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the importance and use of astronomy. As the oration is 

 in print, I shall not attempt any analysis of it. It was 

 every way worthy of its author and of the sublime subject. 

 Twilight was closing in upon us when he finished, and the 

 Albanians enjoyed a triumph. Mr. Everett lodged with us 

 at Dr. Sprague's, and, as he remained over one day, we 

 enjoyed highly his conversational powers, and his rich 

 communications regarding men and things, with which and 

 whom he had been so extensively conversant, at home and 

 abroad. His manners are amiable, kind, and winning, 

 and do not justify the impression that he is cold and 

 reserved. 



Professor Silliman supported Colonel Fremont for 

 the Presidency. The result of the autumn elections, 

 notwithstanding the strong rally of the Republican 

 party, occasioned him much anxiety. 



November 19. Pennsylvania and New Jersey have gone 

 for Buchanan, and thus it is feared that the slave-power is 

 installed in all the branches of the government. There 

 has been much fraudulent voting on the side of Buchanan. 

 Many thousands of Irish, and not a few Germans, have 

 been at the command of the slave-party. But a still more 

 Important cause of defeat has been, that the late President 

 Fillmore has been in the field by his own consent. It was 

 ill-judged in him and his friends, and has only tended to 

 defeat Fremont, because it was obviously impossible that 

 he Fillmore should be elected by the popular vote, 

 and very many of the votes given for him would, if he had 

 not been in the field, have been given for Fremont. In 

 the election of members of the House of Representatives, 

 also, the Republican cause has lost many members. The 

 Government, after March 4, will be entirely in the hands 

 of the slave-power. This affects me much ; but what is 

 most afflicting is, that Kansas may be left to the mercy of 



