The republic., 1851-01-01

S SUI; - aud oto.caoa ,a ag u ,rarfl
$400; the 9th, 10th anu 80. asei rt ntIa.
worth S 800; the 18th, 18th, l4th ana ,o.Gl e.., v
acre farm, worth $3.50; the l6th 18th, 18th, 10Th
and Goth each acre farm, worth 5000; and all
the others will be entitled to village lots each 25
by 100 feet, lying together. There no blanks;
this is not lottery; every person gets for $25
handsome lot of ground equal to city lots
Manner Of Distribution Of Hermannpihe Lots and
Prize Fdrms.-The manner distribution will be as
follows: All the numbers on the Map, from to
500, will be put into wheel, and the first number
drawn from the wheel will be entitled to the
fret prize; and, if the first number 30 drawn or
taken out of the wheel happens to be $50 or 275,
then the person the subscription list W no holds
or owns the subscription number of $50 or 275, or
whatever the corresponding number may be- will
be entitled TO the first Prize Farm, and so proceed
ing until all the numbers are drawn out.
The lands are as good as represented, and as
good any new land on the Island and when cul-
| tivated, will produce in the highest degree
The land was once heavily timbered; some por-
tions are now covered with thrifty growth OF
young wood, oak and pine. Wood is plenty and
generally cheap in that part of the Island. Fire
wood is cheap, that which is suitable be cut into
cord-wood for the New York market is of uniform
price, and has fer great many years been always
considered a cash article on the Island
There is material on the land for common fenc-
ing-good chesnut rails can be had within few
miles of these lands in abundance All building
materials be had at the depots of Brooklyn and
Greenport, and at many intermediate places, ut the
usual market prices There numerous streams
of water rising in these lands, and running
into the Great South Bay. which are remarkable
Tor their purity, and never fail; indeed, dry
ther makes very little change in them; they are
unfailing and wells OF various depths probably
over these new lands, in the middle region of the
island, the average depth will be about twenty five
fee; at Hermannville, as the ground is higher they
are deeper,
There now churches and schools within two
or three miles of the village and within four miles,
mills, factories, stores and villages All the priv-
al a n -aPttI IN he had here
and the people of Suffolk county pride themselves
on being highly moral, ordey, and religious peo-
Pile. All of my subscribers persons OF respecta
bihty.
The land can be very easily cleared, and the
cost of settlement will depend almost entirely upon
the settler. He can lay out as much as little as
he chooses. do not know of any objections to the
place, or to the land tor settlement and the same
labor and industry which make successful and
prosperous settlements in other parts of the coun
try, bestowed upon these lands, cannot fail to pro-
duce favorable results,
The climate is in every particular healthy and
pleasant; the roads are good and always passable,
at all seaeons of the year; the winters are short
and mild. compared to the winters on the main 10
the north OF the Highlands there is seldom sleigh
ing more than two three weeks the island.
What is remarkable, crop is seldom injured by
dropgbtthere is no part the country where there
Is 80 little injury FROM drought as on Long leland,
nor is there any injury from wet-there ia wet
or cold land on the leland All the land along the
margin of the streams can be made highly valuable
at small cost for there is no such thing as flood
fresbet. in the interior part of the country,
by which often very grea, damage lie done-such
an event as the Tying off bridge, or tae break
ing OF mill dam, with great damage, is almost
unheard Of on Long Island The streams and bays
abound in tish and wild fowl in great abundance,
and every variety.
o. In consequence of the great number of letters
from all parts OF the country, desiring information
TO these lands, il has been found necessary
swer them in this form.
Apply to Thos. Wood, Stationer, III John street,
near Pearl, N. Y, Charles Wood, at the same
place. either of whom will receive remttances and
forward receipts therefor by return of mail They
will also gratuitousy furnish maps and pamphlets
Of the property, and cheerfuliy give such other
formation may be desired
CHARLES WOOD, III John ct. N. Y.
References can be made to Hon. Henry Meigs
and General Chandler, of the American Institute,
35l Sroadway, N. Y; Sandfords, Porter. & Striker,
IS broadway, N. Y; Levy Dodge, of Dodge & Co.'S
Express, us West st. N. N; f. +. Peck 800 State
St; and Alden j. Spooner, Front at. brooklyn,
n, "; y. Holman stationer, Boston, Mass; f.. III.
Pcase, Bookseller, Albany, N. "; v. b. Palmer,
Philadelphia, Pa. Jan l--2aw4w