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This cotton has been manufactured into about 70,500,000 yards of cloth, which has sold at about nine cents per yard, averaging the different qualities and prices, thus producing a gross sale of $6,450,000.

PUBLIC WORKS IN NARRAGANSETT BAY.-An extensive plan for the defence of the waters of Narragansett Bay was projected, and carried on to some extent, under the last administration of the General Government. The plan embraced the erection of a formidable battery at Fort Adams, on the southerly part of Rhode Island, another at the Promontory of Canonicut Island, called the Dumplings, one at Tiverton Heights, on the Main, and a Dyke across the West Bay, between Canonicut and the Narragansett shore. The estimated expense of these works, which when completed would render the bay inaccessible to a hostile fleet, was $3,000,000. Of this amount about 780,000 dollars was assigned to Fort Adams, the only part of the plan which is now in actual execution. This work is situated on a point which projects in a northerly direction from the south-west point of Rhode Island, called Brenton's Neck. Between this point and the Promontory of Canonicut Island is the main entrance from the ocean to Narragansett East Bay, and Newport Harbor. The principal battery encloses an area of twenty-seven acres, and is intend ed to mount three hundred and sixty pieces of ordnance. wall is of hammered granite, surrounded by a glacis, or sloped bank of earth, and is, in most places, already carried to its intended height. It is adapted to two tiers of guns, and it is believed that a continuous mass of gra

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nite building of equal extent is not to be found in America. The whole rear is to be fitted for quarters for the officers and soldiers, on a scale for the accommodation of 6,000 troops.

Some idea of the formidable obstruction which this work will offer to an invading fleet may be gathered from the fact, that, at the north front, ninety-five guns, mounted in a wall absolutely impregnable, can be brought to bear at once upon a ship, during her passage along a line of view sufficiently extensive to allow of repeated discharges at different angles, and within range.

A GIANT.-July, 1831. The Pawtucket Journal of a late date says-We yesterday witnessed the disinterment of the Hon. Joseph Jenks, one of the first Governors of the colony of Rhode Island, who died on the 15th June, 1740, ninety-one years ago. The skeleton was nearly entire, and in a better state of preservation than could have been expected. Governor Jenks was probably the tallest man that ever lived in the State, standing, when living, seven feet and two inches, without his shoes. His thigh bones, when taken up, measured eighteen inches.

BANKS.-The following is the aggregate of the returns, from the fifty-one banks in this State, made to the General Assembly at the October session, 1831:Capital Stock Deposits

Profits on hand

Due from Banks
Bills in circulation

Debts due from directors 66 other stockholders 11 from all others

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$6,732,296 53 1,290,603 17 179,552 97

112,261 49 1,342,326 50

853,298 69

697,921 13 6,695,505 74

425.692 38

257,792 95

323,035 66

245,775 60

28,025 59

252,163 14

8,453 68

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33,745 Polls a 20 Dolls. 674,500 Assessments 141,902

293,646 U. S. three per cents

The population of Connecticut

26,602 is 298,449. The average propor152,133 tion of the expense of government, 2,079,75 annually, is twenty-five cents for 395,281 each person; but the average pro5,904 portion of the State tax is only twelve and a half cents.

2,727.824

$87,404,621

816,402 $88,221,023

The State tax levied on the above list, will produce, including the abatement of one tenth of the polls, and expenses of collection, $37,340. From the interest of the Public Stock-Duties on Licenses-State Prison, &c. the other portion of the revenue is derived as follows:

Interest on U. S. Stock
Dividends on Bank Stock
Cash from States Prison

The fund for the support of the common schools amounts to $1,902,57. The amount of interest distributed to the schools in 1830, was $77,333, being a dividend of more than 25 cents to each inhabitant of the State. A sum double to the amount of the taxes

imposed to pay all the expenses of the State government.

STATE PRISON.-From the Report of the Directors that institution $1,659.08 appears to be advancing in 21,842,56 prosperity. The old prison began 6,117,75 to be used as a place of confine4,779,58 ment for British captives and 37,453,70

Tax on non-resident Bank Stock 1,340,62 tories, from 1775 to 1780, but

Duties on Licenses

Tax on list of 1829

Forfeited Bonds, &c.

Balance in Treasury

1,760,42 it did not assume the denomina13,773,31 tion and character of the real $89,527,02 New-Gate until the year 1790.

Carpenters' do.

Tailors' do.
Chair do.

Female Department
Received for interest
Received from visitors to the Prison
Received and charged for laborers

Whole amount of income
Expenditures.

For Provisions

3,408 52 19 02 4,247 94 43 47

13 S4

634 97 594 16

$15,166 18

$3,190 60 719 89

Clothing and Bedding
Wages, subsistence, fuel, &c. 3,137 39
Hospital

Total amount of expenditures
Balance, gain to the Institution

This balance in favor of the In

stitution consists of debts due now, more than last year Increased balance of cash Increased amount of property on

hand

inventoried at

Early in the last century, as ap-
pears from the Colony Records,
the mines in Granby were wrought
in pursuits of copper ore, and it is
ascertained from undoubted au-
thority, that they were wrought
with more or less success until the
commencement of the revolution-
ary war. The State, soon after
that event, purchased the princi-
pal cavern, and converted it into
a prison. A resolution exists
among our State records respecting
the prisoners working the mines,
and this affords some evidence, to
say the least, that the government
were induced to purchase, under
the expectation, that the prisoners
might be profitably employed in
mining. But this idea, if it ever
existed, was soon abandoned, and
the prisoners were put to other
employments. That prison was
always an incubus upon the State,
and often drew as much from the
treasury, as all the outsets of the
present establishment, and that at
a time when the prisoners were
only two fifths as numerous as at
present. Public sentiment, which
at first began to set slowly against
the old prison, became a strong
current in 1825 and 1826, and in
the latter year the resolution was
passed establishing the present Total in confinement March 31,
prison. In December 1829, New-
Gate was sold under the hammer
for about $1,200, and was subse-
quently purchased by the Phoenix
Mining Company, who are pro-
ceeding with a due share of cir-
cumspection in working the mines.

From the statement of the Warden, it appears that the income of the Prison for the year ending March 31, 1831, consisted as follows, viz.

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Property on hand March 31, 1831,"
Debts due do.
Cash on hand

Whole amount of personal prop-
erty March 31, 1831
Whole amount of appropriations

from first to last about
Whole number of prisoners,
March 31, 1830
Received since, to March 31,
1831, inclusive

293 78

$7,342 16 7,824 02 $15,166 18

2,639 43 4,590 76

593 83

$7,824 02

8,940 69

5,618 62 1,234 31

$15,793 02

$40,000 00

Discharged during the same pe-
riod by expiration of sentence 32
Pardoned

Died

1831

Males 147-Females 35

2251

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ELECTIONS-April, 1831.-The whole delegation to Congress (opposition) was re-elected.

The lowest on that ticket 10,038 The highest on the administration 5,260 BRISTOL. In this town, which contains a population less than two thousand, thirty thousand clocks, of different kinds, have been made within the past year, averaging at least eight dollars each; at which rate, the manufacture of clocks in that small town brings in an annual income of

$240,000. Bristol contains two large factories for making brass clocks, in which about 800 hands are constantly employed.

LEGISLATION. At the May Session, 1830, the General Assembly passed thirty-nine acts of a public nature.

Among them was one entirely remodelling the criminal law of the State. By it, capital offences were reduced to three-treason, murder, and arson causing death. Other offences are directed to be punished by confinement in the State Prison, either for life, or for a term of years, varying from two to ten years.

An act was also passed, declaring all persons believing in the existence of a Supreme Being, to be competent witnesses in courts of justice.

A tax of one third per cent. was imposed on the non-resident stockholders of Insurance Companies.

All debtors who had been discharged from imprisonment, or who were not liable to it, were to be considered as absconding debtors, and the creditors in that suit were authorized to proceed against their property in the hands of an attorney or agent.

VERMONT.

13,476 10,923 6,285

ELECTION. In 1830, the votes stood, for Governor, Samuel C. Crafts (opposition,) William A. Palmer (anti-mas.,) Ezra Meech (Jackson,) No one having a majority, it became necessary for the Legislature, at the October Session, to choose a Governor, and on the 32d ballot, Mr. Crafts was elected. Samuel Prentiss (opposition,) was also chosen to represent the State in the Senate of the U. States.

LEGISLATION. The most important act passed at that session of the Legislature, was one allow ing the defendants in judgments on contracts, to appear before the court during the term in which judgment is given, to be examined touching his property, and authorizing the court, after administering the oath of insolvency, to entering a record thereof, and no execution was to be afterwards issued on that judgment, against the person of the defendant.

A law was also passed, by which the property of absent

debtors was subject to attachment in the same manner as the property of absconding debtors.

Persons imprisoned for torts, were to be allowed to take the benefit of the act for the relief of poor debtors, after having been imprisoned a reasonable time.

Resolutions were also passed, non-concurring in the amendment proposed by the Legislature of Georgia to the Federal Constitu tion, by which the present mode of choosing the President was altered, so as to deprive the House of Representatives of the power of electing, in any event: and in an amendment proposed by the Legislature of Louisiana, extending the term of the President to six years, and to render him ineligible after the first term.

At the election in 1831, the votes stood, for

William A. Palmer (anti-mas.,) 15,258
Heman Allen (nat. repub.,)
Ezra Meech (Jackson,)
Scattering

12,990 6,158

270

The anti-masonic ticket for

counsellors was elected; and the Legislature, upon the 9th ballot, elected Wm. A. Palmer Governor. FINANCES, The Report of the Treasury Department for the year ending September 30, 1831, was as follows:

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1,569

269

393

3,137

2,569

$72,072

1831, for the expenses of the government; and a tax of five per cent. on all stock owned by the inhabitants of Vermont in foreign banks. A law was also passed at the November session, 1831, to provide a safety fund for the State banks. By that law a $59,391 tax of three fourths per cent. on 1,443 the capital stock of the banks was 199 to be levied annually, until four and a half per cent. should be 3,463 paid into the treasury, to provide a 639 fund for the redemption of the notes and debts of insolvent 4,408 banks. Whenever the bank fund should be reduced, by the demands upon it, below four and a half per $12,443 cent. on the capital stock of the 4,138 contributing banks, the annual tax 17,337 of three fourths per cent. was to be 4,286 levied, until the deficiency should 2,550 be made up. Three bank com5,936 missioners were to be appointed to 2,404 examine the condition of the 9,586 2,475 banks, with power to apply to the Court of Chancery to close the 62,879 concerns of any bank, whose condition is suspected. The general 27,723 features of the system resemble 9,586 those of the New-York bank fund 37,309 system; for an account of which, 1,041 vide Vol. III. p. 26.] 36,268 May 10, 1831.-A steamboat, laden with merchandize, arrived at Windsor, on the Connecticut river.

1,494

240

[A tax of three cents on the dollar, on the polls and rateable estate, was assessed on the list of

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