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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-24

III u
the Massachusetts, Senate has received elegant gold wseh
and chain valued at >lo present from the Ssnsfor in
citation Of the faithful and impartial name, 10 which he Is
discharged h duties during the present session OF the Legs
~ The Swedish corvette Antelope,
months exploring yo}.ss round the world discovered %.
any map. They lie In lat o North, and between o and
1907 Esst from Green wich The Antelope named them
Prince OssG's Islands
II Ths treaty with the Sioux Indians,
made last year BY Mr. Lea the Commissioner Of Indian AZ
fairs extDguises the Indian title than thirty nil
lions Of of fertile and valuable land Il before
the Senate for ratification.
1 The Legislature of Ohio have passed
e. ne or
nen than ten hours day; and making ten hours
o 'ega days labor n Ill cases IN which the contract -
II We learn from The Bath 7Imss
that house occupied by Richard Gibbs ana M Msnus IN
The. fire 4 ss0ss as! 0 ss .a Tasy
sy, lost their live. IL the flames Other psrson. ia the
The house vs not insured All the furniture was dsssoyed
r. Thore were 2O7 deaths during the
week ending yesterday 10 PHILADELPHIA and distrctssa
aduls, and lis children. Twenty,six we're Caused bv
Consumption Is By Small Pox IL BY Scarlet Fever and
Thy Dysentery. IhLty-nins were under one year Of
ny A|o9Soai PoPci7 suy tub' che ROxs
bury Light Guard, very hne compar ~ - a.;
banded by order Of the Governor a. - y.
refusing to turn out % part " IL rssr. "a
kossuth on the day OF bis re- eption i Bssson
r The Methodist General Conference.
nov, sow ~ sesnon u has passed resoluoa dscsrns
,sr,ssr 90 conferences II competent to ceusu7s IL
~sn0en' 'ot y.mins sscrst societies
r. VIM. Boynton, who has been On
ss y peshan Mas, chargsof burnins the houses
~ = place. 70 acquitted and the verdict OF The Jury
'Vp.1s " :, DC ~ accordance with public opinion
y Two more bodies washed ashore at
neetevn last week. which are supposed to BE- part Of
ne crew o. me Bnsh bark Jossphs wrecked on TIE Cane
ssseIu weeks unce. Her officers and crew numbered
sh'ssn o. wnem two saved the s Of the disns
~ We learn that Mr.. Pleasanton, who,
shh Auditor q the Treasury has 6s many years hsi
ffs Oh the Lighthouses Of the United 8tatsa ssrously
" ne h~ reached the advanced age OF soyeny.ve ~
nus recovery cen hardly b expected
y The Louisiana Legislature have
P.':ed law prohibiting Ell smsncipaiou Of dawes ia Tie
Sst except on the condition that they shs be sent n
and that their passage money shAn b depstsd =
" Mr.. Brisbane will immediately erect
new in Buffalo the sta Of tbs Eselsss Thesssr
xiiH large enough 70 seN tlre thoassna peops snf
VIII DC finished IN hsndsome syla'
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
The White Man a Curiosity.

There are whole districts in many Eu.
ropean countries where black man has
never been seen, and there are districts
+, in Africa where the people have never
seen white man. The Rev. Mr.. Seys
Presiding Elder of the Methodist Mission
in Liberia, accompanied Gov. Russwurn
and party of colored friends from Cape
Palmas to the native tribes, and towns in
the interior, during the summer, taking
along native interpreter, who had ac-
quired the name of Sunday, from his
christian character. Mounted on donkeys
they travelled some eleven miles through
extensive rice fields, belonging to King
Freeman's people, at Gilliboth, a large
native town, the King of which, tall fine
looking African, named Quith, received
them most cordially. Here a colored
Methodist school had been recently estab-
lished. The reception of the party and
the scenes which followed, from an anus
ing passage in Mr.. Seys' journal. twill
be seen that white man was as great a
curiosity there, as an ourang-ou-tang in
his country.
"Reader, they had rarely seen mem
Der of the pale-faced at Gilliboth, some
doubtless never, until they set eyes on
your humble servant. The consequence
you may judge was regularly beset, and
that, too, with fearless degree of curio-
sity far ahead of the Qucahs of Geulahs.
Men, women and children crowded around
me with suffocation, oficiousness and fam
iliarity. They felt my skin, examined
my hair, pulled up my sleeves, watched
every movement, followed me from place
to place, and indeed rendered the curiosi-
ty most oppressive. The boys of the
school ten in number, were perfectly de-
lighted"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
Mode of Preserving Shingles on
Roofs,

There is much for US to learn as to the
best mode of covering our houses. The
following is one of the modes practised to
some extent, and has proved, we believe,
quite satisfactory. We copy from the
Spindle city,
A gentleman in Croton gave us the 9TH
er day the manner in which be prepared
his shingles, before laying them on his
house, some six years ago; and on exam
ination, we found they had a perfectly
sound and fresh appearance, as though
they had been laid not more than amonth.
He had large boiler, which he filed
with whitewash, mixing with it about one
pound of potash to four gallons of liquid,
also about the same amount of salt This
composition he boiled, and while it was
boiling, be dipped the shingles in, taking
handful at time, and holding them by
the tips. He had boards placed so that
be could set his shingles on them on end,
and let the liquid, as it ran off them, run
back again into the boiler. The shingles
be allowed to dry in this position, before
lying them; and his belief was, that by
thus curing OF hardening them, they would
last much longer. They could be color
ed red or yellow, easily, by mixing red or
yellow ochre with the composition.
The expenses of shingling are conside-
rable, and something like the above is
worthy of attention l
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

such measures as will insureto the leaders
the seven principles referred to by John
G. Calhoun, to wit "The FIVE loaves and
two fishes
The tried and faitful Democrats they
discard unless they will, at the dietation
ofKing Caucus, make party spirit and par
ty discipline, the neplas ultra oftheir prin-
clples, standing ready at the word of party
command to advocate any and every thing
to secure the spoils of Office, not needing
the claims of fitness of tried and faithful
public servants They substitute partypla-t
firms for the constitutions, laws and es-
tablished usages of their country, and all
who will not sustain these platforms are
considered as unfit to be the recipients of
public favors.
Trusting that my positioni and views
may be fully understood, and with the
warmest wishes for the success of the
friends of Western Improvements, and for
suitable protection and encouragement to
American Industry.
remain truly your obedient servant.
ROBERT LUCAS.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
What | Have Noticed.

| have noticed that all men speak well
of the mems virtues when they are dead;
and that tom bstones are all marked with
the epitaphs of "good and virtuous." Is
there any particular cemetery where the
bad men are buried!
| have noticed that the prayer of every
selfish man is "forgive us our debts" but
makes every body pay who owes him to
the utmost farthing.
| have noticed that he who thinks eve
ry man rogue, is certain to see one when
he shaves himself, and lie ought in mercy
to his neighbor, surrender the rascal to
justice.
I have noticed that money is the FOOLS
wisdom, the knaye's reputation, the wise
mans jewel, the rich mans trouble, the
poor mans ambition, and the idol of all.
l have noticed that merit is always
measured in the world by its success.
| have noticed that where newspapers
are taken by family, the children are
always intelligent.
| have noticed that where a person
makes justice his ruling motto, reward is
certain
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
A Caution TO Bachelors.

When Chinese lady is blessed with an
increase in her family, from the moment
of her accouchment the unhappy husband
is put to bed also, and there detained for
forty days, and during this delightful pen
ance he is subjected to all the rigorous
treatment of his better hall. Should med
isine be administered to her, he must par
take oft also, and he is strictly confined
to the same diet that she is obliged to I'D
dergo, which consists, on an average, /
believe, of about thimbleful of cream
of rice, administered every three hours,
to say nothing of the pill at bedtime %
prevent indigestion. Nsas's Resiaencs ~
Siam,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
The Newspaper im a Family.

A school teacher, who has been enga-
ged long time in his profession, and
witnessed the influence of a newspaper up
on the minds of family of children,
writes to the editor of the Ogdensburg
Sentinel as follows
! have found it to be universal fact,
without exception, that those scholars, of
both sexes and of all ages, who have had
access to newspapers at home, when COM
pared with those who do not, are
l. Better readers, excelling in pronun-
citation and emphasis, and consequently
read more understanding.
2 They are better spoilers, and define
words with greater ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowledge
of geography, in almost half the time it
requires others, as sthe newspaper has made
them familiar with the location of the i'm
portant places, nations, their Governments
and doings on the globe.
4, They are better Grammarians, for
having become so familiar with every va
riety of style, in the newspaper, from the
commonplace advertisement to the fin
ished and classical Grafton of the states
man, they more readily comprehend the
meaning of the text, and consequently
analyze its construction with accuracy.
5 They write better compositions, using
betterlanguage, containing more thoughts,
more clearly and connectedly expressed.
6. Those young men who have for
years been readers of the newspapers, are
always taking the lead in the debating
society, exhibiting a more extensive knowl-
edge upon greater variety of subjects,
and expressing their views with greater
huency, clearness and correctness in their
use of language.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

NOT PARTICULAR.-An aged spinster
growing weary, among other ills flesh is
heir to, of Gfe of single blessedness,
betook herself to the silent recess cf the
grove, aud there prayed most fervently
that Providence would provide for her
what forty years of smiling and simpering
and rouging had failed to entrap, viz: a
husband She had no sooner got through
her devotion, than an Owl (Of the largest
species, says our informant, hooted from
the top of tree over the head of the hap
less maiden, Who-ho-hoo 7 To
which she replied, with her eyes fervent-
ly fixed on the earth, and supposing that
He whom she implored had come to her
rescue, 'apay body, good Lard ii!F"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

A BiLZ5on.-What very great sum is
a billionl 1t is a million of millions. A
million seems large enough-but million
of millions! how long do you suppose it
would take you to count! A mill which
makes one hundred pins minute, if kept
at work night and day, would make only
ffty-two million five hundred and ninety
six thousand pins year,-and at that
rate the mill must work twenty thousand
years without Stopping a single moment in
order to turn out billion pins! What a
vast sum is then billion! 1t is beyond
our reach to conceive it-and yet when a
billion of years shall have gone, eternity
will seem to have just begun. How i'm
portant then is the question, "Where shall
Ispend eternity!"-Xenoph0n.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
NatiYe Wine.

Mr.. Cist, in recent number of his Ad-
vertiser, gives the following interesting
account of the present and prospective
condition of grape culture and wine max
ing in Cincinnti and vicinity. He says
have recently visited the wine-cellers
of Messrs. Longworth & Zimmerman, on
Sycamore St. Mr.. T. the active partner
with his two sons, have been engaged in
Europe for years in the manufacture OF
Wine, and considers the Catawba grape a
finer basis for fStrate light wine, than
any in Germany and France. The draw
ing off, and properly ripening, wine, they
consider of more Importance to the de-
velopment of fine article, than the orig
inal manufacture.
The wine cellars of this establishment
are 105 feet in length, an average of 40
in width, and Is in height Each sea-
sons wine is kept by himself, in casks of
1000 to $500 gallons capacity, and none
of our native wine is bottled in this estab-
lishment, until it has been four years in
casks. Thus the wine bottled this season
is the vintage of lS4S, as that of next
year will be of the vintage of 1S49. In
this way the entire sediment, precipitated
by successive lamentations, is retained
within the casks
Messrs. Zimmerman will put up this
season $4,000 bottles; in 1853, 10000 !;
in 1854 $4,000; and in 1855, 100000
What will be done beyond that period
must depend on the yield of the grape
crop in 1852, and later seasons. All this
is Catawba wine, termed Still, in distinc-
ton from Sparkling Catawba.
Mr.. Longworth is engaged in the man.
ufacture of Sparkling Catawba at his
wine cellars on Butler street, east of
Broadway. He made in 1850, 10000
bottles; in 1851, $4,000, and this year,
he will put up LOS, 900 bottles. Sparkling
Catawba requires fifteen to twenty months
for ripening, before being ready for mar
ket Mr.. L. has also dry and sweet
wines, the first of the Catawba, and the
other the Isabella grape.
Messrs. R. Buchanan, Corneau & Sons,
G, & P. Bogen, Rehfuss, Yeatman, MIL
Ter and others, are also extensively en-
gagged in the manufacture of Catawba
wine All these persons label their wines.
The aggregate annual manufacture of
first rate wine may be put down at l50,-
600 bottles Still, and 10000 Sparkling
Catawba.
Probably 10000 bottles Still Catawba
wine is made, sold, and drank in this VIC
nifty by Germans, mostly the product of
small vineyards. This is unbranded, and
of various qualities-tbe greater part of
inferior quality. But whatever may be
the quality of our native wines, they are
all pure; that is, from nothing else than
the juice of the grape. One or two man
ufaeturers make sweet wines to small
extent, acknowledge to be factitious.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

" The Mobile Tribune tells story about
a green snake which was discovered a
bout two years ago on the grape arbor of
one of the most respectable citizens of that
ancient burg. Not being mOlested, sna-
ky thriyed and grew apace, and at pres
ent is of quite a respectable length, and
perfectly domesticated, recognising any of
the family, and allowing itself to be ca
ressed by them. But let stranger ap-
proach it and at once it manifests displeas-
ure, and will not allow nofamiliarity. The
editor of the Tribune says this is every
word true, and suggests as the cause of
its dociIity and civilization, the soothing
influence of the juice of the grape, and
its superiority over the "ardent,' as in
stanced in the natives of growing
countries.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

A letter from California says: GA man
from Illinois has just arrived from Inde-
pendence, having driven the entire dis
tance two thousand turkeys, all hale and
hearty. They cost him about fifty cents
apiece in the States, and the cost of feed
ing them on the way was nothing; they
fed themselves. He has been offered eight
dollars apiece.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
schuyIkiII County Farming.

we make tne IOuOWlng extract from
letter written by the Hon. Jacob Hammer,
of Orwigsburg, now President of the
Schuylkill County Agricultural Society,
to Thomas Ewbank, Esq. Commissioner
of Patents, Washington City, and publish
ed in the Patent Office Reports of 1850
ISL.
John Sheener, Jr. raised in the neigh
borhood of 0rwigsburg, 27O bushels on
three acres of land, of the red gourd corn
On ordinary land his mode of planting is
by dropping single grain in the drill,
twelve or fifteen inches apart distance
between the drills three feet. Rye, Wheot
and Oats, are raised here, Of which Rye
is the least exhausting crop, BucEacheat
is an excellent and profitable article, if it
succeeds but it is very precarious crop.
1t is used extensively in this county for
fattenimg hogs and cattle. Lime as
top-dressing, is an excellent manure for
grain. Land that will produce no other
crop will bring Buckwheat. Clover seed
may be sewn with Buckwheat, and
crop expected if the land is previously
lined.
A large crop of the common turnip
and potato is raised in this county, and
the generally find good market. There
is no particular mode practised in raising
these crops. This county depends main
Iy on the north and northwestern part of
Pennsylvania for its supply of beef and
mutton. The farmer has so good mar
ket for this grain and hay, that he finds
the raising Of cattle poor business The
great facility of procuring ready burned
lime from Berks county, via the Schuyl-
kill Canal, enables US to improve our
lands rapidly and withreasonable expense.
Lime is delivered on the canal at cents
per bushel and 80 bushels to an acre are
considered sufficient to produce a good
crop of hay. Letttc General Goreynnae'at
protect oatr coal Trade, and enable our mi /
ners and laborers to take our produce, is
all the farmers of Schuylkill county ask.
They want no foreign market. five de-
pend upon that, we shall soon be obliged
to stop raising crops; but if the coal bus
mess is in fourishing condition, then we
have an excellent market for all We can
raise at home.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

BWhy has the common practice of
lining wells with bricks been condemned!
Because bricks soften the hardest water,
and give it as aluminous impregnation.-
DR.. PercaU0l
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

SaF We see it stated in an English pa
per, that man in the vicinity of Lon.
don, undertook lately for bet of twenty,
Eve dollars to lay gun on the ground
throw a potato up, turn heals over head
pick up the gun, and hit the potato once
out Olive shots, before it fento the ground
He afterwards actually performed thi,
feat winning his bet the first shot.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

S@- A friend speaking of California
says if you call physician to relieve you,
he generally does it; if not of your dis.
ease, Of your pocket-book For three "a
hens" and "ha" in June last, he paid
he says, twenty-seyen dollars. Nice eoun.
try for Rhubarb, that. .-Bu6et5n.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

A free negro, on his return from the
North to the South, writes to New Or
leans paper. "They charged me like a
white man and treated me like niger,
and that way doing amt fair.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

UFWhy is arrow-root so called!---
Because the Indians use its juice as a
remedy for wounds inflicted by poisonous
arrows. 1t is also considered an excel
lent remedy for the stings of venomous
insects. .-.,sfa 4s
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

sa- Good morning, DIR. jenkins,
where have you kept yourself this long
time9 Keep myself ! don't keep my
self, | board on credit.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

A clergyman who has been accused of
preaching long sermons, excused himself
on the ground that the church was a large
one.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

The laboring man ia the present age, i
Ge does but read, has more helps to wis,
CON than Solomon had;
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14

TRuTH-the open, bold, honest truth
lis always the wisest, always the safest
for every one, in any and all circumstan-
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-10-14
Published by Theodore Schoch

TERMS-Two dollars per annnum ia advance-Two
dollars and quarter, half yearlyand if not paid be-
lore the end of the year, Two dollars and half Those
whoreceive their papers by carrier or stage drivers
employed by the proprietor, will be charged 81 l-2
cents. per year, extra
No papers dtcontinued until all arrearages paid,
except at the option OF the Editor.
D1 Advertisements not exceeding one square tsix-
teen nesl will be inserted three weeks for dollar
and twenty-five cents foT every subsequent insertion
The Charge for one and three insertions the same
A liberal discount made TO yearly advertisers
RAuletters addressed to the Etitor must be post
paid.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-01-21
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA.

lam composed of fourteen letters.
Nv IA IL and Z, isa mountain, noted for the
division Of Paris between the contending
Goddesses.
Nv 9 Ia IL and 10, constitutes the third part
of a very concise teller from the battle of
Zela.
Nv 8 | and 7, IL the sailors home.
NV 10 7 and 8, is an appellation ofthe Deity.
NV Is 6 and 4, is a bitter herb.
NV Is l IA and III, is the name of a distin-
guished governor.
nv 8 II I3 10 IL, is a European capital.
NV 5 6 IL 6 /, is what old men seldom, and
Young ones never wear nowadays.
NV 8 6 l3 III 4 Is, a crime second only to
treason.
NV Is / II, a tributary of the Mississippi
NV 3 IA A 9 10 a kitchen ~utensil, very use
NJ : 6 8 2 often try the ingenuity Of Sophs
Nv s 4 10 IL 3 are peculiar class Of indi'
Nv is 6 8, an enemy TO the Sons Of Tempe
rance.
NE whole is my mo,ta.-
Napel Hill N. &. M
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-01-21
ACROSTICAL G

/ am composed Of seventeen letters.
My | 3 - Is 9, is a mountain III n. u.
My 2 II 4 IL 8, is the juice of the pine In
spissated.
My 8 6 8 s 9 IS 8, is atown of some note
in this State.
4527 s 4, were sea-nymPhs famed tor
the sweetness of their voices.
My 5 I3 IL IL 8 Is 5 4, is a State in this
Union.
Ny 6 5 6 Is, was wife Of Sichaus, and
Queen Of Charhage.
My z Is II II isa large lake in North A
mPrica.
My s 5 Is 2 is river Of Africa.
My 9 I6 5 9 1873, was Neptune's trumpeter.
My 10 l3 ii 8 9, is d river in Georgia, aisa
a stone.
My II l6 5 8 II IL Is, lisa county in n.
Carolina.
My IL 8 s Is 5 2, is another county in n
Carolina.
My Is IL s 8 7 9, is a small singing bird.
My IA Is 8 2 Is 7, was a President of III
United States.
My Is l6 IL Is 8, is a southern ~cons'ells
tiOn.
My l6 Is II 5, was once the proud mistre'
. of the world.
Ny II IA Is Ia, is place In England n
ted for a species If salts.
My whole is a pure patriot, an upright state
d man, and a true Son Of Temperance:
M. II. A.
b. Chatham
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-01-21
99uutb'a Department.

THREE OBJEcTs DIscERNIBLE ONLY WITH
Bort EYEs.-If you fix three pieces OF paper
against the wall of a room at equal distances
at the height Of your eye, placing yourself dI,
rec,ly before them, at a few yards distance, and
close your right eye, and look at them with
your left, you will see only two Of them, sup
nose the first and second alter the position OF
your eye, and you will see the first and thiId
alter your position a second time, you will see
the second and third, but never the whole three
together; by which it appears, that a person
who has only one eye can never see three OBJ
jscts placed in this position, nor all the parts o
one object of the same extent, without altering
his situation.