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VOLUME VI. LANCASTER, ('. II, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE WAT. NUMBER Hi.
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t"OH, THINK OF ME."
11V GEOKUK P. MOllRiri.
Oli, think of me, inv own beloved,
Whatever cares beset tliee!
Aral w lien thou luist the futu hood proved,
Of those with sinlles who met thee!
While o'er the sea, think, love of me,
Who never can forget thee ;
I,ot memory trace the trvsting place
lion- i Willi Irani regret Wire.
Ilright as yon atar within my mind,
A hand unseen, hath set thee ;
There hath thine image lieen enshrined
Since lirst, dear love, I met thee;
So in thy breast, I lain would re-t,
If, Imply, fate would let me?
Ami live or die, wer't thou but nigh,
'J'o love or to regret ine !
LOVE TO II AN.
Abu Hen Adohm?may his tribe increase?
Awoke one night from a deepdreatn ofpen-e
And saw within the twilight in bis room,
Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing ill a book of gold,
Kxi'coJing poiii'c luitl made Urn iin hold,
Ami to the picsi'iife in (In* room he said,
W'liat writes! tliou The vision raised il?
head.
And with a look made nil of sweet accord.
Answ erod, The names of lliose \\ liu lo\ e th"
I .oral.
And is mine one ? Rcti'Adchni a?-ked. Not
so.
The nnjjel said. Hen Adehni *| oke more
low,
lint cheerily still, and said, I pray thee then.
Write mine as one w ho loves his fellow men.
The nngel wrote and vanished. The next
niylit
He eaine again, with a great wakening light,
And showed the names v* hoin love id' (iod
had blessed.
And lo! Hell Adelines name led all the rest.
II.Moll lies r.
m*l I A V v ? A J
From the Hustmi (him tte.
ANTIQUITIES OF THE WEST.
li ha> been locertaiin-d by I 1 itish travi*ler<
ami ri'?ie?c'fs tli;?t theiv is nothing
ol'l 111 AtnePua, and we have been hoimi.
<1 w ith much gratuitous pity 011 account
of our unfortunate condition iu this re
speet. We have been lohl that this i*
one reason of thai nuut > / rt rcrancc
which i< doubtless visible enough in the
American character, but which we came
honestly by, having oblained it by in
heritanee from the ancestors of our self
complacent cousins over tlie w ater.
He this as it it may, '.here are scattered
over the Western 61 ales the remains of
i?iruiKJiiioii> in??n* I'Mcnsivt? than lliovt) ol
11 < * 1'iets and Set?l.<?of sacred enclosures
and temples as large us Stoiicheiige or
nny oilier relicrf the 1'ruids?of mound*
loftier limn any of the bairows of the
J'.iilons.
Many of our largest cilice, as ('incite
natti, St. 1/ uiy, ifco., are built uj>on siteI'oiuicrly
occupied by a more numerous
population than at present?l?v a hot
ii tiioti who flourished here for Centuries,
cultivating the soil atnl, to swuo extent,
the art*, l?ut whose origin, history ?n<!
fate, \ oi must ask of the past unfathomable
ages.
Flint says, "the most dense ancient
population existed in precisely the same
places where the most crowded future
population will exist in agea to come."
At water, of t'irclcville, Ohio, one of the
earliest and most judicious explorers in
the held, estimated that a population of
two millions once resided in the American
Hot torn, (the alluvian on the east hank of
the Nlisoippi extending southward from
Alton one lrundreii miles, and being from
five to ten miles wide. This tract proh
al?ly does not now contain over ten thousand
inhabitants, though it was nott!<-?!
by tbc French more than a century ago,
and their descendants leside there still, in
their whitewashed log cabins.
It may not be amiss to stato here that
the "river bottoms," so#often alluded to
bv Western and Sonthern men, are level
diluvial tracts genet ally found on each
aide of every Western river 01 creek, and
are overflowed in timo of gieat freshets,
like what in New- Holland aro called
iHen(f<jir$. Moreover, to contribute to a
clearer understanding of the present subject
by those who are not familiar with
thii geological formation of the Western
States, I will remark that the whole conntry
between the Alleghany and ltncky
Mountains is a vast basin of secondary
limestone, mostly carboniferous-?that all
the river* find <-r??-l.-c nni cnr In l.nvn irnm
* ? * -r i
n channel through the limestone from
thirty to three hundred feel deep, and
thereforo their water* flow far beneath the
general level of tho country. \Vnl!s of
solid limestone, more or lea* precipitous,
hnve thus been formed wherever w*ter
flow*. These walls, called "bluffs," frequently
come up to the water's edge, but
in other crises a wide trnct of bottom
hind intervene* between tho bluff* nnd
trie river.
The earthwork* of various kinds, which
are Attributed to the real id.ongir.es of
this country rather than to tha Indians
found here at the time of it* settlement
by tho whites, though scattered nearly
over All tbo^ United StAlca except tho
Kaslcrn, cvist, in vaatly greater numbers
and size nil and near tin1 < Miio river tliaii
i elsewhere. lmlml, il seems pivhahie ' I
Unit a majority of them are found witliin I
tho limits of what is nav the State of
Ohio ; so lliiit it is fair to iitf? r tliat, <
; tliotigh those people possassod all or near- ,
Iv till the valley of the Mississippi, the
| centre ol population and the chu t seats
of their power were lived in that State.
Il was for a Ion-* time supposed, eVen
hy niililarv men, that all the tmeient em
1. i r - > ' -
. viiim.nvMW ?n iu III lUIH I I'll HIT \
j but tlio enterprising nntiijtraiinn, Sijiuro,
following thesuggestion of Uishop M adi
i .ton,of \ h., ami Mr. Alwalrr, of Ohio,
argues conclusively that many of the so
| cnllcil fortifications were primarily vreeled,
not as foititicalions, I ut as sacred enclosure!*;
and if defences at all, were <>nl\
secondarily so?first, because in inanv <-f
them ihe ditch is found insido the j>ara
pet, !ik? that once celehratcil work inrpni
ted to (jh'ti. l'iilow, of Mexico ; and second,
because moumls of burial are found
J in certain <?f these enclose.reai*
It is also generally considered that the
; classification of mounds by S<piiie and
j 11avis is correct?and that some are
mounds of hurial, others of sacrifice, others
mounds of observation ? r "!< okoirts,"
am! that a few are temples.
' >f each of these clashes I will hereafter
briefly speak :
"The defelisivo works ??f this ancient
_
j'v'j'iv pi'im-iiiiH's occupy promontories *. r
tin'Mulls which come boldly up to I lit*
liver, being ihcitforo defended by natme
"ii three sides, and r?-?jtiiiing but one ?rlilicial
lino of defense, oilier* are situaled
in the bottoms, at the forks ahd junction*
of livers, (.'lie <>f tlieiu near Chili
cotl.e inol'i?' s liearlv fine handled and t" >rtv
acres. A foitilicd hill in Highland
Couiitv, Ohio, has a mile and live-cigh's
| of heavy embankment, a yd incloses
about forty acres. U is a f?juaio inclo
sure, with nine I nnks of Ion,; puiaptis
uni'ed at < : e end by an embaiikinont at
rglit angels with the olhei*, exhibiting
exactly the lignro of a g'id'.ion. It had <
gateways guard*d bv straight orcre.>?
cent formed battel it s.
In St ioto coiintv a en the inneili,. ..f <
embankment from four losi'vni !*? ? t high,
extending '"mm tlrent to I.iltlc Seiotn, a ' i
disiancoof seven miles. A siniil.tr wmk i
>n tin* l.itl'u Miami lias npvvaid of twin
mil*** of embankment, ami iiuluMS about
a bundled acres. The vwik* at Portamouth,
at the mouth of the Scioto, ami j
which were probably sacivd.liMVe, accord- i
in<j to Sijnire, at least twenty miles ? f
embnukmu'ils, ami the amount ?>f laml
inclosed is about 200 acres.
Near lSpa are many works of the
origin of which the Italians found tin to,
could tell nothing. The\ atclnrltiii the <
fonu of perfect geometrical cite'es?nm?
containing at: area of seventeen aces,and i
the other not more than half an acre ?
The excavation* are all (roil) tlm inside,
and the entrance into the circle is troin
the not tit. Some of the ditches were .1
excavated In masses of gravel ami stone,
where it must have been extremely dillieu!i
to vvoik without iron tools. Some
<?l lint walls were built <>f stone, and 111
tree* <>n tho embankments Hit* :is large
us those in the surrounding forests.
Near l>uvlon there is an embankment i
inc'oMiig 100 acres, having walls twelve
feet high, within which is n mound one
honored feet high and two hundred and
eighty-six feel in diameter at the base.
The site of the town of Ctrchiville was . i
two erulh mounds, one circular, the other .
sij'iare, containing twenty acres. Tim
llrst w as inclosed hv two circtimvalhitions.
In the centre of the town is a small circle,
and from this focus streets diverge in regular
n lii, intersecting the walls at eoital
distances.
In C'iiicinnalti and Marietta were vast
embankments and mounds containing i
rude stone Collins, liiled with human
horn*.
The great circle at Newark, inclosing
lliirtv acres, has n uall twelve feet higli
niul fifty f? et base, ami mi interior ilitcli
i seven feet diep ami thirty fiv? feet wide.
Works of a Miiiilarjchurniter are fouml,
though more rarely, in Kentucky, Tennessee,
Mississippi, ami most of (In-Smithein
States, ami also in Imliana, Illinois,
ami most of tlie Western States. Near
ly all the earth woiks were built in some
regular geometrical form, as provided by
actual llieasuren,6tit - alich as m pis res,
circles, parallelograms ami pyramids.
The luoumU of burial take the domelike
form they would naturally assume it
a mass of earth were shoveled into a heap
over any deposit upon the earth's sulfate.
The forms of these structures are suppos?.!
in?. i
\ as \\> m rjnii/uiKfll. i lig Vlll ir rvpirsciii*
ing (lie earth, which whs and still is supposed
by some Asiatic nation* to bo square. |
Tho pyramid, being half a square, may
represent some object or principle unknown
; and it may be that from these
facts, after moru thorough investigation
and comparison, we ir.ay be able to arrive
at a surer conclusion concerning the origin
or kindred of this people tban is as yet ,
possible.
Probably the largest mound in our
country is tho Temple mound in the
American bottom, about seven miles cast
from St. I/rui*, and two inilea west of the
Midi's on the Illinois side of tho riser.-- I
It is ninety feet high, seven hundred feet
I long, and tiro hundred feet wide at tho
base. It covers eight acres, and its summit
has a level area of four acres. Its
olid contents are twenty millions of cubic
feet. There is a graded ascent from the
bottom to abroad terrace about half way
to the summit. For nearly a century the
monks ni La Trwppo had H monastery !
upon its suimii t. An American now hnft '
a CousptciKHta re*idt-nco there, and a fine
orchard and garden, which I bavo oltcu
visited fur scientific anil consumptive purposes.
Tliu steepness of the ascent mav
ho a coiisidvi able drawback to his com
fort, as also every < 11? {> of water imisi :
l?o carried ii|> from a well duo at the ba.-o
of tlm monad.
A well was dug in ancient times
through liie mutual, ami water was oh
tamed at its usual depth below its base ;
but the well was lolimpii-dicd, because it
was found to be more inconvenient than
bringing the w ater up bill by haiul. l itis
is the only internal examination of the
mound ever made. I was informed that
it was stratified in part, though mostly i
composed ol tlm allmial soil in the neigli.1
.--I . i .
WIIIU' II, HIV .-1F1/13 "Ill-It: II 'MIS liikcil UC
ine ."till indicated 1?y pond, *iunl p<?ii? 1
holes. There were, however, one or more
layers of u pd'eclly w bite san-1, which
eoiihl not have been obtained from any
place nearer than ?he vicinity of St. Anllionv's
Fails :l distance <>t abonl 8U0
miies. I I.is mound is said l?v Alwatcr
to icseuible exactly, in size and shape,,
one of the largest stone pyramids in Mex
i.-o, whieh was erected by the T? dices, j
the predecessors of the A/.lees.
'I liere is another temple nioutid in the
norihern part of St. Louis, the measurement
(if which I do ii"t know ; but, j-i< 1
ii?o by the c \ (', it is about ttfty Vert high
and one hundred feet souare at thy ba-e,
the form being a truncated pyiainid like
that in the Aim r oan ihutoin. When I
was last it. St. Louis, in lJSoo, some unknown
vandals w.-re digging awav :?t it>
base, seemingly w iih intent to remove it
? tdi bv way of "iiupiotemeiil." So it is
piite probable lb.it by ibis liuie one of
the most beautiful si inclines in that citv
? w !.:i !i ha* for ? unities i aoe* stood con?
-picu. above ilie I'.itl.ei of Water*, a
lamlui.uk f. r tlio i.tie of its builder*, :ui<l
( i tu in\ ,-iuvi 1 i11if rates i?f Indian* who
revered it, ntul for our own race ti yiisins
uji and down tl.e liver *1 uritiif the last
two c<uit?iie*?!m* at length di*appcaied
a- uttcilv as '.lie generations who erectisi
it, with put tent toil, to luaik forever the
I'oll.si'iiated Spot wlielo, at Milted times
ai d season*, tin-y met ly lli >usand* to
worship dial.
In my in \t I shall speak of the small ,
I'urial .\i> un<!> into >oliio of w hich I have '
lug wiili in\ o.i n hands, and which arc
teat ti red in meat iil'iiinlauco over the
W este! II CUIlitry.
MYMOTHER.
Willi what ri'iurpiit'C nuJ adiiiiii.tien .
lo I think of itiy mother ! I leiio uihei
her is lie t.is; olj.it ot hUeCtion thai i
klH ? Oil i-.11:11. 11.0 Ullage <1 lilt lllCtl
youthful face and shiuhr woman.y form
was indelibly stnui| cd noon tin! tablet 0!
my infant mil:.!, and wrought into nil the j
L'kinnnls of my moral being. ! have a
recollection ol I.or appear.moo at different
jeiiod*, as shl.ncss, care, advance in
yonrs and life's dials their sad trae<>
upon that face ,<f love, hut none of
these impressions an- so one with and in
:0pv ral'!v from my lir.-?t souse of existence
as the faceo! the youthfid, hopeful, loving
motlo t, r.s she lavished her car*.sot*a upoll ,
nio. hoi tiist hoin, her idol son.
Now iliat lace is furrowed nn<l that
form is ho we. I with aye. Moio than 1
"threescore years and ten" have left their
sail traces there, hut still she lives tin;
honored wife, and more than honored I
mother of her iiumeious train?fechle in j
health, hilt still mistress of her house, ami
a loinistvi ii.y angel around eveiy com li
of pain in the vicinity of her humble
d wellimr.
More tli.-tit half :i Itnnclrc?I yean Itavo
lied with me since -lie tirM pressed me to
lier youthful bo "in, ami Rallied my lender
brow with a mother's virgin tear*.?
I remember l??*r enily lessons of virtue
ami trutli?her careful watching* over
aii my incinn io:is?her happy look when
I was good and It lie, and the tear of *or i
row, half concealed by turning her face j
away, when I was disobedient or in ili
temper. < Mi, liow strange it seems to
me liow that I could ever have otfclidcd I
so good a being as my dear mother.?
\\ as I not her constant care I 1'id she
not toil uiireiiiiltingiy for trie through
childhood and youth, and do f..r me ten
thousand thing* that I was better able '
to do myself f < Mi, it in wt>n?l**rtill?iticli
unsclHsli care?such patience?such low !
They now till my heart with ml miration.
I'.lit they did not cease wlieu i became
;i uiuii itiiu id iliu deal ooi iiomo. Nu,
hut nor since, when i have turned my
steps thither to pay my lili.il duty?nay,
to bless m\self l>y a brief visit, then that j
name hind voice, now tremulous with
age, greets with a motherly welcome,and
calls tne "child,'' as when i looked to her
for bread. Willi the name strange
llioughlfuli.es* will she look over my
garment* to see if there is not a rent to
repair, or a button to replace; and after
I have gone to my slumbers, comes care
fully into my room to luck the clothes
about my person, and make suro that all ,
is well with her "child" lor the night.
(Mi, my mother ! how much I owe to
thee foi whit little of virtue, or reverence
for right, or desire for truth, or trust in
(toil, i have been enabled to possess and
enjoy iii my checkered lift*. Nay, how
much I nut indebted to th< e for my nobleat
view* of Ood, for my deepest faith,
for in) hone*t trust, for my most disin
tercated love, for iuv richest ex|?er;?nce.?
Hut oh, how liillo i.iivo I done in return ,
for thco ! Tncao line*. n? I write thorn,
aro blolto-1 with tear* of penitential sorrow,
that I could so little regard my obligations
of gratitude to thee, thou mira- 1
cle of lovo ! Hut T will cborish thee now '
in niial duty. My hand shall lead thee
along the narrow path of age, and gontly
pa?? thee to thy r? at in tha grave, and
plant there tho "sprig of csum" to bloom |
oVcr tny honoreddust -JiVa. Thomson.
4p
m ?*
Km>mi ili?* CliarlvMoii Kv.uiii" NCh.-.
THE COMET.
"T!ii- Ik-.1v liatli a tail iimho p<Mil<>tts tlian tinIi.m.I,"
*
Mltl.l.lNK.
Mkksus I'juioiis: Mrs. m, I am Imp 1
pv lo say, is uiico mule in a .piicsceiil
slato. Slto lias di>o<-vvicJ williin tlie last
day or two in some paper or uttier, that '
illo Coinct is a tm-ie head and tail of (
nothing, and it it does l<<: the earth, j
it can i inni. Ali w lint a delightful thing ,
to (he head of :i family is science ! What t
a blessing to tender heaited husbands ,
and indulgent parents is a knowledge of ,
astronomy! Mrs. cy, is actually agreea ,
l.le?decidedly cle\cr?more so than I j
have seen her l<?r sometime. I think the (
icaclioit litis caused her to look positively j
pretty. I feel so contented tit present I ,
sit down in my little hack piazza of an
evening with my si-gar in my luotith, 1 ;
(the Lest of American, live cents a grab) (
an! let my mind revel in plcastinl rellce- |
lions, though retrospectively I never al- \
low my thoughts to go farther than with- ,
in a year or two of my wedding day.? t
There was an occurrence at that time, ,
jnite trivial, between Mrs. Q., and a for- j
mer lover, which I don't can- much about
thinking of, f?<r it always makes inv nose ,
bleed, and theoidy way leanest tin* inel- ,
m.choly thought, and stop the tlovv ut <
hi 1, is to put a 'arge piece of ice down .
my baek, which generally acts as an ef
fectual cure. A very good thing as a ;
reined v, but I don't think the sensation .
... ii ?
i- .i-iui-iitiu- as wooing a j reuv woman.
To toll tin; trtil!), though, I think 1 have ,
seen inv wile slightly relapse into lu-r o!.l
notions, !>ul only ft r . ? moment. The other
evening, while Arabella was at the '
|>iano, Augustus asked her to sing "II ?i> ?
tt !? 1 a Muttering /.//<,'' which piuustuille I
Mrs. hj , and she insisted, rutin i .\hurplv, |
it .should neither hj sung m?r played.*? .
There I had "the motive and the rite," (
atnl since, 1 have never breathe ! the word, ,
hut if i'. is tiecc.-oiy, in any con versnti >n ,
brought up, t<> u>e it, I cither say nana- 1
tive t?r appendage, as may suit the case.
It's evident to ine, that it wasn't the head (
of lliu comet that ft ighlelicd her. Speaking
of Aiabelln ? sin: is all hopes and
loops?>l.e is pelfwctiy satisfied to wait
leu days longer for marriage, t.<?w that
she d> es tmi tiiinh she'd die single, and, (
she s:. \'s_ she Woll I hale . > I . v...? V n n.^ -
j - ; y" %,t' 'vv j
tua uo|) ??ff ji bachelor. Suo i- n girl,ac ,
C< tding to my iniinl, thai will nut let iho (
(i'ilb'r.1 uf llii.? wultd Jill. .1 I. r llltlcll, for
>he intends to lira vv through thcnt double, (
and let llio oil l?or-e do ti o most of tin- |
work. Well, umv bo it's all right. I've
a notion her in< tlo-r had a smti!:vr idea ,
of mairiago !-, u she "viiter? .1 into bond." t
'1 lu-ic is my comfort H< n,?poor licit, i
he's lust his Lot, ami is cudcavniiiig t?.
let! bail, because lie can't pay, lie wants (
to buiruvv from me, but its no go?lie's |
too voting tu cUCoUlilge III those piaetices.
1 tel' him, I assisted him, in the way ol |
the wotlil ? that is, I loaned him a dollar ,
to bet, and held the stak'-s, now lie's lost,
I keep the dollar. I put up fn him, and
ho lllllst gU to S, II.,. , 1,0 yls.j t?i IIOW
the money to pay. I have referred hint
to st vera I I roku.s to m > it 1 am not light,
but bis mm 1 m?l being financial, it will
take liim some time to study tho sum .
out. He *avs, it' In- had known In* ,
cotild'ut come it, lie never would have l?et
il|>oll till* CoUut. I eain i't mV, Iio We Yet',
I'm h"ii ^ it has occutied, for Ben was too
t'niiJ ol rj>e.u!atnni, there's no cure for
thai Ji't'ini'i so elieetual as having "not a
fag of money." 1 sh oi see young Seali
ami endeavor to ?ti.-.-l a coin promise,
ami liavu no doubt, he will Jo any tiling
to get his dollar hack again.
Next conies Hilly, who is .pito wdig
nam, l>? e<u e in my la.-t I c tided him a
"horrid l?>y." Am one, to see his countenance,
would think lie had been taking
lessons from lhckuns' tat young man ; for
to me he looks as Joe must have looked
when old Ward-1 called for "that villain
Joe." "Here I am, but 1 hain't a wiilin,"
nays the fat boy. It Billy is not as stout
as tiie youth described in I'ickwick, it is
not his fault, lor l'il bet be etils more; (
ami me oinv murreni-i.' i see tie I ween |
them is, that one's a xlrejtfr, ami the oilier'*
a rouscr. As tor the small children, (
when their mother was frightened and |
worried, and did all the talking and gruui- (
hling, not only t.?r one family, hut for any ,
two or three that might he short handed,
they kept |it-1lecliy <piioi ; hut now they (
have really bust out. At any rate, I (
would rather hear the crying of a child,
than the cackling of a woman, lioih
are otlensive to the ear; hut one of thcin
can now and then give a fellow a dig un (
der the fifth rib.
And now, Messrs. Kditore, I will bid (
yon adieu, from present indications, 1
do not think I idiull bring either n.vself .
or my troubles I eft ire you again. All is
its lili'iaiini 111<.ill.. 1 mi! as a vi.Ia 'n hiimi>
r ~ ? t ? r ?
with lii<! exception ut mi occasional haw I
ing hy the youngest, l?nl that, you know, 1
will happen in (lie best regulated fnmilies,
and strange innst be that p ireiu who 1
would go to see his baby at every opportunity,
and not sometimes expert a squall.
quilV.
Sonic-) cars since a noted warrior of i
tbi l'ottopattamlo tribe presented himself
to the indum agent at Chicago, as one of i
the chict's of Ins ullage, observing, with
the customary simplicity of the Indians,
that he was a very good ntan, and very
good American, and concluded with a !
request for a drain of whiskey. The
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ayciti rvpiicu urn iv iiui iiiA juhcucq
to give vvliUkvy lo gotnl iMn?ilmt good
nu'ii nt vtr n.-k for whi?key,w r drink it
when voluntarily offered; thnt it was 1?*<1
Indiana only who (Winnudcd for whiskey.
Th?V;" replied tholiidhm, < prickly, in
brokru Kngludt, "wk d?il rascal."
JHiorelhimnuu..
[From tlie CliailcMou Cvuiicr.
UTAH TERRITORY AND THE MORMONS.
l'lie itiMiircclioiiaiy condition ol" llse
dorinou Territory presents to lli? tienerai
ovcrnmcnt a problem vt-i v dillictill of sontio!).
!t is against tins priucij?le-*, on
ivliieh our political system is constructed,
ii 11 unit-! a lii <11!pinil in a iMVi'iii.
neat, not of their choice. Sell preserva
ion, or gieat national exigencies, may
ender necessary a departure from the rule
.?ul still the rule is as above stated, and
'cpartures from it are exceptions, only to
o justified by the peculiar circumstances
A each case.
It may he safely assumed, that the
Mormons are unwilling, either to he gov- j
rued, in a territorial condition, by the
axvs of the t nioti, or to come into the j
I'nioti, as a State, except in the plenary
unl unrestrained enjoyinenl of their ab
?urd religious faitli, and abominable usages,
equally at war with morals aud de
tency ; but, cn such terms, we never can
onsen*, to their political aililalion with
uir sisterhood of States. Vet, if we ad
nit them into the 1 uion, the clause of the
Constitution, which guaiantees to new
States perfect equality w ith the old States
will entitle the Mormons on becoming a
tit < st tllil'vlt M M i it llli ill ( \ ?IlKt !t lit Will
"\\ itliout lot, hindrance, or molestation",
and withnnt restriction, save in tlio sirti:le
o(' republicanism.
VV .1 imiwl rn 11 i i til I >< lint I line n la
i growing people. However gross their
'iiI>?*r>titi??n, delusion or hvpocraov, be il
In* <>r the other, or nil combined, there
ire continual accessions to the numbers,
j) both home and foreign supply, ami
hev nro ulreadv populous and powerful
ti.ough, (m me ?OU,0UO) souls to
nke their eijunl place in our family o!
Mates, or to maintain an iudepcndunt exsteiieo.
In coiimijueiice of their peculiar
need, lights ami usages, they were diiv
n troni Mali' i<> oiau-, uniti nicy wiuiliovv
iVuin t!iu companionship with othois
iin 1 sought i? !"ulT*; and isolalh it in :i re
iimtu wilderness. AA hatever their crimes
uid loiiic-, votjiave tbev sulteicd ju imviilion;
and the more they have been permeated,
the more have they lliliveti ami
multiplied. In their own view, they have
reaped from worse tlinu ooyptinu tasknastet;,
and through or in a wiMerm .??,
'eiitole from their oppressors, lliev have
oittul their Caiman ami built their New
ferusa'etn. Ih.-taiit I'luin the settled pi r
on ul the liiioii, and accessible to the
nilitaiv power otitic government, onlv
>y the toiUoine march and expensive
rampnrtation ot the. munitions oJ' war,
l.eir subjugation would he a work of
?lood-hed and dillietilt v, even practieahle.
Asa tenitoiy, they can only be snhdued
<\ arms; as a Slate, they cannot be conrolled
in their domestie policy,beyond the
ioiiit of Republicanism, witlioiit any un oi.stilutioiial
invasion of State Rights.
Such hi um the alternatives, how is the
oublvm t?> be solved ' Our j>n jool is, at
slice, to out them loose t'loin all conn- xun
with us, either as a I * -riitory, or a
state, to refuse admission to them as a
state, and to withdraw their territorial
joveinnieiit, to isolate thein Utterly and
uake of tlietn a San Marino, not of the
iieuiitaiii, hut of the w iderness and the
dain. Let us furthur refuse all alliance
>i teilowshi|> with them, political, eoninier
,-ial or social, treating them as an unclean
hing, to ho neither handled nor touched.
If l?y such a course they can be brought
.o their senses, and induced to apply for
tdmissiun into the I nion, with aconstituioti,
conformable to civilized and chris
i tn usages, then admit the vile ami re eiitaut
sinners to return into the family
olil?it iii-t. let the doom and the stii/mu
>f exclusion ba theirs forever.
We would not, however, surrender to
hem lite territory of Utah, in its present
rust extent, but we would assign theiu
ircamscribed limits, allowing them, how v?
r ample verge an I room for their numbers.
Wc submit, with deference, that the
our-e we propose will be infinitely pro
ferable to armed coercion of a territory on
iho one band, or the unconstitutional restriction
ot a State, or Mormon State
Kights, 011 the other. Their inland position,
excluding tbem from all commerce
?r connexion with foreign nations, would
triable us to carry out this policy, with
ill I any possible evil t?> ourselves.
L it then fxci.iion bo thu remedy, for this
L-aiuorous excrescence of the body politic
?this leeproiift defilement of the camp of
aur American Israel.
WEALTH OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY.
Emerson in his recent publication, 'English
Trails," says in evidence of the
wealth amassed by ancient families, the
traveler is shown the places in Piccadilly,
llurlinyton House, Devonshire, Lanabown
House m HciksLiru bijuure, and lower
down the street a few. noble houses which
mill w unsian.i, in an tnoir nmpinuuc, ine
encroachments of streets. Tlio 1 >nko of
Jlodford includes or included, ft mile
iquiirt in tlio henil of Loudon, where the
British Museum, once Montague House,
now unndi, and the land occupied by
Woburn Squire, Hod ford Square, Uussell
Square. Tho marquis of Westminster
hni'.t witliin ft few ytata the sorics of
square, called Belgraia. Stafford House
is the noblest palace in London. Northumberland
House holds it hlao by Charing
Cross. Chesterfield llouse remains
in Andly street. Siou House and llo!laud'
llouse era in the suburbs. But
most of the historical houses ira mmkud
or lost in Ili<* modem uses to which trade
lias subjected or perverted them. A mill ;
tilude of town palaces contain inestimable
' galleries of art. lu the country, the
size of private estates is impressive.?
From Hetiard Castle, 1 rode on the highway
twputv-tlirec miles front High Force,
a fall of thu.Tees, toward Darlington, past
llahv Castle, though the estate of tlie
Duke of Cleveland. The Maxpiis of
iWeadalbanc rides out of his own house a
hundred miles in a straight line to the
sea, on his own property. The Duke of
Sutherland owns the cotiulrv of Slither
land, stretching across Scotland from sea
to sea. The I >uko of Devonshire, besides
1 lis other estates, owns 06,000 acres in
the country of Derhv. The Duke of
Richmond lias 30,000 acres at tJuodwood
and 300.000 at (iordon t'astle. The
l>uke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is tilteen
miles in circuit. An agriculturist
bought lately the island of Lewis, in lie
brides, containing 500,000 acres. The
possessions of the Karl of Lonsdale gave
him eight seats in Parliament. This is j
| the lleotarchy again, and before the rc- j
form of 183"J, one hundred and fifty-four j
persons sent three hundred and seven j
members to Parliament.
A GOOD CHARACTER IS CAPITAL.
There arc too many men who are 'lis- j
posed to look distrustfully upon, and discourage,
the young man who would set
out in an active, laborious busiotiss, un
j less he has capital?money?to begin
j with. And too many young men are
deterred from striking out a safe but dif
! tic-nlt path to fortune, because they have
not capital to bnild upon; regarding
money as indispensable to Login the world
with. Hut wo regard it as of the utmost
importance that the young should he impressed
from early !i"e with the conviction
tl.al a solid reputation is of more value j
than money. 1 low ever simple ami plain
the education, however comparatively unlearned,
it: a scholastic sense, a vnuth
? # J '
may he, ho is well instructed if he is capable
of understanding the practical, available
character of those <pialilies which
elevate the man, ami enable him to commann
the conti leticc ami respect of his
follow -citizens.
Hut whatopp rtunitv.it may be asked,
does a youth enjoy f ?r making such rpial
ities known ami practical I We answer,
jiotifncc ij tiji/iortiiuit'f. 1 he question
is a fair one, even Iroin those who nro
naturally ilispi>sed to relv upon souml
principles, ami have not thought much
t upon the developwinent of their elfect.?
I lie answer is, perhaps, not quite satisfactory
in this last age. According to
circumstances, the peiiod ot jirohati m
will be long or short. A resolute and
che. ifu! peitormauco of the duties which
neioiig ii? the station we till, shoul 1 con- i
stituto the great object of the mind for
the time being. In every thing, no mat- '
ter how inconsiderable it may be in it.
s< If. there is an opportunity f? r the oxer
i cise of some of these qualifications which i
contribute the ipiota to nn established reputation.
Truth, honesty and integrity !
are indispensable to a successful beginning,
; and ho is well furnished who has had
these qualities instilled into his mind
1 trom childhood. Let him go and add |
thereto diligence, decision, courage and
perseverance,anil he will achieve a wealth
of reputation that will prove available
not only m the emergencies of life, but
at the substantial basis of a business career.
Aud this he may conduct in ordi
naty subjection to tlio vicissitudes of iifo,
until it is established in opulence, and lie
, himself enjoys an exmted and huuoiublc
fame and posilio.. in thu world.
HON JAMES L ORR.
This distinguished South Carolina
, statesman has been in our city for several
j days, and will leavo today on a short
trip to Kansas. Few men in this country
have risen more rapidly to a high position
j as a statesman, than Col. Orr. He was !
first elected to Congress in lS4d, when
very young, and has been re elected witht
out opposition to each succeeding Congress.
So great is his popularity in his
State that none could bo found to oppose
him for his seat, lie immediately look a
high stand in Congress as a debater, and
on account of his courteous bearing towards
his fellow-members, lie has succeeded
hi making a most useful Representative,
in procuring the passage of bills
that depend inoro upon personal exertion
j than anything else, lie lias long been
i regarded is the leader of the democracy
in tliu House, and his party has frequently
attempted to elevate I.no to the Speak
. VY <t slulml ? ?1 at-ii sow... ?!...?
?- - - ? ",vj" ""ja "":vw w,,,k
Mr. <>rr hud already been elected to the
next Congroia, and lliut the report of his
declining to run again was untrue. It is
truo that ho lias been elected, but we re
giel to learn from him that bo will not he
a candidate tor the succeeding Congress,
and that be lias so notified his constituents.
It will l?e a great loss to his State
to be deprived of his services after he lias
represented it with so much ability for
ten years.
Mr. Orr is a South Carolinian by birth,
was educated at the University of Virginia,
and is now about thirty-six years of
ago.? [67. I/oui$ Leadrr.
A young lady reluming late from the
j opera, as it was raining, ordered the coachman
to drive close to the sidewalk, but
was still unable to step across the gutter:
"1 can lift you over it," said foachy.?
"Oh no," said t> e sweet Miss, "I am too
heavy." "Lor miss," replied John, *! am
used to lifting barrels of sugar." We
wonder if it was John Dean perpetrated
I the above.
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inuifhi.
A MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
In the course of a recent case of breach
of promise, at Rochester, the Judge in
his charge to the Jury, said that it was
not necessary to maintain the existence of
a promise 01 marriage to prove that defendant
in express words or terms made
a promise to plaintiff. Any circumstances
wliicli usually accompany parlies
while holding the relation of au engagement
of marriage might properly be laid
before a jury, and if sufficient to warrant *
the opinion that such an engagement ex*
bled, it was all the law required. "It is
not necessary that there thould bo a
promise of marriage in direct phraseology?no
formal promise is required." frequent
visits of the parties?retiring from
llio society of others?seeking to be apart
by themselves?expressions of attachments?presents-going
together to places
of amusement?walks and occasional remarks
of hearing of others, are circumstances
usually relied upon to prove that
a marriage engagement exists, and if such
are strong enough to produce conviction
upon the mind, they are all that is necessary
to answer the law.
Dunn Scott.?The real original l>red
Was lllO liol. of ill" l.'onrl If..no
urday morning, lie was recognized aud
surrounded by about a score of lawyers,
all congratulating liiin on his enviable
notoriety. Some said he was the most
celebrated character of the present day
? that he caused a ''renter stir in the
I nilrJ States than Lafayette himself, ami
advised him to go oil'forthwith to Boston
exhibit himself there, and front thence to
London, but to be sure before ho left for
England to get an introduction from Mrs.
Stowe to the Duchess of Sutherland ?
"No, tnassa," said Dred, "me not go to
Boston, nor to England neider; tve stay
in St. Louis with Massa Labium." Dred
is a small, pleasant looking negro, between
60 and Gw \ ears of age.?St. Louis Lmi/<
Kaumkiih, Notk 'ima.?In a cloudy
morning it is si milter of importance to
it... i? ??> ? -ii <
.... .r...n< i iu Minn wiiuinvr u will nesunsliii^ey
or showery in the afternoon. If
the,ants have cleared their holes nicely,
and jiiled the dirt tip high, it seldom fails
to hring a clear day to the farmer. Spider
wchs will he very numerous about the
tops of the grass and grain some cloudy
mornings ; and titty years' observation
has shown the writer of this, that theso
little weather-guessors seldom tail in their
predictions of a fair day.?[tlttyHs/i J1w
yer.
A Hint t oil tiii: Skaso.v.?The simple
and best way of preserving woolens
through ih 3 summer from the destruction
of the moths is to wrap them well up,
after brushing and heating them, in cotton
or linen cloths. The moth can pass
neither. Two covers, well wrapped
around and secured from the air, will ho
c-tleetual. An old sheet will answer, and
save all expense of camphor, ?fcc.
Filit 111k CT'uk of Ckoi p.?A piece
of fresh lard as large as a butternut, rubbed
up with sugar, in the same way that
butter and sugar are prepared for tha
dressing of puddings, divided into three
paits and given at intervals of twenty
iiiiiiuici>, win rcnevo any case oi croup
not already allowed to progress to the
fatal point.
Sow I ms (jaisiikn seeds.?All llsit
seeds should be sown edgewise, for if laid
tint on the ground they are apt to rot ;
and if this misfortune does not hefali them
they do not germinate so readily. Thin
accounts for failures amongst gourds, melons
and cucumbers.
A sailor having purchased some medicine
of a celebrated doctor, demanded the
price of it. "Why," says the doctor, ''I
cannot think of charging \ou lese. than
seven and sixpence." "Well, I'll tell you
what," replied the sailor, "take otf iheodd
and J will pay you the even." "Well,"
returned the doctor, "we don't tpiarrel
about trifles." The sailor laid down six.
pence and was walking oil', when the doc
tor reminded lain of his mistake. " No
mistake at all, sir; six is even and seven
is odd, all over the world, so I hid you
good day."' "Get you gone," said the
doctor "I've made lour peirce out of you
yet."
"Jack, did you carry that umbrella
home that I borrowed yesterday ?'
"No, father ; you have often told me to
lay up something for a rainy day, and as
1 thought it would rain before long, I have
laid the umbrella up.'
Young wife.?"Oh, I'm so glad yow
like birds; what kind do you most admire
?'
Young Husband.?"Well, I flunk a
1 good turkey, with plenty of dressing, it
about as nice ns any.'
lWitns.?A farmer near Hinghampton,
New York, Ia6t year, in order to conrince
a ne'ghbor of tho usefulness of hilt!*. shot
a yellow bird in hia wheat field, opened it*
craw, and found in it 200 weevil*, and
1 but four grains of wheat, and in these *
four grains the weevils had borrowed.
"W iggins, what era in the world** his
tory you regard with the deepest horror
?*' ?^'Tho cliol era gasped Wiggl it
with a spasmodic shudder.
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