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Justin Castane ell ctat darrcslation scs CrG,n-
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No. 1881.
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STATE OF LUUlSIANA.-First Judicial Disuict
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tors Of Charles Paanee, the pe'ilig> be notified to he
vember, 10 O'clock, NJ to sht &dse, if any the
have why SAID petitioner should not hHvc the benefit of
the laws made for tle lie OF insovcA debtors in ac-
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Witness the Honorable " Buchanan, Judge of said
LIS. Court, This IN o. e. 1881.
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MISC ELL A N ECU S.
From the Olio.
s'Golden Bible," or ssBook of Mormon"


'sGolden Bible,' or ''Book of Mormon.''
About the year 1S09 an individual by the
name of Solomon Spadng-for time preach
err of the gospel-havng failed in mercantile bu-
siness at Cherry Valley, N. Y. removed to Con-
neaut, Ohio, where, to retrieve his fallen for
tunes, he commenced writing an historical ro-
nance, entitled THE Manuscript Found y calcu-
latng that the profits arising from its sale would
amount to a sum sufficient to liquidatc his debts,
and furnish him with a competency. While en-
gagged in writing this work, he was accustomed to
read various portions of it to his friends, to get
their opinion of its merits, by which means they
became acquainted with its contents. 1t pur-
ported to be a history of the first settlers Of A
merica-the ancestors of the American Indians
whom it represented to have been Jewish en-
igrants from Jerusalem. 1t claimed to have been
record found in the earth, and was written i'll
imitation of antique style.
From Conneaut Spaldin2 removed to Pitts
burgh, where he resided about two years, and then
removed to Amity Washington County, Pa. where
he died in 1917. The widow of Spalding states,
that while they resided in Pittsburgh, she thinks
he carried THE Manuscript Found" to the print
ting office of Patterson and Lambdin; and she
has no recollection of its having been brought
back nor is it to be found among his papers,
About the year 1923 or "a, Sidney Rigdon, at
that time preacher located himself in Pittsburgh
where he resided about three years. during the
whole Of which time he abandoned preaching, for
the purpose, as heasserted, Of studying the Bible.
He was on terms of intimacy with Lanbdn and
after removing thence, he commenced preaching
certain aev notions occasionally making long
visit to Pittsburgh About the time of his leav-
ing Pittsburgh the Smith family, then residing at
Manchester Ontario County, N Y began to talk
about finding book that would contain history
of the first settlement of America. And for some
time before it was pretended to have been found,
Joseph Smith, jr., Martin Harris and others, used
to meet together in private; and were Familiarity
known by the name Of "Gold Bible Company
At length, the time having arrived for the move
ment to be made, Joseph Smith, jr. one day
brought home something tied up in his frock.-
The family were anxious to know what it was
whereupon, he told them it was the Golden BIZ
ble"-but that he had received commandment to
let no one see it. The Golden Bible" however,
was nothing but sand, as he himself afterwards
declared to one or more.
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supply of necessary food. On the contrary, es-
tablish the principle that property is safe-that
man is secure in the possession of his accumula-
ted earnings, and he creates paradise on barren
heath; Alpine solitudes echo to the lowing of his
herds; ne builds up his dykes against the ocean
and cutivates field beneath the level of its
waves, and exposes his life fearlessly in sickly
jungles and among ferocious savages. Establish
the principle that his property is his own, and he
seems almost willing to sport with its safety. He
will trust it all in a single vessel and stand calm
ly by while she unmoors for a voyage of circum-
navigation around the globe He knows that the
sovereignty of his country accompanies it with
sort of earthly omnipresence, and guards it as
vigilanty in the loneliest island of the Antarctic
Sea, though it was locked in his Golfers at home
He is not afraid to send it out upon the common
pathway of the ocean, for he knows that the shell
tering wings of the law of nations will overshad-
ow it there. He sleeps quietly, though all that
he has is borne upon six inches of plank on the
bosom of the unfathomed waters; for even if the
tempest should bury it in the deep, he has assur-
ed himself against ruin, by the agency of those
institutions which modern civilization for the pur-
pose of averaging the losses of individuals upon
the mass.-Gov. EUerett.
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An Incident.

One day last week, there came into the city, from
a distance OF seventeen or twenty miles, a being
sustaining the relations of man, with a lovey-
looking woman-hs wife-bringing some baskets
for sale, neatly made in the style of Indian manu-
facture. The lady-for such she seemed, and gave
evidence that she had seen better days-was active
in trying to dispose ofthem. How she succeeded,
know not but in the disposition of one of them,
an incident occurred which told the secret of all
their poverty, and all their woes. A gentleman
not ourSelf-barganed for one at two shillings;
was seized with the eagerness of stealth by the
husband. She looked up with piteous expression,
and said, in most subdued tone the tears starting
from her eyes, Sir, give me the rest, or it will go
for run. lhave two children, and they need bread.
have left home, and come this distance with these
baskets, made with my own hands, to purchase it
for them-they are hungry and cold" All this was
said without anger-without murmer. The gen.
leman gave her the small pittance, and tried to per-
suade her wretch ola husband to give her the first
piece but his memorable thirst forwha had ruined
himself and family did not premit him.
Shall we ask the reader who would sell to such
wretch rum, when he was taking the bread from
the mouth of his own children, and wringing from
his wife's heart her last ray of hope for their sub
sisence? Answer-Every retailer of rum in our
State. As likely to sell it to him as any other man.
On the retailer, then, surely may be expected to fall
her woes.
And will men pretend that we do not need laws
to control men like the above-men who cannot be
moved by the tears of heart-broken wife, by the
signs and sobs of his own chidren-men who, know
ing such circumstances, will place temptation at
such mans door, and then take from him the last
farthing, earned, not by himself, but by his wife
and this, too, when he takes from children their
only hope of life ?-Maine Wesleyan Journal.
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AG e N r S .

Derby, DR. Richmond.
PeYRrinsuille, w M Guilford.
BrookfeM, D Kingsbury Esq
Randolph, c Carpenter, Esq.
East Bethel, E Fowler, Esq.
Waterbury, L Hutchins, Esq
E s Newcomb.
WaitsJfeM, Col Skinner.
Moreto,rn, Moses Spofford.
Warren, F A Wright, Esq.
Waterford, r C Benton Esq
East Ronb,vy, s Ruggles,
Ferrisb,trgh, R 7 Robinson.
Vergcnnes, J E Roberts,
WeStfeH, o Winslow, Esq,
Corinth, Insley Dow.
WiIhdmstotOn, J c Farnam.
Chester, ] Stedman, Esq.
Sping field, Noah Stafford.
Franklin, Geo S Gale.
WaterUille, Moses Fisk, Esq,
HydepGrk, lothian Wilson.
Elmore, Abel Camp, Esq,
Hinesburgh, w Dean
Burlington, G A Allen, Esq.
Montg emery, J Martin.
Lincolr, Benz Tabor.
Calais, Rev. Benz. Page,
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Music of Winter.
BY N. p. WILLIS.

love to listen to the falling of the snow. 1t is
an instructive and sweet music. You NAV tenn
per your heart to the serenest mood by its low
murmur 1t Is that kind of music that only in
trudes upon your ear'when your thoughts come
languidly. You need not hear it if your mind is
not idle. 1t realizes my dream of another world,
where music is intuitve like thought, comes on
ly when it is remembered.
And the frost too has melodous minstrelsv.
You will hear its crystals shoot in the dead of
clear night as if the moonbeams were splintering
like arrows on the ground; and you listen to it
the more earnestly that it is the going off of one of
the most cunning and beautiful of natures deep
mysteries. know nothing so wonderful as the
shooting of crystal. God has hidden its principle
yet from the inquisitve eye of the philosopher,
and we must be content to gaze on its exquisite
beauty, and listen in mute wonder to the noise of
its invisible workmanship. 1t is too fine a know
ledge for us. We shall comprehend it when we
know how the morning stars sang together.
You would hardly look for music in the drear-
mess of the early winter. But before the keener
frost sets in, and while the warm winds are yet
stealing back occasionalv like regrets of the de-
parted summer, there viii me soft rain or a hea-
Wy mist, and when the north wind returns, there
will be drops suspended like earring jewels between
the ilamens of the cedar tassels, and in the fea-
thery edges of the dark green hemlocks, and, if
the clearing up is not followed by heavy wind,
they will all be frozen in their places like well set
gems. The next morning the warm sun comes
out, and by the middle of the calm dazzling fore
noon they are all loosened from the close touch
which sustained them, and will drop at the slight
est motion. If you go along on the south side of
the wood at that hour, you will hear music The
dry foliage of the summers shedding is scattered
over the ground, and the round hard drops ring
out clearl and distinctly as they are shaken down
with the stirring of the breeze. 1t is something
like the running of deep and rapid water only
more ftful and merrier but to one who goes out
in nature with his heart open, it is pleasant mu-
sic, and in contrast with the stern character of the
season, delightful
Winter has many other sounds that give pleas
ure to the seeker for hidden sweetness; but they
are too rare and accidental to be described dis
tinctly. The brooks have sullen and nuf1ed
murmur under their frozen surface; the ice in the
distant river heaves up with the swell of the cur
rent, and falls again to the bank with prolonged
echo, and the woodlands axe rings cheerfully out
from the bosom of the unrobed forest These are
at best, however, but melancholy sounds, they but
drive in the heart upon itself. believe it is so
ordered in Gods wisdom.
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Brandon, DR. Hale.

Brandon, DIR Hale.
Jamaica, L Merrifeld, Esq.
Hubbardton, w C Denison.
Nortoich, Sylvester Morris.
Hartford, Geo. Udall, Esq.
Tunbridge, Hervey Tracy.
Straford, w Sanborn, Esq.
Barnet, LIP Parks, Esq.
MOrristO,on Rev S Robinson
MorriSpille, Poland, Esq
Cornwall, B F Haskell.
CrGttsbury, w J Hastings.
WeSttord, r Farnsworth.
Essen, DIR J w Emery,
UunderhiH, Rev E B Baxter,
Barnard, Arad Jackson.
East Barnard, w Leonard.
Walden, Perley Foster.
Storksboro', Joel Battey.
st. albums, E L Jones, Esq.
Rutland, r R Thrall, Esq.
Royalton, Bella Hall, c c
Carter.
Danville, NJ Carpenter.
Glover, DR. Bates.
st. Johnsbury, Rev ] Morse.
M D Gordon.
Cambridge, Martin Wires.
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Committee OF the permOnt Temperance Society.
This Journal will be exclusively devoted to the sub
ect of Temperance Its design will be to advocate the
of total abstinence from oil that intoricates
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Temperance principles be expected And, temper
the great moral field in hich all unite and la
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The leading design of the TEMPERANCE STAR will
be, to endeavor by argument and persuasion to awaken
the attention of the whole community, the necessity of
speedily banishng intoxicating drinks from among us;
and while it shall faithfully and fearlessly pursue its OBJ
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indscrimnae denunciation.
All experience demonstrates that in free governments,
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The WIFE Of Literary Man.-A woman fit
to be the wife of literary must indeed be a
aconaam; she must combine in her character all
those pleasing attributes which we often find
described but so rarely meet with in real life
She must be neither selfish in feeling, van prodi-
gal, nor passionate She must be one who will
not MARRY where she cannot respect and, when
she has consented to lay aside her virgin honors,
one who will love her husband with devotion
that shall waive every other consideration but that
of duty to her God She must be even more
than this; she must be self-sacri6cing in DISPOSE
ton, and be willing to endure much loneliness;
and also learn, if she have not already, to have a
fondness for her husbands pursuits, in which case
she will receive return that will be dearer far
than all the world can offer. A man OF lit
erary pursuits sins against himself and the woman
he marries, if he takes one who is but votary Of
fashion-whose empire is in the drawing-room,
and not IN the secluson of domestic lite. And
If he marry literary pedant, he will be still
more nfortunate-unless the pedantry be that of
a young, active, and enquring mind, which is
pleased with its first essay into the regions of
learning. She should not resemble that first wife
of Milton, whom the poet married from sudden
fancy. Unable TO endure his literary habits and
finding his house too solitary for her romping dis
position, she beat his nephews and conveyed her.
self away at the expiration of the honeymoon !!
Nor like the wife of Bishop Cooper, who, jealous
of his books, consigned the labor of many years
to the flames. Nor like the wife of Sir Henry
Seville, whose affection was so strong as to cause
her frequently to destroy his most valuable man.
uscripts, because they monopolzed so much of his
attention. Neither should she resemble in char
acter Mrs. Barclay, who made both herself and
husband ridiculous by her great public admiration
of mis- abilities, she considering him little less
than demi-god She should either be like the
lady of Dacier who was his equal in erudition
and his superior in taste, but whose good sense
caused her to respect and give place to her hus-
band at all times and on all occasions, and whose
love for him kept her from the slightest feeling of
presumption because she was his equal in mind
or as the wife of Wieland, domestic woman,
who, though not much given to study, was of
calm, even temperament, and always soothed in
stead of enciting her husbands irritable DISPOSE
lion. literary man, in choosing wife, should
not look SO much for shining abilities as for
lear, discriminating judgment, and warm and
atiectionate heart. A combination of these quail
ties, if he be not an unreasonable, cross-grained
yrant, will be sure to bring domestic felicity.
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Accummlotion.--The philosophy that denoun-
ces accumulation is the philosophy'of barbarlsm.
1t places man below the condition of most OF the
native tribes on this continent. No man will vol
UNFAIRLY sow that another may reap. You may
place a man in paradise of plenty on this condi-
ton, but its abundance will ripen and decay I'M
needed At this moment, the fairest regions Of
the rth-Sicily, Turkey, Africa the loveliest and
most fertile portions of the East the regions that,
in ancient times, after feeding their own numer-
Gus and mighty cities nourished Rome and her
armies-and occupied by oppressed and needy ra-
ces, whom all the smiles of heaven and the bouh-
ties of the earth cannot tempt to strike spade IN
to the soil, farther than is requisite fora scanty
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THE VOICE OF FREEDOM.

no one. Hence, we can perceive, very good
reason why Smith was selected as the discoverer
of the "Plates," and for his subsequent nspira-
ton as Prophet-Rigdon in the mean time reap
ing all the advantages which remaining in the
back ground could afford
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he following spirited lines beaI internal evidence OIL
rom the elastic pen of EIIzUR WRIGHT, JR. No
n readers need be told who the "grey old mouse"
lass. .db0Hti0ntSt.
From the Evening Post
THE RATS AND MICE.
Once on a time, saith our story,
Within single edfce,
A nation Aourished in its glory,
Whose citizens were rats and mice.
The politics they prospered under
Passed far and widely for wonder,
So based were they on reasons laws,
And equal rights of vermin;-
So planned, the general good to cause,
And clearly keep Justitia's ermine.
The mice were populous by legcns,
But mostly in the upper regions,
Where cracks and crevices so small were,
That none but mice could go at all there.
But there they got name and grew,
Established trade and ports of entry,
And made Improvements not few
In cupboard, case and pantry.
The rats reioiced in cellar spacious,
Where finding ample fare,
With little thought or care,
Thew grew remarkably audacious,-
Great statesmen they, and rhetoricans,
And exc by nature politicians,
On every great occasion,
The council of the nation
Assembled duly in
An empty apple bin,
Yclept Ratopolis,
Where cat and dog police
And foul monopoles,
And all affairs of state,
Gave rise to much debate.
Long lived this great mouse-ratic union,
While enemies were hurt to
The wondrous peace and courtesy
With which the parties held communion.
AT length some busy story-teller
Began to noise it through the house,
That every thing down cellar
Worked badly for the mouse.
Instead of persons fat and sleek,
They seemed but shadows, thin and weak.
Those cellar mice,-poor staryelng wretches,
Like what we're told are seen in churches!
For food while rats were proud to waste it,
These famished mice dared hardly taste it.
And worse, twas rumored that
Full many tyrant rat
Had sold his neighbor to the cat!
Resolved to have investig ton
In general council of the alton,
Some garret-mce there broug hit the charge
Against the race of rats at large.
Up jumped hundred rats or more,
In furious haste to get the floor;
The one that did, in speech er-rat-ic,
Cried, "Mr. Speaker, should like to know
What, with our cellar-mice, they have to do
Who live up in the attic!
sour institutions our own,
We swear they must be let alone,
Our mice (for they indeed belong to us,)
Are better off than those that make the fuss;
A subject this we deign not TO discuss,
But let the canting saints,
Who make these sad complaints,
Their whiskers show the cellar side,
And we the question will decide,
BY means far brefer than haranguing,
That is to say, by HANGING"
A grey old mouse, that caught the Speakers eye
In nick of time, thus made reply
81 hold that mice of sense
VIII vote to save the expense
Of further inquisiton,-
And take, with full reliance,
This chivalrous defiance,
AS equal to confession.
None but the guilty deprecate
The lightning flash Of free debate"
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they had no cause to complain of the result,
would, still, have been better pleased with an OPP
portunity of showing the whole strength of their
case.
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PROSPECTUS
THE TEMPERANCE STAR,

To be published at montpelier, Vermont, the first
of every month, under the direction ofthe Executive
Committee of the Vermont Temperance Society.