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 1 $89,455 22 JOSEPH BOCKIUS, PROCESSION IN HONOUR OF ARNOLD. A Concise Description of the Figures exhibited and paraded through the streets of this city on Saturday last. (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 com mit. | "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. 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 Garden 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 possessed 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 Saon 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. 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 open common, with Market street' running right thro' to the Floating Bridge' on Schuylkill. The Reminiscent saw the Five wheelbarrow men' executed at one time. The Common Sewer running along Fourth from High street to Harmony Court, (tan yards at that time) was digged by wheel-barrow men convicts, secured by a 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 "MAJOR GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD, late COMMANDER of the FORT WEST POINT. THE CRIME OF THIS MAN IS HIGH TREASON. "He has deserted the important post West Point, on Hudson's river, committed to his charge by his Excellency the Commander in Chief, and is gone off to the enemy at New York. The 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 Fagan, to enforce a shilling enwas 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 wall. 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 Secretary 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.' Standing near the old Glass House in Kensington, on the river 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 occasional 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 LORD HOWE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS OPERA- 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 Delaware, 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 constructed on either shore, for preventing an open communication by water with the army in Philadelphia, on which it was obvious to them that the farther operations 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. land. The officers and seamen of the ships of war and trans: tops, on the route, were crowded, as at the Lafayette Ports were employed in the mean time, with unremitProcession. The eagle shaped Car, the Temple of Inde- ting fatigue and perseverance, to convey provisions, pendence,'-The Plough-The Brass Founders' Fur- artillery, and stores, to the Schuylkill, between Fort Isnace-these all were dismissed from the imagination, on land and the Pennsylvania shore; six 24 pounders from the approach of the 16 gun ship and tender on wheels, the Eagle, and four 32 pounders from the Somerset, complete, drawn by 16 horses; the wheels hid by paint- transported in the same manner, with the requisite proed canvass, representing waves of the sea. She was the portions of ammunition, were mounted in the batteries Lafayette of the whole procession. The ship was after-erected by the General's appointment on Province Iswards 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. 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. The Vigilant, with a hulk mounting three 18 pounders, commanded by lieutenant Botham of the Eagle, proceeded at the same time through the channel round Hog Island, and anchored on that side the fort, according to the intention pointed out for co-operating with the batteries on the Pennsylvania shore. The Isis, being as well placed in the eastern channel as the circumstances of the navigation would permit, rendered very essential service against the fort and gallies, much to the personal honour of captain Cornwallis, and credit of the discipline in his ship. The Roebuck and other frigates stationed against the batteries were equally well conducted. Somerset, five seamen wounded. Isis, three seamen wounded. Roebuck, 3 seamen killed, 7 do. wounded. Liverpool, none. Pearl, one master killed, three seamen wounded. Vigilant, one midshipman, one seaman kill Greater caution being necessary in placing the So-ed; lent from the Eagle. Cornwallis Galley, one second merset, that ship could not be carried as far up the Lieutenant Bothan, none. master and pilot wounded. Sloop commanded by Total killed, six. Woundchannel as the Isis was advanced. ed 19. In all 25. The impression made by the batteries on Province Island (before very considerable) being united with the well-directed efforts from the Vigilant and Hulk, soon silenced the artillery of the fort; and farther preparations being in progress for opening the Estocade, and forcing the works next morning, the enemy set fire to and evacuated the fort during the night. The numbers of the enemy killed and wounded, appeared to have been very considerable. Those in the different ships, as stated in the annexed return, were much less than could be supposed, particularly of the Isis and Rocbuck, which were struck many times from the gallies and works. A detachment from the army under the command of Lord Cornwallis, having been landed the 18th at Billingsport, (where a post had been some time before established) for attacking the redoubt at Red-Bank, the enemy abandoned and blew up the works. They had passed several of their gallies unperceived above the town of Philadelphia, in the night of the 19th, which proved very favourable for the purpose; and attempted to do the same with the rest of the gallies and other water-force, the following night; but being seasonably discovered, they were opposed with so much effect, by Lieutenant Watt, of the Roebuck (ordered by captain Hammond, before my arrival, to take his station in the Delaware prize, near the town) that not more than three or four of the former appeared to have escaped; and being otherwise unable to prevent the capture of the rest of their armed craft, consisting of 2 xebecques, 2 floating batteries, and several ships, besides 5 vessels, amounting to about 17 in number, they were quitted and burnt. Lieutenant Watt having testified great propriety and spirit on this occasion, I have continued him in the command of the Delaware, retained as an armed ship in the service, to remain near the town of Philada. where such additional naval force is particularly requisite. A more accurate inspection of the obstructions to the navigation of the river adjacent to Fort Island, becoming practicable under the circumstances before mentioned, two channels were discovered, through which the transports, containing the provisions, stores, and other necessaries for the army, might proceed to Philadelphia. They were ordered up the river accordingly, | to be afterwards secured at the wharfs of the town, for the approaching winter months. The unfortunate event of Lieutenant General Burgoyne's operations with the northern army, terminating, as I am advised by the commander in chief, with the surrender of those troops agreeable to the tenor of a convention executed the 16th of last October, has rendered a suitable provision necessary to be made for their conveyance to Europe. A proper number of transports has been appropriated for that occasion. But as it would be scarce practicable at this season of the year for light transports to gain the port of Boston, where the embarkation is conditioned to take place, the transports have been ordered under convoy of the Raisonable to Rhode Island, that if the proposed alteration is adopted, and the troops can be embarked at that port, they may be sooner released. Whitehall, Jan. 8, 1777. The following is a copy and extract of two letters from the Hon. Gen. Sir Wm. Howe to L. G, Germain. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28, 1777. My Lord-From a variety of difficulties attending the construction of additional batteries, in a morass, against the fort upon Mud Island, and in the transportation of the guns and stores, they were not opened against the enemy's defences until the 10th instant. On the 15th, the wind proving fair, the Vigilant armed ship, carrying sixteen 24 pounders, and a hulk with three 24 pounders, got up to the fort through the channel, between Province and Hog Island; these, assisted by several ships of war in the eastern channel, as well as by the batteries on shore, did such execution upon the fort and collateral block houses, that the enemy, dreading an impending assault, evacuated the island in the night between the 15th and 16th, and it was possessed on the 16th at day-break by the grenadiers of the guards. The enemy's fire upon the ships of war the Vigilant and Hulk, from two floating batteries, 17 gallies and armed vessels, and from a battery on the Jersey shore, was exceedingly heavy; but the gallantry displayed by the naval commanders, their officers and seamen, on this occasion, frustrated all their efforts, aud contributed principally to the reduction of the enemy's works. The enemy's loss during the siege, is computed to have been 400 killed and wounded. The loss to the king's troops was only seven killed and five wounded. On the 18th at night Lord Cornwallis marched with a corps from camp, and passed the Delaware on the 19th, from Chester to Billing's Port, where he was joined by Major General Sir Thomas Wilson, with a corps that arrived a few days before from New York under his command, having with him Brigadier Generals Leslie and Pattison. As soon as the necessary preparations were made, his lordship pursued his march to attack the enemy entrenched at Red-Rank. Upon his approach the rebels evacuated the post, and retired to Mount Holly, where they joined a corps of observation, detached from the main army of the rebels, encamped at White Marsh. The entrenchment being demolished, his corps returned to Gloucester on the 27th, and joined the army in this camp. The enemy's shipping having no longer any protection, and not finding it advisable to attempt the passage of the river, the channel being commanded by the batteries of the town, and the Delaware Frigate, they were quitted, without being dismantled, and burnt on the night between the 20th and 21st; but the gallies of a similar draught of water, by keeping close along the Jersey shore, escaped, from the great breadth of the river. A forward movement against the enemy will immediately take place, and I hope will be attended with the success that is due to the spirit and activity of his Majesty's troops. The passage of the river, by the reduction of the two places aforementioned, has been sufficiently opened to bring up frigates and transports; but the removal of the Chevaux de Frise is postponed to a more favourable season. Major General Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson having represented the very critical situation of his private concerns in England, has my leave to return, and has taken charge of my dispatches to your lordship, by the Eagle Packet. With the most perfect respect I have the honour to be, &c. W. HOWE. Vast numbers of ordnance and military stores were found in the fort of Mud Island, and that of Red Bank. On the 11th instant, Lord George Germain received an express from Sir William Howe, brought by the Earl of Cornwallis, dated Philadelphia. Dec. 13, 1777. This letter contains an account of Gen. Howe's endeavours to bring the rebels to a general engagement. With this view he marched his army to White Marsh, where the enemy's whole force lay strongly intrenched. Several skirmishes ensued, with some loss on the side of the king's troops, who put the enemy to flight in every attack, with slaughter. General Howe however, finding that the enemy's camp was as strong on their centre and left as upon the right, that they seemed determined not to quit their position, and being unwilling to expose the troops longer to the weather in this inclement season, without tents or baggage of any kind for officers or men, he returned on the 8th of December to Philadelphia, where the troops are now gone into winter-quartersso that the campaign in America seems finished for this season. A reinforcement was sent to General Clinton at New York, upon his representation of a want of troops for the defence of that post. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Whitehall, March 17, 1778. Copy of a Letter from Gen. Sir William Howe to Lord G. Germain, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, dated at Philadelphia, the 19th of January, 1778. My Lord,-The present appearance of the weather encouraging me to hope the river will be sufficiently open in a few days to admit of a packet sailing, I have prepared my dispatches to this date, and shall send them off without waiting for the receipt of those from your Lordship by the Lord Hyde packet, which I am informed by Sir Henry Clinton arrived at New York the 1st instant, and were detained upon a supposition that the navigation of this river would not be open for a ship of force, and not thinking it advisable to trust them in the packet, or in the armed vessel bringing the advice. There has not any thing more material happened since the departure of Lord Cornwallis, who I requested to be the bearer of my last dispatches, than the passing a considerable detachment of the army across the Schuyl kill on the 22d of December, to take post on the heights of Derby, in order to cover the collecting and transporting by water, as well as by land, a large quantity of forage which that country afforded. About 1000 tons were brought in, a quantity judged to be nearly sufficient for the winter consumption; and the detachment returned on the 28th of December, without any further attempts from the enemy to retard the progress of the foragers, than from small parties skulking, as is their custom, to seize upon the straggling soldiers: One of these parties, consisting of two officers and 30 men, were decoyed by two dragoons of the 17th regiment into an ambuscade, and made prisoners. On the 30th and 31st of December the troops went into winter quarters in this town, where they are well accommodated. The enemy's army, excepting a detachment of 1200 men at Wilmington, is hutted in the woods near Valley Forge upon the Schuylkill, 26 miles from hence, and in a very strong position. Colonel Harcourt, who will have the honour of presenting these dispatches, has my leave to go to England upon his private affairs, to whom I beg leave to refer AN ODE, Sacred to the memory of WILLIAM PENN, the founder of Pennsylvania, by Peter Markoe, formerly of Philadelphia. "ASCEND the bark, the sail expand, As from this land of rage and tears, "I see, I see the untaught band, Ascend the bark; expand the sail." Thus Charity the Chief address'd, "Ye gazing tribes! your fears forego; "O'er wide-extended lands you roam; And reason smil'd with decent pride. "Ye people, hear! (again he spoke) "Religion who shall dare restrain? The British isles with rapture heard; And hear, unmov'd old ocean roar. Ye statesmen, whom weak minds revere! He spoke not to unwilling slaves; To neighb'ring shores and distant lands The arts his matchless deeds record, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. filled. The magazines were built close and compact, they were also covered in, and filled close to the top.After the fire was extinguished, a rafter of deal which was within the building near the door, was found half burnt, and a beam which the coal touched, was in the same condition. They had not ignited, but were burnt through to a cinder: the coals which lay on the top of the heap, were only warmed by the smoke that had passed through them, but those in the middle had lost their inflammability, and were half calcined, but near the bottom they had suffered no injury, nor even con tracted the least heat. It is also stated, that previously to the construction of those magazines, coal had been constantly exposed to the weather without being inflamed. A similar accident took place in Philadelphia, some years before, from a large quantity of Virginia coal having been heaped under a close arch. In the year 1794, 1,600 tons of coal in the King's yard at Copenhagen, inflamed after some time, and was entirely consumed, together with 1,400 houses. In the Domestic Encylopædia, (article Inflammation,) We are under great obligations to a correspondent the editor has enumerated several substances, which unfor the annexed valuable communication. It will be der particular circumstances spontaneously inflamed; read with interest, and be productive of benefit. The and it may be serviceable to mention, as a caution to woollen manufacturers, that a destructive fire at Lodge"stone coal" spoken of, we presume to be the common bituminous mineral coal, not anthracite. The "stone more mills near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, which hapcoal" of the Schuylkill, the Lehigh, and of Pennsylva-pened June, 1811, was occasioned by a quantity of flocks impregnated with Currier's oil being left on the nia generally, is not liable to spontaneous combustion. floor. (Aurora & Penn. Gaz. Spontaneous Combustion of Stone Coal and of Char In the Archives, vol. 2d, p. 403, mention is made of the spontaneous inflammation of charcoal, from the pres sure of mill-stones, and from pounding charcoal in a pestle of a powder mill; in one case, the combustion took place in a quantity of charcoal which had been laid in a garret. REVOLUTIONARY ANECDOTE. coal-The late fire in the store of the Messrs. Stanton's, is supposed to have originated in the spontaneous combustion of a heap of Liverpool coal, deposited under the stairway that leads to the upper counting room. It is worthy of inquiry whether this coal, of itself, will ignite if laid in wet, or by being exposed to the addition of other materials occasionally thrown among it, such as spirits, oil, &c. We would thank any person, capable Colonel Menzies.-Some time previous to the evacua of giving correct information on this subject, to favour tion of Charleston, Colonel Mentzies of the Pennsylva us with a communication enumerating the circum-nia Line, received a letter from a Hessian officer within stances under which spontaneous combustion may be the garrison, who had once been a prisoner, and treated produced in Liverpool or any other coals.-N. Y. Gaz. by him with kindness, expressing an earnest desire to We can give the information required by the editor show his gratitude, by executing any commission with of the New York Gazette, from Dr. Meases's "Ar- which he would please to honour him. Colonel Menzies chives of Useful Knowledge," vol. 3d, p. 187. replied to it, requesting him to send him twelve dozen "About the 10th July 1812, 1200 bushels of Virginia Cigars; but, being a German by birth, and little accuscoal, were put into a close cellar in Philadelphia, and tomed to express himself in English, he was not very about the middle of September, the owners wishing to accurate in his orthography, and wrote Sizars. Twelve remove them from the establishment, sold a great quan- dozen pair of Scissors were accordingly sent him, which, tity of it. The coals were then found to be so hot, and for a time, occasioned much mirth in the camp, at the to emit so much smoke, as to excite alarm, and required Colonel's expense; but no man knew better how to several hogsheads of water to cool them. This coal profit from the mistake. Money was not, at the period, contained a considerable quantity of sulphur. The same in circulation; and by the aid of his runner, distributing quantity of coal had been put in the same cellar, seve-his Scissors over the country, in exchange for poultry, ral times during the last five years, without showing any Colonel Menzies lived luxuriously, while the fare of his disposition to heat. brother officers was a scanty pittance of famished beef, bull frogs from ponds, and crayfish from the neighbour Straw Paper.--We understand a mill, for the mandfacture of paper from straw, has been erected at Chambersburg, which it is expected will succeed very well. The paper is strong, and substantial, and well calculated for wrapping paper.-Miner's Journal. About the time the occurrence just mentioned took place, the coal in the great vault of the water works, ating ditches.-Garden's Anec. the Centre Square, containing between sixteen thousand and eighteen thousand bushels of Virginia coal, was discovered to be very hot, and upon removing the surface of it, under one of the vault trap-doors, which were even with the ground, a dense smoke immediately issued. By throwing out several hundred bushels of the coal, and pouring an immense quantity of water into the vault, the progress of the combustion was checked. Such was the degree of heat extricated, that a man could not stay in the vault to shovel out Printed every Saturday morning by William F. Ged the coal, more than a few minutes at a time. Some des, No. 59 Locust street, Philadelphia; where, and at lumps of coal were completely reduced to coke. The the Editor's residence, in North 12th st. 3d door south vault had been filled to the top, and was of course de-of Cherry st. subscriptions will be thankfully received. prived of air. In the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Paris, it is stated that two magazines, containing each about 1,200 chaldrons of stone coal, took fire shortly after they were Price five dollars per annum payable in six months after the commencement of publication--and annually, thereafter, by subscribers resident in or near the city, or where there is an agent. Other subscribers pay in advance |