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

ted at 25 dollars per rod, and that thus a depth of 12 feet may be obtained all the way from Albany to Hudson.

Several miles of the Canal from Rome westward, have been laid out into sections by Benjamin Wright, Engineer, who has advertised for proposals to construct the same. The commissioners of the canal fund have advertised for a loan of 200,000 dollars which was immediately taken up by Messrs. Prime, Ward and Sands.

The counties of Seneca and Cayuga were divided by the legislature during the last see

sion.

Gurdon S. Mumford, Benjamin A. Akerly,
Silvester Dearing, James Thompson, Robert
Troup, Solomon Southwick, and James
Emmott, Directors.

A number of gentlemen of Dutchess County have presented captain Beekman V. Hoffman, of the U. S. Navy, with a very handsome service of plate, as a testimonial of his gallantry in the late war.

A person in New-York has invented an ap paratus to be attached to a gas lamp, which being once lighted, supplies itself with gas, at once generating and consuming it; no matter what the substance, coal, resin, &c.

A cow belonging to Mr. Hulet Hoag, of Pittstown, which was expected to calve in about three weeks, died on the 12th inst. On opening her to take out the calf, a green snake, about sixteen inches in length, was found by the side of the calf. It was seen by several witnesses.

The Indians in the state of New-York, collectively called the six nations, have suffered severely during the last winter, in consequence of the failure of the last year's crop of Indian Corn-their principal dependance for subsistence. One tribe of 700 persons, who usually raise 7,000 or 8,000 bushels of corn in a season, raised last year not more The skeleton of the elephant which was than 50 bushels, dried in the ordinary way. shot in Maine, in July last, has been recently in New-York. The elephant By boiling the unripe corn, and drying it by exhibited the fire, they secured something more. The weighed when shot, 7000 pounds. several tribes receive annuities from the State A worm, which the farmers call wireor United States, but they amount to no more worm, has been committing serious depredathan two or three dollars per man, and are tions upon the grass and grain about Albany. entirely insufficient for procuring them a sub- The worm is about the size of common wire, sistence. They have therefore been depend- yellow, half, or three quarters of an inch ant on the scanty charity of a few Missiona- long, and is found below the surface, preying ries and others, for the means of preserving upon roots and seeds. They are very deThe black worm, suppotheir lives. Their numbers are, respectively, structive to corn. as follow: Senecas 200; Cayuga 100; Onon- sed the same with that in Worcester County, dagas 700; Tuscaroras 316; Stockbridge tribe Mass. has been destroying the herbage in 4000. The Oneidas are not numbered. Renssalear and Saratoga counties. This is thought to be a different worm from that called the cut worm in Pennsylvania, whose ravages are confined to corn.

At an annual meeting of the Society of the New-York Hospital on the 20th instant, the following gentlemen were elected governors for the ensuing year: Matthew Clarkson, In the neighbourhood of Newburgh the Robert Bowne, Thomas Eddy, Thomas Hessian fly and cut-worm have sometimes Buckley, Peter A. Jay, Jacob Sherred, been seen, but have not done much injury. George Newbold, C. D. Colden, Thomas The frosts in the western parts of the state Franklin, Ebenezer Stevens, Robert H. have done much hurt in the gardens and Bowne, William Johnson, Gilbert Aspia- spring crops. wall, John B. Lawrence, Jonathan Little, John Murray, jun. John R. Murray, Hugh Williamson, Cornelius Dubois, Frederick the ground. Depeyster, Andrew Morris, Najah Taylor, Robert L. Murray, Peter Mesier, Moses Field, Thomas C. Taylor.

On the 27th of May, snow fell in Geneva, in the western part of this state, so as to cover

Plattsburgh, May 17.

The court of Common Pleas of the county of Clinton, commenced its session in this An act was passed at the last session of town on Tuesday last. The following is a the Legislature to incorporate the members list of the criminals who have been convictof the "New-York Institution for the in- ed at this term. In addition to the list of sestruction of the Deaf and Dumb." The fol- ven to the State Prison and two to the solitalowing gentlemen constitute the board of di- ry cells, our gaol contains 4 or 5 tenants who rection: De Witt Clinton, President; Richard have been indicted and will be tried at the Varick, First Vice President; John Slidell, June term of the Supreme Court. Henry Treasurer; John B. Scott, Secretary; and Bell, State Prison, 3 years, Ira Glynn, 7 do. Henry Rutgers, Alexander M'Leod, John Lewis Smith, 7 do. David Stoddard, 7 do. Stanford, John Murray, jr.; Henry T. Feltus, John M'Donald, 7 do. David Morehouse, James L. Bell, Bishop Connolly, Henry 7 do. Daniel Gover, 3 do.

Wheaton, Samuel Akerly, Jonas Mapes, From the 10th March to the 29th of May, Peter Sharpe, Silvanus Miller, Wm. L. Rose, there arrived at the port of New-York, up

wards of 250 vessels, bringing 1600 passen- John Sproule, 2d U. S. Infantry, to miss gers.

John Pinkney, Esq. has been appointed City Intendant of New-York. This is a new

office.

Jesse Hawley, Esq. has been appointed collector of the port of Buffalo, vice Caleb Hopkins, resigned.

The President of the United States arrived

in the city of New-York on Wednesday, the 11th of June. He was received by a deputation from the corporation, and escorted to the city Hall by the military. At the Governor's room he was met by Gov. Clinton and the Mayor of the city, besides many other men of distinction. He visited all the public works in New-York and its vicinity, and went up the river Hudson to West Point. During his stay he was waited upon by the Society of Cincinnatti,and was made a member of the American Society for the encouragement of American manufactures, as were also, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. He was also made honorary member of the New-York Historical Society. The City Hall was splendidly illuminated, and the whole city wore a joyous face. On Friday the 20th June he proceeded in the steam-boat Connecticut, to New-Haven.

Married.] At New-York, Rev. Robert
M'Cartee, of Philadelphia, to Miss Jessy

G. Bethune. Mr. Robert Lovett, to miss
Anna Doubleday. Mr. George Harrison,
to Miss Ketchum. Mr. Alexander Flem-
ing, to miss Emma Seton Atkinson. Mr.
John Davidson, to miss Kitty Ann Duy-
ckinck. Mr. Michael Phyfe, to miss Jane
Halliday. Robert Boggs, Esq. of New.
Brunswick, to mrs. Stewart. Mr. Charles
Porter, to miss Mary L. Brown, Mr.
Wm. Van Dalsem, to miss Theodosia C.
Delavan. Mons. Ferdinand Montfredi to
Mr.
miss Adele Jacqueline Provost.
Henry Hastings, to miss Susan Huggett.
Doctor Charles Loring, to miss Mary El-

ner.

Mr. Samuel Buchanan, to miss Sally Davidson. Mr. C. Cook St. John, to miss Sullivan Tilton. Mr. Henry Stevens, of Kingston, to miss Rosanna Hewlett. Mr. James Pickens, to mrs. Isabella Jackson. At Albany, mrs. J. R. Van Steenberg, to miss Matilda Humphrey. At Skaneateles, mr. Joseph Jones, to miss Deborah Parsoll. At Kingston, Captain Wm. Dannet, of Troy, to miss Nancy Hyatt. At Sing-Sing, mr. Roswell Goff, to miss Nancy Brace. At Cayuga, mr. Charles J. Webster, to miss Oravilla Fish. At Waterford, Mr. William Givan, to miss Charlotte Gillespie. At Fayette, mr. Franklin Chamberlain, to miss Hannah Burt. At Canandaigua, Mr. Daniel Bly, to miss Phoebe Gardner. Mr. Zachariah Tiffany, jr. to miss Nancy Jameson. At Greenbush, Major VOL. I. NO. II.

Elizabeth Cuyler. At West Bloomfield, Mr. Ezekiel Folsom, aged 18, to miss Lucy Fitch, aged 16. At Pompey, Mr. Isaac N. Loomis, of Manlius, to miss Abigail Close. At Gorham, Mr. Lucius Stanley, of Seneca, to miss Sally Bunyan. At Sackett's Harbour, Capt. John Perkins, of the army, to miss Ann Eliza Croghan. At Johnstown, Mr. Zenas Attwater, to miss Mary Burt. At Canaseraga, Major Stephen Lee, to miss Betsey P. Cherry. At Buffalo, Mr Sylvester Matthew, to miss Louisa Haddock.

At Batavia, Mr Trumbull Cary, to miss Margaret Brisbane. In West Chester, Duncan Pearsall Campbell, Esq. to miss Maria Bayard. At the Narrows, Doctor John Carpenter, of the U, S. Army, to miss Margaret Smith.

Died] At New-York, 6th June last, of Phthisis Pulmonalis, JAMES S. WATKINS, M.D, son of the late Alderman Watkins, in the twenty-first year of his age. Few who have died at so early an age have given higher pledges of future excellence, or in their death greater occasion of grief and sor row. Having laid the foundation of an excellent classical education under Mr. of the languages in this city, he entered Joseph Nelson, a distinguished teacher Columbia College in October, 1811, where. his virtues, diligence, and decorum, gained at once the affection of the tutors, and the friendship of his fellow students. He was graduated in 1815, and immediately thereafter entered upon the study of Medicine, which he prosecuted with an ardour and industry that secured to him attainments in its various branches far beyond his years. He had just obtained his degree of Doctor in Medicine, in the University of New-York, (in April, 1817,) when he was arrested by a most insidious disease, which shortly terminated his existence.

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Thus prematurely fell James S. Watkins, young man of the most amiable disposition and exemplary character, endowed with vigorous and original talents, and animated by an ardent ambition to the most laudable pursuits;-bereaving his friends of one worthy their dearest affections, and the profession and society of one of its most promising ornaments.-Lamented youth, long shall thy memory be conse crated by the tear of Friendship.

What a change
From yesterday! thy darling hope so near,
Long laboured prize! Death's subtle seed within,
(Sly, treacherous miner) working in the dark,
Smiled at thy well-concerted scheme, and
beckoned

The worm to riot on that rose so red,
Unfaded ere it fel

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PENNSYLVANIA.

Also, in this city, miss Esther K. Wells, disasters and dangers of that gloomy camaged 19 Mrs. Mary Koster, 47. Mrs. paign. He was a member of the first ConAmelia Dillon, 25. Mrs. Margaret Beck, gress under the present Federal Constitution, 73. Mrs. Sarah A. Gray, 35. Mr James and also of the seventh Congress during the R. Smith, merchant, 52. Rev. Henry Mos- administration of Washington and Adams, crop, 56. Mrs. Eliza Hubbell. Mr. Adam and with whom he uniformly accorded in his He was an elector of PreRennie, of Scotland, 36. Mr. John W. political career. Richards, 31. Miss Harriet A. Hunt. Mr. sident and Vice President in the year 1800. Benjamin Halstead, 84 Mr. Henry Ritter, of Nassau, N. P. 22. Francis Bayard The president of the United States arriWinthrop, Esq. 64. Mrs. Margaret Bol- ved in Philadelphia on the 5th of June. He mer, 52. Mr. Benjamin Lovell, 29 Mrs. was received with military honours, and afHannah Cruger, 48. Mr. Joseph M. ter examining all the public institutions and Clarke, 38. Mr. Jeremiah Warner, 54. public works in the city and vicinity, espeMr. James M'Evers, late of the House of cially the fortifications at the Pea Patch, he Le Roy, Bayard, & M'Evers, a man of proceeded on his tour northwardly. worth. Mr. Laurent Allien, 52. Mr. "The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Benj. Smith, sen. Mr. Joseph M. Cack, Agriculture" have published the following 38. Mrs. Elizabeth M'Comb, 48. Mrs. queries: What are the remedies which have been found to prevent the operation upon Mary T. Smith, 28. At Albany, Richard wheat of the Hessian Fly, and of the disease Lush, Esq. At Fishkill, Mrs. Catharine called" stunt," and of the grub; what speCurrie, 72. At Oyster-Bay, mrs. Cathacies of wheat most successfully resists the fly rine Latham, 88. At Jamaica, L. I. Wm. and stunt; what are the circumstances of Kuypers, 6 At Brooklyn, mr. Henry Stry- cultivation in fields affected by the stunt, and ker. At Hudson, Mr. Lemuel Jenkins. what soils are most liable to it; what means At Kingsborough, mr Daniel Judson, 88. have been found to prevent the attack, of At Genoa, miss Maria Leavenworth, 16 the disease, or the fly; what modes of tillyears, 6 months. At Ridgeway, mrs age have been found to protect corn from the Adah Brown, 28. At Manlius, Leonard grub; what are the changes which that inKellogg, jun. Esq. Senior editor of the sect undergoes, and generally all the facts Manlius Times. At Orville, miss Belinda relating to this subject. Communications, Young, 20. At Seneca, mrs. Rebecca free of postage, to be directed to Robert Reed, 50. At Canandaigua, mrs. Phoebe Vaux, secretary of the society. Cooley, 73. At Sparta, David Mc Nain, By the farmers of Upper Providence, Esq 45. At Binghampton, mr. Francis Montgomery county, a resolution has passed, Malbone. 22. At Greenbush, mr. Adam in public meeting, to discontinue the custom Cook, 96, whose wife, aged 94, performed of giving spirituous liquors to labourers. the last pious office of closing his eyes; they had lived together 69 years. At Auburn, mrs. Hannah Phillips.

NEW JERSEY.

The commissioners appointed to ascertain the practicability and expediency of a canal to connect the navigation of the Delaware and the Rariton, by the points of New-Bruns wick and Trenton, have reported favourably Married:]-At Elizabethtown, mr. Joseph Lyon, merchant, of New-York, to miss Harriette D'Anteroche. At Newark, mr. James Montgomery, merchant, of New-York to miss Margaret Shoemaker.

for the Promotion of Economy," by Benja In an address to the Philadelphia Society min Shaw, the expenditure for education in the public schools in the city of Philadelphia and Liberties, is stated at $22,729, for the year 1816, and Mr. Shaw proposes a system of education for those schools that shall save annually $16,000 of the above sum.

of April, the daughter of Mr. John Wurtz, Surgical Operation.-On Monday the 5th nearly five years old, while playing with beans, unfortunately inhaled one into the windpipe. Though the most alarming symptoms of strangulation came on, life was protracted till medical aid could be procured The operation of bronchotomy was performed Died.]-In Hunterdon County, mrs. Susan by Dr. Charles M.Lane of Connelsville; W. Hunt. At Salem, Thomas Sinnickson, which consisted of a free division of the windEsq. aged 72. He was early distinguished as pipe, of nearly an inch in length. But findan influential asserter of the rights and liber- ing that the bean had passed below the bifur ties of America, both in the cabinet and in cation of the trachea, and respiration being the field. He was a member of the first Pro- much relieved by the operation, the extracvincial Congress in the year 1775. In the tion of the bean was deferred till the patient following year he was a captain in the five had rested. After many fruitless attempts, months service, and was one of the little pa- the bean was at last caught and extracted triot band, partaking with Washington the by means of a long slender pair of ring-ban

dled forceps, which were introduced beyond The city of Baltimore have presented the joint. It measured more than four-fifths commodore Rodgers, of the navy, with of an inch in circumference (being swollen a superb service of silver plate. Each considerably) and weighed 16 grains. The patient is nearly recovered. Dr. M. Parker, of Mount Pleasant, assisted at the division of the trachea, and Dr. L. Marchand assisted at the extraction of the bean.

Married.] At Philadelphia, mr. Henry H. Lawrence, mer. of New-York, to miss Mary Folwell Mr. Hiram Avers to miss Mary Ann Ralston. Mr. Wm. Vernon, mer. of N. York, to miss Elizabeth Bryan, of Charleston, S. C. Mr V. Primrose to mrs. Mary Peters. At Muncy, mr. Samuel Shoemaker to miss Mary Pott

Died.] At Philadelphia, mr. Caleb Wilkins, aged 49. Mr. David Irving, 73. Mr. Wm. Stevenson, sen. 70. Mrs. Mary Herman. Capt. Leeson Simonds, 78. Mr. Ebenezer Hazard, formerly postmaster-general of the United States, 73. Mr. Wm. Potts, 46. Mrs. Abigail Hawkes. Mr. Jesse Bennett. On the 24th of June, Thomas M'Kean, esq. formerly governor of Pennsylvania, and one of the patriots of the revolution. At Bellefoute, mrs. Nancy Lyon.

DELAWARE.

The ravages of the Fly have not been so extensive in this region as was apprehended. The prospect generally throughout the country is as favourable for good crops as at any period.

MARYLAND.

The President of the United States arri

ved in Baltimore on the 1st of June. He received the attention of the municipal authorities and of the military; and after having inspected the public works and public institutions, and visited the battle ground on which was decided the fate of the city, during the last war, he proceeded to Philadelphia.

There have recently arrived in Baltimore from London, six beautiful young Cows and one Bull, of the Devonshire breed, together with some Improved Implements of Husbandry, for Mr. Caton and Mr. Patterson of this place, the whole being a present from the celebrated Mr. Coke, member of Parliament for Norfolk, the richest and most practical farmer in England, who gives the following description of these cattle.

"I venture to give it as my opinion that we have no cattle to be compared to them in the United Kingdom, for purity of blood, for aptitude to feed, for hardiness, as well as for the richness of their milk, and for work when required, as I have repeatedly found by a variety of experiments upon my ewn farins and elsewhere."

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piece has the following inscription. "Presented by the Citizens of Baltimore to Com. John Rodgers, in testimony of their high sense of the important aid afforded by him in the defence of Baltimore, on the 12th and 13th of September, 1814." The whole cost $4000

Married At Baltimore, Mr. Almoran Holmes, of Wiscasset, Me. to miss Adela Reynolds. Mr. James B. Latimer to miss Catherine Lyon. Cecilius C. Jameson, Esq. to miss F. M. Johnson. Mr. James D. Miller to miss Emily Evans. At Rich Hill, Charles County, mr. Thomas Swan, jr. mer. of Alexandria, to miss Sarah Cox.

Died] At Baltimore, mr. Silas Bemont. Henry M. Johnson. Mr. Arthur M'Arthur, of Philadelphia, after a short illness, which he attributed to sleeping in a damp bed at New-Castle, on his way to Baltimore. Mr. Eli Sinkins. "Good will to man," was his motto.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The President of the United States left Washington on the 31st of May, on a tour through the middle and northern states, to examine the condition of the country, and ascertain the situation of public works and national defence generally.

In Georgetown it was ascertained by experiment, that on the 30th of May, 11 inches of water fell in rain, within the space of 80 minutes.

In the beginning of May, there arrived at Washington, a number of Swiss weavers with stocking looms, where, it is said, they propose to form an establishment which has for its object the manufacturing of cotton and woollen hosiery, knit pantaloons, petticoats, under waistcoats, and Berlin lace, and tulle for ladies' dres