coffins and bones of the dead were exposed. This difficulty was likely to become more serious, since the excavation of the adjoining lot would have a perpendicular bank 15 or 20 feet in height, which would be continually giving way, and the coffins and their contents must be precipitated into it. In other respects, the ground was in a deplorable condition; the surface was broken and rough, and presented a ruinous aspect, which was not only painful to surviving friends, but a source of annoyance to a neighborhood daily becoming more populous. The committee proposed to remove the bodies to the projected Rural cemetery, and surrender the premises to Mr. Van Rensselaer, he having agreed to provide a suitable lot for the purpose of reinterment.

June 12. Ten clergymen of the city of different denominations signed a call published in the Argus for a hospital.

June 15. Philip Keith died, aged 33.

June 17. John Visscher died, aged 39.

June 18. Stephen V. R. Humphrey died, aged 43.
June 21. William Ellis died.

The remains of De Witt Clinton, which had been deposited in the cemetery in Swan street, were removed to New York, for interment under a monument erected by the family.

July 2. Major James Gibbons died, aged 46.

July 4. At the general celebration the oration was delivered by Charles L. Austin; reading the Declaration by A. D. Robinson. Colonel Samuel Van Vechten, marshal.

At the Young Men's celebration, oration by L. Sprague Parsons; poem by H. S. McCall; reading Declaration by M. Wendell L'Amoreux.

At the Youth's Temperance Society celebration, addresses were delivered by Philip Phelps, Jr., president of the society, by M. Wendell L'Amoreux and J. H. Canoll; reading Declaration by David Wyckoff.

July 8. Westerlo Van Rensselaer died.

A meeting of citizens was held at the Capitol, John L. Schoolcraft presiding, which passed resolutions on the subject of the repeal movement in Ireland.

July 12. Cornelia Pruyn died, aged 75.

July 17. Catharine A., wife of Wilber F. Osborne, died, aged 27.

July 20. Mrs. Emeline Blakeman, daughter of Greene Hall, died in Troy.

July 28. Elizabeth Gibbons, wife of Nicholas Quackenbush, died.

Thomas New died, aged 70.

July 29. The corner stone of the Third Presbyterian church at Clinton place, was laid with appropriate ceremonies.

July 30. Sylvester Wilcox died at Palmyra, aged 69. James Gourley, Jr., died at Galveston, Texas, aged 39. There were at this time 28 churches in the city, and four more in the process of erection, namely, a Methodist church in Hudson street, a Baptist church in State street, a Presbyterian church in Patroon street, and a French catholic church.

Aug. 6. Cornelia, widow of Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, died in New York, aged 64.

Aug. 13. A public meeting was held in relation to the Colonie burial ground, Hon. Jacob Lansing, chairman. A committee was appointed to investigate the subject of its condition, and the necessity of protecting it from further dilapidation, or of removing the remains to some other place.

Aug. 15. Wm. L. Stone died, aged 52; formerly editor of the Albany Daily Advertiser.

Mrs. Lydia Ettridge died at White Pigeon, Michigan, aged 61.

Aug. 17. H. G. O. Rogers died in New York, aged 48. Aug. 22. Eleanor, wife of Col. Samuel Hawley, died, aged 57.

Aug. 26.

Augusta, wife of Joshua Brockway, Jr., died. Sept. 6. Jane Betts died, aged 90.

Sept. 10. Peter V. Bradt died, aged 45.

Sept. 11. Catharine Amanda Van Heusen died, aged 22. Sept. 19. Sophia, wife of Josiah Platt, died.

Sept. 28. Eliza, wife of Col. Nicholas Van Rensselaer, died at Greenbush, aged 85.

Sept. 30. The new route of the Mohawk and Hudson rail road having been completed, the trains began to pass over it on this day. The inclined planes were now dispensed with, and the locomotive passed down the Tivoli creek and into the heart of the city, to the Maiden lane depot and the Boston ferry, where two roads met, and the great mass of the traveling public was landed on the Maiden lane side walk from east and west. A very great change immediately came over this terminus. If any one had been curious about the exact number of carts, coaches, cabs, hacks and hand-carts which the city contained, he could have taken the census here when the cars arrived. Dean street was also metamorphosed. Nothing like the change now going on had been witnessed in that out-of-the-way place since Stewart Dean came home from China in his little Albany craft, when the corporation, in a paroxysm of public spirit, as the cheapest way of doing honor to the renowned skipper, changed its ugly name of Dock street to Dean street. It had outlived its worst days, and its destiny henceforward was onward and upward. Stanwix Hall, too, was no longer

liant and thronged hotel: its windows glittering with light, its gay concert room alive with the beauty and fashion of the town, its rooms and its saloons rife with the stir of busy merchants and planning politicians. Old Fort Stanwix had a lively child in this, its namesake; and its enterprising proprietor. who had brave and honorable memorial associated with the name, saw brighter days smile at last on his spirit. Even the ice, which kept undisputed sway of Maiden lane for half the year, the sun having very little personal acquaintance with its pavement, now disappears before the first of July, and horses look less despairingly at its heavy ascent. Sept. 30. Susan, wife of Wm. Mascord, died, aged 50. Juliaette, widow of L. G. Renaud died, aged 31. John Brower died, aged 85.

Oct. 1.

Charles H. Boardman died, aged 35.

William Durant, an eminent merchant, died, aged 69.

Oct. 3. Jane, widow of Nathaniel S. Skinner, died, aged 72.

Oct. 7. The Albany Rural Cemetery was consecrated. The military and firemen joined with the citizens in an imposing procession, and the services were held on the grounds. An address was delivered by Hon. D. D. Barnard, and the clergy performed the customary exercises, which were published at length in the newspapers. James Fitzpatrick died, aged 22.

Oct. 13. Wm. C. Covert died, aged 23.

Amanda, wife of Wm. Thorn, died, aged 31. Oct. 16. Addison F. Guernsey died, aged 36.

George W. Wasson died, aged 24.

Oct. 17. Eliza C. wife of John M. Newton died, aged 36. Oct. 24. John McCulloch died, aged 26.

David Strain died, aged 21.

Oct. 31, Cyrrel Gillett died, aged 52; keeper of the Washington Hall.

Nov. I. Isabella, wife of Walter S. McCulloch, died, aged 33.

Nov. 3. Elizabeth, wife of James P. Gould, died, aged 54.

Nov. 5. Election. Henry G. Wheaton was elected to congress, and Ira Harris to the assembly. There was a whig majority in the county for Henry Clay. The aggregate vote of the county was very materially increased since the last gubernatorial election in 1842. At the presidential election in 1840, the county gave for Harrison, 6,372, for Van Buren, 5,944, and 45 for the anti-slavery candidate; total, 12,361. In 1842, the vote of the county for governor stood, for Bouck, 6,076, for Bradish, 6,272. anti slavery, 87; total, 12,435. The presidential vote for the present year was, for Clay 7,109, for Polk, 6,907, anti-slavery about 100; total 14,116.

Nov. 8. Julia Ann, widow of Hugh Frazer, died, aged 37.

Nov. 10. John Thomson, a noted botanic physician, and son of the founder of that system of practice, died in New York, aged 43.

Nov. 11. Levinus G. Winne died, aged 24.

Nov. 12. The projectors of the Gas light company having obtained a charter some years before this, but failing to get the stock subscribed, now made a new effort with entire success.

Nov. 18. Elizabeth, wife of John Van Buren, died.

Peter Joraleman died, aged 56.

Nov. 25. At a meeting of the common council, Alderman Dexter proposed to raise the salary of the deputy chamberlain to $900; the city superintendents to $600 each, and the marshal to $600. Mr. Van Ness thought it singular that salaries should be raised at a time when produce was so low. Mr. McMullen remarked that butter was 15 cents a pound, and that was not low!

Nov. 28. Josephine L., wife of H. A. Hopkins, died, aged 25.

Nov. 29. Charles E. Whitney died, aged 24.

Nov. 30. Jane Ann, wife of Gerret W. Bell, died, aged

26. The following report of the commerce of Albany was made by the harbormaster for the present year: