The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-03
FROM THE ESSEX REGISTER.

We continue to receive the congratulations
upon the freedom of our country, and upon the
domestic tranquility. -.
We begin 10 have notices Of the anniversaries
OF our Literary Institutions, and the unqualified
language of praise, discovers that they answer
the expectations OF their respective patrons. On
22d June at the annual exhibition of the Univer-
sity OF north Carolina, three persons received
degrees of Doctors in Divinity 1t is not in our
power to notice circumstantially all the literary
exhibitions which are announced, but enough is
Known to prove that the literary institutions in
crease IN avery part of our UAion The titles
OF the laws which are given in every state at the
close OF each session, plainly discover to what
objects the public attention is directed In the
late table OF acts OF New Hampshire, four ACTS
passed IN favor OF Social Libraries in different
parts OF that state. With Science the arts keep
their reputation, and the increasing wealth finds
full employment in the numerous Improvements
which obtain The acts of New Hampshire
provide tor the Hooset and Bow Canals on the
Merrimac, and the great attention TO that river
was commemorsted 81 the late anniversary by
several recOllections which do honor to those
who INDUCED them. Additional attention il
paid to the Amoskeag Canal Provision is made
also tor new roads, and that from Andover
bridge to Concord does honor to the stare A
road IS proposed from the Connecticut river by
which Will be of great benefit The Jefferson
turnpike IS Incorporated. Milford Cotton and
Woollen Mandatory, and Swansey factory, &
Cornish and Pembroke manufacturing Compa-
MES, have had acts in their favor. a bridge has
been allowed at New Plymouth, and the New
Hampshire iron Factory has been Incorporated.
Derryieid, which is the residence of the immor.
tai Cen Stark, has taken the name of Manches-
ter. The militia law has been revised. new
Insurance Company is allowed at Portsmouth,
Thirty thousand dollars are to be raised by the
state. ihese acts combine to discoysr the real
state of New Hampshire, & give us great hopes
oil It's prosperity. 1t is to be hoped that no local
advantages on the Connecticut or Merrimac will
interfere with the design Of extending the
advantages of these waters throughout their
whole course. What is done in the North is
also done IN the South. We learn from Charles.
ION, , Z. that the last piers OF the bridge from
that City, over Ashley river have been driven,
and the event was celebrated on 18Th June last
The bridge is 21s7 feet long and 50 wide upon
S3 sections OF piles each, and the posts are
guarded against the worms by lead and copper
ne causeWay towards the city is 1900 feet long,
and on the opposite side 1900 Continual disco.
verIes of our natural riches encourage the
hopes OF our ample resources In Allen. Penn
syiVanIa, has been found an excellent stone for
mliistones, III no respect inferior to any stones
which have been imported. 1t is hinted also
mat clay has been discovered which has the
qualities from which the Chinese have pro6,ed
IN their wares. Enquiry is still active, and we
are promised by DIR. Mease another work. which
will bring into one view all these discoveries,
that we may judge OF the progress, and of the
steps yet necessary to meet some other wants
when our country will supply, if we diligently
examine ITS riches. A new Medical and PhiIo.
soPhical Register is offered to the public
ihe publications under similar names have done
the highest honor to our country. We heard
this season OF some local ravagcs of the Hessian
by, but not we trust of comparatively great ex
tent. Several ToFnadoes have done damage in
such places as were exposed to- their greatest
fury. We learn that the rams have lately oc-
cas'oned The OVERLOOKING of the Congaree, in $
Carolina, with injury. a singular circumstance
has attracted notice in several pats of PennsH
vania, OF the fall Of ducks, as it is called from
the extreme facility with which they have been
taken in particular places No history of this
event has been given The passing Of these birds
has been long noticed by the sportsman and ma
turalist, and the history is not undeserving the
attention of the curious.
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