UNITED STATES. 1. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, For the Sixteenth Presidential Term, commencing March 4th, 1849. The above table has been prepared from the official statements published in the newspapers, and must be nearly correct. Between five and seven thousand scattering votes were thrown; most of which were for the Hon. Gerrit Smith of New York. *The Electors of South Carolina are chosen by the Legislature. II. PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. III. EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT. THE 16th Presidential term of four years, since the establishment of the government of the United States under the Constitution, began on the 4th of March, 1849; and it will expire on the 3d of March, 1853. ZACHARY TAYLOR, of Louisiana, President, Vice-President, THE CABINET. Salary. $25,000 5,000 The following are the principal officers in the executive department of the government, who form the Cabinet, and who hold their offices at the will WILLIAM M. MEREDITH, Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury, 6,000 M'Clintock Young, Chief Clerk, 2,000|| Commissioner of Customs. Charles W. Rockwell, 3,000 Franklin Haven, Boston, 1,700 John Young, New York, Jas. R. Snowden, Philadelphia, 2,500 3,000 Wm. M. Martin, Charleston, 2,500 1,700 M. M. Beale, New Orleans, 2,500 3,000 Louis A. Labeaume, St. Louis, 2,500 Philip Clayton, 2d Auditor, William Mechlin, Chief Clerk, Peter Hagner, 3d Auditor, James Thompson, Chief Clerk, Aaron O. Dayton, 4th Auditor, Thos. H. Gillis, Chief Clerk, 1,700| Register's Office. 3,000 1,700 3,000 Mich. Nourse, Chief Clerk, 1,700 1,700 Solicitor's Office. Thomas Mastin, Chief Clerk, 1,700 B. F. Pleasants, Chief Clerk, 1,700 Coast Survey. P. G. Washington, 6th Auditor, 3,000| Thomas E. Brown, Chief Clerk, 1,700 Alex. D. Bache, Superintendent, 6,000 * There had been no Chief Clerk appointed to the Assistant Secretary or to the Commissioner of Customs on the 27th August. |