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BY DAVID OVER. |r Irrl a11ri]. j THE FIRST SHOW. BY CLARA IOTP. With dull red splendor in his gaze The sun sank towards his nightlv rest, And clouds whose rims were all ablaze, Piled lnouitta'n-high with gloom the west. Without the sunset's golden Bush To crimson o'er the winter sky— To make the leafless tree-tops Mush, The fields in burning glory lie. To wander lonely wilds about. I!ach lowly hut from gloom to win— Making warm fir ■ glow without Where warn fires never glowed within. To wind a thread of silver light. Where -treams, locked in an icy hold. Lay whitely 'mid the lorest's blight. Their lips of music dumb and cold. Nature was desolately drear, And told, in waitings loud and deep, A tale of hopele-s wc and fear, As. wrapped in clouds, she sank to sleep. But when the gient Cyclops, Day, Shaking the dun locks from his brow, Opened his great dull lid of gray. The world was beautiful with snow. AT THL DDOR. BT AMIN'ADAB STIGCIXS- t The clock struck to' ; I seized my hat Ai d bade good night to all. Evccpt the iass I courted, who Came with me through the ball. She stood within the portal, And I gazed upon her charms. And, oh! 1 longed that moni-nt To clasp her in my arms. She spoke about the moort and stars, How clear and bright they shone I said I thought tile crops would ftp, Unless we ha l some soon. Then I e Ig 'd a Tittle closer, Put my rnis nis—iT-a *> - "•"***' And gazed upon i hose rosy lips, I longed so much to taste. Said I, "my dearest Susy, I'il never rest contented— Ifl leave to-night without a ki-s, I'll surely grow demeuted." Then up she ttinted her rosy mouth, And everything was handy ; tiuiok from her lips I seized a kiss— Oil, Yankee Doodle Dandy ! Then off for home I started, T could no longer stay; With a light heart and breeches thin, I whistled ail the way. Hence learn this truth, ye ha-kful youth, j Who seek for wedded bliss, No lass will love until you move Her feelings with a kiss. i&KIMMb. __ j From the American Agriculturist. I WORK FUR THE MONTH ♦'Thus in son.e deep retirement wonld I pass The inter with friends of pliant soul t)r blithe, or solemn, .is the theme inspired ; j With them would sesch, if Nature's boundless 1 frame Was called, late rising from , s void of niglit, Or sprung Etrnal from the Eternal Mind," Its life, its laws its progress, an l its end. "Dead as December," is a proverb of rural iife. Tho change is apparent everywhere. The sun has retired far to the South' and even at mid-day sends down bis beams aslant upon i the earth. "How short the days are." U the t frequent exclamation from the busy housewife : aud the sentiment is often echoed from her busy j sponse. The weather ia drear aud|gl o ouiy, apd ' the bright sunny days are few and far between. : Outdoor labors are uncomfortable, and the i shelter of the barn or the fire-side is frequently j sought. It is a time of endurance, and almost the whole labor of the farmer is directed to make his family and the animals dependant ' upon him comfortable. There is little to attract i biui to tbe field or forest but the stern neces sities of the season. 1 e ( , there can be little doubt that a much larger pat t of the H inter is redeemed for useful labor now than fifty years ago. Then, as tho o,d people tell usj very little wis accon.ptished i after the Winter had fairly set in. Nearly all tho help upon the farm w&* dismissed iu No veinber, and the farmer did little else than ® c * re of ll cattle until tbe Spring opened. >ow raauy of our farmers find it practicable r _ "n a large part of their Summer labor ers, aui to give them a chance to earn their roa in inter. All good farmers now sccuro °' r u< "' -.-when tbe swamps are frozen and r c l? d H W,thsno,r - Places iu the forest in und '.I *1 u V ' r * re now visited, . Me. 1 \| r t ** hau!erl hom ' , u P on the j n.n .i " 10ter - u is practicable to throw ■&-^to:£rrS iLhan 1 • , P r **ticab!e, too, to Jiuh and drain at thts season. Thick India rubber coot* mike tha nicJt niota and Uh,, r . u against water, a laborer otn now be co.uforuble even in Tr, " ok " - •"> •>/ . T; ,pon -o." ££* ■" h "' u "" c kw r"< JikfeforD flipii A Weakly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Ac., Ac—Terms : Ona Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. I The character of our climate, and of our J population, we think, have Undergone a change | lor the better. The cleaning up of our forests, j and especially the drainage of swamp* and low J | land-, have tended to soften the asperity of I ■ our \V inters. The temperance reformation has j ; bad a happy influence upon the morals of the j i people, aud energies once wasted in the tap- j ) room, are now -pent in useful labor. The in- j | dustry of the former meets with a better reward, I and lie is .stimulated by the higher prion offered I for all his products to unwearied diligence in I bis calling. The standard of education is greatly jutproved among the pedpk. :ind the 1 farmers r t ow upon tho stago bring a mite's larger share of intelligence to their work than the j generations that preceded them. Then, in the • matter of special training and education for their work, the farmer- of lu-day are ia advance ; of those of fifty years ago. There has been a i steady aud houtthlul increase iu our agrieuTfural literature for the last twenty years, and t.i.;. btate and County Societies, which now ho! i their Anuuai Fair*, are the ere irre agricultural Press. These Fair-, trie, rightly condur'"J r are one of the host nje.nts of edu cation in ,i-j folia r-'at. that v.m enjoy. \V • are arproaul.itig .si .iv y, but - I;, v.. - I letua m husbandry, Urder v.ill be ituio .uced I into all the departments of tarmiiig, and men j win have accurate knowledge of the wants of ; every crop, and will not hesitate to spend the j necessary uieucy and labor to -ecure the beat I results. Some points are already settled, and ; many more are rqvidly approaching a solution. | (tur best informed farmers do Dot livbcrnaie j like many of the wild snitiials. They assume ; that matt is the lord of Nature, and can so ' I bin hi- business as to labor to advantage alt t tlircugh tbe year. Of course .MENTAL OULTCRK J will have its place in his plan.-, and Winter i is tur t>e-t time to lay in stores of Knowledge , fur fcturc tt.-e. Few larmct.s find time in tite 1 Summer for that leading and refieutfots which . are Oven Dal (ai the best met buds of husbandry. | Not only does a mau want to master the general ! principles of the science of ag i -allure, and it-, j kindred sciences, but he wishes to apply thes; j principles to hi* own fouueatead. There i j probably a eonsideiable variety of soil iu the ! Ituudri* i or more acres he owns, aud he wants i time to iff,litre plan.-for the ecoumiicvut im provement of the whole. Even after one ha.-- stu tied the subject of Umbrage, he cam it tell ! draittage. The wamps and swale-,"of course, ' most acad this iuipicvcineot. It wid take r.iiue j aud study to tell bow mucii further ut> the i slopes arid Itiii-stdvs Le may exteud hi? drrit s with profit. Some of his sops need iinre probab'lv | and it is a question where it can be tapplied, ; and how large an investment he can afh.rd to • make iti ihts article. i Will the markets he has tn supply, in:e ; Tops will pay a grew, deaf better riitn ui'.vx*. jln some localities he tnay devoie his wuple farnt to fim- or two leading sfiplrv; tn 'oVTi-Vs, j a varied system of cropping is the more profit t able course. The questions lliat arise in ttte uiautgcnient of a rarm are very numerous, and new is the time for a cultivator to give lb- at tentiow to tbu, and detertpiue upon the c •tine • (bat is best for bin; to pursue. The unud is ! cultivated and strrngthcued nut only by reau j ing, but by the discussion of these practical | questions in husbandry. There is tie mental j growrii without reflection. THE WINTER SCHOOL is, of course, the appropriate placs'for the chil dren who are to be the next generation of far mers. Who does not remember with rapture ' his schoolboy days, his first introduction to that august personage, the teacher, aud hLs early | experiences under bis rule ? "What pWsin g rights does yonder group create, Theit childish sports, their contest and debate. Man loves to see, as ripened wisdom grows. Its frnits enrich the soit from whence it rose. But who can view nor secret pleasure know j Lite yet in bud. and maahooi on tbe blow / r'Tis then that man s himself, no artful guise ( Spreads o'er its young desire its treacherous I j dyes." j It is the forming period of life with thetii, and ! very much of tbeir future success wifl depend j upon their advantages in the Winter school.— I In many parts of the country the sessions of j the school arc confined to this season. Fat i mrs are often tempted to keep their larger I boys at home, to assist in the procuring of fug{, ! or in the etuo of stock. For a little present I gain, the fa tore good of the lad is sacrificed.^— ! This course i? unworthy of any go ,d futhfr. The hoys of th-' farm ought to have, the f ill benefit of the district schorl, .and extra advan tages as they grow older. A good e.'i v -,v iop of toe mind and heart is.tVe richest inheritance I a father can bequeath to I is s >n. TTI!.- T'Ot't.Tr.Y QI'Ar.TEItS should now be looked after. You perceive tbe j reddening combs of your pußou, which indi cate eggs early if they are kept comfortable. If left to shift for themselves under the old ; shed, or upon the apple tree, your (tope of eggs j will be nipped in the bud, if you have been so , rash as to cherish it. Many farmers are rc- ' j signed t< a long egglesa Winter because they ! I will not take trouble to provide for tho biddies. ! ; Fowls want a warnt southern aspect, sheltered ! j from the wind aud snows, and must have it if j I Y nu waßt e K£ s - A poultry-house ought to be ! a part of every farmer's esta blishnient : but if' you cannot have a separate building, finish off n part of the barn cellar, and put in a window i nt the south side, where tho uu can look in i upon them for a few hoars ia the day. Fur- i ni.-b this room with pure water, gravol, old mottar, oyster or clam shells, or boues, all bro ken up finely. Put a bed of loam or muck un der the roosts, and see that it is mixed with the dropping* on ce a week. Fowls suffer more from the neglect of their foeeces, than . trow j any other cause. It is entirely practicable to have fjeah eggs al( through tbe Winter, if.you j will give your pullets warmth, cleanliness, qnd I tbe materials to woH- with. Meat is esseutiai. ' BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1857. : Uu ■ ... r- - r. - - * ' '•? £> F.iTTRNTNf} PORK. • 1 Many keep up tbeh swine until Nevr-Year'a,| thinking they can get a better price. tor their j i pork. It costs a great deal more to make pork | ! :lt fbts season than iu warm weather, and we i doubt very much it it can he Made to piy.— i Hat it done at all, it should be uouo in the \ best m iitner. The sty, tor Winter feeiii'ig, i should he a building, to kyep the; animals both dry an J warm. The r,ets should [ have afi abundance o? clean straw, and the food ! • should be cooked and fetl to theui when warm, i Wood is much cheaperthan corn meal, and iue i ] animal heat kept up by a tight sty and warm t.iod, is ■, i much saved in the meal bin. EXAMINE THE ROOTS. The carrots, beets, turnips, &c., stored last ] month, should be looked after now. Sometimes j : litey heat, it in 100 large piles, and dccav corn | menees. They should be kept at a low te.u- i peru'iire, and at tbs same time i>; guarded j fiiust. frost- Potatoes at all affected with the ! rot .should h- assorted, a.id all defective cues { ryuH-yed. A little at'puXiou ur this sea.-an will : <nt3u save a 1 irge store of roots frptu decay, ria'.NiX'i uthv'he attend,'l , ; \ u { days ~f De •• ''■•••; 9v's. (■ ,4 e -li .iili tint be (tverioohc \. • , a belter to pa. t vi.c, in . -i L". I*. <iu iu the spring. 'j wo ' la .- -ir in the W toter Wliiwi, •'!' !. ~u Ye- Is are entirely . closed. WA-t'tNU AND SCRAPING naturally follows the pruning. Many fiirmets are s , tiu>y that the crchard and fruit-yard arc j neglected tn the Summer. Remove ail dead bark ami mo ses with a scraper, ami up.. v a coat, of soft s<up ap 1 water. This wt.l kill scale bugs and ether Insects, and promote the t health and beauty of the tree. A smooth skiu i- :.o comely iu a fruit tree a* in a co-.v. THE APPLE BORER will give sitrns of his work about the collar r>' the tree. Remove the earth two or three Inches with a noe, and look for the holes. Thrust in j a wire and spit the occupant, or he wi;l .-pit J our apples next year. Apple and qui eve . trees should bo examined once a year lot this j <i'\-tructive insect, REMEMBER THE POOR in these ir,r,i times, iAruiers are Tmw a" i .voi• u ela.--, and have more occasion to cel ebrate the clone of 'lie year with thquksgivipg than any other. It, the cities, financial ~-y -...vv. r, ... visssvi inhthiUßaes ate tnrown out of employment, and are drum Dj beggary. Many will .seek the country in :earoli o labor and food, i.t will be a giett kindness t„ furnish tt'iciu with occupation, food and .shelter. In \ry many oases this can be i done without great ijteotiviolence. There are ! | M'h"* Ul •he Winter w(:gp labor can he profitably i ; vtupioy ed, especially if o lie red at low rates. — ) Cutting and hauling Wood, digging aud hauling , luucs, "iratatug njakiug eouipust, digging out barncctt u>, repairing stone fences, are souie ot too things that can be doue in the tuthi W in ter day-. Giro willing hand.- a chance to work aud viuu at least their bread. A HISTORY. MIItiMOMSH AMI THE MIIIIAS. j Fiom Ihe International Magazine for Dec., 1851. In 182b there lived near the village of Pal- j ; myra, in New York, a family of small farmers ; iof the name of Smith. They were of had re ! pute iu the neighborhood, notorious for being , i continually in debt, and tieediess of tlmir bnsi ! ncss engagements The eldest son, Joseph, ; says one of bin friends, "could read without j difficulty, wrote u very imperfect hand, and ; had a \cry limited understanding of the ele : men fury rules of arithmetic."" Associated in J Mime degrae with Sidney Rigdon, who comes i : before us in the first piaee as a journeyman j printer, he was the founder of the new faith. | The early history of the conspiracy of these t j worthies is imperfectly known: but it is #vi • dent that Rigdon tuuat have been in Smith's confidence from the first. Rigdou, tudecd, probably bad tuore to do with the matter than ' even Smith; but it was the latter wuo was first nut conspicuously forward, and who managed to retain the preemtueuce. The account of tue pretended revelation, as given by Smith is I ias follows; He at ouco found himself labor- \ jug in a state of great darkue.vs and wretched- : : ucss of mind —was bewildered among the con flicting doctrines of the Chiistiaus, nod could j i find no comfort or rest for his soul. In litis j state, be resorted to earnest prayer, kneeling I ,in the woods and fields, aud after long perse- ; ; yepiince, was answetej by the appearauce of a i I bright jigM iu beav-'t. which gradually dc- ! ' scetjded until it enveloped the worshipper,! wbo found himself siaifliug face to face with ! two supernatural beings. Of these be inquired i which wa.s the true religion! The reply was, that all the existiug religions were erroneous, 1 but that the pure doctrine and crowning dis- I peusatiou of Christianity should at a futurepe- I ' riod bo miraculously revealed to himself.— j. i Several similar visitations ensued, and at IcDgtb | ( he was informad that the North American In- : ! dians were a remnant of Israel; that when i they first entered America they were a powet i fill and enlighteLod people; thai their priests ■ j and rulers kept the records of their history aud j dootrioes, but that, having fallen off from the I i tme worship, the body of the nation were supornaturally destroyed—not, however, until a priest aud prophet named Mormon, had, by heavenly direction, drawn up an abstract of their records and religious opinions. He was j told that this still oxisted, buried in the earth, j aud tbat.be was selected as the instrument for ! i its recovery and manifestation to all nations, j i The record, it was said, contained many propb- j | ccies a? to.lbeso latter days, and instructions ' for the gathering of tbr saiuts into a temporal J I aid spiritual kingdom, preparatory to the sec -1 coming of the .Messtali, which was at band. alter seyjjral very similar visions, tl*; spot in I' htoh tite'hook lay buried was disclosed.— iuuth we.TfTo it, and after digging, discovered i son of box, formed of upright aud horizontal j * *g-, withiu whieh lay a number of plates re eiubUng gold, and of ti;o thickness of common : iu. l'jjese were bounl together by a wire, i mJ were: enginvyd with Egyptian characters, ay tiie side of tkciu lay two transparent stones, talivd by the anci- nts "Uritu and Thumttiin," j set ui "the two rims of a bow." These stoues vers (iivitiiug crystal,, and the angels iulorui oi .Sunn, that by using them ho would be en iblel to decyph.ir t)te character on the plates. >\ hut ultimately became of the plates—if such j things existed ai ail--docs not appear. They Weresatd to have been seen and iiandled by j elcvai witnesses. With the exception of three ! pt-rsms, these witnesses were cither members iot Suith's family, or of a neighboring family }"f tlr name ot Whinner. The ,Smiths, ot coure, give auspicious testimony. The Wbit ! ujcrsl'Hve disappeared, and no one ktiovrsany thiui, ilout them. Auother witness, Uiivcr Cewwey, was after,varus an amanuensis t) Jo sepli; aud anoilter, Martin Harris, was long a eotLtyeuous-disciple. There is sum - confusiou, luiwirer. about this person Although he sigixhis name as a witness wlhi has seen aud handed the pja'.ts, he as.-ured Professor An thou irat he never ha 1 seen thorn, that "he was rat sufficiently pure of heart," and that Josejp-refused to show him the plates, but i iiui instead a transcript on paper of the enaraVers engraved on them. It is difficult to trae the early, advances of the imposture. Everything is vague and uncertaiu. vV'e have no itaes, and only the statements of the proph et ant his friends. 'detuiiue Smith must hove wot iced succoss tuilv m the feeble and superstitious tuind of Maifii H irri.-. This man, us , we have just oai'ij (vceived iroui lam a written transcript of j the Mysterious c.,ataeters, and couveyed it to Provysor Anthou, a competent philological au j their.. I'r. Ati!hen's aocuuut of the iutar i vievis on - of U'-t most important parts ot the onti Ijjsfoiy. Harris told him he had tint I ! plate-, but that he intended to sell his ! - tacti an I <-tve the proceeds to unable Smith to j pyiisha it tu.slaim:; of them. This statement, I | -A' treat billowy, niinw.s tiiat Smith's original I /'Uteurioß, quoad the ijleged plate.-), was to u.se I Shciii as - ... .v n-ue ' Mrruiwii- have published accounts of Professor Ambon's ju'lgemcut on the p ipef stihtnitted to him, which he la:in-trif states to ha "perfectly l'al- ." 1 !>e Mormon version of the interview reptescnis l>r. Amiion "as having beeu unable Ito decyput-r tht: characiera correcUv, hut as lhaviug presumed that, i; the original records icould he brougiit, he cpvbj assist in translating tla-iij. ' Uu this statement being made, I)r. Ambon described the document suburittud to htm as baviug been a sort of pot pottrri of an ' cient mark- and ulpliabets. -It had eviJeutlv been prepared by some person who had before hitu a book con'-iiuiug various alpbabets; Gr< eje and Hebrew letters, crosses and jjuui ishes, Roman letters, inverted or placed side ways, were arranged in perpendicular columns, and the whole ended in a rude delineation of a circle, divided into various compartments, dock - ed with numerous strange marks, and evidently copied alter the Mexican Calendar given by Huaiboi'it, but copied in such away as not to betray the source whence it was derived." This account disposes ot the statement thit the |characters were Egyptian, while the vefv yuui : b!e of the signs of different nations, language*, and ages, proves that the imnoster Was defi cient both in tuet and knowledge. The scheme seems to have been, at all events, in petto wbeu Smith communicated with Harris but a satisfactory clue to the fabrication is jost in >ar ignorance of the time and the circurn- Cauoes under winch Smith and Rhrdori eame Ggetiier. It tupst have been suinequ*nt to j Gat treat that the "translation." by means of : the tiagic Uritu and Thuiumim, was , 'Phis work Smith is represented as havfog la -1 borer at steadily, by Oliver On wire v, uutil a volume was produced coatdiißug as mue! matter as the Old Testament, written in the Jihhsal style, and contaiuining, as Smith the Angel had informed him, a history of lib lost tribes in their pilgrimage to aud in America with copious doctriuui and prophetic cuuuie!rt.alies and revelations. The devotion of Harris to the impostor se ' ctred a fuud sufficient for defray ing the coat of J printing the pretended revelation, and the sect | big-ati slowly to luerea-e. The doctrines of ! Stiitli were not at first- very clearly defiued; i: ! isfiobable that neither be nor Rigdon bad de i te.nuined whet should be their precise charac ter; but like their early cotemporarv, the j pnphet Mathias, (the interesting history cf ' wlhse careor was published in New York sev- I end years ago by the late Colonel Stone.) they h&i no hesitation m deciding on one cardinal poot, that the revelations made to Smith at any ttijie should be received with unquestioning and implicit faith, and the earliest of these rev elations contemplated a liberal provision for all the*prophet's personal necessities. Thus, in i February, 1831, it was revealed to the disei ; plei that they should immediately build the : prophet a house; on another occasiqn it was enjained that, if they liad any regard for their owa souls, the sooner they provided him with i fool and taiuicnt, and everything he ueeded, j the better it would be for tbem; and in a third i revdatioo, Joseph was informed that "he was not to iabor for his living." All these revela tions were received, and though tho imposter seemed to intelligent men little better than a buffoon, his followers soon learned to regard him as almost deserving of adoration, ami he ; began to revel in whatever luxury and profli gacy was agreeable to his vulgar taste aud am bition. As iu the case of the scarcely more respectable pretender, Andrew Jackson Davis, it was asserted that his original want of cultL ! vatloo precluded the notion of his having by the exercise of any n.ilur.il or acquired facul ties produced his revelations. Everywhere his followers said, "The prophet is not learned in a huuiau sense: how could he have become ac quainted with the antiquarian learning here displayed, if it were not com municated to him?" But to mis question there was soon an answer equally explicit and satis factory. Tlid real author of the Rook of Mot - 1 UIOO was u Rev. SolomonSpiulding, who wrote it as a romance. Its entire history, and the means by which it came into the possession of Smith, are described iu the following state ment, by Mr. Spaulding's widow: "Since the Book of Mormon or Goldtn Bi ble (as it was originally called,) has excited ) much attention,'and is deemed by a certain new ! sect of equal authority with tb*? sacred Scrip tures, I think it a duty to the public to s'ste i what 1 know of us origin. * * 45 * jJol oiuou Spuuldiug to whom I was inarmi in ear-! ly life,, was agradtut# of Dirim-oim t ji-.egc-t':-l . was disiingUi-hed for a lively ijuati'imwicM, :• d great fonduess for history. At- ihe una? <d • ■ - marriage, he resided in Clerrv Vuiiav, N. ,7 t \oric. From this pla;e, wo removed toNc.v Salem, Ashtabula Uouuty, Ohio, some time c.il-' led Lonncaut, as it. is situated on (J wiaoau? Greek. Shortly after our removal to this place, his health tailed, and he was laid aside from ac tive labors, in the town of New Salem there j are numerous mounds and forts, supposed by : many to be the dilapidated dwellings am) | tications of a race now extinct. These relics i arrest the attention ot new settlers, and become j objects ot research for the curious. Numerous implements were found, aud other articles evinc iug skill in tile arts. .Mr. Sluicing being an educated man, took a lively iuteiest in ihese j developetueut.s of antiquity; and in order to lie- i | guile the hours of retirement, and furnish em- I ployuienl for his miud, he conceived the idea I of giving an liistorital sketch of the loug iost j race, ii.eir antiquity led him to adopt the • 'uost aticieat style, aud be imitated the Ul i | Testament as nearly as possible. His sole ob jeoc ia writiwi/ vuis iuiagiQary bibtoru was to amuse himteh aud his neighbors. This was ; about ipe jeer 1812. Hull's sinTcadc-r at De troit ovcured near the same time, and I recol lect the date well from that circutufitance. As | he prugreased iu his narrative, the neighbors ; would come in from time t-o time to hear portions | read, ana a great interest in the work was ex- i roifed amouE them , ;• .••!" •< o*m \ I milieu oy one ot the lost nation, an 1 to have i been recovered ftom the earth: and he gave it, tbe title 'The 3Lmuseript Founa.' The ' j neighbors wculd often inquire how Mr. Spauld iug advanced <t< deciphering tbe luanuscripi; I aud when ne had a sufficient portion iwepared, he would inform thos,and they would assemble to hoar it read, lie waAenabled, from his ac ( qu-iintance with tbe ciassiosaad aucteut history, to introduce many singular names, which wtie particulaily noticed by the people and could be easily recognized by them. Mr. Solomon Spauld iug uad a brother, Mr. John Spauliiiug iu the place at ihe time, who was perfectly familiar with the work, and repeatedlv heard the whole of in Froiu New Salem wo removed to Fittsbarg in I'tunsylvania. Here Mr. Spa ul ding found a friend and acquaintance, iu the persou of Mr. l'altorson, au editor of a uewspaper. He cx ; hibited his manuscript to Mr. Patterson, who was much pleased vith it and borrowed it for perusal, lie retained it a long time, and in fortaed Mr. Spaulding that jf l ( e would make out a title-page aud preface, be would publish it, and it mighabe a source of urofit. This Mr. -Spaulding reiused to do. Sidney Rigdon, who i has figured so largely iu tho history ot the Mor mons, was at that nine connected with tho priut j ittg office of Mr. Patterson, as is well known j iu that region, and, as Rigdon himself has fre quently stated became acquainted with Mr. i ipauldiug's manuscript, and .mpied it.. It was a matter of notoriety aod interest to all coti ueeted with the printing establishment. At length the manuscript was returned to its au thor, and soon utter we removed to Auiitv, \\ asbington -couuty, where Mr. Sjiauiling died,' ; iti 1810. ' The manuscript then fell into my ; hands, aud was carefully pteserved. It has . ; frequently been examined by tuy,ditugb*'T,Mrs. Meßcostly, Moti&on, Massachusetts, with whoui 1 ucw reside, aud by other Ir lends. After the Rook of Mormon came out, a copy of it was ta- | ken to New baleiu, tho place of Mr. Spaulding's former residence, and the very place where tbe 'Manuscript bound' was written. A woman appointed a meeting there; and in the meeting I read copious extracts from the Rook of Mormon. Hie lii-.oiiealpart was known by all the i'ider I itiliaoiiattts, -.- tiieiden io.l work ot Mr.Snauld ing- it wan a tu.y '•- •.•r. *0 1 jcpfjf in;er esteti years L fore. Mr. J a gr as preseut, fc nd racogniact p.,,. • i -'. .e --lion of his brother. Ho was;n,i zj.r. iler ed that it should have been p :v to so wicked a purpose. His grief fouua vent in tears, ari i be arose oc the spot, and expres sed to the meeting his sorrow that the writings ot Lis deceased biother should be used purpose so vile aud shocking. The excitement in New Salem became so great that the inhabi tants had a meeting, aud deputed Dr. Phisias tus liuriburt, one ot their number, to repair to this place, ana to obtain from me tbe original manuscript ot Mr. Spauldiug, for the purpose of comparing it with tne Mormon Bible—to sat isfy their owu minds ami to prevent their frieud I froiu embracing au error so delusive. This was |in the year ib3d. Dr. Hurl but brought with I him an introduction and request for the manu script,which was signed by Messrs. Henry Lake, ! Aaron )\ right, and others, with aii of waioui 1-1 was acquainted, as tuey were •my neighbors when I resided at New Salem. lam sure that! uothiug would more grieve my husband were be liviug, thau the use which has been made of j his work, ihe air of autiquity which was thrown about the composition doubtless suggested the idea o. converting it to the purpose of delusion. 1 Hius, an hisoxioal romanco, with tbe addition o! a tew pious expressions, and extracts from the sacred Scriptures, has been construed into ' VOL. 30, NO. 50, • a new Bible, and p timed off upon a company of poor deluded fanatic* as Divine." Similar evidence as to hc ripauldtng MBS., was giveu by several private friends, and by the writer's brotlier, ail of whom were familiar with its contents. The tacts thus graphically detailed bate of course been denied, but bare never been disproved. Indeed, without them it is impossible to explain the hold which Rig don always possessed on the I'ropbet: for tie was a poor creature, without education and without talents. At oue time—a critical moment iu the history ot the new church—a quarrel arose between iLe accomplices; but it ended iu Smith*# receiving a ''revelation," in which Rigdon was < raised by divine command to be equal with him f self, having plenary power given to hiui to bind and loose both on earth ami in heaven. I'be remaining history of the Mormons is eminently interesting. Iguorant and supergfi -1 tious us, .have been the cbief part of tue di&ct , p >, arid atrocious as have l>een the tricks of -.->uve> who have led tbeui oti amid all the v ... sof their good and evil fortune, there ,-i- v occasionally been displayed among tbein ;.n enthusiasm and bravery of endurance that l demand admiration. Nearly from the begm j ring the leaders of the sect seem to have eou i teoipbtted settling iu the thinly populated ro i gumtj of the western States,-where lands were ' to be purchased for low prices, and after .t j short residence at Kirkland, in Ohio, tbev de termined to found H New Jerusalem in Mis souri. The interests of the town were confi ded to suitable ojiicers, and Smith spent Lis time in travelling through the country and preaching, on til the real or pretended i tumor alifie* of the sect led to such discontents that iu 1839 they were forcibly and lawlessly ex { pel le i from the State. We ero inclined to be j iieve that they were not only treated with re i iuarkabL- severity, but that there was not any ■ reason whatever to justify an interference in their affairs, t From Missouri the saints proceede.l to Illi nois, and y>u tLe sixth of April, 1841. with im posing cere mootes, laid" at their new eitv of Nauvoo the corner-stone of the Temple, au im mense edifiee, without any architectural order or attraction, which in a few months was eeie hratdJ everywhere as not inferior in size ana magnificence to that built by Solomon in Jeru salem. Nauvoo is delightfully situated in the : midst of a fertile district, and w careful iuqui | home ola more industrious, frugal, and gene : raily moral society, thm occupied any other towu ii tue kitaU'. \\ hatcver charges were brought against Smith uml bis disciples, to jus | ify the outrages to which they were subjected, the history of their expulsion from Nauvoo is simply a series of illustrations of the fact that the ruffian population ol the neighboring coun try set on foot a vast scheme of robbery in or der to obtain the lands and - improvements of the Mormons without paying tor them. We have not room for a particular statement of the discontents and conspiracies which grew up in the city, nor for any details of the aggres sions from without. Ou tha 27th of June. 1844, Joseph and liiram Smith were murder ed, while under tiie especial protection of the authorities of the State. A writer iu the Christian Reflector newspaper, soon after, ob served of Joseph Smith: arious are the opinions concerning this singular personage, but whatever may be thought in rtfcreuce to his principles, objects, or moral character, alt agree that ho was ;a ■ most remarkable man. ••••*'. ■ Notwithstanding the low origin, poverty, and ; profligacy of these mountebanks, they have aug- I tneiitcd their uumbc.s till more than lOO.OtP 1 j persons are now nuuil-ercd among the follow er* of the Mormon i'rophet, and they r.over j wore increasing so rapidly as at the time of his | death. Burn iu the very lowest walks of itfe, reared in poverty, educated in vice, having no • claims to even common intelligence, coarse und vulgar in deportment, the Prophet Smith suc -1 succeeded iu establishing a religious creed, the j teucts of which have been taught throughout America; the I'iopket's vtttaes have been re hearsed iu Europe; the miuistors of Nauvoo have found a welcome in Asia; Africa has lo teued to the grave sayings of the *cer of Pal myra; the standard of the Latter Day £>aiuis has heeu reared pn the banks of the Niie;. and even the Holy land has been eutercd. b'v the cminissariea of this imposter. He touched a city in one of the most beautiful situations in the woild, in a beautifui curve of the 'Father oi \Y aters,' of uo mean pretensions, and in it he bad collected a population of tweoiv-five iht'Useud, from every part of me world. " The acts of his life exhibit a character as incongru ous as it is remarkable. If we can credit bis own words and the tcsV tiuiuny ol eye witnesses; tie- was at the eamtr time vicegerent of God ami a tavern keeper—a prophet and a base libertine—u minister of peace, and a lieutenant general—a ruler of ten* of thousands and u slave to ail Lis own base passions—a preacher of righteousness and • profane swearer—a worshipper of Bacchus, mayor of a city, ami a miserable bar-room tid dler—a judge on the judicial bench, and au in vader of the civil, social, and moral relation? ot men: and, notwithstanding these inconsistencies of character,, there arc not wanting tuousauOs willing to stake their soul's eternal -salvation on his veracity. h\>r anght we know, time and distance will embellish hie life with si me ntw auu rate virtues, which his most intimate friends failed to discover while living with him. Kew s-.niog front effect to canst, we roost Cooclu<i<- j ttiat the Mormon Prophet was of no common gsuius: Jew arc able to commence and carry ! oot an opposition like his, so mug, aud to ex tensively. And we sec, in the history of hi* success, most striking proofs of the credulit v of u large portion of the human family " After some dissensions, in which the* party !of ttnghaia Young triumphed over that -of • BiJney lvigdon, the sect was reorganized, apd ■ for some tunc were permitted quiftly toprose -1 cute their plans at Nauvoo. liutcaily iu 134G