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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

HoaO to render assistance IN accidentS.-
In case of fracture or dislocated limb,
let the sufferer lie on the ground until a
couch, door, gate or plank can be pro-
cured, for in raising him up he may die,
from faintness or loss of blood. When
procured, place the door or gate along
side of him, cover it with something soft
and let men convey him steadily home
but do not put him in vehicle of any
kind. In Fits, if person fall into one
let him remain on the ground, provided
his face be pale; for should it be fainting, OF
temporary suspension ofthe hearts action
you may cause death by raising him up
right, or by bleeding but if the face be
red, or dark colored, raise him on his
seat, throw cold water on his head imme-
diately, and send for a surgeon and get a
vein opened, or fatal pressure on the brain
may ensue. In hanging or drowning, ex-
pose the chest as quickly as possible,
throw ice-water over it, whilst the body
is kept in sitting posture. In case OF
children in convulsions deluge the head
with cold water, and put the feet into
warm water, till medical aid can be pro
cured. In case of poison, give an emetic
of a teaspoonful of mustard flour in tea
cupful of warm water every ten minutes
till vomiting ensues or medical assistance
is obtained. In case Of burns and scalds
let the burnt part be bathed III mixture
of turpentine and olive oil, equal parts,
till the pain abates; then dress it with
common cerate, and defend it from the
air.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21
ALeaf far the old Soldiers.

The Buffalo Rough notes says that an
old and respectable Democrat who was
present at Wing meeting the other day,
heard the assertion made that Pierce vo-
ted against the law to give pensions to
the old revolutionary soldiers and their
widows, called on the speaker to have
him prove the assertion made in his speech.
The gentleman took down the Congress
sional Globe for the year l64l, and on
page III he showed the place where
Franklin Pierce boasted in the United
States Senate that he was the only man,
with one exception, from all the New
England States who had voted against
granting pension either to the soldiers
of our wars, or to the widows of those
who had been slain In battle. The old
gentleman read the speech attentively;
threw down the book in disgust, and is
now hurrahing for old Chippewa at the
top of his voice.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21
Horned Rattle Snake.

Mr.. William H. Thomas, of Qualla
Town of Haywood Co., N. c., writes to
the Asheville News that Cherokee In
dian, named Salola, captured snake on
the Smoky Mountain, which he describes
"of the usual size of Diamod Rattle Snake
found in the mountains of this country, of
a dark color-on its tail it has ten rattles,
on its head two forked horns of about
three fourths of an inch long The In
dian said it seemed to be king among
snakes of its species. Nothing of the kind
has been seen heretofore by any of the
Oldest white inhabitants.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

out upon the air in an undulatory or wa
Wy manner, just as when we cast a stone
into stream, certain waves are produced,
which spread out in constantly wideninc @
circles. This wave in the air enters the
ear, and raps, as it were, upon the title
door called the memJraata typaui, which
is situated at the bottom of the external
ear.
Within the middle chamber, and on
the inner side of this door, stand those
three little houses, which act as servants
in the hall, to communicate the message
to the brain. No sooner, then does the
sound rap upon this door, than the NAL
leus, or hammer, the handle of which is
fastened upon the anvil. The anvil throws
all its burden into the bone called the stir
rup, to which it is fastened The stirrup
itselfis fastened by ring to the oval win
dow which opens to the ear, to vibrate,
and thus tell the story to the nerves which
surround it and through them it is COM
municated to the brain.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

SOMETHING NEw-Ingenuity is every
day adding something to the comforts and
conveniences oflife. We were yesterday
shown some samples of an improved met
allie Pen, which is exempted from the
great defect in the steel pen, and that is
corroding. This is obviated simply by
the skilful application of Gutta Psrcha.--
Mr.. B. L G. ScHLEss1NGER is the inven-
tor. The pen is coated with gutta percha,
which is unaffected by the strongest acids,
and, being pointed with platina, the pen
writes as smoothly as lead-pencil. They
are to be had of the sole agent in Wash
ington city, j. SHILLINeToN, Pennsylva-
MIA avenue, at fifty cents dozen, or four
dollars groce.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

Il Creditors Strotagcm.-A week or
two ago four creditors started from Bos-
ton, in the same train of cars, for the pur-
pose of attaching the property of GER
tain debtor in Pennington, in the State of
Maine. He owed each one separated y,
and they each we're suspicious of the OBJ
ject of the other, but dared not say a
word about it. So they rode, acquaintan-
ces all, talking upon everything except
that which they had most at heart. When
they arrived at the depot at Pennington,
which was three miles from where the
debtor did business, they found nothing
to "put 'em over the road" but solitary
cab, towards which they all rushed
Three got in, and refused admittance to
the fourth, and the cab started The
fourth ran after, and got upon the outside
with the driver. He asked the driver if
he wanted to sell his horse. He replied
that he did no want to-that he was not
worth more than $50, but he would not
sell him for that He asked him if he
would take SlOO for him. Yes said be.
The fourth man quickly paid over the
money, took the reins and backed the cab
up to a bank-slipped it from the harness
and tipped it up SO that the door could
not be opened, and jumped upon the horses
back and rode off lick-a-ty while
the insiders were looking out Of the win
dow, feeling like singed cats. He rode to
lawyers, and got writ made and serv-
ed, and his debt secured, and got back to
the hotel just as the insiders came up
putting and blowing. The cabman soon
bought back his horse for So. The sold
men offered to pay that sum, if the fortu-
nate one, who found property sufficient to
pay his own debt, would not tell of it in
Boston.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

No more Putty.-The anxious inquiries
concerning the price of this article are a
bout to be silenced. Some Down East
operator has got a way of setting glass
without putty. The window sash is made
entirely of wood, the outside permanent.
The inside is framed in such manner
that the parts can be readily removed, for
the purpose of inserting the glass, which
is placed between slips of India Rubber,
which, when the parts of the sash are re-
placed, causes the glass to be perfectly
firm. The movable parts of the sash are
secured to their place by a knob-screw,
which makes pretty finish.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

An Item for Cigar Makers-It is well
known that journeymen cigar makersh have
justly complained that their trade has
been ruined by the foreign cigar makers.
Strange as it may seem, the tobacco is ta-
ken to Europe, made into cigars by "pau-
per labor, y returned and sold in this coun-
try lower than they can be produced by
American well-paid labor. Under the
present LOcofoco Tariff, the American du-
ty on imported cigars is eight cents per
pound. England, in return, puts the du-
ty on American cigars imported into her
country at tlc0 1ollarS per pound This
is the kind of reciprocity which has made
England the richest manufacturing peo-
pie in the world, while it has given death
blow to the industrial interests of this
country. a
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

A Family Pueeb.-A boy at Norwich
is literally his own grandfather 1t is in
this wise:-There was a widow (Anne)
and her daughter-in-law (Jane) and a
man (George) and his son Henry. The
widow married the son. The daughter
married the father. The widow was
therefore, mother Gn law to her husbands
father, and consequently grandmother to
her own husband (Henry) BY this hus'
band she has had a son David, y to whom
she was great grandmother. Now, as the
son of great grandmother must be eth
er grandfather or grand uncle, this boy
DAVID was one or the other. He is his
own grandfather.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

Mrs. Palmita, in her speech at the Wo-
mans Rights Convention, said that it had
been argued that women were the wick
est portion of mankind, which position
she triumphantly rcfuted as follows A
rib taken from man was formed into
woman, and was accepted as bone of his
bone and flesh of his flesh. If one rib
was so wicked, what mass of wicked
ness the whole man must be -
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

PIERCE WHIsKEY-An old gentleman,
staunch Wing who is spending the sum
mer over the lake, having occasion to
visit the city few days ago, was detained
at Madisonville short time, waiting for
a boat. While there he was taken very
i'll. Some pronounced it cholera case
and others something else. But the old
gentleman says he does not think it was
the cholera.
"For," says he, ~ fell in crowd of
Locofocos, who made me drink their
whiskey, Pierce whiskey they called it,
and it was that am convinced that made
me siek-for have felt fart ever since"
Now Orleans Republic.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

An exchange paper says, the most dig
nifed, glorious, aud lovely work OF ma
ture is woman--the next nan-and then
Berkshire pigs. t1
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

A gentleman having horse that star
ted and broke his wife neck, neighbor-
ing squire told him he wished to purchase
it for his wife to ride upon. No., re-
Piled the other, "no,' viii not sell the
little fe!Iow, ] intend to marry again my
self"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

A young fellow offered to bet the teach
er of a young ladies grammar school who
was boasting Of the proficiency of his pu-
pills, that not one oftAam would decline
q husband,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

That was funny man, who, one hot
day, wished himself skeleton, placed in
in steeple, SO that the wind might whis-
tie through his ribs.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

Cnune.-It has been discovered that
when lot of boardcrs are fed for some
time on sausages exclusively, they begin
to ''growl."
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21
VOL, l3.
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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

@-More than s3,OOO,OOO are invested
iiu churches in Pittsburg.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21

A country editor says he never knew
what 'Jflhy lucre' meant till he got hold
of dirty, greasy lot of one dollar bills.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-21
EAST II!

VIII have the honor of appearing be-
fore the inhabitants of this village, at the
Saloon, this evening, and go thro' with
his most wonderful feats of Necromancy.
The first and most astonishing feat of the
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ton in the world of letters, it probably would
not yet have found three hundred readers. II
would have cost half the expenses of printing
it, to get public attention directed to it at all
and we doubt if it would ever have attained
the circulation which, with little or no cost it
reached within two weeks after it was printed
"The reason of its full-grown popularity at
its birth is that the book was brought to the
notice of from fifteen to twenty thousand peo-
pie every week through the columns of the
Journal and thus had actually received, and
without any expense, more advertising before
it was printed than any book ever receives
when published in the ordinary way. This
fortunate circumstance has created market
in the United States for anything this lady may
write, and has spared her that long and dis
tressing period of probation through which
new authors have to linger, waiting for the
tardy and often reversible verdict of an indif-
ferent public
The work was brought to the notice of some
sixty or seventy thousand people, instead of
fifteen or twenty thousand
To us it is a pleasing thought, that the two
greatest and most successful novelists among
the women Of this country, have made their
first appearance, as such, in the columns of the
National Fro.
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THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON, d. C., APRIL 90, 1852.

policy of contract services The laborer now
demands 80 much wages for farm service
Why? He can make as much or more IN the
mines. His demand, then, is reasonable, ana
the attempt to cheat or force him into con-
tract at a lower rate of wages would be SIMPLY
yillanous Not less wicked is the attempt to
accomplish this result indirectly. Suppose the
bill under notice become law, capitalists
will soon stock their plantations with foreign
laborers, engaged by cunning agents at rates
not remunerative in California, and in this
way obtain complete control of the labor mar
ket. The immigration of our own working-men
will be checked; American laborers will be
obliged to come down or abandon the agricul-
tural districts, take refuge in the mines, and
the ultimate result would be, the reduction OF
the wages of labor in every department of in
dustry.
California is gaining in population quite
rapidly enough. Capital and Labor drawn by
natural attractions, are steadily flowing into
the new State. And the labor is that of able
bodied, enlightened American citizens. The
time will soon come when large amount OF
this labor cannot find profitable or agreeable
employment in the mines and it will then dis
| tribute itself through other channels, in the
farm, in the workshop, at the forge Only in
this way, by this natural process, can the re-
sources of the State be beautifully developed.
In this way have the new States of the North
west grown so rapidly in population, wealth.
and power. No robber contract-system has
been allowed to put labor under the foot of
capital, and enable few grasping landholders
to monOpolize the soil and exclude an intelli-
gent, high-sprited population, to make room
for motley horde of degraded, ignorant bond
servants
The bill of Mr.. Peachy is wrong in principle,
infamous in purpose and, if it should become
law, must tend to results only less baleful and
accused than those that would follow the es-
Enlistment of negro slaves If the People of
California are worthy of free institutions, its
passage will be defeated, and its authors be
overwhelmed with infamy
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THINGS IN CALIFORNIA.

The Pacific, a religious paper established at
San Francisco, California, deserves well of the
friends of freedom. No paper in that New
State battles so earnestly, so perseverngly, with
so much intelligence, against the insidious
projects of Pro-Slayery men. 1t is published
weekly by the Rev. J. W. Douglas, aided by
j. A. Benton of Sacramento city, S. H. Wiley
and I. ID. Hunt of Sacramento. Price, six dol
lars year.
The California Christian AdUocate, another
religious weekly, established lately at San
Francisco, under the auspices of the California
District NJ Z. Church, and edited by Messrs.
Briggs and Simonds, takes the same high
ground contending for the perpetuation of hu-
man Freedom on the shores of the Pacific
Terms, the same as above
1t seems that among the instrumentalities for
opening the door to the introduction of Slavery,
a new paper, protesting to represent the M. E.
Church South, has lately been commenced in
this new Free State, and is signalling itself by
rebuking the religious papers above named
for meddling with the political question of Sla-
very, by inveighing against the higher law, by
deprecating agitation and excitement and
preaching absolute obedience to the powers
that be, while not a word has it to say against
the wicked intrigue to change California into
a Slave State
Such a paper is disgrace to the Church it
pretends to represent.
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THE LEGITIMATE CREED.MAKERs.

The Democratic caucus last December re-
fused to take any action in relation to the Com.
PROMISE or institute any test of Democracy, al
leging that to National Convention of the
Democracy belonged the right of defining the
creed of the party.
The late Wing caucus, convened TO appoint
the time and place of the next National Wing
Convention, adopted the same course and on
the same principle. The principle is sound
one. Members of Congress are elected not to
make a creed for their constituents, but to rep
resent the views of their constituents They
are representatives, not creed-mongers The
attempt of Southern members of the caucus tC
impose certain test and line of policy upor
the Wing Party, was presumptuous, unwar
rantable, and absurd. A National Convention
composed of delegates chosen by the Party
with view to its national action on the aues
ton of the Presidency, has the sole right o
determining under what auspices, on what
principles, it shall 60 into the canvass The
Wing or Democratic members of Congress
have no more authority to decide upon the
issues of their respective Parties, in a national
election, than they have to decide upon their
candidates
This is all so obvious that it is not fair to
infer from the decision of the caucus, refusing
to endorse the Compromise, similar decision
on the part of the Convention. The question
will come before the Convention legitimately
SO that an evasion of the subject, or refusal to
express any opinion respecting il, will be tan
tamount to a rejection of the fnality of the
Compromise as part of the Wing creed To
prevent this result persuasion and intimidation
both are to be used Hence Mr. Stanly and a
few Southern members remain IN the caucus,
and Mr.. Marshall, with a larger number, Sc
cedes. How far the concurring efforts of both
sets of managers may prevail in the counsels of
the Convention remains to be seen. Over-con-
fdence on the part of those Northern Wings
who are determined to oppose the introduction
of a pro-slavery test, will result disastrously.
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but to veto any bill that might be passed to
modify or repeal the Fugitive Law.
Let us not be deceived. Freedom will gain
nothing by the defeat Of Compromise resolu-
tons in the Democratic Convention, should any
one of these gentlemen be nominated or any
body else whose views and purposes in relation
to the Compromise and Fugitive Law shall
be equally unequivocal Such a nomination
would be virtually the establishment of pro-
scriptive test, just as degrading and oppressive
to Ihe Northern Democrats as the open adop-
! ton of the fnality test; and how any liberal
Democrat who contends, we will not say tor
Anti-Savery principles, but merely for the
principle of federation, could sustain such a
nomination, utterly passes our comprehension
General Butler we presume, is now out OF
/ the question He received his quietus at the
hands of his friend Mr. Breckenridge and
has not breathcd since. Douglas seems to be
the recognised leader of the opposition to Cass
and Buchanan, and it is supposed by many that
/ they will be unable to make head against 1t;
but they will be fully able to inhict punishment
upon the man who may stand in their way
Their respective friends may not unite to ele-
| waite either to the candidateship, but they Will
unite to PROSTATE the aspirant who has made
their elevation impossible. Samson was strong
enough to pull down the pillars of the temple,
. but he fell beneath the ruins
Should these gentlemen prove the death OF
one another, chance will then be given the
Convention to place itself upon national ground,
to relieve itself of sectional issues to recognise
explicitly the Principle of federation, and Sc
/ lect some new candidate whose position, like
/ that Of General Scott, shall be IN nub'buS
For, after all, this is all that Freedom can ex-
pect from either Party and the expectation Of
this is an extravaganza.
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to the present day for we find amongst the
extracts from contemporary orators drawn
upon, as samples of eloquence large quotation
from the excellent speech Of Mr.. Smith Of Ala
bama, delivered only a Jew tceeks ago an The
House of Representatives., against the KoSStdh an
atuation-Nationai InteLligencer.
That last selection is enough to condemn the
whole book Mr. Smith is the enlightened
gentleman who desired to ndict Kossuth for a
breach of our neutrality laws. Parents should
always know what kind of text books are used
by teachers intrusted with the education OF
their children; otherwise, they may find their
susceptible minds poisoned with the most bale
full sentiments
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For the National Era.
Al IL.
The spring comes slo'riy up MiS icay.'
CHRIaTA REL

The spring comes slo'riy mp his tray.'
CHRIsTABEL.
It's the noon of the spring time, but never bird
In the wind shaken elm or the maple is heard
For green meadow grasses wide levels of snow,
And blowing of drifts where the should blow
Where wind flower and violet amber and white,
By south-sloping brook-side should smile in the
light
Der the cold winter beds Of their late waking roots
Tho frosty fake cddies tho ice crystal shoots
And, longing for light, under wnd-driven heaps,
Round the bolos of the pine-wood the ground laurel
creeps,
Unkissed of the sunshine unbaptized of showers,
With buds scarcely swolled which should burst into
flowers
We wait for thy coming sweet wind of the South
The touch of thy light wings, the kiss of thy mouth
For the yearly Evangel thou Dearest from God
Resurrection and life to the graves of the sod.
Up our long river-valley for days has not ceased
The wall and the Shrek of the bitter Northeast,
Raw and chill as if winnowed through ices and snow
All the way from tho land of the wild Esquimau.
Oh, soul of the spring time its balm and its breath
Oh, light of its darkness, and life of its death
Why wait we thy coming Why linger so long
The warmth Of thy breathing the voice of thy song
Renew the great miracle! Let us behold
The stone from the mouth of the sepulchro rolled
And Nature like Lazarus, riso as of old
Let faith which in darkness and GOODNESS has lain
Awake with the warmth and tho brightness again,
And in blooming of flower and budding of tree
The symbols and types of our destiny see
The lfc of the spring time the life of the whole,
And, as sun to tho sleeping earth love to the soul
j. G.. w.
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