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The Committee are aware that the above
apportionment of the 9th District is not in &C
cordance with the act. but became satisfied
that it was impossible to give two Representa-.
tives to each Councillor in all the Districts and
obtain the representation in the two honses
designated by law; and consequently that pre-
vision of law is in itself nullity. The Com
mittee therefore deemed it proper TO make
such an apportionment of the units as would
confine the two houses to the number limited
by law.
The next duty devolviug upon the Commit
tee was the division of districts into sub-divi-
sions for the election of Councillors and Rep
resentatives. In the absence of precinct re-
turns. the Committee met with much difficulty
in obtaining such information as would enable
them to divide districts in manner to give
equal representation, without clashing with
county precincts.
The following divisions were adopted bs4lhe
C0uanaiitaA as the most equitable to be tain
cd from the information before the Committee:
The First District.-So much of Washing
ton county as lies south of the moth line of
Saltwater precinct will elect Onf Councillor
and the remainder of the district ~ elect one
Councillor. The repre- sentation to the House
Of Representatives in this district win be elect.
ed from the Representative Districts formerly
established.
erond District.-The second and third
WarBin st. Paul. and Little Canada precinct
xafelect three Representatives; and the FIRST
Ward in St. Paul AMI So Paul precinct outside
of the city limits viii elect two Representa-.
tives.
Third and Fourth Districfs.-The returns
from these districts exhibit no data by which
geographical boundaries can be fixed for Rep
resentaiive Districts. with any approximation
to equality. They therefore are not divided.
Fifth District county will elect
one Representative. and the remainder of the
Council District will elect one Representative
Sirth District.-Dakota county will elect
one Councillor and two Representatives. Scott
and Rice counties will elect one Councillor,
and Scott county will elect two Representa-
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Total in District. ........ S 2O3

Total in District. ........ S 2O3
The fore going being the nearest approxima-
ton to a correct enumeration Of the inhabi-
tants of the Territory to which the Committee
could arrive, they then proceeded to apporton
follows The whole population being ascer-
tanned, as above. to he 49,6eO-and sixty eigth
being the number of units of representation,
from which four uni being deducted for the
Seventh Council District, the amount of popu
lation was divided by "a, which gave quo
tient of 77j
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LIST Dist. 5.sl5. dv'd by rs, gvs. 7 units, 400
5000, giving. SO units.

$4,000, giving. ........ SO units.
To increase the number of units thus Oh
tanned, the law requires that one shall be added
to the district having the highest remainder,
until sixty four units is obtained therefore,
the 9th, 4th. Sd. llth and LIST Districts appear
ers, one unit was added to each OF said dis
tricts.
The units to which the several Districts
were entitled. were then set down as fellows :
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ives, and Rice county will elect one Repre-

tives and Rice county will elect one Repre-
sentative.
Eighth District.-The county of Fillmore
will elect one Councillor, and the counties Of
Houston and Mower will elect one Councillor.
The counties of Fillmore and Houston will
each elect two Representatives and the coun-
ty of Mower will elect one Representative. Is
Ninth District-The counties of Winona
and Wabashaw will elect one member of the
Council, and two members of the House; and
the county Olmstcd will elect one Councillor
aud one Representative.
Tenth District.-The counties of Nicolett,
Steele and Farribault will elect one Repre-
sentative, and the counties of Blue Earth,
Brown. LIE Sueur, Sibley, Pierce and Renville
will elect two Representatives.
Eleventh District-The county Of Carver
and such precincts in the county Of Hennepin
as are located south and west of Minnetonka
Lake and Little Falls Creek will elect two
Representatives. and the remainder of Henne-
pin county, in connection with the county OF
Davis, will elect three Representatives.
The Committee. having completed the Gu
ties assignad them by the law authorizing
them to meet, adjourned sine die.
ALBERT STIMSON,
JOSEPH R. BROWN,
d. M. HANSON,
W. A. DAVIS.
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New scheme 10 Settle Kansas.

Boston. July 80.
The Secretary of the New England Associa-
ton OF Clergymen has issued a second circular
proposing to constitute the 5000 Clergymen of
New England life members of the Emlgrant Aid
Society on payment OF $40 each, the proceeds
to be expended 10 settling Kansas With Chris.
tians from New England.
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WEDNESDAY, August s. 1855.
The Committee met pursuant to adjourn
ment. Present, Messrs. Stimson, Brown, Han
son. and Davis
The Committee then. in conformity to law.
proceeded to remodel the 81 and 5th Council
Districts the latter having less than units of
representation.
The Rum River and Manomin Precincts were
therefore taken from the 81 and attached TO
the 5th District, which District will he consti-
tu'ed as follows:
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TUESDAY. August Z

TUESDAY, August 7, 1855.
The committee met pursuant to adjourn
ment. Present, Messrs. Stimson, Brown, Cave,
and Hanson.
The examination of the returns of the emu
meration of the inhabitants of the counties
was resumed, and the committee ascertained
that
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Showing population as returned Of. 34.2lO
The committee obtained no returns from the
counties of Itasca Oh sage. Superior, Doty,
Frecborn. Benton, Todd, Houston, Fillmore,
Mower. Olmsted, Farribault Pierce, Rcnville,
Scott and Davis. Total counties not returned l6
The committee then adjourned until o'clock
this afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION. CLOCK Pm.
The committee met, present, Messrs. Slim
son, Brown and Hanson.
The committee, finding that the law under
which they were acting. while it impcrativey
required q division of the Representatives
among the several Council Districts, in no wise
restrit ted the committee from obtaining the
population ofdistricts from other sources when
returns were not received from counties in any
district !; and believing the returns made to
the conventions for nominating candidates for
delegate to Congress to he reliable source of
obtaining the population of the counties not
returned to the Secretary, and upon referring
to the proceedings of said conventions find the
foliua ing statements as to the population of
counties represented in convention, from
which no official returns were before the COM
mittee. viz: -.-f
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N. Y. 4 e. K. R.--The New York and Erie
Railroad, and its connections, are. now trans
porting freight and passengers between the
East and West upon terms that should com,
mand the patronage of all who wish safe con-
veyancc and quick trips through. The time
upon this road is not surpassed by that of any
other road in the Union, and the few accidents
that occur upon it is a sufficient guaranty
that its management is Of the first order Capt.
l. e. George is the ticket Agent Of the New
York and Erie at st. Paul.-
EDlToRIAL CHANaE.-We hear it stated on
the streets that G. L. Emerson will coon be
compelled to vacate the editorial and publish
ing departments of the Democrat. This will
be good news for the journeymen printers.
D- The Boston l'Ost OF Saturday saws !.
Two gangs Of hands are digging into Hoosac
Mountain night and day, but the great tunnel
ing machine bore is moi used at all.
DDr The total number of emigrants who
nave sailed from Liverpool, for all foreign
ports during the three months ending June 30,
was 4S,sso against "a, $50 in the correspond
ing quarter Of 1854. The decrease is not con-
fined to any particular branch of the emiera-
ton trade.
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Total. Ga

The Committee then adjourned until ten
clock, A. NJ, tomorrow.
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ArPoRruoNMENr

Of Members of the Council and House Of Repre-
sentives In the Legislative Assembly Of Min
nesota.
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The Ceasus-APportionment.

The Apportionment Committee was at work
Yesterday, adding up the returns from the sew
sr.l counties as far as received. The following
returns were before the Committee, all made in
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VERY LIKE VOLcANo.--While steamboat
was passing up the Ohio the other day, about
seVenty-nVe miles from Louisville, the water
near 1t suddenly boiled up for space of forty
feet square. and to height not less than ten
feet 1t boiled and bubbled at fearru, rate
and Kissed and foamed like thousand holm .
cauldrOns. Then there came up to the surf. .
light and very porus substance Of . a.rs
color, which was so light as to float on ,ho
river, its upper edge fully two feet above ths
level of the water. Some of the passenp GER.
were very considerably alarmed, if not abso.
lutely frightened. An Ohio paper thinks it
was from volcanic disturbance of the neither
regions.
~ A few days ago forty-one German stone
masons and laborers started from Cincinnati
for Kansas.
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There are no returns of any character what
ever from the counties of Freeborn, Todd,
Pembina, Farribault, Pierce, Renville and
Davis. These counties must certainly contain
. population in the aggregate of 1000.
1t then appears that the population of Min
nesota on the frs: ofJune last stood as follows:
Official returns made by teh Sheriffs
to the Secretary, 342l0
Counties in which the Sheriffs have
not made returns. but in which
the census has been regularly
taken 1880
Estimate of Counties not taken 1000
Total population. $500
In regard to the two Council Districts of
Ramsey county, the division of population
stands as follows:
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Thus obtaining from reliable sources
apopulaton of. ................. 40 500
The Committee were unable to obtain reli-
able Information as to the population of either
OF the counties of Freeborn, Todd, Farribault,
Pierce, Renville and Davis.
The county OF Pembina was exempt from the
action of the committee by the law.
The committee then proceeded to ascertain
the population of the several Council Districts
as obtained officially and unoficially, which
appeared to be as follows:
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low yesterday. She leaves this morning.
FARMING N MINNEsoTA.-Our neighbor, J
W. Selby, Esq, informs US that during the pas
two weeks be has sold from two acres ofground
three hundred and Mirty-one dollars' worth o
potatoes, and received the cash for every pota
to disposed of! Yet some people say tina
farming is not profitable in Minnesota.
ST. ANTHONY ExPREss.-This whiting
black mail sheet has at length found its level
Since Geo. Bowman left it, (the only man ever
connected with its editorial department who
could not be bought and sold for 5000 it has
been gradually falling into the pool of oco.
focoism. 1t has finally got there and Isaac .at,ca
ter isits editor-its Douglas Slavery Ex-
tension editor! Isaac took six months to con.
clude upon which party he should join when he
first came to Minnesota, and finally became a
Wing, to the eternal curse of Whiggery in the
Territory. He has now got where he belongs
Franklin Steele and the great Chemung Ca.
mailer are his partners in the Express.
~ All work upon the Burlington and
Missouri Railroad has been suspended. The
Gazette says that quantity of iron purchased
by the Company and already shipped, will be
stopped. Two hundred hands employed by
one contractor have been discharged.
- That Mrs. Robertson, which thew had
in the Troy Jail. is what may be called hard
specimen. When the news of the communication
OF her sentance was announced to her, she flew
into a great rage. Before leaving her cell she
broke up all the furniture and piled it up in
the middle Of the room. 1t is supposed she
intended to set it on fire, and burn the Jail,
herself and all.
REPUBLICANS OF MAME.-A Great Mase Con-
vention of the people of Maine, who are op-
posed to the National Administration and the
extension of Slavery, is to be held at Portland
on the l4th inst The following distinguished
gentlemen are to participate in the proceed.
ings: VIM. P. Fessenden, Arson P. Morrill,
Amos Nourse, Saml. Mayall, John j. Perry
l. washburn, Edward Kent, Saml. p Benson,
and F. H. Morse, Of Maine John P. Hale.
David T. Clark, aud James Bell of New Ham.
shire Ex-Gov. Cleveland and Truman Smith,
OF Connecticut; Benz. F. Butler and John A.
Dir, OF New York. A grand time is autici.
pated.
~ Ex-senator Jere. Clemens Of Alabama
has published long letter in the Huntsville
Advocate, in which he defines his position in
favor Of the Know Nothing Platform.
~ The deaths in New Orleans for the week
ending oath ult., were two hundred and forty,
OF which one hundred and nineteen were from
yellow fever.
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INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.-Mr Settlers men, at
work in the st. Croix Pinery. were fred upon
a few days since, by band of Chippewa In
dians. Two of them were seriously wounded.
The Indians bad previously been engaged in
acts of theft about the camp, and the men had
manifested IA disposition to protect themselves
and the property onthe premises. Mr.. S. was
in. ST. Paul yesterday, seeking assistance Of the
Government to arrc.t the dtpreda;ors.
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E@ The American Association for the ad-
vancement Of Science has its ninth meeting at
Providence, r. l.. to commence August 18th,
and to hold about week.
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8 &r Longfellow is engaged upon 9 transla.
ton of Dante. 1t will not be ready for the press
before the fall of 1856. - s
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Council Proceedings.

Council Proceedings.
TUESDAY, August7.
PRESENT The Mayor and Aid. Becker,
BAIL. Cave Fuller, Larpenteur, Mobiles and
Schurmer.
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Itasca Co (rcturncd to Democratic Con.
in connection with CasS)

Total pop. unoficially obtained. .. Is.
Add official re'rns amounting tO....... "a,
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LAND SALES.-Thc President has issued his
proclamation for the sale of the surveyed lands
ritory of Minnesota. The sales are to take
place in the months of October and November
ensuing. We shall have something to say
about this important matter in day or two
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Gs> On Tuesday of last week. the Court
House in Taylor county, Virginia, was struck
with lightning while the Court was in session.
One man was killed and others severely
injured The man killed was Rev. Hezckah
Duncan, who had recently been ordained over
the Baptist Church.
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MAD Doc SToRY.-In common with ell our
contemporaries near and far off, we recently
copied terrible story of man named Evans
having he hydrophobia at Cairo whom it took
five strong men to hold in his paroxysms. and
who was finally smotbered to put him out of
his misery. The Jonesborough Gazette gives
more agreeable version of it: nff.r
Now, as we happen to live forty miles from
Cairo, of course we are acquainted with Mr..
Evans. anu know he was not bitten by mad
dog. He was never bitten but twice in his
life; once by water moccasin. and the other
time boy snapped him dog knife for his
barlow. We suppose the last bite is the one
our contemporary is hammering at.
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The RrvER.--The Oakland, Capt. C. Morri-
son, from St. Louis, was the only boat from be-
low yesterday. She leaves this morning.
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New ORLEANS. August z
D. Nc Farlane. one of our most distinguished
physicians. has declared in letter to the True
Delta that the fever here is epidemic.
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The following returns were also before the
committee. They are not official, but no doubt
verv nearly correct:
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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILRoAD-The Illinois
Central Railroad Company announce by their
Treasurer, hat they will sell on the 3lst OF
August next, by auction. at the Merchants
Exchange, New York. the folio wing securities
which have been forfeited by non-payment of
installnents 1850 shares of their stock in
the name Off. and G. l.. Schuyler 1873 do do
ofN. and c. B. Dana; do do of Joseph Gieger
total 2, BAL shares.
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CENTRAL PoINr--LAKE PEPIN.-Among the
many new towns springing into existence
around us. Central Point. claims passing no.
tice. We are informed that it is located cen
trally. upon The shores of Lake Pepin some
two and a half miles below Maiden Rock op-
posite. commanding a view of the Lake some
ten miles. Already warehouse is completed
a store in progress of erection, besides several
residences going up during the present fall
Red Wing Sentinel. q,
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~ The mayor of Athens is reported to
have said. q short time since, to Rev Dr. King.
the American mnister--"With the Professionals
we may one day form one fold, under one shep-
herd; but with the Roman Catholics never -
The increased hatred of the Greeks towards the
Catholics. which is SO very apparent, is in no
part owing to the dispute about the holy Sc
pulchre at Jerusalem.
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I'D All work upon the Burlington and
Missouri Railroad has been suspended. The
Gazette says that quantity of iron purchased
by the Company and already shipped, will be
stopped. Two hundred hands employed by
one contractor have been discharged.
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g9> party of returned Calfornians, who
arrived at Salt Lake City on the 4th Of June.
report that from 600 to 600 will return home
by the owe, land route this season.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-06-01

make it--if there is any chance of fu.
ture friendship between us. 1t was
hard TO give you up harder still TO feel
the sacrifice had been in vain. Had
you been happily married, could have
returned TO you sooner but suffering,
aud TO feel had no power to soolhe--'
This generosity was too much for me.
rose up hastily from the seat | had
taken. d cannot bear it, said rashly;
the past has been cruel enough. but this
is worse .han all. Oh am miserable!
Friends we can never Oe !--let me go
home : spoke with the fretfulness of
child; he looked amazed.
Am ! again deceived?' he asked. Il
was told that the gentleman saw with
you this evening, Mr, Branson, was your
accepted loEer. -kRew-iim wellf re
deserves you, Constance. reioiced to
see you bright and animated as you used
to be in society-to think that there was
no blight for yoa at last. What can
you mean? You will not risk surely,
the happiness of bothl Pardon me- he
added coloring, i forget that have not
even friend right to warn
On the brink OF ones la.e, to deliber.
ate is to lose all.
Mr.. Branson is nothing to me, | said,
white and Trembling, and will never
be more the past will uotle: itself be
soon Iorgotton.' My tone seemed to OK.
cite him.
Constance = he exclaimed passion.
ately, did you, them love him so much1
All had mine teen the powerp He
drew long breath, ana fixed for mo.
ment gazd on my face that solved my
last doubt, broke down The last barrier.
Frank has long been forgotten said
and instinctively held ou: my hand
that was child's love. What want
Of the future is, to be what the past
once promised, Mr.. Lacy '1
had stood erect, and spoke aulibly.
up to this point; but here my head
dropped, my cheeks burned. yet from no
ignobIe shame. 0ne quick glane Of
searching establishment, one rapturous
exclamation, aud | was folded in mis-
arms.
Cons lance. forgive my doubt. You
have regretted me-you love me 2
Beyond what you have asked SIAM
mered, hiding my face on his shoulder
beyond friendship. feel have found
my ark OF refuge
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-06-01
Horrible Dream,

We once heard very laughable joke
which a henpecked husband go! upon
his Mrs. Caudle. He had borne her
railing for a long time, till one morn
ing she was clustering about the wood,
short OF potatoes, flour, &c., he re-
marked very pathetlcaliy--
"Jerush, | had dream last night,
very queer one, aud it gives me some
uneaslneSs. | dreamed that | was ia.
ken sick and died"
"WeIl, it it was no more than that"
said JeruSh, 81 wish it had been more
than a dream"
"BuI this is not ALL" said the hus,
band; 81 wen: to hell, and when | got
there, | enqured Of one of the imps
for the old devil himself, and was shown
into his presence The old fellow re.
cognized me at once, and said he to
me, have you come here to stay?' |
told him had. Well, l can't have
you herep said he to me, 'lor if you
stay, when Jerush dies she'll come, and
then hell will be in an uproar all the
timel' "
Soon after the completion of the
narrative OF the dream, there came a
shower of culinary utensils about the
poor fellows head, which made him
obliged 10 seek shelter elsewhere till his
Jezebel's wrath had subsidized. @
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-06-01
A Pretty Foot.

There's magic in lady's foot.
And well the ladies' know il,
And she who has a pretty one
Is pretty sure to show il;
At times you, too, are mariyred by
The incest little ankle,
That shoots an arrow through the eyes,
Within the heart to Tankle.
OF course you turn your gaze aside,
And all your bushes stile,
For well you know she S not aware
Her skirts are raised trife;
Ana sho'd you think she might ,perchance,
Have on loosened gaiter,
Your fingers itch to play the part
Of honest lady's waiter.
Though tantalized till he is craZed-
Stark mad with wild romancing,
That witching foot along his brain
A thousand waltzes dancing
The while II merely lightly pats,
As thoughtIessly she may move it.
No modest man would dare to dream,
There isa leg above it.
But when it trips along the street,
Through wind and mud and vRpo-,
By sheer accident you see
How beautiful the taper
And as it steps upon the walk,
Amidst the crowd to mingIe
Two rougish eyes look up and say,
Il wonder If he's single ?"
Bit would have no lady think
fancy her schemer,
And beg her to remember that
The poet is a dreamer,
lie sees what Others do not see,
And seeks for hidden beauty
No pretty face can lure him from
The path Of moral duty.