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SOONER ON LATELI.
- .intr or Liter the storms shall beet
i U a my .-dumber from head to feet:
..toiler vi '* -ter the wind shall rave
in the long grass above my grave.
i s ha!] not heed them where 1 lie,
N'utkiug their sound shall signify,
. ■thing the headstone's fret of rain,
Nothing to me the dark day's pain.
-outlet' or later the sua shall shine
With tender warmth on that mound of mine ;
S .oner or later, iu summer
t 'lover and violet blossom there.
1 shall not feel in that deep laid-rest
1 lie sheeted light fall over my breast :
Nor ever note in those hidden hours
I'if wintl-blown breath of the tossing flowers.
- .loner or later the stainless snows
shall add tlieir hush to my mute repose ;
-ooin r or later -hull slant and sliiit,
\ml heap my bed with their dazzling drift.
. hill though that frozen pall shall seem,
its touch no colder can make the dream
That reck- not the sweet and sacred dread
Shrouding the city of the dead.
Sooner or later the bee -hall come
And till the noon with his golden hum :
Sooner or later on half-poised wing
The blue-bird's warble about me ring,—
Ring and chirrup and whistle with glee,
Nothing his music means to me ;
None of these beautiful things shall know
ii tv soundly their lover -lecps below.
S >ner or later, far out in the night,
Th<- st irs shall over me wing their flight,
Sooner or later my darkling dews
■ i It the white spark in their silent ooze.
V \ ri a ray shall part the gloom 1
11.at wraps me round irt the kindly tomb :
ace shall be perfect for lip and brow
tier or later, Oh why not now?
HARRIET E. PKESCOTT.
THE NEW OH LEANS It JOT.
GOV. WELLS' ADDRESS IN FULL.
V ORLEANS, Augusts. —The following
- Mi-ess litis been issued by Governor Wells
t the people of Louisiana :
The bloody tragedy nacted in the city of
N"\v Orleans on the 30th day of July, 1800,
i t which more than three hundred citizens
v killed or wounded, has, to the credit
humanity, created profound sympathy
it. ti.e breast of every man through the
'■ • ;th and breadth of the land.
T.. ' remote and immediate causes f this
a e demand a thorough investigation
; explanation, and as Chief Magistrate
State I feel a solemn duty resting
n> give a plain, unvarnished state
-*ii tof its origin and progress. In doing
b'ti- it becomes necessary for me to coni
■"L e in the year 1804, at the re-organiza
' aof tlie civi' government in that por- j
f Louisiana which had been wrested !
it :Q rebel authority. I regret in this con- j
to t: m to be obliged to speak of myself, j
It is not to gratify feelings of vanity that j
i Jo so, for I fully realize that I am but an
atom in the great cause of,
lii.t lining and perpetuating the union of
these States.
Tin political history of the country teach- j
- us that, under the policy of the late la- j
Limited President, all the loyal citizens of,
U misiana, in the parishes then within the
' .ion lines, were invited and authorized in 1
proclamation issued by the military;
Liuiander of this department to hold an j
< 'lion on the 22d of February, 1804, for j
tte officers. The election was held, and ;
men being a refugee from my parish, in I
<■ ri'bel lines, in consequence of my Union
iments, I was nominated by the Free- •
c: ute party, as it was called, and by the
< xtreme Radical party, of which Thomas
•I ihiraut was the acknowledged leader, as
ir candidate for the office of Lieutenant
'• vernor. The first-named ticket, headed
. y Michael Ilalin for Governor was elected.
Governor Uahn served until the 4th of
Match, 1805, when, by bis resignation, I
succeeded to the office of Governor.
In the meantime, by the virtue of milita
ry authority, an election of delegates to a
•State convention to amend and revise the
constitution of 1802 had taken place. The
convention met and framed a constitution
declaring slavery to le abolished, which
convention did not adjourn sine die, but
subject to the call ol the president for any
cause. A Legislature had also been elect
ed, and was in session at the time of the
assumption by ine of the duties of the of
lii-t- of Governor. Shortly afterward the
collapse of the so called Confederate Gov
' rumeut took place, and by the surrender
T the forces in the trans-Mississippi De
partment the entire territory of the State
was restored to the lawful authority of the
Umted States. When this event took
place, what was my conduct toward the
population of the eighteen parishes re
claimed ? Although 1 had been persecuted
and driven from home by the rebel authori
ties, 1 suppressed all feeling of rancor so
natural to the human breast under such
circumstances, and, in the belief that a
majority had been seduced from their alle
giance to the old flag by the wiles of art
bil demagogues, who brought on the re
bellion, I determined to try the effect ol
tenderness and conciliation in winning them
hack to their first love. I addressed them
proclamation congratulating tliern on
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their restoration to the protection of the |
Government, of law and order, and that as
far as 1 v. as concerned, 1 was willing to
forget the past. I begged them to submit
cheerfully and unreservedly to the new or
der of things, and assured them that al
though the State government had been or
ganized, yet I was anxious that a general
election for its officers should be held, in
which the whole State should participate.
I fulfilled every word of my promises. I
appointed the men recommended to fill of
fices in the several parishes. I signed their
applications to the President of the United
States for pardons. I persisted in my
course of reconciliation, notwithstanding
the warnings and remonstrances of Union
men, who believed my policy would be un
availing in accomplishing the purpose in
tended, and who predicted that at the very
first elec'ion these men, in every parish
where they held the power, would proscribe
every man from office who had not been in
tiie rebel cause. These predictions have
been realized to the letter at every subse
quent election, with the exception of my
case, as is well known, for it was publicly
avowed that I was put at the head of their
ticket simply because I could be useful in
securing a representation of the State in
Congress. It is further well known that
their platform, reported by the committee
appointed for that purpose, to the Demo
cratic convention held in this city, was a
reiteration of the doctrine of the right of
secession, and it was only through the ex
ertions of a few of the more cautious and
politic of the party that this platform was
made to assume the form which was adopt
ed, as in the same convention a well-known
and live Democrat was publicly censured
by resolution, because, in a speech deliver
ed before that body, he said that secession
was worse than crime—it was a blunder.
Notwithstanding my nomination by the
Democratic party, another candidate was
put into the field in opposition to me, who
had officiated as Governor under the rebel
rule, and who, had he been in the country
and signified his assent, I have no doubt
would have been overwhelmingly elected.
When the members of the Legislature
met in extra session, in the month of No
vember, 13Go, convened by me for the pur
pose ol raising money to restore the broken
levees, and to take measures to redeem the
credit of the State, I found them more in
tent on calling a convention to change the
constitution of 1304 than to promote the
general interest of the people. Their chief
objection to that instrument was the char
acter of the men who framed it, and the
abolition of slavery. Having failed at the
extra session to pass a bill to call a con
vention, the attempt was renewed at the
regular session held in the month of Janu
ary, and more than half the time of that
body was spent in discussing the question.
Finally a commission was sent to Wash
ington to consult with the President.—
Through his advice I considered a conven
tion inexpedient, and, for that reason, op
posed it. 1 hud learned enough of the real
sentiments of the people to convince me
that if the new constitution was made in
would be less in harmony with the views
of the President and Congress than the
constitution of 13G4, the result of which
would be to lessen the chances for the ad
mission of our representatives to urge these
views on the members of both houses of
the Legislature ; but they had no effect with
the majority.
I deprecated the city and parish elec
tions, for the reason that I feared the re
sult, because of the character of the men
who would be elected, and because I had
seen enough of public sentiment to con
vince me that none but those who served
in t. .( Confederate army or who had gone
into the Confederate lines would be elected
to office. 1 foresaw that such a result
would be justly remarked by the people of
the loyal States as showing a defiant spirit
and as still glorying in a cause that had
been sustained by tliern with such fearful
loss of life and expenditure of treasure.—
With numerous and repeated evidences of
continuing an intolerant and rebellious
spirit, and the manifestation of an inten
tion of persecuting all who did not adhere
to the fortunes of the Confederacy to the
last, on the part of a large majority of the
citizens, and with a press almost unani
mously expressing sentiments of the same
tenor, is it a matter of surprise that I
should pause and commence to reflect on
the consequences as regards the future se
curity of the Government and the fate of
the Union men in the South, if those men,"
who once attempted to break up the Union,
succeeded in securing the pow- r of the na
tion again ?
1 had seen that, while professing with
their lips renewed allegiance to the flag and
a;, obliteration of the past, which embod-1
ies the pacific policy of the President, they
were becoming more arrogant, and dicta
torial. They gloried in the apparent schism
between the President and Congress in the
; policy of restoring the States lately in re
bellion, and rubbed their hands with de
light at the idea of a civil war in the loyal
' States. In view of all this array of strong,
; stubborn facts, 1 freely acknowledge my
views of a conciliatory policy, in turning
: back to allegiance those who have been en
' gaged in a war to destroy the Union, have
undergone a change. The intolerant spirit
; engendered by slavery still exists. The
! loss of property and failure of hopes can
never be forgiven ; and though I regard
them as impotent to resist the constituted
authority enforced by the presence of the
military, yet 1 am convinced they would
renew the rebellion to-morrow if they saw
a pr spect of success.
Impressed with the truth of these views,
foreseeing the necessity for the future se
curity of the Union men in the South that
the amendment to the Constitution adopted
by Congress and submitted to the several
States for ratification should prevail, and
fully realizing the fact that the amendment
would never be ratified by the present Leg
islature, I owu I was in favor of the reas
| sernbling of. the convention of 18G4 as the
only means of securing the ratification re
quired, and thereby to insure the admission
| of our representatives in Congress.
The legal right of the convention to con
tjjiue its functions is a question, 1 suppose,
properly pertaining t > the courts to decide.
Senators ard Representatives in Congress,
of great learning, and men ot high attain
ments in New Orleans, have expressed the
opinion that, under the resolution of ad
. journmeut, the convention could lawfully
j assemble. A distinguished Democratic
TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 23, 1866.
Senator in Congress took the same view.
For myself, if I had any doubt on the sub
ject, I have deferred to the opinions of ab
ler men. The total number of delegates
composing the convention was 150. The
number elected was 12. The quorum was
fixed at To, this number being a majority
of the whole. There were twenty-seven
parishes unrepresented in the convention
that were entitled to 51 delegates, and ad
ding thereto ten vacancies to be filled would
make 01 delegates to be elected. Resides,
there were some ten or twelve delegates
who, disapproving of the emancipation
clause, refused to sign the constitution,and
these may be ranked with the extreme con
servatives. Counting the sixty-one dele
gates to be elected to be of the same class,
and the balance of the convntion to be
radical, it will be seen that the parties
would have been really equally divided.
I have goue into these details to show the
falsity of the charges that have been made
that the convention would not have repre
sented the whole State, and that it was in
tended to be packed. Every parish would
have been represented, about one-half hav
ing elected their delegates in 1804, and
the other half in 1800, making a just equi
librium of those who opposed and those
who sustaiued the cause of the Confed
eracy.
There are uo disfranchising clauses in
the constitution of 1864. The rntich-abused
members ol that convention had it in their
power to have made a constitution as strin
gent against those engaged in the rebellion
as Tennessee and Missouri have doue. I
They, however, pursued au opposite course,
and trusted that these .men would be actu
ated by a spirit of tolerance aud forbear
ance in return for the liberality shown to
ward them. How the members of that con
vention have been treated individually by
the very men whose good faith they trust
ed iu, to say nothing of the sci.ru and vili
fication fulminated against them as a col
lective body, and against the constitution
which they made, let the record ol the
bloody doings at the Mechanics' Institute
on Monday answer.
lu keeping with the unrelenting policy
to keep the power of the State in their own
hands exclusively, they opposed the meet
ing of the convention. They needed no
better monitor than their own consciences
to tell them that by their prescriptive con
duct they had forfeited all claim to further
liberty from the original members of that
convention. They resolved that it must be
put dowu and crushed out at all risks. The
scenes of the 30th of July were confidently
predicted in case the convention met. They i
were the result of the letter of Mayor Mon-!
roe to General Baird. Accompanying this
communication is proof that it was the de
termination, if every other means failed, to
resort to force. Everything was arranged
on Sunday, preparatory to this purpose.
The police received their orders, and on
Monday morning they were in large num
bers at the corners of Canal and Dryades
streets, each having one or more revolvers
on his person. Why were they there, ex
cept to commit violence? Among all that
is charged against the speakers at Friday
night's meeting, they can cite nothing
more than that the blacks should come
armed to defend the convention, in case
the members were attacked. Admitting
they were assembled for that purpose,what
occasion was there for alarm, unless it was
meditated to assault the convention ? The
inference is irresistible, for the massing of
the police was designed to break up the
convention. For this purpose a beginning
was necessary, and the opportunity sought
for soon occurred by the arrival of a pro
cession of blacks with music, on their way
to the place of meeting of the convention.
When the procession entered the street
crowded with policemen and citizens, at
the corner of Canal and Dryades streets, it
was received with insults and jeers, which
soon brought on a collision. A shot was
fired, but the affair ended in nothing ser
ious. The next act of violence was the ar
est of a colored man by a policeman in front
of the Institute, but for what offence I am
unable to say. The crowd of colored per
sons naturally became excited ; brickbats
were then thrown and a shot fired, the tes
timony going to show that it was done by
one of the colored crowd. It was answer
ed by several shots from the crowd of po
licemen at the corner, and followed by rap- |
id firing by the crowd of blacks, who re- i
turned the fire as fast as they could, but j
being overpowered, were driven from the i
street and took shelter in the Mechanics' j
Institute. If the object of the police was j
simply to preserve the public peace, why
did not they, after the men had taken re
fuge, retire to their original positions at
the corner of the street, which effectually ;
cut oil'egress from the front, and placing a
guard to watch the rear of the building,
await the arrival of the military, who were
known to be on their way ? The only reas
on for their course is that it did not suit
their purpose. They accordingly advanc
ed on the front of the building and besieged
it on all sides. Every negro who attemp
ted to escape was murdered. Crowning
the climax of these murderous and bloody
acts, it is well known that when the white
flag was hung out as a token of surrender,
the police arrested the members of the con
vention and other white citizens,and brought
them into the street, where the most prom
inent of those holding Union sentiments
were shot stabbed, and beaten while in cus
tody and in the presence of the entire po
lice of the city.
Why did not the Mayor or his chief of
police station a guard at the door and for
bid any person from entering, and then
await the arrival of the military ? By
these means the last and most deliberate
phase of the bloody tragedy would have
been avoided. It is also notorious that the
police failed to arrest or attempt to arrest
even one of the riotous citizens, who, ac
cording to their oft-repeated statements,
were continually attacking, wounding,and
killing persons who had surrendered and
were in their custody. I think I have fully
shown that it was the design of of those
opposed to the convention to break it up
by force.
The inference to be drawn from the letter
of Mayor is that such a course was resolv
ed upon, and the massing o! the police.and
their willingness to rush into the fight I
think fully establishes the fact that the
cause of this exhibition of violence and mob
law must be traced further back. It is the
embers of the fire of the rebellious feeling
which plunged this country into a desolate
REGARDLESS OK DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
civil war, and the flame is not yet extin
guished in the hearts of the former slave
holding aristocracy. Having failed in
their first attempt to destroy the Govern
ment, they seek to retain political power
by the same spirit of political violence by
which their chiefs had sustained their su
premacy before the war. My deliberate
conclusion is that if the military force be
withdrawn the live of Union men who
proved themselves conspicuous in main
taining their allegiance will not be safe.
The ultimate security both of the Govern
ment and Union men of the South depend,
in my opinion, on the ratification ol the
constitutional amendment proposed by Con
gress and the enfranchisement of the loyal
black man, as he becomes educated and
qualified for that important privilege. If
the advocacy of these measures identifies
me with the Radical party in opposition to
the President, 1 must accept the situation ;
besides, I cannot change my position in
respect to my feelings. I deem it neces
sary to preserve and perpetuate the Union.
J. MADISON WELLS,
Governor of Louisiana.
THE ISLAND OK VAI.ENTIA. — The island of
alentia, the Irish terminus of the Atlan
tic cable, is about six thousand {acres in
extent. It has three proprietors, of whom
the Knight of Kerry is the chief, the others
being Trinity College, Dublin, and Colonel
Herbert of Muokross. The population is
about two thousand ; but although the
Knight is a staunch Protestant, his co-re
ligionists do not number more than one
hundred and fifty. The harmony of this
little community, says a correspondent of
the London Star, is, however, undisturbed
by religious discord. The old priest, who
is now between eighty and ninety years of
age, has had charge of the parish for half a
century, and his watch word has always
been "Peace." The average value of laud
is about fifteen shillings an acre. Much
more of it is* used for grazing purposes
than for cultivation, the principal article
manufactured being butter. Most of the
cottages are simply foetid hovels ; but
there is a considerable number of a better
class, and the peasantry have a well-fed,
comfortable appearance. They owe much
to the Knight, who spends nearly the whole
of the income he derives from ibis property
in improvements and in giving employment
to the people. He is regarded with a feu
dal reverence tempered by modern man
ners. His traditional title gives him no
precedence at court, but his ancient line
age really places him far before the mush
room creation of yesterday. The late
Knight, who was a protege of Lord Cas
tlereagh, and a distiuguished politician,
being once addressed as "my lord" by an
officious servitor,impatiently replied, "Don't
call me lord ; I have no wish to be any
thing of the kind." Perhaps he remember
ed the Arab proverb, "The dog when he
has money must be called, 'my lord, the
dog.'" It is pleasant to be able to recon
cile these relics of feudalism with the hu
manizing claims of modern civilization.
THE GREAT MYSTERY.— The body is to die ;
so much is certain. What lies beyond (
No one who passes the charmed boundary
comes back to tell. The imagination visits
the realm of shadows—sent out from some
window in the soul over life's restless wa
ters, but wings its way wearily back, with
an olive leaf in its beak as a token of emer
ging life beyond the closely bending hori
zon. The great sun comes and goes in the
heaven, yet breathes no secret of the ethe
real wilderness ; the crescent moon cleaves
the nightly passage across the upper deep,
but tosses overboard 110 message and dis
plays no signals. The sentinel stars chal
lenge each other as they walk their night
ly rounds, but we catch 110 syllable of their
countersign which gives passage to the
heavenly camp. Between this and the oth
er life is a great gulf fixed, across which
neither eye nor foot can travel. The gen
tle friend, whose eyes we closed in their
last sleep long years ago, died with rap
ture in her wonder-stricken eyes, a smile of
ineffable joy upon her lips, and hands fold
ed over a triumphant heart, but her lips
were past speech, and intimated nothing of
the vision that enthralled her.
USELESS YOUNG LADIES.— It scarcely ad
mits of doubt that the number of young
ladies is constantly increasing who think
happiness dependent of freedom from re- |
sponsibility and labor, and wish to have
nothing to do but to read novels, or give
themselves to pleasure. A contemporary
says : "The {number of idle, useless girls,
in all our large cities seems to be steadily
increasing. They lounge or sleep through
their mornings, and parade the streets du
ring the afternoon, and assemble in frivo
lous companies of their own and other sex
to pass away their evenings. What a store
of happiness for themselves and others they
are laying up for the coming time, when
real duties and high responsibilities shall
be thoughtlessly assumed ! They are skil
led in no domestic duties—nay they despise
them, have no habits of industry nor taste
for the useful. What will they be as wives
and mothers ? Alas, for the husbands and
children and alas for themselves. Who
can wonder if domestic ruin follow."
ONE DROR AT A TIME. — Have you ever
watched an icicle as it formed ? You no
ticed how it froze one drop at a time until
it was a foot long or more. If the water
was clean, the icicle remained clean, and
sparkled brightly in the sun ; but if the
water was but slightly muddy, the icicle
looked foul, and its beauty was spoiled.—
Just so our characters are forming. One
little thought of feeling at a time adds its
influence. If every thought be pure and
right, the soul will be lovely,and will spar
klc with happiness ; but if impure and
wrong, there will be final deformity and
wretchedness.
A FEW days since a gentleman called
upon some lady friends, and was shown in
to the parlor by a • ervant girl. She asked
him what name she should announce ; and
he wishing to take them by surprise, re
plied, "Amicus" (a friend). The girl seem
ed at first a little puzzled, but quickly re
gained her composure, audjin the blandest
manner possible, observed ; "What kind
of a cuss did you say sir ?" The visitor
was embarrassed for a moment, but recov
ering, he handed her his card, and vowed
never again to use Latin to a servant girl.
THE FARTHER SHORE.
BY MATTIE WINFIELD TOBRET.
I The tide is deep and the waves run swift,
With a ceaseless ebb and flowing ;
' Our guide star's lost and our bark's adrift,
And a ruthless gale is blowing,
We strive to pierce with a troubled gaze
Tha dusk of the heaving ocean :
The sea Is rough and its trackless waves
Are lost in the wild commotion.
Our hearts are filled with a thousand fears,
As we onward move in sadness ;
Our eyes are dim with the mist of tears,
For we see no gleam of gladness.
Y'et somewhere, still, on the farther shore,
We know that a light is shining,
And somewhere hovers, the waters o'er,
The cloud with a silver lining.
When the waves run high, and the storm comes
To toy with the crested billow ; [down
When the masts are bent at its dreadful frown,
Like the boughs of the lithesome willow ;
Then we gaze afar through the mist and spray,
With hearts that are sad and fearing,
To catch a gleam, through the darkness grey,
Of the farther shore appearing.
To that farther shore we are drifting fast,
Each day we are drawing nearer ;
We hope to enter its port at last,
And to see its light shine clearer.
We know that an unseen hand will guide.
That an eye is watching ever,
And we feel in our hearts, let what will betide.
We have help that shall fail us never.
CHURCH TITHING SYSTEM IN UTAH
When a man joins the Mormon Church,
as it exists in I t ih, he is required, as a
proof of his sincerity, to donate to the tith
ing office one-tenth of all his possessions—
no matter what they are, or how extensive
they may be. A man with SIOO,OOO in
money must upon his entry into fellowship
give the tithing office SIO,OOO of it This
is the first grand principle of Utah Mor
monism. If the man duriug the year made
$40,000 by a judicious investment of his
remaining SOO,OOO, he must give the tith
ing office $4,000 of the amount. This is
the second grand principle of Utah Mor
monism. And upon these two principles
hang ali the law and the profits.
These two principles apply to all kinds
of property. One-tenth of alia man pos
sesses when he joins the Church, and one
tenth of his yearly gains so long as he be
long to the organization.
If a man has uo money or other property
lie is required to give one-tenth of his la
bor to the tithing office—thus he labors
nine days for himself, and the tenth day he
gives to the Church in such manner as he
may he directed. In this manner the church
claims one-tenth of every laboring man's
time—one-tenth of every trade represented
in the territory—one-tenth of a man's life,
talent, and industry. If a man engages in
farming, and raises wheat, cattle, horses,
sheep, etc., lie must calculate what he has
raised—say 100 bushels of wheat at 20
day's labor—the tithing office demands 10
bushels ot that grain. Should lie be idle
thirty days, the tithing office claims three
days from him on the ground that he may
do as he pleases with twenty-seven days,
but has no right to idle away the three
days belonging to the Lord. If he has one
hundred sheep, he must give away one
tentli of tliern—he must give one-tenth of
the increase. If he has a cow, and the
cow gives ten quarts of milk each day, the
Church claims one quart. In fact, the
Church tithing system penetrates the most
abject abode of poverty in the Territory,
and extracts from it one-tenth—if it only
amounts to a hen's egg. (See Brigham on
Tithing, page 111, volume 1, Deseret News,
1850.)
Then, in addition to this tithing system
exacted from the people, under penalty of
excommunication if refused by them, are
the Federal, Territorial, county and town
taxes, a burden altogether, quite suilicient
to continue any people, no matter how in
dustrious, in comparative poverty.
The tithing system is a source of large
revenue. It is reduced to a science. Those
who have the administration of the system
manage to live well, own the finest farms,
the best stock, and have the greatest num
ber of women about their premises. It
grinds down the people by its very oppres
sive nature, and serves to build up the fa
vored few who have the satisfaction of
handling the funds.
Now what becomes of all this tithing
fund? Do the people who pay it ever know?
Have they been furnished by the tithing
firm with a balance-sheet of the same—
showing how much has been expended, and
how much remains on hand? Have the
tax laws of the nation ever reached this
fund ? We assert, with a full knowledge
of what we are writiag. that at no time
since the Mormon advent into Utah has any
public statement of the condition of this
fund been made to the people
The men who pay these tithings are en
titled to an exhibit of the disposition of
them. Why are they not furnished with
it ? How is it that the people who pay
these tithings are always poor, while the
men who receive them are the well-to-do
members of the community ? These are
pertinent questions, and worthy the atten
tion of the people. Many of them have al
ready asked these questions, and, as a re
sult, have ceased the practice of paying '
one-tenth of all they have or may gain in
to a treasury that never publishes a state
ment of its condition.— Salt Lake Vedette.
A would-be prophet down South lately
said, in one of bis sermon,.s that "he was sent to
redeem the world and all things." Whereupon one
of his audience pulled out*a confederate sliinplas
ter, and asked him to fork over the specie for it.
THE last case of indolence is reported in
one of our exchanges ; it is that of a man named
John Hole, who was so lazy, that in writing his
name he simply used the letter -J., and then punch
ed a hole through the paper.
A HUNGRY man is unmanageable. To be
docile, he must, like a horse, have first had a bit
in his mouth.
" A stetiiescope," says a young medical
! student, "is a spy-glass for looking into people's
chests with your own ears."
LET your dress be modest, and consult
your condition. Play not the peacock by looking
vainly at yourself.
FASHIONABLE. — The best style of bonnet
has turned up. It is described as consisting of
two straws, tied together with a blue ribbon on the
top of the head, and red tassels suspended at each
of the four ends of the straws.
per* Annum, in Advance.
A MOTHER'S LOVE.
Some years ago, some English officers
camping in the vicinity of Mulkapoor.went
out tiger-hunting, and bagged a splendid
tigress. Whilst returning home with the
trophy, they found in a secluded spot, in
the lee of a jagged rock, what evidently
was the lair of a tiger, for there lay hones
of both human and brute kind, shreds and
rags of clothing. More interesting than
all, however, was the discovery ot a tiny
kitten, not more than a fortnight old, coiled
in a corner, winking and blinking and gap
ing at the intruders. The hunters at once
decided that tin's must be the cub of the
beast they had slain, and willingly took
charge of the little orphan.
Tiger kittens are not captured every day,
so when the hunters returned to their quar
ters, the excitement in their tent was con
siderable. The newly acquired kitten was
provided with a tiny dog-collar and chain,
and attached to the tent-pole, round which
if gambolled, to the delight of an audience
numbering nearly twenty. About two hours
after the capture, however, and just as it
was growing dark, the good people in the
tent were checked in the midst of their hi
larity by a sound that caused the bravest
heart to beat rather irregularly.
It was the roar, or rather combination of
shriek and roar, peculiar to the tiger when
; driven mad with rage. In an instant the
gambling kitten became every inch a ti
ger, and strained with all its baby strength
at the tether, while it replied, with a loud
wail, to the terrible voice outside. The
company were panic-stricken. There was
something so sudden and unearthly in the
lour, that it seemed as though the great ti
ger, brought in an hour before, had come to
life agaiu. Certainly, the tiger in question
was already flayed, but the picture conjur
ed up, became not the more pleasent for
that. There was, however, not nearly so
much time for speculation to the sacred
company as writing these lines has cost;
for almost simultaneous with the roar,there
lept sheer into the centre of the tent,a bold
tigress, and without deigning to notice a
single man there,she caught her kidnapped
baby by the nap of its neck, and giving a
jerk, snapped the little chain, and turning
for the tent door, trotted off at full speed.—
After all, it appeared that the little thing
did not belong to the tiger that was slain,
but to the brave mother that had tracked
and recovered it. Sanguinary man-eater
as she may have been, one can be scarcely
sorry to hear that not a gun was leveled at
the great rejoicing creature, as she bore off
her young one.
LENGTH OF GEOLOGICAL PERIODS. —AII the
facts of geology tend to indicate an anti
quity, of which we are beginning to form
but a dim idea. Take, for instance, one
single formation—our well known chalk.
This consists entirely of shells and frag
ments of shells deposited at the bottom of
an ancient sea far away from any conti
nent. Such a process as this must be very
slow ; probably we should be much above
the mark if we were to assume a rate of
deposition of ten inches in a century Now
the chalk is more than 1,000 feet iu thick
ness, and would have required, therefore,
more than 120,000 years for its formation.
The fossilifcrous beds of Great Britain, as
a whole, are more than 7,000 feet in thick
ness, and many which, with us, measure
only a few inches, on the continent expand
i into strata of immense depth ; while oth
j ers of great importance elsewhere are whol
ly wanting with us, foi* it. is evident that
during all the different periods in which
| Great' Britain has been dry land, strata
have been forming (as is, for example, the
case now) elsewhere, and not with us.—
Moreover we must remember that mauv of
the strata now existing have been formed |
at the expense of older ones ; thus all the
flint gravels in the southeast of England
have been produced by the destruction of
chalk. This again is a very slow process.
It has been estimated that a cliff 500 feet
high will be worn aw y at the rate of an
inch in a century. This may seem a slow
rate, but we must bear in mind that along
any line of coast there are comparatively
few points which are suffering at one time,
and that even on these, when a fall of clitl
has taken place, the fragments serve as a
protection to the coast until they have been !
gradually removed by the waves. The |
W''aiden Valley is twenty-two miles in j
breadth, and on these data it has been cal
culated that the denudation of the Weald |
must have required more than 150,000,000
of years. — Lubboel's pre-Historic Tune*.
WHAT A MOTHER CAN DO. —"Twelve or tif- 1
teen years ago," says ex-Governor Briggs, !
"I left Washington three or four weeks du
ring the spring, while at home, 1 possessed ;
myself of the letters of Mr. Adams' mother, !
and read them with exceeding interest. I j
remember an expression in one of her let- i
tors addressed to her son, while yet a boy I
twelve years of ago, Says she : "I would
rather see you laid in your grave, than to !
see you grow up a profane and graceless
hoy.'
"After my return to Washington, 1 went
over and said to Mr. Adams, 'I have found
out who made you.'
"What do you mean,' said he.
"1 replied, '1 have been reading the let
ters of your mother."
"If I had spoken that dear name to some
little boy who had been for weeks away
from his dear mother,his eye could not have
flashed more brightly, or his face glowed
more quickly than did the eye and face of
that venerable old man when I pronounced
the name of his mother. He started up in
his peculiar manner,and emphatically said :
"Yes, Mr. Briggs, all that is good in me
1 1 owe to my mother.'
WiiEn A DAY BEGINS.— Most nations begin
j to count the hours from midnight ; but this
j plan was not adopted by men in early ages
I of the world, and is now used by three
| fourths of the nations of the earth. Some
• of the most ancient nations of the world,as
the Babylonians, Persians and Hindoos be
; gun the day with thu rising of the sun, as
Ido the Greeks of the present day. The
I Jews and the ancient Greeks looked upon
sunset as the commencement of the day.—
The Egyptian day begins at noon. This
mode of reckoning is still observed by as
tronomers, because the particular instant
called noon, cau be ascertained more nicely
than any other part of the day. The Mo
hommedans begin their day at twilight.
FORWARD— -1. Bluteher the great Prus
sian general, is said to have won many a
hard contested battle through the inspiring
influence of this motto. In his councils of
war and on the battle-field, " Forward 1"
was his watchword, aud he suited the ac
tion to the word. The promptness and en
ergy with which he planned and executed
his engagements gave him the nickname
of " Marshal Forward."
2. Pulaski, the brave Pole, who espoused
the American cause in its infancy, and
gave his life in its defence, and to whom
as well as to Kosciusko, the American peo
ple will ever owe a debt of gratitude, in
one or more instances turned the fortunes
of war in his favor by rallying his men
with the war-cry of—" Forwarts, brudren,
forwarts !" Often was the failing strength
of the American soldier rallied and revived
and his weary arm nerved with new vigor
by the inspiring battle-cry of this brave
officer, as in the thickest of the fight and
above the din of battle, was heard in brok
en English, " Forwarts, bruden, forwarts !"
" So with the young, of whatever capac
ity and calling, let their watchword be
Forward! It will give life and energy to
the doubting heart in the time of despond
ency and trial, and united with proper en
ergy and zeal, overcome every opposition
and give it the victory
3. To the student journeying step by
step up the rugged hill of science ; Your
success lies in your own efforts to do what
ever you undertake. I will succeed, has ac
complished much. No great undertaking
was ever carried through without t. The
road to eminence may seem a hard road to
travel ; roll the boulders aside, clear the
track of trees, bridge the streams, and the
way is clear. " With a stout heart, and a
will to do and dare there is no such word
as fail."— Clark's School \~i<itor.
A FABLE. —Two neighbors, whose names
were Self and Will, attempted to cross a
stream from opposite sides, upon a foot
bridge so narrow as to allow of but a sin
gle footman at the same time. They met
about midway of the stream, where each
insisted that the other must turn back and
give the right of the way. Each claimed
to be first on the bridge, and maintained
his ground as prior. Each contended for
this right as a matter of principle, which
would allow of ncf concession. Each plead
ed urgent and important business. Will
j felt himself moral'() boun Ito maintain lii.s
rights. Self could not in conscience make
concession without sacrificing his honest con
victions. Argument resulted iu hard words,
and from hard words they soon came to
blows, and in the struggle to maintain each
his own rights, L'>th fell together in.the
stream. Each with much difficulty gained
the shore, exhausted and shivering front a
cold bath. Each consoled himself with the
idea of " personal suffering for righteous
ness' sake and both became bitter ene
mies for life.
While they were muttering revenge up
on eacli other, two other neighbors, named
Love and Kindness met in like circum
stances upon the same bridge. It was a
meeting of glad surprise. They exchanged
cheerful and happy greetings, and each in
sisted on yielding the right of way to his
brother. Each desired to be lirst in the
concession ; and to carry out each other's
principles, both twice crossed the bridge
together. Alter a friendly chat, they part
ed company, finding in their experience a
practical reason for the injunction " Let
each esteem the other better than himself."
SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRESIDE.— The
fireside is a seminary of infinite importance.
It is important because it is universal and
because the education it bestows, bei g
woven in with the woof of childhood, gives
form and c dor to the whole texture of life
There are few who can receive the honors
of a college, but all are graduates of tie
hearth. The learning of the university
may fade from the recollection, its classic
lore may moulder in the h - lis of memory ;
but the simple lessons of home, enamelled
upon the heart of childhood, defy the rust
of year , and outlive the more mature but
less vivid picture of after-years. So deep,
so lasting, indeed, are the impressions of
early life, that you often see a man in the
imbecility of age holding fresh in his re
collection the events of childhood, while all
the wide space between that and the pres
ent. hour is a blasted and forgotten waste
Nou have perchance seen an old and half
obliterated portrait, and in the attempt to
have it cleaned and restored you may have
seen it lade away, whiie a brighter and
more pure perfect picture, paintedjbeneath,
is revealed to view. This portrait, first
drawn upon the canvass, is no inapt illus
tration of youth ; and though it may be
concealed by some after-design, still* tin
original traits will shine through the out
ward picture, giving it tone while fresh,
and surviving it in decay. Such is the fire
side, —the great institution of Providence
for the education of man.
SOLUTION OF HAUNTED HOUSES. —A haunt
ed house is a tenement ot any number of ordinary
stories, to which is added an extra-ordinary on.-,
in the form of a Ghost Story.
" JOHNNY, my dear, run to the store and
get some sugar," said a mother to her precocious
son of eleven years. "Excuse me, ma: lam
somewhat indisposed this morning. Send father,
and tell him to bring a paper of tobacco along."
IT was a starving corset maker who thus
vented his miserable complaint : " Shame that 1
should be without bread—l that I Lav. stayed tie
stomachs of thousands."
A YOUNG poet out West, in describing
Heaven, says, •• It is a world of bliss, fenced in
with girls." Where's the man that won't repent
now?
•
A WITTY doctor of divinity, whose physi
j cians had ordered him for a time on a purely vc-g
--j etable diet, demurred, on the ground that "he
1 should uot be able to say grace before meat."
WE should give as we would receive,
cheerfully, and without hesitation ; for there is no
grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
To find out the number of children in the
street, play a hand'organ. To find out the num
ber ot loafers, start a dog fight.
A Quaker in business in Philadelphia dis
liking the "Esq." to his name, advised a corres
pondent to direct his letters to him without any
j tail, and received a reply superscribed : "Amos
Smith, without any tail, Philadelphia!"
A RAKER has invented anew kind of y<- isi.
It makes bread so light that a pound of it weighs
only ten ounces.
A LIVING writer observes that " Gentle
! men who are mad about ancient de-scent should
adopt the ragshop announcement, ' The be>t prie.-
given for old bones.' "
IRRITATING.-After rolling all night in your
berth at sea till yon are miserably sick, to have a
steward open your door in the morning, and ask
yon if you'll have a fresh roll for breakfast.
THE Rev. H. H. Wood, curate of Hemiug
' ford Abbots, Huntingdonshire, England, writes
that " hay fever " may be instantly relieved by
; bathing the nostrils and closed eyelids with spirits
j of camphor and warm water.
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT.—A gentleman ad
| vertises for "A horse, for a lady of dark color, a
• good trotter, and of stylish action!" The horse
! " must be young, and have a long tail about tif
| teen hands high !"
SECTARIAN HORSES.—A French religions
paper, speaking of Gladiateur's success on the
j English turf, says : "We are delighted in our
! soul to see a Koiuau Catholic horse beating I'rot
| estant horses,"
NUMBER 13.