Wabash Express, Volume 11, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 March 1852 — Page 1

DAVID S. DANA1DS0N, Proprietor.

WHOLE NO. 532.

To choose a Delegate to the Baltimore Convention

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Democratic Convention in Downingville, in the make it easy to swallow, it's rubbed over with a little Van Buren oil. Now, sir, I dont swaller none of them baits, and no man dont get my vote for President without he comes right up to the chalk first,

State of Xaine,

and decide on the Presidency.

DOWNIKGVILLE, STATE OP MAISE,

V" February 9, 1862.

The following notice was posted up bright and early yesterday morning, on the

The Democrats of Downingville, with- ''on 8°

COMMITTEE.

Joshua Dotrning, Esq., Postmaster, (Uncle Joshua,) was unanimously appointed chairman, and Mr. Seth Stiles, (schoolmaster.) was chosen secretary.— Uncle Joshua took the chair amid the cheers of the mcctin. He's always been chairman of the Democracy this thirty years. So lie knew what he had to depend upon, and come prepared for it.— Aunt Kesiah had combed his hair all down smooth, and he wore his fur hat and go-to-meetin coat. The chairman put on his spectacles and read the notice calling the meetin, and says he, "Gentlemen and fel-low-Democrats, the important business we have before us seems to be to settle the question about the next Presidency, and choose a Delegate to Baltimore. As thera, is two branches to tho business, which shall we take hold of first?"

Doctor Briggs.—I move that we take the question of the Presidency first, as that comes first in the notice, and I take it that is the main question.

Chan-man —If that is your minds, gentlemen, you will please Bill Johnson, (in a sharp loud voice.)— llold on there, Squire, or Mr. Chairman, I should say dont put that ere question yet, for I've got something to say first. I dont think that would be the best way to go to work. I've no notion of taking hold of the poker at the hot end. Let us go to work and choose a Delegate first, while wo dry cool, and go into tne Presidency afterwards. We are all quiet and unanimous now, and it is the largest meeting of the Democracy that we've ever had since Old Hickory's second term. It looks as if the good Hickory times was coming back again, and the Democracy of the country will once more be on its legs. Now, 1 say, seeing we've got into a little clear smooth water, dont let us rile it. The next Presidency is a ticklish question, and if we begin to stir it, may be itll be hard workto see bottom. Therefore.Squire. I move that we begin our business 'tother eend formost and I move that we choose Major Jack Downing for our Delegate to Baltimore.

Chainnan.—lt that is your miuds, gentlemen, you will please to Solomon Jones, (trader at the upper corner, and nateral enemy to Bill Johnson, trader at tho lower corner.)—Mr. Chairman, I hope that motion wont pass. I didn't, come here to be ketched in an Abolition trap, and I wont be if 1 can help it. I dont want any underhand work, and I "fctonnt take a step on the road till 1 can read on the guide-board^ where it's going to. Before we choose a Delegate I want to know what ho is going to do. Let the work be chalked out beforehand, and then choose the best man to do it. I am a

Democrat of the .Jackson stamp, but I aint no Abolitionist. I always went for Jackson, and will always go for his successors as long as they follow in his footsteps. I always went for Van Buren as long as he followed in Jackson's footsteps but when he turned Abolition I dont go for him no more, nor his son John neither.

Bill Johnson*—Squire, 1 wish you to "put my question, to choose Major Jack Downing to Baltimore. If we cant trust him as a good Jackson Democrat, there isn't a man the United States that we can trust. He was always the old Gineral's right hand man. And as for Abolition traps, I wish Mr. Jone's store was as free from rum-traps and gin-traps as I am from Abolition traps

Solomon Jones.—Mr. Chairman, I call Ithe gentleman to order. I want to know, 'before he goes Rny further, whether this Is a Temperanec n.eetin or a Democratic meetin? "£iU Johnson.—It is as much of a Temperance meeting as is an Abolition meeting. If Mr. Jones brings in Abolition, I've jest as good aright to bring in Tcm^neranoe. And as for traps, I'll jest let "iiim know the war can be oarriedinto Africa. Yes, sir, the boot is decidely on /tother leg. The traps is all on tother side» sir all on the slaver side. I'm a •good Jackson Democrat, bat I've no notion of being ketched in a slavery trap.— lAud that's why I want to send a Delegate to Baltimore thai we can depend upon, such as Major Downing one that'll keep us out of the slavery trap. For I tell you, sir, the South has got the slavery trap set all over the country, and covered with a good many pieces of sly tempting bait.—i

There's a bit of eice-flavored Buchanan bait here, and a strong Cass bait there,1 and a little Douglas bait furtheralong. and "a fat Houston bait out yonder, and on the middle of the pan there's a mysterious ,,bit of Butler bait, nicely rolled in meal yes, str, all rolled in meal, and what's more, to

roe neighbor

the centre school- flo^

hieetin house. house, and on Bill Johnson's store: "NOTICE—DEMOCRATS AROUSE!

out distinction of party, are requested to dency first seems to be carried without meet at the centre school-house to-morrow bein» put to vote. Now, sir, I am glad to evening, February 9, at 7 o'clock, to set- see that Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson agree tie the question about the next Presiden- exactly in one thing, however wide apart cy, and choose a Delegate 10 the Baltimore tney may be on ther points. Tbat is, that Convention. The country expects every they wont neither of 'i

country expects every

Democrat to do his duty, and the whole Democracy of all parties is especially requested to attend. The interest of the country and Democratic party is at stake. Therefore come one, come. And it is expected that every true Democrat will leave all party prejudices at home. "BY ORDER OF THE DEMOCRATIC ToWK

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I and declares up and down that he isn't no 'slavery man. Doctor Briggs.—Mr. Chairman, it seems

Johnson has got hold of the

0Jtfiep0fer^

Solomon Junes.—Nor I wont vote for no President till I know he's all right, and isn't no Abolitionist.

Pursuant to the above notice, the largest and most respectable Democratic meeting ever held in Downingville assembled at sevn o'clock, and filled the school- friend to Cuba. If a lot of fellers is a house chock full.

John Robinson.—Mr. Chairman, nor I wont vote for no President that isn't a

mind to go and help Cuba get her independence, I say I dont want a President that'll be dogging after 'em and stopping of 'em.

Sargent Joel Downing.—For my part, Mr. Chairman, I've made up my mind not to vote for any man for President that wont go for Kossuth, clear up to the hub, and stand ready to fight the Russian Bear if lie meddles with Hungary. I say freedom is the right of every body, and I go it and I want a President that'll go for it, too, up to fifty-four forty and fight, if it can't be got without. I call that good Jackson doctrine. Old Hickory would go for it if he was alive, and the Democracy must see that he has a successor that'll go for it now. That's the foundation of of the Democratic principle freedom for every body.

Solotnon Jones. Freedom for every body, is it? I want to know if the gentleman means freedom for the niggers south of Mason and Dixon's line? If he does, I pronounce him a bloody Abolitionist and no Democrat.

Sargent Joel.—I said freedom for every body, and I'll stick to it. You can't split a hair nobody can't split hairs now Mr. Calhoun's dead. And you can't split a principle and I say the foundation of the Democratic principle is freedom for every body, and I'll stick to it. And I want a President that will carry that principle out straight on all sides, in Hungary and every where else. And when we choose our Delegate to Baltimore, I shall move to give him instructions to vote for a Kossuth candidate for the Presidency.

Solomon Jones.—Then, sir, you are an Abolitionist, and your candidate will be an Abolitionist, and the whole South will bo agin you and you'll find, if you can't split hairs, you can split the country, and the whole Democracy will be torn to flinders, and we shall lose all the offices.

Sargent Joel.—I don't fight for offices, I fight liberty freedom for every body thats my motto.

Deacon Snore.—I feel it my duty, Mr. Chairman, to caution our Democratic brethren not to be too rash. I thiuk we ought to have have a President that will be prudent, and not get us into any tangling alliances with other nations, and will carry out the safe neutrality doctrines laid dowr. by Washington.

Doctor Briggs.—Mr. Chairman, we seem to be going all round Robin Hood's barn, but I "don't see as we are any where near coming to the point. Now, sir, it seems to me the way we should go is as plain as the'^noad to mill. Is this a Democratic meeting? And are we all Democrats?— That's the question. If wo are all Democrats, then of course we all want a Democratic President and we ought to fix ourselves on that point, .ind not be looking round for any other nails to hang our hats on. Therefore, I move that we instruct our delegate to Baltimore to vote for a candidate for President that is a staunch Democrat, and in favor of all sound Democratic principles.

Chairman.— Are you ready for that question? If that is your minds, gentlemen. please

Solomon Jones.—Mr. Cheerman, I oppose that motion, and before it's put I want to know what is sound democratic principles. I want to know if abolition is one of 'em?

Bill Johnson..—And I want to know if slavery is one of 'em Sargent Joel.— And I want to know if Russia's tramplin down Hungary is one of 'em?

John Robinson —And I want to know if Cuba is one of 'em? Deacon Snotc.—Mr. Chairman, as there seems to be some confusion and misunderstanding anbout democratic principles, and there don't seem to be much chance of doing anything till these matters are settled I move that Squire Downing, our venerable Chairman, shall make a plain full statement to this meeting of all the sound democratic principle: and then we shall have something to go by. [This was seconded all round, and Uncle Joshua, coloring a litUe, laid his specs on the desk, and got up out of his chair.]

Chairman.—Gentlemen and democrats: As for the democratic principle, I view it should have a fair ig of it, for it is the vital principle of the partv. and without it we can't hold together. In the old Gineral's time, if my memoir serves me right, we had three principles to go by: one w*s he Bank, and one was toe Tariff, and 'tother was Internal Improvements. Tbat is to say, them was tne principles we had to fight agin. Them was the Whig princi-

is very important we understandini

pies and the democratic was to fight agin

after all, and has fair

ly got to stirring the Presidency with it, ill

whether we will or no. So that my mo-

ln^°^e

question of the Presi-

'em move a step in

the dark, nor stir an inch till they know where they are going to. Mr. Jones wont vote for a Delegate till he knows his man, and knows exactly what that Delegate is going to do. And Mr. Johnson wont vote for a President till he knows his man, and knows he's all right and isn't no slavery man.

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the three whig principles. And as long From the LonUyiiie Journal. as we stuck to that we beat, and got the A NO ELS. offices. But the science of politics has ad- Thin shadowy forms are hovering**™-^*® vanced a good deal in tfyese latter years, In the air around us spread, fw since the Gineral's time, and so many new And we feel their hallowed presence/principles are crowded in, helter skelter, In the daily paths we tread that we get kind of confused and mixed Their soft eyes are kindly glistening up. I don't think they do any good.— Down in many a golden beam Some of these new principles, instead of Theirs the hands that gently scatter holding us together, seem to be pretty like- Heavenly roses on our dream. ly to blow us apart like gunpowder. But

the good old Jackson principles work'toth-

er way they hold us together like wax, and give us the offices. Iherefore I think we may safely say we go agin the bank, we go agin the Tariff, and we go agin Internal Improvements. And I think our delegate to Baltimore should be instructed to stand on tbat platform.

Bill Johnson.—I move, Mr. Cheerman, that we amend that platform by adding that we go agin slavery.

Solomon Jones.—I move that we amend it by adding, that we go agin abolition. Sargent. Joel.—I move that we amend it by adding that we amend it by adding that we go agin Russia.

Chairman.—Shall v.e put the question ou the platform with the three amendments added to it.

Deacon Snow.—Mr. Chairman, if these amendments are added, I think there's a number of other amendments that ought to be added besides, particularly the neutrality doctrines of Washington.— Therefore I move that we adjourn this meeting for one week, and that the whole subject be referred to a committee, to be appointed by the Chairman, and that they report to the next meeting a democratic platform containg all the sound simon pure democratic principles [Deacon Snow's motion was put and carried, and the Convention adjourned.]

NOTE,

from Maj. Jack Downing to Mr.

Gales & Seaton.—My dear old friends, I've correctified the minutes of Secretary Stiles, and send it to you to publish, to let our Democratic brethren all over the country know that we have made a rally here to try to save the party, (which you know we thought awhile ago was dead,) and so fur we've met with very encouraging success.

MAJOR JACK DOWNING.

EXAGGERATION.—If

there be any man

nerism that is universal among mankind, it is that of coloring too highly the things we describe. We cannot be content with a simple relation of truth we must exaggerate we must have "a little too much red in the brush." Who ever heard of a dark night that was not "pitch dark of a stout man that was not "as strong as a horse or a miry road that was not "up to the knee We would walk "fifty miles on foot" to see that man who never carricatures a subject on which he speaks.— But where is such a man to be found "From rosy morn to dewy eve," in our conversation, we are constantly outraging truth. If somewhat wakeful in the night, "we scarcely had a wink of sleep if our sleeves got a little damp in a shower, we are "as wet as ifdragged through abrook if a breeze blows up while we are "in the chops of the channel," the waves are sure to "run mountains high ,' and if a man grows rich, we all say he "rolls in money.' No later than yesterday a friend, who would shrink from wilful misrepresentation, told us hastily as he passed that the "newspaper had nothing in it but advertisements."

MORE INTERVENTION.—The

National in

telligencer of yesterday says "The field of 'Intervention"' appears to enlarge with the encouragement given to it in the Halls of Congress. The Senate has now under earnest debate two diswict propositions for carrying out the principle first, the general protest to all the world, and Russia in particular, invoked by M. Kossuth secondly, the intercession to the British Government in favojrjpf the Irish offenders. Yesterday, a thira subject for our good officers was presented to the Senate, in a petition from certain Russians in New York, praying our Government to interpose its good offices in favor of their countrymen banished to Siberia. Another has been heretofore promised by an honorable Senator in favor of Abdel-Kader.

We are likely to have as many national wrongs to redress as the renowned knight of La Mancha found when he sallied forth on his noble memorable mission to redress all private one." 7

FTOCSRBOLD DEFINITIONS.—Home.—The

place where children hatfe their own way and married men resort when they have nowhere else to keep themselves.

Wife—The woman who is expected to purchase without means, and sew on buttons before they cqpne off.

How

Baby— The tiling on account of which its mother should never go to the opera consequently need never have a new hat.

Dinner—The meal that is expected to be in exact readiness whenever the master of the house happens home to eat it, whether at twelve or half past three.

Trvtcstn—The disputed territory.

KNOW

Foot—A fool, savs the

Arab proverbjnay be known by si* things, anger withoutcaase, speech without profit, change without motive, inquiry, without object, putting trust in a stranger, and not knowintr his mends from his foes.^f^ 'J

The vain glory of ihe world a fill sweetness, an unfruitful labor, a perpetual fear, a dangerous brarety, begun without providence, and finished without repentancc.^^

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that length of years.

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA- MARCH 3, 1852

they bring u8

From their fair and distant home, Though they often make as sadder ¥e are better when they come. And they weave sweet spells of music ,,

O'er our troubled heart* to glide, And uphold souls almost sinking Down in life's cold rapid tide.

They sustain, and cheer, and comfort "When our spirits fail and shrink, Save us from the dark abysses*'"1

When we tremble on the brink '•.* Soft they chide, when fiery pasaiong Would our hasty bosoms stir^ Angels sad and keeply sorrow

When our human spirits err.

Low they speak in soothing whispers,'* When in grief we bend and moan, And soft they bear us messages

From the sainted loved ones gone, They that still the fever burning In our sickened weary hearts— They unclasp the crystal fountain

WTience the cooling tear-drop starts".

They that braid the costly pleasures, That our deeper spirits know, And tune the crushed and bruised heart-strings

Thrilling with a eecret woe. Of our better thoughts they waken All that's pure, and high, and true, They that prompt the kindly impulse

O he it go

Oh, they bring us daily visions Of a world more pure and fair, While their sweet low voices whisper "Ged and love, and home are there." They that keep a deathless vigil

At the portals of the soul— They that tread the angy tempest, When the waves of trouble roll..

Through the vale of gloomy shadows Safe our fainting souls they bear, While their tuneful songs of Heaven

Soothe us in our passage there. Oh how rich, and high, precious, We must be in God's pure sight, That He sends us guardian angels

From His realms of fadeless light.

ene

Wfti

The oldest trees in the world are in Gen

tnU Africa—ihe Boababs, which are 90] idly computes where she crosses and

steiliJilli

Prediction of the Kirst Eclipse. BY PROF. O. MITCHFLL To those who have given but little attention to the subjects, even in our own day, with all the aids of modern science, the prediction of an eclipse seems sufficiently mysterious and unintelligible. How, then, it was possible, thousands of years ago, to accomplish this same great object, without any just views of the structure of the system, seems utterly incredible. Follow me, then, while I attempt to reveal the reasoning which led to tho prediction of the first eclipse of the sun, the mostdaring prophecy ever made by human genius. Follow, in imagination, this bold interrogator of the skies to his solitary mountain summit—withdrawn from the world, surrounded by his mysterious circles, there to watch and ponder through the long nights of many, many years. But hope cneers him on, and smooths his rugged pathway. Dark and deep as is the problem, be sternly grapples with it. and resolves never to give over till victory crowns his efforts.

He has already remarked that the tnoon's track the heavens crossed the sun's and that this point off crossing was in some way immediately connected with the coming of the dread eclipse. He determined to watch and learn whether the point of crossing was fixed, or whether the moon, in each successive revolution, crossed the sun's path at a different point. If the sun, in his aunual revolution, could leave behind him a track of fire, making his journey among the stars, it is found that this same track was followed from year to year, and from century, with undeviating prccission.

But it was soon discovered that it was far different with the moon. In case she too. could leave behind her a silver thread of light, sweeping round the heavens, in completing one revolution, this thread would not join, but would wind around among the stars in each revolution, crossing the the sun's fiery track at a point west of the previous crossing. These points of crossing were called the moons nodes. At each revolution, the node occurred further west, until, after a cycle of about nineteen years, it had circulated in the same direction entirely around the eclipse. Long and patiently did the astronomer watcn and wait each eclipse is duly observed, and its attendant circumstances are recorded, when, at last, the darkness begins' to give way, and a ray of light breaks upon nis mind. He finds that no eclipse of the sun ever occurs, unless the neuf moon, is in the art of crossing ihe sun's track.— Here was a grand discovery. He holds the key which he believes will unlock the: dread mystery and now, with redoubled he resolves to thrust it into the rds, and drive back the btdtsi

To predict an eclipse of the sun, he mast sweep forward from new mom to new moon, until, be finds some new moon which should occur while the moon was in the act of crossing from one side to the other of the em's track. This certainly was invisible. He knew the exact period from new moon to new moon, and from one crossing of the eclipse to the other.— Wkh eager eyes he seixes the moon's pla-} ces in the heavens, and her age, and

sun's path, and the next year closer, until, reaching forward with piercing intellectual vigor he at last finds a new moon which occurs precisely at the computed time of the passage across the sun's track. Here he makes a stand, and on the day of the occurrence of that new moon, he announ-

ch to th

the slumbering world. This daring man, stem in his

The lone tenant of the mountain, fed, almost begins to waver in the sternness of his Jiaith, as the morning hours roll away. But the time of his triumph, long delayed, at length begins to dawn—a pale and sickly hue creeps over the face of nature. The sun has reached his highest point, but his splendor is dimmed—his light is feebled. At last it comes Blackness is calling away his round disc—onward with slow but steady pace, the dark veil moves blacker than a thousand nights, the gloom deepens—the ghastly hue of deatn covers tne universe—the last ray is gone, and horror reigns. A wail of terror fills the murky air—the clangor of brazen trumpets resounds—an agony of despair dashes the strickcn millions to the ground, while that lone man, erect on his rocky summit, with arms outstretched to heaven, pours forth the grateful gusliings of his heart to God, who had crowned his efforts with triumphant victory.

Search the records of our race, and point me, if you can, to a scene more grand, more beautiful. It is to me the proudest victory that genius ever won. It was the conquering of Nature, of Ignorance, of Superstition, of Terror, all at a single blow, and that blow struck by a single man.— And now, do you demand the name of this wonderful man Alasl what a lesson of the instability of earthly fame are we taught in this simple recital 1 He who had raised himself immeasurably above his race, who must have been regarded by his fellows as little less than a god, who had inscribed his fame on the very heavens, and had written it in the sun, with a "pen of iron, and the point of a diamond" —even this one has perished from th$ earth —name, age, country, all are swept into oblivion but the proud achievement stands. The monument reared to his lioaor stands and although the touch of Time has effaced the lettering of his name, it is powerless, and cannot destroy the fruits of his victory

TOMATO FIGS

#!*&*«

!—We have seen and tast

ed (says the Boston Journal) the figs referred to in the following article from Hovey's excellent Horticultural Magazine and endorse all which he says in tneilr favor. We hope that those who raise abundance of tomatoes will save this recipe, and try the experiment, if only on a small scale.

ing weather Then place on large earthen

plates or dishes, and put them the sun

en boxes, with fine white sugaf between every layer. Tomatoes prepared in this manner will keep for years.

STATES.

XT—

?er

in her approach of the eventful day breaks in beauty on Qhio1

... Locrs

Rtsh mortal*, e'er yon lake a wlf\" Crtririre yonr pil« to L&*t for life 6 On seuee'and worth your passion found, 'By decency cemented round V. Let prudence with good-nature otrire.

To keep esteem and love alive

:t'

place of the new moon falls closer to, the

Then, come old age wheneVit will, iYoor friendship mil continue still.

The Spaniards hare this proverb: "It is with money as with oil—some of it will always stick to the fingers of those who measure it.'' Rather uncharitable, but too often true*

White

population.

California,,..

ces to the startled inhabitants of the world, Connecticut,. that the sun shall expire in dark eclipse., Delaware, Bold prediction Mysterious prophet 1 With what scorn must the unthinking world Indiana, have received this solemn declaration Illinois, How slowly do the moons roll away, and Iowa,.. with what intense anxiety does the stern philosopher await the coming of that day Maiue,.,' which should crown him with victory, or Massachusetts, dash him to the ground in ruin or disgrace1 Time, to him, moves on leaden wings. .. day after day, and, at last hour after hour, roll heavily. The last night is gone—the New Hampshire, moonhas disappeared from his eager graze

New York,..

the sun, and the

'awn New Jersey.

eav

7,415 17,957 936 3,586 5,100 5,339 292

3,043,574 466,383 553,477J 1,951,101 2,358,480 144,012 374,775 767,319 133,131 313,756 894,149 303,600

Ohio, Pennsylvania Rhode Island,.

faith

eets South Carolina,

climbs alone to his rocky home, and gi the sun, as he rises and mounts thehc»»- ^exas ens, scattering brightness and glory in his Vermont, .. path. Beneath him is spread out the Virginia' populous city, already teeming with life Wisconsin, and activity." The busy morning hum rises on the.still air, and reaches the watching place of the solitary astronomer. The thousands below liim, unconscious of his intense anxiety, joyously pursue their District, of Columbia rounds of business, their cycles of amusement. The sun slowly climbs the heavens, round and bright, and full-orbed.

Tennessee,

Total,

TEIUUTOUIKS.

19,517,885

38,027 6,192 61,632 20,000 25,000

Minnesota, New Mexico, ., Oregon,....... Utah,

Including

19,668,736

Indians.

Ratio of Representation,..

the above table by a *.]

Recipe for Tomato Figs.—Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, in order to remove the skin then weigh them and place them in a stone jar, with as much ^^"b/au'gmented pressure, but the sugaras yo^u havetomatoes, and lethcm

stand two dajs then pour oft the s,vrup.

and boil and skim it until no scum n.ses, ,oWer^orlion

Then pour it over the tomatoes, and let

them stand two days as before then boil

and sk.m again After the third t.me they

are fit to dry if the weather is good if

not, lot them stand in tne syrup until dry-

ure rJsul£ frora th£

aba®ofsoft

anner will keep for years. oersonal character of Louis Napoleon is A few »ppl»» cut up Mid boiled ./i iht

..mamderof th» «yrop m.ke a .ery n.ce woman of elsauce. Miss Eliza Marsh. ceedinelv bad life, however history may It only necessary for us to add that jee

the Committee of the Massachusetts Hor-

ticultural Society awarded Mrs.

iS^veTSe klie. If yout hari caanot

TERMS i—In advance $2 in six months $3,50 at the expiration $3.**

VOL. XI"NOTI2.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES—SEVENTH CENSUS.

Free colored population,

[NOTK. The aggregate REPRESENTATIVE populatioh gives, at the nearest approximate'rallS for 233 members, (the number fixed by law,) a ratio of 93,702 but this ratio gives only 220 members—leaving tho remaining 13 to be assigned to the States hating the largest residua^ fractions. The States which

Application of fciettoro-Kagnetism to Ball-Way Transit. A gentleman by the name of Nickles has invented an apparatus for the puspose of increasing the adhesion of the wheels of a locomotive to the rails by the application of electro-magnetism, His plan is to convert the wheel of the locomotive into a magnet, and make it adhere to the iron rail by an adhesion similar to that by which a slip of steel adheres to a common horse-shoe magnet. The manner in wbiol» Mr. Nickles applies his apparatus is thus stated "He places a galvanic battery unqer the body of the engine.

Federal rep reaentaUfe population.

Total Free.

436,515 163,071 300,000 363,189 71,282 47,130 513,083 983,634 853,059 191,830 770,061 254,271 581,930 985,498 418,763 291,536 393,156 592,176 317,354

Slave*.

2,250 587

438,765 162,658 200,000

'4' 370,604 V* 89,239 48,046 515,669 £4,988,734 7k 818.398 193,133 779,738 269,956 v,:,4 583,232 994,271 492,706 292,434 Vft 395,703 594,843 317,831 3,090,023 488,552 580,458 1,977,031 2,311 681 147,555 283,544 773,595 134,057 313,466 &:> 948,055 304,226

^9,667 15,685 1,312 Vr8|773 73,943 898 3,547 3.677 477 47,448 33,269 27,271 25,930 53,201 3,543 9 te 8,769

Rep*

343,894 46,983

2,289

39,341 363,966

naining 13 to be assigned to the States hating the largest residuary lich thus gain a'member are designated iii the right hand column of 0 n. '-..-J* 'vj'if'r

wire coming from

the poles of this battery is then coiled horizontally round the lower part of the wheel close to the rail, but in such a manner that the wheel turns round freely within it, fresh portions of its circumference coming continually into relation with the coil. The part of the wheel in immediate contact with the rail is thus made magnetic, and therefore has a strong adhesion for the surface along which it moves-—and the amount of the adhesion may be increased or diminished at any time, by merely augmenting or reducing the intensity of the galvanic current thatcirculates through the surrounding coil. By means of a handle the electricity may be turned on or off, and an effectual brake be thus brought inr to activity that can make the iron rail smooth or adhesive, according to the requirement of the interest, and this withotit in any way interfering with the free rotation of the wheels as the friction brakes of necessity do. Increased adhesion is

attraction that

hcr independent 0f

weight. The

of ihe wheel for

the time

(]je game condit}on as

iron'pfaCedity.

circu]aU

ectrjc

QUt of

|fie

coij during the

tbe wheel fiTOWa

less magnetic, the

de8cendi rt£s of ti,c

cjrcumference

to dry, which will take about a week, af- in,- d*oTee ler which p«a thorn down in small wood- P°wcr

opposite side of

requiring increased 1

111 l,ke

NAPOLKOK'S PA^ENTAC*.—The

h„tenigro„tjcal.

Hi. mother, Hor-

ghe bad two

MABSH

the

Society's Slver Medal for excellent spec.- g^nch'man_M. Flaha«t-the present De mens exhibited November 2X They were Minister of the Interior. Louis tested by the commitee, and pronounced after her marriage with tobe superior to any they had crerjn. JJ*

Before mar.

children-one by Na-

died ear, the other hj a

Napoleon.

They were put up in small boxes, and to ^rded as the natural son of a our taste were far better than ^'-^ds

UUI WV4V IWI l/v»vv» 6f what are sold in our market for the best Smyrna figs.—Ed. Horiurullvrvi Mag.

King of Holland, is very

notor5ous

convinced

as the queen's

lover. His physiognomy, his complexion, his air and his habits, are all pu|ch. He is slow and taciturn. -Still, Myself

of his true Napoleonic blood

and origin and really has, or affect* to have, an astrological faith in his high destiny.

He believes himself born to walk in the foot-steps of the great Napoleon, and hence we see him reviving the institutions of the Empire with a sort of Chinese fidelity of imitation. He has reached the point and power of the First Consul, and it is generally believed that he will soon pat on the crown of the Empire. If he does, will he not try to play the Emperor at the head of an army Borne on by military power, will be not be forced by the Terr momentum of has career Co nsake j-

Fraction#.

634,501 190,848 300,000 3t0j604 90,613 *571,650 733,448 988,734

7 3 3 4 1 1

•73,389 3,444 13,596 *89,498

•77,534 *51,714 30,980 4,718 *75,470 33,632 21,020 *57,251 *78,076 4,175 20,895 *86,204 36,725 *91,558 20,113 3,883 9,289 *62,833 *53,853 45,989 *89,993 *72,362 32,360 13,744 33,130

11 9

193,132 913,788 408,440 583,232 994,371 546,&S6 472,685 395,703 648,416 3^7(831

331,768 230,807

10 4

89,800 300,419

6 5 4

89,289

3,090,023 488,633 753,505 1,977,031 3,311,681 147,555 314,499 933,310 166,064 313,466 1,331,870 304,336

33 6 8 31 25 2 5 10 3 3 13 3

119

288,412

384,925 349,519 58,346

6,280

«3 326 710 53,906 626

473,026

409,200

19,927,685

3,175,902

9,973

710

.*r!

419,173

Slaveholding States, Districts ana Territories,

20,087,909

Total population United States,.'.

233

.! S3

48,000 6,192 61,632 20,000 24,000

8,687

*sSs§

6t-.

3,179,-689

31,832,621

E A I A I O N S

{iopuluion. live population: IN 13,533,328 119 13,533,399

6,393,757 160,824

3,175,783 •i 3,68t

8,299,226 V- .'.B

20,087,909 8,179,889 21,832,625

.33,367,498 i®# 93,703

A RUM STORY.—In 1845

y^*f

—-•»»**-'1

there was a

Convention held in Memphis, and dele* gates from this city were sent to attfetid it. A certain anti-temperance Editor of this city, who is always honest enough to carry the signs of his principles in front, was aboard of the boat. He was a great friend of the bar-keeper's. He couldn't be anything else. The bar-keeper was a Gel--1 man.

The editor went up to tne hw-» and of' dcred a toddy. Tne bar-keeper made him an apple toddy, tvhicli tlien was tho favorite drink abroad. The edltot took it, looked at it, ahd for ft fronder set it down un tasted "That's not what I wanted said ne angrily. "I called fof a tohisky toddy# plain!" "1roti galled fof a doddy, "said the barkeeper "dere is a doddy!'' "That is ah apple toddy, cufse your stupid Dutch head I asked for a tvliisky toddy, plain." "No, mynheer, yoti ask only for a dod-

V-: .*

•*1fou lid—tou vagabond, yoii *7/e crifed the wrathy editor. Hans said no more he drank the ap' pie toddy to save it, and made the editor a plain whisky toddy of sufficient strength to suit the case but trhile making it, he was heard to mutter-— "Cot for tam 1 I should dink nodding Of being called liar by a yentilman but by sucn a tam liar as he is, it is too mooch He never tells the druth in his bapcr but py accident, and den he conies out def next day and says it was a dypographical error."

The Writer left about that time/-

ENKROT—WHAT IT DOES—LAZT ARB ALWATB BELOW PAR.—We

within a coil of upright, energetic men. Phil th

But as it ri- way, and then that way, and the

rotation and they only bend, but never bi

love youT

Phil them tbi* other, I

they only bend, but never break.—1 Trip them dotrn, and a trice they art on their feet. Bury them in the mud, and id ah hour they will be out and bright. They are not ever yawning away existence, or walking about the-world as if they had come into it with only half their soul you cannot keep them down—you cannot destroy them. But for these, the world would soon degenerate. They are the salt of the earth. Who but they start any noble project 1 They build our cities* and rear our manufactories They *hi- I ten the ocfeftn with their sails, and ther blacken the heavens with the smoke of 5 their steam-vessels and furnace fires.— Tbey draw their treasures from the time. They p\oagh the e&rth. Blessings on them! Look to them, young men, and take courage imitate their example, catch the spirit of their energy. Without life, what are you good for, if it is passed idly away We should ever measure thus life's employment. __________

MriaC JbthlMS. i,*#. -, r-

The N. Y.• National Democrat says there are now in that city no less than fifty sew- 1. ing machines driven by steam power, which turn out an enormous number of pants each day, besides fine coats and other ar* tides of apparel. One girl, with the aid of machinery,

turn out as much work as

six girls can with needless used by hand. The profits of this machine arc enormous, but it is the capitalists who own the machine, and who'realize the gain. We should augur from this that "the good time coming" was pretty near at hand— manual labor being pretty nigh swallowed tip by machinery.