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Carroll fut ires From (lie Ohio State Journal Sik In (he grant hurry of business which always mieuds the ciose of the Le-guUture, il is impossible in examine every subject with that ore whioh it deserves; and in looking over the tablea which I had made ol the apportion ment lltll Otlion .,.1. Hive me nuiouriiiumii, i ana mat un ai cummuieu III copying troin the engrossed bill aa it passed the House, me juoniaia were reading, the morning the bill waa to have its third reading. The error was in en tering one Representative to each of the counties of Seneca and Sandusky, instead fonc to thorn jointly A similar error waa found also, in entering iho Senator fnsea Licking county for 1836, in the col umn of toe Representative. The former of these errors waa carried into the proteal against the bill, which wna signed by a number of Senators. Aa the error waa entirely my own, I wish to correct it, before it meets the public eye, and therefore send you a Copy of the protest, with a note correcting that part which is erroneous I likewise, aend yon the tables up on which I he calculation were made for Representatives for 1835, and the Sena-tore for the lour years, aa they era atated in the protest, and now taken Irom the bill as corrected.

By correcting both er -ors, and transferring these three counties to their appropriate lists, the same un necessary and unequal allotments of Representative for the year 183d will be touud to exist Very respectfully. LEICESTER KING. Columbus, March 14, 1836. PROTEST. The undersigned members of the Sena, dissent from, and protest igainat the passage of ihe bill, "To fix and appor tiombe representation in the General As eml.lyfthe State of Oil for the following reasjens, which they ask to have placed aeon Ike journals.

First. Because they considerate provisions unequitable, partial, and not in no cordanre with the letter, or spirit of the Constitution of the State, which deola res "'that ike number of Representatives, small be fixed by the Legislature, and np portioned among the several countus according tu ike number of white in tie iuhab Hants, abev ike age of twenty-one years, in Second. Because tnny believe liiat Ihe inequalities in the Representation ares crraaed and located in the bill, as to ghre aa undue and unfair advantage and ropaaderance in the, next (Jentral Assembly, to districts of a pi (titular polili-ca! character. From the returns made to the S.nate of (be lute in lie inhabit i nts ah ve ihe age of twenty one yoara, inoiadiltf the profca Me aiiiuunt ol (lie few comities from which no returns have been received, it is eup-foeed that the whole number will exceed 236,000. The followinthirty counties, comuri Representative population of 02, 134, are allowed by the lull, in the ucx' Jeneral Assembly, Ai ty seven Represen tatives in the Kipular branch, being a ma j'rilj of two of its whole number, to it; Columbiana, Carroll, II ilmos, Coshocton Tuscarawas, II rri.ui, Mmir Pery Mor sen, Washington, Faff! Id.

irking Rons Pike. Jackson. Butler, Preble, Union, Ma i j. rioii.via.v.oru oe'ieru," Clin ton, Miami, Dirk, Mercer, Lorain, Stark, Richland, and Knox. This leaves the balance of the Slste, comprising forty five counties, containing a Representative popu'ation of more than 143,000, to he represented in that branch nf the next legislature by thirty Jtce R'pre eentutives only.

Of these Ihirtv counties above named, no one has a Representative population equal to 'he representation allowed it in that branch of the next General Aeeni lily and all uf them, with the exception ti! six, are now represented in the same branch by persons of one political party fjBy un examination of Ihe bill in detail, these inequalities will appear more glar iviz and unreasonable. For instance, while the county of Mus Li tgun, with a population of 6310, has Imi one Representative in iho popular at the next session, and the conn ties of Clump lin S( Logan, with popu nrtmn uf ahnnt 5)00, hive together one, mid eleven north-western counties of the Slat, wit, a population exceeding 6100. scattered over a large extent ol country, have loader but one; the county of Per-rv, with a population of 3062, the county Preble, with 0 3615. the county of Knox, with population of 3330 iind Ihe county Boiler, with a population of SI 17, have each two R-presnta lives in the same branch ofthe next Legis while ihucoun'ies of Col urn Vina, Knox, and Perry, with a popula lion of 13.512, have seven Representa tives in one branch alone in Ihe next Lg islalure, the rounlios of Muskingum, Lu cas. Wood, Henry, Williams, Hancork, Pauldinit, Putnam, Vanwert, Allen, Har din, and Shelby confining a Representa live population of 12,428, are allowed but two Representatives in ihe samo brunch at the nxi session; and with the two Senators allotted to them, they have three in nu-nher leas, including both branches, that the former have in one.

The twenty eight counties, remaining a Representative population ol allowed eighteen Senators lor the next lour yearn, being one hall of the who.e So nate.lo wit: Stark, Richland, Knox, Co eiocton, Ilolmea, Ross, Pike Jackson, Fiiifii Id, Hocking, Miami, Dark, Mercer Sennca, Sandusky, Monroe, train, Clin Ion, Highland, Medina, Guernsey, Ham ilton, Licking, Clermont, Jefferson, Bel mont, Montgomery, and Warren. The ika umviiii number, contain a Representative pop ulation ot more than 130,000, and have i but eighteen Senator, fur tba next years. Of these twenty -eight counties above named, the eighteen first enumerated are included also in the list of the thirty coun ties to which majority of two haa been allotted in the other branch of the next Geoeral Assembly and of the ten added to them as above, to compose one half of the Senate, a majority of them are now represented in ihe present Senate by per sous of the same political parly. By Ihia arrangement of districts, thirty counties, containing in the aggregate a Representative population of 51,000 leas than the residue of the State, are allowed a majority of two in one branch of the next General Assembly; and in the other branch, eighteen of these same couniies, in connection with the ten others last before named, containing a population 000 less than the remaining forty seven counties, havo one halt af its Representa lion: thereby depriving alaige majority of ihe counties and of the State of their proper constitutional Representation, and sec iring to a minority of people thus coin paratively small, a majority of two on joint ballot in the next Legislature. Having failed in all attempts to correct these inequalities by proper amendments and believing them to be repugnant to the provisions ofthe Constitution, and to the priuciples justice and fair represeu tatioii, we have deemed It a duty dae to eur station, and to the Stale, to enter our solemn protest against the provisions ol bill.

(Signed,) LEICESTER KING, RALPH (J RANGER, SV.V1UEI. NEWELL, FRED. WADSWORTH, JOHN W. ALLEN, ANDREW DONtLLY, eli as florence, James stekle, john m. houston, (i to the additional members distributed.) HENRY MORSE, WILLIAM KENDALL, SAMUEL COX, JOHN H.

JAMES, JOSEPH HOWARD, Note. By an error inadvertently com untied in the press of business at the ciose of the session, the counties of Seneca and Sandusky, with a population of 4723 were in-erted 'ii this list, instead of the county of Licking, vth a population of 6327, which would then make twenty nine counties, with a population ol 93,938, in-ste of thirty counties, with a population of 92.131. ith these corrections when ever (hey should be applied, Ihe result will he Ibuud stated as by reference to the annexed tables will be seen. i L-ivri rvi.ivi From the Philadelphia Inquirer. rilE TEXI4N DECLAR TION OF INDEPENDENCE KITS.

ACT A LrfTTKR TO Till! EDITOR. Washington, Tejas, March 6, 1836. Enclosed I lorward you a manuscript copy ol the 'IVxian Declaiation ol lode pendence. We have no printing preas here, end hence as the copy I furnish was taken in great haste it may contain some slight inaccutariea. It is generally cor rect however, if not strcitly so, and I send you an early copy, supposing that the peo pie of the U.

States are not altogether in different as to our fate. There are many Philadelphiaua among us bold hauls and true men who but a short time since enjoyed all the ease and luxury of Phila delphia life. Firod by the aime spirit that induced Lafayette to visit the Ameri can colonies and lake part in the noble struggle for liberty, they are sharing Ihe ingers and braving the perils of a con test against another tyrant. Among the number of the ardent and en'erprising of your city, who have linked themselves with Ihe fate of Texas, I may mention Edward Conrad Esq. formerly of the Phil adelphia Gazette.

He was a member of the General Convention, and enjoys the confidence of some of our most disiingaish ed men. With regard to ihe result of our effort, I am not ao sanguine as some ol those around me, but I never witnessed such determination, such entheusiaam in any cause. The Tex i ins are determined either to achieve their freedom or penh in the attempt. Santa Anna and his my intdona are in our immediate vicinity, but the accounts vary as lo Ihe strength of hi army. It is beyond all doubt that hi, force exceeds oura by several thousand, but atill wu are any thing but faint heart ed.

A little while and our fate will be eealed we will either aland forth a na (ion, and excite the admiration of the world as a nation of heroee, or our corses will strew the fair fields around us. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Whan a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and properly of the people, from whom its legiti mate powers are derived, and for the CARROLLTON, FRIDAY, advancement of whose haoDiness it wu inatituted, and to far from Ijein a guarantee for the enjoyment of those 7 inestimable and unalienahla ri -his. ha comei an inilrument in iha hands of evil rulers for their oppression. When the federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have tworn to support, no longer hag a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a conioli dated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army the priesthood both the eternal enemy of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of pow.

er, and the usual instruments of tyrants When long after the spirit of the Constitution has departed, modera Don it at length so far-lost, by those in power, that even the semblance of free dom is removed, and the tormi them selves of the constitu'hn discontinued; and so far from their petitions and re mons'raneeabeingregarded, the agents wno bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies tent torth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bavonel. When in consequence nf such acts of malfeasaneeand abdication, on the part of the government, anarchy, prevails and civil society is dissolved into it original elements. In such a crisis, ihe first law of nature, Ihe rig ii of self-preservation the inherent and inalien able right of ihe people to appeal lo first principles, and lake their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases enjoins it ss a right towards themselves and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such oiv UN Mi: NT AID I' II W' ANOTHER, in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, 4 to secure 'heir welfare and happiness. Nations, as wel! as individuals, are amenable for their acts to Ihe public opinion nf mankind. A statement of i pari of our grievances is, therefore, submitted loan impartial world in jus 'ification of the hazardous but unavoid able s'ep now taken of serving our po hlical connexion with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent iitmtua among the nations of the etr'h.

The Mexicm government. by its coloniznion laws, invited induced the Anglo American population of Texas lo colonize its wilderness, under ihe pledged faith of a written eon niimion, that they should continue to enjoy thai constitutional liberty and republican government, to which they had been habituated in the laud of their bird, Ihe United Stiles of America, In this expectation Ihry have been cru elly disappointed, inasmuch ss the vlexican nation has acq tiesced in the late changes made in the government by Gen Antonio Lrw Santa An na, who having overturned thecomti lution of his country now offers us (he alternative either to abandon our homes, acquired by to many privations or submit the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood. It has sacrificed our welfare to the stale of Cohuila; by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealousand partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of govern ment, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tingue; and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms (or the establishment of a aep arale State Government, and have in ac eordance with the provisions of the National Constitution, presented lo the gen eral congress a republican constitution, which was without a just cause, contemptuously rejected. It incarcerated in a dungeon for a long time, one of our citizens for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the adoption of i ho constitution, and the establishment of a State Government. It has failed and refused to aecure on a fair basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium nf civil liberty and properly of the citizens.

It line failed to establish any public system of education although possessed of almost boundless resources (the public do nain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated enlightened, it ia idle In expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity ol sell government. It has suffered the military command tin's stationed amung us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyranny, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights nf the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power. It ia dissolved bv force of arms, the state congress of Cohuila and Texas, obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thtt- depriving ua of the fundamental political riebt of representation. It has demanded the surrender of number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments lo soize and carry them into the interior for trial in con- APRIL 15, 1836, tempt of the civil authority, and in detl auee of the lawa and the constitution. It haa made piratical attacks upon our commerce, oy commissioning Ionian ds i i end authorizing them to aeize I our convey the property of our citizens foi confiscation ll denies us the right of worshiping God according to tba dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion calculated to promote the tempo-rial interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory and honor of ihe liv ing God.

It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which aie essential lo our defence, thu rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to ty riti meal govern men is. It haa invaded our country both by sea and land, with intent to lay waate our territory and drive ii from our homes; and haa now a large army advan cing against ua to carry on a war of ex termination. It has through its emissaries, incited the merciless saveges, with the loma hawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants ut our defenceless frontiers It hath been during the whole time ol our connexion with it, the contemptible sport snd victim of unnecessary Military Revolution; and haa continually exhibit ed every characteristic of a weak, cor rupt and tyrannical government. 'I'hese, and other grievances were patiently borne by Ihe people of Texaa, un til they reached that point at which for bearance ceases te be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the National Constitution; we appealed to our xi can brethren for atststauce, our nppeal has been made ir, vain; though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior.

We are therefore forced to the melancholy concl jsion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruct ou of their lib erty, and the substitution thereof of a mil ilary government, that they are unfit to tie free, and incapable of self government. The necessity of rclf preservation therefore now decrees our eternal political separation. We therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, ol the people of Texas, in solemn convention usseuibled, appealing to a candid world for the necessity ol our condition, do hereby resolve and declare thst our political connexion with Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the penp of Texas do now consti t'ttea Free, Sovereign and Independent Republic, ami are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to Independent Nat ious, and conscious ofthe rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly end confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme Arbiter of tt.e desiimea of Nations. Signed by 34 namea. CINCINNATI MUSEUM.

THE INTERNAL REGIONS. Among the vast number ol atrangera, who visit the beautiful city of Cincinnati there are few wlio have not either heard of or set the above interesting establish ment, for added to the attractions ef an ex tensive collection of minerals, fossils, shells, Indian antiquities, preserved birds and beasts, wax figures, Jfc. them is the famous Infernal -giona, of which, for the informstion of our readers, I propose to ifive sume accouut. The idea of this exhibition first origina ted with M. Dorfeulle, ihe present proprietor of this concern, and some seven or eight years ago, when the famous Mra Trollope was in Cincinnati, accompanied oy a Mr, liervieu, a distinguished trench painter, ihe former gentleman suggested to Ihe latter the propiiety of trying his pencil upon the subject; he did ao, and pro duced a beautifully awful picture rcpre aentingavsst subterranean lake, of fire and ice alternate, overhung with alalaci tea and glacies, upon which varioua ob jects were sen clinging and climbing.

Some were writhing in the fiery waves, while others were fixed in the ire, with but their heads or some of tbeir limbs ex posed; there appeared lo be no intermedi ate temperature between the fiery billows and the icy shores, nothing but extremes of freezing or roasting. This picture was called "Hell accord ing to and waa relieved by a gi ganlic figure of Minos, in front; and autt able arrangements in the apartment to produce ibe best effect; but as there was nolhingofan agitating or acting cbarac ter in ihe exhibition, very many were dis appointed; they came expecting to see monaters, mips, hobgoblins, and the devil all in motion, and of course a mere picture did not answer their expectations. The proprietor, perceiving hia potronage on the decline, now caat about bim for some thing lo gratify the wishes; accordingly having an ingenious assistant in the rau seum, he induced him lo dress himself in disguise, and enter the exhibition by way of an experiment in the character of Bed tebub, and so did he personate that charac ter, that the audience were all delighted for a nose he made uae of a huge claw of a lobster, and affixed enormous glass eyes over hiB own, false leeth, beaid, Atc.aod held in his hand a wand, which waa con nected by nn invisible wire lo a powerful electric machine; he was seated near the grating placed between the ai'dience and the exhibition, and when any ol inem van lured within reach, would touch them with his wand, and the effect waa magical indeed, for they would jump near to the ceiling, and cause a burst of laughter a mong the crowd; this answered verv well until the approach of cold weather, when beelzebub found the temperature of ibe place too cold for him, and to save his feel trigs, constructed an automaton, which performed the part to the increased salts faction of viaiters. The success of this first autemaion indu ced him lo make others; and aome lime since, when ihe writer of thie article visit ed tbe place, it was full of monsters snakes imp, and figures representing the suffer ing oeiore atated. There ia one automaton which I partic ularly noticed; it is a huge serpent, which crawls cautiuusly from hia den, and ibeo leapa violently to witbin a tew inches of the grating, with hia enormous jawsexteo ded, ebibiting teeth like the rattle snake, protruding from his mouth when open, and folding within when shut: this is no paste board thing, however it baa bean made; I saw it on all sides, for it turned in various directions, end exhibited a perfect form, ales and all of an enormous ra'tle snake i'c motions were wonderfully true lo na lure; so much so that the proprietor aesu red ma, that though il has been within tbe reach of thousands, no one haa el da rec to touch it; on Ihe contrary, it excited ihe utmost horror amor.g the audience, when I saw it leap oil they tumbled over each other in their efforts to set a war.

Mademoiselle Coleste the famoja dancer was so over come by Ibis exhibi lion that she swooned. The scene closes every evening by the lights suddenly disappearing followed by a tremendous noise, during which figures from the mxgic lantern, are seen in rapid succession; so unexpected is this concl sion, that it generally causes the greatest consternation, and a general rush of the audience lothe door; and mail) bavenev er been prevailed upon to visit ita second time. Washington Mirror. From the London Mechanic's aga Zine. To construct a chimney which would oarry smoke hss been mnd in pur lice one of the mos precarious ohj -c's of mechanism, a little his the theory of smoke and draft been understood, that if ever a chimney was constructed to draw well, it was evidently a mat ter uf accident, for no mechanic teem ed lo have any tule constructing chimney which would ensure a good one.

We have been extremely gran tied within a few ('ays, by the inspec lion of a flue, and a set of fire placea, constructed upon a plan entirely new in principle, invented by Mr. Henry Antis. We had not ihe pleasure of seeing Mr. Amis' model, but we saw the practicable effect of his discovery, by a chimney and fire places in operation, in the house of Mr Joseph Wallace, in Front Street the success of which is complete, and triumphant ly sustains Mr. Amis' theory on it, is, that cold atmospheric air tends lo the centre of gravity, till it meets with some obstruction, which gives it snoth er direction: that heated or magnified air is exactly vertical, in motion; that hence, the fl ia lo carry it off should be perfectly vertical, and in no place of mailer dimensioos thin at the bottom or first inlet.

He maintains that ii mat ters not bow many inlets there be to it, provided thai the area of a cross sec lion of the flue be equal to those of all the inlets combined, it may be grea ter, but must never be smaller. He therefore starts with a single flue from ihe cellar, regulating (he site to cover ihe srea of all the contemplated inlets from bottom to top. He carries it up all the wiy of the same size, io essct perpendicular direction; nor need the wall be more than the width of one brick in thickness. Wherever he wsnts a fireplace he attaches jambs of the usual shape, leaving the common perpendicular wall ofthe flue for a back, throwing an arch across at tbe proper place in ihe usual form cover ing it tight lo the back wall. Itnme diately opposite or below the covering of the arch, he leaves a horizontal sper ture in the flue, the whole width of ihe fireplace, from jamb lo jamb.

In size sceordiog to calculation previous ly made snd accordiog to the height of tbe arch, wbich, for jambs from twenty four to thirty inches high, must not be less than three inches per pendicular in the opening. 1 here seems to be philosophy in this theory; aud practice so far as tried, proves that there is truth in it; snd we have no doubt the plan will, on a little further trial, be universally adopted by builders. Beneath each grste, fitted in a fire place, is an opening left, which de scends obliquely into Ihe flue. In this pening, on a level with ihe hearth, is a fire grate fixed, through which Ibe ashes descend from the grate above. Aod such is the effect, that while a strong current of air is produced by the heat from the fire in tba grate, through the horizontal iperture above ANTIS'IMPROVED NO- SI.

WHOLE NO. 8S- a moderate draught is also maintainsot io ibe oblique one below, which ear ries off all the dust; so that from a cool fire not a particle of dual escapes into ihe room. He also affile a valve to each iolet, hung such an ingenious maooer, that the mere pulling of a small brut knob closes it entirety; thus, in cnte ihe chimney should take fire all the currents of air msy be stop ped in a moment, and the fi re dice at once. Not a particle of soot ean eater the room or your fireplace for thai aa the ashes, all descend lo the bottom of the flue io the cellar, where an ope oing with a sheet iron door, ia costruo ted, from which these articles can bo taken and through which a sweep nay enter and perform his duties, without disturbing the business, amusemeof, or quiel, of any part ofthe family. Where necessary, he also carries up de flue io the jimbs, by which air can be ioiroJueMi, to regulste ihe tarn perature of your room or the force of your draughts Tbe sd vantages of this improvement are.

II. Fewer materials are used which cheapens Ihe work. 2d Less room it engrossed by dead brick work. 3d. No annoyanee from soot or ash es io your rooms not even wheo a sweep ascends to dean out yojr flue.

4 h. Power lo regulate me temperature of your rooms, without opening doors or windows. h. Perfect security against smoke) in room io your house. A RlVOLUTtOKARV Rklic --We copy the fallowing interesting article, from Poulson's Daily Advertiser of Wednesdsy week.

The heroes of iho struggle for ludepeadenee, are fast hastening from among us; In a little while there will not one be left to loll paien, mat iccureu iur us our ixistence a a nation. "A flue looking gentleman, with a grey head il is true, but with face, and eye, snd voice, aud motion indica ting thst not over fifty yean were upon hi shoulders, csme into out office yea erday, and said, 'I have ist been to the bank to receive my peusioo, and it his jut now occurred to me tint it was ou the same day of the sunt mou and at ihe same hour of iho day, 53 years sgo. that 1 took part ia the bstth of "Our gallant revolu ioniry relio was ooe ef Lee's legion. This legion wai about two miles in advance ol iho army, looking if er the enemy, who had possesion of Hell's II and as wss ususl, with this spirited legion, led ou the engagement, which commenced about two miles from Guilford Court House, ii ihe forks of a road. There Lee charged Tarhou'i horse, and drove them back, killing and wounding thirty or forty.

Then a dash was made among the Queen's guards, when the legion lined ibe lino ofthe srmy ai Guilford Court House, where the battle wai fought. Our ve terao's breakfast this morning fifty five years sgo, consisting of some Indian meal, which he mixed up with some water from small stresm near by, which he baked on a bit of a fence rail. These are revolutionary services, aod this revolutiooary fare." "We got ao anecdote of Green from our friend. The circumstsnee oceur red on the morning of ihe diy of tbe battle of Guisw. Lee's legion fell io with a large foraging party.

Our infantry instantly engaged them. Tho firing brought Green up in person to see what was ihe cause of it. He rode by the side of our friend, and their boots were touching st the moment when on of Green's sids rode up aod announced that the enemy in large force was in his rear." Ride back," said Green without changing his position, "and tell them their situation say if ihey do not instantly surrender, I shall cut them to pieces with my horse." The command wu obeyed, and an immediate surrender followed. "This was revolutionary prompt ness and revolutionary decision." Sensitive men are their own perse cutors. 'marks and inuendos, never intended lor them, are seized snd ap propriatod by them, lo their own mia ery.

Hang such covetousnessof tft-handed compliment! Reader are you of the genius irritable? If so, taka my wuid for il you are very foolish; thii is oo hint, bol a diteri assertion. Never believe sny thing of yours- If that you do not know to be iru end never be incommoded by what you do not believe. Ii it proposed to establish tin of Steamboats to ply between Y. tnd. Baltimore, and the project will pieba bly bo cirrisd into ueutioo.

100432, by the provisions of said bill are i.