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fckcttil jfodnuSOONER ON LATELI.

- .intr or Liter the storms shall beet

iUa my .-dumber from head to feet:..toiler vi '* -ter the wind shall rave

in the long grass above my grave.

i s ha!] not heed them where 1 lie,

N'utkiug their sound shall signify,. \u25a0thing the headstone's fret of rain,

Nothing to me the dark day's pain.

-outlet' or later the sua shall shine

With tender warmth on that mound of mine ;

S .oner or later, iu summert 'lover and violet blossom there.

1 shall not feel in that deep laid-rest

1 lie sheeted light fall over my breast :

Nor ever note in those hidden hours

I'ifwintl-blown breath of the tossing flowers.

- .loner or later the stainless snows

shall add tlieir hush to my mute repose ;

-ooin r or later -hull slant and sliiit,

\ml heap my bed with their dazzling drift.

. hill though that frozen pall shall seem,

its touch no colder can make the dream

That reck- not the sweet and sacred dreadShrouding the city of the dead.

Sooner or later the bee -hall comeAnd till the noon with his golden hum :

Sooner or later on half-poised wingThe blue-bird's warble about me ring,?

Ring and chirrup and whistle with glee,Nothing his music means to me ;

None of these beautiful things shall knowii tv soundly their lover -lecps below.

S >ner or later, far out in the night,Th<- st irs shall over me wing their flight,Sooner or later my darkling dews

\u25a0 i It the white spark in their silent ooze.

V \ ri a ray shall part the gloom 111.at wraps me round irt the kindly tomb :

ace shall be perfect for lip and browtier or later, Oh why not now?

HARRIET E. PKESCOTT.

THE NEW OH LEANS It JOT.

GOV. WELLS' ADDRESS IN FULL.

V ORLEANS, Augusts. ?The following- Mi-ess litis been issued by Governor Wellst the people of Louisiana :

The bloody tragedy nacted in the city ofN"\v Orleans on the 30th day of July, 1800,i t which more than three hundred citizensv killed or wounded, has, to the credit

humanity, created profound sympathyit. ti.e breast of every man through the'\u25a0 ? ;th and breadth of the land.

T.. ' remote and immediate causes f thisa e demand a thorough investigation

; explanation, and as Chief MagistrateState I feel a solemn duty restingn> give a plain, unvarnished state-

-*iitof its origin and progress. In doingb'ti- it becomes necessary for me to coni-

\u25a0"L e in the year 1804, at the re-organiza-' aof tlie civi' government in that por- j

f Louisiana which had been wrested !it :Q rebel authority. I regret in this con- jto t: m to be obliged to speak of myself, jIt is not to gratify feelings of vanity that ji Jo so, for I fully realize that I am but an

atom in the great cause of,lii.t lining and perpetuating the union of

these States.Tin political history of the country teach- j

- us that, under the policy of the late la- jLimited President, all the loyal citizens of,U misiana, in the parishes then within the' .ion lines, were invited and authorized in 1

proclamation issued by the military;Liuiander of this department to hold an j

< 'lion on the 22d of February, 1804, for jtte officers. The election was held, and ;

men being a refugee from my parish, in I<\u25a0 ri'bel lines, in consequence of my Union

iments, I was nominated by the Free- ?c: ute party, as it was called, and by the< xtreme Radical party, of which Thomas?I ihiraut was the acknowledged leader, as

ir candidate for the office of Lieutenant'? vernor. The first-named ticket, headed. y Michael Ilalin for Governor was elected.Governor Uahn served until the 4th ofMatch, 1805, when, by bis resignation, I

succeeded to the office of Governor.In the meantime, by the virtue of milita-

ry authority, an election of delegates to a?State convention to amend and revise theconstitution of 1802 had taken place. Theconvention met and framed a constitutiondeclaring slavery to le abolished, whichconvention did not adjourn sine die, butsubject to the call ol the president for anycause. A Legislature had also been elect-ed, and was in session at the time of theassumption by ine of the duties of the of-lii-t- of Governor. Shortly afterward thecollapse of the so called Confederate Gov-' rumeut took place, and by the surrenderT the forces in the trans-Mississippi De-

partment the entire territory of the Statewas restored to the lawful authority of theUmted States. When this event tookplace, what was my conduct toward thepopulation of the eighteen parishes re-claimed ? Although 1 had been persecutedand driven from home by the rebel authori-ties, 1 suppressed all feeling of rancor sonatural to the human breast under suchcircumstances, and, in the belief that amajority had been seduced from their alle-giance to the old flag by the wiles of art-bil demagogues, who brought on the re-bellion, I determined to try the effect oltenderness and conciliation in winning themhack to their first love. I addressed them

proclamation congratulating tliern on

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VOLUME XXVII.their restoration to the protection of the |Government, of law and order, and that asfar as 1 v. as concerned, 1 was willing toforget the past. I begged them to submitcheerfully and unreservedly to the new or-der of things, and assured them that al-though the State government had been or-ganized, yet I was anxious that a generalelection for its officers should be held, inwhich the whole State should participate.I fulfilled every word of my promises. Iappointed the men recommended to fill of-fices in the several parishes. I signed theirapplications to the President of the UnitedStates for pardons. I persisted in mycourse of reconciliation, notwithstandingthe warnings and remonstrances of Unionmen, who believed my policy would be un-availing in accomplishing the purpose in-tended, and who predicted that at the veryfirst elec'ion these men, in every parishwhere they held the power, would proscribeevery man from office who had not been intiie rebel cause. These predictions havebeen realized to the letter at every subse-quent election, with the exception of mycase, as is well known, for it was publiclyavowed that I was put at the head of theirticket simply because I could be useful insecuring a representation of the State inCongress. It is further well known thattheir platform, reported by the committeeappointed for that purpose, to the Demo-cratic convention held in this city, was areiteration of the doctrine of the right ofsecession, and it was only through the ex-ertions of a few of the more cautious andpolitic of the party that this platform wasmade to assume the form which was adopt-ed, as in the same convention a well-knownand live Democrat was publicly censuredby resolution, because, in a speech deliver-ed before that body, he said that secessionwas worse than crime?it was a blunder.Notwithstanding my nomination by theDemocratic party, another candidate wasput into the field in opposition to me, whohad officiated as Governor under the rebelrule, and who, had he been in the countryand signified his assent, I have no doubtwould have been overwhelmingly elected.

When the members of the Legislaturemet in extra session, in the month of No-vember, 13Go, convened by me for the pur-pose ol raising money to restore the brokenlevees, and to take measures to redeem thecredit of the State, I found them more in-tent on calling a convention to change theconstitution of 1304 than to promote thegeneral interest of the people. Their chiefobjection to that instrument was the char-acter of the men who framed it, and theabolition of slavery. Having failed at theextra session to pass a bill to call a con-vention, the attempt was renewed at theregular session held in the month of Janu-ary, and more than half the time of thatbody was spent in discussing the question.Finally a commission was sent to Wash-ington to consult with the President.?Through his advice I considered a conven-tion inexpedient, and, for that reason, op-posed it. 1 hud learned enough of the realsentiments of the people to convince methat if the new constitution was made inwould be less in harmony with the viewsof the President and Congress than theconstitution of 13G4, the result of whichwould be to lessen the chances for the ad-mission of our representatives to urge theseviews on the members of both houses ofthe Legislature ; but they had no effect withthe majority.

I deprecated the city and parish elec-tions, for the reason that I feared the re-sult, because of the character of the menwho would be elected, and because I hadseen enough of public sentiment to con-vince me that none but those who servedin t. .( Confederate army or who had goneinto the Confederate lines would be electedto office. 1 foresaw that such a resultwould be justly remarked by the people ofthe loyal States as showing a defiant spiritand as still glorying in a cause that hadbeen sustained by tliern with such fearfulloss of life and expenditure of treasure.?With numerous and repeated evidences ofcontinuing an intolerant and rebelliousspirit, and the manifestation of an inten-tion of persecuting all who did not adhereto the fortunes of the Confederacy to thelast, on the part of a large majority of thecitizens, and with a press almost unani-mously expressing sentiments of the sametenor, is it a matter of surprise that Ishould pause and commence to reflect onthe consequences as regards the future se-curity of the Government and the fate ofthe Union men in the South, if those men,"who once attempted to break up the Union,succeeded in securing the pow- r of the na-tion again ?

1 had seen that, while professing withtheir lips renewed allegiance to the flag anda;, obliteration of the past, which embod-1ies the pacific policy of the President, theywere becoming more arrogant, and dicta-torial. They gloried in the apparent schismbetween the President and Congress in the

; policy of restoring the States lately in re-bellion, and rubbed their hands with de-light at the idea of a civil war in the loyal

' States. In view of all this array of strong,; stubborn facts, 1 freely acknowledge myviews of a conciliatory policy, in turning

: back to allegiance those who have been en-' gaged in a war to destroy the Union, haveundergone a change. The intolerant spirit

; engendered by slavery still exists. The! loss of property and failure of hopes cannever be forgiven ; and though I regardthem as impotent to resist the constitutedauthority enforced by the presence of themilitary, yet 1 am convinced they wouldrenew the rebellion to-morrow if they sawa pr spect of success.

Impressed with the truth of these views,foreseeing the necessity for the future se-curity of the Union men in the South thatthe amendment to the Constitution adoptedby Congress and submitted to the severalStates for ratification should prevail, andfully realizing the fact that the amendmentwould never be ratified by the present Leg-islature, I owu I was in favor of the reas-

| sernbling of. the convention of 18G4 as theonly means of securing the ratification re-quired, and thereby to insure the admission

| of our representatives in Congress.The legal right of the convention to con-

tjjiue its functions is a question, 1 suppose,properly pertaining t > the courts to decide.Senators ard Representatives in Congress,ofgreat learning, and men ot high attain-ments in New Orleans, have expressed theopinion that, under the resolution of ad

. journmeut, the convention could lawfullyj assemble. A distinguished Democratic

Senator in Congress took the same view.For myself, if I had any doubt on the sub-ject, I have deferred to the opinions of ab-ler men. The total number of delegatescomposing the convention was 150. Thenumber elected was 12. The quorum wasfixed at To, this number being a majorityof the whole. There were twenty-sevenparishes unrepresented in the conventionthat were entitled to 51 delegates, and ad-ding thereto ten vacancies to be filled wouldmake 01 delegates to be elected. Resides,there were some ten or twelve delegateswho, disapproving of the emancipationclause, refused to sign the constitution,andthese may be ranked with the extreme con-servatives. Counting the sixty-one dele-gates to be elected to be of the same class,and the balance of the convntion to beradical, it will be seen that the partieswould have been really equally divided.I have goue into these details to show thefalsity of the charges that have been madethat the convention would not have repre-sented the whole State, and that it was in-tended to be packed. Every parish wouldhave been represented, about one-half hav-ing elected their delegates in 1804, andthe other half in 1800, making a just equi-librium of those who opposed and thosewho sustaiued the cause of the Confed-eracy.

There are uo disfranchising clauses inthe constitution of 1864. The rntich-abusedmembers ol that convention had it in theirpower to have made a constitution as strin-gent against those engaged in the rebellionas Tennessee and Missouri have doue. IThey, however, pursued au opposite course,and trusted that these .men would be actu-ated by a spirit of tolerance aud forbear-ance in return for the liberality shown to-ward them. How the members of that con-vention have been treated individually bythe very men whose good faith they trust-ed iu, to say nothing of the sci.ru and vili-fication fulminated against them as a col-lective body, and against the constitutionwhich they made, let the record ol thebloody doings at the Mechanics' Instituteon Monday answer.

lu keeping with the unrelenting policyto keep the power of the State in their ownhands exclusively, they opposed the meet-ing of the convention. They needed nobetter monitor than their own consciencesto tell them that by their prescriptive con-duct they had forfeited all claim to furtherliberty from the original members of thatconvention. They resolved that it must beput dowu and crushed out at all risks. Thescenes of the 30th of July were confidentlypredicted in case the convention met. They iwere the result of the letter of Mayor Mon-!roe to General Baird. Accompanying thiscommunication is proof that it was the de-termination, if every other means failed, toresort to force. Everything was arrangedon Sunday, preparatory to this purpose.

The police received their orders, and onMonday morning they were in large num-bers at the corners of Canal and Dryadesstreets, each having one or more revolverson his person. Why were they there, ex-cept to commit violence? Among all thatis charged against the speakers at Fridaynight's meeting, they can cite nothingmore than that the blacks should comearmed to defend the convention, in casethe members were attacked. Admittingthey were assembled for that purpose,whatoccasion was there for alarm, unless it wasmeditated to assault the convention ? Theinference is irresistible, for the massing ofthe police was designed to break up theconvention. For this purpose a beginningwas necessary, and the opportunity soughtfor soon occurred by the arrival of a pro-cession of blacks with music, on their wayto the place of meeting of the convention.When the procession entered the streetcrowded with policemen and citizens, atthe corner of Canal and Dryades streets, itwas received with insults and jeers, whichsoon brought on a collision. A shot wasfired, but the affair ended in nothing ser-ious. The next act of violence was the ar-est of a colored man by a policeman in frontof the Institute, but for what offence I amunable to say. The crowd of colored per-sons naturally became excited ; brickbatswere then thrown and a shot fired, the tes-timony going to show that it was done byone of the colored crowd. It was answer-ed by several shots from the crowd of po-licemen at the corner, and followed by rap- |id firing by the crowd of blacks, who re- iturned the fire as fast as they could, but jbeing overpowered, were driven from the istreet and took shelter in the Mechanics' jInstitute. If the object of the police was jsimply to preserve the public peace, whydid not they, after the men had taken re-fuge, retire to their original positions atthe corner of the street, which effectually ;cut oil'egress from the front, and placing aguard to watch the rear of the building,await the arrival of the military, who wereknown to be on their way ? The only reas-on for their course is that it did not suittheir purpose. They accordingly advanc-ed on the front of the building and besiegedit on all sides. Every negro who attemp-ted to escape was murdered. Crowningthe climax of these murderous and bloodyacts, it is well known that when the whiteflag was hung out as a token of surrender,the police arrested the members of the con-vention and other white citizens,and broughtthem into the street, where the most prom-inent of those holding Union sentimentswere shot stabbed, and beaten while in cus-tody and in the presence of the entire po-lice of the city.

Why did not the Mayor or his chief ofpolice station a guard at the door and for-bid any person from entering, and thenawait the arrival of the military ? Bythese means the last and most deliberatephase of the bloody tragedy would havebeen avoided. It is also notorious that thepolice failed to arrest or attempt to arrest

even one of the riotous citizens, who, ac-cording to their oft-repeated statements,were continually attacking, wounding,andkilling persons who had surrendered andwere in their custody. I think I have fullyshown that it was the design of of thoseopposed to the convention to break it upby force.

The inference to be drawn from the letterof Mayor is that such a course was resolv-ed upon, and the massing o! the police.andtheir willingness to rush into the fight Ithink fully establishes the fact that thecause of this exhibition of violence and mob-law must be traced further back. It is theembers of the fire of the rebellious feelingwhich plunged this country into a desolate

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TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 23, 1866.civil war, and the flame is not yet extin-guished in the hearts of the former slave-holding aristocracy. Having failed intheir first attempt to destroy the Govern-ment, they seek to retain political powerby the same spirit of political violence bywhich their chiefs had sustained their su-premacy before the war. My deliberateconclusion is that if the military force bewithdrawn the live of Union men whoproved themselves conspicuous in main-taining their allegiance will not be safe.The ultimate security both of the Govern-ment and Union men of the South depend,in my opinion, on the ratification ol theconstitutional amendment proposed by Con-gress and the enfranchisement of the loyalblack man, as he becomes educated andqualified for that important privilege. Ifthe advocacy of these measures identifiesme with the Radical party in opposition tothe President, 1 must accept the situation ;besides, I cannot change my position inrespect to my feelings. I deem it neces-sary to preserve and perpetuate the Union.

J. MADISON WELLS,Governor of Louisiana.

THE ISLAND OK VAI.ENTIA.? The island ofalentia, the Irish terminus of the Atlan-

tic cable, is about six thousand {acres inextent. It has three proprietors, of whomthe Knight of Kerry is the chief, the othersbeing Trinity College, Dublin, and ColonelHerbert of Muokross. The population isabout two thousand ; but although theKnight is a staunch Protestant, his co-re-ligionists do not number more than onehundred and fifty. The harmony of thislittle community, says a correspondent ofthe London Star, is, however, undisturbedby religious discord. The old priest, whois now between eighty and ninety years ofage, has had charge of the parish for half acentury, and his watch word has alwaysbeen "Peace." The average value of laudis about fifteen shillings an acre. Muchmore of it is* used for grazing purposesthan for cultivation, the principal articlemanufactured being butter. Most of thecottages are simply foetid hovels ; butthere is a considerable number of a betterclass, and the peasantry have a well-fed,comfortable appearance. They owe muchto the Knight, who spends nearly the wholeof the income he derives from ibis propertyin improvements and in giving employmentto the people. He is regarded with a feu-dal reverence tempered by modern man-ners. His traditional title gives him noprecedence at court, but his ancient line-age really places him far before the mush-room creation of yesterday. The lateKnight, who was a protege of Lord Cas-tlereagh, and a distiuguished politician,being once addressed as "my lord" by anofficious servitor,impatiently replied, "Don'tcall me lord ; I have no wish to be any-thing of the kind." Perhaps he remember-ed the Arab proverb, "The dog when hehas money must be called, 'my lord, thedog.'" It is pleasant to be able to recon-cile these relics of feudalism with the hu-manizing claims of modern civilization.

THE GREAT MYSTERY.? The body is to die ;

so much is certain. What lies beyond (

No one who passes the charmed boundarycomes back to tell. The imagination visitsthe realm of shadows?sent out from somewindow in the soul over life's restless wa-ters, but wings its way wearily back, withan olive leaf in its beak as a token of emer-ging life beyond the closely bending hori-zon. The great sun comes and goes in theheaven, yet breathes no secret of the ethe-real wilderness ; the crescent moon cleavesthe nightly passage across the upper deep,but tosses overboard 110 message and dis-plays no signals. The sentinel stars chal-lenge each other as they walk their night-ly rounds, but we catch 110 syllable of theircountersign which gives passage to theheavenly camp. Between this and the oth-er life is a great gulf fixed, across whichneither eye nor foot can travel. The gen-tle friend, whose eyes we closed in theirlast sleep long years ago, died with rap-ture in her wonder-stricken eyes, a smile ofineffable joy upon her lips, and hands fold-ed over a triumphant heart, but her lipswere past speech, and intimated nothing ofthe vision that enthralled her.

USELESS YOUNG LADIES.? It scarcely ad-mits of doubt that the number of youngladies is constantly increasing who thinkhappiness dependent of freedom from re- |sponsibility and labor, and wish to havenothing to do but to read novels, or givethemselves to pleasure. A contemporarysays : "The {number of idle, useless girls,in all our large cities seems to be steadilyincreasing. They lounge or sleep throughtheir mornings, and parade the streets du-ring the afternoon, and assemble in frivo-lous companies of their own and other sexto pass away their evenings. What a storeof happiness for themselves and others theyare laying up for the coming time, whenreal duties and high responsibilities shallbe thoughtlessly assumed ! They are skil-led in no domestic duties?nay they despisethem, have no habits of industry nor tastefor the useful. What will they be as wivesand mothers ? Alas, for the husbands andchildren and alas for themselves. Whocan wonder if domestic ruin follow."

ONE DROR AT A TIME.? Have you everwatched an icicle as it formed ? You no-ticed how it froze one drop at a time untilit was a foot long or more. If the waterwas clean, the icicle remained clean, andsparkled brightly in the sun ; but if thewater was but slightly muddy, the iciclelooked foul, and its beauty was spoiled.?Just so our characters are forming. Onelittle thought of feeling at a time adds itsinfluence. Ifevery thought be pure andright, the soul will be lovely,and will sparklc with happiness ; but if impure andwrong, there will be final deformity andwretchedness.

A FEW days since a gentleman calledupon some lady friends, and was shown in-to the parlor by a ? ervant girl. She askedhim what name she should announce ; andhe wishing to take them by surprise, re-plied, "Amicus" (a friend). The girl seem-ed at first a little puzzled, but quickly re-gained her composure, audjin the blandestmanner possible, observed ; "What kindof a cuss did you say sir ?" The visitorwas embarrassed for a moment, but recov-ering, he handed her his card, and vowednever again to use Latin to a servant girl.

THE FARTHER SHORE.

BY MATTIEWINFIELD TOBRET.

I The tide is deep and the waves run swift,With a ceaseless ebb and flowing ;

' Our guide star's lost and our bark's adrift,And a ruthless gale is blowing,

We strive to pierce with a troubled gazeTha dusk of the heaving ocean :

The sea Is rough and its trackless wavesAre lost in the wild commotion.

Our hearts are filled with a thousand fears,As we onward move in sadness ;

Our eyes are dim with the mist of tears,For we see no gleam of gladness.

Y'et somewhere, still, on the farther shore,

We know that a light is shining,And somewhere hovers, the waters o'er,

The cloud with a silver lining.

When the waves run high, and the storm comesTo toy with the crested billow ; [down

When the masts are bent at its dreadful frown,Like the boughs of the lithesome willow ;

Then we gaze afar through the mist and spray,With hearts that are sad and fearing,

To catch a gleam, through the darkness grey,Of the farther shore appearing.

To that farther shore we are drifting fast,Each day we are drawing nearer ;

We hope to enter its port at last,And to see its light shine clearer.

We know that an unseen hand will guide.That an eye is watching ever,

And we feel in our hearts, let what will betide.We have help that shall fail us never.

CHURCH TITHING SYSTEM IN UTAH

When a man joins the Mormon Church,as it exists in I t ih, he is required, as aproof of his sincerity, to donate to the tith-ing office one-tenth of all his possessions?-no matter what they are, or how extensivethey may be. A man with SIOO,OOO inmoney must upon his entry into fellowshipgive the tithing office SIO,OOO of it Thisis the first grand principle of Utah Mor-monism. If the man duriug the year made$40,000 by a judicious investment of hisremaining SOO,OOO, he must give the tith-ing office $4,000 of the amount. This isthe second grand principle of Utah Mor-monism. And upon these two principleshang ali the law and the profits.

These two principles apply to all kindsof property. One-tenth of alia man pos-sesses when he joins the Church, and one-tenth of his yearly gains so long as he be-long to the organization.

If a man has uo money or other propertylie is required to give one-tenth of his la-bor to the tithing office?thus he laborsnine days for himself, and the tenth day hegives to the Church in such manner as hemay he directed. In this manner the churchclaims one-tenth of every laboring man'stime?one-tenth of every trade representedin the territory?one-tenth of a man's life,talent, and industry. If a man engages infarming, and raises wheat, cattle, horses,sheep, etc., lie must calculate what he hasraised?say 100 bushels of wheat at 20day's labor?the tithing office demands 10bushels ot that grain. Should lie be idlethirty days, the tithing office claims threedays from him on the ground that he maydo as he pleases with twenty-seven days,but has no right to idle away the threedays belonging to the Lord. If he has onehundred sheep, he must give away one-tentli of tliern?he must give one-tenth ofthe increase. If he has a cow, and thecow gives ten quarts of milk each day, theChurch claims one quart. In fact, theChurch tithing system penetrates the mostabject abode of poverty in the Territory,and extracts from it one-tenth?if it onlyamounts to a hen's egg. (See Brigham onTithing, page 111, volume 1, Deseret News,1850.)

Then, in addition to this tithing systemexacted from the people, under penalty ofexcommunication if refused by them, arethe Federal, Territorial, county and towntaxes, a burden altogether, quite suilicientto continue any people, no matter how in-dustrious, in comparative poverty.

The tithing system is a source of largerevenue. It is reduced to a science. Thosewho have the administration of the systemmanage to live well, own the finest farms,the best stock, and have the greatest num-ber of women about their premises. Itgrinds down the people by its very oppres-sive nature, and serves to build up the fa-vored few who have the satisfaction ofhandling the funds.

Now what becomes of all this tithingfund? Do the people who pay it ever know?Have they been furnished by the tithingfirm with a balance-sheet of the same?-showing how much has been expended, andhow much remains on hand? Have thetax laws of the nation ever reached thisfund ? We assert, with a full knowledgeof what we are writiag. that at no timesince the Mormon advent into Utah has anypublic statement of the condition of thisfund been made to the people

The men who pay these tithings are en-titled to an exhibit of the disposition ofthem. Why are they not furnished withit ? How is it that the people who paythese tithings are always poor, while themen who receive them are the well-to-domembers of the community ? These arepertinent questions, and worthy the atten-tion of the people. Many of them have al-ready asked these questions, and, as a re-sult, have ceased the practice of paying 'one-tenth of all they have or may gain in-to a treasury that never publishes a state-ment of its condition.? Salt Lake Vedette.

A would-be prophet down South latelysaid, in one of bis sermon,.s that "he was sent toredeem the world and all things." Whereupon oneof his audience pulled out*a confederate sliinplas-ter, and asked him to fork over the specie for it.

THE last case of indolence is reported inone of our exchanges ; it is that of a man namedJohn Hole, who was so lazy, that in writinghisname he simply used the letter -J., and then punch-ed a hole through the paper.

A HUNGRY man is unmanageable. To bedocile, he must, like a horse, have first had a bitin his mouth.

" A stetiiescope," says a young medical! student, "is a spy-glass for looking into people'schests with your own ears."

LET your dress be modest, and consultyour condition. Play not the peacock by lookingvainly at yourself.

FASHIONABLE. ? The best style of bonnethas turned up. It is described as consisting oftwo straws, tied together with a blue ribbon on thetop of the head, and red tassels suspended at eachof the four ends of the straws.

per* Annum, in Advance.

NUMBER 13.A MOTHER'S LOVE.

Some years ago, some English officerscamping in the vicinity of Mulkapoor.wentout tiger-hunting, and bagged a splendidtigress. Whilst returning home with thetrophy, they found in a secluded spot, inthe lee of a jagged rock, what evidentlywas the lair of a tiger, for there lay honesof both human and brute kind, shreds andrags of clothing. More interesting thanall, however, was the discovery ot a tinykitten, not more than a fortnight old, coiledin a corner, winking and blinking and gap-ing at the intruders. The hunters at oncedecided that tin's must be the cub of thebeast they had slain, and willingly tookcharge of the little orphan.

Tiger kittens are not captured every day,so when the hunters returned to their quar-ters, the excitement in their tent was con-siderable. The newly acquired kitten wasprovided with a tiny dog-collar and chain,and attached to the tent-pole, round whichif gambolled, to the delight of an audiencenumbering nearly twenty. About two hoursafter the capture, however, and just as itwas growing dark, the good people in thetent were checked in the midst of their hi-larity by a sound that caused the bravestheart to beat rather irregularly.

It was the roar, or rather combination ofshriek and roar, peculiar to the tiger when

; driven mad with rage. In an instant thegambling kitten became every inch a ti-ger, and strained with all its baby strengthat the tether, while it replied, with a loudwail, to the terrible voice outside. Thecompany were panic-stricken. There wassomething so sudden and unearthly in thelour, that it seemed as though the great ti-ger, brought in an hour before, had come tolife agaiu. Certainly, the tiger in questionwas already flayed, but the picture conjur-ed up, became not the more pleasent forthat. There was, however, not nearly somuch time for speculation to the sacredcompany as writing these lines has cost;for almost simultaneous with the roar,therelept sheer into the centre of the tent,a boldtigress, and without deigning to notice asingle man there,she caught her kidnappedbaby by the nap of its neck, and giving ajerk, snapped the little chain, and turningfor the tent door, trotted off at full speed.?After all, it appeared that the little thingdid not belong to the tiger that was slain,but to the brave mother that had trackedand recovered it. Sanguinary man-eateras she may have been, one can be scarcelysorry to hear that not a gun was leveled atthe great rejoicing creature, as she bore offher young one.

LENGTH OF GEOLOGICAL PERIODS. ?AII thefacts of geology tend to indicate an anti-quity, of which we are beginning to formbut a dim idea. Take, for instance, onesingle formation?our well known chalk.This consists entirely of shells and frag-ments of shells deposited at the bottom ofan ancient sea far away from any conti-nent. Such a process as this must be veryslow ; probably we should be much abovethe mark if we were to assume a rate ofdeposition of ten inches in a century Nowthe chalk is more than 1,000 feet iu thick-ness, and would have required, therefore,more than 120,000 years for its formation.The fossilifcrous beds of Great Britain, asa whole, are more than 7,000 feet in thick-ness, and many which, with us, measureonly a few inches, on the continent expand

i into strata of immense depth ; while oth-j ers of great importance elsewhere are whol-ly wanting with us, foi* it. is evident thatduring all the different periods in which

| Great' Britain has been dry land, stratahave been forming (as is, for example, thecase now) elsewhere, and not with us.?Moreover we must remember that mauv of

the strata now existing have been formed |at the expense of older ones ; thus all theflint gravels in the southeast of Englandhave been produced by the destruction ofchalk. This again is a very slow process.It has been estimated that a cliff500 feethigh will be worn aw y at the rate of aninch in a century. This may seem a slowrate, but we must bear in mind that alongany line of coast there are comparativelyfew points which are suffering at one time,and that even on these, when a fall of clitlhas taken place, the fragments serve as aprotection to the coast until they have been !gradually removed by the waves. The |W''aiden Valley is twenty-two miles in jbreadth, and on these data it has been cal-culated that the denudation of the Weald |must have required more than 150,000,000of years. ? Lubboel's pre-Historic Tune*.

WHAT A MOTHER CAN DO.?"Twelve or tif- 1teen years ago," says ex-Governor Briggs, !"I left Washington three or four weeks du-ring the spring, while at home, 1 possessed ;myself of the letters of Mr. Adams' mother, !and read them with exceeding interest. I jremember an expression in one of her let- itors addressed to her son, while yet a boy Itwelve years of ago, Says she : "Iwouldrather see you laid in your grave, than to !see you grow up a profane and gracelesshoy.'

"After my return to Washington, 1 wentover and said to Mr. Adams, 'I have foundout who made you.'

"What do you mean,' said he."1 replied, '1 have been reading the let-

ters of your mother.""IfI had spoken that dear name to some

little boy who had been for weeks awayfrom his dear mother,his eye could not haveflashed more brightly, or his face glowedmore quickly than did the eye and face ofthat venerable old man when Ipronouncedthe name of his mother. He started up inhis peculiar manner,and emphatically said :

"Yes, Mr. Briggs, all that is good in me1 1 owe to my mother.'

WiiEn A DAY BEGINS.? Most nations beginj to count the hours from midnight ; but this

j plan was not adopted by men in early agesI of the world, and is now used by three| fourths of the nations of the earth. Some? of the most ancient nations of the world,as

the Babylonians, Persians and Hindoos be-; gun the day with thu rising of the sun, asIdo the Greeks of the present day. TheI Jews and the ancient Greeks looked upon

sunset as the commencement of the day.?The Egyptian day begins at noon. Thismode of reckoning is still observed by as-tronomers, because the particular instantcalled noon, cau be ascertained more nicelythan any other part of the day. The Mo-hommedans begin their day at twilight.

FORWARD? -1. Bluteher the great Prus-sian general, is said to have won many ahard contested battle through the inspiringinfluence of this motto. In his councils ofwar and on the battle-field, " Forward 1"was his watchword, aud he suited the ac-tion to the word. The promptness and en-ergy with which he planned and executedhis engagements gave him the nicknameof " Marshal Forward."

2. Pulaski, the brave Pole, who espousedthe American cause in its infancy, andgave his life in its defence, and to whomas well as to Kosciusko, the American peo-ple will ever owe a debt of gratitude, inone or more instances turned the fortunesof war in his favor by rallying his menwith the war-cry of?" Forwarts, brudren,forwarts !" Often was the failing strengthof the American soldier rallied and revivedand his weary arm nerved with new vigorby the inspiring battle-cry of this braveofficer, as in the thickest of the fight andabove the din of battle, was heard in brok-en English, " Forwarts, bruden, forwarts !"

" So with the young, of whatever capac-ity and calling, let their watchword beForward! It will give life and energy tothe doubting heart in the time of despond-ency and trial, and united with proper en-ergy and zeal, overcome every oppositionand give it the victory

3. To the student journeying step bystep up the rugged hill of science ; Yoursuccess lies in your own efforts to do what-ever you undertake. I willsucceed, has ac-complished much. No great undertakingwas ever carried through without t. Theroad to eminence may seem a hard road totravel ; roll the boulders aside, clear thetrack of trees, bridge the streams, and theway is clear. " With a stout heart, and awill to do and dare there is no such wordas fail."? Clark's School \~i<itor.

A FABLE. ?Two neighbors, whose nameswere Self and Will, attempted to cross astream from opposite sides, upon a footbridge so narrow as to allow of but a sin-gle footman at the same time. They metabout midway of the stream, where eachinsisted that the other must turn back andgive the right of the way. Each claimedto be first on the bridge, and maintainedhis ground as prior. Each contended forthis right as a matter of principle, whichwould allow of ncf concession. Each plead-ed urgent and important business. Will

jfelt himself moral'() boun Ito maintain lii.srights. Self could not in conscience makeconcession without sacrificing his honest con-victions. Argument resulted iu hard words,and from hard words they soon came toblows, and in the struggle to maintain eachhis own rights, L'>th fell together in.thestream. Each with much difficulty gainedthe shore, exhausted and shivering front acold bath. Each consoled himself with theidea of " personal suffering for righteous-ness' sake and both became bitter ene-mies for life.

While they were muttering revenge up-on eacli other, two other neighbors, namedLove and Kindness met in like circum-stances upon the same bridge. It was ameeting of glad surprise. They exchangedcheerful and happy greetings, and each in-sisted on yielding the right of way to hisbrother. Each desired to be lirst in theconcession ; and to carry out each other's

principles, both twice crossed the bridgetogether. Alter a friendly chat, they part-ed company, finding in their experience apractical reason for the injunction " Leteach esteem the other better than himself."

SOCIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRESIDE.? Thefireside is a seminary of infinite importance.It is important because it is universal andbecause the education it bestows, bei gwoven in with the woof of childhood, givesform and c dor to the whole texture of lifeThere are few who can receive the honorsof a college, but all are graduates of tie-hearth. The learning of the universitymay fade from the recollection, its classiclore may moulder in the h - lis of memory ;

but the simple lessons of home, enamelledupon the heart of childhood, defy the rustof year , and outlive the more mature butless vivid picture of after-years. So deep,so lasting, indeed, are the impressions ofearly life, that you often see a man in theimbecility of age holding fresh in his re-collection the events of childhood, while allthe wide space between that and the pres-ent. hour is a blasted and forgotten wasteNou have perchance seen an old and half-obliterated portrait, and in the attempt tohave it cleaned and restored you may haveseen it lade away, whiie a brighter andmore pure perfect picture, paintedjbeneath,is revealed to view. This portrait, firstdrawn upon the canvass, is no inapt illus-tration of youth ; and though it may beconcealed by some after-design, still* tin-original traits will shine through the out-ward picture, giving it tone while fresh,and surviving it in decay. Such is the fire-side, ?the great institution of Providencefor the education of man.

SOLUTION OF HAUNTED HOUSES. ?A haunt-ed house is a tenement ot any number of ordinarystories, to which is added an extra-ordinary on.-,

in the form of a Ghost Story." JOHNNY, my dear, run to the store and

get some sugar," said a mother to her precociousson of eleven years. "Excuse me, ma: lamsomewhat indisposed this morning. Send father,and tell him to bring a paper of tobacco along."

IT was a starving corset maker who thusvented his miserable complaint : " Shame that 1should be without bread?l that I Lav. stayed tiestomachs of thousands."

A YOUNG poet out West, in describingHeaven, says, ?? It is a world of bliss, fenced inwith girls." Where's the man that won't repentnow?

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A WITTY doctor of divinity, whose physi-j cians had ordered him for a time on a purely vc-g-

--j etable diet, demurred, on the ground that "he1 should uot be able to say grace before meat."

WE should give as we would receive,cheerfully, and without hesitation ; for there is nograce in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

To find out the number of children in thestreet, play a hand'organ. To find out the num-ber ot loafers, start a dog fight.

A Quaker in business in Philadelphia dis-likingthe "Esq." to his name, advised a corres-pondent to direct his letters to him without any

j tail, and received a reply superscribed : "AmosSmith, without any tail, Philadelphia!"

A RAKER has invented anew kind of y<- isi.It makes bread so light that a pound of it weighsonly ten ounces.

A LIVING writer observes that " Gentle! men who are mad about ancient de-scent should

adopt the ragshop announcement, ' The be>t prie.-given for old bones.' "

IRRITATING.-After rolling all night in yourberth at sea till yon are miserably sick, to have a

steward open your door in the morning, and askyon if you'll have a fresh roll for breakfast.

THE Rev. H. H. Wood, curate of Hemiug-' ford Abbots, Huntingdonshire, England, writesthat " hay fever " may be instantly relieved by

; bathing the nostrils and closed eyelids with spiritsj of camphor and warm water.

CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT.?A gentleman ad-| vertises for "A horse, for a lady of dark color, a? good trotter, and of stylish action!" The horse! " must be young, and have a long tail about tif-| teen hands high !"

SECTARIAN HORSES.?A French religionspaper, speaking of Gladiateur's success on the

j English turf, says : "We are delighted in our! soul to see a Koiuau Catholic horse beating I'rot-| estant horses,"