f 1 From Washington. 1 Great Ki;wi from Washington. ADMINISTRATION DEFEATED. Licconipton Rejected Again. Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune, Washington, April B—l 30 p. m, Mr. Abbott hav just come in. Mr. Mont gomery has'the floor, and will move to ad here. The House is still on the Deficiency bill. 2 p. asks unanimous con sent to take up the Kansas bill, and it was granted. He moves that the House adhere to its amendment, and demands the previous question. Maynard moves to recede. The Speaker declares the motion not in order. Tellers are demanded on the previous motion, and there was One Hundred and Eighteen in the affirmative. The previous question is .sec onded, and Clingman demands the Yeas and Nays. ! Symptoms of filibustering appear, and Mr. Stephens He hopes the question will now be taken. Mr, Clingman withdraws his demand for Yens and Nays. Mr. Clemens renews it, but only Cue mem hers rise, apd the Yeas and Nays are not or dered on taking the previous question. On the! motion to 'adhere, the Yeas are 119, and the Nays, 111. • The supporters of the Administration look grave and ore obviously alarmed. There is talk amopg them of backing down and pass ing Mr. Crittenden’s amendment through the Senate, after nil. The firmness of the House nnd the cdmplexion of recent elections, cre ate much dismay at the White House. Up in the las moment the President felt confi dent of success. Illcalli of Col. Bcuton. . Washington, April 10, 1858. Col. fter/ton’s spirit look its flight gently nnd tranquilly this morning at'about thirty minutes past seven Ho was con scious and on I it. Hd.was 76 years and 27 days old when he died.'. SECOND DISPATCH, The supposed time of Mr. Benlon’s death was 7 : 35, though he glided off so gently tlnii it miy have been a few minutes earlier. Last evening, when Mr. Appleton called, he was too exhausted to converse, merely signifiedi “to-morrow.” At time's through the night he was seized with spasmodic pains of great violence, otherwise he rested gently.. Ills last connected words were about 2 this mnrnin", when Jacob, his son-in-law, who «n» silling up, asked how he felt, to which he futility whispered, “Comfortable and con tent.” | Abouf 4 o’clock this morning, Jones an other spn-in lnw, relieved Jacob, and in an hour afterward his children and family were at the bhdsidc till the final summons. A few minutes! before his death the nurse applied ice to his tips, which were consciously moved fur the acceptable refreshment. The [funeral service will be performed on Monday, probably, when the body will be conveyed to St. Louis for interment, with his mother! wife and kindred. His [sustenance for three weeks past was hardly [sufficient for an infant, and it may be that his life was prolonged by the effort of the will only. His constitution was sound in evetjv respect, and the disease which pre cipitated his death was strictly local, being of the rectum. Washington, April 11,1855, CoJ.; Benton's funeral services will be per formed to-morrqw at 2 o’clock. The pal!- bearers are Messrs, J. B. Floyd, Sam Hous ton, Gen. Jessup, William H, Appleton, John C. Hives, James B. Clay, W, W, Seaton, and Jacobi Hall of Missouri, The body will be immediately conveyed to St. Louis, accom panied by his sons-in-law, Messrs. Jacob and Jones] The youngest grandchild, son of Mr. Jones, died early this morning. Thus age and childhood go the long journey together. Congress will probably adjourn out of re spect jfor the occasion. Mrl Buchanan called last evening to pay a visit of condolence to the family, having had h brief and gratifying interview with Col. Benton ,on Friday afternoon, in which the bjtter assured the President that he died at pepcc with all the world. • Col, Benton’s will was opened yesterday to aspejiain if any wishes had been expressed by hint regarding his funeral. None were founo. It was drawn in September, just beforje the surgical operation, which involved the hazard of death, was performed. His residence here is bequeathed to Mrs. Jones, nnd jhis library to Cary Jones, as literary legatee. The residue of the estate is distrib uted (among their children. The executors nr« blessrs. Willlian) Carey Jones, John C. Fremont, and Richard Taylor Jacob, sons- Montgomery Blair and Phillips Lee r brother-in-law of Mr. Blair, as friends. The President now distinctly disclaims all intention of supporting the Crittenden Amend ment, and says that he has been misrepre sented. He only admitted the right of Con- to pass that part of the Crittenden bill which provides for the submission of Le compton, but considers the other condition with respect to a new Constitution in the eveht of the rejection of Lecompton as un constitutional. He asseverates thathe would not sign the bill, if passed in that form. Attempt to bobs the Town Hall.— Oil] Friday last on entering the apartment in the! Town Hall where the fire engine is kept it was' discovered that an attempt had been made to fire the building. "There were a number of old benches in the room that were removed from the hall when .it was fitted up fori school purposes, and the incendiaries had ' made a fire with chips and shavings and piled the benches over it. The fire burnt through the floor, and how it went out is a mystery. Some thing that the same persons who made the fire put it out, while others think it went for want of air. The latter explanation would be more reasonable if the fire had not bojrnt, through the floor. It will be seen by nij advertisement that o reward of one hun dred dollars is oflbred for information leading to! the conviction of the ofibuders, —Jersey Sit tire Vuleltc. THE AGITATOR. 91. H. Cobb, Editor & Publisher. WELLSBOROUGH, PA. Thursday morning, April 15,1858. »,* All Business,and otherCommunications!!!list beaddressedto the Editorto insarealtention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. The Legislature will adjourn on the 22d 105t.,- one week from to-day. Connecticut Erect Connecticut elects the Re publican State ticket by about 3000 majority. -The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican. Hurra I *' A Male Teacher 1 ’ is handed over to the tender mercies of the women. If they cannot take the heresy oat of him his case is hopeless. Teachers are informed that examinations by the County Superintendent will commence at 9AM., and not at the unseasonable hour of six, as the cap. size of a figure made it last week. Shocking Casualty. —A Miss Greiner, about 18 years of age, living in Delmar township, was shock ingly burned in the afternoon of Thursday last. She was engaged in making soap when her clothes took fire and were literally burned off. It was thoH site could not survive her injuries. We call public attention to the advertisement of Mr. J. Walbridge, relative to a Select School he is to open in the old Academy building, on the 19(h inst. Mr, W. is a fine scholar, has few equals as a mathematician and possesses both the disposition and ability to make the School eminently profitable to Us patrons. Wc wish him all success. Judge Wilmot's Defence before the Senate Judi ciary Committee, against the cowardly charges pre ferred against him by Elwell, Piolette & Co., is one of the ablest papers on record. Ho leaves not so much as a grease-spot of his defamers. We shall endeavor to publish portions of the Defence next week. (EJ* The Lecompton men about this place are be ginning to cave. One day they are Lecompton. the next anli-Lecomplon and the next mum —according as the wind blows, —Lockhaven Watchman* “ Mum” is the order of the day with all onr Le compton exchanges since (he big whip in Congress. Whai is the matter ! Docs something hart you? Have you been eating green persimmons? Hove you got the measles, small-pox, sore mouth, or (he ague ? Brethren, this silence is getting oppressive. Speak, dead Lecompton! breathe a strain-- The hopes of our lumbermen “ went up like a rocket 1 * Tuesday morning, under (he benign infia ence of the intermittent rains which set in Saturday night and continued through Sunday, Monday and Tuesday forenoon. Wc have not learned whether the rain amounts to a rafting Freshet, or not. If not, some hopes will “comedown like a stick*'— which catastrophe may opportune showers prevent. This county lives on lumber; therefore an annual Flood or two in Pine Creek aud the Cowanesque are nearly as important as seeJ-timo and harvest , “I, D. M ” or 11 J. D. M,” writes ns from Del mar, asking— ** Can you tell me what a good ba/om, 44 eter will cost and how the mercury stands at the “level of the sea; also how the heights of mono “ tains can be ascertained by the barometer or by “boiling water?**—To which we reply : Barome ters cost from $3 loS3o—some more. The mercury range* between 28 and 31 inches—as the atmos phere is dry or moist—at the sea level. The rule is —I inch rise for each 1000 foet of elevation—-we think. At the sea level water boils at 212, and 1 deg. less for every 550 feet elevation. You should have sent your Tull name. ’ * Several matters. Of all the defeats ever suffered by the sham-dem ocracy, either in field or in council, the Lecompton defeat was the most utter and disheartening. The entire party, with James Buchanan at Us head, stands with bulging eyes and half-opened mouth, as wc have seen delinquent schoolboys stand alter ma king a flying visit over sundry low benches and to •the purgatorial regions under the teacher's desk, unexpectedly. The attitude of the Administration press is ludicrous' in the extreme. Two weeks ago each knew that Lecompton wonld pass; therefore it was “ Lecompton and nothing but Lecompton !” with one and all. The propositions of the anli-Le complonilea were rejected with undisguised con tempt. The Crittenden Amendment was indignant ly kicked out of the Senate and as indignantly vo ted against by every Administration member of the House. The Lecompton press declared that noth ing less than Greco's Lecompton bill, as it passed the Senate, could satisfy the President, put down agitation In Kansas and save the Union; the vole on that bill was to be regarded as a test of Demo cratic orthodoxy. The final vole showed that beL "'crodoxy was in the ascendant and that Mr. Buchan an, to use a slang term, is a 1 dead cock in lire pit. 1 Well, the news affected our Lecompton colempo rarics ludicrously enough, yet variously. All struck the altitude of a spanked schoolboy of size; but our ■-amiable Wayne County friend, always original in an emergency, always at home in a light place, in this as in other defeats bears off the prize. He refrains from comment on the mutability of men and meas ures, and says as plainly as silence can articulate* 11 Heads in and keep dry ; heads out, get wet I’* In imitable old veteran! happy arc they who follow his example, instead of trying to cover up the utter do feat of the Administration by misrepresenting the .nature of the difference in the principles of the two bills—thus giving the lie to their previous declara tions. Probably there cannot be found in any in telligent community, six individuals, above the age of sixteen years, who do not know that the Lecomp ton bill as passed in the Senate and defeated in the House, and the Crittenden bill, as passed in the House and rejected by the Senate, ate diametrically opposed to each other touching the identical points in dispute. Not less than 250 speeches have been made in Congress, for and against the admission of Kansas with the Lecompton Constitution; Now, is it prob able that this struggle is all about tweedledum and twcedludec ? No intelligent man believes anything of the kind. The Administration set out to jorce (lie Lecompton Constitution upon the people of Kan. sas, declaring the Convention which framed it, legal and the after submission of a single clause of that instrument to a pretended vole of the people, all-suf ficient. The anti-Lccomptonites denied that the Lecompton Convention was, in any respect a legal or popular assembly, or that the instrument framed by that assembly proceeded from the people of Kan sas ; they contended that the pretended submission of the Slavery clause to a vote of the people was a sham, and that Kansas ought not to he admitted with a Constitution Known to be generally obnoxious to a very large majority of the people there ; that that Constitution ought to be submitted to a fair vote of the qualified electors of. that Territory, prior to its admission into the family of Slates, Thus the ar gument may be stated, briefly. Accordingly, we find that, while the Lecompton bill provid;d for the admission of Kansas with the THE TIOH ; A. aaUHTY AHITATOE. Lecompton Constitution at it it, and con suiting the wishes of. the people) the Crittenden bill roskes the admission of Kansas contingent upon a vote-for, or against the Lecompton fraud; that is to say, the Constitution la senl back to the people for their acceptance or rejection. If they accept it, then the Presidentis to proclaim Kansas a member of the Union; bnt if the people reject it, then they are authorized to frame another Constitution which a majority a hall approve, and present it at the next session of Congress. We submit, therefore, that the anti.Lecompton victory achieved- in the passage of the Crittenden substitute by the House was a thorough, Waterloo defeat of the Administration, horse, fool and dragoons, together with all and sin gular the candidates lor Executive favor who were attracted to that aide of the house by the prestige of a power supposed to rest with the party which holds an immense patronage in the hollow of its hand. The new Liquor Lew has caused a thrill of joy to extend deep down into the hearts of such of our citizens as have so long deplored the blind ness of this community to its pecuniary interests' We believe that no guns were fired in honor of this latest Democratic victory, in this village, though we suspect that a salvo of pocket pistol artillery was continued through the two or three days and nights following the receipt of the news of its passage. We do not purpose to take op the new bill, sec tion by section in this article, since we have made an abstract of the same and publish it in another place. But we do purpose to speak ol the causes which have led to the repeal of the law of 1856 by the law under consideration. The moral nature of man, as well as bis religious nature, is subject to periodical awakenings. These moral revivals, like religious, rise, culminate, de cline and are invariably succeeded by a season of indifference, apathy, or moral stupor. Such has ev er been the case, and such, we presume, will contin ue to be, while man is born into the world. The Temperance reform probably reached its culmina tion in 1854-5, or thereabout. Since that lime we have observed a marked, and in some localities, rap id decline of interest and activity in the cause. In tliis county the institutions of Temperance have perished away. The Templars and (he Sons and Daughters of Temperance—where arc they? The organized resistance to organized wrong, so efficient in *54-s—what has become of it ? Perished out of the popular heart and therefore perished in form. We say this sorrowfully, yet fully believing that it is in harmony with the established laws of the mor al universe. All past experience so leaches; the signs of the times so teach ; and reason has driven us to this conclusion. Two weeks since wc listen ed to a discourse full of practical wisdom and bear* ing somewhat upon this point. The speaker's locks were heavy with the late frosts of Time, his hand tremulous and his voice earnest with emotion. He spoke ot the Millennial Day as yet in the Future, and in opening op a path to that longed-for time, so many Herculean labors were revealed, blocking that path, that the stoutest heart might well tremble. Ycl the picture was not overdrawn. It was truth stripped of the guise she wears in the poet's dream. Time is made up of innumerable cycles of change* That the world progresses, in the grand average, wc truly believe; but that the man or child now lives who shall see the world so advanced as to be capa ble of sustaining a permanent religious or moral awakening wo do not believe. ' It is time to look the truth in the face. That we have dreamed of a Good Day Coming and fancied we saw the faint streaks of its dawn, wc do not deny ; but that Day streak reaches us through centuries of (i(Q£, per chance. It is not to despair, but to labor and wait* And because we all have thought the very next blow would redeem the world, the enemy has out generated us 9 and thus it happens that Ram has undone in a single day a work which temperance men were ten years in performing. Was the law of '55 enforced by temperance men ? No. Was the law of ’56 en forced ? No. The Legislature gives us stringent laws and we all neglect to sec them enforced ! No, wo have no word of blame for the present Legisla ture. Our villages must again be converted into Pandemoniums, our poor tax doubled and our jail filled to overflowing before Temperance men will awake. There is no help for it. The Destroyer is at our doors ; and men will sit with hands folded until the tears of wives and children flow in rivers* This is the law of the moral universe. All obey it. Temperance men of Tioga, is not this all true 1 The Tick: a R. R. Accident.— We are again un der obligations to Mr- J. Dilustin for a copy of the proceedings had at the Inquest on the body of Mr- Forbes. From it we learn that the disaster cannot be attributed to any defect in the condition of the track, or to carelessness on the part of any parson connected with the train; but, as stated last week, the immediate cause of the accident was three spikes placed on the crowning rail in a sharp curve, not, however, by any malicious person, as presumed last week, but by two thoughtless boys named Sliufclt, living at Osceola and whose testimony wo give in full below. , Mr. Conductor King testifies that the track and engine were in good order, and that the train was running at the rale of about 20 miles an hour. Judge Lyman testifies that he found the do. ceased under the foot board of the engine, his head covered with ashes and the lower part of his body submerged in hot Water. lie thinks the rate of speed was not to exceed 15 miles an hour. Statement of John Shiifcli. —I live in Osceola, Ti oga county. Pa. My brother’s name is Henry. I am going on 12 years old. My brother and myself placed three spikes on the railroad track on Thurs. day last, above Lindley, at the place where the cars ran off. Henry said, “We will see if the cars will “ I kitten them.” Wc put on the rail at the depot a spike similar to the others, but smaller. The point of the spike was turned toward Lawrenccviiic. When the Constable came for me I was under the bed. My brother-in-law, Mr. Brink, told me to hide there. I told my sister what 1 had done and she told me it was wrong to put spikes onthb track. Statement of Henry Shvfell. —I live in Osceola, Tioga county Pa., about II miles from Lindley, I shall be 15 years old next September. I pul spikes on the track on Thursday last at or near the place whore the cars ran off. Nobody told me to put them there. I pul the spikes on the track to see tile cars ilatten them out. The track was on a curve. I got tired of waiting for the cars and went down to the depot and put a spike on the track there. I alsoput some mnd-lurties on the track. I went to the place to see if the spikes were Battened, but could not find them. I felt some lor what I bad donc a whcn I saw how bad the engineer had been hurt. Mr. Superintendent Shalluck states that the cn* gine was in good order and the rails in place. He also states that the boys told him they put the spikes on the track to see them Battened out. The act was evidently without other motive, but the terrible con sequences should be a perpetual warning to all idle boys to put not so much as a gravel-stone on the rails. The testimony was taken before Coroner Hatt, of Corning. Some of the leading city Lecompton papers con tend that the Republican! endorsed the popular sov ereignty doctrine in voting for the Crittenden bill and in so doing concede the whole ground in dis pute, We show the silliness of this dodge in'anoth er place, but a few questions suggest themselves to us which, being treated to tho reply direct,*will pul (he thing to sleep.: First, then, if the Republicans’ cede the entire ground in dispute, in the Crittenden hill, why did the Lecomptonites refuse to concur in (be bill ns it went up to the Senate 7 And why did the' Lecompton members, to a man. vote to reject the Crittenden bill in the House, at its first presentation on the Ist ot April and ptill again only a week later, after its rejection by the Senate 7 If the Crittenden bill concedes ell yon ask, and if you are tired ol “ bleeding Kansas," why, in the name of common sense, don't you concur in that bill? What do you mean? : Lecompton waa defeated in the House by the fol lowing vote : Jfaye, Ye as. Republicans, 92. Democrats, 104 Democrats, 22 Americans,' 8 Americans, G i ll2 These figures speak for themselves. How was Lecompton defeated 7 The Sew Liquor Law. (Passed the House, April ‘id, 1858.) See. 1, repeals so much of Ihe law re lating to brewers’ and distillers’ licences, as fixes the minimum rate of license at $5O. Sec. 2, repeals so much of Ihe law relat ing to applicants for license to sell by the quarl, &c., with merchandize, as fixes the minimum rate of license at 850; and pro vides that stich vendors shall hereafter pay 20 per cent less than now, not lo be less than $25. Sec. 3, divides inns and taverns into eight classes, to pay license ranging from 8400 down to 815 ; provided that no license shall be granted in any city or borough for a less sum than 825. Yearly sales lo be assessed as under the present law. Sec. 4, provides that no eating-house shall be licensed to sell anything but domestic wines, malt and brewed liquors. All appli cants to be rated according to the provisions of an act lo create a sinking fund, and no li cense to be gramled for a less sum than 810. Sec. 5, provides that licensed vendors of wines, malt or brewed liquors, with or with out other wa'res, may sell in any quantity not less than one quart, for one year from dale of their license. Sec. 6, provides that citizens of the United Slates of good moral character} and temper ate habits shall be licensed whenever the re quirements ofthe law shall be complied with by the applicant. The Court or board of li censers to receive other evidence than that presented by (he applicant. Sec. 7, provides that no license to sell li quors shall be transferable ; (hat no bar shall be underlet by the person licensed (o sell thereat. In cases of the death of the party, the Court may grant the successor license. Sec. 8, permits manufacturers of cider and domestic wines to sell by the bottle or by the gallon, not to be drank on the premises.— Bottlers of ale, porter and beer, not engaged in keeping an eating-house or place of amuse ment, tavern or oyster saloon, may also sell under this section. Sec. 9, relates principally to theaters and other places of amusement. Sec. 10, provides that the petitions of ap plicants for license need not embrace the cer tificates of citizens, as now required, nor are such applications to be published as hereto fore ; but are to be filed with the clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, and (he license prayed for to be granted by the County Treasurer; Bond to be approved by the Dis trict Attorney and endorsed by the same and the Treasurer. Sec. H, recites penalties attached to sell ing impure and adulterated liquors; first of fence a fine of not less than 810 nor more 8100 and costs ; second ofience, not less than 825 nor more than 8100 and cosls; and in case of any subsequent conviction the Court may, at Us discretion, sentence ihe offender to an imprisonment not exceeding three months, license to be void and person inca. pacitated from receiving a license for two years thereafter. Sec. 12, provides that no prosecutor or in former shall receive any portion of Ihe fines imposed. Constables to receive two dollars for every case returned and followed by con viction. Sec. 18, provides that no person keeping grocery or other store shall be licensed to sell by h’ss measure than one quart. Constables lo return all offenders. Sec’s. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 19, 20, 21, re late to the cities of Philadelphia and Carbon dale and to Allegheny county. Sec. 22 repeals all acis or parts of acts conflicting with or supplied by Ihe provisions of ibis act. No license granied under, the law of 1856 to be invalidated by this. Sec. 23, provides that licenses may be granted under this act at the first term of the proper Court after its passage, or -at any special or adjourned Court held within three months hereafter. Williamsport, April 7, 1856. — A very destructive, fire broke out about half-past three this morning, which entirely consumed the large brick building of Ralph Elliott, occupied as store rooms by J. H. Fulmer and E. V. V. Higgins. A house of R. Paries, occupied by H. Connell was also consumed. Elliott’s loss is estimated at 814,000, of which 85,000 is covered by insurance. Ful mer’s loss 818,000, insured for 813,000. Higgins, loss four lo 85000. Faries’ loss 81000. The property of Updegraff & Win egarden and of Jacobs was saved by the utmost exertions. Joseph Wondefly and George Gold, who slept over the store, barely escaped—they were taken out by means of a ladder. Fulmer’s store was the largest in the town. The whole loss is estimated at 840,000 of which over one-half is covered by insurance. There are suspicions that the fire was caused intentionally. Williamsport, April 8,1858. — A .young man by the name of Henry Bitzey was burned lo death in a boat which took fire, last night, at Monloursville. He had been asleep in the cabin, and his body, was burned to a crisp. Out of the 700,000 Jews in (he Uniled States, only one is registered in Iho census as a farmer. -This is interpreted as one of the evidences of the singular isolation of the Jews, as prophesied in Amos ix, 9—“ For, 10, 1 will command, and will sift the house of Israel among all nations; like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall nut the least grain fall upon the eanb.” eommunicattonff. Teacher*’ Wage*. Mr. Editor ; Not long since I saw in your paper an article on the- “pexualization of teachers’ wages,” and ihe authoress com plained bitterly that such was ihe slate of things in this couniy. .Bui there are good and equitable reasons for this; seeming dis parity in leacbers’ wages. Quid pro quo, is a maxim the justice of which! none deny ; and from this point I would reason. 1 would ask, what has been the education of the fe male for the-last fifty years?] What-is the programme of studies narked out for her in all our academies and high schools ? Is it not made up of those branched which come under the head of ornamental? Is she re quired to pursue the mazy labyrinths of math ematics, and comprehend their; profound cal culations ? or, is she asked’ to thread the winding way of philosophy and ot metaphys ics ? Seldom, or never ! In j mental as in physical labor, the lighter and Jeasier portion only has been given her to perform. Again, quid pro quo : Can Ihe farmer afford to pay as much for the neatly embroidered spread that covers his table as for jtlje plough that loads that table with the necessaries of life ? Not by any means! Can Ihq parent afford lo pay for that instruction which adorns, and renders his son inert and effeminate, as for that which awakens him lo the stern realities of life, and makes him powerful lo do bailie with a heartless and unfeeling; world ? As has been the education pf the teacher, so will be his ability to teach. Mark, Ido □ol argue that woman is unable to under stand the more profound sciences; but Ido sov she has not acquainted herself with them. We have a Newton, but where is ihe Newto na ? There is none! Again/ there is a spir it abroad in our country,- denominated— “young America,” which all |( Bdmit should be subdued. Does woman seek] the' schools in which this spirit eminently abounds? No! she turns them over lo her brother —him of the “sterner sex;” for she fears that all her boasted powers of kindness will fail, and Ihe rebellious scholar be more rebellious still.— Cnee more ; in the winter season (the sea.son in which our schools are jullesl) it is,too much for woman to wade through snow and slush, and to buffet the storm king in his fu rious northern blast, for the distance of from one lo two miles and prepare her house for the teception of her scholars by nine o’clock in the morning. She can npt endure it, nor do we ask it of her; but is it not a deduction from her wages ? We think jit is. Will some sister teacher enlighten us?l A Male Teacher. j j For the Agitator. A Good Suggestion to farmers. Friend Cobb ; As I hedrd no little com plaint about cows shrinking their milk when the feed began lo gel dry, last season, I tho’t it might not be out of placebo tell my broth er farmers a bit of my in growing corn fodder. ;[' I took half an acre of sward ground, turn ed it down and prepared iitfin the same way we prepare ground for a jerop of corn, i then marked it in drills thirty inches apart and sowed fifteen or twenijl grains of corn to the foot, along these drills.! It came up fine ly. I ran the plow twice to the row and dressed it a little with (he hoe to keep the weeds and grass under. In ibis way I got a very heavy crop of fodder! Now for the result of my experiment: 1 had eleven cows. Thejk? began lo shrink their milk in the last days of July, so that my cheese fell off about Jiia: lbs. in weight per day. 1 then began lo cut and feed the eleven cows two good armfuls of the green corn fodder once a day. In a very few days the shrinkage was entirely overcome and the cheese was brought up to its full weight in the best of the season and held there two months. Thus, I got six lbs. of cheese per day from two armfuls of corn fodder, which at ten cents per pound amounts to 60 cents per day for 60 days, which gives a total of $36 00. This, I think' is a sum worth sav ing, I had much morelcltrn than my cows could eat, and, as considerable of it eared, found it very profitable to feed to my hogs. I calculate that my cheese would have fallen | off ten lbs., at least, but for this fodder. In | my opinion, one half acre of sowed or drilled corn is worth more than six acres of the very best pasture. T j I give these facts for the consideration of my brother farmers, and; assure them that should they act upon jlhjese blots they will never have cause to regret the experiment. Delmar, April 1823. M Wm. Fbancis. - [Note. —We print the above communica-! lion from Mr. Francis wfth great pleasure.— Mr. F. is well known- in; this community as a candid, thorough-going man, and his testi mony is entitled to great weight. U'e can but think the hints be throws outare very val uable, and if acted upon|the coming season, we shall be able to present the testimony of many others in behalf lof the profits of corn fodder lo dairymen. Oiir columns are open to any and all farraers|who may have a woid to give their brother farmers; and we hope they will not withold any facts touching the different modes of treating their lands in the production of the’{various crops.— Ed. As itafor.] j [ * What Does it Mean?— The Freeman's Journal , of New York, the organ of Arch bishop Hughes, whicli v|armly advocated Mr. Buchanan’s pleclion, indicates that It is turn ing away from the President. It says, at any rate, as follows :■ j “We at the North; vyho-believe in all the great ideas—both njiemories and hopes— which cluster around (he Union, rejoiced in the success, not of Wines, nor of persons, but of principles, as nobly established in the iriumph of James Bu'chanan ; we had no misgivings of his fidelity to the doctrines which bis election emhjodied. But the Pres ident has disappointed the hopes of his friends. He has gone over to his enemies— he has rent the Democratic parly in twain. Extremes have met, and the Administration steering wildly, has missed Scylla and dashed upon Charybdis. We defeated the sectional candidate, but we are bursed with a sectional Administration—the first in our history. It is encouraging to remember that it was not a sectional Administration (hat was elected.'' Rockawav, L.T.—Thr revival which hu been for soma time in progress, has had SUt t an influence upon the community that th er , are not more than half a dozen adult in the place who have not become member of churches. Among those who have beej recently converted are 300 fishermen. ' In Rutland, Vi,, one hundred persona hj,, professed • religion in the Rev. Dr. Aiken’, church, and, at the close of a recent meg, ing, from sixty to seventy inquirers for special religious conversation and pra» r The Southern Presbyterian stales tlj/t S J the second daily Union prayer meeting hejj in Charleston, S. C., the large Circular Church was filled. for the Agitator. The St. Louis Presbyterian speaks crowded meetings of a similar chancier ig that city. In New-Lebanon, Ind.,the greater part of the students of the Male and Female Acade. my have been converted. In JacksonuiUj there have been two hundred conversions. In connection with one church in lowa, a hundred conversions are reported. The revival in Cleveland, Ohio, .continue, with unabated enthusiasm. Something hh a thousand persons, of both sexes and all ages, have been converted within the p®. few weeks. j. In the Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio,l the daughter of the Holyoke Seminary, fonjl young ladies have recently professed conrerl sion. When the term closed, last stsk.f more than two-thirds of all who comments* the year non-professors, left rejoicing •>' Christian hope. Revivals are in progress very general!- throughout Wisconsin, and particularly in V Methodist Churches. One of the. pastors of Hartford, Con; says that within the last four or five weeb more than one thousand persons have calls on him to converse on the subject of religioj 1 This reminds one of Whitfield's wcel London, when he received a thousand lean from persons anxious about their souls. In Haverhill, Mass., the daily pray*, meeting crowds one of the churches. profound has been the impression of in spirit, that in some instances half the asj® bly have been observed silently weepup Some of the most hardened men in the pin have been recently renewed. One of & pastors recently, went the rounds of his pr. : ish, and found not a single house in wtaf there were not either inquiring souls or it|~ lievers wrought to the inteosest solicitude M the irreligious. A gentleman from Ohio lately slated, tit by adding his personal observations to ilh of a friend, he could say, that from Oua City, Nebraska, to Washington, there mi: line of prayer-meetings along the cii length of the road; so that whenever Christian traveler stopped to spend the era ing, he could find a crowded prayer-roeer across the entire breadth of our vast Sf public. | A- Sensible Bill. —The following hi bill to commute the death penalty, tepcrs to the Pennsylvania House of Represent lives, from the Judiciary Committee. I; thought it will pass both Houses of the !« islature : Section 1. Be it enacted A lot of land in Rutland township* w • follows: Beginning at a Beech tree a l .* corner in the north boundary of the on. rant from the Commonwealth of Fcnosj Barbara Vaughn, No. 285, thence south east, one hundred and three perches to * P thence north 60| degrees cast, eighty- *7 to a sugar tree corner, thence north 2? one hundred and three and a half corner in the warrant line aforesaid* 60J degrees west along the warrant three perches to the place of begin 53 4-10 adres more or less, with ah°“ proved, frame house and barn and 0 ings and an apple orchard thereon, the property of James Phalen with W. Guernsey terro tenant. micnS,-' JOHN MATU eb ’ Wcllshoro, April 15,1855. fhe Revival. •rt %