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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
Three SeyenteeIfs.

We heard good story the other day,
of an ancient joker (now dead) who is the
father of a great brood of fast boys.
The old gentleman who was rather
strict governor, though when outside he
would occasionally ''let up" drink, talk
horse, and go in for the chances. The
boys knew this-boys generally do-and
while they respected the governor" on
account of his age, they positively objec
ted to his propensities for humbug. One
Sunday the governor was reading the
Bible, and when Ez, the oldest boy pro-
cured set of dice and having spotted
all the low sides so that he could not get
less than fifteen, commenced throwing
them on chair. The governor came
to a hard word, looked UP and saw the
game. Then came the following conver-
sation;
Gou.-Ez, you boy-Ezirah! Do You
know what day it is!
-ffteen-Sunday. Seven
teen
Gou.-Well, then, you 60 and put them
things away; throw them in the stove--no
put them on the shelf Get book, sir,
and sit down and read.
Ez put the bones in his pocket, and
got book; but somehow or other the
dice were again soon out.
Ez..Seyenteen. seventeen seven
teen r.
Gou-(Springing from his chair and
allowing the Bible to drop on the Aoor)
What, not three seventeens. Good God
them would have Won the boss last night
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
The New Protection Against
Fire.

The following letter from an Ameri-
can in London, furnishes additional and
interesting facts in relation to Phillips S
"Fire Annihilator," which, if is what it
profeses to be, is undoubtedly most
useful and wonderful discovery:
LONDON, Friday, July 25, 1851.
The most extraordinary thing that |
have witnessed since l left America, is
Phillps's Fire Annihilator. Passing up
Cheapside few days since, saw streams
of flame pouring out of the three-story
windows of Wholesale Cloth Establish
ment, and the building and its contents,
seemed doomed to immediate destruc-
ton. / was within a few rods of the
house, and as | approached the door, a
man rushed in with a Portable Fire
Annihilator in his hand. 1t was not lar
ger than common water-bucket, and
weighed some 20 pounds. He ran into
the third story, and within less time than
it has taken me to write these few lines,
every vestige of flame had been "anni-
hilated" by the vapor which issued from
the miraculous little machine. For a
minute or two afterwards, the vapor was
seen issuing from the windows, then
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
Artificial Leather.

Art, guided by science, has achieved
another triumph. At Abingdon, Massa-
chusetts, there is an establishment for
manufacturing artificial leather by the
aid of steam engine of six or eight horse
power, the machinery attached to which
grinds up the chips and shavings of leath-
er which are cut off by the shoe and boot
makers, and which have heretofore been
burnt or thrown away. These are ground
to powder resembling coarse snuff, and
this powder is then mixed with gums and
other substances, so thoroughly that the
whole mass becomes akind of melted leath-
er. In short time this dries a little,
and is rolled out to the desired thickness
perhaps one twenty-fourth of an inch
This new-fashioned leather will make
good middle soles, and perhaps inner
souls; and would be very durable round
the shafts of a carriage, or in any place
where mere chafng is all the wear desi-
red. 1t is supposed that it would wear
we'll as bands for some kinds of machin-
ery. and will doubtless be used for many
other purposes. A patent has been Sc
cured, and the artiolewill soon be in mar
ket and in Use.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
Am Interesting Incident.

Mr.. Joseph Leavitt, one of our citizens re-
turned from California, in speaking of sights
and scenes In California, made mention of
the following highly yinterestinglncident which
speaks eloquently of the true humanity of
hearts even in California, where selfshness
and passion are supposed to reign with un-
wonted force.
During the raging of the cholera in Cali
fornia young man from the State Of Missis-
sispi, Jesse Cook, about % years of age,
who was engaged in the laborious work of
mining, chanced to meet with family from
Missouri, consisting of husband, wife, and two
children, one of them an infant. Disease had
attacked one of the children, little hoy, and
he was soon stricken down by cholera and
laid by the sorrowing parents in little grave
dug on the bank of the river. Soon after the
father of the child died, leaving only the moth
er and her infant daughter. Her griefwas great.
She was in a strange land. The husband of
her youth and the first born son of her hope
had departed to the land of spirits, and their
remains were lying in their graves i'll the qui-
ct vale of river. Her earthly support has
failed, and yet she clung to life for the sake
of her infant daughter.
Strangers proved kind, and the hand of be-
nevolence provided for her wants. and the
voice of kindness greeted her ears. But dis
ease preyed upon her, and death tore heraway
from her tender infant, and by stranger hands
she was buried. The sweet loving eyes of an
infant looked up confdingly into the face OF
young Cook, and a smile wreathed its beautiful
face and its delicate little hands stretched forth
fondingly. No female was there to caress
and care for it, and the young miner, with a
swelling heart, and with trust in God and
his own resources, took the nameless infant,
then only seven months old, in charge and
provided for it with all fathers care and a
mothers love. He daily fed and washed il
and dressed it, and gave it fond name of his
mother, Mary, by day Graded it near him in
his tolls, and at night huddled it, as an angel
child, to his bosom. After while he made
application to various families at Sacramento
city to have the child taken care of, and of
fered to pay five dollars week, but none
were disposed to undertake the care of it and
he abandoned mining, and resolved to proceed
to Oregonand there take up land for a farm
and make home for the little orphan. The
simple unadorned facts in this case are suff.
GENTLY touching and suggestive, without any
| comments from our pen.-Bangor Wing.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
LackaWana and Western Rail-
road.

This road extending from the village
of Scranton in the coal beds of Pennsyl-
vania to the Erie railroad at Great Bend.
IA miles east of Binghamton, a distance.
of 81 miles will be completed and opened
for busines during the ensuing month of
September The company building this
road is the same that owns the Cayuga
& Susquehanna road, running from the
village of Ithaca at the head of Cayuga
Lake to the Erie railrnad at Owego.-
They have made arrangements with the
Erie railroad company to run their trains
on the Erie road from the points ofinter
section-Owego and Great Bend-45
miles apart. They have their engines
already built, and large number of cars
contracted to be in readiness when the,
Pennsylvania section is completed.
A line of railroad will then be compile
ted and in operation from the coal beds
to the village of Ithaca at the head of
water communication with all parts of
the State, which must be for some time
to come at least, point of transhipment
1t is questionable whether the difference
in favor of canals over railroads in the
transport of heavy articles like coal, will
not overcome the expense of tranship-
ment, and forever make the Cayuga
Lake channel the great thorouhgfare for
the transit of Pennsylvania coal to tue
interior and Lake markets of the State.
The enterprising Company engaged in
opening this new route are building
coal depot on large and extensive scale
at the head of navigationin Ithica. They
are cutting a canal PARALLEL with the in
let to the Lake, so that train of cars
can dump their coal directly into canal
boats, and the ordinary labor and expense
of transhipment be mostly saved. We
will receive coal in this city by way of
Ithica early in October at much cheap
er rate than ever before. The coal for
this market will of course come by the
Cayuga Lake, until the Syracuse and
Binghampton railroad is built.-Osaeego
Times.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
CHEMrcAI FREEzIse Aorsrs--In the hot.

CHEMICAL FREEZING AGENrs.--In the hot
bed of wonders, the chemists laboratory, the
degrees of cold are. procurable by using
highly volatile liquids for evaporation. A
man may be frozen to death, simply by keep
ing himself drenched with ether. BY the
assistance of liquid sulphuric acid, water may
be frozen in a red hot vessel. But that re-
markable substance, liquid carbuoic acid,
takes the highest rank of all known freezing
agents In drawing it from the powerful
reservoirs in which it is necessarily kept, it
evaporates SO rapidly as to freeze itself, and
is then light porous mass, like snow. II
a small quantity of this is drenched with eth
er, the degree of cold produced is even more
intolerable to the touch than boiling water
drop or two of the mixture producing bis
ters just as if the skin had been burned.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
Sc Wan is a Chameleon and dOtl
Feed on Airs

PROFESSOR LEIBIG, in the following, DEM
onstrates this poetical assertion to be sci.
entifc truth
"Science " has demonstrated that man, the
being who performs all these wonders, is
formed of condensed air, Cor solidiied and
liquefed gases y that he lives on condensed
as well as uncondensed air, and clothes him.
self in condensed air +; that he prepares his
food by means of the same agent moves the
heaviest weights with the velocity of the
wind. The strangest part of the matter is,
that thousands of these tabernacles formed
of condensed air, and going on two legs, oc-
casionally, and on account of. the production
and supply Of those forms of condensed air
which they require for food and clothing, OF
on account of their honor and power, destroy
each other in pitched battles by means
of condensed air; and further, that many
believe the peculiar powers of the bodiless,
conscious, thinking, and sensitive being, hous-
ed in this tabernacle, to be the result simply
of its internal structure, and the arrangement
ment of its PARTICLES or atoms while chemis-
try supplies the clearest proof that, as far as
concerns this ultimate and most minute com.
position and structure, which is beyond the
reach of our senses, man is, to appearance
identical with the OK, or with the animal low.
est in the scale of creation >,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
HENRY R. sCHooLcRAFT

Repelling Mice from Trees We still
often hear the death of trees, by nice grid
ling. Fermentation from this disaster is one
of the easiest and most CERTAIN things In the
world, consisting simply in throwing up a
little circular bank or mound of earth round
the trunk of each tree, nine or ten inches
high. One man will do hundreds in day,
and we have never known single instance
out of ofthousands of cases where it has failed
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11

A short time since the elephant at the
Boulevard of the Temple of Paris, named
Ally Scha gave signs of madness during per-
formance. The superintendent, M. Hugier,
at once stopped the performance and proceed
ed to consult with the competent individuals
upon the subject. In consequence he called
M. Chepart from his Geological Museum, ve-
terninary surgeon in chief to the school at
Abort and to the Guard Municipale. After
having felt the pulse of this COLOSSUS, the
consulting surgeons declared that the animal
was attacked with hypochordri in conse-
quence of carries at the root of his tusks, and
advised the removal of them, which were a
yard and half each in length. To aid in this
attempt, NJ. Hugier endeavored to put the an
imal to sleep by means of opium and chloro-
form, but though administered in immense
quantities, they had no apparent effect, and
they were compelled to employ windlass to
hold him down.
The operation took place July 18th, before
thirty. of the pupils of the veterinary school,
and crowd Of veterinary surgeons. The an
imal was alternately placed on each side for
the different teeth, and with the aid of saw
and forceps, and cord attached, the teeth were
cut off and the roots extracted, which alone
weighed eighteen pounds. His teeth will
not be replaced. AS for Ally Scha, he is a
little i'll after the severe operation, but it is
confidently expected that he will have no re-
turns of madness. and that he soon will be a
BILE to resume his exercises which the public
find SO amusing.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
TIE "a 81!
j. n. & <. w. CORLIES.

No. 90 Pearl Street, Ne1U- York,
@1 Importers and Wholesale Deal
EEaaMIjsis ers in
EA Ek Green and Black Teas,
eEzTaaRsE Of all descriptions suited to The
Couiry Trade.
Are also receiving from The hest manufac-
torres full assortment OF TOBACCO, Of the
most approved brands, all of which are con
fidently offered as equal to any in market
and at The l0acest cash prices.
Merchants visiting the City would do we'll
TO call and examine our stock before purchas-
ing elsewhere.
September f. 185l.-3m
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
PETIT JURORS.
Trial List.

William Trainer Us. John B. Teel
owen Rice attorney for the Heirs Of Joseph Horse
field decd vs. Aoraham Buiz, Peter Meckes, and Ter
re Tenants.
Same same.
Same VS.. same.
John M Dieblcr rs. the township Of Price
wm Orerfeld and Sarah his wife Ys. Simon Smith.
George RelnhaTt ". David Relnhart.
John NJ TAYLOR to the OF Peter Mosteller Phil
~ Hoffman.
Godfrey Greensweie's Executors VS. lOhn Meckes
Philip c. Dotier VS.. Iohn Kunkel
Godfrey GTeensweigS Executors VS.. los Greens~elg
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
Temples NOT made with Hands

IT'S not in temples made with hands,
The great Creator dwells,
But on the mountain top he stands
And in the lonely dells;
Wherever fervent prayer is heard,
lie stands recording every word
In dells, on mountains, everywhere
lie never fails to answer prayer.
Yes-in the poor mans lonely stall,
And in the prisoners cell,
And in the rich mans lordly hall,
The great Creator dwells:
Where two or three are joined in prayer,
His audience hall, His home is there;
Wherever prays the child of grace,
In his peculiar dwelling place.
Think you that temples built of stone,
And blessed by priestly hand,
And more peculiarly His own,
More reverence demand
Go to thy closet, shut the door.
And all His mercies ponder DER;
Thine all pervading God is there,
He loves to answer secret prayer.
The temple the Creator ownse
The temple is the heart,
No towring pile of costly stones,
Nor any work of art.
The cloud capped spire that points on high
May draw the lightning from the sky,
But It's humble, modest flower,
That drinks in the refreshing shower;
And in return for favor given.
1t breathes its fragrance back to heaven.
Some cling to prelate's surplice strings,
We bow to no created things;
One God we worship; one alone;
Earth is His footstool Heaven his throne
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11

The peach crop has been very good along
the shores of the Chesapeake, this season, one
grower having received $1,000 in one week
and $4,000 in the next, for the produce OF hls
orchard. of four hundred acres
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11

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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
JOB PRINTEN
Jury List, Sept. Term. 1851.
GRANn IURnRS

OhAN u JUhORS. j
Joseph Frantz Ross, .fFTanklin Starbird, Stroud
Peter Lander, Smithfeld, iAmile Bush Smithfeld.
Peter Jayne, NJ Smitleid John Eylenberger Stroud.
Jackson Coolbaugh, do Jacob Hufsmith, Chesnuthi
John J.. Staples. Stroud, Philip FranZ, Ross.
John Keener, Paradise. Philip Fetherman. Stroud,
Samuel Buskk, Hamilton Elias BonSer, Chesnuthill.
John Tribe Smithfed, Henry Sloddart, Tobyhann;
Peter Cover. Ross, Felix Storm, Chesnuthill,
William Huston, Stroud, John Storm, Paradise,
Charles Drake. do Peter Kresge CheSnuthill,
Daniel Miller, Hamilton, John NJ. Strunk, Smlthheld
PETIT JURORS.
Iohn Lcsh, Hamilton uelchoir Kntz, Hamilton
Charles 5. Palmer Stroud Samuel Keller, do
John Smith, NJ. Smithhd, flames Postens Stroud,
VIM. Frankenfed, do David Bowman, Paradise,
Jacob GnIpe, do George Setter. Jackson,
George NJ. Mlchaeis do DaTid Gregory, jr. Polk,
Rudolphus Smith, do Law ence Fisher, do
Philip MetZgaE, HamLton. Jacob Long Pocono,
Lynford Shoemaker do James Staples, Smiihfeld
Chas. Houser, Tobynanna. George HyaTd, Jackson
C. Brodhead Chesnuthili Jacob Dreher, r. Hamilton
Lynford AltemQse, do Michael Shoemaker. do.
Charles Musch Stroud Simon Meyer. Smithfeld
James Bunnel Smlthfled, iJonE Siglin. Chesnuthill
Anthony Transue, do William Ruth, Pocono
Anthony Sebring, Poconc, John White, jr., P0ccno
Henry Kiniz, DO abraham Yetter, Stroud
Peter Smoke Coolbaugh, Peter Getz Ross
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
SHERIFF'S SALE.

DY virtue of an alias writ of vendtioni ex-
ID ponas issued out of the Court of Com
mon Pleas Of Monroe county, Penn'a., to me
directed, will expose to public sale at the
public house of Jacob Knecht, in the Borough
of Stroudsburg, Oh Saturday, the
goth dag Of September meat,
at / o'clock in the afternoon, the following
described property, to wit: All that one equal
undivided moiety or halfpart ofa certain tract
or piece of Land, Water Power and FIGURING
Mil thereon erected, situate in the Borough
ofStroudsburg, adjoining land Of Sam'l Stokes,
land late of Daniel Stroud, deceased, and land
of William S. Wintemute, and John Shively,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-09-11
I2 Acres and ~ Perches,

more or less, being the same premises which
Daniel Stroud and wife, by their lndenture,
bearing date the 4th day of February, A. d.
1889, and recorded at Stroudsburg, IN Deed
Book VOL l. page 233, granted and conveyed
to James Hollinshead; together also with a
ground rent of Fifty Dollars per annum, is
suing out of said premises, and secured by
Jacob Singmaster's large Frame Tannery and
the following buildings, on the ground convey
ed to said Singmaster, subject to said ground
rent, viz: two story Frame House, 20 it. by
45 f., with basement or cellar under meath
and frame Kitchen attached, 16 #. by 20 f..
"a frame House, two stories high. 20 f. by 20
feet, used as a sleeping apartment. A frame
wing of said Tannery, "a feet by Is feet
A frame Letch House, two stories high, IL
feet by 25 feet, with letches or yats therein.
A frame building 3S feet by l6 feet, two sto-
ries high, with vats or letches; and frame
Bark House.. 40 feet by % feet: also steam
works connected with said Tannery. The
water for driving said Tannery is carried
across said lot, conveyed to said Singmaster
as aforesaid, by wooden trunk or forebay.
L.
Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-22

me of charging him with being Disu-
nioniS. l am some,ohat surprised that he
should make this accusation. 0TIHAVE
ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT HE
IS ONE OF THE MOST DEVOTED
FRIENDS OF THE UNION In THIS
BODY.lu
But enough. Out OF his own mouth
have we convicted Gen. Foote of desc
Grating the grave of JOHN c. CALHOUN, to
give coloring Of truth to his charge that
the Democratic State Rights party is
seeking the dissolution of the Union, and
to elevate himself upon the overthrow of
the true principles of the Government
We might well have relied alone upon
the productions of the departed sage
upon his sleepless nights, his toll for the
good of the cause-upon the splendor of
his fame-for his triumphant vindication;
but we have gone beyond these, and ad-
duced in his behalf the overwhelming tes-
timony of his calumniator.
Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-22
The Bible.

The middle chapter and the least in the
Bible is ll7th Psalm; the middle verse is
the Sth of the Slst Psalm. The word
'and" occurs in the old Testament 81, ,536
times, and l0,6S4 in the New; and the
word "Jehovah," 6,S45 times. Old Tes-
ament: The middle book is Proverbs; the
middle chapter is the 29th of Job; the
middle verse is the 2nd Chronicles, chap
ter 10Th, and 18th verse: and the least
verse is in the fst Chronicles, 1st chapter
and lst verse; New Testament: The
middle chapters are 18th and 18th Ro-
mans; the middle verse is the 18th of the
18th chapter of Acts; the least verse the
18th Of the llth chapter Of the gospel Of
St John. The 2ist verse of the 7th Ez-
"a contains the alphabet The 10Th chap
ter of the ID book Of Kings and the 37th
chapter Of Isaiah are alike. The book of
Esther has 10 chapters, but neither the
word God nor Lord are in it.
Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-08-22
Every Man at his Post.

The election for members of the Con
vention is near at hand. But five weeks
intervene between now and the day of
battle.-Every moment is precious. We
exhort the friends of the South to be on
the alert-to address themselves to the
energetic performance of the duties before
them. Let each one ask himself if he has
done done his duty-if he is prepared for
the contest upon which is suspended the
veal or woe of the State; probably the
existence of the confederacy as it was es-
tablished by the Patriots of the Revolu-
ton.
In this great contest, the Democratic
State Rights men have every thing to in
cite them to action. The eyes of the
whole country are upon them. The fa-
natics are looking anxiously to see if they
will strike down the men who have resis-
ted their aggression. They are listening
for the invitation TO advance onward,
which would be implied in the approval
of the compromise measures, the endorse
ment of Foote's course and the repudia-
tion of Quitman, Davis, Thompson, Feath-
erston, Melville and Brown. The true
men of the South are also watching with
eagerness the result of the contest. They
lament the supineness of their own States,
but they calculate largely upon the effect
of the example of Mississippi. She drove
back the Mexican hosts at Bvena Vista,
may she not drive back the Northern Van
dals in September
We have every reason to believe that a
signal triumph awaits us. Every mail is
freighted with cheering tidings.
Our old colors float above us, and they
are borne by warrior patriot who is
breasting the storm of Abolition hatred
and calumny as bravely as the leaden
storm On the heights Of Chapultepec and
at the Garita de Belen. But we must not
rely too much upon the invincibility of our
noble leader,or upon our well ascertained
numbers.-There is danger in over-con-
fidence when the opposite party are u
sing all its ingenuity to obtain Office
Remember tina: Eternal vigilence is the
price of Liberty and press forward to the
work, and Heaven will prosper the cause.