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great pleasure and profit, attended with little
expense and will afford him. from actual OBJ
servation, the data for another theme for q pop
ular rural paper on bees and honey. Clover is
a more powerful absorbent of miasma than the
human system. Therefore, to set the ground
near residences in clover attains the object de-
sired, and, if well MANFRED and freely plastered,
will bear cutting three times a season. The hay |
and honey which can be produced from the OBJ !
servatory grounds of seventeen acres, preserving
such beds as may be required for Aowers,) will |
yield more money than the officer in charge is
is allowed as salary, besides effectually accom-
plishing that which he who knows all things ex-
poets from the helianthus. In the pages of the
RnraI NeU Yorker will be found description
of the quantity of clover an acre will yield, and
the best mode of cultivation; likewise, all about
the industrious little busy bee. Honey sells for
perhaps 10 cents per pound, and clover hay from
81 to $l.25 per hundred in the Washington
market.
WHAT SHALL BE Done WITH UTAH I'VE are
satisfied that the more public attention is called
to the condition of things in the Territory of
Utah, the more apparent will be the wisdom of
the action Of President Pierce in relation to it.
The declination by Major McCulloch of the
commission to be Governor of the Territory,
rendered him by President Buchanan, is sig
nihcant announcement of the fact that it will
be next to impossible to find any man in civil
life fitted to be Governor of that disordered
community, who can or will accept the appoint
ment. Utah has little to offer to any man in
return for the danger and hardship an efficient
discharge of the duties of Executive of the Ter
ritory would impose upon him. President
Pierce, we have reason to believe, appreciated
all this, and was convinced that the only method
by which the services of an able, wise, circum-
spect, judicious and efficient Governor could be
secured who would not fail to administer
the laws of the United States in justice and in
mercy,-was to appoint officer of the Army,
and allow him to retain his rank in the service
That he attempted to do, but was prevented by
the Senate which refused to confirm the ap-
pointment of Colonel Steptoe unless he would
resign his com MISSION in the military service.
Colonel Steptoe was peculiarly fitted by habit
and inclination of mind, not less than by his
high public and social position for the response
bic post He was modest and unassuming in
his bearing, conciliatory in his department, dis
| tinguished as a soldier and wise in action He
had been quartered in Salt Lake city with
large command of federal troops for some time
before his appointment, and by his good judy
ment and discretion had won the good opinion
Of Brigham Young and his deluded followers.
When, however, the alternative was presented
him of choosing between his commission in the
army or to be Governor of Utah, he wisely
chose the former. He. however, was willing to
serve as Governor of the Territory four years
to test in his own person the power of the Fed
eral Government in that community-provided
that at the end of that time he could return
to his original rank in the army. President
Pierce could not give that assurance; and thus
by the action of the Senate his valuable services
were lost the country.
We make these remarks merely by way of
introducing the suggestion that the best thing
now to be done is to assign a Colonel or Major
OF one OF the regiments now in the West to the
duties of Governor of Utah, and support him
by such force as may be requisite. By that
means will be secured for that post man of the
wisdom, the discretion, the craftsmanship, and
the knowledge not to be procured in any other
way. No man in civil life Of the capacity of
either Colonies Steptoe, or Robert Lee, or Joe
johnson, or many others in the army, could be
found to accept the place. The inducements
are not sufficient The Senate have the power
to confirm such an appointment if it pleases
1t is easy to declaim against the enormities
of the social and political system carried on in
Utah by Brigham Young; but the remedy for
the state OF things is not so apparent. At any
rate, the first thing to be done is to secure a
wise, conservative, courageous, honest and in
| telligent man for Governor. Where can he be
found out of the army! an officer of which
when ordered there, must of course proceed
thither at once.
HARD PUT To Ir.-Those familiar with mi
lie affairs here are not little amused with the
efforts of the New York Herald to connect the
Hon. r. N. I. Hunter, of Virginia, with the
Herrick" affair, on the strength of the fact
that Mr.. Herrick happens to be the clerk of the
Senate's committee of which Mr.. II. is the
chairman. As we know that there is not the
slightest political or personal identity between
the two individuals, whose relations are simply
oficial-the clerk discharging his duties in the
eommittee-room efficiently and properly, as all
here are aware that he does, flor he is indus
trious, pains-taking and competent)-we do not
conceive ourself at liberty to refrain from
stating 50, in REPUTATION Of the Herald's silly
EFFORT to get up an .ant-Hupter mare s-nest in
this connection
The truth is, Mr.. Herick was, whiIom, clerk
IN the Indian Bureau-the clerk charged with
the details of the business out of which the Hon
Mr. Thompson's claim arose. He it was who
wrote the letters signed by Mr.. Commissioner
Manypenny, if we are not mistaken, that led to
the misunderstanding and disagreement, first
with the officers of the Treasury Department
and then with Mr.. Thompson, concerning the
claim, wherein Mr.. Commissioner Manypeuny
(nominally, but Mr.. Herrick in reality took the
ground that in the settlement of accounts origi-
mating in the conduct of the affairs of his Bu-
reau, his fiat should stand good against the de-
cisions of the regular accounting officers Of the