Newspaper Page Text
BY W M, JBFFERSOY & CO.
VOLUME .3.
THE PLANTERS’ WEEKLY
POMAIIKD AT
CfrreenesboroL G-a.
W. M. JEFFERSON,)
ROLIN W. STEVENS. S Proprietors.
FRED. C. FILLER. )
TEBM3.—TWODOLLARS A YEAR;
OR ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY
CENTS IN ADVANCE.
Bales of Advertising:.
Advertisements inserted at the rate of one
dollar per square of ten lines or less, for first
and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion,
Tuose.not marked with the number of inser
tions will be published until forbid and charg
ed at these rates.
The following are onr lowest contracting
HATES:
1 Sq’r Six months 87.-one year sl2
2 “ “ 11.. “ “ 20
3• “ “ 16.. * “ 2S
Icolumn 6 mo. 20.. “ “ 35
$ •• 6 “ 30.. • •• 55
S’ “ 6 “ 40.. “ “ 70
1 6 “ 50.: “ “ 80
Advertisements Onnv Grangers and transient
persons must be paid for in advance.
. Legal Advertisements.
Sale of Land or N. trrw., by A'lmiuintratora,
executor*, andOnardiaita, per square, $5 00
Saleot Peraonal property by Administrators,
< xeentors, and Guardians, per square. 3 50
Notice to Debtors anil Creditors, 3 50
Notice for Leave to Sell. 4 00
Citation for Letters of Adininistra'ion 2 75
Citation for Dismiasi m from A lininistrntion, sno
Citation for Dismission from Guirdiansbip. 3 25
The Lntv of Newspapers.
1. Subscribers who do not give express no
tice to the contrarv, are considered as wishing
to continue their subscription.
3. If subscribers order the discontinuance
of their newspaper, the publisher may continue
to send them until aft arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
t dr newspapts'S from the office to which they
are directed, th *v are held respons hie until
they have settled the bills and* ordered them
discontinued.
•t. If subscribers remove to other places
without informing the publisher, and the news
papers are sent to the former direction, they
are held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers from the office, or removing
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima facie
evidence of intentional fraud.
6. The United States Oou.-ts have also, re
peatedly decided, that a Postmaster who neg
lect! to perform his duty of giving reasonable
notice, as required hy the Post Office Depart
ment, of the neg'ect of ape-sob to take from
the office newspapers addressed him, rend
*er the Postmaster liable to the publisher for
tho subscription p.’ce.
Tlaoir
JOHN 0. RETD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
junol’s9-ly. G reeneshoro, Georgia.
ROLIN WTSTEVENS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Greensboro’ Georgia.
Wl LL practice tn the counties of Greene,
ft ild win, Putnam, Morgan, Oglethorpe,
T.liaferro and Hancock. [Feb. 2, 1 w si)-tf ]
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
MNo. 232. Broad Street,
AIGISTA, GEORGIA.
.DWELL & MOSHER, Proprietors
p. inVKI.I. | J- MOSHKB
MotUGali Gard.
1 HEREBY tender my thanks to the public for kind
ly bestowing on me beretufure, a turner share of
natronage than 1 anticipated, and again offer my pro
fessional aervicea to any who may vivo me a call.
When not professionally engaged, I may be fouDd
at Wood’s Drue Store.
Jan. 12, 1860 ty. W. L BETHKA, M. P.
DENTISTRY.
UR. ir.tf. .UORC.I.V,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist.
J*enjirld, Georgia,
WOtfLD iulurhi tile citizens of Greene and ad
joining Quantise, that he it prepared to perform
any operatioli pertaining to hia profession, witbneat
•na and dispatch. lie aid insert from one to an en
tire sat of teeth, which, fur beauty, durability com
fort and ataaticating, will compare with any, .either
in this countrynr Europe. It isbis intention topleaae.
Aay call from th* country that may be tendered
him will meat with prompt attention. He refers to
Dr John B Murphy of Rome -Feb. 24. IW.
FRESH FRUIT,
Tomatoes. Green <,’orn. Betjfit, Ac.
IN WINTER!
been appointed Agents for
MASOX’S PATENT SCREW-TOP, SELF-SEAL
ING, GLASS FRI’IT JAKS,
We are prepared to furnhh them hi a lower
p.ice than heretofore.
■‘Tlioae Jura speak for themselves’’
* and are oonaidsred by those who hava used
them, fRK BEST AND MOST RELIABLE
FRUIT JARS IE MARKET, being maao
of GLABS, they will not corrode, and are free
ilrom other objections urged against the mg-,
talic ones.
9ou> H’uotr.sAi.x axn Pktaii. Ev
furb a LEITNER,
Usy 2,1860-2 m. Augusta, G*.
V i E<A INKS of ell kirda neatly printed at *
ft ihfa t H|ce, at abort notice API on jraiton 1
life tervq i, * ■
A Weekly to Homo Literature, Agriculture, Foreiga aad Domestic News, Wit, Humor, &e.
For the Planters’ Weekly.
To Miss Nellie J. M.
BY W. I. P.
I pray tho, dearest Nellie, take
This boquet of sweet flowers ;
And let it be within thy hand
But for a few short hours;
And though ail faded you again
Restore it back to me,
It shall btconie a treasure rich
In memory of thee.
I think of thee when starlight fades
Within the deep blue sky ;
When roses bloom, and the light lark
His song is rising high ;
And ns upon thy gift 1 gaze
All faded though it be,
My thoughts are turning, turning, love,
On thee, and only thee.
I often press unto my lips
These failed, withered flowers,
And pray that love may bless my life,
Tltn ugh nil its weary hours,
And tho’ I roam throughout the land,
Or cross the trackless sea,
One image shall hut fill my heart,
That image is of thee.
Union Point, Ga., May 186“.
li l S G E L LA. NRG I S.
An Awful Blast.
For the edification of cur religious ren
ders, we re-print below the form of Anath
cmn, which the Pope lias jusf hurled at
the head of tho Disturbers of Order in
Northern Italy. It is enough to make one
shiver all over. [Where asterisks a:e
inserted, the language is too gro6s to he
printed.J
“By the authority of God Almighty, the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and the
undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patro
ness of our Savior and of all celestial vir
tues, Angels, Arch angels. Thrones,
Dominions, Powers. Cherubim and Sera
phim ; and of nil the holy Patriarchs,
Prophets, and of all the Apostles and
Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, who
it\ the sight of the Holy Lamb are found
worthy to sing tho new song of the Holy
Martyrs and Holy Confessors, and of all
the Holy Virgins, and of all Saints, togeth
er with the Iloly elect of God—may he
he dammed. We excommunicate and
anathematize him from the threshold of
the Holy Chinch of God Almighty ; We
sequester him, that ho inay he tormented,
disposed, and he delivered over with
Dathan and Abiram, and with those who
say unto the Lord, ‘Depart from us, we
desire none of thy ways ;’ as a fire is
quenched with water, ee let the light of
him he put out forovermore, unless it shall
repent him. and make satisfaction. Amen}
“May the Father who creates man, curse
him ! May the Son, who suffered for us,
curse him ! May the Holy Ghost, who
is poured out in baptism, curse him! May
the Holy Cross which Christ for our salva
tion, triumphing over his enemies ascen
ded curse him !
“May the Holy Mary, ever virgin and
mother of God, curse him ! May St. Mich
ael, the Advocate of Principalities and
Powers, and all Heavenly Armies, curse
him ! May the glorious band of the Pat
riarchs and Prophets, curse him !
“May St. John the Precursor, and
Baptizer of Christ, and St. Peter, and St.
Paul, and St. Audrew, and all other of
Christ’s Aposles together, curse him! and
majr the rest of the Disciples and Evan
gelists, who by their preaching converted
the universe, and the holy and wonderful
company of Mart) rs and Confessors, who
by their words re found pleasing to God
Almighty’—may the holy choir of tho Holy
Virgins, who for the honor of Christ have
despised the things of the world damn him!
May all the Saiuts from the beginning of
the world to everlasting ages, who are
found to be beloved of God, damn him !
“May he be damned wherever he be,
whether in the house or in the alley, iu the
woods or in the water, or in the church !
May he be cursed in living and dying!
“May he be cursed in eating and dunk
ing, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in
fasting, and sleeping, in slumbering, and
in sitting, in living, iu working, in resting,
and. * * ’ * .*■ * and in blood
letting *
“May he be cursed in all the faculties of
his body! ,*
“May he be cursed inwardly and out
wardly ! May he be cursed in his hair ;
cursed he he in his hrains and his vertex,
in Li? temples, in his oyebrows, in liis
heekss, s*i his jaw-bones, in his nostrils,
in his teeth add. flinders, in his lips, in
his shoulders, in hi? ‘ his fingers !
“May he bo damned ’0 his mouth, in
iij* blYßst, in his heart aud purtenances,
own iq the vei> stomach ! .
“May he be cussed in I'** re 'S® B # n< *
groins, in his thighs, ia his * n ®
his hips. And in his knees, left F n d his
feet and toe-naQs 1
“May he be. enrsed in all his joints,
articulation 0 f the members; from the
GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1860.
crown of his head to the soles of his feet
may there be no soundness !
“May tho Son of the living God, with
all the glory of His Majesty, curse him!
And may Heaven with all the powers that
move therein, rise up against him, and
curse and damn him; unless he repent and
make satisfaettion. Amen! So be it.
Be it so. Amen 1”
How Mike Walsh Sold flic Professor of
Botany.
We cut the following extract from a se
ries of “Anecdotes of Mike Walsli,” now
publishing in the Leader:
At the foot of the Capitol gardens in
Pennsylvania avenue (on the right hand
side when you are fronting that building,)
is an inclosed space—national property—
containing one or more tenements and
some conservatories and hot houses. Here
for some years and until his death, enjoy
ing Uncle Sam’s patronage, sojourned a
Frenchman, learned in botany ana many
other sciences. Some companions, while
passing these premises, were vaunting his
acquirements to Mike, who, from a spirit
of contradiction, called them in question.
Ho doubted whether these eminent botan
ists knew the difference between oats and
wheat, and believed, lie said, that a Bowe
ry hoy could persuade them that com was
clover. Finally. Mike undertook, “botan
ically,” to decievo the Frenchman with
whatever he could pick up where they
stood, iu the Jane skirting his premises.
From a v’reck of flower-pots and rubbish,
he selected one sound pot and a dead rat
lying near the heap. Placing the rat in j
the flower-pot, he covered it up with
mould, leaving out the tail, which lie fixed
perpendicularly by tying it caiefully with
a small gieeii stick, which happened to he
“convenient” among the garden rubbish.
He next called on the professor, and told
hitn that a friend, Lieut. , (whose hav
ing touched at one of the Islßnds of the
then terrafnengniia, Japan, had excited
some iuteiest,) iiad presented him with a
very curious kind ol cactus. This lie wish
ed the professor to examine. No one,!
Mike said, had been able to make it out,
and ho, might have it for ten years and
not find five people who would; so he hard
ly felt justified in keeping it out of a pub
lic collection, ami yet lie did not like to
part with a keepsake from a “friend.”
The Professor eagerly’ repaired to ex
amine the vegetable curiosity. After a
close inspection, lie determined what it
was, or at least, christened it by a fino
Greek name—tivo words, as Mike said,
averaging sixteen letters. The Professor
exhausted himself in persuading Mike
that the interest of science required that
he should sacrifice to them the sentiments
of friendship, by surrendering this rare
production of the vegetable kingdom to
the keeping of tho botanist. Tho reluc
tant Mike eventually consented, on the
willing and solemn assurance of the Pro
fessor that it would be tended with the ut
most care; and so it was. Placed in a
hot-house, it was cautiously hut carefully
besprinkled with water at a temperature
of Seventy degrees by the thermometer.
It was noticed and described in the Na
tional Intelligencer. The notice was cop
ied into the other papers. The plant was
exhibited with pride to several eminent
individuals; at length, with the heat and
moisture, the tip of the tail began to exco
riate. The Professor was delighted—it
was budding. It was examined with great
interest by one of his chief patrons, “the
great Daniel,” to whom the Botanist prom
ised one of the first slips to Marshfield.
“It was too good a joke to keep,” said
Mike “especially in a hot-house, so before
long they smelt a rat.” The wrath aud
shame of the Professor was excessive,
and so was the indignation of the great
Dom Daniel, not at the autitor of the joke,
but at the unfortunate Botanist, whom he
stigmatized as a “d—d frog-eating French
man, through whom he had been taken in,
and who ought to have known better.”
Hints on Marriage.
If you don't know what to do with your
self, and feel like committing suicide, got
married iu a hurry, A Xantippe will soon
cure you of ennui.
If you are broken-hearted because the
girl of your fancy has married “that con
ceited fool Jones,” don’t despair. A man's
heart is like a lobster’s claw—when the
latter is broken, another immediately
sprouts forth, and grows up in its place.
II you intend marrying for love, pay
your addresses to the lovely oue ; hut if
for money, court the old folks hardest.
It would be well, before becoming dcs
perately enamouied of a pretty face, to see
it at the breakfast-table.
It is slightly doubtful whether, if a la
dy takes no care of her person before mar
riage, her husband will he safe from hut
tonless shirts and undarned stock ings ever
afterwards.
If you are a little marry
a woman whom all the world praises for
her beauty. She will have a t:oup of gay
dashing yonng fellows about her, and you
will be kept in a most delightful state of
“hot water.'* - „
If you would have a monopoly oC yoHr
wife's affection, and your motto is—
“ Like Alexander I would reign,
And I would reign alone.”
‘“co In’*-* oo * for t<"7 fyes n<l a Greek
nose, and lips that “seem on roses fed,”
and a’ that, but for a lovely pug nose, a
mouth charmingly awry, and teeth divine
ly not in rows. Ydu will need no dragon
to guard your “golden fruit.”
If you are not fastidious about cooking
matters, and don’t like to see a house look
too neat, marry a woman whom everybody
extols for her talents.
Second marriages arc not always like
second thoughts.
Marriage and single blessedness are like
two roads t. a place of which the Yankee
said. “Take which you please, you'll wish
you had taken the other.”
If your wife cries or pouts often without
reason, don’t fall on your knees to her, and
pour out your sympathy on every such oc
casion ; but dance a popular jig, or whistle
some merry tune —anything to sliorv you
are unconcerned.
Don’t be surprised if, after you have
sailed smoothly eight or ten months on the
voyage of matrimony, you are overtaken
hy squalls.
If your wife is continually telling you
that she is miserable, and must leave you,
affect to leave her. aud she will chase you
to the encl of the world.
Fallier of Charlotte Broute.
A melancholy interest invests the house
and family of Charlotte Bronte, so distin
guished for talent and for suffering. A
recent writer in Frazer’s Magazine gives
the following sketch of the father:
The attendance was small in the morn
ing, but better in the afternoon, when Mr.
Bronte preached ; owing to his advanced
years he is not gble to attend the whole
service, hut comes into the church when
the prayers are half over. A most affect
ing sight, in truth, it is to see him walk
ing down the aisle with his feeble steps,
and entering his solitary pew, once filled
with wife and children, Bow utterly deso
late, whole close beside it rests the tomb
stone inscribed wdtli their names. Full
of sorrow and trouble though his life has
been, the energy of the lust survivor of
tho race seems not a whit abated; his
voice is still loud and clear, his words full
ot fire, his manner one of earnestness.
Lucid, nervous, aud logical, the style of
his preaching belongs to a by gone day,
when sermons made more of stuly than
they are now, and when it was considered
quite as necessary to think much and
deeply as to give expression .to those
thoughts in language not only impressive
and eloquent, hut vigorous and coucise.
It would not he oasy to give a faithful
picture of the impression which Mr. Bronte
evidently produces on his hearers, or of
his venerable and striking nppearane in
the pulpit. He used no notes whatever,
and preached foi half an hour without ever
being at a loss fora word, or betraying the
smallest sign of any decay of his intellec
tual faculties.
Very handsome lie must have been in
his younger days, for traces of beauty the
most refined and noble in expression even
yet show themselves in his features and
in his striking profile. His brow is still
unwrinkled ; his hair and whiskers snowy
white; lines very decided in their charac
ter are impressed about the mouth ; the
eyes are large and penetrating. In man
ner he is, as may have been gathered from
what has been already said quiet and dig
nified. ‘
The White Stone.
“To him that overcometh will I give a
white stone.”—Rev. it; 17. ~
It is generally thought hy commenters
that this is a reference to an ancient judi
cial custom, of dropping a blacll stone into
an urn when it is intended to condemn,
aud a white stone when the prisoner is to
he acquitted ; but this is an act so distinct
from that described, “I will give thee a
white stone,” that we. are disposed to agree
with those who think it refers rather to a
custom of a very different kind, and not
unknown to the .classical reader—accord
ing with beautiful propriety to the case be
fore us: |n primitive times, when trav
elling was rendered difficult, from want o
places of public entertainment, hospitality
was exercised hy private individuals to a
veiy great extent —of which, indeed, we
find frequent tiaces in all history, and iu
none the Old Testament. Per
sons who partook of this-hospitality, aud
those who practised it, frequently contrac
ted habits of friendship and regard for
“Lack other; and it became, a well-estab
lished custom among the Greeks and Ro
mans to provide their guests willi some
particular mark, which was banded down
from father to son, and insured hospitality
and kind treatment whenever it was pre
sented. This mark was nstially a small
stone or pebble cut in halt, and upon the
halves of whicl the host and the guest
mutually inscribed their names, and then
interchanged them with each, other. The
production of this tessera war quite suf
ficient to insure themeelves
or descendants whenever they travelled
again in the same direction, while it is evi
dent that I hose stones required to he pri
vatcly kept, and the names written upon
them caieiully concealed, lest others
should obtain the privileges instead of the
persons for whom they wee intended.
|y “I’m getting fat,” as the fcllpw said
when lie was stealing lard.
The Mirage of Life.
The child’s eyes are enchanted, but he
does not know it, and he believes in all he
sees. He does not doubt the shimmer
and tho glory of the scenes that lie before
him. To him the future is not a sandy
desert strewed with dead men’s bones ; it
is a wide-spread savannn, fruitful as the
tropics, and delightful ,13 Elysian plains,
lie gazes down the vista of life, and every
phantasm seems to his ardent sight as a
real and pleasant thing. There is not a
pageant looming in the distance, there is
not one of the dissolving views which hope
creates and fancy touches up to bewilder
ing brightness, that the child does not
accept as real, and soon to he proved so.
All the prismatic views thnt appear to
flash across his forward path lie thinks are
really lighting it, and that he shall be touch
ed and beautified hy their radiance when
once he is there. Bright and fair is the
apparent prospect before him ; no wonder
that the child is in haste to get on. There
is everything to lure him—freedom, plenty
sweet gardens, flowing fountains, noble
forms, smiling faces, and beckoning hands,
lie sees the waving of palms and the gut
ter of jewels; he hears the voice of trum
pet and of lißrp. Oh ! all is before him—
on, on. And on he rushes, breathlessly,
to the end of childhood, through youth, and
often into manhood, before lie becomes
fully aware that shape, complexion, and
mien of his phantom have all been rapid
ly changing, and that what he took for
true worth and beauty is in reality no bet
ter than a raree-show or a mirage of the
desert. At last, grown keen-eyed by hard
lessons, he pierces through the cheat, and
sees the hare and barren seeds of life
For him there is afterwards no more en
chantment.
A Nation Born at Once.
A remarkable display of the power of
Divine giace among a heathen people has
recently taken place* in the island of
Celebes. Some missionaries of the Nctlie
lanrls Missionary Society have labored
therefor some years out with little ap
parent success. Oue of these missionaries,
howover, now describes the wonderful
shower of mercy with which they are visited.
A native preacher w|ts passing through a
village on Saturday to his preaching ap
pointment on the Sabbath, when lie saw
the priest, wlßo had been bitterly opposed
to the Gospel and the missionaries, with a
large crow and about him. Trembling with
fear, lie inquired what they wanted, when
he was told, greatly to his surprise, that
he and the peoplehad rcsovledto rt nounco
idolatry and become Christians.
The movement spread from villago to
village the people casting away their idols,
and seeking instruction from the missiona
ries. The people say that they had come
to the knowledge of the truth chiefly hy
the instruction their children had received
in tho mission schools. Tho missionary
mentions three districts, containing at the
beginning of the vear not less tlinn 10,000
heathens, and adtfs, “hut to all appearance,
and with the help of God, hy the end of the
year, there will he not one left there.”
PI.EASUBBS OF CONTENTMENT. —1 have
a rich neighbor who is always so busy
that hcJias no leisure to laugh ; the whole
business of his life is to get money, more
money, that he may still get more money.
He is still drudging on, saying what Sol
omon says: “The diligent linn I inaketh
rich.” And it is true, indeed ; but lie con
siders not that it is not in the power of
riches to make a man happy: for it was
wisely said, by a man of great observation,
“That there be as many miseries beyond
riches as on this side of them.” And yet
Heaven deliver us from pinching poverty, ■
and grant that, having a competency, wc
may be content and thankful. Let us not
repine, or so much think that the gifts of
God are unequally dealt, if wo see another
abound with riches,/’when, as God knows,
the cares that are the keys that keep those
riches hang {iften so heavily at the rich
•nan's girdle that tliej clog him with weary
days and restless nights, even when others
sleep quietly. We see but tho outside
of the rich man’s happiness ; few consider
him like the silk-worm, that, when
she seems to play, is at the same time spin
ning her own bowels, and her
self. And this many rich men do, loading
themselves with corroding cares t,< keep
what they have already got. Let us,
therefore, be thankful for health and com
petence, and, above alh for a quiet con
science.
Augusta, Ga.— l believe that to Gener
al Oglethorpe this place is indebted for its
name. It was named in honor of one of
the royal princess, who was named Augus
ta. The town of Augusta was laid out in
the year 1735 by the trustees under the
royal charter, and became a garrison foi
the British as early as 1736. Krom this it
will be seen that Augusta is about 125
years old, altliough it lias the appearanet!
of being anew place. In 1-776 Angusta
was the seat of government. This was
while savannah was in tho possession of
j the British. Augusta was taken hy the
j British in January, 1799. They eracua
j ted the place, however, the following
month. —Son there Enterprise.
Terms—Bl,so Always In Advance.
Au Artist in Luck.
And avtist from New York, wc believe,
was drawn hy his love of nature and art,
and liis desire of wealth and fame, to the
pleasant town of North Bartlett, N. Hamp
shire, a few summers ago, with his family
he boarded at the house of an. honest farm
er, busying himself in taking sketches of
the mountain scenery. To borrow the far
mer’s words, the artist “did not pay his
board very regularly, hut he was a quiet,
ulcasaut inmate, and my woman was lather
took hy his wife and children, so we let
them hang on through the season. When
Mr. went away lie paid’ part of hi*
bill, and as security tor tho balance ($35).
left a view of Mount Washington, which
he said was worth $250. (No landscape
was ever worth that sum, in my opinion.)
We agreed Hist if I sold it for more than
he owed, l should send him the difference.”
The landlord's prospect of recovering
hispay sccnicdtohim exceedingly doubtful,
and for a long time the picture hung on tho
farmer's wall, unsold and unappreciated ;
but mark the sequel, as told by tho fariueii
in a letter to tho N. Y. Evening Post.
“A gentleman has seen this view and
took a great fancy to it.. He said the fall
colors were brighter and the mountains
more distinct than any lie had seen in Bos
ton. (The barn hy the meadow has been,
carried away since by a freshet, hut it’s as
natural as life ia the painting—you can
count the shingles in the roof.) I asked
$250 at first, and he offered $75; finally I
screwed him to $125, so there are S9O dua-
Mr. . As you are acquainted with,
artists, perhaps you will know if he is still
living. T heard l*e did some printing af
terwards for the Crayou Newspaper. As
soon as you let me know, I will send you
the money in good bills of Central Haibor
Bank, or will take Mr. or any friend
of his, to hoard this summer for the amount.
Yonrg Resoectfully.
T. Crawfoßd Bbmus.
Brigham Talking to the Saints.
Brigham Young, in a discourse to his
followers at the Tabernacle at Salt Lake
City a short time since, said :
“I have very little to say to men who
are dissatisfied with my course, or with the
course of my brethren. Some have wish
ed me explain why we built and adobe
wall around this ciy. Are there nuy saints
who stumble at such tlijpgs ? 0, slow of
heart to understand and believe ! 1 build’
walls, dig ditches, make bridges, and do
a great amount aud variety of labor that
is of but little consequence, only to provide
ways and means for sustaining and preserv
ing the destitute. I anaually expend hun
dreds of thousands of dollars almost selely
to furnish employment to those in watt
of labor. Why ? I lu.vo potatoes, flour,
tees, and other articles of food, which X
wish my brethren to have ; and it is better
for them to labor for those articles, so far
as they are able and have an opportunity,
than to have them give to them. They
work, and Ideal out provisions, often when
the work not profit me.
“I say to all grunters, grumblers whi
ners, hypocrites, and sycophants, who sniv
el, crouch, and crawl around the liiost
contemptible ofall creatures for a slight
favor, should it enter my mind to dig down
the Twin Peaks, and I set men to work
to do so_, it is none of your business, nither
is it the business of all earth and bell, pro
vided l pay the laborers their wages. I
am not to he called in question as to what
I do with my funds, whether I build high
walls or low w alls garden walls or city walls
and if I please, it is iny right to pull dewit
my walls to-morrow. If any one wishes
to apostatize upon such grounds, the quick
er lie does so the better ; and if he wishes
to leave the Territory, but is too poor to do
so, I will assist him to go. We are much
better off without such characters.’^
Young Men v axd Tree Frogs.— The
following quaint comparison ia forcible and
true. L would be well if our young men
would note the moral of the terse passage
we quote below : “The tree frog acquires
the color of whatever itadhers to for a short
time. If it he found on the oak, it is of.
a brown color, on the sycamore or cedar
lie is of a hio. n color; butwbeu
found on rile growing corn be is surq
to he green. Just so is it with young
men. Their companions tell us what their
characters are —if they associate with tire
vulgar, the licentious and the profane, then
their hearts are already tainted with- guilt,,
and they will be themselves alike vicious;
The 6tudy of had hooks or the love of
wicked companions, is the broadest and.
most certain road to ruin that a young’ man
can travel, and a few well directed lessons
in either will lead him on, step by step., to
the very gate of destruction. Our moral
and physical laws show lo ■ perilous it is
to gaze* on a picture or ocene that pulla’es
the imagination or blunts the moral per
ceptions, or has a tendency to deaden a
sense of our duty to God or mail.”
|*P*Tlia single ladies in Pittsburg, the
other day,, attempted to befriend a young
lad who had been pierced by the fangs of.
the law, but an ungallant .Judge positively
refused to accept their proffered bail, ab
I though shey weie proved to be worth
j $25,000 each, on ihe ground that they
*\ i re females.
NUMBER 21.