New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-02-15

1. is superior TO olive sperm oil for machinery
for the manufacture Of woolens. Sc, ana can DC
furnished at half the price. Upon chemical anai-
yss i. is found TO be scarcely different IN rs eie-
ments from sperm.
An increase of only one cent per ID. on the
produc, of the pork made in the U. States would
sroppt 10 $50 900, 900 per annum, and more than
this may easily be effected. II the skins OF hogs
were taken off on killing, the cost would be no
greater than now, the pork would taste better, and
,be skins would be worth many mliens OF dollars,
The bris,les, too are generally wasted, as they
should not be. The foreign market for pork, lard
and oil is just opening, and is almost boundless.
The quantity produced may easily be doubled, and
its prodactivencss greatly increased.
a new raode of building cottages, ordinary
dwellings, has lately been adopted. The material
is formed by removing the soil, digging up the
common clay, (Which is almost universal especial
ly at the West,) mixing it with water and straw,
and treading it into mortar by oxen; from this
brick are made OF IL by - by inches, or IL by
by inches, in plank mould, and struck with
piece of iron hoop. These brick are dried upon
the ground, in 10 or IL days, while the foundation
of the building is preparing, and prairie wood stills
or (Which Is bctter) course of slate laid, on which
the dried but unburnt brick are put Up, foot in
thickness; the windows and doors being put in as
it proceeds; division walls, brick wide, or seven
inches; roof Of shingles thatch projecting foot
or tive each way. The walls are then plastered
with good lime mortar, and a second time with the
same, pebble.dashed; the inside without dashing-
and the hoase is built. This house is very cheap,
is warm in winter and cool in summer, and al:
sords no retreat for vermip Its walls are not
damp, unburnt brick absorbing no water, which
the burnt, being porous, will do. Such house
may be safely carried up two or three stories, Is
almost fire.proof, and nearly as cheap as a log ca
oin Gin some places more SOY and will last CEN
fury, if the foundation be well laid.
A new Wheat has bsen introduced from the Me-
diterranean, which is ;mpregnable to the assaults OF
tie Hessan fly and the rust.
A new mode of Fencing has been adopted
trench is run with plough and posts set in it;
heavy furrow is then turned up to them with pillow
ind scraper, making aridge of some two feet above
3hich three light rails inserted into the posts,
each having its end sharpened angularly from one
side to the other-er rather they cut angulary,
md when inserted in The post exactly fit TO each
,ther, just filling the hole in the post, and SO joint
I'd that one can hardly be removed without tearing
Up the post. This fence can be put up with TN
precedented rapidity, and requires but nine rails
of half the weight to forty on the old Virginia
olan This improvement is of great value every
where, but especially on the Western prairies.
The experiments of the last year have fully es.
tablished the practicability and profit of making
Sugar from the stalks of the maize or Indian
The yield is 10 per cent. of saccharine matter,
while the Cane yields 81 and and the Beet but 3.
The Silk Culture is established in this Country.
The American raw Silk is admitted to be superior
to any other known. Its production is increasing
in New-England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Kentucky and Tennessee. One establishment in
Ohio pays 81 per bushel for cocoons, and pro6taby
manufactures Silk to the amount of 1000 per
| month. One person there will feed 100000
worm, next year. Very great improvements in the
business have been made within the last year.
We find it impossible to make room for com.
| pletc Summary of this important document. In
stead Of this, shall PUBLISH 1T ENTIRE, with its
engrarngs Of improved machinery, &c. in an Elk
ira Tribune, pamphlet edition of 90 large and close
octave pages, at cost Of 25 cents, or copies for
81. The Postage will be but 2 cents under 100
| miles, or cents for greater distance. Those
who have any idea of the value ana interest of this
work will oblige shy forwarding their orders early
SO that we may know how many to print. There
ought to be 100000 copies d.ffused over the Coun.
try before the frost is out of the ground.
| CASE OF MEneER.-The United States Gazette
shows clearly that doubt can possibly arise as tc
the jurisdiction in the case of Mercer, arrested fol
chs murder of Heberton while crossing the Della
ware river at Philadelphia. By a compact made
IN 1888 between the two States, it is expressly de-
clared that all capital and other o6ences, tres