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I a a » J n >- r- re •r n r- d >© is d is *s u • te ?e ie PM )f D nn by a ii irt ed ir, J6* ;h at bJ re nts. »c« n t t res v e f P99 t in n t e nre in t rv e . i Y ne HTlI enti bnv di* irta liar if led been •tired i tip d on III A i tlil« uiila, i the and O. P lirVti s u e - :ion* [»aia# ters, ores Life i ap- oods, it his , and true- hild- for it uttble Xgent 005 CAN up in al re- uced. 1 most ly on traces iblity t w ill p ress EE. GENEVA COURIER, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING No. 39 Seneca. Street, Up-Stairs, b y C L E V E L A N D <fc L O O K . T B R i m S i To village subscribers who receive the pa pers by the carrier,$2,00. To mail subscribers, and 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. TERlHS OF ADVERTISING* CLEVELAND & LOOK, Proprietors. <sp3H®W ®3E®® ©3P S t - l I Y & C. CLEVELAND, Editor, DOCTOR. 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A traveler through a dusty road Strewed acorns on the le a ; And one took root, and sprouted up, And grew Into a tree. Love sought Us shade at evening time, To breathe Its early vows, And oge was pleased, In beats of noon, To bask beneath it boughs : The dormouse loved Its dangling twigs, The birds sweet music b o re; It stood a glory In Its place, A blessing evermore! A little spring had lost its Way Amid the giass and fern, A passing stranger scooped a well, Where weary men might turn; He walled It In, and hung w ith care, A ladle a i the brink— He thought not of the deed he did, But judged Unit toil might drink. He passed again—and lol the well, By summers never dried, tiad cooled ten thousand parching tongues, And saved a life beside ! A dreamer drop’d a random thought; T w e e old, and y e t twee new— A simple fancy of the brain, But strong in being true; It shone upon a genial mind, And l o ! Its light became A lamp o f life, a beacon ray, A monitory flame. The thought was small—its issue great— A watch-fire on the h ill: It sheds its radiance far adow n, And cheers the valley still! A nameless man. amid n crowd T h a t thronged the daily mart, Let fall a word of Hope and Leve, Unstudied, from the heart; A whisper on the tumult thrown- - A transitory breath— It raised a brother from the dust, It saved a soul from death. O germ! O font! O wor'd of love! O thought at random cast, Ye were but little at the first, But mighty at the lost! and treason not excepted, if tried by j seasons, has fallen on the mountains, to I mMUscrip^was written^y a M r . SpanlcU stnv o f fhft courts in s tituted n r nnthnr. I _ ^i* I : __ ~r ru.:« a _____ . r .» T n _i i any of the courts instituted or author ized by this Legislature. You melt off and raise the streams in the think me severe, or that I exaggerate; but it is the fact that men have been *y spring. The shallowness of the streams ing, of Ohio. A supplement to the Gold Bible, u. T he Book of Commandments,” in all probability was written by Higdon, and he may have been aided by Spauld ing’s manuscripts ; but the book itself is e , „ __ _ _ without doubt a production of the Smith where positive proof has existed of their expected from this country during the I family, aided by Oliver Cowdery, who will allow miners to explore places that have never been seen or searched be- permitted to escape punishment in cases fore. consequently, much gold m aybe having committed rape, robbery, and | preaent season, murder. W h a t people are safe under the guardianship of such law-makers and law-executors ? —This woful in* Yours, etc,, E . A. T o m p k in s . The Rochester American publishes was school teacher on Stafford street, an inmate of the Smith family, and identi fied with the whole matter. The pro duction, as all will conclude, who have read it, or even given it a cursory re view, is not that of an educated man or woman. The bungling attempt to coun- , Origin of the Mormon Imposture, security is the cause of so much lynch- \ ing and mobbing, without which rob bery, murder, and every other crime, Ith® following from a forthcoming work terfeit the style of~the Scriptures ; the by Mr. Turner, entitled a u History of intermixture of chronology and geogra- Phillip and Gorham’s Purchase.” Though not entirely new, it is succinct, would sweep over the country like a deluge. The laws are but little respect e d ; the officers are very seldom men in and communicates some facts coming whom the least confidence can be plac- with in the author’s personal knowledge; phy; its utter crudeness and baldness, as a whole, stamp its character, and clearly exhibits its vulgar origin. It is a strange ed:—consequently, physical force is the medley of scripture, romance, and bad composition. The primitive design of Mrs. Smith, As we are now at the home of the Smith family—in sight of “ Mormon only means we possess for maintaining I . • . • . ... . , ^ __ Q Hill”—a brief pioneer history will be her husband, Jo and Cowdery, was our rights. Just contemplate the prev- looked for of the strange, and singularly money-making,blended with which, per- alence of crime for a portion of tw o lsucceagfui religious sect—the Mormons;! haps, was a desire of notoriety, to be weeks past, in which lynching became and brief it must be, merely starting it I obtained by a cheat and fraud. The indispensable for the safety of the com-1 its career, and leaving it to their es-1 idea of being the founders of,a new sect pecial historian to trace them to Kirt-1 was an after thought, in which they were land, Nauvoo, Beaver Island, and Utah, or the Salt Lake. 1st. Two men murdered Mr. D I E T Z , B R O T H E R di. CO. 134 WILLIAM STREET, N e w Y o r k . MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY VARIETY OF L a m p s , C h a n d e l i e r s , G i r a n d o l e s , C a n d e l a b r a , G A S F I X T U R E S , &C. April, 1851. ______________________ 58m6 SILSBE, BULKLEY & BENNETT, Manufacturers of, and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CABINET WARE AND FURNITURE. W a r e R o o m s —41 S e n e c a s t., GENEVA, N . Y . 50 M ISS H E L E N JML CRAIVJE, INSTRUCTRESS ON THE PIANO FORTE, G e n e r a el., G-cnera, N. Y . 104 Iyi ~ C. S. A C K L E Y , S E N E C A S T R E E T . GENEVA, N. Y. 1037 For the Geneva Cornier. Letter from California. munity B abbitt , o f Calaveras Co., and robbed him of $300. 2nd. Two mule-stealers were lynched on Cache Creek, and duly Joseph Smith; the father of the proph et, Joseph Smith, Jr., was from the punished. 3rd. A ndrew S cott murder-1 Merrimack river, N . H. He first set- tied in or near Palmyra village, but as aided by others. The projectors of the humbug, being destitute of means for carrying out their plans, a victim was selected to obviate that difficulty. Martin Harris was a farmer of Palmyra, the owner of a good ed Mr. B aker his partner, and was duly Vu,,,yi v‘ ru,°,WUGr u .UI a SV™ r ’ J early as 1819 was the occupant ot some I farm, and an honest worthy citizen : but punished. 4th, J oseph M yrazo robbed | nAW i»mt nn Rtflflfhril-strAAi.’’ in tlm L a^ u i i „ Messrs. W illiams & M oore of a large amount of money, $1,600 of which was| Palmyra.” * Mormon Hill is near the] better ; a monomaniac, in fact. new land on <s Stafford-street,’’ in the I especially given to religious enthusiasm, town of Manchester, rear the lino of new creeds, the more extravagant the Joseph It may be safely presumed that in no other instance have prophets and the chosen and designated of angels, been quite as calculating and wordly as were those of Stafford street, Mormon Hill, and Palmyra. The only business con tract-veritable instrument in writing, that was ever executed by spiritual agents, has been preserved, and should be among the archives of the new state of Utah. It is signed by the prophet Joseph himself and witnessed by Oliver Cowdery, and secures to Martin Harris one-half of the proceeds of the sale of the Gold Bible until he was fully reim bursed in the sum of $2,500, the cost of printing. The after thought which had been alluded to—the enlarging of original in tentions—Was at the suggestion of S. Rigdon, of Ohio, who made his appear ance, and blended himself with the poor ly devised scheme of imposture, about the times the book was issued from the press. He unworthily bore the title of a Baptist elder, but had by some previous freak if the author is rightly informed, forfeited his standing with that respecta ble religious denomination. Designing, ambitious and dishonest, under the sem blance ofsanctity and assumed spiritual ity, he was just the man for the use of the Smith household and their half designing abettors ; and they were just the fit instruments he desired. He be came at once the Hamlet or more ap propriately perhaps, the Maw worn of the play. Under the auspices of Rigdon, a new America a t the World’s Fair, re-taken. 5th. M i l l e r , A l l e n and plank road about half way between the Smith, upon whom the mantle of pro- sect, the Mormons, was projected. Pro- tvt - - J <to villages of Palmyra and Manchester.— phecy had fallen after the sad fate of phecies fell thick and fast from the lips e * * * The elder Smith had been a Universalist, Alvah, began to make demonstrations.-— of Joseph ; old Mrs. Smith assumed all 000, and were pumshea. 6th. A drug- an{j subsequently a M ethodist; was a He informed Harris of the great dis- the airs of a mother, of a prophet; that good deal of a smatterer in scriptural knowledge, but the seed of revelation S U P E R I O R C H A I N P U M P , MANUFACTURED AND SoLl), WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, BY D. M A B I E , Opposite tUe Temperance House, CASTLE S T . , GENEVA, N. Y. 44\ D . T . CLEVELAND, F i r e , M a r i n e , L i f e , a n d H e a l t h INSURANCE AGEN T . ( office at th e c o u r ier o f f ice , south side SENECA STREET, NO. 39, UP STAIRS.) DR. J. s. STEVENS, Office with Dr. E. Barnes, East side Park Place, Main Street. Residence, Main Street, 2nd door above the Post O f f i c e . _________ d T o T c r a n e , M. D., Surgeon Dentist,—Office No. 28, Seneca street DR. W M .ltlM B E R , Physician and Surgeon—Office, five doors north of the Bank 48 ~~ GEO, P. MOvyRY, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, e tc., No. 1 0,Sen eca street. A. D. PLATT Wholesale and retail dealer in Drugs, Groce ries, Paints and Dyes, No. 8 Seneca street. H. PARMELEE, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs and Groceries. No. 24, Seneca st. C. WHEAT, Dealer in Fancy & Staple Dry Goods, No. 36 Seneca street, Geneva. COBB & SMITH, Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Carpet- ing, etc.—store a t No 23, Seneca street. H. H. & G. C. SEELYE, Fashionable Dry Goods, No 30, Seneca street. VROMAN BECKER, ’ Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Glass and Wooden Ware, Cutlery, Nails, etc.—Water, a little south of Tillman street. P. A. BRITTON & CO., Dealer in Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries. etc., «t No 16, Seneca street. M arysville , Y uba C o ., C al ., April 27, 1851. M r . E d ito r : — The daily occurreir ces of this far-off region afford almost innumerable themes of comment, many of which are of considerable importance to the public. I think I gave you some account of a decision of our Supreme Court, concerning land-titles perfected under the Mexican jurisdiction. You doubtless recollect that the amount of that decision was, that no title to land would be recognized as valid, unless ev ery step required by the old Mexican laws bad been taken. The result of this is, that many who supposed them selves rich in real estate, find themselves as poor as the humble squatter, because of the loose or remiss way of doing bu siness among the lazy Mexicans and la zier officers. Even the renowned Capt. S u t t e r is quite at the mercy of the commissioners who may be sent here to settle land-claims. Instead of being the possessor of a tract ot land 90 miles one way and 60 the other, he may find his claim cut down to a mere fraction of that vast farm, a great portion of which he has sold. And yet, though he con sidered himself possessed of that prince ly fortune, out of which he has enjoyed many hundred thousand dollars, he is thought to be perfectly insolvent. Capt. S u t t e r is not possessor o f the moral worth he has been credited with. The numerous farmers who have pur chased lands of him, are looking to the covery, and that it had been revealed to particular family of Smiths, were singled him that he (Harris) was a chosen in- out and became exalted above all their I f | had been sown on weak ground ; he was I strument to aid in the great work of sur- legion of namesakes. The bald clumsy a great babbler, credulous, not especial- prising the world with a new revelation, cheat found here and there an enthusiast, ly industrious, a money digger, prone to They had hit upon the right man. He a monomanial or knave, in and around al according to the usual mode of pro- the marvelous ; and, withal, a little mortgaged his fine farm to pay for print- its primitive locality, to help it upon its ____ j xi ____________ i j c . _i ______ ______ n j __x I • _____ . _ ______ ; a i _ i _ li _____ _ _ j I . P . i i r r . . j ______ 1 : 1 . . . . . . . store was entered and robbed by persons unknown. —Such is the daily account of crime that prevails among us. villains could succeed in obtaining a tri- ceedure, they would feel very confident given to difficulties with neighbors, and ing the book, assumed a grave, mysteri- of escaping punishment, though positive proof existed against them. Criminals petty law suits. Not a very propitious ous, and unearthly deportment, and made account of the father of a phrophet—the I here and there among his acquaintances, 1 u & . , , . I founder of a S tate; but there was a “ wo-1 eoleme annunciations of the great event J ^ • it i man in tne case. | that was transpiring. His version of the their deserts, if allowed a trial by law. Mrs. Smith was a woman of strong discovery, as communicated to him by A gentleman who went up in the uncultivated intellect ; artful and cub - the prophet Joseph himself, is well re- . • i* i ■ ■ * - -i.lmnw. imbued with an ill I mountains a few days ago, writes back as follows : <( I went to the Bute Moun tains, [ten miles distant] where we whip ped two men with fifty lashes each, with a five-tailed cat, for horse-stealing. I witnessed another scene. They ning; lmouea wim an m regulated religious enthusiasm. The incipent hints, the first givings out that a I closures, prophet was to spring from her humble ] lows : household, came from h e r ; and when membered by several respectable citizens of Palmyra, to whom he made early dis- It was in substance as fol- start; and soon, like another scheme of imposture, (that had a little of dignity and plausability in it,) it had its Hegira or flight to Kirkland, then to Nauvoo ; then to a short resting place in Missouri —and then on and over the Rocky Mountains to Utah or the Salt Lake*— Banks, printing offices, temples, cities and finally a state have arisen under its auspices. Convert have multiplied to tens of thousands. In several of the Well—we make but a sorry exhibition it is said at the World’s F a ir : and Mr. Riddle is here, trying to gather reinforce ments. We ought to be ashamed of our selves, that we have done no better.— We must take the lessons the London Times gives us with becoming meekness, learn to know our place, and lower our pretensions. There are, however, some things which an American may, perhaps he permitted to be proud of, which cannot be exhibited in the World’s Fair. We cannot put the Fourth of July into a glass case; We cannot show to Europe our millions of prosperous, intelligent people, cultivating their own soil, and enjoying their own sovereignly. That which is most distinctively American, Europe must come here to see. But, even in works of art and genius, we are not behind all the rest of the world, as the critics of the exhibition would make us think we arc. There ate a few little matters yet, which we will not be ashamed of, besides n cheap government, universal intelligence, free dom, and diffused prosperity. The most beautilul and perfect work of human art, as many think, is a ship. We believe it is generally conceded that there are no finer, fleeter or more beau tiful ships on the ocean, than the Ameri can. Our men of war are, at least, equ;tl to those of any European nation— our packet ships and clippers, are of con ceded superiority,.and have the prefer ence everywhere. Probably the grandest triumph of A- merican mechanism is the ocean steamer. The Pacific and Baltic, of the Collins line, have shown that they are net inter ior in speed to any afloat and the super iority of their accomodations is known to everybody. If a few ot our river steamers—-such as the New World, the Isaac Nowton, the Reindeer—-could be taken to London and had room to display their speed and beauty, they would attract attention and excite more astonishment than anything within the walls of the Crystal Palace. The old world has nothing like them : and they are no mean exponents of pro gress in civilization and art. Our railroads are, in some respects, inferior to those of England, and for manifest reasons. We have built them ever step is taken backward must bti taken soon. With the name of Liberty and Equality, the People soon learn to understand and appreciate its subsfaftct\ and when they do this, neither the divini ty of ancient lineage nor the prestige of a modern name, will be able to lead them from the holy faith of true republicanism, The next five years will decide the poli;l- cal character of France for centuries.—1 If, during that period, it holds fast to the name of a Republic, It will be sure to enjoy the substance . Our Life-Time matters was maturing for denouncement an angel where to find, by excavation, at The prophet Joseph was directed by countries of Europe there are preachers more rapidly—gone over more ground, . f . V I . . 1 A HF * ...a# 1. 1A AA.I m nHA AAAl I .. . m n t . the place afterwards called Mormon Hill, the gold plates ; and was compelled horse-stealers before spoken of, and took him to the bank of the river to she gave out that such and such ones caught one of the accomplices of the I always fixj°S UP°\ lhose who had both _ _ ° 1 money and credulity—were to be instru- by the angel, much against his will, to be meats in some great work ot new reve- the interpreter of the sacred record they ’ npL- _,J “ an was rather her contained, and publish it to the world. hang him. jumped into the stream. Twenty-five , . . _ .. , . , pistols were discharged without effect, intended, or des.gnated, by fires.de con- graved by Mormon, the son of Nephi. __ j l ______ t __ 7 saltations and solemn and mysterious That on the top of the box containing ... out-door hints, as the forthcoming pro- the plates, “ a pair of large spectacles, phet. The mother and the father said were found, the stones or glass set in H e made three leaps, and | faithful co-worker, or executive expo- That the plates contained a record o f the nent. T h e ir son, A lvah, w as originally ancient inhabitants o f this country, « en- and the man was about to escape, when the owner of the only rifle in the com pany observed, very coolly, that if the company wished, he could kill the man. He was ordered to fire. The ball en tered the back of the man’s head, and he was the chosen one ; but Alvah,how- which were opaque to all but the pro- ever spiritual he may have been, had a phel, that these belonged to Mormon, carnal appetite; ate too many green the engraver of the plates, and without turnips, sickened and died. Thus the them the plates could not be read.’’— world lost a prophet, and Mormonism a Harris assumed that himself and Cow- he sunk dead.” “ Three days ago, leader; the designs impiously and wick- dery were the chosen amanuenses, and while I was in the mountains, they edly attributed to Providence, were de- that the prophet Joseph, curtained from hung two Chinese for killing white peo- f<=?ted ; and all in consequence of a sur- the world and them with his spectacles, pie. Yesterday, another man was hung cackHng geese £f Rome> or any other committed to paper. lor murder, and a man flogged for steal- 8maR and iunocent causes of mighty Harris exhibited to an informant of ing money.” —Now, sir, I have reason events after this ? The mantle of the the author, the manuscript title page.— to believe th at not one of the above vil- prophet which Mrs. and Mr. Joseph On it was drawn, rudely and bunglingly, Smith and one Oliver Cowdery had wove concentric circles, between, above and lains would have been punished if tried by a legal tribunal. The witnesses a- gainst them would be from one to five I j r> and organized sects of Mormons ; be lievers in the divine mission of Joseph Smith & Co, And here the subject must be dis missed. If it has been treated lightly— with a seeming levity—it is because it will admit o f no other treatment. There is no dignity about the whole thing ; no thing to entitle it to mild treatment,-— It deserves none of the charity extended to ordinary religious fanaticism, for knavery and fraud has been with it in- cipiently and progressively. It has not the poor merit of ingenuity. Its success is a slur upon the age. Fanaticism pro moted it at first ; then ill advised per secution ; then the designs of dema gogues who wished to command the suf- fraged of its followers; until finally an American Congress has abetted the fraud and imposition by its acts, and we are to have a State in our proud Union—in this boasted era of light and knowledge— the very name of which will sanction and dignify the fraud and falsehood of Mormon Hill, the gold plates and the themselves—every thread of it—fell up- below which, were characters, with lit- spurious revelation. This much, at least, . . . . . . . rt ... I . 1 . 1 . . . . .. 1 . - I A 1 _ I. _ . T 1 1 _ .1 m . _ /* 1 A hundred miles off, on the day of trial; or, a few hundreds of dollars carefully distributed among judges, lawyers, and would make the matter all on their next eldest son Joseph Smith, | tie resemblance to letters, apparently a miserable imitation of hieroglyphics, the And a most unpromising recipient of writer may somewhere have seen. To such a trust was this same Joseph Smith, guard against profane curiosity, the pro- Ti* offarw a p fld << T a S m i t h TT a w o e rthpt hnrl oriv**n mifr th a t nA ntiA lint h i m - might have been omitted, out of decent respect to the moral and religious sense of the people of the old States. Jr., afterwards “ Jo Smith.” He was lounging, idle, (not to say vicious) and phet had given out that no one but him self, not even his chosen co-operators, U, S. government for the confirmation i jury-men of their claims, as much as to him. In-1 smooth, in the face of positive proof a-1 The author’s own recollections of him I of death. Harris had never seen t he possessed of less than ordinary intellect, must be permitted to see them on pain deed, hundreds have taken up farms, and began the improvement of them, within the territory claimed by the Cap tain, but perfectly regardless of his claim; and they, also, look to the U. S. government for the confirmation of their Q claims. The Legislature of this State is an other theme of unrestrained comment. gainst the guilty. Indeed, sheriffs and are distinct. H e used to come to the plates, but the glowing account of their constables are found to be movable by village of Palmyra, with little jags of massive richness excited other than gold. So much for crime and legal in- w°°d, from his back wood’s home ; some- spiritual hopes, and he, upon one occa- s ° tiroes patronizing a village grocery too sion, got a village silversmith to help him efficiency. <• . 1 .. ° A ° ° *« * * . __ . l ______i... _ _ t __ •_ The success of the miners is, perhaps, a little betler than during the winter.— They average from $5 to $12 per day the office o f the old Palmyra Register and utilitarian, that threw a shadow of rp, 63 • rt • v n „ in «’ for his father’s paper. \ .....: Those near or in Onion Valley, are in a ug yQung <t l , , - How impious in dare devils''^ to once and a doubt upon Martin’s sincerity. This, and some anticipations he indulged in as suffering condition, on account of the ] while blacken the face of the then med- to the profits that would arise from the DERBY, ORTON & CO., scarcity of food. The deep snow pre-1 dling, inquisitive lounger—but after-1 sale of the Gold Bible, made it then as wards prophet, with the old fashioned it is now, a mooted question whether he Those who set o u f on a prospecting | balls« when he used to put himself in the was altogether a dupe. r r 1 way of the working of the old Ramage The wife of Harris was a rank infidel press. The editor of the Cultivator at [and heretic, touching the whole thing, It is openly and daily charged by the public with idleness, imbecility, dishon-1 vents packers from getting to them esty, inconsistency,and base immorality. And how could anything else be expect-1 tour, are endangered by being lost in ed ? The mass of the people felt little the snow. Indeed, it is supposed that j Albany—esteemed as he may justly con-1 and decidedly opposed to her husband’s interest in political affairs ; and those | many have been lost. sider himself for his subsequent enter-1 participation in it. With sacrilegious i \ jo i , viwva w, x/v., possessed of the most impudence, and a I Those best qualified for judging, say I prise and usefulness—may think of it, hands she seized over a hundred of the Booksellers, Stationers, Bookbinders, etc., N [domineering disposition, were the surest I that the number of miners varies little I with contrition and repentance : that be | manuscript pages of the new revelation, 22 Seneca street. WILLIAM H. SMITH, tookseller, Stationer, Blank Book Manufacturer ind Binder. No. 3 L Seneca street. _____ . 4 WIGHT & CLARK, Fashionable Hat Store, No 11, Seneca street. J. R. JOHNSTON, Manufacturer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Mil Gearings, etc., at the Seneca Lake Foundry Water street, Geneva. 4 I A t t o r n e y a n d C o u n s e l l o r a t L a w Commissioner o f Loans, Tax Agent, and Agent for T h e VKerdamiit’ i F i r e In s u r a n c e C o m p a - »7 o f B u ffa lo . C a p ita l, $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . The F a r m e r ’s Insurance Com p any o f Washington Co. The mutual JLife Insurance Company of N e w York, familiarly known as ‘‘The Morris Robinson 3o.” This Company has a net accumulated ’‘und of o v e r $ 1 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 . OFFICE, N o r th ‘side of Seneca St., near ... , , , , ^ armelbe ’ s Drugstore. Geneva, N. Y. 1036 gam b ling, and debauchery. It w o u ld to succeed in obtaining office, over, these characters did not fail to do their utmost in playing into each other’s hands. As a general rule, idleness had rendered them quite unable to obtain the means of sustenance, and an empty purse coerced them to make the effort to become statesmen, or substitutes for such. The consequence was, that men capable of assuming any degree of con sequence, and having audacity enough to blazon their names before the public, became successful candidates for office. Men who at home would be spurned from all decent society, became conspic uous men of state here. Character, tlt i « a nftA once helped to disfigure the face of a and burned or secreted them. It was ore™ * ’ prophet, and remotely, the founder of a agreed by Smith and family, Cowdery Some do not make gtat6e 1 “ * age $5 per day. their board, while others make $10 or even $20 per d a y ; indeed, a few, per- But Joseph had a little ambition, and some very laudable haps one in a thousand, makes a speedy I mother’s intellect occasionally shone out fortune. - I n the account, you get | “ ^ / e !.b„ly.>„eT , l a llL from this country, you seldom obtain the true condition of the miners. A and Harris, not to transcribe these again, but to let so much of the new revelation aspirations; the [drop out, “ as the evil spirit would get up a story that the second translation did not agree with the first.” A very to help us to solve some portentous I ingenious method, surely, of guarding a- questions of moral or political ethics,in up gainst the possibility that Mrs. Harris on us in our juvenile debating club,which I had preserved the manuscript with which few obtain gold ; you hear of their sue-1 we moved down to the old red scholhouse they might be confronted, should they , and not o f the adverse condition on Durfee 6treet-» to Ket rid of the an- attempt an intimation of their own mi,- noyance of critics that used to drop in arable patchwork. the village; and subsequently, after| The prophet did not get his lesson cess of the many. If a miner succeeds in obtaining a large lump of gold, or speed- catching a spark of Methodism in the well upon the start, or the household of ily gets a quantity of the precious stuff, Camp meeting away down in the woods,] *1'\ r*“1e‘ A L\ it is blazoned forth in the public prints, on the Vienna road, he was a very pas- vastly exaggerated; and people are thus sa^Je oxorter in evening meetings moral worth, or capacity, were requi sites entirely supplanted by arrogance, ily gets a quantity of the precious stuff, | Camp meeting away down in the woods, the imposters were in fault After he had told his story, in his absence, the rest of the family made a new version of Legends of hidden treasure had long I it to one of their neighbors. They show- designated Mormon Hill as the reposi-[ed him such a pebble as may be any day picked up on the shore of Lake Ontario —the common horn blend—carefully made to believe that the mass of miners are doing likewise. In this way, thou- tory. Old Joseph had dug there, and sands are deluded and made to wander young Joseph had not only heard his A. D. H O P P IN G & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF 1 3 IB <D <D m AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN P a in t e d P a i l s , W o o d a n d W i l l o w W a r e , B r u shes, b a s k e t s , c o r d a g e , & c . 214 WASHINGTON ST., Between Barclay and Vesey Sts. g e w Y o r k . 64m6 Washington Temperance House, GENEVA, N. Y . O . EOMON9TON, astonish New Yorkers to behold the moral degredativn of this State Legis lature. The present code of laws, tho’ mostly copied from that of New York, is so mutilated to make it applicable to this State, that it could not fail to excite the derision even of the mock Legisla tures instituted by little school-children. Drinking, intriguing, “ log-rolling,” and prostitution, are the prominent charac teristics of the California Legislature. I verily believe, that, with $75,000 in I from place to place in search of new and better diggings. The are interested in keeping up this delu sion, for the purpose o f inducing miners to visit the region in which their goods are located. Many merchants have es tablished themselves on an unfrequented bar in some river, and then hired men to report the finding of “ new and better di father and mother relate the marvellous erchantal ta^es buried wealth, but had accom panied his father in the midnight delv- gings If the scheme is successful, wrapt in cotton and kept in a mysterious box. They said it was by looking at this stone, in a hat, the light excluded, ings, and incantations of the spirits that Joseph discovered the plates. This, the goods may be sold at an enormous profit. Many regions of the mining territory that guarded it. if a buried revelation was to be ex humed, how natural was it that the Smith family, with their credulity, and their assumed presentiment that a prophet was to come from their household, should be connected with it; and that Mormon Hill was the place where it would be found. It is believed by those who were best acquainted with the Smith family, and most conversant with all ihe Gold Bible W ould say to the former patrons of this , P°bket, 1 can g e t any k in d o f a la w nooular House, while under the Direction of passed that m a y su it th e purposes o f anv \YM. L- PEARCE, that no pa,ns w ill be spared o f toercenaLry on’his part, to make it agreeable to them, and ^ ^ ^ ^ — Public. 1 ’ have been dug over six times; and the j movements, that there is no foundation same sand and gravel will probably be puhHc j nave no Kina oi aouot, mat, with hnifi bui thCarriaffe* nfways reedy at nil the Trains, and ! llje ab0ve sum, any man can escape tho! St, W u , to carry P^sengers and^ Baggage to an^ I p unighment due for any offence, murder 1 also | d u g over by m a chinery. -—There was w ith h a lf i but little rain in many parts o f this State during all last w inter. T h e result - Here there author remembered lo have first seen the family, lu the winter of'lVand- *30.10 a rude log house, Willi but a email spot of umlerbrueli around U. Wm the House Free of charge t To foflon tho u»o of such on expression, the render •taouid bo rem inded that ap p r e n tice i„ prim ing nrtievH 1 . « 1 . bavo atneo tlie dove o f t-onst and G o tunberg.becu thus th a t l i t t l e s n o w , c o m p a r e d w ith O ther • Called, and sometimes It was not hioppropriatv. it will be observed, differs materially from Joseph’s story of the angel. It was the same stone that the Smiths had used in money digging, and in some pre tended discoveries of stolen property. Long before the Gold Bible demon stration, the Smith family hadT with some sinister object in view, whispered anoth er fraud in the ears of the credulous,—. They pretended that in digging for mon ey at Mormon Hill, they came across a chest three by two feet in size, coverd with a dark colored stone. In the centre of the stone was a white spot about the size of a sixpence. Enlarging, the spot increased to the size of o twenty-four pound shot, and then exploded with o terrible noise. T h o chest vam shed and , all was utter darkness. Fruits of Dissipation, In pronouncing death upon young Or- cutt for arson at Utica, the Judge said— u The history of this case shows that you have attained to a maturity in vice beyond your years, and your percocity in crime, and your coolness in its com mission, that your history the evening previous to the fire is but an epitome of the history of your life : that you have been in the habit of going night after night from one billiard saloon to another, and from billiard table to bowling alley, partaking of the dissipations of each, until all moral sensibility, and every right feeling had ceased to exist, consci ence had been seared, and every base passion had been stimulated and excited to the utmost. “ These places are the nurseries of crime, the very gates of perdition ; and from among those who habitually resort to them, our State prisons are filled, and the gallows claims its victims. By them your ruin for this world has been accom plished and sorrow and anguish unspeak able have been brought upon your family and friends. There are hundreds of others, the youth of our land, who are treading in your footsteps ; rapidly trav elling that downward road, the end of which you have so soon reached, who should be warned by your fate, and stop now while yet they may. May they learn that neither happiness or safety consist with a life of idleness and dissipa tion, and the way of the transgressor is hard, and that as they value their lives and their liberty, their interest for time and eternity, the peace and happiness of their friends, they should resist the first temptation to dissipation and to crime.” with dearer labor, and more costly mat erials. But it is well known that A- merican engineers and machinists lmvc competed successfully in Russia, Austria, and Belgium, in contracts for construct ing railroads and building locomotives A carriage is no mean affair as an in strument ot civilization. For ten years past, American carriages have been ex ported to various parts of Europe. WUh every disposition here to preter foreign articles to native, how acldom do we see an English or French pianoforte ! W e might increase the list, but it is sufficient. It is not to be pretended that we can compete with Europe in every thing. The time is distant we hope, when an American will exhibit a lace embroidered dress, valued at twenty-fivo thousand dollars—just the salary of an American President—^giving at thesame time, the pleasing information, that one embroidress worked on it for two years, and then entered an asylum for the blind ! On the whole, if the Fourth of July continues to come once a year, we think America may survive tho disgrace of her failure at the Great Exhibition.—Sun day Mercury . FROM THE GERMAN, When the world Was created, ami all creatures assembled fo have their life time appointed, the Ass first advanced* and asked how long he would have lu live. u Thirty years,” replied Kattite, #,wi!l that be agreeable to you “ Alas!” replied the Ass, 11 it is a long while I Remember what a weari some existence mine will be; from morn ing until night 1 shall have to bear heavy burdens, dragging corn-stalks to the mill, that others may eat bread, while I shall have no encouragement, nor he reftesh- ed with anything but blows and kicks.—• Give me but a portion of the time, I pray ?” Nature was moved with compassion, and preaented lo him but eighteen years< The Ass went away comforted and tho dog came forward. “ How long dost thou require to live!1* asked Nature; 11 thiily years were too many for the Ass, but wilt thou be coll* tented with them V’ 41 Is it thy will that 1 should I\ re plied the Dog, ‘‘think how much 1 shall have to run about, my feel will not last for so long a time; and, when I shall have lost my Voice for barking and my teeth for biting, what else shall 1 be fit for but to lie in a corner, and growl V ’ Nature thought he was right, anti gave him txvelvu years. The Apo then approached. u Thou wilt, doubtless, willingly live the thirty years,” said Nature; “ thou wilt not have to labor as the Ass and the Dog. Life will be pleasant to thee.17 “ Ah, no i” cried he, “ so it may man A State Convention of colored persons will be held at Indianapolis, la., on ihe 1st of Angust, to consult as to the propriety of emigration to Liberia, and to elect delegates to a national conven- o lion. 13F* IC. ndness, like the gentle breath of sprnigmelts the icy heart. N ewspapers . —Judge Longstreet says: ,(Small is the sum that is required to patronize a newspaper, and m- st amply remunerated is the patron. I care not how humble and unpretending the ga zette which he takes, it is next to im possible to fill a sheet fifty-two times a year without putting into it something that is worth the subscription price.— Every parent whose son is off to school should be supplied with a newspaper.— I well remember what a difference there was between those of my schoolmates who had, and those who had not, access to newspapers. Other things beinn Paris, Editorial Corree|>on(1ciic«; of lhe Evening Journal P a r i s , June 7, 1851. I have not been dissappointed in Pa ris. It is a magnificent city, with mag nificent Palaces, Parks and Monuments —with elegant Streets, Stoves and Cafes — with fine Hotels, grand Cathedrals, unique Amusements, a million of Inhab itants and an hundred thousand Troops. You can see more, live faster and gel disgusted sooner in Paris, than in any other city in the world. There is prob ably more vice in less offensive attire— more volatility and less substance^more in the head and less in the heavt--moro lo dazzle and less to esteem—than among any other million of mortals in all Christ endom. And yet Paris is a great c ity; great for the important position which it occupies in history; for its political a- chievements, tor its heroes, its staiesmen, patriots, its uiartyrs,its monsters its Chris tians, its infidels, its sclioolars ;—great for its early chivalry, for its Barthole- mew butcheries, for its vacilatiog policy, for its sacrifices for royalty, its hypocrisy its revolutions, and its present equivocal republicanism. It is great, too, for its anamolios. Its trees of Liberty ore planted and worshipped by tho. side uf prisons in which men are incarcerated for exercising the freedom of speech. It has a President who assumes the digni ty of a Monarch ; and a Legislative As sembly, chosen by tho People, whose chamber is infested, and whoso ante- chaubers, vestibules and porticoes are filled with armed soldiers. The Liberty” of which it boasts, consists in paying heavy taxes to sup-, port an extravagant government—in com pulsory obedience to laws that clash with the merest rudiments of democracy,and in being held in subjection by an over whelming standing army. Iis “ Equali ty” is no more apparent than in the days of Louis Phillippe; while its “ Fraterni ty” only serves to give euphony to a political catch-phrase as unreal as most seem to others, but it will not* be !—* Should puddings even rain down, I shall have no spoon ! I shall play merry dicks, and excite laughter by my grimaces, and then be rewarded with a sour apple.—• How often sorrow lie> concealed behind a j e s t ! I shall not be able to endure for thirty years !” Nature Was gracious, and he received but ten. At last came Mm, healihy and strong, and asked the measure of his days. “ Will thirty years content UieeP’ “ H o w short a tim e V1 exeVxthed — when 1 shall have built mv house, and kindled a fire on my own hearth—when life trees 1 have planted are aboutto bloom and bear fruit—when life will seem to me most desirable, l shall die! Oh, Nature! grant me a longer period !n “ Tlioushnlt have the eighteen years of the Ass besides.” “ That is not enough,” renlied Man. “ .Take likewise the twelve years of the Dog. ” “ it is not sufficient, ” reiterted man ; “ give me more ! ” “ I give thee then the ten years of the Ape; in vain wilt thou crave more. ” Man departed tins tisfied. Thus man lives seventy years. The first pass swifriy by ; he labors cheerful ly and rejoices in his existence. The eighteen years o f the Ass come next, and1 burden ia heaped upon him, lie carries the corn that is to feed others, and blows and kicks are the wages of his faith ful service. The twelve years of the Dog follow, and he loses his teeth and lies in a conu-r,rmd ‘jrovls. When these ore gone, the Ape’s ten years form the conclusion. Then man, weak and silly, becomes tho sport of children. A Cure for the CurculiOi For the past six years, we have been unablv, from half a dozen thrifty plum trees, to secure any perfect fruit, on ac count of that plague of plum trees, the curculio. Tho operations of this ihsetffl are pretty well understood. The insect itself is uf about the size of a common fly, and is armed with a book or tooth with which, doling the uarly stage of the fruit, it pierces the rind, depositing in the bole left by the puncture, an egg. The aemi-lunar scar left by the puncture is but loo familiar to all lrnit growers,— Most of the fruit thus wounded drops off before maiurity.and the e,rgwith it, and aficr wintering it hatches arid thus the destruction is annually repealed.’ Last Spring, fur the first time\ in six years, tho whole lut on vInch these trees stood was covered by a very heavy coat of hog, and horse manure’ at the period when all the trees were in blossom, and the present fact, is .that not a single sign of the curculio can be found upon tho trees. Wo have beaten the trees re peatedly, but have not been able to knock ioff one of tho insects, nnr havo we been :a!de to find ihe mark of the curculio'on a [single specimen uf fruit. Tire manure was applied without any reference to anything but curiching tho hind; and the destruction of thy curculio has followed, but whether as a conse quences we are of course unable, de finitely, to decide. IVe are of the opin* ion, however, that the chemical iogro* djentsof tois kind uf manure, applied) as it waa, when the trves were in blos som, had the effect to destroy the germs of these insects. In no other manner can we aconnt for their destruction, lor there has been no application to the land ' but the manure, and there has been no change in the land, it being all in lu'^ and having been for the past four years. We give these facts for what they aro worth a great deal; for some fruit grow- O ’ M • equal, the ‘ first were always decidedly I of the family of which it ia so c.,..s,,ic,.. , ers have beet, at the ex p e n s e uf pav,,,,; Aiinprinr to the last, in debate anti com -lous a member. Nevertheless, the last, i A eir plum orchards with brick, in order revolution was a slepforivard in the great to keep the peat from getting a lo’dge- march to real freedom . And while I tneut in the ground. The experiment superior to the last, in debate and com position at least. Tho reason is plain netvdoapeA^^story^of^urreni^venta,/have hut little faith either in tl,e repub. is worth trying, at least. It should pro- 1 K is a cu r io u s and interesting jlican character of the present govern- perly be stated here that in tho yards of as as w e ll as m iscellan y , and which youth will peruse |ment, or in the stability of the People our neighoors the curculio has been with delight when they will read noth- I who created it, enough has already tnins- destructive this year ns in yeara na f ing else.” I pired to justify the opinion that what- Springfield Republic an. 1 » e
