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We hear the patenteess intend to put up a large apparatus for the Kyanizing of wood. No other plan has ever been found effectual; various plans have been proposed and all of them were fully tested, b'it found too expensive for practica! purposes.
The before mentioned machines have been patented by Dr. Lardner and Mr. J. Davidson, of this city, and can be seen in practical operation at the packing yard of the latter, No. 78 Sullivan street, where also licenses to work under the pat- ent are granted.
If a one or a two horse power engine were erected, a great saving of labour would be effeet- ed in pumping the brine from the eylinders, turn- ing the cutting machine, and ehopping the lard; the steam from the boiler of which would also try up (render) the lard and tallow, and extraet the grease from the bones, trimmings and eoarse pieces, which cannot be sold. The bones, also, can be cisposed of, and thus nothing would be lost. A still greater advantage would result from the slaughter house being attached to the curing and packing establishment, as much of the offal could be turned to account, and the blood, the most valuable of all manures, which here is thrown away, instead of being prepared, as in Paris for the West Indies-as no other manure known will produce the same quantity of sugar canes to an acre-could also be turned to ac- count, and thus make these combined operations very profitable.
The patentees will engage to pay for the meat if it taints or spoils in the curing, provided their directions are followed in the working of the ap- paratus .- N. Y. Tribune.
Perry's Victory.
Mackenzie, in his life of Commodore Perry, while describing the battle of Lake Erie, and the horrible carnage on board the Lawrence, relates the following ineident. In the hottest of the fight, Yarnall, the first Lieutenant, came to Per- ry, and told him that the officers in the 1st divi- sion, under his cominand, were all killed or disa- bled. Yarnall had received a wound in tho forc- head, and another in the neck, from which the blood flowed profusely over his face and person, while his nose, which had been struck by a splin- ter, was swollen to a most portentous size. Perry, after expressing some good humoured as- tonishment at his tragical appearance, sent him the required aid; but soon after he returned with the same complaint of a destruction of his offi- cers, to which lie replied-" You must endeav- our to make out by yourself: I have no more to furnish you." In addition to other oddities of Yarnall's appearance, some of the hammocks were stuck in the nettings, and the contents of the mattresses, chiefly stuffed with the down of flag tops, or eat tails, were distributed in the air, having much the appearance of falling snow. This substance, lighting on Yarnall's face, and at- taching itself to the blood, gave him, as Dr. Par- sons described it, the appearance of a huge owl. When he went below, at the close of the action, even the wounded were moved to merriment, by his ludicrous appearance, and one of them ex- claimed-" 'The devil is come for his own."
Faland Water Communication.
A keel boat with emigrants to the lower Ohio, passed our city two or three days since, which left Rochester, N. Y., last month. She came down to Lake Ontario via Genessee river to Lake Erie, via Niagara river and the Welland Canal around the falls; entered the Erie Extension, at Erie, Pa .; thence to Meadville, and down French
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Creek and the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh; and | into field would cause a pestilence; 1 therefore tlience down the Ohio nearly one thousand miles, move, as the easiest and cheapest mode of dispo- sing of them, to allow them a burial place." to her final landing place. What would the East have thought thirty years ago, if it had been asserted that such a voyage would ever have be- Agricultural Prejudices. come practicable ?
Piling up of Jokes.
Speaking of wags, says the Picayune, what is more waggish than a dog's tail when he is pleased? Speaking of tails, we always like those that end well-Hogg's, for instance. Speaking of hogs-we saw one of these animals the other day lying in the gutter, and in the opposite one a well dressed man, the first had a ring in his nose, and the latter had a ring on his finger. The man was drunk, the hog was sober. "A hog is known by the company he keeps," thought we; so thought Mr. Parker, and off he went. Speaking of going off, puts us in mind of a gun we once owned; it went off one night, and we havn't seen it since. Speaking of guns re- minds us of the " obsolete idea." We had one- a gun, not an obsolete idea-and it burst.
Poetry.
In the crowd of miscellaneous subjects which occupy the " Advertiser," the muscs are elbowed ont. I have been tempted to cut the following from an exchange. It bears for authorship the impress, as well as the name of our sweetest po- et. I judge it to be Mrs. Welby's latest.
To Harrict.
FROM HER FRIEND, AMELIA.
Accept my flowers: I culled them fresh and fair This morning, while their leaves with dew were wet, To deck the braids of thy rich auburn hair, Fair Harriet !
Thou shouldst not pine for jewels rich and rare, The sweet and simple flowers become thee best, Amid thy locks their pure pale blossom wear, And on thy breast !
The snowy robes of sweet simplicity,
Light floating as the zephyr's breath, were lent For woman's lovely form, and flowers should be Her ornament.
Let others deck their brows with diadems. And glistening pearls, and corals from the sea, But buds and flowers should be the fragrant gems, The gems for thee !
A Choice of Evils.
In accordance with the prejudices of past ages, rather than the more liberal spirit of modern times, the laws of Mexico deny burial to here- tics. The subject came incidentally up in the last Congress, on the question of providing sep- ulture for those who should be killed in the ser- vice of the Republic of this class, when Senor Oliveda, one of the deputies, remarked in debate, " There is one of four things we must allow to these heretics, who die in our cause. We must either eat them; or pickle them and send them out of the country; or throw them into the field; or bury them under the ground. The former is of course impossible; to send them out of the country would be too expensive; throwing them
At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Agri- cultural Society, last month, Lord Stanley, who presided on the occasion, in advocating the intro- duction of iron ploughs to supersede the lumber- ing wood ploughs in common use, illustrated the prejudices cherished by some farmers by an an- ecdote. He said a gentleman in the midland counties, who presented one of his farmers with a couple of iron ploughs, and having left the country for two years, returned and was sur- prised to find not only that the number of iron ploughs was not increased; but that no use was made of those lie had given to the tenant. The answer he received on inquiring the cause of this, was, " Why, you-you see we have a notion in this country, that iron ploughs breeds wecds."
In this country, the objection would most like- ly have been that "iron ploughs" turn wheat into chess.
Pioncer Church at Columbia.
Some of the first settlers of Ohio were Bap- tists; accordingly the Duck Creek Church at Columbia, was the first constituted religious so- ciety in the Miami region. Columbia was settled in 1788, and a portion of the colonists, Stites Bailey, &.c., formed this society. In 1789, El- der Stephen Gano visited this settlement; baptised three persons, of which, with those already re- fered to, a church was formed. After the lapse of a few years, as the settlement of Columbia de- cayed, the house of worship was established at Duck Creek, where it still exists, the oldest so- ciety of that faith and order in Ohio. The grave- yard, a natural mound of exquisite beauty, re- cords the former locality of the church edifice, long since perished from the earth. In the cemetery, the Stites and Goforth families of the original settlers, sleep their calm and dreamless sleep.
I understand an effort is making to resuscitate the original establishment at Columbia, and to erect a new and appropriate house of worship on the scite of the pioneer edifice.
Shoal Water.
The following curious story is related by the Concordia Intelligencer, to illustrate the accuracy of the river pilots, and the hard work by which they acquire their knowledge of depths and dis- tances:
" An old pilot on the Arkansas once attracted our attention by pointing out a bed of rock- where we could see nothing. We asked how he had studied the river-' Why, sir, I waded from the Post to Fort Gibson, three summers, and I guess I took pains to touch bottom'-the distance is near six hundred miles-think of that reader!
" His soundings were as follows :- ankle !- half calf !- whole calf !- half knee !- knee !- half thigh !- thigh !- deep thigh was as deep as he ever wished water for the Trident; she ran from that depth down to a bare sprinkling on the bars; at a greater depth than ' by the deep thigh,' the order was usually given, ' head her ashore!' "
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Triffes in Verse.
Much has been said, by our city papers, since the appearance of this work, with regard to the portrait which is the frontispiece of the volume, on which subject we take occasion to say a few words.
No such embellishment was at first designed, nor was it promised in the announcement first made of the proposed work; but while in the course of publication, the artist-a friend of the author-very kindly offered to illustrate the vol- nme with a portrait, which offer was thankfully accepted, and the drawing upon stone prepared from a Daguerreotype by Hawkins. As a like- ness its fidelity cannot be questioned, while as a work of art the impressions first taken, were, and are still regarded, as highly creditable specimens of Lithography, when is taken into consideration the facts that the art is still in its infancy in the west, and the artist in all respects self-taught. Un- fortunately, however, in the anxiety felt that the book should make its appearance duly when promised, the printing was hurried, and many indistinct and imperfect impressions were per- mitted to go into the binder's hands without exam- ination, of which were most of the copies first published, including the impressions so generally animadverted upon by the editorial fraternity. Thus much of explanation, by way of the amende honourable, due to the artist, a modest and de- serving young man, whose design upon tlie stone was pronounced, by judges of Lithographie draw- ing, as a likeness most striking, and as a work of art in a high degree meritorious and praiseworthy.
Inasmuch, however, as thus far our editors have, as it respects this volume-a Cincinnati production throughout-brought the force of their critical acumen to bear solely upon the frontispiece, it would seem to be a moot-point whether the picture does not in a great measure constitute the book. At least we think the au- thor should feel, as he doubtless does, under much obligations to the artist for Having furnish- ed a picture which has, thus far, acted as a scape- pipe or safety-valve to all the critical steam and hot water that had otherwise no doubt alighted upon the contents of the volume itself.
Journal of John G. Jungmann .-- No. 3.
In a short time a letter was received from De- troit, requesting us to remove hitler; but the roads and weather rendering this impossible, we consulted the brethren and resolved, that brethren David, Heckewelder, Senseman and Edwards, with four Indians should go there: Brother Jung and I were to remain. We heard nothing for four weeks from our brethren, except false re- ports from wicked men. During this time, two of our number, God thought proper to take 25
home to himself: One a boy twelve years old, who had a great desire to dwell with his Dear Saviour, and died confidently in an acceptance with him; the other a babe, a grand-child of Chief Nettuwathwehs, both of which I baptised in the interest and covenant of our blessed Sa- viour. Brother Micht, Jung and I preached alter- nately under the open Heavens; and at night made fire for light and warmth, not having a house large enough. After our departed brethren returned from Detroit-expecting to remain here-we made arrangements to build a church, boil maple su- gar, &c., and formed a station. But again a letter was received from the Chief Officer at De- troit, who commanded that all the white brethren and sisters "must come there forthwith." This was like a elap of thunder to our poor souls. That we should be separated from our dear brown brethren of the flock, we could not realize but . with heartfelt misery. There was no alternative, but to leave them in the hands and blessings of our dear Saviour Jesus Christ.
March, 1782, we entered upon our journey, with our conductor (an officer named Leslie,) who, having a noble heart, strove to alleviate our sufferings, and smooth our rugged path. At our first night's (twenty miles) encampment, we heard news of the murder of our dear brethren at Gnadenhutten and Salem,-our feelings could not be described; but exclaimed-" Thy ways, O God, are not our ways-but just, as thou dis- poseth." We know not our own future destiny, being surrounded by murderers, and with aston- ishment wondered at our thus far preservation, by God's special interposition, in sending those runners to come and force us away, as most as- suredly the same fate would have befallen us. On our journey, our sisters suffered extremely from cold; and some of us were occasionally per- mitted to go ahead-build up a fire to enable them to warm themselves. After we advanced, fifty miles from Lower Sandusky, a deep snow fell. At night, (making arrangements to retire under the open Heavens, ) the Almighty, in mcr- cy, sent us an Indian trader named Rabens, a very charitable man, who invited us to his house, (half a mile off,) which we thankfully accepted. He nourished us with Chocolate, g.c., S.c., of which we had not partaken for a long time. Another person, one mile further on (an Indian trader,) took us to his house, and treated us with uncommon hospitality, and kept us until we could possibly pursue our journey. Here the Lord extended his special power towards me again. An Indian woman having had some mis- understanding with one of the whites, mistaking me for the offender-watching my entrance to the Conductor's Lodge, raised a tremendous billet of wood to kill me. The conductor catching the
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blow, and tearing it from her, saved my life. [ Detroit, passed on Lake Erie to Fort Erie; thence She proved to be the interpretress, who was present when we were first taken, April 14th, 1782. After three weeks detention, wc started again under two new conduetors, (sent by the Chief Officer at Detroit,) and arrived in sight of Detroit on my 62d anniversary, at the mouth of a river, which, connecting Lakes Erie, Huron and St. Clair, passes Detroit. This aroused heartfelt joy and great gratitude towards our Almighty God for his parental care, and more especially in reach- ing Detroit on the 20th April, after a very stormy voyage across the waters, eoming very near foundering. We were very kindly received by the commanding officer, who furnished us with shelter, and with his wife visited us twiee every day, furnishing us provision. After tarry- ing three months, a number of our Indian breth- ren followed us, which eaused us to look for a location, which we found (July 20,) thirty miles from Detroit, on Huron river. We commeneed building huts, cultivating land, and strove to col- lect our scattered flock of brethren-expecting here to remain in peace and quiet, being twenty miles from any neighbour. Our Indian brethren came in, and so fast-putting up huts and houses, that in two years time, we had a beautiful location and every convenience. A remarkable circum- stance befel me, on a very rainy day. Being very [J. G. Jungmann died at Bethlehem, July 17, 1808, aged eighty-eight years two months twen- ty-eight days. He died as he lived, solely devo- ted to the cause of Christ; and his whole soul ab- sorbed in the Missionary cause and the salvation of souls. ] thirsty, I took a bucket to a spring under the hill, on the left of which was a two foot thick Aspentree and two and a half foot Black Oak ; on the right, a deep miry bog. As I was about to return to the house a terrible whirlwind arose, tearing one of the trees into fragments, and casting them all around me; the other tree torn up by the Original Letter of Gen'l. Wayne. roots, and thrown down aside of me. Stunned with HEAD QUARTERS,) Greenville, 24th May, 1794. the terrible noise and fright, I fell to the ground; but with wonder rose, and found myself unhurt. SIR,-You are to march to-morrow morning at revellie with the detachment assigned you, ta- king under your charge and escort all the horses belonging to the Q. M. General's and Contract- ors's departments, for Fort Hamilton. Upon your arrival at that Fort, you are to eall on the Q. M. Generals or their agents, and demand an immediate load of flour for all the horses belong- ing to each department, except those that may be necessary for the transport of forage for the support of those transporting the flour ;- of this number Capt. Benham and Mr. Wilson will be the most competent judges. Every one who saw and could conjecture my. predicament, exelaimed, how wonderfully God protected you. To him be the praise, honour, and glory. In this our beautiful location, skirted on both sides of the Huron river, with fine fields and every thing in a very flattering and prosper- ous condition of 22 years labour, we were again disturbed by the Chippeways, who sought to drive us away from it. We held consultation for removal back to our dear old location, Mus- kingum or Walhunding. A respite of an addi- tional year being granted, we, during the winter, fell to work in building a Cance, thirty-six feet You will take every possible precaution to guard against surprise; and if attacked, tlie sword, bayonet and espontoon must be your principal dependence. long and three feet wide, with other arrange- ments for departing. However, it was deter- mined that, there being few Indian brethren and enough missionaries, some should return to Betli- You will so regulate your movements as to reach Fort St. Clair to-morrow evening, and Fort Hamilton early the next day: and in order lehem. This fell to my, and brother Senseman's lot, we being the oldest. In May, 1785, left our dear brethren at New Gnadenhutten, arrived at ' to facilitate your early arrival at Hamilton, you
to Fort Schlosser; then eight miles by land and eight miles by water to Niagara-stopped there sixteen days, (awaiting a boat from Sohinachedi, Lake Ontario;) passed to Oswego, and then on Onicda Lake and Woodereek, to Fort Stanwix: from thence, one mile by land to Mohawk river, to Schenectady and Albany. From thence, by vessel to Newbury, and by land to Sussex, Hope, Easton; and through God's protection and bles- sing, safely arrived, and were friendly received by Brother Etwein, son-in-law Ebert, and Christian Heckenwelder, (whose brother's daughter we brought along with us.) We arrived safc at Bethlehem, July 8th, 1785-absent from home four and a half years (last visit.) We were now released from Missionary duties, and appointed to parish superintendence, as stewart, and as member of the " School and Missionary Diree- tory." My dear partner through life (after for- ty-eight years marriage,) the Almighty thought proper to take home to Heaven, aged seventy- two years, November 22d, 1793, (Ann Margaret Jungmann.) We had eiglit children, (four sons and four daughters)-John, Jacob, Gottlob and Peter ;- Anna Maria Brooker, (who died on Mis- sionary Station at the Island of St. Thomas,) Mrs. Ebert, Elizabeth Gerhardt, Susan Sehultz.
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will take up your line of march from St. Clair as early as you can possibly see your way in the morning; because it will be of very great advan- tage both to the troops and horses, to be at the end of their mareh before the intense heat of the day: add to this that it will give you; time to have all the loading prepared and sent up the river, so as to be in perfect readiness to advance from your encampment on this side of the Miami at a very early hour on the morning of the 28th inst., and in time to reach Fort St. Clair the same evening, and this place, or Fort Jefferson, the evening following.
Your detachment will be held responsible for any depredation or plunder of the stores, until the culprit or culprits are discovered.
You will draw one gill of whisky per man for your command, from the acting Qr. Master at this plaec; but it will be best to reserve it until some time to-morrow,-say 12 o'clock.
Wishing you a safe tour and speedy return, I remain with respect and esteem,
Your most humble servant, ANTHONY WAYNE.
Capt. JACOB SLOUGH.
N. B .- Should the contractors refuse to furn- ish flour, load with corn, or such other articles as may be furnished by the Q M. G.
Things in Louisville.
Louisville I find in a condition much more thriving than I anticipated,-and I have only had time to visit the oldest sections of it. The more prosperous parts I understand are yet for me to see. The stores are built of greater width than ours, and the three principal business streets, which are of great length are run parallel with the river Ohio, being between the curb as wide as our widest business streets between the line of the houses; thus is a massive character given to the business of the place. There is a manifest improvement to my eyes in the appearance of the city from what it presented a year or two sinee. Still there is not that air of freshness and activity which is to me a great charm in the business of Cincinnati. Louisville was a place of heavy commercial operations, when Cincinnati was emerging from its village and town position. In 1826, when I first visited the former place, the greater part of the present business buildings were already in existence. Indeed, if I could trust my recollection, there was as much busi- ness done then as since. I recollect at any rate, the impression of astonishment which was fasten- ed on nic in contemplating the masses of sugar, coffee, tea, &c., with which the stores appeared filled; and this was at a period when wholesale grocery stores in Cincinnati sold one hundred and fifty to two hundred bags coffee per annum,
and other groceries in a corresponding measure.
There are a great number-too many-coffee houses here. But we of Cincinnati may well be silent on that score. There is a feature in the business of the place, however, from which we are exempt. I allude to lottery offices, of which I have scen several signs. The court house, will be, when finished, a noble building, with the exception of that at Pittsburgh, the best adapted to its purpose of any in the west. The Pitts- burgh court house is, in some of its inside ar- rangements, inferior, however, even to this.
The Bear grass creek empties into the Ohio at the steamboat landing, and as it runs the course of, and for several miles back nearly par- allel with the river, forms an admirable safe- | harbor for coal and flat boats which require to remain any length of time in port, or are expo- sed to injury during winter, from ice. It must become the same thing at some future day for steamboats, as the commercial wants of the place on the one hand and its inereasing capital on the other, will justify the enterprise, which although involving heavy expense, will fully justify and reimburse it.
Louisville commands the Kentucky business of the interior, until we approach the Lexington and Frankfort regions, of which it divides the trade with Cincinnati. Upper Kentucky deals entirely with our own city.
These hasty notiees are all my hurried stay permit me to make. I propose to examine the city fully on my return from Memphis. A dele- gation of thirty have been appointed from this place, whither the proportion which attends the convention of the 12th will exceed that of ours, which is as one to four of the appointees.
"The Jews in America," and Things in ISOS. MR. CIST:
In your paper of October 1, 1845, I see it sta- ted by your correspondent "J.," that " previous to 1816, the Jewish people were not known to have settled in the Mississippi Valley; and for several years subsequent they were considered as a strange sight." I think this statement is inac- curate. When I came to Ohio, about thirty- eight years ago, I had a stage companion from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, a Mr. M., who inform- ed me he was a " Dutch Jew." His home was Cincinnati. He was allied by marriage to an extensive connection there by the name of P-, all Israelites, and, as I understood, largely con- cerned in trade. Mr. M. stated that he was em- ployed for the concern in a far ranging circuit- from Cincinnati to St. Louis and the lead regions, thence to New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and home.
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