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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTOR: .TUES DAY, MAE Cl! 7, 1882.
A NATION’S TRIBUTE
TO THE MEMORY OF ITS ILLUSTRI
OUS DEAD.
Draped la Mourning, and Wearing the Sombre
Bobea ef Sorrow, the Nation Lays lta Heart-
Offering upon the Tomb of the Martyr
Tresteent. James A. Garfield.
Washington, February 27.—[Special.]—
The Garfield memorial services passed in sol
emn grandeur never to be forgotten. There
was great demand for tickets, fifteen and
twenty dollars each being freely offered at the
hotels. Mr. Blaine’s oration is considered
masterly, and remarkable for the delicacy
with which it handles questions contrasting
the present and the former administration.
Though he went on very delicate ground, he
concluded without the slightest offense. His
last sentences, picturing Garfield dying by
the sea, brought tears to many eyes, and the
orator hod to brush his laslies to read the last
page.
In opening his address he said:
For the second time in this generation
the great departments of the government
of the United .States are assembled in tne hall of
representatives to do honor to the memory of a mur
dered president. Lincoln fell at the close of a
mighty struggle in which the passions of men had
been deeply stirred. The tragical termination of
his great life added but another to the lengthened
succession of horrors which had marked so many
lintels with the blood of the first bom. Garfield
was slain in a day of peace, when brother had been
reconciled to brother, and when anger and hate had
been banished from the land. "Whoever shall
hereafter draw the portrait of murder. If he will
show it as it has been exhibited where such exam
ple was last to have been locked for, let him not give
it the grim visage of-Moloch, the brow knitted by
revenge, the face black with settled hate. Let him
draw, mtiicr, a decorous, smooth-faced, bloodless
demon; not so much an example of human nature
in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime, as an
infernal being, a fiend in the ordinary display and
development of his character."
The sneaker then traced the origin of Mr.
Garfield's family. On the father’s side lie in
herited the blood of the men wlio stood iiyn
for religious freedom and ]>crsonal rights as
against the encroachments of Charles I. of
Bnglund. On the maternal side he inherited
the fine qualities of the Huguenot French,
who sought in America that liberty denied
them at home. The intermixture of these
two noble strains have produced a specimen
of manhood truly American, combining all
the physical, moral and domestic qualities
tlipt make men great. Such a manner of man
wfis the late president. Coming to Mr.
Garfield’s early life Mr. Blaine said:
Losing his father before he was two years old,
tho early life of Garfield was one of privation, but
its poverty has been made indelicately and unjust
ly prominent. Thousands of readers nave imagin
ed him ox the ragged, starving ehild, whose reality
too ofteq greets the eye in the squalid sections of
our largo cities. General Garfield's Infancy and
youth had none of their destitution, none of their
S ltiful features itpiieidlng to the tender heart and
> tho open hand of charity. He was a poor boy in
the same sense in which Henry Clay was a
boy; in which Andrew Jackson was a poor boy;
in whi"h Daniel Webster was a poor boy; in the
some sense in which a large majority of the emi
nent men of America in all generations have been
poor boys, before a great multitude of men, in a
public speech, Mr. Webster bore this testimony:
"it did not happen to me to bo born in a log
cabin, but my cider brothers and sisters were born
in a log cabin raised amid the snowkrifts of New
Hampshire, at a period so early that when the
smoke rose first from its rude chimney and curled
over the frozen hills there was no similar evidence
of a white man's habitation between it and the
settlements on tho rivers of Canada. Us remains
still exist. I make to it an annual visit. 1 carry
my children to it to teach them the hardships en
dured by the generations which have gone before
them. 1 lovo to dwell on the tender recollections,
tlie kindred tics, tho early affections, and the
terests and industrial development which appealed
to the thrift and independence of every household,
and which should unite the two sections by the in-
slincl of self interest and self-defense. At Chatta
nooga he would revive memories of the war only to
show that af icr all its disaster and all its suffering,
the country was stronger and greater, the union
rendered indissoluble, and the future, through the
agony and blood of one generation, made brighter
and better for all.
Of Mi. Garfield's religious views, he said:
The crowning characteristic of General Ga. field’s
religious opinions, as. indeed, of all opinions, was
his liberality. In all tilings hehad charity. Toler
ance was of his nature. He respected in others the
qualities which he possessed himself—sincerity <»f
conviction and frankness of expression. With him
the inquiry was not so much what a man believer
but does he believe it? The lines of his friendship
and his confidence encircled men of every creed,
and men of no creed, and to the end of his life, on
his ever-lengthening list of friends, were to be
found the mimes of a pious Catholic priest and of
an honest-minded and generous-hearted free
thinker.
Coming to the closing scenes, Mr. Blaine
was exceedingly eloquent. He said:
Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death.
For no cause in the very frenzy of wantonness and
wickedness, by the red hand of murder, he was
thrust from the full tide of this world's interest,
from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the
visible presence of death—and he did not quail.
Not alone for one short moment in which, stunned
and dozed, he could give up Hie, hardly aware of its
relinquishment, but through days of deadly lan
guor, through weeks of agony,that was not less agony
because silent’y borne, with clear sight and calm
courage, he looked into his open grave. What
blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips
mar tell—what brilliant,broken plans, what bnilleu,
high umbitions. what sundering of strong, warm,
manhood's friendships,what bitter rending of sweet
household ties! Behind him a proud, expectant
nation,a great liostoi sustaining friends.aeherished
and happy mother, wearing the full rich honors of
her early toil and tears: the wife of his youth,
whose whole life lay in his; the little boys not yet
emerged from childhood's day of frolic; the fair,
young daughter; the sturdy sons just springing into
closest companionship, claiming every day and
cry day rewarding a father’s love and care; and
Ins heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all
demand. Before him, desolation and great aark-
ncss! And his soul was not shaken, bis country
men were thrilled with instnnt, profound, and uni
versal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness,
became the center of a nation's love, enshrined
the prayers of a world. But all the love and all |
the sympathy could not share with him his suffer-
e trod the wine
light; on its restless waves, rolling shoreward to
brea and dick beneath tlie noonday sun; on the
red clouds of evening, arching low to the horizon:
on the serene and shining pathway of the stars. Let
us think that his dying eyes read a mystic meaning
hieh only the rapt and pnrting soul may know.
Let us believe that in the silence of the receding
orld he heard the great waves breaking on a fur
ther shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow
the breath of the eternal morning.
The eulogy was concluded at 1:50, having
taken just an hour and a half in its delivery. I
HORNS ON HIS HEAD.
words would aptly portray the early days of Gar
field. Tho poverty of the frontier, where all are en
gaged in a common struggle and where a common
sympathy and hearty co-operation lighten the bur
dens of each, is a very different poverty, different
in kind, different in inllucncc and effect from that
conscious and humiliating indigence which is every
day forced to contrast itself with neighboring
wealth on which it feels a sense of grinding de
pendence. Tito poverty or the frontier is indeed
no poverty. It is but tlie beginning of wealth, and
lias the boundless possibilities of the future always
opening before it. No man ever grew up in the ag
ricultural regions of the west where a house-raising,
or even a corn-husking, is matter of common inter
est aud helpfulness, with any other feeling than
that of broad-minded, generous independence.
This honorable independence maiked tlie youth
of Garfield os It marks the youth of millions of tlie
best blood and brain now training for the .future
citizenship and future government of the republic,
tiarfield was bom heir to land, to the title of free
holder which has been the patent and passport of
self-respect with the Anglo-Saxon race ever since
Hcngist and Horsa landed on the shores of En
gland. Ills adventure on the canal—an alterna
tive between that and the deck of a Lake Erie
schooner—was a farmer boy's device for earning
money, just os the New England lad begins a pos
sibly great career by sailing before the mast on a
coasting vessel or a merchantman bound to the
farther India or to the China seas
No manly man feels nnything of shame in look
ing bock to early struggles with adverse cireum-
stances, and no man feels a worthier pride than
when he has conquered the obstacles to his progress.
But no ouo of noble mould desires to be looked
upon as having occupied a menial position, as
having been repressed by a feeling of inferiority, or
as having suffered the evils of poverty uutil relief
was found at the hand of charity. General Gar
field’s youth presented no hardships which famil
love and family energy did not overcome, subjeci
Arrival of an Emigrant at Castle Garden with these
Bovine Appendages.
Chicago Inter-Ocean
New York, February 25.—Among the pas
sengers who were landed at Castle Garden
from the steamship Waesland, from
Antwerp, to-day, was Leopold Daen, a man
about 45 years of age, whose head was oroa
mented by two well developed horns. The
horns were as large as those of a yearling calf,
and projected from the forehead, one on each
side, near the temples. The man attracted
ftiuch attention as he walked about the
garden and exhibited liis singular appenda
ges. There were about 400 people in
the building, and Mr. Daen caused
loud laughter by his strange antics.
him to no privations which he did not cheerfully
—ept, and * “ * -*■ * —
recalled
accept, and left no memories save th->se which were
1 with delight, and transmitted with profit
and with pride.
Garfield s early opportunities for securing an ed
ucatlon were extremely limited, and yet were sufll
rient to develop in him an intense desire to learn
He could read at three years of age. and each win
ter he had the advantage of the district school. He
read all the books he found within the circle of his
acquaintance; some of them he got by heart. While
yet in childhood he was a constant student of the
Bible, and became familiar with its literature. The
diguily and cameitncssof his speech in his nraturcr
life gave evidence of this early training. At eight-
teen years of age he was able to teach school, and
thenceforward his ambition was to obtain a college
education. To this end he bent all his efforts,
working in the harvest field, at tlie carpenter';
bench, and, in the winterseason, teaching the com
mon schools of the neighborhood. While thus
laboriously oceiipit d he found time to prosecute
his studies, aud was so successful that at twenty-
two years of age he was able to enter the junior
class at Williams college, then under the presiden
cy of the venerable and honored Mark Hopkins,
who, in the fullnessof his powers, survives the em
inent pupil to whom ho was of inestimable service.
The history of Garfield’s life to this period, pre
sents no novel features. He had undoubtedly
shown perseverance, self-reliance,self-sacrifice, and
ambition—qualities which, be it said for the honor
of ourcountry. are everywhere to be found among
the young mon of America. But from his graduation
at Williams onward, to the hour of his tragical
death, Garfield's career was eminent and excep
tional. Slowly working through his educational
period, receiving his diploma when twenty-four
years of age, he seemed at one bound to spring into
conspicuous and brilliant success. Within six years
he was successively president of a college, state sen
ator of Ohio, major general of the army of the
United States, and representative elect to the na
tional congress. A combination of honors so varied,
so elevated, within a period so brief and' to a man
so young, Ls without precedent or parallel in the
history of the country.
The speaker then traced Mr. Garfield’s ad
vent into public life; his services in the un
ion army; his service in congress: his nomi
nation and election to the presidency and
his inauguration; his distaste for "office*
brokerage, which was then forced upon him,
and finally his policy in regard to the south.
On this subject Mr. Blaine said that—
Garfield conceived that much might
done by his administration towards restoring
harmony between the different sections of the
union. He was anxious to go south and speak to
the people. As early as April he had ineffectually
endeavored to arrange for a trip to Nashville,
whither he had been cordially invited, and he was
again disappointed a few weeks later to find that
he could not go toSouth Carolina to attend the cen
tennial celebration of the victory of the Cow pens.
But for the autumn he definitely counted on being
present at the throe memorable assemblies in <ie
south, the celebration at Yorktown, the opening of
the cotton exposition at Atlanta, and the meeting
of the army of the Cumberland at Chatlanoo
He was already turning over in his mind
address for each occasion, and the three taken .
gether, he said to a friend, gave him the exact sco
and verge which he needed. At Yorktown he wou
have before him the associations of a hundred years
that bound the south and the north in the sacred
memory of a common danger and a common victo
ry. At Atlanta he would present the material in
THE MODERN SODOM
THAT HAS GROWN INTO A NATION
AL DISGRACE.
Sow Mormonism Has Degraded Woman and Devel
oped Social Crime—The Endowment House a
Becruiting Station for Prostitution—The
Procuresses and the Victims, Etc.
Chicago, February 25.—"Beautiful, but
bad,” may be said of Salt Lake City, though
it could not be said of the Mormons, as a
class, who are bad, but not beautiful. The
chief city of this peculiarly offensive sect,
now fixed as a foul blotch on the face of the
goddess of liberty, a liberal goddess, indeed,
not to have removed it long since by the first
lotion at hand, rests at the foot of a lovely
range of mountains bordering on the east,
while a few miles to the west lies the great
body of salt water which is the dead sea of
America. Broad streets, shaded by large
trees and washed on either side by lively riv
ulets,dancing on tlieir way from tlie mountains
to tlie lake, go to make up a lovely oasis in the
midst of a desert. And yet Salt Lake is a bad
place in which to live, bad because its very at
mosphere is permeated with a living sense of
the social crime which here exists, flourishes,
and S encouraged under the name of religion.
So strongly is the mind of the stranger im
pressed with the immoralities running ram
pant in and about this plague-spot that, on
nearing it from the purer surroundings of the
homes of the east, or west, or north, he will
involuntarily drop into ruminations on th
sad and startling social problem here spread
out most vividly before him. Let him be a
ing. ’ He trod the wine-press alone. With unfalter- | serious man, and he will muse on the sorrows
ing front he faced death. With unfailing tender- rp „ Il]t f rnm m A r T , n i„„
ness he took leave of life. Above the demoniac " luc “ must result lrolu tue s - vstem ot P 0l Jg-
hiss of the assassin’s bullet lie heard the voice of amv and grieve that his country shelters the
DWinedec h ree mple re ‘ signalion hc bowed to lhe vile sin. Let him be one careless and world
As the end drew near, his early craving for the ly, and lie will join others of liis kind in the
»returned. The stately mansion of power had | .. ...... ... , ..
been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and I suggestive sallies which are daily made on the
he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from I incoming trains
its oppressive, stifling air, from its homelessness , . ,, . , .
and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of This is the uppermost query in the nnnd of
great people bore the pale sufifcrer to the longed- I the humane traveler who finds himself sud-
for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God I
should will, within sight of its heaving billows, | denly thrust into the midst of the deluded
within sound of its manifold voices. With wan, . v i, n f„„i nr nr etpnd to feel that their
fevered face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze, fanatics w ho teel, or pretend to teel, that they
he lrokcd out wistfully upon the ocean's changing I are serving tlie Lord by marrying and being
wonders; on its far sails, whitening in the morning | giyen in marriage at wUo lesale.
Sait Lake is locally notorious for the extreme
youth of its tourtesans, recruited from tlie
homes of polygamous unions. The whole
truth in >tliis matter cannot be submitted to
print.
In the agitation now pending for the enact
ment of laws and the adoption of measures to
suppress tlie Mormon evil, the lawmakers are
continually reminded by the Taylors and
Cannons that they, the Gentile stone-throw
ers, may be living in glass houses. ‘‘Salt
Lake City an'd Washington city are not so far
apart as some people imagine,” was an ex
pression I heard in a Mormon meeting not
many days since. Threats have been freely
made that certain congressmen would regret
their action if they presumed to press tlie
anti-polygamy bills to an issue; but the fact
that the’ main bill has been fearlessly acted
upon would seem to indicate very little re
gard for the ‘'blufl's” which have been for
warded to the national capital from the Mor
mon endowment houae. These political tac
tics have been used from the same quarter
before, Brigham Young urging an early Gen
tile governor of Utah to resign through a
blackmailing piece of strategy, in which one
of the prophet's daughters figured in male at
tire.
I cannot forbear to mention a few of th
most earnest workers and most encouraging
methods employed in tlie immediate field for
the suppression of the “twin relic of barba
rism.” First of these is Governor Murray,
tlie best governor ever sent by a president to
Utah, in the face of all manner of opposi
tion he lias stood with Delegate-elect (.'amp-
bell and fought against polygamy and for his
country. He would not consent to give a cer
tificate" of election to Cannon, whom he knew
to be an alien and a lawbreaker. The result
of this noble action is seen and felt through
out Christendom in the form of an agitation
which will sweep shamefaced public polygamy
from the public domain. In this work he hits
been ably assisted, not only by Mr. Campbell,
but by a little company of earnest reformers,
who may be seen at any time in and around
the United States laud-office here and tlie
office of the Salt Lake Tribune. Behind these
men have been their wives, cultivated and
lofty women, whose hearts are in the great
work of redeeming their sisters in the Mor
mon church from a thralldom worse than the
slavery of hands alone.
There is a natural anxiety to know how the
chief Sufferers in this social drama regard their
lot. En
THE RAVAGES OF THE WIND AND
RAIN.
The Low'r Tart ot Ark.ns.il and Mississippi trader
Water, and the Inhabitants Driven to the High,
lands—The Freaks ot a Cyclone Turned
I oose in Texas—Bouses Unrooted.
In one of my score of trips between Ogdei.
and Salt Lake, I became not a little interested
in the behavior of a kind and sympathetic old
"e that in the silence of"tlie rcceding I gentleman, from Chicago, I believe, who was
making his first trip into Mormondom. He
had no sooner taken his seat in the car than
he turned and inquired of a man if many of
these people around him were Mormons. On
being informed that most of them were of the
order of Joseph Smith, including the conduc
tor and other railway employes, lie seemed
much concerned, and for some time acted as
though the burden of the whole thing rested
upon him, to a great degree, and that he had
a work to do. At length, rising and seating
himself beside a foreign-looking woman,
he asked her if she was a Mormon. She re
plied that she was, when the venerable man
settled back for a time in apparent deep
thought, from which he abruptly roused him
self to anxiously demand of tlie woman:
“Are you happy?”
Wliat. the woman’s answer was could not be
heard, but the incident serves to show that
any man, woman or child who lives in Utah,
or even visits the territory, must constantly
He bowed his head and dashed furi-1 h ? ve tl,e contaminating subject of polygamy
ously at the people, after the manner an ever-present!theme of thoughtsand conver-
of a wild Texas steer. Mr. Daen .was unable I sation. Can tins be otherwise than injurious
to speak English,’ but through sin nTiterprcter H° morals, lnsBfiiucli As familiarity with sin
he told a reporter that the horns began to I ^Junt t ie sensibititles,
show themselves when he was about eight , ' vl ^ ? e ® day for the country when
years old. They grew until®he was eighteen believers in tlie higher system of monogamy
or twenty years'oft, when they attained their n ° lon Z? r , constitute a minority in U tah;
present size, and ceased to grow. Mr. Daen’s I ’-'ben a right social condition shall overwhelm
r -’ - - - -- 1 a wrong sociology, instead of standing help
less and awestricken before it. The Gentiles
in Utah are but a handful; the Mormons a
host. The latter stand in fear of tevery
measure which may change Utah into a com
monwealth governed by law abiding citizens
of the United States. They dreaded the snort
of the locomotive; they were startled at the
ring of the miner’s pick; they trembled at the
advent of fashion in attire as heralds of ad
vancing civilization. Yielding to the in
evitable, they have accepted the railroad and
tolerate the miner, but to this day hold out
and preach against the band box as something
more to be feared than the ballot box
harrier to polygamy. The expense of keep-
lily
tea
case was investigated by several European
physicians and surgeons, with the intention
of ascertaining if the horns could be ampu
tated. It was decided that amputation would
be dangerous to his life, as the appendages
were found to be composed of a bony sub
stance,.and, in fact, a part of the skull itself.
Hc was accompanied to America by his wife
and son. the latter a lad not yet in’his teens.
One of the Castle Garden officials who exam
ined the boy’s head said tliathe could plainly
feel under the skin tlie points of two horns
which had recently commenced to develop.
An Athenian Lorcr.
Athens Banner. r —
The following letter was received by a young I * n S wives is always a matter for deep consicl-
ladv of Athens: I cration.
Feberrey, Gx. I Whether or not the Mormons are losing or
My Adorurblc:—Nothing affords me more pleas-1 gaining ground is an open question. Many
ure than to seat myself comfortably in this old cain I of the young people have married Gentiles,
DottoiQe*! chair, with spiders fussing underneath, I ncnppiqllv ininnff tlie rrirls who have *10 in.
and think ofher, who sits my heart a flipping like e speciauj among tne gins, wno nave an m-
a churn dasher, and splashes ont jellisy. I know I clinatjon, generallj, to seize on a whole man,
as well as I am sitting on this here chair and well as
your name is Mary, that that feller who I left a sit
ting in the setting room is talking sweet and sofft
to you. I jist can see him look like a yaller pup
into your witching soft eyes,
if he happens to beat up ’notigh courage to tell
on he loves you, don’t you head him. there’s no
feller with a fine suit of clothes on, aod a walking-
Snterinto confidence with them, as some
the Gentile ladies have succeeded in doing,
and it will be learned that they are divided
into twoclasses. One will sincerely recognize
the Mormon church as a Heaven-inspired in
stitution in all its parts—prophecy, priest
hood,tablets, revelations, “celestial marriage,”
and all—regretting, perhaps, the necessity for
pinrai marriages, which lies heavily on good
men, and the necessity for fighting tlie natural
afiections of the heart, which lies quite as
heavily on dutiful first wives. This class be
lieve in the martyrdom of thesex,and by word
look, and act give the impression that not
only do they believe in it, but that they would
gladly and with their own hands pile up the
fagots. Nothing more shocking than the sen
timents of these creatures is to be met with
over the length and breadth of Christendom
To speak in plain and just denunciation
they amount to nothing less than fanatical
hags and procuresses, tlieir masters being li
bidinous old men, and their victims immature
young girls.
The second class consists of an outgrowth of
the advance of civilization among these chil
dren of the desert. Experience has taught
the members of it how utterly unnatural is a
religion which tramples und’er foot the one
ness of love, plants in woman’s warm heart
the seed of jealousy, and then compels her.
in the name of religion, to see vigilantly to it
that the plants do not spring up. These wo
men murmur at their lot whenever they find
sympathizing ear. It is rank heresy—sin—
to thus complain; but they are doing it con
tinually in their homes and to their Gentile
friends. I recently heard one of these un
happy “first wives” say in public, without
hesitation: “I have got to believing that tiie
endowment-house is nothing but a cloak for
see<lff!g mistresses, ami P Wish the govern
ment would put polygamy down.” This wo
man is the wife of a prominent bishop, the
first of four, and, though drill in the prime of
life, had borne him more than a dozen chil
dren. She has re-echoed the wail and the
hope of thousands of her sisterhood, who are
now not looking toward the temple of Mor-
monism for the redemption of the future, but
to the Mecca of liberty lying so far to the
east.
though he may be an outsider, rather than
run the risk ol taking up with a fractional
par? of a “saint” within the fold.
A very considerable number of prominent
members have been lost to the church on ac
count of the titliing-evil. It may do fora
poor man to give one-tenth of all he produces
„ . , - , ... . .. 1 to his religious advisers, but when a man be-
ie outfit, but not theinfit,likeI. Now, Iaint I _ ”i,i„ .... ......... .. »
going to finish what I commenced to say. But jest I comes wealth j, a. many a Mormon has of
aware of them kind o’ fellers, and if you would I late years, through ownership in railroads,
only have me, you would never repent of it. I mines and mercantile interests, a tithe of all
I love you like the churn dasher, 1 lie possesses conies to be an important sum,
I love you like the water thrasher, | and almost invariably causes him to break
I love you more than t’other smasher, I faith with the church and to stop breakin;
And my love is as smooth as a window smasher ------- 1
l
stick, and a nice big hat, but what was a fool. They I
has the - - -
iread with the brethren
Disaffection in various forms serves to di
minish the rolls, yet, notwithstanding all this,
Mormonism is spreading like thistles by the
highway, until Idaho has become almost as
much of a polygamous territory as Utah, with
New Mexico and part of Colorado not far be
hind. Some of the neatest tabernacles of the
sect are now to be found in these outside re
gions. Then all these points are recruited by
missionary c ffort in Europe, a large force of
wandering revivalists being kept constantly
Speaking of love, ma sent hers, and so did pa.
Yours ’til death, J .
P. S.—Brother Jim wishes to be remembered: all
is well. Betty sends her ocean love. Jinks sends
hi# double twisted love, and take all I got.
Taxing Colton Ties.
Memphis Appeal.
In the south we plainly see the injustice of taxing
tlie cotton planter to gorge the iron monopolist, bv
taxing iron ties. Other pans of the country find
similar evils in the present tariff, and the more in
telligent of the press of the protectionist partv itself j
are beginning to call attention to mischievous pro- j _. rb « th . i ower classes of Scnndina
visions in the system, lhe Boston Transcript, for I . " or , ,, a i n , 0n °} „ i-C r ~ lass J s ocanmna
instance, asks whether we cannot “so rearrange the I vians, Welsh and English abroad. No church on
tariff that the country as a whole shall not be ir.or-1 earth is at present so zealous in missionary
dinately, taxed for the benefit of a small part.there- | labor. The Mormons welcome all kind of
communion, but will
are competent to do anything that anv people can, I UBV ? " “ ll negroes, whom they
and will not be driven to the wall in an open field set down as having no souls or hope of heaven.
of competition.” | The main issue, in the antagonism felt by all
treat to the Wrong Place. I nations against the Mormons, rests on the
Washington Post. tenet of polygamy. Mormonism, per se, is
Senator Beck didn’t hear anything about th c subject to criticism only as other religious
demoralization in the democratic party of Ken- I bodies. It has itsxites, rules, re\ elations and
tucky while on his recent visit to that state. Tne I creed, and was first established by Joseph
reason he didn’t is that he went to the wrong local- I Smith, without any reference to polygamy
tre The o pl«^ d to lean^all^atout^ ™derhri | except to pronounce it an abomination. Sub-
right
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southern democracy are regularly slaughtered iu I profess to believe, he published a revelation
'* ' - -- inaweek, T,:v,: 1 ’ 1
this city at the rate of at least two states
aud if a Kentucky or a Georgia democrat onlv
wants to fcno'i - how few political friends he has a’t
home, he can find out easily by cheeking his bag
gage to Washington and following it on the same
train.
The Anti-Mormon Movement.
Cincinnati Gazette.
The people of this country may not always take a
S metical view of the Mormon question so far as
evising an effective method of dealing with polyg
amy is concerned. Thev are showing, however", a
determination that segnetbing should be done.
Rarely have so many and such influential meetings
been held on any public question, north, east and
west. The movement has gone too far for reaction,
and if thc present legislation of congress does not
prove effective new measures will be demanded.
MY NEST.
BY W. E. K.
Though not a bird, yet I’ve a nest.
And all my thoughts are centered there:
’Tis there I ny for peace and rest.
For solace and relief from care.
Its bands are those of lore and trast.
And this, at least, I can be sure
Fate’s winds may blow their coldest gust,
My little nest will be secure.
as an addenda to bis Biblical supplement,
authorizing and commanding his followers to
practice marrying on the broadest possible
icale. This "new revelation was entitled
“Cestial Marriage,” and is cherished in man
uscript by the keepers of the church archives.
All claims that it is spurious, or the work of
Brigham Young,are disavowed by the piesent
leaders in the denomination, though there ‘
branch known as tlie “josephites'
which put no faith in the document. Brig
ham Young was the greatest polygamist that
the church had, or probably ever will hav
and it is more than possible that he was the
Joseph who gave Mormonism its polygamous
doctrines. This man advocated the possession
of many wives as a cure for prostitution; yet
it is current rumor in Salt Lake City that very
nearly all of his many daughters must to-day
be classed among the list of uufortunates,
their places of residence being chiefly in Salt
Lake. Denver, San Francisco and "Omaha.
And what else could be expected of the chil
dren of such a father? The households of
Utah, established aud maintained in corrup
tion, are increasing the force of the social
evil in the land, instead of diminishing it.
THE ELEMENTAL WAR.
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR.
G RE AT' GERM D ESTROYER
DARBY’S
PROPHYLATIC FLUID!
^Pitting of SMALL
Savannah Whale Finhcre.
Savannah Ne>vs.
The whale which has been seen in these
waters several times lately has been captured
and killed by the whaling schooner Lotta
Cook, and now lies in deep water near Dau-
fuskie beach. The crew of the vessel named
are at work reducing the monster to oil and
obtaining whalebone to manufacture fashion
able corsets. It is estimated that she will
iroduce about ninety barrels of oil. Her calf
'is near the same vicinity, and occasionally
approaches its dead mother, and the whalers
are confident of capturing it, as it came suffi
ciently close on Saturday to its mother to have
been killed. Tlie men were, however, not
enabled to use their boats at the time and it
escaped. The calf is of large size, and it is
estimated will produce about fifteen barrels of
oil. The presence of these “Jonah swallow
ers” in our waters promises to prove a bonanza
to some cruisers, as it is estimated that tlie oil
from an average size one will yield about
$3,000.
Since the capture of the one above noted
we learn that on Wednesday last a whaling
schooner, which has been cruising around
Brunswick and St. Simon’s island on the
lookout for these leviathans of the deep, suc
ceeded in coming acro& a huge fellow near
the island, which they killed and captured,
and are now busily employed reducing the
flesh to oil. We are informed that it is ex
ited fully one hundred barrels of oil will
! obtained.
The method employed in dispatching these
monsters now is ihore rapid and attended with
less danger than formerly. A harpoon is
driven into the body with a small torpedo at
tached which explodes inside, making a fear
ful wound that quickly produces death. The
lifeless body is then hauled to the side of the
vessel, when ropes are tied around it near the
head and tail and secured to the masts. The
carcass is cut in large square pieces with a
sharp instrument, shaped like a spade. These
pieces are hauled upou deck with a block
and tackle and the flesh boiled down to oil.
Large numbers of people from Brunswick
went to St. Simon’s in boats to get a look at
the dead monster, and some of them were
towed back to Brunswick on her outward
trip by the steamer David Clark.
Senator Brown** Opinion.
Washington correspondence Savannah News.
Ih conversation to-day with your correspondent
Senator Brown said that he never considered the so-
called liberal movement in Georgia as amounting
to anything. The sentiment of the state was, in his
opinion, so overwhelmingly democratic and right
that he had never )*aid any attention to the talk of
a liberal-independent-republican movement. He
said also that although his name had been con
nected as second on a ticket in 1R84 with Blaine,
such talk was child’s play. He stood by the letter
which he recently wrote to Colonel Estell, of the
News, in regard to his position. He was a demo
crat, he said, of the most thoroughly organized
school. He would vote for the next democratic
nominee for governor of the state and for the next
democratic presidential ticket. He saw no reason
why the democratic party should think of going
outside its ranks for any candidate. It was strong
enough, in his opinion, to stand on its own bottom,
' should stand there.
Little Rock, February 27.—The r'wer con
tinues to rise at this point at tlie rate of one-
half inch per hour. The steamer Woodson,
from Pine Bluff, reports the banks having
been overflowed at Pottris levee, forty miles
below here. Adanisburg, fourteen miles above
Pine Bluff, is inundated, and the whole
country is under water. It is reported
that the river is now running through the flat
bayou. The bank in many places is caving.
Moslevs lake and river, fifty miles below, have
joined forces, and present* the appearance of
an inland lake. Much destitution exists
among the inhabitants of the overflowed ter
ritory. _ Unless assistance in the shape of pro
visions is furnished, great suffering must fol
low.
AT ITS mdHEST POINT.
Memphis, February 27.—The river at this
point now marks 35 feet and 3 inches, which
is reported to be the highest point, reached
this season, and it continues to rise slowly.
Reports from Crittenden, Mississippi, St.
Francis and Phillips counties, Arkansas, are
to the effect that great distress prevails among
the inhabitants of the inundated districts.
Appeals for assistance are daily received and
the picture drawn of the situation
is gloomy. Tlie rise from the Ohio river has
again caused St. Francis river to rise, and the
outlook to those who have been subsisting a;
best they may on tlie rafts and cooped up in
houses surrounded by water is anything but
hopeful. A large volume of water is now
pouring through the cut
alaii'e Osceola, Arkansas, which again
finds its way back into the main stream ten
miles above Helena, Arkansas. The suffering
among the negroes is reported at Laconia
Circle, where the water covers almost all the
lands in a circumference of twenty miles.
The loss of cattle aud other stock continues,
both from drowning and starvation. This
condition of affairs also exists to an alarming
extent in the lower region of the White river
bottoms, which have been submerged to a
depth of from two to four feet, Speedy assis
tance must be rendered or the suffering of
many will have a tragic ending.
A Helena, Ark., special says the rain to-day
caused a rise of two inches in the overflow of
the city, but had no perceptible effect on the
river, which is stationary, but it is expected
to begin rising to-night, and alarming reports
of what is to come are current on the streets.
It is generally believed the water will go from
six to fifteen inches above the recent rise, iii
the event of which we shall have serious
trouble, and there is no way of estimating the
damage which must ensue. The levees
are being strengthened, and it is hoped that
Helena will not be damaged by the current
resulting from a break iu the levee imme-
dately protecting the city.
During a thunder storm this afternoon a
genuine water spout was observed in the river
north of the city.
BREAKING THE LEVEES.
Vicksburg, Miss., February 27.—A special
from Greenville, Miss., reports that tlie levee
oh Deer creek at Mrs. Urguhart’s was broken
on Saturday by tlie water passing through tlie
creek from the east or the break in Bolivar
county. Thc damage from this break will be
local and small. Catfish Point levee broke at
five o’clock this morning, leaving the gap fifty
feet wide. The Kentucky levee is reported to
have broken at eight o’clock this morning.
The water from these breaks will affect the
siuthem part of Bolivar county and the
northern part of Washington county and
Deer creek.
ViCKSBURq, February 23.—{Special. ]—A
heavy storm, with rain anil hail, struck this
city about live o’clock this morning. The
wind reached a velocity of 30 miles an hour.
Tne steamer City of Providence was blown
from her moorings at the elevator, as was also
the wharf boat to which the steamers Natchez,
Desmer, E. C. Carroll and Mary Houston were
tied. The Mary Houston was the only boat
with steam up, and she eventually landed all
the others, but not until considerable damage
had been done to Mattingly Sons & Co.’s coal
fleet. The car shed of the street railway was
also destroyed.
A CREVASSE IN THE LONGWOOD LEVEE.
A special from Lake Providence, La., to
day says: A crevasse occurred in Longwood
levee this morning at 5 o’clock, the break oc
curring immediately in the rear of the resi
dence occupied by George C. Benhani. The
break is thirty yards wide, and the water is
rushing through at a fearful rate. Some of
the most valuable plantations in that vicin
ity will be submerged. The amount of dam
age cannot be ascertained. The river has
risen two inches in the past twenty-four
hours, and is now higher than ever known.
Fears are entertained that the Longwood
crevasse will place the town of Lake Provi
dence under water, but thus far the water
has not reached us.
THE SUFFERING AROUND VICKSBURG.
Vicksburg, March 1.—The river is rising
slowly and the weather is clear and warm.
A report from above says that very serious
breaks occurred at Concordia, Clay, Wade,
Boggett and Clark’s leves, which will put
the northern part of Washington and the
back lands of lsaquera and Sharky counties
under water. A number of people were
drowned at Riverton, au£ there is consider
able suffering and loss of life at other points.
THE STORM IN TEXAS.
Galveston, March 1.—The wires to the
northern portion of this state were prostrated
by the severe storm on Monday night, and
ttie reports from different available points
show that great damage was done by the rain
and wind. A speacial to the News from
Hempstead says a heavy wind came up. The
sky was illuminated with lightning; fences
and outhouses were blown down, and trees
and buildings were unroofed. The
Baptist and Catholic churches were
badly injured. Tiie residence
J. D. Cochran “was lifted from its foumla
tion and carried ten yards, and a number of
other residences were partly destroyed. At
the chapel the students, deprived of "all other
means of exit, escaped from their rooms by
means of ladders. The damage here will
reach five thousand dollars, and thc damage
at Prairie View two thousand dollars.
Brian special says that considerable damage
was done there by the storm on Monday
night, church property being most seriously
injured. A special from Valley Mills says
that a severe cyclone struck that place at
nine o’clock Monday night and almost com
pletely destroyed the town, only one busi
ness house being left. Brintman’s hotel,
two-storv building, was carried some dis
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persons were in the hotel at the time, all of
whom .were injured, but none seriously.
There was no loss of life, but the damage to
property will amount to $20,000.
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We recently had the pleasure of examining the
tea plants of Friendfiela plantation, the residence
of Dr. Forster’s family, and the place on which isa
tea nursery, the leaves gathered from which have
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A Peculiar Accident.
Detroit, February 28.—The Sunday night freight
train, going north to Mackinaw from Detroit, split
just before reaching I-apeer. causing a very peculiar
accidenL Five cars were filled with sulphuric acid,
for use in the copper region, to which they were
billed. The concussion when the train came to
gether broke some of the glass bottles containinj.
the acid, which' were enclosed in large casks. The
fluid ran out, set the cars on fire, and when the
train reached Lapeer smoke was pouriug out of
them, which soon became unbearable. The cars
ran down to the water tank, and the flames were
finally subdued.
Under Forty Ton, or Snow.
Salt Lake City. February 28.—The bodies of thc
family swept off in the Big Cottonwood snow-slide
have been recovered under forty tons of snow,
1 hey were not frozen, but lying naturally in bed,
the husband, wife and infant in one bed, and two
boys and girls, the eldest eleven years old, in an
other. It is evident they were smothered instantly
in their sleep.
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