THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
TEE GLOBE.
Circulation—tke largest -in the county:,
InliinUM) tasil,, Pa.
Wednesday, Decezdber 24, 1856
POETRY.—"The Lost Tiaveller," has been
received, and will appear nest week.
Carrier's .A.ddress.
The Carrier of Tar. GLOBE, Master Hilde
brand, desires us to state to the numerous
patrons of the Tin GLOBE, and all others, in
Huntingdon, that he will deliver at• their
doors, on Thursday of nest week, his - first
Annual Address, and requests ; as a particu
lar favor, that none of the doors be accident
ally locked on that morning,—that the latch
strings be hung out, and his reception warm
and cordial.
" He'll grind you oil his yearly lay,
A song made up for Is.Tew Year's day: .
ktouch hell give of clogerel verse,
To the . tune of a LIII'RAT, Pratst."
P. S.—Sinall favors thankfully received,
and larger ones in proportion.
man from the Broad Top region,
named Patrick Smith, was brought to town
on Monday last, and committed to jail on a
charge-of having killed his child, five months
old, with an iron poker. He came home in
toxicated, quarrelled with his'wife, struck at'
her with the poker, but'hit the 'child, whiCh
was in her arms, fracturing ,its skull and
killing it instantly.
136 n. John. L. Dawson.
The Democracy of Greene county met at
Waynesburg, on Monday; the 15th inst., and
appointed James Lindsay delegate to the 2d
•of March Convention, and unanimously
in
structed him to support the 'lon. John L.
Dawson, of Fayette county, as the next Demo
cratic candidate for Governor.
A NEW TERRITORY.—THE REPRESENTATIVE
AT WASHINGTON.—This, is a great country !
New Territories spring up'in the night time,
and delegates appear on the floor of Congress
first to tell the news ! Mr. A. P. Cook has
arrived at Washington from Arizona, the new
Territory formed out of the Gadsden pur
chase from Mexico. He brings his creden
tials, and will claim a seat in the House as
delegate from that Territory. Ile reports
the population of Arizona at from ten to fif
teen thousand persons, and that the Territo
ry will make a State as .ilarge as Pennsylva
nia. It lays south of 36.30.
MURDER COUNTY.—Three men.
named 4T. Grant, 'Henry Palmer and 3 . Bridge,
neighbor's, left Blairsville on Saturday even
ing last, in a wagon. On the road they quar
reled about pOlitics, and a fight ensued, in
Which Palmer cut Grant in the abdomen, the
intestines protruding. After he was .Stabbed,
they took him in the wagon, and hauled him
some distance, when they threvi him out in a
fence corner, where he was found by Capt.
Adams, and medical aid procured. Ile died
on Sunday last. Palmer has been committed
to the Indiana jail for murder.
TETE MUSICAL REVIEW.—We have receives
the Prospectus of this Musical publication
for 1857. With the first number of January
it commences its eighth year. It is de - Voted
to music, reviews, criticisms, and general
musical intelligence. It is published the
second week of each month, at $1 per annum,
by Mason Brothers, 108 and 110 Duane street,
New York.
- FOR CUM - STU-1S A.Zsa) NEW YEARS The
Mammoth Pictorial Double Brother Jonathan
is already in the field, and is filled, as usual,
with large and spirited Pictures for the Christ
mas Holidays. Published by B. IL Day, 48
Beekman street, New YOrk. Send 12 cents
(postage stamps or money) and you will get
this elegant picture sheet free of postage.—
Nine are sent (post paid) for One Dollar;' or
Eleven, if not postpaid.
VeIr.LIEL - T. GEN. SCOTT'S annual report -to
the War Department as General in chief' of
the army is published. It is dated at the
head-quarters in New York, Nov. 18, and is
very short, as the general state of the army
is reported by the Adjutant General. He
-renews the suggestions- for the provision for
the retirement of superannuated officers; in
sists upon the increased compensation to
commissioned officers ; presents again his
-plan of relief to officers by a service ration
for every three years, instead of every five.;
'sea' d proposes an amendment of the pension
law, so as to place the army on as good a
footing as the navy.
VD—Counterfeits on the 'Bank of Harris
burg, the Columbia Bank and the Girard
,Bank, have made their appearance. Those
on the Harrisburg Bank are 10's, and are
executed with sufficient skill to deceive per
sons who are not familiar with the genuine
notes. •
VP'STICII , A PIN HEREI--Fillmore lost his
own State, New York ; Donelsou lost Tennes
see, and now, (as Gen. Walker elegantly ex
pressed it,) the " amber of Gene Jacksbn's
greatness" alone preserves him from oblivion.
Dayton lost New Jersey s and Fremont• has
lost California. On the other hand, Buchan
an recovered Pennsylvania for the Democra
cy; and Breckinridge redeemed Kentucky
from Know-Nothingism. These comparisons
tell more and stronger in favor of the Demo
cratic candidates, than pages of eulogy.
11651. A merry, .merry Christmas ! to all our
tatrons an.d friends.
ClitnititivrAs:
The annual festival of all Christendorn
approaching ; and throughout the world there
will be merry making and festivity among:
every Christian. - people. In the United States'
the mode of observing Christmas varies some
what from the modes of the old world, and
varies also in different sections of the Union.
In New England ; for instance, it is scarcely
observed, except by the religious services of
the Roman Catholic and Protestant Episcopal
churches: The old Puritan antipathy to such
observances has not yet entirely died out, and
Thanksgiving Day is more of a festival and
holiday than Christmas. In New York the
day is more generally observed, but it is less
of a holiday than New Year's Day. •
In Pennsylvania, where the English and
German sentiments both survive, there is
probably a more marked and universal regard
for Christmas than in any State of the Union.
Here there is scarcely a house that has not
its Christmas tree ; scarcely a family where
the children's stockings are not hung up ;
scarcely a household that does not collect its
scattered' members around the Christmas
dinner table, where roast turkeys, mince pie,
plum-pudding, and other traditional dainties
are served up. In the counties where 'the
German population prevails there are still
kept up some of the quaint, old customs; such
as the Christmas eve visit of Kriss-Kingle
corruption of Christ-Kind) with gifts to scat
ter among the juveniles; But_these visits are
often only boisterous frolics, in which men
and boys, in masks and fantastic dresses,and
carrying bells and horns, terrify rather than
delight the hearts of young folk. The cus
tom of interchanging gifts on Christmas' Day
is almost universal in Pennsylvania, and it
prevails more or less in, Ohio and other States
which have been largely settled by Pennsyl
vanians. In the North Western States, whose
inhabitants of American birth are chiefly,
from New England and New York, Christmas
is regarded with no more general respect than
it is in the States from which they were set
tled.
In Virginia and the Carolinas, and indeed
throughout the South, there is a very gener
ous and hearty observance of the. Christmas
holidays. The negroes are indulged much
more liberally than at any other period of the
year, and their merry-makings constitute one
of the pleasantest features of the season. At
the same time, their masters' houses are
scenes of festivity, and among the wealthier
planters there are displays of that lordly hos
pitality that is recorded of the old English
barons, -whose habits and mode of life are
thought by some modern English 'writers to
have somewhat resembled those of the South
ern planters.
An English writer has entered with some
learning and care into the history or tradi
tions of Christmas and its observances. He
says that December, which was named by
the Romans because it was the tenth month
from March, with which their year began,
was called by our anglo-saxon forefathers
Christmonat—because in this month Christ
was born— Winternionth, or Midwinter-month,
or Gild Erra, meaning the first or former
Giul. It was the feast of Thor, and was cel
ebrated in the Mothcr-night, that is to say, at
the winter solstice.
In-the primitive church Christmas Day was
always observed as a Sabbath, and hence
like other Lord's Days it was preceded by an
eve or vigil as an occasion of preparing for
the day following. No festival of the church
was attended by more popular superstitions
and observances, the ceremonies of the Sat
urnalia from which it was derived being im
proved upon by Christian and Druidical ad
ditions. The clayof this vigil was passed in
the ordinary manner, but with the evening
the sports began ; about seven or eight o'clock
hot cakes were drawn from the oven ;
cider, and spirits went freely round; and the
carol-singing commenced, which was contin
ued through the greater part of the night.
The connexion of the festival. with the Ro
man Saturnalia has never been disputed by
those competent to form a judgment, and in
some existing observances in Franconia the
traces of it are undeniable. •In the nights of
the three Thursdays preceding the Nativity,
the young of either sex go about beating at
the doors of the houses, singing the near
birth of our Saviour, and wishing the inhab
itants a happy new year, for which in return
they are presented with pears, apples, nuts,
.and money. With what joy in the churches
-not only • the priests, but the people also, re
ceive the birth-day of Christ, may be refer
red from this—that the image -of a new-born
child being placed upon the altar, they dance
and chant as they circle round it, while the
elders sing.
In addition to what has been here, advanced,
we have the unquestionable authority of Bede
for asserting that it had been observed in
'England long before by the heathen Saxons.
They called it, he says, the Mother-Night, or
_Night of NOllzers, and probably on account
of the ceremonies used by them during their
vigil. But in fact, though particular portions
of this festival may be traced to the Romans
or to the ancient Saxons, the root of the
whole affair lir much deeper, and is to be
Sought in far remoter periods. It was clearly
in its origin an astronomical observance, to
celebrate the winter solstice and the conse
quently approaching prolongationof the days,
as is demonstrated by the. emblematic Christ
mas candles and Yule-logs, the symbols of
increasing light and heat. These Christmas
candles, though now out of date, were at one
time of an immense size, and not a few in
number, the houseS'being very generally Ulu-
Minated with them. The Church, too, adopt
ed the, same custom, but gave especial reasons
of its own for such observance ;' the, apbstles,'
as they explained it, were the light of the
world, and as our Saviour also was frequently
called the light, so his coming was typified. by
these emblems. In the buttery of St. John's
College, Oxford, there is yet to be seen an
"ancient candle-socket of stone, ornamented
with the figure of the Holy Lamb. It was
formerly used to burn the Christmas candle
in, on the high table, during the twelve nights
of that festival."
For similar reasons they lighted the nile
clog, or Thie-log, for the words are synony
mous. On these occasions the log was usu
ally as large as the hearth would admit of, or
the means of the rejoicers could supply, and
in some of the northern counties of England,
so long as the log lasted, the servants were
entitled to ale at their meals. At one time
custom proscribed that it should be lighted
with a brand of last year's block, which had
been carefully put by and preserved fOr that
purpose, as we find it pleasantly recorded by
Herrick :
Come bring with a, noiko
My merrie, merrie boys,
The Christmas log to the firing;
- While my good dame, she
Bids ye 411 be free
'And drink to your heart's desiring
With the last year's brand
Light the uew block, and .
For good success in his spending,
On your psidteries play
That sweet hick may .
, •
Come cs : hile the log is Mending (kindling)
It is also requisite that the maidens; who
blow a Christrhas - fire, shotild come - to the
task with clean hands. •
Wash your hands, or else the fire
Will not teind to your . desire!„.
Lrnwasla'd hands, ye maidens know,
Dead the fire though ye blow
• A custom no less general is the dressing up
of hOuSeS, particularly in the halls and kitch
ens, with branches of holly, ivy, hays;. and
rosemary, the two last mentioned being, how
ever, in much less frequent use than the for
mer. Nor must the misletoe be forgotten in
this record of Christmas festivities; for, what
ever it may do in these refined days, it used
to play a conspicuous part in England less
than a century ago, when it was , regularly
suspended both in hall and kitchen, that the
young folks, of whatever rank, might - duly
kiss and be kissed beneath its mystic branches.
In Yorkshire many of the old customs be
longing to this day existed a few years ago,
and - are still to be found in some of the re
moter parts. One never-failing remnant of
the olden time was the cheese,' which had
been especially made and preserved for the
occasion. This was produced with much cer_
emony by every rustic dame, who, before she
allowed it to he tasted, took a sharp knife and
scored upon it rude resemblances to the - cress.
To this were added the mighty wassail-bowl
brimming with lambswool, and furmity made
of barley-meal, which last was also an essen
tial of the breakfast-table. At RiPon, in the
same county, the singing boys used on this
day to " come into the church with basketfuls
of red apples, with a sprig of rosemary stuck
in each, which they present to all the congre
gation, and generally have a return made
them of 2d., 4d., or 6d., according to the qual
ity of the lady or gentleman."
There is much doubt as to the origin of
Christmas Day. The earliest churchman
who makes any mention of it is Theophilus,
bishop of Antioch, about the year 170, in his
paschal letter, and for the first four centuries
it was far from being universally celebrated.
It is even a matter of great uncertainty when
it should be kept, arid Cassian tells us that
the Egyptians observed the Epiphany, the
Nativity, and Baptism of Christ on the same
day, while modern chronologists, at the head
of whom is Scaliger, agree that Christ was
born at the end of September or the begin
ning of October, about the time of the Jewish
Feast of the Tabernacles. The doubt about
the date of the Saviour's birth has been as
signed as a reason for opposing the observ
ance of Christmas Day. But it is as well to
observe the 25th of December as any other
day, and at all events, the custom is so gen
, eral, that it will probably never be disturbed.
In the earlier ages this day was called in
the Eastern Church the Epiphany, or Mani
festation of the Light, a name which was sub
sequently given to Twelfth Night, as we have
already mentioned. On this occasion it was
used allusively to the birth of Christ, and
hence also came the custom, which prevailed
in the ancient church, of lighting up candles
at the reading of the Gospels even at mid-day,
partly to testify the general joy, and partly
to symbolise the new light that was shining
on mankind. Among the Anglo-Saxons this
day was the beginning of the year ; and in
the shoWs of a later, but still remote, time,
Christmas was personified in his pageant by
an " old man hunground with savory dain
ties." No sooner had midnight passed, and
the Day of the Y Nativity commenced, than
the people hastened to welcome it with carols,
and these were generally sung with some
others from the Nativity to the Twelfth Day,
the continuance of Christmas. In the ' pres
ent day the place of the carols 'is supplied by
tunes played just before midnight by the so
called Waits, whilst the carols themselves are
annually published in the humblest form and
with the coarsest wood-cuts for the amuse
ment of the people. On the Christmas Day
these carols used at one time to take the
• place of psalms in the churches, and More
particularly at the afternoon service, the
whole congregation joining...in therd, . At the
end of the carol the clerk . would declare in a
loud voice his wishes for a merry Christmas
and a happy new year to all the parishioners.
- Most of these old customs have becOme
extinct in these modern matter-of-fact times ;
but Christmas has still its pleasant and re
freshing festivities, and there is still a shade
of poetry and religion in its gayeties that we
should strive to cherish and cultivate by ev
ery means in our power.
Lancaster Bank.
The stockholders of the Lancaster Bank
held a third meeting on Saturday 13th, inst.
The following proposition was 'adopted by a
unanimous vote:
A capital of $400,000 to be subscribed in
shares of $5O each, to be paid in on the Ist
of April, 1857, in the circulation of the Bank,
checks of depositors at par, or . old shares at
the Tate of $5 each.
The old stock not given in payment of new - ,
to get its proportional share of the old assets,
after payment of the debts, under an account
kept by the Bank. •
Depositors to accept certificates at three
years, with interest, payable annually.
• The present holders of circulation are de
sired to take certificates of deposit, payable
in equal instalments, in one, two and three
years, with interest—the circulation held by
them to be deposited with a trustee, (some
other bank) as collateral.
Bank to open as soon as its liabilities are
absolved or postponed under this arrange
ment.
It was stated that there was now but little
over $409, 000 actual circulation; and the opin
ion prevailed that a re-organization of the in
stitution, if it could be done legally, was the
only course by ,which the depositors, as well
as the note-holders, could be saved from loss.
The books were 'at once opened, under the
proposition adopted, and up to three o'clock,
thiee thousimd one hundred shares of the
new stock had been subscribed; and a com
mittee of twenty-five was appointed to obtain
subsciiptions in the city and county..
Ti TRUTH TOLD AT LAsr.—The other day
the following found its way into the columns
of theNeW York Herald:
" Our honest and amiable cotemporary of
the.- Tribune seems to think that the entire
assets of the Republican party, which recent
ly failed in business, belongs exclusively to
them."
The 'following is the response of the Tri-
bune
"By no means ! As the principles of the
Herald are among those " assets," we entreat
whoever may have them in charge to dispose
of them elsewhere than in this quarter.—
They don't 'belong' to us, " exclusively" nor
inclusively." ~•
This is a " good lick," and well deserved
by the Herald, No one knows better than
Greely what the principles ofilennet are,
and what he received to join the Fremont
movement.
The. New York Mirror, in reference to this
matter says :—" There are symptoms of a
rupture of the. entente cordiale between the
recently formed triangular alliance of the
Herald; Tribune and Times. The great po
litical battle being over, the " united powers"
begin to resolve into their original antago
nisms. The Tribune repudiates the Herald's
interests in the " assets" of the Republican
party, and the Herald accuses, the Times of
being "astock-jobbing organ." By and by,
we fear the patched up " treaty -of amity"
between these jealous "sides of the triangle"
Of New York journalism will be among the
pleasant things that were; and the parties to
the late amnesty will be pitching into each
other like sixty.'"
THE TESTIMONY OF A POLITICAL OPPONENT.
—The Albany Evening Journal, one of the
leading organs of the Black Republican par
ty, thus speaks of the retiring adati)aistra
tion:
"It is but simple justice to say that, so
far as the financial interests of the country
are concerned, they have been managed with
ability and integrity.' Though over-ruled
frequently in matters of appointment, the
President has stood by Governor Marcy in
his enlightened and fearless discharge of the
responsible duties of the State Department.
" Contrasted with the administration of
Tyler and Fillmore, in all that concerns per
sonal self-respect, and in all that belongs to
the proprieties of 'high station that of Gen.
Pierce presents a clear record. Nothing of
the nepotism of those eras disgraces the pres
ent. Gen. Pierce has not followed the bad
_example of hunting up and pensionino• ° all
sorts of relatives, partners and dependants.
The Post Office Department has not been, as
when in the hands of Fillmore, Hail, and
Haven,' a convenience for political lazaroni.
Nor has there been during General Pierce's
administration either a back-stair' entrance
to the White House, or a 'kitchen cabinet.'"
ALMOST trivAmmous.—A great "fuss" is
- Iciado by the Republican presses because a
few dunces in the South talk about re-open
ing the slave trade.
' , ale Southern Commercial _Convention is
in session' at Savannah. Nearly six hundred
delegates were appointed to it. A member
introance4 a resolution in favor of re-opening
the slave trade: '
It was laid on the table by an " almost
unanimous." vote.
Is not that a " settler" for the South Caro
lina, Governor?
What folly next ?
nel„. A New York correspondent writes:—
" One of our rich merchants = a man of the
fortune of a million and a half—a resident
on the Fifth Avenue—connected with one of
the first houses in New York, .was carried
yesterday to the Insane Hospital. He is an
other illustration of what our city shows in
many lamentable cases of . the danger of Over
attention to business."
Stock Gamblers
The New York Times gives the following
rather bold, but doubtless truthful account
of the stock gambling business in New York
city.., It will be seen that it gives the Herald
anythingbut a good name in connection - with
the business. Jacob Little, too, is made out
pretty much of a rogue; and stock gamblers
generally come in for a pretty severe drub
bing. We may learn from it, too, whence
come most of the alarms and financial panics
that so frequently trouble the country. But
here is the article from the Times:
"Jacob Little was a gambler in stocks.—
He generally - selected' the leading Railroad
stocks of the country to bet upon, and he al
ways bet that, in spite of all appearances to
the contrary, they were substantially worth
less. . The way he got at it was to agree, at
the end of twenty, thirty, sixty or ninety
days, to deliver them at a price far below
their apparent value. Having made his bet,
his next endeavor was to win it. He must
manage in some way to break down the pub
lic impression that the stocks had any value
at all. To bring this about he must first
seem to believe it himself, and show that be
lief by betting still more largely, just as a
gambler in politics makes a large bet to back
a small one. So he would go on day after
day, offering stock upon stock at the lowest
prices, and the natural
-effect would be to lead
outsiders to believe, that the stock was worth
less, else it would not be sold so low.
" But other tricks must aid the game.—
Panics in the money market are always of
service, and a newspaper is always useful in
manufacturing a. panic. Mr. Little, and the
class of Brokers who gambled in his wake,
accordingly secured the Herald, which, as it
lives upon panics, had a taste for the service
and was easily retained. Its money column
was. always'open to these men—indeed was
often filled with matter. written at their dic 7
tation: • When he happened to be betting,
especially high, the columns of the Herald
would contain a flaming announcement that
the whole country was upon the brink of ruin
—that awful explosions were at .hand,—that
railroad dividends were all Made ,from bor
rowed money—and. that the world generally
was on the eve of a universal crash. Some
times the failure of a bank, or the scoundrel
ism of a railroad .officer or a bank cashier,
would afford, the occasion for these horrid
outcries, and give them a kind of plausibili
ty to the public ear. Often they wore sheer
fabrications--falsehoods manufactured out of
whole cloth, like- the Herald's announcement
of immense defalcations in several of the City
Banks a year or two ago,—for which there
was not a shadow of foundation, and which
were put forth for the sole and exclusive pur
pose of creating a panic, alarming all bona
fide buyers of stock, depressing their price,
and thus—enabling Jacob Little and his tribe
to win their bets. Precisely this game has
been played over again. Men of sense see
through it, but, unfortunately, neither the
stock market nor the Herald, rely upon men
of sense; there are plenty of fools to be duped
by the knaves who operate in both—and so
the end is accomplished. Prices are knock
ed down for a day or two—Jacob wins his
bets—pockets the profits, and prepares a new
scheme of operations for the next day.
" So he has gone on for months and years
—until his bets amounted to millions, embra
cing all-the leading Railroads Stocks of the
country. . Of, course his system of operations,
his bold betting, his circulation of false ru
mors, his creation of panics, his incessant ac
cusations through the Herald of fraud and
rottenness, backed by suppression or falsifi
cations of official facts and figures, for a long
time accomplished his objects, kept the prices
of all these stocks far below their real value,
harressed and impoverished the widows and
orphans who owned them, and put the large
profits of the unprincipled game into his own
pocket.
" But fraud and delusion, however bold,
cannot last always. The public mind has its
periodical fits of sanity. A pressure of this
sort, kept up for a year or two, is uniformly
followed. by a reaction. Facts and figures be
come too strong even for the most gigantic
exclamation points, and the panics of the
Herald are seen through. Prices won't go
down at Jacob's bidding. Stocks stand oi
stiiiately at something nearer their real value
than suits his purposes. He can't buy them
as he has agreed to sell them. Consequently,
the profits promise to go out of his pocket, in
stead of coining in. Whereupon he walks
coolly, into the Board amongst the men he
has-been betting with, and tells them he can't
fulfill his stipulations. As the law ignores
such contracts and refuses to enforce them,
he has everything in- his own hand. Those
who have been betting with him must accept
whatever terms he sees fit to offer. So he
has no difficulty in 'making an arrangement
with his creditors,' backs out of -all his bad
bets, and proceeds forthwith to organize the
programme of, a new campaign.
-
"This is the plain English of Jacob Little's
`failure.' It is the failure Of 'a stock gambler
—of a man who bet on- the prices of other
people's property—who pockets whatever he
mickes and repudiates what he losses, when
bis losses become 'heavy enough to make it an
object. We have nothing to say about the
morality of the business. Men eminent in
morals and religion generally succeed best in
it—for their ostensible virtue is so much cap
ital for a business which needs it. We can
recall the names of half a dozen of the lead
ing operators in precisely this kind of busi
ness, who are the pillars of large and fash
ionable churches—who would not --open a bu
siness letter on Sunday, nor put their feet in-'
side a theatre, sooner than they would walk
into the fire. It is pleasant to see so doubt
ful a calling redeemed and dignified by so
much sanctity. Whether the sanctity profits
equally by the partnership, it is not for us to
judge."
POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT.—The New
York-Journal of Commerce has a table, which
contains, in effect, the whole vote of the Uni
ted States for President,, except a few coun
ties, townships, plantations, ttc., which were
excluded on account of informality, or were
returned too late to be counted, or not return
ed at all. Omitting these, the total vote
For Buchanan, is 1,850,766
For Fremont, 1,336,815
Buchanan over Fremont, 322,971
Buchanan &Fillmore over Fremont, 1,393,097
Fremont & Fillmore overßuebanan, 347,195
Fillmore's vote is, 870,146
Total number of votes returned in
season to be counted, 4,066,727
Exclusive of a few hundred votes for Gerrit
Smith.
. .
Buchanan's vote is larger by a quarter of
a million than was ever before given for a
Presidential. candidate.
FROM tivA.H.
Judicial Charge Against Polygamy—The
United States Laws to • be Enforced
Against it.
At the July Term of The First Judicial
District Court fbr Utah Territory, held at Ge
noa, in Carson county, Judge Drummond
charged the Grand Jury very forcibly and
earnestly upon the following among other
sections of the Criminal Code:
" And now ; gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
it- becomes my duty to call your special atten
tion with strict care, to the following section,
viz: Sec. 33, found on page 187 of the revised
statutes of the United States, * for A. D. 1855,
which reads as follows:
"If any than or wcanan, not being married
to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associ:
ate and cohabit together;' or, if any roanor
woman, married or', unmarried, ,is guilty of
open and gross lewdness, and designedly make
any open and indecent expostire of Ins or her
person—every such person so 'offending shall
be punished by imprisonment, not exceeding
ten years and not less than six months, and
a fine of not more than a thousand dollars, or
both, at the discretion of the Court." You
will now remember that you have each taker
a solemn oath before God and those witnesses,.
that you would "true presentiment make of
all such matters and things as should be giv
en you in charge, or otherwise come to your
knowledge touching the present service..
" This section, therefore, I give you in
charge, with an ardent desire that you will
cast off all priestly yokes of oppression, and.
studiously and honestly do your duty, with
out-fear, favor or affection, wholly unbiased.
As there is no statute law in the Territory
regulating marriage, or touching the subject
directly or indirectly, it only remains for me
to say that all these ceremonies by the people
of this Territory called "sealing," are any
thing other in the law than a legal marriage
ceremony. In the foregoing section the:Leg
islature has thought proper to pass a strin
gent law of a criminal character for the pun
ishment of open lewdness; this, indeed, was
wise and humane on the part of those legis
lators, and to us it seems, thatthe Legislature
thereby intended to provide a remedy for the
correction of that crying and most loathsome,
barbarous, cruel, black and. degrading evil,
which seems to be one of the cardinal:dec
trines of the church prominent in power in
this Territory, Polygamy; or, at least, if:they
did not intend it, they have virtually done,
what should have been done manyyears since..
The law is found in the book; and you as well
as I are solemnly bound to give it force and
utility.
" It is wholly useless and noonday madness
for the Legislature to pass laws, and for the
Federal Government to send judges and attor
neys here to execute those laws, if the man
date of one man, clOthed with a priestly pow
er, and wholly unlearned in the science of
the law, is to be permitted to thwart not only
the action of the Legislature of the Territo
ry, but boldly and openly bid open defiance
and sportive rebellion against the federal au
thority of the United States, and dictate to
Grand Juries when to find bills of indict
ments and when not. These things cannot
be endured in a Republican Government.—
All these men, therefore, who have a multi
plicity of women residing with them, at the
same house, or at the same harem, are sub
jects for your investigation. I have already
instructed you, that there is no law in this
Territory authorizing the issuing of marriage
license, or authorizing any one to perform
marriage ceremonies, either in or out of the
Church; and much as you may regret to do
so, it is nevertheless your duty to respect the
law of the land, and prefer bills of indict
ment against all such as have not been legal
ly married in some other country, and partic
ularly when two or more women are cohab
iting with the same man. These instances
are too often seen and too much encouraged
by the Church here, to insure respect from
the civilized, world, either at home or abroad;
and even barbarous minds in your own coun
try revolt at the sickening and truly heart
rending spectacle of the masses of this Ter
ritory. Duty follows you, gentlemen, in all
the walks of life, at home and abroad, in the
family circle, at the ballot-b - ox, at your daily
Christian devotions, and prominently here,
where the interest of the crushed and down
trodden appeal, in thunder tones, for relief
at the hands of law."
A Withering Rebuke.
To the charge of the Cleveland Herald,
that Mr. Buchanan owes his election in part
to " a drove of abject slaves to the priestly
dictation" of the Roman Catholic Church,
the Cleveland Plaindealer replies :
" Where Inis been the priestly dictation'
during the campaign ? What priests have
been openly in the field of polities? When
commenced this priestly dictation and by
whom ? Was it not during the congressional
session of '54 when thirty-five hundred Protes
tant clergymen of New _England demanded 'in,
the name of ALMIGHTY GOD,', the deftht
of the Yebraska bill? Who else have pound
ed their pulpits to pieces preaching politics
but Protestant clergymen ? Where is Beech
er? Where is Bittinger ? Where are all
the clergymen who have been compassing
sea and land to make proselytes, and, when
successful, made them ten fold more the
children of hell than before? Not a Catholic
priest in the land has lifted a finger, or open
ed his mouth, to babble in this Babel of poli
tics. It has all been left to these rifle reli
gionists, notoriously carried on by them, and
now the Herald has the impudence to talk
about abject slaves to priestly dictation:—
Bah A straightjacket would set gracefully
upon such a lunatic."
STATE FINANCES.—We learn from, a public
statement of the State Treasurer, that the re
ceipts in the State Treasury from the first
days of December, 1855, to the 30th day of
November, 1856, from all sources, were
$5,378,240 33
Balance of available funds in
Treasury, Dec. 1, 1855, $1,243,697 3L
$6,621,937 64
The expenditures during the
same period amounted to $5,377,143 22
Leaving an available balance
in the Treasury, on the 30th
November, 1850, of . $1,344,795 42
Ser Vice stings even in our pleasures; but
virtue consoles even in our pliins.
Iter'Superstitions would soon die, if so
many old women did not act as nurses to
keep them alive.
Iler'Keep your temper in disputes. The
cool hammer fashions the red-hot iron into
any shape needed;