his receiving the attentions of (which he seemed so ||chinery, all went together. The loss is from 150 to||variegated with light spots or streaks. The anima studiously to avoid) the citizens of both places would||200,000 dollars. have felt happy in bestowing upon this distinguished ornament of the present American Cobinet.

appeared regularly many years off the Manor of This factory was one of the most perfect and ex- Nordland, in July and August, where all the inhabitensive in the state. It was built of stone, five sto- tants were familiarly acquainted with him, though ries high, and of great value, aside from the large the Bishop doubted the whole story for a long time. capital invested in it. He represents the length to have been 600 feet, and In addition to the above, the Jefferson Reporter, the size that of two hogsheads!—a statement which extra, of the 7th inst. states, that the fire was sup-furnishes rather curious food for discussion. It was posed to have been caused by spontaneous combus- at least an immense exaggeration of the ignorant tion, and that but $25,000 was insured.-[Albany peasants and fishermen. Argus.] The Bishop also cites a letter, dated 1751, from a A copper mine has recently been discovered near Captain in the Sweedish Navy, De Ferry, relating to Honesdale, Pa. which is likely to prove an extensive a snake seen by him near Molne, on a calm hot day and permanent source of wealth to the owner. The in August, 1746. He fired at it, on which it imme ore is said to be of excellent quality. A mine of iron diately sunk. Observing the water to be red, he supore has recently been found in Sandy Creek town.posed he had wounded it. The head, he relates, ship, Mercer county, in a neighborhood possessing was like that of a horse--and of a grayish color-the great advantages in timber and water power. mouth was quite black and very large. He also mentions the bright mane. The eyes were black, and there were seven or eight thick folds, about six feet distance from one another. This letter was sworn to before the Bergen magistrates.

Large Guns.-The largest guns ever fired are the Turkish cannon at the Dardanelles, the diameter of which is two feet three inches, and a stone shot from which struck the Windsor Castle, of 98 guns, and cut her mainmast almost in two, and nearly knocked her two decks into one. Our young midshipmen used to crawl into these guns on their hands and knees. A gun almost as large was found at Algiers. But the largest shot of any sort ever fired by Europeans, was that from the new mortar used by the French at Antwerp. This shell was two feet in diameter, and weighed when empty, 916 lbs. It contained 99 lbs of powder, and its total weight was consequently 1,015 lbs. The mortar from which it was discharged, weighed 3,700 lbs. and the gunpowder to load it was India Rubber Table Cloths.-We have recently 30lbs. This was really prodigious. We must add, that at the Dardanelles, one of the great Turkish seen, and have in our possession, a sample of a new and shot struck the bows of that magnificent ship the superior kind of covers for tables and stands. They Royal George, and wonderful to relate, that one shot are manufactured by Samuel Steele & Co, Woodbu. alone nearly sunk her. According to the Baron de Ct. They are conposed of cotton, with a composiTot, the weight of the Turkish shot was 1,000 lbs, an elegant manner. They cost but little more than tion of India rubber, &c. varnished and bronzed in and the charge of gun powder 330 lbs.-[London pa.] the common oil cloth, and are much superior both for COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.-The fifth public assem beauty and durability. One very important quality bly took place on Monday evening. The literary which they possess over any oil covers, is their elas. attraction of the evening was an elegant paper, from ticity, as they can be doubled in every possible man. the pen of Sir Henry Halford, and read by himself, ner, without breaking or injuring the composition of "On the deaths of certain eminent persons of anti-which they are made.-[Danbury Her.] quity," from which the audience were given to understand that Sylla, the Dictator, died of an abscess; Dr. Scudder, of this city, has invented a torpedo, Flaccus of pleurisy: and Pomponius Atticus, of dys. entery, after having left off food and physic. The paper went into an interesting and amusing parallel between the poisoning of Britannicus by Nero, and that of Sir Theodosius Boughton by Donellan, in our own country, about half a century ago, both deaths having been produced by laurel water; and, in conclusion, the last 10 days of Alexander were described with as much minuteness as if the Macedonian hero had been a patient of the favourite physician of George the Fourth.

The President has recognized Charles Augustus Heckscher as Consul of the Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin. Also, George Follin as Vice-Consul of Mexico for the port of Philadelphia.

with which he is determined to destroy the Sea Ser.
pent. He has secured a patent for his invention, and
intends to start for Nahant this morning. The same
weapon, the Doctor thinks, will be useful to whale.
men, and others who are in pursuit of large fish.-[Ga.
zette.]

In 1804, Allen Bradford, Esq. then of Maine, ad. dressed a letter to J. Q. Adams, then Secretary of show that a large sea-serpent had been seen in and the American Academy, transmitting documents to about Penobscot Bay. The Academy laid them aside, and they first appeared in Silliman's Journal, in 1820. One was a letter from the Rev. Mr. Cummings of Sullivan, Maine, dated August 1803; and another was dated August, 1804. The animal was seen by Mr. Cummings, his wife, daughter, and another lady, as they were on their passage to Belfast, between Cape Rosoi and Long Island. It was in the month of July; the sea was calm; there was very little wind; and the first appearance of the Serpent was near Long Island. Mr. C. supposed it to be a large shoal of fish, with a seal at one end of it; but he wondered the seal should rise out of the water so much higher than usual; as he drew near, they discovered the whole appearanee to be one animal in the form of a Serpent. He had not the horizontal, but an ascend. ing and descending serpentine motion. This account also refers to the description given by other persons of similar animals.

Patriotism of the Clergy during the Revolutionary War.-Two minister's sons, in the County of Essex, whose fathers were out in the great struggle for American liberty and independence, met not long since. After talking over some of the events of that period, one says to the other, "I believe my father A letter of March, 1781, from Capt. Little, of our did more than any other minister in the State."Navy, to Mr. Bradford, states that in May, 1780, as How so?" says the other, "what did he do?"-he was lying in Broad Bay (Penobscot,) in a public Why, he sent three sons into the field." The armed ship, he discovered at sunrise, a large Serpent, other replied, "My father did more; he went him-coming down the bay on the surface of the water. self, and took four with him."-[Salem Gaz.] The cutter was manned and armed; he went himself

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, JULY 8.--Information has been received from our Consul, George Moore, Esq. at Trieste, that a Light House has been erected on the extremity of the Teresian Mole, which forms the tion for the fashionable watering-places. After maThe SEA SERPENT seems to have a great predilec-in the boat; and when within 100 feet of the Serpent, the marines were ordered to fire on him; but before southwestern side of the harbor of the city. The they could make ready, he plunged into the water.light is elevated about one hundred and thirty feet king Nahant his place of summer resort for the last He was not less than 45 to 50 feet long; the largest above the water, and may be seen from the deck of few years, it appears by a correspondent of the Jour-diameter of his body was supposed to be 15 inches; and his head, nearly the size of that of a man, he carried four or five feet out of water. He wore every appearance of a Black Snake. He was afterwards pursued, but they never came nearer to him than a quarter of a mile. A Mr. Joseph Kent, of Marshfield, says Capt. Little, saw a like animal at the same served him within ten or twelve yards of his vessel. place in the year 1751, which was longer and larger than the main boom of his sloop, of 85 tons. He ob

a vessel at the distance of thirteen miles. In order to distinguish it from all others on the coast, the light is made to intermit, so as to appear for half a minute, then disappear for the same length of time alternately NAVY DEPARTMENT, JULY 8.-The fleet Surgeon in the Mediterranean, under date of April 4, on board the frigate United States, writes:

But one death from sickness has occurred in the squadron for three months, which was on board this ship, being the first victim of disease since leaving

America.

nal of Commerce of this morning, that he has lately been whisking his tail in the surf of Long Branch ;| and it is said, that among the attractions of the new Hotel now "in erection" at Rockaway, is to be a curiously contrived verandah towards the sea, for snakeship. Having brought his family with him the especial purpose of watching the gambols of his upon this visit, the amiable traveller may be expected to remain for some time, and give us all more No death has occurred in either the Constellation or less an opportunity of cultivating their inter. or the John Adams during the last three months. esting acquaintance. Should one of the animals be Industry.-Man must have occupation or be miscaught alive,erable Toil is the price of sleep and appetite, of —as we see no reason why they should health and enjoyement. The very necessity which not, as the row-boat, which was within twenty feet of overcomes our natural sloth is a blessing. The the largest, might, with some adroitness, have thrown whole world does not contain a priàr or a thorn a coil of rope over his head, and let the steamboat at which divine mercy could have spread. We are hand tow him ashore, he might be lodged to advan happier with the sterility, which we can overcome by industry, then we could have been with spontaneous tage in the Corporation Reservoir, at the head of plenty and undounded profusion. The body and the Broadway; or kept, if unruly, in the admirable Eel. mind are improved by the toil that fatigues them.-case which Mr. Holt has provided for such attenu-seen such an animal. The toil is a thousand times rewarded by the pleas- ated figures, when needing a straight jacket. In the ure which it betows. Its enjoyments are peculiar.No wealth can purchase them, no indolence can taste them. They flow from the exeriions which

they repay.

Destructive Fire.-A correspondent at Watertown, Jefferson county, announces the following unwelcome intelligence.

The declaration of Eleazar Crabtree is then given, who lived at Fox Island, in the Bay of Penobscot, in the year 1777 and 1773. He has frequently heard of a sea-monster frequenting the waters near the shore; and doubting the fact, he went down one day upon receiving information from a neighbor, that he was then in the sea near his house. He saw a large animal in the form of a Snake, iying almost motionless stood. His head was about four feet above the surin the water, about 500 feet from the bank where he face; he appeared a hundred feet long; and he sup posed him to be three feet in diameter. Many other inhabitants, upon whose veracity he could depend, had also declared to him that at other times they had

After some other and equally strong testimony mean time, as the Soë Ormen, as the Norwegians added to the above, we come down to the year 1815, call it, is likely to succeed Black Hawk as the lion when one of these monsters was seen off Plymouth, of the day, it may be well to take a retrospective in the month of June, by several reputable witnesses; glance at his biography, which is thus given in the and from that time to the present his continued visits Boston Mercantile Journal, edited by Mr. Thatcher, to the eastern coast have been witnessed by so many of some literary celebrity:

"We have this morning added to the list of our heavy calamities by fire and flood, the loss of the The earliest account of an animal of this general de-persons of high respectability, and testified to upon large cotton factory of Messrs. L. Beebee & Co. It scription is furnished by Pantoppidou, Bishop of Beroath publicly administered, that though the Horse was discovered to be on fire about 11 o'clock this gen in Norway, and author of an old Natural History,|| Mackerel taken by the Boston party cruizing for the morning, (Sunday, 7th July,) and so rapid was the in the first editions of which is a picture of the ser Sea Serpent, brought his existence for a while into progress of the destroying element, that in less than pent. This gives him a mane--an appearance doubt-discredit, no reasonable person can now pretend to an hour, the entire pile of buildings was a heap of less caused by his rapid motion through the water. doubt it. Those wishing for further details on the ruins. But very little of the property which the He says, it lay on the water, when it was calm; and

building contained was saved. Raw cotton, manu. when it moved, parts of the back were to be seen in subject, are referred to Gray & Bowen's edition of factured goods, and the extensive and valuable ma-"the line of the head. The color was dark brown, "Buffon.

THE GIRARD COLLEGE.

tion both a duty and power; and they only are the true friends of the people, who strive in all ways for their solid instruction-diedaining to minister to their passions or their prejudices, but seeking always to appeal to, and when opportunity offers to enlighten, their understanding.

ADDRESS,

sphere of duty, should commence this great work, so have been rescued from want and perhaps from vice, MR. BIDDLE'S ADDRESS on laying the foundation eminently adapted to secure and perpetuate them. (and armed with power to rise to wealth and distinc exone of the Girard College near Philadelphia, on the This truth no man felt with a deeper conviction tion. Among them will be found some of the beet than our distinguished fellow citizen, whose history educated citizens, accomplished scholars, intelligent 4th inst. and which is published below, will be read and whose design in founding this institution, may mechanice, distinguished artists, and the most pro. with interest and admiration. The topics so judi- aptly occupy, for a few moments, our attention. minent statesmen. In the midst of their prosperity, ciously selected and eloquently enforced by the Of these, now that the tomb has dissipated all the such men can never forget the source of it, 1 or will speaker, are of public concernment and general ap. illusion which once surrounded them, we can speak they ever cease to mingle with their prayers and to plication; for although the immediate objects of the with the impartiality of history; and here, on this commen:orate with their labors, the name of their chosen spot, the scene of his inture fame, we may great benefactor. What human being can be insenbounty of Mr. Girard are to be selected from the freely bestow on his memory the homage which his sible to the happiness of having caused such a suc single state of Pennsylvania, the effects of that bounty unassuming nature would have shunned while living. cession of good through remote ages, or not feel that will be felt throughout our whole land in the race of We all rennber, and most of us knew him.-such applause is more grateful than all the shou s thoroughly educated men, who will be thus rescued Plain in appearance, simple in manners, frugal in all which ever rose from the bloodiest field o. bate, his habits, his long life was one unbroken succes- and worth all the vulgar fame of a hundred con. from the sufferings, exposures and temptations of sion of intense and untiring industry. Wealthy, yet quests! orphanage. For it cannot be too often repeated, nor without indulging in the ordinary luxuries which The general designand. he resources of the institu. too urgently enforced, that in our land, and with our wealth may procure-a stranger to the social circletion are proportioned to its purposes, and character. free institutions, more than any where else, is educa.-indifferent to political distinction-with no appa-istic of him who did nothing which he and not do well. rent enjoyment except in impelling and regulating After the building shail have been completed, there the multiplied occupations of which he was the cen will remain the annual income of two millions of tre,-whose very relaxation was only variety of la. dollars, now yielding $102,000, and if these funds bor, he passed from youth to manhood, and finally to should be inadequate for all the orphans applying fr extreme old age, the same unchanged, unvarying admission, the income of nearly all the remainder of model of judicious and successful enterprize. At the estate is to be appropriated to the erection of as length, men began to gaze with wonder on this mys.inany new buildings as his square in the city would terious being, who, without any of the ordinary have contained. So that in general, it may be stated stimulants to exertion, urged by neither his own with reasonable confidence, that when all the build. wants, nor the wants of others,-with riches alreadyngs are ready for the reception of the pupils, there By NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Esq., Chairman of the Trus-beyond the hopes of avarice, yet persevered in this will be available for the maintenance of the institu. tees of the Girard College for Orphans, pronounc-unceasing scheme of accumulation; and possessington, an income of not less than one hundred thʊ . ed by request of the Building Committee, on the so much, strove to possess more as anxiously as i sand dollars, which may be increased to at least two They did not know that un. hundred and twenty thousand dollars. occasion of laying the corner stone of the edifice, he possessed nothing. der this cold exterior, and aloof in that stern soli. These ample funds are to be devoted to the main. July 4th, 1833. tude of his mind, with all that seeming indiffer.enance and education of "poor male white orphan FELLOW CITIZENS :-We have now witnessed the ence to the world and the world's opinions, he children." Of all the classes of human indigen laying of the corner stone of the Girard College for still felt the deepest sympathy for human aflic-there are none more helpless and none more ended Orphans. That stone, simple, massive and en luring,tion, and nursed a stronger, yet a far no. leto our sympathies than these children of mistorture. fit emblem of the structure to be reared from it, and and wiser ambition, to benefit mankind, than ever ani. They have lost their natural protectors. The aris of the man whose name it bears, has been depositedmated the most devoted follower of that world's up. which have hitherto embraced and sustained them, in us final resting place. The earth received it.-plause. His death first revealed, that all this ac-have been tolted in death. Ti ey began lie in com. To-morrow the earth will cover it. Ours are the cumulation of his laborious and prolonged exist-tort, perhaps in affluence; but now they stand alone, last eyes which shall look upon it, and hereafter itence, was to be the inheritance of us and of our abandoned and helpless, to struggle against te will lie in its silent repose, unmoved by all the revolu- children,--that for our and their comfort, the city world's coldness, with precarious means of subsist. tions of the changing world above it. of his adoption was to be improved and embellish-lence, with no means of instruction, and treeding on And yet trom out that depth is to rise the spirited, and above all, that for their advancement in sci- hat narrow and slippery verge which too often spawhich may more influence the destiny of ourselvesence and in morals, were to be dedicated the fruits rates want from crime. From this friendless condi. and our children, than all else the world now contains. of his long years of oil. ion they are rescued by the benevolence of Girard, The seed that has been planted is of the tree of know. It required the self-denial of no common mind to who not merely provides the means of subsistence, ledge--that growth which gives to existence all that resist the temptation of being himselt the witness but redressing the wrongs of fortune, raises them at renders it attractive--Aowers for our early youth-and the administrator of this bounty, and to have ab-once in the scale of being, and qualities them to fruits in maturer life, and shelter for declining years.stained from enjoying the applause of his grate uuseful members of that society which they would It is that knowledge, which, trampling down in its countrymen, who would have acknowledged with otherwise disturb or corrupt. progress the dominion of brutal force, and giving to affectionate respect, the benefits which they derived! How wide the limits of that benevolence may be, intellect its just ascendancy, has at length become rom him. Yet even this secret and prospective it is impossible to conjecture. If the imperfection of the master power of the world. No people can now munificence must have had its charin for a mind language suggests a doubt as to the degree of des nu. be distinguished, or prosperous, or truly great, but like his; and we may well imagine that the deep on which mal es an "orplan," the greater weakness by the diffusion of knowledge-and in the stirring ani retired stillaess of his spirit was often sooth. Jol our nature forces upon us the melancholy inquiry, mpetition of the roused spirits of our time, the firated with the visions of the lastnig good, and per-What child is there who may not be a poor or glory and the inghest success must be assigned to aaps, too, of the posthumous glory, which he was phan? Who is there indeed among us whose chil. the best educated nation. If this be true in our rela-preparing. Such contemplations he might well in.dren may not yet need the blessins of this institu tions abroad, it is far more true at home. Our insti.dulge, for to few have they been so fully realized.ion? Let none of us in the confidence of prosperity tutions have boldly ventured to place the whole power From the moment that foundation stone touched.||deem his own offspring secure. Alas! all our pros of the country in the hands of the people at large, the earth, the name of Girard was beyond oblivionperity is so vain and shadowy, and mistortune is so freed from all the great restraints which in other coun- From this hour, that name is destined to survive constantly in ambush to assail us, that it were r tries were deemed necessary. In doing this, their reli-to the latest posterity, and while lettere and the sumptuous in any of us to suppose himself bey ad ance is entirely on the general intelligence and educa.arta exist, he will be cited as the man who, with the reach of vicissitudes, which would render sua tion of the community, without which such institutions a generous spirit, and a sagacious foresight, bean institution the happiest refuge for his children. can have neither permanence nor value. Their bril. queathed, for the improvement of his fellow men, Yes, fellow ciuzens, this col ege is our own; da font success has hitherto justified that confidence, but the accumulated earnings of his life. He will be property of us all. It is intended to remedy nusfor as our population becomes concentrated into denser remembered in all future times by the emphatic tunes to which we are all equally liable. And t IHEBBES, with more excited passions and keener wants, title with which he chose to be designated, and should be a source of great consolation to each of u, she corrective influence of instruction becomes daily with which he commence his will, a title by that if, in the ever varying turns of human lite, m.s. more essential. The education then of the people which we ourselves may proudly recognize him-as fortune thould overtake, and death surprize us, they which elsewhere is desirablo or useful, becomes Stephen Girard of the city of Philadelphia, in the who bear our names, and are destined to be the 8. with us essential to the enjoyment, as well as to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Me.chant and Mathers of our descendants, will here find a home where the safety of our institutions. Our general equali-riner"—the author of a more munificent act of en. they may be prepared for future usefulness, and e. ty of rights would be unavailing without the intel. lightened ch rity than was ever performed by any come in turn the protectors and support of their mors ligence to understand and to defend them--our ge- other hann being. elpless relatives. neral equality of power would be dangerous, if i Kis, will indeed be the most durable basis of all enabled an ignorant mass to triumph by numerical human distinction--a wise benevolence in the cause force over the superior intelligence waich it enviod of letters. The ordinary charity which feeds or our universal right to political distinction, unless clothes the distressed, estimable as it is, relieves the people are qualified for it by education, becomes only the physical wants of the sufferer. But the en. a mere abstraction, exciting only an abortive ambi.lightened beneficence which looks deeper into the tion. While, therefore, to be uneducated and ig-wants of our nature-which not merely prolongs ex. Dorant, is in other countries a private misfortune,istence, but renders that existence a blessing, by in ours it is a public wrong; and the great object to pouring into these recceses of sorrow the radiance which statesmen should direct their efforts is to ele. "of moral and intellectual cultivation-thie it is which their own children. vate the standard of public instruction to the level- forms the world's truest benefactor, and confers the ¦ for this purpose happily, it is only necessary to the high table land of our institutions. It is thus most enduring of all fame. His glory is the more fulfil the design of the founder, which provides ample that this day has been appropriately chosen for the secure, because the very objects of that benevolence means and expressly enjoms the employment of present solemnity. fare enabled to repay with fame the kindness which them, to give every kind of liberal and userui in. sustains them.

Heroafter, thanks to the bounty of Ghard, every father among us may, on his death-bed, enjoy the reflection, that although unprovided with fortune, there is secured to his sons that which is at once tle means of fortune, and far better than the amplest artine without it, good education. This con sideration, if any such incentive were wanting, may serve to stimulate the sense of public duty in tho who administer the institution, to render it worthy cổ

struction.

It is fit that the anniversary of that day when our ancestors laid the broad foundations of our public It is not unreasonable to conjecture that in all future They would much err, who, comparing this in. liberties-on that day when our countrymen, through times, there will probably be in existence many 'stitution with any ordinary standard, regard it as an out this prosperous empire, are enjoying the bles.thousand men who will owe to Girard the greatest of Ahns House, or a Poor House, in which a certais sings which those institutions canter,--we, in our "all blessings, a virtuous education; men who will number of paper boys, housed together, to be kept

from harm, are to receive some hasty rudimente of they will begin with the disposition and the power The building is peripterial, being 160 feet front, by
instruction, and then to be thrust out on the world to not merely to excel in them, but to rise beyond them; 217 feet on the flank, including the porticoes.
make way for a similar swarm of unfortunate chil-and they will emerge from their workshops, as their The columns are 6 feet in diameter at the base, and
dren. By no means. The comprehensive benevo- countrymen Franklin, and Rittenhouse, and Godfrey,||51 feet 6 inches high, including capitals and basoe.
lence of Girard looked to a higher and better things. and Fulton did before them, reaching all the distinc. The order is Grecian Corinthian, from the monu.
It is not a poor school, nor a charity school, nor ations of the State which may be honorably won, by ment of Lysicratus, or Lantern of Demosthenes, &t
free school, in their ordinary acceptation. It is, as talents and character.
Athens.
he denominates it, a "College." The peremptory That the scene of so many blessings may be ap. The superstructure reposes on a casement, in the
prohibition that “no distinctive dress should ever be propriate to them, it is intended to make this struc-form of a truncated pyramid, composed of 12 steps
worn," reveals his purpose that these youths shall ture worthy of its great object;-worthy of the name surrounding the whole building. The passage be.
not be designated as objects of remark or contempt its founder, and of the city which he was 80 anx.tween the columns and the walls of the cell is 15 feet.
by their cotemporaries-that they shall be distin-ious to embellish. Among the sciences most needed All the columns, entablature, and pediment, are to
guished only by their conduct, and shall not wear is country, where individual wealth is hastening be composed of white, and the cell of light blue mar.
the livery even of charity. The instruct on too re- to dulge its taste and where every state and city and ble. The floors, and stairways, are also to be com.
quired, is of the highest character, embracing almost country requires extensive public buildings, is arch.posed of marble.
every thing worthy of being studied in the circle of itecture. Indispensable in the rudest forms of life, it The vestibules are each 26 by 48 feet: they are
human knowledge. They shall be instructed," becomes the highest ornament of the most enlighten- ornamented with 16 rich Ionic columna, antæ, and
Bays he,
in the various branches of a sound educa-ed. In every stage of its progress, the style of its entablature, supporting a ceiling embellished with
tion, comprehending reading, writing, graminar, public, works displays the character of the nation lacunari.
arithmetic, geography, navigation, surveying, prac.which rears them Disproportioned and grotesque Each story contains four rooms 50 feet square in
tical mathematics, astronomy, natural, chemical, and among a coarse and unlettered people-in nations the clear. The two rooms across the south end of
experimental philosophy, the French and Spanish||more advanced, often over-ornamented with the gau the firet story, are divided from each other by mar.
languages-(I do not forbid, but I do not recom-dy profusion and the caprices of tasteless wealth-it ble columns and entablature of the Corinthian order,
mend the Greek and Latin languages)—and such is only when sustained by the public spirit of a com.so that they may be used as one room, for the pur-
other learning and science as the capacities of the||munity at once enlightened and generous, that archi.pose of exhibitions, &c.
several scholars may merit or warrant."
tecture attains its highest glory-a refined simplicity. The whole building is to be heated by means of
This excludes nothing-nay, it embraces every||Of that perfection it is proposed that this structure furnaces placed in the cellar.
thing necessary to form a well educated man. How shall present a model, the equal at least of similar
far this instruction is to be carried--whether when works in any other country, and not unworthy of the
the degrees of talent and disposition come to be ara. best days of antiquity-a structure which will at once
lysed, sone are to be instructed up to the point of gratity the honorable pride of every citizen of the
their appropriate capacity, while the more intelli-United States, and form the best study for all the
gest and more diligent are to be carried into the branches of industry connected with architecture.
higher regions of science, are questions of tuture! The enjoyment of so many advantages devolves on
administrations, to be decided by experience. Butus, fellow.citizens, he duty of great care and vigil.,
it is manifest that all the incans of education, tho.ance to preserve them.

rough, perfect education, are to be provided; that After bestowing upon our city this rich inherit.
every facility for the acquisition of knowledge should ance, Girard adds this emphatic declaration. ** In
be at hand; nor is there any reason why the Girard relation to the organization of the College and its
College-liberally endowed beyond all example-appendages, I leave necessarily many details to the
should not be superior to any existing establishinent, Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Philadelpina, and
in the talents of its professors or the abundance of 1 do so with the more confidence, as, from the na.
its means of instruction; and with the blessing of ture of my bequests and the benefit to result from
God, so it shall be. There shall be collected within them, I trust that my fellow-citizens of Philadelphia
these walls all that the knowledge and research of will observe and evince special care and anxiety in
men have accumulated to enlighten and improve the selecting members for their City Councils and other
minds of youth. It will be the civil Westpoint of Agents."
this country, where all the sciences which minister
That the generous confidence with which he has
to men's happiness, and all the arts of peace, may thus committed to us the execution of his great de.
be thoroughly and practically taught. Its success signs, should never be betrayed, we owe equally to
will naturally render it the model for other institu. the name of the founder and to the interests of our
tions-the centre of all improvement in things taught posterity; as the whole value of this institution will
no less than in the art of teaching them-the nursery
of instructors as well as pupils ;-thue, not merely
accomplishing the direct benefit of those to whom its
instruction extends, but irradiating by its example
the whole circumference of human knowledge.

that our fair city may always find successors who to
equal zeal, add greater ability to serve it.

The college is located parallel with the city streets, fronting the south. The land at the base of the building is 26 fest above the reservoir on Fair Mount. The whole height of the edifice is 97 feet, making the elevation of the roof 123 feet above the said reservoir.

POETRY.

THE FATHERS VERSIFIED.
Mr. Moore in his Travels of an Irish gentleman in search of a
Religion, says, "by way of keeping the virgin in good humor,
as well with the fathers as with myself, I occasionally transia.
ted into verse some of the most florid passages which occur in
these writers, and laid them, in double homage, at once, of poetry
and piety, at herivet. With these half tender, half-saintly strains,
the lady was, as may be supposed, inexpressibly delighted. To
devoted and it was the first time, I dare swear, in the annals of
{{the task of copying them out the most delicate crow-quills were
gallantry, that the names of Bt. Basil, St. Gregory, and St. Je
one were fated to shine forth in the pages of a morocco covered
album Thus Bt. Chrysostoma:

Why come ye to the place of prayer
With jeweis in your braided han 7
And wherefore is the house of vicd
By plittering leet profanely tre!,
As if, vain things, ye come to keep
Some festival, and not to weep
Oh! prostrate Weep before that Lord

Of Earth and heaven, of life and death,
Who blights the fairest with a word,
And blasts the mightiest with a breath,
Go! is not the in bright array
Such sinful souls would dare to pray.
Vainly to auger'd heaven ve talke
Luxurious hands where diamonds blaze,
And she who comes in broider'd veil
To weep her frailty, still is frail."

"The sauc homily furnished me with rather a curious passage,
showing how just this saint's notions of female beauty, and bos
independent of the aid of ornament was its natural power in blan
eyes.
"Behold, thou say'st, my gown is plain,
My s udals are of texture rude:
Is this like one whose heart in vain
Like one who dresses to be woo'd I'
Deceive not thus, vonng maid, your heart;
For far more oft in simple gown
Doth beauty play the tempter's part,

depend entirely on the administration of it. For myself and my colleagues, to whom the high honor) has been assigned of sharing in that administra ion, I can only say, fellow citizens, that we have assumed the trust with the deepest sense of its responsibility, To this intellectual cultivation will be added that, and a determination to execute it in the spirit of en. without which all instruction is valueless, and all lightened benevolence which animated the founder;} learning the mere ability for evil-that moral disci.and we shall in our turn retire from it, with the hope pline which makes men virtuous and happy at their own resides. "My desire is," says he, "that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take Under such auspices, we confidently trust that all pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the pure the expectations of the founder will be realized. principles of morality, so that on their entrance into With this delightful anticipation, we now invoke the active life, they may, from inclination and habit, blessing of GoD on this great undertaking. evince benevolence towards their fellow.creaturae In the name of Stephen Girard of the city of Phila and a love of truth, sobriety and industry." When delphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this harmony between the heart and the understand-|| Merckant and Mariner, we lay the foundation of his ing ceases, mere knowledge is a curse, and men be- Girard College for Orphans. We dedicate it to the come intellectual statues, with the perfect forms of cause of CHARITY, which not only feeds and clothes manly exterior, but cold, and selfish, and worthless the destitute, but wisely confers the greatest bless. to the community which endures them. Our youth ings on the greatest sufferers; too will not fail to be deeply imbued with that enthu.. To the cause of Education, which gives to human was the caly one of the tarbers of the fist four erakunde wind siaetic devotion to republican government, and that life its chiet value; knowledge of bis public rights and duties, which To the cause of Morals, without which knowledge) should form the basis of the American character. It were worse than unavailing; and finally, le thus that the founder strictly enjoins, that by To the cause of our Country, whose service is the every proper means, a pure attachment to our repub- noblest object to which knowledge and morals can lican institutions, and to the sacred rights of con. be devoted. acience 28 guarantied by our happy constitution, shall Long may this structure stand, in its majestic sim. be formed and fostered in the minds of the scholars." plicity, the pride and admira ion of our latest posteri. Nor need there be any dread that such an educa.ty; long may it continue to yield its annual harvest, tion will disqualify them for their pursuits in aftor of educated and moral citizens to adorn and to de. life. In this country all pursuits are open to all fond our country. Long may each successive age) Bien, nor need the umblast citizen despair of the enjoy its still increasing benefits, when time shall Lighest honors of the republic. They orr who sup. have filled its halls with the memory of the mighty porc that because men are instructed, they may de- daad who have been reared within them, and chod sert the ordinary walks of employment. There over its outward beauty the mellowing huos of a never can be such an over-education of the mass of thousand years of renown,

Sketch of the Proposed Building.

the people. Men laber not for a want of knowledge,
but for want of bread. The cultivation of the mind,
like the cultivation of the soil, only renders it more! The College is located on a tract of land contain-
productive, and knowledge becomes the beat auxiliarying forty-five acres, formerly known by the name of
to industry by rendering the laborer more intelligent Peel Hall, situated on the Ridge Road, 1 1.4 miles)
and more ambitious to excel. The youths thus in. from the city. This estate was purchased from Mr.
structed will go forth into the various pursuits of life, William Parker, by Mr. Girard, a short time before
many of which are in their mature mechanical; but his death, for the purposes of the College.

Than the brocades of rich renown
And homellet garb hach oft teen found
When typed and moulded to the shape,
To deal euch shafts of wischiet round
As wisest men can scarce escopo,"
Baint Gregory of Nazlanyum, who himself wreta postna,
idid A.
Is thus rendered i

"Let not those cyrs whose light forbids
All love unboly, even lean to say,

But safe within Yhy nowy Nida

Lake thaid virgius in their chambers stay, Keeping their tightness to the melves all day. Lex not the lips by man be won,

and

To brenthe thought that we came thy gulldesi ba nose;
Bee, The My buds, that fear the end,
Shut up in rosy silence, ever rest, --
Flunca, that speaks the maiden's sweet thoughts bos'
But 9. Basil cornos neares Little's poems!

There sblues an all-pervading grace,
A charm diffused through every part,
Of perfect woman's form and face,
That stools, the Nebt, into many bears
Bw look ty to bis cyve a heap
Of loveliness that never beta;
Her voice la in hip ear a dreara
Of melody it ne'er forgot.
Alfke in motion or repose,
Awake of dumbering, sure to win,
Her form, & va transpare. t, shows
The spirite light enshrined within.
Nor charming only when she talks,
Her very silence speaks and sin ea;
Love gilds her pathway when be walks,
And lights ber nouch when she Ferlines.
Let Ler, in short, do what she w.,
Tu comelling for which wan uruzi woo ber;

These instruments seemed to ne to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so mary have bean made within these few years; and I have no doubt but they will give every satisfaction when used in the field. WILLIAM HOWARD. U. S. Civil Engineer. Baltimore, May 1st, 1833. To Messrs Ewin and Heartte- Ag you have asked me to give my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manu(acture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with their qualities have gone. I have great reason to think wel! of the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by myPhiladelphia, February, 1833. self, and of the accuracy of their performance I have received Hoving for the last two years made constant use of Mr. satisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect, Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be and who have had them for a considerable time in use. The An Engineer lately from England, where he has been em-lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, to ployed in the location and execution of the principal railways now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to En-relieve us of the necessity of sending elsewhere for what we n that country, wishes to engage with some company in the zineers and Surveyors. may want in our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and our warm encouragement. Wishing you all the success which your enterprize so well merits, I remain, yours, &c. B. H LATROBE, Civil Engineer in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company,

ml ly

A number of other letters are in our possession and might be introduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy to submit them upon application, to any persons desirous of perusing the same.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT No. 35 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

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CONTENTS:

New-York and Erie Railroad; New-York and Albany
Railroad; &c..

.465

Internal Improvements in North Carolina; Report of the Tuscumbia, Courtland, and Decatur Railroad Company..

Improved Locomotive Steam Engine.

.....

.468

Meteorological Record...

469

Specification of a Patent for an Improvement in the
Method of Sawing Marble, &c. (with engravings);
Manufacture of Glass......

470

Straight Edges (with engravings); Co-operative La

borers..

.471

Bobbin-Net Trade; To imitate Leaf Gilding ou Leather 472
Varieties of Fancy Pigeons (with engravings)..

Literary Notices...

Foreign Intelligence; Summary.

Miscellany...

Poetry; Advertisements..

Marriages and Deaths; &c...

.473
.474
.476

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1833.

what I can on the subject of our public works
in England.

[VOLUME II.-No. 30.

either of the State of Pennsylvania or NewJersey, or leading into either of the said States, without the consent of the Legislature of this State, on pain of forfeiting the powers and privileges conferred by this act.

Allow me to say, that any friend of yours
coming to England with letters from you to
466 me, shall meet every attention. I am engaged
on most of the principal Railroads of this coun-
try and Ireland, and will be glad to afford any
NEW-YORK AND ALBANY RAILROAD.-By an
American engineer the information he may re-advertisement in our paper for four weeks pre-
quire.
vious to the 17th instant, notice was given that
books for subscription to the stock of the New-
York and Albany Railroad Company would be
opened in the cities of New-York, Albany, and
Troy, for three days, ending on the 17th, and
also at Payn's tavern, in the town of Amenia,
in this county. Since the 17th we have inquir-
ed of several persons from the country whether
any subscriptions have been made at Amenia,
without receiving any definite information.
Neither the New-York, Albany, or Troy papers
have stated the amount subscribed in those ci-
ties. We, therefore, conclude that the books
were opened without success, or if any sub-
scriptions were made, the amount was so small
while to mention it.-[Poughkeepsie Tele-
that the city papers have not deemed it worth
graph.]

I have the honor to be, dear sir, yours, with
much esteem,
CHARLES VIGNOLES,
Civil Engineer.
There are still several Railroads, relative to
478 which we have received no account. We should
479 be greatly obliged by such information from the
engineers, or other officers of the companies,
as will enable us to furnish Mr. Vignoles in
time for his forthcoming publication. He de-
sires, also, where it is convenient, a transverse
and longitudinal section of the road.

480

AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c.
NEW-YORK, JULY 27, 1833.

We shall forward by the packet of the 1st of August such Reports, &c. as may have come to hand since the others were sent.

It may not be uninteresting to those of our friends who were so obliging as to furnish us with reports and other documents relative to the numerous railroads now in use, or in a Our desire to obtain further information recourse of construction, as well as those in con-lative to the various roads from which we have templation, to learn that they have been receiv-not heard, will be, we trust, sufficient apology ed by the eminent gentleman in whose behalf for publishing the above letter. we applied for them; nor will they be less gratified to know that we shall soon have the plea

NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD.-The!

sure of laying before them the article on Roads books for subscription to the stock of the New-
and Railroads, prepared for the "Encyclopæ- York and Erie Railroad were opened in New-
dia Metropolitana," by one of the most distin-York week before last, and the requisite quan-
guished engineers of Europe, as they will learntity of stock to commence the work was taken
by the following letter recently received from
Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL, June 7, 1833.

To the Editor of the Am. Railroad Journal:
DEAR SIR, I have to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of two copies of the first volume of your
valuable and interesting publication; and one

road above referred to was not taken at the We learn, upon inquiry, that the stock for the late opening of the books: it is believed, however, that it will be taken without much delay.

of the greatest advances in science, that the CUVIER.-It has been justly deemed one naturalist can now, on the discovery of a fossil tooth, merely by the examination of up. This road is to extend from the Jersey that seemingly unimportant relic, pronounce shore near New-York, touch a section of Penn- with certainty on the nature of the animal to sylvania, and run through the southern tier of which it belonged, the distinguishing features counties of this State to Lake Erie. It will be of its structure, and even the prominent chaa great thoroughfare for the transportation of racteristics of its nature and habits. That produce, &c. from the west to New-York. It this has been done, and that too with animals would seem like a Herculean undertaking to construct it, but the stock being taken, it will which, like the mammoth and the mastodon, copy of the first nineteen numbers of the second doubtless. soon be commenced, and completed earth-that we have been enabled to form in have long disappeared from the face of the volume, and shall expect in due course the du-at no very distant day. plicate numbers, and the others in progress of The above extract is from the Poughkeepsie creation of man-we owe chiefly to Cuvier. part a natural history of the world before the publication. Telegraph. The editor is, however, mistaken The discovery of a few bones, which to our I am much gratified by your compliance with my request, and will in return furnish you with in saying that the New-York and Erie Railroad ancestors would merely have seemed testiproofs of the article, Road and Railroad, when is to extend from the "Jersey shore near New-monies of the reality of the existence of giput in type, which will now be in the course York, touch a section of Pennsylvania," &c. ants in the "good old days of Palmerin of of a few weeks, though I shall delay the print-as the charter for this road expressly requires Engiand," and " Amadis of Gaul," has led ing as long as possible, that I may get the very that it shall pass the entire distance in the State in our times to an extension of the authenlatest information on the subject of the Ameri- of New-York, as will be seen by the following tic history of nature, which we could hardl can Railways, &c. I have also received the Reports, &c. upon extract from the charter : blame those who lived fifty or sixty year

the several principal Railroads enclosed in your Sec. 12. The said corporation shall not, at ago for regarding as wholly impossible.packet, and I will take the earliest opportunity any point, connect the said single, double, or [From an excellent Memoir of Cuvier in t of reciprocating your politeness by sending you treble Railroad or ways, with any Railroad, Literary Guardian.]