one, who are unable to read or write, and those three are mutes.

At a very large and respectable convention of the republican members' of the Massachusetts legislature, on the 11th February, the following resolution, among others, was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Hon. Daniel Webster for acting as the true representative of this commonwealth in the late debate in the Senate of the United States, and for his able performance of that duty in vindicating the state from undeserved and unfounded charges, and repelling the unjust and groundless imputations and attacks made upon the honor, the history, the conduct and the character of the state, and placing them in their proper and just light.

The Boston Patriot gives a statement of the occupations of the members of the house of representatives of Massachusetts, as follows:

Farmers 207, merchants and traders 126, lawyers 60, mechanics 44, manufacturers 25, physicians 15, clergymen 11, gentlemen 10, deputy sheriffs 4.Total 502.

In 1829, the quantity of mackerel and other pickled fish inspected in this state

4,070,922 79,345 More than 1000 vessels were employed in the cod and mackerel fishery during the last year. The number of whale ships was 160, averaging 350 tons each; and making in the aggregate 50,000 tons. All these articles had amounted to $4,200,000 the last year.

Mortality of Boston from 1813 to 1830, 17 years, was as follows:-In 1813, there were 786; 1814, 727; 1815, 851; 1816, 904; 1817, 907; 1818, 971; 1819, 1070; 1820, 1103; 1821, 1420; 1822, 1203; 1823, 1154; 1824, 1297; 1825, 1450; 1826, 1254; 1827, 1022; 1828, 1233; 1829, 1221.

April 7th, 1830. Stephen White, an old and wealthy inhabitant of Salem was found murdered in his bed. This horri. ble deed committed upon an aged and inoffensive man produced unparalleled excitement in this town and vicinity, where the crime of murder was comparatively unknown. The inhabitants

of Salem were almost frantic with horror and apprehension. The greatest exertions were for a time unavailing to discover any thing leading to a detection of the murderers. At length a letter from a distant town addressed to a Mr Knapp, of Salem, fell into the hands of his father, and its character leading to suspicion, the letter was exhibited to the officers of justice, and the parties consisting of Joseph Knapp, jr. John Knapp, and Richard Crowninshield,being apprehended,one of the deepest tragedies in domestic life that took place in any age or country was developed by the confessions of the parties. After the arrest, the following confessions were made by Joseph Knapp, jr.:

Some months since J. J. Knapp, jr. who married the grand niece of Capt. White, and the daughter of his housekeeper, stated a hypothetical case to a lawyer, and from him understood that if Capt. W. died intestate, his mother-inlaw, as the sole representative of Capt. W.'s sister, would inherit half the estate

all the other heirs at law being representatives of Capt. W.'s brother.

In order to effect this object, Knapp proposed to his brother John F. Knapp, to murder Capt. White. His brother replied, that he would not do it himself but he knew who would; he could get Richard Crowninshield, jr. Crowninshield was employed for that object, by J. F. Knapp, at his brother's request, and was to receive, we understand, $1000 for accomplishing the object.

On Friday, 2d April, J. J. Knapp, jr. went into Capt. White's chamber and took from the iron chest a will, which he supposed to be Capt. W.'s last will, carried it to Wenham. and kept it in his possession until he heard of Capt. W.'s death, and then destroyed it. On the same day he procured the will, he unbarred the window shutter and unscrewed the window, by which Crowninshield entered. Knapp returned to Wenham the same day, and did not return to Salem again until after the murder.

The murder was committed by Crowninshield alone. He alone was in the house. It was effected by a dirk, and by a

bludgeon of hickory, with a large head, loaded with lead. Whilst the deed was doing, J. F. Knapp was watching in the street. Crowninshield joined him after the crime. The bludgeon was deposited under the steps of the Howard-street Meeting-house, and there it was found.

The day after the murder, J. F. Knapp and Crowninshield rode to Wenham, where Jos. J. Knapp, jr. gave C. all the money he then had, being 100 five-franc

Oct. 1829. The arrival of the first boat on the Farmington canal from the Massachusetts line, bringing passengers from Southwick, was greeted with much enthusiasm by the inhabitants of New Haven. The canal is now completed; and, though too late in the season to admit of an extensive carriage of goods in 1829, the tolls may be expected to exceed fifteen thousand dollars in 1830.

Nov. The canal at Enfield Falls was completed, and boats passed there for the first time on the 11th inst. The length of the canal is about six miles; its breadth and depth are such as to admit not only the ordinary flat-bottomed boats used on the river, but steamboats of a much larger draught. There are three locks at the lower end of the falls of about ten feet lift each, built in the most durable manner. There is another lock at the head of the canal, together with a massive breast wall.

May 5, 1830. CONNECTICUT STATE PRISON.-It appears from the message of governor Tomlinson, delivered to the Legislature of Connecticut, that the balence of receipts at the Wethersfield

State Prison during the year ending 31st of March, over and above all expenses incident to its inanagement and the support of the convicts, was $5,068 94. The Newgate Prison, for ten years previous to its abandonment, created an average annual expense to the state of $8,400. Difference in the result of the two es tablishments per annum on the score of economy $13,468 94!-The number of convicts on the 31st of March was 167; being an increase during the year of thirtythree. Of the whole number, thirteen were females, and thirtynine blacks. Governor Tomlinson recommends the erection of an additional building for the accommodation of the former, in order that they may be subjected to solitary confinement by night, and employment by day, (in like manner with the male prisoners,) under the direction of a suitable matron.

CONNECTICUT SCHOOL FUND.-This fund now amounts to nearly $1,900,000. From the commissioners' report it appears that a man by the name of Watson recently claimed an undivided fourth part of 100,000 acres of land, (50,000 of

which has been conveyed by this state,) and lying west of Gennesee river, state of New York, Greenleaf and Watson the elder, father of the claimant, originally owned one undivided half of the whole tract, and the heirs of Sir William Pultney the other half.-Watson sold his fourth to Greenleaf, but no trace of the deed could be found; Greenleaf sold his half to Oliver Phelps, and the latter conveyed it to the state. The state, having first aparted with the heirs of Sir Wm. Pultney, had conveyed their half to divers purchasers, and the purchase money constitutes a considerable part of this fund. The commissioners, and the Hon. T. S. Williams and R. I. Ingersoll. were appointed agents on the part of the state by the Legislature, in May, 1829, with full power to adjust the claim of Watson. -After considerable negotiation, they agreed to submit the matter to the arbitrament of three gentlemen of the state of New York. Before the arbitrators met, the commissioner went after Greenleaf to Washington city, and, by a good deal of effort, aided by the promise of two thousand dollars if they should be successful, persuaded him to go to Philadelphia, and make a thorough search for the deed from Watson to him. leaf accordingly went, accompanied by the commissioner, and after a careful and patient examination of a mass of papers, which had not been overhauled since 1798, was so fortunate as to find the deed in question. On the production of the deed Watson abandoned all right and title, and the fund thus narrowly escaped a claim of the most serious and alarming character.

Green

The capital of the school fund on the first day of April, 1829, was invested as follows, viz.

1st. In bonds and mortgages, Against persons residing in

the state of New York, $618,809 90 66 in the state of Conn. 493,021 16 61 Mass. 255,811 73

66

66

Total amount of capital $1,882,251 68

June 5, 1830. The legislature adjourned this day after a session of 4 weeks.

The subject of the Militia System was under consideration, but no alteration of any importance made, except to exempt persons above thirtyfive years old from the actual performance of duty; they being required to keep the accoutrements, and be inspected once a year. The sum of $2,500 annually for three years, was appropriated to the instruction of the indigent Deaf and Dumb in the state; and the sum of $4,000 also appropriated to make additions to the State Prison, for the benefit more particularly of the female convicts. One Bank only was chartered, to wit, the Middlesex County Bank, in the city of Middletown, A conditional appropriation of $2,500, was made to complete the new State House at New Haven; and a resolution passed to purchase, at the price of $500, a copy of Trumbull's picture of the Dec laration of Independence, to adorn the Hall of the House of Representatives. A bill was introduced into the house prohibiting the circulation of small notes, where it passed, but it was negatived in the Senate.

Sept. 28, 1829. The convention which had for several weeks been in session for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Charter of the City of New York, this day finally adjourned, after having adopted a form of city government by a vote of 40 to 6.

The principal changes consist in the division of the common council into two boards; one member of each to be chosen by each ward for one year, and the exclusion of the Mayor and Recorder from the common council.

The boards are to meet in separate chambers, and a majority of each shall be a quorum to do business.-Each board shall appoint a president from its own body, and shall also choose its clerk and other officers, determine the rules of its own proceedings, and to be the judge of the qualifications of its own members. Each board shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and the doors of each shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy; and all resolutions and reports of committee, which shall recommend any specific improvement, involving the appropriation of public moneys, or taxing or assessing the citizens of said city, shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the board, under the authority of the common council, in all the newspapers employed by the corporation; and whenever a vote is taken in relation thereto, the ayes and noes shall be called and published in the same manner.

Every act, or ordinance, or resolution which shall have passed the two boards of the Common Council, before it shall take effect, shall be presented, duly certified, to the mayor of the city, for his approbation. Ifhe approve, he shall sign it; if not he shall return it, with his objection, to the board in which it originated, within ten days thereafter; or if such board be not then in session, at its next stated meeting. The board to which it shall be returned, shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and cause the same to be published in one or more of the public newspapers in the city.

The board to which such act, ordinance, or resolution, shall have been so returned, shall, after the expiration of not less than ten days thereafter, proceed to reconsider the same. If, after such reconsideration, a majority of the mem

bers elected to the board shall agree to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other board, by which it shall be likewise reconsid ered; and if approved by a majority of all the members elected to such board, it shall take effect as an act or law of the corporation. In all such cases, the votes of both boards shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the passage of the measure reconsidered, shall be entered on the journal of each board respectively.

If the mayor shall not return any act, ordinance or resolution, so presented to him, within the time above limited for that purpose, it shall take effect in the same manner as if he had signed it.

Annual and occasional appropriations shall be made by proper ordinances of the common council, for every branch and object of city expenditure, nor shall any money be drawn from the city treasury except the same shall have been previously appropriated to the purpose for which it is drawn.

The common council shall not have authority to borrow any sums of money whatever, on the credit of the corporation, except in anticipation of the revenue of the year in which such loan shall be made, unless authorized by a special act of the legislature.

The executive business of the corporation of New York shall hereafter be performed by distinct departments, which it shall be the duty of the common council to organize and appoint for that purpose

These together with some other amendments giving effect to these changes were submitted to the citizens at the fall election of 1829 and being sanctioned by a vote of 10,436 Ayes to 5088 Nays was submitted to the legislature, which at the subsequent session passed a law making the amendments proposed.

October. A branch of the U. S. Bank was established at Buffalo, and Wm. B. Rochester appointed President thereof.

Oct. 13, 1830. AMERICAN INSTITUTE. -The Annual exhibition commenced this day. A surprising variety and amount of the productions of domnestic industry were displayed, both useful and ornamental. Broadcloths and Calicoes, Porcelain and Cut Glass, Musical Instruments, &c, &c, were among them,