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. 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 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. 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. PUBLIC WORKS IN NARRAGAN- obstruction which this work will SETT 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 A GIANT.-July, 1831. 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 intended to mount three hundred and sixty pieces of ordnance. The 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 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 Debts due from directors Specie Bills of other Banks Deposited in other Banks Bank and other Stocks U. S. Stock Real Estate Personal Estate $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 $87,404,621 33,745 Polls a 20 Dolls. 674,500 Assessments 141,902 816,402 $88,221,023 The State tax levied on the above list, will produce, including Interest on U. S. Stock Tax on list of 1829 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 appears to be advancing in $1,659,08 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 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. Early in the last century, as appears from the Colony Records, the mines in Granby were wrought in pursuits of copper ore, and it is ascertained from undoubted authority, that they were wrought with more or less success until the commencement of the revolutionary war. The State, soon after that event, purchased the principal 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, Whole amount of personal prop erty March 31, 1831 of prisoners, $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 from first to last about Died and often drew as much from the 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. 1831 Males 147-Females 35 167 54 221 36 182 182 ELECTIONS-April, 1831.-The whole delegation to Congress (opposition) was re-elected. The lowest on that ticket 10,033 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 ycars, varying from two to ten years. An act was also passed, declaring all persons believing in the existence of Supreme Being, to be competent witnesses in courts of justice. A tax of one third per cent. was imposed on the nou-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. ELECTION.-In 1830, the votes debtors was subject to attachment stood, for Governor, 13,476 10,923 6,285 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 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: 393 3,137 and debts 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 1,569 1,443 the capital stock of the banks was 199 to be levied annually, until four 269 and a half per cent. should be 3,463 paid into the treasury, to provide a 639 fund for the redemption of the 2,569 notes 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 1,494 contributing banks, the annual tax 17,337 of three fourths per cent. was to be 4,286 levied, until the deficiency should 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.] $72,072 240 2,550 36,268 [A tax of three cents on the dollar, on the polls and rateable estate, was assessed on the list of May 10, 1831.-A steamboat, laden with merchandize, arrived at Windsor, on the Connecticut river. |