran the route, from the head of Monococy on the east side of Rock-creek, to the mouth of back run, where we crossed said creek, and thence up said run to its source, and to the summit, on Samuel Sloan's farm, and from thence to Gettysburg. We found the distance from Monococy to the summit to be 2479 perches; 1650 of which, to wit. from the foot of McKinney's meadow to the summit, is an inclined plane, on which, in the whole distance, there need not be a foot of rise lost, but a continual ascent kept, (probably, with moderate digging in two or three places, a continual rise might be kept up from Menococy the whole distance;) that the ground is remarkably even except in 3 places; the first, a bluff of red rock below Allison's of perhaps fifty perches, but not high; the second a space of small rocks below Michael Miller's of about 80 or 90 CAUSE OF THE POLES, 199 A very numerous meeting of Young Men friendly to the cause of Poland, was held at the County Court Room on Monday evening, the 12th instant; Captain PETER FRITZ was called to the Chair, and SAMUEL HART and CHARLES HEDELIUS appointed Secretaries. The object of the meeting having been stated by the Chairman, it was on motion, Resolved, That a Committee of six be appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting, when Col. James Page, Robert Morris, John M'Cahen, Charles T. Potts, John Ashton, Jr. and Col. Charles K. Servoss, were appointed on the Committee. The following communication, from James W. Shamburgh; was read, and ordered to be incorporated with the proceedings of the meeting. "Marine Garrison, Philad. Sept. 11th, 1831. "Sir: I have observed with pleasure, the determined spirit with which the cause of the gallant, but suffering Poles, has been noticed; and a determination on the part of our young men, to assemble for the purpose of considering the practicability of recruiting a force, to go forth, for the purpose of reciprocating, defending and sustaining that liberty, which at "a time that tried men's souls," was accomplished for us by her gallant sons, Kosciusko and Pulaski; relying on the patriotism of this, our own free and happy land, we may confidently trust that the Lord of host will go with us to battle in a righteous cause, and crown our exertions with success. "I have the honor to hold a commission in the U. S. Marine Corps, and would be willing to subscribe to the JAMES M. SHAUMBURGH. To the Chairman of the meeting of the 'Young Men' of Philadelphia, in behalf of the Poles." Whereas, the people of Poland have been engaged in an heroic and fearful struggle, to achieve their independence, and guarantee to their children the richest of blessings, human liberty, and that we as the grateful sons of patriot and revolutionary sires, deeply sympathize with them and their cause, and feel it incumbent upon us to yield them more tangible assistance than mere words, in evidence of our sympathy: perches-and the other a space of rocks on land of Ja cob Sherfigh of 80 perches, some of which may be 3 feet high-from whence to the summit is almost as The following preamble and resolutions were presmooth as a meadow. From the summit to the inter-sented by the Committee, and after being supported by section of Middle and West streets is 380 perches, in a very able and eloquent address from Col, Page, were which there is but 24 feet fall, (about 20 feet to the unanimously adopted. mile,) and may be kept at a continual descent the whole distance with very little digging, as the ground is very level. We have also ascertained, principally from actual levelling, that the summit is 175 feet higher than the head of Monococy, which is 2479 perches distant: therefore, if the same grade could be kept, the rise would be about twenty-two feet to the mile. The whole distance would be found to be 8 miles and 299 perches, (which is one mile and 93 perches more than a direct line)-which, from the goodness of the ground, need not be increased much in locating the road. Upon the whole, we think it perfectly practicable, at a reasonable expense, and the best route we have ever seen for that purpose, and recommend to the meeting to take immediate measures for obtaining a charter. After the above Report was read, the following rcsolutions, offered by T. Stevens, Esq. were adopted: Resolved, That it is expedient for the citizens of Adams county to petition the next Legislature to incorporate a Company to make a Rail-Road from the Maryland line at Gettysbug, to intersect the Rail-Road now making from Baltimore to the head waters of the Moncocy. Resolved, That a Committee of twelve be appointed to procure signatures to said petition. Therefore, Resolved, That a general committee of superintendence, with ward committees, be appointed at this meeting, the latter to make collections from every class of our citizens in aid of the Poles, and the former to devise the most expedient means for forwarding the said collections to that struggling nation. Resolved that in case the Polish people should fail in their efforts to shake off the tyranny of Russia, and hence our donations be rendered ineffectual for that purpose, that the Committee of Superintendence shall be empowered to make such use of the collections as shall seem to them most just and proper. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to prepare an address to the public, appealing to them in behalf of the objects that have called us together this evening. On motion of Col. Page, it was resolved, that a colResolved, That a Committee of three be appointed lection be made immediately from the persons present to attend at Harrisburgh, and see that said petition be-when $62 12 was ascertained to be the amount represented and properly explained. The following gentlemen compose the Committee appointed agreeably to the second resolution. T. Stevens, J. B. McPherson, S. Sloan, T. J. Cooper, T. Stevens, J. M'Sherry, and T. C. Miller, Esquires. Z. HERBERT, Sec'ry. ceived. On motion, Resolved, That when this meeting adjourns, it will adjourn to meet in Independence Square, on Monday next, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, to receive the report of the committee appointed to prepare the address. |