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rut
THE LITTLE POFPIN.
Wepwrlffrimegine anything moreexquisite
of the kind than this poem, by Mrs. fI. L.
Bostwick. It is one of those poems that one
cannot see to read through :
'Twas a tiny, rosewood thing, -
Eben bound, and glittering
With its stars of silver white,
Silver tablet, blank and bright,
Downy pilluwed, satin lined,
That I, loitering, chanced to find,
'Mid the dust, and scent and gloom
OI the undertaker's room,
Waiting, empty—ah! fur whom?
Ah! what lore•watched cradle bed
Keeps to-night the nestling head,
Or on what soft, pilluwing breast(
Is the cherub form at rest,
That ere long, with darkened eye,
Sleeping to no lullaby.
Whitely robed, and still, and cold,
gale dowers slipping from its hold,
Shall this dainty couch enfold?
Ah what bitter tears shall stain
All this satin sheet like rain,
Anti what towering hopes be hid
'Neath this tiny coffin lid,
S:arcely large enough to bear
Little words that must be there,
Little words, cut deep and true.
Bleeding mothers' hearts anew—
Sweet pet name, and "Aoao Two"
Oli! can sorrow's hovering plume
Round our pathway cast a gloom,
Chill and darksome as the shade
By an infant's coffin made?
From our arms an angel flies,
And our Rtartl ed , dazzled eye•,
Weeping round its vacant place,
Cannot rime its path to trace,
Cannot see the angel face!
Zht Zrint.4itr.
Letter from the East.
Jerusalem—The ILdy Si'rileher, the An
cient Temple 11'a1l—Clbeet—Newly
Diwhrered Cdrerns under the City--
Bethlehem—Grotto the _Vativity—
Ca re of .Adullum.
Correspondence of the \ew•Tork Dolly Nowt
D.►Yssccs, Syria, June 1, 1557
My journey outruns my letters.
(*amp life affords but little time for (-or
ruspondenee. After a fatiguing day in
the saddle, one hurries to the luxury
of a hard bed and is &pi' wrapped in
forgetfulness ofall things earthly. Thus'
I have traveled on to this ancient city,
having traversed the whole extent of
the holy Land from Bt orsheba to Dan.
As I remain here some days I will
resume my letters. !Duero is little new
to be said of Jerusalem—there is no
city on earth in which more informa
tion has been gathered. Possibly its
picture may be as fresh to the minds of
your readers as it is in my own. I lin
gered Viere a fortnight and never left a
city with more regret. Concerning its
s icred localities I have nothing new to
offer. I made no investigation, and
had no. theories to establish. While
superstition on the one hand has multi
plied the holy places, unreasonable pre
judice on the other has labored to sap
the foundations of many a tradition,
unquestionably foanded on truth. It is
better to believe than doubt; and here,
on the altar of Chnstianity, alind char
ity should willingly overlook the faults
of some of its followers, while it mer
its them on the common ground of in
terest to Him who was its founder.
I went to the Church of the Holy
Sepulcher. A burst of music met me
as I entered ; A pealing organ was
ringing and &being among the domes
and vaultings and caverns of this an
eient, sanctuary. Rich incense floated in
the air. A choir of rfiany voices were
chanting a latin. service. Beneath the
great domo a procession of priests with
censors, books •and tapers was moving
with solemn step around a small orna
mented structure covering the venerat
ed spot where Christendom has wor
shipped for at least fifteen A undred gears.
I did not understand the services, bat
I remarked what appeared the deep
solemnity and earnestness of those Who
were partakers in it. On several occa
sions I went all over tho church, an in
tricate assemblage of many chapels of
very irregular forms and positions, but
returned always with great interest to
the sepulcher, which, whatever may be
thought of the truth of its pretentions,
is certainly the most solemn of shrines.
This little chamtier, but a few feet
square, admits but four or five persons
at a time. Pilgrims are constantly en
tering and departing. Noiselessly, with
deep awe upon their countenances, they
drop upon their knees, and press their
lips and foreheads against the plain
marble sled that covers the reputed se
pulchre of Christ. A number of bunr
lug golden lamps hang above the tomb.
From time to time a silent priest, con
stantly in attendance, sprinkles a fra
grant shower over the kneeling vota
ries. Not a word is uttered. So pro
found is the reverence that even whis
pered prayers are suppressed. One can
almost hear the throbbing of burden
ed hearts that have borne their sorrows
hither, perhaps from the ends of the
earth, to lay theta down at the grave of
the Redeemer. Is it an erring and su
perstitious feeling that prompts a devo
tion so ardent? "Christ is not here—
He has risen as He said;"—yet an an
gel voice seems to whisper through the
GETTYSBURG, PENN'A.: MONDAY, AUG. 24, 1857.
"Come see the place where the
Lord lay." All this may be a decep
tion. ' Perhaps the reverence of ages
errs ! The true sepulcher may be north
or east or west—a hundred or a thous
and yards. Who knows? What mat
ters it? No such petty question of lo
cality affects the interest that roots
me to this spot. Here, on this very
stone,.thousands and tens of thousands,
for centuries and tens of centuries, have
bowed and sobbed and prayed. Kings
and beggars—lowly and great—all clas
ses and degrees of men, brought hither
bye common impulse, have acknowledg
ed one common faith, and joined in one
common petition for a share in His re
demption, " who died, and was buried,
and rose again." Pretended though it
be, is there nothing that attracts us to
the Holy Sepulcher?
From the root of the Governor's house
on the site of the Tower of Antonia, I
had a clear view directly down into the
area of the Mosque of Omar. Moslem
bigotry refuses the Christian a close
survey. This sacred mosque, reverenc
ed next to that of Mecca, stands without
any doubt upon, or very near the site
of the great Jewish Santuary. Arehi
tectually the building is far from hand
some. It reminds one of a locomotive
" round house" in a railroad depot. lt
seems, however, to be richly finished.
The plan is an octagon, the central part
covered by a dome. The exterior is a
mosaic of tiles or colored porcelain. A
large open space surrounds the build
ing, planted with trees and furnished
with ornamental Mums, screens and
covered places for prayer. In the
latter were - numerous turbaned heads
bowing in repeated prostrations.
Just outside the northeast angle of
this area is the Pool of Bethesda, now
dry and partially tilled with rubbish.
Near by, the Gate of St. Stephen opens
upon the valley of the Kedron. Pass
ing out of this gate, and by the scene
of the first Christian martyrdom, I
walked southerly along the ancient
temple wall. Much of the original
massive masonry exists in the lower
courses, where it was protected by the
ruin of the superior parts. The stones
are of great size, four to five feet deep,
some measurir g over twenty feet in
length. They are the "great stories,
costly stones and hewed stones," laid by
King Solomon himself. The whole size
of the temple's area is 801110 1,000 by
1,500 feet. At its southeast angle . the
ancient masonry is well preserved.
Some of the courses here are six feet in
depth. The contrast ofthis solid stone
work, with the subsequent patching and
completion of the wall, is very striking.
Several different epochs of ruin and re
construction are visible along the wall.
The average height of the wall on the
south and east side appears about sixty
feet. It may have been much loftier
formerly, before frequent ruins raised
the ground at the base. The "Golden
Gate" now built up, is near the centre
on the east side. There are two arch
ed portals with richly sculptured archi
traves. Looking through a loop-Lo e,
I saw vaults and columns within. The
construction is very ancient and may
with propriety be referred to the time
of Herod. Some make it many centur
ies earlier.
Passing over the dry bed of the brook
Kedron and by the alleged tomb of the
Virgin and the Garden of Gethsemane,
I climbed the steep slope of Olivet by
the path leading. to Bethany, many a
time trodden by the Saviour's feet.
Groves of olive trees still cover the face
of the hill looking toward the city
Among them the Son of Man used to
wander with his disciples. Here he tit
tered his pathetic lamentations over
'Jerusalem, and here he prayed in agony
on the night in which he was betrayed.
Ascending to the summit of the nioun- I
tain I climbed the turret of a building
connected with the ruined church of the
Ascension. The north end of the Dead
Sea is clearly visible from thin point,.l
the desolate mountains of Moab
. and
Atnmon, the hills that encompass Jeru
salem,
and the entire extent of the city
itself on the opposite side of the deep
glen of Jehoshaphat. This scene, the
most suggestive, the most deeply inter
esting on With, I will not describe.
Who does not know it well. My pre
conceived idea was only modified by
finding the outlines of the lar.dscape
(toward the city) less strongly undula
ting than I expected, and the general
face of the country more fully culti
vated.
Descending further to the South I
passed among the ten thousaind Jewish
tombs that pave the whole purface of
this part of the mountain. Ih the bot
tom of the val3ey - are the so-called
tombs of Absalom, Zachariah,.lehosha
phat and St. James. They are excava
ted from the rock mncii in the Petra
style. From thence skirting the south
of the city, I entered it by the Zion
Gate.
One morning I made the circuit of
the walls on the fortifications from the
Jaffa Gate northerly to St. Stephens,
embracing the principal circuit of the
city.. This walk gave mea perfect ides
of the topography of Jerusalem. I was
particularly struck with the depression
that runs through it northerly from the
Tyropcean to the Damascus Gate, divid
ing the city into two distinct portions,
and with the fact that the temple area
is overlooked by all parts of Jerusalem,
excepting a small portion of the Jewish
quarters. There are largo unoccupied
areas within the present walls. These
are filled with ruins of arches, vaults
and massive masonry, more or less
buried beneath the accumulations of
ages.
With a considerable party, in compa
ny with Bishop Gobat, of the English
and Prussirch, I visited the
Greek and Armenian Convents. We
"TRUTH IS MIGHTY, AND WILL PHRVAIL."
were formally received and entertained
in Oriental style with k•offee, pipes, and
refreshments. The superior and fath
ers who did the honors were noble look
ing old meo with venerable white beards.
Thy Armenian Convent is very rich.
Its church is superbly ornamented.
The doors of the shrines are richly in
laid with pearl and tortoise shell, like
the wookwork of St. Bruno's Chapel,
near Granada.
Afterwards some of us visited the n ewly
dieorered caverns, which extend under
the city. The entrance is outside the
walls, a little e tat of the Damascus
Gate. Entering by a small aperture
we found ourselves in an immense
chamber, extending by various b r anch•
es to a great distance. The whole has
not yet be I I explored. The place has
the appearance of a natural cavern, en
larged by quarrying. The marks of
artificial, excavations appear every
where on the rocks. l,nonense amounts
of stone have been removed fron► these
cavities, but when no one can say.
The labyrinthine ramifications extend
toward the temple. and may be connect •
ed with the subterraneat► vaultings be
lieved to exist there. It would require
no little dine or labor to explore the-4e
chambers fully, but the investigation
would be one of the highest interest.
The rock is soft light colored limestone
without distinct stratification.
From then c e we visited the tombs of
the kings. This is a large excavation
in the E.•vptiati style, with numerous
diverging chambers C intain'ng niches
for the dead. Tradition ask ~oes the
works to the kings of Judah, though
sonic consider it oft he time of the Em
press Ifelena. The small interior cham
bers of this extensive catacomb were
each closed by u stone door opening in
ward. The broken doors, solid panell
ed blocks of limestone, still lie in the
tonilk!. They hail projecting pivots
above and below, fitting into corres
ponding recesses in the hilid rock.
fhe principal entranee into he vaults
from the portieo was below the level .of
the floor and apparently concealed.
This door is singularly closed. A cir
cular stone about fiour feet diameter,
by fifteen inches thick, rats across it.
It stands on edge, fitting into a recess
when in place, and into u long channel
when clients'. The arrangement is in
teresting as possibly similar to that
where the Angel rolled buck the great
stone from the door of the Saviour's
sepulcher.
We visited Bethlehem...ix miles south.
Riding through the little city on the
Kalmyk Of its conspicuous hill, we went
to the convent which includes the site
of the nativity. Passing through a
low iron door, we entered the large
church built by Helena 1,500 years ago.
It is the oldest Christian church now
standing. The building is u large and
rich obe, somewhat resembling the
basilica of Santa Maria Maggio' e in
Rome.
Thence we descended to the celebrat
ed grotto w hich lies beneath the chan
cel of the church. Here in a cave in
the original rock is the site which from
the earliest ages has been handed down
as the stable where the of God. took
upon him our flesh. It is a small chap
el, where numerous lamps are kept con
stantly burning before an altar, beneath
which is a silverstar bearing this inscrip
tion :
"ilk de Vireos )/aria 311.414 ['bridals oaten eat "
There are two other altars in the
grotto. One with a marble manger is
intended to indicate the spot of the
shepherd's adoration, the other that of
the Magi. Good pictures hang over the
two altars. The other ornaments of
the chapel, excepting some lamps of
precious metal, are quite plain. Near
the grotto of the Nativity is that of St.
Jerome, (containing his sepulcher.)
whore he spent several years of his life
and wrote the Vulgate translation of
the Scriptures, and where also occurred
that " last communion" so vividly paint
ed by Domenichino.
Of the verity of the tradition which
fixes the scene of the Nativity in the
grotto of Bethlehem, hut little need be
said. The question has been ablyexam
ined, and though some still doubt, ma
ny are convinced of its truth. The
church was built only some IWO years
after Christ's crucifixion. The locality
of an event like the Messiah's incarna
tion would not be likely to be lost in so
short a time. The City of Bethlehem
is a small compact town, and undoubt
edly on its original site. This grotto
at any rate cannot be far off from the
manger to which Joseph and the Virgin
resorted, because there was no room for
them in the inn. The eaves in this
country are used as pens for cattle and
sheep to this day. I have seen them
so employed both in Egypt and in the
Valley of Jehosluiphat. It is of' small
profit to dispute about precise localities.
On, or very near this spot, occurred
that wonderful event which awoke the
songs of • the angels in Heaven—the
promised Messiah, "conceived of the
Holy Ghost, was born of the Virgin
"
From Bethlehem we pursued oar way
southerly along the aqueduct of Solo
mon, which runs on the side of a steep
stony valley. In the bottom of this
valley, a few miles up, there is an agri
cultural establishment connected with
the English Mission on Mount Zion.—
We descended to visit it. The narrow
base of the valley is cultivated as a gar
den , planted with fruit-trees and flowers.
The establishment is designed to cul
tivate industrious habits among the na
tives, and to develop the fruitfulness of
the country under proper tillage. We
took our noon lunch in the garden un
der the shade of a spreading fig tree,
and then set out to visit the cave of
Adullum, about an hoar and-a-half to
tho south-east.
The path leads down the same valley.
It is,very narrow at the bottom, with
sides rising rocky and steep. Atter
leaving the Burdens there is but a Scan
ty vegetation among ledges and great
blocks of limestone which cover the
ground. Soon the descent of the val
ley becomes very great as it begins to
plunge downward toward the deep de
pression of the Dead Sea. Leaving the
bottom, now become a wild glen, we fol
lowed a sort of goat path along Ow
side, where our mountain ponies scrum
' bled among rocks and loose stones in
some difficult and dangerous places.—
We left the animals at last at the ruins
of an extensive establishment, once per
haps a convent. standing in a wild and
desolate spot. It is on a steep hill side,
looking down almost perpendicularly
into a gulf of several hundred feet.—
Wild cliffs rise on the opposite side of
the narrow glen, whose windings are
seen for some miles below, descending
rapidly and tilled with mountain debris.
In this strangely savage region the
youthful David dwelt when he fled from
the hand of Saul. Here he gathered
together a company of outlaws, over
Whom he became a sort of robber
captain. llalf a mile beyond the ruin,
in the side of the precipice along which
are the evidences of an ancient road cut
in the rock, we came to the cave. A
small aperture conducts by several
windings into an ample cavern with a
lofty roof. Our candles could scarcely
send their rays to the rocky
Diverging- passages lead from this hall,
one of which penetrates the mountain
a quarter of a mile. The opening in
some places isjust passable on thirhands
and knees. There is room in the cavern
for the coneealment of quite a body of '
men. The cave of dullu in is mentioned
in I Sum, xxii. It is supposed that
David composed here the 57th and 1-12 d
Psalms.
Ou our return we descended by a '
scrambling path, and pursued our way
among the loose rocks in the bottom of'
the valley. After some miles of this
difficult travelling, where we were often
obliged to dismount and lead our horses,
we left the glen by a lateral opening on
the north,ascending toward Bethlehem.
The country immediately about the city
is remarkably well cultivated. The
steep hillsides are terraced and planted
with figs and olives. At the bottom of
the valleys are grain fields. In some
of these Muth the Noabitess followed
the reapers of Boaz. In one of the deep
val e s iv pointed out the place where
the shepherds received the angelic visi- I
tat ion.
Climblng the hill to Bethlehem by a
steep rock• road, we stopped to see the
ancient well fir whose waters David
longed in the wilderness. It .stands
under an old vaulted portico just out
side the town. There are two curbs of
marble, mach worn by the friction of
ropes. A crowd of girls were busv at
the well drawing water with little
leathern buekgts and pouring it into
large skins, which they carried off on
their shoulders. The scene was qylite
an Oriental one, and the damsels them
selves were many of them very pretty.
They were as usual loaded with heavy
silver bra( ele's and with strings of
coins on their foreheads. They drew
water tbr us to drink in the patriarchal
style, while we stood admiring the sim
ple manners which have existed in this
country unchanged since patriarchal
days.
on another occasion we took a jour
ney of two days to the northward of
Jerusalem, visiting a number of scrip
tural localities. We slept at Bethel,
perhaps on the very ground where Ja
cob laid down to rest, and where he
4 dreamed. The country is a succession
of high, stony hills, with but little culti
vation. As respects its fertility, Judea
is the least inviting portion of Pales
tine.l The villages are nearly all ruins
-of ancient towns, once strongholds sur
rounded by walls. They are almost in
variably on the summits ofbills, located
with reference to defence. The popu
lation is now small and wretched, lic-
I ing in hovels, or in the half-fallen yank
ed houses of their predecessori. The
buildings are all of gray limestone, with
domed roofs of mud or stone. The men
always go armed with guns and swords.
The women wear a great deal of orna
ment, generally composed of numerous
silver coins bound in an arch over the
4head. The little children aregood
looking and many of them have re
markably pleasing countenances. Un
der proper culture they might be train
ed up into a respectable community.—
Their case is almost hopeless, however,
'tinder theprlsentgovernment—Moslem
bigotry and the unfavorable forma, of
_Christianity in the East.
From Bethel wolraveled westward
down a dee_p valley, whose waters flow
into the Mediterranean. Down this
pass both Joshua and Samuel pursued
the muted ranks of the Philistines. We
ascended to the upper Bothoron, an,
ancient fortress on the sharp summit of
a projecting knob. The view from
hence is very broad to the westward,
the central chain of hills titat runs
through Palestine breaking off here
suddenly nearly 2,000 feet. The ranges
fur to north and south across the low
lands, including the plain ufSharon'and
the land of the Philistines, bounded by
the sea at the distance of some thirty
miles. On this lofty elevation the con
quering Joshua is thought to have stood
when he commanded the sun to stand
still upon Gibeon and the moon in the
Valley of Ajalon. The latter is a green
valley distinctly visible to the west;
the former a small town some miles off
to the southeast.
I hive no room togireyou an amount
of my journey to the Dead Sea without
swelling this letter to au unpardonable
length. I reserve it, therefore, ae well
as some notes of my further ramblings
through Holy Land, and of blunascus,
which is a quee?r l / 4 place, the most thor
oughly oriental of all the cities of the
East, for another occasion. tt H."
niortilanemo.
Editorship.
We have known a very learned gen
tleman to obligingly bring us a contri
bution with the remark, that as we
were continually occupied, it mist
doubtless be quite an accommodation
to receive a good article once in awltile
—and on examining the "good" article
in question, we have found three gross
grammatical emirs, divers sins of awk
wardness, and two words mispolled in
the first and second sentences. A lec
ture, which will bear printing as it is
delivered, is an exception ; and, in a
word, there are very few men, who have
not served a regular apprenticeship in
the types, who can sit down, and, with
out " halt or let," express their thoughts
readily and fluently in writing. Yet,
with all this, we daily meet with gen
tlemen who, because they have made
an occasional hit in a letter to a-friend,
or have elaborated a drawling story or
poem in some incautious paper, talk
dashingly of journalism, and graciously
inform us how they would make things
fly round, if they were only editors.
Singular—every man,no matter how
stupid he is, always seems to be morally
convinced that if everything else fails,
ho can either manage a small farm or
edit a paper—and experience shows
that where there are a hundred educa
ted young men capable of successfully
practicing a profession, there is not
more than ono or two who is really
enough of a genius, a scholar, and a
man of practical sense, to make a good
editor. In fact, though all the world
reads papers, there are ver}• few out of
the business who have ever taken the
pains to acquire much ixformation rela
tive to it—and the natural consequence
is, that its difficulties are unappreciated.
4-Boston Investigator.
One of the Want., not Supplied.—The
New York Post, referring to the abun
dance of good food produced in the
United States, and the scarcity of indi
viduals competent to prepare it for the
table as it ought to be prepared, says:
" We want schools for nooks as much
as for physicians; even more, for people
want to eat every day, but they only
want. a doctor occasionally; and they
would want one much less frequently if
they were better fed, that is, if their
twere better prepared. How often
oVs it happen that the professing cooks
know how to make good bread or to
boil a good potato or a cabbage? It is
As much as a man's life is worth to tray
el through the interior and less fre
quented portions ofour western country,
so apt are they at spoiling the produce
of the soil in preparing it for•the table.
In three months a man or woman of
fair intelligence could be taught more
of the art of preparing the gifts of
Providence for the nutriment of Man
than is possessed by ninty-nine hun
dredths of the most experienced of our
American cooks. Who will move in the
matter? Who is prepared to take his
rank among our great national benefac
tors by setting such an institution in
motion ?"
11611 - Marshall Caste!lane, a rigid dis
ciplinarian, called out the garrison of
Lyons one sultry day and made them
go through all the movements and inci
dents ot' a pitched battle on a small
scale. In the midst of terrible volleys
of musketry, executed at his orders, he
observed two grenadiers who, over
powered by the heat and by exertion,
had quietly fallen on the grass. He im
mediately rode up to them, bursting
with rage, and exclaimed," You coward
ly scoundrels, what are you doing here?
While yqur comrades are fighting, you
are sleeping! Actually doing nothing !"
" I beg your pardon, Marshal," said one
of the grenadiers, " we are acting the
slain in the battle." The Marshal
smiled and turned his horse.
ler" You have no ducks beret' said
a Yankee, who was on a visit to the
fens of Lincolnshire during the shooting
season. "I was on the Chespeake once
in the duck season. The boys got tired
of shooting with their double-barrels,
and we got a cannon from the town,
loaded with a bag of B B shot, hatilod
her to the river, levelled her and tired.
I tell you ducks was that We gather
ed three thousand, and the crippled got
away. But that was not all, for the
bag the shot was in fell over the bead
of a greyhead when it came out of the
cannon, and I taught him before he got
clear."
mar •By the year two thousand, it
is probable that manual labor will
have utterly ceased under the sun,
and the occupation of the adjective
"hard-fisted,' will have gone forever.
They havo now a potato-digging ma
chine,
.which, drawn by horses down
the rows, digs the potataes, separates
them from the dirt, and loads them up
in the cart, while the owner walks along
side, whistling, with his hands in hi's
pockets.
16rA Judge charging a jury had oc
casion very frequently to make use of
of the words mortgagee and mortgagee.
The foreman of the jury asked the
judge the meaning of the words. can -
didly confessing he di I not know their
import. His lordship tiwetiously ex
plained them thus:
4 , 1 NOD to you—you notice me;
I'm the NOD-U, you the gOD-EL"
TWO DOLL :U{B A-YEAR.
Brigham Young a New Yorker. ,
Both Brigham Young and Heber 11.
Kimball are New Yorkers. Brigham
lived near the line dividing Ontario old
Monroe counties, in'the town of Victdir,
at the time he became a Mormon. Ho
hail always manifested a proclivity to
religious fanaticism, or ratfieilu) was a
lazy rapscallion, good fbr nothing ef
cept to howl at a camp meeting. lie
lived in a log shanty, with a dilapidated i
patient, suffering wife, surrounded bytui,
host of tow-headed children. Occaski
r
ally he made ups lot of axe helves s 'd
traded them off for sugar and tea;
?rt
other fits of industry he would d a
day's work in the hay field for a nei h
bor. hoe the potatoes in his own little
patch, or pound clothes for his 4ife
on a washing day. But his special Mis
sion was to go to camp meetings and
revivals, - - Were he managed to get.'his
daily bread out of the more wealthy
brethern, in consideration of the unction
with which he shouted "ga-lor-ah '."—
On such occasions lirigham took no
thought of the morroiv, but cheerfully
putting on his old wool hat, would leave
his family without flour in the barrel or
wood at the door, and telling his wife
that the
. "Lord would provide," he
would put, off for a week's absence.
Poor Mrs. Brigham managed by.
.borrowing fr rm her neighbors, with the,
small hope ot'paying; choptied the wood
herself, and with an old aun-bonnet—
Navarino style L-went to the spring af
ter water, thordughly convinced that
her lot was not of the easiest, and that
hei husband was, to use a western ex
pression, an "ornery cuss," in which
sentiment all who knew him joined.—
People were getting very tired of Brig
ham when Mormonism turned up. lie
was just the man for the religion, and
the religion seemed expressly adapted
to him. He became an exhorter, held
neighborhood meetings, ranted and
howled his doctrines into the minds of.
others as weak as himself, arid finally
went west with the rest of them, where
he has developed his powers, until the
poor, miserable, rustic loafer is govern
or of a territory and the chief prophet
of a great religious sect. He has just
the mixture of shrewdness and folly
which is required fur Success in fanati
cism or quackery-. • A wiser man could
not hold his place. A man must be half
fool and halt' knave to be a successful
quack. j i,
Hebei C. Kimball, was a man of more
respectability. He was born a fanatic,
and if he were not a Mormon would- tv
something else just like it. In 'h4l,.
church—he was a Baptist originally—*
ho was one of those pestilent fellows
who want resolutions passed at church
meetings withholding fellowship from
somebody else, and insist on having a
political codicil added to the Bible.—
We believe he had some property. Ile - ,
has much more talent than Brigham
Young, but is inferior to him in the ele
ments of quackery. He has very re
spectable relatives now living in the
part of Monroe county from which he
started.
A Hen House Ravisher.—ln Albany a
few days since, a ben house belonging
to a Mr. Phelps, was broken into and '
robbed. Mr. Phelps being angry, al
lowed thathe would "lay for the thief,"
and shoot him. This drew out the fol
lowing reply :
To Mr. Orsin Felps :—Bain one of '
that are clas that gets poltry.anny way
it can be got, and understandin from
your advertisement ins newspaper that
you have sum chickens left, and that
you'd got a pistol and sum bin pil to
give to the man what stole 'em, this is
to certify that I shall come to-night, and
I have got a howitzer with me crammed '
fall of miles, tax and other iron implu
monts. I hay marked your size on the
side of a church, and been practisin on ,
it for a week, and don't think I can
miss vou. So elm on with your pistil
and blu pil. After I get through Bring -
at you, I'll carry home the "dada' oa
the howitzer.
A' HEN Ilousa RAVISHER.
One bul of the Railroad /n.—An Ala
bamian, a few days since, went out to
see the depot of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad. Near the depot wereeeveild
Irish divymen. Thinking to quiz them,
ho shouted to one—
" Has the railroad got in ?"
"Ono ind has, sir," was the prompt
response.
•
/WA ioman is _either worth a good
deal or nothing. If good for nothing,
she is not worth getting jealous for; if
she be a trne woman, she give ni)
cause for jealousy. A man is a brute
to be jealous of a good woman—a fool
to be jealous of a worthless one; but is
a double fool to cut his throat for either
of them.
IfirWidow Grizzle's husband lately
died of cholera. In the midst of the
most acute bodily pain, after the band of
death had touched him, and while writh
ing in agony, his gentle wife said to
" Well, Mr. Grizzle, you needn't kick
round so, and wearall the sheets out, if
you are dying !" - ,
/® - Some " queer fish " in St. Louis,
in allusion to the " bill for the benefit of
married women" before the Missour►
Legislature, asked it they , had better
not do something for the henatit of the
single ladies, and not trouble themselves
about other men's wives.
flia - Punch says that every family. ,
ought to keep a kitten to surnlse a t
children. They should also keep '
dren to amuse the kitten.
siTA philosopher who had marriethr,
vulgar but amiable *I, used So call lker'
Brown Sugar," beeanse,, be asitl,Auw.
NrSei sweet, but unrefined!' , •
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NO. 48.