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PRODUCTION OF MAPLE SUGAR IN THE UNITED | THE DOCTOR'S WELCOME,-Down east there STATES-Of the twenty-seven States in which resides a certain M. D. One very cold night he this sugar is manufacturedwas aroused from his slumbers by a very loud 1,223,908 knocking at his door. After some hesitation he 4,528,548 went to the window and asked

Maine produced Ib. 1,392,427

Vermont

New York

Virginia

..... 5,159,541
...10,310,744

Ohio.

Michigan.

Pennsylvania..... 2,218,641 Indiana..

These are the largest producers. makes by far the largest quantity in proportion to its territory.

Besides the above sugar crop, there was a yield by the sugar maple in the United States, in 1850, of forty million gallons of maple molasses.

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GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE EXECUTIVE.

FRANKLIN PIERCE, of New Hampshire, President of the United States.....Salary $25,000 DAVID R. ATCHISON, of Missouri, Vice-President pro tem..

THE CABINET.

WILLIAM L. MARCY, of New York, Secretary of State...
JAMES GUTHRIE, of Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury.
ROBERT MCLELLAND, of Michigan, Secretary of the Interior..
JAMES C. DOBBIN, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy.
JEFFERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi. Secretary of War..
JAMES CAMPBELL, of Pennsylvania, Postmaster-General..
CALEB CUSHING, of Massachusetts, Attorney-General..

THE JUDICIARY.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

ROGER B TANEY, of Maryland, Chief Justice..

JOHN M'LEAN, of Ohio,
JAMES M. WAYNE, of Georgia,
JOHN CATRON, of Tennessee,
PETER V. DANIEL, of Virginia,

5,000

.Salary $5,000.

Associate Justice. | SAMUEL NELSON, of New York, Associate Justice.
ROBERT C. GRIER, of Pa.,
BENJAMIN R. CURTIS, of Mass.,
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, of Ala.,

Salary of Associate Justices, $4,500. Meets first Monday in December at Washington.

XXXIIId CONGRESS.

FIRST SESSION OPENED MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1853.

SENATE-62 Members.

DAVID R. ATCHISON, of Missouri, President pro tem.

[Whigs in Italics, 21; Democrats in Roman, 37; Free Soilers in SMALL CAPS, 2; Vacancies, 2. The figures before each Senator's name, denote the year wherr his term closes.]

ALABAMA.

1 Philip Phillips,

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-224 Members.

LINN BOYD, Ky., Speaker.

2 James Abercrombie, 3 Sampson W. Harris, 4 Win. R. Smith, 5 *Geo. S. Houston, 6 *W. R. W. Cobb, 7 James F. Dowdell.

ARKANSAS.

1 A. B. Greenwood, 2 Edwin A. Warren.

CALIFORNIA.

1 Marcus C. Latham, 2 J. A. M'Dougal.

CONNECTICUT.

1 James T. Pratt,
2 *Colin M. Ingersoll
3 Nathan Belcher,

4 *Origen S. Seymour.
DELAWARE.
*George Read Riddle.
FLORIDA.
Aug. E. Maxwell.
GEORGIA.

1 James L. Seward, 2 Alfred H. Colquitt, 3 David J. Baily, 4 Wm. B. W. Dent, 5 Elijah W. Chastain, 6 Junius Hillyer, 7 David A. Reese, 8 Alex. H. Stephens.

ILLINOIS.

1 E. B. Washburne, 2 John Wentworth, N 3 Jesse O. Norton, 4 James Knox,

5 W. A. Richardson, Richard Yates,

7 James C. Allen, Y 8 *Wm. H. Bissell 9 Willis Allen.Y INDIANA.

1 Smith Miller, 2 Win. H. English, 3 *Cyrus L. Dunham, 4 James H. Lane,' 5 Samuel W. Parker, 6 *Thos. A. Hendricks, 7 John G. Davis,

8 Daniel Mace, 9 Norman Eddy, 10 E. M. Chamberlain, 11 Andrew J Harlan, IOWA.

1 * Bernhart Henn, 2 John P. Cook.

KENTUCKY.

1 *Linn Boyd,

2 Benj. E. Grey.
3* Presley Ewing
4 James S. Chrisinan,
5 Clement S. Hill,

6 John M. Elliot,
7 William Preston,

8 J. C. Breckenridge,

9 Leander M. Cox,

10 *Rich. H. Stanton.

LOUISIANA.

1 William Dunbar, 2 Theodore G. Hunt. 3 Jno. E. Perkius, Jr., 4 Roland Jones.

MAINE.

1 *Moses M'Donald, 2 Samuel Mayall, 3 E. Wilder Farley, 4 Samuel P. Benson, 5 Israel Washburn, Jr. Thos. J. D, Fuller. MARYLAND.

1 John R. Franklin,
Jacob Shower,
3 Joshua Vansant,
4 Henry May

5 Wm. T. Hamilton,
6 Augustus R. Sollers.

MASSACHUSETTS. 1*Zeno Scudder, 2 Samuel L. Crocker, 3 J Wiley Edmands, 4 Samuel H. Walley, 5 William Appleton 6 Chas. W. Upham, 7 Nath. P. Banks, Jr., 8 Tappan Wentworth 9 ALEX. DE WITT, 10 Edward Dickinson, 11 John Z. Goodrich. MICHIGAN.

1 David Stuart,
2 David A. Noble,
3 Samuel Clark,
4 Hestor L. Stevens
MISSOURI.

1 Thomas H. Benton,
2 Alfred W. Lamb,
3 James J. Lindley,
4 John G. Miller,
5 Mordecai Oliver,
6 *John S. Phelps,
7 Samuel Caruthers.

MISSISSIPPI.

1 Daniel B. Wright,
2 William S. Barry,
3 O. R. Singleton,
4 Wiley P. Harris,
5 Wm. Barksdale.

NEW JERSEY.
1 Nathan T. Stratton.
Charles Skelton,

3 Samuel Lilly, 4 George Vail, 5 A. C. M. Pennington. NORTH CAROLINA. 1 Henry M. Shaw, 2 Thomas Ruffin, 3 William S. Ashe, 4 Sion H. Rogers, 5 John Kerr,

6 Richard C. Puryear, 7 Burton Craige, 8 *Thos. L. Clingman. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 Geo. W. Kittredge, 2 Geo. W. Morrison,

JOHN W. FORNEY, P... Clerk.

3 Harry Hibbard.

NEW YORK.

1 James Maurice, 2 Th. W. Cummings, 3 Hiram Walbridge, 4 Mike Walsh, 5 Win. M. Tweed, 6 John Wheeler, 7 Wm. A. Walker, 8 Francis B. Cutting, 9 Jared V. Peck, 10 William Murray, 11 The. R. Westbrook, 12 *Gilbert Deau, 13 Russell Sage, 14 Rufus W. Peckham, 15 Charles Hughes. 16 Geo. A. Simmons, 17 Bishop Perkins, 18 Peter Rowe, 19 George W. Chase 20 Ors. B. Matteson, 21 Henry Bennett,

22 GERRIT SMITH, 23 Caleb Lyon 24 *Daniel T. Jones, 25 Edwin B. Morgan, 26 Andrew Oliver, 27 John J. Taylor, 28 George Hastings, 29 Davis Carpenter, 30 Benjamin Pringle, 31 Thos. T. Flagler, 32

Solomon G. Haven, 33 Reuben E. Fenton. OHIO.

David T. Disney,

2 John S. Harrison, 3 Lewis D. Campbell, 4 M. H. Nichols,

5 *Alfred P. Edgerton, 6 Andrew Elison, 7 Aaron Harlan, 8 Moses B. Corwin, 9 Fred. W. Green, 10 *John L. Taylor, 11 Thomas Ritchey, 12 *Edson B. Olds, 13 Wm. D Lindsley, 14 H. H. Johnson, 15 William R. Sapp, 16 Edward Ball, 17 Wilson Shannon, 18 George Blis 19 EDWARD WADE, 20 *J. R. GIDDINGS, 21 Andrew Stuart.

PENNSYLVANIA. 1 *Thos. B. Florence, 2 Joseph R Chandler, 3 *John Robbins, Jr., 4 William H. Wilte, 5 John M Nair, 6 William Everhart, 7 Samuel A. Bridges, 8 H. A. Muhlenberg, 9 Isaac E. Heister,

RECAPITULATION.

10 Ner Middleswarth,

11 Christian M. Straub, 12 Hend'k B. Wright, 13 As Packer, 14 Galusha A. Grow, 15 *James Gamble, 16 William H. Kurtz, 17 Samuel L. Russell, 18 John M'Culloch, 19 Augustus Dram, 20 John Lawson, 21 David Ritchie.

22 Thomas M. Howe, 23 Michael C. Trout, 24 *Cariton B. Curtis, 25 John Dick.

RHODE ISLAND. 1 Thomas Davis,

[Whigs in Italics, 71; Democrats in Roman, 159; Free Soilers in MALL CAPITALS, 4. Total, 231. There are also five Delegates from Territories, who participate in the debates, but can not vote. *Members of the XXXIId Congress. Seat contested States. W. D.1 States. W. D. 5 N. Carolina...3 Tennessee.....5 5 3Ohio.........8 13 Texas.. . . .

WV.D. States. W.D! States. W. D.
6Louisian....1 3 Mississippi....
5 Maine........3 3 Missouri......

Arkansas...

California....

2 Illinois

2 Indiana..

110 Maryland....2 N. Hampshire. 3 Pennsylvania 9 16 Vermont.....3 Connecticut... 4 Iowa...... ...I Massachu's...9 21 New Jersey...I 4 Rhode Island. 2 Virginia......

Delaware

Florida.....

Kentucky.....5 5 Michigan.....

4 New York...10 23 S. Carolina...

6 Wisconsin....

In the above classification, Messrs. De Wirt of Massachusetts, SMITH of New York, and Wade of Ohio, are placed in the Democratic column, and GIDDINGS in the Whig

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