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BL 4T Proprietor.
antatiott.
Carlisle Female,Seminary.
IVIISSES PAINW will commence the
SITiVINIER SE3S,.ION of their Seminary
on. the second nonday in April, in n new and
rm•rintodmus school room, .next door to Mr.
Leanard•s, No-th Hanover street.
Ilstroetion in the languages an. 'rowing, no
extra charge.
qustc tti..4.l)t by n exiierienced toticher,at
an oxtra charge. (sept3tl)
Plainfield Classical Academy
Near Carlisle, Pa.
rninE Ilith Session will commotion MAY Ist.
lt A retired and healthful location, with thou ,
ouch instruction in the various. departments 0.1
Classinal or Mercantile education.
'farms—Board and 'ruition (per
sessiortj; • - - - - • 860 00
ta'A4r_Gat4lvgit2s with full information, address
K.:131112.
P/ipcipa/ & Proprietor.
Plainfield, Climb, Co., Pa.
Vit1189733 BALL C,f.t. D INKS.
Three miles West of Harrisburg, Pa.
T HE
SEVENTH SESSION of this flour-
fishing Institution ill commence on
MONDAY, the la day of MAY next, The ad
vantage's which it allot ds, it is'heliexed, are ,rn
superior -character, and parents and guardians
are' solicited to inquire into its merits"before
tir.ndiag their sons .or wards elsewhere. It is
tavoraltty_sitosied; the instructors are nil com
pc,•ent a7fd oxperieneed men; the course 'el in
struction is extensive and thorough, and special
attention is paid to the comfort and health of
the students:"
Terme.
Boarding, Washing, Lodging, and '
Tuition in Englishomd Vocal flu.
lie, per session (s'months),
Instrnetion in Ancient or Modern
Languages, each, 5.00
Instrumental Music, 10'00
For Circulars and other information address
D. DENI,IN GER,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Mar .8
Young Ladies Select School,
CARLISLE, PA.
THE summer, term of this stbool will com
mence on MOnday, May let. The patro
nage-of the citizens is again respectfully soli
cited, and parents in the-vicinity who contem
plate sending their'daughters away for educa
tion, are invited to make inquiries concerning
the merits of this school. The tuition ranges
from $5,00 to $B,OO per quarter not including
Drawing, Painting and Fancy Needlework,
which are charged, each, $2,00 extra. -
A few scholars can be accommodated with
board in the family of the Principal.
References in Carlisle.—Judge Watts, Judge
Hepburn, R M. Biddle, Esq., Geo. W. Hither,
Dr. T. C. Stevensan. •
MrM. J. F. DOWNING, Principal
April 5, 1854.
CUDI'D. Vii LEI INSTITUTE,
(MALE AND FEMALE.)
At Mechanicsburg, Pa.
It EV.' JOS. S. LOOSE, A. ai , Bet. W. H.
SUPER, A N., Principals; assisted by ex
perianced Teachers. .This Institution opens
its summer session- on, the Ist of.-MAX. The
buildings are new and commodious, the rooms
large and well ventilated. 'Parents and Guar
dirine are invited to come and see this Institu
tion, and inquire into its merits (as rare ad
vantages aro a ff orded,) before ending their
sons and daughters elsewhere. Besides the
regular literary and olassionl'-course of the
Institution, instruction is givenon the•vririous
musical instruments, such as Piano, Melodeon,
us well as on Brass, Stringed and. Wind
Instruments.
TERMS,:
Board Room and Tuition in English
branches & vocal •musis per session, $55,00
Latin, Greek, French & German each, 5.00
Music—on Piano or Melodeon, 12,00
For circular address
JOS. S. LOOSE,
Mechanicsbarg, Cumberland co. Pcnu'a
march 29-2 m. .
tar6s:
DE. GEO. W. .ILVE/DICIX
TIENTIST, carefully a..tends to all operations
IF Upon WO teeth and adjacent parts that dis
ease of irregularity May require.. • He will also
twain Artificial Teeth of every description.
such no Pivot, Single and :Block teeth, mad
teeth with Contitionua Gains;" end will con
struct Arttficial Palates; -Olituraturs, ,
ting Pima, and every appliance used iii the
ThatarArt.—Operating Room at thi residence
or Dr. Samuel Elliott, East High St. Carlisle.
Dr. GEORGE Z. lasmwz
WlLLertain nl
- - operation! upon the
teeth that may be re
rimaired for their preservation. Artificial teeth
inserted, from a single tooth to anentire sot, of
the in ISL, suio t ific principles. Diseases of the
in tat:hand irregularitios•carefully treated. 01
ft to at the residence of-hie brother, on. North
Fitt Street. Carlisle
Dili. X. C. LOOVIXS,
WILL perform all
li v e, operations upon the
„
•• . loath that ore requi•
red for their preservation, such as Sealing,Filing
Plugging, tire, or will restore the lose of theni,
by inecrung Artificial Teeth, from a single tooth
to ft fail sort. fj"Oflice on Pitt street, areal;
d tors south of tho Railroad Friel. Dr. L. is ab
'ent from Carlisle the last ten drive of °veil'
`month. ••• • , '
F. N. RPSEASSEELIit.
(fUSE, Sign, Palley and Ornemental
11. Painter, trviti's tlormerly;llarpor's) Row
rmxt do Ir to Trout'S flat -tore. Ile will at•
Li.l I pr
.).1111y to all the shove descriptiens 01
1,1616;4, at relsonable prices. The various
kin la 01 :;raining a tended to, such as ma hog .
!my; elk, wilnnt , &c., id the improved on yles
C July .14, 1852-Iy.
C. S. Ban=
ESPEGT ULLY (dyers hie prol:eesioila
acrvine to the eitizonsof Corliele and eur•
rounding country.
and residence in South Hanover street,
directly onlineild to.tha ". Volunteer Office."
Corlislyt, •111120,'1953 , ' •
•
G. D.. COLE,
A • TV - 0 RN EY ATL A W, will :Wend
priimptlyto all business entrusted to him.
in the-room formerly oboupied by Wil
liam leyiim, Earl:, North Hanover St ,
1852 i • " '
R. *II3CIZIPMEIIV,
.
ArIiPPRI tf; in' North fltuioverstrUct adjoini9g,
Nt. JP Itr.•Wolf's'sfortr, 011 ice hours, thore
ticularly from 7 t 0 .9 'o'clock, A. M., and Irom
to 7 o'clock. P. n.
dik .PUOILIJ/G1
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~•BOOK.BI .1100..K,8,0
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Year in Turkey, by Ulade. , -.: -
'Hope and 'Mishaps,.by'Groce Greenwood.' t
Greenwood Leaves, • ; sdo , , do -' •
Th 6. adyentaree of a Coantry . .Mort haat, by
the author of c' Wild Weetrrn,Sretiee."
Tho Two Roada---.Mo.ltight. nnd: tho Wrong—
published by:Lippineott,'Gramho'& C o .
The Lamplighter......:. • , . . • .
Potipliar Panora heet,Saelety in NeW York
caning on FroirTrerip of Americo, , •
Almiittlways on limid a.lorge tioaoritnorittifi
Billion' Books, Stationery, &e, forlialo tiye •
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E TWO' THINGS,' SAITH ' LORD BACON, . WHICH MAKE 'A N'ATION( R I BA , D IMOSPEROUS—A 'FERTILE' SOIL AND' 813.§:r :WOnKSIIOX,S;44,O,.:wmen • ADO KNOWLEDGE AND :FREEDOM.—.O
THERE 'AR
[We find the foltowing beautiful poem going
tbe iintuds 'of the pres 4, credited to the late
Bev. Dr.Atstans, and said to 'have been
t, written an the occasion of the death of a sou
of Dr. C's., whoni he greatly loved." But this
is not so. 'The author is T. D. ROBINSON', of
Newburyport, Mass., and was 'published first
in the Now York Tribune, and from thence
found its way into the columns of a few papers
iu the Union. Subsequently it was copied
to. the journals across the' Atlantic, Dr. Chal
mers tretked, with the-authorship, and again,
finds its way into the columns of the Ainerican
press, which unmindful and unwatchful of war
own literature, bestows the highest encomium
on anything foreign, just as if "notiiirig good
could come out of Nazareth " "Honor to
whom honor is due," is a precept seldom borne
in mind.]
I am alone in my chamber now, .
And the.midnight liour is near,, Dick ;
And the luggot's crack, and , the clock's dull
Are the only sounds I hear.
And over my soul in its solitude,
Sweet feelings of gladness glide,
For my heart and my eyes Are full when I think
Of the little boy that died.
I went one night to my father's house—
Went home to the dear ones tsil
And softly I opened tb 3 garden gate,
And softly the door of the ball.
My mother came out to meet her son—
She kissed me nod then 'she sighed,
And her head fell on my neck, and she wept
For the little boo that died.
$55 00
I shall miss him When the flowers come,
In the garden.where he played ;
I shall miss him more by the fire-side,
When the flowers have decayed.
I shall ewe his toys and his empty chair,
And the horse-he used to ride;
And they will speak with n silent speech
Of the little boy that died.
We shall go home to ottr Father's house—
To our Father's house in the skies,
Whel•o the hope of our soulSshall have no blight
• • Our love no broken ties. [peace,
'We shall Warn 00 the-banks of the river of
And bathe in the blissful tide,
And one of the joys of our heaven, shall be
The little boy that died. ,
mrigiiiu[bitettrg.
- y For the Herald
NOTES BY THE WAY.
No. WI
Southern Fortning
My last was devoted to a fev!.crude remarks
upon the' state of agricaltu're in Maryland ;
in this I will continue my observations upon
the same subject, and note the peculiarities
which distinguish the farming of eastern Vir
ginia and North:Carblina.
Agriculture, like every thing else, is back
ward, and when . compared with the modes of
tillage in•Vennsylvania, does not merit much'
consideration.' Southern plantations are, in
reality, very different from the representations
which are' usually given. My 'idea of one,
was a stretch of land, as far as - the eye 'Can
reach, under'a high state of cultivation; with
a mansion, surrounded by a number of com
fortable houses for his servants, occupying n
-commanding position, which affords the wean
thy planter the pleasure'of beholding his fields
groaning beneath the burthen of a luxuriant
harvest; indeed combining all the pleasures
of country life.
But mymexpectations were not realized. In
stead of beholding fields regularly laid out,
irregular patches met my view:- Slost of the
land cultivated is upon the borders of the
streams, whilst the uplands are still covered
by the virgin forests: 6d much the larger
portion of the land which constitutes a smith
ernSplatitation remains uncultivated. But, as
the country is sparsely inhabited, the natural
increase in the value of the lands and uegroes
preserves the wealth of the proprietors, which
is not diminishing, but increasing at a slow
rate. The planters av a general thing, are
monied men, but when we compare ti section
of the souih with a sectictn of the same
di
pensions in the north, we find that, aggro
gntely, the wealth of the south Is much less
than that of,,the sections north Alaeon and
Dizon's line.
The disadvantage-ranting from one mauls
possessing large quantities of land is lamenta
bly exhibited throughout the southern por
tions of the Union. If industrious white men
could be induced to settle here and cultivate
the soil, instead of trusting to the labor of
uninterested blacks, we would soon observo
different state of thing.... • r
The highest ambition of a southern farmer
appears to be, that. he may do nothing himself
and have as large a number of negroeB as lie
can possibly feed, priding, himself, without
doubt, more upon the force he can muster
thou the advantage he should receive, from
their labor. A force of slaves, numbering
from twenty to twenty five, all told, large and
small, young and old, does not accomplish
more than about four or five white men at the
north, and so it is often, the case, that upon
jarge plantations it is difficult to make' " both
ends meet
The farther south we advance, the difference
iti tillage; crois produced, and utensils tisdil
becomes more • npperent. Tobacco, corn and
somo'wheat era the principal crops. • Corn is
'used a gteat deal(for food, the - baking of which
is the fat t otitiffif Om negro cook. -Flour
'are et ounsilittrable ilititances D itpart. and 'it. is
' extremely ' dimbtful. whether the flour meou.
factored in many of them would,be 'considered
marketable iti 'the 'exporting cities., I arailed .
myself - :of an Opportunity to eitariaitio , the
structure niamachinery of two mills in North
Catelinn.' The ono was not cipable of doing
merchant work, raid its gearing was rude end
unwOrktimnlllio. •tobsorred a-fixtnrefor sift
ing corn Meal,' different from any . , I lutist heron.
„. •
• seen—a sliding 'rectangular sievo,•moved:bi
being 'connected With another pare ortho-tna:
cbinery. , The other was upon-a largersealo,'
:but not much superior in other respects.
no farming, liter Mils display very little;
perfection of workmanship.; filtnitlf right hand
ploughs are used to some .ettent; hut Most. or
the ploughing:ls . done- with :ehtrrel pl9ughs.
One kind which is generally used, tailed the
put%
CARLISLE,. WEDNESDAY, MA;Y
Dutch plough, consists of' n board and
sidling,•without coulter or shear, and is drawn
by one horse. It stirnthe ground to the depth
of three or 'four inches, without 'bringing to
the.. surface any or very : little of tho lower
portion of the soil. Through curiosity I tools .
bold of one of these ploughs, and was sur
prised to' notice with what ease they can ho
regulated. They would bo useless in a heavy
clay soil, but as the land hero is sandy they
do pretty well.' Pennsylvanians would look
upon such tillage as the surest way of impov
erishing their lands, whilst the Carolinians . _
imagine that they merit the reputation of be.
ing successful ngriculiuralists. if the Smith
sonian' Institute, the Bureau of Agriculture, or
some association, 'was' to offer . 11 piemiuuf kir
the bUst.mode 'of impoverishing and killing.
land, the enetern portion ofW - i v- 4okt
pails of North Carolina would likely be the
euccessfal com'petit'ors for distinction.
The manner of stacking their grain is sin
gular and ludicrous. The modes operandi of
bnild:ng these staoklets, as I would, call them,'
is to place a pole about ten feet in height in
the ground for a support, and then to place
la) era of.grain so that thelops all meet in the
centre, and can he fastened to the pose. • Judg
ing from their size I feel safe in saying that
there is as much as fifteen or twenty dozens of
oats in one of them. I have been informed
that such a thing as a double stack containing
from twenty.fiva to dirty dozens, is of no un
common oczurrence. It in decidedly amusing
to see fifteen or twenty or-these stacklets
stretched along the thoroughfares.
Very little attention is paid to manuring.
When a field becomes so poor that it will not
produce any crop, it itereshecHated by resting
it, that is by pormifting it , to lie idle for a
number of years: Scrubby pines soon grow
thickly upon it„ which are said to have the .
desired effect. If the uplands were tilled and
the meadows were permitted to lie in grass,
this country would be capable of producing
superior cattle, but very little attention is paid
to grazing, and the consequence is that but
little fine stock is reared. Herd grasi, a spe
cies similar to our timothy, is principally
grown. There is a kind called broom grass,
which is considered injurious to the land.: It
grows principally upon poor lands, and when
young and tender makes tolerably good pas
ture, but when old is entirely useless except
in making brooma. Clover is almost unknown.
A gentleman informed mo that ho was the
only fanner, that ho knew of, Who bad any
sown, and that he sent to the north for it. By
the way, the southerners are continually
speaking of the aggressions - of the north,.
whilst almost every comfort and improvement_
which they possess, comes from the northern
cities, and this preference fOr northern manu
factures, is assigned as ono great cause for
the backwardness of the south. If a. man
wants a slab of marble, he will pay the freight
from New York or Philadelphia ; sooner than
put up maeltinery to prepare the marble which
lies buried in the hills around him.
The climate of North-Carolina, during the
winter is much milder than that of Pennsyl
vania. Very little snow falls, but rain makes
up for the deficiency. The inhabitants com
plain of the cold as much as we do in higher
latitudes of our climate, but the difference in
severity is very apparent to one changing his
location in the winter time. .Gardening com
mences in February, and peach trees blossom
in the commencement of 'March.. But,' a's' 'the
weather is remarkably changeable in the
spring, they run a great risk of being, nipped
by the frost.
An observation which was omitted in a for
mer number, I will now ,make. Teamsters,
when upors,the road, are in the habit of camp
ing ist night. During the nights I spent in
the stage, my attention was attracted to fires
by the wayside. They proved to be enamel).
ments of wagoners, and from the remains of
camp fires, which are to bd seen by the'road
side dteppear t e to be a general custom.
TITS 1111811 GIRL'S STRATAGEM—An amu
sing instance of Ilibernion simplicity is afford
ed in the following little story, told us• by a
-friend, in whose words we give it : 7 -
Molly, our housemaid is a model one, who
handles the broomstick liken sceptre, and who
has an abhorrence for dire undo sympathy for
. soap-suds that amounts to p a passion. She is
a bustling, buiy, rosy checked, briiht eyed,
blundering Ilibernian,'who hovers about our
book shelves, makes war upon our love papers,
in the shape of utidus:ed and unrighted =-
Mrs.
One day bile entered our library in a.confa
sed and uncertlin.manner, qnite different from
the usual bustling way. She stood at the
door with a letter between her thumb and
fingerer:telt she held out at arm's length, as
‘ tdici'hO n gnapowder plot in ler grasp. In
answer to ourinquiries as to her business, she
answered: • ' . •
"An'- it please yer honor, I'm is poor girl,
nn' hnn't much laming, an' ye see,, place yer
honor, Paddy O'Reilly, and the better than
him don't brathe in old Ireland, has been wri
ton' mo n letther—a love latthei, plose yer.
.honor, au' •
'filoptbssed at her embarrassment, and Off
ered to relieve it, by reading it to her. • Still
,she hesitated. :while the twisted,a bit of raw
cotton in her fingers. •
"Sure," she resumed, "an' that's just.what
I want, but it "isn't' tigintleman like yerself
that would be likin' to know of the secrets be
tween ok, nu' so; (here she twisted the, cotton
: quite Nervously) if only plane yer honor,
while yer radipg it, so that ye may not bear
it yerself, y'll fiat put this bit o' Cotton in yer
eora on".stop yer an' then the allergia 'it
be unbeknown to ye!"
Ve.badn't the heart, to refuse her; and with
the gravest face possible, complied with her
request; but often since we: have Wished
heartily as we related :theiricidene.—N.
...TOIIOIIITICI 'PROOFS OH /4C1A1113. , —T '.boye re •
said , Titmarsh, for eierrman on boar..
that ehipo /Coot the captain down ,to.the oree ,
—down' even to the cook, with' tattooed arms'
sweating among -the saucepans. in the galley
who used (with a totiching affection) to,,sen
no looks of hair itr the soup. w
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. ' TUE MORMON couN itir.l.[
GREAT SALT:LAKE CITY, MOATI.TER4 1 '-
. March 4th, 1854, .4 .:.
'Mr. Firroat—The reel' of stern oldTitne„
has not yet completed one revolutiOte'aiticel'
left Carlisle to seek my fortunes elsewheie;
Last year, on the 11th day of April 1 bide
farewell to the "court town of Petinsylvania,"
and now on the 6th of March of '64 I find my
self some four thousand miles farthSr towards
sundown, in 'a vall:eyof the Rocky Miiiintuins.
Thinking that. O . tleOription of this; dOti . iry
nd;it . s.inhabitants, and in•fact.tho vast extent
between this territory and. the
- Stitee=ntraprikiniihicteiritorrof RefitakititT
which will in all probability soon be ppm fey
settlement—might prove interesting '4O : the
readers of the herald, I :respectfully 'submit
what follows.
The country between Independence, Mo. and
Fort Kearney, in Nebraska territory, is, as a
general thing,'well adapted to the
principal objection being the soarceiti of tim
bet'. It is well watered, and in *soinn'''pleees
good crops tire raised, without irrigntlon,*by
the civilized- Indians, and also at 'thedifferent
Misslonb. The principal streams are the Cali
(Kansas) river, Big , Vermillion,
lion, Big and Little Blue river; and
creek, none of which streams are nrivigabld for
steamllmits. Flat LoatS run ftp the tintinn
river as far as Port Union. The first tribes"Of
Indians through which the entigrant'pASSee
after leaving die Missouriline-at Westport, are
the Shawnees and Potinivattomies, thdiej'how - -
ever, are nearly all civiliie I, and most of them
have good farms under good oultivatlon. 7 -
IVithin ten miles of the Missourilitietheisi tire
three _Missions, .viz: Methodisti-'oattiolio and
Quakers; besides numerous others areencouu
tered within a hundred and filly milesnf those
above named. Thetbat tribes between those'
above named and Fort Kearney, are the Otoes
and Pawnees. The Otoes, however, are noth
ing more than a band who. have. detached
themselves from the Pawnees. Both tribes
aro very thievish.
Fort Kearney is scarcely deserving of the
name of fort, from the Met of •its being noth
ing more than a mere India?' stockade. The
houses aro mostly built of adubeeg, nod Covered
with sod, there4ira however • several frame
buildings there. 'At the time It was there
there were only about thirty men at the post,
under the command of some pompons qaptain.
I have no doubt the duties of fk !icor
poral's guard"-proved Ter.v.Asduotra to him.
At Fort Kearney the emigrant first strikes
the. South Platte (shallow river.) This stream
is as wide as the Susquehanna at Harrisburg.
The country on the south side of the river for
about 160 miles is relnarkably,beautip4• From
the river for a distance of twenty, miles south;
the country ie undulating and terminates in
lofty bluffs. I would style them mountains; at
least in most places. At the season of the
year in which I passed through this country,
the OMB was filled with buffalo. This coon
'try belongs to the Sioux Indians, who are, in.
general, very peaceably dispDsed, and boast of
having never shed the blood of "pale faces."—
After crossing the South Platte, it is a dis
tanco of some twenty - miles along the Califor
nia road, to where the North Platte first pre
' Bents itself to view: This river is rather
deeper than the South Platte, though not half
as wide. This river is foil - Owed by the emit"-
grant some three hundred miles. Along this
river there is a vast prepontleranee of bad land
over tho•'good, espeolally after leaving Fort
Laramie;" fOr already is the near approach of
the Rooky Mountains felt. •
Fort Laramie is more deserving of the name
of 'fort than Fort Kearney. There were a
a good: many 'soldiers at this place nt the
time I passed. Near Laramie can be seen the
,holebratecl Laramie Peak . , of the Rocky Moun
tains, on which snow is seen at all seasons of
the year. After. leaving Laramie the emi
grant' follows the devious windings of the
Platte for. a long distance, and strikes the
Sweet Water nt Independence Rook, and is now,
travelling through the mountains.
After sulking the Sweet Witter the• road.
follows the course Of the river to .tho•'" South
Pass.? The "Pass is very different from any
idea that I had formed of it. :Instead of being
a deep chasm or file Mountains, it ib
nearly level.- Fo.some time before resetting
it .you gradually ascend, nod by the time you
reach the Passyou aro 7008 feet above the level
of the .sea. This thou is the dividing ridge
between the Atlantic encl . Pacific. -Immediate
ly en the weal silo -Oft-,the ridge nre the•.',Pa-
CM() and' it seemed 'rather novel to
me to see this no well as all other streams on
this side of the 'Mountains, running
west; Front the South Pees to this place it is
a • distance of two hundred miles. From there
to this place there ore several considerable
streams, viz: Green, Boar and Weber rivrirs.
Min Bridger is situated between' Green and
I Bear rivers. It is a mere Indian' trading post.
established years ego by a 'Mr. Bridger,' of
Virginia. The
last
compelled' him to
evacuate it last summer, for a breach of the
UniteeSiates laws, ft . :welshing the Utah
Indians with arena and ammunition,-thereby
endangering the lives of the citizens of Utah.
Although the Indians of this territory corer:Bin
ted various depredations during hip". summer,
I do not think they : did so at the Instigation
of Bridger.' • ;
; Lest fall tho Indians attacked the U.
pogrephical Engineers, engaged in'eurveyinia
Tonto for the Nellie Itailread, near this Val•
lei, and kiilled,Bepi. J. W. puneison and eight
men. 'the .time the ICi47, , wer'e ettncked,
they wore engaged eating their bre:dmit, and
of coursii ashewor of 'arrows would be likely
to throw-thein inte,Oonfusion.of which advent..
tago, the ICOUrrc promptly availed thernaciVes
The Mormens feel .very ozimfiiint; thaitge
central route from Bt..LooiliAhreugh the SOuth
Pass, by way of this Most be
the no adopter!
. for the "litichlie Railroad,
and have r onibearibed $1,000,000 *Weide Its
conairuotion, rqute, Should bo adopted .
I think, .however, ~that tho„Motophls route
by ,way ,of.,the,,Tejoett
be adopted. .
After tho final expulsion of the Itfor
-,,,•.,,, •,-; *p: '''' ...,„,,,,,,,
p ,...„, titi , tir. „„ r „ :
, ..
Igrirtifiarp,
:from the city of Nauvoo; ill.; they removed tb
this valley, ivincli ttros at that time a provit4e
'of Mexico, but woe ceded to tbe United Stains
by the tretitynf Guadoloupe Hidalgo. It is n
Very'wortidess piece. of land. No crops can be
raise l without irrig'gtion. ,
,The Mormons have
been hero some sit Year's, and' ifie'pciPtilation
of Ilia different willies, (of which this is the
one,) numberiittomeclo,oo. 2 Great
Salt Like City contains a population of about
10,000, and is situated 'five miles west of the
tothporingos Mountain's, pad twenty ' east of
the drerii Salt Lake. .It puntaint sevpialgood
'stores, a Social'Holl,, the Tabernacle and set , -
era' other good baildings. The.uildingi3 are
all constructed 'of adobies. Brigh'am'Young
acts as President':of the:Chnreli,,Prephet of
the Mormons, Governor Of the ,Te'rritory, and
'General - StifetTirten - defirefiridieri Affairs: - it
is very queer how remarkably cheap; titles are
in this country: President Brighain hos for T
,ty-seven ivivca, and'l am told about one hun
dred children. ilebere..Kinattallbessevehty
two-wivea; he ' IT Second Cotincilor':
Polygany'PreVails to it great extent among
them. I went to their Tabernacle on several
hear them
. , .
occasions to hear them preach but alwayaye
tired rroin the' place in diigust before ifie end
of their ceremonies. When they preach, they
du not select hay Scriptural liaitisage, but in.
(1151ga in vituperation and 'obscenity agninOt
the American people and government; All
persons who do not belong to them arontyled,
"GePtiles,V 'lbove heard'Some of their elders;
make use of Jangunge in
,referenceto the A
mericans, which is too obscene for :ears po
lite. Brigham Young professes to he the ju :
nior brother of our Saviour: but I hope the
day is opt far distant when they-shall have to
make atonement to the Amoricaa people for
past ,transgressions.
All kinds of prodUco and Wierchandlie com
mand high prim ',hero. Flour in ' w.erth
per hundred, and will. in all probability bring
$lO before the new crop can be brought into
Market. Collee is worth 7:5 cents per' pound ;
sugar, do; soap 60 . oents per 'half pound bar;
whiskey. $9 per gallon; tobacco, $1 per plug,
and everything else in proportion.
' Yours respectftilly,
w. n,,11. BURNEY.
Or)ijritliug glutttes.
FAHOUS.TRIALS IN KENTUCKY.
The ". determination of the Warm trial, in
Kentucky will pardon, if it should not impart
I interest, to the nooount which follows of some
.of more, ram.rhaWA .. (nails of murder and
street assasinition, whioli'have occured in that
;,Commonwealth Within the memory of'the pres
ent generation. A lute number of the Ercuis•
sill° Journ3l remarks upon the fact that few
or no instances of violence, in open day, re
sulting in death, are Capitally punished either
in Kentucky or any other portion of the South
or Southwest. This, for the peace of society,
is Unfortunately ro ; but we doubt whether, In
the bloody catalogue of this description of
crime, there is a single instance so nearly ap
proaching wilful, deliberate and unprovoked
murder, in the first degree, without the apo
logy of sudden heat, or the maddening influ
ence of drink, or the manly plea of an equali
ty of chance, as the shooting of Professor
Butler.• The ^ly39 of Shelby, at Lexington, to
which we shall presently refer, is the nearest,
approach to, it, and this.has the extenuation Cal
drunkenness, which its parallel has not.
The killing of Henning, the editor of the
Kentucky Gazette,-in his aim office, by young
Charles Wickliffe, in 1838, was one of the,un
happy results of the ritilent political exCite-
Metdof the period betwiien the respective ad
herents of Mr. Clay and Gen. Jack Son. The
'excitement atiouttexingt'on,'as about the Her=
mitogc, ran into bitter personal
The Wickliffe family'
,were then divided" in
polities. Robert Wickliffe, Senior, whose eon
was embroiled in this difficulty,' was profes
sedly a friend of Mr. Clay; which led to a
very personal philippic against his family in
the GazeffC, thO'Jackslii organ, over the eigna
tiira of Denham!: 'The editor, although he had
every reason to know that the author would
be held to 'responsibility, refused, on the de
inlind of young' Wickliffe to surrender his
titans; an altercation ensued,' and Beaning,
the editor, was shot dead. The greatest pos
sible. exciteincnt, both of a personal an J party
'nature, followed, and the trial of 11Viokliffe was
not permitted to take place until many months
after,' when the Adams administration had
given plebe to General Jackson, and Mr. Clay
bad returned to his profession at Lexington.
That gdrilleinaw in wheat cause, Wickliffe had,
in a measure, become involied in the charity
murder, appeared at the, Bar in .his defence.
His speech on the oebasion was ono of remark
able fire and eloquenbc-appealing loss.to the
sympathies of. the jury on behalf of the pris•
onor, ,than exciting their prejudices against
and contempt for the man who had left Ben.
-fling at the post of real danger,..which.they.
had not the manliness to occupr.thotriselves,
though willing to use, throiigh hie columns,.
the weapon of the skulkingbravo. These men
were 'Mr. Clay's, bitter persecutors, in tile can
vass 0f..1828, and be had little reason' , to res
pect and , less to spare them. ow a capital trial,
.involving the life of Ids friend, and. which
tapir work had ,brought abouty Tlie result was
theltAuittal of. but neither his cul
pability as principalo nor, Mr; Clay's positien .
ne C(4infie4 will compare with the Ward case
Or its 'volunteer defence by,Mr..Critteciden.—
Neither the motive to the killing nor the duty
of .tito advocate was the sante,"
do not know Butt Mr, i3lay won repaid,
ilinfter years, for ,hisoerricein this remarka.
ble Arial; by, the , gratitude, of tho Wickliffe
; The, '..0.1d Doke , Rebert—ak the sen;
for,,.beottuse of blueStensivo landed eStalemas
:called—never,„loved overmuch.,-?
.Personally, they .hadi , been colemporarles.ut
the, Lexington , Bar, 'rind , Imoding , and attll , o
members of the name influential. oommAnltY.
But Mr. Clay was the superior In commanding
influence,, : ftrespeotlye of, ,pelittos,,awd !. Mr.
Wickliffe was rich and ambitione,,hot pec,pepi•
nlnr frith tho mantis,
~,T4e-youpg POW,- RA
hOrt, Jr, like his father; fell Into the
support of General 11arrison, ,in, tut
after his death, became a Tyler man, was sent
upiiitegg atilt
lEEE
to Turin as Chargeal' Affairs, at which Court
she mairried on Itnlinn.lady, oral Was continued
'at the same }milt, as.a Democrat by' Mr. Polk,'
and died some years after liis recall by Gen.
TayleE z His' father deceased, if we mistake:
not,,only a year : or two niei. Young ClUirles;,
who was acquitted for killing Henning,. met a
violent death bimeelf, some 'years after, in a
duel with young Trotter, of Fayette county.—
They fought with rifles, and Wickliffe fell on
the first fire. The affair ruined Trotter; He
beCami n deepfirate unhappy man, and was
subiequently involved in a personal difficulty
with Mr. Prentice of , the Louisville Journal,,
and'came off second beet in a street attack up.'
on that ientdetnnn with pistols.
' In 1888, just ton years after the.ocurrence
at Lexington, to which re have alluded; a des-
Orate and wholesale befehery — thok - phiao at
the G tit Bosse, in Louisville, and for which.
the. homicides wore so execrated by-the coin-.
tnutilty, that their'counsel moved a change of
venue to Harrodsburg, where they worn tried .
on two counts, murder and manslaugker,' de-
fended with great ability by S. S, %Prentiss; of
Milteiesippi, of which State the prisoners were
citizens, rind acquitted' on the plea of selTde
fence. A case of juitifiable homicide was cer
tainly made plausible, if not entirely conclu
sive, as' the prisoners were called upon by a
party,. said to be armed, Tor explanation Or re-
dress,at their osvu'hotel, for an assault wliic,h
one of them bad made upon a merchant tailor
on very. slight' provecation, the same day.--
The, most herrialeature of the affair, and the
one ghat excited the greatest- ind•gnation, was
the summary use of the Murdrous bowie-knife.
No 'parley was held With the assailants. Ono
of them * was literally cut to pieces, and anoth
er fatally stabbed ; the prisoners owing to the
inequality-of weapons. ooining off with. littte
injury. The original dispute was about.the
fit of a wedding suit for one 'o the pristmers. ,
The wedding, came off, we believe, before the,
trial and acquittal, at Harrodsburg"; . the pris
oner being at large, on bail.
Another unfortunate affair took place in
Louisville, a few'years after this, with theoir- -
cumstances of which our memory is not Onr-*
Ocularly charged. Itresulted in the death by'
shooting of Mr. Leonard Bliss, a young gentle
man of literary pursuits from one of the Nor
thern States, the- friend and assistant of Mr.
Prentice, of the Journal, at the hands of Mr.
Godfrey Pope, connected with a rival paper.—
The provocation was slight, and :.the' fate of
s poor Bliss universally regretted, althougfi Pope
on a change of venue to Shelby count, we be
lieve, was acquitted on his trial.
The last case of this character to:Which WO
propblie to refer, was che_unprovolled murder .
of a young drug salesman in the Phcenix Ho
tel at Lexington, by a member of the Shelby
flintily. There was no previous acquaintance
or altercation between Shelby and his uneffen
ding victim. They met at the didner table;
Shelby intoxicated or labort3g under the eV
teem of intoxication. The fancied insult which
prompted him to use the fire arias, which are
almost as commonly worn by the. idle or sport . -
ing young bloods of the State es side arms by
the nobility in England a century or two ago,
was that:tile salesman took the liberty of eye
log him across the table, for which be was
commanded to desiit, and on making some
quiet, or, perhaps, d' nifim pr indilforentre
ply,re ivas shot throw e heart. Tho oc
currence was Sudden, u filled.' for, and des.
tardly in the highest degree, but it was the
act of a maddened inebriate, whose wealthy
and influential family employed the ablest
counsel—Mr. Clay of the number, much to the
regret of many of his frientis—to defend him
on•this plea, as they did do, successfully.
A,correspondent has called our attention. to
another murderous ocourronce, or, rather,
series of 'deadly 'affrays, , be tweenl two families
in 'Garrard county. But thiswd4faciilly feud,
coming down from one goaeratioit .to another,
iu Which both parties were, in alurge measure,
culpable, and the fatal 'events of which are
acatcolito be qupted as an illustration. cif this
course of oricuintil iuFisprudanoo in the Com
monwealth.
In the capital offences in Kentucky, punish
ea as ouch•.by the death• penalty,:there aro
two' or three very remarkable Oases'of eireum
stantiannurdtir;- by lying in wait for revenge,
,or shooting with intent to rob', the records of
which are refreshed by the Ward trial. The
murder of Baker by Deslla, in 1825, we have
idready referied to, but without alluding to
the attempted suicide of the murderer while
lel to a surgical operation on his
windpipe, which he cut with a razor instead of
Miffing the carotid 'artery.--The act of the
murder of Baker was not seen by a single wit
ness. Tho last person seen with him was
Denim, and the first person to whom his ready
mony was traced wati Naha. Be would never
confess the crime, however, and it was found
exceedingly difficult to fasten so horrid a crime
upon the son of the Bovernorof the Common-
Wealth, committed for • the Meau motive of en
joying his victim's money, about $6O in amount.
There was an earlier occurrence, under aim!.
liar cirounstanoes,' es' early as 1819-20, in Oki
county of Barren, for ,which. the supposed
-murderer. John Hamilton, Was oonvioted nod
executed. The 'Mending of Hamilton's family
was as inconsistent with the crime ne
His father was a wealthy and exemplary mem- ,
her of the Presbyterian Church, and the'atato
end oircutnetnnees of his brilthere And sisters
rather above the ordinary , plass of country so
ciety. They were esteemed proud or haughty. •
by oleir neighbors, Mid this wee the, great
misfortune to the supposed . murderer en the ~
, •
tinyAif his, trial. family hindrefteenahl!
share, of wealth..,e,xemplary ,v/itl:t 2
al„-but,not popularl in, their,benring, andteo
pyou'd to turtke choir wealth influential., John
Ilmoilton was the eldest son. 11e. was a bold
specedator,, and made his ammo! adventurpep
Novr Oricans, cooductedst that dayohjelly,on
Pat-boats; the•master and bandsrpturuipg by
steam or overhand through the , Indian coon- I
try, On,otto of theatt.irlPee,"All , Miltell fell in
with a Dr-.Handerson, of Notches, on .his way
to Kentucky, to purchase,pegroes for the plan- '1
tationstbse settling on the lower,l'ilississippi.
Hamilton Mae ainitun r of the world, of pie 'slog
address and, -captiv,atini,nt'apners. He soon
'Won Banderson!evonfidepoO, and took him,: to
,hiq father's house. which, he made his tempn
ary home, He had a large amount of money I
.
(0-tuetni
=II
CM
witn.iiim, in U.lted States Banknotes. „Alt el ,
morning the twoeet out together at or before
sunrise, Sanderson.to go to a distant part of,!.
tho'neighborhood to leek at some negroes. 1.0 ,
about an hour, by the sun, Hamilton and e
stranger were sean'to pass a cabin, by the
roadside, and soon after.the witness, (a Milk
woman helonging to the oabin,)•heard: what ,
she suppoSed'te report of•ti gun.: The •
horse of Sanderson retareed 'that day; to the
house of the senior Hamilton without hie sad
dle, and JOhn Hamilton went•to the town of
Glaigow, some twelve milie'distant, also the
same day, where ho . paid,eff certain debts in
United States Bank noterii. The disappearance,
of Sanderson some weeks after ted.to•inquiry
and search. The eircomstance of the repork ,
of the gun was' mentioned by'the woman of
eabin e -the vioinity---was -searched by—a-large-;
party of neighbors, and the' body of a Breen ,
per, his saddle and riding, trousers' disetivered'
in a matured well or, sink In; the woods. ; The ,
body was mach decayed, and the head mutila•—
led billiri'.latalekot. :•The -tiding habit was
identified Sandoraon's ,by a metaber•,of
flamilton'slamily, and the saddle and. return
edhorse... were cOnfessedly -the same that be
started with on the 'morning - of his'disappearo.
(MOO
The circumstances against Hamilton 'were
strong, but. by !id means conclusive. The
predjudices against Ale (lewdly in the immedi- .
ate neighborhood, caused the evidence on the ,
trial to be pushed to the axtretne
He protested .his innocent:le to the Jest. He ,
could not even acooneffor some of the oirouni , ..
stances against. him, bat' he Conk' not okrs.'
lisp an. alibi, as against the testimony of the:
prineipal • witness, and ho was hanged, after_
his family had spent thousands in his defence
—and the murder remains, in the estimation •
ofthe few who ,deemed him incapable of the
deed, an unexplained mystery, to this day.
The last capltill oaso wl , ioh
,we shall avert
to, occurred in 1825, antl..was.oo of, eingehte
revenge, fora wrong to which the murderer
voluntarily made himself a party aeveralyeara
after it was comliaitted. His name was Dean:
champ. His sympathies were axoited by, the
:foittorn condition of a Miss Cook, residing in
one' of the Green River ()aunties, whose sedum•
tion had 'been attempted; perhap's' accost plish4
ad, by Dr. Solomon Sharp, who nfterviardri
married and removed to Frankford, the•capi
tal of the State, to practice' his.profession.—
Beauchamp solicited the hand'of Miss Cook II
marriage, and was accepted. Ile then assu
med her championship in right of husband,
and tecretely determined to aveliga.,her
Wrongs. Di, made the journey to Frankford
to this.end, armed with apoignard, proceeded
under cover of the night to Sharp's. reeidene. l
first making himself familiar with the locality,
used the name of ti.well kncirrnttiend to deboY
him to the' door in hie night olotheS, gave the
fatal stab, and disappeared from the town.--v
It was some days before the tree!) .of the es-
ssassin was discovered. ,He was then pursu-.
ed, arrested, tried and convicted, but wholly'
on circumstantial evidence, as he had taken
good care to disguise his entrance into and
departure from the town of 'Frankfort. After
his conviction, and while awaiting his doom in
prison; ho prepared with his own hand a full
narrative and eonfeSsion of the motive and
guilt of the deed, and when the day of xeott.
(ion errived, his wife, who was suffered to re
main in prison with him, and himself, mutual:-
1y administered poison, which speedily ended
her miseries, but not so his own. Ho wat
borne to the gallows half dead, a horrid epee.
mole of the effects of mental and physical ag
ony, and executed in this condition by the
sheriff of the county.
The publication of Beauchamp's confession
caused much..eensation throughout the coun
try. There was. a degree , of wild romance
and of. inranm chivalry in the motive of the
deed; which' with the incidents of its deadly.
execution, end of the final 'catiietrrinhe, gave
to the TRUTH of the. narrative, a litrangenese
that required no color of !rtartou to heighten
its interest or effect..:—.N. - Yi Times. •
• -
zear.. Sonny, do you 'know your letters?'
Yes, sir, two of 'em." Possiblo, what era;
they 7" Let'ergo and let'or rip." " filbert
boy, go to the tub, Und wet your hair : e brain
of, such fertility can't be kept too moist.
GOOD PnrztOne of the uninficinied path
roasters, out in euokerdom, who found among
the post office 1148 nalausirtolthe offeat that.
"each postmaster may be nllovred two Innis
rot. delivering from his olio to a subscriber
each newspaper not chargeable wit h:postage,"
sent in his bill to the department for deliver
ing the only Paner tiont to his office, and told
them that, as his wife was out of the article,
they might send himacouple of coffee miUaF
„, Mr Thera is an eacentrio and very worthy
man in Rochester who enjoys the, blesaing of a
long life and good health, and who has raids
preParattous itilullforthe final disposition Of
hls remains when death'eball have rentoVed the
animating prinolplM,elsewhers. He has pro.
cured his cofilin and plOoed it under his bed.
thus making his. final bouse a constant mod-
Va. an each '
returning nlghythat lie Is one
day nearer the retreat which it lotottfford the
body•whemlife's fitful dretim `,”
-A LAUNDRESS Rho WAS employed in th*
family or.oiie ourdietinguidied men, bald
to .him .eigh
Only "think,' your excellency, how lithe
money wotild make me hoppy. • .
4 ? Tr , tliht is all, you ishelt tw
he it,"'eudfe
, . go
to her. '
~ , ,
immediately, r? it ' • , '
She lookod.at . it with joy , Tut thaztkiblueett,
nod before the old'gentlemau was out of ben.
'ltli'exoloyined, "I Wish I had' mad two' hen-
,
.fltirAn irlehMan hltSirig lately bbeo put bte
. .
trlal for some offence, pleaded not.guiltY ; And
the jury belngla,.:the prosecuting attorney
preeeeded to call Mr. gurkleson as
tyiti3 the ntmoet iCtieoenee,'Patridle,turned his
'"
face to the court, and acid '.Do I underetaiid,
`your honor, that Furkilleen to to be a. witness
format agiiin The judge said, drylY;l4
iieeme'so. " Well thiO, your houor, ; l pied.
guilty, not because I. em guilty, for rmste ht.
nooent ae yer kotte'r% ducking babe 45 the,brlet„
but 3i4
. 49 aciiecisito wing: MOjeil:Cil*
ion'a • ~;
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