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THE DEAD MOTHER.
Why aro you lying there, mother,
Under th-t cold, gray stone,
Always out in the wind and rain,
Lying so still and lone?
Little Minnie is very sick;*
On her lip lies the gathering foam ;
Why don't you conic and mind her now?
9 mother! come home! come home!
Barry and I, ere we fell asleep
Last night in our little bed,
Were trying to think (shat they meant by it
When they told us you were dead!
When we asked our father, he answered,
The knowledge would come with years;
But his hands were clasped before his face ;
And under them fell big tears!
Ire said, too; 'twos because you were good, mother;
_That God took all who were such;
Marry thinks we might get you back again
If We asked God very much!
but why don't you speak when I speak?
Why don't you coins to us now,
do hear us say our prayers at night, -
And to kiss us upon the brow?
Old nurse cries, and says to Minnie,
That with you she soon will meet;
For night after night on the candle
Is a little winding sheet.
I'd rather that you cane back to us
And lived as you used to do;
But if Minnie is going to see you,
O mother 1 may Igo too
The morning you spoke to us all last,
When you kissed us each and blessed,
You saki, as I was the eldest,
I should also be the best;
And, indeed, I try to be good, good. mother,
Since you went 'neath that cold, gray stone;
Won't you come back and see how good I am?
0 mother ! come home ! come home!
Ittisttliantous Tabus.
Two Hours With Brigham Young
A Conversation Between Horace Greeley and
the Saint of Salt. Lake.
[From New York Tribune, 20th ult.]
SALT LAKE CITY, July 13, 1859
My friend Mr. Bernhisel, M. C., took me
this afternoon, by appointment, to meet Brig
ham Young, President of the Mormon Church,
who had expressed a willingness to receive
me at 2P. M. We were very cordially wel
comed at the door by the President, who led
us into the second story parlor of the largest
of his houses (he has three,), where I was in
troduced to Heber :Kimball, Gen. Wells, Gen.
Ferguson, Albert Carrington, Elias Smith,
and several other leading men in the Church,
with two full-grown sons of the President.—
After some unimportant conversation on gen
eral topics, I stated that I had conic in quest
of fuller knowledge respecting the doctrines
and policy of the Mormon Church, and would
like to ask some questions bearing directly
on these, if there were no objection. Presi
dent Young avowing his willingness to res
pond to all pertinent inquiries, the conversa
tion proceeded substantially as follows :
IL G.—Am I to regard Mermanism (so
called) as a new religion, or as simply a new
development of Christianity?
B. Y.—We hold that there can be no true
Christian Church without a priesthood direct
ly commissioned by and in immediate com
munication with the Son of God and Savior
of mankind. Such a church is that of the
Latter Day-Saints, called by their enemies
Mormons ; we know no other that even pre
tends to have present and direct revelations
of God's will.
11. G.—Then I am to understand that you
regard all other churches professing to be
Christian, as the Church of Rome regards all
churches not in communion withitself—as
schismatic, heretical, and out of the way of
salvation ?
B. Y.—Yes, substantially.
G.----Apart from this, in what respect
do your doctrines differ essentially from those
of our Orthodox Protestant Churches—the
Baptist or Methodist, for example?
B. Y.—We hold the doctrines of Christian
ity, as revealed in the Old and New Testa
ments—also in the Book of Mormon, which
teaches the same cardinal truths, and those
only.
H. G.—Do you believe in the doctrines of
the Trinity?
B. Y.—We do; but not exactly as it is held
by other churches. We believe in the Fath
er, the Son and the Holy Ghost, as equal, but
not identical—and as one person [being.]—
We believe in all the Bible teaches us on this
subject.
H. G.—Do , you believe in a personal devil
a distinct, conscious, spiritual being, whose
nature and acts are essentially malignant and
evil?
B. Y.—We do.
H. G-.—Do you hold the doctrine of Eternal
Punishment?
B. Y.—We do ; though perhaps not exactly
as other churches do. We believe it as the
Bible teaches it.
H. G.—l understand that you regard Bap
tism by Immersion as essential.
B. Y.—We do.
111°G.—Do you practice infant Baptism ?
•
H. G.—Do you make removal to these val
leys obligatory on your converts ?
B. Y.—They - would consider themselves
aggrieved if they were not invited hither.—
We hold to such a gathering together of God's
People as the Bible foretells, and that this is
the place, and now is the time appointed for
its consummation.
11. G.—The predictions to which you refer
have usually, I think, been understood to indi
cate Jerusalem (or Judea) as the place of
suchgathering.
B. Y.—Yes, for the Jews—not for others.
11. G.—What is the position of your Church
with respect to Slavery?
B. Y.—We consider it of Divine institution,
and not to bp abolished until the curse pro-
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VOL. XV.
nounced on Ham shall have been removed
from. his descendants.
H. G.—Are any slaves now held in this
Territory ?
B. Y.—There are.
H. G.—Do your Territorial laws uphold
Slavery ?
B. Y.—Those laws are printed—you can
read fov yourself. If slaves are brought here
by those who owned them in the States, we
do not favor their escape from the service of
those owners.
11, G.—Am I to infer that Utah, if admit
ted as a member of the Federal Union, will
be a Slave State ?
B. Y.—No; she will be a Free State. Sla
very here would prove useless and unprofita
ble. I regard it generally as a cursQ to the
masters. I myself hire many laborers and
pay them fair wages ; I could not afford to
own them. I can do better than subject my
self to an obligation to feed and clothe their
families and to provide and care for them in
sickness and health. Utah-is not adapted to
slave labor.
11. G.—Let me now be enlightened with
regard more especially to your Church policy;
I understand that you require each member
to pay over one tenth of all that he produces
or earns to the Church.
B. Y.—That is a requirement of our faith.
There is no compulsion as to the payment.
Each member acts in the premises according
to his pleasure, under the dictates of his own
conscience.
11. G.—What is done with the proceeds of
this tithing ?
B. Y.—Part of it is devoted to building
temples and other places of worship ; part to
helping the poor and needy converts on their
way to this country ; and the largest portion
to the support of the poor among the Saints.
11. G.—ls none of it paid to Bishops and
other dignitaries of the Church 7
B. Y.—Not one penny. No Bishop, no
Elder, no Deacon, or other church officer, re
ceives any compensation for his official servi
ces. A Bishop is often required to put his
hand in his own pocket and provide there
from for the poor of his charge, but he never
receives anything for his services.
G.—llow, then, do your ministers live?
B. Y.—By the labor of their own hands,
like the first Apostles. Every Bishop, every
Elder, may *be daily seen at work in the field
or the shop, like his neighbors; every minis
ter of the Church has -his proper calling by
which he earns the bread of his family ; he
who cannot or will not do the Church's work
for nothing is not wanted in her service; even
our lawyers (pointing to Gen. Ferguson and
another present, who are the regular lawyers
of the Church,) are paid nothing for their
services; I am the only person in the Church
who has not a regular calling apart from the
Church's service, and I never received one
farthing from her treasury; if I obtain any
thing from the tithing-house, I am charged
with and pay for it, just as any one else
would ; the clerks in the tithing-store are
paid like other clerks, but no one is ever paid for
any service pertaining to the ministry. We
think a man who cannot make his living aside
from the Ministry of Christ is unsuited to
that office. lam called rich and consider
myself worth $250,000; but not a dollar of it
was ever paid me by the Church or for any
services as a minister of the Everlasting Gos
pel. I lost nearly all I had when we were
broken up in Missouri and driven from that
State; I was nearly stripped when Joseph
Smith was murdered, and we were ,driven
from Illinois ; but nothing was ever made
up to me by the Church, nor by any one.—
I believe I know how to acquire property
and how to take care of it.
H. G.—Can you give me any rational ex
planation of the aversion and hatred with
which your people are generally regarded by
those among whom they have lived and with
whom they have been brought directly in con
tact ?
B. Y.—No other explanation than is af
forded by the• crucifixion of Christ and the
kindred treatment of God's ministers, proph
ets and saints in all ages.
G.—l know that a new sect is always
decried and traduced—that it is hardly ever
deemed respectable to belong to one—that the
Baptists, Quakers, Methodist, Unaversalists,
&e., have each in their turn been regarded in
the infancy of their sect as offscouring of the
earth ; yet I cannot remember that either of
them were ever generally represented and re
garded by the older sects of their early days
as thieves, robbers and murderers.
B. Y.—lf you will consult the cotemporary
Jewish accounts of the life and acts of Jesus
Christ, you will find that he and his diciples
were a,2cused of every abominable deed and
purpose—robbery and murder included.—
Such a work is still extinct, and may be found
by those who seek it.
11. G.—What do you say of the so called
Danites, or Destroying 4ngels, belonging to
your Church ?
1 3. Y.—What do you say ? I know of no
such band, no such persons or organization.
I hear of them only in the slanders of our
enemies.
11. G.—With regard, then, to the grave
question on which your doctrine and prac
tices are avowedly at war with those of the
Christian world—that of a plurality of wives
—is the system of your Church acceptable to
the majority of its women
B. Y.—They could not be more averse to it
than I was when it was first resealed to us
as the Divine will. I think they generally
accept it, as I do, as the will of God,
H. G.—How general is polygamy among
you? a
B. Y.—l could not say. Some of those
present (heads of the Church) have each but
one wife ; others have more ; each determines
what is his individual duty.
H. G. What is the largest number of wives
belonging to any one man ?
B. Y.—l have fifteen ; know of no one
who has more; but some of those sealed to
me are old ladies whom I regard rather as
mothers than wives, but whom I have taken
home to cherish and support.•
11. G.—Does not the Apostle Paul say that
a bishop should be " the husband of one
wife ?"
B. Y.-z-So we hold. We do not regard
any but a married man as fitted -for the
office of bishop. But the Apostle does not
forbid a bishop having more wives than one.
H. G.—Ddes not Christ • say that he who
puts away his wife, or marries one whom-an
other, has put away, commits adultery ?
B. Y.—Yes, and I hold that no man should
ever put away a wife except for adultery—
not always even for that. Such is my indi
-iidual view of the, matter. Ido not say that
wives have never been put away in our
church, but that I do not approve of the prac
tice.
H. G.—How do you regard what is com
monly termed the Christian Sabbath ?
B. Y.—As a divinely appointed day of rest.
We enjoin all to rest from secular labors on
that day. We would have no man enslaved
to the Sabbath, but we enjoin all to respect
and enjoy it.
BRIGHAM'S APPEARANCE, &C.
Such is, as nearly as I can recollect, the
substances of nearly_ two hours' conversation,
wherein much was said incidentally that
would not be worth reporting, even if I could
remember and reproduce it, and wherein oth
ers bore a part ; but, as President Young is
the first minister of the Mormon Church, and
bore the principal part in the conversation, I
have reported his answers alone to my ques
tions and observations. The others appeared
uniformly to defer, to his views, and to ac
quiesce fully in his responses and explana
tions. He spoke readily, not always with
grammatical accuracy, but with no appear
ance of hesitation or reserve, and with no
apparent desire to conceal anything, nor did
he repel anyxof my questions as impertinent.
He was very plainly dressed in thin sum
mer clothing, and with no air of sanctimony
or fanaticism. In appearance, he - is a portly,
frank, good natured, rather thick set man of
fifty-five, seeming to enjoy life, and be in no
particular hurry toget to Heaven. His as
sociates are plain men, evidently born and
reared to a life of labor, and looking as little
like crafty hypocrites or swindlers as any
body of men I ever met. The absence of
cant or snuffle from their manner was marked
and general, yet I think I may fairly say
that their Mormonism has not impoverished
them—that they were generally poor men
when they embraced it, and are now in very
comfortable circumstances—as men averag
in cr t' three or four wives a• piece, certainly need
to be.
If I hazard any criticism on Mormonism
generally, I reserve them for a separate let
ter, being determined to make this a fair and
full expose of the doctrine and polity, in the
very words of its Prophet, so far as I can re
call them. Ido not believe President Young
himself could present them in terms calcula
ted to render them less obnoxious to the Gen
tile world than the above. But I have a
right to add here, because I said it to the as
sembled Chiefs, at the close of the above
colloquy that the degredation (or, if you
please, the restriction) of woman to the
single office of child bearing and its accesso
ries, is an inevitable consequence of the sys
tem here paramount. I have not observed
a sign in the streets, an advertisement in the
journals, of this Mormon metropolis, whereby
a woman proposes to do anything whatever.
No Mormon has ever cited to me his wife's
or any woman's opinion on any subject ; no
Mormon woman has been introduced or has
spoken to me.; and though I have been asked
to visit Mormons in their houses, no one has
spoken of his wife (or wives) desiring to see
me, or desiring me to make her (or their)
acquaintance, or has voluntarily indicated
the existence of such a being or beings. I
will not attempt to report our talk upon this
subject, because unlike what I have above
given, it assumed somewhat the character of
a disputation, and I could hardly give it im
partially ; but one remark made by President
Young I think I can give accurately, and it
may serve as a sample of all that was offered
on that side. It was in these words, I think
exactly
" If I did not consider myself competent to
transact a certain business without taking
my wife's or any woman's counsel with re
gard to it, I think I ought to let that business
alone." The spirit with regard to Vtiroman,
of the entire Mormon, as of all other polyga
mic system become established and prevalent,
and woman will soon be confined to the ha
rem, and her appearance in the street with
unveiled face will he accounted immodest.—
I joyfully trust that the genius of the Nine
teenth Century tends to a solution of the
problem of Woman's sphere and destiny rad , .
ically different from this.
The New Jersey State Democratic Conven
tion, for the selection of a Democratic candi
date for Governor at the approaching fall
election, assembled at Trenton, on Wednes
day the 24th. More than two thousand del
egates were in attendance.
Gen. E. V. R. Wright was, after four bal
lots, selected as the Democratic nominee for
Governor.
The name of Colonel William C. Alexan
der was unanimously presented by the Con
vention to the Charleston Convention of 1360,
as the choice of New Jersey for the Vice
Presidency of the United States.
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted, by ac:3lamation, by the Con
vention :
" The Democracy of New Jersey, by their
delegates in Convention assembled, re-adopt
and declare anew their adherence to the Cin
cinnati platform, and to the great Democratic
doctrine ofepopular sovereignty, constituting
their doctrine as understood by and inter
preted in the Democratic State Convention of
this State, held in August, 1856, and as inter
preted by President Buchanan in his letter
accepting the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency, in which he said, The recent
legislation of Congress respecting domestic
slavery (meaning the Kansas-Nebraska act)
derived, as it has been, from the original and
pure fountain of legitimate political power,
the will of the majority, promises, ere long,
HUNTINGDON, PA., SEPTEMBER 7, 1859.
New Jersey Erect !
-PERSEV.tRE.-
to allay the dangerous excitement. This leg
islation is founded upon principles as ancient
as free government itself, and, in accordance
with them, has simply declared that the peo
ple of-a Territory, like those of a State, shall
decide for themselves whether slavery shall
Or shall not exist within their limits.
" lies°hied, That we unqualifiedly condemn
Vie doctrine of that sectional portion of the
Opposition who insist that slavery should be
excluded from the Territories by Congres
sional prohibition, because Congress has no
power, under the Constitution to enact any
such prohibition—because such a prohibition
would be an unwarrantable and inexpedient
interference by Congress with the domestic
affairs of the people of the Territories, and
because all efforts to enact such a prohibition
endangers the perpetuity of the Union, and
destroys the amity and fraternal feelings
which should exist between the people of the
several States composing our glorious and
cherished Union.
" Resolved, That while we thus condemn
the Republican doctrine of Congressional
prohibition, we with equal emphasis condemn
the doctrine recently started, and now zeal
ously advocated by extreme men, that slavery
in the Territories should be fostered and pro
tected by Congressional legislation. We con
demn it, because it is violative of the funda
mental principle of self-government, and
wrong and unjust in itself, tending to violent
sectional agitation, unfriendly feeling and
disunion ; and because it is in direct viola
tion of the Cincinnati platform, and of all
the pledges made by the Democratic party in
1854, 1855, and 185 G—pledges in which the
whole party, North and South, East and West,
united.
" Resolved, That we deeply regret, and
emphatically disapprove, of the attempts now
being made to build up a party in favor of
reviving the abominable and inhuman for
eign slave trade, and repealing the laws of
the land enacted against it, and we earnest
ly desire that those laws may be rigidly en
forced.
"And whereas, The late division of the
Democratic party in this State related exclu
sively to the admission of Kansas under the
Lecompton Constitution, and to the action of
the national Administration upon that ques
tion, both sections having cordially approved
the course of the Administration in other
important matters and measures, and as that
question has been settled, and no practical
good can result from its discussion, or any
expression of opinion as to the best action
thereon: therefore,
" Resolved, That all such past questions
and discussions should, by common' consent,
be dropped, leaving every Derverat to enjoy
his own opinion thereon, untrammelled by
any party action or resolutions, and that,
burying these past controversies, a common
and earnest effort should now be made by
every New Jersey Democrat to re-establish
our party in power.
" Resolved, That we highly approve of the
exertions now being made by the General
Government to lessen national expenses, and
in our opinion, the next Con tress should
second the work of economy, by discarding
all needless expenditures, and cutting down
every appropriation to the lowest limit con
sistent with the actual wants of the coun
try."
On the 13th of last month a woman, calling
herself Mrs. Rivers, called, with her husband
and two children, on a wealthy farmer, named
llezekiah Ferris, at his farm in Winchester,
Franklin county, Tennessee. The visitors
were Gipseys, and made an arrangement to
stop with Mr. Ferris and his family awhile
having first interested them by exhibitions of
seemingly marvellous tricks. The host was
much attracted by the apparently wonderful
powers possessed by the woman Rivers, and
in less than three days was cajoled by her
into a belief that a treasure of $lOO,OOO was
secreted on his farm, and it could be regained
by proper witch process. For the accomplish
ment of this object, Ferris' ambition was soon
fired, and he and the gipsey woman imme
diately set about the course of the incantation.
Three thousand dollars in gold were neces
sary for the purpose—so he was made to be
lieve—and as he did not happen to have money
at hand, he borrowed the whole sum of a
neighbor, getting $1295 in bank bills, and
$1705 in gold coin. At night the woman
Rivers and himself entered the room alone,
with a lighted candle, and locked the door
against intrusion. A trunk previously pro
vided was then opened, and the incantation
commenced. The process was carried on by
the woman at first, who tied- the money up in
a coarse light handkerchief and untied it sev
eral times, meanwhile turning about with
quick motions, and constantly muttering un
intelligible gibberish. When this farcical
performance was ended, she and Ferris knelt
while she blasphemously offered a prayer,
addressed in all mock solemnity to the Giver
of all,
The bundle she had apparently made of
the money was then in due form deposited in
the trunk, which was locked and she retained
the key. Together they then left the room,
she having previously impressed him with a
belief that the deposit just made in the trip*
should rest there undisturbed by mortal hands
for ten days, at the expiration of which time,
if he had unalterably adhered to her instruc
tions, he would find the coveted $lOO,OOO on
opening the trunk, At the end of the third
day of their stay there, the gipsey family depar
ted, the key of the trunk being taken with them.
After the woman had gone, it seems that
Ferris grew suspicious that perhaps all was
not right in the transaction ; but he neverthe
less overcame his doubts, and awaited with
all the patience he could summon for the ar
rival of the time when he could see himself
whether be had been duped or not. He kept
the matter to himself for the remainder of
the ten days, and then the trunk was forced
open. There lay within it the identical par
cel he had seen put there by the woman Riv
ers. A slight notion of "all right" touched
his feelings, and ho hastened to open the cov
ering, and lo I there were not the $lOO,OOO,
nor the $3OOO, but trash equal in bulk to the
Duped by Gipseys.
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money he had entrusted to the hands of the
false woman Rivers.
He cast about at once to find the female
that had thus cajoled him, but the bird had
flown, and was doubtless far beyond reach ;
but he was told that a few miles away there
was another gipsey. To this one he hastily
went and consulted her. Of course she knew
about the others who had visited hint, and
teld him they had used false names, that their
real names were James and Elizabeth Trail.
She further said that they belonged in Mur
pheytown, near New York city.
Forthwith he came to this city. A mer
cantile acquaintance introduced him to Capt.
Lenoard, of the 26th Precinct, on last Thurs
day, who, after hearing the story of his loss,
gave him the solution that the money had
been taken and the worthless stuff he found
in its stead substituted probably at the time
the incantation was made. He also informed
him that the gipsey who gave him the "Mur
pheytown" information had undoubtedly been
a decoy of those who had robbed him, placed
where he would be likely to bear of and con
sult her after his loss should be discovered,
in order to send him off .on a "wild goose
chase," as there is no such place as "Mur
pheytown" in the vicinity of New York. Of
ficer Barry was, however, directed to give at
tention to the matter, hut he was unable to
get the slightest clue to the parties. Ferris
remained at the Stevens House until Tuesday,
when he returned home, feeling no doubt a
much wiser man than when he left there,
though any one of common sense, on seeing
him, would say he was "old enou4h to know
better."—New l'ork Express, 24th ult.
General Houston and the Ladies.
The closing part of General Houston's Na
cogdoches speech is one of the most eloquent
tributes to women we have ever read. The
following is an extract :
TUE LADIES-GOD BLESS 'EU.
Ladies, I know that politics are always un
interesting to you, yet I believe you have in
the general result an abiding interest. It is
always a gratification to me to behold my fair
countrywomen in assemblages like these. It
is a guarantee that their husbands and fath
ers add brothers are men of intelligence and
refinement, who appreciate their mental ca
pacities, and desire their countenance in their
undertakings. Your presence• exercises a
calming influence upon those antagonisms,
which are too often engendered in the heat
of political contests. AU parties desire your
approving smile, and therefore all are encour
aged by your presence. I know that in the
direct administration of political affairs you
have no share; but yet, reigning as you do,
supreme in the realm of love, your influence
often controls the deStiny of nations. Wo
man's love is the great lever which rouses
man to action. The general, as he plans the
strategetic combinations which are to insure
victory, looks forward to a recompense dearer
than the laurels upon his brow ; the soldier,
as he trudges along on the weary march, or
mingles in the scenes of the battle-field, even
with death around him, forgets awhile the
carnage, and turns his thoughts-.to the fond
girl he left behind him; the mariner, tempest
tossed, driven by the rude waves, sings mer
rily aloft as he thinks of the little cottage by
the shore, where his wife and dear ones await
him; the statesman, as he devises amid deep
and painful thought, plans of government,
which are to tell upon his own and his coun
try's fame, never loses sight of the joys which
await him when cabinet councils are over,
and he enters the portals of home ; the senti
nel, as he paces his weary watch, loves the
moonlight tramp, that he may look beneath
its rays at the dear memento of a mother's or.
a sister's love. Over man, in all his relation
ships, the influence of woman hangs like a
charm. Deprive us of your influence, which
dignifies and stimulates us to noble deeds,
and we become worse than barbarians. Let
it be ours, and we can brave the cannon's
mouth, or face danger in ton thousand forms.
You stimulate all that is good. You cheek
us in ignoble purposes. You have also an
important influence upon posterity. The ear
ly impressions which the child receives from
you outlive all the wisdom of later days.—
Sages may reason, and philosophers may teach,
but the voice which we heard in infancy will
ever come to our ears, bearing a mother's
words and a mother's counsel. Continue to
instil into your children virtue and patriotism.
Imbue then with proper veneration for the
fathers of liberty. Learn them to love their
country, and to labor for its good, as the
great aim of their ambition. Bid them proud
ly maintain our institutions. Point them to
the deeds of their ancestors. Make these
their escutcheon, and bid them hand it clown
to their children as free from stain as it came
to them. Do this, ladies, and your influence
will not - be lost in the future. In the lan
guage of the poet, it will still be said :
Woman is lovely to the sight.
As gentle as the dews of eycn,
As bright as morning's earliest light,
And spotless as the snows of Heaven
Peculiar Customs of the Japanese
A letter from Japan gives some particulars
of the manners and customs of that peculiar
people. In some respects they appear to be
more virtuous than people boasting of a. high
er civilization. Malversation by a function
ary, embezzlement of public funds, extortion,
bribery of officials, coining of false money,
murder and robbery, are punished with death s
and not only of the guilty person, but of his
father, children, arid even all his male rela
tives, who are executed at the same moment,
however distant they may be one from an
other. This system, which is repugnant to
European notions, and to sound principles of
justice, appears to be adopted by the Japan.
ese from the belief that crime is owing to bad
education.
The rpodes of punishment adopted in Ja
pan are of different sorts, but all are horri
\
ble. The principal is crucifixion, and is' e
served for traitors, murderers - and incendit -
ries. The culprit is fastened on the cross,
head downwards, and is left to die, unless he
obtains the favor of being dispatched by stabs
from a poignard. For parricide and adulte
ry, culprits are plunged into boiling oil,--:
Editor and Proprietor.
NO, it.
Petty robberies, insults, calumny, fraud, even
at play, and false testimony before magis,
trates, aro punished by , hanging or behead
ing, If the offenders be gentlemen or sol
diers, their bowels are opened , —they have
even the privilege of performing the opera
tion on themselves. Pecuniary fines are al
most unknown. The corporal punishment of
the whip and the bastinado are reserved for
slaves and servants, and are inflicted by their
masters, not by public executioners. The
Japanese consider corporal punishment so
degrading that mothers never strike their off,
spring,
Although the climate is enervating, yet
children are brought up hardily. They are
made to hear hunger, thirst, cold, pain, ex
cessive labor, and the rigor of the seasons.
Horror of falsehood and fraud, and love of
modesty, justice and virtue, are diligently in
culcated. One of the results of this system
of education is to inspire the Japanese with
a passion for hooks, which causes surprise in
European visitors.
The bookselling trade in Japan is subjec
ted to no restriction, and there are everywhere
even in towns of small population, numerous
book shops. Great part of the literature of
the Japanese is Chinese ; and their knowl
edge of arts and agriculture is derived from
the same people, The language commonly em
ployed is every year heron-ing-more Chinese
in character. And yet th,e Japanese despise
the Chinese ; they do so because from their
early age they have been taught that the Chi
nese are not soldiers ; that in ancient times a
Japanese army defeated an immense Chinese
army in the Corea ; and that Coxinga himself,
who was the scourge of the sea and the terror
of the Chinese Empire, was a Japanese—as
were also the greater part of his companions.
A Lqtter from China,
The China correspondent of the Ne w
Hampshire Patriot, in his last letter, dated
Hong Kong, May 16, and published in the
Patriot of the 24th ult., gives the following
items :—..
"An incident occurred at Malacca which
was extremely touching. You have heard of
the horrible massacres perpetrated by the na
tives of India upon the English. At an en
tertainment given on board our ship to the
good people of the town, among the guests
was Mrs. Robertson, the wife of a lieutenant
'in the British army in India, who .gave us a
very exciting account of her almost miracu
lous escape from the mutineers. her hus k
band had left her in a place of safety, as ho
thought ; but she was advised to go to Cawn
pore, which was strongly garrisoned. She
followed the advise, but had been themonly
a short time when the alarm gun was fired,
and all was terror and confusion.
" The mutineers seized the guns and turned
them upon the buildings where the treasury
was kept. She was told that she must try to
save herself. Upon this she took her little
child, about eighteen months old, leaving the
infant with the native nurse to follow. She
ran some distance through a shower of grape
shot, and strangely escaped untouched ; but
found that the nurse with the infant did not
appear. She immediately laid the child
which she bad in a place of temporary seouri,
ty, and rushed back through the continued
showers of grape to find her unconscious
babe. But the nurse had fled and left the
infant, which the mother had seized and
rushed again to the place where she had left
her other child; seizing that, she ran about
seven miles, until she came across a party of
fugitives, like herself, and taking advantage
of a gun carriage which they had with them,
she traveled many miles in that way. For
two days her poor little infant subsisted upon
dirty water, the mother being unable to nour
ish it in the natural way, and fur two weeks
their only nourishment was bran and, water,
such as are given to horses in India.
" With such perils and sufferings the heroic
mother succeeded in effecting her escape,
and what was more to her, that of her two
hopeless children. I saw the eldest, who was
a daughter, and interested us all deeply by the
history of her young life. Yet the little
thing, however, was as happy and sportive
as though nothing had occurred. Not so with
the mother, on whose memory the terrible
scenes through which she had passed were
impressed beyond the poSsibility of efface
ment, and who seemed to hear the whizzing
balls and start at the shout of the murderous
sepoys as they rushed for her and her uncon
scious infants, just as though the savage
tragedy was then 'occurring.
" I gave you in a former communication a
notice of the Execution Ground,' at Canton,
and my visit to it. The other day a gentle,
man told me he was there a short time since,
when he saw twenty-four Chinamen marched
into the horrid arena, with their hands bound
and their executioners at their sides. The
prisoners were required to kneel and bend
their heads forward, which they did without
the least apparent fear, concern or emotion,
when a single blow severed the head from
the body, and both fe„..klpon the blood-steeped
ground. The Chin seem to attach no
value to the lives of others or even their
own.
" The other day 4, steamer came in and an
chored near• us, which had on board a fright
ful article as part of her cargo. The name
of the steamer was the Fiery Cross, which
sailed from Calcutta, and was close in our
wake all our way from Penang. The article
was the body of Yeh, the late Governor of
Canton, who had made the Exeention Ground
such a Golgotha by the decapitation, on that
narrow spot, of more than a hundred thous
and Chinamen in two years leing at last
taken poisoner by the English, after the cap,
ture of Canton, he was sent to Calcutta a.
year ago, where he was kept in confinement.
He became sulky and silent when he found
his dignity and power were gone, and the
]'nglish and others ceased to lionize him or
even to show him the attention they did to
the most common men. His proud spirit
was broken, he sicken and died. And such
was the end of the monster. The steamer
remained here for a night, and then left for
Canton, were the body was given up to the
Chinese authorities for interment."
Mar The Muncy (Pa.) Luipinary of Au
gust 23, says :
" We have the particulars of a most terri
ble calamity which occurred near Red Bluff,
on the Sacramento river, California, on the
12th of May last. The residence of Colonel
E. Stevenson, late Indian agent, was set on
fire by an Indian boy in his employ, ear
ly in the morning, and the entire family of
Colonel Stevenson, consisting of his wife and
three children, together with the wife of a
Mr. Front and two children, perished in the
flan es. The hey instigated; to the terrible
deed by five Indians, in the absence of Col.
Stevenson, Mrs, Stevenson was the daugh
ter of the late Jonathan Marcy, of Willkes
barre, and the niece of the Rev. george C.
Drake, of this borough,"
Thar The Protestant Bishop of Durham who
lately died (Mr. Malby,) made a will dispo
sing of property worth $1,000,000—5500,000
of which went as "personality" to his family,