eral counties, according to the number of white inhabitants

The legislature is to meet annually, on the first Monday in January.

The executive power is to be vested in a governor, who holds his office for two years. Upon a vacancy, the lieutenant governor performs executive duties. The first election was held on the first Monday in October, 1835, and the governor and lieutenant governor hold their offices till the first Monday in January, 1838.

The judicial power is vested in one Supreme Court, and in such other courts as the legislature may, from time to time, establish. The judges of the Supreme Court are to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for the term of seven years. Judges of all county courts, associate judges of circuit courts, and judges of probate, are to be elected by the people for the term of four years.

Each township is authorized to elect four justices of the peace, who are to hold their offices for four years. In all elections, every white male citizen above the age of 21 years, having been a resident six months next preceding any election, is entitled to vote at such election.

Slavery, lotteries, and the sale of lottery tickets, are prohibited.

The seat of government is to be at Detroit, or such other place or places as may be prescribed by law untill the year 1847, when it is to be permanently fixed by the legislature.

Q. What can you say of the population of this state? A. In 1834, there were 31,346 white; 261 free colored; 32 slaves, making a total of 31,639. In 1835, the population was 85,856; at present, no doubt, it exceeds 100,000.

Q. Iuto how many counties is this state divided?

A. In 1835, this state had been divided into no less than 33 counties, some of which were attached to adjacent counties for judicial purposes.

The following tabel gives us at one view, the names of counties,population, seats of juctice, &c.

The other counties are Hillsdale, Van Buren, Allegan, Barry, Eaton, Ingham, Livingston, Lapeer, Genessee, Shiawassee, Clinton, Ionia, Kent, Ottawa, Oceana, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland, Saginaw, Sanilac, Gladwin and Arenac, the population of which are included in the counties given in the table.

The counties are subdivided into incorporated townships, for local purposes, the lines of which usually correspond with the land surveys.

For the sales of public lands, the state is divided into three land districts, and land offices are established at Detroit, Monroe, and Bronson.

Describe the chief towns.

DETROIT is the commercial and political metropolis. It is beautifully situated on the west side of the river Detroit, 18 miles above Malden in Canada, and 8 miles below the outlet of lake St. Clair.. A narrow street, on which the wharves are built, runs parallel with the river. After ascending the bench or bluff, is a street called Jefferson Avenue, on which the principal buildings are erected. The older dwellings are of wood, but many have been recently built of brick, with basements of stone, the latter material being brought from Cleveland, Ohio. The primitive forest approaches near the town.

The public buildings of Detroit, are a state house, a council house, an academy, and two or three banking houses. There are five churches for as many different denominations, in which the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and Roman Catholics worship. The Catholic congregation is the largest, and they have a large cathedral. Stores and commercial warehouses are numerous, and business is rapidly increasing. Town lots, rents, and land property in the vicinity are rising rapidly. Lots have advanced, within two or three years, in the business parts of the city, more than one thousand per cent. Mechanics of all descriptions, and particularly those in the building line, are much wanted here, and in other towns in Michigan. The population is supposed to be about 10,000, and is rapidly increasing. This place commands the trade of all the upper lake country.

MONROE, the seat of justice for Monroe county, is situated on the right bank of the river Raisin, opposite the site of old Frenchtown. Two year since, it had about 150 houses, of which 20 or 30 were of stone, and 1600 inhabitants. There were also two flouring and several sawmills, a woolen factory, an iron foundary, a chair factory, &c., and an abundant supply of water power. The "Bank

of the River Raisin," with a capital of $100,000, is established here. The Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, and Roman Catholics have houses of worship and ministers here. It was at this place, or rather at Frenchtown in its vicinity, that a horrible massacre of American prisoners took place during the last war with Great Britain, by the Indians under Gen. Proctor. The sick and wounded were burned alive in the hospital, or shot as they ran shrieking through the flames!

Of the 700 young men barbarously murdered here, many were students at law, young physicians, and merchants, the best blood of Kentucky.

Mount Clemens, Brownstown, Ann Arbor, Pontiac, White Pigeon, Tecumseh, Jacksonsburgh, Niles, St. Josephs, &c., are pleasant villages and are increasing rapidly in population, &c.

Q. What are the Internal Improvements ?

A. A survey has been made for a railroad across the peninsula of Detroit, through the counties of Wayne, Washtenaw, Jackson, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Van Buren, and Berrian, to the mouth of St. Joseph River. Another project is to commence at or near Toledo on the Maumee river, and pass through the southern counties of Michigan into Indiana, and terminate at Michigan city. A third project is to open a water communication from the navigable waters of Grand river, to Huron river, and, by locks and slack water navigation to lake Erie.

Q. What is the state of Agriculture?

A. This is slowly improving. The principal products raised are corn and wheat which grow luxuriantly. Rye, oats, buckwheat, potatoes, and all garden vegetables common to the western states grow well. All grasses grow well.

Q. What is the state of education?

A. Congress has made the same donations of lands, as

to other western states, and will, doubtless, appropriate the same per centage on the sales of public lands, when the state is admitted into the Union, as has been appropri ated to the other new states.. A respectable female academy is in operation at Detroit. The Presbyterian denomination are about establishing a college at Ann Arbor, the Methodists a seminary at Spring Arbor, the Baptists one in Kalamazoo county, and the Roman Catholics, it is said, have fixed their post at Bertrand, a town on the St. Joseph river, in the southeastern corner of Berrian county, and near to the boundary line of Indiana. Much sentiment and feeling exists in favor of education and literary institutions, amongst the people.

Q. What can you say of Religion and the various denominations?

A. The Methodists have 11 preachers and 675 members; the Presbyterians 32 churches and 20 ministers; the Episcopalians 15 ministers; the Baptists 60 churches, and 60 ministers, and 1700 members; the Roman Catholics have 1 bishop, 18 priests, 3,500 of population.

Q. What can you say of the history of Michigan?

A. The first civilized settlements in Michigan were made by the French from Canada; and Detroit was founded about 1670; but this region so remote from the Atlantic coast, was peopled slowly, and at the end of the revolutionary war, when ceded to the United States by the treaty of Paris, contained but few inhabitants. Under various pretences, the British colonial agents retained Detroit, with all that is now Michigan, until after the treaty of Greenville, and the United States did not obtain the country in actual possession until 1796. The territory of Michigan was formed in 1805. The country had to sustain more than a share of the vicissitudes of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, and was, in 1812, actually overrun by the troops of the latter; but in