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J• C/#• H• HERITT A HUTCHI^. VOLUME 1, NO. 24. E WING S E N I N E I I PUBLISHED EVERT SAT17KDAY MORHINQ, DT MERITr & HUTCHINS. TBttMS.-Two DOI-LAM A YKAB, IN ADVANCE. BATE* OP ADVBRTttflNa. Oa* square (10 lines or less) first insertion. Kteh subsequent insertion, One column ry «r, Half column (Ins-fourth of a column, do Baiiness Cards not over six lines do Ovarsix lines and under ten do Over ten lines and under tit'teeen do CUV STY OFFICERS. S. CHA*DLKR, A. W. TOST, R. S ATI'S, J. W. HANCOCK, M.SOHI*, 1. C. liorrMA!*, W. II. WELLINGTON I*. tAsrnpoRp. W. C.ILTILL Jr., A. I). SiiAVf, 8. A. Iliur. HB*KT M. DOTLS. PHILANBRK VANDF.MBRMOH, JAMES PATTON-, L. BE VANS, wholesale and retail dealer in Dry-Goods, Groceries, Provisions. Crock ery, Hardware. Sic, Main street. Red Wing. A 75 25 |50 00 30 00 18 00 5 00 7 00 10 00 E I O I A OFFICERS. WILLIS A. GORMOM, TllATIS itOSSKK, W. H. WELCH, A U.CllATriKLD, O S S S I I N M. W. luwi.v, NOHMIN ROOT, II. KICK, C. B. LEONARD, JUMPS GKOKUII, L. KM MITT. J. B. PLRTOIRB. I II. IlKlttlWlM, R: (J. MUHFUT. M. KlTLLKIlTON, HOUCJUHF., Gorcrnor. Secretary. Chief Justice. Associate Judge. Marshal. District Attorney. Delegate to Congress. Treasurer. Auditor. Attorney General. Agent for the Wiiinehagoes. Agent for the Chippewas. Agent for the Sioux. Register of Stillwater L.U. Keceiver Regwter of Sauk Rapids, Land O W. II. wooi», Receiver M. L. Resristerof Minneapolis, Land Office K.r KUSSELL. Keceirer W.w I'uibPtf, Register of Red Wing. Land O CGniititf, Receiver D. UrMia. register of Winona Land Office D. SMITH. Keceiver IfwoN BRMKKTT, Register of Brownsville, L.O. J. H. MCKIMMRT, Receiver IKNIBbSTANOitPtELD. Survevor of Lumber ItOBEKT A S I E t. WILLIAM LAUVKR '«. ComniMsioner*. Register. Treasurer. Sheriff. Coroner. District Attorney. Clork of District Court. Judge of Probate. County Surveyor. Assessors. BUSINES S CARDS. J. JACKSON, wholesale and retail dealer in Groceries, Provisions, Dry-Goods, Boots and Shoes. Hard ware, Crockery,&e.. Red Wing. JOHd N WATSON. Saddle and Harness maker an Carriage Trimmer, Red Wing, M.T I B. PARISH, wholesale and retuil dealer in Dry-G MJH. Groceries, Provisions, Boot* anil Shoes, Hats St Cups. Hardware,Crockerv, Glass ware, Ac, Red Wing, and Hastings, M.T. O* illne F. SMITH, Notary Public and General Land Agent. Main Street. Red Wing. IVKRY STABLE by COTTK« & HAWKS »ro pnetors of the Red Wing and Cannon Falls' of stage*. Rod Wing. 11TELLINGTON Si HAWKINS. House.Sign, and Carriage Painters, Red Wing, rp J. CLARK Si CO., dealers in Stoves, llftrd rare, Tin Ware, &c. Red Wing ')ULL Si HISLKR, manufacturersauddeal ereii Boots and Shoes, Red Wing. nOYT.i SMITH Si CO., wholesale and retail dealers in Dry-Goods, Groceries, Hardware. Provisions Sec. Upper Landing. Red Wing. JACKSON & ENZ, wholesale and retail deal- ersin DryGoods, Groceries, Provisions, boots and Shoos. Readymadc Clothing. &c, Red Wing. C. WKATIIEUBi Si CO., dealers in Dry tj Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Provis Hardware, &c, Main street, Red Wing. „N PJ2NBE««" &~HILL. Architects and Builders. Red Wing. A.NDKEibin.eKOClf. W niaifufacturef and dealer .. Furniture, Chairs, &c, Main St. Hod Wing, M. T. lyl Rett Iff tig JLaud Agency. FREEBORN COLYILL, E N E A LAND A E N S Red Wins:, GOODHUE COUNTY, MINNESOTA. .gsT" Or:iCE OVEBTIIE LAND OFFICE. «^gf ELDER HOUSE BY VOLNEY BRUNDAGE, E WING T#. THIS OT. I SteamDoa* this House wishing to take the boat at night, can to get on board. lted Wing, M.T. Sept. 8,1855. 7y AMERICAN HOUSE, S W A S N BElocated, WING. M. T.—This House is pleasantly on the bank of the river, within a fewrods of the Steamboat Landing. £&*~Bi\ggaga convoyed to and from the House fr«g« lyl HOUSE is located within a few steps of judicial purposes,] it shall be competent for j... Vie E WiNG HOUSE. BENNETT «V SON, Proprietors. THISsHouseeiopleasantly WILLtownRedocountry,. situated in the busi- nes centr the town, upon the corner of Main and Bush Stteets. The regular line of Stages from Dubuque to St. PauKIeavesthis House weekly. IBs?* Baggage carried to and from the Boats free charge, and no pains or expense spared to •take guests pleasantly situated. lyl DitS. SWENE & 1IOYT, PHYSICIANS AND SURQEONS Wing M. T«, attend tne duties of their Profession, in an Office next building •west of lloyt, Smith & Co.'s, store. Red Wing, uly 23,1855. lyl W O I ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. District Clerk, Goodhue County. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. RED WING. M.T. lyl E O N WATCH MAKER AND JEWELER, RED WING.M.T.—ChronometerandDuplex Watches Neatly Repsirsd. Shoj—Oppfiut* ths LandOprt. TRE8PA8SER S ON SCHOOL LANDS. We regret to learn, that many of the late immigrants into Minnesota, failing to pro cure Government Lands in just the loca tions that happened to pleaso them, have entered upon and are occupying sections sixteen and thirty-six—donated by a be ificent Congress in every township to the sacred ends of common education. We presume that in most instances these tresspassers are the result of thoughtlessness or ignorance of that sure uncertainty of ti tle which must follow all such attempts on making claims." Tim School Lands were not given for the benefit of the first settlers of Minnesota, but for the benefit of their children 'and their children's" children to the remotest future generation. Govern ment, in opening all other than School Lands to present and future settlement, thinks she hasdone her full duty and has wisely entrusted only to the future State of Minnesota the disposition of the School Lnnds. If the disposition of the authori ties of that State do their duty, these school lands can never pass into the hands of ci ther settlers or speculators at a price nearly as low as the minimum price of Govern ment lands. We think it, then, the duty of every man who expects to rear a family in Min nesota—and even those, who have no such expectation, but are good citizens—to set their faces against all settlements and tres passers upon suctions sixteen and thirty-six in every township in the Territory. The cause of common education prompts us all to this duty: and the inter insecurity of ti I tie, which must attend all such adventurers, should prompt self interest to take part on the same side. You do not wish heavy burthens of taxation to hangover joiif property for Common School purposes in your after years. Then see that the School Lands are now preserved from violation.— The masses must be educated and if the lands devoted to that purpose are wasted —their natural resources of timber and soil destroyed before we become a State, the tax for that purpo^must come out of the pockets of the peopfeiff*'. But this is a cleai?*qucetion, and admits of no argument. In a country where there is so much good land not yet taken up, wo can scarcely imagine how any one canthey be guilty of entering upon School Lands with the Vain hope of holding a title to them in contravention of laws National and Territorial, which it is the duty of every tax-payer—present and prospective—to see enforced. For general information, we an nex the Territorial Law, now in force, in regard to tresspasses upon School Lnnds. It is Chap. 8 of the Collated Statutes, pa ges 18 and 19: AN ACT TO PUNISH TRESSPASSERS ON SCHOOL LANDS IN MINNESOTA TEURITO RY. Be it enacted ty the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota: That any person who shall willfully cut anyced standing or other timber, on any lands set apart as School Lands, for the use either of Common Schools or the University of Min nesota, not having acquired a title to such land?, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and up on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not less than three days, nor more than six months, or shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than twenty-five or more than five hundred dol lars one half of said fine to go to the pnrty complainant, and the other half to the Common School fund and in case of the neglect or refusal to pay the fine above specified he shall be, in addition to the im prisonment above imposed, confined in the County Jail or Territorial Prison, one day for every dollar thereof, until said fine shall be discharged. SEC. 2. In all cases of conviction under this act, if there be no jail within the County where the offence was commit ted, [or to which it may be attached for landing. Persons stopping at the Court before which such conviction a retire with the assurance of being called in time .'.. U-i Pmnrnit the offemW to fl,« con 1 ". 1 tne onenaer to tile nearest jail in any other county and it is hereby made the duty of the keeper of such jail, to receive the prisoner so commit ted, and in all respects to proceed with him as if he had been committed by the prop er authorities of the County in which such jail is situated: Provided,That the county in which the offence was committed shall pay the costs of his confinement. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of all Sheriffs, Justices of Peace, County Com missioners, Constables, ard sill School Trus tees, to use all necessary means to obtain information of tresspassers on said School Lands, and to give such information to the proper authorities. S&ct 4. The several District Courts and Justices of the Peace shall have con current jurisdiction in all cases arising tin der this Act SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. "Approved—March, 6, 1852." MATRIMONIAL.—A writer has computed that a woman has lost half of her chances of her marriage at her twentieth year at twenty-three she has lost three-fourths of her oppoitunities and at twenty-six, seven eighths of the chance* are good/ Eigh teen hundred Mid fifty-six will be leapyear —•that delightful season, when by common consent/the fair sex can indicate their pref erence. Look at the facts presented above, and then improve the advantages of the coming year, MINNESOTA WINTERS. In 1854, Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, made an explora tion and survey of the fJorinern Pacific Railroad, under the express instructions from the General Government. He has re cently made an elaborate and interesting re port nnd from it we make the subjoined extracts. Being official, they must be very nearly, if not wholly correct. Much attention has been given to the circumstances of the snows and freshets of the whole countryrpassed over, both by in quiries from all reliable sources, and from actual observation by winter parties. I am able to give conclusive reasons to show that no obstructions whatever need be ap prehended from st:o'" at any point of the route. From the plateau of the Bois de Sioux and the Red River of the North to Lake Superior, two feet is a large quantity of snow, though winters have been known when the snow was considerably deeper.— The winters are dry, the weather clear and bracing, with little or no wind. The mer cury, though occasionsu^Me falls to a very low point, is seldom befow zero. The cold est day of the winter 1852-53, February 8, the mercury fell to 25 deg. below zero, and the winters are from four to four and a half months long. Frosts seldom occur before October. The fall climate is re markably fine. «The Hot* ti: H. Rice, the delegate from Minnesota, has often traveled in win ter from St. Paul to Crow Wing, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, with a sin gle horse and sled, and witlkml a track and lias never found snow deep enough to impede his progress. From Crow Wing he has gone to the waters of Hudson's Bay on foot, without snow shoes. During one winter he traveled through that region finding the snow seldom over nine, and never over eighteen inches deep. For sev eral years he had trading posts extending from Lake Superior to the Red River of North, from 46 to 49 deg. north latitude, and never found the snow to deep to pre vent supplies from being transported from one part to another on horses. Orio win ter, north of Crow Wing, in latitude 47 deg., he kept sixty head of lorscs and cat tlo without feed of any kind, except what could procure themselves under the snow. Voyagers travel all winter from Lake Superior to the Missouri with horses and sleds, having to construct their own roads yet. with heavy loads, are not deter red by snows. Lumbermen, in great num bers, winter in the pine regions of Minnes ota with their teams and the snow is never too deep to prosecute their labor. Occa sional winters the snow is not over six inche« deep. The average close of naviga tion of the upper Mississippi for the last five years is November 26, and the average first spring arrival April 8. The Hofi. H. H. Sibley, the last dele gate from Minnesota* also a most experien voyager, states that the snow seldom exceeds fourteen or fifteen inches, and he has known two or three winters in succes sion when there wa3 not snow enough for tolerable sleighing. Alexander Culbertson, Esq., the great voyager and fur-trader of the upper Mis souri, and who for the last twenty years, has made frequent trips by land from St. Louis to Fort Benton, has never found the snow drifted enough to interfete with traveling. The average depth of snow is twelve inches, and frequently thesuow does not exceed six inches. ftAt Two JUoiiars per Year, in Advance. KED WING, MINNESOTA TERRITORY, JANUARY 5, 1856. St. Paul,, the coldest days of six winters are as follows: 1845-46 below zero 18 deg. 1846-'47 2 7 1847-48 2 8 1848-'49 37 1849-50 31 1850-'51 32£ At Pembina, on the Red river of the North, and just under the 49th parallel the winter climate is somewhat colder than at St. Paul, the mercury freezing once or twice during each winter. The spirit thermome ter has shown a temperature of 52 deg. below zero. River closes from the 1st to the 15th of" November, and opens from the 10th to the 25th of April." t3T Bridget," said a lady to her scr vent Bridget Couley,—« who was that man you were talking with so long at the gate last night?'' Sure no on* but me oldest brother, mam," replied Bridget, with a flushed cheek. "Your Brother! I didn't know had a brother. What is his name!" "Barney Octoolan, mam." you Indeed how comes it that his name is not the same as yours?" Troth, main," replied Bridget, he has been married once." ff/* Kisses, like the faces of philosophers vary. Some are as hot as coal fire, some sweet as honey, some mild as milk, some tastless as long drawn soda. Stolen kisses are said to have more nutmeg and cream than other sorts. The following toast was given at a recent celebration: The Rights of Woman —If she canfifot be Captain of a ship, may she always Command a smack. "Sambo, can you tell me what difference there is between a Northern and a Southern man No, Bones." Why, the Northern man blacks his own boots, and the Southern man boot* hie ownpany, blacks," THE WAY IT SHOULD BE DONE. "Mother, how is the flour barrel? ah! getting low said a finely built man, as ho paused for a moment before leaving the house where his gray-headed parents lived "I must send you some 1 have lately bought of the No. 7 brand, just for you to try upon my word it makes the nicest and sweetest biscuit I ever tasted—and you'll say EO I think." And the next day came the barrel of flour, but not alone. There was a good supply of coffee and tea and a dosen little niceties, and all for the old folks to try. That mall knew the value of kind parents. He was a son to be proud of. Were any repairs to be done, he found it out almost intuitively and he never called upon them with his hands empty. Something that mother loved," or "would mako father think of old times," invariably found its way into their pantry. And he actually seemed to like nothing so well as to leave in their absence some token of his fondness and respect for those who had worn out their lives in serving him. But ah! how many leaves their parents desolate and in need, or give them a place by their fireside where they are expected to delve and work out the obligation. Is it any wonder that such, conscious that in the way, grow querulous and fretful, and die, perhaps, unregretted Others are ashamed of their honest old parents—shame on them —keep them in some byplace giving them pittance upon which they ..can barely sub sist. _. A would-be-fashionable young lady who had sacrificed everything to appearance, once told some of her newly-made acquain tances, that the familiar old man who was laboring in the yard was ther woodsawyer. Having gone thus far she was base enough tojcairy^jouUhe lie, .a«d when became in for a moment nntf^^id[upon :thV thres- hold of the door withva cliildish smile warming his wrinkled face into sunshine as he gazed on their merriment, instead of calling him by the dear name of RTthetrshje schooled herself to say, coldly pointing to the ysird, wc can't pay you till the whole is done." The old father gazed for a moment in astonishment, comprehended her duplici ty and turned away broken hearted. Truly then the iron entered his soul, for. Oh! who can tell How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child." -Svsjpstej* praise can never be given than that of a dying parent, as lie" blessesT the hand that has led him gently from sorrow to sorrow, and is even now smoothing the cold brow, damp with the *pray of Jorden. And dear the thought, as your tears fall up on the sod that covers the gray-haired father that you were ever kind and loving to him, that you gave cheerfully of your abundance, and caused him not to feel that you were doing a charity. Never can we repay, those ministering angels we call father and mother. Angels though early, liave they ever been from the time that Adam and Eve gazed upon their first born, as he slept amid roses, while the tiny fingers, the wax en lids, and the cherub form, were all mys teries to them. Willingly they have suffered for us: let us bless them with the kindest attention let us fold them in our hearts, and allow no love of gain, or pride of position to tear them thence. .- ON FRETTING.—" Fret not thyself/' says the Psalmist. Mankind have a great prone-' ness to fret themselves. Their "business does not prosper according to their expecta tions: customers do not .pay .promptly competition is sharp those in whom they have confided, prove treacherous mulice aud envy hurl-their envenomed shafts do-* mestic affairs grow contrarywise the wicked seem to prosper, while the righteous are a bused. In every lot there is ample material to make a goad of, which ma} pierce and rankle in our souls, if we are Only so dis posed. Fretting is of the nature of certain dis eases, assuming various types. Disease is sometimes acute—coming on suddenly in Th navigation* of the Redf nirdst of health, and with little premoni tion, 'raging violently through the system, causing fever and racking pains soon reach ing its crisis, and rapidly rftrining its course, either to kill or to be cured So with fret ting. At times it overtakes the constitution ally and habitually patient and gentle.— Strong provocation assails them unawares, throws them off their guard, upsets their equinimity, and causes an overflow of spleen that they did not know was in them to that degree. Even the gentle may thus have occasion for taking heed to the injunction* "Fret not." Diseases, however, often assume the chron ic type, liecoming imbedded in the system, deranging its organs, interfering with the performance of the natural and healthy functi ns, and lingering year after year, like a vampire, to extract the vital juices. In like manner fretliug becomes chronic.—• Peevishness, irritability, censoriousness,com piaimiifr,indulged in* assume a habit gain ing thereby strength and power, until the prevailing*temper is fretfulness. It argues a sadly diseased condition of the soul, when this distemper becomes one of its fixtures. To such an one everything goes wrong.— The whole mechanism of society is thrown out of gear instead of moving smoothly, as when Inbricated by the oil of kindness and charity, its cogs clash, and its pivots all grata harshly. u?* No man' can avoid his own com so be had better maki it as good as possible. STYLE UPON STILTS. We are often reminded, in these days of improvement, of the saying of the celebra ted French diplomat," that language is given us as a means of concealing our thoughts. Certain that, it is in many in stances, the meaning is obscured in theprofession dress in which it comes forth. The doctor who replied to the lady that asked him if artichokes are good for children, that they are the least flatulent of esculents might as well have answered her question in "Chi nese. Slie Was no wiser than she was be fote. The effort in many writers and speak ers, in these days, seems to be to depart as far as possible from plain Saxon English, and from the simplicity and clearness of common sense, and to express their tho'ts in such terms of refinement, and in such periods of high sounding words, that men lose sight of the idea in the flourish of words thrown around it. An old writer complains of certain preachers, who if they happen to find an unlucky or hard word, during the week, thought themselves want ing in duty to their flock, if they did not give it to them in their next sermon. The itching after originality—this disposition to ignore all that is plain nnd simple is in creasing among us. A simple proverb, or pithy saying of former days, cannot be quoted in its original form. It is not fit for the columns of a newspaper, until it has the dress of this modern improvement given to it. We will give our readers a few specimens, in illustration of this refined process, that they may see how easy it is to fly with such wings, or to move above the earth, when we are upon such stilts. We take our first example from a long edito rial article in one of the religious papers of last week. Alluding to another paper, the writer, says: It should remember that ancient and profitable maxim, which pronounces the .ainusement of projecting small masses of mineral concrete, not safe for those whose habitations are of glass." What a refine ment is this, compared with the vulgar adage of throwing stones!" What a pity the translators of the Bible did notto have the benefit of this improvement.— They might in that case, have shielded Shime'i from the vulgarity of throwing stones at David, a»d made him responsible only for projecting small masses of miner al concrete" at the King of Israel. Wc hope the boys in the street, if they continue the bad practice of throwing stones at each other, wilTat least free tlfemselvesffrem the vulgarity of those words, and call their sport simply projecting small masses of minerajconcrete" at each other. And we trust also, for the sake of the rising genera tion, that in the next edition of Webslers' Spelling Book," the old man who found a rude boy upon one of his trees stealing ap ples, will be allowed the benefit of this im provement, and when words and grass do not avail, be permitted to try what virtue there is in "small masses of mineral con crete." This kind of improvement is sometimes seen in the pulpit. A celebrated doctor of divinity, in a neighboring city, not long since quoted the first verse of the 42dbreakfast Psalm after this matter, As the thirsty animal longeth for the cool aud ripliug rillj" fec. This is plainer indeed, and has less refinement about it, than the "amuse ment of projecting small masses of mineral concrete," but it partakes of the same pro cess. We Once heard a sermon on the fall of Peter, iu which the preacher, near the close of the discourse, rose thus into the sublime': Ho sooner did the shrirl clarion of the prophesied chanticleer reach the ear of Peter, than he went out and wept until his strength was wasted to more than wo man's weakness, and his face was blanched to more than woman's whiteness." We know of nothing that surpasses these refinements, except that found in Bernard's Bible, which, in Job, clothes the neck of the war horse with "a waving mane," and makes him skip like a locust."—N. Y. Observer. 05s* A venerable doctor, who is as witty as he is benevolent, in carrying his philan thropic schemes, has contributed largely torn new ving of a hospital for decayed gentlewomen, in London. Not long since the committee "of arrangements sent down to him, asking him if he would send his crest and coat of arms to be inscribed on the building. He inclosed a pill-pox. AT5 The Senca Falls Revellie" tear fully tells of the following melancholy af fair.* At Niagara Falls last Friday night, a young man, name unknown, who hador been disappointed in love, walked out to the precipice, took off his hat aud coat, and casting one lingering look into the gulf be neath him—tnrned aud went back to his hotel! His body was found the next morn ing—in bed. A Western publisher lately gave notice that he intends to spend fifty dollars for the purpose of getting up anew head" for his paper. The next day one of his subscribers dropped him the following note:—"Don't do it. Better keep the money, and buy a 'new head' for the edi tor." ff?" The substance of a verdict of a re cent coroner's jury, on a man who died in a state of inebriation, was, "death by haug ing—round a rum shop." When weTaney others better off than ourselves, it may only be because we know our own circumstances, and not theirs. PROPRIETORS WHOLE NO. 24. DON'T DEPEND ON FATHER." Stand up here, young man, and let us talk to you—you have trusted nlone to the contents of father's purse," on his fair fame fir your influence in business. Think your father has attained to eminence In his except by unwearied industry or that he has amassed a fortune honestly without energy nnd activity You should know that the faculty requisite fot the ac quiring of fame or fortune is essential to, nay inseparable from, the retaining of eith er of these. Suppose father" had the rocks in abun dance if you have never earned anything for him you have no more business witb those rocks, than a gosling with a tortoise and if ho allows you to inecbUo with them until you acquire some by your cwn indus try, he perpetuates mischief. And if the old man is lavish with his cash towards you, while he allows you to while away your time, you'd better leave—yes, run away—sooner than Le an imbecile, or something worse, through so corrupting an influence. Sooner or later you must learn to rely upon your own resources of you will not be anybody. If you have become idle, if you have eaten your fath er's bread and butter, smoked your father's cigars, cut a swell in your father's buggy, and tried to put on father's influence and reputation you might far better have bees a poor canal bo)', the son of a chimney sweep, or a boot black—or indeed we wo'd not swop with you the condition of a half starved motherless calf. Miserable objects you are that depend entirely upon your parents, playing gentle man (dandy loafers.) What in the name of common sense are you thinking about I Go to work with either your hands or your brains, or both and be something! Don't merely have it to boast of that you have grown in father's house—that you have vegitated like other greenhorns, but let folks know you count one! Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw, the plough handles, the scythe, the axe, the pick-axe, the spade—anything that will enable you stir up you.i blood. Fly around and tear your jacket, rather than the passive recip ient of the old man's bounty! Sooner than play the dandy, hire yourself out to some potatoe patch, let yourself stop log holes, or watch the cars, and when you think yourself entitled to a resting spell, do it on your own hook. If you have nooth er means of-having fun of your own, buy with-your own earning an emoty barrel and stick your head into it and holler or get into it, and roll down hill—don't for pity's sake, make the old gentleman furn ish everything, and lie at your ease. Look about you, you well dressed, do* nothing drones. Who are they that have worth aud influence in society Are they those who have depended entirely 6n the oid gentleman's purse? Or are they those that have climbed their way to their posi tion by their own energy A miserable fledgling—-a bunch of flesh and bones that needs to be taken care of! Again we say, wake up get up in the morning turn round at least twice before help the old man give him now and then a generous lift in business learn how to take the lead, and not depend forever on being led, and you have no idea how the discipline will benefit you. Do this and our Word for it, you will seem to breath a new atmosphere, possess anew frame, tread anew earth, and wake anew destiny and then you may aspire to man hood. Take oft', then, that ring from your little finger, break your cane, shave your upper lip, wipe your nose, hold up your head, and, by all means, never again oat the bread of idleness, wor depend on father INDIAN MASSACRE.—Wo find the fol lowing in the Salt Lake News of the 10th of October:—On the 22d September, a Utah Indian asked a Mormon, named Jas. Wiseman Hunt, to go with him from the fort to the herd, a short distance off, to see a horse that Hunt had bought of him.— They started,- the Indian on horseback and Hunt afoot, aud when about a mile from the fort, the Indian directed Hunt's atten tion to the cattle, a little way off from the horses, and while he was turned, shot him in the back, the ball ranging down diago nally and lodging in the thigh. One of the herdsmen close by started to give the alarm, and the other one drove the herd on to the fort. In a short time several of the brethren went to bring in Hunt, and when about half way back,the Indians fired upon them, wounding Prest. A. N. Billings in the fore finger of the right hand. Three four of the party fell a few paces in the rear, and by occasionally firing upon the pursuers, they all succeeded in reaching the fort without further loss or injury. Brother Hunt lingered about thirteen hours and died. Within an hour and a half after their return, some Indians on the bluff near by told the men in the fort that they would kill the two men who hail previously gone out and were then returning, and imme diately fired seven rounds, killing, as they afterwards stated, brothers William Behuin and Edward Edwards, the two who were out During the same day the Indians burned the hay, and turned off the water that supplied the fort At daylight the next morning, the Indians began to gather round in great numbers and there being no prospect of a speedy reconciliation, the remaining thirteen brethren, by the advice of friendly Indians, took their horses and started for Manti, leaving their enemies quarreling over the cattle and spoils in thf fort