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f 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 »‘Y. growth ...... uvic .... 3-ill,,....... luc I T il* i - , , , , 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 tance and hurled in a confused heap. Ten' 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. POX Prevented. and ! ULCERS purified ■ healed. DYSENTERY CURED. WOUNDS healed rapidly. Removes all unpleasant . _ I odors. CONTAGION destroyed.ItETTERdried up. SULK ROOMS purified lT i s PERFECTLY an-i made pleasant. | HARMLESS. FEVERED AND SICK'For SORE THROAT it i» PERSONS relieved and sure curo . refreshed by bathing! with Prophylactic Fluid|J added to the water. CATA RRH relieved and cured. ERYSIPELAS cured. BU HNS relieved instant ly. SCARS prevented. in fact it is the Great Disiufecum FREFARKP BY J. H. ZEILIN & CO., DIPHTHERIA PREVENTED u Purifier. Manufacturing Chkihsts, sol.E PROPRIETORS. - hukAU—<ilv tues thnr RaUtewlv ton col r, r m PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND ERUYDinrPlllpF LYKH, KiSsT and i Tea Culture In Seuth Carolina. Georgetown Enquirer. 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 been submitted for inspection to a leading impoit ing bouse in Baltimore. The tea produced there from is pronounced by them to be equal, if not su perinr. In pungency and in strength and richness of flavor to the finest imported article. There are now on Frienafield 1.64‘J ten plants, all exhibiting a splendid and vigorous development. Some of these plants, which have been allowed to grow without pruning, are six feet high, with a circumference of ten and twelve feet. 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. LYD2A E. PINKHAM’8 .VEGETABLE COMPOUND. r , Is a Pogitlve Cure forfeit iTxoso Painful Complaint* anu Wer.lmeaM& eo common to our bent female papulation. It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Com plaints, all ovarian troubles. 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