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EnYal lnfGlllOcnce.

The following the officers Of the prize schooner Ra
chel p Brown arrived at Norfolk 9th inst Lieut. Com
handing, George r Sinclair Passed Midshipman, Gusta
Harrison Mdshpman Jas. H. ellis
The sloops Of war Germantown and Dale remained at
Porto Praya Feb all WELL and both waiting for their
coast from Goree to the southwark the cambridge IN
the Blight and the Perry south the equator The fol
loving are lists Of their officers -
GemGnnon Com. +. A +. Layallette Commander in
Chief OF the T. s. forces the coast of urica Com
nander, John S. Nicholas First Lieut. James VI. North
Fleet Surgeon VIM. Patton; Ieutenants J. b. Carter
Geo. W. Rodgers Acting do. X. NJ McAram Purs<r. h
ID. Reynolds Marine officer J. d. Smms Master, Tho
mas Rooney Assistant Surgeon, A. Nelson Bell Sidshh,
men, VIM II Ward +. I; Shepherd, Geo Francois Bur
leigh, bourbon Barber Commodore g Secretary Duncan
n lneraham Captain Clerk Joseph A. Yates Gunner
VIM Fisher Boatsgain, Jno. Burrows Carpenter Ebe-
nezer Thompson Sailmaker +. G. Herbert.
Dole.-Comma nder, Jas J.. Lardner First Lieut. Mont
gomery Lewis Leutenants, Jno H. Parker Acting do.
Reginald Fairfax Surgeon. j. Winthrop Taylo- Master
Teyett Abbott Jas. r. Roche Gunner George IL.
rian Boatswain, f. A. Oliver Carpenter, r Ferral ;
Sailmaker Jno A. BurdsaL
The United States brig cambridge sailed from Ambri
zette coast OF Africa the 18th jan bound north all
well
The United States brig Dolphin which arrived at Nor
folk the Stb left Lisbon Dec l5 touching at Madeira
and Tenerfe berg employed in making deep sea sound
ings The following her officers III. o. Bergman
Lieutenant cor manding ). Franklin Acting Master; w
TruAton q. w. Morris b. Kennon Passed MIDI hplnen.
- Garland, Midshipmsn A. A. Henderson Passed A.
sisant Surgeon Mr. Perryman, Captains Clerk.
The United states steamer Engineer, Master olmstead
conUar ding from Washington with ordnance stores for
the Navy Yard arrived here yesterday reports having
met Monday evening United states steamer vixen
which sailed from Washington the day previous for New
York retuIning-beng unable TO make steam The newly
invented boiler with which she has Just been supplied
has again proved failure -NoGoit Beaooa, March D.
Army Intelligence.
is stated that General Scott conern plates removing
the headquarters Of the army from Washington to this
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The Detroit Free Press states that Farnham.
Chamrlin, and Smith, three of the men convicted in
Michigan Central Railroad Company have been psr.
doned By the Executive
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The WHEELING BRIDGE.-Wc understand
that on the l4th instant motion was filed in the
Supreme Court OF the United States by the Attorney
General Of Pennsylvania, and the counsel of the
State asking for order to the Marshal to execute
the decree Of the court and also for an attachment
against the officers, managers and stockholders for
not complying with the decree Of the court The ar.
gument Of this motion will bring up the question az
TO the effect Of the act Of Congress declaring the
Bridge postroad. The day for argument has not
beeQ assigned By The eourt.-PiHs. Jour-, March Q.
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ARREST AND DISCHARGE or THE SHOOTING
LADY.-The young girl who shot Bowman in the
may dance at Pea Cove, was yesterday arrested on
bis complaint and carried before Justice Aldford N
, Oldtown. AT the hour appointed for the nyestiga
ton the complainant and accused confronted each
ether but no witnesses appeared. The Justice there
upon discharged her. She said she intended to
shoot complainant; had found by her demonstration
that the people we're on her side, and she thought
she should let him run-said nc deserved death for
and has an eye denoting greas drmness of purpose
It is said that Bowman at the taae be was shot had
pistol upon his person, which it is supposed he in
tended 10 defend himself with she having threaten
ed him. The wound received will lame him for life IL
is thought Some wag says that her discharge will
prove dangerous precedent, which, IL acted upon.
Oldtown and Upper saltwater may become depopu.
lat9d.-Bangor Mercury, March 4.
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DROWNED IN WAsHTuB.-On Friday after
noon an Irsbman named Forpav on leaving b;a
no,se near the corner Of Spruce and Third streets
iocked ms wife, who was exceedingly intoxicated,
~ ne room to prevent her going out In the street in
dusk he found her dead, with her bodv nclined sor
ward BY washtub, and her head under the water.
u supposed that after partially recovering from
her lntoxication she attempted to finish the wash
the effects Of the liquor staggered and Sell with her
cad In the water, from which position she was not
bile TO extrcate herself The deceased was forty
hive yean old. and LETT one child.-St Louis mill.
x,1sr, FEB. 26. ''"''
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The Lieut.. Governor Of Nova Scotia.


The railroad scheme seems to have come to a
"dead lock-" Mr.. Howe having moved, on Wednes-
day, that when the railroad shall have progressed
far as where the branch lines should dverge, they
be built simultaneously with the remainder, unless
the trunk line in New Brunswick to the boundary
would be finished sooner than that of Nova Scotia,
which carried by the casting vote of the chair
mana factious amendment proposed by Mr. john
son having been negatived-but afterwards lost in
the House by a vote Of ~ to %. On the following
morning this rescnded by the casting vote of the
Speaker-one Of the opposition having changed
sides.
With state Of the House nearly balanced, it is
not probable the government will proceed with the
measure and petition at this juncture having been
presented in favor of the passage of bills constituting
railroad companies, Mr.. Howe intimated that no
further steps would be taken until the moneyed men
had been afforded an opportunity of showing what
they really disposed to do-their real object,
he conceived being to obstruct the government
From present appearances, it seems almost certain
that there will be dissolution Of the Assembly, and
another appeal to the people. G.
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Our Halifax Correspondence.

HALIFAX, Feb "a, 1893.
Opposition to the Railiray RMs-Probability Of a
Neu Election-Fishery Paprs-Reply of the
British Government Expressive Of the Vie,Os of
the Present Ministry on the Subject
Since last wrote nothing has occurred at all in
teresting. In the Assembly the opposition are still
working against the government railway bills so de.
termned are they, that should not be surprised if
our railways we're again postponed for another
twelvemonth. Should the bills be defeated, new
election must follow.
send you additional fishery papers, having re-
ference to obtaining British registers for American
vessels by British subjects residing in the United
States called forth by the detention Of the Creole
by H. NJ ship Devastation, on the ground Of irregu-
larity Of transfer.
The following reply to the address of the Mayor
and citizens Of Halifax which appeared in the HERALD
at the time, the subject OF the fisheries, was re-
ceived by the last mall and is Of peculiar importance
from the circumstance of its being official exposi
ton of the determination of the present ministry in
relation to any negotiation which may take place on
the subject, and the anmus Of a treaty.
DOWNING STREET, Feb. 8, 1858.
sIR-My predecessor, Sir John Pakington, received
your despatch No. 49, Of the I'd September last trans
hitting two addresses adopted by public meeting at
Halifax the subject of the pending negotiations be-
tween this country and the United States respecting the
fisheries. but he postponed the communication of his
views that despatch in consequence of the pressure Of
other correspondence the subject and left it
answered on quitting office.
and influential body of memorialists that their
petition laid before Her Majesty who pleased
The s Of Halifax may rel, on the determine
ton of Her Maestys government that in the pending
commercial negotiation with the United States OF America
The interests Of tie North american possessions Of Her Majesty
the empire being Lending object Kept rie,o by then, in the
proriioms Of tie intended treaty. Ihave, &c.
The Lieut.. Governor Of Nova Scotia.
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passengers Arrived.
HAxBURG-Bark CAlifornis-G HntsI
, 11AcC..A-hg Amata-Mr Lincoln. G Nichols, J re.A
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Our WasAangesa CesFssPsaAssses.
WASHINGTON, March. 3, 18l3.
Tbs Boil at Willord's.

A magnificent ball was given at willards Hotel
last evening. by the gentlemen residing In the house.
The following Was the Lat of managers:-
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SCENE IN THE ONO HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
rIvEs.-On Saturday, between the hours Of ten and
eleven o'clock Mr. Barnum, member of the House
rom Cuyahoga, was standing in front Of the Clerks
desk, conyersing with another member-the Deputy
Clerk was reading bill to the House-the House
was quiet and peaceable. At this moment Mr. II.
medary, tne Clerk OF the House brother Of Colonel
Medary standing in his desk took the crutch of old
Mr. George, and deliberately aimed blow directly
upon the head Of Mr.. Barnum. The stroke came
with power, and Barnum was knocked down, essnn.
italy. He was assisted by his friends to the room
q the Sergesnt-atArm the huge wound on his
head was attended to- and. soon after Mr.. Barnum
in company with another member, took the cars and
started for his home. After about an hours silent
reflection and the regular pursuit of business, Mr.
Lyle moved that the Serg Arms take posses
sion Of Mr.. Medary-that committee of five be APP
pointed TO Investigate the transaction and to report
to the House what they shall do in the premises.
This matter will attract attention, and we shall
try to keep the public duly posted Columbus State
Journal Narc6 7.
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Gown, S,vars, whselan, Barker. Rogers, Crawford
OKesfe, ncCunksy.
81 COmuHttse on Wharves &c-ln favor Of permitting
Wfusu Fog and others TO build buIkhead In the East
river between Nnstesnth and Twenty third streets
Adsptsd BY ths following vote
A1rnativU-Ths President Assistant Aldermen TAFT,
kaybss. Broaden, Woodward. Ring Hunt Bouton Nc
Gown Stewart. wheslan, Barker, Rogers, Cra"ford'
0'Kksfe. McConhey
OF Committse on Strsets-To to grade, repsve
and curb and gutter in Dover street from Cnerry
street to Fast river; to dag west ndeva Oh
Broadway from Thirty sixth to Thirty ninth street, Dca
adopted, each by the following vote .,, -.
Amxmstivelfhe Prsridenf, Assistant Aldermen Tst
Mavbee broaden woodward Ring Hunt Bouton, Nc
Gown, Stewart, wheelan, Barker, Rogers, Crawford,
az ssmeTo concur in granting petition of John Hors-
poo and John Drinker, exemptng sidewalk from being
taken up &c. Adopted
o'clock.
From the minutes c. T. McCLENACHEN Clerk.
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II is stated that General Scott con,ernpatcs removing
the headquarters Of the army from Washington to this
city
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Telegr0Pllic Marine Reports

Clipper ship Empress of the Sea- Putnam for San Fral
cisco, has anchored at Quarantine.
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Commodore slost, o. 8. n.
Captain Ringgdd, q. q N.
Lieut.. Price, o. 3. N.
Captain Folsom, U. s. A.
Captain Keyes, U. s. A.
VIM. C. H. Waddell, N. Y.
II. H. M'Allister, Cal.
John Brodhsad. Penn.
Maunsel B. Field, N. Y.
Thomas j. Whipple, N. II.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-06-09
StTiped Bugs,

To keep them from young vines, put
box around the hill; three shingles, FIVE
or six inches wide, are wide enough; make
a letter A with them, and fasten them up
with dirt or sticks. Notice, and you will
see the bugs fly in stright lines and near
the ground, and besides, they cannot stop
in their flight and let themselves down on
the plant, as chimney swallow lets him
self down the chimney, 50 that they will
fly over the tops of the boxes and light
upon something on the other side. If
they start up again, they will fly over the
boxes and light upon something on the
opposite side. Occasionally, if the boxes
are very low, this lighting place will hap
pen to be just in side Of the box, but not
very often, | have driven off a great
number from hill and put up box a
round, and only one or two bugs got back
again. There is no need of killing the
bugs simply drive them off and put on
the boxes, or put them on before they
come. You do not put covers over the
tops; put small open boxes round, with
the sides high enough so that when you
stand ten feet from the hill you cuur6t
see the plants, and then the bugs flying
cannot see them, and consequently will
not know where the plants are SO as to-
| light upon them. Do not make the box
es too high, for that will shade the plants;
nor too low, for then the bugs will see the
plants and light upon them they viii fly
straight to them.
| have been twelve years in making
observations upon this insect, and have
used the box for that time, but did not
discover why the bugs did not get in, till
last year while In Whaltham, Mass. In
a garden there where introduced the box
l found that they did not geti because
they could not,
/ know of several who have used the
box for long time with success.
A gardener in Massachusetts was pleas
ed with the box, and said ave have a
black bug also which crawls on the ground
and bites off the plant close to the root,
and your box will shut him out
TO. PAINE,
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YOu Can not Tell.

No; YOU cannot tell what shall come Of
seemingly trifing matters which exist, or
circumstances that happen around you.
Don't be in hurry to snap your fingers
in derision at every new thing that soil
cts your attention. There are indeed
some bugs that only hum but there are
some that give the splendid scarlet to the
robes of princes. Here is fellow with
some mechanical invention. He would
like to have you look at it. 1t is to do
something, perhaps a very simple thing,
catch a mouse or Kill fly better than it
was done before. Don't be off with a
scof. Bend little, and listen to him
There may be the germ Of greatness there.
When the air balloon was first discovered,
some one fippantly asked DR.. Franklin
what he thought of it. The Doctor an
swered the question by asking another
"What is the use of a newborn infant ?"
Trifes may have great relations. The sim
pie tea-kettle and the mighty steam-engine
seem far asunder; but the bubbling of the
one was the progenitOr of the other A
lad at school got the birch well laid on,
for his experiments on cat; but the young
operator was on the track Of one of the
noblest of discoveries The lad was Har-
vey, who first made known the circulation
Of the blood. Newton was attracted by
the falling Of an apple. 1t set him to
thinking. You could not have told what
would come of SO simple fact. But you
can now. That apple-and the disclo-
sure to US of the sublime machinery of
the starry heavens, how related! No, you
cannot tell what will come of the little
matters about you. Better not despise
the day Of small things. Our noses were
made for better purpose than to be
turned up SO often and SO scOrnfully.-
Traveller.
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Playing T'7ta,t-We never knew a
boy in the habit of playing truant, and
wasting the golden hours of youth, to be-
come great and distinguished man
Most often the idler of early life is the
laggard of the worlds race. Truly hap
py is the boy whom parental and friend
ly care saves from this alluring danger Of
youthful days. The reason why truency
is so serious an evil is not the loss of a
day or two from school now and then, or
any other immediate or directconsequence
of it, it is because it is the beginning of a
long course of sin; it leads to bad COM
pany, and to deception, and to vicious
habits; it stops the progress of prepara-
ton for the duties of life, hardcns the
heart, and opens the door for every temp
tation and sin, which, if not closed, must
bring the victim to ruin. These are what
constitute its dangers.
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4 Smart W0nan.-In Lexington last
week an Irish woman named McGrath
was engaged in baking bread, when, from
a defect in the fue, an out building con-
Meeting with a pig-stye took fire; and, not
being able to lift the pig, with an axe
knocked away portion of the stye, took
away the pig, and tied it at some distance
from the house. On returning she d!scov-
cred the roof of the house to be in flames,
and there being no person near excepting
her three children, her first movement
was to carry them away from danger
Then returning, she removed every arti-
Gle of furniture, excepting one bedstead,
which, having lost the key she could not
take apart. She then removed every
door and window safely from their places
almost before any assistance arrived, and
was only prevented by force from enter
ing the flames and saving her bread from
the brick oven. In little more than an
hour from the breaking out of the fire,
she walked over the smoking ruins and
took out her bread, which was found to
be very nicely baked.-B~1tker HiA Al
TOTd.
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ger runs in it, owing to the obstruction Of
rubbish at its mouth, but which now pur-
sues its course to the Pecos river There
is also broad paved avenue leading di-
rectly east from Gran Quivira, near one
hundred feet in width, which Mr.. Camp
bell followed for forty miles, and he left
it supposing it to be 1oad which led to
Nacogdoches, in Texas. About twenty
miles from Gran Quivira, on the northern
side of this road, he found quite large
village in RUNS. At Gran Quivira there
is an abundance of painted pottery and
earthen vessels, but he found no metallic
ones.
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The Rifle,

Many persons who are very expert in
the use of the rife, know nothing of the
principle on which it operates, and would
be at loss if asked why groved barrel
throws a ball truer than smooth bore.
The reasons are these
In the first place, no bullet is or can
be cast perfectly spherical. One side is
always heavier than the other, and the
ball, therefore, swerves from the right line
of projection. However hard it may be
to prove this, theoretically, practice dem
onstrates it. The same smooth bore, i'm
moyeably fixed, twice loaded with the
same charge, of the same powder, and
with balls cast in the same mould, will
not plant them both in the same spot, at
the same distance.
The rife barrel is female screw,
which gives the tightly driven ball ro-
tary motion, so that if the bullet, or rath-
er the slug, sweryes with one twist of the.
screw, another revolution corrects the er-
ror. There are but three motions in a
rife ball-the straightforward, the spiral,
and downward, caused by the power of
gravity. A rife of thirty to the pound
drops its ball about foot in hundred
yards. Rifles are sighted therefore to
meet this deviation. On leaving the bar
rel, the ball moves above the line of sight,
continually falling in aparabolical curve,
till it intersects it.
Who invented the rife is not known.
Its principle was known to the North A
merican Indians before the discovery of
the continent. Their arrows are feath-
cred spirally, and move precisely in the
maner of rife ball
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Wool from Wood.

| Not far from Breslau, in SileSia, in &
demesne called Humbold's Meadow, there
are two establishments, in one Of which
the leaves of the pine tree are converted
into species of wool or cotton, and III
the other the waters left from the manu-
facture of this substance serve to supply
medicated baths for the use of sick per-
sons. These establishments were both
set on foot under the superintendence oI
forest inspector, NJ. de Pannewitz, the
inventor of chemical process for extrac,
ting from long and slender pine leaves a
very fine fibrous substance, which he call;
'wood wool, on account of its possessing
the same felting and spinning properties
as ordinary wool.
The circular leaves of pines, frs, and
other coniferous trees, are composed Of
clusters of extremely delicate, adhesive
fbres, surrounding and holding together
a resinous substance. This resinous sub
stance may be dissolved by boiling, and
by the employment of a certain reagents;
it then becomes easy to separate the fbtes
from each other, to clean them, and re-
move any extraneous matter. By this
treatment the woody material acquires a
greater or less degree offneness. The pine
may even be stripped when quite young
for if the verticles or whorls att the end
of the branches are left, the tree will con-
tinue to grow. The stripping off of the
leaves takes place every two years.
The use to which the wood-wool was
first applied was to substitute it for cot
ton or woolen wadding in quilted blank
cts. In the year 1912, the hospital at
Vienna purchased FIVE hundred of these
blankets, and after making a trial ofthem
for several years, sent an order for fur
ther supply, 1t has been observed that
when the pine-tree wool is employed, the
beds are quite free from any sort of pa
rasitical insects, and it difuses very "a
greeable and salutary fragrance. Furni-
ture in which this material is employed
is free from moths. It's cost is three times
less than horse-hair, and the most skilful
.upholsterer could not distinguish an arti-
Gle stuffed with this substance from one
stuffed with horse-hair. This wool may
be spun and woven, the finest quality
yielding thread very similar to fax,
and quite as strong. When combed,
spun or woven C) like cloth, it may be
employed for carpets, saddle-cloths, &C.,
and combined with weft of linnen or
calico, it may be made up into coverlets.
The liquid residium resulting from the
boiling of the leaves, has most salutary
influence when used as bath. The rep
utation of the baths has increased since
their establishment nine years ago. The
liquid residium may, moreover, be con-
centrated, and sent in close jars for use in
private houses.
The membraneous substance obtained
by liberation, when the fibre is washed, is
put up in the shape of bricks and dried,
when it may be used as fuel, and produ-
ces very considerable quantity Of gas
for lighting purposes. About thousand
cwt. of wool leaves a quantity of fuel E.
quail in value to more than $50 cube feet
of pine wood.-L0'la'0n Mechanics Nag
aet11e.
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A GREAT Loss-"You have met with
great loss, neighbor Williams" said the
deacon, condolingly, to Mr.. W., the day
after the latter had buried his wife
eyes, terrible loss" replied the mourn
ing husband ''she morn earned her liv-
in', and / never had to lick her half-a-
dozen times in my life" Williams was
q man of delicate sensibilities
---New England Farmer.