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The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-13

SCIENCE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE.--It has been
we'll said that the distinguishing characteristic of
modern science is its practical applicability for
purposes of everyday life. In other words, our
men of science, instead of wasting their energies
in mere abstruse speculations, constantly seek
after useful discoveries. The proceedings of the
American Association for the Advancement Of
Science which body has lately been in session at
Cleveland Ohio, furnish an example in point
Nearly oil the papers read at this convention have
a practical end; and conspicuous among them
were some on the indications of rainy weather.
Mr. VIM. H. Thomas, of Cincinnati, was one
of the persons who read such paper. His essay
discussed the indications of weather, as shown by
animals insects, md plants and was full of facts,
many of them new, and of scientific explanations
of themselves. Birds, it asserts, invariably show,
by the way they build their nests, whether sea-
son is to be windy or otherwise. If the former,
they thatch the nest between the twigs and lin
ing. If the latter, they omit these precautions
If dry season is in prospect, they build in open
places If a wet one, they choose sheltered spots
"A careful observation of these peculiarities will
afford, Mr.. Thomas says, certain criterion, early
in the spring, of the coming weather T aa
Snails also reveal by their habits whether rain
NAV be expected or not. Several species of those
animals invariably ascend the stems of plants two
days before rain, in order to place themselves on
leaf, there to imbibe the water, for they never
drink. Other species have tubercles that rise
there being pore at the end of each tubercle to
imbbe the water. Others grow yellowish white
Just before rain, returning to darker color after
rain Locusts also foretell rain, by sheltering
themselves under the leaves of trees, and in hol-
lows and trunks, as soon as by the changes in the
atmosphere they discover that rain is impending.
Most leaves Of trees also barometers, for if
rain is to be light they turn up so as to receive
their fill of water, while for long rain they dou-
BILE 80 as to conduct the water away. akQF
Another member, Professor Brooklesby, of Hart
ford, read paper, describing spring near his re-
sidence, whose waters rose invariably before rain
He suggested that the diminished atmospheric
pressure which precedes rain was the cause OF
the phenomenon, and recommended that observa-
tons should be made over the whole country, to
ascertain if the phenomenon was general, or only
exceptional. 1t would be curious if the former
could be established, and not less useful than Gu
rious, for if Nature has made every spring ma
tural barometer, the fact will be of vast benefit to
know .--Philadelphia Bulletin.
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snd Inc north half Of thirty five, in tovns1.p ten.

gnu "a tnisty SV"Ssss"sP ss'ss
of range hve. fN b7n@ atA 'DaN aiSf gas
Lands appropriated by law for The use Of schools,
military and other purposes. together with 'tbQse
swamp and overlooked lands, made unit thereby
for cultivation," IL any, granted 10 the 0tats BY
tho act entitled can act to enable the State OF Ar
kansas and other States TO reclaim the swamp
lands within their Nmits," approved September
%, 1850, tUiH be excluded from ne sales. n
In accordancs with tina .previsions of the act OF
18th July, 1886, lhereinbefore referred to, pre-
emptop claims will not be allowed TO any Of the
above mentioned lead mineral tracts to be offered
at Mineral Point until altar the have been offered
at public sale, and become subject to private on
try, And these tracts will be sold in such legal
subdivisions as will include the mine or mines at
not less than ttco dollars and ty cents Per 0cres
and If not sold at the public sale at such price,
shall be. entered at private sale within twelve
months thereafter, the same shall be subjectt sale
az other lands. e ~ .s Rsf@h
The Offering of the above lands will be com.
menced on the days appointed. and will proceed
in tho order in which they are advertised untttbc
whole shall have bsen offered, and the sales thus
closed; but sale shall be kept open longer than
two weeks, and private entry ofany Of the lands
will be admitted until after the expiration Of the
two weeks
Given under my hand, at the city of Waahing-
ton J, this twenty first day Of June, Ammo Domini
one thousand eight hundred and fifty. three.
y FRANKLIN PIERCE.
BY the President: a+at4 .asiG 4fsa li
1s JOHN WILSON, tas a ag ss,.
Fa Commissioner of the General Land Office.
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OFFIcE-sEEKING.-"N No n-now Cesar, why
does you always dance off on de heel OBJ fancy
Dis child nebber tear himself away from Uncle
Sam. Now dis is the offs | ply for, an l'so
great influence wild Massa Campbell's waiter, SO
guess get it, Use gwine to ply TOR the post Oh
sexton in de Pose Oils Apartment.
"Sexton in the Pose Offs Apartment, Sambo"
eyes, sah / berry de dead letters. Sometimes
dew hab money in 'em, an den rifle de corpusos
You see, sahS E.t i. .. 49,.
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INSECT FEcuNpIrY-Frenchi nsectivorous ma
thematicians furnish some extraordinary figures
upon the rapidity with which certain species of
bugs multiply and the services rendered TO man
kind by the swallows, which feed upon them.E
bug he is acquainted with produces nine genera
tons in a season. and he remembers pair that IN
one summer were the happy ancestors OF 354,-
489 ,0O0, 900 900 descendants What, he asks,
would become of us were it not tor swallows,
each one of which consumes 500 bugs day.
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Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
NOTICE no PRESUMPTION CLAIMANTS. I

NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS. &
Every person entitled to tho right of pre-emp-
ton to any of the lands within the townships aud
parts of tow nships above enumerated, 10 required
to establish the same to the satisfaction of the reg
lister and receiver Of the proper land Office, and
make payment therefor soon practicable after
sesine this notice, and before the day appointed for
the commencement of the public sale Of the lands
embracing the tract claimed, otherwise such claim
will be forfeited. fA 3ffg3a ist9. - D
JOHN WILSON.
wa Commissioner of the General Land Office.
4 June 23-1awl3w
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RELIEF For New ORLEANs.-The committee
appointed to solicit donations for the citizens of
New Orleans have been very successful so far.
They had 5000 this morning; and were very
confident that it would reach $4,000, which will
be Immediately sent to the mayor of that city.
81" Baltimore Patriot of yesterday.
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TIOME PICTURES, by Mrs. CIV. Denison.
III The Boyhood Of Great Men, with ilustra
TONS taU.. u
Uncle Robin in his Cabin in Virginia. by J. w.
Page. Ea rr
Helen and Arthur or Miss Thusa's Spinning
Wheel, by Caroline Lee Hentz. l
July IL rr CD a FKANCk TAYLOR,
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What more touching commentary upon the
misfortunes Of Marie Antoinctte, remarks the
Home Journal, than the simple cash entry made
by the sexton, and yet to be seen, in the parish
records Of the Madeleine--"Paid seven francs tor
coffin for the Widow Capet."
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"THE Boy is FATHER TO THE MAN. "--It is by
no means.an uncommon opinion in these days to
maintain that the men who distinguished them
selves most in the competition of the world, were
not the men who were most successful insacadem-
ical competition when they were young. This
assumption derives good deal Of plausibility in
this country from the fact that some of our most
illustrous statesmen soldiers orators, clergymen,
physicians, lawyers, &c., are self-made men, and
owe little or nothing to scholastic training We
observe from the Parliamentary reports that Il
question was incidentally raised on this subject in
the British House of Commons lately, during
debate on the bill relating to the government OF
India; and that it called forth a speech from the
eminent historian and critic, Macaulay lie elo-
quently maintained that men who distinguish
themselves in their youth above their contempt
rares at college and schools, almost invariably
keep to the end Of their lives the start they gained
in the earlier part of their career, and appealed to
the lists of honors in the Universities of Cam
bridge and Oxford for hundred years in confir-
nation of this fact. 1t was particularly true of
the Church, Parliament, and Bar.
Some Of his references are curious and highly
interesting. He careered over the whole field of
Parliamentary history, from the days of Montagu
and BolngbrOke to those of Canning and Peel,
and the later period Of Lord Derby and Glad
stone, all Of whom had taken high collegiate hon
ors The ablest Governors of India were Hast
ings, Metcalfe, Wellesley, and Peterborough, each
Of whom had been eminent at Westminster, or
Eton, or Oxford, or Cambridge. Then on the
bench and ut the bar there was splendid assem-
blage of men, no less distinguished for scholarship
than for the strength and acuteness OF their prac-
teal faculties He enumerated Mansfield, Eldon,
Stowell, Gibbs, Tenterden, Lyndhurst, Baron
Anderson, Justice Maule, Baron Parka, Justice
Coleridge, and many others who had obtained
high positions; and who had kept the start achich
theu gained in yo,th. We commend the whole of
Mr.. Mucaulay s admirable speech to all our young
friends who are conscious of manly faculties and
great ambition The general rule must be adj
mitted to be as the ilustrous historian has stated
it; and there is nothing to show that the selfmade
great men of our age and nation would not have
also taken the lead Of their contemporaries at col
lege had they enjoyed the privileges Of academic
training - Cincinnati Commercial
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GREAf FEAT IN PEGGING SHoEs.-A corre-
spondent informs us that two young men in North
Danvers, on Thursday of this week, pegged one
hundred and sirty pairs of women's spring-heeled
shoes-working only ten hours. This is probably
the greatest performance ever recorded in this
line. The names of the parties are Alexander
Steele and John j. Bunker. A wager of twenty
FIVE dollars was depending the result oft the days
work, Bunker being the challenger. Bunker peg
ged seventy-eght pairs; Steele pegged eighty-two
pairs. Steele averaged a pair in seven minutes
nineteen seconds There were about one hundred
and twenty pegs in each shoe, or two hundred
and fifty in pair. This would amount to twenty
thousand five hundred pegs in the eighty
pairs and would be at the rate of about thirtyive
pegs driven in each and every minute of the ten
hours. The work we were informed was done
we'll. Can anybody beat it.-Boston Journal.
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"NoBoDY BUT A PRINTER" Such was the
meering remark of person residing not thou
sand miles from the door of our sanctum, refer
ring to the profession we follow in pride. "No-
body but printer" in sooth! 1t makes our blood
run rampant through our veins to hear such ex-
pressions fall from the lips of those nursed on
publican soil. Nobody but printer, any
how'll Who was Benjamin franklin Nobody
but printer" Who William Caxtoh,
one of the fathers of literature ''Nobody but
printer Who was Earl Stanhope' "Nobody
but a printer" Who was Samuel Woodwortha
sNobody but a printer" Who was Governor
Bigler, Of Pennsylvania' "Nobody but printer.
Geo P. Morris, James Harper, Thurlow Weed,
Horace Greedy, Robert Sears, and Senators Dix,
Cameron, and Miles, "Nobody but printers, any
how One thing is evident, every person that
chooses can't be printer. Brains necessary.
Exchange paper.
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banks refuse to pay the taxes levied upon she, 70
break open the safes and vaults AZ said institutions
and take therefrom the amount of the assessment
The bill goes far to enumerate what instru-
ments shall be used on such occasions naming crow
bars, pickaxes, &c. They have queer way OF
constructing and enforcing the laws in that State,
truly.
The increase of receipts of cotton at the different
Southern ports over those Of last year at the same
time amounts to five hundred and twenty nine thou
sand bales The latest despatch from New Orleans
announces that brisk business was doing in the
cotton market at firm prices. Fifty-four thousand
bales we're sold during the four days ending on
Thursday.
The mortality table made up by the City Inspec-
Tor shows that sixty-seven men, seventy-three wo-
men, one hundred and twenty.one boys, and one
hundred and three grls-making a total OF three
hundred and sixtyfour personsdied in the city and
county during the week which ended last night This
exhibits decrease of fifteen deaths when compared
with the number returned for the foregoing seven
days The diseases were of the ordinary character.
Thirtytwo adults died Of the different fevers, Of
whom fifteen were carried of by that of the scarlet
type. Fourteen died from congestion Of lungs, eight
from congestion Of the BRAIN and twenty four from in
fammaton of the lungs. large proportion of infants
died. Two hundred and fourteen were children under
ten years of age and of these hundred and three
had not completed their first year. Group, convul-
sions, measles, smallpox and dropsy Of the head,
operated with very fatal intensity. Two hundred
and fifty five persons were natives Of America, sixty
eight came from Ireland, and twenty from Ger
many. The City Inspector must experience consi-
derable difficulty in arranging and classifying the
matter for his most important report, and the accu
racy OF the statistics Of existing diseases be much
vtiated by the very lax manner in which some medi-
cal men fill up their certificates Of the cause of DEATH
For instance, yesterday gentleman certified,
Child stlborn-cause Of death, hydrocephalus. y
Another replies to the query "Color the decease
| 1.-THE usual color Of corpses."
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The judiciary has attained signal triumph
over the Common Council-the court has heen
indicated and upheld in remarkable manner,
and the public mind has been satisfied that
the bench in this city has preserved it's indepen-
dence, by the novel proceedings which took
place yesterday in the Superior Court, and
which will be found fully reported in our Co
lumns to-day.
1t was indeed novel and edifying spectacle
to see the legislative bodies Of this metropolis
the men to whose wisdom, ability, and recti-
tude the immense interests and affairs of the
city had been entrusted-called upon to hear
judgment pronounced against them for the of
ience Of which they had become amenable
They had dared to treat with scorn and refuse
obedience to an injunction issued against them
by one of the Judges, restraining them from
further action in the matter of the Broadway
Railroad; and they thus incurred the penalties
which the law provides for contempt of Court.
The power and morale of the court was never
better exemplifed in this country than it was
on that occasion. where the Legislators them
selves were in body compelled to feel that
their high position furnished them with no
exemption or immunity from its rules. A
heavy fine was imposed on all ; and one of them,
who had signalized himself by taking more
active part against the judicial action was fur
tiIel sentenced to nftc-n days imprisonment I'll
the City Prison. The sentence, however. will
not now be carried into execution, an appeal
having been lodged to the decision of the COURT
and the whole matter will therefore come up for
argument before the Court of Appeals some time
about the close of the month.
This determined action Of the Judges will
have strong and salutary effect on the com
munity at large. The people will learn from it
to obey and reverence an institution which has
shown itself thus pure and independent, and
having no respect of persons and legislators
will hardly again be found to risk their personal
freedom by placing themselves in antagonism to
it, or imagining that they are beyond the reach
Of its action.
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The Maine Liquor Law-Probable Decline OF
the Tempernnce Deluslon.

1t is now some twenty years since small
band Of well-meaning but fanatic individuals
resolved to attempt to curtail the natural
liberties of the American people by interdicting
the sale Of spirituous liquors. They were not
without models in their task. History fur
nished but too many examples of individuals
voluntarily consenting, through error or supine-
ness, to debar themselves the rational enjoy
ments which Heaven had bestowed. Hardly a
State or nation could be mentioned in which,
at some time or other, the supreme authority
had not deprived its subjects Of some article Of
comfort or luxury which Providence intended
them to use. The apostles Of temperance re-
ferred. no doubt. with profit, to the monopo-
lies and vexatious restrictions by which the
to raise a revenue for their licentious pleasures
and private quarrels They learnt something
from the old laws Of England. which prohibited
the people from wearing silk, riding in coaches
or killing game. They found a fruitful lesson
in the more modern code Of France. comforting
upon the government the monopoly Of the sale
Of tobacco. salt, and gunpowder and thus
seriously injuring the commercial, agricultural
and manufacturing interests of the country.
They will even have consulted with benefit
that portion Of our own history which relates
to the selEimposed privations of the early
settlers Of New England. All these-without
mentioning the very veracious accounts Of the
Fakeers, and other voluntary martyrs of
the East-will have supplied the early advo.
Gates Of teetotalism with tolerable fund of
experience, and a fair budget Of precedents for
their purpose
With their aid and the natural facilities which
the credulous character Of mankind affords il il
not matter Of wonder that the new doctrine
should have made very considerable progress in
THIS country. As q people, we are prone to
run alter novelty, even where it is unaccon-
panied by advantage. New religious scots. new
moral doctrines, new social institutions, thrive
better on cur soil than in any other country in
The world. without trammels Of precedent to
fetter our freedom, without many time-lonorod
usages or principles to interfere with a new
social movement we give ear to every soi-,ii-
SAINT philosopher who has a scheme Of human re-
generation to PROFOUND our egervcgceat
energy rushcs wildly into every channel shat il
opened for its passage. without any previoa-
inquiry as to the safety Of the route or the con-
dition Of tlc goal We sec what Is bad IN The
present state Of society. and, being better able
Than our n iehbors to undergo a violent course
Of treatment, do not finch from an operation,
however painful, OF LCiue however napscou
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0llitunTY.

SUDDEN DE4TH or HERCULES II. IhYa, ESQ, Ds
1ISGC sHyD MERCHANT CRY On Friday morning
this gentleman died suddenly, at his residence Union
Place Hotel On Wednesday 10 dned usual IN COOL
heath with exception d slgis cold. Thursday morn
ing he grew very III Friday rniug be becSne
and partially dssons, until about O'Clock whom he
ded Nr. Hayes q native Of Nes England and vos
he only surviving partner Of the celebrated
house Of Burns, Hayes Co. lie one of our most
upright and honorable citizen and viii b. oarned nv
.arge circle o. friends. Of 2hom he had not few.
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try Of all Nations-Onec No. % Broadway-Ne1 York
March 10 3At election held IT this Office the 9TH
the following gentlemen chosen directors for tho
ensuing year. viz
Mortimer Livingston Ebert J. Anderson .
Alfred Pell, Philip Burroves
August Belmont, Johnston Livingston,
Alexander Hamilton, Jr, Charles w. Foster,
George L. Schuyler, - Theodore sedgwisk,
William W Stone.
And nj meeting Of the directors held this day Theodore
Sedgv lex was appointed President William Whetten Vice
PRECEDENT Treasurer and Secretary and L. stuart Assist
Secretary.
The hoard proceeding 70 increase its number under
the authority Granted Nv amendment Of the Smarter
elected mia hcten director for the Gaming yen y
sr3er VIM WHET1EN Sesy.
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properly conveyed TO the shsre and strongly rseem
mend tho Commissioners Of to invesgats the
matter.
FRzs-A Ere was discovered the premises Of Messrs
Stewart Greer CO. 108 Front street, sugar rshners
about half past ten O'Clock last night Tho Fire Depart
msnt quickly in attendance, and succeeded in
tinpuishipr the flames without much damage except by
water The iron safe was secured at the
Of the 6re. II the fire had gained much power before
vented their working the upper part Of the building
About 5A O'Clock yesterday morning. large
number OF lime barrels which were TERED up against the
fence OF Mr. Kings lumber yard took Are and had 1t
not been for the exertions Of the police who dr disco
vered the fire. it would in all probability have been Sc
rious one
The alarm Of fire for the Third district occasioned
by the burning lot Of books in the third story OF the
house, No. Is Hammond street The fire was extnguishsd
with trfing damage.
slight fire broke out at the house No. 2S4 Pearl
street. at O'Clock yesterday morning. which was extn
gushed before any material damage was elected
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su,,nuid NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a. Lounsbory

IA Pearl street. have received per late arrivals large
stock "a velvet tapestry Brusela thres ply and ingram
carrctsrs Of chae and elegant aognH winch having been
previous the recent advance IA prices they are
VI s,hled To offer at very grsat Inducements