Original emnsunitatints,
LETTERS FROM THE HILLS.—II.
NEWCASTLE, PA., Sept. 13, 1869.
This manufacturing town is advaneing in pros
perity, aCmay be seen by many indications. Its
position at the junction of the creek, canal and
railroad give it considerable advantages as a
centre of activity-in the--iron business. Its ad
vance has been greatly retarded by want of capi
tal. The first settlers were poor men, and the
place had to fight its way up. This is the great.
need in most of the early settlements, -here and
farther West, and it is a want tliat will greatly
retard the development of the.whole country unless
CO-OPERATION becomes general. That grand so-:
cial invention of this century.goes CM the princi-.
ple that "mony mickles make a• mpickler and
uses the collected contributions to, the best , advan ;
tage, giving Surety of increase. . What . folly, for ;
a. town to set up no factory, or workshop,,
because , no,. one man has money .enotigh to stnyto . ,
it, and the gsve.who huge , money have it too.ac.;
lively engaged in thekown-bripess l to, be ahle to.
withdraw it and subscribe for Ashares!, If, those,
who would expect employment in,. such ,4 9.0n 1
cern would-first unite their savings,: they,wopld
find, that they had . enough• to. start it - , without ;
waiting for .the.eapitalist. Yet•hardly:n.town,i
the West—there are :eome, exceptions on;.the:
prairies-r-has had -the .enterprise-to. , try ; co--
operation. . - • : • •
Some of :the-nevr iron, furna, ces erectedl in this
region are queer-kloking.agaits. Instead of ,:ge
ing straight up liksa hig squarei chimney, with a
lid on top, they have a ))road rountkepkiat, like a,
platform, built about SIX, feet b,eloll , top: , One
new one at the entrance,to she,town hasa, steam
fan, and in general,ithe whole ,business is now ,
conducted with better apparatus-and on a larger
scale. The iron men complain that only those .
who mine the ore are making money at presentlin
smelting and rolling.- , - •
Coal oil is still a profitable business in the
counties north of this, because it is noir amore
regular and understood'business, and.less•a field
for gantbling. Thereis still a'good dealer chance
hitting On wells, and here spiritualist Mediums
do'a• lively stroks of buiiness. A medium charges
875 down, and--say—ois thirtiethr of the toil as
his fee. If the enterprise fails he hears no more,
and the - public heirs nothing. If in succeeds
the fact is noised abroad over the whole - .region;
and the 'fools 'who employ him multiply. Poor'
Johnny Steele is hauling oil from the wells to
the station, driving anothesman's Yet' he
is not quite Out of luck, yet. When he started
'• to see the elephant 4 in .our Eastern citiesle
gave his wife $30,000 - to get, rid of her. Mrs-
Steele held fast,to thiSlittlisnm,• while her• liege
lord went through muCh larger ones, and now
takes him back on promise Of atnendment.
After preaching yeaterday morning, for Mr,
Wylie, I rode out some miles over the hills to
Mahoningtown, where he was to preach in the
C anpbellits meeting-house. Mahoningtown is
also on the creek, but'not so favorably situated
is
as Neweltttle, and is much smaller. This summer
it is sorely afflicted with chills. One lady told
us, that in the three houses, of which tier family
o..:cupied one, six had "the shakes" every day.
Chills were unknown in this region until the
making, of the canal gathered a large body of
stagnant water,--a fact which must beregarded
as one of the drawbacks &the canal system. -
The little Campbellite chnrch was well filled,
largely by "the disciples" themselvee. The
hymn-book which we used was that compiled by
Campbell himself, and revised by the more cal
tivated part of the denordination. It is now
really a good selection of hymns, as such things
go, although containing a fair share of dogg,trel.
That the church belonged to the wing repre
sented by Rev. Isaac Errett and The Christian
Standard, was manifest, not only front the loan
of it for Presbyterian preaching, but also by the
presence of a harmonium. Mr. Wylie certainly
gave them 'a good strong . doie of sound Calvinist's,
and that on the point on which they are especi
ally adverse to Calvinism—the work of the
Spirit in regeneration.
As we drove back to Newcastle, Ikfr. Wylie
pointed out the, scene of his winter labors. In
three of the school-houses 'Slow , the road , be
tween the tivo towQs, he had preached four nights
of every, week,, mostly spending the afternoons in
visiting around the neighborhood and gathering,
in the pgople. Often the roads which he .
traversed were. almost ,impassable with mud, 11.0
the weather most inclement. This, be it remem
tiered, was volunteer work, in addition to supply
ing his ,own church in Newcastle As a result,
some forty-four persons were gathered into the
churches, or are yet to join, them. Of these,
thirtyifisus are to his own church in Newcastle.
The
,:hundred 'church members—fifty Covenan
ters and fikrNeis' school (or Free, Churchmen)
.--oveyvshom he was installed two years ago, are
41911 , , two. h un dio,,ad are better trained in
Christian activity liberality than most
ashurches. He now c leaves, them for a more
-eastern field, having :accepted .a call to the O. S.
chitrdh at Bellefonte, in Centre county—a town
about. thirty iisiles'from Tyrone; on the . Pennsyl;
vania 'Cen'tral road, and on a line of railroad
connecting Tyrone with Sunbury. He will not
withdraw from the Pittsburg Presbytery, how
ever, until after the meeting of the Assemblies
at Pittsburg, but expects to be at work in his
new field by October first. -
In the evening, as it was the day of special
prayer for Retinion, a joint meeting of his arid
Dr. D. X. Junkin's congregations, was held in
the place of worship of the latter. The two pas
tors presided, alternately calling on members of
their respective churches to lead in prayer, and
closing with exhortations to unity and peace:
Dr. Junkin's speech was the 'Arst - thati I' had
eve - I:heard frOin hini, and *as certainty retnarV- ,
ablc.''Her began by confessing that he hadlieen'
le far opposed. to Onion, that 'he' had "e t:
with void+ and
,peti---every 'plan 'previously pro
posed to 'accoMplistit. l: - [Your readers will re.=
member' what' a Nerm friend of Uniort'lie was
two years `ago, when our correspondent 'classed'
him among the 'opponents of Union.- ''We oh
served,'however, that in an Old School'inen• it
is enongh''for` liim to Say that he'favors . Unittn;
though he oppose' every plan • prephseti'for
accent plisitmedt, while 'it New' School Man, though ,
'he .itirpfthrt every Plan proposed,' i called etitif
Union, if Oppiised - Witifplit — that might possi
bly.be: offered)] •,
Jun,kin,had opposed Union because ,44tad
;been,urged on wro i ng-,grennds, andproposed on;
wrong tenms.r, had .been . urgedAs, a ftdfil, i
men* ofShrists iptercesseryyrayer, that they>,
,might all ho.tute, but,' until he was ready to give.
up the. doctrine,, of the.. Trinity in •
could net accept that,interpretation,that,organigi
[he .meant..oghogrdj : .,upicktr,m.as ,want . .„0141114
W,lieni he Pittle4. At.t , P4jokk. APAIts)LheRLY
the -netiontiu l the • Phih4elp.Poßveptlaceal
.turned. , pale„arcAnd had ` 19,
Union because the old plans Aereo4,l_l94 ; nt4h,
conditions; which would, i Ix in der,„,the-,.,ffereise of,
discipline on: unsound members, and theretty,re-,
vivo the old:, qyaarels -of 1.113.
.11e, didAclt i
wish te,see gene* Asseriably . „,spewied ent.byeity„
after eitypea it. was in those days. , Not that,
he had ever ye:ixtied the,greAt i ttody,ef his New:
School brethren as unsonnd. .Hcregarded most
of them as-nll- right en this head,,and.in particu
lar; he was j sure that his brother Wylie i , ivao - 8 4
seand:nn Old *heel
,I,'resbytexiap ja, theology, ;
as he was , himself ., make,,this.Union
there, must be no birasting.
,Near, School;
kept saying to Old Schoel; !,‘,lron.bave sprren.-;
dered, to usi' . ;. and -Old School; say z ing•,to.,New.
School " Yen have:ome over to us,", then
the Mischieflnins again.. It is - ,not,,in human
nature to stand nth talk.
The Doctor branched off into a dissertation• on
the Federal or Representative system, and, danger.
of centralized government, which we recognized
as sound democratic doctrine;_ but did not
quitcsee the ecclesiastical bearing 'ef. At first it.
Sounded as pointing towards a plan for the -con•
-
federation of all the Preshyterian and Reformed
Churches of the land, and, in time, of the whsle
world, into a great representative confederacy.
Towards the_plose, it seemed to meanihe recon
struction of the policy of the omnipotenoe of the
Assembly so long adopted by the pa,sclio34.
He warmed, up here, until he was quite ,cordial..
His: New. School brethren were sounder -on this
great topic,- than were the majority
- of his own
Church, and they
,weuld come into, the Union
pledged to the overthrow of the. onmipotence of
the Assembly. He closed his r,emarks with an •
exhortation to peace,and union between the two.
chnichesin Newcastle, expressing the, hope that
the two would sppedily, grow to three' or even
four, as , they might do in this very year, for,ig,
for the, restoration of the Union
.
Mr. Wylie spoke mostly in the strain with
which the Doctor—elosed. —lfe plead for - the
promising - field of labor in - which , heihaf.l - found
so much to do in the previous winter, and urged
the.establishment of.a church the field. Q l l,
the various other fields around the city, there`
are equally promising fields ,white for •the -her
,
vest. Why should ,they be unoccupied P r He
trusted that thin• Union would not be used as au ,
occasion for boasting : Frnm that, spirit t44s
semblie.s had been wonderfully, free; • ‘ i ," My .
Church I!' was a . cry,that had . :been x t eurse,
many a soul, when,set' up as a motive ,for work.
"My Saviour" was the trite watchword;,- the :
constraining love of Christ the true, motive.,
He was glad that his last act as . a pastor in New
castle was to address this meeting.
It;was quite late before .the meeting adjourned
and we were .glad to know that...a good,many.
U. P. brethren evinced, their interest by their
presence. ,9no elder of. that body seemed much:
troubled,. with a refractory lad) , companion, who ;
would sing: hymns, although, he got the book,
'away from her two or three times..
AN OBITUARY.
e• Died „in West Philadelphia, on - the Bth, lilt.,
after a short illness, in the fourth year, , of her,
age, Polly •
She was a native of Africa , and , likethousands
of those born there, she was captured, and was
destined to perpetual bondage. She fell , however ,
into the hinds of the Rev. Albert Bushnell, of
the Gaboon Mission, by whom she was- ; sent ;.te
this country, where she found, in this city, a hos
pitable home. Her gentle, innocent, winning
manner, her quiet temper, and her sweet, voice,
secured for her, in the family where she was lo
cated; friends, who became greatly attached to
her, and who cherished the hope that she would
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1869.
9N. THE ;WING
have a long and a happy life. Sheihad lost in a
great measure, her slight acquaistaitce with her
native language * but was making strippij . progo*
in acquiring a familiarity with the English tongtie
She had no "original sin," nor was she guilty of
any "actual transgressions," for she had violated
no law, human or divine; Yet she sickened, suf
fered, and died—and died with no apparent evi
dence of a hope oga better life,or even. of an ex,
istence beyond thegrave., T ' ;
Will some learned theoltigian explain - I.bhy
: Was; under the dfirliii - goverinunt;lhat "Sheitia l
witjected suffering'imd- death; and how:Abel
fact thatshe thus suffered and died; itian be re - -
'ooneiled with the-idea of a just-and- benevolent ,
administration ? Why should the; suffer at, all?-
Why die 'not haves recompense in a , fu4
turn state And will some Old :School diyine;
who teaches, as they , didat 2rineetianiffEty yea's!'
agoy that; suffeking is .elfthe- natnreptifipenaltyj
forlsin,- and that.deathini old-world- haat beets
wayia dausedby siiii-etplaiff hew it was Eld in thin'
lease?
";THE tjtaetlir'.!.:l)llung, , ;CHß.C t ll---J8,,1T;
•,:', oßfoutauszt
; --ThezTope is aigreat kperioriagei.though often.a.
very.bachinsin, andralirays KU-unchristian pcit,en.
ltatec Harisik priest; and the head of apriesthood.
of irulimited , extentl - - mchtirieas I,hel Gospel, instead-1
ieffaCknowksigingutrach a ministry; _rejects
i pllicitry by theiristitutiori;ofroiretirelyurnd it
-
ireesincilablrdifferento ifoildo:hemnd hirreiem-i
:plifythetprevaieisce:of Gaspeldnii neat:et Lsr., Under
Irv:Papal prieisthoodlandthierarehlt; allimanner Of
'e§ril , thingwitaye foundwendouiraginnient-4ormal,
'ism, superstition, fraud, coirritkion,- crime. rsiit,l
'would takes volmae=tti- inventory the aboMinar
'tions of the cenverit. The world has been tloosiedi
withlenoruiities of every :Jae ; from the ..pgittonona,
fointaia.of,-4he win+ nut<
more greedN,Lucifer-rwaso neither.; prowler, Xpri
'more ambitious, and it would li buluird,to find i .a
lostspiritMaireunsetuplousi than some, : . of the
wearers °Ube : triple crown.; ~"11
;But these: things, it : is fondly said, de not affect
" thel,atmeeasion."..;l. Awl ,as. the Church was
founded 'Originally 'Mk , St, -Peter,..4leseendible
"AuCceltional =heirs, geed, or. f bacl,. it is, of
'course, the same Churehenuw aastirst; the same
'under,A l priesthood anti a4apalthientrchy, aknn-,
der, thesimplebrganisatilm atid raioiatty Of the
apos,tolicage. $o they prattle, -
:Founded_ on Peter, was it?: What makes you.
think so ? lkcause Peter was the." entail* ands
swearing" apostle ; -who showed-his petrous so'id
ity andltrinireakil fprinciple, by:phitektifig, "I
know s not the xaktO 7,, Probably this in:note your
reason. Yorktt„lainkyou have a, better one in those :
words - of ilia Sav,ienr, " Then art. Ps:stet-ond I will
'build my Church upon this. rocki" ,the
being, that .the, term "Peter'l is , synonymouaw,ith.
"-rock," and- that the , latter: is intrOncedsimply .
as verbal alternative, to avoid • the inelegance of
saying, ".I will build upon.this, Peter,"
The whim is plausible,..but it is only awhirn_;„
, althongh adopted by some self styled protestant,
lwriters. Translation.gires,itall the grace it has
", Peter "in Greek, ia Pettus.. I/et ns keep for a,
moment to thewordthe saviour used. Had He:
meant to take 'the .
Apostle personally for. , his
foundatiori, He.,would.,doubtlefit haye said,so nn
equivocally, however f inelegant; „for He came to
teach truth, not, rhetoric. He: have , said,
" Thou art Petros, gad, upon this Petros I .will
&e.. Instead of which He chose, for the
latter, averment, quite : anotlier subject of predica
!tioa, saying, " Thoext,petros, and I will build
my, Church upon this petra coAmite term,
but of another form„and-sound, another declension,
!soother gender, another meaning, too r in substan
*tiye force. At any. rate petra, and !tot," petros,7.
waato be the:foundation rock. We have*, fr.op
this lips of Cbrist, Himself; and who shall under-,
take to amend His phraseology? Who dare af
firp that by a feurinine of, the
. first f cleclension He
mesut, not metaphorically but literally, a. mason•
line of the second-?
I, will puytavesticn y to" the church"
VVas Peter ever known,or heard of. by t h e name
of,petra y t",or if not, one least is clear
—it was not upout.int.person i ctily that Christ
.pused to liuild.44§o,o, all Romish interestk
the point is. settled:
But let ps s go ,a little further There is a fact
of great importance to, toe noted. Petra, which
had never , been appropriated to-the Apostle of the
circumcision nor applied to, him in any , way, was
'under flit Appropriation. to, his . Master, ages be
fore the church-building announeeme.nt was made.,
'We see this all
,through lestAment in
dozens of successive iterations- and the idiom
descended into the language of , the later Scrip-,
tures ; evangelists , apostles, Peter using
it without reserve—the word of designation be
never- ‘•-petros," invariably *era. See .Matt.
avi. 18, Rom. ix 33, 1 Cor. a. 4, 1 Peter ii. 8.,
So habitual is this application of the term that
'from being at first metaphor it becomes , as I have
called it, idiom. I may almost say, thi.t from be
ing a figure,ef speech it becomes , .nomenclature.
As,a figure of speech,,itjuight have been applied.
to Peter; but the-fact*, that it never was so ap.-.
We, consequently. know, without theieast
artifice of construction, not only what the Saviour
did not mean in the case before us, but also what
He did Law. So, that if the , rook-pretensions of
1" His Itoliness "swill not die with one quietus,
here are two `Petra does not mean Peter, and it
does mean Christ.
Nor is the word symmymons at all with . " pe
trod Ii is the regulaka name in Greek for
_a
frxed, rocky ma* whereas "petrol," a word much
lesS in use, means`-lather a rock-fragment,i piece
of a rock, a stone. Lexicographers do n. •,-
enlighten us much. In the New Testament " pe
tree" -is never used for rock; para., -never -for
anything but rock. (Matt. vii. 24, Mark , xv.
Luke viii. 6, Rev. vi. 15, 16) I will not _drum
as nprehja referepee tolGreek literature at large
Witliont bettet'ineinEr t thitn I have at hand to re
-aitseriinyselt-orriliffabetitc although I -believe
the New.Teatasnent miage in the twofer:-strictly
classibal. Of Hemet, the velly:beikt tot the Greek'
van, speak With-some Agetfidence,, Po
tra. occurs often in the-great poek •audvalwayekt,l!
believe r iu_. the settee- eE fixed rick.
Od. r 293); "-Fetros•flis MU: with : occasionally,.
, 4tOnemsed for ;grinding -cort i e piece lot mar
/dal& pebbie grasped-witk.the hand ; .at.a.n,vrate,:
astontki-411 71. 27'0 ; 7307 -
Accordbigly our. versimi oflhe gives us
stone a&the English , ofictiCeplial4', , ; Peter's-first
cognominal- designationfet ,the krand.pff Xis Alaw
teri 4 and of,Whiiih :the ;Apostle, •John„ declares ;
" PetroPlr a 4nere iiiterprittatien: or:equivalent itk:,
proper Greek k whereas ‘..‘,Ceplras!!.. was, a.-;word,
'essentially -foreign= arid barbarous ;needing to 4be_i
thker explaine& in. erdersto7beiag understood:' •
I-ask edi, - Why.Peter,-;lwitlfrids,- unsteady
cliaraeter, slionld have been mined a, acne iev,en ?
Becittse his feonfessiou indicated : -(en& as &sue
'siaa:weltrawarN indicated that Ite:had , in
firm AIM 'elements .of a .trew natnrep coirespoeding.
, measurably with that of:his Divine Friend, and
ithat he thus stood related to the great Author of
spifUual life;•aera
Imam itvaine-frour- , -a relatiteyat-ence "of origin
!arid'of•qualitY4 liotdiaceinible to Icommen-,eyes;:
perhaps,- but ir , Frietrertheless,: 'an& stildering,
esectiy way just; , and meet. , . the glorious' eulogy.
rthiCh hirrnewuaniii expressed. 5 . • : •
' , A,tileverybndy :Inoue; Christ:Himself is some:i
dined-spoken .otin Scripture, -under the. motet
I ,Phor-ori. stone: Generally as. a' bill:Ming:stone;
a coiner ore foundation-stone.; eceasitmallyes
"stone orstumbling,;!".•never, I believe,', withal*
- some.qualifying-coetext or addition: - .Arcl even
then f tha word Wed not petros,P -but lithos:
'So that he is tiowhere.pixed - up itinbiglEtitY J
with. the, naniegiVenato ,the:Apostle i •
The cede ettads sitaply•thus.4 , --; : • _
i L,.Christ &comet say that He--wiltboild* u.Pon
Peter. ,; i' , 36," V, 1
= 2j He does aisert the :great evangelical - fact
that Itawill build; ixponAlimself,. "4-The Rock of
Ages i f!•:as justaindiested'ly• the Apostle's confes-
I nien - ef,ffis character. - •
He recognises in Peter a rblation.to
aspf petfros!'•,t6: pore; thefsecender . x. to •the
prineipeivihe servant to the master.; with-the as
surance leaded- (neadfut to. Peter's vacillating
mind), that when the r great edifice is up, =" tip
gates cif hell shall not-prevail against it,r an!as
suranoe . whielr, had - thi3 Aptatle• mistaken hie
own person for ithe intended basisnf Church;
must either hive passed his comprehension, or
turheid his head: • '
-•
The-wonder is,:that ecclesiastic al society
pretending,to , be Christian 'should' :persistently
`falsify4hat4wetension.by claiming td 1 e founded;
not - upon the'Author uf ;Christianity, but upon *
poor frail human. being,! full of infirmities. Peter
and "his iiirecessorb!!!= W_hat. a foundation fora '
Church ! Happily Christ's •people are llis
Church. And they 'are.such for'the precise rea
son that they_are.huilt upon Him alone. Can a
Church be His that has a man for its found ition ?
—in other worls, , for its trust, •its- Main reliauce..-
its ".centre, of unity" so-called t "" Other :foun-'
dati.on can_ ro man lay than that is laid, which is
Jesus Christ." - „
: .TheAl . .successioni.'2too I another fond-conceit.
'There are; two ;difficulties about. it. ;In:; the
&it Tlace it. is destitute :of historical evidence:
Indeed, the.evidence is atl-agaiast it. • Peter 'was*
never in Rowe. , Even _Millman is obliged to. cog
cede:the point. - Much less-did the apostle , die
: there. And, -in the pecond. place, there is no
agreement ali2ofig shstoricaLauciquaries as to who
wasthe finat, second, third:„ or fourth bishop of
IRome.t; It, is a 'theme of utter confusion, among
Andifinally, if every other difficulty were
got how could a Romish priesthood succeed.
as such to the office of a_man who was not a
priest r ' ;; •
I believe some of the -,Romisb. fathers gave
countenance to •what is now -the -Popish_ view of
the , subject ; 'and- that-a story •of , Petmes having
gone -toßome, and suifered martyrdom there, was
.manufactured by somebody in -the way of " pious,
fraud," to giVe the,thinga, chalwe aiming 1108
-
Bible, or at least of being made " tradition" 94:
'for after 'generations. But other.fathers, such as
Origen; Epiphanius, Hilary, Augustine, scouted
the:notion•of ihs' , Ohurchis, being founded on the
inconstant Apostle ; regarding him as simply
named after , THA Rom,. whose presence in the
person of f the Redeemer, he confessed. "Non
eitim. a 'Petra : Tetra," said Augustine, , ," secs ,
/tetra Petrol; sicut u°s' Otristus a, ,Citristiasq,
sed•Christianus a Christ°, vocatur.'
The moment a man gives way to
nate 'desire, disqa4thile and' tor ment take
fiessession of-his heart. ;The inroad and the
covetous are never at rest; but the' tumble
and poor in spirit possess their souls in the
plenitude of peace.—Kentpis.
REV. A. M. STEWART'S LETTERS. NO. XLIV,
TREASURE CITY, Nev., Aug 1569,
The earth is the Lord's and the fulness there
of; and the Lord has given it to the sons of m en.
His command to Adam, after creation, still binds
his desqe9dants: " Replenishothe earth and sub
-- .1
tlue , rt." NoTortion of our globe but has some
peciffiar adaptation for supplying man's increas
ing stunbenl and wants. Twenty times the pres
ent number of inhabitants can be luxuriously
supported upon our planet if rightly subdued.
This " Great Anierietin Desert," as tourists and
geogtapbere are iiteiused.ta call it, will yet mai n •
tairr,'Cromits otvti"rtirodruitAranesd, as many p eo .
pleat Mt now , ate' United States.
• :An - item ofsaCred bietorY in reference to this
'subject "was to iiae a icingiiiiii'serhins puzzlement.
The impressions received frOm teachers, Bible
commentators, lying ''and stupid geogra•
great 'Arabian Peninsula
behiethat it was "riot Merely - a wilderness, but a
Asrt, Wholly devoid` vegetation and covered
with 'rocks and scoriae; and' `with burning, drift.
ib4 8441. ' : -
imPreaisiciti's'l read' in Moses' his
tititeVit!en'lsrtiel'eania:otti of Egypt, they
'brought With . iheM into this same desert, " Flocks
anirtirdi, eV& ''And after forty
yeas 46 , j4inin thireiti,'When read" to cross over
iAidari, instead:of 411klieikeattle having perished,
:the again isiiords : " The children
of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great ude of
Unteritand how those
immense 'herds' of - eattle c n'oe*slutli lived but so
gteaEly fiiithiptiA iii such a - region Did they,
witlitheir owners; live - upon:manna, 'and - take a
upo4: . Better informa
tion instructs us,that largeportions of the terti
ary i.k4r, which thC'Jsrieliteli journeyed and en
eimaii of the -Mine kind's of soil, and are
colthred`With the same - species' of 'vegetation, as
most` ef' the ateitlnigri - ean Easin, the Artemi
ati-=-Si6 Enshbeing''the predominant shrub
in both?' • '
"F,l2iPerietite is 'fast demenStrating that Utah
and Dte:v4da-4ail tetra:o6es, larger than New
toi l. "aiirt l eiirii 3 Olvinia.—are among the
final stock- - goi4tig " " countries- on the globe.
J . :fere:l;l 4 B4, 'cattle" and'sibeep not only live, but
thrive'and groW fat all the year round, without a
lan u 1 of grain or barn feeding Flocks and
,
herds` can be here multiplied to an almost un
limited eitent.: Shepherd days are returning.
A grass called Bunch grass, from the produl
tioni of each root growing in -a separate clump, is
a frorite pasture, dot only
, in'its early summer
greenness, but after drying on the stock in July;
the ,i4ialess, dewless atmosphere preserves it like
newly mown hay until winter.
`WA& &t i p is an ablindan.t perennial shrub
About two feet high; oily and: pungent in its sum
mer
greenness.; in Which - Condition it is never
.tantedliyeattle; bat' when the frosts of winter
have unfitted nearly :all other vegetation for gra
zing purpOies, this p.ant is rendered soft and
palatible by the freezing. In this condition
horses, cattlkand sheep become very fond of it,
and, as an article of food, it is healthful and nu
tiitions., The snow in the great valleys nevd.
altogether covers this really pretty shrub, which
is likely to prove of as much money-value to the
immense_ State of _Nevada as all her rich silver
mines. There is a ,finffi,'evy of it growing on
&Minns . of acres, as yet unreached by graziers, to
winter,all - the cattle' in the "Unites States. Such
are God's wise provisions and wonderful adapta
tions:
No marvel titat but small developments have
as yet been made in stock raising and farming
in this boundless region of mineral wealth. A
floating population his hurried' here with the
hope of becomino , suddenly rich, and never
'dreams Of attempting the slow proe3ss of stock
raising and farming as a road to wealth, thougli
both were never so ittviting. A different popu•
lation must come foi„these slower, surer, .yet
more profitable purposes.
One result from, such u condition of things is
„
that every thing eaten, worn or used is at a price
as exorbitant as would make the ears of every
Eastern housekeeper _tingle.. All payments are
in coin. Potatoes foirteen cents per pound,—all
`such things are sold by the potind—o`reen fruits
fifty cents per pound; eggs a dollar a dozen, and
so on. Tho 'Overland route being such a gov
ernment:propped monopoly, but little benefit in
cheapening thenecessariei of life has as yet been
derived from itscotuplitiow A. M. STE wanr.
• --:--An English journal, commenting on an ex
wad; from Blackwood, says :--" It is open to a
man to profess kis faith. now in society as un
blushingly as his, want of it, a change of even
greater importance. Time was when to argue in
favor, say of, the possibility of revelation in a
drawing room, would Have been considered mon
strous. Now men and women will listen and
discuss with all the eagerness of tone and quick
incisiveness of speech with which they of old
would have discussed the prospects of a ministry
orAhe march of, a foreign army, with an evident
thrist to hear, and to speak, and to know which
Pioves at least this;--that religion has become a
subject of human interest, Formerly society treat
ed it as something it was quite right to approve,
but indecorous in the extreme eater to attack
or maintain. We are out of the cycle of indif
ferenee to religion."
W. •
1! THIS A BARREN LAND ?
stock Rersiia