Ordered, That the Treasurer of the city and county, as soon as may be, contract with some of the banks within the city, to receive of him such money on deposite as he may receive, (and he shall receive for taxes such bank bills as are at the time current in the city) and pay out on the drafts of the treasurer or any other agent of the city, authorized to make such drafts, gold, silver, or bills of the Boston Banks only, for the term of one year, said contract to be on as favourable terms for the city as the contract made with the city bank the last year, and to be approved by the Com mittee of Finance. The Committee appointed to inquire into the causes that have led to the expenditure, by any officers, of any sum or sums of money beyond the amount first appropriated therefor, &c. having made a detailed. report, which was ordered to be printed, together with the following resolutions, viz. 1. Resolved, That from and after the passing of this order, no appro propriation shall be made in addition during the year, unless imperious necessity shall require it, and no expenditure made beyond the amount appropriated shall be paid, unless on full investigation of the subject, by a committee specially appointed for the purpose, it shall be evident that such expenditure has arisen from unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances. 3. That from and after the passing of this order all orders or resolves, requiring an appropriation of $1000 and upwards, shall be taken by yeas and nays. The report was accepted, and the above resolves passed. Adjourned to Monday, August 7. All for the sake of Rum.-It is said a man in Vermont lately swallowed the head and a considerable portion of the neck of a large striped snake for twenty-five cents worth of Rum.Having disposed of the head, he offered to swallow the remaining part of the serpent, for a more liberal compensation. In 1764, a gentleman advertised" to be given away at Roxbury, a Negro male child of an excellent breed.” Mr. Moulton in his History of New York. says Rhode-Island was named by the Dutch, Rood Eylandt, the Red-Island. POST OFFICES.-There are in the Uni tinct mail routes; the mail travels over an extent of 95,930 miles. priation shall be voted for any pub-ted States, 6,000 post offices and 308 dislic building, work or other improvement, unless a plan and estimate by a competent builder shall be first laid before the City Council, and accepted by them, and no building committee, or other agents, shall be allowed, under any circumstances, to deviate from the original plan, unless said deviation shall be first submitted to, and sanctioned by a vote of the City Council. 2. That after the annual appropriations have been voted, no ap State of Rhode Island has recently been A London paper says, nothing more fully proves that Fortune is blind, than her giving 30,000l. in prizes to two Members of Parliament who voted against Lotteries.. BOSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1826. The establishment of the Boston Commercial Gazette has been transferred by its former proprietor, Mrs Gardner, to Messrs Beals & Homer. Samuel L. Knapp Esq. has retired from the editorial department, and it will hereafter be conducted by Alden Bradford Esq. former Secretary of State. Under the charge of this gentleman it cannot fail to sustain its character as one of our most valuable, commercial and literary pa pers. We have received the first number of "THE CHEMIST AND METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL," by John R. Cotting, Editor and Proprietor. This work commenced on 8th July, at Amherst, (Mass.) in an octavo form, containing 16 pages each Number, and is neatly printed by Messrs. Carter & Adams. MRS COLVIN proposes to revive her Weekly Messenger, in the City of Washington, which she was under the necessity of suspending in 1822. She asks further patronage, and we know of no reason why she should not receive it. Surely the fair daughters of the United States must feel a pride in supporting a pa- per at the seat of government, expressly devoted to their interests. The National Intelligencer observes that, Mr Gallatin has, with a zeal highly creditable to him, devoted the energies of his mind to the rescuing from oblivion the languages of all the different tribes of aborigines. We hope Mr Gallatin, or some other person who is competent to the task, will furnish a Map of this country as it was while possessed by the natives, preserving the original Indian names of places. The Jackson Meeting met on Monday last at Concert Hall, and adjourned to the 1st Monday in September next. A fire broke out, on Friday, 14th inst. in a wooden building on Front-street, improved by Mr. A. Guild, and containing a large quantity of sea coal. The fire is supposed to have originated from spontaneous combustion. Considerable damage was done to the coal. BOSTON POST OFFICE. Mr. Editor,-I am glad that so respectable a print as the Palladium has set you the example of complaining against the regulations, or rather the want of accommodations, at our Post Office. It is a grievance to which the public ought not to submit, that there should be but one pigeon hole for the delivery of letters: It is a grievance that the hole, into which the throng that presses towards the pigeon hole are crowded, should be only five feet. by ten in measurement: It is a grievance that the floor of that place should be so much lower than the threshold, that on every rainy day that throng is obliged to stand sole or ancle deep in water, for five or thirty minutes before a letter can be obtained. I agree with the Palladium, that no fault lies at the door of the faithful attendant; I have too often witnessed and experienced his politeness to suppose that. But there is a want either of talent or disposition some where, to devise means for the accommodation of the people. I hope the out-cry will become louder and louder, and be repeated in every journal in the city, till the evil is remedied. I know that something, in the form of a card, method of finding fault, and it was said, some time since objected to this public that any complaint directly made to the proper officer would receive proper atten tion; but it is notorious that the same evils now exist; and the proper officer, whether here or at Washington, ought to be sensible that they were just cause of complaint then, have continued to be so, and are so now. TEAM FERRY AN EMPLOYER. BOATS.-We understand that some of our enterprising citizens intend to run a team ferry boat between Chelsea and Boston. We have no doubt, that an establishment of this kind would prove very profitable to all concerned in it. When this goes into operation, and the new road is finished between South Salem and Lynn, we may hope to exchange visits with our Boston friends, upon more moderate terms, than have heretofore been exacted.-Salem Obs. A celebrated Mathematician has calculated that taking the age of Mr. JEFFERSON to have been 33 years when he signed the Declaration, and Mr. ADAMS' to have been 40 years, the chance of their both living fifty years longer, and dying at their expiration, is only one in twelve hundred millions. The National Egis states that Mr. Adams pursued his professional studies in Worcester, under the tuition of James Putnam, Esq. a distinguished and successful Counsellor at Law. He was here em ployed as an instructer of youth, and taught in a school house standing on the declivity of the Court House Hill. Three of his former pupils now survive: Dr. William Paine, Capt. Daniel Goulding, and Mrs. Jean Noah. JOHN ADAMS'S PROPHECY AT 20 YEARS OF AGE. The following is an extract of a letter written by JOHN ADAMS, dated at Worcester, Ms. Oct. 12, 1755. "Soon after the reformation, a few people came over into this new world, for conscience sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me; for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallicks, our people, according to the exactest computations, will in ano ther century, become more numerous than England itself. Should this be the case, since we have, I may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas; and the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves, is to disunite us." "Be not surprised that I am turned politician. This whole town is immersed in politics. The interests of nations, and all the dire effects of war, make the subject of every conversation. I sit and hear, and after having been led through a maze of sage observations, I sometimes retire, and laying things together, form some reflections pleasing to myself. The produce of one of these reveries you have read above." The Rev HORACE HOLLEY, late President of Transylvania University, Lexington (Ken.) has relinquished his proposed voyage to Europe, and having also declined accepting the invitation of the University of Louisiana, has resumed his situation as President of Transylvania. Mr. Jefferson was buried on the 5th instant, without any pomp or procession in compliance with his last request. The National Intelligencer states that he has left a memoir of his life, which, it is thought, will be put to press immediately; he has also left a numerous collection of papers which are intended for publication some years hence. Don Manuel Moreno has been appointed Minister from Buenos Ayres to the U. States-Don Manuel Garcia had declined being minister to the Panama Congress. Mr Clay is on a visit to Kentucky, and Mr Southard to New Jersey.— Mr Barbour and Mr Rush remain at the seat of government. ADAMS AND JEFFERSON. The demise of these highly distinguished and venerated men, on the day gloriously associated with the most brilliant event of their lives, amidst the prayers of twelve millions of freemen, and that day the fiftieth anniversary of our Independence, is a most wonderful coincidence, unparalleled in the history of the world. It would seem as though These Providence had listened and favorably heard the prayers most natural on such a day, in the mouths of such men, "Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." distinguished patriots have enjoyed in their life-time equal, and the highest honors within the gift of a grateful country. In their deaths, the measure of their fame is full;-Their memories are sacred. The death of these men, thus circumstanced, and at such a period, has called forth a flood of materials for future history, too abundant to be given in detail within the limits of this work; but we shall from time to time, endeavor to record the most important facts. JOHN ADAMS traced his descent through the family of Thayer and Bass, from John Alden, "the vigorous youth who first stepped upon Plymouth Rock in 1620." He was a native of Massachusetts, born at Quincy, on the 19th of October, 1735, educated at Harvard College, and to the profession of the law. He married in 1765, and soon moved to Boston, lived sometime in a house opposite the north west corner of Brattle-street Church, now owned by the venerable Dea. Simpkins.— About this time he wrote a very learned and able essay on feudal and canon law. He was at an early age, appointed Chief Justice of the state, but declined the office. Amid the force of excitement produced by the Boston massacre, he dared to undertake the defence of the British troops. In 1770, he was elected a representative from Boston, and in 1774 a member of the Council, but was negatived by Gov. Gage, from the part he took in politics. On the 17th of June of the same year he was chosen one of the delegates of Massachusetts, by the Representatives then in session at Salem, to a Continental Congress proposed to be held at Philadelphia.It is said he was one of the eight or ten leading patriots who frequently held private political meetings in Boston during 1772, 1773 and 1774, to consult on measures for the public safety and maintenance of their civil rights. In the fall of 1774 and winter of 1775, Mr. Adams wrote the numbers signed Novanglus, in reply to Massachusettensis, who was an apologist for the conduct of the British Ministry and was supposed then to be Mr Sewall, Attorney General of the Province. They were written with great ability, and were a matter of triumph to the friends of America. Until 1776, he was constantly engaged, and took a leading part in all the measures which were adopted to defend the colonies from the unjust attacks of the British Parliament. He was one of the earliest that contemplated the Independence of the country.— No man in the Congress of 1776 did so much as he did to procure the Declaration of Independence. It is believed that the motion was made by a member from Virginia at his suggestion, that he seconded the motion and sustained it by most powerful and resistless argument. By his influence also, Mr Jefferson was placed at the head of the committee who framed the Declaration. Mr Jefferson himself has since borne *They often met at W. Cooper's in Brattle-square, just north of the Church. After the British troops were stationed in that vicinity, east and north east of the Church, they often convened at Mr. Turel's, the house previously occupied by Mr. Adams, and now by Mr. Simpkins. Some of these choice spirits were S. Adams, Dr. Warren, J. Adams, Dr. Church, Col. Revere, W. Molineaux ; Otis was then an invalid, in consequence of the blow he received from a British officer, and was much in the country for his health. The tone was given to the public measures of the whigs, at these meetings.They sometimes met at other places, to avoid detection and pies-Bost. Güz. || his first term in 1801, Mr Jefferson the candidate of the republican party, and his successful competitor, received four votes more than Mr Adams. Mr Adams then retired to private life at his seat in Quincy.— He was one of the Electors, and President of the Electoral College, when Mr Monroe was elected Pre ing been the principal draftsman of the Constitution of this State, when the Convention was called to amend it in 1820, he was chosen one of that body, and unanimously elected their President, but declined the honor. The private character of President Adams was perfectly pure, unsullied and unstained. There was no christian or moral duty which he did not fulfil; the kindest of husbands and the best of fathers. To the excellent precepts and education which he gave his children, the nation are undoubtedly indebted for having at this time at their head his eldest testimony, "that Mr. Adams was the very life of the Congress of 1776— that he urged the assertion of Independence privately and officially with incredible zeal and eloquence; and that no man could love his country more, serve her with keener perseverance, or act with more general rectitude." Here Mr Adams and Mr Jefferson were both on the sub-sident of the United States. Havcommittee to draft a Declaration of Independence. The one reported was written by Mr Jefferson, which does him immortal honor; but it is believed much credit is due Mr Adams in procuring its final acceptance, for it is known that Mr Jefferson seldom spoke in public, while it is acknowledged Mr Adams was the bold and daring_spirit of the Congress of 1776. From the Declaration of Independence until the peace, Mr Adams was employed in the same glorious cause. Whilst Washington, at the head of our armies was fighting the battles of Liberty, and defending our country from the ravages of the enemy, Adams was employed in a service less brilliant, but scarcely less important. Through the whole war, he was exerting his talents at the various courts of Europe, to obtain loans and alliances, and every succor to sustain our armies and the cause of Liberty and Independence. Nor did his labors cease until he had accomplished every object for which he was sent abroad, nor until he had sealed our Independence by a Treaty of Peace, which he signed with Great Britain. Immediately after the Treaty of Peace, he was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain;-on the adoption of the Constitution, he was elected first Vice-President of the United States, and remained in that office during the whole period of the Presidency of Washing ton. He was as uniformly consulted by him as though he had been a member of his cabinet, on all important questions. On the resignation of Washington, Mr A. was elected his successor. At the expiration of son. THOMAS JEFFERSON was born on the 2d of April, 1743, near the place where he died, in the county of Albemarle, at Shadwell, a country-seat which now belongs to his grandson, within a short distance from Monticello, and within half a mile of his Rivanna Mills. His family were among the earliest emigrants to Virginia; of which Colony, his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson, was a native. His father was named Peter Jefferson, and was known as one of the Commissioners for determining the boundary line between Virginia and North-Carolina, in the year 1747, from whom he derived an extensive and valuable estate. He received the highest honors at the College of William and Mary; and studied the law under the celebrated George Wythe, late Chancellor of Virginia. At the age of 22 he was chosen a member of the Virginia Legislature, and took an active part in all the measures which they adopted in opposition to the usurpations of Great Britain. At an early age he |