The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-10-10


pirogue, bringing some four five tons of lead and
furs, and their departure taking away few barrels
of whiskey, -four merchandise.
| Now, some two or three hundred large and splen-
did steamboats, annually arrive bringing with them
thousands of tons of the tobacco the hemp, the pork,
the beef, the flour, the whiskey, &c. of Kentucky,
Ohio and Indiana, the lead and urs Of Missouri, Hi
nois and Arkansas and the cotton and sugar of Ten
nesse, Alabama, and Louisiana, and in return take
vast quantities Of the castings, the bar iron, the boiler
iron, the nails The farming utensils, the glass, the cot
goods and various other articles manufactured in
our city.
Fifty years ago, could scarcely manufacture the
axes necessary to cut down the lofty oaks which en-
numbered our hills and vallies now, we manufacture
steam engines of gigantic power, and accurate finish,
to be applied to various the North River, the
Northern Lakes, the valley of the Mississippi, the
gar plantations of Louisiana, and in the mines Of
Mexico
| Forty years ago, window-glass, our tumblers
and decanters, were imported from Europe now,
wjndowgass gives light to the citizens of Boston and
of the state of Maine, and our splendid Flint Glass
decorates the table of the President of these twenty
four States.
But our progress in improvement has not been con-
fined to the manufacturing and mechanic arts era-
ture and science which must always follow at
pecul distance in the rear of advancing civilization,
are also making among Slow but sure progress.
A boardlngschoo now occupies the field of Brad
docks defeat, and innocent and artless females fear
essy stray over that ground, where Americans and
Britons, Frenchmen and Indians formerly mingled in
mortal strife. Long after that event, within the
collection of many still living, rude block house
protected the settlers the very spot where in nea;
academy, their descendants now instructed in the
classics.
To indulge the Imagination still further had the
British officer, whose remans with his evidences OF
rank, were lately disnterred by farmers plough at
that moment awoke from his long sleep, his eyes would
have first fallen with anazement upon the battlemens
of the neghborlng Arsenal, and on the starry and
striped banner of unknown nation, that loaed
him. Had he retraced his once bloody trail to the
fatal height where the unfortunate Grant had invited
disastrous battle, he would observe noble reservoir
filled with the pure water of the Allegheny, and the
foundation of Cathedral-the hill itself divided and
the whole plan cut off and insulated by canal-to-
wards Fort Du Quesne, the smoke of thousand
chmneys, where he had left the smoke of many rifles
beneath the round termination of the ridge to the
South, the Caledonan mil ht perceive group of his
hardy countrymen, not graphing with the French and
Indians, but in the peaceful operation of rearing the
Ionic columns of magnificent university, over which
an erudte Scotsman--a Bruce, now presides.
Pittsburgh Gazette.
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From the Farmer.
CIDER.
Directions for making Sweet clear Cider that shall retain
ats fhe uinous favor, and keep good for Tong time
casks, like tcine.
1t of Importance in making cider, that the mill the press
and all the materials be from must To make