are twenty-one different departments, or offices, at Washington. In these offices there are employed, or at least paid, two hundred and fifty-seven persons. Two hundred and two are clerks, and twenty-three messengers and assistant messengers. Of the above number, forty-five are foreigners by birth, viz. twenty-one Irishmen, twelve Englishmen, four Scotchmen, three Swedes, two Germans, one Russian, one from Tortola and 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, for the sake of experiment, and the statement may, at the present time, be useful. The first day, the boy worked 2 hours, from 6 to 8-wheeled 21 loads; do. 3 do. from 9 to 12 -do. 38 do.; do. 3 do. from 1 to 4-do. 34 do.; do. 2 1-2 do. from 5 to sunset do. 27 do. -10 1-2 hours, first day, wheeled 120 loads. -Second day, worked 2 hours, from 6 to 8wheeled 28 loads; do. worked 1 hour from 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 be 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 salaries, of the several departments, taken from

The Commissioners of the Navy have ac vertised that they will receive proposals for supplying the machinery for three steam batteries, 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 pro secution 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

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rence. These two boards are now sitting in tle surprised at, 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 Carpenthe 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. They have proceeded to St. Regis. Col. Bouchette, Surveyor-General of Canada, is associated to the commissions under all the above articles; and is in Boston.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

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

states, and had ordered their declaration to be signed, and their president to deliver it into Congress, which accordingly I did the day following; I knew also, that a regiment of associates, of which I was colonel, had at the end of May before, unanimously made were mentioned at the time, to gentlemen of the same declaration. These circumstances my acquaintance. The error remained uncorrected till the year 1781, when I was apOn Monday, the 1st day of July, 1776, the to which I prefixed the Declaration of Indepointed to publish the laws of Pennsylvania, arguments in Congress for and against the De- pendence, and inserted my own name, with claration of Independence, having been ex- the names of my colleagues. Afterwards, in hausted, and the measure fully considered, 1797, when the late A. J. Dallas, Esq. then the Congress resolved itself into a committee secretary of the Commonwealth, was ap of the whole; the question was put by the pointed to publish an edition of the Laws, chairman, and all the states voted in the affir- on comparing the names published as submative, except Pennsylvania, which was in scribed to the Declaration of Independence, the negative, and Delaware, which was he observed a variance, and the omission, in equally divided; Pennsylvania, at that time, some publications, of the name of Thomas had seven members, viz. John Morton, Ben- M'Kean: having procured a certificate from jamin Franklin, James Wilson, John Dickin- the Secretary of State that the name of Thoson, Robert Morris, Thomas Willing, and mas M'Kean was affixed in his own hand Charles Humphreys. All were present on the 1st of July, and the three first named voted 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 1 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 to think less unfavourably of scepticism than "For several years past I have been taught upon until Thursday, the 4th of July. In the formerly. So many things have been misremean time, I had written to press the attend- presented, mistated, and erroneously printed ance of Cæsar Rodney,the third delegate from (with seeming authenticity) under my own Delaware, who appeared early on that day at eye, as in my opinion to render those who the state house, in his place. When the Con- doubt of every thing, not altogether inexcu gress assembled, the question was put on the sable. The publication of the Declaration of report of the committee of the whole, and ap- Independence on the 4th of July, 1776, as proved by every state. Of the members from printed in the journals of congress, vol. 2, Pennsylvania, the three first, as before, voted page 344, &c. and also in the acts of most in the affirmative, and the two last in the ne- public bodies since, so far as respects the gative. John Dickinson and Robert Morris names of the delegates or deputies who were present, and did not take their seats on made that declaration, has led to the above that day. Cæsar Rodney, for the state of reflection. By the printed publications reDelaware, voted with me in the affirmative, and George Read in the negative.

writing to the original Declaration of Independence, though omitted in the journals of Congress, Mr. Dallas then requested an explanation of this circumstance from me, and from my answer to this application, the following extracts were taken and published by Mr. Dallas in the appendix to the first volume of his edition of the laws.

ferred to, it would appear as if the fifty-five 'Some months after this, I saw printed pub- and none other, were, on that day, personally gentlemen, whose names are there printed, lications of the names of those gentlemen, present in congress, and assenting to the dewho had, as it was said, voted for the Decla- 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

ART. 12. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

WILLIAM PLUMER has been elected a newly constructed Binocle, with converg

Domestic Occurrences.

JULY,

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 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 McClure. Mr. Ralph this situation we commenced the application At Northampton, Alexander Phoenix, 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 Jands 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 Linis 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 Bospulverized 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 nally, two or three times a day; bathed the Ward At North Yarmouth, Me. inr. Wm. 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. quired. We commenced this system of operation about the middle of April, 1815, and 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.

formerly of Newburyport, aged 79. Mr. D. Died.]-At Boston, Hon. Tristram Dalton, 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 "Mrs. Varnum now enjoys remarkable after the adoption of the Federal Constituof the United States, who were first elected good 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 wit 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 Erents, for the wonderful ef- Mrs. Harriet Carter, 37. Miss Mary Roby, fect which, through the beneficence of Di- 23. Miss Eliza Green, 19. Miss Caroline vine Providence, it has had in her case. And Howard Lincoln, 6. Mr. John Stowell, 33. I am sanguine in the belief, that if early and Mr. Lewis Rhodes. Mrs. Amy Ray. Mrs. undeviating experiments of the kind be made, Elizabeth Bradford, 47. they will prove efficacious in most, if not all Capt. Samuel Horton, 70. Mr. John ConkAt Marblehead, Philipsburgh, Mary, consort of the Hon. lin, 60. At Hingham, Mr. Henry Ney. At Mark L. Hill. At South Reading, Mrs. EliWinslow, Me. Mrs. Nancy Hayden. At zabeth Butterford, of Boston. At Kingston,

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

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 THOU. SAND 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