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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. OCTOBER 20, 1859.
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A SEAPORT DITTY.
41
ITark, cay maiden, and I'll tell you,
By the power of my art,
All the things that e'er befell you,
And the ecoret of your heart.
'IIow that you lore some one dou't you! j
Lovo him better than you say ;
Won't you hoar, ray maiden, won'l you !
What's to be your wedding-day !"
""Ah, you cheat, with words of houey,
You tell stories that you know !
Where's the husband, for my money
That I gave you long ago !
"Neither silver, gold nor copper.
Shall you get this time from me;
Where's the hu-band, tall and proper,
That you told me I should see !"
"Coming still, my maiden, coming,
With two eyes as black as sloes,
Marching soldierly, and humming
Gallaut love-sougs as he goes."
"Get along you stupid gipsy !
I won't have your barack-bcau,
Strutting up to me half tipsy,
Saucy with his chin up so V
'Come, I'll tell youtho first letter
Of your handsome sailor's 'name."
4I know every one that's better ;
Thank you, gipsy, all the same.'
4,Ha, my maidco, ruus your text so I
Now I sec the die is cast,
Aud the day h Monday next." 'No,
Gipsy-, it was Monday last !"
The New Aerial Ship.
Lowe's aerial ship, City of New-York,
rivals the Great Eastern in magnitude
With it be confidently expects to make the
trip froai New York to Europe in forty-
t'igbt hours, it la ncany ovo times iar
cer than tue largest Daiioon ever oeiorc
built, its dimensions being as ionows:
greatest diameter, one huudred and thirty
feet; transverse diameter, one hundred
aud four feet; height, from valve to boat,
three huudred aud fifty feet; weight, with
outGt, three and a, ball tour:; lifting pow
r (aggregatc) twenty-two and a half
tons; capacity of gas-eu'.elope, seven huu
dred and twenty-five thousand cubic feet.
Six thousand yards of twilled cloth bave
linen ued in the construction of the en-
velope. jieunccu 10 .:, ibu aua.
measurement of this material is fifty-four
t.hnn4nd feet, or nearly eleven miles.
V M PUPT1 IllllPtJ.
IVUW'V 1 f
Six of Wheeler and Wilson's sewing-machines
were employed twelve days to con
nect the pieces. The upper cxtremety of
the envelope intended to receive tne gas
valie, of triple thicknets, btrcngtbeued
with heavy brown linen, and tewed in
triple soama. The pressure being great
est at this point, extraordinary power of
resibtance requiite. It is asserted that
one hundred women, sewing conatsntly
for two years, could not have accomplish
ed this work, which measures by miles.
The material is fctout, and the stitching'
stouter.
The San Juan Affair.
The English journals generally compli
ment the American Pres- on the tone of
forbearance and moderation with which
it Um disflUKsed the San Juan differences
ivn nr rnnsins would Draisc us less
and imitate us more. When they talk
about Gen. Harney's movement
as "one
of those aots of piracy" by wbicb tne wimout uruer, hhuuuiuuim. u.
United States are in tbe habit of settling its object or destination. Eutenng Utah
ditputcs with weaker neighbors, aud urge ' thus as no Army, but as a number of
the neccishity of at once chastising "the seperate, straggling detachments, neither
licenced ruffians of tbe Federal army," of which was ordered to protect the up
tker do not in the leat facilitate tbe pa-; ply Trains which followed one or two mar
cific adjustment of the dispute. We have ebes behind them, they had the mortiG
aot the slightest apprehension that any cation to learn, about the 1st of October,
war will grow out of tbe controversy. If that those Supply Trains, without evjen
Mr Buchanan bad intended at any time an armed corporal's guard in their vicm
to insist upon our extreme rights in that ity, bad been surprised and burnt by a
quarter, be would not have sent Gen. Mormon band, who thus in effect made
Seott to reap tbe honors of so doing. war on the United States. Indignantly
We regard the fact that be was ordered but still without a loader and without
thither as at least presumptive evidence defiuite orders, tbe Army struggled on to
that the British elaim will be conceeded. Bridger, 113 miles from Salt Lake, which
But it U scarcely worth while for tbe tho ormous abandoned" on its approach.
English journals to presume upon Ibis Bridger is many, thousand feet above the
fact so much in advance. Wc tbould be level of the sea and the grouud was here
sorry to havo our fcatisfaction at the pre- so buried in snow that its gaunt animals
servation of peace marred by any reco'l- died by, hundreds, and the residue were
lectfon of needles insult from the other unable to drag the baggage over the riv
gje J 4cra and steep mountains which still Bcpa-
AN OVERLAND JOURNEY.
XXIV
The Army inJtah.
Camp Floyd, Utah, July 21, 1659.
Camp Floyd, 40 miles South of Salt
Lake City, is located on the west side of
Liaue Uty, is locatea on tue west i 10 o.
a dry vally perhaps ton miles wide by
thirty miles loog, separated by high
-j gQme Qftecn tj
hills
twenty
1 es distant on tno oonn-easw. xm,
Valley Would be fertile Were it not doomed
j0 sterilit v by drought. A small, stream
. J . J . 0 . . .
takes its n?c m copious springs at the
foot of the western hills just north 01 the
camp, but it is coon oranK up on toe uiirs
jty plain. Water in this stream, and wood
I (low cedar) on the adjacent hills, proba
jbly dictated the selection of this site for
la camp, though I believe a desire if not
. a secrect compact to locate the troops as
far as possible from the Mormon settle
ments had an influenco in the preniics.
No Moraons live in this valley or within
'sight of it; though all the roads leadiug
I from Salt Lake City, as well as from
i Provo, and the other settlements around
iLuke Utah, are within a days march and
iiu a j be said to be commanded by the
learn p. The toil is easily pulverized
jwhen dry, aud keeps the entire area en
iveloDed in a cloud of dust during the
Summer, visible for miles in every direc
1 .
tion. 1 saw it wnen eigut miles away as 1
camo
day.
down from Salt Lake City yester-
The catr.p is formed of low and nont a-
! dobe houses, generally small. I presume
1 there are three or four hundred of them
enough, at all events, to make three or
' four Kansas cities. "Frogtown" is a sa
!. 1 1 v .i 1 .i
icunc, or suuuru, wuuucu fcrug auu uiuui
luxuries (including execrable whisky, at
about S10 rer gallon) aud dispensed to
thirsty soldiers who have not already
drank rip more than their pay amouuts to.
The Yalley is covered with Sagebush and
Greasewood, as u-ual; but the camp has
been freed from these, aud is mainly as
level as a house noor. 1 be adobes werp
made on the pot by Mexicans, the boards
for roofs, finishing off, &c, hupplied by
Briiihaea Youn" aud his sou-in-law, from
the only cauou opening into Salt Lake
Valley which abounds m timber (lellow
Pine, I believe) fit for sawing. The Ter
ritorial Legislature which is another
name for "the Church'") granted this
canon to Brigham, who runs three saw
mill's therein at a clear profit of a S100
or so per day. His profit on the lumber
supplied to the Camp was probably over
Qfin lltm Tlio r.rifo icrta .?7() nor flinim.
.iYlrtf' Pr0;.un. Vnn n,. !
with evident self-complacency, that he
did not Deed and would not accept a dol
lor of salary from "the Church" he con
sidered himtelf able to make all the mon
ey he needed by business, a he had made
the250,000worthof property he already
possesses. With a legislature ever ready
to grant him such perquisites as this lum-
iw,? nnn,,rl T iif.lii.uo t!,r r,nf Wnnrl
. : i5 .. i i t 1. -trn :.
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IJtMU Ul UI1U UUUCI U DIUII1U1 IIUC III illlU
I should think be might. The total
cost of this post lo the Government was
about $200,000.
The army in Utah has numbered 3,
500 men 1 believe its prencnt strength
is iUni M 000. fr Jj mniTilo nnnnnTif r;i.
ted in this camp. thou2h some small de-
tachments are engaged in surveying or
opening roads, guarding herds, &c., in
different parts of the Territory. I be
lieve this is still the largest regular force
ever concentrated upon the soil of our
country in time of peace. It consists of
1 ihe 5t 7fch and 10th iajentf, of InfM.
, L,f9,jnn nr T.;hf rHirv nnrl
I J ' . -r-
two or three companies of Dragoous. I
met between Bridger and Ham's Fork, a
considerable force of Dragoons going
cow 11.
Let us briefly consider the history and
position of this little Army.
In tbe former half of 1857, it was con
centrated in Kansas; lute in that year,the
several regiments composing it were put
in march toward the Bocky Mountains.
The Mormons full soon learned that it
was to be launched against them, and at
once prepared to give it a warm reccp-
uon; mo ,xrmy uuu uuiuioru.auuuuu.ue
a l i r : . i. l
in Kansas to give effect to Gov. Walker's
electioneering quackeries, it was at length
sent on its way at a season too late to al
low it to reach Salt Lake before Winter.
No commander was sent with it; General
Harney was announced as its chief but
, has not even yet joined it.
It wad thus
! dispatched on a long and difficult expedi
tion, in detachments, without a chief,
rated it from Salt Lake. So the regi
ments halted, built huts to shelter them
selves from the Winter's inclcuiency,.and
lived through the snowy season as they
might on a half allowance of their lean
gristly animals, without salt.
Snrino- at lenoth came: the day long
j tiflntl waited for, when
V m ar;ive(1. tbey had been
f o . '
nrnmirtfid ft warm reoeDtion in the narrow
defiles of Ech Canon by Lieut. General
Wells and his Mormon host, and tbey
eagerly courted that reception. If ben.
Wells were able, as he boasted, to send
them to the right about, they would have
nothing to do but to go. They bad grown
Tii.fr frnm innnfinn. and stood ready to
1 i:l-j u .,K nn itnnln.
ment as Gen. Wells. But news came Territory. Why, then keep them here 7
that the whole affair had been somehow , Brigham young will oontract, and mako
arranged that Col. Kane, Brigham money by contracting, to put down all re
Young, and Gov. Cumming had fixed mat- ; sistanoe to this policy at one-tenth the
ters so that there would be no fighting cost of keeping the Army here : why,
r.f f.irtknr f rnin.hnmi na. Yet the then, not withdraw it!
Mormons Bed from Salt Lake City in an
ticipation of their entering it; tbey were
required by the civil power to enoamp as
far as nossiblo from the Mormon Bettle-
mcntf; and they have ever since been
treated by the Federal Executive a3
though tbey had come there on their own
motion, in defiance of rather than in 0
bedience to that Executive's own orders.
Whether truly or falsely, this Army,
probably without an individual exception,
uudoubtingly believes the Mormon as a
body to be traitors to the Union and its
Government, inflexibly intent on estab
lishing here a power which shall be at
first independent of and ultimately domi
nant over that of the United States. They
believe that the ostentatious, defiant refu
sal of Brigham Young, in 1857, to sur
render the Territorial Governorship, and
bis declaration that he would hold that
'post until God Almighty should tell him
to give it up, were but the natural devel
opment of a polity which looks to the sub
jugation of all earthly kingdoms, states,
empires, sovcrignties, to a rule nominally
theoratic, but practically autocratic, with
Brigham Young or his designated succes
or as despot. They bold that the instinct
of self-preservatipn, the spirit of that re
quirement of the Federal Constitution
which enjoins that each State shall be
guarantied a republican form of Govern
ment, cry out against such a despotism,
and demand its overthrow.
The Army undoubtingly and univer
sally believes that Mormouism is, at least,
on the part of the master spirits of "the
Church," an organized, secret, trcasona-
ble conspiracy to extend the power,
m-
I crease vue weuuu, au grainy iuu mcuruua
! appetitites of those leaders who are using
the terms of religion to mask and fchicld
systematic adultery, perjury, counterfeit
ing, robbery, treason, and even murder.
It points to the wholesale massacre at
Mountain Meadows the murder of the
IJ"s, and a hundred more such, as
iDstances of Mormon assassination for the
cood of the (Jhurcb. the chaftisement 01
its enemies or tbo accrandizement or its
, .
leadini members to the impossibility of
briniiingthepcrpetralorsof these crimes to
jus-tice, to the Territorial laws of Utah
i which empower Mormon functionaries to
select the Grand and Petit Jurorors even
, for the United States Court, and impose
j qualifications which in effect secure
the
exclusion of all but Mormons from the
Jurv-box. and to the uniform refusal of
those jurors to indict or convict those who
have committed crimes in tbe interest of
Mormonism, as proof positivo that all
attempts to punish the Mormon criminals
by Mormon jurors and officers must ever
prove abortive, and demands of tho Fed
cral Government that it shall devise end
put in execution some remedy for this
unbearable impunity to crime. It is uni
formly believed in camp that not less than
seventy five distinct instances of murder
j by Mormons because of apostaoy, or some
j other form of bo-tility to "the Church"
i or mainly for the sake of plunder, are
j known to tho authorities here, and that
1 there is no shadow of hopo that one of
' tbe perpetrators will ever be brought to
justice under tho sway of Mormon "Pop
jular Sovereignty" as now established in
this Territory. The Army, therefore
turn8 aQ anxiou tQ Washington, and
strains its ear to hear what remedy is to
be applied.
Manifestly, the recent response from
that quarter are not calculated to allay
this anxiety. The official rebuke recent
ly given to tho Federal Judges here, for
employing detatchmcnts of troops to ar
rest and bold securely Mormons accused
of capital crime, elicits low mutterings of
dissatisfaction from some, with a grave
silence on the part of many whom disci
pline restrains from speaking. As tho
recent orders from Washington are under
stood here, no employment of Federal
troops to arest or secure persons charged
with or even convicted of crime is allow-!
ed, except where tho civil power (intense- i
Iy Mormon) shall have ocrtificd that tbe
execution of process is resisted by a force i
which it cannot overcome by means of a '
civil jmsse. How opposite this is tbe or
ders given and obeyed in the Fugitive
Slave cases at Boston, need hardly
bo indicated.
Very general, then, is tbe inquiry in
tbo Army. Why were we sent here? and
why arewo kept here T What good can
Judge Cradlebaugh asserts that on the
list of jurors recently imposed nn him for the
investigation at Provo of the Parish and oth
er murders, he knew there were not less lhap
nine leading participants in, those murders.
our remaining do T What mischief can
it prevent I A fettered, suspected watch
ed, distrusted Army an Army which
must do nothing must not even be ask
ed to doanytbing in any probable con
tingency what purpose docs it observe
beyond enriching contractors and the
Mormon magnates at its own cost
that of the Federal Treasury! Every
Mormon magnates at its own cost and
ar-
tide eoten.drank, worn, or in any manner
bought by the soldiers, cost three to ten
times its value m tno states; pan 01 ims
extra cost falls on thes-Treasury, the real
due on the troops individally. Their po
sition here is an irksome one; their com
forts few; home, family, friends are far
awav. If the Doliov now nursued is to
nrevail. thev cannot bo needed in this
j r j
I havo not to
Mormons as that
bad an opinion of the
entertained by the Ar-
my
while" I
consider the Mormon jeli-
gion, so called, a delusion and a blight,
I believe many of its devoted adherents,
including most of those I have met, to be
pure-minded, well-meaning people; I do
not believe that Mormons generally do
light in plunder or murder, though tho
testimony in the Mountain Meadows,
Parrish, and one or two other cases, is
certainly staggering. But I concur en-
tiroly in tbe conviction of tbe Army that
tho to. is no use in its retention here under
existing ordors and circumstances, and
that three or four companies of uragroons
would answer every purpose of this large
and costly concentration of troops. Ihe
Army would cost less almost anywhere
else, and could not anywhere be loss use
ful.
A suspicion that it is kept here to an
swer private pecuniary ends is widely
entertained here. It is known that vast
sums have been made out of its transpor
tation by favored contractors. Take a
single instance already quite notorious:
Twenty-two cent per pound is paid for
the transportation of all provisions, mu
nitions, &c., from Leavenworth to this
point. The great contractors were al
lowed this for transporting tbis year's
supply of Flour. By a little dexterous
management at Washington, they were
next allowed to furnish the Flour here,
being paid their twenty-two cents per
pound for transportation, in addition to
the primo cost on the Missouri. As Utah
has a b&ter soil for growing Wheat than
almost anything else, they had no diffi
culty in sub-letting this contract at seven
cents per pound net,making a clear pront
of S170.000 on the contract, without risk-
ing a dollar or lifting a finger. Ofcourse,
thoni-
selves, not for the Liovernment; but some-
body is well paid for taking care of tho
public's interost in such matters: Has
he done his duty?
Acain: Pursuant to a recent order
t .U A:.ffA nr..
i t' ii- u
auction some Two Ihousaud Mules a
bout two-thirds of ajl the Government
owns in this Territory. These mules
cost S175 each, and are worth to-day
S125 to S150. I attended the sale for
an hour or so this forenoon; the range of
prices was from S60 to Si IS; the average
of the 700 already to!d about $75. Had
these mules been taken to California and
there properly advertised and sold, they
would have brought nearly cost; evon at
Leavenworth they must bave sold for at
least $100,000 more than hero, where
there is practically no demand and no
competition for such an immense herd;
and, after every Mormon who can raiwe
a hundred dollars or ovr shall have sup
plied himself with a span of mules for
half their valuo, ono or two speculators
will make as much as they pleaso, while
the dead loss to the People will be at
least $200,000. Nobody here has re
commended the sale of theso mules; they
were being herded, under tbe oaro of de
tachments of tbe Army, at no cost but
for herdsmen, aud they could bave been
kept through next Winter in secluded
mountain valleys at a cost of about 810
per head; whereas, the Army can never
move without purchasing an equal num
ber; and they can neither bo bought
here nor brought here for S200.0U0
more than these animals are now fetch
ing. Somebody's interest is subserved
by this sale, but it is certainly not that
of the Armv nor of the People. Tho or-
der is to sell seven hundred wagons as
ll .1 l.J t t.Snn C!ll ,m nli
- rf ,
wen, out tuuau wuuiu Uuw u..uB w
while they cost at least 81au, ana could
not bo renlaoed when wanted even for
. .
that, while the Army cannot move with
out them, and keeping them costs abso
lutely nothing. Who issues such orders
i as this, and for whose benefit!
Look at another featuro ot this trans
action: There is at this moment a largo
amount duo to officers and soldiers
of
of S40 to
of this Armv as pay, in sums
RSOl) nunh. Manv of those to whom this
U 1 a il IV HQ UVi IU OU-"1' v' v-v
rri. Ann vn.l,1 vArv much like to
money
UI J UU lJ l l w ,,n.. .w.j
talro mules in nart oavment. either to use
while here, to sell again, or to boar them
ond their baggage o California, or back
to the Miusouri on the approaohing expi
s ration of their terms of enlistment. In
i many instances, two soldiers would doubt
! less club to buy a mule on which to pack
their blankets, &o,, whenever their time
is out. Hundreds of mules would thus
havo been bought, and. the proceed of
the sale considerably augmented, if tho
Government, by its functionaries, had
consented to receive its own hon'st debts
in payment. But no I on some rediculous
pretense of ill-blood between the Pay and
the Subsistcuco bureaux of the War De
partment, this is refused it would he
too much trouble to take certificates ot gciiunmu uuiu uuvf...j .... uuu
soldiers' pay actually due in payment for aand ho-es. ,nstCB(1 of parting offsome
these mules: so the officers and soldiers t0 gladden their homes, certainly, but too
must purchase of speculators at double
price or go without,
and the mules be
sold for far less than they would have
brought if those who must have them had
been enabled to bid directly for them.
Two or three speculators reap a harvest
here at the sore cost of the soldiers aud
the Treasury.
Rnf w k t,o Anv(anu mat anu ice oiuer pretty or ciever
j-ruk m Kill wu oaiu mat .'Utarc m uvi
in Utah. It would suffice to answer that
idlo mules obtain, save in Winter, only,3
growing on the Public Lands, which may
as well bo eaten in part by Government
mules as all by those of the Mormon
squatters. But let us see how it co.-a so
much, liere has recently been received
here thirty thousand bushels of corn froUlisea. ,r in.tb,e cemetery at home.
tr, StnfPQ nr n not. rn,f .r.M.ulim, trnrm.
portation, of 8310,000 or over SI 1 per ! idens ancient times, somebody was
bushel. No requisition was ever uiade:alwaJ8 founLd. to g out afa,nat 1,l5D. ad
for this Corn, which could have been ! conquer htm at ast. Wo must not bdF
1 1 1 1 c- Hess watchful and devoted than our fore-
el, or $60,000 in all.
w.-, r.
j lie ucau l j .
the Treasury on this Com is 8280,000,
even supposing that the service required
it at all. Somebody makes a good thing
la . s-i f . t
! ot wagoning tbis oorn irom tne Missouri
per
Who believes
that said
somebody has
not mnuentiai 1
and thrifty connections inside of the War
j uepariinenu
I will not pursue this exposition:
Con-
gress may.
Let me now give a sample of Re
trenchment in the public service in this
quarter:
The mail from Missouri to Salt Lake
has hitherto been carried weekly in
good six-mule wagons; tho contract time
being twenty-two days. The importance
ot irequent ana regular communication
with head quarters, at leant so long as a'atood out opon tho platforra, and amid
large Army is retained hero at a heavy the profound attention of his audience,
extra cost, and because of some presum-1 commence(i ;
ed public necessity, is evident. Yet tbej i?eliow citixens Five and forty years
new Postmaster-General has cut down : 0 thig Drdgef buijt by your enterprise,
tbe Mail Service on this important central j wa3 parfc and parcej of the bowiing
route from weekly to semi-monthly. But j derneg9 p jje paused a moment, "Yes,
the contractors, who are obliged to runlfellow cit;zcnSj 0Q)y gve and fortJ yeartt
their stages weekly because of their pas-j ag0, this bridge, where we now stand, was
senger business, and because they have j part and parcei 0f the howling wilder
to keep their stock and pay their men neaai" Again be paused. Cries of "good,
whether they work or play, find that they g0 0Q n Here as the Jah t f(Jol
cannot carry the Mail every other week j hardly necessary to repeat, tnat tbis
so cheaply as they can every week. For , brid fellow cjtjzens, orjjy gve and for.
Z L A : l i '.-i :
instance: i. man irum iuu oiatcs uuw
u cuu"Bl3 U1 "B,,C tu fl,tlMU UCU,J'
sbcks mosi 01 mem nneu who iraneu
documents), weighing as many hundred
pounds. Double this, and no six mule
team would draw it at tbe requisite pace,
and no baggage wagon stand tbe jerks
and jolts of an unmade road. So they
say, "Please let us carry the Mail week
ly, though you only pay us for carrying
it semi-montbly." But no! this is strict-
11 MJUI1-UIOUW
ly forbiddenl The Postmaster at Salt,
uaau uao CApim "innu vit.wo iu iw.uu
it, and of course he
at St. Joseph also.
And thus all this central region, embra-
. t . f . Jt.l!i
cing at least a aozen inporiant military
posts and countless Iudian Agencies, is!
reduced to semi-montbly mail service,'
though tho contractor would gladly make
it weekly at the same pricel
Horace Greeley.
Harriet Martineanon Female Education.
It will be an immense advantage when
the day comes for boys and g,rls . earnlDg
auu piujiup 8VIU"' ' 7 '
several foreign countries do. Climbing
trees is admirable exercise for everybody; j
and so is cricket, and trap-ball, aud ball
play of all kinds; and racing and jump
inp. Instead of this, we see not a few
scboo s where the girls, after sitting and
standing all day are taken out for a
tunll- in tho tailiuht to save lirfhtin? can-
V. mi u e i u tbo reader seateu tnereon, enioy-
dles. Thoy seldom feel tho sum; theyl. .. .. . j j-
. DO,u"UJ ' J bia exening cigar and a distant
have chilblains and other ailments from , J Qr
bad circulation; and m such schools near-, of ,over3 .tf a boat thfl
ly every girl has more or less distortion jgUmmcr water3 0f 60me rural Co.no,
of tho spine when she has been there oq the and . Qn) at he
more man two years, xu iu ,us ui.-
ry people knew no better. Little girb
were put upon uara uencues vmuum
backs, and so high that tho feet hung in
the air; and so perched, they were re-
ah i m ii Tf hit. iinir linr mi , iiiiu dcii ivi
..v- ,r."o
bours
together.
the hump back,
the wearv achinir spine which many thou
Eanda 0f English women have carried to
' . l 'P .n.n id nn innrn rn.aunn fnr
lQC gravi;. iUu.u
women
hiin?? crooKcu tnan any oiuer
creature born with a proper backbone;
and tbis is better understood than it used
to bo. Wc see that tho seats in schools
aro oftcner accommodated to the bigth
f ho oliildrnn: arid if leaninc back is
cot countenanced, there is more frequent
ohange of porturo aud of occupation.
nalisthenic exercises, and even the tn-
! clined plane fer tho relief of tho backs of
I .
fast crowing girls, are common sigbts in
our day. Tho improvement is marked;
I m . . 1
k.,f ikn nnnditioa ot sciiooi-cins neeus
- ... . i ' . i
UUU K"" - .
more consideration than bas,yet been giv
en to it. Their avcrago of health is far
that of hovs: moro of them will lan-
ni,h in invalidhn; fewer will havo gen-
tbo deformed shoulder, the humpback,'. r
uine robust health; moro, m particular, ing m Hayli lor -ilwr barrel. Ihia
will die of consumption within ten years, eeems like a high pric?but tho money
Tho main cause of this is tho unequal was nay t'ten currency, much depreciated,
development of the faculties. There is j like our old Continental nxoney: About
too much intellectual acquisition, though twenty dollars of it aro equal to'oue fil
oot too much mental exerciso, if it wcrol.vcr dollar. .
made more general; and there is an al-mo-t
total absence of physical ddacatioir.
If the muscles were called upon as stren
uously a.s the memory to how what tbey
could do, tho long train of echool-girla
who institute the romance of the coming
. U1..1 :i:.ii.t
many to the languid lot of jnvalidism, or
lu luo bibiw-iuuui, wuuo u iuici-
niiuable procession 01 tnem 19 tor ever on
its way to tho cemetery the foremost
dropping into the grave while tbo num
ber is kept up from behind. Many a
survivor will be still wondering, with
I grandchildren round tbe fire, that this
t u i t
'whoofellow nbould havo died so early?
at, lue Bamc papa at imriy, win
remark on the number of tho fellows who
left tho school with him who have had to
go to Madeira. Some have rallied; but
for most it was merely the choice of a'
;:ravo under the myrtle there, or in the
" ucu a uragOU ucvuuicu youiUS
j 1 1 1
and
fnt.
Wo must rescue our youths aud
maidens from an early doom.
An Or atori n a tight Corner.
I remember once, when I was a young
man living up in New-Hampshire, tbey
dedicated a new bridge, and invited a
i young lawyer to deliver an oration. The
lawyer had never yet, after a fortnights
practice, had tbe honor of being retained,
and the opportunity of establishing a rep
utation was admirable. The day came,
and with it came tbe multitude and the
orator. He had made no written prepa
ration, that being, he had been told, un-lawyer-liko
a lawyer being supposed to'
bo capable of speaking without note or;'
notice any number of hours, on any sub
iect, in a style of thrilling eloquence. So
, nr nPnfnr ttA tn M,n nnno.inn TT
' tv vears aio. was nart and narcel of the
.howling wildernes;.; and 1 will conclude
by saying that I wish it teas part and
pcirccl of it now"
. A word with the Aeronauts.
There is one great featuro of baloon
sailing which threatens to assume a very
unpleasaut practical importance, if tho
art is to pass into the category of ordina
ry human occupations. We mean the
system of lightening balloons by
4,beav-
iuji over
ballast in a promiscuous man-
ner upon tne earth below, oo iar as wo
know, no accident has ever -et resulted
from this practice,- but it is impossible for
any merely walking sublunary mortal,
who does not disdain his mother earth, to
read without a certain discomposure Mr.
Lamountain's exciting account of the
means he adopted for relieving his ship
when sho bad lost her buoyancy in the
storm. The Atlantic took up seven bun-
jdrcd pounds of ballast, and a miscellane
ip et.bags, and other lu
ous supply of iron fans, posts, bars, car-
more or less
weiiihtv. She came down minus her en-
tiro cargo. It happened that in this case
the good vessel was unloaded chiefly into
a lake, though Mr. Lamountain docs ad
mit that he once beard his sand-bass
bouge houg(j &
, h0u3C 0Ql sbore of the 8o
biriliU wiiu u iuuu upuu iuu iuui ui a
eaa-
A n 7
. . .... ' .
nd tbc flame suddcnly sriIuted by
. bencdiction of lhrcc carpct.ba,,s and
a twenty-pound crow-bar falling from tho
skies, as fails a star 1 The fate of iEsby
lus was romantic certainly, but rather per-
icmntcrrv: and tuougn it would be moro
, i i
. Iirtnnrn h i
Imnnrii hl tn ho killnri Viv a s.tnil.tmfr in
- 1 , , a .i r
f ' , th nctMresult to
i . ' ....
! tho earth-creepin" man would be virtual-
, Af . , m,
ly the same in both cases.
Death from a Fly Bite.
A letter from Gasscl In the Journal do
Frankfort, mentions tbe sudden death of
Mr. Habicht. a protestaut Minister of that
town, from the puncture of a fly. Tho
! wound was inflicted near tho corner of
his. eve. A tumor formed, which was
followed by crysipelhs, and speedily oaus-
" "
ed dcath. It is presumed
that tho fly
bad been feeding on some dead
carcass
"
in a sjatc of decomposition, and had im
bibed a poi-onus virus, which bad enter
ed the wound.
(KrA't the last accounts flour was scll-