Ilielqtlieviaelf. *ptiblieqq 'CIRCULATION, 2176. C.' F. READ, a H. H. FRAZIER, EDITORS F. Z. LOO MIS. CORRESPONDING EDITOR XOMITTLOSE; SVSQ. CO.; PA: limprillay - - February 44, 1859. , E..W. FitArun is our traveling *gent, authorized to receive sibscriptions, advertise ments, ..te.i . nrid to collect moneys for the independ ent Repibitean. ' tirwe are indebted to Mesas. Myer and Untie for Carious documents from Harrisburg. We learn by it letter from Lenox township, that - w? bane again been imposed upon by a sham marriage notice, namely, that which a few weeks - ago announced the marriage of Mr. William Coney, of Maas., and Mies E. J. West, of Lenox. We should be glad to discover the perpetrators of these con = temptible hones, and shall take such precautions -as .worost will lead to their detection, should any be attempted in future. • lir George W. Wilson, maids return from Ne braska to his home in Aubwa, this county, _stopped it the Gt. Nicholls hotel in Willresbarre, on the 31st 'of August last, since which time be his not been heard from. • nil family are very =Onus concerning him, and any! information of his whereabouts, ad dressed to lfra. Wilson,- South Auburn, Surkpachanna county, Pa., will be thankfully received. • Eiebanges, please `copy. - rjrWar rumors continue to prevan in Europe. *mince preParations are going on - actively in France It is rumored that the Emperor is preparing a our prise for the world, and that war is certain. Qs' Tiro men named TM= S.Loseh and David Ninkon,were arrested at Pittston, Ps., on Thursday last, for robbing the Pennsylvania Coal Company's office list:Octet:ors. • They were'committed. ` Ewbank, formerly - Patent Commissioner, read a paper before the New Tork Ethnological Soci ety, in which be mid that Ph) , the application of in animate fortes to raising and reaping staple products of tinpleal and semitropical regions,' the labor of negroesittay be made unprofitable. t ap The prixap!ct of a revision .of the Tariff at the present session, in a ‘my beneficial to the ,reve, ' nne and to Pennsylvania ,staples, -is very enialL-- Southern membe# are oppOsing it, load claiming that -the rreaident abandons the' Democratic doctrine in 'his recommendation of specific duties. • reA fifty-guinea prize was offered tic a Commit , -tee, for the best poem on Burns, tole read at the' Centennial celebration of the birthday of the poet; on the 25th ult., in London. Thera were 621 'scan petiters, but the prize was taken by Kiss Loa Craig;a poor Scotch girloabout 25 years of age, who, mail geoently supported herself and her mother by 'sewing nick-ties. She is now "assistant secretary of the '•:‘ National Association of got.; 1 Science' in London, got up by'Lord Bionglutm. The poem,' which is good, not great, is published in all the British jour '- mho - . Moe of the poems sent to the British prize com mittee irebeiroui the United States. The second po. tun intim estimation of the judges, was written by a boy of named Ifyers, and is considered quite as extraordinary, a performance for a boy of that age, • As anphiog of Chatterton's. Several of the poems written for the occasion in this countryas those of Whittier, Holmes, and Low ell for the Boaton Celebration, and that by Thomas Fraser of .7.ieW Jersey—are superior to Miss Craig's prize poem. . ' s ir ThiEarrisbnig correspondence of the Penn sylvania; Ayrwirer, of February contains the following complimentary notice of our Reposeata tire- • -Mr. Chaac, of Susquehanna, was in the chair lei terciar and-to-day. This gentlemen was a prominent = candidate for the Speakershili at the .commencement of the session, but withdrew his claims from before the caucus. Es is the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Ream, and although he speaks seldom, • has-much &bay as an orator. His views are %der atood to be intensely Republican, but arthe times are rapidly growing up to him, it does not place him be yond the patty bounds. He delivers an address this evening Wane the Toting Men's Christian Ansocia - ,:tion of .MatMalan, and from his aliilhies as an ors = tor and a scholar, a masterly prodnetion may be ex petted: or Charles U. Weeks, the converted actor, Lay ing returned to the stage, publishes in the New York • pipers * letter, eantaining the following as his ex cise for =eh * courie: Ile not speak of my anxiety, my sleepless • nights, and days of.headache, in my efforts to please - The eharchand serve the Master, nor of the struggles • of mind with regard to the temporal present, and the • Sawa. Day by day Provided me with bread, but •• day by day the tame darkness hovered over atypath • way. I Was entirely dependent. This -galled roe: but I was able to bear this ftSr the future good I might accomplish when I became settled as a pastor. I -looked forward. I hoped. "I saw my mother sinking loner and lower, draw . lug-nearer and nearer the grave. I saw the scanty winter clothing of herself and my two young sisters, and -with the picture constantly before me, and the thought, ' I. cannot help them—when shall I be' able to do sot' my heart grew sick. " - Allot I consented, as my church wished it, to ataidgeierrlares years, in further preparation for the 'ministry. trusting in God for my support during this term.' Bat a ahem time before my intended de parture I lieard. from My mother. She cannot live • . long: 'T have two sisters, aged respectively 11 and • 13balli. wish health and strength, and claiming to be a man, leave dean to suffer as I have date Shall I leave them to battle with this world alone -- `lstst If God in Lis goodness does not me of reason, which I have at times feared would be the .- 'ease. • No, if I did'did' not struggle to 'relieve them, if I did not fly ht ;evens° to their call, I should deem ..;:ny o sera coward, :iota to dwell among men, or w.or -"th:# a home in !maven. I have no other method at present tut my former profession. At a moment when my heart seemed vacant, with these facts vivid ` ;Iy.before me;lifriCetrutor, of the Troy theatre, offered • Moan engagement for three nights. I accepted. sok God to judge the heart and motive. I am wtilling all Christians should she judge. Ido not in steed to remain on the stage, if I can help It. I can • no longer berbappr, In a theatrical life. If lam con deemed till& net it will be by mew. Leatukit help . le' • : . This *hole story of the destitution of his mother and.two y niters (thdfatitters) is a pure fibrins - Wenks's *belle "scanty arbiter clothing" and, " eats for help" are - so pathetic. ally described, reside in Montrose, and are in cow - ktalda-cianintmeattei,live wen, and have never had , :sayltelp'Svint Cartes & Weeks, nor erg tailed for wo w am ; Nekbbo i r Weeks is anratsions r'''lnechapie, 3 liid_feele quitilidge - ib clothe u two Wk s girlsoikweilaa'provide otherwliefor hie fa*, and *Ad tirliave the young non do violence to disertizig Abe pulpit for the etege on their account. _ • - TbeiteisWeilleotliseel*gto mate a tenet ilDikaadSrii*fte4l-!'et we t h iak he made a V 24. iPi4takeidieiliolf4 43.1 t letter to the- nears: 4 1 * 9 / 4 *Fe r ltYsii,l4Pilisions info. following appears among the selected items, in a late number of the New York, home` ,Toilrna/ : "The city of London covers sixty-three acres of groend, and - contales nioinpelghtparishes,whleb are diryed into' three distrkds - for the rem! of the poor, four medWal districts, add Ste districts for :Tegistra lion. The number of riiimpirs is about two thousand seven hundred *ml thirty, and the:yaluecitratable, property abbro one million one hundred Sad sexenty-; fire thousand pounds trte_rlityk." ' How so extraordinary a blunder could hare found its way into that paper, we cannot imagine. The following statement of the extent and population of London, which We extract from Colton's Atlas, will probably be of Interest to many of our readers: "London lies on both sides of the Thames Ricer. On the north bank, where the - principal part stands in the counties of Middlesex and Sussex, the site lir es-gradually at the rate tt thirty-six feet per mile; on the opposite side the house 3 corer a nearly . uni form and-extensive of Surrey and Kent. ..Tbe.limits of_Londoo, is de., fined by actor Parliament for parliamentary pitrpos. es, cre. - the rirdwnference of a circle -the radius of which is of the length of three miles from the Genet , al-Poitelftee ; but the actual circumference is gener ally ettimated at thirty miles, end by tome at thirty six miles. It includes •the cities of Undon and Westminster, and the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Southwark, Lambeth, Finebury, and Ifarylebone,thr merly distinct, but slow combined in one cast. mass of houses. The aria' and population of theme, la .1851, were as follows: Divisions.. Acres ropulaton. City of London,l . - 600 129,144 City and Liberty of Wenner, 4,855 199,799 Borough of Finsbury, 4,670 ' 028 772 - • " " Lambeth,' 8,840 251,845 Marylebtme, 5,810. 070,957 4 ` " Southwark, 590 172,860 " " Tower Hamlett, 8,988 ' 089,111 31,353 1,986,991 "This portion orthe BritiSh metropolis. has thus an area of - nearly forty-mina square miles, about four fifths of which is on the north bank of the rii.er.— But within 'the greater limits abrixe indicated are in. eluded the parish of Chelsea, and the towns of Dept. ford and Greenwich, 'Dulwich, Brixton, Clapham, Bauersca, Kensington, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Highgate, Stoke,Newington, 4:c., comprising, all gather 74,070 acres, or nearly 116 square miles, with a population, in 1851, of 2,361,640, of which 1,103,- 730 were males, and 1,257,910 fen:tides." ur The Allartie Monthly for March comes to us promptly from its publishers, .Messns. Philips, Samp son k Co. Tbeopeningliaper, about Dolhein and the Dance of. Death, is a delightful one, full of pleas ant description and narrative, as Well as acute criti cism. "Lissy Griswold's-Thanksgiving" is scarcely up to the average of the tithmties stories. There is a capital article on " o:arles. Lamb and Sydney Smith ;"- &nether, which is quite Limb-like in its hu mor, entitled "A Plea for the F66,4s ;" a chapter of -P the "rofessorat the Breakfast able,' illicit, if more sober, is not lets charming than the previou., chapters. The serial articles are will sustained, and the poet 7 is•excellent. Vr The „V.?. w York :readier, for Fehruary, is re ceive 4, and contains a variety of articles valuable to teachers and all who feel an'interwtin. education.— , • This periodical is published monthly, at Albany, N. fur one dollar a year in advance.. Like most other educational journals of the pres ent slay, the Teacher has a miscellaneous department devoted to notes and querimt ki. One correspond. ent asks grammarians what they will do with this sentence:. "lie came up from down the road." vir The Rbode Schoolmaster, (pub. lished monthly in Providence, by T. A. Mowry, at rl a year,) promises an article each mouth on "The Study - of the English. Languag+,". "A School StMg, ilth Original Music," and a series of.articles of "Di ography of Eminent Met., Literary and Educational! , In part fulfillment of the first pledge, the, first two numbers contain 'excellent articles on "Gray's Elegy:' There is also a "Children's Department." The varie tysof the Schoolmaster is, pethapit,- not surpassed by that of any other educational periodical in the corm; Cr,. igr Almost every 'newspaper, nrwaaine, or periodical of any kind, that we pick up, - contains an advertisement -of Grover • and Baker's Sewing Machine, This enterprising firm seem only to be surpassed in the extent of their advertising - by the omnipresent Bon. Der, and, as is the usual result of judicious advertising of a good article, their machines are meeting with an immense sale. WQearn born the., Scientific ..linerierm that in 1858, Messrs. Grover andpaker naan u&ctured and sold fourteen tuland sewing machines, and more of the $lOO coops than of anyother:: Their factory is in Boston, but in New York city they employ one hun dred and s fifty cabinet-makers to produce stands tindornamental covers for the ma chines. UV - The Ohio Culti!ator states that the "Honey-Blade grass" just now offered to the public as something new and very valuable, in three dollar sacks containing seed enough to sow an acre, is the same as German , mil let, or Hungarian grass, a valuable forage plant on some soils, and can be bad of deal. 'ers at from two dollars a bushel down•ards. Me Cultivator adyises its readers to hold on, and notpay for the seed three times what .it is worth, as there will be enough of this seed in market to stock the nation before sowing time next May or June. ~--- Or The Pennsylvania State Schanck Governor Packer's new organ at llarrisburg, copies. our recent article on the suppression by the Altntrote Democrat, of the resolution. endorsing the State policy of the Governor,, adopted by the lute Democratic meeting in Montrose, and adds the followingtornments: "Tile Pennzy/raitictaluii been in the:habit of publishing the proceedings of Democrafic county meetings, but striking therefrom such resolutions as endorse Governor Prieker.—L' This policy is pursued even to the extent of certain country papers doing the same as re gards the meetings in - their counties. .This was done recently by the .Montrose Democrat, although the editor was one of the &Crete ries. It is well for the editors in question that thin species of cheap fraud is not indicta ble, but as it is not, it may be tiertineht tit inquire what it is done for It'is not witty —it is-poor.severige—it advertises the man who does it as a rogue-to characterize it as party spirit' Would impose upon. us • the..ne tessity of imagining a cause for it. Like the mad whiffet that bays the moon, an editor who falsifies the proceedings of a public Meet*, ought not to attract the attention of his species. - But wity do it? The Montrose Republican thus interrogatively suggests ,a possible 'reason : 'Are the Democraty of Susquehantra•Patier.men, but afraid to have the fact known at bead quarters Or do politicians give a tone.tei proceedings after. a meeting, that their courage not allow them to propose in it. " In any case, the practice is a mean one,- ins false to friend as it is to Lie, and equally unjust to both—stupid, little, contemptible. " f'• Have we if Democratic party among Us I—.Waskivion. States. .We have a party which calls itself .Detne creak. It-elects - and appoints ouli wealthy aristoaats to high offices • it legiallites at the 4.iietatiou of rich cottoa p lanters awl - English nuinufgeturers, suid impoverishes the Ameri can people ;:and it snakes use oroffselisl po.W er an age to preveut fair expsesvion oCthe *pie , wilL if IF were not siaiird Dein*** l oot 1 4YA 1)06 killed . out 9 ,469544 - 494M4nirs0. - Fo;• the hidipendefit ie att Moiled Convention in Jaciiiim. *Agreeably to notice, a Musical Convention _was held this . place, commencing• on the inar.;and cautioning fotiedays, under the rdireCtionof Metiers: Sturdevant and - Perkins. It afforded one - of the best' z of - opporhinities _for linproiretnent the ticienr*v_ and :those that'attended were Undoubtedlif::very benetitted. Some very appropriate remarks were made by Mr. Perkins tis•to. the import ance of establishing congregational • singing, and also some useful hints as to the method of conducting the same. The :Convention closed with . a concert—at which time the following resolutions were read and adopted : Eeicdred, Thosve conilder cidtivtition Of Music," especially sacred 'Music, of vast importance; forwharsvould the world be without music? It would, indeed be a .dull place; and half the: blessed , foretastes, of a life to come would, be.lost. The dear old home of yoUth.and-truttnre age; would lose half its fascinations, if the blessed strains there heard were stricken from ourmemory. The solemn services of the sanctuary would sadly inissilie genial influence of music .-- 1 ' Even the poor mariners would ofttimes de. spair if not permitted to cheer each other in measured strains as the icy cordage sways' the unwilling sail in e Winter's tempest,— Such are some of the blesSings of music; and yet how small are.ther all in compari son with the great Choral Song that will be poured .forth around the Throne of the Lamb; and if it indeed be. true that we are permit , ted to improve ourselves upon earth, and thus 'fit ourselves better to join that Song, what higher motive can we have to go on and sing with the spirit and the understand ing also I Resolved, That we return our sincere thanks, to Messrs. Sturdevant and Perkins, and also to Mr. Ellis, for their efficiency in conducting this Convention. Resolved, That we consider them in eVery way competent and suited to the profession they have adopted. May success attend them. Resolved, That we' return our sincere thanks to our friends from Harford for their assistance throughout this Convention. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent. to each of the Counti , papers for publication. JAMES M. Baossos, ADM B. LARALIEE, Corn. LANs. NAlil—Messrs. Bell, Bright, Broderick. Chandler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas, Durkee, Fe.c.senden, Foote, Foster, Hale, Hamlin, Harlan.— Houston, Johnson (Tenn.,) King. Pugh, Rice, Seward, Sim. monw, Smith, Stuart, Trumbull , Wade, and •1 Wilson-2S. For the Indepeeideist - Republican. _ _ _ _ A Thinner Township. MEssns. Emzons is sometimes the . case that a State by some great display, or show-off, in some particular- thing, entitlei itself to the honor of being called the Bennet State. It is frequently so with Counties.— And why not a Township receive the like honor? Therefore. F, the township _of Jack son, being a member of this County, and of 'this great Commonwealth, led as though I fluglit to appeal to the press. Now, Messrs. Editors, I wiskto communicate through the columns of the Rriniblican that I have the ctislionor to have within my birders a gang of rowdiei—Hcai , en-diring, Law-defying, impudent young Men—who frequently dis turb the rest of my quiet, peace-loving citi zens at the midnight hour, with guns, horns, and other noises, including sundry harsh, un earthlyscreeches, the result of the free use of liquor. I regret that so many of my young men will thus degrade themselves 'but so it is; and I have to submit to the hu miliating position of being called the BAN NER TOWN for Rowdies and Rowdyism. JACKSON. Country Netispapers--Imposing—Postage on Exchangek There is no reason why newspaper propri etors should not pay postage on their exchan ges, if they are necessary to their -business, as well as merchants or others. When' an individual starts a newspaper he ought to know that lio.will require certain exchanges to facilitate his bUsiness, and he should make calculations.to. pay the postage on them.— Many country papers which are established to pail' a railroad, advertise a lottery or quack medicine, or .mayhap to. get some hungry editor an occasional free ride in the cars, a free dinner, or a free drink, and whose circulation hardly . exceeds •the number of their exchanges, incommode the mail routes to the injury of their legitimate business.— But if there ever existed a necessity for 'this privilege, in order . to fneititate .thespread ot inteUigence, the telegraph has removed it.— For all the purpoes of a: well-conducted journal, the telegraph is sufficient for the transmission of news, and exchanges have be come almost useless.—N. Herald. . I The above ii a fair specimen of the super cilitsus -and contemptuous mmiper in which 1 the New Yotk Herald treats what it sneer ingly calls the " dmintry Press." This-prop.' osition to prOscribe,the"Press and to impose I atax on the difrusion'Of intelligence . through out the country, by compelling' country -pa pers to pay postage on their exchanges, is worthy of English—the hero of the LecOmp ton swindle; and the editor of 'the Herald,- the •akithor of " Mary Ann," and the" Angel's Smiler is worthy of being his accomplice and' abettor. The 'tendency of .the times, 1 and fdr which the City Press is struggling, is to create a monopoly of newspapers in the large cities by starving out the Country Press. Knowing that a newspaper published in the " rural districts" has but little circula tion out of its own county, and often bet" a restricted one within it, while city or metro politan papers have a circulation throughout ths whole Union, and even in Europe, they ' readily grasp at this proscription Imposing an, additional tax upon country papers, which will render, more expenalve and diffieulttheir publicatiiin. To impose postage upon . the exchanges of country newspapers 'would be to inflict upon them a heavy .an'easment ' which few, could or would bear. • Country newspapers caunot, if they would, make their 1 living ashes the New York Herald, by levy. 'Mg black mail upon the community. Their_; editors, unlike the editor of the Herald, are,; ttot accustomed tohe publicly horseishipped for blackgoirdiani sind calureny, and then make a large profit from the sales of the pa: per containing a detailed personal account of the chastisemencglorying In bra brniles- and scars. Such Seances et profit and such found. atioms of ' eucceilic . are reserved fir such 'edit, ors as lietriiett. , Country - pipers do not seek' such patronage. - They rely on the voluntary support of independent men. , We call upon members of Congress to watch and put • an indignant veto on this new English 'swindle. They, of all others, Cannot afford to lose the Country -papers. If economy must be at tempted against the enormous and corrupt I leakages of this public TreasUry, let itiiot be at the'expense of public intelligetice and nub lie policy. Some. of - the most extensively, circulated city Opera admit that i . the paltry {surf . of on s' e dollar' year which -is charged , for them seine's!) , pays the totit of the white' paper, and that they make their profit' on ad-, vertisements; for which they Charge the enor mous price of a dollar or two a line tor each -insertion t--:ptisetting One insertion' of "one line of advertising against the paper fOr a --whole year ! whereas the country papers nee. essarily have a jiniited adiertising patronage, and must 2.ekiend materially on ,the 'small profits.of. their, limited cieettlition I = Now it Ile proposed to crippleithem ;further ! We trust the miserable atteter Will ba :Stir' ‘,...:.i i1i90 2 30 itePtaktta. , ' - „ . ,', , .. . „-,,,,,. . -. From. Washi ngton o f the N. Eq'ri/atut. Wasarsortiat, ket. 18.-1859. ArisOtta, Dakota. and,aCteratin.T . fikrtiorl#l tine were laid on theist - 1e crttr, whelniing - votes. ,The tirrognot:Slattery-ma : , fority, oft he Committecpn Territories, un der the litid of Mr. Stithen, "of . .GeOl'eti; put Pro slivery riders on thetn, and then at._ tempted to drive them through the Hous e under whip and spur, but • the flepublicantie went-solid against thetn,= together with Anti-Buchanan Democrats, who are averse to conferring more 'pattnnaga upon - the Presi dent. Tho defeat of these billtdestroyed'the patriotic hopes-of Delegates, and more than two hundred applicants ;for - lerioilieei of Governors, Secretnriei. Itfaiidiale,' Attorneys, ..Tudges, &c. Mr. Buchanan, luts madtkprom, ises largely, in view of the' passage of these' hills. and rages is depriv ed of much patronage. Alter a severe straggle to-day, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to' Mr. Morrill's Agricultural College bill, 'lndic has gone to the President. A personal friend of the latter asserts this evening that the Presi dent will veto it. The Tionse has at last passed the Senate bill, making Mrs. General .Myra , Gaines it pensioner at fifty dollars per month for life. Fan. Senate•tOok up the Home•. stead bill br vote of twenty.six to twenty• three. At'll o'clock Cuba was called up as the special order. A motion was made to postpone Cuba and consider the Homestead whicliwas carried by. twenty-seven to twenty-fix. Mr. Hunter then moved to post pone the Homestead bill and 'take up the Cis it and Diplomatic bill.. The vote s tood twenty-eight to twenty-eight. Presi dent Breckenridge voted Yea, and the L bill was postponed. This is considered equiva lent to killing the bill. The vote as fol lows: YEAS—Messrs. Allen. Bates, Bayard. Ben lainia, Biglei, Brown, Clay. Clingrnan.Davis, Fitch, Fitzpatrick. Green, Gwin, 'Hammond, Hunter. Irerson..Tohnion (Ark..) Kennedy, Lane. Arallory, Alason, Pearce, Reid. Sebas tian, Slidell, Toombs, Ward, aud4 Yulee-- 28. • AiisExt—Messrs. Cameron, Clislznut, Crit tenden, Jones, Polk, Sumner, Thompson, (lip.,) Thompson (N. Y.,) and 'Wright. Messrs. Brown, Hunter, Lane, Hammond, and Breckenridge are all candidates for nom. ination at Charlston. If either sueeecds,his vote against the Homestead bill will be re membered. The Committe on Ways and Means . met to-day , but cola not agree upon a Tariff— There is a prospect that the Committse will be allied again ; .if So ; the different Tariff bills will be reported so that the House can get a vote on each. Mr. Chandler made a telling speech to-day in opposition•to what he•eltaracteriied,as the• thirty million, bribery and corruption fund. The proptisition, he said, was a monstrous one, worthy the brigind blues Buchanan, au thor of the 'Ostend Manifesto, but totally disgraceful ,to the President of, the United States.' The proposition. 'was made wheii there was not the slightest prospect of ,sue. cess. It was sn insult to Spain, anddia. grace to ourselves. But the -President did not make it in good faith. I.le had damaged the Democratic party, and wanted this thirty million bribery and corruption fund with which to resuscitate it. It would not be Ronal to the task. 'Tie would never vote to saddle Michigan- with, her portion .Of this debt. He pitched into Pugh and Benjamin, and the Dred Scott decision, and the °straw. aganee of the Administration -with a bank rupt Treasury, without gloves. ilia,speeeli evinced great research, and was listened to by an attentive Setiate and crowded" gaiter. . The Army Appropriatieri bill, as reported, wil! receive a ,powerful opposition. The he. lief is that it will be rejected. FEB. 18.—The .President's, appility was practiced upon with great SUCeeSt by a new operator to-day. The WV., envious of his colleague's (Mr. Slidell) success in procuring the Presidents endorsement of bis wild Cuba thirti,mill ion -bribery - and corruption scheme, brought out from the Executive mansion to- day an appeal to ongress to hurry through the passage of his, (Benjamin's) bill, giving the President . power to make war iron Mex-. ico, the Central American and South Ameri can States at his discretion. . Mr. Seward and Mr. Fessenden, on. the Republican side, exposed and denounced the measure as unconstitutional. Mr . ..Slidell and Mr. Benjamin finding that the two Pres. idential measures embarrassed each other, and were like to prove mutually destructive, like the Kilkenny cats, contended each for precedence of his scheme .over that of the other. Mr. Benjamin, in his anxiety to. res: eue the Prelident, came upon the keen lance of Mr. Fessenden, and was flayed.. Mr, Douglas went the whole animal for cbmpli, .ante with the PreSident's recommendation, which, hoivever, heinsisted must be extend: ed, so as to enable* the President to make war upon all States, both great.and small. at all times, and under all circumstances. .T.ef ferson Davis went over to the side of Sews ard and Fessenderi against Buchanan and' Dtin4laS ti..,the rescue of the Constitution. 11D. Slidell appealed for unanimous con sent to keep a-resolution alive which. he bad offered yesterday for proposing nighi sessions next week to secure the passage of the Cuba bill. Mr. Mason'otijected, and refused the consent.. Mr. Slidell appealed to, Mr. _Mat son to listen to reason.- Mr.-MistiLrefusetl to listen to anything and called Me: Slidell to order.. . Mr. collamer goi - the floor on the Presi dent's last exhibition of Imbecility, and the Senate adjourned._ AU is confusion in the ranks of the Democracy. _ _ It is reported 'to-Melt that the Pennsylva nia delegation Congressinn - will' support Mr. , TarifF measure. , -The,reisart . oe the Select 'Printing investi• gating .Cinntriittee' will" indicate that the Ad ruinistretion-exis ferketain its pow. er in the North by teeing corrupt. 'men: 47,000 case was discOvered today which ivill go to the credit of - the -,DeMaciacy, of Con necticut: - . . . Artormai. GREAT:FA:at' rs TEXAS.--Major ILeland et the lifetrititolitin Hotel in this eiti has settled near: Galveston; ."Ite has 'put ! • chased the Carnal Ranch ; in Cl,i Sparks, Guadalupe , fronting theo A dalupltßiver innflpti es, and 1 lying twentptwo Miles. ir eit 'of ;lea' Braun: Fels, in Comas countY; Mid abinit'llthiti Miles nearly - north from San Antonim 7 -10,000 acres in a body, with the improvements ,lhereon, and :some 640 acres under' fence, rnear G. W. Kendall's celebrated slieep.farnt. 1 In his purchase of stock are 3,ooo_sheep. 750 . head of cattle, 250 bead of horses, and"tuuleti p ' lie4des working Oxen . , a',llaltese jock; two. Burnish bulb and the, celebrated rribi-borsej B ockwiy, and' also" 1,000 hogs; goats, 'AM:, lie ,rnade a 'clean, purchase of . the ' 'whole premiseA;tiMit'untlitg to Sloo,7o6—thi_larg est sale ever :made In. Texas ; of itnt - icock !arnr.—..1 . 1 4 .n.indePentfint. ' , - . ", ,- ii.,-4_ ..•,r iileniainstt.tioing it on „Wooden Cylinder Reads. ' Thp..*tmboat Wenona being Ir, trouble at Pittilairgli k ißmi . npf thkowneratfeigd her,, anktibe - *fus . 11#1 — 040 1 * *T Mki!i . ' °Oa crew, no liking tote idle < got itt'1411.44 woUenivlind'er 14ids mide,'(tkretiae thg jrnitjaneiii-which h tl beMl-tatenliwaY,*r* ient'ber slipping aro another ;; State); and of a dark night to glide ci. lentlyi,down the Ohio. The Pittsburgh Di:- palch . ,thtis recobnts . the rest of ber advert. tures " On Friday last, as wo" have, stated, -the: Winona was hard aground at White's rip: - ple, Capt. Florer on board, apparently tak ing things easy. „WA bun also, stated the fact of Ankeltarielifig Of tile ateruitAng lieu It eye, Capt. 'Juice by the three-fourth riivners',' for 'tliii - pfirprise bringitig'Te'r ba cicitOlhit• city; 'a PreviOns tO,atirting, how ever, two legal gentlemen called upon that Mayor, their object being to get that func tionary to detail his police to prevent blood shed in the anticipated grand l onalaught upon the Wenona. ,'The'Mayor,'hontevet,dedined I to " ptit' his foot iti . ii,"'bnt stated the proba bility of his interference in ease The peace I was broken by either-parts. The conference with the Mayor was not satisfactory, and the legal'gentlimen left. They were joined by two gentlemen connected with the ,Central Road, noted for the " pluck," and . " some on I the muscle," backed by at: least thirty men, consisting of Srayinen, truckmen, porters, &c., bearing handspikes, dray pins, Ste. -All I being in readiness, the HaWkeye proceeded on her journey. Old Cept. Florer, happening 'out on ,the guards of the %%tenons; observed the Hawk qe approaching, and anticipating her arrival had not been idle. Ile'drummed up some twenty.five Men, arming the greater portion of them old flint muskets, some of them with n i ka locks •, others were armed with old rusty sabres. Capt. F. gave _orders for every man to take a state-room and not to shOw himself until the signal was given. •The Hawkeye came up close, and the lead er of the formidable party on hoard sung oat, "We have come to this boat a and take her back to Pittsburgh." Capt. F-. —" All right; what assistance I can give will be at your disposal." The Wenona was soon afloat, lines were attached, and all was in readiness for a trip back to the- city.-- Capt. F. stepped down to- the boiler deck -- ; and with two strokes of the hatchet severed the line. Simultaneous With this, the men rushed from the state-rooms-of the Wenona, and with phinted guns and drawn sabres overawed the Ilawkeye party; who took ref uge in-the hold, cook-house, and water-clos ets, each seeming extremely anxious to put himself out of sight. 'The Wenona dropped quietly down the Ohio, and met with no further molestation. The last heard from her, she was at Wells ville' and saving been provided with-cylinder heads of boiler iron, was making her way to Cincinnati, which port she has probably reached ere this. SEWING MACHINES IN 711 E Sorre.—The effect of this introduction of machine labor inth the SOutb may be judged from the 'fol lowing letter of a Southern woman : " I bought a machine of you one year ago flir *lOO. I took it home, and, although I could work it perfectly well, I could not learn one of my people, though I had six sewing women, tcP use it. - I think they 'imagined it was some Yankee invention to interfere with their old-time customs, and did not wish to learn: r-had unwittingly said tliat the machine would do as ,muiih sewing as six women. But I was not to be baulked, and so 1 bought a girl fiir *l,lOO, who said if I would buy her she could and would learn, and learn she did and I have been since of fered repeatedly *2,000 for the girl and ma chine; but I won't take it, for it does_ the work of six, and of course gives- Mr. §— jive_niore.hqnds its the field." A IjACT: BETWEEN STATES.—In 1836 two young States were admitted' into the constel lation of the .Irition. Michigan, with . one. half the extent of teritcrY of Arkansis, chal lenged' her sister State for , twenty year's rsce, and eanied rider,,'" Neither shiv ery: nor involuntary, servitude, unless' for punishment for crime, shall pier be tolerated ip this State. l ', 'Arlitmsasseeepted the chal lenge 'and namlid her rider - "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for . the emitriCiPstieri of slimes, Without the consent of the owtiets." Thus mounted, these two States, the one free and the other slave, started 'twenty years ego; and now, having arrived at the end' of , The proposed race, ler us review and mark the progress of each.' Michigan comes outin• 1856, 'with three times' the population of.slave Arkansas, with five times the assessed value of farms, andlarming implements and mnebinery, and with eight times the number of public 4 RARE SPECrlliit or DEMOCRATIC EI:D -OT:REM—The following eloquent, earnest, and effective address was delivered.at a re- Cent Demotratic . Caucus in the town of Said lord, Broome County, by: a. -man who had I been an Inmate of the County jail on an in dictment . for Murder.- The speech is too good to be lost: Here it is : - "Gms-rtmeas—by we are going to, beat the d—d black Republicans. lam go ing to work this year. Last-year we were I licked because was. in: jail and could not vote. I was persecuted and kept in jail be em I ise was a Democrat. Gentlemen, the Democratic . party, is a persecuted party:' Go lo all the Jails ancisState Prisons in, the court try.and you Vitt find nine out of every ten of all the trinsisrie l r.Dernocrats: -Now, mark what I telLyou. I. am: not in prison ,this year, and you vaill:seenrhat I can do." , PunucavioN , .vite Laws.-We are glad to perceive ,that our friend Mr. Zoller, mem ber from Allegheny_ county, his, read "a bill in place providing fur the publicaticitt of the laws in the newspapers of the several . coun ties of the State, and we hope that the: bill may pass at the present aesaion withinii op position. _ This measure has frequently been advocated by the , press ;of the !fate, and ought to:have been adoi)ted long since. ; The Pamphlet Laws reach only a, few persons in . the, different conities,and the misses of, the people never get acquainted' with the laws of the latiduntil they get into tltaCourps.v We bope,, therefore, that spe4y action mai" he had on the bill' in question.—Harris&urq Tell, raph. Sciannx..:—..friui &glints orwearing boots, recently inaugurated by the ladrea,,is a very afAsible one. Nothing ' COMIGCCS more- to heath and , beauty, Ladies are deserving (1 a Word in their favcit for having determined to give up the folly. t Or running ,ahnoit footed. - Doator'l hills ' will 'be prevent ; and old agn be inure- iree. , frbul' the twinges'of rhetirnatietnizwhieliiire tbeTainful result of insufficient ahcie.leather. Mew are free to wear-what they choose upon'their ket, and now that• women std beginning 'to as 'some' the:rennin privilege; they- ought- to be encouraged in tbe movement. - - . NOT P" PK Mg • .1G904F,--4 Dayton, Ohio, 011 e 0 0r0e#9 YailfhtringAd !PUN who belnatin• - nilAngltsi nn.gised,'`, has been (mitt inPstenliPil :dm* WM? , . 11 °: 4h0414 G9neral - - News. ; ......enTero are one huedrtd end foal.- Sher inktridel adv,ertiseOn tb#, .o:me Sirius ...Oreiiiitek William (Quisen,Vietorta'S eldes!ildatighter) bati given Aktrth Vlet,orreklel.lv geandsnothei before she is Urty Years•oir, • I ..-.. Henry Hallam , the-hiseerian of the Middle Agei, of the . tivival of Letters, arid ,of the English Constitution, died in England, January , 22, 1854; aged eighty-one years.-- 7 He has left but few of his-companions be hind biro. His learning, ability; and serupu:- lous fairness,,tnade every •work. written by him a standard ofits kind. Illysite,Artbur 'Henry Hallam, hi whcht Timiyhori . ed..Akor ,romarkeible,ser.ies ~01-.•foeuts -which have l been .fNl published under Are title of "In 21 (!motili":4 10 4.iiftitag,- , e~N tises to pnblisVati original - letter from the Duke of Wellington, writes to know why. the Napoleon of newspaper,,ein't tet an ab origine/ letter from the great warrior-Teenm sell, as he says the latter wus ihe deeper : ted man' of the twol . - • • ....,The author,of the very_ pretty And extensively quoted - poetical gem, "Over the River," which appeared. originally in.. the . Springfield Republiesn, is Miss Nancie A. W. Prieit, of Hinsdale, N. M. She is a fac t tory operatiti., and las bad no adVankes of education save those Warded by, a district school. She deserves a better chance to court the muses. , - Tbebootath) Oleo tru4e of Philadelphia in.an ordinary year ; amounts. to ever • Me;11 million. of dollars, which- fact - Will , give. idea of its importance., Of thia amount over four millions_in value are mandfactured in that 'City. This is ti greater:amount than is produced in Lynn, tfassatinisetts, which may be termed a city of boot and shoe ; .naanufac hirers, fdr hardly any otherltusinesi is car ried on in it, and much greater than the pro duet of any other city - in the Union. Lymi makes principally chap worlc ; but Philadel phia 'is celebrated foe fine boots and Jartieu. larly ludic& shoes. - .... The Houseconeurred Feb. 10, in the Senate's amendments to the; bill donating to each State Public Land -in aid of the establish ment and maintenance therein of seminaries for instruction in Agrielture; Mechanics, and the Natural Sciences auxiliary .thereto:— Each State is to have 20,000 acres for each Senator and Represehtative;which it is anti= tied to send to the present :Congress ; those which shall have an -additional Member' un der the CeiSUS of l lB6o will be entitled to 20,000 acres far each additional Member. Mr= Cobb of Ma, tried to table the bilktut was bellied by the decisive vote of JlB to 95- 23 majority. The Senate's amendments were then concurred in without a; call of the Yeas and Nays. So the bill is now fairly- through Congress. Mr. Slidell of La. has threatened that the President shall veto it, but we trust he will be disappointed. .. The Brookville (Pa) Jejersonian of the 10th inst, says! that German . named Carb, while out hunting, in Clear fi eld county, came across a bear trair, and, having never seen one before, he entered,: for the purpose of examining it, but unfortunately touched the trigger, and was shut up. In this predict ament he. remhinedl two days, nearly dead from hunger and cold, when the man- who set the trap came to examine "it, and . found that, instead of a bear, rte had caught a Dutchman. Fallina in -love with' a ward in Chan eery is even more dangerous than may be supposed., A-lancashire strain recently. did so, and Vrhen-the lady cambia( age,: was . jai-. tritons enough - WI - parry , :rand Lord Justice Knight Mee - sari that . matrimony was committed so soon after the young dy'a coming of age that there Must have.been courtship in, her rnincuity—which is, ,con tempt of Conn: ,As it is perilous to commit flirtation with a ward in' Changer:it, letlionng ladies in 'thatrsituation weara noli me tango re dress—a costume which shall'irant ofr all intruders—;tnitslins' and niake;antiques all legibly lab elled',;" trespassers will be prpse, euted," - ' - The - iormber of seamen now in the e Naval service is jthit authorized by law, namely, 8509.. NOmber of: marines, includ ing non•cominissioned officers, musicians, drummers, fifers and privates, 1895. Ninh ber of other employees under' charge of the Navy Department; as near:as can be ewer-, tained at !the several - Naik:Sards, 8471. There are in the Navy ten ships of the line,- ten frigates, twenty-ono sloops-orwar, three brigs, one schooner, eight 'ocean steamers of the first clasS i six of the second class, nine of the third class, two screw tenders, three side wheel steamers of the first class, three of the third clasie.,.oriii side..wheel fender; three store vessels, and-fivePerinantnt store and reeelv ing ships.. The total riumberof vessels is 88. .... A man in Cincinnati, this other day, married a dumb Woman , weighing three hund red and six pounds . . Ife 'certainly had an eve to peace and Iplenty.hi, He is probably the man that advertized for, a silent part " editor,lwho, fur a vonder; is giv. en ttistelling exaggerated tiles,luii this ono about the tail of a "The hitebt noielty ' is a dog whofluts a vrbistle; , growing on Alm end of his tail.: 'He _always daps himself, Whdn wanted." s I 5..... A hill providing. or a general 14nk ing law has beetf introduced into the Penn sylvania Senate. I At a recent Meethig 'in 'Boston, Dr. H. J.-Bowditch, an, 'eminent physician of thiA citY, who ' hate, given . 14* attention -to the topography of consumitiou Massachusetts ) . stated the results-Of his observations to . be, in brief, tharexina4mption;prersils in propor tion aslocalities are 4amp, springy and, ill drained—prOVided the' moisture is not that of salt water,alane, tufis the'caSe of islands along the. coast, which are generally. finite free froirs. oimauMption:-' His; observations indicate a general' aw, which blight not' to be overlooked in }'the lritioti of town s• or dwellings. t ; • • • . .The Gove r nor of Michigan has, veto ed the bill giviag woman 640 acres efland for adding.reur 44:1 !the Population, atllie same tinie. 'Other claht s fiir similar serilices bed begun t 9 come prodener. dictated the Governvr's oovsel IMEN ... :The Phillidelpphis .Ptess says, •" In view of, the ,extnniedinaty diasenshine and: quadrangular squirrels: now proyailing s • at -I't betieetts thi'Vreildent and his, Cabinet, the Cabinet and Congressional cases, and rival . :Caucuses • claiming :to has Democratic, against each Other, the query, of the WashingtoWs*ates, whether _we. hate d Democratic prtrty,writorig 'tie r a - pertinent and prpper saws" The tAxilOivs-rUi, the, cie s ) , of New York, lin liaratid* Ikaird of, Ailde:rtnen.- 7 The-ainpuut required ia :nearly ten millio n dollars; •• - •• .... The , souraifileiurefprwiints and bran., dies in CAlosulit. fur- 1858,•4 hcabnut four hundred thoumut gallons, whieti ie nearly_; .donWt.turt.md,ust ‘,/f, ILA-.Vnited • litotes in 4 8 0- -MletraPik9.ult4qh itkY4Y farfcl_ly in qr.,..4.1.P14 and-4 •iitizlkak*4. 4 ' * .•Yle l4.of gako.galluult of winei-i .-.,The Of ~The small addisiOn oCortnick's 4,' eapeiiiroaldinake sewing in Ines -very ifesfirable koragTiculturists; fo r:ho would wisitio be 'without a sowing and reaping las chine? . ~. „ 1" : '.. . _. .-. . . .. In the Baltimore jail are now confin ed-six men - convicted of murder die first `degree, and six Others lawiti' tinitrial for that crime. " trpver.belore since the.Ontnding of the city," itaytiihe Sun, "las .such'it state of facts - been presented." • . T, '- • :..,... Mrs.lud4n, who married. the , gen l• tleman from 'Afrl4 at Fondle:a - While- since, I haajtist returned' frem Judnuast,:,tvhere she Iliad. been with her brother s 'and,g444 decree of divorce. ' Most.conyenient - State, de not itthim all the good out of your divorce laws. 2 ,, ~ ~ The . Rev. Mrs„.Antolnette Brown - Blacicwa has reeppearellita4 ; leeturer and clergywomanlailleichester. Sine hei mar ' riagetffie has been little in pubiiollife. ; Pre "Viouilo that erent,.She:oiliciated ',sidle pas. trw - Of a Congregatioinir clifiril it Butler, 1- 1 1 4,Ints , c9utitY3-,NAW.,1194., , , , ,q.,... .... 4 young , man ; of eighteen, named Smears: . efoped ;frolic 'Roe-hater; rN. Y., re. cently, with 'a Mr's. Cherry, the !wife of an engineer - on, thia'.' . :teteirai Railroad.• . Dirs. Cherry is over forty yeariof agerand a grand mother. The runaways were arrested at Ai bony and brought.badt. .Bmeari; was locked lup . in jail to await examination 01 the charg e , of stealing a trunk and other property belong. I lag to Mr. Cherry. ' ! ....-The Washington correspondent of the Philadelplija Press says ; " It is clearly demonstrated that a. large majority of tiro members of the lower House are !apposed to lauthorizing any further loans, unless simul taneous provision 'is reside . for inn increase t of th e revenues i and if th is dieliosition. con i o n a es , it w ill b e oss ible for the opera. lions of the-Gciveinmene , to be continued Iwithout calling'an extra Stntsiont This cos tingencyls already freely spoke of, and it is supposed that if the' present Congress 'ad journs without taking some mann upon the tariff,. the Preaident'will call an iextra Sea. sion, to assemble on the Ist of August." .. The Editoritil Conventioit of Poesy). vania met at Harrisburg, February 16th, and was presided, over. by Morton • McMichael, Esq., editor of the Philadelphia 'North Amer ican. Gov:Packer Was present, by invita. Lion, and made a speech, which was very well received. The Businetai Committee made a detailed report, which waa, referred to.a Coinmittee, whin are to report ate spe. cial Convention to be held at Pittsburgh, on• the .titird Wednesday of . August. Seventy members signed - the Constitution. Mr. For- IlaY, of, the ehiladelPhis ‘Prers, made the closing speech. Harrisburg was fixed! upon as the place for - bolding the next annual meeting, onjhe third Wednesday of Febru. ary good story is told of, Mrs. Doug. las, when asked recently rega4ng her poli tics. Her reply was—" I am an old-line Whig, with pretty..strong Done/as proefiri• ties.' • Mr. Henlei, Chief EleCtrician' of the Atlantic Cable Company, haraiTived :at St. John's, N. F., with batteries atutinstromems, to commence operatic ns with them on this end of the cable. . .... The Rochester youth,Barney Smears, who doted . with Mrs. Cherry, it -Cherry far advanced, has been senteneeirto the Peniten tiary for , three months, for the larceny of the goods belonging tb thi3 injured husband. , .... A few . nightii sinee,!'ll farmer living near Dansville, Livingsfon'county, Ni. N.. hearing a noise in his stable armed himself with a club end went there, Mien he' found two fellows about , leading forth. -e.- valuable horse. :One of the thieves drew pistol, and was about-to fire, when the farmer ;struck him on the head-with hia club, killing him instantly. The,nther rope then lied, when the farmer-examined the body I.ofilt\ nom slaslain man, and found thereon $4OO in - g - . ey, but no clue• to his identity. • .... The Hartford Press - relates that en Wednesday eirening,.as . a•youtt l k clergyman was skating down the Connecticut at great; speed, he came so unexpectedly I ppon a group ; of young ladies tha..t he-could not titre to .avoid•thern, and/theiefore,...to prevent:4M. dent, caught one by the- waist and -took her with him. the zistohished female 'could .recoirer her' speech, he l"was saluted with, " Who'S dat a !leggin' min' gol." and, on looking 'upon' his bur4m's face the young clergyman.found that it l as black as night. fk did not carry - her fur, and doesn't enjoy comPtiments.fin: - die lioliteness. Mr.' Wade made an ineffectual effort, Feb, 20, to get up . the Ilotnestend bill! in the Senate, 24 'Senators -votinefor it . . end. 31 against it. • Mr. Maine wanted Ito call up the bill alluded to in the President's Special Message, gitiing hinee74 . traeidinary wer.tnak• big power.. The Senate disagreed to Mr. Mason's motion- 7 2'5A° 31.. I - Store occupied, Iby A. Rich ardson,' at Uniondale, Susq. Col.; was entirely destroyed bylfire en 'Saturday evening, Feb ruary 12th. Goods, and; noka of. accounts were all consumed. " There wage at ineurence of $4OOO on the Goode: The guildhig was owned by Mdree, Nichols & Co., near whose Tannery ,it was situated, and was not lour- Advance. • - ter Senatdr 'of this District, paid.a dying _visit home otrer aunday,; and of ficiated" in the pulpit of his eiingregation in South Whiteltall.==-Aikninin l i ßegister. • B. This preachire: Seilator is a Dem. beret."' The_party Were Mit 4 much oppos. ed to "political preachers" lo prevent their electing him to offm. • - I I A Pot.rciton Sfaig.—The I Secretary, of State of,Wiannitain,infortna they Legislature that:of the Tairibant, 'of , mariey !expended for public printing daring the past three year »bout $21,000 wait ,for English; $30,000 - for German,attd. $14,000 for Norwegian lauguag• • Acknowlistalitimseitif.:Liirl ind Prin desire to:return their sincerethanks to the peePh or filenwood, Lenox Tanner;," - Hopbotuim, rind licit, ity, the' very liberal Donation made them At the ir residence on the afternoon arid evening of Me 2;111 of January; 188%Immeuraleg fo - 1062,85; neaily of which was paidln cash, and tbel balance in p'' duce and valuable clothing--slity•live persow mat ing up the mount, in simmVarying from ti.etit7 4s " cents to, twenty•otte, donate. said do n ation was d great bkeuingto onreetvetand tam*, as a n ' eans of 81121taillttee."' But Meek More boutatilial bleasin,N are „received in our fedi - egg; cur hafts Cetera' gratitude to Almighty - God, and to the- dolatom when we believe and , feel, that it was made withfrei - ; 'in of Love and kindness as well a 3 with ii-vitta , Of relieving our necessities;: mil we are proudatsdial py -in saying that' tbe , kindly fc-Clitsp continuity showh us.by said donators. are by far the Vicho t '' - .their gifts; and we pray 6ed that they may be fit Madly blessed nit we aro temiadidlY, yea, much ex abundantly. May they live a brigand happy ilk thrtinforldiand receivelatmven's- richest. bleraing ' ft the world to come, .a life of Waal never crohnt ete4nitY: DEMI , PEASE. Lenox;Feb, HMI ADiN PEASE; Edillicall-aualAdilietios',_-.-An edam's a 111 be delivered before , the andante cif the SuelleL/ n " na.evanty Normal 'SAO" In lap Academy. gall, Meurray,Teli;l3A; 'bp,lltt O' im'cloCl4 p. lo n by W. Juser,l7.sq. }Weide - or edneldieu and the Pub"' hitettniel are" revcreethrllt insitedr be: present. Nibilia:47llS OIMM;OIibX Bridge Water wiltistostlabe4.llosel *ebb .Nir ch M-41 , 0.04 1 1 , -. Ag0N1417.100/4**"f* =I
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