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the room where they had retired to deliberate upon the verdict, and that the result had been almost general intoxication-that one of the body had terrified them with denunciations of vengeance for their disloyalty-that still these fearful menaces against their persons and their dwellings would not have been sufficient to seduce them to so criminal an act, but for the effects of the li quor they had taken, and from the deluding assertion that the life of Mr. Orr was in no danger. That in their minds the case was doubtful, and that they had so stated it in giving in their verdict.

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grade the many. And which when earned by paricidal treachery, are but objects of loathing, contempt and scorn, and should remain, and so descend from generation to generation.

All is not lost-the time is at hand when true and faithful history will emblazon the achievements by which these guilty honours have been won. Unhappily the history of Ireland has seldom been written with the pen of truth. It has been traced by her enemies, or which is little better, by indiscreet or else by half faced friends. He who would be Ireland's historian, should have many qualities. A solid judgment to separate the fictions and fables from the valuable truths, that are involved with them: A mind free from passion, prejudice, and idle prepossessions. When the darkness in which the history of our times is shrouded shall be cleared away; how will it then shew? How! like the disordered scene of a long night's debauch when day looks in upon it.

So great has been the influence of habitual debasement, and the long reign of terror, that scarcely one has ventured to look the latter events of Ireland in the face, or to give to those who nobly dared, or nobly died, their meed of praise and honor. Those who have done the best, have, by a mean compromise with power, begun by setting their feet upon the necks of the truest, the bravest, and the best of Ireland's sons. It was even thus, that amongst the many griefs which she has endured, the slanders of her history, have been the greatest. Here, where vindictive power cannot reach, the means are less aceessible. There sits one, indeed, beside me, (turning to the President, Mr. Mathew Carey,) who has performed an Herculean labor: who has disinterred from beneath the heaps of scorice and other cumbrous deposits, all marking its volcanic character, treasures of historic truth. By the exertion of marvellous industry and learning, he has laid them bare to view upon the surface of the soil. Others will, I trust, profit by his untiring labors. I hope when they do, they will acknowledge to whom they are indebted. The strong positions he has taken he has fortified by proofs that render them impregnable.

You have others of vivid genius amongst you-let each contribute his part to the great end of union amongst all persuasions-all march onward and forward to that great prevailing object, all that is good will follow; and though the vestal fire should, for a period, cease to burn in your distracted native country, let it be cherished and preserved in this, now and forever, and let the word of union, be reverberated from a thousand echoes. Ireland will thus, at one day or other, become mistress of her own destinies, and then she will be able to unite or separate with or from whom she may, and free to determine which, upon principles of equality, and policy, which as yet has not been-for a compulsory union is a rope of sand. And let us here, as adopted citizens, prove ever true to that allegiance which we have voluntarily sworn to, and so live with one another as to be respected in this, and useful to our native country. The day may come when, under the wing of the high towering eagle, poor prostrate Ireland may find that succor and protection which her exiled children have received upon her hospitable shores.

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"The bench and bar that adorn your state and noble city-Learned, liberal, eloquent, and every way accomplished."

[We publish this speech as we received it, conscious, however, that it will be read with very different feelings to those with which it was heard. The natural simplicity of manner, the softness of tone and the strong, yet strongly suppressed, feelings of the speaker brought tears into almost every eye; it was truly an affecting and effective speech.]

Perhaps I talk too much. Indeed, it seems to me more like a vision than reality, to see so many blanched with years who have known me in those terrible times, that now, after changful events, and lapse of many years, seem, through the dreamy vista, as of a distant æra, though still fresh in memory.

VI. The memory of Tone and Orr, Fitgerald and Emmet, and the other Irish Martyrs who were sacrificed for their love and devotion to the freedom and independence of their country. Light be the sods which deck their graves-green and precious be their memories.

VII. The early and eminent advocates of Catholic Emancipation, Grattan and Flood, Curran and Burke, and their illustrious compeers; names associated with genius and talents which would have done honor to any country. Sacred be their memories.

VIII. Catholic Emancipation.-O'Connel, Shel, Lawless, and the troops of friends, who were its fearless, ceaseless, and successful advocates. Prosperity, health, honor, and long life to them.

IX. Extinction of all party feuds-The harbinger of harmony among the Emigrants from Ireland-whatever may have been their party feud, at home, religious or political. X. The Army of the United States.-Alike distinguished for its courage, its discipline, and its humanity.

XI. The Navy of the United States which has carried the "Star Spangled Banner," triumphant into every Sea, and spread it, victoriously, on every Lake.

XII. Greece and Poland.-Centuries of oppression did not break their lofty spirit, nor humble in the dust their proud hopes; they are still worthy to be recognized as the descendants of Miltiades and Epaminondas and the brethren of Kosciusko.

XIII. The Fair Sex.-The last and best gift of heaven.

The regular toasts having been drunk, Mr. Dallas rose and said, that although a humble member of the bar, so vividly complimented by their distinguished guest, he could not refrain from expressing his conviction that the sentiment of respect and kindness was most cordially reciprocated. It was impossible to be insensible to praise from such a quarter. The eminent individual was, here, the representative of two bars, which, for many years, had shone conspicuous by professional ability and eloquence. In Ireland, he was long the companion of Curran; and in New York, he was the associate and friend of Emmet. In both countries, and in every scene, he had proved himself competent alike to illustrate the law, to relieve its practice with the sallies of a sportive wit, and to exalt it with the devotion of a deep and abiding patriotism. The profession in the United States was indebted to the lawyers of Ireland, not merely for works of learning, but for models of ardent, kindling, and powerful eloquence. It was unnecessary to refer to them; their names and their effusions were as familiar as "household words." One of these could not well for the first time, visit our scenes of jurisprudence, and participate in their activity, without being welcomed with sincere and profound respect; nor, it is trusted, will he return without being sensible that he carries back with him our lively feeling of affectionate reward.

Mr. Dallas concluded by offering the following sen timent

The Bar of Ireland-The light of its eloquence and patriotism has irradiated the liberties of both hemispheres.

One word more, and I have done. Since I have been in your city, I have received much kindness, and from the members of my own profession, and from my adversaries as well as from my honoured colleagues, the most attaching courtesies. Let me draw upon the By Col. J. Page-Irish Patriotism and Irish Eloquence. large credit you have given me, and ask your approv--While virtue endures, the former shall be admired ing voices for the toast which I shall have the honour and imitated; genius will never permit the influence of to propose:

the latter to be lost.

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By Mordecai Cullen-Our happy Republic, the Asy-countrymen derive honor in honoring him. lum of the Oppressed-No armed Police, no equipped By Thomas Maguire-The venerable Counsellor Yeomanry, no Insurrection Act, where the sword of Sampson, the fearless defender of the rights of man, in Gideon is turned into ploughshares. his native and adopted country, he has stayed the progBy James Maher-The Mayor, Recorder and Alder-ress of the destroying angel. The sword of Gideon is man of the city of Philadelphia-Justly entitled to the sheathed, never more to be drawn against the defenders gratitude of the united sons of Erin, for their impartiali- of American freedom. ty in the late trials in the Mayor's Court, for the riot on the 12th of July last.

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and redeeming qualities, and even claims to the grati- tons of first rate iron per annum, with proportionate tude of their adopted country. These claims rest on quanities of steel, &c. Thirty grind stones, worth from their affectionate devotion to her from the earliest days 25 to 30 dollars each, and weighing more than a ton, of the revolution to the present hour. Montgomery being about 5 feet in diameter and about 12 inches wide was not more zealous to assert the rights of America are annually used. They are supplied from York coun than have been thousands of his countrymen at every pe- ty. The transportations of materials and goods make a riod since. In that dark and gloomy hour of the revolu- heavy item of expense-for about 2,000 bushels of tion, when the Pennsylvania Line-chiefly Irish-could mineral coal and 15,000 of charcoal are used, employbe tracked by their blood, goaded by what they regarding many persons, horses, &c. Forty workmen are ed as an ungrateful neglect, mutinously arrayed them- employed in the factory, and the wages paid amount selves against the old Congress. In that dread and to 7000 dollars per annum-which, with the various trying hour came the emissaries of the British Govern- other disbursements, in cash, give a rapid and wholement, and tendered to the Pennsylvania Line food and some circulation to money. The chief articles manuraiment, and increased pay; but they faltered not in factured are axes, hatchets, adzes and hammers, in all their allegiance to their adopted country; they gave up their varieties-drawing and straw knives, socket chisthe tempters, and overcame the enemy who would sels, cleavers, choppers, inshaves and screw drivers; and have seduced them. In the late war, also, the Irish trowels, butcher's and other knives, fleshers, workers were not few in number, who flocked around the Star and currying knives, have been made to advantage, but Spangled Banner;' around that Banner they bravely the demand for the first named articles has lessened the fought and cheerfully died. Let these things be re- manufactures of the latter, and the quality and cheapness membered of the Irish, when they are blamed, as they of these things, so far as their extent goes, places Brideserved to be blamed, for having brought their pre- tish competition at defiance, and has effect to keep and judices and hatreds into action here, to the disturbance circulate a large amount of money at home, afford emof the public peace. I have the honor, Sir, to be a Unit- ployment in many interesting departments, and give ed Irishman, and to take the oath that I would"persevere value to articles which otherwise would have none, bein endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection cause of the want of demand. among Irishmen of every religious persuasion." For this act, and for acts done in pursuance of this obligation, I was long pursecuted and many times imprisoned. I am well aware that, at that time, some who were active in the late riot, would have willingly taken my life, and the lives of those who acted with me. But, Sir, we are now citizens of another country, and live under another Government. Were all sensible of the blessings of toleration and freedom, and of the peace, plenty, and happiness here enjoyed, notwithstanding recent events, I am as sure as I am that I live, that the very men who, in Ireland, would have taken our lives, would here rally with us, in brotherly love, under the standard of our common country, and march, shoulder and shoulder, with us to the water's edge, to meet and drive back her foes. I will detain you no longer, Sir, than to read the tost I hold in my hand:

We mentioned that certain goods from this factory had been sent to England as patterns, and the result is shown in the following very interesting extract of a late letter from Mr. Dunlop, one of the proprietors. He says, "We (Dunlop and Madeira) a few days ago received a letter from Messrs. Lesley and Meredith, hardware merchants in Philadelphia, stating in substance, that they had just received a long letter from James Cam, of Sheffield, England, to whom they had forwarded, by order of his son, 50 dolls. worth of our goods as patterns, in which he says he is very much pleased with them, and that they are exceedingly neat and well finished, but that the prices are too low, and that he cannot furnish such tools at their price to suit any market in the United States. We sold him the goods at OUR RETAIL PRICE. He wishes to know your wholesale prices. The English workman has great dif"Naturalized Irishmen-Whatever may be their pre-ficulty in hitting your patrons, and asks a considerable judices or their enemies, they will always be, as they advance on any new article. We need not fear any always have been, among the first to march, shoulder competition with the English. American tools of the to shoulder, to avenge the wrongs and assert the rights larger sort are from 10 to 20 per cent, better than the of the country of their adoption-her enemies are their British, any how." enemies her friends are their friends-and, for her, like their gallant countryman, Montgomery, they are ready to fight, bleed and die."-U. S. Gazette.

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In the last volume, page 394, we briefly noticed a valuable factory of edge-tools at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Since then we have learned some other particulars, which we shall state with great pleasure-to show the success that has attended an important branch of manufactures, which we had apprehended would be a much longer time in reaching that degree of perfection which is indispensably necessary to obtain the home market, because of the quality and price of the articles offered to the consumption.

This establishment owes its present extension, if not its origin, to the tariff of 1828, though its products are rather incidentally than fully protected. It is seated in the borough of Chambersburg on the Conococheague, (meaning, in the language of the Delawares, "Clear Water") creek- the supply of which is abundant, and the fall, within the town, is 40 feet. It was commenced in 1828, with 5 or six smith's fires, and now has 14. In 1828, the value of the goods manufactured was 6,000 dollars-in 1830, $18,000; and that of the current year is expected to exceed $30,000; and new works are errecting to increase the manufacture to 50,000 dollars a year. The present consumption is at the rate of 40

Such is the prompt effect of the enterprize and talents of Messrs. Dunlop and Madeira. The Mr. Cam alluded to is one of the largest manufacturers of heavy cutlery in England; and he shrinks from the competition of QUALITY and price.

Those who recollect that the British manufacturers for the foreign and the home market are very different persons will easily understand this. The quality of American manufactured goods generally, because of an equal responsibility, is the same, (if not better in some cases), as of those which are manufactured in England for home consumption, and their price is generally about the same. This fact is especially known to all the chief manufacturers of leather, skins and furs, wood, &c. such as boots and shoes, hats and caps, ships and cabi net wares, for examples-all which are handsomely protected in the United States. The aggregate value of the class of manufactures last alluded to, cannot fall short of 70 or 80 millions of dollars a year-or much more than the whole amount of our domestic exports.

[Niles' Register.

Iron Manufacturer's Meeting.—In addition to the information required by the Treasury Department, returns were also made to this meeting of the quantity of agricultural produce consumed at the several iron establishments of the county, in the last three years, ending on the 30th September, 1831; which, after being summed together, exhibits the following amount:

MISCELLANEOUS.

rye and corn,

oats, potatoes,

Large Apple.-Mr. FREAS, I have often seen notices in newspapers, respecting large turnips, radishes and apples; and I think, therefore, that the following description of an apple, that grew in my orchard, near Mr. Pitt's tavern, on the limekiln road, would not be an uninteresting paragraph in your excellent paper. The apple is of the pippin kind, is of handsome growth weighs 18 pound, and measures in circumference 141 inches. The apple may be seen at the Rev. B. Keller's, to whom I presented it, as a token of my regard. Yours respectfully,

As a further evidence of the salutary influence of the existing policy of our general goverment, on the interests of this county, the fact may be stated that in the years 1815 and 1816, before the enactment of the present tariff the farmer of Huntingdon county had to pay 140 dollars, per ton, at the works, for all the iron he consumed, whereas it can now be purchased for 85 and 90 dollars, per ton; equal in quality, and generally su superior in variety and excellence of workmanship.tion concerning them. Huntingdon Gazelle.

GEO: HEIST.

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held in this city on the 20th inst., a committee was apAt the Quarterly Meeting of the Franklin Institute, pointed to aid the corresponding secretary of the Institute, on ascertaining the number and extent of the manufacturing establishments and mechanic institutions in this state, and to obtain statistical and general informa

The committee consists of the following gentlemen: Wm. H. Keating, C. C. Haven, Walter R. Johnson, Frederick Fraley, Alexander D. Bache, S. V. Merrick, Thomas Fletcher, A. S. Roberts, and James Ronaldson. It is proposed to transmit into all the counties of the commonwealth circulars containing interrogatories on a uniform plan, addressed to those concerned in the vari ous manufacturing and mechanic establishments, and to other intelligent citizens, with a view of eliciting the desired information.

Comparative cost of transportation.—A merchant residing in Towanda, Bradford county, Pa. visited our borough last week for the purpose of superintending the transmission to the place of his residence, of certain merchandize received by the Schuylkill Navigation. In reply to our inquiry, whether the expense would not be lessened by sending his goods into the Union Canal; he informed us, that the time saved by the route he had adopted, more than counterbalanced any diminution in expense which might take place by using the other as a medium of "ALBANY AND BUFFALO RAIL ROAD.-Among the notransportation. It would seem therefore that the ex- tices of the intended applications to the next legislature pense incurred in a land carriage of 40 or 50 miles was of this state, is one for the construction of a rail road by him preferred to the unavoidable delay, owing to communication between the Hudson river and lake the increased distance of 52 miles, encountered in the Erie; and the Albany Argus states that a combined and canal transportation. The present cost of transportation powerful effort will be made to ensure its success. The across the mountain is about eight dollars per ton; but enterprising citizens of Buffalo and Rochester have alwhen the Danville and Pottsville Rail Road is comple- ready expressed their opinions in favor of the project, ted, the cost of porterage, computing the distance at 44 and resolved that it is expedient to adopt such measures, miles, and allowing five cents per ton per mile, will on- in concurrence with the citizens of other places, as will ly amount to two dollars and twenty cents. Thus the lead to its accomplishment. The Ruffalo Circular sugsum of five dollars and twenty cents per ton will be gain-gests that it will operate as an auxiliary to the Erie caed, and between two and three days in time will be di-nal, instead of becoming a competitor.--N. Y. Journal minished, making in the aggregate a very considerable of Commerce. saving. Who now will doubt the important advantages of the Danville and Pottsville Rail Road.—Miner's Journal.

Large Products. We have been presented with four Irish (American) potatoes, exhibiting much peculiarity of form, and of unusual size-the produce of a farm in this neighborhood. We cannot attempt a description of the quadruple lot in detail. One measuress 114 inc. in length, by 9 in breadth—another 10 by 94 inches, and another 11 by 6 inches-they are cylindrical in general shape, having numerous literal prongs projecting upwards and downwards, of nearly similar size, covered with minor knotty protuberances, and forming "en masse" a curious spectacle. These potatoes are of the Mercer kind, were raised in the ratio of two bushels to the perch, twelve perches having yielded twenty-four bushels, The productiveness of our soil has been frequently called into question by superficial observers, and those who echo the opinions of such. Numerous proofs of unusual thriftiness in various kinds of produce have amply refuted such groundless notions, and only require promulgation to silence them forever. Our friends are invited to call and examine the foresaid potatoe specimens, a sight of which will amply reward their curiosity.-lb.

Mammoth Potatoe.-A Potatoe weighing two pounds and seven-eighths, was raised this season in the garden of Mr. Garrett Lemasny, in the borough of Chambersburg, Pa.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR.

JAMES M. LINNARD, of Philadelphia, to be one of the Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvania, in the room of James S. Stevenson, deceased.

FREDERICK HAM BRIGHT, of Lancaster, to be one of the Appraisers of Damages on the Pennsylvania Canal and Rail Road, in the place of the Hon. William Ramsey,

deceased.