DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

MAINE.

THE election in this State, which, from the equality of the two parties, was regarded with some interest, took place on the second Monday of September, 1830, and resulted in the complete triumph of the administration party, in the Congressional districts of Oxford, York, Cumberland, Somerset, Penobscot, Washington, and Hancock. In Kennebeck district, an opposition member was elected, and no choice was made in Lincoln district. At the second election, however, the administration party prevailed, and thus obtained six members in Congress out of

seven.

For Governor, the vote stood, Samuel G. Smith, (Jackson,) 30,151 Jonathan G. Hunton, (opposition,) 28,552 MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.The Penobscot Journal states, that the Historical Society of Maine has in press, and will shortly publish, a volume of papers relating to the objects of the association. About half of it will be taken up with a History of Portland, and that part of its vicinity comprised in the ancient town of Falmouth. Another interesting paper, is an account of the expedition of Gen. Arnold through Maine to Canada, during the Revolutionary War. There will also be an interesting and valuable illustration of this account, consisting of letters written

by Arnold on the march, giving an account of his progress, and the Journal of a British officer, who passed up the Chaudie, after the conquest of Quebec, by Wolf, and penetrated some distance into the State. This Journal, falling into the hands of Arnold, probably suggested to him the idea of the route he adopted. These documents were obtained for the society, through the agency of Col. Aaron Burr, who accompanied Arnold, and was by the side of Montgomery when he fell, under the walls of Quebec. This Society has an extensive and almost unexplored field for its labors. The early history of the State, presents many topics, which require elucidation, and to which the researches of the Society will doubtless be directed. The original grants, and varied forms and extents of government, in the western part of the State, the different provinces into which that quarter was divided, under the names of Laconia, NewSomersetshire, Lygonia and Maine, with the numerous and conflicting relations arising from the divisions, are topics of great, though perhaps not of general interest. More attractive subjects will be found, in accounts of various Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting the state, their predatory excursions, and bloody wars against the early colonists;

of the incursions and settlements, been settled at the head of the Bay conquests and defeats of the French of Fundy, or in the country which with their alliances, at different is now called Nova Scotia, and had times with the savages, particular- been driven from thence, and had ly with the Norridgewocks and Pe- established themselves at St. Anns, nobscots, by the aid of the Jesuit, (now Fredericton) and in that Ralle, in the one case, and the neighborhood, being disturbed by Baron Castine, in the other; of the introduction of the refugees, the ancient settlements on the and the acts of the Government of coast, at Mount Desert, Penaquid, New Brunswick, which dispossessand Piscataqua, and others at differ- ed them of their farms, fled up the ent points; and of more recent in- St. John in search of places teresting events, such as the occu- of residence, out of the reach of pancy of the soil, by the British, in British laws and oppression. the Revolution, and again in the Twenty or more families moved late war; and in notices of men, and settled themselves on the St. who have been distinguished, from John, below the trading establishvarious causes, in the annals of the ment, which Pierre Duperre had State. made a few years previous. Here they continued in the unmolested enjoyment of their property for some years.

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NORTH EASTERN BOUNDARY.This subject, by the extraordinary decision of the King of Holland, has become so important in national point of view, that no apology is necessary for the insertion of the origin of the settlements now in dispute, extracted from a report, as we understand, prepared by Mr. Deane.

'In 1782, Pierre Lizotte, then a boy of fourteen years of age, strayed from his home, in Canada, and found his way to the Indian settlement at the mouth of the Madawasca river, where he continued during the following winter. On his return to his friends, his representations were such as induced his half brother Pierre Duperre, to accompany him to the same place, for the purpose of trade with the Indians, the year following. They commenced their business on the south side of the St. John, from two to three miles below the mouth of Madawasca river. They were the first persons who commenced their residence at Madawasca.

Two or three years afterwards, say in 1786, the Acadian or neutral French, whose ancestors had

'Pierre Duperre being a man of some learning, had great influence with his neighbors; and the British authorities of the province of New Brunswick, seeing his consequence in the settlement, began early to caress and flatter him, and some time in the year 1790 induced him to receive from them a grant of the land he occupied. Influenced as well by Pierre Duperre, as with the hope of not being again dis. turbed and driven from their possessions, as they and their ancestors, more than once had been by the British, this large body of Frenchmen were also induced to receive grants from New Brunswick, of the lands they possessed, for which some were required to pay ten shillings, and others nothing.

About this period, 1790, another body of the descendants of the Acadian or neutral French, who had sought a refuge on the Kennebeckasis, were there disturbed in their possessions by the refugees, and the acts of the government of

New Brunswick; they also quit their possessions, and sought in like manner a refuge from oppression, with their countrymen at Madawasca. After having resided at Madawasca some years, they were induced, as their countrymen had been, to receive grants of the land which they had taken into possession from the Government of New Brunswick.

cesses against citizens of the United States who had settled in the wilderness, many miles beyond where the British had ever exércised any jurisdiction before, but these were not prosecuted.

In 1824, Sir Howard Douglas arrived and took upon himself the government of the province of New Brunswick as its Lieutenant Governor. In December of that year, he appointed four militia captains, and a competent number of subalterns, at Madawasca-but the persons appointed, did not accept their commissions until July, 1826; and subsequent to that time the militia were fully organized. Licenses to cut timber were also granted by New Brunswick.

In

In May, 1825, Lieutenant Governor Douglas granted a tract of land to Simon Hebert, at the mouth of Madawasca river. May, 1825, he made another grant to Francis Violette, of a tract at the mouth of Grand river. He also appointed and commissioned many other military officers. In 1827, several processes were issued against citizens of the United States only one of which, that against John Baker, was ever prosecuted; but many of our citizens were driven away by them.

Single families afterwards added themselves to the settlement. A few families established themselves in 1807, a few miles above the mouth of Madawasea river. They all lived in mutual good fellowship, recognizing and practising the duties of morality and religion, and governed solely by the laws of honor and common sense. They continued to live in this manner to as late a period as 1818. The British had made no grant higher up the St. John than Pierre Duperre's, and had exercised no other acts of jurisdiction than those already mentioned, unless the transportation of the mail through Canada, and the granting a commission to Pierre Duperre in 1793, as a captain of militia, there being no militia or military organization there until 28 years afterwards, may be called acts of jurisdiction. In 1798, the river St. Croix was determined, and its source ascertained, under the treaty called Jay's treaty. At this period, terminated all acts, and pretence of acts, of jurisdiction in the Madawasca settlement, by the British-upon the duties of his office, they and for a period of twenty years, have been constantly multiplying and until it was discovered by them, and extending their acts of juristhat Mars Hill was the northwest diction. angle of Nova Scotia-there is not even an attempt to exercise jurisdiction. The course of circumstances now became such, as again to excite the spirit of encroachment, and they issued two pro

In 1829 or 1830, for the first time, a civil magistrate was appointed in the Madawasca settlement, and commenced acting as such. In a word, from the period that Lieutenant Governor Douglas entered

The French inhabitants of Madawasca say, they are satisfied that their settlement is within the limits of the United States, and that they should like to live under its laws, but the British come and enforce

their laws upon them, and they have been obliged to submit to their jurisdiction.

In 820 or 1821, three or four persons went up and established themselves on the banks of the Arostock. Several from the province of New Brunswick, and the State of Maine, the following year joined them. After the commencement of Sir Howard Douglas' administration, licenses were granted to cut timber in this region also, and civil processes were served upon the inhabitants. On this river, they had not, prior to his administration, exercised any act of jurisdiction whatever, that region adjoining the line, having in fact been surveyed and granted by Massachusetts, seventeen years before, to the town of Plymouth and Gen. Eaton.

In 1782, the government of Massachusetts contracted to sell the tract of land between the waters of the Schoodiac and Penobscot, extending back to the highland of the treaty. This tract was surveyed under the orders of the Government. The surveyor running and marking his lines, to highlands north of the river St. John, supposed at the time to be those described in the treaty of 1783.

In 1801, she granted the township of Mars Hill to the soldiers of the revolution. In 1806, she granted the township adjoining Mars Hill on the west, to Deerfield and Westfield Academies. In 1807, she granted a township of land to the town of Plymouth, lying on both sides of the Arostock, and bounded east by the line due north from the source of the river St. Croix, to the highlands. In 1803, she conveyed ten thousand acres to Gen. Eaton, bounded east by the

last aforesaid grant. All the aforesaid grants were made pursuant to actual surveys, which had been previously made under her authority. In 1808, or before, the line from the source of the St. Croix, due north, was run, under the authority of Massachusetts, as far as the river St. John.

In 1820, an examination and reconnoisance was made, under the authority of Maine, of the whole country on the Alligash river, and on the St. John from the mouth of the Alligash to the place where the line due north from the source of the St. Croix intersects it. The same year, the census was taken in Madawasca, under the laws and the authority of the United States.

In 1824, the Land Agents of Maine seized the timber which had been cut by trespassers on the Arostock. In 1825, the Land Agents of Maine and Massachusetts conveyed two lots, one to John Baker, and the other to James Bacon, lying on the St. John, about twelve miles above the Madawasca.

In 1825, the surveyors of Maine and Massachusetts, completed the survey of two ranges of townships, extending north from the Monument, at the source of the river St. Croix, to within less than half a mile of the river St. John, and the States divided between them, according to the act of separation of Maine from Massachusetts, the townships in those ranges which had not been previously granted.

In 1826, Maine and Massachusetts surveyed and divided five additional ranges of townships, lying west of the two ranges aforesaid, and extending nearly to the river St. John. And there never has been a moment, during which, Massachusetts, prior to 1820, and