States.

Table, showing the Governor's Term and Salary, the number of Senators and Representatives, with their respective Terms and Pay in the different States.

Pay Expense per day of one in dol

lars.

month

for sen. and rep.

Govr's
Term Repre- Term Total
term of Salary. Sena- of senta- of of sen.
years.
tors. years. tives. years. & rep.

or, allowing 6,000 dollars for Illinois, not ascertained, 267,010 dollars.

* There is no senate in the legislature of Vermont; but the executive council, consisting of the governor, lieutenant governor, and twelve counsellors, elected by the freemen, are empowered to lay before the general assembly such business as shall appear to them necessary; also to revise and propose amendments to the laws passed by the house of representatives.

†The number of representatives in the legislature of Massachusetts in 1831 was 481; but the number is very variable.

The pay of the senators, in the legislature of Connecticut, is two dollars a day, that of the representatives 1.50.

The upper house, which forms an independent branch of the legislature of New Jersey, is styled the "Legislative Council."

These salaries appear very low; but it must be remarked, that the post of governor of a state is less one of emolument than of distinction and power; the expense it entails generally greatly exceeding the amount of salary. It is somewhat analogous, in this respect, to the lord-lieutenantcies of counties in this country. TA small allowance per mile is made for the travelling expenses of the members of the legislature, the exact aggregate amount of which sums it would be difficult to calculate: by allowing a session of nearly five months in the year, in all the states, we certainly cover this expense.

From the above table it will appear that the total amount of the sums paid to the senators and representatives of the state legislatures throughout the whole union, together with the salaries of the governors, would not amount to 280,0001. English, if all the legislatures were to remain in session between four and five months in the year (the average is perhaps not more than two or three months, in reality).-W. G. Ò.

Statement, showing the aggregate number of persons in each of the States, according to the fifth census, and distinguishing the Slave from the Free Population in each State, according to the corrections made in the returns of the Marshals and their assistants by the Secretary of State.

(From Letter of Secretary of State to Speaker of House of Representatives, dated Jan 4, 1832.)

N.B. It will be perceived that the population returns for the territories of Florida, Arkansa and Michigan, and the district of Columbia, being wanting, no total is here given of the whole population of the United States, which probably amounts, however, to, at present, as nearly as possible, 13,000,000. In 1830 the census gave 12,856,165 as the total population.-W. G. O.

STEAM-BOAT NAVIGATION FROM ST LOUIS.

St Louis is 1200 miles, by the course of the river, above New Orleans, and is, next to that city, the largest and most commercial town on the Mississippi. In the summer of 1831 there were six steam-boats regularly employed between St Louis and New Orleans. A trip from one place to the other, and back again, usually occupies twenty-four days; the shortest time in which one was ever made, eighteen days. The usual fare for cabin passengers descending, 20 dollars; ascending, 25 dollars; for deck passengers, 5 dollars, either way. Freight per 100 lbs. descending, 371⁄2 cents; ascending, 62 cents.

From St Louis to Louisville, 630 miles; six boats regularly running, in 1831; usual time of a trip ten or eleven days; the passage one way usually being somewhat more than three days: fare of cabin passengers about 15 dollars, either way; deck passengers 4 dollars: freight about 25 cents per 100 lb. One boat also ran regularly to Cincinnati, 150 miles above Louisville.

From St Louis to Fever River, about 480 miles, three steamboats regularly employed in 1831; time occupied by a trip about ten days: fare for passengers ascending, 15 dollars; descending, 9 dollars. The route of one of the boats occasionally extended to St Peter's River, 400 miles further up.

In 1821 two boats were employed in running from St Louis up the Missouri to Franklin, 200 miles, and to Fort Leavenworth, 200 miles further: freight to Franklin 75 cents per 100 lbs., and to Fort Leavenworth from 1.25 to 1.50 dollars: from Franklin down, 25 cents per 100 lbs.

From St Louis to Pekin, on Illinois River, 180 miles: two or three boats regularly employed in 1831. Steam-boats come occasionly to St Louis, from Pittsburg and other places.

Whole number of Steam Boats built on the Western Waters.

† Of this whole number, 111 were built at Cincinnati, 68 of which were running in 1831.

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Expenses to each State of its Judiciary, including the Territories

* In Rhode Island some of the judges are paid by fees.

† In Connecticut county courts the chief judges have three and a half dollars per diem; associate judges, three dollars during session, and nine cents per mile for their journeys.

In New York, the registers, reporters, and clerks of Chancery and Superior Courts are paid by fees.

§ In Pennsylvania, the prothonotaries paid by fees; judges of Superior Courts, when travelling, four dollars per diem.

|| In Virginia, the judges receive one quarter of a dollar per mile, for travelling, additional.

T In North Carolina there are some fees.

** In Georgia some fees.

In Kentucky there are some fees.

‡‡ In Ohio there are fees, and associate judges in each county court receive two and a half dollars per diem during courts.

§§ In Indiana, the associates get two dollars per diem.

In the district of Columbia there are fees also.-W. G. O.