The Wilmingtonian., 1823-10-23

liilSSlUUcTss IL. soc ylhOuT, StCTctdty w Hs
c. Bourck; Benjamin Wright, chief engi-
neer; Geo. w. Young, assistant; Peter
Stewart, builder.
This ceremony being completed, DR..
Samuel l.. Mitchill, of the New York
committee, poured into the Canal bottle
of water from the Pacific Ocean, and an-
other from the Atlantic Ocean and there.
upon made an address suitable to the no.
vel and interesting occasion.
The lock was then opened. and the boat
Dewitt Clinton passed through it, towed
10y twelve full manned barges, under the
command of Captain Centre, of the steam
boat Chancellor Livingston, and Captain
IT. Wiswall, of the steam boat Richmond,
and the others of tep masters of Albany
packets. At the moment Of her passing
into the Hudson, she was saluted by ge-
neral discharge of artillery, and the lively
lhuZzas of thousands of persons who wit
messed the spectacle. Much feeling was
excited by the fact of the Boat being i-
loted into the river by Capt. Daggett, who
! is now eighty four years of age, and who
acted as pilot to the French fleet under
Count de Grasse, il the war of Iudepen-
Idence, when it anchored before York
Town, previously to the capture of Lord
ICornwallis and the army under his COM
|maud. The boat was then towed through
the basin, into the North River; and as
she passed the steam boats, which were
!. elegantly dressed for the occasion, and
: were crowded with spectators, she was sa-
! uted in succession from each steam boat
H., a - al ,,,;tb
fsiastic cheers. The Canal Commissioners
= land their associates were then landed, and
b the procession was formed according to
T order, and moved to the C-pitol Hill.
N The Canal commissioners, the Common
a Council of the city Of Albany, and the DEL
t. egation from the city Of New-York, we're
e then conducted to pavilion erected in
I front of the capitol, where the proceed
iIings of the occasion commenced by a fer
vent, appropriate, and most eloquent
J.. prayer by the Rev. DIR. Chester. A con-
gratulatory address was then made to the
IS canal commissioners by the Hon. Chas. +.
: Dudley, Mayor of the city of Albany; and
0 a reply by the Hon. Dewitt Clinton, pre-
i, lsident of the board of commissioners
d This was succeeded by an address from
! the delegation from New York, by their
j ssllcharman, William Bayari, esq. and an
Ii answer on behalf of the citizens of Alba
% my. by William James, Esq. and the whole
e closed by an expression Of thanks by he
- chairman of the New York committee, for
e the distinguished poiteness and respect
e, with which they have been received and
% entertained by their fellow citizens of AL
o. bany, on this interesting occasion. The
II delegation we're then invited to partci-
n. patton in the entertainments provided at
to RockweIl's Mansion House, in honor Of
s 'e the day.
,rr Robert Bloomfield, The raral poet.--A
a short time after the poet emigrated from
a. his native country to Bedfordshire, the
:, - late Mr. Whitbread, in whose immediate
-. vicinity the author of The Farmers Boy
It. resided. invited him to his seat at South
y. hill. With considerable reluctance, the
IN poet acquiesced, and found on his arr val
y that he was to- join select party OF gentle
n q, men at the dinner table. After the cloth
$ was removed. the conversation turned up
c. on agricultural subjects, to which the bard
"a listened with fixed attention, and when an
% appeal was made, he gave his modest opi-
" nion. Some time afterwards the compa-
ii, ny dlated on the Peninsular war, then in
az its zenith. Bloomfield, averse to the "dn
Y of arms" became more pensive than ordi-
y. =. nary, and requested to be allowed TO re-
10 tire, which was of course acceded to. He
Sc was frequently visited afterwards, but he
i'd could not be prevailed on to desert the
'n|rural shades of his humble retirement. X
to is almost supernuous to add, that during
ny the life of Mr.. Whitbreatl, Bloomfield did
m not escape the benevolent eye of that dis
Itinguished character.-English pa.
BROTHER.-A CHINESE FRAGMENT.
,e No tree can be compared to the 1chsn,i, whici.
p Spring has crowned with thousand tlowers, No
y human being can be compared to brother A
a. brother laments fhe death of his brothsr with
n tears Of real grief We're his corpse hanging
p over an abyss, fixed on the point of Il rock, ~
. eplunged into the polluted waters of the t!eenes.
-gulf, he would procure for it grave. Tie iur q
dove means alone in the silence of the wood, ~
have a brother who shares my sff1iclcn,
most tenderfrends only endeavour to CO.'S
' My brother feels my grief as do. 1t is sis
When peril approaches, my brother shelters
''lwith his own person. What delight to STE M