ART. 13. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE

By the statement of the Warden of the State Prison, of this state, it appears that the institution has about paid all its own expenses for the year ending with June, 1817. For that period, the profits of labour, including work on the State House, amounted to 4,054 dollars 6 cents,-money received from spectators, to 75 dols. 22 cents,-notes due the institution, to 3,017 dols. 81 cents, making in all 7,147 dols. 9 cents. There is, besides, a considerable stock of manufactures, &c. on

hand. The expenses for the above period were, hospital expenses, 150 dollars;-interest on moneys borrowed, 74 dols. 81 cents; expenses of joiner's shop, 180 dols 74 cents; provisions, 2,385 dols. 92 cents; clothing, &c. of convicts, guard, and wages of watchmen, 3,939 dols. 92 cents; repairing and additional buildings, 271 dols. 11 cents; making in all, 7,702 dollars 50 cents.

The state is erecting a new State House at Concord. The outside of the building, it is expected, will be completed this season. The legislature have chosen the Hon. Clement Storer as Senator to Congress, vice Mr. Mason, resigned.

Married.] At Portsmouth, Mr. Wm. Tucker, to Miss Mary Mason. At Alstead, Hon. Wm. Fay, to miss Caroline Villers. At Winchester, Dr. H. Chapin, to miss Anna B. Hawkins. At Dartmouth, mr. William Akin, to miss Sally Shearman.

Died.] At Portsmouth, Mr. Samuel Nelson, aged 31. At Alstead, Mrs. Thankful Shepherd, 71.

MASSACHUSETTS.

respective manufactories; to offer and con

fer premiums; to collect and disseminate useful information; encourage, assist, and protect new and useful inventions; and to reward and assist those who bring useful arts from foreign countries, and generally to do and perform such acts and things, as will promote useful Arts and Manufactures."

A donation has been made, to the Massachusetts General Hospital, by a citizen of Boston, 20,000 dollars.

From the 19th February to the 10th June, deposits were made in Provident Institution for Savings, to the amount of 20,157 dollars, by 372 persons.

The late heavy rains have beat most of the worms down from the fruit trees, in the interior of this state.

Married.] At Boston, John Bellows, Esq. to Miss Ann Hurd Langdon. Mr. Levi Whitcomb, to miss Elizabeth Francis. Mr. Josiah Bradlee, mer. to miss Joanna Frothingham. Mr. William Smith, to miss Keziah Jewett. Mr. Ephraim Willard, of St. Andrews, to miss Elizabeth Copeland. Doctor Theodore Dexter, to miss Sarah M. Fowler. Francis A. Blake, Esq. to Miss Elizabeth Dawes. Mr. Consider Glasse, of Danbury, to miss Sally Goodridge, of Lunenburg. Mr. Lorenzo Burge, to Miss Susan Abrams. Mr. Peter Hanson, to miss Mary Richardson, Capt. George Clark, to miss Elizabeth Campbell

Mr. George Harris, to miss Rebecca Barrett. Mr. Ebenezer Little, to miss Percis Lord. At Newburyport, Capt. Charles Short, to miss Rebecca Gage. Mr. Rufus Danforth, to Miss Sarah Herbert. At Charlestown, Mr. John S. Gruber, to miss Ann R. The President was received with great Rogers. Mr. Stephen Wiley, to miss Rebecca respect at Boston, and conducted into town Wheat. Doctor Underwood, of Amherst, by a long escort of citizens and the military, N. H. to miss Ann Gage. At Salem, Capt. to his lodgings at the exchange coffee house. Josiah G. Burrill to miss Sally Smith. Mr. During his stay, he visited all the public Jacob Jones, to miss Eliza Dutch. Mr. Moworks in the harbour, and the vicinity; ses Ham, to miss Eliza Civit! Mr. William Harvard University, the Middlesex canal, Dowst, to miss Lydia D. Macarthy. Mr. and having attended the anniversary cele- Abraham Phippen, to miss Sally Tiplady. bration of Independence in Boston, proceed- Mr. Joseph Tucker, to miss Polly Trofatter. ed eastward through Marblehead, Salem, At New-Bedford, Captain Richard West, to Newburyport, &c., being met in every place miss Mary Allen. Mr. Hiram Covin, to miss by the most respectful public attentions. Ann Allen. At Kittery, Mr. William Foss, to During his stay in Boston he sat to Mr. Stew- miss Hannah Emery. At Bangor, Me Mr. art for his picture David Harthorn, 2nd. to miss Jane HitchArticle 11th. of the constitution adopted born. At Arundel, mr. Wm. Perkins, mer. by the Massachusetts Society for the encou- to miss Mehitable Lord. At East Sudbury, ragemet of American Manufactures, runs thus: David Baldwin, Esq. to miss Deborah C. "It shall be the object of the Society to aid Maynard. At Andover, Rev. Joseph Chickand assist in obviating the difficulties, and ering, of Woburn, to miss Sarah A. Holt. At facilitating the improvements of the Ameri- Boxford, Mr. Charles M. Kimball, of Newbucan Manufacturer; to attend to, and encou- ryport, to miss Mary Foster. At Framing. rage the education, and moral and religious ham, mr. Samuel Murdock, to miss Abigal improvement of the youth employed in the Stone. At Marblehead, Captain Benjamin

Dodd, to miss Sally Taverner, of Boston. At cipal living has been corn, potatoes and
Medford, mr. Jacob Ellis, to miss Hannah pumpions. For a time he kept some stock-
Collarn, both of Dedham. At Nantucket, had some pasture-but for a number of years
mr. Jethro Barrett, to miss Salty Fosdick. he has lived alone, with the exception of a
Mr. Poleg Brock, to miss Lydia Gardner. At few domesticated fowls. Woodchucks, rab-
Portland, Me, mr. Nicholas Bladsdell, to miss
Susan Jourdan. At Chatham, mr. Charles
Scudder, merchant, of Boston, to miss Fear
Sears. At Cambridgeport, mr. Stephen Hill,
of Boston, to miss Amittai Bacon Lane, of
Bedford. At Bridgewater, Nathaniel Mor-
ton Davis, Esq. of Plymouth, to miss Harriet
Mitchill.

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bits, skunks, weasels, squirrels, rats, and mice, and these without dressing, were the varieties of his table. His clothing consisted of two garments, fastened together at the waist by large wooden pins. and was made of wool, hemp or flax twisted together, and wove in narrow stripes sewed together, and put on and worn out probably without cleanDied.] At Boston, mr. Roger Adams, aged sing; and shoes or mocasins of bark shaped 32. Mr. Jonathan Greely, 61. Mr. Peter to his feet, and worn off. He could read, Jewett, 62. Miss Susannah Allen, 40. Mrs. always kept the year, day of the month, Catharine A. Burroughs, 22. Mrs. Huldah and week. He was not disposed to conClaflin. 73. Mr. Thomas P. Lane, 28 Mrs. verse much on religious subjects. He, howElizabeth Parrot, 33. Mrs. Christina Vinal, ever, kept a testament; paid some regard to Miss Sally G. Richie, 29. Capt. Wm. the sabbath; was addicted some what to proCooke, 41. Mrs. Elizabeth Weare, 64. Mr. fanity, and was a lover of ardent spirits. He Wm. B. Clowes, 37. Mrs. Mary Beath, 45. expected after death to be about and take care Mr. Adam C. Goldbuck, 41. Mrs. Ruth I. of his farm. For some years his strength Farmer, 31. Mrs. Ruth Tuttle, 46. Mr. Eli has been failing, but he kept about till the sha Baker, 23. Mrs. Mary Willis, 48. Mrs. very day before he died. His friends bad Christiana Hardwick, 86. Mr. William endeavoured to draw him from his retireBrintnall, 36. At Warren, Me. Moses Cope- ment, but in vain. Thousands from the neighland, Esq. 76. At New-Bedford, mrs. Ca bouring towns have visited the hermit, for so tharine Clark, 44. At Kittery, mr. Roger he was called. He has often in the summer Mitchell, 73. At Plympton, major Samuel season been found naked, his head uncoverEllis, 40 At Richmond, Rev. David Perry, ed and uncombed, and his beard unshaven. 71. At Gorham, mr. Reuben Morton, 31 His neighbours have been disposed to assist At Salem, mr. Samuel Burrill. 41. At Rox- him, but he has generally rejected their ofbury, miss Sarah Hammond Whitney, 5. At fers. The night on which he died, though Charlestown, mrs. Triphena Henry, 24. Mr. his dress was uncomfortable and filthy, findJohn Mirick, 28. At New Marlborough, Ti- ing him very weak, they wished to remothy Leonard, 70. He was born near Can- main with him; but no; "to-morrow he terbury in Connecticut, and went to New. should be about again." But in the morning Marlborough, when he was a sprightly young early, he was found a corpse. His remains man about 24 years old. He purchased a were the next day committed, with suitable lot of very fine land, somewhat remote from religious services, and in the presence of a any settlement, and having cleared a part of large concourse, to the dust, on the place it, he invited his brother to come and live where he had spent almost balf a century in with him. They, together, built a comforta- the manner described. He was, perhaps, ble log house, and for some time lived very equally destitute of friends and enemies. harmoniously, About a year and a half af. He was industrious and honest: He lived terwards, however, he went to visit his for himself entirely, and still was a lesson of friends, and returned a complete misanthrope. instruction to thousands. The picture which He quarrelled with his brother and drove he exhibited was, human nature in ruins. him away, and gradually became deranged. During the American revolution, he fancied The President passed through Providence himself commander in chief, and frequently in his journey eastward. He was received gave orders for the regulation of congress by the citizens and the military with wonted and the army; copies of which are now to demonstrations of respect, and after passing be seen. He called himself Admiral. His a few hours in the place, so as to examine other titles were, a God, a King of the whole whatever was most interesting, he proceeded Earth, &c. He became troublesome and to Pawtuckett, where he examined the first dangerous, and was disarmed by the civil cotton factory established in the United authority. Since that time he has sought no States. In this place is the first frame upon intercourse with the rest of the world; has Arkwright's plan ever put in operation in lived alone in the wilderness, and obtained this country. It has been running 27 years, bis subsistence by the cultivation of not more and was erected by Mr. Shaler, the present than one acre of land. This he manured with owner of the establishment. grass, leaves and other vegetables. His prin

RHODE ISLAND.

The General Assembly of this State, during

[Delaware,] Division, [Tompkins,] Fort Covington, [Franklin,] Lyme, [Jefferson,] Lansing, [Tompkins,] Minerva, [Essex,] Ogden, [Genesee,] Orwell, [Oswego,] Otselic, [Che nango,] Royalton, [Niagara,] and the name of Frederick, in Putnam county, was changed

to Kent.

A fleece, sheared this season from a Marino buck, owned by Mr. Benjamin Sutton, of Romulus, weighed fourteen pounds.

About fifteen acres of a high hill on the bank of the Genesee river, ten miles from Moscow, has been undermined, and fallen into the river, so as to change its course. The hill on one side presents a precipice of 150 feet perpendicular height. The earth fell in such large masses, that many of the trees, which stood on the side of the hill, still remain upright after their descent.

quired a high character as a medical scholar. At his examination for a diploma he read a dissertation "De Puris Generatione," which was well esteemed, and which added to his reputation. After obtaining his diploma he returned to America, and commenced the practice of physic in this city. When the " Medical School" was revived, after the revolution, in connexion with Columbia College, he was appointed to lecture, in that institution, on Anatomy. But his knowledge was so various, and scientific men of his profession were at that time so few, or so deficient in public spirit, that he delivered lectures also on Chemistry, on Physiology, on the Theory and Practice of Physic, on Botany, and indeed on almost every subject connected with a course of medical education. Although an act was passed by the Legisla Married.] At New-York, mr. Charles Mor- ture of the State, as early as 1791, enabling gan, mer. to miss Emily Reeves. Mr. Tho the "Regents of the University of the State mas Van Zandt, to miss Louisa Julia Under- of New-York" to establish a College of Phy hill. Mr. Walter W. Townsend of Augusta, sicians and Surgeons, yet the Regents did not Geo. to miss Ann Helme. James Thorne, think fit to exercise that power until the year Esq. of Albany, to miss Phoebe Townsend. 1807; and it was then, chiefly through the Mr. Thomas Durry to miss Hannah Ehninger. activity and influence of Doctor Romayne, Mr. Wm 1. Brower, to miss Ann Maria Wood- that the Regents granted the charter which ward, of Stonington, Con. Doctor Charles executed the power vested in them, and Rey, to miss Harriet Fleming. Mr. Peter that the Legislature made a donation of Durand, mer. to miss Martha Miller. At 20,000 dollars for the support of the new Auburn, mr. Stephen Van Auden, to miss institution. Of this institution, too, Doctor Nancy Gilbert. Mr. Henry Mather to miss Romayne was first President, which office he Amanda Whipple. At Genoa, mr. Harry held till its reorganization. He was the first Marshal, to mrs. Sarah Johnson. Mr. John President of the Medical Society of the C. Blakely, to miss Susan Keans. Mr. Joseph County of New-York, and was chosen deleSouthard, to mrs. Sophia Lyon. At Seneca gate from that Society to meet the convenFalls, mr. Samuel Jones, of Junius, to miss Harriet Faugkenburgh, of Romulus. At Burlington, Otsego co. Hon. Zatter Cushing, first Judge of Chatauque co. to miss Eunice Elderkin. At Poughkeepsie, mr. Frederick D. Priest, of New-York,to miss Eliza M. Brooks. At Troy, Rev. James G. Ogilvie, of NewYork, to miss Elizabeth Wilson. At RedHook, George A. Shufelt, Esq. to miss Mary Wilson, of Clermont.

tion at Albany, where he bore a conspicuous part in the organization of the Medical Society of the State, of which, also, he was elected first President. Thus did Doctor Romayne pass through the highest honours of his profession, and was one of its most learned members and most efficient benefactors. On the day of his funeral, a discourse was delivered, on his character and services, to the clinical attendants of the New-York Hospital, by the visiting physician, Doctor Samuel L. Mitchill.

Died.] On the 21st of July, of an apo. plexy, Nicholas Romayne, M. D. aged 61. The profession of medicine in this city and On the 3d of July, of a consumption, Vastate is indebted to Doctor Romayne more, lentine Seaman, M.D. aged 47. Doctor Seaperhaps, than to any other individual, for the man was born in New-York, but he studied renewal of public instruction in the several medicine and took his degree at Philadeldepartments of medical science, upon the phia. After having gone through the best close of the war of the revolution. Doctor course of medical education his own country Romayne was born at Hackensack, in the could afford, he made a journey to Europe, state of New-Jersey. Though principally and came back increased in knowledge and self-taught, he very early gained a reputation the means of usefulness. Doctor Seaman for his acquirements in literature and science. took great pains to furnish correct rules on While yet a young man, he went to Europe, the subject of vaccination, and published a travelled through France, Holland, and Eng- pamphlet, in which he exhibited, by drawland, and passed a considerable period at ings, the pustule in its various stages and asEdinburgh, where he prosecuted his medical pects, and in which he zealously advocated studies with great success, associated with inoculation with the vaccine virus, as a perthe learned men of that learned city, and.ac: fect safeguard against the small pox. He also

analyzed the mineral waters of Ballston and medical department of the British army. Saratoga, and published a valuable tract con- He was with the army, in 1758, under Abertaining the result of his investigations. He crombie, at the siege of Ticonderoga, and also gave clinical lectures on surgery in the saw Lord Howe fall, while advancing to the New-York Hospital, and while engaged in attack. When the war ended, he entered the discharge of the duties of this lectureship upon the practice of physic in Albany. At he compiled a Pharmacopeia Chirurgica, the commencement of the revolution, he was which is esteemed a useful manual. During made, by the Provincial Congress, Director his connexion, also, with the Hospital, of General of the Hospitals in the Northern Dewhich he was one of the Surgeons, he was partment, and accompanied the army in the associated with the much regretted Doctor invasion of Canada. As a physician and surElihu H. Smith, and the learned Doctor geon he enjoyed an extensive practice and Samuel L. Mitchill, in preparing the valuable acquired a high reputation, and closed his Pharmacopæia, now used in that institution. long career of life with all the consolations of Doctor Seaman enjoyed a high reputation the Christian's hope. At New-York, Mrs. Ann in his private practice, which was extensive, and died respected and lamented.

At St. Croix, on the 28th June, James S. Stringham, M.D. of New-York. Doctor Stringham was born in New-York. He commenced his professional education in his native city, and after having here gone through a course of medical studies, he went to Edin burgh. While at this celebrated Scottish school he applied himself so assiduously and successfully to his scientific pursuits, particularly chemistry, that upon his return home, he delivered lectures on that science, and with the aid of an apparatus which he brought over with him, he made them interesting and useful. In the year 1800 Doctor Stringham published an essay on "The Efficacy of the Digitalis Purpurea, or Fox-Glove, in allaying the excessive action of the Sanguiferous System." He also published an interesting paper, giving an account of a remarkable species of Intestinal Vermes, and accompanied with correct drawings by Doctor Anderson. This is a valuable zoological tract. But the situation, in which Doctor Stringham may be thought to have best displayed his talents and learning was that of Professor of Legal Medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which office he held till death. The lectures which he delivered on this branch of science were valuable for their learning, for the judgment and skill with which the materials were arranged, and the perspicuous and pleasing style in which they were composed and delivered. He was, also, one of the Physicians of the Hospital, and continued so until his death. Doctor Stringham was a man of amiable dis position and courteous manners, and his death in a distant land, to which he had resorted in the hope of re-establishing his health, has added poignancy to the grief with which he is bewailed.

At Albany, on the 11th July, Samuel Stringer, M.D. aged 82. Doctor Stringer was born in the State of Maryland, and studied medicine under Doctor Bond of Philadelphia. At the commencement of the French war Fre was appointed by Governor Shirley to the

Maria Skidmore, aged 22. Mr. Laurence M'Donald, 73. Rev. Samuel Whelpley, 50. Mr. Richard Speight,43. Mrs. Gertrude Moore, 77. Mrs. Eliza Livingston, relict of the late Schyler Livingston. Mrs. Charity Kiersted, 59. Mr. Gilbert Lawrence, 79. Mr. Archibald Smyth, 36. At Utica, Mrs. Mary Walker, 62. At Brooklyn, L. I. mrs, Mary Swartcoup, 30. Mr. Andrew H. Stewart, 23. At New Utrecht, L. I. Mrs. Jane Cowenhoven, 27. At Elmira, mr. Stephen Rickley, 29. Mr. Mathew M'Connell, 77. At Geneva, Mrs. Jennet M'Kay, 79. At Black Rock, Mr. Ethan H. Ludlow, 27. At Brownville, mr. Benjamin Brown. At Aurora, Mrs. Jabetha Dunning. At Canandaigua, Mrs. Asenath Ferre, 43.

NEW JERSEY.

The crops in this State are unusually promising. A new Post-Office has been established in Perrysville, Hunterdon County, and Charles Carhart, Esq. appointed PostMaster.

On Tuesday, the 15th July, was burned at Newark, the distillery belonging to Joseph T. Baldwin, Esq. and Mr. Richard A. Donaldson. The loss is estimated at 20,000 dollars. The fire was occasioned by the bursting off of one of the still-heads, whereby the alco hol took fire, and the building was instantly wrapt in flames.

Married.] At Newark, mr. A. Denman, to miss Charlotte C. Remsen. Captain George B. Davidson, to miss Caroline Livingston.

Died.] At Newark, mrs. Elizabeth Hinsdale, aged 41. Mrs. Mary Longworth, relict of the late Thomas Longworth.