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GENEVA COURIER I KlSLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING He. 39 SemAcm Street) Up-Stairs, BY C L E V E L A N D & L O O K . TSRMSt To village subscribers who receive the pa pers by the carrier,$2,00. To mail subscribers, end those who receive their papers at the Office, $1,50. Fifty cents will be added in all cases where payment is not made within three months. No papers will be discontinued until arrearages are paid. SQiBWB-QiA!B® & BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, $ AXB PUBLISHERS OP THE GENEVA COURIER X». 39, SEJTECJt S T R E E T , 8 . C . CLEVELAND. _________________ J. B. L O OK DR. H. W. BELL O F F I C E AND R E S I D E N C E O n M a in S t . , One Door North o f his Old Residence , AND OPPOSITE T H E REFORM E D DUTCH CH U RC H __ _________________________ _ _______________ 63 DISXZ, BR O TH ER & CO. 134 W I L L I A M S T R E E T , N e w Y o r k . M A N U F A CTU RERS OF EVERY V A R IE T Y OF L a m p s, C h a n d e liers, G irandoles, C a n d e labra, G A S FIXTURES, &C. A p ril, 1851. 59m6 SILSBE, BULKLEY & BENNETT, M a n u facturers of, and W h o lesale and R e tail D e a lers in CABINET WARE AND FURNITURE W a r e R o o m s —41 S e n e c a st., ______________ GENEVA, N. V. ___________ 50 MISS HKL.BN M. C R A N E , IN S T R U C T R E S S O N T H E P I A N O F O R T E . G e n e r a at., G e n o v a , N. Y . 1041yl C. S. ACKLEY, ta w s ® * S E N E C A S T R E E T . _______________ G E N E V A , N . Y- __________ 1037 SU P E R IO R CH AIN PUM P , MANUFACTURED AND SOLD, w h o l e s a l e a n d RETAIL, B T ». M A B I E , O p p o s ite th e T e m p e r a n c e H o u s e , C A S T L E S T . , G E N E V A , N. Y , ____ 44y D . T. C L E V E L A N D, F ir e , M a r ine, L ife , an d H e a lt h INSURANCE A G E N T . ( o f f i c e a t THE COURIER OFFICE, SOUTH SIDE SENECA STREET, NO. 3 9 , UP STAIRS.) DR. J. S. S T E V E N S , Office w ith D r . E , B a rnes, E a s tsid e P a r k Place, M a in S t r e e t . R e s i d e n c e , M a in S treet, 2nd door a b o v e th e P o s t Office. D. 0 . C R A N E , M ^ D . , S u r g e o n D e n tist,— Office N o . 28, Seneca street. D R . W M . K 1 M B E R , \ ~~~ Physician and S u r g e o n — Office, five doors nort h _____________ of t h e Bank_________________________48 G E O . P. M O W R Y , D e a ler in D r u g s , M edicines, e t c . , N c . 1 0 ,S e n eca stre e t. A . D. P L A T T W h o lesale and retail dealer in D rugs, G r o c e ries, Paints and Dyes, No. 8 Seneca stre e t . H . P A R M E L E E , D e a ler in D r u g s , M e d icines, P a ints, O ils, Dye Stuffs a nd G roceries. N o . 24, S e n e c a st. * C. W H E A T , - D e a l e r in F a n c y & S taple D r y G o o d s , N o . 36 Seneca stre e t , G e n e v a . COBB & S M I T H , D e a lers in Fancy and Staple Dry G o o d s, C a r p e t ing, etc.-—sto r e at No 23, Seneca stre e t . H . H. &. G. C. S E E L Y E , F a s h ionable D ry Goods, No 30, Seneca s t r e e t . V R O M A N B E C K E R , ’ D e a ler in D ry Goods, G roceries, C r o c k e r y , Glass and W o o d en W a re, C u tlery , Nulls, e t c .— W a ter, a little south of T illm a n street. | P. A. B R IT T O N & C O ., D e a ler in Staple and Fancy Goods, G r o c e r ies. e t c . , »t No 16, Seneca stre e t. D E R B Y , O R I O N &, CO., B o o k s e llers, Stationers. B o o k b inders, e t c . , N Seneca street. . W I L L I A M H. S M I T H , B o o k seller, S tationer, Blank Book M a n u facturer and B inder. No. 31 Seneca street. 4 W|GHT & c l a RK, Fashionable If a t S tore, N o 11, Seneca street. ♦t CLEVELAND & LOOK, Proprietors, T 50 © W © M T © J ? ‘S ' © = ® A C. CLEVELAND, Editor, VOL. X X I —NO. 27. GENEVA, N. Y., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1851. W h o l e n o . io g ? f a t h e r h o o d Give me thy hand, my shrinking brother, Wherefore dost thou doubting stand ? Pm a man, thou art another; Give me, then, thy grasping hand. Lone and hard has been thy thrall, Yet thou art a man for all. Give me thy hand, my wayward brother, Lift thy downcast eyes to heaven; Pm a man, thou art another, Turn to God and be forgiven : Hast thou wandered far away? Look to Christ, he is the way. Give me thy hand, my haughty brother, Wherefore dost thou turn away ? Pm a man, thou art another, What hast thou that Pve not, pray ? A crown ? Well, lust and pride make kings, God never made so useless things. . Give me thy hand, my weakly brother, Wherefore now thy sideward glance ? I'm a man, thou art another,— All the difference is a chance : Thy wealth is lent thee man to bless, And wilt thou use it to oppress 3 Give me thy hand, my learned brother, Wherefore turn thy eyes aside ? > Pm a man, thou art another, Is thy learning, then, thy pride? Soul-riches God has given to thee, For his poor children,—make them free. Give me thy hand, my toiling brother, Hard thy labor, hard thy band ; We are men that know each other, Heart to heart we'll ever stand : Manly is all useful labor, He who shirks it hates his neighbor. Give me thy hand, my faithful brother, Battling nobly for the right; We are men that know each other, And we'll lest the claims of night: Onward, then, my faithful brother, We are men that know each other. Now we'll join hands with one another,— Hard hands,soft hands,black hands,white, We're all men, we'll know each other, Let ns join for truth and right. God has made us all, my brother, Let us love and bless each other. Come and join, all, of all the nations; Christians, Heathens, Turks, and Jews : All conditions, ranks, and stations, 0 let not not a man refuse ! God loves each and all, my brother, Let us love and bless each other. to write the translation as it came from his mouth.’* In 1830 a large edition of the Book of Mormon was published.— It professes to be an abridgment of the records made by the prophet Mormon, of the people of the Nephites, and left to his son Moroni to finish. It is regarded by the Latter-day Saints with the same veneration as the New Testament is a- mong Chiistians. The Church of the Latter-day Saints was organized on the 6th of April, 1830, at Manchester, in Ontario County, New York. Its numbers at first were few, but they rapidly increased, and in 1833 removed to the State of Missouri, and ♦ purchased a large tract o f land in Jack- son County. Here their neighbors tarred and feathered some, killed others, and compelled the whole to remove. They then established themselves in Clay County, in the same State, but on the opposite side of the river. From this place again, in 1835, they removed east ward to the State of Ohio, settled at Kirtland, in Geauga County, about twenty miles from Cleveland, and began whom wars and perpetual hostilities arose. The Lamanites were idle hun ters, living in tents, eating raw flesh, and having only a girdle round their loins.-— The skin of Laman and his followers be came black ; while that of Nephi and his people, who tilled the land, retained its original whiteness. As with the Jews,the Nephites were successful when they were obedient to the law ; and, when they fell away to disobedience and wickedness, the Lamanites had the better, and put many to death. At the end of about four hundred years, a por tion of the righteous Nephites under Mosiah, having left their land, traveled far acoss the wilderness, and discovered the city of Zarahemla, which was peo pled by the descendants of a colony of Jews who had wandered from Jerusalem when King Zedekinh was carried away captive to Babylon, twelve years after the emigration of Lehi. But they were heathens, possessed no copy of the law, and had occupied their language. They received the Nephites warmly, however, learned their language, and gladly ac- to build a temple, upon which sixty- cepted the law of Moses. thousand dollars were expended. At Kirtland a bank was incorporated by Joe and his friends, property was bought with notes, and settled upon the Saints after which the bank failed—as many others did about the same time—and Ohio became too hot for the Mormons. Again, therefore, the Prophet, his apos tles, and a great body of the Saints, left their home and temple, went westward a second time to the State of Missorri, purchased a large tract of land in Cald well County, in Missouri, and built the city of the u Far West.’* Here difficul ties soon beset them, and in August, 1838, became so serious that the mili tary were called in ; and the Mormons were finally driven, unjustly, and op pressively, by force of arms, from the This occupies 158 pages. The his tory of the next two hundred years fol lows this new people, and that of oc casional converts from the Lamanites— called still by the general name of Neph ites in their struggles with the Lamah- ites, and the alternations of defeat and success which accompany disobedience or the contrary. This occupies several books, and brings us to the 486th page, and the period of the birth of Christ.— This event is signified to the people of Zarahemla by a great light, which made the night as light as mid-day. And thirty-three years after there was dark ness for three days, and thundering and earthquakes, and the destruction of cities and people. This was a sign of the crucifixion. Soon after this, Christ him- State of Missouri, and sought protec- self appears to this people of Zarahemla • , . . rt # . e » • . . . I* A * „ _ ... ...... .1. • 1 1 tion in the State of Illinois, on the east ern hank ofthe Mississippi. They were well received in this State, and after wandering for some time— while their leader, Joe Smith, was in jail—they bought a beautiful tract of land in H an cock County, and, in the spring of 1840, began to build the city and temple of Nauvoo. The Legislature of Illinois at first passed an act giving great, and pro bably, injudicious privileges to this city, which, in 1844, was already the largest in the State, and contained a population of about twenty thousand souls. The temple, too. was of great size and magni ficence—being 128 feet long and 77 feet high, and stood on an elevated situation,! F o r about 400 years, the Christian doc- from which it was visible to a distance From Harpers' Magazine. JOE SMITH AND THE MORMONS BY P R O F . JA M E S F . W . JO H N S T O N . of 25 or 30 miles. In the interior was an immense baptismal font, in imitation of the brazen sea of Solomon—*4 a stone reservoir, resting upon the backs of twelve oxen, also cut out of stone, and as largo oa lift?.” But persecution followed them to Illi nois, provoked in some degree, no doubt, by their own behavior, especially in making and carrying into effect city 'trine and church thus planted among the Nephites had various fortune ; increas- In the future history of mankind, if present appearances are to be trusted, ordinances, which were contrary to the the counties of Wayne and Ontario, N. laws of the State. The people of the Y., are likely to derive an interest and adjoining townships rose in arms, and J . R. JO H N S T O N , M a n u f a c tu r e r of Steam E n g in e s , B o ilers, Mil G e a rings, e tc., a t th e S e n e c a L a k e F o u n d r y W a ter s t r e e t , G e n e v a . 4 EDO-AS. H .H V & D , A ttorn e y an d C o u n s e llor a t L a w C o m m issioner o f Loan*, T a x A g e n t, and A g e n t for The OTereSineVe Fire Ininm a c c Corny«- •T of Buffalo. Capital, $100,000. The Former** loeorauce Com pa*y o f W eehiogtoo Co. The Illuteat L ife Ia«uraaee Company o f New Work, ♦am iliarly know n as ‘‘T h e M o r r is Robinson Co ” T h is C o m p a n y has a n e t accum u lated •'und of o v e r $ 1 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 . O F F I C E , N o r th side of S e n e c a S t . , near ? a r m s l k e ' s D rug Store. G e n e v a , N . Y. 1036 A CARD. DOCT. LOUIS DE V. WILDER, H o m eopathic Physician A Surgeon* O F F I C E at J . M . P A G E ’S, N o . 7, Seneca st.- Btesidence, c o r n e r of P u ltn e y & W illiam sts. G e n e v a , M a y 1 b L_1850. _________ 1009m 3 p d A. D. HOPPING & CO MANUFACTURERS OF m m a> <$> m s 8 A N D w h o l e s a l e d e a l e r s i n P a in t e d P a ils, W o o d an d W i l l o w W a re) Brushes) BASKETS, CORDAGE) A c . 214 W A S H I N G T O N ST ., Between Barclay and Veeey Ste. N e w Y o r k . ________________ ___ . ___ Washington Temperance House, G E N E V A , N. Y . O . E D M O N S T O N , W o u ld eay to th e form e r patrons of this p o p u lar H o u s e , w h ile u n d e r th e D irection of W m . L- P e a r c e , t h a t no pains w ill be spared on his parr, to m a k e it agreeable to them , and th e travelling Public. C a rriage alw ays retd y at all th e T rains, and Boat*, to carry Passengers and Baggage to and from th e H o u se F r e e of charge. 61 w m . n r T o w i t . MBSICA&TDITIOH. Mr. J . P . W IN D W I L L G IV E IN S T R U C T IO N S O N T H E O rgan, P ia n o Forte & M e lod e o n . M r . J . P. W . can refer to a n u m b e r o f his pupils w h o are now engaged as teachers and o r ganists in th is and th e adjoining States. T h o rough Bass. M o d u lation and C o m p o sition tau g h t practically in 20 lessons. T E R M S #10 and $15. 49 R e s i d e n c e —-P u l t n e y a t . , tw o d o o ts N o r t h o f W i l l i a m st. J. P . XV. w ill have a large aupply of M u sic for the Piano Forte, & c ., at the W a re-R o o m of B u s k , B u l k l e y & B e n n e t t . \ t e r r a j a p o n i c a . A C O N S T A N T supply of this superior article for importance, in the eyes of a numerous body of people, from a circumstance wholly unconnected either with their social progress, or with their natural productions or capabilities. In these counties lie thg scenes ofjhe early pas sages in the the life of Joe Smith, the founder of the sect of the Mormons. Born in December, 1805, in Sharon, Windsor County, State of Vermont, he removed with his father, about 1815, to a small farm in Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., and assisted him on the farm till were joined by numbers of the old ene mies of the Mormons from Missouri.— The militia were called o u t; and, to prevent further evils, Joe Smith and one of his brothers, with several other in fluential Saints, on an assurance of safe ty and protection from the Governor of the State, were induced to surrender themselves for trial in respect of the charges brought against them, and were conducted to prison. Here they were inconsiderately left, by the Governor, on the following day, under a guard of sev- 1856 He received little education, read pn or eight rnen. These were over- xs aa s i s r a sr <a indifferently, wrote and snelt badly,knew little of arithmetic, and, in all other branches o f learning he was, to the day of his death, exceedingly ignorant. His own account t>f his religious pro gress is, that as early as fifteen years of age he began to have serious ideas re garding the future state, that he got into occasional ecstasies, and that in 1823, during one of these ecstasies, he was visited by an angel, who told him that his sins were forgiven—that the time was at hand when the gospel in its full ness was to be preached to all nations— that the American Indians were a re mnant o f Israel, who, when they first emigrated to America, were an enlight ened people, possessing a knowledge of the true God, and enjoying his favor that the prophets and inspired writers among them had kept a history or record of their proceedings—that these records were safely deposited—and that, if faith ful, he was to be the favored instrument for bringing them to light. On the following day, according to in structions from the angel, he went to a hill which he calls Cumorah, in Palmyra township, Wayne County, and there in a stone chest, after a little digging, he saw the records ; but it was not till four years after, in September 1827,that “ the angel of the Lord delivered the records into his hands.” ti\-u These records were engraved on plates which had the appearance of gold, were seven by eight inches in size, and thinner than common tin, and were cov ered on both sides with Egyptian char acters, small and beautifully engraved. They were bound together in a volume like the leaves of a book, and were fas tened at one edge with three rings run ning through the whole. The volume was about six inches in thickness, bore many marks of antiquity, and part of it was sealed. Willi the records xvas found a curious instrument, called by the anci ents Urim and Thummim, which consist ed of two transparent atones, clear as co s tal, and set in two rims of a bow11— a pair of pebble spectacles, in other words, or 11 helps to read1’ unknown tongues. The report of his discovery having got abroad, his house was beset, he was mobbed, and his life was endangered by persons who wished to possess them selves o f the plates. He therefore pack ed up his goods, concealed the plates in a barrel of beans, and proceeded across e powered the same afternoon by an armed mob, who killed Joe Smith and his bro ther, and then made their escape. After this, the Mormons remained a short time longer in the Holy City ; but the wound was too deep seated to admit of perman ent quiet on either part, and they were at last driven out by force, and compel led to abandon or sacrifice their proper ty. Such as escaped this last persecu tion, aft6r traversing the boundless pra iries, the deserts ofthe Far W est, and the Rocky Mountains, appear at last to lieve found a resting-place near the Great Salt Lake in Oregon. They are increasing faster since this last catastro phe than ever; and are daily receiving large accessions of new members from Europe, especially from Great Britain. They form the nucleus ofthe new State of Utah, this year erected into a Terri tory of the United States, and likely, in the next session of Congress, to be ele vated to the dignity of an independent Slate. So rapidly has persecution helped on this offspring of ignorance,and tended to give a permanent establishment, and a bright future, to a system, not simply of pure invention, but of blasphemous im piety, and folly the most insane. The Book of Mormon, which is the written guide of this new sect, consists of a series of professedly historical books —a desultory and feeble imitation of the Jewish chronicles and prophetical books —in which, for the poetry and warnings of the ancient prophets, are substituted a succession of unconnnected rhapsodies and repetitions, such as mighi form the perorations of ranting addresses by a field preacher, to a very ignorant audi ence. The book, in the edition T possess, consists in ail of 634 pages, of which the first 580 contain the history of a fictitious personage called Lehi and that of his d e scendants for the space of a thousand years. This Lehi, a descendant o f Joseph the son of Jacob, with his family left Jerusa lem in the beginning of the reign uf Zedekiah, six hundred years before Christ,and, passing the Red Sea,journey ed eastward for eight years till they reached the shore of a wide sea. There they built a ship, and, embarking, were carried at length to the promised land, where they settled and multiplied. A- inong the sons of Lehi one was called Laman and another Nephi. The former was wicked, and a disbeliever in the in America, sepeats to them in long ad dresses the substance of bis numerous sayings and discourses, as recorded by the apostles ; chooses twelve to go forth and preach and baptize, and then disap pears. Or> occasion of a great baptizing by the apostles, however, he appears again; imparts the Holy Spirit to all, makes long discourses, and disappears. And, finally, to the apostles themselves he appears a third lime ; and adddresses them in ill-assorted extracts and para phrases of his New Testment sayings. The account of these virits of our Savior to the American Nephites, and of his sayings, occupies about 48 pages. i the country to the northern part of Pen- law of Mi ses and the prophets ; the lat- lAgether with a e*nemi assortment’ of D y e neyWatiia, near the Susqoehanneh river, ter, obedient and faithful, and a believer S taffs) D y e W o o d s , A c ia s , for where hts father-in-lawreaided. Here, in the coming of Christ. Under the sale by 1 \ ----- * - - - - *1 6 1950, N«pb’ ing at first, and prospering, but, as cor ruptions came in, encountering adversity. The Lamanites were still their fierce enemies ; and as wickedness and cor rupt doctrine began to prevail among the Christiana, the Lemanites gained more advantages. It would appear, from Joe Smith’s descriptions, that he means the war to have begun at the Isthmus of Darien—wheie the Nephites were set tled, and occupied the country to the north, while the Lamanites lived south of the isthmus. From the isthmus the Nephites were gradually driven toward the east, till finally, at the hill of Cum orah, near Palmyra, in Wayne County, western New York, the last battle was fought, in which, with the loss of 230,- 000 fighting men, the Nephites were exterminated! Among the very few survivors was Moroni the last of the scribes, who deposited in this hill the metal plates which the virtuous Joe Smith was selected to receive from the hands of the angel. This occupies to the 580th page. But now, in the Book of Ether, which follows, Joe becomes more bold, and goes back to the tower of Babel for a- nother tribe of fair people, whom he brings over and settles in America. At the confusion of the languages, Ether and his brethren journeyed to the great sea, and, after a sojourn of four years on the shore, built boats under the Divine direction, water-tight, and covered over like walnuts, with a bright stone, in each end to give light ! And when they had embarked in their tight boats, a strong wind arose, blowing toward the promis ed land, and for 344 days it blew them along the water, till they arrived safe at the shore. Here, like the sons of Lehi, they increased and prospered, and had kings and prophets and wars, ar.d were split into parties, who fought with each other. Finally, Shiz rose in rebellion against Coriantumr, the last king, and they fought with alternate success, till two millions of mighty men, with their wives and children, had been slain ! And, after this, all the people were gathered either on the one side or the other, and fought for many days, till only Coriantumr alone remained alive! This foolish history is written with the professedly religious purpose pi showing tlie punishment from the hand of God which wicked behavior certain- ly entails ; and, with some trifling mor alities of Moroni, completes the Book of Mormon. Joseph Smith does not affect in this gospel of his to bring in any new doc trine, or to supersede the Bible, but to restore 44 many plain and precious things which have been taken away from the first book by the abominable church, the the Mother of Harlots.” It is full of sillinesses, follies, and anachronisms; but I have not discovered, in my cursory review, any of the immoralities or posi live licentiousness which he himself practiced, directly inculcated. He teaches faith in Christ, human depravity, the power of the Holy Ghost, the doc trine ofthe Trinity, of the atonement, and of salvation only through Christ. He recommends the sacraments of bap tism and the Lord's Supper ; and what ever his own conduct and that of his people may he, certainly in his book propibils polygamy and priestcraft. The wickedness of his book consists in its being a lie from beginning to end, and of himself in being thioughout an impostor. Pretending to be a “ seer\ which, he says, is greater than a pro- phot—-he puts into the hands of his fol lowers a work of pure invention as a religious guide inspired by God, and which, among his followers, is td take the pleeti of the* Bible. Though an ignorant man, he was possessed of much shrewdness,. He courted persecution, though he hoped to profit, not to die by it. Unfortunately, his enemies, by their inconsiderate persecution, have made him a matyr for his opinions, and have given a stability to his sect which noth ing may now be able to shake. It was urged by Smith himself that the New World was as deserving of a direct reve lation as the Old ; and his disciples press upon their hearers that, as an American revelation, this system has peculiar claims upon their regard and acceptance. The feeling of nationality being thus connected with the new sect, weak- minded native-born Americans might be swayed by patriotic motives in connect ing themselves with it. But it is morti- fying to learn that most numerous acces sions are being made to the body in their new home by converts proceedidg from England. Under the name of the u Latterday Saints/* professing the doc trines of the gospel, the delusions of the system are hidden from the masses by the emissaries who have been dispatched into various countries to recruit their numbers among the ignorant and de voutly-inclined lovers of novelty. Who can tell what two centuries may do in the way of giving a historical position to this rising heresy t BENEDICT ARNOLD. BY OEOROE I.IPBARD. r There was a night, vvhen ah awful agony was parsing in thtf bfeast of Ar- ; the struggle between* Arnold's re- r e nold The Dying Wife to her Husband, n- \ v. •' - * ” ----- J he following most totfchfyrg fragment a letter J roihd dying wife to her hus - band, was found by him sinne months af- I ter her death, between the leaves of a religious volume which she \Vas very jfond of perusing. The letter, which TERMS OP ADVERTISING; << .. *« One square one week, 14 three 4( ** three m o n ths .« <i «« ' • $0,50 • 1,00 „ • • 3,00 »>< e • 5,00 one y e a r * - H a lfcoluinn one y e a r , * • 25 00 One «. .« «, . . 40*00 Business Cards inserted one year for 5,00 No advertisem ent w ill be charged less than one square, and all advertisem e n ts will be con. tinued until otherwise ordered N . B. A ll advertisements m u s t be brought in by Tuesday morning in o r d e r to secure an insertion the same week. Steeps for Indian Corn. Seed corn is sometimes soaked in warm water or some preparation for the purpose of promoting vegetation. Some preparations of a nauseous nature are used as steeps for corn to prevent its be ing eaten by vermin ; and some steeps are used with a view to increase the crop. * We have some wonderful stories about the crop being increased 25 per cent, just by the small amount of pre paration absotbed by the seed. There is but little advantage in soak ing corn or any other seed that vege tates readily, for. the purpose of forward ing the vegetative process. With hard seeds, like beets, carrot”, parsnips, &c., there is a great advantage in steeping the. seed. ; The statements, about raising much larger crops merely by steeping the seed in some fertilizing substance reminds us o of the intelligent servant of Lord Kaimes. His lordship remarked to his servant John, that he had no doubt that so great improvements would be made in agri culture that a man could carry in his vest pocket manure enough to dress an acre ot laud. To which John replied, u very likely, and I have no doubt that he could curry the crop in his pocket.” We have no doubt that there may sometimes be an advantage in using a nauseous steep to save the seed fiom <Je- p r e d a t i o n s . B u t w ill not the earth and sun extract the offensive substance ? T h e m a n y s*<»ooo »oo<t oorn haa B e e n destroyed t>y the use of powerful steeps ; therefore they should be used with great caution.— N. E . Farmer. To the Editors o f the Courier and Enquirer: Will you be kind enough to say in what part of the Bible the .exptession 14 he that runs may read,” used by Mr. Websterin his late speech, may be found, and oblige many readers as well as Yours, A. X. There is no such expression as 44 he that runs may read ” in the Bible, strange as the assertion may seem to those who hear it quoted almost daily and even in the pulpit, Mr. Webster is usually both unerring and judicious in his quotations from the Bible and Shak- speare ; but in this case he has fallen in to the common perversion of a line of the prop.htt-poet Habakkuk, who says that he received the command :—4< Write th? vision, and make it plain upon ta bles, that he may run that readeth it,” (Habak. ii , 2.) The sense of which, is, of course, not that he who runs may read, but that he may (or shall) run who reads. The very general misquotation and misapplication has arisen from the supposition that the command was,— that the vision should be written so plainly that a man might run while he read it, whereas the intention is evident ly that the startling revelation of the vis ion (the approaching invasion of the Chaldeans,) shall he made so apparent that he who reads shall hasten forward with the direful news. This is ievident in the construction, and is also shown by the context. 41 Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie ; though it tar ry wait for i t ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry .”— Courier Enquirer. S olar E clipse . —There will be a total eclipse of the sun on the 28th of July, and it will be one of the most im portant that will happen for many years. A writer in the Daily Advertiser thinks it will be one of the greatest inducements for travelers to visit Europe this sum mer, as the eclipse will be total in no part of the United States. The greatest ohscutation will be in Oregon and Cali fornia, where about five-sixths of the sun on the South side will be obscured. A nnual J ubliee of tub S ons of T em perance . —The filth National Jubilee of the 2$>ons of Temperance of North America will be held at Toronto, in Canada, on Wednesday, June 18th, and on that ocasion all the lines of steamboats upon Lake Ootario will re duce thir fairs to half-price. The An nual Session of the National Division of this Association will assemble in Convention at Toronto on Tuesday, June 17th,— T he D ifference . —The Broomer Cos tume is that worn by the lady who holds up a part of her skirt while she sweeps down the stairs with the rest. The Bloomer Costume is spelled with a different liquid , which has the effect of keeping it out of the liquid spilled on the stairs .— Boston Commonwealth. Ilo .iv to R e a d in n R a |I r o n d C u r . Hold a card or slip over the line below that which you are reading; the eye being free from the disturbance cansed by the mo tion of the train, you may then read wiih comfort, it is so! Many weary venge and Arnold’s pride You have all seen that bid house, in ' wa# literally dim with tear-marks, was Second near Walnut street, Pihiladephia; ' xvritten long before her husbiwl was a- once the house of Wm. Penn, once the , palace of Benedict Arnold, is now used ns the manufactory of Venus de Medicis and sugar candies. That old house, pic turesque in ruins, with batllemenied walls and deep gabled roof.-i One nif'ht a gorgeously furnished chamber in that house, was illumined by the glare of a bright wood fire. And there, with his hick to thfe*1 fire—and there, looking out upon the western sky gleaming in deep star light, stood Bene dict Arnold. One hand was laid upon his breast, which throbbed in long deep gasps; the'other held two letters. Read the superscription of these let ters, by the light of the stars; one is di rected to General Washington, the other to Sir Henry Clinton. One hand was laid upon his acceptance to the com mand of West Point, the other offers to sell West Point to the British. And now look at that massive face, quivering with revenge, pride and patri otism : look at that dark eye, gleaming with the horror of a lost soul—look at that bared throat, with the veins swell ing like cords! That is the struggle between Arnold the Patriot and Arnold the Traitor! And there far back in the room, half hidden among silken curtains, silent and thoughtful, sits a lovely woman, her hands clasped, her unbound hair sliow- erinir down over her shoulders, her large blue eyes glaring wildly upon the fire. Well may that bosom heave and that eye glare. For now the wife of Arnold is waiting for the determination of her husband’s fate ; now the darkest shadow is passing over the dial-plate of his destiny. While Arnold stands brooding there while his wife sits trembling by the fire—without, in the anti-chamber, three persons wait for him. One is a base-browed man. clad in the uniform of the Continentals. Turn that uniform and it is scarlet. That is a British spy. He is waiting to bear the letter to Sir Henry Clinton. . That handsome cavalier, dressed in the extreme of fishion, with embroidered coat, red-heeled shoes, and powdered hair, is a nobleman from France ; the embassador of the French king, the Chevalier de Luze.ne. He has come here to listen to the offer of Arnold, who wishes to enter the service of the French k i n g . The third—look 1 A silnnt. and moo- <1 ft dy red man of the forest; an Indian chief, wrapped up in his blanket, stand ing there proud as a king on his throne. He has come from the wilds of the forest in the far North-W est, tot. harken to the answer of Arnold—the\ “ Death- Eagle” as the Indians call him—to their proposition, by which they agree to make him chief of their tribes. Now look ! the door opens 2 the three enter ; Arnold turns and beholds them. Then occurs a hurried and terrible scene. While the wife of Arnold sits trem bling by the fire, lie advances and greets the Chevalier de Luzerne, (t Look ye !” he mutters in his quick tones, u your king can have my sword, but mark ! I am in debt, the mob hoot me in the streets, my creditors are clam orous— I must have money This bold tone of one used to com mand, little suits the polite embassador. u My king never buys soldiers !” he whispers, with a sneer; then bowing politely, he retires. Stung to the quick with this cool in sult, Arnold—turning his eyes away from the British spy—salutes the Indian* chief: hark ! they converse in the wild, musical Indian tongue. o 4< My brothers are willing to own the Death-Eagle as their chief,” exclaims the Indian ; u yet they are afraid he loves the pale faces too well ” Try my love for the pale, faces, muttered Arnold, with a look and a 1 * sneer that made even the red mau start. The chief resumes : u My brothers, who are many—they are as the leaves of the forest—my brothers, who sharpen their war-hatch ets for the scalp of the pale face, will ask the Death-Eagle to lead them on the towns of the pale faces, to burn, to kill, till not a single pale face is left in the land.” u T/y me!” was the hoarse response of Arnold, given with knit brow and clenched hand. 41 Then shall the Death-Eagle become the chief of the red man said the In dian—41 but his pale face squaw there; he must leave h e r ! She can never dwell in the tents of the red man ” Then it was that Arnold — who had embraced., with a gleam of savage de light, the proposition to become the chief of a murderous tribe of wild Indians— felt his heart grow cold ! Ah ! ho.w he loved that wife. Arnold, who, in his mad revenge, was willing 'o sweep the towns of the whites with torch and knife, quailed at the idea of leavin<z that fair young wife. “ The Death-Eagle cannot be your chief,” said he, as he turned from the Indian. The red man went from the room with a sneer on his dark face for the man who could not sacrifice his wife—the loved one of his heart—to that revenge xvhich was about to stamp his name with eternal infamy. 44 Now take this letter to Sir Henry Clinton,—mind !” gasped Arnold, plac ing the fatal letter in the hands of the British spy. And then Arnold and his wife were alone. 1 Then that wife, gazing on the noble countenance of her husband, now livid as ashes; gazing in that dark eye, noiv wild and rolling in its glance; gazing on that white lip, that now quivered like a dry* leaf; then that wife of Arnold . . trembled as she felt that ihe dread Ru- , (he form, size and the bindlhg. The bicon was po*se<J, that Arnold, the pa- time ts coming when they will take rank mot, was » bad ; ehe sat m the presence 0nd order according to their contents and ot Arnold, rijfE tr ArT°R T j intrinsic merit. ware that the grasp of a fatal dflse had fastened upon the lo'vefy\ form of his wife, who died at the eai ly age of nine teen 44 When thid shall reach your eye,- dear G- ■, some day wlVeh* y (Nr are turning over the relics of the past, 1 shall have passed away forever, and the cold white stone will be keeping its lonely watch over the lips you have of ten pressed, and the sod will be growing green that shall hide forever the dust of one who- has so often nestled close to your warm heart. For many long and sleepless nights, when all besides my thoughts was at rest, 1 have wrestled with the consciousnesa of approaching death, until at Uet it has forced itself upon my mind ; and although to you and to others it might now seem hut the n nervous imaginations of a girl, yet, dear G hours have 1 passed in the endeavor to reconcile myself to leave you, whom 1 love so well, and this bright world of sunshine and beauty ; and hard, indeed, 0 is to struggle on silently and alone in the sure conviction that I am about to leave all forever, and go down alone in to the dark valley ! 4 But I know in whom l have trusted,’ and leaning upon His arm, 4 fear no evil.” Don’t blame rne for keeping even all this from you. How could 1 subject you, of all others, to such sorrow as 1 feel at parting, when time will soon make it apparent to you f 1 could have wished to live, if only to be at your side when your time came, and pillowing your head upon my breast, wipe the death damps from your brow, and usher your departing spirit into its Maker’s presence, embalmed in wo man's holiest prayer. Yours is the priv ilege of watching, through long and dreary nights, for the spirit’s final flight, and of transferring my sinking head from your breast to my Savior’s bosom ! And you shall share my last thought; the last faint pressure of the band, and the last feeble kiss, shall be yours; and even when flesh and heart shall have failed me, my eye shall rest on yours until glazed by death ; and imr spirits shall hold one last fond communion, un til gently fadinj from view—the last of earth—you shall mingle with the first bright glimpses of the unfading glories of that better world, where partings are unknown. Well do 1 know the spot, dear G ------ , where you will lay me ; often have w#» *o/yv! Ly.ii»« pi •****, and as we watched tiie mellow sunset as itjglanced in quivering flashes through the leaves and burnished the grassy mounds around us with snipes of gold, each perhaps has thought that some day one of us would come alone , and which ever it might be, y< ur name would be on the stone. But we loved the spot; and I know you’ll love it none the less when you see the quiet sunlight linger and play among the grass that grows o- ver your Mary’s grave. 1 know you will go often alone there, when I am laid there, and my spirit will be with you then, and whisper among the wav ing branches, iIa m not lost , but gone be/ ore /’ ” The Forest of England. ’ * In this country our timber fnrest have been esteemed ot small value, and an in calculable amount of limber tiees have been wasted in years back. Giadualty, however, timber is glowing acarcer and more valuable, and before many years, the man who wishes to leave a fortune for bis children and grand childien, can do so in no surer w#ay than by plantin suitable land, at easily accessible points, with good timber trees. Sumo ot the largest fortunes of the English nobility have been realized from finest planted by their ancestors. A great deal has been written, by men Who knew'nothing about the matter, ii> relation to ihe parks and preserved forest.of the Brutish no bility, as if they occupied land merely for the pleasure of the rich, which ought lobe thrown open fur cultivation. In conversation with an intelligent.English man, aome time ago, we were assured by him that the country, as well as the owners of these valuable estut.s.owed a debt of gratitune to those who planted and ,fii>t preserved the grounds, In many cases lands which were of little value half a century ago, were enclosed, and planted with timber trees, and are now of inestimable value, yielding sbme of the finest timber in the world, and affording the richest grazing for cattle. The wealthiest of the nobility receive cattle into their enclosures lor pasture, and in many of these most valuable and beautiful enclosures, you w ill see all a- round the gates and on the outer row of trees, painted notices that a certiirn num ber of animals can be pasiuied un the ground. The immense commercial end naval marine of England, as well as its dense population, has rendered the timber of all kinds one of the most valuable pro ducts of the soil and it is preserved and watched as carefully as gold. 'The amount of timber alone consumed in England is estimated at Si 15,000,000 a year, about equal to the whole value of the foreign imports of the United States ; and of ibis amount the utmost efforts ofthe farmers and nubility is only able to supply about $80,000,000 of hdme grown, leaving $35,000,000 in value to be imported. Forty oaks are computed to an acre in these planted and preserved forests, which are appraised at $2200 on an average.—? Newbury port Herald. From Gilfitlan's Bnfdg o f thO M0SEP. Herder has not failed to notice the air of solitude which breathes about the poetry, as it did about the chai*acter of Muse's, tie was the loneliest of men ; lonely in his flight from Egypt, fofifefy while herding his flock in lh6‘ wilder ness, lonely while climbing Mount Sinai, lonely on the summit, and lonely when descending t'he sides of the hill—loriefy in his1 death, and lonely in his burial. Even while mingling with the multi tudes of Israely he remained secluded ami alone. DAVID. David’s genius reflects, of course, par* tially the phnsft* of his general charac ter. It is a high, bold energy, combin ing the fire of the warrior, and the finer enthusiasm ofthe lyric poet. This is its general tone, but it undergoes numerous modifications. At one lime it rises into a swell of grandeur in which the strings of his harp shiver as if a storm were the harper. Again, it sinks into a deep soli tary plaint, like the cry of a bittern in a lovely pool. At a third time it is a gush of joy—a mere smile ol devout gladness, transferred'to his strain. Again, it is a quick earnest cry for deliverance from present danger. SOLOMON. David was essentially a lyrical, Solo mon is a combination ot the didactive an d description poet. His fire, compared with David’s, is calm and glowing—a guarded furnace,not a flame tossed by the wind ; his flights are fewer, bui they are as lofty and more suetained. The fath er has written hymns which storm the feelings,melt thoheart, rouse the devotion of multitudes 7 the smi has painted still richer pictures,which touch the imaglna* lions of the solitary and the thoughtful.— The one though a great, can hardly be called a wise poet; the other was the poet sage of Israel—his imagination and intellect were equal, and they inter-pene trated. ISAIAH. Not merely does his mind overleap ages, and take up centuries as a tl little thing,” but his eye overleaps them too, and seems literally to see the word Cyrus inscribed on his banner, — the* river Euphrates turned aside—the cross and him who bore it. We have little doubt that many of his visions became objective, and£actually painted themselves to the prophet's eye. Would we had witnessed that awful eye, as it was piercing the depths of time, seeing the To Be glaring through the mist of lie Then ! CH R IST. The full snlution ofthe dread mystery of man and the world can be expected only from Christ. For why 3 H e alone aiidci ai<iuUo il . \\< s Yms pus&ed up every step of the ladder from the child to the God, from the manager fo- the throne.— He has felt the pulse of all being. Herod became grave in his presence, Pi late washed his hands from the shadow of his blond, Peter wept at his look and Judas died at his recollection.—- Angels ministered tu him, or sung hi» praise; the grave was ashamed of hid ing his dust ; earth threw his ransomed body up to heaven ; and Heaven sent forth all its guards and opened all its gales received him into its bosom. <r o 83P*The Bar is fast losing its attrac tion to the young, of this city. There are now thirty young gentlemen that have received liberal educations who are serv’ug their 11 time” as shipwrights, architects, Sec. In a few years the U. S. will have the most accomplished me chanics in the world. A new class fa springing up who will put the present race of mechanics in the shade. The ur.ion of a substantial education with mechanical skill will eflect this. Indeed, already we could name some mechanic# who are excellent mathematicians, ac quainted with French am! German, au.l able to study the books in those lan guages connected with their vocations. Heretofore fond fathers were wont to educate their sons doctors or lawyers, to ensure their respectability and success. The day is past. Mechanics wrli now supply the larger portion of the State and Federal Governments .— New York Mirror. T e m p e rance nuil Bcliglou. T h e redoubtable editor of the Knoxville Wfiig, better know n as Parson Srowirfow, th u s 'd isc o u r s e s upon this s u b j e c t ‘‘ T h e TeinpQLiince cause has ever had a close con nection w ith religion; and it is a cause in ti>e trium p h of which the’religions commu nity has ihe deepest interest. All the ojher vices erf the age put together have not rob bed the Church of so many talented and in fluential m eit a s the evil of intemperance. It is. then, the duty of the church, and of every friend of religion and humanity, lo unite in prom o ting the Temperance cause. T h e or ganization of the’ Sons, is now Ihe T e m p e r ance m o v e m e n t of the day ; and he w h o w o u ld favor The cause of TcmPrance st al!r roust favor the oiganization.” An ngent, soliciting subscribers for a book, showed the prospectus to a tnar>, who, after reading—4tone dollar iu board and, one dollar and twenty-five cents in sheep”—declined subscribing, as he might not have board or sheep on hand when called1 upon for payment, ■ - 1 EP*u Is your note good V’ asked a woodsman the other day, of a person who offered a note for a load of maple. lt Well,” replied the purchaser, 41I should think it ought to be—everybody's got one!” He who dreads giving tight to the people, is like a man who builds a house without windows, for fear of tight- Mr, Smith,” said a little fellow the other jevenfng to his sister's bean, “ 1 wish you would not praise our Anp Marie’s eyes any more. You’ve made ' her so proud now that she won’t speak to cousin Laura, nor help mother the le a s t b i t . ” * ' or a ru n g . In the Library o f the World men h o v e h i t h e r t o been ranged according to 6 ^ T h e E g y p t i a n s are h e g itm in to d e s t r o y th e pyram ids and a n c i e n t to m b s , for th e sak e o f b u ild in g m a - terials. K i l l e d .— A m a n on th e m a i l tr a i n ofthe R u t l a n d Sc Burlington R o a d He was drunk ,
