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THE REVIEW! I

A Paper for llie People. Of Social and Political .'Reform,!

I« published every Saturday.

OPFIOE—

CHAWFORDSVILT.E. T\h

TERMS:

Minnie copy. one year .v., "S2 tt» «ii month* 1

'three Grant relations in slew: A iiolher got ft Captaincy, two.

three month 50 "len copies, one rear, to one addre«» 15 no

GRANT'S RELATIONS.

Air—7Wi I.iltlf Injin lioyr.

Ten Grant relations on tbeoflice-whine: j, m, ... One got a'Manhahhfp. then iW wrref

Nine Grant relations on ail office wait Another ROI. a Cu«lGm-lminfl. then there wore right

l.ighl (iront relations risking .ITice leaven Another got :in As«e*«or*hip. tlien there were feven.

Seven (irant relations in ofTicn-liegging fis: One got A Consulship. then ll.ere won? six.

.Six Grant relations in office-begging dive Another got Pctmastership. ilien there were five.

Five tirnnt relatiou? at the White Hone door: I Another got a Cleikfhip. then there were fi.il r.

four liriuil relations shrieking poverty Another got a Contract. then there were,

three.

kile.hen c.il.inet

then there wre

Two Grnnt relutioh" afier Roheson The first got l.iglit house, anil I hen (here was one.

Only one relation of the I'resiiletii Lell without office, ami he'll be (ievernor Den I

Agasslz's Oration oil lluinboldl. (KxlracU.) Alexander Yon Humboldt was born in Merlin in 17(W—one hundred years ago this day—in that fertile year which gave birth to Napoleon, Wei lington, Canning, Cuvier, Walter Scott, Chateaubriand, and so many other remarkabli' men. All America was then the property of Kuropean nionarchs.

This great man was a feeble child, and had less facility in his studies than most children. For this reason his early education was intrusted to private teachers, his parents bei-ng wealthy, and of a class whose means and position eomniand the advantages denied so many. It is worthy of note that when he was a little fellow, not more than seven years old, his teacher was Campi', author of the German Itobinsou Crusoe. We can imagine how he amused the boy with the ever fresh story of Crusoe on his desert, island, and inspired him even at that early age with the passionate love of travel and adventure which was to bear such fruit in after years.

To what degree we Americans are indebted to him, no one knows who is not familiar with the history of learning and education in the last century. All th« fundamental facts of popular education in physical science, beyond the merest elementary instructions, wi! ow« to him. We are reaping daily, in every school throughout this broad land, where education is the heritage even of the poorest child, the intellectual harvest sown by him. See this map of the United States all its important features are based on his investigations for he first recognized the great relation of the earth's physical features, the laws of climate on which the whole system of isothcr ual lines is based, the relative height of mouutain chains and table-lands, the distribution of vegetation on the whole earth. Titer# is not a text-book of geography, or a school-atlas in the hands of our children to-day, which '"does not bear, however blurred and defaced, the impress of his great miud.

Hut for liiiu our geographies would be mere enumerations of localities an.l statistics. He first suggested graphic methods of representing natural phenomena which are now universally adopted. The first geological •.-•sections, the first sections across an entire continent, the first averages of climate illustrated by lines, were his.

Kvery school boy is familiar with his methods now, but he does uot know that Humboldt is his teacher. The fertile power of a great tnind is wonderful but as we travel further from the source, it is hidden from us by the very abuudauce and productiveness it has caused. How few remember that the tidal lines, the present mode of registering magnetic phenomena and oceanic currents, are but the application of Humboldt's reseaehes, and of his graphic mode of recording them.

The next stage of the American "journey is along the ridge of the Andes. There is a picturesque charm about this part of the undertaking which is irresistible. At that time traveling iu those mountains was infinitely more difficult tliau it is now.

Wo follow him with his train of mules, bearing the most delicate iustrumeuts, the most precious scientific apparatus, through the passes to the great chain. Measuring the mountains, sounding the valleys as he went, tracing the distribution of vegetatiou on slopes twenty thousaud feet high. Examining extinct and active volcanoes, collecting and drawing unimals and plauts, he brought away an iuerediblc amount of information which has since filtered into all our scientific records, remodeled popular education, and become the common property of the civilized •world. Many of these ascensions

ever ascended so far above the level of the sea, and was oniy prevented from reaching the summit by an impassable chasm in which he nearly lost his life. When a few years later Gay-Lussac made his famous ascent in a balloon, for the purpose of studying atmos-

phcric phenomena, he rose only 1,200 feet higher.

I'M BO MIT VI.SFTS VOfNO AfiASSFZ.

1 he

1,Je

nine. was less explosively that of a student than it had been during his former Paris life. He was the embassador of

"»rliich Jfumboldt now led

!a Harpe, where he received with less

formality his scientific friends. It is P.oiGVnent

with the later place I associate him I P'

for there it was my privilege to visit

leave to come to talk with him about 1

my work and consult him in my diffi-

rn th. occasion, ,„d yet I do not

know how else to do justice to one of the most beautiful sides of Humboldt's character. His sympathy for all young students of nature was one of the noblest traits of his long life. It may truly be said that toward the close of his carear, there was hardly one prominent or aspiring scientific man in the world who was not under some obligation to him. His sympathy touched not only the work of those in whom he was interested, but exteuded also to their material wants and embarressments. At this period I ivas twentyfour he was sixty-two. I had recently taken my degree as Doctor of Medicine, and was struggling not only for a scientific position, but for the means of existence also. I have said that he gave me permission to come as often as I pleased to his room, opening to me freely the inestimable advantages which intercourse with such a man gave to a young investigator like myself. But he did far more that. Occupied and surrounded as he was, lie sought inc out in my own lodging.

The first, visit he paid mo at my narrow quarters in the Quarticr Latin, where I occupied a small room in the Hotel du Jardin des Plantes, was characteristic of the man. After a cordial greeting, he walked straight to what was then my library—a small book-slielf containing a few classics, the meanest edition bought for a trifle along the quays—some works on philosophy and history, chemistry and physics, his own "Views of Nature," Aristotle's "Zoology," Linmcus' "Systcma Naturas," in several editions Cuvier "Rcgne Animal," and quite a number of manuscript quartos—copies which, with the assistance of my brother. I had made of works I was too poor to buy, though they cost but a few francs a volume. Most conspicious of all were twelve volumes of the new Gtyjnan Cyclopedia presented to me by tlio publisher. I sliall never for get, after his look of mingled interest and surprise at my little collection, his half sarcastic question, as he pounced upon the great Encyclopedia, IFos mot-Inn Sic tJnni mil diwr Esr/s/»•»•/,W "What are you doing with this ass's bridge?',—the somewhat contemptuous name given in Germany to similar compilations. "I have uot had time," 1 said, "to study the original scourcc of learning, and I need a prompt and easy answer to a thousand questions I have as yet no other means of solving."

It was no doubt apparent to h'im that I was not over familiar wnh the good things of this world, for I shortly afterward received an invitation to meet him at o'clock, in the "Gallerie Vitrec" of the Palais Royal, whero ho led me into one of those restaurants, the tempting windows of which I had occasionally passed by. When wc were seated, he half laughingly, half inquiringly, asked me whether I would order the dinner. I declined the invitation, saying that we would fare better if he would take the trouble. And for three hours, which passed like a dream, I had liiiu all to myself. How ho examined me, aud how much I learned in that short time. How to work, what to do, aud what to avoid how to live how to distribute my time what methods of study to pursue—these were the things of which he talked to me on that delightful evening. I do not mention this trivial iucideut without feeling that it may seem too familiar for the occasion nor should I give it at all, except that it shows the sweetness aud kindliness of Humboldt's nature. It was not enough for him to cheer and stimulate the studeut. he carod also to give a rare indulgence to a young man who could allow himself few luxuries.

WAS IIRMUONR.T A HYI'OCRITK:

I speaking of his later days I cannot

omit some allusion to a painful fact

bered that Humboldt was republican

licans. He shared .their enthusiasm

publican of the (iallican school, an uncompromising French Democrat. Frederick William and the Third simply abominated republicanism yet when Niebuhr had finished, Humboldt said, with a sweetness which I vividly remember: "Still tb«s monster is the dearest friend I have in France."

a foreign court. Jlis Official position and bis rank in society, as well as his great celebrity, made him everywhere a cherished guest, and Humboldt had the gift of making himself ubiquitous. lie was as familiar with the gossips of the fashionable and dramatic world as with the higher walks of life and the abstruse researches of science. He had at this time two residences in Paris his lodging at the Hotel dc i" which, in a strain of deep Princes, where he saw the creat world. sadness aud despondency, he expressed and his working room in the Rue dc

Can we, therefore, be surprised that in his confidential letters to a sympathizing friend, he should not refrain from expressing his dislike of the petty intrigues and low sentiments which be met anions courtries. I re-

written in the days when the reaction- ^..

ary movements were at their height in ",ai

Prussia, at which, in a strain of deeD •.

llis re

et at the turn political affairs

Lurope, and his disap-

at tlie ailure

rat on

of those as- I

may wish that this great

n,an 1,ad 1,een

w,1«lly

s,.ialoff

cc ted t,ie

consistent—that

,iaJ rf sted on tlie

oultic-' l'"ls character—that he had not acI itn imwilliiifr to speak of myself'

loyalty

friendship ami affection of'!

a King whose court he did not respect and whose weaknesses lie keenly felt. But let us remember that his official station there gave lfim the means of influencing culture and education in his native country, in a way which he could not otherwise have done, and that in this respect he made the noblest use of his position. His sympathy with the oppressed in every land was profound. We see it in his feeling for the aborigines in South America—in his .\bhorance of slavery. I believe that he would have exerienced one of the purest and deepest joys of

his life, had he lived to hear

the abolition of slavery iu the United States. His dislike of all subserviency and flattery, whether towards himself or others, was always openly expressed, and was unquestionably genuine. inwinoMrr's RKI.KHOX.

The philosophical views of Humboldt, his position with reference to the gravest and most important questions concerning man's destiny, and the origin of all things, have been often discussed, and the most opposite opinions have beeu expressed respecting them by men who seem equally competent to appreciate the meaning of his writings. The modern school of Atheists claim him as their leader as such we find him represented by Burmeister iu his scientific letters. Others bring forward his sympathy with Christian culture as evidence of his adherancc lo Christianity in its broadest sense. It is difficult to find iu Humboldt's own writings any clew to the exact nature of his convictions. He had too great regard for truth, and he knew too well the Ariau origin of the traditions collected by the Jews to give his countenance to any creed based upon them. Indeed, it was one of his aims to free our civilization from the pressure of Jewislrtradition but it is impossible to become familiar with bia writings without feeling that if Humboldt was not a believer he was no scoffer.

A reverential spirit for everything great and good breathes through all his pages. Like a true philosopher, he knew that the time had not yet come for a scientific investigation into the origin of all things. Before lie attempted to discuss the direct action of a Creator in bringing about the present condition of the universe, he knew that the physical laws which govern the material world must be first, understood that it would be a mistake to ascribe to the agency of a Supreme Power occurrences and phenomena which could be deduced from the continual agency of natural causes. Until some limit to tbe'action of these causes has been found, there is no place iu a scientific discussion, as such, for the consideration of the intervention of a Creator. But the time is fast approaching and, indeed, some daring thinkers have actually entered upon the question, Where is the line between the inevitable action of law and the inteivention of a higher

power? where is the limit And here wc find the most opposite views propounded. There arc those who affirm that inasmuch as force and» matter are found to be sufficientground for so many physical phenomena, we are justified in assuming that the whole universe, including organic life, has no further orgin. To these, I venture to say, Humboldt did not belong. He had too logical a mind to assume that a harmoniously combined whole could be the result of accidental occurrences. In the few instances where, in his works, he uses the name of God, it appears plainly that be believes in a Creator as a law-givtfr and primary originator of all things, There arc two passages in his writings especially significant in this respect. In the second volume of tbe Cosmos, when speaking of the impression man

rcce ves

connected with his residence at Berlin. "God's majesticjrealm.

The publication of a private correspondence betweeu Yarnhagen Yon Ense and Huuibodlt has led to many unfriendly criticisms upon the latter. He has been blamed for holding his his place at court, while in private he criticised and even satirized severely everything connected with it. It is not easy to place oneself iu the right poiut of view, with reference to these confidential letters. It must be remem-

front the contemplation of

tbe

physical world, he called nature

lie says with much feeling: friends are no more, the house we lived in is a pile of ruins tbe city I have described no longer exists. The day had beeu very hot. the air was

oa rai ti,e

at heart. His most intimate friends Holy Thursday the people were from rorfter, in his early youth, to mostly assembled in churches.

Arago, is mature years, were Jtepub- jng seemed to" foreshadow "the threat-

•'The King of Prussia, Humboldt and SowetBlnr Abont Iccbcrgs.

Neibnlir .eve t.lk.ng of .«* of

the day, and the latter spoke no 1

ky without a eloud. It was

Tng misfortune. Suddenly, at 4

for the estabhshmeut of self-govern-! o'clock, in the afternoon, the bells Prise

ment among men. which were struck mute that day, be- prosperity of the fl

were attended with infinite danger aud Lieber, shows that he did not conceal and not the hand of man, which rang rflsts on a deep foundation The pub- theatre—with the eyes only, mind yon,

difficulty. lie climbed the Ohimbo-J his sympathies, even before the King, that furneral dirge." In his own words: lie buildings, thouHi not/emarkable

The Iccbc

j,- ,ke

flattering terms of the political views! ocy in .uniyerse, ex

iodepcnd

TIIEKK is in Parke County ab&uc 1G0 square miles underlaid with coalscam No. which varies in thickuess from two to five feet, say, in round numbers 100,000 acres of coal three feet thick, which will yield 130,500 cubic feet of coal per acre. This coal having a special gravity of 127, will therefore weigh about 73 pounds per cubic foot and as seventy poundi is a bushel of coal by the law of Indiana, we may safely say that this seam will yield 130,000 bushels per acre, or S3,558,400 bushels to each square mile which gives an aggregate in the county from this seam alone of S,357S40,000,000 bushels.

Tbe amount from seam No. 2. and from the local seams, will at least be equal to twenty-five square miles of a seam three feet thick, which will add 2,OSS,900,000 bushels to tlio former amount, presenting a grand total of 8,357,028,000,000 bushels.

This is an amount of which the mind can have no conccption. A faint idea of its enormous value may be bad when we estimate that if an annual draft be made on this "bank"' :o the amount of 8200,000 at three cents a bushel the supply will not be exhausted in a jnjilion of years.-, Tlie truth is that Parke county alone could supply all the demands for coal for

the whole State of Indiana, if the

mes Reich." population were as that of China, for In his allusion to the fearful catas-

the next

trophe of Carraccas, destroyed by an wealth as yet yields nothing: earthquako in 1S12, tbe critical in-! ^rc^ured up in sate keeping quirer may even infer that Humboldt

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range of our knowledge, on this globe of our? and yet it is, as we have seen, but a fragment of the ice-stream,

ice sea. And yet the iceberg is to the in boots and gloves great quantity of Greenland ice as peachable accuracy, a parting of a finger nail to the human I business in London

body as a small chip to the largest tree as a shovelful of earth to Manhattan Island. Yet magnify the bit of ice in your tumbler until it be-

comes, in your imagination, a half a

ceived, myself, a letter from Humboldt P11'® diameter each way and you jiat)

a nia sotn( ,me ee

0D=

n?!

ljefor®.

for freedom with which he

LJIE

,ia(I fe]t

him frequently. There 1)0° gave me J'outl1-

0 ,lD 1 er

es an a

1"1

lce

long line, before coming to the end. ,,

mountain,

mo ntain

deepest sympathy in his

ous size,

dimensions it is as if Xew York city I

to be amendable only to that treat ment popularly known as "sad experiences." Skating on an icebcrg is far more satisfactory and sensible. Such are the general features of the iceberg as tlioy are to be seen every day in the Arctic waters.—Applrtou's Journal.

The Power of Intemperate Habits. Notwithstanding the appalling lesson of the uncertainty of life recently taught by the disaster at the Avondale mines, the strangers who visited the placejcould not be restrained from their accustomed indulgence in intoxicating drinks. About forty thousand persons, it is estimated, collected at the mines iu the space of two days, aud the village of Plymouth, about a mile and a half distant, with three or four small hotels, was. not capable of accommodating over one hundred guests. At the mines the two small liquor stores were very wisely closed by the police, but these precautious proved useless, as numberless booths and tents, for the sale of whisky, fruits and other refreshments were set up by persons from the neighboring towns. The customers for whisky, it is asserted, were numbered by thousands, and many drunken men were to be seen. The water in the springs and wells is very low, as it has been consumed in extinguishing the fire, and food is also very scarce, so that strangers remain only for a few Jiours. Yet in this short interval the visitors, unimpressed with the solemnity of a disaster which, in a few minutes, hurried over one hundred miners into eternity, can indulge so freely in whisky as to become intoxicated. A habit which causes so total a disregard of the principles of decency and of religion should be eradicated by every human means within humanpower.

launched i-n the same place. An ice-

launcnea

b0rK tbe

thousand years. This incal-

a 1Dstt

he day of need and wlen that ]i00S

believed in a special Providence. For come, jt will pour into the lap of md unlp«- v-m "Our' enterprising industry a istreau of al-

London and John Bull.

George llipley whites to the New: ork Tribune of London:

city that have .seen is there

such a

display of co«MJiercial enter-

and

substantial opulcncc.

An anecdote preserved to us by gan to toll. It was the hand of God, accumulated energy of J"**, and1 ,, v.itli no shelter from the rain which

razo to a height of eighteen thousand who honored him so highly. Lieber, "Eswar Ootlrs, niclit J/cnschcnhaiul ilic for elegance, have*an af of massive spoke to one in such a tone as make Bristol f.,-. in giving the item, says feet at a time when no other man had who wan present at the conversation, 7nVr wn Grubyclaule zicany." grandeur. The shops and warehouses her faint away, for lookin" from the

gives the following account of it, 1 *r' Jittle external glitter, but seem ,i.„ carry strr.w from a neighboring stock

organized for use "/nd iurabilty. The Englishman in Lcndon is a model

usc

an(

and antecedents of Arago, who, it is cept the hea venl^orlw..^ There is meBU. As a rule, he is dressed with whom for variety I will call John! Tl ST received, a very iur

a it a a a I in a a in it it in re as id us an S it a a a in it

P*8*100'

unensions of the Cen

tral Park is far from unusual, and its surface is not in form unlike it either. It is undulating like the Park, aud craggy, and crossed by ravines, and dotted with lakes—the water of the lakes being formed from the melting snows of the bite winter, aud also of the ice itself after the snows have disappeared before the. infiueuce of the summer's sun. I have even bathed in such a lake, although I am glad to say but once, and that was in "those days of other years," when the youth ful insanity is strong to say, "I have

d°ne it,'—a disease which I believe

ten

Moriiioiulom—Attempted Escape of one Rrigliam Young's Daughters,

(jrcat efforts have been made lo keep

what I am going to tel! secret. 1

heard it pretty direct at the time, but.

doubted it. Since, however. h.ive

received confirmation sufficient, to con

vince me that it is substantially

ness as to withdraw your eyes, you

can uct help seeing through and

Sf.qUaintance

IIer

=alf-and

jn.r

The EDgti»1lm„„ j„ tad™ i, a model d^-c-.rc!e. where, I

self-satisfaction, personal dignity, her lover sat.

caie and fiuish in «J1 his appoint-1 Suffice it that a likely young fellow,

Parisian, though he often affects Nabby, one of Brigliam's daughters, brighter colors and a bolder tone. His and, in course of time, their interI tailor is a more accomplished artist course ripened into true love. An

...... tjian that of the Frenchman, be wears elopementwas planned, rt lays of horses which is. in its turn, but an arm of the clorti a£ better quality, and rejoices stationed along the road hence to Uin-

of more unimThe man of seldom shows the

negligence* in costume which prevailsjm week days in New York. He usuilly makes his appearance in the street with nicely fitting gloves, broadcloth of an eminently aristocratic cast, a stiff and shining black dress

aD( a cravat 0 (e of as many

colors as the coat of Joseph, and made

with a most superfluous waste of silk.

™e_''-|5ret a _\]t02Ct]ier ]jC gjVes you the impres-

S,0D a we

mi' land'high conditioned animal, full of I lie name signified, as we have seen

nd it is truly Lift it out of I mountain one.

two and three thousand feet hicrh. In

1 water and ]t beeoir5es

fed, thoroughly tended,

I i.,.r I ,„,i„ healthy blood, rejoicing in the posses ... sion of all his faculties, never trou- Gate. John Smith drove his buggy bleTl with weak nerves or erratic fan- I back to the stable, hur.g around the eies, slow in perception though quick town for a day or two, and then went

Per!iaPs

a litt,c

sometimes showm" hi

worse than his bite."

surlJ"'

were turned adrift in the Atlantic, or S white teeth in "a head on him" was seen occasionally, the Central Park were cut. ouf and V,ut

w,,osc bark

Kainlcss Districts—Freaks of'tlic Weather. In several parts of the world there is-no rain at all. In the Old World there are two districts of this kind the Desert of Sahara in Africa, aud ih Asia part of Arabia. Syria, and Persia the other district lies between ""north latitude 30° and 50°. and between 75° and 11S° of east longitude, including Thibit, Gobira, Shama, and Mongolia. In the New World the rainless districts are of much less magnitude, occupying two narrow strips on the shores of Peru and Bolivia, and on the coast of Mexico and Guatemala, with a small district between Trinadad and Panama on the coast of Venezuela.

Per contra—the climate of the Ivhasia Mountains, which lie northcast from Calcutta, is most remarkable for the excessive fall of rain. An English traveler establishes the fact that in the month of August, 1841, there fell 264 inches of rain. This great rain fall is attributed to the abruptness of the mountains that face the Bay of Bengal and the intervening flat swamp 200 miles in extent. It is not easy always to account for the erratic conduct of the weather upon any established scientific theory, for it is asserted that there is a district in Siberia in which, during winter, the sky is constantly clear, and where a particle of snow never falls.

I'Tcncli Soldiers Eaten by Cannibals. The London Daily Nacssays: "If any of us look forward to being eaten by cannibals, he may wish to he informed how he is likely to be cooked. It is a comfort to know that the savagps who may devour him are by no means devoid of refinement in their culinary disposition. Some French soldiers wore lately taken prisoners by the Kauak.*, and one of them was killed and eaten. Tlis comrades describe the process: The Kanalcs first decapitate their victim,.a matter of no small difficulty, considering the bluntncssof their hatchets. Ten to fifteen blows are ucccssary. The body is then hu»g up to a tree by the feet, the blood allowed to run out for iV1 hour.

Meanwhile a hole a yard auc

half

deep, and a yard wide, is dug the ground. The hole is liueel with stones, aud then in the midst of^Jie"» I tt great fire is lit. When the woo^if burned down a little and glows witlH heat, it is covered over with more atones. Tlio may is then cleaned out and divided into pieces about a foot long, the hand and feet bciug thrown away as worthless. The pieces of the man are placed ou the leaves of a large rose tree peculiar to the tropics. The meat is surrounded with cocoa nuts, banana, and some other plants noted for their delicate flavor. The whole is then tied together firmly, the fire is removed from the pit, the meat is placed in amoug the hot stones, and thus, carefully covered, is left to cook for an hour. Women do not partake of this warriors' feast.

to San Francisco A 0,ice,nan wi,h

Nabby was locked up ... the Ku.^s

castle, and that was all. It appears that Nabby was to meet I John Smith three squares west of her father's corral, and. getting into the buggy, they were to fly on the wings I of love to a land of liberty. Both had evidently been watched, aud just as the girl was entering the buggy the police appeared, chucked her into

Brigham's carriage, which was also unaccountably on hand, and, having thus effectually clipped the aforesaid wings, either from policy or fear, allowed Smith to go about his business. In former times he would undoubtedly have been killed without ceremony, but it would hardly do now, and, beside, John Smith happened to be connected with people who could and would have made some trouble had he been assassinated.

The girls have a secret society"" for helping each other away, saving up their money, &c.—the little traitors. God bless them Brigham knows all about if, and laughs at them, telling them that when they get religion they will be ashamed of such foolishness. It makes an honest man's heart ache to see and know of such things, aud be powerless in the premises. The idea of girls, iu the first blush and blossom of womanhood—the sweetest, most charming creatures ou earth, frail as flower, transparent as a trout brook—having a secret society! Why, such a man as Brigham can read their every thought.. And that they should be driven to attempt it in self-defense, is pitiful. With a woman, as we ali know, one thing is every thing. Her purity—without that she had better never have been. Now, though they may themselves be as pure the twentieth wife as the first, still the opinion, and custom, and religion, and law of their race, the net result of ages of experience, holds them cither more nor less than concubines, iu this plural marriage, to which every Mormon girl I must look forward as her doom, through all the days of her maidenhood. Lost, immolated, a human being, with all its capacity for suffering or enjoying, fallen, ruined We may regard it with a good deal of complacency, since it doesu't touch us or ours, but it is terrible on the Mormon girls—those intelligent enough to know what it is—and are not their efforts to save themselves, humble and vain as they must be, affecting to the la.st degree? This little episode, which I assure you is true, lets a whole flood of light in on the action of the Saints in so promptly inaugurating the Utah Railroad. It is plain that a railroad running from their chief city, which was not in their control, would bJN^j'y damaging. There would soon be jWrtrn—iSfrn laying hold of one woman, instead of the oilier ihing.—-| C"'. Chicag" Triliiiitr.

Taxing tlie OIKIS.

The New ork !hrahl, in aif arti

cle reviewing the financial situation,

says there is another important qucs-

tion in conncctiou with taxation and

the financial condition af tlie country

which calls for serious attention. That

is the question on reducing tlie inter-

est on the debt, or, what w.ould be bet-

1 ter and amount to the same thing, of

1'i.rini/ th- Louih. Tlie present high I interest, is not only an euormoii.- bnr-

deu Upon the people, but it paralyzes indu.-try and progress by the ibsorption of active capital, and drain- the country of specie to pay foreign bond I .holders. As long as capitalists can

L'et six per cent, in gold or eight per rue. ceut. iu currency by investing in

It seems that the Mormon girls, who Knifed States securities they will not

have not yet 'got religion," arc very

much opposed to polygamy. They

had rather spend an hour in the com

pany of a congenial sinner tliau a ycat

in that of a saint, especially if the

former is young, holds his head high,

aud is withal good looking. There

are occasionally such among the Gen

tiles, never among the Mormons. The girls call the young saiuis cu-|

yuses," the Gentiles call them ••Va.1

j0or,

dear thinirs

a a

most fabulous wealTh.—PtrrZ-c delicatc a respect for their hclplc.-s (irohrjical Rt-pnrt, 1SG!).

trouble themselves with business entcrprises. Besides, our bonds are going abroad at such a rate, under the stimulating influence of high interc.-t 1 and the desire of foreign capitalists to invest in them, that there will soon be a greater annual demand for the precious metals to pay the interest abroad than our mines yield or the balance of our products can supply. In other :f words, we are fast becoming debtor country to such an extent that, with ail our wealth, we shall be kept poor.

you have so

for

and our noses perpetually to the grind

stone. At present we are drifting into a sea of financial difficulties notwithstanding the vast recources of the country and the enormous income of

through them the same as you do

through a window. Well, they man

through their brothers.

acquaintance through their brothers,

nroush Im

,tual friends, who arc about

lf-and alf,' by telegraphing on the

the T-ihciW 1p nr il a

street, flirting at the Tabcrnable or the

and U,at vei

Mormon pit of the theater up to the

...

the Government, and it behooves Congn?ss to do something soon to adju,-t the revenue system and national finaii

age to inveigle the Gentiles into an

ccs 011 a firm and equitable basis.

VKI:V

through mutual friends, who are about

I /f/h.'f

poor family passed tlirViugli

Wytl.evillc, Tennessee, one day last

Wl ok arul

alf, by telegraphing on the

encamped in an old field

noar tliC town

MAMMOTH

avY*-

CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY.

CARRIAGE FACTORY

tab, and about two weeks ago, in the latter hours of night, the streets rather deserted, and darkness largely prevail- J. S. MILLiER & CO., ing, the adventurous swain drove slow-! ly west with his buggy along South Temple street, past the royal grounds, which were early closed that night for some reason past Temple Block, and still further westward. Four or five policemen issued from the vicinity of the Tithing Office, and followed the buggy. Anon a slight scufHe and a smothered scream were heard, and a moment or two after the royal carriage, with blinds drawn, dashed by on the gallop and whirled through the Kaglc

-OK-

J&itablisliod

iu 1856.

Murh' S/ff /, A i,rth of Cmirf llnUfr,

CK.tWHIItDMVM.I.K. I.M».

AT'TKU

returning tl.nnks t. the public tor tli liberal patronase bestowed np-n us for thr last thirteen years, we Wuuhl resnecifully en I the attention friemlf anil the public srcnernllv lo an inspection nf our

rriag,€\s. ISn^i^s.

Sulkies ami Sleighs.

A fine assortment suul vnriety of which we keep constantly on hand in our now brick shuw room on Washington street, second floor. Wc claim to be unsurpassed in strength and finish, nsinjr none hut the best selected well seasoned second erowth limber, nnd employing nono but th most skillful and experienced workmon. Th_ high reputation our work has sustained in the thirteenTyears Jpast gives us confidence! in our ability*as Carriage Makers. Being exclusively engaged in manufacturing only light work onables us to keep a much finer, larger, and better stock than any other house tin the West. Wc confidently assort that our work and prices can not bo excelled by any other establishment. The continual increase in business has made is nccessary to enlarge our facilitiog for manufacturing, Wc call especial attention to W. 11 Hanison's

Patont Aiili-Kattling Fifth Wheel

A recent invention, and the greatest improvement ever added to a carriage, buggy or spring Wagon. Wc have the exclusive county right. We use .—

Sarver's Paten! liu^y Wheel."

With Patent Rivet for fastening it is impossible for the felloe to circumstance.

fel lf.es si iplit undo

that any

The latest and best Improvements In Spring. Axles, Spokes and Hubs,

A variety i.f the latest si and finish uf every kind.

vies nf I'iitout Tups As we receive III

Kasfern Styles Monllil.v

From New York and Philadelphia'we shall enntinuejto manufacture work as reliable as heretofore,

All onr Work is Warranied from one lo I wo years.

Old Work Taken in Mxchan^e

In wood-work done lo i.rdcr. Ill icl sm il liing Painting and Trimming done with neatness and dispatch. Wc invited all lo cull and sec as our work will.recommend ilsWI.

Superior Farm Wagons!

Our Farm Wngmis built market by Slink-baker 1'ros lnd..of the

'ly for I his Midi I't'inl,

VKItY I8i:ST TIMISKH.

and more with the view of giving entire sal infliction to purchasers than profit lo the manufacturers or to us. We lully

Warrant Tin Fur

AV,

irTI'enienibi I ('oiirl, lloiisi .lulyl7.|H(i!i

1'arliciifai

Onr

rthe place. Market Strei

I. North

.1. S. Mil.I,Kit

it CO.

BliACKSMITHinSTO.

)JiN A. f.surnv fll.l IJI.KS Ml I'll V.

MURPHY,

A S I IN

O a in S a I as I lit' /'us/ Ofiii't

A\*')I L|I respectfully inform their that they

proinptl and in 11 era I fliaeks

.N II ir. !aet cvi well re:

during the night.'

W:IS ihUillL iu {uri tut5 (Il0

7 Hrigham once gave birth to four cbildreu. The

,notllL.r

yard to make the woman a rude bed.

ro-»«rj orintcd in

the Review Job Konm*.

,uppiy ol ir„n.

oN a

it S

.Id friends to execute el- ol gen-

now prepare.! best style all.'l.i

thiii::.such as

Mill WarlSlua'in'/

Kerry f)r.t

''I'" .It, I,

All are inviti deavor lo give august 1".

lltir: tut:.

•nil ('mi ii try

togivc us a call.a-, •utirc sati.-lactii.il lo

.all en niicrs.

DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING.

Dry Goods and Clothing

vrnp iv A'i

O I

A A S

'(//ii n! /V

Hit,. Crt, St,: ,1.

O O S

licni's hinusiiiim

roN.-i.-ijM. or

Pop iligii !llis lin. Jiplii

Li WHS. Lnslers.

I'rinls. Hosiery. Collnrs.

M'lolhs, ('.i-vsiiHcnw.

Twewls. Trim mint *. Wsfinirs.

I' irim*r.sS i! ill (J loves,

Hals. Caps. Xolions,

Made

Ready

I.-- uh •d

Furnishing Establishment,

I alway-have the l»e-l of tailor- at work, and will he plca-cd In have my friend* call and -cc III

efi.rc purchasing elsehwere. I illal?

ill Hie

(•nriiK-uts from Malerial here I'KKKOF 11.A ltd K.

IJonglif

hizy to eve.

Ma •.», I-IW.'. .101 IN MA AS.

NOTICE.

AM.

per-ioiH knowing tluiu-elves'indebleJ tu the firm of Knsmineer .1 Nieholsoii are re-qu-4tt'd to make iininediutc M'ttleiuent. Having retired from the harness and saddlery business, we desire lo -ttk- iiix.ur hu'ineis.

The followiiiL' i* a now usiiiir the Kinpir William Wisobar 1 Jonathan llooher John l.ec \b Co* ..lame. Seller1 llaiirson Miller

:li is to l.u I..111.,I

WORK AND PRICES

era

I.ach square.. Hue or fi.<p></p>Rr«Wl' Fftml nnrt tntYiietif matter. huch additional insertion. of wwh for -i^ weeks or Je...« On.- column—ihree month* —•is month'' .. iv.v —one year Half *..lnmn—three months —fix mor,ths

•wrtion

I 50

onare

1 00

:s no 60 oo

WAGON FACTORY.

FARMERS THIS WAY

/f you want

repaired lo order: and the best

'WJ^G-Oisr SEATS

In the 1'i.uinry, the IlKVKKSAlll.lv SPIUNJ1. which is more durable and cheaper than the old steel springs, which we offer for about onehalf the money.

AII wwk iinrmniril from our loIn jrart.

]i "PUeinember the place, on Vernon Street Kast of the Post-Ofiice. April3. lSfi'.Uy SMITH A HONNKI..

DRUGS.

T. W. FRY CO.

Have just opened a fine assortment ot

Drugs, Paints, Chemicals, Oils, Dye Stuffs,

Toilet & Fancy ARTICLES, Cigars & Tobacco,

OF THK K/NKT QUA MTV.

1AU, and1: •J two doors

'&»'

.100 00 to 00 37 30

—one year 60 00

Kourlh eol.—three months 12 SO —six month* ...•-. 20 00 —one year 35 00 liucal business net ire." per line. 1st insertion 10 Knch aiihjeqncnt injerlion. per line

CIRCULATION 2000

sc4? Jfc-i

on AV A O ISR

SMITH

& BONNEL!

return thai

to the farmers and other?,

forthe liberal patronage boretoforo beytow«l on u^. We invite you to call anil examine our jitoek wa^oni", which arc ereetctl of the best material. nn«I of the best of workmanship. AI«*o

Wagons lt'})iiirc(l aiul |{puintvd.

On -horl notice and most reasonable terms. al«o

PLOWS OF AX.L KINDS

s»

?. on tireon stroet. ..'1 e.l. W. Lynn A Son.^LI T. W. FKY A CO.

jiin'-'M'iiiiwct

DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

NEW FIRM.

WOrFKTV & KOOI:,

Ml'I I'.i ItMHK, No.

CRAWFORDSVILLE,

PKALEUS IS PlTRR.

imiriivt!

I uffs

I'ainls. Oils. Dy IYrfitnicry. Fancy Articles I'urr Wines and Hrandio

Fur Medical I'urposes.

Pat en I er.'Cn

•ilieincs. Also, Lamps, (ilas 11111 .Vole Paper, Pens, I'eiic

ware, LetIs.

ml Ink.

Carefully prepared and promptly attended lo, We!respeetlullv[solieil patronage from the public in general. .. !.I.air.'o'i

EMPIRE SEWING MACHINE.

Galey & Applegate

Ai.KNTK I'Olt THK

I'jiipirp Sew in» Machine,

Crawfordsvillc. .'Indiana.

'I liH ni'ichine received the

imtsT i*KKMriiTJi

A I lii» (Jrwif I'.

American Institute,

In New Yoik. October 2C, 1807.

Ami the bi: lie=t premium lor

Best Manufacturing Machine

1 1

JULY. 1867.

Imakesatbe

I ha* iMr.'iiiilit needle, perpendicular action I .ork or .Shuttle Stitch which will neither r[. nor ravel, and is alike on both side* A perform- perfect mowing »n every dc«criptinn of-V I material, with cotton, linen, or silk threnj

Irom the coarsc-i to the tinest number. It hem*. fell-1, bind', t.railn. tuck*, quilt, plaits, and

Blither". A? a fa mi 1 superior.

Clothing.

wriiiK maehine il has .no

partial list of the persona

Sewinsr Machine K-iq Cloafetler I.ewH Clark

Deniuan

S W I.ytle William llanna K.-ter Hays Jason Thoma* Michael Love Mat Kllmore Jamej Kali Itohcrt Hall Henry Tboiup I'rllaM Mike Urown John Campbell

Trio* I.afo! let UJacob l.afollctte

Will Sellers (!corse Wil ,.n John Martin 1 Itobt I'ruce

Win Ki-dier John Km me Samuel llall l.ueky Hosteler I'fllo-teter Havi-l 1) Siniih -Abraham J.oo| John lint* W II Hicks Allen Hick Thomai (loff John Sheppard John W Hormaa,' John Kiiikade Will Swindler AVill Stone Kenj Vancleavc IInbricl Mitchell

W McCalli.-ter James Ames John Widener Sarah MoDobia .e.,re liible Samuel Simpgon Kdward (ioff

[i Isaac Shoemaker A lex Hearer Thos Kelley

Jos Hans* 1 ieorKu lioltuian ,_ W Hendrioks

I! (iartuer

W Kullenwldef Stafford Juhn Wilion laines Davis S Hunriet ('Konter

A White

William White Admn (iunkle Samuel Ounkle Jod lirimes Jo- Mitchell

II. I'. KXSMIXtJKK.

l-f.'iinn. \VM. X1CHUI.SOX.

Jnn .*» l.-ti'.i,