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German Literature (when the Professorship shall have been filled) will constitute a distinct branch, at such stage as will suit the convenience of those young gentlemen who may desire to pursue the study.
Conditions. No Student admitted for less than a term.
For Tuition in the English branches of the Preparato-
ry School, per Term, $10 00
For Tuition in the Classical and Mathematical branches, 15 00
For Shop room, use of Tools, work and in- struction therein, 3 00
For lodging, including room-rent, beds and
2 00
* The above in advance. *
Boarding per week, 1 50
Do. do. at cheap table, 1 25
Or in a Club of Students it may be had for
about 1 00
The next winter term commences on the 31st Octo- ber, and lasts twenty-four weeks. The summer term commences after three weeks vacation, and lasts twenty- two weeks. The entire charge therefore for the year, of forty-six weeks, for tuition, boarding and lodging, use of tools and work, is $109 00
Or the cheap table, 97 50
Or in the Students Club, 86 00
From which an industrious young man may deduct by labor, 46 00
Leaving for boarding, lodging and tuition, $63 00, 51 50, or 40 00
1833.]
A STATISTICAL TABLE,
Containing the accounts for the names, residence, &c. only of such Students as have been in the Institution six months or more, and who are expected to continue. Day scholars are marked (d.) Club boarders (c.) Those marked (*) worked at trades or otherwise irregularly, which accounts for the disparity between the pro- duct and the time set down to them. A weeks work is twenty hours.
Students.
Residence.
Age.
Whs. of stud'y
Weeks work.
Entire ch'rge.
Entire allow-
ance for labor.
Grad. studies.
Grad. work.
Jacob Abel
Easton
10
21
4
20,00
1,66
30
50
George Able, d
Do.
14
11
3
10,00
1,04
30
30
John Able, d
Do.
14
11
2
10,00
1,00
50
50
John Adams
Frankfort, Pa.
18
22
14
53,00
13,56
90
75
*James Barber
Warren, N. J.
15
13
4
30,17
6,62
85
65
Andrew Barr, c
Northumber'd co. Pa.
ad
38
44
94,69
61,75
92
90
Aaron T. Burton
Virginia
15
42
10
15,25
6,62
90
20
Zepheniah Butt, c
Columbia co. Pa.
ad
21
10
40,59
13,62
92
80
*James Campbell, c
Juniata co. Pa.
ad
44
39
116,55
53,54
83
90
*Benjamin Carrell, c
ad
4.4
19
114,75
41,45
80
80
*John Carrell, c
ad
31
13
78,12
35,38
92
88
Connecticut
20
22
25
46,73
15,56
90
70
John Cash
Philadelphia
14
8
4
18,07
1,65
45
40
John J. Delatour, c
New York city
17
22
5
38,00
4,24
91
80
Samuel Dickey
Chester co. Pa.
14
19
11
53,00
7,80
91
75
Adam C. Dunham
Georgia
16
22
3
50,00
2,62
60
50
James French, c
Alabama
ad
13
7
31,11
6,89
82
75
*Isaac Hall
Cecil co. Md.
adl
38
16
111,68
83,97
70
95
*Samuel Hamill
Montgomry co. Pa.
ad
41
24
118,87
45,91
95
90
*Charles Harvey, c
Albany, N. Y.
ad
23
15
59,00
27,08
45
65
* Aaron Hoff
Warren co. N. J.
ad
16
22
37,27
28,97
85
90
Lessler Holt, c
Ulster co. N. Y.
ad
13
3
30,80
3,80
09
75
Solon Horn
Easton
18
20
4
48,18
1,38
15
15
* Ambrose Horton, c
Putnam co. N. Y.
ad
34
22
98,40
57,28
85
90
William Howard, c
Philadelphia
ad
26
19
84,56
28,60
85
70
Henry P. Janvier
20
12
7
28,68
10,12
95
80
Levi Janvier
18
13 -
7
28,63
10,12
95
80
*Sidney Layton, c
New York city
20
21
11
47,00
1.5,05
75
15
*James R. Lewis
Middlesex co. N. J.
ad
7
8
16,86
3,82
85
45
James W. Long
Bucks co. Pa.
20
22
6
20,00
12,18
90
85
*Casper F. Marstin, c
New York city
20
22
5
41,00
9,76
75
65
*T. R. F. A. Mitchell
17
43
22
110,69
30,63
73
75
*Thomas S. Moxley
Vermont
ad
22
17
58,77
19,94
90
90
*Robert Nesbit
New York city
ad
16
9
43,56
22,94
90
90
Joseph Newnan
Nashville
15
46
12
121,50
4,04
55
15
Rush Newnan
Do.
20
24
16
71,51
17,67
45
12
Ed. W. Nivin
Delaware
20
26
22
103,45
31,70
85
85
Abner Hayden Nott
Schenectady
ad
25
2
52,78
2:15
75
75
* Robert Osborne
Salem co. N. J.
18
4.0
27
112,30
38,21
95
80
Robert Petway
Tennessee
19
45
21
124,87
18,48
90
60
*Salmon Phelps
New York
15
7
3
16,12
2,30
87
65
Joshua Phelps, c
Do.
20
7
3
16,12
2,94
90
85
*Charles Ramsey, c
Juniata co. Pa.
ad
43
25
116,62
50,80
85
90
*James Ramsey, c
Philadelphia
19
43
46
100,75
75,85
95
90
*Jacob Rhodes
Do.
ad
32
28
95,96
58,06
40
65
B. F. Randolph
16
20
7
48,18
2,90
~75
65
Samuel Sherrerd
Do.
16
13
4
31,31
1,99
52
60
John Sherrerd
Do.
13
15
3
31,31
2,00
70
75
*John Smalley, e
New Jersey
20
22
3
47,00
8,48
60
60
*Joseph W. Smith, c
Maine
ad ยช
45
40
112,37
76,08
90
90
*O. W. Stevens, c
Georgia
20
43
26
110,92
58,01
90
90
Jas. R. Struthers
Philadelphia
18
45
23
112,67
22,53
75
60
Sam'l Sturgeon
Pike co. Pa.
11
11
3
26,50
1,17
75
40
Wm. Taylor
N. York city
ad
22
6
53,00
4,50
70
60
John Tenbrook, c
Northumb'd co. Pa.
ad
20
12
46,68
14,33
90
85
*R. J. Tilson, c
Ulster co. N. Y.
ad
21
3
41,83
7,35
95
90
P. J. Timlow
Orange co. N. Y.
ad
19
11
44,02
12,70
90
85
*Benjamin Tyler
Cumberl'd co. N. J.
ad
45
29
125,62
65,06
90
90
*Andrew Tully
Canada
ad
12
12
28,00
30,38
90
95
*C. F. Worrell, c
Newton, N. J.
a.d
39
24
107,12
85,76
90
95
*Joseph Worrell, c
Chester co. Pa.
ad
32
46
70,77
87,15
65
90
*Henry Morgan, c
Connecticut
ad
41
35
114,02
58,17
75
85
Owen Hess, d
Easton
13
22
16,00
80
75
Amos Diller
Lancaster co. Pa.
16
22
45,77
Bucks co. Pa. Do.
*Nat. F. Chapman, c
Mifflin co. Pa.
17
22
18,00
95
A. Townsend
Easton
14
13,50
78
Belvidere, N. J.
Henry Shouse
Alabama
Salem co. N. J. 1)o.
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.
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STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION OF THE SUSQUEHANNA.
LSEPTEMBER
An inventory of the principal materials wrought up by [ A navigation can thus be opened to Lake Ontario and
the Students within the year, namely :-
117,639 feet of lumber which cost $1,545 43
640 trunk locks, handles, &c. 240 00
145 pounds of nails, 87 00
Petna and Madress goat skins, 587 00
225 morocco skins, 191 00
Manufactured Articles .- 610 dry good boxes-151 book boxes-80 quill boxes for cotton factory-132 hat boxes-970 trunk boxes-84 candle boxes-total of boxes, 2037.
640 trunks finished (these are included in the above boxes) 740 lights of sash-10 cultivators-2 wheel bar- rows-1 cutting box -1 horse rake-10 bedsteads- 5 long dining tables-25 study and kitchen tables-2 wash stands-1 kneading trough-1 large writing ta- ble-15 benches.
Garden Labor .- About ten acres have been cultivat- ed in vegetable, potatoe and corn lots, besides the small gardens at the mansion house.
Farm .- One hundred loads of manure hauled and spread, and also 2400 bushels of lime-25 tons of hay cut, cured and taken in-320 bushels of potatoes raised and taken off one and three-quarter acres-8 acres of corn cut-six acres of oats raised and housed-25 acres of wheat and rye harvested and housed.
A SPLENDID PROJECT.
We insert to-day, a communication which appeared in the Pennsylvania Intelligencer, on the subject of Steamboat Navigation of the SSusquehanna, to which we invite the attention of our citizens. The reasons urged in favor of this project must strike the mind of every one forcibly at once, while it cannot be urged against it, that it will involve the state still deeper in debt, as it is a project for the consideration of Congress, and one that should enlist the support of the members of Congress from New York, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, and all the states bordering on the Missis. sippi and Ohio rivers, as well as Maryland and Penn- sylvania.
The practicability of making the Susquehanna navi- gable for steamboats, has long been known. Several years ago a company in Baltimore proposed to the le- gislature of this state to make the Susquehanna naviga- ble for steamboats from tide water to the New York state line, for the trifling sum of two thousand dollars per mile, about twelve hundred thousand dollars. But supposing that it would cost five times that sum, the pro- ject would be one of the most splendid that could be conceived of, when its extent and consequences are taken into view. It would not be a local, nor sectional, but national improvement. It would extend trade and commerce into the very heart of Pennsylvania, N. York, and Ohio,and carry the products of thoses states to the "great west," while it would bring to our own doors the products of those states in return. Every village on the banks of the Susquehanna, and every village on the Cayuga lake, the Oswego river and its vicinity, would burst forth with the hum of business-they would become almost seaports in the very interior of our coun- try. Harrisburg, from its location and natural advan- tages would soon vie with Pittsburg, in wealth and en- terprise-the immense mines of anthracite and bitu- minous coal bordering on the banks of the Susquehan- na would find a new market in the colder regions of the north and northwest. Not only our own country, but the cities of Montreal, Quebec, and the whole Canada line would become consumers of the anthracite of Penn- sylvania. Should the reader doubt, he need only cast his eye over the map of the state of New York. A canal is already made from Elmira, N. Y. to the head of Sene- ca Lake, from which issues the Oswego river. This may easily be made navigable to Lake Ontario. This short canal might be enlarged and the river made navigable at a small expense to admit steamboats ..
the river St. Lawrence, and by the Welland canal, to Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior-to the wilderness of the northwestern territory. A canal has been already projected from Chicago near the south western point of Lake Michigan to the Illinois river, which is navigable by steamboats about 6 or 7 months of the year to within 19 or 20 miles of that place. By cutting a canal between these points, a steamboat com- munication would be opened to the Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Yellowstone, Obio, Cumberland, and Tennes- see rivers, to every navigable stream of the west; to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. It would be a perfect and complete inland communication to al- most every important place in our country. Every town on the banks of the Susquehanna would become a place of commerce, with her steamboats freighted to almost every part of the country. Every citizen would participate in the benefits of such a magnificent enter- prize. The villages of the Susquehanna, in which bu- siness is dull during the summer, would be filled with bustle and activity-they would soon grow to the towns of wealth and consequence-they would become mar- kets for all the produce of every description raised by the farmers in their neighborhood and thus extend the advantages of the project to every citizen in the interior of Pennsylvania.
We have made these few hasty remarks to call pub- lic attention to the project; and shall resume the sub- ject again when we shall treat it more critically, and at greater length. Editors of papers, in towns on the Sus- quehanna, and at Elmira, N. Y., are requested to notice the subject. - Pa. Telegraph.
From the Harrisburg Intelligencer.
It was truly as well as eloquently observed, by John Sergeant, in our Canal Convention, that "The spirit of improvement was abroad on the earth." It is manifest- ing itself in every section of our country, and in a few years it will indissolubly connect the immense territory of this Union. The period is rapidly approaching when the national debt will be extinguished, and when the revenue of the nation may be applied to the execution of works of internal improvement. It is, therefore, time for the public to reflect upon the most proper objects to which the national funds may be most beneficially applied. As Pennsylvanians, we are interested in no other project half so much as in the steamboat navigation of the Susquehanna. The advantages of such an im- provement to the country bordering upon the river, would be incalculable. If the Pennsylvania canal be as useful as its friendsanticipate, its advantages will be, in a great degree, limited to the one side of the river. But a steamboat navigation will benefit both. It may, how- ever, be objected, that this improvement is not a nation- al work, to which only the funds of the general govern- ment are to be applied. But let it be considered in its extension beyond the limits of Pennsylvania. A canal now exists from the Tioga river to the head of Seneca Lake-and the outlet from that Lake to Lake Ontario, has been already opened out by the state of New York. It will require but an inconsiderable expenditure, to render both communications navigable for steamboats. When on Lake Ontario, the Welland canal, now in suc" cessful operation, affords the means of communication with Lake Erie, and thence the extent of navigation can scarcely be conceived. But a connexion can readily be made between Michigan Lake and the Illinois river. The Iliinois is already navigable for steamboats, several hun- dred miles, and in the spring floods, a navigation exists, for river boats, between the river and lake. This channel opened, or a connexion effected between the Maumee and Wabash, and Mississippi, the course of communica- tion for steamboats, between the Chesapeake, the Lakes, and New Orleans, is complete. The immensity of the project and the facility of its execution is sufficien
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to excite public attention towards it. But three sec- tions of artificial canal, and neither of great extent, are necessary to complete this extensive circle of improve- ment-nature has almost accomplished the rest. Can any line of improvement be suggested, which is more truly national in its character? The Union is interested in it-but to the country bordering on the Susquehanna, it is particularly important-its advantages need not be specially observed upon; they will be evident to all. The extent of country interested in the improvement in its whole extent, is so great, as to render probable its fa- vorable reception by Congress. Let, therefore, petitions be circulated, and a strong effort made to have it accom- plished. Now is the time to press it before any system has been adopted by Congress for the expenditure of the public revenue. It cannot be too soon or too ear- nestly urged, and perhaps the result may be favorable.
From the Elmira Republican.
In another column will be found an extract from the Harrisburg Telegraph upon the subject of a Steamboat Navigation of the Susquehanna, and the extension of Steamboat Navigation, by the Chemung canal to Sene- ca Lake, through said Lake to the Oswego (Seneca) river, and thence, by the Oswego river, to Lake Onta- rio. As a farther elucidation of the project, we add some remarks from the Pennsylvania (Harrisburg) Te- legraph, of the 28th ult. in which "the Editor of the Elmira Republican is also requested to give such facts in relation to the subject as he may possess."
The navigation of the Susquehanna by steamboats, to T'ioga Point, and of the Chemung, 18 miles to this place, present the greatest obstacles to the success of this truly grand enterprise; but, with perseverance and the resources of the nation, we should not dare say the object could not be accomplished. The bosom of the Susquehanna, like that of the Chemung, is broad, and in dry seasons is scarcely so covered with water that it could not be waded for miles, excepting the eddies, and is ruffled by frequent ripples, we are told, as far as Northumberland; yet there is no doubt but, in the dry- est times there is water enougli, could it be confined in a channel of suitable width, to answer the purpose; and that could be done by deepening the channel, removing bars, building embankments, &c, which would require to be so permanently done as to be secure against the ravages of high water, floods,&c .- all whichiwe believe could be done, though the expense might be immense.
From Elmira to the summit level of the Chemung canal, six miles, there is a rise of 47 feet; and from thence to the inlet of Seneca Lake, the termination of the Canal, there is a fall of 441 feet. The surveyed route of the canal is 194 miles. The distance from the canal to Geneva by the Lake is 40 miles, always navi- gable. The Cayuga and Seneca canal from Geneva to Montezuma, is 20 miles and 44 chains, and the descent is 734 feet. From Montezuma to Syracuse, a distance of 35 miles, there is a rise of 4 locks and a fall of two feet, making a rise of 20 feet. Then, from Syracuse to Oswego by the Oswego canal, it is 28 miles and a de- scent of 123 feet; so that the Chemung river at Elmira is 394 feet higher than the Seneca Lake, and 228} higher than Lake Ontario. The distance from Monte- zuma to Oswego, by the Oswego river, must be less by considerable, than by the canal, and the distance from Seneca Lake to Sodus Bay cannot be over 35 miles.
Elmira is from Havanna 18 miles
Head of Seneca Lake 21
Geneva
60
Sodus Bay
95
Montezuma
80
Syracuse 115
Oswego, by canals 153
Albany
321
New York
465
Elmira is from Philadelphia, by the river and canals 374 miles. 394
Baltimore
Owego
36
Ithaca
36
Bath
36
'Tioga Point
18
Towanda
36
Williamsport
72
Ten miles of the Cayuga and Seneca canal is an inde- pendent canal, the residue a slack water navigation in the Seneca river. One half of the Oswego canal is also a slack water navigation in the Oswego river. The Oswego river is formed of the Oneida river, which is the outlet of Oneida Lake, and Seneca river.
The water to supply the Chemung canal is obtained from the Chemung river through a navigable Feeder, from the Chimney Narrows in the town of Painted Post, (at which place a dam has been made in the river,) to Horse Heads, a distance of 13 miles. The facilities for enlarging the Chemung canal so as to admit steamboats, are abundant, as also those of improving the navigation of Seneca and Oswego rivers; or for making a large canal from Seneca Lake to Sodus Bay.
From Washington, D. C. to Baltimore, York Haven, Harrisburg, Sunbury, Northumberland, Williamsport, Elmira, and Geneva, to Sodus Bay is almost a straight line: Of this distance a rail road is made to Baltimore; another is projected and partly finished to York Haven; thence to Williamsport there is a canal nearly or quite complete, and from Muncy a steamboat plies to Dunns- town; from Williamsport to Elmira a rail road is char- tered, the route surveyed, and the enginer's report, for aught we know is gone to an eternal sleep; from Elmi- ra to Oswego on Lake Ontario, there is now a water communication. The importance of this route for a national road of some kind or other is manifest, it be- ing direct from the Seat of Government and the sea- board to our northern frontier, as appears from former surveys. The travel on such a route as this would be immense. The merchandize, the produce, the salt, plaster, anthracite and bituminous coal from the inex- haustible mines of Pennsylvania, &c. which would be transported on this route would justify the expectations of the most sanguine. Yet on this whole line, there is now only a break of the 72 miles, from here to Wil- liamsport. We advise, if the engineer does not soon make his report, that it be surveyed over by one who will report, so that an estimate may be formed, the books opened, and let the people have a chance to take up the stock, which they would do very quick.
We have now taken a general view of the whole ground and stated such facts as occurred to us as being of importance. We have but to add our best wishes to the success of the enterprise. The importance to Phi- ladelphia, Baltimore, and other places of Pennsylvania and Maryland, of some opening to the great northern and western trade is a sufficient warranty to their untir- ing and unceasing exertions to effect it.
From the Harrisburg Intelligencer. STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION.
Several articles have appeared in our paper in favor of applying to Congress for an appropriation to render the Susquehanna navigable for steamboats. Some per- sons may doubt of its practicability. A man would once have been thought a fit subject for the madhouse who should have thought of building a bridge over the Susquehanna. There is no doubt of the practicability of this project, and, as it is a national and not a state object, it should be done with national funds. A steam- boat is at this moment running fort-ymile trips on the Susquehanna, more than one hundred miles above this place. This steamboat cost about $9,000, and was built by the Boston company, under the direction of an enterprising Pennsylvanian, William P. Farrand,
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LEONITES AND RAPPITES.
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Esq., to tow arks of bituminous coal from the mines in Lycoming county to Muncy dam. This boat draws but 13 inches of water, and passes up ripples without any difficulty. Not long since, a committee from the north branch was sent to view the operations of this boat, with a reference to establishing a company to run a similar one, from the mouth of the Lackawanna to the New York line. It is said they were perfectly satisfied of its practicability, and that application will be made to the legislature next winter for the incorporation of a com- pany to run steamboats from the northern termination of the canal to the New York line.
Whoever will take the trouble to examine the report of Charles Treziyulny, a Pole by birth; who, as engi- neer, was employed by the state, to survey and report on the Susquehanna navigation in 1826, will not longer doubt that the funds of the General Government could soon bring steamboats from tide to Harrisburg, and not only to Harrisburg, but through the state of Pennsylva- nia.
Suppose damming the rivers should be thought im- practicable from Middletown to tide, a steamboat canal could be made without as much lockage as the Welland canal which cost about $2,000,000.
Is it not a great and national object to open a steam- boat navigation from the ocean to the lakes?
What a diversion of trade that now passes through the Rideau Steamboat canal, 270 miles in length, from Lake Ontario to Montreal, would this make through the United States! What an incalculable advantage would such a channel of trade be, not only to the Atlan- tic, but to the western states-such a project accom- plished, sloops and steamboats could load in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio, and unlade at the wharves of the Atlantic cities. We understand that a public meeting will soon be holden in Harrisburg on the subject, and we doubt not but a lively interest will soon be awaken- ed throughout the whole of central Pennsylvania.
From the Commercial Herald. STEAMBOAT ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. We have at length succeeded in obtaining the follow- ing description of the above boat:
TZ
16 1/2
3
16/2
Length,
95 feet.
Beam,
. 18 do.
Draft, .
15 inches.
Power,
35 horse.
Length of boiler and height of chimney, see diagram above.
The flame from an open burning bituminous coal, after enveloping the boilers 35 feet, we are informed, is easily brought out from the top of the chimney, a dis- tance of 56} feet. Since the introduction of coal, two tons supply the place of eight cords of pine wood. It has been for some time known to the public, that a steamboat has been navigating some of the most rapid waters of the west brunch of the Susquehanna during
the present season, with entire success. The result of this enterprise is justly considered of great importance to the state of Pennsylvania. It now appears that there are many hundred miles above the public improvements, which may be navigated by steamboats, calculated to draw an up river trade into the state canals.
There is another circumstance connected with this business, which is highly important to Pennsylvania, and to the Atlantic frontier generally. After a full trial, it is ascertained that a very small quantity in bulk of an open burning bituminous coal, will answer every pur- pose for generating steam to propel boats, locomotive, and other steam engines. All the trials of bituminous coal for the above purpose, in New York and elsewhere in the United States, have heretofore been unsuccessful, in consequence of confining the heat and flame, thereby melting the grates, and preventing the flame from reaching and acting on the surface of the boilers. The error was in selecting the materials. All these difficul- ties are removed by the introduction of the above spe- cies of coal, which is almost free from bituminous smell We believe we shall shortly see our locomotive engines propelled by a small quantity of this material, bringing from Columbia thousands of tons for our manufacturers. This is a new product of Pennsylvania, Let our neigh- bors of New York and the other states, who are now complaining of the enormous price of wood, consider for a moment from where a substitute is to come, to propel their steamboats and other machinery; they will find it in the open burning bituminous coal of Pennsyl- vania.
LEONITES AND RAPPITES. - Among the delusions ex- isting in our section of country, none were more re- markable than those which existed among the members of these two societies. Indeed, it seems exceeding strange that any body of people could, in the very midst of our free and happy society, be so misled as most of these have been. But much as we wondered at the manner in which Mr. Rapp conducted his society so successfully, we were struck with amazement at the blind fanaticism, that enabled a noted imposter, called Leon, to lead off from Mr. Rapp's jurisdiction and go- vernment, a large body of the Economy Society. This count Leon we stated was an imposter from Germany, who pretended to be a messenger sent by Heaven for the especial purpose of regenerating the Germans at Economy, and establishing a Zion in the west. The means he took to inveigle the Economites were in kcep- ing with his real character-and suffice it to say, were so ridiculous, so impious, so knavish, that no people but those he gained over, would for a moment treat them seriously. He promised to change rocks into gold; to cause rain or drought when he or his followers pleased; to dress all his believers 'in purple and fine linen,' and to make them 'fare sumptuously every day.' They be- lieved him-they thought, poor souls, that roasted pigeons would fly on their dinner table each day to be eaten-and that all they had to do was to 'eat, drink and be merry;" so they left Mr. Rapp and followed our hero Count Leon. But like many other poor mor- tals, they were doomed to disappointment. Roasted pi- geons did not fly to them-clothes did not fall from the skies ready made for each of them, and worse than all, the rocks that were to have been changed to gold, were soon ascertained to be forty years too young. The Count found out this last fact, and with tears in his eyes informed his followers of it. By degrees things began to wear a bad appearance. Count Leon's followers, located at Philipsburgh, quar- relled with Rapp's followers, located at Economy, ten miles distant; both applied to lawyers, and lawyers, as a matter of course, fleeced both. The Philipsburger's were poorest and have broken first. . The Count, with all his heavenly powers, has fled-taking with him a few particular friends. The rest of the Philipsburgh Society is dissolved, and Philipsburgh with its appur- tenances is advertised for sale. Such have been the
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