The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-05-21

knew what, Clara entered the parlor. There,
indeed stood Herbert Montague.
Clara he exclaimed, sprnglng forward to
meether, and warmly grasping her hand, what
pleasure it is to meet you again! | have SO
longed to see YOU
Clara had been at first overcome by surprise
and pleasure, but now recovering her self pos
session. she began common place conversa-
ton. But Herbert interrupted her:
Let me first make confession which have
come thus far purposely to do, and | will then
answer all your inquiries about your old trends
to your hearts content
1 have been very unhappy since we parted,
and if was in fault, have been sufficiently
punished. Can you forgive me, and will you
give me again this dear hand, which SO long
ago, in my ignorance and prejudice, l threw
SO blndly from me?'
Clara raised her eyes to bis face:
Are you sure that you would never blush
for your shop-grl wife,
'Ah! Clara, | have been a dull scholar; it has
taken me five years to learn my lesson, but l
learned it well. l see now that it is as honor
able in woman as in man to labor, if occasion
calls fer it; and that with her, with her broth
er, the individual makes the business not the
business the person. | have watched your
course, Clara, and through it ALL have seen you
worthy of respect, honor and love. [ offer you
all, as my wife, the mistress of my home, which
needs your presence alone to make it all that
even can wish. Clara, will you be mine?'
Clara made no reply in words, but what her
decision was may be readily guessed from the
following announcement, which shortly after
appeared in the Minor Clarion:
\ .MAHR1ED-On the Th inst, by the rev. Mr..
Sanders, of Minor, Mr.. Herbert Montague, Of
Lee, to Miss Clara Lyman, of the former place.
The POWER OF MoNEY-As knowledge has
widened, and the arts, sciences and manufac-
lures have advanced, the demand for money
has become more urgent, so that men deslg-
nate our time as the age of mammon. More
merit would have been exhibited in determn-
ing why it isso. The insatiate thirst for money,
which is striking characteristic of these latter
days, must have been excited by causes which
have prevailed only in modern times. But a
generation or two ago people lived calmly IN
rural districts, and troubled themselves but lit
tie concerning monetary affairs, and even IN
towns the competition that now exists was un-
known. The truth is, railroads have brought
the country to the town, and the motive power
introduced with machinery, has taken from man
ual labor its former avocations, and manufac-
tured thousand beautiful fabrics, where there
were but few before. Villages have grown into
fine cities, and the denizens thereof have found
the imperative necessity of having money to
procure each article they require. In former
days they raised on their land the greater part
of the food they consumed and their dress and
manners were simple. No wonder the power
of money is felt more keenly than in days gone
by, and that the pursuit of riches is the passion
of the age.
This fierce competition is fatal to morality
and frequently to life, and calls loudly for re-
dress. Every year vice seems to gain frmel
hold on large cities, and the number ofrecklcss
traders and abandoned characters increase. A
day and night passed in the streets of New
York OF New Orleans must warrant the con
clusion that in a few years they will be lnhabltec
by as large class Of desperate persons as are
to be met with in London or Liverpool. From
all lips the same savage cry for money is rails
ed; money to buy food and clothes, and TO live
decently in the world.
The truth is, that the chief cause of poverty
and crime existing in the world is the want Of
money. The millions in Europe live from hand
to mouth, and thousands OF persons in this coun-
try annually swell the ranks of the dangerous
classes We have not allowed money to in
crease with the requirements of the age, but
have rather drawn forth its evil than its good
powers. The miserable doctrine of the Buch-
anan school of politicians, that ten cents a day
should be given to laborer, OF Horace Gree
Iey's plan for clothing the working classes in
f,ct;, hro,, hc,, OH
the subterfuges to which men of contracted
views will have recourse when beset by a diff
Guilty. There are manufactured good clothes
enough for every one, and good food is raised
to feed bounteously all the world but the money
wherewith to purchase them in sufficient quanti
ties is wanting. z-- .-..
The dawn of better times will come when
money is the useful servant instead of the mas
ter and tyrant of man.
MORMON EM1eRANrs.- The ship Enoch Train,
/ from Liverpool, landed at Boston on Wedncs
all bound for the Mormon land of promise,
Utah The deluded people are said to be of a
very superior class for seerage passengers, and
mainly of English extraction, with mixture
of Scotch, Welsh and Irish. A few are from
GOutn A1rlca-SO lar nave the mormon mission
aries pushed their travels in their zeal to make
proselytes. The Journal, who with others made
a visit to the vessel soon after her arrival says:
These members of the church of latter day
saints are under the charge Of four Mormon
elders, who make all needful arrangements for
their transportation to Salt lake valley. The
chief elder is young man, apparently about
| thirty years of age, shrewd and energetic look
ing. The entire expense oftheir journey from
Liverpool to Iowa city is only y 70, Or something
less than S45. The Mormons have an agent in
nearly all the large cities and in every country
in the world, and their proselytes are collected
by them at a general rendezvous. .ot
|. The visitors were we'll pleased with their visit,
and as the party left the ship they were again
saluted by the strains Of Yankee Doodle The
young lady saints were hardly equal to our
Yankee girls for good looks, and it was thought
at the time that no member ofhis party had his
tender sensibilities touched while looking upon
them; but on regaining the whisper, and get
ting under way it was discovered that the gen
tleman from Worcester was missing and his