one from Bermuda. Grand total of the salaries of the officers and clerks, employed at Washington, per annum, $351,887.

wheelbarrow. The work was procured to be the Red Book. Including the President, there done by the person who makes the report, are twenty-one different departments, or for the sake of experiment, and the statement offices, at Washington. In these offices there may, at the present time, be useful. The are employed, or at least paid, two hundred first day, the boy worked 2 hours, from 6 to and fifty-seven persons. Two hundred and 8-wheeled 21 loads; do. 3 do. from 9 to 12 two are clerks, and twenty-three messengers do. 38 do.; do. 3 do. from 1 to 4-do. 34 and assistant messengers. Of the above do.; do. 2 1-2 do. from 5 to sunset de. 27 do. number, forty-five are foreigners by birth, -10 1-2 hours, first day, wheeled 120 loads. viz. twenty-one Irishmen, twelve English--Second day, worked 2 hours, from 6 to 8-men, four Scotchmen, three Swedes, two wheeled 28 loads; do. worked 1 hour from Germans, one Russian, one from Tortola and 1 to 2, wheeled 13 loads.-13 1-2 hours. Loads of stone thrown out of the excavation, 10.-Total, 171 loads. The whole distance the boy walked in performing this work, (exclusive of carrying wood and water to the kitchen as wanted) was 17,710 feet, which is something more than three miles and a third, and the number of square cubic feet of earth and stones removed was 263; and which I am now confident would have been finished the first day, had I not forbid the boy commencing his work before 6 in the morning, and had he not been obliged, during the greater part of the first day, constantly to make use of a pickaxe before his spade could penetrate, which is made clear and plain, by his carrying the second morning 28 loads in two hours.instead of 21,as on the first morning, although it is to be supposed, that he was not so fresh on the second day as the first when he commenced. A COMMISSIONER.

The last impost on American produce and manufactures has expired; but the old duty on salt, and 3d. per lb. on tobacco continues. American boats may now be taken into this province and sold, without duty, as American manufactures.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

The President of the United States is performing a tour through the middle and north ern states, to inspect the public works, and ascertain the condition of the national de

fence.

By information from the General Land Office, the surveys of the military bounty lands will be completed, and patents issued, next August. The locations will be made by, lottery. A soldier applying for a patent in person, or by letter, must produce his warrant, or his certificate from the war department that the warrant is lodged in the Land Office, and he must say whether he chooses land in the Illinois or Missouri Territory. An agent applying for a patent, in addition to the above, must produce a power of At torney. In cases where receipts have been lodged in the Land Office, the receipts of the Office must be produced.

The following is an abstract of the number of offices, and the whole amount of salarics, of the several departments, taken from

The Commissioners of the Navy have advertised that they will receive proposals for supplying the machinery for three steambatteries, each to be equal to an 120 horse power, and to be completed in one year from the day of contracting.

A case was lately decided in the Circuit Court of the United States, which determined the validity of Baker's Patent Pump Box. A suit had been commenced by the Agents of the Pump Company, under Perkins' Patent, against Baker, for an infringement of his rights. The prosecution was managed by Mr. Gorham, and the defence was conducted by Messrs. G. Sullivan and Webster. The Jury in their verdict found the Plaintiff had not sustained his declaration, and was entitled to no damages.

Ralph I. Ingersoll, Esq. of New-Haven, is appointed Clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the District of Connecticut, in the place of Henry W. Edwards, Esq. resigned.

John Heath, Esq. late Captain in the Marine Corps, is appointed by the President to be Consul of the United States for the island of Teneriffe.

The commissioners under the 4th article of the treaty of Ghent, for settling the boundary between the United States and the British provinces, are the hon. Thomas Barclay, British; hon. John Holmes, American. The agents-hon. Ward Chipman, British; James T. Austin, American. Secretary-Anthony Barclay, Esq. The duty of the board is to ascertain and determine to which of the parties "the islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy, and Grand Menan, in the Bay of Fundy," belong.

The commissioners under the 5th article, consist of hon. Thomas Barclay, British; hon. Cornelius P. Van Ness, American. Agents-hon. Ward Chipman, British; hon.

Bradley, American. Secretary-Henry H. Orne, Esq. of New-Hampshire. Their duty is to ascertain, determine, and mark the line from the source of the St. Croix to the high lands, thence to the source of the Connecticut river, thence to the 45th degree of latitude, and in that parallel to the St. Law

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

The following statement on an interesting subject, has recently appeared in a letter from Thomas M'Kean, late Governor of Pennsylvania.

rence. These two boards are now sitting in tle surprised af, nor could I account for the
Boston. The commissioners under the 5th omission; because I knew that on the 24th
and 7th articles are General Peter B. Porter, of June preceding, the deputies from the
American; John Ogilvy, Esq. British. Agent committees of Pennsylvania assembled in
-Col. Hawkins, American. The agent on provincial conference, held at the Carpen-
the part of Great Britain, not appointed, and ter's Hall, Philadelphia, which had met on
the name of the Secretary is not known. the 18th, and chosen me their president, had
Their duty is to ascertain and determine the unanimously declared their willingness to
residue of the boundary from the forty-fifth concur in a vote of the Congress, declaring
degree on the St. Lawrence to the north- the United Colonies free and independent
westernmost point of the Lake of the Wood. states, and had ordered their declaration to
They have proceeded to St. Regis. Col. be signed, and their president to deliver it
Bouchette, Surveyor-General of Canada, is into Congress, which accordingly I did the
associated to the commissions under all the day following; I knew also, that a regiment
above articles; and is in Boston.
of associates, of which I was colonel, had at
the end of May before, unanimously made
the same declaration. These circumstances
were mentioned at the time, to gentlemen of
my acquaintance. The error remained un-
corrected till the year 1781, when I was ap-
pointed to publish the laws of Pennsylvania,
to which I prefixed the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and inserted my own name, with
the names of my colleagues. Afterwards, in
1797, when the late A. J. Dallas, Esq. then
secretary of the Commonwealth, was ap-
pointed to publish an edition of the Laws,
on comparing the names published as sub-
scribed to the Declaration of Independence,
he observed a variance, and the omission, in
some publications, of the name of Thomas
M Kean: having procured a certificate from
the Secretary of State that the name of Tho-
mas M'Kean was affixed in his own hand
writing to the original Declaration of Inde-
pendence, though omitted in the journals of
Congress, Mr. Dallas then requested an ex-
planation of this circumstance from me, and
from my answer to this application, the fol-
lowing extracts were taken and published by
Mr. Dallas in the appendix to the first volume
of his edition of the laws.

'On Monday, the 1st day of July, 1776, the
arguments in Congress for and against the De-
claration of Independence, having been ex-
hausted, and the measure fully considered,
the Congress resolved itself into a committee
of the whole; the question was put by the
chairman, and all the states voted in the affir
mative, except Pennsylvania, which was in
the negative, and Delaware, which was
equally divided; Pennsylvania, at that time,
had seven members, viz. John Morton, Ben-
jamin Franklin, James Wilson, John Dickin
son, Robert Morris, Thomas Willing, and
Charles Humphreys. All were present on
the 1st of July, and the three first named vo-
ted for the Declaration of Independence, the
remaining four against it. The state of Dela
ware had three members, Cæsar Rodney,
George Read, and myself. George Read and
I were present. I voted for it; George Read
against it. When the President resumed the
chair, the chairman of the committee of the
whole made his report, which was not acted
upon until Thursday, the 4th of July. In the
mean time, I had written to press the attend-
ance of Cæsar Rodney,the third delegate from
Delaware, who appeared early on that day at
the state house, in his place. When the Con-
gress assembled, the question was put on the
report of the committee of the whole, and ap-
proved by every state. Of the members from
Pennsylvania. the three first, as before, voted
in the affirmative, and the two last in the ne-
gative. John Dickinson and Robert Morris
were present, and did not take their seats on
that day. Cæsar Rodney, for the state of
Delaware, voted with me in the affirmative,
and George Read in the negative.

"For several years past I have been taught to think less unfavourably of scepticism than formerly. So many things have been misrepresented, mistated, and erroneously printed (with seeming authenticity) under my own eye, as in my opinion to render those who doubt of every thing, not altogether inexcusable. The publication of the Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, 1776, as printed in the journals of congress, vol. 2, page 344, &c. and also in the acts of most public bodies since, so far as respects the names of the delegates or deputies who made that declaration, has led to the above reflection. By the printed publications referred to, it would appear as if the fifty-five gentlemen, whose names are there printed, 'Some months after this, I saw printed pub. and none other, were, on that day, personally lications of the names of those gentlemen, present in congress, and assenting to the dewho had, as it was said, voted for the Decia- claration; whereas the truth is otherwise. ration of Independence, and observed that The following gentlemen were not members my own name was omitted. I was not a lit- on the 4th of July, 1776, namely, Mathew

Thornton, Benjamin Rush, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, and George Ross, Esquires. The five last named were not chosen delegates until the 20th of that month; the first, not until the 12th of September following, nor did he take his seat in congress, until the 4th of November, which was four months after. The journals of congress, vol. 2d. pages 277 and 442, as well as those of the assembly of the state of Pennsylvania, page 53, and of the General Assembly of New-Hampshire, establish these facts. Although the six gentlemen named, had been very active in the American cause, and some of them, to my own knowledge, warmly in favour of its Independence, previous to the day on which it was declared, yet I personally know that none of them were in Congress on that day. Modesty should not rob a man of his just honour, when, by that honour, his modesty cannot be offended. My name is not in the printed journals of Congress, as a party to the Declaration of Independence, and this, like an error in the first concoction, has vitiated most of the subsequent publications, and yet the fact is, that I was then a member of Congress for the state of Delaware, was personally present in Congress, and voted in favour of Indepen

dence, on the 4th of July, 1776, and signed the Declaration after it had been engrossed hand writing, still appears. Henry Wisner, on parchment, where my name, in my own of the state of New-York, was also in Congress, and voted for Independence. I do not know how the mistatement in the printed journals has happened. public journal, has no names annexed to the The manuscript Declaration of Independence, nor has the secret journal; but it appears by the latter, that on the 19th day of July, 1776, the Congress directed that it should be engrossed on parchment, and signed by every member, and that it was so produced on the 2d of August, and signed. This is interlined on the secret journal, in the hand writing of CharlesT bompson, Esq. the secretary. The present Secretary of State for the United States, and myself, have lately inspected the journals, and seen this. The journal was first printed by John Dunlap, in 1778, and, probably, copies with the names they signed to it were printed in August 1776, and that Mr. Dunlap printed the names from one of them.

"Your most obedient servant,

L.

ART. 12. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

WIL
VILLIAM PLUMER has been elected
governor of New-Hampshire, by a
majority of 1400 votes.

Births. The wife of Mr. Nicholas Davis, in Dartmouth, has been delivered of three children, who are all likely to do well. Mrs. D. has had five children within eleven months; the two first died soon after they

were born.

Married.] At Portsmouth, Mr. John W. Fernald, mer. to miss Ann Leavitt. Mr. Samuel Neal, to miss Sarah Parsons. Died.] At Portsmouth, mrs. Sarah Sargent, aged 63. Dr. Wm. Cutter, 48.

MASSACHUSETTS.

The long contested Boylston case, has been finally comprised between the town of Boston and the heir at law of Mr. Thomas Boylston's estate. John Lowell, Esq. is deputed to go to England, for the purpose of adjust ing all the concerns respecting the will of Mr. Boylston.

"The Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company" of Boston, has presented a costly and elegant sword to Gov. Brooks, of Massachusetts. This company is the oldest military association in the new world; and has been kept up with life and spirit from its first establishment. They have just celebrated their 179th anniversary!

THOS. M'KEAN." '

James Harrison, of Boston, has invented a newly constructed Binocle, with converg ing mirrors, which, from the light of a lamp, diffuses upon the compass a clear and conspicuous light, the rays of which are at pleasure tinged with a green shade, which has upon the eyes of the helmsmen a good effect in looking out. Likewise prevents the binosels cannot be traced by it in the night. cle from showing light abroad; so that ves

Dr. Waterhouse, in Cambridge, has a Clock on a construction, that runs 365 days with once winding up, and has been going for more than twenty years.

An ox, six years old, bred and owned by Col. Abel Chapin, of Springfield, has excited his length from the nose to the root of the the admiration of all who have seen him; tail, is stated to be 10 feet 7 inches; circumference of the body 8 feet 9 inches, and weighs on the hoof, three thousand one huudred pounds.

Mr. Varnum, of Dracut, in a letter recentseven years since, my wife was seized with a ly published by himself, states: "About cancer on her ankle, which increased with considerable rapidity, and was attended with pain; it continued sorely to affect her for nine months, during which time no pains were spared to obtain the best advice from those well versed in medicine and surgery. It was twice attempted to eradicate it by the

application of vegetable caustics; and many miss Mary Bell Tucker. Mr. Joshua Aubin, other applications were unsuccessfully made. to miss Mary B. Newell. Mr. William L. The limb became weak, and at times much Cushing, to miss Sally H. Thaxter. Mr. Jacob Mr. Ralph swollen. She had in a measure lost her ap- Page, to miss Nancy Ingalls. petite, and her whole system seemed on a Smith, mer. to miss Rebecca Sullivan. Mr. decline. The sore was deep and broad. In Edward D. Peters, to miss Lucretia M'Clure. this situation we commenced the application At Northampton, Alexander Phoenis, Esq. which produced the cure. The principal in- of New-York, to miss Eliza Tappan. At gredient is an evergreen plant, which is to be Amesbury, mr. Caleb Wild, to miss Charlotte found in all the northern states, in wood. Long. At Bath, mr. Jeremiah Ellsworth, to lands which produce a mixture of oak and miss Martha H. Trott: Capt. James Kean, pine timber. It is by different people called to miss Isabel M. Turner. At Ipswich, mr. ever bitter-sweet, winter-green, rheumatish Jesse Smith, jur. of Salem, to miss Priscilla plant, &c.; the botanical name of the plant Treadwell. At Watertown, mr. Caleb Lin is pyrola. We made a strong decoction, by coln, to miss Elizabeth Robbins. At Wells, boiling the pyrola in pure water, placed in a Me. mr. Moses Clark, to miss Abigail Hobbs. vessel containing considerable quantity of At Hingham, mr. Nathan Rice, mer. of Boşpulverized roll sulphur, and poured the de- ton, to miss Eliza N. Lincoln. At Shrewscoction upon it, boiling hot. Mrs. Varnum bury, mr. Nathan Baldwin, to miss Eliza D. took a small quantity of the decoction, inter- Ward. Wm. Williams, Esq. to miss Harriet At North Yarmouth, Me. mr. Wm. nally, two or three times a day; bathed the Ward defective part and parts adjacent to it several Hawes, of Brunswick, to miss 1. Russworm. times in a day, and kept a cloth wet with it At Stratham, capt. Walter Weeks, to miss constantly on the ankle. She took about an Hannah Avery. At Barnstable, Russell Freeounce of medicinal salts, every second day; man, Esq. of Sandwich, to miss Eliza Jackthe decoction was renewed as occasion re-son Sturgis. At Scituate, mr. Galen C. quired. We commenced this system of ope- James, of Medford, to miss Mary R. Tanner. ration about the middle of April, 1815, and At Charlestown, mr. Nathaniel Grover, to pursued it with unremitting care and attention, without variation. In a very few days from the commencement of the operation, the patient began to realize the beneficial effects of it; her appetite was restored; her pain was gradually eradicated; she rapidly gained strength, both in body and limb; so that in less than six weeks the defective ankle was entirely healed and sound, and her health and strength completely restored. It is now almost two years since this apparent cure was effected; and we have the greatest consolation of learning from her, that she has not felt a single twinge of the disorder since that period; we do therefore confidently hope it will never return.

miss Catherine Bispham. At Bridgewater,
Elisha Whitman, Esq. to miss Susan Wales.
At Salem, mr. Joseph Orne, to miss Sarah P.
Ropes. At Washington, Samuel Anderson,
Esq. to miss Susan D. Wheaton. Mr. Joseph
A. Birch. to miss Eliza Bell.

Died.]-At Boston, Hon. Tristram Dalton, formerly of Newburyport, aged 79. Mr. D. graduated at Havard University, A. D. 1755, and was in the class of President Adams, He had sustained, with high reputation, various public offices, among which was that of Speaker of the House of Representatives of this Commonwealth. He was, also, with his colleague, Gov. Strong, of the Senators of the United States, who were first elected "Mrs. Varnum now enjoys remarkable after the adoption of the Federal Constitugood health, for a person of her age. Some tion. He was likewise a Fellow of the Amepeople may object to making a thorough ex- rican Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of periment, in cases similar to Mrs. Var- the American Antiquarian Society; and was num's, on account of the simplicity and no- ever greatly beloved and respected by all, to velty of its prescription. But however sim- whom he was known. Mr. William Burdick, ple and novel it may appear, and however late editor of the Boston Evening Gazette. inefficient it may prove with others, Mrs. Mr. Samuel Doggett, aged 63. Mrs. Martha Varnum and myself, with our family, have Mann. Catharine Putnam Brinley, 12. Mr. abundant reason to rejoice and bless the Su- Jonas Hastings, jur. Mr. James Tileston, 56. preme Arbiter of Events, for the wonderful ef- Mrs. Harriet Carter, 37. Miss Mary Roby, Tect which, through the beneficence of Di- 23. Miss Eliza Green, 19. Miss Caroline vine Providence, it has bad in her case. And I am sanguine in the belief, that if early and undeviating experiments of the kind be made, they will prove efficacious in most, if not all

cancer cases.

J. B. VARNUM."

Married.] At Boston, Major Alexander Brooks, of the U. S. regt. of light artillery, to miss Sarah Turner. Mr. Ebenezer Jeffers, to

Howard Lincoln, 6. Mr. John Stowell, 33.
Mr. Lewis Rhodes. Mrs. Amy Ray. Mrs.
At Marblehead,
Elizabeth Bradford, 47
Capt. Samuel Horton, 70. Mr. John Conk
lin, 60. At Hingham, Mr. Henry Ney. At
Winslow, Me. Mrs. Nancy Hayden. At
Philipsburgh, Mary, consort of the Hon.
Mark L. Hill. At South Reading, Mrs. Eli-
zabeth Butterford, of Boston. At Kingston

Miss Keziah Morton. At Lidney, Me. Widow Bethiah Hayward, 101. At Ipswich, Capt. Jonathan Ingersol, 55. At Medway, Dr. Nathaniel Lovell, late of Boston, 30. At Medford, Mrs. Martha Fitch, of Boston. At Newtown, Mr. Thomas W. Dana, 18. At Roxbury, mr. Isaac Shaw, 45. At Charlestown, mr. William Platt Green, 32. Miss Catharine W. Jones, 20. At Dedham, mr. John Soren, 46. At Bedford, mrs Rachel Fitch, 58. At Cohasset, mr. Samuel D. Doane, 27. At Hallowell, mrs. Sarah Carr.

RHODE-ISLAND.

The President of the United States has appointed com. William Bainbridge, capt. Samuel Evans, and capt. Oliver H. Perry, commissioners (under a resolution of the senate in February last) to examine and survey this harbour and bay and the eastern entrance into Long-Island sound, with a view to the selection of a proper site for a Naval Depot, Rendezvous, and Dock-Yard. Three small government vessels have been ordered here for the use of the commissioners. Commodore Bainbridge and capt. Evans are shortly expected here to join capt. Perry, when the survey will be immediately commenced. Thomas Rhodes, Esq. is appointed, by the President of the United States, Collector of the internal Revenue for this district, vice N. R. Knight, Esq. resigned.

Married.] At Providence, Mr. Joshua Bicknall, jr. to miss Eliza M. Sessions. Charles Ware, of the U. S. Navy Yard, Charlestown, to miss Catherine Rhodes. At Little Compton, Thomas Palmer Esq. to mrs. Richmond. Died.] At Providence, Mr. John Willey. Mr. Stephen Harris, 64.

CONNECTICUT.

By a report of a legislative committee of the State of Connecticut, made during its session in May last, it appears-That the taxes of that State laid this year, are one cent on the dollar; that the State Treasury is entirely out of debt, and has a permanent fund of nearly four hundred thousand dollars, besides the great School Fund," the capital of which is ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS-and the committee add, that on a full examination, they find that the accounts of the State are kept in a correct and conspicuous manner.

The ordinary business of the treasury department of the government of Connecticut is conducted by a treasurer, a comptroller, and two clerks, one in each office-whose joint compensation probably does not much, if any, exceed three thousand dollars a year. It is a fact, that the people of that State, when their school Fund shall produce its interest of six per cent. will receive from that, and other disbursements from the trea

sury, for the sole purpose of supporting common schools for the instruction of all the children in the State, more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. is now unproductive; of course the full A part of that Fund amount of interest is not paid. The people now receive from the treasury, for the support of Schools, more money than they pay into the treasury in State taxes. It appears, by the above-mentioned report, that the net amount of a tax one cent on the dollar for the preceding year, was a little short of forty eight thousand dollars.

The legislature of Connecticut have granted to Yale College and the Congregational churches, $68,000; to the Episcopalians, $20,000; Methodists, $12,000; and Baptists, $18,000.

There has been distributed the year past by the Connecticut Bible Society 3105 Bibles and since its organization in 1809 to 1st May inst. it has distributed 18,053 Bibles and 196 Testaments.

At the annual meeting of the Connecticut Asylum for the education and instruction of Deaf and Dumb persons, the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year, viz.

President.-Hon. John C. Smith. Vice-Presidents--John Caldwell, Esq.; Dr. Mason F. Cogswell; Hon. Nathaniel Terry; Daniel Wadsworth, Esq.; Rev. Abel Flint, Charles Sigourney, Esq.; David Porter, Esq; Joseph Battell, Esq. Annual Directors-Ward Woodbridge; Joseph Trumbell, Esq.; Henry Hudson; Daniel Buck; Jno. Law; Saml. Tudor, jr.; John Russ; Wm. Ely; Christopher Colt; David Watkinson. Treasurer-James H. Wells. Secretary.-Wm. W. Elsworth.

Married.] At Hartford, Mr. Lewis Robinson to miss Dolly Hinsdale, both of Hartford. At New-Haven, Mr. Nathan Mansfield to miss Maria Shepherd. At New-London rev. Nathan Douglas, of Alfred, to miss Eliza Benham. Mr. Thomas Murphy, of Exeter, to miss Mary Fosdick. At Norwich, Mr. Stephen Cleveland to miss Lucy C. Huntington. At Warren, W. S. Miller, esq. to miss Lydia Cockran.

Died.] At Middletown, Widow Abiah Savage, aged 30. Mr. Jabez Brooks, 88; and his son, mr. Wickham Brooks, aged 65.

NEW-YORK.

De Witt Clinton has been elected Governor, and John Taylor Lieut. Governor, of the State of New-York.

The committee appointed to ascertain the practicability and probable expense of im proving the navigation of the river Hudson between Albany and Hudson, have reported that, in their opinion, it may be done, by building piers, the cost of which is estima