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York Gazette from York, Pennsylvania • 2

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County VT r. -ot I Lajiitu. tcntifla 5a Dbsmed by Chose tefsans tfc der whose control and management the Mdaard Siter. The facilities which have been fjincaster county LJ rk 0C I UUI ill I Iir- IlLLUI ICdLUI CT 1 1 1 I IIP fr. T1J1B same ia placed.

That eveiy tnmg is conducted to their entire satisfaction. The I Benjamin. Uerhich the road passes will wt? John Forry, jr. important influence in diminishintr C'i King George i Culpepper Fauquier Berkeley London Sussex Diriwiddie I'ritice Edward nusicucj, i pease oi us consirucuon. i ie pt Montgomery ouTuy.

RaU R. 95 7 197 32 163 1" 000 159 113 229 ,300 7 172 25 196 156 316 954 28 616 128 6142 2944 MEETING OF ELECTORS. The electors of PresiJcnt, agreeably to mutt be chosen within paupers appear well clad comionauie apparel, and those who are able appear to be kept in employment. No repairs are deemed necessary, only the roof in certain places needs patching to prevent us leaking. Upon examining the old Hospital, John Stevens, John Aiamcja, be found to arise from uroKen unauiating surtace over winch they riavt nrior to the first Wednesday of Norfolk county verse, requiring unavoiaaaiv much December.on which day the electors meet Shenandoah cutting, and extensive embankments ans, Adam Slemmer.

Duufihin County. William Lauman, John Roberts. Lebanon County. Peter Shindle, Peter Wolfersberger. Mifflin ot the teat of government of their respec-1 Rockingham separate the elevated grounds.

Thp Oltne Jtvaii ay iwscii wui ue com tivelv small to that which must be incO 28 LL-TrYn maioritr 3198. they find it entirely, too small for the number of sick and afflicted a present contained therein, and consider the additional Hospital of the greatest necessity. The new Hospital so far as the mechanics have proceeded, appears be constructed of good materials the mechanical part done in a workmanlike manner and the design live statr. where they vote ana Beat up and send the returns to Congress, where on the second Wednesday of February thev are opened and the result made known officially in the presence of both 1 louse, Epbraim Banks, John Patterson. Bucks County.

Janes Horner Jacob Clymer, Charles 111 preparing uie ruau wr us rccep that an increased distance is not an aL IS cobnties There arc yet about counties to jirar from. The counties most favora-. ommltration are nearly all of any provided it girfS Lomb 'art James Wilson. ui advantage oi a natural ana easy included in the foregoing 23 nrnlotwell calculated lor convenience. James I lie route oi uiu ruau tu iue ausqueh-possesse the double advantage of Tn tnt mnhr whereof we nave nereumu Connecticut and Massachuset as our nameslhis fifth day of No deep cuts ana neavy emDaHtmnn "i vote 9 tne au- 4 lorfl one thou expected, give their out encountering any The New-York Mercantile Advertiser the Cth inst.

says, in consequence of ad-. Vices from England to 3d October, FLOUR advanced in this market about one. dollar a barrel. Censurable sles were made at 38 30, and we heir that and New-Jersey, ot whicn K. Alleghany and flutter.

Ross Wilkins, James Powers, Patterson, James M'Kee. Beaver' County. John R. Shannon, Bedford Couvtv. J.

A. Blodget, N. P. Fctt'erman. Adams County.

James Sherry Jjsffih Stevens derate increase oi uistam neev a i nn icrnr nnnnrei a uu incmr i iv cm ir af the Engineer sliaws the import George Nes, John Kaniun, nenry nacj some glimmering 11 tie same way. ence ot these circumstances der, James Harry, tonraarox, nenrj -r rinil. were naui- some probable cost of the road, which is I For the York Gazttrr. to the sum of five hundred and sptJ IPestmnreland County. eight thousand six hundred1 and two I James, George Farrel, Benjamin Byeiiy, OUR OWN CONCEUNS.

essrs. Editors, At the lastsrssion of the Legisla- Haines, Samuel Bittner. Michael aneuy, William M'Clellan, Jacob Slosser, Philip Lehman, Peter Z01 ger, John Rutter, Jacob Flickinger. Cieorge Winebrenner, Christian Gcpsy, David Fulton, Andrew Fcrtenbaugh, George Brumgardt, John Pressel. a I mall parcels Of the Dest quamy.

PENNSYLVANIA. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 1828. I Jackton. Adami L.rs, for the total expenditures neces to put the road into complete op'era- lliebCCM.iiiicn.es niv; -taaareUj ufecn made witn tne greatest care. rtv PhilarTclnhia 4381 With a view rather to than tn wnty of Philadelphia was passed providing for the construction of a rail road from York to Philadelphia; the western section of which will in all probability be put under contract in the course of the spring, and We may expect the same of the northern short of the cdnclusion, to which the Long.

Cumbtrlaud Coitntu. William Alexander, Peter Loback, York County. Stephen T. Cooper, George Fisher, Mi chael Doudel, Thomas Metzler. -Lycotning, Tioga, Potter Uf WKean.

Solomon Bastrissj Curtis Parkhurst. Jrthumber land County. Henry Frick. 3355 '2865 1165 1864 3535 Jji law are county hey are founded on were York lead. 1 he experience ot similir-wftAi this country, and those "-which are nod 37io tVrtt nf tht- Baltimore antl fcusquenanna progress m.

our vicinity, justify the 2ici for there can be little doubt of I ft Chester Lancaster Montgomery Lehigh Adams deuce wincn is piaceu in accurar From the Lancaster Sentinel. Bainbridge, Oct. 25, 1828. Mr. Cameron It may perhaps not be amiss to give you an account of the bright prospects which now 'illuminate t.he counte nance of every citizen of this little villagr Our canal, as you are aware, has been located, and will be put under contract immediately In consequence of this, ou: village is alieady filled with, strangers.

nivnnMJr hnutp are hv times crowded. the estimates submitted by the Enjrir the Tonfirmution of the charter 01 mis cowpany by Pennsylvania. From these -works the banoiest consequences to our Bradford County. John Laporte. IVashinsrton Countv.

A moderate increase oF the estimated perise, to meet unseen difficulties andi cwri place may be expected, provided our Samuel Workman, Patterson, Aarcn tmgencies which could not be anticrj rr W. ati gh. 3 Luzerne 55 Susquehanna Berks Lebanon Piuphin Nor'hamptom Mifflin Northumberland would still nave tne total cost ol the i but small indeed in proportion to the Garrick Mallerv. Georcre Dznnison I. 5ir 1461 937 597 1140 889 506 T95 226 1435 1666 780 562 241 object which it is designed to accomn itizens are on tne aiert 10 masc must hf the advantages -within their reach.

As one thing proper for inquiry I would ask, our banking capital 13 sufficient to meei the new state of things? In Lancaster with but one half more population the hanking cani'tal. is five times as large, in We expect that before one year rolls round, this will be a place of business. Indeed, if I am not much mistaken in th' and pronts wnicn its propriexn derive from its construction. effect ofthisDublic improvement, our me- The estimate of expense submitted the Engineer, it will be observed isi 7643 953 S645 3835 1 aiRO 3426 2000 1242 4663 1435 1974 1629 1650 1662 1752 1645 3866 2260 1869 2060 2113 "2590 863 223 2945 3917 1200; 11091 681 1534 1968! $3760 chcinicj will hnd a sufricient employ bv Union Luzerne Aileghcnf Bedford, Columbia l'errv aac Post. Mercer County.

Thomas S. Cunningham. Columbia Countif. John M'ReynoTds, John Robison. Indiana, Armstrong ID Jeffernn.

Joseph Rankin, Dav id Law son. Berks Schuylkill. builaine new places of accommodation for the many new inhabitants that naturally Dauphin with little more than half the population it is twice the amount and in tbe adjoining county of Maryland (Frederick) with an equal population the hanking camtal is three times as ereat as ours. upon the route'No. 2, as designated report, and of which a topographical vey has been made upon the whole This route commences at the poht i 898 1918 Thomas J.

Rehrcr. Paul Geiecr, Geo. has been assumed as thefioint r.f d-f-yi 1 220 Oine, John Stauffer, Philip A Good. on the York Road near the city bod (I hat portlsn or our county vyiicu uuiuu. 'on the Susquehanna, will from the improvements which arc now under way, be-c omf important, is as convenient fot and pursues the eastern side cftht Fayette County.

Solomon G. Kreps, S. Evans, J. Fuller. Road until it diverges towards the Cumberland Tranklin Schuylkill Bucks Favette Westmoreland Washington Green Somerset Indiana Jefferson Lycoming Centre 'I Powder; crossing which, itattainsta i Jvorthdiviton, Pike, cr Wayne William Overrkld, Robert Butz, Abra will take up their abode among us.

CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL. We are much gratified to learn, f' an authentic source that this splendid work is rapidly approaching its comple" tion. A fe days more and the watei ib be let -into the eastern division, which ex tends from the river Delaware to the wes? of the summit bridge. -The western di vision will shortly experience the same happy issue the m-ijorpartof it haying been finished for some months, and "iittle hhe people of this section of the county to I do their business in York, as in H.irris '3355 1250 629 000 000 000 000 467 458 mit of the dividing ridge, near biw ern, on the Old York Uoad; trom to the south branch of the Codnnn thence to York and the Susquehaniu Ttis rironer here to remark, thd Columbia, or yet if our hanking capital is to be stinird 10 180,00 we cannot expect any thing done than to see the people extend thr.ir connection and business with, other places, therefore behooves those who wish to see York someth'tigmore than the seat of jus trreat obiect of the bourd in i the survey which has been made, ascertain the important fact exist a practicable route oxerv)hichri fajority tor Jack son 43,550 -and. the cnunties of Armstrong, Beaver, Bu'lcr, Crawford, Cambria, Cle irfielcl, Mercer, Erie, Wan-en, Venango, Pofer, M'Keanj Hntinp-don.

Susntiehanna, Bradford Tio-? Way could be constructed from tice of the county to look to these things. In truth the capital of oiir bank is wholly insurTicient for ourj present business du ring the greater part of the summer I believe it was. from want of fumU, compelled ham Horn. Union County. Ner Middleswarth, John Driesbaugh.

Crawford lit Venango. John Gailbrath. Hutingdon County. John Blair, John Owens. Erie Warren.

George Moore. County. James Black. Green County Barnet Whitlach. Centre Clearfield.

Henry Petrikin, Thomas Hastings, jr. Lehigh County, George Miller, Walter C. Livingstsn. Franklin County. Ludwig Heck, Col.

Win, Boals, John Cox. I to the Susnuehanna ana at a rrst remaining to be accomplished. We further understand that immense quantities of Lumber, and other articles, arc already preparing on the Susquehanna to takeadvantageof the first openir of this'ianal. Arrangements are also making to pass two lines of steamboats, between Baltimore and Philadelphia, by the same rout. eTfiense.

In executing this intent Engineers have surveyed several rn, Wnync and Pike to hear from which. tn incnpnd rlisrOuhtinT. The policy of tvhir.h have been declared practice' in tn asrprtain the exnenseof vn raise uic majurivy tand! Pennsylvania has done her part, country banks mav be doubted, yet aslong as the svstem continues we must suffer 111 A VI ti-ii-tlnri w-ie nprpssarv to rr 1 of the routes upon whioH foformth unless we have cur share. 1 ne peopie 01 Among the many advantages which our etv is clustiuec eiv-ic from th mate of probable cost, the route rJ selected for that purpose, ana x. upon it extended into greater (let 'PRE KKTIAL ELECTION In this state the electors an? elected districts.

The1 city of New-York forms ii district in which 3 Jackson electors an; choien by upwards of 6000 majority. tnat view, nut it is all the banks vest of Philadelphia abolish- Chesapeake and Delaware canal not the ed, but until this happy time art ives they least is thit.of a copious and seasonable have a right to their proportion. Buli- supply of pine and other wood. The im- ness fellows active capital, and it we have mense demand occasioned by the steam less active capital than our neighbour we boats, has caused the destruction of most will do less business. Our policy ha been ofjthe fo'-ests bordering on the Delaware, nn st unhipnv.

We have for years brae-- and the price of pine wood has accordingly by the Engineers or the board toed No. 2 as the route which has hew Somerset Isf Cambria. George Pile, Jacob Gebhart. Jacksonmen in Romaii letters Adams-men in lialics. i nr nrlnntrrt for the One lUDOn Vt road is to be, constructed, ne huttolK ami yieens counties xorm a.ais -trirt, it is said the Jackson elector hsis no cefded.

1 In King; Richmond and Rockland coun t.f it said the Jackson elector has suft- srcW i our specie it is perhaps time to i advanced to S3 75 and even $4 per cord, ti-v'e value of the various routes while on the extensive shores of the vast leave off such follv, and direct our atten other, and the decision of the tion to thing.smre likely (o promote the which shall be adopted, wiUbe ar Chesapeake the supplies are of an extent scarcely to be calculated, and the article BALTIMORE AND SUSQUEHANNA RAIL. ROAD. The Board of managers of this Road have published a report on the subject, from which, as this countv feels an inter good ot our town thar. hoarding up our dollars in the vaults of our bank, Spair, future and serious deliberation advanced stage of the affairs of the nv: at present it is only, necessary cheap that it can be purchased, deliverable at the western tide lock, at $5 18. with the coin of the Indies, was for centu It is ieiieved, by gentlemen conversant board should ascertain that there In VVVtchester and Putnam countii tin: Jackson elector has succeedtd.

i 1 In IKtclrrs county, the Jackson elector lias succWdfd. 1 In Heikimtr county, the Jackson elector has succeded. 1 In Oranse rounrv. tht Jackson elector with the subject, that from 80,000 to exist a cheap and practicable rout est in it, we publish the following extract. ries, the poorest country in Europe.

The returns of specie to the' Auditor-General proves any thing else than that money is nlentv and business active with us. We city of Baltimore to the busquer, The report is signed by Mr. Winchester, 000 cords of this useful fuel will annually tjjiss through the canal for the Philadel- this has been done and it is believ! as president of the board, aim states tliat The waters of the Susquehanna are divi- have let us but change our po- phia market, affording a handsome reven accuracy and indubitable certantr. The ascertainment of the ra1 farts and results contained in the licy, and we can at least keep equal pace ded Irom those ottne ratansco ny a nage ue to the stockholders for supposing the. company to charge no more than 50 cents succeeded.

OHIOJ with those sections ot the commonwealth nearly equi-distant, from Baltimore to the which are fostered by its patronage. the Engineers cannot fail to inspire! river, the summit pi wnicn it nas oeen ascertained, can be! approached from the a cord for tU, a rate which it is apparent owners ean well afford to pay, the revenue to the canal from this source alone will be from 40,000 to 50,000 dollars a year. Phe Banking capital of Lancaster dence in the Stockholders, tnat tn at hand when the important object tnop mwi miinir.atlOll north bv an elevation of twenty feet in the county in iNov. last was $800,000: the mile, and from the south by an elevation of In this state thr electors are chomen by a general ticket. Returns'have been received, which compared with the risult of the CJovernor's election, show a cons'id-; erable in for Xhr Jackson cause.

if Covvfit. Jackson gain Adams ain Philadelphia Aurora. notes in circulation the specie twentv-fi ve feet in the mile; these are the ui yj wi.j..v-fc Susquehanna country will be acri ed. 1 $112,000. Banking capita of York $168, ereatest elevauons on eiuier siuu ui 000: notes in circulation $103,000: spe ridere which have to be overcome, whilst It is an obiect at all times oo a cie at the conscqu' n- the intermediate spaces approach much knowledged to be intimately and nearer to the level.

ees. Lancaster aenves a pront oi nair a 1 hus demonstrating ly connected with the great perrf- million, from the system, while York costs that the transportation from the Susque-1 terest of the city. hanna to Baltimore, can be conducted by fertile conntry through which it twenty thousand It thispolicy is continued a few ears our countv will be ruined, 514 319 731 24r I 104 786 106 0 CO i horse or locomotive power on one continu itself sufficient to justif the con it connects us with the most Fairfirld Monror Colli nibiana Muskin.um Belniont Guernsey Clinton Warren Jefietsoft CO oo 00 I 00 (K) oo 300 i 208 001 Dauphin with a specie capital of $53,000 sustains a circulation of $404,000 And ed line without interruption, and requiring one day only to accomplish the distance, A view of the whole line, and the facili fertile, and improving region oft" this mainly at tne expensed iorK coun try, on this side ot the Alleghany, ties of the differenti sections, will be more motely with the upper lake and 1 ty, for the notes of Dauphin and Lancas distinctly presented by the following sum- I tern country, the natural outlet rj ter en cillate more extensively in our county than our own. This evil cart only marv taken from the renort. trartp Ktnhp found in the vau be arrested bv increasing our banking ca referenceato the foregoing subject it Susauehama.

Tbroueh this pital, and that remedy should be resorted Jackson eain 2599, since the eh cti of will be remarked, that the slope of the pri- ther in its natural or improved to without delay, the 14th October. It is reported that mary road from York Haven to York will the commerce of that vastti there i a gam for the Jackson ticket ifli the will be about feet in the its wav toamarket. euided mile, Fr9m York to the source of the Co-1 slopes and water courses, and SENATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Session 1828 '29. 1st Stephen Duncan, John Hare Powelt 2d do Peter Hay, i Dr.

Jesse K. Burden. 3d do Benjamin Beiff 4th do John Kerlin Joshua Hunt, 5th do Matthias Mcrri 6th do Daniel Bartolet, 7th do Frederick Hambright, Samuel Houston, 8th do George Seltter, 9th do John Ray, 10th do Jacob DrumhelleF 11th do John Ryan, jr. 12th do Henry King, Wm. G.

Scott, 15th do Robert M'Clure. 14th do Zphenian Herbert Henry Logan. 15th dar David Fnltertont 16th do Jesse Miller, 17th do r. Thomas Jackson, 18th da Jacob Wise, 19th do Dr. Daniel Sturgeon, 20th do William G.

Hawkins, Thomas Ringland, 21st do SnUivan John Brown, 22d do Alexander Ogle, 23d do John Leeehe, 24th do Eben Smith jKelley, JAIL, AXD POORHOITSE. GitAND JURY I November Sessions, 1828. counties of Tickaway, ayette and Hocking of 700. The Pittsburg Gazette savs, it is probable that the Jackson elec of lmaErmarv lines wmch ia dorus THE ASCENT WILL BE TWENTT feet in the mile. From thence to the stances of boundarv in the Uni? toral ticket has prevailed in XJhio.

i ne iranc inqu.st oi tne common ridge of the. old York road, in the vicinity traverse the natural outlets. wealth of Pennsylvania now sitting inqui natural barrier which i senaraq of Slade 8 Tavern, although much of the lint MAY HE LEVEL, A SLOPE ring for the county of York, beg leave to this immense rountrv is that VIRGINIA. I siened to be removed bv the opfl WILL BE USED OF ABOUT FIFTEEN FEET inform the Honourable Court that they have examined the prison of said cnunty of York, and found it in an excellent and in a mile, thence to the Ureat Gun this coTTinanv? ran ir.h an obiev This state elects by General tick et The election keers pen for three jdavs. Powder, a Tl VT OF TWFKTY-7IVF.

i rrmciHprpH nf minor iTlDOtn 1 fcVA VU (VvJ 1 The following are returns, some for becoming situation, much to the credit of view of the people cf Baltimore- nv disinterested or impartial feet in the MILE) thence to the vicinity of the eight mile stone on the York Turn the Keeper thereol that in the opinion but mostly only of the first days poll. Jackson pike, from Baltimore, the rise and such an enterprize as secondary of this inquest there i ah improvement! highly necessary, that is, to affix shutters FALL WILL BE BETWEEN FIFTEEN AND ot internal improvement cn our citvJ The-' facility of its Adams 190 103 10? 66 ten feet in a mile: thence to the sum from order to prevent prisoners seeing mit of Saters ridge, the ascent will the cheapness of its construction persons passing ana repassing short period ot time in which NOT EXCEED TWENTT FEET IN A MILE; and from that summit to Baltimore; the uiuuiuacU) ait in the habit of calling, and to whom ill and 106 SLOPE WILL BE TWENTT-FIVK FEET IN which take from the magnw-conception, but do not detract 4 unbecoming language is too frequently u- i ii i A MILE." It is a remarkable circumstance in the sea oy iue prisoners, as wen to me dis importance to the commerce -ity oi the city." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. session, 182829. Philadelphia City. William Lehman, William Boyd.

Ben pleasure and mortification cf those persons who reside in the immediate neighbourhood of the prison, as to those who features of this country, that in passing a line of road which crosses traversely the great range of hills, that separate 'he wat City of Richmond 107 Countv Henrico 191 Chesterfield 366 Petersburg 124 Princt Georges 151 Hanover Powhattan 157 James City 75 Wil'iamshurg 36 Elizabeth city 74 Princess Ann 140 Norf.lk city 344 Warwick 41 Isle of Wight 280 2:4 Surry 130 Mathews 99 Spottkylvania 281 Stafford 81 Carbliaa 230 heac now exisis remains janiin S. Bonsall, Henry Simpson, Wm. ers ot the Susquehanna trom the Patapscp, a route should be found to exist, with such 21 74" 27J 513 7 224 4 so i 43 if 180 320 xne ljgisiarure oi 'i Legislature of Maryland pas ter at a late periodjrf the sefl Duncan, D.S.Hassmger. Philadelphia County. Beniamin Martin, William Binder.

Da great facilities of ascent and descent, and at and it was transmmeu i the same time occasion so moderate a deviation from a right line. The whole in are thus accosted by the prisoners. This Inquest would therefo-e recommend the measure under the impression that it will receive every due consideration. The said Inquest have also visited the Poorhouse of said county and take pleasure to report, that, upon a careful and diligent examination of every part and ap-partment thereof, tiiey find tliat tyery at- vid Snyder, Michael Riter, J. Hergeshei- moment wnen tne onfui-ifvc tr-ao rkrnnied 10 crease of distance, as showivbv the renort mer, John rolkrod, i nomas J.

Heston; I Chester County. completing a system of ment, extending over, an 9 John Mover, Isaac Trimble, Robir, will not exceed twenty miles, and probably less than that will be to be wsary, whea the precise rot upoa wbiek Miller Dr. Ucqih iiHme4iate an4 local.

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