Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-10-28

pondent Of the Mobile Register, in re-
cent letter, gets off the following good
and piquant things;
Mr.. Greeley has just finished his IRE
collections of q Busy Life" in the
Ledger. His life has been busy one.
I doubt if there is another newspaper
man in the United States who gets
through as much work in year as
Mr.. Greeley. He has hardly an idle
hour the twelvemonth round. From
Monday to Saturday he is writing lead
ers for the Tribune, attending meetings,
making speeches, delivering lectures.
answering correspondents, writing
sketches and essays-doing, in fact the
work of three or four men, instead of
one. Saturday morning he runs up to
his farm at Chappagna, and goes to
work in another way. You may find
him in the fields or the woods, taking
exercises with hoe or axe, that would
use up an ordinary city man in an hour.
This is his recreation. He enjoys it a
great deal better than throwing off
copy. and he intends to retire to it al.
together as soon as he can. The great
wish of his heart is "to go off fishing
somewhere He will have chance TO
crafty it sometime, suppose, but he
is not likely to catch many fish. Hor-
ace is not good fisherman. There is
a tradition in his native place that he
spent whole week after one trout,
Of course, a good fisherman would not
do that. Equally unsuccessful is he as
fisher for office. A good nlbble is as
much as he can get anywhere. Wheth-
err you go fishing in political waters or
the ordinary sort, you must have some
skill TO catch what you are after. HOr-
ace is not skillful, and therefore his
fishing lacks the important elements
of success.
He has passed his tifty-seventh year.
and has hardly ever been sick. He
says he has no time 10 be sick His
mode OF life is conducive 10 health
primitive in It's simplicity. Comfort
and cleanliness are all he asks, and he
does not get much Of the first, But hc
must have the second. and he does have
ii. lie has had trials aud sorrows.
like all men. The greatest came from
the loss Of his sons. Eccentric himself,
his wife also has peculiar, notions.
She belongs to the Sorosis, aud IL u
firm believer in woman's suffrage. In
religion, Horace is UniversaIlst, and
therefore ITO bigot. He has only two
children liviug-girIs. His affections
for them is of the strongest They are
pupils in the Convent Of the Sacred
Heart, the best educational institution
for girls in New York, and am inform
ed that both were recently baptized i'll
to the Catholic Church One Of his
sisters has been Catholic for many
years. and some of his friends think he
will be Catholic himself, some day
This, however, is his own business.
But did not intend, when began,
To say SCI much about Horace don't
believe you love him mucI, in Mobile.
Iou are not good enough Christians
for that. You are told to love your
enemies, but You won't However re-
construction is not finished yet When
it *, perhaps You will be as good
Christians as wa are.
Which suggests paragraph ON our
prayer meetings. ! dare say you have
heard Of John Allen and Tommy Had.
den and Kit Burns. They arc great
mcn now They used To bad men, but
john Allen and Tommy Iladdcn have
been converted, and Kit Burns is will
ing To let the missionaries try their
hands on him. John Allen kept a
dance house. Tommy MADDEN robbed
eallors, made them drunk, and then put
them aboard ships that were going ont
to the deep blue sea. Kit Burns keeps
an establishment for the slaughter of
rats. All three honored Water street
with their presence and profession.
They are still there, bnt Allen aud
MADDEN have converted their dens into
houses Of prayer, and Burns intends to
follow suit Allen has become an ex-
llorter, aud says he IL "agoing to study
for ~ be preacher right along."I
Prayer meetings are held daily at his
house and Hadden's. Great crowds
attend, aud many conversions, tits said,