JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday. December 5, 1850.
To ur Patrons.
-We are preparing ourselves for Court, which
begins in Stroudsburg on Monday the 23d inst.
by making out the bills of all our delinquent sub
rcribers, so that if any of them should call upon
us, we will be able to settle with them, without
detaining them scarcely a moment. Many of
our subscribers are largely in arrears, and some
of them, have not paid us a penny since we com
menced publishing the JefFersonian. To such, in
particular, we make an earnest appeal, thai they
will'do us justice, and no longer detain from us
the trifle which they owe, and which we are so
much in need of. This is the last time we can
ask them for it. We have already waited too long;
und ,we do hope no one will impose upon us the
unpleasant duty of placing their accounts in the
hands, of a Justice of the Peace for collection.
The Brother Jonathan.
A curious fact relative to the rapid and enor
mous sale of the Christmas and New Years Broth
er Jonathan has just been stated in some of the
papers. It appears that two editions were first got
ready for sale, one of 20,000, and one of 21.250
copies. It was less than ten days after the first
sheet came from the press, when every copy f
these two first editions were exhausted ! We
venture to say that a demand like this was never
before know in newspaper annals. The Jonathan
this year is really the richest and most elegant
pictorial sheet we ever saw. Wilson & Co. New
York, are the publishers.
Delaware and Cobb's Gap Rail Road.
Our readers are aware that the subject of a Rail
Road through North Eastern Pennsylvania, open
ing a communication between that highly produc
tive region and New York, or some other mart on
the sea board, has been much mooted for the last
few years'. The feasibility of the route, the per
manent and secure investment of capital in the
contemplated road, and the enhancement in the
valuation of property, has long been apparent to
ihe minds of ohservers, from the fact that the vast
accumulations of Coal and Lumber and other sur
plus of produce of North Eastern Pennsylvania,
would seek a market through this channel. But
from the want of a sufficient amount of Capital
te enterprise had almost been forgotten.
We are happy to state, however, that recent
sieps have been taken in the matter, which reduces
it to a certainly, that the enterprise, fraught with
so much interest to ihe people of this region of
country, will be promptly and vigorously pushed
forward to completion. Indeed, the present time
is remarkably auspicious, a9 there is a large amount
of capital in the country seeking profitable invest
ment. The Books for the subscription of Stock
of said Road, were opened on the 2Sth of Novem
ber, at the American Hotel, in Stroudsburg. The
who'e amount of Stock was taken, being 18,000
shares, amounting to $900,000, on which the sum
of Five Dollars per share was paid amounting to
S90,000. These are cerlainly gratifying prelimin
aries. Taking this as an earnest, we may safely
predict what we, who have been shut up be
liind the mountains for so many years, will soon
enjoy, as it were, a new existence, that in the
course of two years the rushing train will rumble
ihrough our fertile valleys and awake the echo that
has slumbered for so many years in our deep moun
tain gorges.
Congress.
This body of the collected wisdom met on Mon
day last. The Presidents message reached this
place yesterday, and occupies about five columns
oftheJV. Y. Tribune.
The message is a very able document; decided,
but conciliatory in its lone; strongly conservative
in its character, and characterized -by an earnest
devotion to the Union.
In reference to the Tariff, the President recom
mends the substitution of specific for the ad valorem
duties; and if this cannot be accomplished, that, at
all events, a home valuation shall be adopted. He
advises, also, the appointment of ambulatory ap
praisers, to exercise a general supervision, with a
view to uniformity in the rates of levying duties,
as well as to prevent frauds which under our pres
ent.system, operate to, lessen the amount of reve
nue, while, at the same time, they are of serious
injury to the home manufacturer. The iron and
coal interests are specially considered ; and Inter
nal Improvements, and other subjects of national
concern and importance, are fully -and wisely dis
cussed. The message will appear in next week's Repub
lican. State Agricultural SoctETr. A. State Con
vention will be held in Harrisburg, on the third
Tuesday of January next, for the purpose of pro
moting the establishment of a State Agricultural
Society. A number of the counties have alreadv
chosen delegates. The project originated in some
of the northern counties. Should not our farmers
make arrangements to have Monroe represented.
Pennsylvania, with an unsurpassed soil, is far be
hind other Northern States jn agricultural science.
A weaver in Bradford has been for some time
employed weaving in a piece of cloth the whole
-ef-tbe New Testament, He has lately completed
the four Gospels, and has made some advance in
the Acts of the Apostles,
Remains of a Giant. A human skeleton
of unusual size has been discovered in Harsi
inus county, N. J , buried in oyster shells of
immense tize. It was in a sitting posture
when found, and la doubtless the frame of an
Indian of olden time. It must have been eight
feet in height. Tho hkull measures fifteen
inches .from the roo,l of the nosjo over the lop
xo b pj ha.se $f , i he tec jjilai n e , a n d i a t yno
!tt in crrnttc$ftrtuco containing, a full sel,oj
tt'a, &y?fi fcouflti, sjtifl wlrite. " '.
The Teeth.
. Friend ScHoch : As whatever pertains to the
generalgood receives from you a sanction and sup
port, I purpose to make an effort through your col
umns, with your consent, to call the attention of your
readers to the consideration of a subject which,
more than any other of equal moment remains
shrouded in darkness and ignorance. I know and
appreciate it as a privilege and duly, to be instru
mental in guarding my fellows against some of the
evils to which they are subject.
There is no part of personal comfort, appearance
arid cleanliness, so shamefully neglected as the
teeih. It is not so surprising, however, from the
fact that but very little has ever been said or writ
ten, for general circulation, concerning this de
partment. The efforts of the profession have prin
cipally been aimed in another direction, and con
fined to its own members. Why this has been the
case, is probably because Dental Science has not
till of late been brought to any very high state of
perfection: and also because it might be consid
ered presuming too great ignorance to direct the
attention of an individual to a matter so much un
der his own control, and so palpably for his own in
terest to heed. Visible proof is written upon the
countenances of ninety-nine individuals in every
hundred of a serious and sad demand for an in
crease and scattering of information regarding this
important part of the animal economy. And it is
from the members of the profession that we
would naturally look for the emanation of what
few scattering rays of light may have been collect
ed for the benefit of science and society.
Trusting they may not prove altogether useless
and uninteresting to the reader, the writer propo
ses giving a few brief chapters on the teeth. In
doing which, he will endeavor to be as concise and
comprehensive as possible, and not weary the rea
der with stulliloquence.
Many whether superstitious or not, the writer
will not pretend to say count those who cherish
the beauty and desire the perfection of the teeth,
as being actuated by motives of vanity and pride.
The supposition that vanity has anything to do
with it, is too glaringly erroneous to merit com
ment. If it is pride, it is a holy pride; a pride
taught us by Deity ; planted in our natures by the
Creator ; stamped upon the countenance of Na
ture; and fostered by the votarys of purity, excel
lence and virtue. " The countenance is the thea
tre on which the soul exhibits itself:" the mouth
is the most expressive feature of the face : but
when minus the dental organs, it loses its proper
expression ; in fact, it has no definite expression
at all. Its beautiful symetry is wholy destroyed,
and its offices are not performed.
"If the sculptor, the painter, or the poet," says
Mr. Pleasants, " would invest the production of
his genious wiih those forms of horror at which
humanity shudders and recoils, he perfectly com
prehends the art of giving to his allegorical per
sonages an array of teeth, black with tartar, muti
lated with gangrene, broken by violence, or wrest-
ed by distortion. Should Envy present herself
in the group, her parted lips would disclose but a
single fang. Should Malice approach to perse
cute his victim, his teeth would be turned away
as by the violence of his passion. Thus the
wrinkled witch, the smoky gipsy, the fortune-telling
hag, and the freebooter of the seas, would lose
the proper expression of their distincive charac
ters if supplied with perfect, regular and beauti
ful sets of teeth. On the other hand, the skillful
artist, who would exhibit the amiable and worthy
passions in all their loveliness and attraction, bes
tows untiring labor in the exhibition of perfect
arches of teeth, white as monumental alabaster,
and regular as the crystal columns in the palace
of Odin, inhabited by the virgins of the Vallallah.
Jf he exhibits Beauty in her smiles, a colonade of
pearls contribute to the enchantment. If he shows
us Love, with music on her lips, the emblematic
purity of her teeth must lend its tributary charms.
Thus the ideal Venus of the polished Greeks, as
well as the living Beauty in the hamlet of Ciicas
sia, would cease to please on the discovery of sen
sible defect in these important organs." o. a. j.
Slanderous.
Judge Parson3, in Philadelphia, is said to have
asserted, in the decision of a late contested elec
tion case, that there 'are hundreds of election offi
cers in Pennsylvania who can neither read nor
write.1 The Lancaster Examiner thus refutes the
the slander:
The statement that there are hundreds of Elec
tion Judges in Pennsylvania who can neither read
nor write is a slander upon the citizens of the
State, as base as it is false. For our own part we
have never known or, before this, heard of such a
case, and do not believe that Judge Parsons can
point to one.
We do not remember a certain Superintendent
of the Common Schools of Pennsylvania, who held
his office in about 1839 or 40, we think, who was
accused of being unable to spell, and some of
whose specimens of orthography were exposed in
the Legislature. That Superintendent was Anson
V. Parsons who now gives encouragement, from
the Bench, to ignorance, in the face of law and
common reason.
The curiosity of the exhibition to which the Ex
aminer alludes was not confined altogether to the
beauties of the orthography. It was quite as rich in
grammatical and rheotorical points of view. The
judge should not be too much blamed for his ig
norance. He was brought up in Barkharastead, a
place not to be found on the maps, and would him
self have been as little known, had not that far
seeing man into character and judicial qualifica
tions, David R Porter, elevated him from Jersey
Shore, where he was engaged in a prudent and
appetential business, to the office of Secretary of
the Commonwealth, and finally to the bench in
Philadelphia. His career has been brilliant ; and
he is now exerting himself to sustain it by appeal
ing to the Cades who will soon exercise the Judge
making power.
Cold Water vs. Lightning. Mr. Kingston, of
Babylon, Illinois, was struck by lightning a few
weeks since and was left dead to all external ap
pearances, but his wife, a shrewd woman, took a
bucket of cold water and poured it on his breast,
when he revived and is doing well. Let no one
forget the efficacy of cold water in cases like this.
Ealing Their Enemies. The Choctaw Intel-
ngencer says tnai a oatue nas occurred between
.me yyicnetaw and lonkeway Indians. The Ton- 1
kew.ays roasted and eat one of their enemies.
They aro.said to be inclined to cannibalism and
Jpok with fond -eyeappnthpse who are fat- and,
sleek.
ITIorris & Essex Railroad Extension.
We are indebted to the SecretaryqJ. C Garth
waite, Esq., for an early copy of the Report of the.
Survey of the proposed extension .of the Morris
and Essex Railroad from Dover' toTlheDelaware
Water Gap.
The report is from the pen of Mr. Bassenger,
theJEngineecoLtheCompany, and, is minute, in
its details. The Company thinks it cannot fail to
satisfy any one that the construction, of the pro
posed road is practicable, and that the investment
would be profitable. We quote -from the Report
first in regard urthe Route : v
The-line- of the proposed. extentibn? commences
at thepresent.tterminus of the road ;of .the Compa
ny in the flourishine: village, of. Dover ; running
thence a Westerly direction to, Standhopej a dis
tance of nine miles,-from, which place it follows
the South Slope .of the valley of the Musconetcong
river to a point about sixand a half .miles from
Standhope, where the ri ver is crossed ; from this
point the line continues along, the South-west
slope of the valley to, within about one mile of
Hackettstown, where it passes into the valley of
the Pequest river: It then descends the, valley of
the Pequest on the Southerly side of the river to
near Buttsville, where .it crosses the river, and
continues in. aiwesterly direction to Beaver Brook;
thence in a North-western course through Voss
Gap into the valley of the, Delaware riven thence
the line follows the valley of the Delaware to the
Water Gap. A branch from the main line at Bea
ver brook can be constructed to the village of Bel-
videre, distance about two miles.
At Waterloo the line will connect with the Sus
sex Mine Railroad, running from, that place to
Newton, the county town of Sussex ; this portion
of this road between Waterloo and Andover mines
is now being constructed, and it is understood the
remainder will be when the proposed extension of
the Morris and Essex, Railroad is made.
The distance from Dover to Belvidere, including
the branch, 3-2 miles ; the curves are represented
as favorable, and no grade exceeds fifty feet per
mile. Mr. Bassinger, after a careful instrumen
tal survey and location of the line, estimates the
total cost of the road from Dover to the Water
Gap, at one million of dollars. The, estimated
cost of the road from Dover to Belvidere, includ
ing the equipments of the same $800,000, giving
an average cost of $25,000 per mile ; the road to
be constructed in the most substantial and dura
ble manner. The sum mentioned is believed to
be amply sufficient to complete the road and put
it in working order with all the necessary engines,
cars, buildings, water-stations &c, &c.
The estimate made by the .Engineer based, up
on information derived at the several points on the
line of road from Dover to Belvidere, of the num
ber of passengers and tons of freight that would
be daily transported, oyer the road, yields a nett
revenue of more than nine per cent, on the cost of
the road.
The Report concludes with the remark, that "it
is for the Stockholders of the Morris and Essex
Railroad Company to say whether they will aid in
an enterprise so beneficial to them, or permit oth
er roads to reap such benefit. A map accompa
nies the Report.
-Newark Eagle.
A New Project of Barnum. Great importa
tion of Elephants Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind.
The active mind of Barnum is always teeming
with some new project to add to his fortune. He
has chartered a vessel which is now on Ijer yvay to
the East Indies, or probably on her way home,
with twelve huge elephants which are to perform
in a mammoth movable circus, which is to be car
ried from city to city. The elephats are to bear
towers on their back after the manner of the East
and each of these towers are to contain a museum.
General Tom Thumb is engaged as a part of this
speculation, and the dwarf will exhibit in his per-
son an extraordinary contrast with the giant brutes
of the forest. The spectacle will just come in
season, after the departure of Jenny Lind, and the
public appetite begins to crave for a new excite
ment. We may mention in passing that Tom
Thumb came from Bridgeport last week, to hear
Jenny Lind sing and to pay his respects to the
great cantatrice. He was delighted with her, and
she no doubt, was highly amused with Tom. We
learn that, the General is to be at the Museum du
ring the entire of the ensuing week. Sus. Reg.
Sickness in California, is an expensive
business. The fee bill agreed upon by the San
Francisco Medical Society, is published with
their bye-laws, and fixes the price of a single
visit from a physician (who is not a regulat at
tendant) at S32 ; from the regular attendeng
physician$16; and $10 for every mile travelled
from the city ; when detained, for each hour
$32; for a written opinion or advice, $50 to
$100 ; for a visit at night, $100f for an opinion
involving a question of law $150 ; for a post
mortem examination in case of legal investiga
tion, $200 ; do. made at the family's request,
$100 ; certificate of the state, of the patient's
health, $250; for vaccination, $32; case of or
dinary labor, $150; application of forcep,$300;
operation of turning, $500; removing alone from
the bladder, $500 to 1000 ; for amputation of a
leg or arm, $300 ; extirpation of tumors, $100
to 1000 ; for trephining, $1000 ; operations on
the eye, $100 to $1000. The San Francisco
Herald, speaking of the effects of these high
rates on medical gentlemen of the States, says:
We beg them not to be deceived, however, by
the showy appearence of the above rates; there
arc, unfortunately, many physicians in this city,
skillful and able as any of the Medical Society
who would be glad to earn $500 a month, even
though they had to perform every day the
strange sounding operations lo which that sum
is affixed.
Lusus Nature. A chicken was Jately
hutched on the farm of Mr. Meynel, Northaller
ton, Englnad, with two heads, three eyes, and
one wing. The bird haa been stuffed, and is
now in the possession of Mr. Coates, solicitor,
Northallerton.
l,ord Byron is said to have marked that lhe
greatest trial to; a,.woman's, beauty is, the ttn
graceful act of, eating, eeas." , Somo Yankee
emarks iat.the.po?,coiJd never have seen, a
ladv hangiggWPn Pyj& t'cej&'io a blazing tfo
corn cob
The Next President.
A little less than two years will bring us'to an
other Presidential election, and although'theeo
ple have scarcely begun to think of candidates,
thejkind souls dffho 'would gladly takelhe trouble
of thinking off their hands are hard at work ar
ranging and engineering for their several favor
ites. We do not pretend to know all, nor half,
that is doing to bring this or that aspirant favora
bly before the public, but there are some efforts so
palpable that, they cannot well be mistaken. And
as the Oppositipn'have just now an apparent as
cendency in popular regard, it is but natural that
there should ba more anxiety, more maneuvering,
with reference lo'their nomination than to that of
the Whigs. Had the recent elections generally
gone our way, the case would haye-been quite dif
ferent. Gen Lewis Cass evidently imagines himself
still a prominent candidate for the next Baltimore
nomination, and therein he is grievously mistaken,
or we are. He was never truly a popular man,
and defeated candidates are not favorites with 'the
Democracy.' On the subject of Slavery he has
managed to repel the North without winning the
confidence of the Slavery Propaganda of the
South. He has a few influential supporters, and
only a few, though a good many seem to favor
him in pursuance of their own selfish ends. Thus
Gen. Cameron arid his clique are using hi name
in Pennsylvania to nip Mr. Buchanan's aspira
tions; but, that accomplished, you will not find
them seriously supporting a candidate who lost
their State by so large a majority in '48, Gener
al Scott could beat Gen. Cass in Pennsylvania ;
so could John McLean, so (we think) could al
most any Whig Statesman. The General's recent
defeat in his own Michigan, in the election of two
Whig Free Soil Members of Congress out of three,
expressly on the ground oftheir hosti lity to 'Peace
measures,' was calculated to injure his prospects
had they not already been past praying for. We
consider his chance to lose the Baltimore nomin
ation fully equal to that of any other man who is
looking for it.
Mr. Buchanan will have no better luck. He is
a light stick at best for a; mainmast, popular in
his own, State, and with no strength abroad but a
little he has acquired at the South by offering in
effect to run the Missouri Compromise line through
to the Pacific. But even he seemed unwilling to
stipulato for the positive legalization of Slavery !
South of that line, so that his offer did really sat-
isfy the Propaganda, while it wa3 calculated to
prejudice him seriously at the North. We con- j
sider 'Old Buck' an' impossible candidate,
Nor has Col. Bunion any real look for the nom
ination. The 'Free Soil Democrats,' whether of
the John Van Buren or John Wonlworth school,
'go in to win,' and will take care to have a candi
date with whom they can win. Now Col. Ben
ton is utterly detested by the entire Southern 'De
mocracy.' Though he always voted against the
Wilmot Proviso and is himself a slaveholder, yet
his sentiments with regard to 1 the peculiar insti
tution' are of the old-fashioned JefFersonian stamp
and not at all of the Calhoun order. South Caro
lina would vote for Webster any day to defeat
Benton. Now the two Johns and their dissciples
mean, to talk Free Soil yet succeed by the South
ern vote, and they are well aware that Col. Ben
ton is unavailing. His name may be used in Wis
consin, Northern Illinois; &c. to elect Delegates,
but when they come to vote in earnest they will
not vote for him.
Col. Isaac P. Walker, Senator from Wiscon
sin, is the candidate of 'the Young Democracy'
the men with whom Democracy is not a mere
catchword but a practical and fruitful reality.
The earnest Land Reforms are enthusiastic in his
favor, and he can hardly fail to ha"e some X'otes
in the Convention. But he won't be nominated
the Slavery Propaganda and old Fogyism in gen
eral will be a great deal too strong for that in any
National Convention. The men who live on the
products of their own labor, and only ask to have
that product fully secured to them, are not 'up to'
the packing of Baltimore Conventions not many
of them can afford even to attend. Senator Wal
ker must tarry at Jericho for a while yet.
We have supposed Judge Levi Vvoodburv of
New-Hampshire would stand well for the next
nomination. He is a man of goood abilities, fair
character,' anti-Proviso and Southern in his bear
ings, and would make a respectable President
We think he would run better than any one we
have named belore him. Yet he does not seem to
be set forward much by recent operations, nor
even to be cordially supported in his own State,
while there exists a general prejudice against ta
king a candidate for President ofTthe bench of the
Supreme Court which will weigh against him.
His chance just now seems slender indeed.
Nor do we believe Col.-Wm, O Butler of Ken
tucky destined to be the candidate, thouch our in
telligent New-Hampshire correspondent considers
him the favorite with the party managers m New
England. Col. Butler was beaten as a candidate
for Governor in 1814 (though he made a great
run) and beaten again for Vive-President under
Cass in '48. To set him up now for President
would be giving him more than his share of the
luxury of being flogged. He is a man of right in
tentions and good social standing, but of moderate
abilities, with nothing but some average fighting
to recommend him. He can't co in.
The 'lucky holder, of the winning ticket in the
Baltimore lottery seems now to be no oilier than
Gen. Sam Houston of Texas. Sam has seen a
great variety of fortune, and must have been a
very obstinate blockhead not to have learned some
thing in the course of his protracted and multiform
experience He is a ladies' man, an Indian
fighter, ' the hero of San Jacinto,' a good stump
orator, Southern born, yet does not deem it ne
cessary to make himself ridiculous in his show of
devotion to slavery, was a zealous and efficient
compromiser, and -could by skillful 'talking up,'
be made popular with -'the b'hoys.' His reputa
tion has some holes m it which could hardly fail
to win attention in a canvass, and thereupon a ve
ry effective appeal might be made in his behalf to
the sympathies of all undergoing like persecution
In short, we consider Gen. Sam the man most
likely to be nominated at Baltimore and with a
fair chance of success. South Carolina will not
touch him ; and he can never be a favorite with
the Southern anti-Compromisers; but he may make
a very fair run without them. He is certainly not
a candidate to our. taste, but ' the Democracy will
not break their hearts on that account 'and we con
sider him about as well adapted to the genius and
tastes of 'the party' as any candidate yet proposed.
We are preparing to hear without amazement that
Gen. Sam Houston is the regular Democratic' can
didate for next President, and to announce that
John Van Buren and D. S. Dickinson will address
the united Democracy in advocacy of his election.
If they do it first at some convenient locality, we
mean to be among their auditors. Tribune.
Dry feet. We give our readers a recipe for
making boots water proof which is worth more
than our subscription price to any person, who
will try it. Moisture generally penetrates the
soles of boots the upper leather is not easily
wet and is easily dried. To render the sole
impervious to water, order your boot-makor to
cut pieces of canvass in the proper shape, dip
them intmelted pitch or lar, and lay thorn upon
the jniier.soles .before putting on the other soles
of the.booifl. This simple process will ensure
dry feet without making the boot clumsy. Wo
b?ve triad this oxne.riment, and woujd, ad.viso
ajl whose soles are amtcted with cold or damp
neas to db The same. i anhee Blade.
Singular Sect ill Paris.
The police has just arrested several mem
bers of an illicit society of an extraordinary
character, which was in the habit of meeting
at No. 9 Rue de l'Orillon. h was a sort of
religious sect styling itself " Les Beguins," or
"Anabaptistes," or "Muliplianis the supreme
head of this sect, named Digonnet, and honor
ed by his adherents with the surname of " Lo
Bon Dieu," had established the supreme seat
at St. Jean de Bonnefonds (Loire.) A person
named G., had imported this pretended religion
into Paris, and succeeded in making a certain
number of proselytes of each sex, who had,
nevertheless, been on the decrease during ihe
last few months, on account of the vigilance of
the police, who had already driven the sectari
ans from one of their haunts at Belleville. The
Beguins have a creed which differs on many
points from the various persuasions generally
known. One of their tenets enjoins them not
to work and not to care about the morrow ;
marrige is allowed, but only on condition of
a rigid observance of chastity between man and
wife ; on the contrary, young girls are taught
to give way, without opposition, to every temp
tation such being the will of Le Bon Dieo
Digonnet. Religious meetings take place sev
eral times a week, and on Saturday the secta
rians are bound to repair to the place of meet
ing, when the high priest opens the proceedings
by communicating to ihe believers the letters
he has received. The president then preaches
a sermon, in which he generally enjoins per
fect faith in the God Digonnet ; after which
hymnB are chanted, ending in a genernl cry of
" Light for ever 1 Down with modesty !" At
that moment all the lights are suddenly put
out, and the meeting remains in complete ob
scurity for the space of about twenty minutes.
At the end of that time light is restored, and
the president recommends believers to give up
their superfluities, not to work, &c. Being
apprised thai the police had its eye upon them,
their songs had of late lost a good deal of their
intensity, and mattresses bad been set upagainst
the windows. Neveitheless, the police pene
trated, on the night of the 12th, into their place
of meeting, where they found 38 persons,
wearing the insignia of the sect, which consists,
in the case of women, of caps trimmed with
red and white crape ; and for men of a black
cord crowning iheir foreheads. There were
eight men present, two boys, eleven women,
six girls, of from J5 to 25 years of age, one of
13, and two little girls of the age of 7 to 9.
The house was searched and many papers,
pamphlets, insignia, &c , were seized. Galig
nanis Messenger.
A Champion of Woman's Rights.
The Lowell Offering furnishes an interesting
account of Miss Weber, a young Belgian lady,
who stands pre-eminent among the advocates
of woman's rights. Her practice is in accord
ance with her theory, and she wears male at
tire and carries on a farm. She h handsome,
only 24 years old, dresses in the Parisian fash
ion of black dress coat and pants, with buff
vest. Her doieuse of the practice is racy.
The nether garment (she says) was first worn
in the bifurcated form by the women of an
cient Judea. The exclusive claim which man
o pertenactously maintains to the use of this
garment, is arbitrary, without a solitary argu
ment to support it, not even that of prior usage.
Nature never intended that the sexes should
be distinguished by apparel. The beard
which she assigned to man is the natural token
of his sex. (Miss Weber may not only take
our hat, but pants also.) She claims in addi
tion every civil, political, and ecclesiastical
right for women, and it said that her every
word, look and action is characterized with the
moat refined womanly delicacy.
Homage to a dead Hero.
As the funeral train conveying the dead body
of the lamented Gen. Taylor was proceeding
slowly and solemnly through the western cities,
it is relaied, that the inhabitants of the places
through which it passed, had by no means
forgotten the old hero, who had in the lat
ter part of his life played a part equally
honorable to his country, humanity and him
self. They gahered round the mournful
hearse, and paid the last sad honors to his re
mains, with the spontaneous emotions of unaf
fected and irrepressible sorrow. One occasion,
in particular, was distinguished by a touching
event. There was at one place a military es
cort of honor. When the trumpet sounded, Old
Whitey, who was in the procession, instantly
roused up at the well known sound of battle,
and seemed rejoicing that he had returned
once moro to the glorious strife of war. His
nostrils were distended, his ears erect, and his
whole body was animated with new energy
and life. The sounds and sights of glorious
martial fields were present to him ai that mo
ment, and possibly the expectation of seeing
once again the form of his illustrious master.
The scene thrilled every heart. Ii was a mo
ment of deep emotion, and eyes were wet that
wore unaccustomed to tears.
Important to Tanners of Leather.
Henry W. Ellsworth, Esq., says the Lafayette
Journal, has shown us several specimens of
leather, which were tanned, under his own
eyes, in the space of ten rninntes, by a process
of which Marion Hibbard, of Rochester, New
York, is tho inventor. The statement may
seem almost incredible, when it is considered
that six, ten or eight months are required to tan
leather by ihu ordinary process.
Mr. Ellsworth has in his possession a pair
of boots and a pair of shoes made from a raw
hide in less than a day and a half, tanned by his
new process. The leather is tanned by a com
pound of chemicals, and in time and materials
is a saving of at least five thousand per cent
over the present slow mothod of making leath
er. The right, says the Journal, for Connecticut
and Massachusetts was sold for $500,000 ;
Ohio for $150,000 ; Michigan for $100,000.
This undoubtedly is one of the greatest im
provements of the age.
Blowing out a Candle. There is one small
fact in domestic economy which is not gener
ally known, but which is useful as saving time,
trouble, and temper, If a candle be blown out
holding ii above you, the wick will not smoul
der down, and nty, therefore, bo easily lighted
ngnm ; uui nuiuwn upon uownwartis, the con
trary is thu case. '
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