all others that were inclined to do their duty, to almost certain death; and at last, in despite of all the efforts of the officers to the contrary, they ran, as sheep pursued by dogs, and it was impossible to rally them.

“The General was wounded, of which he died three days after. Sir Peter Halkett was killed in the field, where died many other brave officers. I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me. Capts. Orme and Morris, two of the aids-de-camp, were wounded early in the engagement, which rendered the duty hard upon me, as I was the only person then left to distribute the General's orders; which I was scarcely able to do, as I was not half recovered from a violent illness, that had confined me to my bed and a wagon for above ten days. I am still in a weak and feeble condition, which induces me to halt here two or three days, in the hope of recovering a little strength to enable me to proceed homeward."

And to his brother John he writes at the same time: "As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you that I have not yet composed the latter. But, by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat,* and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was levelling my companions on every side of me !"

Arrived at our journey's end, we have little more to say. PITTSBURG lies in a triangular position, between the Alleghany and the Monongahela-the first flowing in from a north-east, and the other from a south-east direction. Passing on each side of the city, they unite their waters at its western point, and thus form, and thus

* When Washington went to the Ohio, in 1770, to explore wild lands near the mouth of the Kenawha river, he met an aged Indian chief, who told him, through an interpreter, that during the battle of Braddock's field he had singled him out as a conspicuous object, fired his rifle at him many times, and directed his young warriors to do the same; but none of his balls took effect. He was then persuaded that the young hero was under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, and ceased firing at him. He had now come a long way to pay homage to the man who was the particular favorite of heaven, and who could never die in battle.

stretches forth the broad and beautiful Ohio. In this respect Pittsburg is situated somewhat similarly to New York, and it will not be many years before it will bear comparison with that great commercial emporium in many other respects. The present population is about fifty thousand, including the manufacturing villages adjacent, and Alleghany city opposite, which properly constitutes a portion of the main city. The land upon which it stands was originally owned by the Penn family, under whose auspices the town was surveyed and laid off in lots, in 1765, at which time it contained but a few log houses, hurriedly thrown up by the Indian traders and other adventurers. Its progress since has been rapid and extraordinary; and its future prospects are brighter than ever.

As a manufacturing and distributing point, Pittsburg must ultimately become, if it is not now, the most important interior city in this country. The transportation of nearly every article of manufacture intended for western consumption, from the Atlantic sea-board to the western waters is, and always must be, an item of serious expense, which the consumer naturally desires to avoid. This is particularly the case in reference to heavy bodies, as iron, wood, glass, earthen and other wares, and it is in the production of these articles that Pittsburg is most extensively engaged. With inexhaustible beds of coal and iron, with abundance of salt, minerals, lumber, wool, and an endless variety of agricultural facilities-standing at the head of the longest continuous river in the world, with uninterrupted navigation throughout, as well as to points radiating from it, comprising thousands of miles of uninterrupted water navigation, penetrating every point of the great, grand, and glorious West-to say nothing of the canal and railway system forming a net-work of more interior intercourse-Pittsburg is, and ever must be, the principal theatre of the productive greatness of this vast continent! Nature has so ordained it she has fixed her stamp of greatness upon it, and her right to enjoy it there is none to dispute.

The annexed view of Pittsburg is afforded from the hill above Sligo, nearly opposite its western point. The editor of the Wheeling Times, (which has always been a rival city,) in speaking of the visit of a Board of Inquiry appointed to select a site for the United States Marine Hospital, some years ago, used the following eloquent language:

"This Board found Pittsburg a much larger place than Wheeling;

they found it a thriving place, with numerous engines, furnaces, and machinery; they found it with a rich and industrious population-a people that would work, and would therefore prosper-at the same time they found them an hospitable, gentlemanly class of beings, possessed of intelligence and willing to impart it. They doubtless took an early excursion upon the hills that environ the city. They looked down, and a sea of smoke lay like the clouds upon Chimborazo's base. No breath of air moved its surface; but a sound rose from its depths like the roar of Niagara's waters, or the warring of the spirits in the cavern of storms. They looked around them, and saw no signs of life or human habitation. They looked above them, and the summer sun, like a haughty warrior, was driving his coursers up the eastern sky. Then from the sea of smoke a vapor rose-another and another cloud rode away, and a speck of silvery sheen glittered in the sunbeams.

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'Again, a spire came into view, pointing heavenward its long slim finger; then a roof—a house-top-a street; and lo! a city lay like a map spread out by magic hand, and ten thousand busy mortals were seen in the pursuit of wealth, of fame, of love, of fashion. On the left, a noble river came heaving onward from the wilderness of the north, bearing on its bosom the treasures of the forest. On the right, an unassuming but no less useful current quietly yielded to the vessel's prow that bore from a more genial soil the products of the earth. They looked again, and extending downward through fertile and cultivated vales, checkered with gently swelling hills, they saw the giant trunk formed by the union of these noble branches. Ruffling its mirrored surface, they saw the noble steamer leaping like the panting courser, bearing a rich burden from the far sunny south; another, gathering strength and rolling onward to commence its long journey past fertile fields, high hills, rich and flourishing cities, and forests wide and drear, bearing the hand-work of her artisans to Mississippi, Texas, Mexico, the groves of India, and the hills of Pernambuco-nay, to every land to which the sun in its daily course gives light. Such they saw Pittsburg; and as such, as a citizen of the West, we are proud of her.”

And as such, a citizen of Pennsylvania, we are proud of her. But, alas! for the smoke! There is too much of that here-our anthracital experience never could be overcome sufficiently to allow our bituminization. You cannot walk the streets with a clean face or a white