a time. There were in the prison on the 30th April last, 86 convicts, being one less than at the corresponding date of 1833. The following is a schedule of the property on hand at that date, as reported to the Legislature, now in session: would have amounted to $345,000, or | commenced about the year 1815, and about $20,000 more than last year to has never had in it over 100 convicts at the same date. There has been a great increase in every article of down-freight except timber and whiskey, but a decided diminution of up-freight. In 1833, to 31st of May, the tonnage going from tide-water on the canals, as ascertained by the clearances issued at Albany, was 19,424 tons; this year to same date, 14,510 tons. Decrease, 4,914 tons. this decrease, 3,429 tons consisted of merchandize. On Champlain canal to the first of June, there is an actual increase of tolls upon down-freight, of $6.796, compared with last year, notwithstanding the reduction in the rates. On the Erie canal the result is as follows: Articles. Of 1833. Increase Decrease Bush'ls wheat,132,356 146,927 14,571 "coarse grain, 9,760 21,229 11,469 Galls. dom. sp. 587,881 441,138 "timber, Feet lumber, 6,895,570 8,540,968 745,398 Staves, 654,926 283,740 146,743 371,186 Stock. Man. Art. Tools. Total. Stone Shop, NEW-JERSEY. CANALS.-The Delaware and Raritan Canal has at length been completed, and the water let into the canal during its whole length. This work is 73 miles long, 75 feet wide, and 7 feet deep. It commences at Bordentown, on the Delaware, and terminates near New Brunswick, on the Raritan. It has two tow-paths, and will admit the passage of vessels not exceeding 100 tons; thus affording a safe water communication between New-York and Philadelphia. This canal was commenced in January, 1831, and has 14 locks, 19 of which are 24 by 100 feet, and one still larger. THE PROVINCES, EMIGRATION. During the past seventeen years, there have arrived at the port of Quebec, 69,175 passengers from Europe, The greatest number in one year was 18,231, in 1831-the least number was 90, in 1824. The number arrived the present season, to the 3d of June, was, from England 2,884, Ireland 6,595, Scotland 1348, lower ports 19total 10,846. Same period last year, STATE PRISON.-This penitentiary | 3,175. EDITOR'S TABLE. LAFAYETTE.-The wide Republic is ringing with the mournful intelligence of the decease of this Apostle of Liberty. The melancholy event is thrilling every heart that throbs with a patriotic love of country, or that can mourn when the great and the good are taken away from the scene of their memorable deeds. It were an unnecessary labor to dwell upon the acts of poble daring the love of freedom-the sufferings for the cause of liberty in two hemispheresthe kind and generous nature of the veteran, who, after an age of toil for the enlarged good of others, has gone down to an honored grave, "like a shock of corn fully ripe in its season"whose heart is now cold, which was never cold before-whose loss has robed nations in sackcloth. There is not a spot in America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, wherein the records of LAFAYETTE do not form a familiar history. The funereal honors to his memory, in this city, will long live in the remembrance of all who witnessed them. They were conducted with the most imposing, melancholy splendor. Sorrow sat upon the countenances of tens of thousands who moved in sad procession through the crowded streets, amid the tolling of bells, the roar of minute-guns, the sound of plaintive music, the waving of mourning flags and banners, and all the solemn pomp of military and civic expression of public lamentation. A 'great city, that was full of people," bowed down and wept, that the good, the brave, had de parted that he who heard from afar the cry of the oppressed, and periled his life and his substance to defend the weak against the strong-who came among us "when darkness curtained the hills, and the tempest was abroad in its anger"-was no more! This is but one point, however, in the picture of general grief. Similar scenes will be witnessed throughout the broad domain of the Union. LAFAYETTE departed this life on Tuesday, the 22d of May, 1834, in the full possession, to the last, of all his mental faculties. The infirmities of age had only visited his physical frame. He was born on the first of September, 1757, and consequently wanted little more than three months to complete the age of seventy-seven. It has been well observed, that the wondrous scenes in both the New World and the Old, in which the name of LAFAYETTE was prominently distinguished, are among the most remarkable in the annals of mankind; and that History does not, in all her records, possess a name which has passed through the searching ordeal of public opinion, even in the darkest and most tempestuous times, more pure and unsullied, than his whose death millions now deplore. The subjoined leading facts in relation to the career of LAFAYETTE in this country, are condensed from a recent valuable abstract of his life: "M. P. J. R. Y. Gilbert Mottier Lafayette was born at Chavagnac in Auvergne, on the 6th of September, 1737, (17th of September, new style.) He received his education at the College of Plessis, and was married at sixteen years of age to Mile. de Noailles, daughter of the Duke D'Ayen. At the age of nineteen, he volunteered in the American armies. This disinterested step was taken in opposition to the remonstrances of his friends, the discountenance and commands of the Court, who ordered their frigates to interrupt and arrest him, and contrary to the counsels even of the American Envoys, who had tidings of nothing but disaster from home. His resolution was taken at the very darkest part of the war, when Washington was heard of in France, as retreating through the Jerseys, with two thousand ragged and barefooted militia before thirty thousand English veterans. He arrived at Charlestown in April, and was received into the family of Washington, and shortly after appointed a major general. He fought as a volunteer at the battle of Brandywine, and was wounded in the leg. At the opening of the campaign of 1777, he acquired new reputation by his skill in saving a detachment of 2200 men, at Barren Hill, when nearly surrounded by Generals Howe and Clinton. In the battle of Monmouth which followed, he led the advanced guard until superseded by Gen. Lee, when he was assigned to the command of the second line. Soon after the battle of Monmouth, we find him leading one of the wings of Sullivan's army, in the attack upon Rhode Island, then in possession of the British. In the fall of that year he returned to France, loaded with the thanks and honors of Congress, and became, at twenty years of age, the theme of universal admiration. His exertions, in conjunction with those of the American ambassadors, procured the grant of additional assistance from France, and his re-landing in Poston, in 1779, was followed by the arrival of RoChambeau and his fleet. When, in 1780, Cornwallis retired to Yorktown, under the command of his superior officer, Sir H. Clinton, Lafayette followed him closely; and when the plans of Washington had brought an overwhelming force against the British, Lafayette bore a leading part in the crowning victory of Yorktown. The year 1784 was memorable for his first visit as a guest to this country. His reception was not less enthusiastic than his subsequent one, at the distance of forty years. Congress, State Legislatures, Corporations, and citizens in their individual relations, vied with each other in paying him the highest honors, and giving him the most affectionate welcome. His course during the numerous troublesome periods and dangerous revolutions of France--his trials, his sacrifices, his sufferings are well known. His visit to this country in 1825, and the position he occupied in the Revolution of 1830, are too recent in the memory of all, to need recapitulation." THE DRAMA.-During the month, the principal attractions at the PARK THEATRE have been the farewell performances of the KEMBLES, and the never-tiring, natural exhibitions of the laughter-moving POWER. The first-named artists went through, during their engagement, their usual round of characters with more than their usual excellence. The brilliant and crowded audiences in attendance upon their personations, attested the general regret that they were so soon to leave the stage, and to be seen, professionally, of the American play. going public no more. In addition to her other personations, Miss KEMBLE appeared as Jane Shore, in the play of that name; a representation which but few of her friends and admirers have seen her assume. The touching sorrow with which it is imbued, was so faithfully portrayed, that there was scarcely an unmoistened eye in the theatre. Obstinate critics, predisposed to animadversion—who had prated of affectation, of a lack of power, etc., were melted into admiring sympathy, and "the dejected 'havior of the visage, and the fruitful river i' the eye," indicated, that if they had come to sneer, they were constrained to remain to praise. The last evening of the appearance of the Kembles drew together a more compact mass of humanity than was ever before convened in the walls of the Park Theatre, The array of beauty and fashion, which assembled to receive their farewell, was a gratifying evidence of the estimation in which they are held in the community. When the after-piece was concluded, Mr. KEMBLE led his daughter forward to the foot-lights, and, with much emotion, delivered a feeling valedictory, which was heartily responded to by the audience. The pit rose en masse, in the ardor of the moment. Mr. KEMBLE has sailed for England. His daughter, -now Mrs. BUTLER,-is to remain in America. A work, in two volumes, from her gifted pen, is on the eve of publication at Philadelphia. Rumor heralds as a Sketch of Travels in the United States, possessing unusual interest. Touching POWER, there is but one opinion, He is the embodied spirit of natural wit-the very paragon of Hibernians. In the Irish Ambassador, The Man of Nerve, and Paudeen O'Rafferty, he is inimitable, and can have no rival or equal. A successful debut has recently been made at this Theatre, by Miss E. WHEATLEY, a young girl of twelve years, who has heretofore only delighted the audience between the play and farce with graceful pirouettes in pas seuls. She has appeared on two occasions as Julia, in Sheridan Knowles's play of the Hunchback, Taking into consideration her youth and inexperience, her personation of the character was one of extraordinary excellence. The imitation, in voice and manner, of Miss KEMBLE, was apparent; but the indications of strong original talent were not less perceptible. She has a fine face and person, and with judicious training can hardly fail to become "a bright, particular star" in the popular establishment to which her mother has long been an ornament. Mrs. AUSTIN and Mr. SINCLAIR-both too eminent to require particular notice,—are under engagement at the Park Theatre; and Mr. RICHINGS, an old favorite, has resumed his place upon its boards, after a prolonged ay in Europe. At the BOWERY THEATRE, Mr. JONES, early in the month, made his last appearance, and has sailed for Europe. Mr. JONES, as an actor, an amateur of the arts, and a gentleman of much literary merit, was greatly esteemed by his fellow-citizens. He will remain abroad some two or three years, to perfect himself in his profession, and to visit the works of Art, of the great masters, in the Old World. FORREST has also appeared at this establishment during the month, in several native dramas, in the personation of the principal characters of which he stands confessedly unrivalled. DEATHS, AND BRIEF OBITUARY RECORDS OF PERSONS RECENTLY DECEASED. military carriage, which did not desert him in advanced age, often arrested the attention of strangers; his manners were formed in the court of Louis XVI., and exhibited the dignified courtesy of that era blended with frankness and simplicity. At his residence in Norwich, on the 17th of June, aged 79, GEN. HUNTINGTON. He was a brave and accomplished officer of the revolution, and served with great credit through nearly the whole war-having entered the army before Boston in 1775, just after graduating at Yale College, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in September of that year. The next year he was promoted to a captaincy, and appointed deputy adjutant-general of the troops stationed on the North River under Gen. Heath. In 1777 he was made a major under Col. Samuel B. Webb, and afterward promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy, and commanded a battalion of light infantry at the siege of Yorktown, where he joined the family of Gen. Lincoln as volunteer aid-de-camp, and acted in that capacity at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. After the conclusion of the war, Gen. Huntington served his native state in various military and civil capacities, was seve ral times elected to congress, and served a long time as adjutant-general of the state. In 1799, during the administration of President Adams, when war was expected with France, he was, at the recommendation of Gen. Washington, appointed a brigadier general of the troops raised by congress on that occasion. Gen. Huntington sustained a high and unblemished character in every relation of life. On the 8th of June, at his residence, near Morristown, N. J., VINCENT CLASSE VAN SCHALKWYCK BOISAUBIN, Esq. in the 80th year of his age. For the last forty years he has resided in the county of Morris, and become extensively known to its inhabitants for his liberal charities, his courteous and affable manners, his lofty principles of honor and integrity. The early part of his life, which was spent in one of the most sumptuous courts of Europe, (that of Louis XVI.) did not extinguish his partiality for the quiet pursuits of agriculture he preferred remaining on his farm, where, in the exercise of a frank and liberal hospitality, and in the practice of private virtue and extensive beneficence, he has closed his days. With truth it may be said of him, he lived and died without an enemy. Mr. Boisaubin was born in the island of Guadaloupe, West Indies, in the month of April, 1755. At the age of seven years he was sent to France for his education, which was completed in the city of Paris; at the age of seventeen he was entered in the Garde de Corps of Louis XVI., in which service he continued sixteen years. When the revolution commenced in France he was in the island of Guadaloupe, having obtained a temporary absence from his command by furlough. The effects of the revolution extending to the West Indies, Mr. B., in the year 1794, emigrated to the United States with his lady and three children, one of whom, Boisaubin Boisaubin, was educated at West Point, entered the army as an officer of artillery, and served in the last war until his death, which occurred on the frontiers of Canada in 1813, deeply regretted by his brother officers. In the year 1829, Charles X., king of France, conferred on Mr. B. the order of Knight of St. Louis, (an order never more worthily bestowed.) This honor was unexpected by Mr. B., and was unsolicited; it was given him by the government as an evidence of the esteem in which his countrymen held his character, and a proof that they had not forgotten the liberal assistance and generous hospitality he had extended toward many of them when in dis- In New Orleans, on the 1st instant, of pultress. He died, as he had lived, an exem-monary consumption, of long standing, DAVID plary Christian, in the full communion of his Church. A procession, larger than any before witnessed in the country, accompanied his remains to the grave, and all places of business in the town were closed during the time of his interment. The personal appearance of Mr. Boisaubin was very commanding; his height exceeding six feet, and his erect At Annapolis, (Md.) in the 55th year of his age, the Hon. EDWARD LLOYD. He served first as a delegate to the general assembly from Talbot county, and, in succession, a member of congress, governor of the state, state senator, presiding officer of that body, and senator in the U. S. senate. From his sound and discriminating mind, and from his long acquaintance with public affairs, he has possessed a great and leading influence in the councils of the state. M. LEWIS, an old and highly respectable merchant, born in Kent county, Delaware, on the 12th July, 1776, for many years a resident of Philadelphia, and of the western part of the state of New York. On the 29th ult., in the 38th year of her age, Mrs. EVELINA THROOP, consort of Enos T. Throop, Esq., much beloved and lamented. THE KNICKERBOCKER. VOL. IV. AUGUST, 1834. AFRICAN ANECDOTES. MEMOIR AND POEMS OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY. GEO. W. LIGHT: BOSTON. No. 2. THIS is a timely re-publication of a work, which has now become so rare, even among the bibliopoles, that it is much to be doubted whether half a dozen copies of it might be found in the country. We have ourselves met with but one, which was and is in the possession of a relative of the Mrs. Wheatley, who gave her name to the celebrated subject of the memoir prefixed to the Poems before us; and we are not sorry to perceive that, in the new edition, the interest of the whole of the old has been retained by working over the portrait of Phillis. This is said to have been, at the time it was taken, an undoubted likeness, and our friends, the Phrenologists, will certainly find in it, and in the historical accompaniment, a new paragraph for the long and learned Chapter on Heads. Nothing is known of Phillis Wheatley, so far as we have been able to ascertain, previous to her arrival in this country, and at Boston, in the year 1761, in the situation of a slave-captured probably on some part of the Western African coast, and brought hither, in the ordinary course of trade. We have looked over the Boston Post-Boy of the year just named, with a rather melancholy curiosity, in search of confirmation of traditionary rumors relating to this shadowy portion of our heroine's history. Slave advertisements are thick enough in its columns, in all conscience-as it is well known they continued to be for quite a number of years afterwards-and similar notices disgraced equally the papers of London itself, as well as of New-York, and other principal places on this side the water-but nothing meets our eye more definitely significant than the usual cold-blooded notifications of flesh and blood for sale, or wanted, or to be given away, or run away, as the case might be. How strangely do these things look to him who has familiarized himself only or chiefly with the political annals and anecdotes of the memorable period in question, and of the great men on both sides of the ocean-the children and the champions of liberty-who illumined and adorned it! Witness the following, in the Post-Boy of Dec. 28th, 1761: "An extraordinary likely negro boy to be given away." Similar advertisements became more frequent as the revolutionary atmosphere grow wariner-for reasons too obvious to need comment. |