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Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11
GEOLOGICAL.
FOR THE NATIONAL 1SrrLL1oEscEn.

FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Throughout the whole process and at every stage the
unduations Of the fused nucleus of the earth continued
to shatter the growing crust which vbrated its
face and the incumbent shrunk under gradual
refrigeration the pressure thus occasioned have
operated additional force to protrule streams and
dykes Of eruptve granitoid lava from the great central
reservoir -Geooy Of Russia, in the London Quarterly
ReUisw for March, 1846.
think that the idea here indicated upon the source
of volcanic matter Is not the correct exactly
seems to to be in accordance with reason to
suppose that it from places the earths
face rather than from the fused nucleus According
my hypothesis there is crust layer Of the original
material Of the earh composed Of different kinds Of rock
interspersed with variety of sands and with various
metals many miles thick separating the fused nucleus
from the outer depositesthose consisting of animal and
vegetable remains, &c. This crust serves to conduct
outward the heat at the nucleus The quantities Of heat
thus conducted to different parts Of the surface vary
oordng to the capabilities for conduction Of different
portions Of the crust those quantities being likely be
greater at the extremies Of metallic veins than those
at points where there is metal This heat is sufficient
at certain places to ignite whstever accumulations Of
combustbe materasuch coal and the various salts
may be in its way, and by this to quey and hurl
forth the solid rock itself; hence volcanoes.
G. W. EVELETH.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION,

THE REPUBLICAN, CouRT or, American Society IN ts Day.
Of Washington, with twentyone portraits OF distn-
guished women, engraved from original pictures BY
Wollaston, Copley, Gansborough, Stuart Trumbul
Malbone, and other contemporary painters.
We have been permitted inspect the loose sheets and
engravngs which to compose the volume of which
the above is the title Its object is to present readers
and to the admirers of art among gallery pictures
accompanied with short biographies in letter Of
the highest sye Of the noted Ladies who occupied con-
spieuous positions in society during the administration
of WASHINGTON, that first Inauguration of Repub-
lcan Court" Among the portraits, engraved for the
most part by London artists those Of Mrs Washing
ton, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Hamilton Mrs. Samuel Adams,
Mrs. Jay, Mrs Bingham, Mrs Harrison Gray Otis (the
elder Mrs. Theodore Sedgwiek Mrs Carroll Mrs Lewis
Granddaughter Of Mrs. washington) Madame Genet,
daughter of Gen. George Clinton,) SC.
The volume, need scarcely say, commends itself to
the patronage of the public less by the finished ee
gance Of its style work Of than by the patriotic
pride to which it appeals being fitting memorial Of
those ladies Of revolutionary who lovely
and elegant their husbands and brothers were brave
and sagacous. These the women who shed grace
the homes and adorned the society Of that peroda
society which has left the memory if the her
tage, of its refined simplicity and easy dignity
These portraits faithful copies from original pictures
well finished engravings That they present the
images Of these illustrous ladies they in their
younger years will suppose only enhance the interest
it does the elegance of the volume which, whether
considered collection Of pictures in the highest style
of art offering to the beauty of our country
in the early and nobler days Of the Republic
cannot fail to please the connoisseur of the one or the
admirer of the other.
We need only add that this illustrated work will be
issued by the publishing house of D. APPLETON s Co.,
New York.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11
FROM MEXICO.


Accounts from the city Of Mexico to the 10th ultime
afford no news Of consequence. The newspapers had
given extensive circulation Of approaching
change in the Ministry; but this is denied emphatcay
by the Universal journal Of sem-ofcial character,
which attributes the whole report to the ntgues Of few
persons who desrous Of fomenng discomfort with
the hope Of elevating themselves to Office.
The papers filed with intelligence Of robberies and
MURDERS nterspersed with few executions when they
were fortunate to capture the perpetrators but in
great majority Of they appear to have escaped
In many instances they commit their acts Of violence in
open day. and in such numbers to set all authority at
defiance On the Goth September band Of between forty
and fifty attacked hacienda within three leagues Of the
town Of Topic, and after pundering the house and
derng the ovcrseer and six Others set fire to and burnt
down the dwelling and all the outbuildngs. The dill
gence between the city of Mexico and Guanauato was
robbed three times in less than months that between
Toluca and Mexico also lately robbed Three more
OF the assassns Of the Count Cassao have been sentenced
though the punishment is not yet known.
The French prisoners taken Guaymas passed through
Pueba in the beginning Of October, their way to the
Castle of Peroe. The papers discussing the propre
y of the Government declaring amnesty in their favor
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

How TO WEAR SHAwL.--f lady sports shawl at
all and only very falling shoulders should venture
ing put which produces apretty action Or she should
wear it upon shoulder and down the other in
way drawn rregulary, as to break the uniformity.
One Of the faults Of the present costume M every real
is picturesque than line across the bust like the
loose grde, soping the hips in the costume Of
the early Pantagenets On this the long scarf
shawl is as picturesque thing lady With
the broad pattern sweeping shoulder, and
one, at ALL the other it supplies the eye
with that irregusrity which drapery requires while the
ssntng form and ooors Of the border lying careessy
round the fgure give that eastern idea which every sa
more or less implies. What Oriental would ever wear
shawl straight up and down and uniform on both Sides
% our ladies often do!
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11
WINTER EVENINGS.

Under this head the Cleveland Herald makes some ex.
cellent suggestions which may suit this latitude as well
the West:
"The long winter evenings coming and the young
of city should think how they best improve
their time.
"The apprentice and the mechanic the clerk and the
laborer, have many evenings all to themselves How
will they pass them In reading in study in cultvang
the mental and the social faculties in acquiring
ledge Of history and Of the world in rounds Of dssi
patton and idleness?
"The young Of city Of to-day are to give cha
racer and direction to city hereafter They to
control its destiny and 1t is important they should early
lay strong and deep the foundations of mental and Of
moral worth.
The intelligent man, who has integrity Of life, has an
introduction to the better part of society
matters not what his VOCATION if it is useful necessary
labor he is respected Ehu Burrtt at the anvil had the
virtue and intelligence. If is not respected is
because he does deserve and entitled to respect
alt is not wealth which commends man to the favor
OF the community good name, intelligence, integrity
in this kind Of stock and ever yields large dividends
"There is no way in which young mechanics can
better pass their time during the winter evenings than in
attending lectures and in reading history biography,
travels, &C. There is no reason why the who swings
the hammer hoves the pane draws the thread works
in iron should not be we'll educated the professional
man in all departments Of learning outside Of his
fesson.
cultivated with the greatest There are thousand
fields Of useful labor in which the intelligent have
the preference"
| In recommending "Library Association" of Cleve-
land, the Herald concludes its remarks by advising all
the young men Of that city to join. 1t says:
"To them it may prove fountain Of perpetual good
II will introduce them to the society Of the ~ and the
good Of past generations and of the present time They
may there hold with the sages and poets Of all
ages Better, far better to pass evenings with books
well selected than in saloons and in places Of carousa
and dissipation tits old and true saying that is
the mind that makes the body rich and therefore too
much and attention cannot be givenp the mind"
This reminds us that own city is not altogether
destitute Of the Of mental recreaton There
several societies with respectable brafes, and Mr. W.
W.. CoRooRAs is erecting handsome and substantial
buildng street, between 18th snd14t for Me-
chanics Library which, we doubt M, win reflect
honor upon his welregulated benefoncs and upon the
metropolis Of the nation.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

We never could understand how people get taste
Of opium fastened them. We tried small quantity
of it the other day for spain internally" We were
ordered to take two pills day for four days The first
dose was really delicious. 1t gave pink nged Sleep
filled to the brim with girls made Of roseleaves. We
induged in dreams Of the oriental order In one
them we had mother ofpearl handsled, with golden
With this we glided down rainbow made of
ice cream and brought up terrace the supports Of
which great spars Of emerald. The second night
things began change About the supports of the ter
race anacondas began to appear while in the distance
lot of green monkeys, with their tails burnt off, we're
quarreng about the propresy Of making pin-cushion
OF us. The third evening matters grew appalling The
terrace had gone and had the rainbow and the girls
made Of rose-leaves and in their stead had bed
filed with rattlesnakes and the four grizzly
bears pulling at hawser, end Of which fastened
neck and the other to iceberg That men should
opium for day does not surprise us in the least
that they should do however for month seems really
wonderful Rather than become confirmed opium
eater we would throw ourselves into Etna. We car
imagine nothing more terribe.-N \. Datchman
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-At Alexandria, Friday after
noon fire broke ont in the upper part Of the Aexan-
dria Brewery at the of Union and Wolfe
This was large and valuable establishment owned by
Mr. WILLIAM H. IRWIN and at the time in full ope-
ration. The building itself Of stone, with high
wooden roofs 1t filed with all the necessary
chinery for brewing large SCALE with steam engine
drying kins, casks &C., together with considerable
quantity Of manufactured ale and beer and supply Of
barley hops &c. The FIRE spread, and the whole
establishment rapidly consumed. Along with the
brewery building the brick house adjoining, used
counting room and for other Offices connected with the
establishment was destroyed The malt liquor in casks
and barrels in the basement Of the brewery,
Of 1t saved, but quantity lost II is Impossible to
ascertain the exact amount Of loss probably It 10
$4,000 or $4,000, partially insured-Gasats.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

FATAL Aoorprx1 TO AN AcroE The Louisville (Ky)
Democrat Of the 26th ultimo states that night last
week. while the play Of The RObbers was being per-
formed at the theatre in Third street, Mr. Meyer one Of
the actors was shot 1t by Mr. dersbers also actor
The gun contained hard ball paper, which struck Mr..
Meyer in the arm, causing se1ere wound Modification
ensued and on Saturday night the susrngs Of the
fortunate man we're relieved BY DEATH
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

LHE-BoArs roR THE LTvxRpooL SfEAxERs.-Five ad-
dtional have been orderedor each Of the Col
Inns steamships, making eleven for ech vessel with
pacy for four hundred persons Tie boats ordered
are of the largest GLASS; and viii be hested deck and
twenty minutes Each boat is to b numbered and have
crew attached, also numbered Of ticketed. They are
to be fully equipped with mast an sails and water and
provisions The Cunard line so being supplied with
additional life-boats from Mr.. Frsncis
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

A TEACHER WANTED to take charge Of tho
IA Male Institute Mindsn Claiborne Parrish, louisiana
Session the FIRST Monday Of January next
No need apply except he be regular graduate Of some
respectable college, Of good moral character and sufficiently
qualified prepare student for admission into any college
in the United Sts the location being healthy and society
agreeable.
Address WILLIAM HARDY, Secretary Of tho Board Of Trus
tees of Minden Male Institute, Minden, La.
By order of the Board Of Trustses:
WILLIAM HARDY,
oct 7-wptDec Secretary Board OF Trustees.
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CARD-The subscriber will attend the Supreme Court
"A Of the Unted States during the coming term for which,
purpose he will Boston in the last week Of November
and win reside in Washington ct Wilards Hotel
ego. 7. CURTIS,
est lp-solmdks csunsslsr -st-Las.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

best thinker Of them all pcrhsps-among them. They
were all from Eastern Virginia.
The mind and the talents of all Of these great and good
men devoted, not to the development of these
terna improvements for reaching the West but to the
Federal Government How material it that the heart
of the mother and her meditatons should 60 with such
sons and that their friends and negbors at home should
be thinking their thoughts and occupying their minds
with the subjects which they knew engaging the
enton Of these statesmen And evidence that this
so the Legislature of Virginia long accused
Of occupying itself with Federal affairs to the neglect
those Of the State that the accusation at last
the semblance Of truth, and became by-word.
Under these circumstances the Old Dominion began to
lag behind Her commercial cities anguished and pro-
perty went down. There and has always been common
notions to the contrary Notwithstanding high degree Of
enterprise and energy among the people Of Virginia. and
in this state Of things some Of the most enterprsng
among them resolved abandon the State and seek their
fortune in the Western wds They focked to the West
There they carved out States and added them rs
bright ornaments to the Union Kentucky sAd Missouri
were settled principally by Virginians Many Of them
also to she 10 worthy Of North
Carolina-and to Alabama, to Mississippi Florida, Lou
isiana, and other States, both slave and free
Thus you there end An excuse for the
blank that Virginia presents among the railroads the
map.
There was another crcumstance also which operated
in favor OF An earlier move the North than the South
towards internal and that s in the man
ner in which the Western States, by which now mean
all the States west of the Alleghanies settled.
The free States were settled up principally by foreign
e the slave States BY the slave States themselves SO
that people, for instance, who went from Virginia to
Kentucky went with their goods and chaes which was
much property and many people taken away from
vrgnis. People and wealth the muscles and sinevs
Of . State.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-11

their frontier borders any seaport town. gulf blight
bay in either Of theml
Continue the examination little further by casting
your eye upon South Carolina and Georgia There again
with their main stems also back to the Mississippi Valley
and stretching on far into Tennessee their way to
Kentucky and Ohio, thus cutting off all western trade
from Virginia. You observe how in Tennessee the rail-
roads also skim Virginia and down to the southeast
to meet the South Carolina and Georgia improvements
Charleston is at this time actually importing for Nash
vlle and all the country thence to Abingdon in Virginia
Thus Virginia that ought to have been the rst to tap
the Mississippi Valley with her internal improvements is
the last All the States West shun her with improve
ments They 60 round her. and, by the disconnexion,
she presents herself isolated and island like the grand
together What has she lost by it. The commercial
dependency and the business of empire loss which,
fear, cannot now be made good by any Of money,
even though It be as enormous the British debt.
do not wish to make any impression upon your mind
my that is either unfair unavorabe the State
where we were born; nor do mean convey to you
the idea that Virginia is without any internal improve
ments; far from it. The people have constructed, or
rather have In hand fine works. and the State has
helped them But the State has as yet planned and
cuted nothing like great State work nothing orthy
her equal to her position She has had no settled pc
cy with regard to system Of internal improvements,
has she adopted any which are at all likely
to her any Of that Ohio and Lake trade that
built up New York. and done so much for Pennsylvania
and Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia
There is the Central Railroad which private enter
prise has carried from Richmond halfway to the Ohio
II has its terminus in the mountains waiting for the State
to decide whether she will will carry n over to the
Ohio, in continuation Of State work commenced with
that destination some twenty thirty years ago. a
There 10 the South-Side Road, from Petersburg to
Lynchburr nearly finished with regular grade Of only
sixteen feet 70 the mile His in opposition 70 che James
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-02-02

SATURDAY, Jan. 29.-Cloverseed is in
active demand, and a 600 bushels prime
sold at Sc 80 per 81 lbs. and fifty tierces
on private terms.
The Cotton Market is very quiet, and
prices remain without change.
There is a moderate export demand
for flour, and prices are firm. Sales Of
500 brls., a straight brand, at 1915 per
brl, and $4,000 brls good brands, part
Brandywine, at 50. Holders are gener-
ally firm at the latter quotation. There
is a steady demand for city consumption
within the range of 50 $50 for common
and extra brands. Rye Flour is now held
at Sc per barrel. Corn meal is held for
a further advance.
Grain-Wheat is in active request, and
1900 a 1000 bushels sold at S2,lO per
bushel for red, and 1920 for white. A
small lot of Rye brought 81 is. Corn is
in demand, and 2 5000 bushels new
yellow brought 81 in store. Oats are
held at 80 cents per bushel.
Whiskey is unsettled, and prices have
advanced to "a cents for hhds. and 35
cents for barrels, with but little offering.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-02-02
IA9s&R>

Proposals for furnishing 140,000Cross Tiesr
upon the line of the Delaware Lackawanna
& Western Railroad, including the delivery
of the same in required numbers, at peiass
not exceeding 1900 feet distant, will be re-
ceived at the Office of the Engineer of the
Company, until the 18th day Of February
next.
The ties will be 81 feet long, cut singly
from round timber, and sawed or hewed OIL
two parallel sides, showing faces of at least
six inches, and measuring uniformly six inches
between the faces. The timber used will be
Chestnut, White Oak and Rock Oak. free
from black knots, or other evidence OF decay.
$4,000 will be required between Scranton
and Ddlesville, and $4,000 between the head
of Dughill and the Delaware river.
E. M'NIEI.L, Engineer.
Eng's office, Scranton, January "a, 1854.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-02-02
Sentence Of James Quinn.

JAMES QUINN-Yoa have been convic
ted Of the crime of murder in the 1st De
gree, by Jury of your country, and the
deeply trying duty of passing upon you
the sentence of the law remains for tht
Court.
That there is something strange in the
sudden violence which brought to an aw-
ful death the unhappy woman, with whom
you had been living in illicit connezion
we have already said in the opinion just
delivered on the motion for new trial
but we have also said that in reviewing
the whole case we cannot say the Jury
have done wrong in rendering their YER
dict.
Your case is sad one-a young man
in the prime of his life about to be con-
signed by the doom of the law to an ear
ly grave. 1t furnishes too, a lesson OF
warning to others. We have heard of
you, as you are represented to have bcea
but two or three years since, of fair char
acter and respectable habits, and we be-
lieve in our conscience that the melan-
choly change in your life is owing to your
formed connexion with the wretched and
depraved being, who has since become
the miserable victim of your ungoyerned
violence. You have alas found the re-
suit of disregarding the counsels of your
relatives and friends, and attaching your
self to this female; she answering but too
truly the description of the wise man,
which you have before heard US quote, as
"the strange woman, who forsaketh the
guide of her youth, and forgetteth the
covenant of her God, for her house in
clineth unto death, and her paths unto
the dead" She is dead, and the law
says you must soon follow her-you cut
her off in the wicked ways of her life,
with no time to try to make her peace
with her God, the Law will be more
merciful to you, in giving to you more
extended period. This period, however,
TO you ia but the opening of your young
manhood, will be comparatively short, and
after it cometh the judgment. AS one,
who believes in the certainty of that judg-
ment but who, also has full and unwaver-
ing faith in the mercy promised to the
repenting sinner, through the Redeemer.
let me now urge you earnestly and anxi
ously to look to eternity, and to seek the
advice and instruction of those, who in
their Holy calling here below, are best
fitted for their duty.
james Quinn, the sentence of Law,
pronounced by the Judges of this Court
as its officers, is, that you be taken hence
to the jail of Luzerne County, from which
you have been brought, and that you be
kept there until the time to be appointed
by the Executive of the State for your
execution, and when that time shall come ;,
you be taken thence to the place prepared
for your execution within the walls or
yard of said Jail, and that you be then
and there hanged by the neck until you
are dead-and may God in bis infinite
love nave mercy on your soul.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-02-02

PcnnSgzcania Prohibition C0nreHtl0n.
HARRISBURG, Jan. 26.-Thc State Pro-
hibitory Liquor Law Convention assem-
bled here to-day, about one 1000 delegates
being in attendance Col. Hults was called
to the chair, and great enthusiasm prevail
ed. Two public meetings were held this
evening, one in the Hall of the House of
Representatives, and the other in the
Lutheran Church Neal Dow, Esq, was
present in the House, and made an elo-
quent address. General Carey, of Ohio,
also made great speech in the meeting
held at the church.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-02-02
A ,TUry of Females.

In the of year 1903 the body of fe-
female was discovered in Newbury under
circumstances which rendered a coroner's
inquest desirable. A jury of twelve wo-
men was called, and a copy of their YER
dict has been preserved. As it is about
as lucid and satisfactory as most modern
verdicts, we copy it entire in the quaint
language of the period. 1t was as follows:
-"We judge according to our best light
and contents, that the death of said eliz-
abeth was not by any violence or wrong
dun to her by any person or thing, but by
som soden stopping of her breath"