 MOUNTAIN SAILING.
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On Monday last. the inhabitants of Hol- lidaysburg were permitted to witness mo- veity in the tide of emigration, which the completion of the grand chain of internal improvements has caused to flow through this channel, and by which the Mississippi and Delaware have been made, as 1t were, to unite their waters, and which has opened a new field ln which to display the ever va rying and never tring, and most universal ly successful native talent, for developing the undiscoyeredresources of this great and growing country.

 A gentleman of the name of Jesse Chrlsman, from Laekawanna, tributary of the north brance of the Susquehanna river, embarked himself and family, in all con- slsting of eleven persons, together with the necessary requisites for the comforts of a family, to wit beds, tables, chairs, stoves, cooking utensils, poultry, pigeons, &c. &c. on board canal boat of the following di- mensions: 29 feet long aud ' feet 1t wide, wide ofl which he proceeded down the north branch canal to the junction of the Juniata division of the Pennsylvania canal, and up the lat ter to HollIdaysburg, where he intended to dispose of his boat, and proceed by way of the Portage rail road and western division of our canal to Pittsburgh, on his way to the town of Hennepin, in the State of Illi- nols, upwards of fifteen hundred miles from whence he embarked, on the now tanned waters of the Susquehanna.

 Here It was suggested to Mir. Chrisman, by our friend, John Dougherty, proprietor of the Reliance transportation line, that 1t would be practicable to pass the boat, to- gether with the family and cargo. over the lowering heights of the Alleghany mountain, ana safely to land the same in the basin at Johnstown, whence they might proceed by water to St. Louis.

 MT. Dougherty accordingly prepared a rall road car, calculated to bear the novel burthen. The boat was taken from it's proper element and placed on wheels, and, by the superlntendence of Maj. c. Will llams, who politely offered his services to play captain of rail road cars and canal boats, (and who, be 1t remembered, was inc tsrst man who run a boat over the Alleaha- ny mountaln,) at twelve o'clock of the same day, the boat and cargo, together with the delighted family, began their progress over the rugged Alleghany. It was pleas ing to see the comfort and convenience that the ingenuity of man has added to the Journey ot the emigrant. The whole fam- y were comfortably located in the cabin off the boat, which appeared to glide up the heights of the Alleghanies, unconscious off its being fish out of water, whilst some oi the family were preparing the coming meal, others were lying on their downy pil l ]! low, occasionally aroused by the hissing of the steam from the engines at the head of the inclined planes, but they were not to be stopped by this hissing of the puf1ing audi l tory, but continued to ascend the proud emipence which the projection of ingenuity was destined to attain.

 And now. you may see her safely resting on the summit of the Alleghany mountain might has oyertaken thenl, and ahere they :