if r -«f T t if I ~ "I.[Complied lurThe Agitator,] . I; 1/. With this number we shall dismiss the prooo •itidn that Education dissipates the Evils of |y <noranee. ■ ■ ■ J i The Moon and the Weather furnish a subject Cfmncb comment and speculation. Dr. La#d ner, the celebrated-English philosopher and As tronomer, in answer to the question, “ Does tpe .yooOn influence the {weather 7” says: “It is as sprted—first, that afthe epochs of new and fall moon,'and at the quarters, there is generally?.a «change of weather 1 .; and, secondly, that tfie "phases of the moon, or in other words, the r|l ' ative position, of. the tnoon and sun in regard tq. the earth, isths cause of these obanges.-f - Now these, and kindred opinions are very ex tensively .held in.this country. By reference ko meteorological, tables, constructed in various countries, after themost careful and extensile .observation, the result is that no correspondence exists between the condition of the weather aid the phases of the moon. After a full examina tion, we come to (be'donclosion that the condi iipn of theuealker as to change, or in any otner respect, has, as a matter of fact, no - correspon dence whatever rcith the lunar phases.” [ Iri another leoturp on the moon and wealbeir, Dr.' Lardner expresses the following decisive opinion : “ From all that has been stated, |it follows then, conclusively, that the popular na tion* concerning the influence of the. lunar pha ses on the weather, {have no foundation in theo ry, and no correspondence with observed facte 1” And such is. the bnjfoTm testimony of the best informed on this si&ject. ' I Other absurd notions, are entertained with re spect to the influence of the moon. The opin ion is entertained byjnady that timber should be felled only during;the decline pf the moon!; for if it be out down during its increase, it will not be of a good or durable quality. This im pression prevails ,i)ji various countries. It |s acted upon in England, and is made the grout|} of legislation in France. The forest laws if the latter country interdict the cutting of tim ber during, the increase of the moon. In the extensive forests in Germany, the same opinioh is entsrtained' and acted upon with the mo|t tmdoubting oonfidedee in its truth. j M. Duhamel Moi|ceao t a celebrated Frenr agriculturist, baa made direct and positive e: periments for the purpose of testing this ques tion, and has clearly land conclusively showp that the qualities of -timber- felled in differera parti of the lunar ,' mjdnth, are -the same. He felled a great many! I trees of the same ag|, growing from the same soil, and exposed to thfe same aspect, and neybr found any difference in the quality of the timber, when be compares those which wereffellfed in the decline of the noon with those i rhjph were felled during its iacreaie; in genefaßthey have afforded tins bir ol the same ideality.' Popular opinion has bean, in this rsspiot, Igreatly at fault. j It.is an aphorism received by all gardeners and agriculturists! in' Europe, that vegetables! plants, and trees, yhiph are expected to flouij-' isb and grow with tpgor, should be planted| grafted, and pruned dhring the increase of the moon. This opinion, 1 la altogether erroneous); for the experiments npd observations of several! -French agriculturists) have “dearly established the fact that the increase or decrease of the moon, has no appreciable influence on the phe nomena of Vegetation, This erroneous preju dice prevails on this; continent. ' Some- plank vegetables in the ,decline of the moon whose roots, are used as food, and on the- contrary, they plant daring the increasing moon the sugar cane, maize, rice, beans, etc., and thoete wh|ab bear the foopi upon their stocks anil ’Experiraerjta, however, were made and reported by 51. de Chauvalon, at Martini que, on vegetables jof both kinds, planted at different times llunar month, and no ap preciable jin; their qualities was dis covered. “ Truly/'i says the celebrated M. Arago, “ we have nesd of a robust faith to ad mit, ’without proof, that the moon, at the dis tance of two hund and forty thousand milef, shall, in one position, not advantageously upoh the vegetation of hearts, and that in the oppo site position, and At the same distance!, she shall be propitious toUniils.’’ Dr. Lardner goes into a minute and detailed discussion of the surf posed influence of the moon on the growth dp grain, on wine-mkkijig, on the color of the complexion, on on the sire of sheli fi«h, on the number ipf births, on mental de| rangement, and litfqr human mollies, anl shows forcibly thtlrtftter want of, foundation- The influence oil the phenomena of humal maladies imputed to:||the moon is very ancient Hippocrates bail ?o||strong a fakh in the infli ence of celestialj)tij( cts upon animated beingi that he expresslyre fl’o physician t be .trusted, wbo.ls ignorant of astronomy.— Qalep, following'Hippocrates, maintained thi same opinion, espeoihlly of the influence of the noon. The critical flays, or crises, were the ’ eerentb, fourteenth, and twenty-first of the dis-j | sais, corresponding !tb the intervale between! the'moon’s principal r |phases,. While the doc| trine of alchemist* prevailed, the human body was considered as|a michrocosra, or an epitoma of the universe, tbf hjihrt representing the sun] and the brain, the jaioon. The planets bam each his proper influence: Jupiter presided!, over the lungs,, Saturn over the spleen, Venusji over the kidneys.j&cl' ' The term lunacy 'whiohj still designates uilsoubiness of mind, is a relief of thosejgrotesqneJ dotiont, and is a species ofi insanity or madnessJlformerly supposed to bet influenced by the; moon, or, periodical in the| month. But thisi tqfm may now be said, in some degree, to lie banished "ifrom the nomen clature of medicine'; it bqt however, taken refuge, in Ithat receptacle of'all ab surdities of phraseology —the Jaw—lunatic still being ilia term for,|hp<ubjectwho is incapable of managing his offrnj affairs. _ Sanctorums, wrose name is celebrated in physic* for the invention of the thermometer, held it as a prinoipl#|hat a healthy man gained two pounds weight at the beginning of every lunar month,-which be] lost towards, its eomple- ■ tion. This opinion appears to have been foun ded on experiments, [made upon himself, and affords another instance of a fortuitous coinci dence hastily generalised. For all the progress that has been made in this country toward t|he removal, from the pop ular mind, of theij numerous'corrupting and debasing absurdities' .which have hitherto! en slaved it, we are indebted to our enlightened and chastened systems of popular education; and to these, and ti these only, may we confi dently look for entire-freedom from the thral-! tjom, H. C. Johss. [| Tbs Southern Congress has confirmed Presi dent Paris’ Cabinet appointments as foVgw's i - Secret »»y of State 1 ....,;.., -...Mr. Toomb'i, of Georgia. Secretary of Treasury Mr. Kemminger, 8. C: Secretary of W«..„.......-..Mr.L. S. Walker, of Ala.; The Congress on Thursday last, drafted a resolution directing th’e finance Committee to inquire into the expediency of aa M- j port da*jon i 6 " _' . ij 1 : j 1 5 1 • ■ I 1 • ■ I . • } I M ■ , ■ * ti J 5 4 t I * THE AGITATO HUGH YOUNG, EDITOR A; PROPRIETOR. WEIUSBOnOCGS, PA., . WEDNESDAY {MORNING, FEB. 27, tST Every step of Mn Lincoln's prog reps, from Springfield iup to the borders of Maryland, has been nttendod with the wildest enthusiasm. At every'etationj crowds have greeted hi|n as statesman was! never greeted* before. Hi ar rived safely at Washington ot Saturday morn; ing last. Instead of stopping kt.Ba)timore and accepting of a re teption offered him by the city authorities and the patriotic citizens, Mr. Lin coln passed thro jgh that - ciiyiineognito. The reason for this jet range proceeding iscxplnlncd from the fact that a messenger had called on Mr. Lincoln, at Harrisburg, on Thursday ragbt after be had rallied, and Convinced him tint a plot had been formed at [Baltimore to.ass|ssi nate him, and that the conspirators had teen sworn to never let him leave' that city a ive. Mr. Lincoln held intendec leaving Harris! urg at 9 o’clock Friday roort ing by special tain and peach Baltimore at 1 o’clock Saturday, but by the change jof plans he reached the tatter city nt 8 o’clock and wmt direct to Wash ington, | THE. DISEASE AND ITS CAEBEE There ii a cool audacity in the arrogant] mand that the North shall giveaddiilonal gt antics for the security and protection of siavi which is, to say the least, quite amusing. ' slave States have, under the Constitution s is, the undisputed-right to manage and con their slaves in their own | States just as t please, and a guaranty for their return if t escape into a free State. ! In addition to they have through their negro represents! an unequal advantage in] the federal govs mgnt, equal at this time about twenty*] members in Congress. ! . Now surely these guaranties, if they j ‘faithfully observed, ought jo satisfy them ; a if they are not! faithfully observed what gJ would additional guaranties do ? Would t| secure a more faithful observance of the 0 stitution ? We don’t thinh they would. | If the complaint of the Soutb;be founded on the character of the Northern, people—their bad.faith in the observance of their duty under the present constitution and not -on any defects of the constitution itself—then the rernedyjfor the evil is not to be sought through amand' ments to that instrument, hut art entire sapijra tion from a people who have been faithless to their obligations, by secession or revolution! Has the North been unfaithful in her. obser vance of the Constitution |n reference to Slave ry? Let the history of the past] answer, j The first serious struggle on this subjectlbe. tween the North and the South‘was in 1920, upon the admission of Missourijnto the Un|m, This controversy was amicably adjusted by: the Missouri Compromise. Did the North observe this compromise ? That she,didis fully pro red by the concurring testimony of President I i lk in his message accompanying his approve of the Oregon Bill; and of Messrs. Clay. C iss, and Douglas, in their speeches of 1848, 1350 and 1854 respectively. The nextconthlversy on this subject betw sen the two sections commenced in 1848 and ■ ?as amicably adjusted in 18501 by the Compromise measures of that year. Htis the North übser red that compromise ? It is well known that bjtb of the then great political [parties adopted il the basis of their party organization, and t the great mass of the people everywhere b North and South acquiesced in it as a final i tlement of the slavery question, and that urn its influence the country was, quiet enough four years ■ Id 1854 slavery agitation was re-opened the repeal of the Missouri jCompromiee for purpose of converting territory consecrate! Freedom into slave territory. Was this No! ern or Southern aggressionif To this quest there can be but one answer. It was an act aggression on the part of ijhe South to wr from the North a fight accorded to her I>4 a sacred which in the language {of Senator Douglas if as in iti sacredness “aßn to the Constitution!.” | To resist this aggression I he Republican par ty was organized. Its object and purpefee were and are defensive and not aggres sive. It does net propose to disturb tlie adjustment of 18S0, but t does propose fto leave the status o' our territories precisely as it was fixed by that adjustment. It defe* not propose to repeal or eve n to modify the fu gitive slave law, repulsive ni that infamous b|w is. Its mission is simply to resist the effort in augurated by the Democratic party to spreld and extend slavery by the action of the fedeml government. : i . I Why then this great excitement in tbo South against the North ? _< i f It is simply men, in orderly accomplish their Ibng cherished and treasona ble schemes to break up -find destroy the bast government ever devised by'the wisest of meo, have systematically and persistently, misrepre sented the principles and purposes of the Re publican party. The masses of;the Southern people have been made to helievf such lies sis Mr. Toombs pnt into bis Georg)a manifesto. “The Republican party,” says Mr. Toombs In that manifesto, “raised their standard in ISqd and were barely defeated. They entered the Presidential contest .again in 1860 and atm oeeded. The prohibition of slavery in the ter ritories, hostility to it everywhere, the equably of the white and black' races, disregard of till constitutional guarantees in its favor were bolji, ly proclaimed by its leaders and Applauded liy it# with these principles on their banner, and these utterance# on,their lips, the myority of the people of tbjs demand that we’ shall peeeirs th«m a* W tiflett/i I , THE. TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. - j I it is by such' infernal lies 'as thess, that the ■* i honest men of the South have been hurried into rebellion. It is because ‘the. Democratic pr s sea of the .North hare insidiously if not -as flagrantly misrepresented us and our principles, that they persist in such rebellion. And we : have the humiliating spectacle of a convention j of the remnants of the Democratic party meet ing at Harrisburg the other day, and gravely resolving, that the Republican party is to he blamed for secession ; resolving that they sym pathize with traitors, and- that the Union can on’y be le-oonatrueted .on Democratic panel p.esl ' \ - ' , God save the Commonwealth I i I —Haring'thug glanced at the disease, its causes and its history, we shall next week try to show the remedy. 1 Now-a-dsys every man hia his peculiar patent panacea for saving the Union ; why .then should we not present onrs? I We owe an apology to oar readers for re-bash-' ing so much; history jTamiliar to their ears as hlnnsehold words ; hut in these days of conces- slon and conciliation and comjpromise, we be lieve that it is only nelcessary to do this to re ihind all godd citizens of the duty which they ojwe to "themselves, to freedom and to their country. We believe that no man whose heart and mind approves Republicanism as interpre ted in the Chicago Platform oanjread the histo ry of the hist ten or twelve years without feel ing measurably strengthened in his laith. PBOM WASHINGTON. Summary of the News of the Week. [Specially for The Agitator.] The Peace Confess i yesterday voted down the proposition in favorj of half hour speeches. The debateon the various plhnspf adjustment was then continued. It is thought'the Con gress will vote on the subject before them on Saturday, and it is predicted that the Guthrie plan will be rejected, and that a {call fi}r a na tional convention will bp agreed to. ,f In Congress yesterday the Senate p issed seve ral private • bills. The House bill authorized this discontinuance of the.mails in States where the postal service is liable to be interfered with, was taken up. An amendment was offered, that the Postmaster General be directed to dis continue the mail service in the seceded States, and make arrangements with the government of the Southern Confederacy .for inter-postal communication therein. Without taking ac tion on the subject the bill was laid aside,-and the discussion of the Tariff bill was resumed.— The amendment reducing the duty on sugar, and placing a duty on tea and coffee, was agreed to, the tax to continue for two years.— A five per cent duty on wool was also agreed to. Several other ammendments were adopted, and the bill was passed by a vote of 25 to 14. In the House yesterday Mr. Uncock, of Vir ginia, occupied the. morning hour in an elabo rate speech in opposition to the bill empowering the President to call out the military forces of the country and accept the service of volunteers. He characterized the hill as a declaration of war against the seceded States. The Naval bill wits taken up, the question being on agree ing to the Senate’s amendment providing for the construction of seven steam sloops-of-war.— THVamendment was agreed to by a vote of 111 to 38. In the evening session Mr. Ruffin, of North Carolina, made a speech in favor of se cession. In the course of bis remarks he spoke of Mr. Buchanan as »• driveller, am} Gen. Scott as guilty of usurpation. Friday, 22d. —The Peace Congress was en gaged yesterday in debate. A vote will, it is understood, he taken at one o’clock to-day on the Guthrie adjustment, and should it be defea ted the proposition . for a National Convention will next he voted on. ■•Jf i ey his In Congress yesterday, the Senate resumed the consideration of the bill providing fur the discontinuance of the postal service in the se ceded Suites. The Miscellaneous Appropria tion bill was also discussed. In executive ses sion a largo number of rippoinlments were con firmed, principally army and navy officers.— In the House a report from the special com mittee censuring the Secretary of the Navy for deception the resignations of naval officers belonging to seceded States, was presented.— Mr. Bocook resumed and concluded bis speech on thrf Force bill, and the debate bn the subject was cpntinued till the expiration of the morn ing hour. The Washington and Oragon War Debt bill was also discussed. hrtt bth et- Dtl (St Saturday, 23 d. —The Peace Congress yester day were engaged n portion nf the day in de bating the application for admission of a dele gate from Kansas. The subject was referred to the Committee on Credentials- The Congress commenced voting on the various propositions befo'fe it yesterday, and the Crittenden plan was “rejected, and it is not unlikely that the Guthrie plan will share the same fate. The republican C"mmissioners appear resolved to agree to nothing but a call for a National Con vention, and it is not certain that they are har monious on that point. In Congress yesterday the Senate discussed the ammendment to the JP.wt Route hill pmri ding for the overland mail service; and the bill m iking appropriations for the suppress!,,n of Indian hostility in California. The Mlscella nious Appropriation hill was taken up, and Mr. Gwin renewed the proposition to carry out the contract respecting the Chiriqui Isthmus, hut no action was taken on it. The House was not in session. Mr. Van Wyck, member of Congress from N“,w York, was assulted nn Thursday night in Washington by three persons to him unknown, lie was wounded with a heavy knife, and while desperately resisting,, was knocked down. Re covering himself somewhat, he discharged his pistol at hi« assailants, and believes the shot tookinffect upon one of them. The party then retreated. Mr. Van Wyok reached his hotel in a weak, hot not dangerous condition. Mr- Hamlin, the Vice President, reached Washington yesterday. “ The ' Uniqn, the Constitution as it is, and ins Enforcement op all tbe Laws.”— This is the of the people, of? the Old Guard. Yesterday a petition twenty-five feet in length, containing the-names of over one thousand good and true men in Lancaster county, was forwarded to Hon. Thaddeus Ste vens for presentation to Congress. Mure peti tions are coming in, and will be forwarded in a. few days.— LanaXtlir Union, 20 th. - The Legislature' of Kansas -has postponed the election of two United States Senators until April. WismsGTOs, Feb. 21, 1861 PBOM HABBISBUBO. SpccUl.Correapondence of. The Agitatir. : lUitniSßtmG, Eeb. 18, 1861/ , Of course you will excuse my absence from vour" columns last week, because you couldn’t .help.it. . Neither could L . Xt ia-vcry hard to write what is going on in a place if you happen to he absent and do nof know. I saw Old Abe and his new whiskers at Pittsburg, heard his speech so ridiculously murdered by the tele graph, and now jrou .must not wonder if my ideas are somewhat obfuscated. The two groat measures before the Legisla ture of .which mention- has heretofore been made in this correspondence, have finally.pnssed. the House. I gave you yrytfornier letter a full summary of the prCvisionSTCf the Sunbury and Erie Bill from which, your readers could form a correct opinion of its merits, or rather its de merits. I now propose tc-’enlighlen you in re gard to the Bill for the repeal of the Tonnage Tax. When the Pennsylvania Rail Road bought the public works three or four years ng<v for $8,500,000, there was a kind of. implied under standing that they, should | be released from the further payment of the Tonnage Tax. This, tax was originally levied by law for the benefit of the counties —Tioga among the rest—through which the road did notpass, and which the mad could in nowise benefit It is needless to saylhat atax thus impos-ed upon a giant mo nopoly was as just as any! tax upon any corpo ration of like magnitude, land as just ns a tax upon'the stocks of hanks or other bodies corpo rate. It seems that the Supreme Court ruled the sale of the public works to the Pennsylva nia Railroad (with such ah understanding, for §8,500,000)* invalid, and | decided that they might buy the works for $7,500,000 and con tinue to pay the Tonnage; tax. The Road ac cepted this decision, paidlapart of the laxes arid refused to pay any imore, and took the matter again into the Courts where it still re mains undecided. It is quite significant, I think, that the Company should come before f,he Legislature pending this litigation, and ask for a compromise under the euphonious title of a “Bill for the ‘Commutation’ of the Tonnage Tax, Ac." The argumenthised to support this hill was, that if the Courts refused to decide the Tonnage tax legal, then the State would re ceive nothing at all; a very nice argument in deed, as the Courts were, in my opinion, sure to decide just the other way. The Bill which has just passed provides- for the payment of the sum of $400,000 annually into the Treasu ry of the Slate until the principal due on the purchase money is all,liquidated, which will he about the year 1890. A very handsome fight occurred on the passage of the ,BiII, (or rather Bills, for ns I said in my last the one was made to carry the other) by a small, honest, and.de termined minority, against a large and confi dent majority. In this connection I will men tion two very significant facts: first, that the minority on both hills numbered the members from the most Republican parts of the State; and, second, that, the majority vote on both bills was about the same. You may make whatever inference you please from these facta. It is quite possible that in passing through the Senate they may be so amen ded os to Be less objectionable*than they now tire. I sincerely hope that they will accom plish all the good that their friends claim fur them. We are anticipating a “ big time” here next Friday. The Railroads have issued excursion tickets at half-price, and preparations are being made to receive a large crowd. Besides the birth-day ceremonies in honor oi Washington, spoken of in my last but one, there will he the special attraction on that day of a visit from the President elect. He is to leave Philadel phia at 9 o’clock on Friday and get here at 1 v. h. the same day; is to be present.at the ceremonies aforesaid, and will start for Balti more and Washington, the morning after. I will try and give you a full description of the event which we are all looking forward to with so much pleasure. I see that he has been kiss ing the girl who suggested his whiskers. Un less she was exceedingly plain, he hail altogether the best of the bargain. If Old Abe is a judge cf beauty, (and I’m sure such a homely man ns he is, ought to he) then our Harrisburg belles will make him wonder, or else I have lost my judgment. ‘ c . Snodgrass. THE CENSUS OP 1800. Mr. Kennedy, Commissioner of the Census Bureau, has made up the following interesting table of the returns of the Census of 1860: STATES. FREE. SLATE. TOTAL. Maine.,.. 619.658 619,958 N. Hampshire... 326.072 326.072 Vermont 315,827 315*.827 Massachusetts ..1,231,494 1,231.494 Rhode Island... 174.621 174,621 Connecticut 460,670 460,670 New York 3,851.563 3,851.563 New Jersey 676,034 676.034 Pennsylvania...2,9l6,olB ' 2,916.018 Delaware 110.548 : 1,805 112,383 Maryland 646.183 |85,382 731.565 Virginia 1.097.373 495 826 1.593,199 N. C irolina 679.965 328.377 1,008.342 S. Carolina 308 186 4,47.185 715.371 Georgia 615.336 467,461 1,082.797 Florida 81,885 63.809 145,694 Alabama 520.444 435.473 955.917 Mississippi 407.551 479.607 887.158 Louisiana 354.245 3*2,186 . 666,431 Arkansas 331,710 ,108,065 440.775 Texas 415.999 184.956 600,955 Tennessee 859,528 287.112 1,146.640 Kentucky.-. 920,077 ' 225,490 1.145;567 Ohio 2.377:317 ' 2,377,917 Indiana 1.350.802 1.350,802 Illinois 1.691,238 1 691.238 Missouri 1.085.590 115,619 1,201,209 Michigan 754,291 t , 754.291 Wisconsin 763,485 763,485 Io«a 582.002 682.202 Minnesota 172.793 172,793 o'regnn 52.566 52.566 California 384.770 384,770 1 Total 27,241,791 3.999,353 31,241,144 TERRITORIES. Kansas 143,645 Nebraska . 28.893 N ew Mexico 92.034 Utah.... 50.000 Dakotah... 4,839 Washington 11.624 District of Columbia...... 75,821 486.346 Total ..ISecretary Dix, on receving letters of res ignation from revenue officers,!refuses to accept them, but addresses them: fetters dismissing them from service. This course of Secretary Dix is not relished by these gallant of ficers.— Some of them merit a summary introduction to the yard-arm. So says tbe Albany■Jbwtial. . FROM TBS PflOPtE.' , Mansflqld Classical Seminary. 'To thl.Erlilor of 'The Agitator; ' PermiLme through your columnato draw the ' attention of thfe friends of education of this i county to the nbove named Seminary.""" 1 - The institution is, from this* time henceforth, to be a fixed fact, a powerful institution for good, in the hands of skillful arid experienced educators, to mould- the minds of the.youth of Northern Pennsylvania. The founders of this , great educational, enterprise, and those who have, labored long and hard, under adverse cir i cu instances, have their eyes fixed upnn a dity , but a few, shorx.monlhs.distanVKhenllhesxon fidently expect! to realize theironca almost Utopian dreams and reap a rich reward for all their labors. I Again the sopnd of the hammer, .and the saw is beard to resound through its spacious and numerous apartments, which is not to cense till the finishing blow is struck. When this js done there is no institution of -learning in all Northern Pennsylvania, that can afford 'as good accommodations for students as this. The rooms are large, and tasteful ly and substantially finished. One third of the building is finished for the, accommodation of students in which there is now a school in successful operation; another third, including the large chapel; capable of bolding 800 per sons, and the primary room capable of accom modating seventy-five pupils, will be completed before the opening of the spring term. We shall thus be able to accommodate to their en tire satisfaction all who may present tharaselves as students. With these considerations, to gether with the ktill more important f»ut that thri present Faculty, with Prof. Wiidman at its head, is to continue in the school, I commend the M msfield Seminary to all who are anxious to. get “value received’’ for; them time and money spent at school, with the greatest confi dence that none go home disappointed. The trustees regard themselves particularly fortunate in securing the services of Prof. Wiidman at a time when the Seminary so mu<’h needs a principal who possesses in an eminent degree those powers that are his peculiar char acteristics, viz., eriergy, perseverence, and ex perience. - 1 ; 1 Prof. Wiidmanihas been a successful teacher for several years. His faculty to please, his easy familiarity jwith his pupils, and to still posse-s the power to impress them with a supe riority, and his aptness to instruct,-place him among the first educatorsof the State. He has already implanted himself in the affections V/f the people of Mansfield, and they will deem themselves fortunate if theyshall be able to retain him for a series of years. The other members of the Faculty give en tire satisfaction, and I would particularly com mend the music department to all who desire a thorough training in that branch. lam con.- fident no better instructions can bo bad in branch in this county. We hope and to see Mansfield Seminary, with its present su perior and increasing advantages, well patron ized by the peoplfe of this and the adjoining counties. R. A. Drake. ' THE NEW EEPEE3ENTATION IN CONQEESS. We publish the! census of 1860 in another part of this paper r The ratio of representa tion is 127,216. This will give the several States of the Uni<iri the following number of representatives in Congress : ’ 37th 38th States Congress! Congress Loss , Gain Maine... J. 6 J 5 1 New Hampshire....!. 3 3 Vermont ; 3 3 M issaehusetls 10 1 Rhode 151 and..,..,,!. 2 11 Connecticut ;. 4 4 New York ;...,|,33 80 3 New Jersey i. 5 5 Pennsylvania ..25 23- 2 Delaware ;. 1 1 Maryland !. 6 6 Virginia i,13 11 2 North Carolina ~ 8 7 1 South Carolina j. 6 4 2 Georgia j. 8 7 1 Florida j. 1 : 1 Alabama....;, 7 6 1 Missia'sippi 5 5 Lmisiana -4 4 Arkansas 2 3 1 Texas 2 4 2 Tennessee 10 ‘ 8 2 Kentucky 10 '8 2" 0hi0....- -...'....21 19 2 Indiana.....'. 11 11 Illinois 9 13 4 Missouri ....... 7 19. 2 Michigan 4 6 ’ ‘ 2 Wisconsin 3 6 3 Liwa 2 5 3 Minnesota. ..... 1 T j Oregon 1 '1 -! California 2 3" '1 Kansas . ...... 1 1 ■ Total ...... .238 234 22 • 18 Thin it will he seen that thei Slave States will hive lot Elyhfyfouv Members in the .House, while the Free States will have One Hundred and Etfiy-nine —a majority of seventy-five. A Printer Driven from Arkansas.— A young man hy the name of Cressey, son of Dr. Cressey, until recently a resident of Michigan, but now living in Maine, was; requests 1 by the Vigilence C immittee of Little Rock, Atk., to leave the town and the State, for having express ed [the opinion, .in answer to: a question, that *’ the Secessionists were a pack. of tools.”— Every journeyman anil boy irtthe office where he was at work was of the sahio opinion ; bnt ,a< he was a Yankee he hud to march. He gives his employer credit for having paid him up in full ; and was able to get through without mo lestation. It was a relief to .him, however, when he found himself in a free State, as he knew of several Northern lumbermen having been hung for no greater offence than he had committed. In on case tbe only charge'against the unfortunate victim was!' that a Lincoln medal-was found in hiavalise. - ...Quiet nn amusing episode! occurred in the trip of the President elect between Cleveland and Buffalo, At Northeast station Mr. Lincoln took occasion to state that during the campaign he had' reoived a letterfrom a young girl of this place; in which he was kindly admonished to dq. certain things, and-among others to let his whiskers grow, and that, as he had acted upon that piece of advice, he would jnow be glad to welcome his fair correspondent, if she was am jng the crowd. In response to the call a lassie made her way through the crowd, was helped on the platform, and kissed by the President^ , MISCSIiLANEOtrS Trjjyg ...A yonhg/Wan, who, two years a t. o ifftd $70,000. is now posting bills at Chj Highly talented,.and a first class acco, roni has rutnfed him. ..,The|valiiB of foreign exports at ft. Charleston, S, C., in 1859 wag $3O - fell to $900,000 ; secession wi|J it this year to nothing. ...Prentice says : The Secession p* not possibly geti along in unity. It be like the ragged fellow’s ehirt. which 1 be washed fcy the dozen because it *, dozen pieces. ...Tho,lEnglii«j 654,000,000 tvora while thelDnited Great efforts are culture of cotton ih papers say that j B , w of csittoft-growfnj 1 States has- about r ' befftj; made to stimuli!* i in India. Erie, some gentleman e wine, and rather f„ Lincoln replied ; “ I h a , it the use pf any liqur jorth tfhilft to change ...At dinner at Mr. Lincoln snrn i upon him; Mr.!! fifty year# tvithon do not think it vt its now.” ...The London the American cri Buchanan, Its,' called upo n io p part have been fi their' situation. ■t Bow, 5,' was ;;witb'i > ic he san Times, in another editoi sis, is very bitter on P ya few. men who have ay so important a pul und more utterly uneqt m; of Norwich, Conn., drowned in the met. ither hoys and fell th l t e as long as possible, bi t, crying—“ Good bye, ell my mother ” ...Her her years of aas was skating lie clung tl' inghis bold Lord bless i an only son ...A Sprj Post says t whiskers n facial app| markable, lank jaw-b ness and rq escapes th Washingtoj Many ye bronze nie< distributed dies broker Daniel Dll statesman should attn week recei express. correspondent of the vigorous growth of rely changed Mr. Lini i'~ . The improvement i uht, hollow cheeks, and s so enveloped as to gii ■ to the entire face, ahd, ers, Mr. Lincoln will oeedingly presentable , a small number of el of Hen'ry Clay were ; personal am of these was laid as'n be_ presented to the tins; Clay’s prin'ciplei e Presidency, and ws Mr, Lincoln thruagh 2dwan lection Payson.of Boston, pn wagered that it Mr. Li mold walk from Busk of tan-consecutive days, bauguration. A time t been published, by whii ■as ...A, Mr. co tbellate < was .electee Wasbingtot be present i of hie jburn appeals tbt the 22d ins will ayerng (lays. The gramme is will make e noon servic [, lie i insidt it the i ley: tiai*! :t he «? t. Th< to start from Biutnn distance is 453 miles, it! 45 dales-a day fur thr e diver Jongei i 0 hiile .l 1 nt II i jy two lind b litjht f t day’s travel in the s, and the shut-test 22. ' on Sunday and attend e! irtford, Ct. He will be friends, who will ride it m. He anticipated.- rt ■om the varied scenery. ges the hopes that the cii snow and rain during compainpd ! distance be i ing much dc th- rout, nnc will withholi journey. ...The All: Carolinians : invadetabd : charge) of th expect big t launched ea the mounte< turn out “t the raft and rooms for th Carolina nat to the inspei invited to be sleeping an ted with sev d indu d their sany £ iro prt lemoli aickerboeker says the caring a mfc with whit h Port Sumpter. Whin, i cabin is not stated. '*•. 'rom this raft. It- trill a it week, on which occii'i lorums of Charleston C i reast.” Having laurels Up tho lower cabin as its e rs, the first piece of Sui liteature will be thrown ops f the public. The ladieso r t to inspect the pantriescl i its. The raft is to be tnta i rue Major GenetSla, eipkij' hundred and thirty-five Ci> : onnon stolen from the Get got the raft in order, it he fort by means of footles; i oat. ■ If they all pull is believed -that the Fort «if la time,” if not earlier. B ! V prt, the seventy-three Mat (back their sleeves, doublet) fouble dare” Major Andfrsrt r jnock a chip from Gov. Ps i -:: mould Anderson refuse, ik r mels are to “ double dare n refuses to face the ColooA and thirty-five captains are tt :e faces'” at KTsTwife and » me all this, the raft is to ops ? le the Fort will return theer*; ing on the city of Chariest® - iof the raft, after disuovariif ■to shell their own houses, J 't, to talk over maters and ptf . cocktails. {: a ladles things ■ly nes il cocks Ihfefe al fitted i 13 i mSc( «al arch ; tiun of : preset ingmei ■nty-th Is,' two fCtirin ( [•‘T*ng i-arda I sever Colone tains, and c eminent.; ] be wwed'to skiffs and a sums direct! be reached ing reached Generjile w 5 their fists a; horse-1 on,, it i ‘ after the Fj ill foil I md “ dfi to coihe oult and en’s sboulderj i eighty-seven JCol him. l If Andersi the two bendred thorlzed “ mal ‘tersj Hiwing d<| on the jwhia pliment by open: Thecommanderfe that: it won’t pay the ri iurboi withdra’ take of 1 ) THE SECESSIONISTS' n. correspondent of the Sprfofj SCOT A Wsrihingtc field Repuhlicai says “In all (tie seceding; Slates there is n slll ® an unpopular a the present moment a Gefiwj Scott. Not ev ;n Abe Wncoln or Mr. Se«™ I AM is the object of bo much:-criticism and at]®* as Gen. Scott. He in bated by every aecesfi® ist in the count ry, and for one reason only— because be is fur enforcing the laws fending the pro party of the United States-"" The nation owe a an immense debt of-grid®* to Scott,|for in the darkest days of the rep s ® 1 lie, when President and .Cabinet were >e® slough of secession, he stood erect, if' l ' l t entire adjministratiun against him he was fij® - He did riot fearito say plain and hold tkiotf to Mr. Buchanan. Said he, “ Mr. Buck*' 1 * 11 ' Major Anderson has saved the country’s kj 8 " or, and ypw’s u iik it.” At one time Mr chanan .inclined to ordering Anderson e l ** fo Fort Moultrie. Gen. Scott declared hii P lf [ pose in such a dontingenoy to resign his mission, i Such an act the President well kP* would rouse the people of, the Free the fighting pitch. It was the additional o“ B , which called dawn the union weight. -S' then the [President has been tolerably fi r ®' The appointment of Mr. Stanton, of .JL to the Cabinet was an era in our history, moment he WASjinaide tb« council of tk# tion, he and Holt combined at once their and theirj influeooe to save the country fro® miserable doctrine of secession. Befo r9 * Holt, who was a true Union man, had beta* tirely unobserved in the Cabinet by Thompson, Touesy. and Company. No* . joined hands with Stanton, and both pn the views pf Geh. Scott in the Cabinet. 1 gentlemen, H dt, Stanton, and Scott, are most popular nden in the country t unis* s * cept Audersoh.i
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