Begs leave to inform the public, that he has received from Philadelphia, a quantity of Russia Sail Duck--also, a quantity of Blocks, of various sizes; and that he is ready to receive orders from any place to make sails for boats or vessels of any size--likewise sacking bottoms, either of country cloth or Russia duck. From an experience of twenty years following the sea, he flatters himself he will be enabled to give satisfaction to those who may want any thing in his line. BOAT LOST. _Lost at the time of the last Fresh of the River_, A handsome Boat, Twenty feet keel, painted green outside, and red inside, a heart painted on the stern, the moulding and stern painted yellow and a keel from stem to stern. Whoever has taken up said boat, or will give information where she may be found, shall be handsomely rewarded, on application to CHARLES IMSEN, O'Hara's Glassworks. TAKEN UP A DRIFT In the time of the flood, in February last, a Broken Raft of Scantling and Boards, & landed them near the foot of Sandy Creek Island, in the Allegheny river. The subscriber supposing the owner would soon come, and take care of his property, which he did not, and they lying in a bad way, and a spoiling, he has drawn the raft, and secured it, and requests the owner to come, and prove his property, pay charges, and take it away. MICHAEL BRIGHT. 1816 "There is always a peculiar solemnity which impresses every thoughtful mind on the birthday of another Year. The year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, with all its cares, with all its bustle, its pleasures and its pains, has gone, and now mingles with the departed dreams of our midnight slumbers. How many of us imagined while engaged in the din and bustle and uproar of the world, that this era would form an important epoch in the history of man? and yet all these thoughts have now vanished, and scarce left a record on the pages of memory behind!" _Gazette, Jan. 14, 1817._ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Pittsburgh in 1816, by Various