THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES set out on the 6th of June from Washington, on a visit to the Northern and Eastern States. The accounts of his progress, his reception in the principal cities, and the various testimonials of respect offered by his fellow-citizens, will form the material of an extended article, when the journey shall have been completed.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

The Legislature assembled in Concord on the first Wednesday in June. The Hon. Jared W. Williams was unanimously elected President of the Senate, and Charles G. Atherton, Esq. Speaker of the House of Representatives. On the examination of the votes for Governor, it appeared that the whole number returned was 33,476, of which Samuel Dinsmoor had 28,279, and was declared to be elected.

The message of Gov. Dinsmoor states, that there are few subjects to which he considers it necessary to invite the attention of the Legislature. Of the Militia System he says, that a disposition hostile to some of its features, prevails so generally, as to render it impossible to carry it into complete effect. In what manner a reform of the system can be effected, he does not indicate, but believes that no remedy for the existing defects will be found sufficient, that does not materially reduce the number now liable to military service, or provide either for a moderate compensation to the soldier, or a diminution of his public charges. He proceeds to observe, that the late decision of a great majority of the people against the call of a Convention for the revision of the Constitution, may be regarded as a gratifying proof of the veneration in which the framers of that instrument are still held, and of the excellence of the system of government which they established. He commends the new Judiciary System, as an efficient and popular one. He urges on the attention of the Legislature the propriety of establishing a Hospital for the Insane, as required alike by policy and humanity, and presents to their

consideration the expediency of making provision for the education of the indigent blind belonging to the state in the Asylum established in this city. After congratulating the Legislature on the probable termination of the controversy with South-Carolina, he closes, by announcing his determination to retire from office, at the expiration of his present term of service. In the House of Representatives, a resolution for the appointment of a committee to nominate a Chaplain was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 109 to 76. On the following day, a resolution was submitted, inviting each Clergyman who is a member of the House to serve Chaplain during the session, “provided they feel free to do so." After several amendments were proposed, the resolution was ordered to lie on the table.

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A number of religious, benevolent, literary, and scientific bodies held their anniversary meetings at Concord, during the first week in June. Before the Medical Society, Professor Oliver, of Dartmouth College, delivered a discourse upon Temperance, in which the art of living in the manner best adapted to secure comfort and real enjoyment, and subserve the great purposes of existence, was ably and eloquently enforced. The State Lyceum held its first anniversary, and had an interesting and popular address from the Rev. Mr. Clement, of Chester. At the Sunday School Union, various addresses and prayers were offered. The report of the Society giving, as far as returns had been received, an account of the state of the Sabbath Schools in connexion with the Orthodox, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches, lamented that more full returns were not forwarded to the Secretary, in order to be incorporated with the account rendered upon this occasion.

The first Annual Meeting of the New-Hampshire Unitarian Association was holden at the Rev. Mr. Thomas's Church, Rev. Dr. Parker, President, in the Chair. After Prayers by Rev. Mr. Abbot, of Peterborough, the Annual Report of the Executive Committee

was read by the Chairman, giving an account of the state of religion, and the progress of Unitarian Christianity in this state. On moving the acceptance of the report, the meeting was addressed in a highly interesting and animated manner, by Hon. C. H. Atherton, Rev. Messrs. Lothrop, Brownson, and Gage. The meeting was fully attended, and the occasion one of great interest to the friends of liberal Christianity and practical piety. The Rev. Nathan Parker, D. D. of Portsmouth was re-elected President.

MASSACHUSETTS.

The anniversaries of numerous societies of a religious and eleemosynary character were observed in the last week of the month of May, among which were the following:

American Education Society.

From

the Annual Report it appears, that the receipts of the last year were $52,185 53, and the expenditures $48,053 82; but, in consequence of an old debt, there is still a balance against the Society of $193 35. $2,113 27 have been refunded by forty young men. Assistance

has been afforded to 807, in 142 different Academies and Colleges; 271 new beneficiaries have been received within the year, and about fifty have commenced preaching. The patronage of the Society has been withdrawn from five, and five have died within the last year. The meeting was addressed by Professor Stow, Dr. Allen of Randolph, Rev. Messrs. Plummer of Va. and Lindsey of Boston, and President Bates of Middlebury College.

American Unitarian Association. From the report we learn that the Tracts published during the year amount to 66,000 besides 28,000 reprinted, making in all 94,000 copies; 7000 copies have been taken from the Depository, and 5000 more distributed gratuitously by the Book and Pamphlet Society, auxiliary to the American Unitarian Association. A ministry for the poor in the city of Boston has been the subject of unusual attention, chiefly under the charge of the Rev. Dr. Tuckerman, and his associate, the Rev. Mr. Barnard. A minister has been appointed for New-York city. An auxiliary State Society has been formed in New-Hampshire. The receipts of the Association for the last year have been $4671 61 for general purposes; and about $17,000 are already pledged for the support of a permanent agency. The state of the Unitarian churches here and elsewhere, of the School at Cambridge, and of the cause generally, was represented as very

prosperous. There are about two hundred Unitarian Societies in the country, and about two thousand which reject the Trinitarian doctrine.

The American Tract Society. From the nineteenth Annual Report it appears that near sixteen millions of pages have been issued from the Depository since the last anniversary. Of these there have been sold, to Agents, Auxiliaries, and Individuals 8,734,860 pages; granted for gratuitous distribution in waste places within its own limits 68,230 do; distributed by the Executive Committee's Secretary and General Agent, 211,380 do; delivered to Life Directors and Life Members 330,570 do; granted to benevolent societies 19,722 do; for gratuitous distribution in the western states and heathen lands, 6,150,000. The sum of $4,100 has been granted to various foreign stations, through the American Tract Society at New-York. This includes $1000 sent to the Sandwich Islands. The number of Auxilia

ries recognized as having made donations or purchases since May, 1831, is 352, of which fifty-seven are in Maine, forty-nine in New-Hampshire, forty-five in Vermont, 194 in Massachusetts, two in Rhode-Island, three in Connecticut, and three in Nova-Scotia and NewBrunswick. The receipts of the Society, for the year past, have been $13,787 83; the expenditures, $13,199 97, leaving a balance on hand, not yet expended, of $587 91.

Northern Baptist Education Society. There are branches of this institution in all the New-England States. The whole number of beneficiaries upon the respective branches is 36, increasing the entire number under patronage to 138. Of these, 23 are in Theological Institutions, 34 in College, and the remaining 81 in various stages of preparatory studies. The receipts of the Parent Society this year have been $6,952 63, and of the branches $1,605 06, the total being greater than the receipts of the year previous by $2,198 54. It appears that the whole number of beneficiaries received between 1814 and 1830, was 129; between 1830 and 1833 there were 114. The whole amount expended during 15 years, was $20,679 88. The amount expended during the three years last passed, is $17,095 46. If to this estimate be added the results of the Branch Societies, the product of the three last years would be more than equal to all which the Society had accomplished previous to 1830. Funds to a considerable amount have been invested, during the two years last passed,

in the establishment of several new institutions within the appropriate limits of this Society.

Prison Discipline Society. The annual meeting of the Prison Discipline Society was held at Park-street Church, Lt. Governor Armstrong in the chair. The Report of this Society is full of detail, and its efforts appear to have been rewarded with success. The plan of solitary confinement is extensively introduced, and will probably soon become universal; and ten Sabbath schools have been established, comprehending about 1500 scholars. In New-York, NewJersey, and New-Hampshire, steps have been taken towards providing for the establishment of hospitals for lunatics. The meeting was addressed by Rev. Mr. Braman of Danvers, and Hon. Messrs. F. C. Gray and Edward Ever

ett.

Massachusetts Missionary Society. The meeting of this society, at which Rev. Dr. Woods of Andover presided, was addressed by Rev. Messrs. Badger of Andover, Vermilyea of West-Springfield, and Peters of New-York. The receipts of the last year amounted to $18,339 39, of which $6,210 were expended in Massachusetts, $6,426 have been applied to the support of Missions in the Western States, and $5000 have been appropriated to the use of the parent society in those states. A legacy of $1000 was lately paid to the society by the heirs of Mr. Bailey White of Randolph, in accordance with his dying wish, though no provision for the purpose had been made in his will.

CONNECTICUT.

The Legislature adjourned on the sixth of June, after an unusually long session. The public acts passed were very numerous; and some of them are supposed to partake of a partizan character. One of these was an act to repeal two acts by which the amount of the state claim upon the United States for services rendered during the late war, was appropriated for the benefit of Yale College, and the different religious

sects of the state. Of this sum, fifty thousand dollars have been obtained, and distributed according to the provisions of the acts referred to. The argument urged in opposition to the bill was, that rights were vested under them, with which it was too late for the Legislature to interfere; but the same gentleman who urged it, apparently the only member who spoke in opposition to the measure, said that these acts were already repealed by the revised statutes, so that any farther repeal of them would be superfluous. On the other hand, it was argued, that there was no consideration for the original grant, so that it could not bind the Legislature; that there were other claims on the lib. erality of the state, equally meritorious, for which no provision had been made; and that the mere fact, that the money came from the pockets of the people, and went into those of clergyman, was a sufficient reason for the repeal. The bill passed the House of Representa tives by a vote of 190 to 5.

Another act, which has been severely censured in various ways, both in and out of the state, grew out of the circumstances which have given notoriety to the town of Canterbury, in reference to the determination of a Miss Crandall to establish in that town a school for the education of colored females. The preamble recites, that attempts have been made to establish literary institutions for the education of colored people belonging to other states, "which would tend to the great increase of the colored population of the state, and thereby to the injury of the people." It is therefore enacted, that any person who shall establish a school for the education of colored persons now belonging to the state, or shall become an instructer in any such school, or shall harbor any such colored person for the purpose of being instructed, without the consent of "a majority of the civil authority," and of the selectmen of the town where such school is situated, shall pay a fine of $100 for the first offence, for a second $200, $400 for the next, and so on. Another section renders any colored person, who shall come into the state for the purpose of being instructed, liable to be removed.

Six new Banks were incorporated during the session.

An act was passed by a vote of 116 to 62, repealing so much of an existing statute as prohibits "all servile labor and vain recreation" on fast and thanksgiving days. It was urged in favor of the bill, that the existing law was an

enormous infringement of the rights of the citizen-that these days would be better observed without, than with itand that such an enactment was altogether behind the age. The bill was zealously opposed by several members, who expressed their unwillingness to do away with the salutary provisions established by their ancestors,-and that to require a decent respect to the days appointed for religious observances, could hardly be regarded as an invasion of civil rights.

GEORGIA.

A convention of the people assembled early in May, to revise the constitution of the state, and propose an amendment that should reduce the number of members in the Legislature. Their deliberations closed on the 14th of May. The Senate is to consist of thirty-six members. When the General Assembly shall find that this plan has been ratified by the people, the two

branches are required to meet as one body, and make provision for the division of the state into thirty-six Senatorial districts, which are to be composed of contiguous counties, and arranged in as compact forms as may be practicable; and each district is to be entitled to elect a Senator. The basis on which the representation of the people in the House of Representatives was ultimately fixed, is as follows:-the House is to consist of 144 members; fifteen counties, having the largest white population, are to be entitled to three members each; twenty-five counties, having the next highest number of white population, to two members each; and the remaining forty-nine counties to one member each. After every census, a new apportionment is to be made, and should new counties have been created, the counties entitled to a larger number of representatives than one, may be reduced. This plan was adopted by a vote of 140 to 92.

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