BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1865.
VOL. 11. NO. 48.
TEIOIS OF THEJOUKSAL.
The Raftshas's .K.i'KNAl is published on Wed
nesday at S2.00 per annum in advance Auveu
Tiskhe.nts inserted at $1.50 per square, for three
or less insertions Ten lines (or less) counting a
square. For every additional insertions50 cents.
A deduction will be made to yearly advertisers.
gtrcctorg.
IRVIN BROTHERS, Dealers in Square A Sawed
Lumber,. Drj Good, Groceries. Flour, Grain,
io , Ac, liurneide Pa., Sept. 23, 1303.
I FREDERICK LEITZIXGER. Manufacturer of
' . II kinds of Stone-ware, Clearfield. Pa. Or
ders solicited wholesale or retail. Jan. 1, 1S63
CRAK3 A BARRETT, Attorneys at Law. Clear
field, Pa. May 13. 153.
l. crans. : : : : : : Walter BAnneTT.
T) OGERT J. WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear
i field. Ha Office in Shaw's new row. Market
rreet, opposite Xaugle's ewlry store May 26.
F. NAl'GLE. Watch and Clock Maker, and
. dealer in Watches. Jewelry, Ac. Room in
Graham s row, Market street. . Nov. 10
IT BUCUER SWOOPE. Attorney at Law. Clcar
1. field. Pa. Eo in Graham's Row, fourdoo s
west of Graham & Boyuton'a store. Nov. 10-
"t ARTSWICK A HUSTON. Dealers in Dm??,
1 I Medicines. Paints. Oils. Stationary. Perfume
t . Fancr Goods, Notions, etc., etc.. Market street,
Clearfield, Pa June, 2U, 1S64.
JP KKATZER, dealer in Dry Goods." Cioth
. ing. Hardware. Oueensware, Groceries. Hro-vi.-i.
na'Ac. Front Street, above the Academy,
Clea. field. Pa. APrl1 2'-
"1T 1 LLIAM V.JRW IN. Markettreet. Clearfield,
Pa., Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Mer
chandise. Hardware, Queeusware, Groceries, and
family articles generally. Nov. 10.
JOHN GUEL1CII. Manufacturer of all kinds ol
Cabinet-ware, Market street. Clearfield, Pa.
He also makes to order Coffins, on short notice, and
attends iunerals with a hearse. AprlO. 59.
DU M. WOODS. Practicing Phvsician, and
Examining Surgeon for Pensions.
OlSee, South-west corner of Second ard Cherry
Stre. t, Clearfield, Pa. January 21, 1SS3.
f IMIMAS J- M'CULLOUrfn, Attorney at Law.
JL Clearfield. Pa. Office, east of the -Clearfield
co. Batik. Deeds and other Icjal instrument pre
pared with promptness and accuracy. July 3.
JB M EN ALLY, Attorncyat Law!" Clearfield.
Pa. Practices in ClearGel i nod adjoining
vou'ities. Office in new brick building of J. "orn
t u, 2d street, one door south of Lauich's Hotel.
l I CHARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and Do
J V mestic Dry Goods, Groceries, Flour, Bacon,
Liquors. Ac. Room, on Market street, a few doors
wes.t 01 JoiiniilOficc Clearfield. Pa. Apr27.
IARUIMER A TEST, Attorneys at Lnw.Clear
i field. Pa. Will attend promptly to all leg;tl
and other business entrusted to their care in Clear
field and adjoining counties. August 6. 18jH.
1
1IIOMAS W. MORE. Land Surveyor and Con-
veynneer. lUtc? nt m residence, i nine en si
of Pennville Postoffice address. Grniiian 1. His
Deeds and other instruments of writing nently
executed. Juno 7th, l.-3i-ly
"rM. ALBERT A BROS. Dealers in Dry Goods.
W (. rocerles, Hardware. Queetisware. Flour,
Bacon, etc.. WoodlaiH, Clearfield county. Penn'a.
Also, extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lum
ber, shiugles, and square timber. Orders S'llici
ted. Woodland. Aug. 19th. 1SB3.
AUCTION EER. The undersigned having
been Licensed an Auctioneer, would inform
thocitizens of Clearfield county that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of the county,
whenever called upon. Charges moderate
Address, JOHN MOIJILKIN,
May 13 Bower I'o., Clearfield Co., Pa.
.
AUCTIONEER .The undersigned having
been Licenced an Auctioneer, would inform
the citizens of Clearfield county that ho will at
tend to c.tlling sales, in any tiart of the county,
whenever called upon. Charses moderate.
Address. NATHANIEL KISllEL,
Feb. 22. 1SB3. Cle:irfield,Ha.
JI C E N S E D A U C T I O N E E 1 1 . W I L LI A M
J M BLOOM, of Pike township, desires to in
form bis friends and the public generally that he
Las taken out a Licence as an AUCTIONEER and
will attend to tho crying of sales in any part ot
the county at the shortest notice, and at the most
reasonable charges. Address, either personally
or by letter, either at Curweuttville or Biooin
iugville. May 1, ISOi. tf.
FARMERS'
MUTUAL FI RE INSURANCE C03IPA-
Y OF YORK, l'A. ?
Insures against loss or damage by fire. It is the
safest company in the State, and has wade no as-s-.-Sfuients
since its establishment, and hence it is
the mo.-'t economical. fc. J. HOW, Agent.
June 21. Iso-i. Clearfield, Pa
INKERS! Wil ISKERS! Doyon want
V W hiskers or Moustaches? Our Grecian
Compound will foro them to grow on the sm-th-est
laoo or chin, or hair on bald heads, iu Six
WceK. Price, $1.00 Sent by mail anywhere,
closely sealed, on receipt of price. Address,
WARSEK A CO.. Box 13a. Brooklin, N. York.
March 29th. lSdj.
KEYSTONE NARELE WORKS,
Woodland. Clearfield county. Pa.
J Bl NN DkH A AS, respectfully informs the cit
izens of Clearfield, and adjoining counties, that
he has just received a fine stock of foreign and
-domestic marble, which he will work into Monu
ments, Tombs, Head and Foot stones. Door-steps.
Window sills and Lintels, Table, Stand and Bu
reau tops. Ac Ac. on reasonable terms and short
notice. All persons in want of anything in his
iiiie will ploiisecall. or address him by letter, at
Woodland. Clearfield county, Pa. Orders by mail
will receive prompt attention. July23.'6a-y.
HAUPT & CO., at Mi'esburg, Pa , continue
to furnish castings of every description at
short notice. They have the best assortment of
patterns in the country for steam and water-mills
of every description. All kinds of machine and
plow casting' furnished. NewH'orld and Hatha
way cook-stoves always on hand. They mike 4
horse sweep and 2-horse tread-power threshing
Machines price at shop, $150 w'th shaker and
'i feet of strap. Warranted to give satisfaction
in threshing, and kept good to thresh one erop,
free of charge. June 23. 18oa-y.
Isaac Hacpt, at Bellefonte, continue to take
fislts for insurance in anv good stock company in
the State. Also in New York: the Royal and Et
na at Hartford ; and the Liverpool and London,
pital ,58,000,000.
PROVISIONS. Flour, bacon, lard, eheee,
dried beef, dried fruit, received regularly, at
iter ef Star. 22.J J. P. KATZEB.
AN ELOQUENT TEIBTJTE.
Men who talk as much as Hon. Thomas
Williams, M. C. from Alleghany, do not al
ways tr.lk wisely or well ; but the following
apostrophe to the martyred Lincoln is un
surpassed by any of the many tributes paid
to his name and memory. It is as chaste
and beautiful as it is eloquent :
Rest then, honored shade ! Spirit of the
gentle Lincoln rest! No stain of iunoceut
blood is on thy hand. No widow's tears
no orphan's wail shall ever trouble thy re
pose. No agouizirg struggle between the
conflicting claims of mercy and justice shall
afilict the more. Thou art but gone to
swell the long procession of that noble army
of martyrs, who left their places vacant at
the family board to perish for the faith in
Southern dungeons, or to leave their bones
un buried, or ridged with countless graves
the soil that they have won and watered
with their blood. Though lost to us, thou
art not lost, to memory. The benefactors of
mankind live beyond the grave. For thee
death ushers in the life that will not die.
Thy deeds will not die with thee, nor the
cause or nation which was aimed at in the
mortal blow that laid thee low. What
though no sculptured column shall arise to
mark the sepulchre and proclaim to future
times, the broad humanity, the true nobili
ty of soul, the moderation in success, that,
by the confession of his harshest critics,
have crowned the untutored and unpretend
ing child of prairies, as the "King of men ?"
What though the quiet woodland cemetery
that shelters thy remains, and woos the
pilgrim to its leafy shades, shall show no
cenotaph no offering save those which the
hand of affection plants, or that of nature
sheds upon the hallowed mound that marks
thy resting place ? What though themu.se
of history who registers thy acts, and
inscribes thee high among the favored iUw
to whom God has given the privilege of
promoting the happiness of theii kind,
si ould fail to record so quiet and unobtru
sive virtues that cluster around the hearth
and heart, and shrink from the glare of day?
There is a chronicler more faithful that will
take thy story up where history may leave
it. The pen of the llecording Angel will
write it in the chancery of Heaven, while
the !ip.s of childhood will be taught to re
peat the tragic tide until memory shall mel
low into the golden light of tradition, and
poesy shall claim the story fur its theme.
lut lo;:g ere this even now m our d:iy and
generation the cotton fields and the rice
swamps of the South, will ho vocal with thy
praise, while the voice of the emancipated
white ninn shall swell the choral harmony
that ascends from the lipsof the uu.-ky child
ot the troj it:s, as lie lightens his daily toil
now sweet because no lon.-rer umvjuitted
by extemporizing his simple gratitude in un
premeditated laws in honor of the good
Pre.-ident who died to make him free. The
mightiest potentates of earth have labored
vainly to secure a place in tho memories and
the resrards of men, by dazzling exibi'ions
of their powjr to enslave. Uoth Memp! ian
and Asyrian kinirs, whose very names had i
peri.-hed but f.r the researches of the learn
ed, have sought to perpetuate their denls
and flory, in the rock tombs of the Nile,
and the unburied has beliefs of Ninevah
and Babylon, covered with long trains of
sorrowing captives manacled, and bound,
dragged along to swell the victor's triumphs,
or, perhaps, as.votive offerings to the tem
ples of their bestial gods. It was reserved
for thee to find a surer road to fame by no
parade of conquest. No mournful train of
miserable trahs either graces or degrades
thy triumph. The subjugated are free, and
the hereditary bondsman drops his galling
chain, and feels that he is once more a man.
If the gonitis or sculpture should seek to
preserve thy name, it will present thee lift
ing from the abject posture, and leading by
thehmid. with gentle solicitation, thenfran
ehised millions of a subject race, and laying
down their fetters as a free-will offering up
on the altars of that God, who is the com
mon Father of mankind.
Prevalent Mistakes. We desire to call
the at ciition of our readers to the following
prevalent mistakes :
It is a mistake to suppose that the sub
scription pi ice of a newspaper is clear gain
to the publisher.
It is a mi.-rtakc to suppose that he gets
his white paper for nothing.
It is a mistake to suppose it is printed
without cost.
It is a mistake to suppose that he can live
bodily by faith.
It is a mistake to suppose thatit is an easy
thing to please everybody.
It is a mistake to suppose that a paper is
not worth buyinjr which contains only what
we know and believe already.
It is a mistake to suppose that money due
for a paper would be as good to us a year
hence as it is now.
It is a mistake to believe that we would not
be thankful for what is due us for subscrip
tion. Lx. la per.
Fastest Growth Yet. A native of
"Down East.' describing with characteris
tic exaggeration, the remarkable properties
of guano, as a promoter of vegetation, snid
that, a few hours after planting cucumber
seeds, the dirt began to fly and the vines
came up like a streak ; and although he
started off at the top of his speed, the vines
overtook and covered him ; and on taking
out his knife to cut the "darned things," he
found a large cucumber gone to seed in his
pocket.
"So Tom, the old liar, Pick Fibbins is
dead." "Yes his yarns are wound up ; he'll
lie no more the old rascal." "Indeed its
my opinion, Tom, that he'll lie still," .
O'Larey, gazing with astonishment at an
elephant in a menagerie, asked the keeper,
"What kind of a baste is that eating hay
with bia tail?"
Bocky Mountain Scenery in Colorado.
Mr. Bowles, of the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican, writing from Denver, Colorado
Territory, says: As to the Mountains as a
natural spectacle, they are first cousius to the
Alps. When the Pacific railroad is done,
our Switzerland will be at our very doors.
All my many and various wanderings in the
European Switzerland three summers ago,
spread before my eyes no panorama of moun
tain beauty surpassing, nay none equaling,
that which burst upon my sight at sunrise
upon the plains when fifty miles away from
Denver, and which rises up before me now,
as I sit writing by the window in this city.
From far south to far north, stretching a
round in a huge semi-circle, rise the ever
lasting hills, one upon another, one after
another, tortuous, presenting every variety
of form and surface, every shade of cover
and color, up and down, until we reach the
broad, snow covered range that marks the
highest summits.and tells where the Atlantic
and Pacific meet and divide for their long
journey to the far distant shores. To the
North risps the king of the range, Long' 8
Peak, whose top is 14,600 feet high ; to the
South, giving source to the Arkansas and
Colorado, looms up its brother, Pike's Peak,
to the height of 13,400 feet. These are the
silent features of the belt befoVe us, but the
intervening and succeeding summits are
scarcely less commanding, and not much
lower in height. Bight up from Denver
stands the mountain top that was the scene
of Bierstald's "Storm in the Kocky Moun
tains," and up and down these mountain
sides were taken many of the studies that
he is re-producing on canvas with such de
light to his friends and fume for himself.
No town that I know of in all the world has
such a panorama of perpetual beauty spread
before it. Denver has in this best and
broadest belt of the Bocky Mountains, that
rise up from the valley in which it is built
and wiods away to the right and left as far as
the eye can see field and woods and rocks
and snow, mounting and melting away to the
the sky in a line often indistinguishable, and
sending back the rays of the sun in colors
and shapes that paint and pencil never re
produced, that poetry never can describe.
Those are sights that the eye never tires. of
these are visions that clear the heart of
earthly sorrow, and lead the soul up to its
best and higher source.
Troubles of the Eewsuaoer Publisher.
It appears to have become a settled mat
ter, in the estimation of the public, that it
is the duty of those who make and conduct
newspapers, to be always cheerful and hap
py under all the variety cf circumstances
th tt compose their surroundings. It is their
duty a!va-s to wear a smile, though occa
sionally it may be suggestive of rather slim
pleasantry. The newspaper which is the
work of their creation and compilation for
the editor dosen't make all that appears in
his columns, by a long shot must always
wear the spirit and air of cheerfulness. It
is a matter of duty so readers think that
a newspaper should never be dull. It must
have news, whether there is any afloat or
not upon t tic sea of life. If there are no
accidents, they must be manufactured. If
nr body gets drowned, it's the duty of the
editors of the country to go around pushing
people into deep water, that Coroner's in
quests may be held and paragraphs may be
furnished to provide for public expectation.
If a train dosen't run off the track and kill
somebody we are expected to place obstruc
tions upon the track and cause catastrophies,
though Prisons may yawn before us if we
do. The people must have smash ups in
deed they will have smashes, or denounce
newspapers as stupid, worthless affairs, un
worthy of public patronage and support.
It is set down as part of our duty to fish a
round in the departments of life for sui
cide murders drownings shooting affairs
assaults and batteries fires casualties
dire incidents sad and incidents humor
ous for deaths by flood and fire for mar
riages for robberies, sed tetions, and all the
naughy acts that the wickedness ot the hu
man heart may prompt and perpetrate
and, if the people are careful and don't die
untimely deaths or if there are no murders
or other atrocious events transpiring if the
heart is less nefarious than the popular
taste expects of it all this remissness falls
upon tl e head of the man who makes up a
newspaper, and he is at once set down as
wanting largely in enterprise and vigiknee
in providing for his readers.
A Rebel war department. despatch lately
discovered in Richmond adds force to state
ments heretofore made to the effect that
Robert E. Lee, recently commander of the
Rebel Army of Northern Virginia, is the per
son really responsible for the burning of cot
ton and tobacco in Richmond and setting
fire to that city at the time of the Rebel he
gira. It also shows that the evacuation was
contemplated at least six weeks before it
took place. The despatch, which is dated
February 22, is from General lireckinridge.
then Rebel Secretary of War, to General
Ewell, and advises Ewell to see General
Lee for the purpose of receiving definate in
structions regading the latter'g order for the
burning of cotton, tobacco, &c.
A Finnish woman expressed the greatest
astonishment and horror at hearing from
Mr. Wolley, thatit was a common thing in
England for a husband and wife to kiss each
other. "If my husband were to attempt
such a thing," said she, "I would box him
about the ears until he would feel it for a
week." Bayard Taylor.
A lady , speaking of the gatheiing of
lawyers to dedicate a new court house, said
she supposed they had gone "to view the
ground where they must shortly lie."
"What is the difference between a town and
its people ? It is laid out at the beginingof
it existence, and they at the end of theirs.
MOUNT CEHIS.
Allusion has frequently been made to the
engineering work which is now endeavoring
to bore through Mount Cenis to connect
France and Italy by railroad. Apart from
the interests attached to any great improve
ment which is to facilitate intercourse be
tween two countries, and promote trade and
traffic, there are several important mechan
ical novelties, which draw more than usual
attention t3 this great work. The distance
a tunnel is to be bored through the Alps is
about seven miles. Four of these have
been completed, and the boring has been
done by the application of compressed or
condensed air, as a motive power. The air
is compressed to five atmospheres, by water
wheels about a mile and a half distant from
the boring machine. This is the. first suc
cessive application, we believe, of the use of
compressed air, pumped by engines at a con
venient distance from the machinery which
directly operates upon the work to be per
formed, and it is suggestive of the practica
bility of generating steam, at a safe dis
tance from workshops where its mechanical
force is desirable, and sending it to them
through pipes to engines which are to do the
work. 'I he large mechanical force of four
hundred horse power, is exerted by five of
these water-wheels at a distance, to provide
twenty-seven horse power, working nine jum
pers at the place of excavation ; and to af
ford sufficient ventilation to the interior.
Cylindrical boiler shaped reservoirs receive
the compressed air as it is pumped by the
water wheels below, a supply for half a day's
working being pumped at intervals when the
bonn" machines are not at work.
It is estimated that it will yet take eight
years to finish the three miles of tunnel yet
to be constructed, and this fong delay sug
gests another temporary improvement and
mechanical novelty, to get advantage of an
easier and quicker communication over the
mountain while the work is progressing.
The mountain is crossed by a common turn
pike road, forty-seven miles long, so steep
and difficult that it requires from nine to e
leven hours, according to the season, to cross.
The road is wide enough for ordinary traffic
and a railroad besides, and here is where
the new mechanical principal is to be ap
plied. An ordinary locomotive drawing a load
could not surmount such gradients, trusting
to its weghit for the adhesion of the wheels
o the rails, therefore a third rail between
the ordinary bearing rails, acted upon by
horizontal driving wheels on the engine.has
been resorted to. This is the revival of an
improvement which lias been suggested,
but never before applied practically. Be
tween the original rails, in the middle of the
permanent way, another rail is laid down, on
its side, and at an elevation of some seven
or eight inches above the rails outside. To
bite upon this middle rail horizontal wheels
are constructed, driven by pistons of their
own, and between these horizontal wheels
the middle rail is firmly clipped. The en
gine thus obtains a double hold upon the
road by two systems of "driving wheels"
acting at right angels to each other, and the
result is such accession ot adhesion and pow-,
er as will enable a locomotive to draw a train
up the slopes of Mount Cenis.
This will remind Philadelphians of the
many contrivances which were suggested
some twenty-five years ago. to get over the
inclined planes at the foot of Columbia
Bridge, and which called forth a great a
inouut of inventive ability. We remember
one model, invented by Mr. Coleman, a mu
sician, accomplished its object by a rack and
endless screw on a middle rail. It was nev
er praetially applied because the necessity
for it was superceded by abandoning the in
cline. The English inventor has had the
test of a practical application on an experi
mental line of S00 yards, in England, and
on a line of one mile and a half on the
French side of Mount Cenis, with a mean
gradient of 1 in 13 and a maximum gradient
of 1 in 12, with very sharp curves. The
engines carried up and down this experi
mental road a load of 10 tons in three wag
ons, including the weight of the wagons,
and it performed in the ascent 1,800 metres
in SJ minutes, with a loss of 14 lb. of steam,
and of 5 inches of water in the guage
glass, at steam pressures varying letween
'.12 lb. and 125 lb. to the square inch in the
boiler, as the average. The engineer main
tains that the power of guiding and check
ing furnished by the middle rail and the ho
rizontal wheels acting upon it is so great
that the balance of considerations is in fa
vor of safety, the railway in fact being safer
than the diligence. The plan works so sat
isfactory that it is a question with the Eng
lish engineers whether this arrangement
would not have been preferable in the first
to building a tunnel. Philadelphia Ledger.
A letter from Newbern, North Carolina,
stiys that a considerable number of young
men whose regiments are about being mus
tered out such as the 47th and 48th New
York and 97th Pennsylvania Zouaves have
made up their minds to stay in the country.
There are too many eligible openings to be
resisted. They are fast marrying the dis
consolate young ladies and widows, and set
tling down for life upon the vacant farms
which on every hand invite their labor and
enterprise.
A Minister, travelling through the West
some years ago, asked an old lady on whom
he called, what she thought of the doctrine of
total depravity., '0,'she replied, 'I think it is
a right good doctrin'e if the people would on
ly live up to it.'
A Marriage is thus noticed by one of our
cotemporaries: "Married, last week, John
Cobb to Miss Kate Webb. Look out for the
little spiders."
When Simpkins' wife kicked him out of
bedr Bays he, "See here, now, you'd better
not do that again ; if you do, it will cause a
coolness." . 1
How Euckner'Lost a Million of Dollars.
At the beginning of our unhappy civil
war, the most prominent of the military
men of the West was Simon B. Buckner,
then Inspector General of the Kentucky
State troops. A graduate of West Point,
serving with distinguished galantry in the
Mexican war, and possessed of very fine in
tellect, a caeer of fame and glory was
redicted for him by his admirers and friends,
t is not our purpose, however to notice his
military career further than to remark, that
he surrendered the first and last armies in the
war, and each time he was the subordinate
of the command. The first time was to
General Grant, at Fort Donnelson, when
Gens. John B. Floyd and Pillow, his supe
riors in rank, declined on the plea that if
they were captured they would certainly be
hung ; and the last time was when he sur
rendered the army of Gen Kirby Smith to
General Canby. This was done in the ab
sence, and against the orders, of Kirby
Smith.
But there is something more connected
with Buckner, which is not without interest,
and probably has no parallel in the war.
When he was a captain in the regular army,
Buckner married Miss Kingsbury, an heir
ess, who owned an immence landed estate
in Chicago, valued at more than a million of
dollars. It was unimproved, however, and
did not yield an income. Buckner finally
I daced it under the supervision of General
Jurnside, who, with judicious management
soon caused it to pay handsomely. When
the war broke out, it was uncertain which
side Buckner would serve. He was offered
a high position by Mr. Lincoln, and also by
Jefferson Davis, and finally choose to cast
his fortune with the South. But before do
ing so, to preserve this great estate to his
wife and children, it was made over to the
brother of Mrs. Buckner, iu whom they had
full confidence.
A little later, and Kingsbury, the broth
er, entered the Federal - army, and was
wounded in the battle ot Fredricksburg.
While lying on the field he spoke of his
property, and his desire to arrange it so
that his sister would have no trouble about
it ; but delayed too long, aud died without
makiag his wishes known. He had been
but a short time married, and some months
after his death his wife gave birth to a child.
This child necessarily inherits that princely
estate, nor can Buckner or his wife receive
a dollar of it excepting what the widow of
Mr. Kingsbury shall choose to give them.
It is proper to say, to her honor, that she
has been most liberal in that respect. Buck
ner's property was long since confiscated,
and thus the close of the war fiuds him, like
most of the Rebels, in a beggared condition.'
A Capital Bath.
An open window with the direct rays of
the sun coming in, will be good for the little
one. On a hot summer day, to lay it down
near the window, quite nude, and let it lie
for some minutes where the rays of the sun
may fall on its skin, will give it new life.
There is new vital relation between sunshine
and a vigorous human being. Seclusion from
sunshine is one of the greatest misfortunes
of civilized life. The same cause which makes
potato vines white and sickly when grown
in daik cellars operates to produce the pale,
sickly girls that are reared in our parlors.
Expose either to the direct rays of the sun,
and they begin to show color, health and
strength. When in London, some yearsago,
I visited an establishment which had acquir
ed a wide reputation for the cure of those
diseases in which prostration and nervous
derangement were prominent symptoms.
I soon found the success in the use made
of sunshine. The slate roof had been re
moved and a glass one substituted. The up
per story was divided into sixteen small
rooms, each provided with lounges, washing
apparatus, etc. The patient, on entering
each his little apartment, removed all his
clothing and exposed himself to the direct
rays of the sun. Lying on the lounge and
turning over from time to time, each and
every part of his body was thus exposed to
the life giving rays of the sun.
Several London physician candidly con
fessed to me that many cases which seemed
only for the shroud were galvanized into life
and health by this process. Dr. Dio Levees.
The Chattanhooga Gazette says the "poor
old man," John Beil, has passed through
that place ea route for Nashville, j : The
Louisville Journal says : We suppose that
Mr. Bell will return to Nashville, for he
can probably live in less discomfort there
than elsewhere. Of course the authorities
will not think of molesting him. He will
not be sent to any prison, but the whole
world will seem to him one vast Fort War
ren or Lafayette, from which there can be
no escape except through the gate of death.
"Poor old Belisariusl"
The Reading Journal says : During the
heavy thunder storm on Wednesday eve
ning, July 19th, two of our most estimable
citizens, Mr. John Harbster, and Mr. Lu
cius Hatch, were struck by lightning and
instantly killed. Mr. William Harbster, a
brother of John, was also struck by the
same bolt, and though badly burned and cut
and unconcious for some time, he is now in
a fair way of recovery.
An instance of filial affection among the
Pulty Indians we find in a Navada paper :
Two young "braves," under the assurance
of being hanged, propose to give five
ponies to the authorities if they would allow
their aged fathers to be hung in their place.
"John, what is the past of see?" "Seen,
sir.. jo, it is saw recollect tnat, les
sir. Then if a sea fish swims by me, it be
comes a aiofish when it is past, and can't
be seen." "You may go home, John,"
Why is oak the worst wood to mk a
wooden leg? Because it produces a corn.
THE MORMON WOMEN.
Mr. Bowles, of the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican, who accompanies Mr. Colfax in
his western trip, writes from Utah the fol
lowing account of the Mormon women: .
"How do the Mormon women like and
bear polygamy ? is the question most peopk
ask as to he institution. The universal tes
timony of all but their husbands is that it is
a grievous sorrow and burden ; only cheer
fully submitting to and embraced under are
ligious fanaticism and self-abnegation rare
to behold and possibly only to women. They
are taught to believe, and many of them
really do believe, that through and by it they
secure a higher and more clorious reward in
the future world. "Lord Jesus has laid a
heavy trial upon me,' said one poor sweet
woman' 'but I mean to bear it for his sake,
and for the glory he will grant me in his
kingdom.' This is the common wall, tho
common solace. Such are the teachings of
the church ; and 1 have no doubt both hus
bands and wives alike often honestly accept
this view of the odious practice, and seek
and submit to polygamy as really God's holy
service, calculated to make .saints of them
selves and all associated with them in the
future world. Still a good deal of human
nature is visible, both among the men in
embracing polygemy and in their wives in
submitting to it. ..."
"Mr. loung's testimony on this point ia
significant. Other signs are not wanting in
the looks and character of the men most
often annointed in the holy bonds of matri
mony, and in the well-known disagreement
of the wives in many families. In some
cases they live harmoniously and lovingly
together : oftener, it would seem, they have
seperate parts of the same house, or even
seperate nouses. The first wife is generally
the recognized of society, and frequently as
sumes contempt for the others, regarding
them as concubines, and not wives. But it
is a dreadful state ot society to any one ol
fine feeling and true instincts ; it robs mar
ried life of all its sweet sentiments and com
panionship ; and while it degrades woman,
brutalises man, teaching him to despise ana
domineer over his wives, over all women, il
it breeds jealousy, distrust, and tempts toin
fidelity ; but,thc police system of the church
and the community is so strict and constant
that it is claimed and believed the latter
vice is very rare.
The effect upon the children cannot help
being debasing, however well they may be
guarded and educated. But it is a chief
failing, even a scandal to the Mormons
that plentifully as they are providing chil
dren, who swarm everywhere as did the lo
custs of Egypt, they have organized no free
school system. Schools are held in every
wrad of the city, and probably in every con
siderable village, in buildings provided for
evening religious meetings under direction
of local bishops, but a tuition fee is exacted
for all who attend, and the poor are practi
cally shut out. The anti-polygamists should
agitate at once and earnestly to reform this
evil it is a strong point against the domi
nant party and a week point in the welfare
of the territory. It is a good and encourag
ing sign to learn from intelligent source
that as the young girls, daughters of Mor
mons, grow up to womanhood, they are op
posed to polygamy, and seek husbands a
mong the Gentiles rather than among their
own faith.
"The soldiers at Camp Douglas, near this
city, are illustrating one of the ways in
which polygamy will fade away before the
popular principle. Two companies who
went home to California last fall, took about
twenty-five wives with them, recruited from
the Mormon flcks. There are now some
fifty or more women in the camp who have
fled thither from the town for protection, or
been seduced away from unhappy homes and
fractional husbands ; and all or nearly all
find new husbands among the soldiers. On
ly to-day a man with three daughters, living
in the city, applied to Colonel George for
leave to move up to the camp for a resi
dence, in order, as he said, to save his chil
dren from poli gamy, into which the bishops
and elders of the church were urging them.
The camp authorities tell many likely stories;
also, of sadder applications, if possible for
relief from actual poverty and from persecu
tion in town. The Mormons have no poor
houses, and say they have no poor, permit
ting none by relieving all through work or
gifts. But the last winter was so long and
severe, with wood at thirty and forty dollars
a cord, that there was much real suffering,
and the soldiers, yielded to extensive de
mands upon the charity that the -church
authorities had neglected to fulfill or abso
lutely denied.
Europe has two iestilences to balance our
civil war. The Russian plague, which is de-.
clining and the cholera, which Ls making sad
havoc in Turkey and Arabia. No less than
forty -eight thousand of Pilgrims at Mecca
have been swept off, and tbe streets are fill
ed with corpses. Egypt has been reached
by it, and sanitary regulations have been a
dopted in both I ranee and England to pre
vent infection. The French harbors are
shut against vessels arriving from Alexan
dria. Two centuries ago, says aa exchange, not
one in a hundred wore stockings. Fifty
years ago not one boy in a thousandwas al
lowed to run at large at night. Fifty years
ago not one girl in a thousand made a wait
ing made of her mother. Wonderful im-
provements in this wonderful age.
A French chemist asserts that if tea be
ground like coffee, and hot water is put on
it, it will yield double the amount of exhil
arating qualities. Another writer says "if
a piece of lump sugar the size of a walnut
is put into the tea-pot. you will make the
tea infuse in one-half the time.
The polipicani in Jouifiana are talking of
making a new State of West Louisiana, with
Atcbafalaya for its eastern boundary.
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