manent additional value to the public property, but not producing income. Taking these facts into account, the Agent puts the actual earnings of the establishment, for the year, at $5,441.90 more than its disbursements. The principal receipts on account of convict labor in mechanical products, during the year, were as follow: From the smith and lock shop, $3,747. Hat shop, $5,04.98. Boot and shoe shops, $16,090.51. Brass shop, $3,323.72. Cooper's shop, $12,214.05. Weave shop, $7,249.46. Tool shop, $1,486.69. The work done on the premises for the benefit of the establishment and permanently enhancing the property of the State, consisting chiefly of solid masonry, amounted to rising of $12,000. The most productive branch of the prison labor has always been in stone quarrying and cutting; but this, during the last year, yielded more than $10,000 less than during the preceding year. At the close of the year ending Sept. 30, 1841, there were in prison 741 males and 70 females. During the year ending Sept. 30, 1842, the whole number of males received was 234, of females 35, making a total of 1,080. The number discharged during the last year, by expiration of sentence, was 189 males and 30 females; by pardon, 34 males and 4 females; by death, 31 males and 6 females; making the total number discharged, including one person sent to the Lunatic Asylum, 295, and leaving in prison, Sept. 30, 1842, 720 males and 65 females; or 785 in all, showing a diminution of 26 for the year. The convicts employed under contracts during the year, were as follows:at coopering 91; in carpet shop 57; boot and shoe shops 104; plane-shop 13; lock-shop 20; hat shop 24; saddlery shop 28; in all 337. The residue of convicts were mostly employed in the quarries, in dressing stone, and in masonry on the premises. Of the females, 8 to 10 were employed in the silk department, and the rest chiefly in making and mending clothes for themselves and the male convicts. Of the silk business, the agent states that from 1,000 morus multicaulis trees planted in the fall of 1841 and the spring of 1842, leaves enough were gathered to produce about ten bushels of cocoons of very superior quality, with cuttings from those trees, and with 5000 more, to be planted in the spring of 1843, five acres more were to be covered. The cocoons and raw silk on hand in December, 1842, are valued at $617.54, and the silk machinery at $1,310.40. To superintend and direct the operations in this department, a European bred to the business, Mr. J. Eborall, is employed. Two or three silk looms were to be in operation the current year, and the agent speaks encouragingly of the prospects of this entire department. The water required for culinary and all other uses is supplied by well arranged works, in great abundance and of excellent quality. The agent speaks in strong terms of the beneficial influence of the labors of the chaplain on the obedience, content, and industry of the prisoners. NATIONAL REGISTER. EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT,-1843. THE 14th Presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the . government of the United States, under the Constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1841; and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1845. William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, was elected President, and John Tyler, of Virginia, Vice-President; and assumed their duties on the 4th of March, 1841. On the 4th of April following President Harrison died; the duties of the office in consequence devolved on John Tyler. The Cabinet. The following are the principal officers in the Executive Department of the government, who form the Cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will of the President. Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, Secretary of State, State Department. Daniel Webster, Secretary, DIPLOMATIC BUREAU. Salary. William S. Derrick,. William Hunter, Jr..... Alexander H. Derrick,. 900 ........ 1,000 800 Francis Markoe,.... CONSULAR BUREAU. Robert Greenhow,. ............ 1,600 Treasury Department. John C. Spencer, Secretary of the Treasury,. James W. McCullop, 1st Comptroller, ... Salary. .... 3,500 Thomas H. Blake, Commissioner 1,800 3,000 1,800 ... 1,700 3,000 William S. Steiger, Principal 1,800 Chas. B. Penrose, Solicitor of the 3,500 1,150 Clerks, 1,150 1,150 Elisha Whittlesay, Auditor of the 3,000 P. G. Washington, Chief C❜k, 2,000 T. H. Crawford, Commissioner, 3,000 Jas. L. Edwards, Commissioner, 2,500 Daniel Kurtz, Chief Clerk, 1,600 Geo. W. Crump, Chief Clerk.... 1,600 ..... AGENTS FOR PAYING PENSIONS IN THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES. (No compensation is allowed for the performance of this trust.) Albert Newhall, Portland, Me. Joel M. Smith, Nashville, Tenn. Navy Department. Salary. NAVY COMMISSIONERS. Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, Com. Lewis Warrington, Pres. 3,500 Charles W. Goldsborough, Salary. Com. Wm. M. Crane,. Captain David Conner,.. 3,500 CHIEF CLERK. 1,600 DISTRIBUTING POST OFFICES. Offices. Portland. Providence. Hartford. New-York, Albany, Owego and Buffalo. Philadelphia, Easton, Northumberland, Erie, Pittsburg and Washington. Baltimore. Washington. Petersburg, Norfolk, Abingdon and Wheeling. Charleston and Yorkville. Augusta, Savannah, Washington and Columbus. Natchez and Vicksburg. New Orleans. Nashville, Tazewell and Memphis. Louisville and Maysville. Cincinnati, Maysville and Toledo. Louisiana,. Detroit. Indiana, Illinois, Shawneetown and Chicago. Vincennes and Indianapolis. POST-OFFICES AND EXTENT OF THE POST ROADS IN THE UNITED STATES |