UNITED STATES
... Extract of a private letter, tlateil Philadelphia, December.22, 181!7:- - I T hare great pleasurc in inforinhig you, that af- fairs oln this sale the Atlantic (to not ilow wear so gloomy all aspect as when I last wrote. Trade be- gins to revive, and contitdence amnolig the merchants is couniderably restoredl. The return of spring will, I trust, pat inatters on a still better footing, and ...