"THE College buildings are constructed in a style of architecture which will vie with the proudest collegiate edifices. They are situated on the southeast corner of Market and Hampstead Hill streets, on the most elevated ground within the limits of Baltimore, and command a magnificent view of the Patapsco, of the city and the surrounding country. The buildings will range one hundred and ninety-five feet on Hampstead Hill st., and consist in part of a circular centre building, forty feet in diameter, having four stories at unequal height, for the convenience of Lecture halls, Laboratory, Dissecting rooms, Museum, Library. This part of the edifice is flanked at four corresponding equi-distant points by turrets, six stories high, castellated with obelisk roofs, and decorated with Gothick windows and doors. The two wings (the eastern already finished and occupied) are each sixty feet by forty, being five stories in height. The apartments are numerous, spacious and lofty, affording ample room for a classification of the patients, and, when completed, will contain between three and four hundred beds. The apartments appropriated to house students will accommodate forty or fifty individuals, and are most agreeable and inviting to young gentlemen who may prefer to reside in the College edifice. There are also apartments specially designed for strangers who may be taken ill in our city, and who prefer being retired from the noise and confusion of a hotel, and wish a place where good nurses, medical attendance, and every convenience contributing to their comfort will be provided. It is believed that this peculiar feature will render this Institution very popular with strangers who may take apartments here, and whe can have the attendance of any physician they prefer, and will be free to receive their friends and visiters as unrestrained as in their own homes. No infec tious diseases are admitted within the wards of this hospital." FACULTY. James H. Miller, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. Samuel K. Jennings, M. D., Professor of Materi Medica, Therapeuticks, and Legal Medicine. Wm. W. Handy, M. D., Professor of Obstetricks and Diseases of Women and Children. John C. S. Monker, M. D., Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine. Edward Foreman, M. D., Professor of Chymistry John R. W. Dunbar, M. D., Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. Washington R. Handy, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy. OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE. James H. Miller, President. [1838.] Teel T wee THE city of Buffalo is situated on the east end of lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara river, of the great Erie canal, and at the mouth of Buffalo creek. It is a city of rapid growth, and of extensive trade. Splendid stores occupied and filled with goods tastefully displayed at the windows-blocks of new stores and other buildings going up-steamboats arriving and departing, crowded with passengers, and loaded with freight-omnibuses rolling through the thronged streets-all these seem to impress one with the idea that he is in the heart of one of the great At¿lantick cities. Among the public buildings the postoffice is worthy of attention. It is situated on the corner of Washington and Seneca streets in the old Baptist church. O. H. Dibble, postmaster, H. Case, assist ant. The first mail ever received here was in March, 1803. It was brought from the east on horseback. It was afterward brought regularly, once in two weeks, in this manner; subsequently a stage-wagon was used. As the country advanced in improvement, he route was changed to twice and three times a week, and finally to a daily route. There are at the present time, sixty-six mails per week received, made up, and despatched from this postoffice. The amount of postage on letters received for dis tribution is $40,000 per quarter. The amount received for, and delivered in the city alone, is $5,900; which together with the amount charged on letters mailed there, makes the amount of business annually about two hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred dollars. ces. PUMICE-STONE. PUMICE-STONE is a substance frequently thrown out of volcanoes, and which is found of considerable use in the arts. It is very full of pores, and resembles the frothy slag produced in our iron furnaIt is of two colours, black and white, the former being that which it has when thrown out of the volcano, the latter, as Cronstedt conjectures, being produced by exposure to the air. M. Majellan considers it rather as a volcanick ejection than a volcanick production; and describes it as of a white, reddish-brown, gray, or black colour. It is of a rough and porous consistence, being made up of slender fibres parallel to each other, and very light, so that it swims on water. It strikes fire with steel, though with difficulty. A hundred parts contain from six to fifteen of magnesia, with a small proportion of calcareous earth, and the greatest part silex. Another kind of pumice, which seems to be a ferruginous granite altered by fire, was discovered by Dolomieu at Stromboli. Pumice-stone is used for rubbing and smoothing the surface of metals, wood, pasteboard, and stone. It cuts most bodies rapidly when rubbed with water PHILADELPHIA THEATRE. The approach to the boxes is from Chestnut street, through an arcade of five entrances, openTHEATRICAL exhibitions by a regular company ing into a vestibule fifty-eight feet long by eight were performed in Philadelphia, as early as 1754; feet wide, communicating, at each end, with the The audience and a theatre was erected in that city, in 1759. box-office, and a drawing-room. The building was at Society Hill, in South-street; part of the house is described on a semicircle of then the outskirts of the city. In spite of the forty-six feet in diameter, and containing three opposition of those who conscientiously disap-tiers of boxes. The form of the house is such proved of theatrical entertainments, the company continued their exhibitions till 1776, when a new theatre was opened in the same part of the city. But the revolution put an end to their perform ances. In 1793, a theatre was built in Chestnut street, and was occupied as such for twenty-seven years; and the performances were generally of a high degree of excellence. The building was burnt in 1820, and as was generally believed, by design. Another theatre was soon after erected on the same spot. And there are now three buildings of the kind in Philadelphia, which are considered an honor to the city and the architects. The principal front of the building, a view of which is here presented, is on Chestnut street, near Sixth street. It is in the Italian style, and the material marble. Its most prominent features are an arcade, supporting a screen of composite columns, and a plain entablature, and is flanked by two wings. These are decorated with niches, containing statues of tragedy and comedy, which are considered the best productions from the chisel of Rush; and immediately below them are semicircuar recesses, with basso-relievos, representing the tragic and comic muses. as to place the mass of the audience within thirty-five feet of the stage. The dome is fortysix feet in diameter. The whole building is one hundred and fifty by ninety-two, and will accommodate two thousand people. This theatre combines beauty and convenience, with great security. There are three large door ways, which will discharge a crowded house in a few minutes. It was designed and executed by W. Strickland. When it was opened in 1822, an ap propriate address was made, written by Mr. Sprague of Boston. A COMPANION that is cheerful and free from swearing and scurrilous discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as does not make friends asha med to look upon one another next morning, nor men that cannot well bear it, to repent the money that they spent when they be warmed with drink. And take this for a rule: you may pick out such times and such companions, that you may make yourselves merrier for a little than a great deal of money-for "t is the company, and not the charge, that makes the feast." ful summer residences in this country. To the traveller, the scholar, the man of taste, and indeed to every American, a new interest is added to the locale of one of Irving's best sketches. The genius of the Pioneer of American Literature sheds its lustre around this rural retreat, and many a child of genius, as he approaches the delightful spot, will feel that he is treading upon holy ground. sors, in the eyes, not only of his countrymen, but of transatlantick admirers. He has established a fame in England as permanent as that of her best writers. I was yet a lad when mirth and sympathy drew The constellation of American literature is now tears from my eyes as I read the adventures of the bright with many luminaries; but Mr. Irving's fame renowned Ichabod, the schoolmaster and psalm-beams in splendour not yet equalled by his successinger of that dreamy vale called Sleepy Hollow. When I read of his school discipline, his unrivalled psalmody, his unrequited love for the beautiful Kairina Van Tassel, and his horrible midnight race with the Headless Horseman, alias, Brom Bones and an illuminated pumpion, I believed every word to be as true as the witch stories of Cotton Mather. And when in after years I passed the residence of the good old Baltus Van Tassel, its projecting eves covered with green moss, and the spacious "stoop," still festooned with woodbine and honeysuckle as in days lang syne," I almost imagined I saw the blooming face of Katrina peering through the sevenby-nine glasses of a primitive window, and I involuntarily listened as I passed along the margin of the vale, to catch the distant nasal strains of Ichabod. Previous to the appearance of the "Sketch Book" scarcely a single work from an American pen had been deemed worthy of republication by the London publishers. But no sooner did the English publick become acquainted with "Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," than they sought to know him better. The first authors of that country bestowed upon Mr. Irving the meed of just praise; and a celebrated magazine writer pronounced him the "Goldsmith of the age." Attention was then turned to the budding genius of America, and its talented representative was received as an honoured guest into the highest literary circles of the British metropolis. But the hand of modern improvement has changed High as Mr. Irving stood in the literary world, that primitive scene. In 1835, WASHINGTON IRVING, the appearance of Bracebridge Hall, or the HuEsq, purchased this relick of the days of the Knick-mourist," increased his reputation as a pleasing and erbockers, whose vicinity he has immortalized in story, and converted the old low-roofed mansion where Ichabod ate minced pies, and ogled with his "green glassy eyes" the fair Katrina, into the elegant and picturesque Anglo-Dutch edifice portrayed in the above picture. The grounds about it have been cleared, the thick copse that concealed the Taappan Zee" from view has been levelled, and Mr. Irving has rendered it one of the most delight elegant writer. The work gives a faithful picture of English feelings and manners, their old popular customs, May-day sports, and Christmas revelries. The " Alhambra" and "Astoria" are among his subsequent standard productions. His writings are few when compared with many of his contemporaries, but they all have that elegance of finish so necessary to establish an enduring fame, which few of the more voluminous authors exhibit. Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania. EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY, PENNSYL VANIA. THE annual increase of the number of convicts, and the insufficiency of the prisons in Philadelphia for their accommodation, induced the legislature, in 1821, to authorize the construction of another, in which the separate confinement of every convict, day and night, could be fully accomplished. This prison is represented in our engraving. The Eastern State Penitentiary is situated on one of the most elevated, airy, and healthy sites, in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The corner-stone of the front building was laid on the 22d of May, 1823. Large sums have been expended for the purpose of giving an unusual degree of solidity and durability to every part of this immense structure, which is the most extensive building in the United States. The ground occupied by it contains about ten acres. supported by pointed arches, resting on corbels or brackets. The pointed munnioned windows in these towers contribute in a high degree to their picturesque effect. The curtain between the towers is forty-one feet high, and is finished with a parapet and embrasures. The pointed windows in it are very lofty and narrow. The great gateway in the centre is a very conspicuous feature; it is twentyseven feet high, and fifteen wide, and is filled by a massive wrought iron portcullis, and double oaken gates, studded with projecting iron rivets, the whole weighing several tuns; nevertheless, they can be opened with the greatest facility. On each side of this entrance, which is the most imposing in the United States, are enormous solid buttresses, dimin ishing in offsets, and terminating in pinnacles. A lofty octangular tower, eighty feet high, containing an alarm-bell and clock, surmounts this entrance, and The front of this building is composed of large forms a picturesque proportional centre. On each blocks of hewn and squared granite; the walls are side of this main building, which contains the apart twelve feet thick at the base, and diminish to the ments of the warden, keepers, domesticks, &c., are top, where they are two feet and nine inches in thick-screen wing walls, which appear to constitute por ness. A wall of thirty feet in height above the interiour platform encloses an area six hundred and forty feet square: at each angle of the wall is a tower for the purpose of overlooking the establishment; three other towers are situated near the gate of entrance. The facade or principal front, is six hundred and seventy feet in length, and reposes on a terrace, which, from the inequalities of the ground, varies from three to nine feet in height; the basement or belting course, which is ten feet high, is scarped, and extends uniformly the whole length. The centre building is two hundred feet in length, and consists of two projecting massive square towers fifty feet high, crowned by projecting embattled parapets, tions of the main edifice; they are pierced with small, blank, pointed windows, and are surmounted by a parapet; at their extremities are high octangu lar towers terminating in parapets, pierced by embrasures. In the centre of the great courtyard is an observatory, whence long corridors, eight in number, radiate. On each side of these corridors the cells are situated, each at right angles to them, and communicating with them only by small openings, for the purpose of supplying the prisoner with food, and for the purpose of inspecting his movements without attracting his attention; other apertures, for the admission of cool or heated air, and for the purpose of ventilation, are provided. A novel and in |