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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
A Chinese Custom.
BY UNCLE DANIEL.

The Chinese are very interesting peo
pie. Their manners, customs, religion
and dress, as their features and complex
ion, are entirely unlike those of the peo.
pie of Europe and America. The Chi
nese ladies walk very ungracefully, and
cannot dance at all, on account of the
smallness of their feet. This leads me to
speak of a singular unnatural, and foolish
custom which prevails among them. Ii
is the opinion of both the men and the wo-
men, that the smaller the female foot acr
be made, the greater, its beauty and the
more it adds to the attractions of the lady
to whom it belongs. This seems very alb
surd to US, but quite the reverse to them
So, by means of wooden shoes, bandages,
and other contrivances, applied in child
hood, they prevent their feet from growing
to the size and shape which God intended
and almost make cripples of themselves
in doing it. The consequence is, as we
have said, that they can neither dance
nor walk gracefully, but shuttle and tot
ter along as awkwardly as if they walked
on pegs instead of feet. "What foolish
people !" do you say? You should not
say that. The custom of which have
spoken is undoubtedly very foolish one;
but is not possible that we Americans,
who think ourselves very wise people,
have some customs which are equally
foolish? American ladies do not COM
press their feet by means of wooden shoes
and bandages, but both ladies and gentle
men often wear shoes and boots which fit
so tightly, that very troublesome corns
are produced by them. But this is not
the worst custom which prevails among
us. A small waist has been and still is,
by many, considered to add greatly to the
attractions of the female form; so, instead
of allowing their bodies to develop them
selves into the full and graceful proper
tions which Nature designed, many of our
women, by the most absurd and unnatu-
raj compressions, have reduced their
waists to a wasp-like smallness, obstruc-
ting the free action of the vital organs,
and thus destroying beauty, health, and
life! Shall we call the Chinese foolish,
when they only compress the feet |
hope that when the little girls who read
the School Fellow shall grow up and be-
come women, they will be free from all
these absurd and unnatural customs
School Fsllo1o.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
and back.

and back.
There is one feature more in this respec-
table man-hunt on which we make a pas
sing remark, and We have done. It is
this
Barnett and Anderson, the taco claim
ants of John, were both present at the
trial. When he was committed to their
custody as their slave, there is not, we
venture to say, in New York man SO
fool hardy or insane as to believe, after
witnessing the quiet, orderly, gentlemanly
department of Bolding throughout the
whole affair, that any danger of a mob, or
rescue, or escape could be apprehended.
And, least of all, was any such danger'to
be apprehended after he was seated in the
cars, or on the steamboat, between his
two captors. A cord or single pair of
fetters, at one dollars expense, could have
made all secure. Butthey knew that even
such was unnecessary.
Why then we ask is Deputy and his
two sturdy assistants" to ride 773 miles
at 81 12c. per mile, to aid these claimants.
But who were these "two assistants"!-
We're they Barnett and Anderson them
selves If so, Uncle Sam was very lib
eral to carry them home at his expense.
Or were, they extra Assistants! If the
latter, then the expense was most out
rageous one, wholly unnecessary. But
the Job on the whole is not Jean, but
very fat one-and a Marshall can well
afford to be nimble in slave hunts. Let us
see. One dollar and twelve cents each
mile. We believe few of our Railroads
or Steam Boats charge beyond three or
four cents per mile, call it four, and Mar
shall Tallmadge pockets the nett pretty
sum of one dollar per mile for 773 miles.
So that we now learn, that not only the
Commissioner gets 100 per cent premium
for sending back the fugitive, but the
Marshall pockets still larger fee. But
never mind the Treasury pays. "What
has the North to do with slavery? Oh
nothing gentlemen only to be skinned, lie
still, let you sprinkle in fine salt and pep
per and not founce, else the Union will
be jostled.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
Tobacco--Chewing and Splitting.

A spicy debate sprung up in the House
of Representatives at Washington some
days ago, between Stanly of N. Carolina,
Davis of Mass, and some other members,
on Tobacco and Splitting. Doubtless our
readers observed sketch of the discus
sion in our telegraphic reports of Con-
gressional proceedings. Those who over
looked it, missed some of the characteristic
pungency of Edward stanly, which is al
ways worth hearing and reading, and also
some valuable hints in regard to the filthy
habit of chewing tobacco and squirting the
juice of it in miniature cataracts up and
down the ways of life. If those who be-
foul their persons and infect the atmos-
phere by this pernicious and nauseous
habit, could be affected by expostulation,
or satire, or ridicule, it might be worth
while to discharge a full voley at them
But we fear they are incorigible For
ourselves, we have feeling sense of this
enveterate habit of flthiness. We pre-
sumo we get spit upon forty times year.
We never get into crowd, and never
90 to leeward on board a steamer, that
we do not apprehend and very generally
experience a shower of tobacco juice e.
jected from the nasty tobacco-crusted
mouths of chewers and spitters. We al
ways feel that such fellows should not be
allowed to go at large, unless each had
a spittoon attached to his nose by ring,
into which he might expectorate bis sa-
Iva.
But it is foul subject, and we will not
write aboutit The dirty dogs who chew
and spit, and spit and chew, are not worth
the words we have already wasted upon
them Tribune.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
AariruItnral.

If the breed of hogs you have is not
good and profitable one, buy young
boar, of some approved breed, and cross
your own; and while you are doing so, be
sure to get good one.
APPLE ORcHARD-If the bark on
your apple trees are rough and dead-llke
in appearance, or covered with moss,
scrape them, and apply mixture made
in the proportion of gallon of soft soap,
quart of salt, and ID. of -four of sui
phur This will cause new and health
full bark to grow on them, prove repul-
sive to insects, and otherwise benefit the
trees. As to pruning, none but the dead
limbs should be taken of; those cut close
into the body or main branch, the wound
made smooth with drawing knife, and
surface covered with plaster made of
equal parts of soft cow-dung, and old
mortar powdered fne,-or of equal parts
of beeswax, rosin and tallow, either to be
capped with strong cugar loaf paper, or
strong cotton or linen cloth.
SELLING CoRN.-Shell your corn be-
fore you sell it, crush the cobs and feed
them in mashes to your milch COWS. A
peck of crushed cobs and peck of cut
fodder, hay or straw, thrice day, will
keep your cows well up to their milch.-
This mess may be cooked enough by
simply pouring boiling water over it, COW
ering it, and permitting it to remain un
till cool enough to be fed out
He that sells his corn on the cob, gives
away his cobs, besides paying for their
transportation to market; and where the
grain is large and the cob small, gives a
way part of his corn also, as such corn
will yield more than bushels to the bar
rel.-American Farmer.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

ger than common leather; it acquires such
applicability and softness, that it will new Ell
shrlvel, nor grow hard, and in that state
Is the most effectual preventive against
colds, &c. It is necessary to remark that
shoes and boots, thus prepared, to be
worn, until they become perfectly dry and
elastic; as in the contrary case, the leath-
er will become too soft, and wear out
much sooner than it otherwise would"
The Editor of the Farmer endorses
this as follows
We have tried the effect of the compo-
sition made agreeably to this recipe, and
can vouch for its rendering leather water
proof. In order to test it, we procure a
very new pair of shoes, gave them five
successive rubbings with it, allowing suf-
ficient time between each for the compo-
sition to become dry. After the last had
become perfectly absorbed by the leather,
we placed one of the shoes in a tub par
TALLY filed with water, and left it there
for At hours. When we took the shoe
out, it was as dry as when we first placed
it in the tub the effect of the composition
is, that while it renders the leather water
proof, in the broadest sense of the term,
it makes soft and plant, and therefore
the more elastic and durable. From our
experience in the wear of shoes made wa
ter-proof, we have no hesitancy in saying
that a pair thus treated will last as long
as two PAIR that may be worn without it.
But Independent, of this economical view
of the subject, there is SO much comfort
in wearing pair of boots or shoes, i'm
pervious to water, that if it did not con-
duce to saving-which it does-it is so
preservative of health, that that consid-
Grafton alone should commend this COM
position to all who put just estimate up
on that most valuable of all earthly bless
ings. Wet feet is, perhaps, the cause of
more distressing colds, coughs, and con-
sumptions than anything else if then, We
can preserve dry feet, and thereby avoid
the unpleasant and dangerous consequen-
ces which follow from wet ones, it becomes
a matter Of duty for us all, to avail our
selves of this preventive remedy. 1t is
cheap and effective, and does not in the
least prevent the leather from taking a
fine polish. When we first read the re-
cipe, we were satisfied, from the constit-
uents in it; that it would make leather
waterproof; but we felt it to be our duty,
before publishing it, to test its virtues full
ly, as we are averse to endorsing anything
untried. The thought here presents
itself, that if agriculturists would have
their harness, collars, and gearing, gen
orally, saturated with this composition
twice year, it would make them last as
long again, besides rendering them much
more comfortable to the animals that have
to wear and work in them.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
I From tie Dollar Newspaper
Dairy Butter.

Among the various agricultural pro-
ducts of our country, butter is well worthy
of attention, and, in good grazing dis
tricts, amply repays the labor of the far
mer. It is not my purpose to speak of
the different method, but merely to make
statement of the mode which l have
found completely successful in. its manu-
facture and preservation. If you are
going to make butter, several things will
be necessary; milk room, butter bowl
and ladle, a cool cellar, (not too Damp
in which the butter must be kept, and al
so the milk, through the heat of summer,
as you should always endeavor to make
hard butter. The churning can be done
by water power, dog, or sheep, or by
hand, if your dairy is small. Pans, after
being washed, should be rinsed in hot
water to remove all acidity, and all yes-
sells used must be kept perfectly sweet
Sell your spring butter, and lay none
down until it has a rich yellow color
Let the cream stand until it sours. then
churn it; wash the butter thoroughly in
pure, cold water, (hard water is prefera-
ble,) and add the the salt, working it
we'll through the butter. Set it away,
and let it stand twenty y-four hours; then
work it until it will cut smooth with q
ladle; reject the pickle, and pack in
frkin. The salt can be measured, and
little experience will regulate the quantity.
Hot water should never be added to the
cream while churning, to facilitate the
operation, as it produces what is called
scalded butter, being white and of infer
Tor quality.
When frkin is half full, add an even
teaspoonful of pulverized saltpetre to 8
churning, when you work it over, and put
in the frkin. This will strike through
and preserve the whole. When full, take
a wet cloth, spread over the top of the
butter, and gil with coarse salt, about an
inch in depth, turning over the edges of
the cloth upon the salt, and proceed in
the manner with each frkin. Many
dairymen put pickle upon the butter, and
it may answer as well, but you cannot
keep your frhins as nice as by the first
method. Before beading for market, re-
move the coarse salt, and having cloth,
about the size of the head ready, wet it,
spread neatly over the butter, and sprin-
kle little fine salt on it. This keeps all
dust from the butter, that may get in a.
round the head. Head the frkin, and
wash off all dirt with cold water, or, if
moulded, use little soft soap, and no
stain will remain. 1t is now ready for
market, where you should get it as neat
as possible. Butter made and kept in
this manner, brings as high price in
market, as any made in this section of
the country. Al.
Schohariee Co. Y. 7.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
4 New Marriage-Trap.

The British government is trying to
hire the convictS at Van Dieman's Land
to get married by promising them free
dom, as a reward for their bardihood in
undertaking that hazardous enterprise
1t is said that the old maids and bache-
lors on the island are embracing this op-
portunity to change their condition, by
marrying handsome young thieves and
vagabonds of either sex. Some of the
cunning rogues, however, will not swallow
the matrimonial hook, even when it is
baited with such sweet morshal as lib
erty. A similar government policy was
adopted once before in England
When man was convicted of certain Of
fences, and sentenced to be hanged at
Tyburn, if any woman could be found
willing to espouse him under the gallows,
he was forthwith pardoned and set at lib
erty, the marriage being considered pun
ishment enough. On one occasion, when
Jack Ketch was about to perform his Of
fee on certain criminal, lady stepped
forth from the crowd and offered to take
him for better or worse. The poor fell
low looked at her, then at the cord, hesi-
t&ted for moment, and finally expressed
h!s determination in the following
dissich:-
Long nose, sharp chin;
lie the rope, hancman!'
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

HJA little girl being sent to the store
to purchase some dye stuff, and forget
ting the name of the article, said to the
clerk,
John, what do folks dye With
Dye with!-Why, cholera, some times,
replied John.
We'll, believe that's the name. want
TO get three cents WORTH
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

A couple of men were hung in New
York last week, and barber was sent for
to shave them, preparatory to the execu-
ton. He brought in bill of twenty-five
dollars for the service! This may be con-
sidered as one of the greatest shayes on a
small scale, on record.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

There is hog on exhibition at Cincin-
natl, of such size and fatness, that Pro-
fessor Somerindyke says that if his tail
was lighted and kept properly trimmed,
he would burn for year; and with such
brilliancy as to light large portion of
the city. Where's your sperm whalc
now,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
Long nose, sharp chin;
Tie the rope, hangman!'

Candidates for Office are making Gen
eral Pierce all sorts of presents. From
one set he gets splendid carriage, from
another pair of baOod horses, from a
third complete wardrobe, &C., &C.
These fellows probably think they under
stand the trick of getting good deal of
water out of pump by pouring little in.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
pub,ished by Theodore schoch.

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Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

There is music in the crack of stage
drivers whip when the ground is white
with coat of snow.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

Blacksmiths, it is said forge and steel eY-
cry day; but We think people speak iron
i'cally of them.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03

So it seems that not only Bolding's
funds were bled couple of thousand, for
man who would not have brought his
claimants on the auction block 5000, but
that ss72 62 are taken from the Treasu-
ry to pay for a genteel ride to Charleston
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-03-03
Ss72621
Total Se72 60
Dated, March, 1852.
ANDREW T. JUDSON.
Total

[ certify that the above is a true copy
of the original which is concluded in the
account of Fl. f. Tallmadge, Marshal of
Southern District of New York, and filed
on record in this ofice.-Treasury De-
partment, Feb. 2, 1853.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-03

tPM. CADETS community at Nsuvoo re.
Gently celebrated It's anniversary. It's net prcds ss
the last year were $4,000
IL In accordance with resolution Of he
City Councils OF Washington, and sgreeably to .
poiutment, the members of the Board Of Aderrr
and Board OF Common Council with the Mayor AL
other Executive officers of Corporation. waited o.
President Fillmore yesterday, to tender their respec
and good wishes in taking leave OF him his retire
ment from Office and from the seat OF Governnsat
Mr. Maury the Mayor, addressed tho President Thanh
ing him for the interest he has exhibited in all pertain
ing to the prosperity OF the city and bidding him
the name of the corporate authorities of the city,
cordial farewell,
Mr. Fillmore made short reply in which ocean he
following:
can assure you that feel that am entitled TO tie
cor grauaiions of my friends Mt the approaching tern
nation of my official labors and responsibilities While
shs retire from this exalted station without snge
regret cannot leave your delightful city, where hue
ever been q Gated with so much kindness and considers
ton without feeling psng OF regret at the severance
of so many social ties which have been TO me sources
unalloyed happiness IT, in the course Of my brief Al
ninistration have been able 10 accomplish anything
10 promote the prosperity add 10 the attractions d
this lovely city, bearing the name OF the immoral
Washington this reflection viii ever be TO me source
OF sincere qualification.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-03
A MEETING FOR REFORM.

The call published on this page) for meeting
at Metropolitan Hall, on Saturday night, to
secure effectual action in the matter of City
Reform, comes before the people with weight
of authority seldom before united in any SINH
lar movement Partnership is at last thrown
aside, and real opposition cOnffOnts the tide of
robbery and corruption which threatens ruin
to rich and poor alike. Radical and sweeping
changes are contemplated, in which every cit
zen is deeply interested. Let all such attend,
and let us hear once more the voice of the
people in the City Government.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-03

u The people Of CharlestOwn, Mass, are
apprehensive of another affair ike that Of the
destruction of Ursuline Convent some twenty
years since. An Irish girl, educated Catholic,
was recently converted to Professionalism, and
soon after suddenly disappeared. Some weeks
have since passed, and the efforts of her Prot
estant friends, among them a wealthy and re-
spectacle merchant, her guardian, to find her,
have proved unavailing.
Last evening public meeting was to have
been held on the matter; and such was the
excitement on both sides, the Catholic and
Protestant, that the military was ordered to
be in readiness, a hundred special cOnstables
appointed, and other measures taken TO insure
the public tranquility. In the evening, some
5000 rioters assembled near the Catholic
church, and, az all attempts by the Mayor and
Bishop Fitzpatrick to dispense them failed, the
Riot Act was read, and finally the military,
with loaded muskets, called up, who put the
rioters to fight, happily without blOodshed,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-03

CBrCardinal Wiseman asserted that among
the things which mankind has received from the Popes
isthe mariners compass. Awriter in The Lo~dos Al
r1tser undertakes to prove that the ins,rumen, VA
known before the Pspal See .as instituted iolows
"In the 2sth chapter of the Acts OF the Apostles yos
viii find further, matter of ordinary occureace
that the compass then In use. Paul. sailing frou
Syracuse. fetched compass AND Rhs2iun :
that before the blessing OF the Popes visited ia
in some rude shape another this great boon n he
sailor familiar 10 those that went down TO the ~
In ships, and did business on the great waters
Wisdom creth aloud In the streets"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-03
VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY AND IO4

Run DING LoTs THE CRY % NEw-foRK. AT AUCTION
On, :, sdeis will pie ace notice that ANTHONY BLEEcK
yRyi sell at public auction, THIS DAY, I'd inst at IL
o'clock at the Merchants Exchange, lOi desirable lots OF
ground forming over blocks OF ground bounded ~ the
Ias River LIST I'd and 3davs and By g8th and 9th ss
with the valuable water Eht in front Of sad property on
the Fast Rivers also the houses and lots Nos lB sS and
I95 2sst Nos 1g9 lOl, 23 and 205 25thsi house and
lot No 81 Oak house and lot No. III Waveryplsce
and lot No 10 Whtes one lot on the corner OF ID
y md 9th IT, one Io on the Of 8thsv and 6Sast
and the leasebod premises No so WsshngOnst Maps OF
the above an be had Of the sucOneeT, No. BToids,
No. Z 1851