Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-08-17

alter them, and now it is said they cannot
be so easily opened. But there is still
worse objection to be found in then, in the
very principle too, of their construction. A
piece of paste board if cut to fit too tightly
in the upper chamber and inserted within
it just on the false bottom, which raises and
lowers with the lid, and made sc tight as
not to fall when the false bottom descends,
which it does when the lid falls, to let the
letters down into the main receptacle, 1t
constitutes stationary floor acting as a
trap upon which the letters will remain
when inserted, and from which they can be
easily taken without exciting any suspic-
ion. Parties after having the size of one
can easily make any number and as soon
as night comes, they can place them in all
the boxes in the city or town, and during
the dark hours every letter droppedin them
taken out and no one will be the wiser. If
a string be attached to thepaste boards and
placed inside, they can be removed before
morning.
There is another and more temporary
expedient, by which this defective box may
be robbed, which has been found effective,
viz: To put on the false bottom somesticky
substance which will cause the letters to
adhere so that, though they do descend
with the bottom, they are raised again
when the lid is raised and may betaken
out. Either of these operations can be re-
peated night after night. which doubtless
has been done, as there has beenao little
complaint of letters being. malice ss, here in
Washington and never heard afSaa after
wards.
The government requires now, | think,
1000 boxes, and as our cities and towns
increase, of course a greater number pro-
portionally will be wanted.
The people all over the country receiving
so many valuable letters from cities, are
equally interested in this matter, and should
understand it. The government needs 3
box that is convenient, of simple cOnstruc
ton and proof against robbers.
| Commissioner Wilson, of the Genera
Land Office, has Just receivedreturns show,
ing a disposal of fl, OH acres during the
past month, at the following local offices
st. Peter, Minnesota, %, S12 acres Detroit
Michigan, 10, 961 acres Marquette, Mich
gan, 4,244 acres Tallahassee, Florida
5,O75 acres. The greater portion of thi
land was sold for cash and the remainde
taken under the homestead law and located
with military land warrants.
The Light House Board has notified tn
commissioner of the General Land Office
that Enrol Islands, Louisiana, were needle
for light house purposes. The subject vii
: be brought to the attention of the presi
dent with view to obtain his order 70
reservation hepresident's attention wi
also be called to the lands around Soon
mons harbor, in the straits of MackinaC
Michigan, which is said to be also needle
p for light house purposes.
The General Land Office is in receiE
, from the surveyor Generals office at Lea'
enworth, Kansas, of beautiful specime
= of a marble recently discovered by tt
= Leavenworth Coal Company in shaftin
+ for coal on their tract, at the southeast co
+ ner of the Fort LeavenwOrth reservation
j.. The bed from which this specimen W;
= taken lies at a depth of three hundred fe
from the surface, and the stratum is ov,
I twelve feet in thickness. This marble is
dolomitic silicate of magnesia, compos
ton more durable than Italian marble
THE specimen received is polished on OF
lsiAe showing ss,reu crystals Of p@arl spa
: while some of the markings have tho a
+ pearance of light clouds.
, There were POS patents issued last wee
i respectively to the following states and fc
. eign countries: New York, Il, Pennsylv
10 MIA, SO, Ohio, %, Massachusetts,, %, Illino
# 90, Connecticut, II, Missouri, 10, Wisco
sin, Z, Michigan, 6, Maine, s, Indiana,
Maryland, 6, New jersey, 5, Iowa, 4, Lou
lana, t, Rhode Island, t, District of {
lumbia. t. California, 5, Georgia ,, NJ
Hampshire, ,, Kentucky, ,, Virginia,
= Kansas, l, Texas, l, North Carolina, l, TIE
~ nessee, /, Colorado Territory, l, Washin
ton Territory, l, England, 3, Prussia,
70 Holland, l.
w Great wonder is often expressed and t
tn question often asked by persons in and c
be of the spiritualist ranks, why spirituali
a is not more on the increase in membersl
ul and why so few meeting houses have be
j. CONSTRUCTED, or are owned by spiritualist
ne They have been over p years Operati
IL in our country and tits claimed, and thi
l correctly, that there are millions of bell,
ey ers in the United States, and yet the me
bership in almost every one of the larg
ed cities is scarcely sufficient to fill the m
g ordinary hall ard as yet, possessing but {
he or two meeting houses in the whole Ian
it. What is the reason? There is a or
ay cause for the failure to come up to
Ter numbers and efforts of even the poorest
ms the societies surrounding them sOmewhe
ty Is not the reason just here? Man
religions animal. He must have a rel
Tor ion, and he will not, he cannot be satisf
ST. without it. By religion here, l mean de
'er ton, communion with God, &c, and 81
lat itualism with which it is proposed to 81
TN ply the place of church worship is not,
nd does it pretend to be a religion, but mer
ms the exhibition or teaching of fact, viz
he that spirits can and do communicate W
III mOrtals and it was very lately indeed t
do prayer, which has always been understC
ue in all countries to be the vital breat
ice was even tolerated at all in most societ
'ur The idea held by some in regard to it "
VI that God knows our wants better than
ne do, and there is therefore no use in pray
ro- and by others, that he works by gene
no laws, and therefore, cannot help us,
that we can only be helped by our spec
at friends; but, as limited, there has b
or some change for the better in that resp
&C. evidently, but the change is yet more
all form than in spirit, even in the instanc,
ng which this advance has been observed
m Most frequently, it is praying of the n
no general character imaginable, and outs
IN of, and far removed from mans inter
the feelings, and therefore, very unsatisfy