The amount due on the building may be estimated as difficulty, having on board a freight amounting to seven follows:

hundred and sixty-two dollars. This vessel was con$4,500 structed expressly for the purpose, is called the brig 2,500 Pavo, and commanded by Capt. McKensie.

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SCHUYLKILL NAVIGATION -We understand that the 900 Navigation Company have made arrangements for dou3,000 bling the locks throughout the whole line of the canal. 1,500 This work has already been commenced in several 900 places, and will continue to be prosecuted with vigour. 450 The advantages which will result to the business of 1,500 transportation from the adoption of this measure are sufficiently obvious. The disposition manifested by the company to make timely provision for the accommodation of our increase of trade, which will thus avoid any check or interruption, is certainly laudable. The mutuality of the beneficial consequences does not lessen our obligation. The new section of canal in the neighborhood of Reading will be ready for use in the spring, and the reservoir at this place will also be completed by the same period.-Miner's Journal.

$17,500 The amount required to complete the building is as follows:

For marble now contracted for, and workmanship of the pediment and steps of the portico,

Marble mantels throughout the building, contracted for, and part executed,

Iron railing in front of the piazzas, contracted for, and part executed,

Plumber's work in fitting up baths, water
closes, contracted for, and part executed,
Fencing round the premises,
Regulating ground and planting trees,
The introduction of the Schuylkill water into
the building, including annual rent,

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6,500 $27,300 Making as the total cost of the building and appurtenances, when completed, about $242,000

4,500 In conformity with previous notice in our columns, the sale of coal lands announced by the New York and 5,500 Schuylkill Coal Company took place on the day appoint3,000 ed at the Merchant's Coffee House, in the city of Phil1,500 adelphia. The result, we understand, was very satisfactory, fully realizing the most sanguine expectations of all interested. Lands amounting to seventy-six thousand dollars in value, were disposed of, together with several shares of rail road stock at a fair valuation, which stock at no distant period will, in all probability, command a handsome premium. Notwithstanding the universal scarcity of money and general commercial depression, occasioned by recent political events, capitalists were still found able and willing to embark their funds in real property of such intrinsic value, and of so productive a character, as that which abounds in this vicinity. At so unfavourable a crisis a disappointment would have been no marvel. But the reverse has in reality happened, which must be considered a circumstance of no ordinary weight, and furnishes another very conclusive proof of the estimation in which our property is deservedly held abroad. Something like a thorough conviction of the importance of the region we inhabit will doubtless be produced on the most prejudiced minds when the close of the present season shows the full amount of our exportations.―ib.

Respectfully submitted, by your obedient servant,
WM. STRICKLAND.

The Hon. JOHN BRANCH,

JOHN H. EATON,
SAML. D. IEGHAM,

Commissioners of the Navy Hospital

Fund, Washington.

A Grape Vine consisting of a single stem, standing in the garden of Jacob Miesse, Esquire, in Bern township, produced on its branching vines 1238 bunches of Grapes, taken down a few days ago. Mr. John Boss and Dr. Quenaudon of Reading, besides other persons, viewed the vine a short time before the grapes were plucked.

PITTSBURG, Oct. 26. CHOLERA. On the 22d instant, at one o'clock, A. M. William Lyon, a coloured man, just from Cincinnati, died of this disease, in this city.

During the same day, Mrs. Bender, from Cincinnati; John Smith, a steamboat hand, also from that city, and Polly Coleman, a colored woman, a resident of this city, and intemperate, were all attacked. The former is almost entirely recovered; the two latter died on the 22d.

On the 24th, a man, who had lately arrived from below, on board a steamboat, and who had been committed to jail, on a charge of larcency, was seized with this disease-he is now convalescent.

These five cases, and three deaths, are the whole amount of the visitation which has yet fallen upon us. Our atmosphere, we believe, is now as pure, and healthy as it ever has been; indeed, if we may judge from our own feelings, and from our conversation with various persons, decidedly purer and healthier than it was three or four weeks ago.-No new case had been reported up to the 29th October.

NEW COLLIER.-A vessel carrying three hundred and five tons of Coal loaded last week, in the river Schuylkill, for Boston, and passed over the bar without

an action

DOGHERTY VS. DONOGHUE.-This was brought by Thomas B. Dogherty against the Rev. Mr. Donoghue of the Catholic Church, (formerly of Ireland) to recover the penalty-assigned by an act of the Philadelphia Legislature about a century ago-against any Clergyman or other person, who should solemnize the marriage of a minor (or one under 21 years of age) without the consent and knowledge of his parents. The penalty specified by the act is £50 sterling.

Brewster for the plaintiff, and Haley for the defendant.

The marriage of Dogherty, son of the plaintiff, with Ann McAlister, by the defendant, was proved by the groomsman and bridesmaid of the parties. She (it was evidenced) was not under 20 or 21 years of age; while

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her betrothed was born on the day in February 1815, when it was first announced in this city that peace had been concluded between the Union and Great Britain-but she proved to him "That fairy form which first love traced."

In the defence it was contended that the father had not been aggrieved or sustained any injury by the marriage of his son, who being poor as he was young, could not require a compensation for his loss-that the defendant did not know the age of the bridegroom. and was not aware of the law prohibiting the marriage of minors, or of any person under a stipulated age. The penalty of £50 was considered enormous, and the statute almost obsolete-it was urged that the defendant was rather poor, and that the plaintiff had not justly (however legally) aright to recover compensation solely from the ignorance of the defendant,not from any personal injury or loss. It was also said that the evidence was insufficient.

Brewster replied with some acrimony on the plea of ignorance of the defendant of the law of the land, and the age of the bridegroom-not sparing the profession or persuasion of the Reverend defendant. He considered it a sufficient injury or grievance to any father to be deprived of his child in nonage-and particularly if that deprivation be by a luckless and improvident marriage.

Judge Hallowell in his charge to the Jury, admitted the existence, necessity and advantage of the law prohibiting the marriage of minors without their parent's knowledge and consent; that the act had frequently been enforced, and that it stipulated £50 as the penalty of its infraction. He regretted that any counsel in the Union should in a court of justice stigmatize any persuasion or profession, religious or civil-and asserted that in the Statesland opinion, were not

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the Jury believed the evidence, the penalty was assigned; whether it should be mitigated or enforced, was at their disposal.

The Jury retired; but took so long time to consult, that the Court adjourned till 10 o'clock this day, (Saturday.)

[In the above case the jury have returned verdict for the plaintiff of $133 33, with six cents damages and six cents costs.]

Yesterday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, a young horse attached to a dray, and under the guidance of two young men, became restive on the lower side of Market street, between Sixth and Seventh, and sprung away from his guides, running directly down Decatur street, demolishing at an awful rate the market wagons tastefully arranged on the lower side. Dashing onward, with the heavy dray still attached to him, he rushed up the five marble steps on the north side of the Arcade, sweeping away a portion of the heavy iron railing, pursued his way along the eastern avenue of that spacious building, scattering far and wide the shopkeepers' boxes, passed down the steps of the south front, taking with him at the dray wheels another portion of the iron railing, and continued directly across Chesnut street, into the Messrs. Loud's Piano Forte Manufactory, and here

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Resolved, That an item of unfinished business relative to the continuation of the rail-road along Broad street, be referred to a committee of three members of each Council.

Mr. Groves offered the annexed resolution, which was adopted by both Councils.

Mr. Groves offered the following resolution which Register, page 238, we have recorded the proceed. was adopted, and Messrs. Groves, Neff, Lewis, Mait-ings of a meeting at Carbondale on the subject-and land, Sailor, and Merrick were appointed the commitalso on page 363, same volume, have inserted resolu tions passed at a meeting of delegates from New York and Pennsylvania, at Ithaca, to both which articles we refer the reader for the views entertained of the im portance of this project by the citizens of both states. A rail-road company has been formed, with a capital of $300,000, for the purpose of connecting Ithaca, situated at the end of Cayuga lake, by a road, with Owego, on the North Branch of the Susquehannah, at a short distance from the line of the two states. In the present number will be found an interesting paper on the prospects of that company, drawn up in reply to a request from a gentleman in this city for information respecting it. Appended to this document are several tables which are not inserted here, calculated to confirm the statements made in the report itself; from which tables the following facts appear.

Resolved that the Paving Committee in conjunction with the City Surveyor, be instructed to take into consideration the propriety of lowering Chesnut street and the streets connected with it, from Schuylkill Front street to the river Schuylkill, so as to render the same more convenient for the landings on said river, and to report a plan thereof as soon as practicable.

Mr. Groves offered the following resolution, which was laid on the table.

Resolved, That the committee appointed to improve the Chesnut street landings on Schuylkill, be directed to take down the old Engine House at the corner of Schuylkill Front and Chesnut streets, and to make use of the materials in the store houses now building on said landings.

COMMON COUNCIL.-The president appointed the following gentlemen on the standing committee.

Ways and Means-Messrs. Chandler, Morris, and Toland.

Paving Committee-Messrs. Gilder, Byerly, Sailor,

and Smith.

Committee of Accounts-Messrs. Wetherill, Borie, and Elliot.

Committee on Markets.-Messrs. Lapsley, Yarnall, and Maitland.

Committee on Library-Messrs. Morris and Chandler. Committee on Fire Companies-Messrs. Merrick, Aken, and Sailor.

Mr. Chandler offered the annexed resolution, which was adopted, and Messrs. Chandler, Wetherill, Worrell, and McCready, were appointed the committee.

Resolved, That so much of the communication of the City Commissioners, which contains the proposition of Mr. R. A. Caldcleugh, relative to a Western Watchhouse, be referred to a joint committee of two from

each Council.

Mr. Morris offered the annexed resolution, which was adopted, and Messrs. Morris, Lapsley, Haines, Neff, Lippincott and Massey, were appointed the committee. Resolved, That the letter from W. Rush, Esq. and other documents, relative to the encroachments in the river Schuylkill, be referred to a joint committee of

three members from each Council.

Messrs. Maitland, Aken, Worrell, and Eyre were appointed a committee to take charge of the Drawbridge lot.

Messrs. S. P. Wetherill, Haines, Neff, and Lippincott were appointed a committee to take charge of Chesnut street, Mulberry street, and Sassafras street wharves.

Resolved, That the state of Chesnut street, between Schuylkill 6th and 7th, be referred to the paving com

mittee, with power to act.

Messrs. S. P. Wetherill, Chandler, Eyre, and Worrel were appointed a committee upon the communication from David E. Shapely, relative to lot north of Permanent Bridge.

THE REGISTER. PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 27, 1832.

It has been deemed by some of our citizens practicable, and an object of great importance, to attract a portion of the trade of the western parts of New York into our own state, by means of a connexion with Cayuga lake, by canal or otherwise. In volume 7 of the

The arrivals at Ithaca in 1828 were 455 boats, and the clearances 396.

The amount of tonnage of imports was estimated at 7727 tons, and of exports 10,078 tons; making together 18,607 tons without includingt he "arrivals at and clearances from the Head of the Lake," which are estimated at 800 tons more-which gives a tonnage of fifty tons per day for the whole 365 days in the year.

The statistics of Tompkins county, in which Ithaca is situated, are given, from which it appears that it contained in 1830 a population of 36,545; that in 1832 there are 299 mills within 12 miles; that the annual sales of merchandize amount to $821,000; that the exports in 1831 were valued at $1,209,000, being 31,481 tons, and the imports were, same year, 11,525 tons. The principal exports consisted of lumber, wheat, flour, butter, cotton and woollen goods, pork, salt, and plaster.

We have been anxious, from time to time, to introduce into the Register something that we thought would recommend itself to the gentlemen of the Bar as well as other liberal inquirers, concerning the early ju risprudence of this state. With this object we repub lished in No. 8 of the present volume, the first chapter of Mr. Job R. Tyson's Essay on the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania, embracing a history of punishments from the earliest times. We now give the first of "Two addresses to the Associated members of the Bar of Philadelphia," by W. Rawle, Esq. to which is joined a complete copy of the celebrated "Great Law." Mr. Raw le's account of the changes which the law underwent, at different periods, will prove interesting to the profession. The second address will be republished next week, and must prove instructive in its sketches of those eminent lawyers who began to live at the era of our independence.

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

A stated meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania will be held at the Society's Chamber in the Philosophical Hall, on Monday evening, 5th inst. at 7 o'clock.

J. R. TYSON, Secreary.

REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE.

EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD.

VOL. X.-NO. 19. PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 10, 1832. NO. 254. this manner, than when the whole is to be the work of one person.

In my former address, I pointed out the want of some more convenient mode of enforcing the principles of equity-the remedy for which cannot be attained with- | out the intervention of the legislature. In the present instance I propose to consider certain points more immediately within our own power.

It is interesting to inquire what is the influence of our modes of practice in the promotion of professional knowledge, the formation of professional character, and the progress of forensic proceedings.

These considerations will at present be taken up in two points of view.

1. It is not peculiar to Pennsylvania, but is the general babit throughout the United States, to combine the two capacities of counsel and attorney.

The Supreme Court of the United States, the state of Massachusetts and its former adjunct, Maine, New York, and New Jersey, form the only exceptions within my knowledge.

The distinction has subsisted in England at least, from the reign of Edward I. (Stat. 2, west. 2.)

The principal reason urged in favor of it is, that the institution of a suit, and all its parts preparatory to the trial, are more attentively and effectively conducted in Vol. X.