The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-29
PENNSYLVANIA.

PITTsBURGH.-A correspondent ofthe Cleve-
land Herald gives the following information a.
bout Pittsburgh:
The population of Pittsburgh and Allegheny
ci 6 IS, and the villages in the vicinity, includ-
liz j circuit five square miles, is estimated
at $4,000. The home manufactures and me-
chanical productions amount to SSl2, OOO, 900 an
.lually. There are SO places of religious wor-
ship. Pittsburgh has ever been celebrated for
its high moral and religious character. Noticed
here on the Sabbath, that the streets were filled
with church going people. The man who will
not shave and put on clean shirt on the Sab
bath, is not good member of society
not such man. He will do any dirty work.
H.r are 100 schools of various kinds-many
o! item ''pubic schools" where the children
o the poor are educated at the expense of the
public, as they should be. Every dollar, tax,
that man pays for the purposes of education,
is only small premium, rs additional security
on his property, his life and h.. 'i',erty. Here
are Banks and Insurance a.n.,A.i;s rmploy-
ing capital of $s5,000,000 Twenty news
papers; truly this speaks WELL They must be
here a reading, as they are highly intelligent,
pe >"le. Daily lines fstage coaches and ca
nj ,oats, 20:-single and double lines of ca
nal freight boats. II:--annual arrivals and de-
paIture of steam vessels engaged in the river
l. lde, 2,500:-annual sales in the various de-
artments of merchandise, $4,000, 000:--an-
nual amount of freight or mechandze and pro-
,iuce passing through the account of non resi-
dent owners, Ss3, 000, GOO. This last item will
be greatly increased in consequence Of the con-
struction of the canal from Beaver to Akron;
and this new channel of communication, will
OF vast country for Pittsburgh to supply
wit i her manufactures. So much for the home
u, Off h,oi oG cfa
nigh am.
Prssentment byth Grand Jury.-The Grand
ury, who have had before them for some days
Il subject of the Naturalization frauds, lately
.scovered TO have been perpetrated in some of
our courts, made presentment yesterday,
which duplicates the Clerk ofthe Criminal SEES
sion. tits due to the public, that the matter
should be fully and thoroughly investigated,
ar | The guilty, whoever they are, brought to
il e. Unless this is done the purity Of the
banot box can be no longer relied on, and oui
elections will be little better than a solemn
mockery.-PhiLa. o. s. Gas. '
The SrEREoToMIc PAvEMENT.-The work
men are busily engaged, says the Ledger, IL
Walnut street, south Of the Exchange, in laying
the pavement there. BY the manner in which
lie blocks are laid, they form arch. Eacl
ow of the blocks is pinned to the row preceding
them by two pins each; and these, with the lap.
ping shape of the blocks, constitute the arch
Alter careful examination Of this mode, we arr
|. TO the conclusion that, while this plan I'M
de .ptedly adds to the firmness of the genera
structure, il cannot, by any possibility, preven
its wear and tear OH the surface The blocks in
use have neither been submitted to DIR. Earlc'
nor Mr.. Rysn's process.
PHILADELPHIA TRACT SOCIETY," The, 'rhir
teenth Annual Rel rt OF the Philadelphia Tract
Society has been NJ. lie. There have been dis
tribrtsd within the last year, Asa, 400 tracts, il
the English, French, and German Languages
amounting to $4,000 pages. or sS,9O'
families in the city and liberties that have beef
81. tied, only 269 have refused to receive tracts