JUDGES of the SUPREME COURTS in all the states of the Union, in Albion K. Parris, New Hampshire. William M. Richardson, Ch. j. Samuel Green, John Harris, Vermont. Titus Hutchinson, Ch. j. Rhode Island. Samuel Eddy, Ch. j. Charles Brayton, Samuel Randall, Connecticut. John Kennedy, Delaware. Thomas M. Harrington, Ch. j. Isaac Davis, Edward Dingle, Joseph G. Rowland, John Buchanan, Ch. j. Francis T. Brooke, Ch. j. North Carolina, Thomas Ruffin, Ch. j. Leonard Henderson, John Hall, Kentucky. George Robertson, Ch. j. Joseph R. Underwood, Richard A. Buckner, Tennessee. Robert Whyte, Ch. j. John Catron, John C. Wright, Ch. j. Joshua Collet, Ebenezer Lane, Louisiana. George Matthews, Ch. j. Francis X. Martin, Alexander Porter, Indiana. James Scott, Ch. j. Jesse L. Holman, Isaac Blackford, Mississippi. Edward Turner, Ch. j. Joshua G. Childs, John Black, Isaac R. Nicholson, William Wilson, Ch. j. Ab. S. Lipscomb, Ch. j. John M. Taylor, Sion L. Perry, Henry W. Collier, Missouri. Matthias McGirk, Ch. George Tompkins, Robert Wash. COLLEGES. A Table of the colleges in the United States, in the order of time in which they were founded, with the location of each. Charleston College, Charleston, S. C. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. Greenville College, Greenville, Tenn. Transylvania University, Lexington, Ken. University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. Jefferson College, Canonsburgh, Penn. 1785 1785 1791 -1791 1793 1794 -1793 -1795 1798 1800 1802 1802 1802 -1805 1806 1806 1812 1812 1814 1815 1820 1820 1820 1821 1821 1822 1822 1824 Miami University, Oxford, O. 1825 Geneva College, Ceneva, N. Y. 1825 1826 1828 1828 1828 1830 1830 1830 1830 University of Nashville, Nashville, Tenn. Cumberland College, Princeton, Ky. Hampden Sidney College, Prince Edw. county, East Tennessee College, Knoxville, Tenn. Kenyon College, Worthington, O. Randolph Macon College, Boydton, Vir. Franklin College, New Athens, O. University of New-York, New-York, N. Y. Vir. There are 51 colleges in the United States. The number in each state may be found in the following table: The first printing press in North America, was set up in 1639, by Stephen Day, at Cambridge, Mass. In 1687, printing was begun near Philadelphia, by William Bradford. The Boston News Letter,' a weekly paper, was the first newspaper printed in the United States. It was published at Boston, by Bartholomew Green, in the year 1704. This paper was continued by Green, and his successors, until 1776, when the British evacuated Boston. On the 31st of December, 1719, the first number of the Boston Gazette' was published at Boston, by John Franklin. On the 22 December, 1719, the first number of the American Weekly Mercury,' was published at Philadelphia, by Andrew Bradford. In 1721, the New England Courant' was begun at Boston, by James Franklin, the brother of Dr, Franklin. This was the fourth paper published in North America. In 1725, the New York Gazette,' was established in the city of New York, by Wm. Bradford. In 1725, the first printing was done in Virginia, by William Parks. In 1728, the Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences, and Pennsylvania Gazette,' was printed at Philadelphia, being the second paper in this State. It survived until 1823 or 1824, and was then the oldest paper in the Union. In 1830, Thomas Whitmarsh published a newspaper at Charleston, being the first in either of the Carolinas. In November, 1733, the first number of the 'New York Weekly Journal,' was published by John Peter Zenger. It was encouraged by the citizens of New York, as a medium through which they might publish strictures on the government. Zenger was shortly afterwards imprisoned, under a warrant from the Governor and Council, for thirtyfive weeks. Andrew Hamilton, an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, defended him, and he was acquitted. In 1740, a printing office was established at Annapolis, in Maryland, by Jonas Green. On the 1st of January, 1741, the first number of the General Magazine and Historical Chronicle,' was published at Philadelphia, by Dr. Franklin. This was the first literary journal published in the United Statcs. The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle' was first published at Boston, in 1742. by Rogers and Fowle, being only twelve years after the commencement of the Gentleman's Magazine, the first similar publication in London. In 1775, the 'Connecticut Gazette,' the first newspaper in Connecticut was published at Newhaven. In the same year, James Davis published at Newbern, the first newspaper in North Carolina. In 1756, the New Hampshire Gazette,' was commenced at Portsmouth, by Daniel Fowle; this paper still survives, and is the oldest now published in New England. In 1762, the 'Providence Gazette' was published in Rhode Island, and in the same year a German newspaper, Der Wochenliche Phil.. adelphische Staatsbote,' was published in Philadelphia. In 1763, the Georgia Gazette,' the first newspaper printed in that State, was published at Savannah, by James Johnston. This was the only newspaper published in Georgia before the revolution. The Pittsburgh Gazette' was first published on the 29th July, 1786, by John Scull, and was the first paper printed west of the Alleghany Mountains. The Kentucky Gazette' was commenced by Mr. Bradford, in the beginning of 1787, and was the second paper west of the mountains. The first printing press north of the Ohio river, was set up in Cin cinnati, in 1793, |