Clearfield Republican

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

New Settlement.—A new settlement
has been started at Hammonton, New Jersey, which for success and progress rivals
anything we have heard of in the West.—
There is a large emigration having objection to the West on account of unhealthfulness, distance and association, which
embraces this new enterprise. The land
is in a genial climate, and the soil is said
to be amongst the best Jersey soil. Jersey,
as will be seen by the statistics at the Patent Office, is the first agricultural State in
the Union for the value of its products.—
Hammonton is within thirty miles of Philadelphia by railroad, and enjoys one of the
best markets in the Union. The tide of
emigration to this place is immense, as
well from the West as from the North.—
Many of the best grape growers of Ohio
have located, with a view to making wine.
To judge of its progress, the population
one year ago is numbered at only five persons; it now numbers over eight hundred
souls, has one hundred and twenty-five
buildings, three stores, two churches, Episcopal and Methodist, steam mill, brickyard,
marble yard, public school, newspaper, &c., some twenty-five miles of new
roads opened, six square miles being improved, a new railroad station, and all the
elements of an old place. We are satisfied
that this place must possess merit from its
unparalleled progress.