gradually improve by increasing the 
means of instruction. All voters 
for instance ought to be able to read 
and write! 
% As long as slavery and degrada- 
tion shall exist on this boasted free 
soil, or a large population be degra- 
ded by oppression or else profound 
ignorance, we cannot even claim to 
be on a level with those nations that 
are free from this blemish, which 
debases both freemen and slaves. 
But we may gradually change slave- 
ry into vassalage, educate every free- 
man or leave the remedies to those 
who feel the evil. 
3. The monopoly of the booksel- 
lers ought to be checked by introdu- 
cing the hawkers in competition as 
in France. 
4. Their actual practice of repub- 
lishing only English books to save 
copyrights, or only a few novels, idle 
tales, biographies, travels, children 
and school books besides, may be 
checked by patriotic associations for 
publishing nothing but American 
works. 
5. Associations of authors, prin- 
ters and friends of the country might 
be formed to form a fund by sub- 
scription for this purpose, or to loan 
funds, to be repaid out of the gradu- 
al sales. 
6. Agents might be eatablished 
in every town and village to sell 
these American works at 10 per cent 
commission, like every other manual 
facture, but to prevent collisions 
these agents ought to sell none but 
such American works. 
T. Authors ought to agree to put 
no books into the booksellers hands, 
vnless bought, at a discount leaving 
them from 40 to 60 per cent profit! 
Surely enough! 
8. Wealthy or influential men 
ought to feel a national and rational 
pride in fostering American talents 
and genius wherever met, even un- 
der a modest garb, 
9. Station of trust or profit, and 
above all literary stations and colle- 
giate chairs ought always to be given 
to the most worthy by public compe- 
tition. 
10. The last remedy which we 
venture to suggest, consists in trying 
to induce our most ingenious men to 
endeavor to discover a inode by which 
a few copies of a work may be prin- 
ted as cheap per copy as when many 
are printed. Although we cannot 
now see how this can be done, we 
know that almost nothing is impossi- 
ble to modern mechanism and inge- 
nuity. Stereotype printing has en- 
abled to multiply still more impress- 
ions it is now required to simplify it 
by machinery so as to print a few 
copies at a time whenever required. 
We have already seen a machine by 
which a man could print %s fast as 
he could write. If this could be 
improved and print 10 or 20 or 50 at 
a time, the discovery would be com- 
pleted. Its advantages would be 
incalculable, since it would no long- 
er require a large capital to print a 
work, but small editions might be 
printed as often as required. 
The inventor of this oligotype 
printing would deserve ample fame 
and reward. 
B. Franklin, Junr. 
90. Ancient Monuments of Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania by Major 
Adlum. 
Western Pennsylvania has seve- 
ral Ancient Monuments (similar to 
those of Ohio and West Virginia) 
near Pittsburg, Meadville, the Mo- 
nongahela, &c. which are already 
described; but it Was uot known 
that any existed also in the Allegha- 
ny mts. Major Adlum who was 
long a surveyor on the waters of the 
Susquehannah, furnished me in 
1825 with an account of several 
which he explored between 1792 
and 1800 while the country was yet 
a wilderness. They must have be- 
longed to the oldest'lndian tribes of 
this state, since the villages of the 
Lenaps who dwelt in E. Pennsylva- 
nia are now quite obliterated, being 
built of less solid materials. C.S.Il. 
