a degree of happiness the mind is capable of en-
joying, under privations like these, when it has
been preserved in a good degree of innocency.

A friend in the neighbour-
hood gave me an account of an acquaintance of
his, a native of Ireland, but who now resides
near Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania,
which I think worth preserving. This person
left Ireland when he was nearly 16 years old, and
his whole property when he landed amounted only
to about 12 guineas. He has now established
extensive iron works where he resides, in which
he employs towards of 50 waggon teams; and the
profits of which, last year, amounted to twenty-five
thousand pounds. What makes it the more re-
markable is, that two persons possessing a large
capital had been ruined some time before, in an
attempt to establish the same concern.

In walking out this evening,
I met with two German families on their way to
he Ohio. On entering into conversation with
them, they informed me, that they were yet 500
miles distant from the place of their destination.
The were a company of fine, healthy looking
people, and travelled along with apparent chear-
fulness. The older females and the little ones were
upon beds in their covered waggons, whilst the