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j. Caskey, Editor and Proprietor.
Office-Washington Street, Third Boor South of Jackson.
Terms j-One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
VOL. 1.
MILLEESBURG, HOLMES COUNTY, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1857.
N0.35.
Poetry.
TO DEATH.
- "WTiyi it, death, that tboodort call .' :
I Our beat loved, sad the beautiful,
.. To swell tlylistf
. Bat cometh on with sleep profound,
i : And all the weary senses drown '
' Is sorrow's mwtt '
. Why wit, in the mora of life, . ;
When some just arming for the strife,
. Are strickea down? -"Ere
they hare girt their armor on, :
Into thy cold embrace be drawn.
To wear thy crown?
' "Why is it, Ugbi from beaming eyes, :
TTith haes like some bright summer sties,
"" So soon is quenched T r(
' And those who in my bosom lie,
For whom (to save them) we would die '
'" " From us ihe wrenchedT ;
: r Why is it, that the young, the but,
' And those that have our warmest prayer,
J . : Be called so soont
-And taken from the loving heart,
. And sent by the remorseless dart
--; . To meet their doomT
. Sfortall question not the power. ,
r.. That sent me in that darksome hour. . . . .
,. To do. -HU Wifl," r, . .,,
But trusting, lean npon His arm, .. - .
. . Tor He will shield them from the storm ;
j.. Then, "Peace be stilL" " .
I come not then, as Terror's Zing,
To make the earth with sorrow ring, ,.
" ' " But to release ' M
." ' The soul, from prison house of clay, .
That the freed Spirit then may say,
. Thou art the "Prinae of Peace.", .
: And to the desolate and the weary.
When all earth looks dark and dreary, -
I then come ;
To them a welcome messenger, "
Relieving them from toil and care,
' i . And bear them home,
The beat loved and the beautiful, .
From out the ranks I often cull,
;, Though many atio be riven,
i For where the heart is, there's the treasure,
And thus, God teaches you with pleasure
To tum your thoughts to Heaven.
TO DEATH. Intemperance.
THE EMIGRANT DOCTOR.
The following narration, which is an ex
' tract from a lecture on temperance, by
.President Thomson, of Ohio Weslcyan
University, we copy from the Delaware
Gazette:
We met with an English physician, who
' without friends or means, had come to the
new world to seek, bjs fortune. As he
lacked enterprise necessary to struggle suc
cessfully with his new competitors, he beg
ged to be attached to our tamiiy. Accor-
dinodv he came with us to the west, llie
arrangement was mutually advantageous.
He was at once humble and gifted, amia
ble and industrious, useful iu counsel and
in actioii, happy in himself and the source
of happiness in others; so that he came to
be regarded by the parents as a child, by
the children as an elder brother. In the
drug store which we opened, he was indis
pensable, and made everything around him
- wear the air of neatness, accuracy and sci-
- -enco. ' He was introducing himself gradu
ally into practice, when, unfortunately, he
- formed acquaintance with some gentlemen
of the village, whose -social enjoyments
were enlivened with the glass. - Kind and
' yielding to s fault, he was easily persuaded
- to partake, and on one or two occasions he
returned home without sufficient command
of himself. - - Alarm was taken, and the Dr.
was directed to the grief of all parties, to
seek a new home. With a view to escape
the enchantment of his associates he went
to a neighboring village. Here the fairest
' prospects opened before him. He entered
upon a lucrative and successful practice;
was esteemed as a man, admired as a phy-
sjcian, and beloved as a friend.' I have
" never known a physician so highly estima
ted or so nearly adored. He married a
beautiful and amiable wife conducted her
to a tasteful cottage, where the pinks bor
dered the walk and the rose perfumed the
window. ' This charming home was ere
long lighted up with the smiles of a beauti
ful daughter. He bade fair for a long, use
ful and happy life and a crown of imper
ishable honor. But the serpent was lurk-
ing in his paradise. As he passed around
among his patients he was presented here
and there with the bottle. Aware of his
danger, be at first resisted, but fearing that
he would be thought proud, he pressed the
cup to his lips; a sip here and a sip there
began to be felt. At length on occasions
of severe fatigue or night watching, he
thought he would indulge himself with a
- little extra stimulus. When the thought
- arose, "What if the appetite should become
juncontrolable t Pshaw, am I not a man f
ian I not govern myself? Do not all these
farmers do so f Are they stronger than I V
The barrier broken down, destruction soon
came on like a flood. His character was
fhanged.
The appetite for drink once formed can
" not be tampered with. Mr. Addison once
spoke of an English Nobleman, receiving a
present of a young tiger, he undertook to
dorbicilate it He treated it with kindness,
allowed it full liberty in his house, but was
' careful to feed it nothing but milk. The
experiment was successful, and the young
tiger took his rug in the parlor with his lap
' dogs. On one occasion, after his lordship
- had been bled, he reclined upon the floor
and fellasleep. On awaking he found that
the tiger was eagerly lapping the blood that
trickleddown his arm. . Alarmed, he bade
the animal retire, but it was no longer the
harmless plaything, but putting itself into
-an attitude of attack, it sprang npon hjm
. ' with all the furv of its savaire nature.
So with the dormant love of liquor
there is no safety to the breast in which it
.- lurks but total abstinence.
i ; The victim is seldom aware of his dan
v" gar till long after his neighbors have per
ceived it: He w uneoMeioos of soma efthe
In
to
an
ty
be
a
indications of intoxication which gives, and
forgetful of others, in his less insensible
paroxysms, which he vainly supposes are
successful. The dread of reproach prevents
an ingenious acknowledgement of his fault,
and thus discourages his friends in their
vain efforts to save him; while a sincere
resolution to reform, which grows weaker
as appetite waxes stronger, deludes bun
with the hope of escape. Thus it was in
this case. Gradually the Doctor's practice
left him. I no patrons who had nearly
idolized him were constrained to pass him
by. His loss of friends and character took
away the remaining restraint to his appe-
tite,an1 soon became incapable of profession
al duty. Sober intervals brought on severe
struggles poverty, shame, disgrace, dis
ease, death, and hell forbade bis advance
friends, fame, prosperity, domestic peace,
long life, and heaven forbade him retreat
bnt appetite raged within, and a terrible
consciousness that all was lost, he escaped
the vision of the future, by plunging again
into sensibility. . At length summoning his
remaining strength he made a desperate
effort to rescue himself. He moved back
to the village he had left. Here things
had changed, his old companions were gone,
salutary moral influence pervaded the com-
munitA', and everything conspired to en
courage his reform. ' He stood erect, but
as his character hnd preceded him, he was
eyed askance, and he won confidence but
slowly, bull there was hope. On one oc
casion after an election which resulted as
he desired he joined in a rejoicing. As
usual in such circumstances, the wine flow
ed freely; it was offered him, it was press
ed upon him with such declarations as
these: "It is a rare occasion, men will ex
pect you to make free; you should not re-
luse to take a single glass. lie drank, he
was bewildered, overcome.
His wife was at my father's awaiting him.
He came late at night, and came drunk. I
cannot forget the countenance of that wife
as he entered. Shame, disgrace, grief, dis
appointment, rage and dispair, in turn play
ed round her features. With a desperate
effort to subdue her emotion, she put on
her bonnet and shawl and bade a respect
ful farewell. I attended her and her hus
band to the door. As soon as the light
was withdrawn she shook him from her as
she would a beast; the sense of wrong and
ruin, for a time overpowered he affections;
her last- hope of temporal happiness
had expired, and she was littlo better than
maniac He staggered after her bawling
like a calf, and making a strange clattering
upon the pavement, the echoes of which.
in that dark and silent night, I shall not
soon forget. Disheartened he moved to
his own cottage, now sadly changed, Dis
ease came on him apace, the remainder of
his fortune was soon spent; and he died in
his prime, leaving a benutiful young wife
and child nearlo destitute. He was bur
ied not without pity, but the" feeling as if
the earth had been relieved of a burden.
We would not speak irreverently of even
ruined mi man nature, out it there is any
ih'w.g which can obliterate our sympathies
for a man it is drunkenness, which more
than anything else obliterates manhood.
The ancients felt this as well as the modem
and have transmitted many fine sf y'ngs up
on it. A woman injured by her drunken
monarch, said, "I appeal from Phillip
drunk, to Phillip sober." Publius Syrus
says, "tie who jests upon a drunken man
injures the absent," One said, "A man
may be wise in the morning, and when the
sun gives the sign to spread the table, and
intempeiaiice brings in the messes and nils
the bowls, the man falls away and leaves a
beast in his rocm. And when we bury
him with sorrow, it may bo but not as a
man ; the man has long since departed.
this case, as in many, we might write,
"He whose merits deserve a temple can
now scarce find a tomb." Let ns pause a
moment over this case. We see here, a
loss of fortune, character, business, friends,
internal peace, self-control, health, and all
rational enjoyments. Were loo, was expo
sure of folly, force of temptation, power of
passion, alienation of natural affection,
blunting of moral sensibility, premature
death, and domestic desolation. Here, too,
was dutv. pretermitted and sin continued
the tomb ; here, too, was evil example
npon family and friends, to be felt in the
present and future generations; here was
appetite which neither genius, accom
plishments, affection, honor, nor the sancti
of religion could control. We will not
the curtain of another world. This, too,
it marked, was not a case of the worst
description, for the poor victims were re
strained from crime. But we must view
this instance alone. It must be multiplied
by 600,000 to give the aggregate of drunk
ards daily exhibited in the United States ;
number kept thus by moderate drinking,
which fills up the places as fast as death
and crime vacates them. The evils of. in
temperance are not cor fined to the intem
perate. Here a man reeling home from a
debnuch dislocates his shoulder; there an
intoxicated driver oversets a coach and
kills some innocent travellers; and here
the bottle makes a maniac, and there a
murderer; here it sinks a ship, and there it
fires a house; and here it ruins a character,
and there a souL It fills lunatic asylums,
hospitals, poor houses, jails and penitentia
ries with victims. . " . '
Careful estimates show that it causes
three-fourths of all the crime, three-fourths
of all the pauperism, and a large part of all
the insanity of this Union; that it occasions
an immense destruction of property, adds
the number, and aggravates the seventy
of diseases, spreads dissipation and vice
8nd wretchedness over the land ; leads to
bodilv. mental deterioration in many fami-
lies and communities: corrupts tne polls ana
endangers the government, and is the chief
Hindrance of the ttospel in all civilized
lands. The openiner of the bottle, indeed,
is the openinc of pandora's box. Reader
if you are wise, vou will eschew it, for
while thus injurious, it is never useful in
health and rarely in disease.
3TThe editor of the Wring and Tieitt,
says he has seen the contrivance which our
lawyers use when they "warm up with the
subject." He merely says, "it is a glass
concern, ana noias acorn a pint."
THE EMIGRANT DOCTOR. Miscellaneous.
Mormonism as Revealed by the
Chief Justice of Utah.
Judge W. W. Druniinond,
who h.fis re-
signed the office of Chief Justice of Utah
Territory, has lately arrived in Jfew Or
leans, and from the Is ew Orleans Courier,
we get an account of matters at Salt Lake,
as given to that paper from Judge Drura
mond's lips. ' The Courier says :
His (Judge D.'s) duties as the represent
ative of federal judicial authority have
shown him where the supreme rule of that
superstition-fettered host rests, whose is the
will that sways the destinies of a consider
able nation, what the motive that binds a
hundred thousand inhabitants to the gudlo
of Brigham Young, and what the use made
of their power by that astute, capable and
bold hypocrite and his subordinates.
A leading; characteristic of the followers
of the modern Mahomet seems to be a set
tled and abiding hatred of all "Gentiles,"
as they are pleased to style all who do not
subscribe to their dogmas and conform to
their unique and revolting creed. Al
though they come mainly from the North
ern of the .Republic, they look upon tne
United States covemment as an oppres-
ive one, whose authority they have a right
to resist. : AU who are without the pale
of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, wheth-
in or out of the Territory . which they have
usurped, they regard as their enemies.
They cither set at open defiance the decrees
of our courts, or dictate to grand or pettit
jurors the indictment they shall report or
the verdict they shall render, in notable
cases, where the eruilt of criminals has
been as apparent as the noon-day sun,
Young and his fellow prophets have for
bidden Mormon juries to render a verdict
of conviction. In one instance, where a
poor, helpless, dumb boy was tortured in ma
ny ways for months, barbarously beaten,and
(hen, while in the agony of his mortal
wounds, was fettered and drowned in a
brook, when his brutal murderer was sen
tenced to the penitentiary, Brigham Young
took him from the hands of the officers, led
him into the tabernacle, proclaimed his ab
solute pardon, forbade any one to arrest
him, and gave him a seat at his righ hand !
If Indians commit depredations upon the
Mormons they are punished without delay
or scruples, but if they rob or murder
"Gentiles," the prophet extends his protec
tion, and forbids jurors to pronourcc them
guilty. No law, except what emanates
from tho . supreme hierarchy, receives the
slghtest regard.
The right of private property among tho
Mormons is almost unknown. Whatever
the rulers need they always find means to
obtain. "Tho Lord needs it," is a warrant
sufficient to enable Young and his Council
to seize upon any property in Utah, and
remonstrance or resistance is not only use
less but dangerous. If a wealthy disciple
arrives from the States, the Church (Young)
immediately lays hold of just such a share
of his goods as he pleases. The portion,
of which the former owner is suffered to
retain nominal possession, he is compelled
to mr.nage according to the dictation of
some prophet or priest If the prophet
says to his neigbor: "Plant that field
with potatoes," the former would loose his
lands, and perhaps his lif' were ho to re
fuse. The counsel he is thus obliged to
obey, he is also compelled to ask. The
result is, that the actual possession of the
great mass of all the real and personal pro
perty in Utah is in the the foul oligarchy
of Young and his immediate subordinates.
But if the control over the property of
Mormons is tyrannical, that exercised over
their most sacred and private family affairs
is still more so. If a father has a child,
fair and innocent, whom he loves and che
ishes, and if she captivates the fancy of
some leading Mormon, she will be taken
from her home by a decree of the elders,
and given up by the ceremony of "sealing,"
to become the fortieth or fiftieth wife to an
old villtan, ivhile her predecessors, who
have grown old in tho same guilty and
abominable connection, become his house
hold or cornfield sen-ants. It often hap
pens that a man is sealed to two women at
the same ceremony, and cases are not rare
when one of the wives so acquired is lost
by a divorce before breakfast the next
moming. ...... , .
. The account given by Judge Drummond
of many of these connections, where some
times a mother and two or three of her
daughters were all sealed to one man, pre
sents a picture of beastly barbarity.
Could a correct idea of these horrible tran
sactions bo made known throughout the
country, a crusade would be preached
against this foul horde that would soon put
an end to their sway.
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RESIGNATION OF JUDGE DRUMMOND.
To the Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney
General of the United Stale, Wash
ington City, D. C:
My Dear SirrAs I have concluded to
resign the office of Justice of the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Utah, which po
sition I accepted in A. D. 1854, under the
administration of President Pierce, I deem
it due to the public to give some of the
reasons why I do so. In the first place,
Brigham Young, the Governor of Utah
Territory, is the acknowledged head of tho
"Church" of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day
Saints," commonly ' called "Mormons,"
and as such head the Mormons look to
him, and to him, alone, for the law by
which they are to be governed; there
fore no law of Congress is by them consid
ered binding in any manner.
Secondly, I know that there is a secret
oath-bound organization among all the
male members of the church, and to ac
knowledge no law save the law of the "Holy
Priesthood," which comes to the people
through Brigham Young, direct from God,
he, Young, being the vicegerent of God,
and prophetic successor of Joseph Smith,
who was the founder of this blind and
treasonable organization. " -
Thirdly, I am fully aware that there is
a Bet of men set apart by special order of
the church to take both the lives and prop
erty of persons who may question the au
thority ol- the church, (the names of whom
so
in
-
of
of
I will promptly make known at future
lime.) ";
Fourthly, That the records, papers, &c,
of the Supreme Court have been destroyed
byorder of Church, with diroct knowledge
and approbation of Uoveruor is. 1 oung.
and the Federal officers grossly insulted
for presuming to raise a single question
about tbc treasonable act.
Fifthly, That the Federal officers of the
Territory are constantly insulted, harrasscd.
and annoyed by the Mormons, and for
those insults there is no redress.
Sixthly, That the Federal officers are
daily compelled to hear the form of the
American government traduced, the chief
executive of the nation, both living and
dead, slandered and abused, from the mas
ses, as well as from the leading members
of the church, in the most vulgar, loath
some, and wicked manner that the evil pas
sions of man can possibly conceive.
Again: That after Moroni Green had
been convicted in the District Court before
my colleague, Judge Kinney, of an assault
with intent to commit murder; and after
wards, on appeal to the Supremo Court
the judgment being amrmed and the said
Green sentenced to the penitentiary, Brig
ham Young gave a full pardon to the
said Green before he reached the peniten
tiary ; also that the said tiovernor . Young
pardoned a man by the name of Baker,
who had been tried;, and sentenced to ten
years' imprisonment in the penitentiary for
the murder of a dumb boy by the name of
W lute House, the proof showing one or the
most aggravated casses of murder that I
ever knew beinff tried : and to insult the
court and government officers, this man
Young, took this pardoned criminal with
him in proper person, to church on the
next Sabbath after his conviction, Baker in
the meantime having received a full pardon
from Gov. Brigham Young. These two
men were Mormons.
On the other hand, I charge the Mor
mons, and (jov. Young in particular, with
imprisonment five or six young men -from
Missouri and Iowa, who are now in the
penitentiary of Utah, without those men
having violated any criminal law in Amer
ica, but they were anti-Mormons, poor,
uneducated young men, on their way for
California; but because they emigrated
from Illinois, Iowa or Missouri, and pas
sed by Great Salt Lake City, they were i-
dicted by a .Probate Court, and most bru
tally and inhumanly dealt with m addition
to being summarily incarcerated in the
saintly prison of the Territory of Utah. I
also charge Gov. Young with constantly
interfering with the federal courts, direct
ing tho Crrand Jury whom to indict and
whom not; and, after the Judges charge
the Grand Juries as to their duties, that
this man, Yohng, invaribly has some mem
ber of the Grand Jury advised in advance
as to his will in relation to their labors, and
that his charge thus given is tho only-
charge known, obeyed, or received by all
the Grand Juries of the federal courts of
Utah territory.
Again, sir, after a can-nil and mature
investigation, I have been compelled to
come to the conclusion, heart-rending and
sickening asit may be, that Capt. John W.
Gunnison and his party of eight others
were murtiered by the Indians in 1853, un
der the order, advice and directions of tho
Mormons; that my illustrious and distin
guished predecessor, Hon. Leonidas Shaver,
came to nis ueatn py drinking poisonous
liquors, given to him under the order of the
leading men of the Mormon Church in
Great Salt Lake City; that the late Sec
retary of the Territory, A. W. Babbitt,
was murdered on the Plains by a band of
Mormon marauders, under the particular
and special order of Brigham Young, He-
ber C. Kimball, and J. M. Grant and not
by the Indians, as reported by the Mor
mons themselves: and that they were sent
from Salt Lake City for that purpose, and
that only : and as members of the Danite
Band they were bound to do the work of B.
Young, as tho head of the Church, or for
feit their owu lives. .
These reasons, with many others that I
might give, which would be to hear-rend-ing
to insert in this communication, have
induced me to resign the office of Justice
tho Territory of Utah and again return
my adopted state of Illinois. ' My rea
son, sir,for making this communication thus
public is, that the Democratic party, with
which I have always strictly acted, is the
party now in . power, ' and therefore is the
party that should now be held responsible
the treasonable and disgraceful state of
affairs that now exists in Utah Territory.
could, sir, if necessary, rcflir to a cloud of
witnesses to attest the reasons I have giv
en, and the charges, bold as they are,
against those despots who rule with an iron
hand their hundred thousand souls in Utah,
and their two hundred thousand souls out
that notable Territory, but shnll not do
for the reason that the lives of such gen
tlemen as I should designate in Utah and
California would not be safe for a single
day. ' " . ' -
In conclusion, sir, I have to say, that in
my career as Justice of the Supreme Court
Utah Territory, I have the consolation
knowing that I did my duty ; that nei
ther threats nor intimidations drove me
from that path ; upon the other hand, I
am pained to say, that I accomplished little
good while there ; that the Judiciary is only
treated as a farce. The only rule of law
by which the infatuated followers of this
curious people will be governed is the kw
the church, and that emanates from
Governor Brigham Young, and him alone.
I do believe that if there were a man
put in office as Governor of that Territory
who is not a member of that church, (Mor
mon) and heupported with a sufficient mil
itary aid, that much good would result from
such a course; but," as the Territory is now
governed, and has been since the adminis
tration of Mr. Fillmore," at which time
Young received his appointment as Gover
nor, it is noon-day madness and folly to
attempt to administer the law in that Ter
ritory. The'officers aro insulted, harassed
and murdered for doing their duty, and not
recogni-.ing Brigham Young as the only
law-giver and law-maker on earth. Of
this every man can hear incontestible evi
dence who has been willing . to accept -an
appointment in Utah, and I assure yon, sir,
that no man wonld be willing to risk his
life and property in that Territory after
once trying the experiment.
With an ardent desire that the pesent
administration will give due and timely aid
to the officers that may be so unfortunate
as to accept a situation in that Territory and
that the withering curse which rests upon
this nation by virtue of the peculiar and
heart-rending institutions of the territory
of Utah may be speedily removed, to the
honor and credit of our happy country.
I now remain your obedient servant,
W. DRUMMOND.
Justice of Utah Territory.
March 30, A. D. 1857.
Correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune.
Mr. Sumner Recovered—Effect
of the Sea Voyage.
STEAMSHIP FULTON, ENG. CHANNEL,
March 19, 1857.
We shall be at Cowes to-night.
Purser has an open mail bag for passen
gers' letters, which he delivers there. The
opportunity of stretching out my hand to
write again to re-greet his old acquaintance
of the Tribune, is a pleasant one for your
correspondent He feels sure that they
will find it pleasant too for he lias good
news, better than any Paris gossip, to tell.
that Charles Sumner took
.i LaolrTi in TCiir--
passagc wiiQ us, sevs - v
He was already begun to
find it. There is fair promise mat me
hopes of hi3 physicians and the ardent
wishes ot all Americans woo uuuur tuo
eloquent defender of truth, and right will
be fulfilled. The cure that had gone on so
slowly up the 7th of March is nowndvanc
insr more rapidly. To look at Mr. Sumner
now, and converse with him, as he stands
firmly on the unsteady deck for we have
had rather a rough and tumoie passage m
this March weather lean understand wny
a ruffian, a chivalnc ruffian, would choose
knocking such' a man when ho was down,
t W than the attempt to knock him
down. I would earnestly recommend to
any highwayman, an Italian brigand, for
instance, who may oe lempteu
Mr. S. in the course of his summer travels,
to wateb his opportunity, and if possible,
to take him sitting. That would be safest
For a long time one of the most painiui
symptoms of Mr. bumnerscase was an
oppressive sense ot weight or stricture on
the brain, which was increased by any in
tellectual action, even by conversation.
This was accompanied by a general debili
ty, and a special sensibility of the spinal
cord, and of the entiro nervous system.
He could not walk without difficulty ;
to rise from his chair was a painfnl effort
Thissmte of things, though gradually mo
dified for the belter, continued down to the
lime of his coming on ship-board. It was
aggravated, however, by his resumption of
duty a! Washington a few days ocjore,
which nothing but a strong determination
of will pluck, to use a good brawny word
enabled him to perform.
His physicians have for months been ad
vising him to go abroad, looking for bene
ficial results from the vovage and from the
complete separation 'from the cares and re
sponsibilities that must beset him at home.
They did net dteprccato sea sicsness,- oui
thought it might bi of benefit in his ccs?.
Thus fur their anticipations seem to be
favorably answered by facts. The sea. air,
and the sea-sickness, of which last Mr.
Sumner has had more than his fair share,
coupled with the complete rest, have begun
their good work. For seven days he was
confined to his state-room, feeble and with
out appetite. Since then he has been con-
tantly growing stronger. i ne aonormai
sensation in the brain, spoKen ot above,
seems to have entirely disappeared; and
the general nervous system is recovering its
natural vifror. He rises from a seat with
out difficulty, and walks the deck for hours
lometimes still putting his hand to his
back but that, he tells me, is partly from
the habit acquired during the long time
when tho sensibility of the spinal cord was
painful. This morning I was glad to seo
m appear on deck without nis start.
Mr. Sumner has been from the beginning
less anxious about himself than his friends
have been. The morale has throughout
upheld the physique; and to this strength
of his moral constitution, as I believe, he
and we under God owe his life to-day and
the good work which, we trust, he is yet to
do.
The great fear has been of congestion of
the brain, which wonld De prongni on ii ue
applied himself to affairs before tho injur
ed organ was perfectly restored.
Mr. Sumner tells me that he "r,ow con
siders his complete restoration at hand."
tie looks torward to inucn enjoyment iu re
newing his early impressions of European
scenes. He will nrst go to rans, wnen nis
course will be determined by the stale of
his health, but he conhdently trusts that he
may bo so well that this consideration will
be banished from his thoughts.
&3TA very distinguished Democrat, just
from Washington, expresses to us the opin
ion that Mr. Buchannn will not live much
lonorer. He savs that the labors of office
and" t he tremendous pressure of office seek
ers are bearing very heavily upon Mr. B.'s
. . . t I ..,1 V
health, and that ne disease wumKwu uj
him at the National Hotel appears to be
hastening his inevitable fate. - - - .
President Pierce, soon after his inaugu-
1-
ration, set one example wuicu jrresHiuni
Buchanan, we think, would have done ex-
pmlinrlv well to imitate. - lhe former
finding himself miserably beset by office
seekers, proclaimed through his organ that
the claims of no applicant would be con
sidered who should be found in Washing
ton after it named day. The effect was
magical. The dispersion was most marvel
ous, itaitroads and turnpikes were throng
ed by the broken and flying army, and, be
fore the rise. of the sun on the morning of
the designated day, there was not within
the limits of the district of Columbia a sin
gle applicant for office. Thus Mr. Pierce
saved what may or may not have been
worth saving his life. It seems a pity
that Mr. Buchanan should not have seen
enough to profit by the only smart thing
rranx fierce ever uia.t,mnsvuie ,-
Clippings.
When the man spoons in and the wife
shovels out, the household must soon fall
through. -; ., . rx .,
A character, like a kettle once mended,
always wants mending.
Lucy Stone, in a lecture in Bangor re
cently, said, "We hear of henpecked hus
bands, but nothing about rooster pecked
wives. ;
mere is a man in Cincinnati m posses
sion of a powerful memory. He is employ
ed by the Humane Society to "remember
the poor.
Love without money is like patent leath
er boots without soles.
Give your heart to your Creator, and
your alms to the poor, letting not your left
nand Know what your right hand givelh.
To judge by the event is an error that
all abuse and all commit; for, in every in
stance, courage, if crowned with success,
is heroism if clouded with defeat, it is
called termeitv. and branded with con
tempt . -
Hams are preserved from the attacks of
the fly, and their quality uninjured, by
throwing red pepper on the fire in the
smoke-house, at the close of the operation,
"If a straw," says Dryden, "can be made
the instrument of happiness, he is a wise
man who does not despise it
"Live virtuously, my Lord," said Lady
Russell, "and you cannot die too soon, nor
live too long. .
The Huntingdon County Bank. Indiana.
is said to be lodged on a drift pile.
Sold. "Well, neighbor, what is the
most Christian news this morning?" said
a gentleman to his friend.
" W hy, I have just bought a barrel of
nour tor a poor woman. '
Just like you! Vbo is it than vou
Lave made happy by vour charity this
timer
"My wife!"
Exit gentleman teetotally sold.
A fellow who is considered "soft" speak
ing the other day of the many- inventions
which have been made by the present gen
eration, wound up with; .
"H or my part I believe every generation
grows wiser, for there s my . father, he
know d more n my grandfather, and I be
lieve I know mor'n ray father did."
"My dear sir, remarked a bystander,
what 8 fool your great grandfather must
have been."
Twenty-five years ago Miles Greenwood
went to Cincinnati a poor young man, and
started a blacksmithery on the outskirts of
tuo town. " lie now employs 450 men.
pays $3,500 for wages, affords support to
J.zuu persons, and turns out $600,000
worth of work annually. Last week he
gave a grand feast to his people to cele
brate the quarter century.
Interesting from China—Seventy
Thousand Chinamen Killed.
Tho New York Journal of Commerce
has a letter dated Macao; January 29th,
from- which we quote :
"All foreign business is not only suspen
ded, but entirely at aa end, both here, at
Hong Kong and Canton. Since my lost
letter the greater part of the western suburbs
Lof the latter city, in . which were situated
nearly all the warehouses, shops, fecn con
c jrned in foreign trade, have been consumed.
Of the total destruction of the foreign fac
tories you will have heard by my last let
ter... Tho Chinese 'compute their losses in
houses, godowns, shops, fcc, at over 4,000
buildings up to-the present time; and in
merchandise and the value of the above
property they state their losses at $10,000,
000, which is probably not far from the
truth. We cannot, of course, know very
accurately the damage sustained by the
city of Can: on since the bombardment be
gan, 28th October last; but as the latter
has been kept up with more or less per
tinacity to within a few . days ago, when
the English Admiral retired with his forces
from before the city, it is fair to suppose,
that the Chinese do not over estimate the
loss in life, when they state it at 70,000
of all ages and sexes. Everything favors
tnis calculation.
The writer adds that a second attempt
had been made to poison the foreign "dev
ils, ii was done through poisoned oran
ges, a quantity of which (about 5,000 in
number) was introduced into Hong Kong.
It failed, however, in this instance, as too
littlo of the poison had been absorbed by ths
fruit, although two deaths took place, and
they Chinese.
Romantic Marriage. Some years ago
the husband of a young and beautiful wife
a Carondelet, Missouri, left her for a while,
in order to try his fortnnes on the Paeific
coast He remained there seven years,
and was then unheard from ; and finally
there came word that he was dead. The
widow put on her weedrof mourning, and
wore them the nsual term. - At the end of
that period she received the wooing of a
neighbor and soon agreed to wed hiin.-
vn me moming of the wedding, and just
as she was about leaviug her house for the
church, her long-absent and mourned -for
husband presented himself and asked for a
kiss of welcome, but with lofty mein and
disdainful air, she repulsed him from her
presence, leaped into the carriage and away
they went, the embryo bridegroom not com
prehending in the least the strange proceed
ings; and, to cut tho matter short, they
were in a few minutes at the appointed
placa and married. The anf'-terior hus
band, we understand, wants his wife and
threatens to kick up a muss. This is the
most novel wedding that ever occurred in
Carondelet, and has created as much sen
sation as the Dean and Boker affair din in
Gothan. . '
X3T A lawyer's carriage is only a legal
conveyance, and it is to the client as often
as it stops at his door, who pays for the
drawing up of it
JTSTThe frost of Tuesday morning,
April 7th, killed the corn, cotton and other
crops in Gorgia.
Farmers' Omnibus.
There is 5 pounds of pure sulphur
in
every 100 pounds of wooL ' -
Carrots consume 19T pounds of lime to
the acre; turnips but 90 pounds.'
A cubic foot of common arable land will
hold 40 pounds of water.
It takes 5 pounds of corn to form one of
beef. Three and a half pounds of cooked
meal will form one pound of pork. : - -
To add one per cent of lime to a soil
that is destitute of it, requires 10 tons of
slacked lime, or 8 of caustic, to the acre. ' -
Clay will permanently improve : any soil
that is sandy or leachy. - Lime and leach-"
ed ashes will also benefit leachy land.
A ton of dry forest leaves produces only
500 pounds of mold ; hence, 500 pounds
of mold will produce a ton of plants. - .'
Clay, applied to sandy land, is far better
than sand to clay land. One hundred tons
to the acre, will give an inch in depth.
Pure phosphorus is worth from four
thousand to five thousand dollars a ton;
and as it comes from the earth, it shows
how scarce it is. ' '
A rich mold formed by rotting clover, is
worth more than the same number of
pounds of clover. 400 pounds of dry
plants, will yield 100 of mold. -
Swamp muck, or peat,' when dry, will
take np, without dripping' four times' its
own weight of water.- - Hence the necessity
of through drainage. . r .. .. ,
Limestone sand retains heat the longest;
black, peaty soils radiate heat most rapidly,
consequently cools soonest, and is the first
to experience frost
The reason why peas, beans and clover
rotate so successfully with wheat, is that
these crops draw comparatively very little
silica from the soil, but leave it for the
wheat' ' . r . -
Mangel wurtzel consumes 260 pounds of
common salt to the acre. If it is not in
the soil in the form of chloric acid and so
dium, salt must be applied to the soil, or A
poor crop will be the result. - ' : 'J
Guano contains salts- of ammonia, alka
line phosphates, and the other mineral sub
stances necessary to produce the grain of
wheat, but is deficient in the elements nec
essary to form roots and straw. ' .-.
The dung of a sea fowl yields 45 per
cent-of uric "acid. and ammonia; while
horse manure has less than one per cent
The reason is, in quadrupeds, the nitrogen
escapes by the kidneys ; m birds, it escapes
in the dung, by the bowels. ,
Soils often contain not over one part of
phosphorus, in a soluble condition for the
use of plants,' in ' 5,000 ; and yet, without
this small portion, not a blade of grass, or
seed of grain can be produced. . To extract
this from the soil, and not return an equiva
lent, will soon render the soi) sterile and.
worthless. '" : - - ,
Wheat sown in December, has ripened
and ready for harvesting by the middle of
May, m keorgia, while that sown in Sep
tember, is not ready to harvest before July,
in Maine so that as many chemical chan
ges take place in Georgia in five - months,
as in Maine in ten. , These changes consist
in decomposing both organic and inorganic
substances, and rendering them soluble for
the use of plants. '''
Putting in Cuttings.
. Many fail in growing plants from cut
ting, because they leave too many buds
out of ground, and have too few in the
ground. If a cutting has three eyes, or
buds, then two of them should be entirely
nnder ground, and the upper, or last one,
just level with the surface. . The same when
a cutting hrs four or five buds: place all
but one under ground. When cuttings are
shallow-planted, leaving more buds out
than in the ground, the buds start, the
leaves form, evaporation is rapid, and the
delicate, new, fibrous roots soon die, as onr
hot suns and dry seasons so heat the earth,
to a depth of four inches, as to dry up all
supplies. As a consequence, the r cutting
fails. When the cutting is inserted eight
to ten inches deep in to the earth, and but
one bud left above, the conditions m this
case favor the formation of roots, and gen
erally . cuttings so placed succeed. . The
practice of laying in cuttings horizontally
and shallow, comes to ns from abroad,
where the seasons are more equable, moist,
and of longer duration. : ' '; -''.
Radishes. These roots ai valuable
chiefly as a relish ; and when brittle and.
tender, are very agreeable and healthful.
Good Varieties. The early Salmon is
very good. The White Summer, for sum
mer use, as its . name indicates, is well
liked.
Crllur e.lhej are hardy, and require .
no extraordinary care. A good bed, care
ful weeding, and. successive sowings of the
right kinds for the advancing season,' are
all that they need; but if they are thick, '
they should be thinned so as to stand an
inch apart They may be sown during the
entire season, and the fall crop the Black
Spanish, is the best for this may be lifted
in October, and stored in sand in the cel
lar, for winternse. They will keep till
April. . . ; .
XWTito Scratches in Horses may be
cured, unless very inveterate, by washing .
thoroughly with soap-suds, and thea rub
bing with lard fried out of salt, meat
Keep clean, and. wash and grease every day'
until a cure is affected. : Leaving mud to
dry upon the legs of a horse, is one great
cause of this disease, and many horses are
injured by want of care and cleanliness
when driven in ' muddy weather. Jtural
JVew Ybrter.
tT There are 93 wagons and about
150 horses, employed in distributing ice m
TWton and vicinity; 60,000 tons are re
tailed, supplying 18,000 families, hotels.
stores and factories. ' . .
igrThe house of James Molson. Miami
township. Hamilton connlv. OhW waadaa.
troyed by fire last Friday afternoon, and
sad to say, four children were burned, the
eldest nine Tears old, and a babe of two
montb.

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