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Year: 1866

II promised my father | would not go.


James was the eldest boy of large
family, and son of a clergyman in -.
He was anxious to study, but his health
was not thought sufficiently good, and be
abandoned the idea. Perhaps his father
was also influenced by Strengthened cir
cumstances in coming to this decision;


When his son was about sixteen, he
went to B, for the purpose of enter
ing dry goods store. His father gave
him letter to an orthordox minister of
his acquaintance there; he also gave him
money enough to take him to B--and
to pay his board for two weeks, during
which time he must obtain work. BE
had arrived in B., and was on his
way to deliver his letter as directed, when.
he was accosted by young man who
asked him where he was going, on learn
ing which, he said


aGo with me, and | will help you g
get work right away.


Where are y5u s',;sss - =


g | am going TO the theatre, ard iSflli
there introduce you to a person who will
help you right away"


II can't go-I promised my flasher |
would not go to theatre"


Just as the noble boy said this, an el-
derly man passed him on the sidewalk,
and he heard the remark He stopped
and said,


81 am glad to see boy who remem-
bers his promise to his father. Who are
you, my lad ?"


James told his name and errand


"Well go with me, and l will help you"


:" And where are you going, SIR?


g | am going to a prayer-meeting.-
The minister whom you are seeking will
probably be there also, and after meet
ing is over, l think can help you TO
work.


James went with the gentleman to the
meeting, after which he was introduced
to the clergyman to whom his father had
written. While he was presenting his
letter, the gentleman who brought him
there was talking to another man-his
partner in business. Then turning again
to James, he said,


"Come to our store tomorrow, and II
you hold out as you have begun, you
Shall never want for friends or employ
ment.


The minister advised him to go, telling
him it was one of the best business firms
in the city. James went and was at once
received. His strict integrity, industry,
and faithfulness endeared him to his en-
ployers. He steadily arose from one
place to another still higher, until he be-
came a partner in the firm. He still
maintained his integrity, walking in the
fear of God, and now, after many years,
continues to be greatly respected by all
who know him, and greatly blessed in all
his business relations. He often says he
owes all prosperity to that promise he
made his father.


"Will our young men take heed to this
lesson?'
Year: 1866

avoid such evils, refuse to prepare any
table fer your household, and suffer them
to eat when and where they please? If
your father, or any other man, has been
too severe in the religious discipline and
instruction of his children, this should
teach you to avoid his errors; butit can
never justify you in the total neglect OF
a duty which he imperfectly performed


Nor can you escape from these obliga-
tions by the plea that yon are not a
church-member, and do not profess to be
religious. Your duty, in this respect,
does not in anywise depend upon church
membership, nor upon any .T9lgltary en-
gagement, nor upon any rules iaid down
by human authority. 1t upon the
unalterable relations you susE5n to God
and to your children-upcn express
commandment of your Creee end final
Judge-upon the manifest aence Of
family religion upon the % oral and
eternal welfare of those wh.sa God has
committed to your care, su disre-
gard these obligations hyN N you ex-
pect to behold Gods face IN peace?-
How can you anticipate meeting your
own children at that bar where you and
they must give account together ? II
theyperish through yourneglect, yOurna
ural affection for them, and all your care
and toll in their behalf, will be turned
into gall and bitterness in the remem-
brance. The time in which you can
meet these obligations is passing rapidly
away. Much of it is already past. Be
persuaded to begin at once what you
ought to have begun long ago. Take
the Holy Bible in your hand, and call your
family around you, and say, "let us
worship God" 1t will be the best days
work, for time and eternity, you ever did.
Do not wait till you are Christian
This is the best way to become Chris
tian. We learn to walk by walking. We
learn to swim by going into the water
and striking out boldly. God helps with
the gift of more grace those who use the
grace they have. He will hear your
prayer from the family altar for your
self, as well as for your children.


If you do not know how to pray-the
more shame for you; but it is never too
late to learn. If you cannot pray ex-
temporaneously, get some form of prayer
and use it. If you cannot pray out of
your heart, pray out Of book. If you
cannot walk upright on your own feet,
hobble along on crutches. Make the eff
fort to go forward, some how, in the way
of your duty; for while you sit still, not
only is your own soul in danger of perish
ing, but your children are growing up
under your eye in habits of irreligion for
which you are responsible.


II. j. V.
Year: 1866

paper and social visiting can alleviate the
tediousness of the day spent in the "fu-
raj districts" Better thousand times
err on the side of that rigidity which
characterized the Scottish people ten,
twenty years ago, in their observance of
the Sabbath, than on the side of that
"liberal" and doubtful employment of
the hours which God calls "His own,
and which is becoming so prominent in
this Commonwealth.


know Elders and leading members of
the Church who regularly read the secu-
lar newspapers before going to the sane
tuary, strange preparation for listening
to the glorious Gospel of the Son of
God,) and who allow their. children to
"run riot through the whole day, with
out restraint, and without attempting
to impart a lesson of truth to their youth
full and susceptible minds. 1t is fear
full thought, and more fearful fact.


Just such "modern Christian" will
doubtless applaud DR.. Macleod's views,
and improve upon them in their practice,
and Uae = 'r taerefrem an
additional excuse for larger liberty and
a more unbridled indulgence, and devils
in hell will laugh in horrid mirth over
this evidence of the Church S degeneracy.
Does any Christian man or woman, who
has been reared in something of that
Scottish rigidity, and taught to regard
the first day of the week as peculiarly
sacred, now regret that training. and
despise our fathers as over-religious and
pharisaical? / trow not. No. No! we
are only too thankful that their princi-
pies were so exact, and differed so widely
from that latitudinarian spirit which is
gradually creeping into our Southern
communities.


20 Our lot hath fallen on evil days,


For subtle mischiefs are abroad


That Judas-like-a thousand ways
First kiss-and then betray their Lordl


Mocking faith-still lip protest


Sapping the Sabbath's sacred rest


That way-mark-from creation given,


To point, and guard the road to heaven!"


Let us endeavOr to keep up the old
barriers which preserved the Church in
the past from liberal doctrine and looser
practice. Let us "hold fast that which
is good" in this matter of Sabbath OBJ
seryance, following even in the footsteps
of our fathers, although faster and
more fashionable age may call them and
us-"old fogies." Mon.
Year: 1866

Light conceits and flowers of rhetoric
in sermons wrong the word more than
they can please the hearers; the weeds
among the wheat make it look gay, but
it were all the better they were net
amongst it.
Year: 1866

COLONEL WALL Es writes to inform us the cti. zens Of Tucson have not given him house and lot, as stated In a recent number of the MINER. We based our item on what we thought good au. thority, and are surprised to find 1t incorrect. The Colonel Is said to be on tour of inspection, end soon to visit Prescott. Hope such Is the fact
Year: 1866

THE APpoRTroSxEST.-in our last we gave the census return for 1866, and today we print the proclamation of the Governor announcing the apportloument of members of the Legislature. It will be noted that there is no great change in the proportion of members to each county, al. though there has been large increase in popula- ton since last year Pima county has one less in each house, Yavapai county one more In the low house, Mobave county one less in the lower house, Yuma county the same as before, and the new county, Pah-Ute, one in each house, which but for !t4 organization, would have belonged to Mohave
Year: 1866

ddor has lassoed couple more, and it Is
quite race between the car and the VIC
tins for the fatal end of the passage OF
death. One Mdtddor was killing, while we
looked on, an average of .fUe minute We
proceeded thence to the slaughter house,
which is open at the sides. We had no idea
of the destructive capacity of single
butcher-knife. The bullock is turned with
his head toward the gutter. His throat is
cut, and ere he has done kicking, has lost
half his hide. One man alone takes the
entire hide off the entrals out and cuts the
meat off the bones in fifteen (l5) minutes.
Some even do it in ten (10) minutes. Boys
carry everything away. He stirs not from
the spot. Another bullock drops down at
the right in place of Che one just despatched
and mysCeriOusly slips out of his hide and
disappears in like manner. The hide of his
predecessor has meanwhile been hurried
away to a succession of baths in three diff
ferent watts, and bounded away with two
skips and jump into large bed of salt
with It's fellows, where it sleeps little sea-
son undisturbed, and from which it rides
out to get the benefit of fresh air and sun
shine, after which, in stack with thou
sands of others it goes into the market,
where they are sold blythe cord. Meanwhile
the meat of the bullock of which it was a
!
long, lean s labs, gone through like process
of bathing and sleeping in salt bed, or a
series of salt beds rather, after which 1t
comes forth, Is shaken and Is spread
layer upon layer, until a stack Is built
about twenty-five feet wide, fifty feet long
and fifteen high. In this state the whole
stack Is subjected to an immense hydraulic
press, by which the entire stack is pressed
into less than halt its previous bulk. Thence
1t is hung out to dry. This Is done on two
rail fences about seven feet high, six feet
distant from each other, with the rails
about two feet apart. The sides of beef are
hung across those rails closely beside each
other, where they too spend some days in
the fresh air and sunshine before they are
offered for sale. They are then restacked
and sold by the cord likewise. We saw
many such stacks, and several acres of
these sides, drying as above described. This
is the well known jerked beef, and from this
place and BueDos Ayrps the Brazil, Havana
and Mediterranean markets are supplied.
Some OF it is cured with coarse salt and
some of it with fine Liverpool salt; and
some of it is fat and some lean. A differ
ent kind is sent to each market. The tallOw
was fried out and barrelled TOR shipment
on a corresponding large scale. About
hundred cattle are killed here every morn
ing. ..


We returned convinced that we had seen
a feature If not the feature of the country,
and had surely taken sufficient appetizer to
do justice even to the heaviest breakfast of
carnival season, Suffice it to say we want
ed no beef for breakfast, and simply hint to
our friends to visit the SdIdderd after break
fast rather than before.
Year: 1866

never, in the history of this or lany other
people, has been SO much stealing and
peculation, and downright swindling,
and outrageous frauds, as among us since
the present party came in power. The
war cost thrice as much as it would
have done had it been honestly managed.
What has been deliberately stolen from the
people by Abolition officials amounts to at
least one-half of what has been expended
already, and One-third of what will have to
be paid in the future. There never was
another period in the worlds history in
which the people were as lavish in their
contributions. and their officials as corrupt
and unscrupulous. In our own city almost
millions have been contributed for ostensi-
Bile charities, of which not tithe ever
reached the needy soldiers or their suffer
ing families. T.s... ..-..t.,. ....


We apprehend that the people of Iowa
will take an early opportunity to turn out
from their gubernatOrial temple the official
thieves and money changers. 1t is bad
enough that young and promising State
like Iowa should be driven into political
miscegenation without adding to this a
wholesale robbery OF taxpayers. If the
people of that State do not declare for
radical change of administration at the
next election, it will be because they prefer
dishonesty and incapability to probity and
efficiency, and government by miscegen
politicians to one by white men.-ChtcdgO
Times.
Year: 1866

A correspondent of the Detroit Post re-
lates the following: An elopement al
most occurred few days ago in the town
o. Thornapple, near the village of Hast.
ings, Michigan. A long, lean, lank, spec
linen of the genus homo, a regular seven
footer, fancying that he had discovered
charms in young lady superior to those
possessed by his wife aud family, made
vigorous attack upon the foatress of her
affections, and carried it by storm. An
attempt to elope was the natural result.
The two lovers started together ON foot,
EoFR, nobody know where, all the time in
dulging in blissful anticipations of future
happiness. But alas, their experience
verified the truth oe the old adage, "the
course of true love never was smooth"
for the friends of the young lady, having
become advised of the state of affairs,
soon started in pursuit. The short step
and SMALL track of the young lady, close
by the side Of the long stride of her ia
lover, pointed out unmistakably the di-
rcction taken by the fugitives they were
overtaken in the town of Irving, about
six miles from the starting point, and the
girl was taken back to the paternal man
sion. The gay lover, when he Discovers
ed TIE pursuit, broke for the woods where
he was subsequently found on the top Of
tree, and captured. A disappointed
lover up a tree, his idol ruthlessly snatch
ed from his embrace, and all his bright
anticipation blasted, it is no wonder that
his feelings took religious turn. Such
was the fact, for when the officer found
him he was praying Justify for the good
people of Thornapple. The officer thinks
cha. petition delivered in such loud
tone Of voice by a seven-footer standing
in the top of high tree, II ust have been
heard in the upper regions. Whatever
the result may be, he was ordered down
from his position, brought to this town
and placed in Jail to await the next sit
ting of the Circuit Court.
Year: 1866

In order that our readers may see the
very best coloring that can be given on
the rebel side to the New Orleans butch
cry of Union men, we quote The follow
ing extract from the correspondence of
the New York Times, ths organ of Pres
ident johnson and the New Orleans mur-
derers. Singularly enough the letter is
headed with display lines indicating that
the letter is to correct the "Radical false
hoods" about the riot. The writer was
on the spot and witnessed the massacre
lie says:


When the freedmen, members of the
Convention, spectators and Others had
been driven into the building, the police
advanced to the entrance and forced the
way up stairs to the door of the Hall of
the House of Representatives, where the
Convention had been assembled, and into
which they and the freedmen had retreat,
ed. Several different tales are told as to
what followed. Certain it is that one po.
llceman was mortally wounded in the hall,
while, as he claims, he was attempting to
arrest member, 1t is claimed by a
member who was wounded by this police.
man, that he tried to shoot, but his pistol
teing knocked up, the ball sped HARM
lessly into the air, whereupon he seized
the weapon by the barrel and struck the
member on the temple with the butt end
1t is said that all hands in the hall fell
on their faces, and after the police had
expended their shots got up and drove
them out Of the room with chairs, &c.-
After this, r. King Cutler is Baid to have
demanded that every armed man leave
the room. Captain Burke, formerly IN
ion Chief of Police, did so, and received
slight 8esh wound in the side while
passing out. Another version of this as
sault is, that the policemen, without de-
I,anding the surrender of any one, pcked
their pistols through the half open door
and fred promiscuously at the crowd in
side, while white flag was being dis
played from cane stuck up on the speak
er's platform. 1t is certain thatso much
confusion prevailed inside that each of
The stories may have some foundation, for
with the hubbub occasion cd by the firing
and shouting Of the one hundred or more
men in the hall, no one could see or hear
everything or be able to tell exactly what
occurred.


Tho mob and the police filled the side
Ealk and stairway of the building
Shots were fred through the windows
from both in and outside, and bricks,
paving stones, clubs and other missiles
were thrown from both directions. A
gentleman named Cox came dowi stairs
and was arrested but on stating that he
was merely spectator was released, and
walked across the street, where he shield
ed himself on d doorstep. From his po-
sition he could see inside the building
which he had just left, and he states that
only one person after him came cut with
out being killed or badly wounded as they
came down stairs by the police and ths


..il- ~ 4.
Year: 1866

BILLS PAssED.-The bill introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. Hardy, providing for the sub
scription of $4,000 to the capital stock of
the Stockton and Copperopolis railroad by
the county of Calaveras, passed both houses
and was signed by the Governor previous to
the adjournment of the Legislature. The
question is to be submitted to q vote of the
people when taxpayers representing one
half of the taxable property in the county
shall petition to the Board of Supervisors for
an election. Fifty thousand dollars must be
expended in the county, in the construction
of the road, before the county bonds are is
sued. A bill was also passed and approved
by the Governor, requiring the Township
Tax Collectors of this county to report
monthly to the Board of Supervisors list of
all persons required by law to take out
State OF county license, who shall refuse OF
neglect to do so when called on by the Col
lectors The delinquent list is to be placed
in the hands of the District Attorney, who
is authorized to Immediately commence:lega
proceedings against the delinquents. The
bill or funding the county Indebtedness pro-
vides for funding twenty thousand dollars,
or less if deemed advisable by the Board Of
Supervisors.
Year: 1866

AMERICAN farmers may learn from Rus
sian serfs how to store their corn in safety.
In Russia a pit is dug in the ground, in a
well drained place, and the sides hardened
by q long exposure to fire. Before the grain
is introduced, straw is ignited in the pit to
purify and dry the air. The grain is thrown
in and packed close. 1t is said to have been
preserved in this way for four years without
deterioration.
Year: 1866

Ordered that the Treasurer transfer from
the Interest Fund of 1857, to the General
Fund, the sum of $l09 81: also the sum of
500 SO from the Interest Fund of 1861 to
the General Fund.


The following bills were allowed and or
Year: 1866

CHAs. MALLETr CLAIM--On this claim
they are driving the east and west drifts on
the fifty foot level. In the east drift. they
now find decomposed rock. any Of which
prospects we'll in free gold. The foot wall
Of this ledge is something handsome to look
upon, as we'll as very encouraging to the
eyes Of miner--it being as smooth and fin.
ished as if done by the hands Of master
workman.
Year: 1866

Still ANOTHER DECISION AGAINST THE
CONGRESSIONAL TEST OATH-The New York
Tribune, under date of June l6th, says
Judge Hill, Of the United District Court in
Mississippi. has decided that the test oath is
unconstitutional. The decision was render.
ed in consequence Of the lawyers stating that
they were unable to take the oath. Judge
Hill said be would acknowledge the right o.
every lawyer who bad been admitted to prac
tics in the court TO continue to do 90.
Year: 1866

THE NArIoxAL CoNvgyrl0N.-Tbe Phila.
dslphia National Convention, to convene on
the l4.h Of August, is attracting the general
attention of the country. From accounts,
throughout the North the Democracy are
moving, and sending their most prominent
men as representatives. Tie Republicans,
who support the Presidents policy are aso
taking an active part. Tue action being
taken in the Southern States, is not announ-
ced in the dispatches, but il is presuuable
they will be fully represented.


This Convention is very annoying to the
Radicals-beirg flank movement that has
taken them wholly BY surprise, and added to
the Generalization already existing in their
ranks. The bold front they have assumed
in Congress. is not at all justified by any
strength they possess with the people; and
the call for convention. upon the broad
Union grounds announced, will be the means
Of reaching the masses of the people who
will now take the opportunity to express
their sentiments through their chosen dele
gates. and no longer DO misrepresented BY
men. who. although happening to be ma
jori'y in Congress, are but a faction repre-
senting but a small minority of the nation


The Convention can te made capable of
accomplishing much good for the country
and it will be the hope Of truly national
men that moderation and wisdom will pre-
vail in directing it to harmonious counssls.
Year: 1866

The Baltimore Sun says. renewed accounts
reach US from Alabama Of the great destitu-
ton, resulting in much suffering, and in
some instances. absolute starvation. The
condition of the poor there appeals loudly
10 the sympathies Of all benevolent people,
and prompt measures should be taken to ex,
tend reliet to them. The people of Balti'
more have done much for the sufferers in
the South generally, but of course our aid
has gone mostly to those more accessible
sections reached by way Of the coast, and
our steam lines. Far in the interior, in the
isolated districts in Alabama, a traveller
thu ough the Coosa valley, tells of the emaci
ated poor women. with their nearly naked
children, picking wild vegetables from which
to make meal for themselves, and in reply
to questions, declaring that there had not
been an ounce of meal or meat in their hou.
ses for many days-women aud children,
whose husbands and fathers had been slain
in the war, living entirely for week at a
time upon boiled greens, with neither salt
nor pepper. They declared that they had
no way to live, and could not get seed to
plant their gardens. One old decrepid fs
male was met, clothed in a worn wrapper OF
coarse domestic, carrying on her back a sack
containing half bushel of meal, which she
had brought 8 miles from Guntersville; he,
four sons had been killed, two Of them ieav-
ing families. and the mother Of one Of these
families having since died. the old grand
mother had four children which were left to
take care Of A boy, who was found with a
half peck of meal which he had carried five
miles said they had had no meat at his
house since August, Of last year, and they
only had an average of peck week of the
meal now given them, and he declared that
the people all around were as bad off rs his
own family.


To such variations no human soul can be
Indifferent, and they seem to call for a
prompt and special effort in order that re-
lief may be afforded and life be saved. The
idea of women and children thus agonzed
and starving in a land of plenty, with two
great sections-the North and West-over
running with abundance and their people
reveling in extravaganza aud luxury, is hor
ror SO great that it ought to inspire action
on every hand