UNITED STATES.

I. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, For the Sixteenth Presidential Term, commencing March 4th, 1849.

1,362,024 1,222,419 291,678 290 163 127

The above table has been prepared from the official statements published in the newspapers, and must be nearly correct. Between five and seven thousand scattering votes were thrown; most of which were for the Hon. Gerrit Smith of New York.

*The Electors of South Carolina are chosen by the Legislature.

II. PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION.

III. EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT.

THE 16th Presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the Constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1849; and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1853.

ZACHARY TAYLOR, of Louisiana, President,
MILLARD FILLMORE, of New York,

Vice-President,

THE CABINET.

Salary. $25,000 5,000

The following are the principal officers in the executive department of the government, who form the Cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will

of the President.

JOHN M. CLAYTON,

Delaware,

Secretary of State,

Salary. $6,000

WILLIAM M. MEREDITH, Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury,

6,000

GEORGE W. CRAWFORD, Georgia,

WM. BALLARD PRESTON, Virginia,
THOMAS EWING,

Ohio,

JACOB COLLAMER,
REVERDY JOHNSON,

M'Clintock Young, Chief Clerk, 2,000| Commissioner of Customs.

P. G. Washington, 6th Auditor, 3,000|
Thomas E. Brown, Chief Clerk, 1,700 Alex. D. Bache, Superintendent, 6,000

* There had been no Chief Clerk appointed to the Assistant Secretary or to the Commissioner of Customs on the 27th August.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

George W. Crawford, Secretary.
Salary.

Samuel J. Anderson, Ch. Clerk, $2,000|

Adjutant-General's Office.
Roger Jones, Brev. Maj.-Gen.,

Adji tant-General.
Lorenzo Thomas, Brev. Lt.-Col.,
Assist. Adj.-Gen.

John M. Hepburn, Chief Clerk, 1,200

Quartermaster-General's Bureau.

T. S. Jesup, Brev. Maj-Gen.,

Quartermaster-General.

Charles Thomas, Brev. Lt.-Col.,

Medical Bureau.

Thomas Lawson, Brev. Brig.-
Gen., Surg.-Gen.

H. L. Heiskell, Surg. & Assist.
Surg.-Gen.

R. Johnson, Chief Clerk,

Engineer Bureau.

Salary.

$1,150

J. G. Totten, Brev. Brig.-Gen.,

Chief Engineer.

F. A. Smith, Capt. & Assist.
Chief Engineer.

F. N. Barbarin, Chief Clerk,

Topographical Bureau.

John J. Abert, Col., Chief Top.

Engineer.

T. J. Lee, Capt., Assist. Chief

Top. Engineer.

1,200

Geo. Thompson, Chief Clerk, 1,400
Ordnance Bureau.

Geo. Talcott, Brev. Brig.-Gen.,

Chief of Ordnance.

W. Maynadier, Capt. & Assist.

1,000 Geo. Bender, Chief Clerk,

1,200

Thomas Harris, do.

Lieut. M. F. Maury, Sup't of Observatory, Washington,

3,000

Daniel C. Goddard, Chief Clerk, 2,000 John Wilson, Chief Clerk of

Surveys,

Jus. Butterfield, Commissioner, 3,000 Nathan Sargent, Recorder,

1,800

2,000