The Danes begin their ravages in England, 867 Alfred the Great, after subduing the Danish invaders, founds the university of Oxford, about 896 The university of Cambridge founded, 915 Paper made of cotton rags was in use, 1000; that of linen, 1170 Leo IX. the first pope that kept up an army, 1054 The Turks take Jerusalem from the Saracens, 1065 Musical notes invented, 1070 1180 1192 Glass windows began to be used in houses in England, The houses of London, and other cities in England, France and The mariner's compass invented, or improved, by Gioia, John Wickliffe, an Englishman, begins to oppose the errors of The Vatican Library founded at Rome, Pins first used in England, (before which time the ladies used skewers,) 1561 *First law in England, establishing interest at ten per cent. The great massacre of Protestants at Paris, 1546 1572 Mary queen of Scots is beheaded by order of Elizabeth, 1587 The Spanish Armada destroyed by the English, 1588 Watches first brought into England from Germany, 1597 The massacre of 40,000 English Protestants, in Ireland, 1640 Charles I. (aged 49) beheaded at Whitehall, January 30, 1649 Cromwell assumes the protectorship, 1654 The Plague rages in London, and carries off 68,000 persons 1665 1C66 1666 The habeas corpus act passed, 1678 A comet appeared so near our earth as to alarm the inhabitants, 1680 Bayonets first used by the French in the battle of Turin, 1693 Russia, formerly a dukedom, is established as an empire, 1727 Fouli Khan usurps the Persian throne, 1732 Ccorge Washington born February 22, 1732 Westminster bridge, which cost 389,000l. finished 1750 146 Englishmen are confined in the black hole at Calcutta, EastIndies, by the Nabob, and 123 found dead next morning, General Wolfe is killed in taking Quebec from the French, 1756 1759 First Congress of the American colonies, at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1773 First Petition of Congress to the King, November, 1773 Declaration of Independence by the colonies, July 4, 1776 1777 1782 Earl Cornwallis surrendered at York-town, Vir. October 19, 1781 The glorious victory of the Nile, achieved by Nelson, Aug. 1, 1798 1799 1801 1803 1804 Bonaparte crowned emperor by his holiness the Pope, 1804 1805 1807 Surrender of General Hull's army-capture of the Guerriere- Paris surrenders to the allies-Bonaparte abdicates and retires 1812 1813 1814 1815 CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. The following abstract exhibits the amount of the white, black, and total population of the Union, at the three last national enumerations, and the total amount in 1790. Abstract of the population of the Union in 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820. Total Northern States 2,027,250 2,650,295 97,814 2,748,409 3,708,669 123,004 3,831,673 5,085,673 135,882 5,221,555 1810. 1820. Total. Whites. Maryland 319,728 Blacks. Total. Whites. Blacks. 216,326 125,222 341,548 Total Whites. Blacks. 235,117 145,429 380,546 260,222 147,128 Columbia District Virginia 10,066 4,027 14,093 16,079 7,944 24,023 22,614 10,425 747,610 514,280 365,920 880,200 551,534 423,088 974,622 603,074 Total. 407,350 33,039 462,042 1,065,116 North-Carolina 393,751 337,764 140,339 478,103 376,410 South-Carolina Georgia 249,073 196,255 119,336 345,591 214,196 179,090 555,500 419,200 219,629 638,829 107,019 252,433 237,440 265,301 502,741 1,792,710 1,376,952 845,267 2,222,219 1,538,750 1,063,489 2,602,239 1,732,116 1,255,944 2,988,060 109,368 276,759 58,648 335,407| 614,674 Northern and Southern3,929,328 4,304,306 1,001 729 5 306,035) 5,862,093 Total according to the census returns *In consequence of the death of the Marshal, the population of 6 counties in this ate was not returned in season It is estimated at 191,317 805,991 1,043,922 379,932 1,423,854 Grand Total 9,655,097 OF THE UNITED STATES, AS PROPOSED BY THE CONVENTION, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA 17TH SEPTEMBER, 1787, AND SINCE RATIFIED BY THE SEVERAL STATES, WITH THE SEVERAL AMENDMENTS THERETO. WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. Sect. 1. ALL legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives. Sect. 2. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year, by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature, No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, threefifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every |