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Year: 1870

The head saint of Salt Lake has given us
the most glowing instance in modern times of
Spartan calmness. He has kept bold front
in the face Of railroads approaching and
schisms inside as long as there was hope.
But they have proven too much for him.
The railroad iron has entered his soul. Death
on the iron horse has overcome him. He has
no wish to live. His earth has lost its Salt Lake
for him, and wberewith shall it be savored?
But he is a hero to the last, and determines to
die, like Caesar, decently. With the frmness
of Regulus he himself drives the last spike
into the Utah Railroad, and, aguratively speak
ing, the last nail into his own coffin.


What a train Of sad reflections must have
come to him with the first train over that rail-
ROAD sadder train even than George
Francis! He must have pictured himself as
he will be in the future, no longer the multi
farious head of his whole family-an 10 Pluri-
bus U,aatNa, as it were, among husbands. His
relicts will be crushed out like his twin relic
His lot of wives will no longer be pillars of Salt
Lake. BY the rivers of Jordan they will sit
down and weep and the salt water from their
eyes will materially swell the waters of Salt
Lake. while he, despoiled of his numerous
hearths, will wander comparatively homeless
and lonely man, with his privileges limited
to one spent up Utica" Of wife and
single layer of Children giant monu-
ment of divorce, voluminous, manifold grass
widower He will see his oasis in the desert
given over to the ungentle Gentle, his Deseret
deserted by the faithful, his apostles forced
apostates, his temple overthrowp, and even
the ballet girls Of his theatre dancing on their
last legs. 80 Temporal o Mormons" was
his cry in the anguish Of his heart as he struck
that last spike its hardest blow and said for the
multitude to hear, ''Now we desire to be ad-
mitted to the Union!"


How will the numberless kinks in this skein
ever be unravelled? Who will fish out the
relationships existing between the members of
one family? Who will husband the wives
thus divorced by the barbarous influence of
the locomotive? Who will distribute fathers
to the crowded regiments of infantry thus
drafted into orphanage? There are several
remedies, bu. they all lie with Brigham Young
himself He can 60 with his whole family to
Chicago, where a man who has reached such
an extremity of divorce will be a hero. He
can go to Wyoming or Colorado Territory,
where female suffrage is permissible, and his
wives--if he can command their votes, which
every well regulated husband shou!d-will put
Year: 1870

Mr.. Sumner Is ambitious Of figuring as q
financial statesman, but It is evident he has
much to learn. The bill he introduced In the
Senate and the speech he made on 1t on
Wednesday for funding the public debt and
other purposes show that the Senator is as
theoretic and impracticable on this subject as
on most others. Apparently the main object
OF Mr.. Sumner is to bring about speedy re-
sumption Of specie payments. Indeed, he says
that. But the real object is to increase the
monopoly and profits Of the national bank sys-
tenn. A short time ago he introduced the sub
ject of increasing the national bank circula-
tion to five hundred millions and to withdraw
the legal tender currency. Seeing, probably,
that this naked proposition to give the
national banks the profits on two hundred
millions more of circulation, in addition to
those on the three hundred millions they now
have, was not likely to be entertained by
Congress or approved by the country,
he covers mp that scheme in a gene
raj funding bill. The profits of q
national currency belong to the people
and government Even the Bank of England,
with all the service it renders the British
government in managing the finances and
debt, pays to that government percentage
on its circulation in excess of the specie re-
of twenty millions or more a year to these
private corporations called national banks in
the profits on their circulation. And now Mr..
Sumner proposes to increase this gratuity
twelve millions or more year. He proposes,
in fact, to give these private corporations
upwards Of thirty millions year which ought
to be and could be saved to the Treasury.
Five hundred millions of greenback currency
in place of national bank currency would buy
up nearly that amount in six per cent gold
interest bonds, almost one-fourth of the inte-
rest bearing debt, and would save nearly thirty
millions in gold year to the people and
country. And who would not rather have
legal tenders than national bank notes? AS
to specie payments, if the whole circulation OF
the country be given to the national banks,
that is out of the question. We should be
further off specie payments than ever, for it
would not be to the interest Of the banks to
have any other than paper currency, and
they would have power enough to do as they
might please. It is unnecessary to discuss
Mr.. Summers crude and impracticable theory
OF funding the debt, for, as was said, the
object of his bill is to increase the national
bank monopoly, and all the rest is only to
cover up that scheme.
Year: 1870

A certain confusion is caused in the public
mind by the fact that the same name-Santo
Domngo-is borne by the richest, most beauti-
full and, next 10 Cuba, the largest of the West
India islands, and by the capital of the Domini-
can republic. The name of Hayti is likewise
applied both to the entire island and to the
republic on the western end of it. The Do
minican republic occupies in the eastern pOr-
ton Of the island nearly three-ffths of the
whole. 1t is with the Dominican government
that the so-called st. Domingo treaty now
under consideration at Washington has re-
Gently been negotiated. According to a letter
from our Washington correspondent, published
yesterday, a prominent member Of the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations has objected
to this treaty as having been injudiciously
drawn up. Referring to a provision that in
case the obligations to be assumed by the
United States shall exceed the sum of
one million five hundred thousand dol
lars the public lands of st. Domingo
are pledged to the security of the excess, the
Senator, although avowing himself in favor Of
the purchase, opposed this provision as allow
ing too much latitude for private speculation.
But a similar objection might be urged against
the Pacific Railroad or any other great
national undertaking. That individuals may
profit largely by measure OF vast and meal
culable Importance and value to the commu-
nity is surely no valid argument against it.


The Senator also expressed doubt as to
whether the Dominican government owned
any public lands. 1t is true that long before
annexation to the United States was contem-
plated liberal concession was made by Baez
to surveying company, which undertook, at
the solicitation Of the Dominican government,
and is now carrying on, complete Topographic
cal and geological survey Of the territory. Do
minica comprises twenty-five thousand square
miles, Its population is less than two hun
dred thousand-scarcely enough to remain a
perceptible element in the food of emigra-
ton which must pour into the island so soon
as its acquisition by the United States shall
have disclosed and developed its marvellous
sources of vegetable and mineral wealth. The
unoccupied public lands of Dominica, after all
deductions on the score of concessions, will
offer ample security for far larger sum than
fifteen hundred thousand dollars. AS for the
prospective political and commercial value Of
the acquisition, all agree that it cannot be
oyerestimated
Year: 1870

The Convention now in session at Nashville
on the business of remodelling the State con-
stitution is conservative body evidently bent
on clearing out If possible every vestige of rad
icalism from the constitution as reconstructed
under Andy johnson and Parson Brown
low. Among other motions in this revising
Convention the other day was motion to re-
strict the suffrage to white men, and motion
to provide for the election of United States
Senators by the people. Now it is such pro-
ceedings as these, in this Convention and in
the late conservative Legislature of Tennessee,
that have operated to tighten the reins In Con-
gress on Georgia and Virginia. With regard
to the election Of United States Senators BY
the people, we would refer the mover Of this
proposition to the constitution of the United
States, article first. third section, which opens
in these words :--"The Senate of the United
States shall be composed Of two Senators from
each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof
for six years." and to the first paragraph Of
section four, same article, touching the power
of Congress to regulate these Senatorial cleo
tions. State constitution makers and members
ought to know something of the constitution
of the United States, and that it is 18th SUI
preme law Of the land"
Year: 1870

A SUGAR PLUM FOR POURING CANADA. 1t
is stated in a despatch from Toronto that
more stringent legislation for the protection of
the Canadian fisheries is proposed by the New
Dominion Parliament, on account Of the re-
fusal Of the United States to make another
reciprocity treaty with her. Every now and
then Canada threatens us with these little re-
taliations, but we can afford to be generous.
Rather than have her pout we will give her
something better than reciprocity. She shall
have annexation.
Year: 1870

~ a Coop SIGN IN THE SESATE-The break in
d the radical line on the question of the admis-


sion of Virginia. Against the remorseless


Sumner the conciliatory policy Of General
Grant, after all, will probably carry, the day.
Year: 1870

Nor A PLEASANT Picture A Young
and accomplished lady, says the Sacramento
Bee, who recently left this vicinity for
tour of the Alta tic and Southern States,
writes to lady friend, from town in
Mossouri, her impression of what she has
seen thus far. Having been born and
reared on the sunny slope of the Pacific,
where nature has been so lavish in the
bestowal Of her gifts, and where the people
are all wide awake, she naturally finds little
to please or interest one in the older States.
Everybody is so slow there that she take
delight in showing to them what Calior-
MIA girl can do-riding their widest horses
and bringing out the latent speed of their
trotters in style quite amazing to the
quiet people of the East She has not
seen flower garden as yet on her travels,
nor town or city which has had half the
life or stir as those of California. The
people have not yet been convinced that
Californians are not all barbarians, and
when told in joking manner, that it was
customary for ladies here to smoke as much
as the men, they rea lily believed that such
was the case No wonder that persons
who have spent few years on this coast
and become accustomed to the life and the
oustle which characterize every department
of ofindustry here, 6nd it next to impossible
to remain away. There is something in
the very air of California which those who
once breathe it can never quite forget
Year: 1870

THE Sun CooLING-Scientists agree
that the sun is gradually cooling. Some
have even gone SO far as to compute the
rate of decrease which the temperature of
the great luminary undergoes, and to es-
innate from this the probable time when
animal and vegetable life must perish from
our sphere by reason of the frigidity.-
The nature of the sun and the source of
heat will probably be never definitely solv.
ed. Padre Sechi, in recent contribution
to Les Deur Mondes, discusses the means
by which the solar temperature is main
tanned He believes the sun to be a globe
of enormously high temperature, reaching,
probably, many millions Of degrees, and
thinks this immense heat may be the result
of the force of gravitation which has unit
ed at the central point the elements CON-
posing the system; the initial temperature
therefore, the result of mechanical action,
will of necessity have been far greater
than the present temperature. However
great the loss Of heat may be, it is imper.
ceptible to us, since it is slowly taking
place, and partly compensated By chen ical
actions which ,ccur in the sun, which, in
all probability, is in its interior a mass Of
strongly compressed and condensed nebu.
lous matter
Year: 1870

BEWARE OF THE PowDER-A HINT To-
THE LovERs.-There is good joke going
the rounds, of a young lady and gentle
man at fashionable party few evenings
since. The young man was handsome
and happy, the young LADY arrayed in all
the exquisite taste of lavender, rose, etc.,
with gold powdered hair flowing over her
swan-like neck. Finding the heat of the
room too much for them, they sought the
cool shade of an arbor where they might
listen to the fountains fall. The music
rose and fell, time few on silver pinions,
and after an absence of about three hours
our young friends entered the brilliantly
Illuminated parlors. The lady passed on
in the dance, but the young man was slight
ly taken back by his next reighbor inform
ing him that round his neck was the
unmistaken print of two arms, all in chalk
and diamond dust, on one shoulder large
pile of yellow powder, and on his upper
lip and cheek diamond dust, bloom of
youth and yellow powder, mixed up gener-
ally. The young lady's hair was observed
to be several shades paler Moral-carry
a busting brush in your pocket.
Year: 1870

Girls do not reach their maturity until
twenty five, yet at sixteen they are wives
and mothers all over this land, robbed of
all the rights and freedom of childhood in
marriage, crippled in growth and develop
ment; the vital forces needed to build up
vigorous and healthy womanhood are
sapped and perverted from their legitimate
channels in the premature office of repro
ductiCn. When the body is overtsxed, the
mind loses its tone, and settles down in 3
gloomy discomfort that enfeebles the whole
moral being. The feeble mother brings
forth feeble sons, the sad mother those with
morbid appetites. The constant demand of
stimulants among men is the result of the
morbid conditions of their mothers. Heal
thy, happy, vigorous womanhood would do
more tor .he cause of temperance than any
prohibitory or license laws possibly can.
When woman, by the observance of the
laws of life and health, is restored to her
normal condition. maternity will not be
period of weakness, but of added power.
With that high preparation of body and
soul to which I have referred, men and
women of sound mind and body, drawn
together by true sentiments of affection,
might calculate with certainty on happy
home, with healthy children gathering
around their freside. To this end let girl
hood be as sacredly devoted to education,
to mental, moral and physical growth, to as
high preparation for personal independence
and ambition as boyhood is to-day; remem.
bering that girls, as we'll as boys, were
created primarily for their own enjoyment,
and only secondarily to serve each other.
Reproduction in the normal condition of
women will not be period of suffering,
but of joy and thanksgiving. One of the
saddest features Of woman's condition is her
idea that she is cursed of heaven in her
motherhood that it is one of natures me-
cessities that she should suffer through the
period of maternity. 1t is because we ig-
norantly violate SO many laws of our being
that it is SO to-day-Mrs E. G. Stanton.
Year: 1870

Slice oucumbers thin sprinkle over them
q handful OF salt; let stand half an houY-
BY this time they will be wilted, then drain
on the wstery juice, and wash in three or
four waters-enougb to extract the salt
Then add some vinegar. Ia little only) and
some sweet cream. Peppe. thoroughly.
Year: 1870

Dakotah olamors for schoolma'ans, but
young ladies adverse to mstrimony should
not accept the situation. The average
duration Of single life after their arrival in
the Territory is only three days. This
ought not to discourage them, however.
Year: 1870




4 printer is the most curious being living.
lie may have bank, coins. and not be worth
cent; have small caps and have neither wifo
gets on swifter by setting fast. He may bo
making impressions without elOquence; may
use the ley without offending, and be telling
the truth while others cannot stand whila
they set, he can set standing, aud do both ut
the same time; have to use furniture, aud yes
have DO dwelling; msy make and put away
pi, and never see pie, much less eat lit duriu:;
his life; be . human being aud rat at tho
same time may ress 4 great deal and not
ask favor; may handle shooting iron and
know nothing about n cannon, gun, or pistol /;
lac may move the lever that moves the world
and be as far from the globe as hog under
mole hill spread sheets without being bouse-
wife he may lay his form on the bed, and bo
Obliged to sleep on the floor; he may use u
dagger without shedding blood, and from tho
earth handle stars he may be Of rolling dis
position, and yet never desire to travel; ho
may have sleeps foot, aLd not be deformed /;
never without case and yet know nothing of
law or physic; be always correcting errUrs,
aud be growing worse every day; have en-
braces. without the arms of girl thrown
around him; have his form locked up, aud at
the same time be free from Jail, watch-hous,
or other confinement, his Office may have hell
in it, aud Dot be a bad place after all ; be
might be plagued by the dOvil, aud be -
Christian of the best kind and what Is
stranger still, be honest or dishonest, rich or
popr, drunk or sober, industrious or lazy, ho
always stands up to his business.
Year: 1870

FAvoRITE DIsu-Take pound Of veal
from the leg, and cut in fne pieces fry
lfyht brown, with slice Of ham or pork re-
move the veal aud ham from the grease into
a clean pan, and make sauce OF gravy or
stock, with tablespoon OF -four with thyme,
nepper. salt and mushrooms. Pour this over
the veal and han, and let it simmer for half
an hour
Year: 1870

TOMATO SoUP.-Chop fine one quart of
ripe tomatoes and boil them fifteen minutes
add, while boiling, quarter of teaspoonful
OF soda, and stir till the eEervesccnce ceases;
then add two crachers rolled fine, and one pint
of sweet milk boil the tomato soup fifteen
minutes longer and season with butter, salt
aud pepper, either black or cayenne.
Year: 1870

BEEF ToMATo PEI can recommend
this to all lovers Of tomatoes: Take cold
roast beef, cut in small thin slices; have the
tomatoes ripe and peeled; line deep dish
with light biscuit crust put layer Of beef,
then layer of sliced tomatoes; salt, butter
and pepper to taste, until the dish is nearly
iull put on the top crust, cutting cash from
the top to the bottom Of the dish that II may
not burn. Bake two hours in slow oven.
Year: 1870

SPONGE CAKE.-Six eggs, two cups of fsu-
gar; beat the yolks aud sugar together five
minutes, then add one even teaspoonful OF
soda dissolved in third of cup of sweet
milk add the whites beaten to a stiff froth,
stir for few moments. Mix two even tea
spoonsfuI Of cream tartar and pinch of salt
with three cups of sifted -four, and add at
once, stirring all briskly minute. This
quantity will make two loavcs in deep long
pans Much Of the success in making good
cake depends upon maintaining the proper
amount of heat in the oven, which should be
We'll heated, but not too hot.
Year: 1870

The Episcopal Register makes the following
appeal for needed reform:-


Thousands will not 60 to church at all because
they cannot dress fine enough to be seen in the
congregation. Thousands. we say, never worship
God In His sanctuary; never are seen in His
house, and are deprived of all privileges, because
Christians will not realize that there Is becom-
ing dress when we appear in the place where we
are commanded to assemble ourselves together
IL there no hope of reformation? Are there none
courageous enough to come to church in beAt-
ting dress. such as becometh US when we realize
the object for which we are gathered, the injury
that we may cause, or otherwise the good that
will ensue from high, holy and virtuous exam
ple
Year: 1870

John Foley appeared before Judge Cardozo
yesterday morning, and sworn Ia as Supervisor lie
afterward went to Of the Board Of SUPERVISORS
which was then in session. and took his seat Mr. Foley
made brief speech, in which he announced his inten


to look carefully after the interests OF the people
during the brief existence Of the Board He declared
that he had fought his question the courts and sriv
EN- TO maintain his cain not because he desired the hohor
or the emolumens OF the office, but because he aeeu
to his constituents
Year: 1870

The Collegiate nine of st. Johns College
handled severely yesterday by the Muuals. The
game played the college grounds at Fordham,
beautiful field for the purpose and the weather was de-
lightfu There condition that worked adversely
college lads yet the speaks greatly against
them. one thing surely be said OF them-if they
did net make exciting game, they made very short
one. Tie hutuals worked heavily at the bat that by
the time the game there were not four sound
bats the field out Of twenty. full table OF the play,
showing outs runs first bases earned hits total bases
earned hands each put out, and times assistance was
Year: 1870

The numbbr actually in puplage at the close Of tern
100 Sxtytyo ladies have just received their hard
certificate Of sehoashp The School Of Wood Engraving
under direction Of W j. Linton, had 25 pupils during
the year-2 were receiving instruction at the close OF
the term. The school of Design Is apparently In excel
lent working order under the guardianship Of Dr. Rim
IN
Year: 1870

n


LONDON, May ga regatta for the yachts
OF all nations will take place tho 22d of june for the
Prince of Waless prize cup. The yachts are to start
from Cowes at O'Clock in the morning. sail TO the west
ward pass through the Needles TO the Bill or Portland
where they will round the Shambles and return back OF
the Isle Wight outside Nab ghtshp to Ryde PIER
Year: 1870

MEMORIAL SERvICEs.-We understand that
Decoration Day will be appropriately observed
at Gorham. The citizens of that town will
meet at the Soldiers Monument in the after
noon, where there will be prayer, the reading
OF the Roll OF Honor, addresses and music
after which procession will be formed and
proceed to the Cemetery where the graves o
the fallen heroes will be decorated with flowers
Year: 1870

w AsHINGToN, May 25-The Committee on
Ways and Means have agreed to the various
amendments to the tax bill, including one 10
reduce the tax on the gross receipts OF theatres @
TO one per cent An effort will be made III
the House to remove it altogether
Year: 1870

STORE BREAKING. EARLY Wednesday morn
ing officer Colby discovered that one of the
large panes of thick plate glass in window OF
the store of Messrs. o. M. & E. P. Brooks, No.
1888 Congress street, had been broken in with a
stone, and lot of small wares within reach
taken away. A man who lives over the store
reported that he heard the crash of glass about
10 o'clock Tuesday night and went round the
back of the building to the front and saw man
standing before the door in such an attitude
that it disarmed his suspicious and led him to
think that the noise came from another direc-
ton.
Year: 1870

In another column will be found the
proclamations of Gov. Holden, ordering an
election to be held in the counties of New
Hanover, Craven and Wake, ON Thursday,
the 10th day of November next. i5l I-a


These counties gave Republican majori-
ties in August last, and the Republican
vote can, and should be increased next
month. Our friends must work and show
the Democracy what men can do when
struggling for Republican principles, and
Republican form of government.


Craven and New Hanover, are largely Re
publican; hence the Democracy do not ex'
pect to carry either. This county is closer
and they will put forth all their energy tc
elect their candidate We have majority
in this county of several hundred, and car
elect our candidate if Republicans will turr
out and vote. Now is the time for every
man to show his hand. Men who fight il
time of defeat will DO to trust. We urg'
upon every Republican who reads thi
article, to so and see his neighbors ant
use every honorable effort to get out ever!
Republican vote. We cannot be defeated
unless it is done by our friends remaining
away from the polls.