Maine, Nathan Cummins, George Evans, John Holmes, Charles Mussey, Henry Warren; New-Hampshire, Charles Barrett, Leonard Jarvis, William A. Kent, John B. H. Odiorne, James Wilson, Jr.; Vermont, Dan Carpenter, William A. Griswold, Thomas D. Hammond, William Jarvis, Robert Temple, Phineas White; Rhode-Island, Joseph L. Tillinghast, John B. Francis, Nathan F. Dixon, Christopher E. Robbins; Massachusetts, Gideon Barstow, Ira Barton, Henry A. S. Dearborn, Alexander H. Everett, Russell Freeman, John Lowell, Jr. Ebenezer Moseley, Gershom B. Weston, Samuel Snelling; Connecticut, Daniel B. Brinsmade, Dennis Kimberly, John McLellan, John A. Rockwell, Joseph Trumbull; New-York, Luther Bradish, Joseph Blunt, John G. Camp, Henry B. Cowles, Hiram Ketchum, Peter R. Livingston, Charles Ludlow, Abraham R. Lawrence, Hugh Maxwell, Frederick Mason, Peter B. Porter, William L. Stone, T. Barton Stout, Richard R. Ward, Henry G. Wheaton; NewJersey, Amasa Dodd, Samuel S. Doty, Job S. Halstead, William Halstead, Benjamin P. Lippincott, Henry D. Polhemus, Peter M. Ryerson, James F. Randolph; Pennsylvania, Samuel Alexander, John B. Butler, Robert Burke, Thomas Burnside, Thomas B. Colman, Joseph G. Clarkson, James Calhoun, William F. Dillingham. William Darling, Nathaniel Ewing, Washington Hopkins, Thomas M. Jolly, Abner Lacock, Sharp D. Lewis, William Lyon, Peter S. Michler, Calvin Mason, Thomas McGiffin, A. McGaw, Josiah Randall, John Sergeant, Richard Penn Smith, Anthony Taylor; Delaware, E. J. Dupont, Kensey Johns, Jr. R. Mansfield, William W. Morris, Wm. D. Waples; Maryland, Solomon Dickinson, Joseph Kent, J. B. Morris, William Price, Joseph J. Merrick, I. Sewell, H. V. Somerville, James Thomas, J. Tilghman, William Willis; Virginia, Richard Adams, Robert Anderson, James Barbour, Richard W. Barton, David Briggs, James Brackenridge, Robert B. Corbin, William B. Caldwell, John B. Clopton, Samuel H. Davis, Henry Fairfax, Charles Hill, Joshua M. Harrell, John Marshall, Jr., Philip C. Pendleton, Cuthbert Powell, Thomas P. Ray, Robert Stanard, John Taliaferro, Thomas Turner, Henry S. Turner, Edward T. Tayloe, William Woods; NorthCarolina, Richard H. Alexander, Frederick H. Shuman; Louisiana, Henry A. Bullard, Josiah S. Johnston; Indiana, John J. Neely, Isaac Howk; Kentucky, Daniel Breck, Charles Buford, Leslie Combs, James W. Denny, Thompson M. Ewing, James Harlan, James Hughes, John Jennings, Francis Johnson, Martin P. Marshall, James T. Morehead, William T. Willis, George W. Williams, Lee White; Ohio, Philemon Beecher, Henry Bacon, James M. Bell, Hezekiah Bissell, Thomas Flanan, Edward Hamilton, Joseph H. Ijams, John H. James, Lecester King, George Rennick, Allan Trimble, George Reeves, Jr. John Sloane, James Williams; District of Columbia, Richard S. Coxe, William L. Hodgson, Walter Jones, William S. Nichols, Edgar Snowden.

On Tuesday, the convention was organized by the appointment of JAMES BARBOUR, of Virginia, President; Messrs. Trimble of Ohio, Kent, of Maryland, Porter, of New-York, and

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Temple, of Vermont, Vice-Presidents; Messrs. Tillinghast, of Rhode-Island, and Bacon, of Ohio, Secretaries. having been resolved that the convention should immediately proceed to nominate a candidate for the office of President, in opposition to Gen. Jackson, Mr. Livingston, of New-York, rose and nominated HENRY CLAY.

On motion of Mr. Dearborn, of Massachusetts, it was resolved unanimously, that the votes should be taken by calling the roll, each person naming his candidate the names to be called by states. On the vote being thus taken, it appeared that Mr. Clay had the unanimous support of the convention, 155 members being present. A committee of seven, viz. Messrs. Everett, of Massachusetts, Stanard, of Virginia, Dodd, of New-Jersey,Howk, of Indiana, Johns, of Delaware, Cummins, of Maine, Wilson, of New-Hampshire, were appointed to prepare an address to the people, setting forth the objects of the convention. A committee of one from each state represented, was appointed to communicate the nomination to Mr. Clay.

On Wednesday, Mr. Clay's acceptance of the nomination was reported to the convention. It was then voted to proceed to the nomination of a candidate for the office of Vice-President, and JOHN SERGEANT of Pennsylvania, was unanimously adopted.

On Thursday, Mr. Sergeant accepted the nomination. It was then resolved, that a central state corresponding committee be provisionally appointed in each state where none are now appointed; and that it be recommended to the several states to organize subordinate corresponding committees in each county and town, in their several respective states.

On Friday, an address to the people of the United States was read and accepted, and the convention adjourned, sine die.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

Dartmouth College. The Catalogue for the year commencing Sept. 1, 1831, indicates a degree of prosperity entirely new to that institution. It returns 33 Seniors, 38 Juniors, 48 Sophomores and 60 Freshmen. There are also 101 medical students. In point of facilities for learning, it is not just to Dartmouth College to put it in comparison with one or two others that have long had the advantage of immense wealth. Yet its means have been so well used, that in this particular it is certainly respectable. Its three libraries contain as

gentlemen were elected officers for the year ensuing: Hon. E. Paine, Williamstown, President; Hon. Horatio Seymour, Middlebury, Hon. Samuel Prentiss, Montpelier, Vice-Presidents; Daniel Baldwin, Esq. Montpelier, Treasurer; Hon. Joseph Howes, Montpelier, Auditor; Rev. Chester Wright, Montpelier, Secretary.

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The outside of the Insane Hospital at Worcester, is now nearly completed. The building itself is magnificent, and the local situation beautiful. It is built of brick-the central part being four stories high, 76 feet long and 40 feet deep, projecting the width of one room forward of the wings, which are each 90 feet long, three stories high, and 36 feet wide. The central part of the building has four large rooms in each story, with wide entryways between them. The front part is designed for the use of the superintendants. The wings have a wide entryway, or narrow hall, running the whole length of each, with small rooms, or cells," as they are called, for the maniacs, on each side, 10 feet by 8, with a cast iron window sash and a little plank seat fastened in the corner, to each. The whole building is 256 feet long, with a cellar under the whole, divided into many small apartments. It stands nearly parallel to the main street, about one hundred rods distant-the front commanding a full view of the whole village. Directly back of it is the south end of Millstone hill, steep, lofty, and partly covered with forest trees. Half a mile south is another large and beautiful hill, the northern declivity of which is laid out into regular and beautiful fields and pastures, enclosed with handsome stone walls. If beauty of scenery, abundance of pure air, and a splendid and convenient dwelling, will restore to reason the unfortunate maniacs who may be placed there, this hospital is well adapted to the purpose.

CONNECTICUT.

The annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Connecticut, was holden on the evening of the 1st of December, at the Rhetorical Chamber in Yale College. The officers elected were-Hon. Roger M. Sherman, President; Prof. Jonathan Knight, VicePresident; Aaron N. Skinner, Cor. Secretary; Charles Hooker, M. D. Treasurer. Prof. Timothy P. Beers and Thomas Miner, M. D. were elected honorary members.

PENNSYLVANIA.

In his annual Message to the Legis lature, the Governor congratulates his fellow citizens on the prosperity of Pennsylvania and the Union, and on the decrease of crime, and especially of that great cause of it, intemperance. He recommends the total abolition of lotteries, as productive of the worst effects. He thinks greater variety might be given to the agricultural products of Pennsylvania; wine and silk might, in the opinion of the most judicious thinkers, be added to these products. He urges the encouragement of agricultural societies, and the still more important subject of a general system of education; commends the Tariff, and invites the attention of the Legislature to the consideration of imprisonment for debt. The Judiciary system of the state is inadequate to its needs. The Militia, he thinks, will never be the better for the present mode of drilling. The Finances present a receipt for the last eleven months, of $709,030, exclusive of loans; the disbursements to $371,295. The Message enters into a detail of the various loans authorized for the public works, and into a history of the origin and progress of the system. The whole amount of money which has been paid to the Canal Commissioners, up to the 23d of November, is $12,334,488 62, constituting a debt on the commonwealth which must be somewhat enlarged in order to complete the works in progress. The wetness of last year did much damage to the canals, which have therefore been less productive, and have required extensive repairs. Pennsylvania has now public works of this and like nature to the amount of more than thirty-seven millions of dollars, disbursed, either by the state or by corporations, since 1791. The part of it lying between Pittsburg and Lake Erie, and the northern districts also, require similar improvements properly to develop their resources. The Governor adverts to the advantage over the Erie canal, of one in the less rigorous climate of Pennsylvania, which would give open navigation from four to six weeks earlier in the spring, and from two to four weeks later in the fall. This sort of advantage seems to be admitted on all hands to be of the greatest consequence. Among other subjects deserving legislative attention, is mentioned the incorporation long sought by the citizens of York, allowing them to construct a rail road to the Maryland line; which, now that there is no danger, the Governor thinks, of compro

mising the interests of Pennsylvania, has become a just claim.

Philadelphia. The population included within the limits of the Bills of Mortality of the city, amounts, without distinction of color, to 167,811. The increase since the census of 1820 is 40.6 per cent. The whites alone amount to 153,169, of which number 73,547 are males, and 79,622 are females The females exceed the males about 8 1-4 per cent. making about 92 males to 100 females. Estimating all of and under the 5th year, males exceed the females about 5 per cent. ; but when all between the 5th and 10th years are included, the sexes are nearly balanced, there being only about 1 per cent. in favor of the males. In the period included between the 10th and 15th years, the females exceed the males about 8 per cent., and from this time to about the 50th year, the excess on the same side continues pretty steadily in the ratio of from 8 to 10 per cent. Afterwards, however, it increases greatly, so that between the 50th and 60th years, the females exceed the males 34 per cent.; 60th and 70th do. 59 do.; 70th and 80th do. 90 do. ; 80th and 90th do. 79 do.; 90th and 100th do. 40 do. Of those that have attained and exceeded a centu y, 7 are females and 3 males.

The blacks constitute about 8.7 per cent. of the population, their exact number being 14,642, of which 6,307 are males, and 8,335 females. The increase since the census of 1820 is about 32 1-2 per cent. The disparity between the sexes is far greater than with the whites, there being 32 per cent. more females than males, or only 86 males to 100 females. Under the 10th year, the female excess is about 5 per cent. and between the ages of 10 and 24 amounts to 61 per cent.; between the 36th and 50th year it is only 16 per cent. and between the 55th and 100th, 38 per cent. Of those that had attained 100 years and over, 14 were males and 12 females.

The births are in the proportion of about 4 1-2 per cent. to the whole population. The number of males born exceeds that of females more than 7 per cent.; which excess, as already noticed, is lost by the 10th year. The number of births varies with the seasons. results of calculations in Philadelphia are compared with similar ones made in Europe, and found to correspond. The subject is new and interesting.

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On the 28th of November, a society was formed for establishing a "Library of Foreign Literature and Science."

The price of shares is fixed at thirty dollars each, subject to an annual contribution of three dollars. One article of the constitution provides that “ro purchase of works in the English language, except such as are exclusively devoted to the consideration of the literature and science of the people of other countries, in which that language is not spoken, shall be made out of the funds of the Association." The following gentlemen were elected officers. John Sergeant, President; P. S. Duponceau, C. J. Ingersoll,Vice-Presidents; William B. Reed, William H. Keating, Alfred L. Elwyn, M. D., Alex. Dallas Bache, Henry J. Williams, R. La Roche, M. D. Thomas I. Wharton, Daniel B. Smith, Charles Yarnall, D. F. Condie, M. D. Charles R. Demme, H. D. Gilpin, Directors; Frederick Fraley, Secretary and Treasurer.

MARYLAND.

Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road. This great work is now completed as far as Frederick and was opened to that city on the 1st of December. Several cars, containing the officers of the corporation and their guests, left Baltimore in the morning for Frederick, where they were received by the citizens, amidst the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, &c. An address was delivered by Richard Potts, Esq. and a reply made by the President of the Company. After dining, the guests returned to Baltimore. The editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser makes the following statement.

The simple fact that this ceremony was performed on a short winter's day, by persons who left Baltimore in the morning, dined at Frederick, and returned to Baltimore in season to give a particular narrative of the proceedings on the following morning, is sufficient to give a forcible impression of the nature and value of this improvement in the means of locomotion. A party of probably a hundred persons, among whom were the Governor of the State, the Members of the City Council, and the Directors of the Rail Road Company, left Baltimore at a quarter past seven, taking with them the Governor's barouche and horses, arrived at Frederick before two, and after the ceremonies of the day, a portion of the party returned to the city, having traveled a distance of 120 miles, in cars containing about 20 persons each, and each car drawn by a single horse. This was no extraordinary performance, was only a repetition of what has been done daily on 40 miles of the road for some weeks past, and will hereafter be done constantly between Baltimore and Frederick, and what is perhaps the most striking fact is that the charge for this rate of traveling is but three cents a mile, or $1 80 for a passage from Baltimore to Frederick, and that more than two-thirds of this charge is a clear profit to the Rail Road Company, after paying the expenses of horses, attendance, repairs, &c.

We lately had an opportunity of witnessing the mode of traveling on this rail road. Horse power is used at present, though it is proposed

to substitute locomotive engines, as soon as a sufficient number, properly adapted, can be procured. The horses used are mostly small and active, and they are uniformly in good condition, and have the appearance of being subjected to very light duty. We were told that so easy is the service to which they are subjected, though in the passage cars they uniformly travel at the rate of ten miles an hour at least, and often faster, that they had improved in value on an average 30 per cent. since they were purchased by the company.

The passenger cars are of various forms and sizes. Those of the most approved construction are intended to accommodate twenty passengers, inside, in two entirely distinct apartments, and they will easily accommodate from ten to fifteen on the outside. We observed two of these cars from the ridge, containing about 30 passengers each, coming from the west, several of whom were stated to be Members of Congress. These two cars reached Ellicott's Mills at 3 o'clock, P. M. where the horses were changed. As they proceeded thence towards Baltimore, over a part of the road which is chiefly level, it was evident that the horses traveled with perfect ease, and in fact appeared to exert no effort upon the load, except by the bridle bits, as the drivers found it constantly necessary to check their speed. After traveling six and a half miles the horses were again changed. They usually perform two of these short trips daily. The exchange is made in an instant. The horse is attached to the car in such a manner that if he strays from the path, he cannot draw the car from the rails. The horses which convey heavy loads travel at a slower rate. In the ordinary work upon the road, in transporting stone and earth, a single horse usually draws three cars, with loads of three tons each. A load of 200 barrels of flour was lately brought down by a single horse, changing at the regular stations, and traveling at the rate of six miles an hour, and without injury to the horse. The regular freight for the transport of merchandise is four cents a mile per ton. Some material improvements have been made in the construction of cars, particularly in the axles and the boxes, by which the friction is diminished and the car is rendered much more durable.

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The Press. In 1783, at the close of the war, there were only three newspapers printed in this state; there are now twenty-three, viz: in Charleston, the Mercury, the Courier and the Gazette, daily morning papers; the Patriot and the Post, daily evening papers; the Irishman, the Southern Chronicle, the Observer, (religious, Presbyterian) and the Miscellany, (religious, olic.) In Columbia, the Telescope, the Times, and the Hive. In Camden, the Journal and the Beacon. In Georgetown, the Intelligencer and the Union. And in the places designated by their titles, the Beaufort Gazette, the Edgefield Carolinian, the Pendleton Messenger, the Greenville Mountaineer, the Yorkville Pioneer, the Cheraw Republican and the Sumter Gazette. Besides these are published the Southern Review, quarterly; and the Southern Agriculturist, and the Gospel (Episcopal) Messenger, monthlies.

GEORGIA.

Education. The Overseers of the University of this state, met at Milledgeville, on the 15th of November, to consider the state of the College, which appears to be in a flourishing condition. Mr. Price, from a committee previously appointed to consider the subject, made a report, recommending to the legisla ture to provide, that indigent youths shall be nominated by any citizens to the Justices of the Peace; that each Justice shall nominate therefrom, two of the most eligible, to the Justices of the Inferior Court; and that they shall send one of those so nominated to the College, for education; that the youths sent from each county, shall first be educated at the Grammar School in Athens, at the public expense, preparatory to their entering College; that their clothing shall be provided at the public expense, as well as their boardand that an appropriation be made, of $15,000, to carry said provisions into effect. This will educate seventy-eight youths, estimating their expense at $200 each.