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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03
Formulation of Utah.

The cesnus returns from Utah are
completely counted, and show the pop
ulation of the Territory to be sc, 786.
Great Salt Lake County contains Is,
337 inhabitants. Piute County is re-
turned as having no population, its in
habitants having been driven out by
Indians. Utah County has popula-
ton of 12,243. Salt Lake City, in
Great Salt Lake County, has popula-
ton of 1892. Those born in the
United States numbering 10, 214, and in
other countries 7,06s. This, at first
glance, seems to contradict the popular
belief that the followers of Brigham
Young have been recruited chiefly in
foregn countries; but when the tables
showing nativity of parents, the relative
numbers of the sexes, and the number
of children are prepared, this seeming
contradiction may be explained. The
census report, when complete, will
show in addition to the distinction be-
tween native and foreign born, the
number of citizens born from parents
of foreign nativity distinction of
great value, but not hitherto noted.
The population of Montana is 20, 594.
This number may be slightly increased
by whites living on Indian reserva-
tiOns.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03
The Cave of Aduuam.

At last we are scrambling on foot
down the steep ciIcuitorls path which
leads to the entrance to Adullam. The
swords bought, Alec leaves our Beth
lehmite, with many threats and point
ings to the pistols, in charge of the
horses, and We clambered along the
narrow ledge leading to the mouth OF
the cave 1t is infinitely difficult and
rugged, and consists of tortuous path
few inches wide, which twines along
a jagged precipice five hundred feet
high, on the other parts of which there
is not footing for wild goat. 1t is
dizzy work, but we keep olIr eyes on
the wall-hke rock which stretches above
us, avoid looking into the chasm be-
low, and move slowly onward, contin-
ually using both hands and feet. fa
A huge block of stone has fallen
across the broken pathway close to the
entrance to the cave. We Chamber over
it-not without the sort of help the
Arabs give strangers at the Pyramids
and which consists of butting you from
behind, while half dislocating youI
shoulders by tugs in front-and are at
the opening to a small grotto, which
leads to a natural winding gallery some
thirty feet long. We pant and squeeze
through these, doffng most of our
clothing, on Alee's advice, and find our
selves at last in noble natural cham
Der 120 feet long, and from Toto 45 feet
wide.
This is the Cave of Adullman. The
candles We have brought with us are
attached to the walls, and the arches
and stalactites of the lofty roof are
seen through the darkness, irregular
and dim. There is ample space here
and in the recesses round for several
hundred men; and when We consider
its all but impossible approach, the
ease with which it could be defended
from the attack of what would be an
overwhelming force elsewhere, its com
parative nearness to Bethlehem, and
weigh the evidence for and against the
accuracy of the site, we come unani-
mously to the conclusion that tradition
is in this instance right, Here it must
have been that David longed for " the
water Of the well of Bethlehem, which
is by the gate" when the village was
garrisoned by the Philistines; and
along this cleft in the rock the three
"mighty men" came after they had
broke through the enemy's lines, OBJ
tanned the coveted water, and were
bringing it in triumph to their chief
There are several narrow passages
branching out of the great cave, one of
which runs for forty yards, and takes
the explorer to a pit ten feet deep, on
all fours, and finally crawl for seventy
yards more when he reaches another
immense natural chamber. This is the
end of the cave, SO far as European
travellers know, though the Arabs insist
that subterranean passages extend from
it for miles, even to Teroa and Hebron.
When we emerge into the blessed SUM-
light again, dusty: heated and out of
breath, Alec spreads his snow-whitc
cloth and produces lunch. The Be
douins watch us from distance, and
we eat, drink and smoke in small cleft
in the hill which overlooks the Wady
and the terrible defile between Adul-
lam and the outer world.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

An EXTRAORDINARY accident happened
in Shoreditch, London, lately. AS a
crowd were waiting outside the Cam
bridge Music Hall for admission, they
were alarmed by hearing shots fired
Two young men at once fell to the
ground, and a Frenchman, who was
found lying down on his face, with a
breech-loading rifle under him, was ar
rested by the police. The two injured
men proved to be Russian Poles, named
respectively Alfred Wohlman and Eph-
rain Berdenbalg. The legs of both
men were discovered to be absolutely
riddled with small shot. They were in
great pain, although their wounds are
not likely to prove dangerous, H. Wal
ter Ringer, the Frenchman who caused
the accident, said that he had been out
sparrow-shooting at Tottenham all day,
and that, while returning home, he
slipped upon the snow and fell, which
caused his gun to go of accidentally.
The police eventually decided upon lib
Grating NJ. Ringer, the sufferers being
informed that they had civil remedy
for the injuries theyh had sustained.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03
Beneath the Furnace Blast.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

On Sunday morning most singular
and, ct first Thought, incredible OCCUR
renee was brought to light at Atlantic
dock, a man being discovered asleep
and still alive in a " fiery furnace. -
The facts are as follows: On Saturday
night Capt. J. L. Lounsberry, of the
tug J. 4. Guile, returned from renov-
ing ship in the harbor, lay up over
night, as is the custom of tugs, at the
Atlantic dock The fires were careful
ly " banked" and the fremen went
ashore for few hours. On Sunday
morning he returned, and on entering
the boiler rooms to inspect his fires, be
was surprised and Mortified at the sight
of a human head just within the fur
mace door. He naturally supposed life
to be extinct, for when the fires were
banked the embers were raked to the
back of the furnace, and fresh fuel was
added z The fire was larger than GUS
tomsry, and the heat was most intense,
but the discoverer seized the supposed
lfeless form by the head, and the body
was drawn quickly out. It was cred
hot" and the other was burned to q
crisp. The feet were baked, and the
skin, where the clothing peeled of, was
roa ted Notwithstanding all this, the
man was most evidently alive, and send
ing forth heavy drunken snore, he
was freed sufficiently from the dirt and
ashes to be recognized as GO dock vol
lopers named John AcGrath, who had
once been fireman, but who had t1ost
caste" by his fondness for frewater.
It appeared that he had freely imbib-
ed on Christmas day, and after going
his bottom copper at a saloon, was
kindly cast out by the gentlemanly
proprietor as having outstayed his use
fulness. After coming within an ace
of the freezing point, he eluded the
watchful eve of the watchman, and
stretched himself for the obtaining of
needed warmth and shelter from winds
that blew and the cold that bit, in the
place designed for another sort of fuel,
as before shown. He loses nothing in
the shoes, as they are not his. He e1-
pressed no contrition for his beastly
intoncstion, but severely "blessedn
the saloon keeper for expelling him to
the "gusty flaw" while celebrating
Christmas Capt. Lounsberry, IN all
his experience, says he never before
saw or knew of such a case, and no one
knowing the condition of things at the
time would deem at possible for hu-
man being to live for five minutes,
much less to sleep there, except to
sleep his last sleep, bat such is the fact,
and there's another case for science, as
showing what amount of heat the. hu-
man body can stand.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03
The Things that We're.

A good story is told, says the Boston
Traveller, of two old merchants, In Es-
sex county, Massachusetts,, who once
attempted to fail They were brothers !;
and by honest industry had acquired
handsome Independence, and were
spending the evening of their days in
a quiet, comfortable way, keeping a
store, which they both diligently tend
ed, rather for the comfort and conyen-
fence of having a place of daily and
regular resort, than for any great profit
in their business. Well, being easy,
good natured sort of men, they had,
''just as matter of FORM" put their
names to the paper of a son of one of
them, in business in a neighboring town.
Matters went on as usual for some time
after the old gentleman had adopted
this bad habit Of endorsing the young
mans paper. But at length this son
and nephew discovered that he could
not pay his honest debt, and soinform-
ed his father and uncle. The old gen.
tlemen sat down in their leather bottom
chairs to look over this matter, and to
decide what they should do. "Weli, "
says Capt A, eff E. has failed / sup
pose we have too, haven't we, brotherln
"Why, yes,n replied Capt. E., al don't
see but we have; and if we have failed
we must take down our sign and not
pretend to be doing business in the or
dinary way"
These points settled, the old gentle
men proceeded to dismantle their store
of its weather-beaten old sign, and then
set themselves down to wait for credi-
I tors to come in and attach their goods
and chattels. But to their surprise no
body came near them; and they went
through the forenoon as usual. At dim
ner they made their way with serious
ness to their respective homes, and as
Captain E reached his fine old mansion
on H street he looked cautiously
around, expecting to see strange faces
in his apartments. But seeing none,
he turns to his eldest daughter, and in
a solemn voice inquiries: "Is their no.
body here but the family, my daugh-
teri" Nobody, father" "Have there
not been any strangers here this fore
noon7" ''No one. Why, did you eI-
pect any one, father?" Why, yes, I
have failed, my daughter; at least, I
suppose have; for E. has; and / ex-
pect the sheriffs here and keepers.
But no sheriffs came and no creditors
troubled the oldmen. Everybody knew
that they would pay their honest debts,
and meet all their engagements if it was
in their power so to do, and that it was
useless and senseless to resort to the
usual methods of collecting debts of
them. So, in spite of all the brothers
could do to fail and have their property
attached, nobody seemed inclined to
disturb them; and so they utterly fail
ed to fail, to the amusement of their
younger neighbors in trade, some of
whom, though now old themselves,
continue to laugh over Captain E. &
Co.'S attempt to fail.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

placed the animals in our Geological
Gardens at the disposal of our butch
ers. Your son, who was obliged to
jump from spot to spot, had eaten a bit
of kangaroo; the other one, who spat
and got his back up, had been indulg-
who looked so wise in spectacles, had
partaken of owl. Your daughter, who
became SO obstinate as to always go in
the wrong direction, had dined on
mule, and the one who displayed such
an appetite for old nails. had eaten a
piece of ostrich.
"I felt SO relieved by this explana-
ton that I at once perpetrated joke
by asking him if the Provisional Gov
eminent was called SO because it sup
piled us with provisions.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

AT the battle of Gravelotte the colors
of the 18th Prussian regiment were
taken by the enemy, and were recovered
by young woman of some twenty-four
years of age, by the name of BERTHE
Weiss, who, in private's uniform was
fighting in the regiment "Kron Prinz -
In doing this she was severely wound
ed, which led to the discovery of her
sex. She had entered her name on the
books of the regiment as Bernhard Won
Weiss, and had already been decorated
with the Iron Cross by Prince Freder-
lex kSharles. 1t seems that through and
by the connivance of 4 Captain of the
Sixty-ninth regiment of Prussian Infan-
try she passed an ensign examination
successfully, and had already partici-
pated in several battles-amOng others
that of Specimen Heights-and sup
ported herself so well that she was dec
GRATED and transferred to the Crown
Princes regiment. She is said to be
good looking, and to bear herself mod
estly though firmly.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

ANOTHER WOMAN SOLDIER STORY
The instances in which women have
donned mems clothes to go ga soldier
ing" for the sake of remaining in the
company of some sweetheart are too
numerous to create any surprise; but
there is a story told of two Mobiles
now serving in Paris against the Prus-
SLAMS which is not without an addition
al tinge of romance. OF these two
provincial soldiers one was enrolled
and the other had volunteered. They
were always together-so much so that
they we're known as Ies deIlr insepara-
bles. On the same day and on the
same sortie they were wounded in the
left foot-so the story runs-and
brought to the hospital, where they oe-
cupied adjacent beds. The surgeon, in
making his rounds, dressed one foot,
and on examining the foot in the next
bed asked for an explanation, because
he at once saw it was q woman's. 1t
was the old story. She was her COM
panion's fdncee. She volunteered and
fought bravely with him rather than be
separated from him. In recognition of
her gallantry she has been appointed
eontiniere of hersweetheart's company.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

A few weeks since the Rev. DR..
NJ, pastor of the High Church Bap-
tist congregation in one of the thriving
cities of New Jersey, received the fol
lowing note: Dear Doctor-You
would greatly obige one of your par
ishioners If, atany early day, you would
preach on Ecclesiastes nj, last clause
of the third verse-sA time to
dance.'"' On the following Sabbath
evening the doctor created quite sen
sation in his congregation by reading
the note, and adding: "When shall
have become fully satisfied that the i'm
portant duty of dancing is neglected in
my congregation, rest assured I will
give all needed admonitions on the sub
iect.n
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03
SNOW FLAKES.
BT e. ". IoNcrErnov.

Out on the bosom Of the air
Out OF the cioud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare
over the harvest fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow,
Descends the snow.
Even As our clouded fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenznce confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief II feels.
This is the poem OF the air,
Slowly in silent syllsbles recorded;
This is the secret Of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom boarded
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

ALL who have carried pocket knives
any time within the last half century
have had about them remembrances of
the celebrated 'cRogers" firm of cut
lers, Sheffield, England. The London
Times notices the fact that the old
firm has Just been formed into COM
pany, with capital of $3.50, 900, in
shares of $500 of which half are retained
by the partners, of whom, owing to
death and retirements, there are only
two remaining. The subscription was
privately filed in q few hours.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

The production of silk worms in
Nevada county, California, during last
year amounted to 10000 cocoons.
There are in that county 20. 200 null
berry trees, of which number 20, 900
are over three years old. The average
time of feeding the worms in Nevada
county is thirty-eight days.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

AGREEABLE SETTLElENT.-A ready,
though perhaps for the moment an un-
pleasant, mode of payment for live
stock comes to the Drawer from Buff
falo:
A farmer residing in Erie county sold
pair of steers to an Indian named
John Smoke, residing on the Indian
Reservation near Buffalo, who was to
pay for them if they suited. After
waiting what he thought was time
enough, he went to Smoke and said,
''Now, John, it's time those steers were
paid for; you must either pay me now,
return them, or take an internal lick
ing.n
The Indian, with characteristic sto-
hdity, replied, after thinking a mo-
ment:
"Y-e-s-I guess that's best way to
settle it l''-E Editors DroDer, in Hdr-
per'S Magazine for February.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

THE Saturday Review thinks that the
chief intellectual lights of America du-
ring the 18th century, were undcubted-
IL BeniamiA 4T.iIhlin and Jonathan
Edwards.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

ONE of the most remarkable cases IN
the history of divorce has just been. .un-
earthed in New York.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

The Chinese custom of substitution
in death penalties, it is said, was en-
ployed in the punishment of the Tien-
tsin assassins. The Chinese arrested a
few of the meaner criminals, carefully
allowed all the rest to escape, and fill
ed mp the list of victims with substi-
tutes, who were quite ready to suffer
decapitation in consideration of about
$3.50 apiece paid to their families.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

The Holland Fund will reach SIS, 900.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-03

"NEvER," says a henpecked man,
marry awoman worth more than thou
art. When 1 married my wife 1 was
worth fifty cents, and she was worth
sixty-two cents; and when any differ
ence occurs between us she throws up
the odd shilling"
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-25

they arc able to pay. we repudiatc
the charge OF the .Buletin shat we
desire ''to produce q disturbance"
If we are not very much mistaken
the Bulletin has greatly misrepre-
sented the public when it says, it
will support and applaud" the
course of these cur owners
If at this late day, when colored
people sa with white people in the
cars, the senseless and irritating
distinction of preventing them from
sleeping in the cars is sanctioned by
companies, we are confident it will
no. be tolerated long by the people.
We appeal to the same public to
which the Bulletin speaks, and ask
if any part of it has the right
to war upon women, even in delicate
situations, and children, and force
them to ride for seventy hours
without the opportunity OF lying
down, simply because their husbands
and fathers are known to be colored:
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-25
nFThe Caizeas Guard Of June

sTThe Cstizeas Guard Of June
81 says:
The case of Weber VS.. Billings,
for q writ Of mandamus to compel
the Attorney General to proceed
against Billings, has been decided
by Judge Dibble against plaintiff.
The wonder is that Weber did not
foresee this and save himself the
litigation" -
We were at a loss to discover
where the Guard got this informa-
nation from, and in our perplexity
a friend suggested that the city pa
pers of June 20 had not reached TIE
corner Of Customhouse and Ex-
change Alley, and some wag had
practised on the credulity Of the
Guard merely to elicit the Guards
opinion of the Judge of the Eighth
District Court. We extract the fol-
lowing decision of this case from
the Republican of June 20, and
italicise what the Judge really did:
.In the case of William Weber VS..
the Attorney General, ordering him
the Attorney GeneraD to show
cause why he should not institute
proceedings against A. f. Billings,
Recorder of the Fourth District,
under the intrusion act, Judge Dib-
BILE made the mdndamus pcremptmy,
at the same time remarking that he
did not agree with the Judge of the
Sixth District Court that Mr.. Bill
lings was not Recorder of the Fourth
District. In his opinion, he is the
de facto recorder, and as such his
acts are legal, while his right to
said office is under contest in the
courts, as if he was the recorder de
jure.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-25

The CITIZENS GUARD perpetrates
the following pun:
"Wby is a contributed article to
the Citizens Guard like a drunken
man? Because they both go to the
DeriL"
Our experience Of the disposition
of copy" is that it goes to the
foreman" and therefore We con-
clrde that the Guard Office is run
by the editor and the deua; If THIS
be the case, Contributed articles
not only reach his sooty majesty,
but editorials must he assigned to
the same low quarter.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-25

PASSING SrRANGE-Of all the SIN
gular things that are occurring in
these singular times We hardly know
of one more inexplicable than the gen.
er;al order by which the End Division
of the Louisiana State Militia was or
dered out ''for inspection at s O'Clock"
on the night Of June %. The sable
goddess" seemed to enter the combina-
ton and rendered the night 80 dark,
that it was utterly impossible to dis
tinguish thefeatures of any one at the
shortest distance. The inspection
therefore was q dead failure.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-25
Galveston, Texas. )
June 2lst, 1871. !

June ZlSt, 1911. J
Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback,
Manager Louisianan, New Orleans.
Dear Sir:
I have just received per mornings
mail, copies Of your spicy and well
edited journal, TIE SEM-WEEKLY
Lou1slAN1AN." Conversant as I am
with the politics and people OF your
State, having been, as you know, q
resident of La. some three years
before coming hither-6ve years
since.-I know your paper supplies
q need long and seriously felt In
the advocacy, by able colored men,
of the wants and wishes, the feelings
and attitudes of the mass Of the Re
publican party in your State, tc-
wards their fellow-citizens and the
general governmentyou are doing a
noble work. Imbued with the spirit
set forth in your Prospectus you
cannot fail of success. Commenting
your efo..ts, your man]y, generous
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-25
DEMORaLIZED

The democratic party seems to
be destitute of a policy, utterly
without leadership, and at war with
itself as to what should be its prin-
ciples.
That division of it which seems
ready to accept the situation grows
larger in numbers every day. while
those who linger among the ':Moies
and the bats" in their blind devotion
to departed glories curse them as
reneyades. or dcnounce them as
spies. A third division Of the party
is trying to accomplish the feat po-
litically impossible, of heating old
blood and cooling young brains.
This wing may be called the con-
sentative democracy. They say the
LIBERAL wing Of the party, led by the
late Mr.. Vallandigham, is going too
fast, and that the reactionary wing,
represented by John Forsyth, is
going too slow.
Political conservatives are much
ike eclectic physicians: they choose
Their remedies from different sys-
TENS of practice in supreme con-
idence in their own skill, but
virtually, ec.cctics OF al kinds are
failures, for the reason that they
live upon other peoples ideas. The
democracy had n chance to win had
it come back to the principles
Of its youth and to the common
sence of its manhood, and at the
last national convention taken Chase
as the best man, ard allowed him
to interpret is doctrines, it would
have been in power to-day. 1t did
lot do this and its failure to do it
was the last step in the pathway OF
dissolution as a party.
If there was ever time in the
Party's history when wisdom, cour-
age, penetration, were called for, it
was at the New York Convention.
The failure Of the great chiefs
to grasp the situation showed they
were no longer fit for leadership
and the failure of the masses in that
party to remedy tie evil of their
leaders example afterwards, proves
they are not fit to follow.
We look therefore for continued
contention for the mastery of HIer
and the supremacy of opposing
IDEAS within the ranks of the demo
cracy, and share but one anxiety
with our friends in our own party
and that is that we have reached
the age when political imbecility
will not lead us to initiate demo
crazy.