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VOL. X.—NO. 34.
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The Mormons.
In the Salt Lake 1 buret AY/r.t, of March
Ist, we find an ably written article under
the head of " Peaceful Agencies," from
which we copy the following paragraphs:
li If there is a desire to win us back
njjaiu to that peculiar civilization, which
every true philanthropist in the world
mourns over, powder and bullets are not
very convincing reasons to the mind. The
craven that halts between two opinions,
and can see no (lod lint in worldly wealth,
might shrink and hypocritically assume to
lie converted before its power, but free-
Miule I men and women, who know truth
nud appreciate it, would meet death with
n smile rather than give up one principle
which .Jehovah bad implanted as a truth
in their hearts.
'• There are thousands of men in the
Kistern States who can declaim loudly
Multilist the enormities of ' Mormonism';
men whose profession it is to teach their
fellows; white-necked, kid gloved men,
with hair parted in the middle, who have
studied for years the se'ence of converting
l»y verbal gis. Could they not be em
ployed as a ' peaceful influence'? Should
they conic here as missionaries to convert
us, wo would treat them kindly, gentle
men, more so thin they treated our mis
sionaries in our neighborhoods ; mid all
»ve ask of them is, if they cannot convert
us by showing us the fallacy of our posi
tion, that, if wo overturn their arguments
sind maintain the fallacy of theirs, they
will have the manly candor to confess their
errors and become preachers of the truth.
Hut, probably, this would bo asking too
much of them."
♦ ♦-
BS2T The proprietors of a distillery at
Millford, Ohio, not having enough stock
in the pens to drink the slop, turned it in
the Miami. Forthwith the sober inhabi-
tants of the beautiful river were seized
with a desire to go en one grand " bend
«r." By the time the fluid reached l'lun
ville, the whole river presented a scene of
the wildest revelry among the fish. Haas,
salmon and white perefl vied with each
other in all kinds of ridiculous gymnastics.
They appeared in shoals oil the top of the
water, swam to the shore and jumped upon
the dry land, and in their drunken spree
imitated the performances of a higher or
der of nniiuals. A wagon load were caught
while they were in this tipsy condition,
jtnd sold in the market.
—♦ ♦
ty The Chicago Srinsku Americana
rtn says: " Henry Ward liccchcr or utom
all fragra Amcrikas rykiharnstc man inom
det and liga brodraskapcts ledcr," which
- we think must be eminently satisfactory to
him. And, speaking of Hon. John Went
worth, it says: " Long John ar bade till
kropp ach sjal en demagog," which, wo
think, must be very severe on Long John.
|3T The Methodist Church South has
abandoned tho plan of receiving members
on probation, l'ersous arc received into
l\iH membership without six months trial.
0P Lalaude, thu French astronomer,
fcfter eating caterpillars aftd spiders, af
firmed that the former tastod like almonds
«nd the latter like walnuts.
CP* The divorces iu Chicago last year
'uu in be rod I^oo3 —one divorce to each
tweuty-four marriages iu the State.
ty Mrs. Abby-Sago-McFarland-Ilich
urdson is said to bo writing her biogra
phy.
vr An Indiana belle has broken eighty
seven matrimonial engagements.
9SF Lady Franklin is the observed of
fill observers in San Francisco.
CP* Thurlow Weed's book will tell what
became of Morgan, the Mason.
Tho hello of Orovillc, Cal., is a
printer girl.
♦
Gou. Hooker id almost helpless from
paralysis.
Sooted la JJijuir., politics, Ihij Sisscmiratiou of tflstful Jiifotircition, and the promotion of thij gist Jntertsfs of Mashiujfon iftrrilotj.
Twelve Hundred Chinamen.
Under this title the Oakland Transcript ]
contaius a very remark able article from a
correspondent, from which we make the
following <|notations. Wc are persuaded
that his views accord with the sentiments
of a large majority iu California, upon
whom they have been impressed by disas
trous experience. The writer says:
" The above is the concluding clause the
newspapers use in publishing the list of
passengers from China by the last steamer.
Only twelve hundred. Aye send them
along!
Send on the locusts from the Flowery
Kingdom. Subsidize lines of steamships
to disembougc millions of the valuable
vermin upon our shores. Fill the land
with temples eivctcd to the great Joss.
Are not the footprints of the higher civili
zation traceable throughout every branch
of our (iovcrnmcnt'! Does he not rejoice
in our success and mourn at our calami
ties '!
l>u they not run our sewing machines ?
I>u they not manufacture our cigars ? Do
they not make our boots anil shoes ? l)o
tliey not preside in our kitchen? Do
tliey not swarm in our orchards and gar
dens ? Do they not harvest our crops ?
Have they not driven our poor whit'e wo
men from the wash-tub to the bagnio?
Are not their women ready to teach in
calculable value of their love ? And are
not the procurers of this wholesale system
of prostitution lionized wherever tliey go
,as moral Moseses who are to lead our peo
ple to the promised land ?
Twelve hundred more ?—a mere baga
telle. Do not they furnish {'uiploymctit.
to our carpcutcrs, blacksmiths, tanners,
plasters, stone cutters, plumbers and ship
wrights ?
Docs not his custom make our
merchants, fniitmeu, farmers ? Is his
presence not a blessing to our hotels,
banks and insurance companies ?
Is he not a god-send to the locality he
inhabits? Does he not improve and
beautify his home, cmbclish his gardens,
and make a paradise of his neighborhood ?
Docs lie not cheerfully contribute to our
schools and academics, our churches and
charities ?
Only twelve hundred more! Twelve
hundred white men tu be thrown out of
employment. 15ut they can l»o<; steal and
starve. Twelve hundred white wuincn,
pure as thesnowflukes from heaven, driven
to barter their virtue for a crust of bread !
In the name ofiJod what age do we live
in ? what hind is being thus crushc l ?
and ever and above all, what people is
permitting its consummation ?
Millions can be voted to enable com
panies, bloated with wealth, to overrun our
country with these people; hundreds of
millions cau be donated to miliouaircs to
protect their manufactures.
Hut nothing, nothing, can he done in
the interest of the toiling classes of the
country whom this influx of pauper labor
is ruining.
Twelve hundred more!
Every day a suicide; some poor devil
of a white nutn, out of money, too proud
to beg, too holiest to steal too noble to
starve; blows his braios out. Ail right;
white blood is at a discount, and coffins
are cheap. Potter's field is large ; starv
ing; white people are welcome to its gates.
Make roojn for the twelve hundred ad
ditional clauses to the Hurlingame treaty !
Fellow laborers of California, a fearful
duty rests upon your shoulders. Wisdom,
firmness, honor and courage arc demanded
at your hands. The security of yourselves,
the futuro welfare of your families, and
tho prosperity of your Government de
pends upon your course.
By every consideration of honor and of
manhood; by every tic of fauiily and of
country; by every impulse of justice and
patriotism, I conjure you to rise, as one
uiao, iu the majesty of your power, as
freemen, and throw back the tide of heath
cu paupers from our shoros. Unless this
be done, as sure as light shines, and Clod
reigns, this great country and noble pcop
ple arc ruined.
nr An editor, alluding to the demand
fur female suffrage, female doctors, and
feuialo clergymen, remark? that another
want preseuts itself—that of fetaalo wo
mcu.
t Why is it weariness to listen to a
good organist on Sunday? Because tho
congregation aro always •' played out"
after service.
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING, J ONE 25,1870.
Who Fays Interest to Bondholder*?
Farmer, mechanic, workingman, do you
ever wear a coat ?
Do you ever wear a business coat, suita
ble for all work, or do you dress iu broad
cloth, drink costly wines aud fare sumptu
ously every day ?
Is your money invested In lands, In
tools, in machine shops, in farms aud
farming implements ?
Are you a miner working in the coal
beds ; in the lead regions; away up in
tho Superior copper country, or among
the ravines, gulches and auriferous niiucs
of California ?
If you arc a workingman you arc a very
foolish man.
1 f you arc a bondholder—one of those
protected individuals who draws all his
money from industrial enterprises—a man
who "jives no employment to others—a
man who lays not one brick above another
—then the Government, which, you know,
is the. best government the world ever
saw. will pay you interest on the bonds
you hold, taxing you nothing. If your
money is invested in that which produces
something, which gives employment to
others, which en ables men to earn some
thing for the support of their families and
the beautifying of their homes, you will
be taxed directly and indirectly.
Some people say the rich men alone pay
the interest to the bondholders, and are
interested in the national debt. If you
use tobacco, remember that for every
pound you ut'C, if the tobacco is of good
ijuality, you pay thirty-two cents tux per
pound, which money goes into the Treas
ury, to be dr:'wu out by those holding
bonds exempt from taxation. If you use
tobacco you are one of that class which
pays a tax of thirty million dollars per
year on this article alone.
And you wear a coat—such as we wear
when engaged iu labor. Lot us see what
that coat costs.
This afternoon we were iu one of the
largest wholesale concerns iu New York
City, looking at goods of various kinds,
the prices thereof, cost of manu
facture and import, revenue paid thereon,
Ac. We found that the article of goods
known as pilot cloth, made iu England,
costs there two shillings per yard, iu gold.
Sufficient cloth to make an ordinary busi
ness coat, of the kind of goods above
named, costs, delivered in New York for
goods and freight, fifty-thrcj cents in gold.
Our government has placed a tax on this
article of wearing apparel, iu demand for
workiiigmcn's wear, at fifty cents per
pound, and thirty-five per cent, ad cu/o
rem.
To make a business coat, two and a half
pounds of this cloth is required. The
cost of the article, delivered at the wharf,
is fifty-three cents. The tax paid thereon
by the wearer is one dollar and forty-two
cents. And this tax the poor man, who
wears a coat of the above material, has to
pay for the benefit, of bondholders. Now
let us see how the Government serves the
rich man who wears a better quality of
goods.
Material for a coat of the same pattern,
made from what is known in the trade as
Carr's Klysian, or beaver goods, costs for
the material three dollars and sixty cents.
The tax thereon is two dollars and twenty
six cents —the tax being but a very little
more than that paid by the poor man, al
though tho quality of goods is lighter,
liner, and five hundred per cent, more du
rable.
The poor man, on his working coat pays
three hundred per cent, tax —natioual
revenue tax for the support of those who
are themselves untaxed.
Tho mau who has inoucy, and is able to
dress well, pays a duty of sixty-three per
cent. —a discrimination iu favor of the
rich and against tho poor of two hundred
aud thirty-seven per cent.
And yet people say wo must say noth
ing against United States bonds. They
say we must not ask the Government to
call them in and give out an uuiform cur
rency therefor, as tt clearly has the right
to do without any violation of the original
contract. Because we stand by the men
who wear poor clothes—the ones who pay
three hundred per cent, duty as tax to a
Government that is continually robbing
them, we are announced as an enemy to
the Government. Hut thank God, we are
not an cuetny to the people, to those who
labor; to those who are pushing forward
the nation ; who arc working in the forests,
on the rivers, in the fields, work-shops and
mines—who are by honest labor entitling
themselves to more pay and greater pro
tection thau they have. •
Workiugincn, when you put on your
coat, or whuu you take it off, think of the
duty and the tax you pay thorcon. And
when you see a utan with a better article
of gondson his back thau you wear, think
how much more you pay to tho (Jovorn
lucnt than he docs, and tell us, if you can,
that you are not entitled to more voice
and' more of a say concerning matters af
fecting the people, especially yourselves,
thau the one who dresses elegantly, aud
pays not a quarter of the tax you do.
And thcu tell us if this is the correct
way for the Government to eucourage la
bor, to promote enterprise, to add to its
wealth, its power, and its greatness!—
Pomeroy'n Democrat.
S&yA fiuqjalo barbpr ruus tho best pat
rouiaod harbor sjjop iu Detroit,
Chemistry is a science, which treats of
tho intimate nature of bodies, and their
mutual action on each other. There is no
study that cornea so perfectly home to
ovory human being, whether inventor or
mechanic, farmer or housewife, aa chemis
try. Many a valuable invention is based
on chemistry, and a very alight knowledge
of the science enables the farmer to as
certain in a moment whether his soil con
tains an excess or deficiency of lime. If a
deficiency, that slight knowledge teaches
him to add to it, cither pure lime, or bone,
or shells, or a multitude of articles con
taining it. So of other qualities of his
soil—chemical analysis alone can show
him how to adl what is wanting, or lesscu
what is in excess.
When the housewife knows why the
yeast or the soda and cream tartar cause
her dough tc rise, she gives us better
bread. She can make better soap, if she
knows the principle on which the oil and
the alkali unite to form it. The tanner
aud cloth dresser are both governed pure
ly by chemical principles in their opera
tions. Long since, the proprietor of a
woolen factory told the writer that he had
cleared fifty cents on every_yard of broad
cloth, since his foreman in the dying de
partment had studied chemistry. This
had come from the economy iu the use of
dyes, aud from the improved finish of the
cloth.
• Hut of all men, the physician most
needs a knowledge of chemistry. Standing
by the side ofoue poisoned by arsenic, or
corrosive sublimate, ho can, if he knows
the antidote iu time, sate his patient.
The same is true, generally of the vegeta
ble poisons. The science shows how they
may be countcractc 1.
JJut in the preparation and administra
tion of all his medicines, the physicians
should kuow what remedies are incompat
ible with others, aud this he cannot, with
out kuowiug their mutual action on each
other.
We were once called to visit a patient
of another physician, who had by mistake
taken a tablcspoonful of sugar of lead
(acetate of lead.) Tho doctor was prepar
ing to give castor-oil, but was persuaded
to exchange it for Epsom salts, (sulphate
of magnesia.) The sulphuric acid left
the megnesia and united with the lead,
forming a sulphate of lead, a harmless ar
ticle. The patient had no further trouble.
At an other timo the writer was called to
an alarming case of hemorrhage, when the
sufferer was using Dover's powder, made
of opium, sulphate of potash, etc., com
bined with acetate of lead, thus rendering
it inert. Oti throwing aside the Sulph,
the lead cured the hemorrhage. On such
small pivots hang great results. •
Practically considered, chemistry is a
recent science. Until the opening of the
present century, it was scarcely taught,
and little kuowu on this contiueut. Now
tho steam engine is every where. The
steamboat and the rail car cover the wa
ters and the land. The druminond light
begins to illuminate our cities. All these
have sprung from chemistry—and where
the end will be no one knows.
The colleges, and somo higher acade
mies, teach chomistry, why should not the
common school ? Tho masses acquire
knowledge in them, aud always will. In
stead of spoudiug so much time ou algebra
and geometry, for which not one in a hun
dred has practical use, let us wisely teach
in all our schools, something about the air
we breathe, the food wo eat, aud tho water
we drink.
A NEW EXPEDITION TO THE POLE.—
Captain C. F. Hall proposes another ex
pedition to the North l'ole. He writes to
the New York Ilcrald as follows concern
ing his plan :
" My plan is to have two small vessels
of about 150 tons each—one a steamer,
tho same to be sailing rigged, and the
other a sailing vessel, and manned by
twelve men. My purpose is on getting
iuto the Arctic regions to lose no oppor
tunity of acquiring tho fresh provision of
the country, which course will insure my
cotumaud against all possible danger from
that curse to Arctic expeditions, tl<o
scurvy. As a general thing my staple
diet, and of my company, will be as for
merly, raw meat and train oil. I confi
dently believe I will be able to reach the
North Polo and return in threo yeara;
but should I find that it would require
one or two additional jcars to complete
the object of the voyage and travel, 1 will
continue that time.*" •
§&• A gcntlcmau writing from South
Carolina gives some account of tho de
plorable condition of things in that State.
He says:
" What is to become of this poor State
nobody can do more than conjecture. You
have perhaps not known that, at the end
of the war, tho old bank bills brought
some ton cents on a dollar. I mean the
bank of the State. I had a good many of
many of them, aud was glad to get that.
Governor Scott aud his friends bought up
all these bills, then got tho negro Legisla
ture to redeem theui by State bonds at par,
and soon after to enact that tbe_ bonds,
principal and interest, shall be paid in gold.
And so it is in everything. Five or ten
dollars will buy, I hear, any vote in the
Legislature for anything.
Chemistry.
[From the National.]
Party Newspapers.
Tho members of a party should patron
ir.e anil sustain tliwir party paper. This
ought to be an accepted and practiced
dogma of political faith in all parties, and
it is received and acted upon to its fullest
extent in all parties in this country every
where, except the Democratic party oil
this coast. Here a great many of this
party though they acknowledge the cor
rectness of the theory, rarely evidence
the strength of their faith by their works.
That "faith without works is of no avail"
is a truth which {a no less vital in politics
than in religion. Political success can no
more be gained by faith alone than eter
nal salvation by inactive belief. Nothing
is more essential to the achievement of
victory in our campaigns than well
conducted newspapers which, preaching
boldly the doctrines upon which our true
interest depend, enlightening those who
are in the dark as to the evil designs of
our opponcuts, stir up tho indolent, en
courage the desponding and invigorate the
weak brethren of our organizations; and
during the campaigns that
such newspapers are necessary but at all
times, that they may keep alive the fires of
patriotism ami party fealty (which are,
ami ought to be, with Democrats, synony
mous terms,) so that when the time of
election comes to hand, the task of arous
ing our party men to notion shall be re
dered less difficult than in the intervals
between the elections and their energies
should have become lethargic.
Strange as it may seem, Democrats
alone, of all partisans, need such reminders
as these. Republicans always maintain,
their newspapers, and never imagine that
in so doiug that they arc making any stu
pendous sacrifice; but men claiming to
be Democrats, some of them, too, holding
lucrative positions, the gift of their party,
to which they have been assisted by tho ]
support of party papers, not only fail to
recognize their practical duty, but, under
frivolous pretexts, aid by subscription and
advertisements the opposite organs, which
if their voices had been heeded, would
havo left these men, who'form a large
element of their supporters, without posi
tion, office or influence.— Examiner.
SIMPLICITY IS BEAUTY.—The late
Fitz Greene Halleck said : " A letter fell
into my hands which a Scotch servant
girl had written to her lover. . Its stylo
charmed me. It was fairly inimitable. I
wondered how, in her circumstances in
life, she could have acquired so clegaut a
style. I showed tho letter to some of my
literary friends in the city of New York
and they unanimously agreed that it was
a model of beauty and elegancy, I then de
termined to solve the mystery, and I went
to the house where she and
asked how it was that, in her humble cir
cumstances in life, she had acquired a
style so Ticautiful that the most cultivated
minds could not but admire it. ' Sir said
sho,'' I came to this country four years
ago. Then I could not read or write.
Hut since then I have learned to read and
write, but I have not learned to spell; so
always when I sit down to write a letter,
I select those words which are so short
and simple that I am sure to know how
to spell them.' There was the whole se
cret. The reply of that simple-minded
Sootch girl condensed a world of rhetoric
into a nut-shell. Simplicity is beauty.
Simplicity is power.
ft©"* Some chap down South has tried
his hand at defining reconstruction, with
the following result:
Which is it that's the best government
the world ever seed ? Georgy ought to
have found out by this time; having run
some fourtceu or more since Dixie went
up; first, territory; second, provisional;
third, nogoverument; (just sloshin' round
loose, like astray dorg;) fourth, millitary;
fifth, oivil and military mixod ; sixth, in
the United States one-fourth ; sevonth,
plum out, &e., &c., down to the fourteenth
—which started out tryin' to run a sorter
..double-barrcl'd fixin'—that is, civil when
it suits and not civil when it don't, about
every new moon.
pp* With two exceptions, al! the rum
made in the United States in distilled in
Massachusetts, and the distilleries are
situated in Boston and the immediate
vicinity. Tho Boston Pott, in a recent
review of the trade iu New England rum,
says that the greater part of the exports
is sent to the African coast, and points
with pride to the cargo of a recent hark,
which consisted of tobacco, ruin, and four
missionaries—ouc of them being a woman.
Philanthropy that hasn't money con
nected with it, isn't Massachusetts philan
throphy.
CP* The Government, besides- its fifty
millions' worth of buildings, pays over
81)0,000 a ycur rent for other buildings
occupied for public uses, of which over
$61,000 is for the War Department.
A Paris dispatch states that Princo
Pierre Bonaparte is ordered by tho Emper
or to two years exile in America and will
soon leave for' New York. Ho is now un
der surveillance at Auteuil.
iy Of tho skaters at Paris, American
ladies and Polish gentlemen carry off the
palm.
! WHOLE NO. 502/
The North Pacific Railroad.
Tho President of the North' Pacifts
Railroad is now advertising for proposal*"
from contractors, for building tho fiht
section of the track, 230 miles, extending
from the Dalles of the St. Lonis river,-
(which is about twenty miles froih Dntath,-
at the head of Lake Superior,) t6 the
Western boundary of Minnesota. Duluth,
has been designated and finally seUWd
upon as the Eastern terminus of tho Nortlf
Pacific Line. The managers of the road,
however, have perfected arrangements for
giving this great continental route a direct
connection with Chicago, thorcby making
for (hat city tho commercial entrepot
the 'Northwest. Chicago will therefore'
be the practical Eastern terminus of tho
road. It is the determination of tho
managers to push the work of construc
tion as rapidly as possible, and before the'
present season is closed it may be reasona
bly expected that the first section will,
have been completed. The total cost of
the whole work has been estimated at
$120,000,000. Wo notice by ofir St.
Paul exchanges that Jay Cooke, who rep
resents the moneyed power, is about to
establish in that city, a branch house, ns a
disbursing office for the Company. The
Chicago rout, of a recent date. say» the?
plans of the projectors aro on a ntdst e'enri
prehensive scale. " For instance, a bu
reau of emigration has been organized,
which will aim at nothing less than the'
planting of thrifty population along th#
groat part of the entire lino. Imihigra-.
tion from Northern Europe will first he
employed in building the road, and wit!
then be encouraged to settle on tho titH
farming lands of the company as pdHna
nent residonts. To this end farms, fur
nished with new frame dwellings, will be'
sold to the working men at low rates and
on long time.
FAT AND LEAN PEOPLE. —It is a strik
ing fact that most people want to weigh
more than £hey do, and mcasuro their
health by their weight, as if a man were a
pig, valuable in proportion to his heavi
ness. The racer is not fat, the plQiigh
horse has but a moderate amount of flub.
Heavy men are not those whom ezptrir
cnccd contractors employ to build rail
roads and dig ditches. Thin men' the
world over are the men for work ; for en
durance, they are wiry and hardy; thin
people live the longest; the truth is, fat
is disease, and, as proof, fat people aro
never well a day at a time, and are not
suited for hard work. Still, there is a
medium between being as fat as a butter
ball and as thin and juicelcss as a rail.
For mere looks, a moderate rotundity is
most desirable, at least, to have enough
flesh to cover all angularities. To ac
complish this in the shortest time, a man
should work but little, sleep a great part
of the time, allow nothing to worry him,
keep always in a joyous, laughing mood,
and livo chiefly on albuminates, such 44
boiled cracked wheat, rye, oats, corn and
barley, with sweet milk, butter-milk and
meats. Sugar is the best fattouer knowif.
—Hall's Health and Good Living.
SELF-CONFIDENCE. —When a crisis be
falls you, and the emergency requires
moral courage and manhood to meet it,
bo equal to the requirements of tbo mo
ment and rise superior to tho obstacles id
jour path. The universal testimony of
men whose experience exactly coincidw
with you furnishes tho consoling reflet '
tion that difficulties may bo ended by cfp-"
position. There is no blessing equal Ut
the possession of a stout heart. The mag
nitude of the danger needs nothing more
than a greater effort than ever at yoar
hand. If you provo recreant in the horn'
of trial you are tbc worst of recreants, and
deserve no compassion.
Bo not dismayed nor unmanned w"hed
you should be bold and daring, unflinch
ing and resolute. The clood whqse
threatening murmurs you hear with drtM
is pregnant with blessings, and the frown
whoso stern nesi* makes you shudder ana
tremble, will ere long bo succeeded by a
smile of bewitching sweetness and benig
nity.
A NEW THING IN POSTAOK. —This
Austrian government has introduced *
novelty in postage, which might he in
troduced with great benefit in alleenntriM.
The object is to enable persons to aen£
off, with the least possible trouble, mee
sagos, of small importance, without the
trouble of obtaining paper, pens, and en
velopes. Cards of a fixed sixe are aold at
all the post-officcß for two kre utters, one
side being for the address and tho other
for the note, which u&y be writtou either
with ink or with any kind of pencil. It
is thrown into the box, and delivered
without envelopes. A half-penny poet ef
this kind would certainly bo veiy ooove
nieut, especially in largo townij and *
man of business carrying A few suCli cards
in his pocket-book would find them vety
useful. There it an additional advantage
to the card, namely, that of having the ad
dress and post mark inseparably fixed to
the note. — The Society of Art* Journal.
P?" A Western lady ia writing «• favor
of limited marriages, for a given tia%
ranging fnm one to three yeara v with
privilege of renewal by mutual oonxent of
the panics. - ft
John Smith has 236 residences in
Philadelphia, and lives there himeeW.