Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              THE PITTSTON GAZETTE aii muuou iiiffltitm joraui. » v;g a Wtfklij J5fni0|in)in---(®eiinttb to jfenra, lihrntatt, tjjt jfitrrontilf, Jtliiiing, Jiitrjjnnitnl, mtb %imlftirnl Sntrrrsta of tljt Ccuutct), Snstriirfinir, flninsrmtiif, h. )-®i| Txitjinrf fillip? VOLUME 1,-NUMBER 18. PITTSTON, PENNA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1850. .$2.00 PER ANNUM' fully and wonderfully made.' Yet each plant and spire of grass, each tree and fruit, each creature, every form of vegetable and animal life, is a growing nnd living miracle, no less wonderful than the frame of man. If he studies them all as living illustratrutions of scientific truths, and he delights at each new discovery of the capacity and properties of a plant or an animal, and cach new insight into the laws which regulate its propagation and perfect growth, then indeed will a farmer Income a philosopher and a man of science, and his life will be a ceaseless round of triumphant experiment and success.— From the most trifling act, to the performance of the highest duty of a noble calling, his life will be full of delightful satisfaction. The favorite domestic animal, which he has watched and fed from a nurstling, seems to lick his hand in gratitude, and almost eager to contribute to his support.— Look along that avenue of stately trees, groaning beneath an abundance of delicious fruit, or throwing a refreshing shade over the weary truveler. Hut yesterday it was a bundle of mere twigs, which ho providently brought home, grasped perhaps in a single hand. It may be that wide fields uround him have been transformed from the wilderness by his energy, and now blossom like the rose. No groans nor tears, no sinks of misery and crime, no squalid poverty are witnessed in Tiis daily walks, and in the performance of his daily duty. His mind need not be tortured with intense anxiety because struggling on the verge of commerciaW'iiin. Me runs less hazard of having his body racked with every disease to which muscle and nerve, and head and I stomach, arc liable. But 1 fear 1 am straying wide of. my object. I wished to show that the pursuits of a farmer may be rendered the most intensely interesting, the most noble, and the most engrossing to all the faculties, of both body and mind, of human occupations. As soon as it is made so, it will become the most profitable and thrifty also. What a farmer wills his life and profession to be, that will it prove. versa! benevolence, brotherhood and philanthropy—it is in our belief, simbly a wide utilitarionism. The only rim we trust of its advocates and organized representatives in every country, is to establish systems, of government which, by protecting all in their rights as men shall, so far as human institutions can do, ensure the performance of their duties as citizens. Instead of desiring to injure the rights of any, it tends to secure the rights of all. It is aguinst wrongs that it draws its sword, and is implacable. When, therefore, we hear this great outcry, we may depend upon it, it is rather a burst of prejudice and passion, than of suffering and injury. The simple solution of the matter is this and no more : the masses have found out their power ; their illusions have been dissipated ; their reverence for names, which are no longer sustained by realities, altogether changed into contempt and hatred. The many throughout the great continent of Europe have determined not to possess themselves of the rights, but to reconquer the usurpations of the few. Their first effort is apparently a failure; but it is simply the firDt throw of the earthquake—the first grumbling of the volcano. To-morrow, next month, or next year, or ten years hence— it matters little which, the grand eruption must and will take place. The few no longer really l«»el any contempt for the many. They have measured swords with them, and sorrowfully admit their skill and strength. Terror, thinly cloaked beneath this outcry of conservatism, has taken possession of their bosoms. They wish to preserve the lion's share, but have lost lion's strength. The herdsnnn have banded themselves together, and come out with rude but formidable weapons against the king of the forest and all other kings. The lion turns at bay for a moment, but his majesty perccivcs the potency of thfc pitch-lurk, and lashing himself with unavailing fury, slowly retires from his prey. It is rather ridiculous to hear this cry of conservatism reechoed on this side the Atlantic. In the name of all human rights at once what have the European nations to conserve 1 Are abuses and wrongs to be held sacred because they have the rime of age upon their heads 1 Where is it in that old world that the few have not helped themselves to whatever pleased them ? And because they have taken with the strong hand what a stronger hand is now about to reconquer, aro they wronged 1 Every government iu Europe has been founded in fraud, and consolidated by usurpation. This Progress, then, is not only the cause of the people—it is the cause of justice. Many prophets have arisen in these latter days, the burden of whose lamentation is the evil tendency of modern Progress. They go about the streets weeping for the destruction which shall come upon the world if it continues to invade and trample on the conservative priiiciplcs of monarchical and aristocratic privilege. Certainly this kind of preaceing, whether on the other side of the water boldly put forth, or on this side gently and softly whispered, proves two things—that lying prophets did not disappear with the termination of the Hebrew Theocracy, nor speaking asses with Balaam. Contrary to much modern practice, however, Balaam's ass spoke the truth. plied with fury's arms, with the destroying rage called military ambition, with the lust of deminlon and its dismal progeny, whose procession is closed with the despot and his bloody sword. same year, they saw the first man, Professor Orson Pratt, entered this valley. OrD the 23d of July the first camp moved into • and halted at what now is called the centre of the city. In the afternoon of the same day they had three ploughs and one harrow at work. The Hon. Joseph R. Williams has recently delivered an address before the Michigan State Agricultural Society, at Ann Arbor, which is distinguished by the soundness of its views no less than by the perspicuity with which they are advanced. Wo sincerely wish that we could afford room, consistently with our engagements, for the whole of this sterling production ; but being unable to do so, wc present to our readers an extract from it, devoted to a consideration of the farmer's calling. It is as follows: A farmer'* Life. perity, and honor. With it, we have enjoyed the fullest measure ofthe blessings of independence and freedom. By it, we ara the heirs of the fame of our uncestors, which equally encircles us all, and partake of the common glory of being the country, men of those who earned unfading renown. Union is connected with every eventful period in our history—it is inscribed upon every glorious achievement in our annals —-it is the very condition of our existence as a nation—it is the condition upon which we hold whatever we venerate in the past, whatever we enjoy in the present, and whatever we hope in the future for ourselves and our children. Union is our country We have never known another. Without it, the vision of patriotism cannot endure the contemplation of such a scene, but turns from it with dismay and horror— without it, we may have a spot to live upon, a place to breathe in, comforts perhaps even greater thon we deserve, but we cannot have that countiy which has been the object of our affection and respect —that glorious country which our fathers redeemed from bondage and raised up to the admiration of the world—that country by which W6 are associated with the heroes and sages of the Revolution, and are enabled to say that we are the countrymen of Washington ond Franklin—that country which mako us partakers of the favors and blessings vouchsafed to her in such rich abundanco by a gracious Providence in the times that arc past. We may have another—but never, never, never, such a one is God in his goodness has given us in the day of our futhers. tpaw3ir©Ei PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY «. ffl. Rlchart ft H. 8. Phillips. Wat side of Main Street, sceond Story of the " Long Store " of Winter if- Wood. " Brother will be seen fighting against brother, nnd father against son, all wounding the bosom of their parent country, and with every blow striking down her constitution, her laws, and her freedom. The "Gazette" is published every Friday, at Two , Dollars per annum. Two Dollars and Fifty Cents will be charged if not paid within the At two o'clock P. M. of the same day they commenced building Ihc first dam or irrigation. The next day, Saturday, the-24th, they planted fivo acres of potatoes. On the 28th of the same month, what they style the quorum of tho Twelve Apostles assembled and laid off a city as follows: Blocks of ten acres eaeh*jeight lots to tha block, an acre and a quarter in each lot; the streets eight rods wide, the side-walks, twenty feet wide; the side-walks to be beautifully shaded; the blocks to be surrounded by a purling brook, issuing from the mountains; every house to be built twenty feet from the front fence. No two houses front each other; standing in his own door, every man may not look into his neighbor's door, but into his neighbor's garden. They have four public squares, which are hereafter to be adorned with trees from the four quarters of the globe, and supplied with fouutains of water. year. Nit popcr will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Advertisements are inserted conspicuously at Onf. Doli.*R per square of fourteen lines for three insertions; and Twenty-pivk Cents ad• ilitional for every subsequent insertion. A liberal deduction lo those who advertise for six "Our part is clear. Union is our country, and wc are on the side of our country, her constitution, her authorities, and her laws. Within the temple of Union are the graves of our ancestors. We will not consent that the glorious fabric shall be torn down—we cannot consent that graves of our fathers shall be divided. Not let us supplicate the continued protection of Ileaven with a devout and earnest spirit, and let our prayers be that our descendants, to the remotest posterity, may be able together to make this pilgrimage in peace, as we have this day done, to the tombs of the departed patriots, and find them still united in one country, and in one Union, watched over, and guarded, and reverenced by one people. God in his mercy forbid that more should be required of us. But if the extremity must come, the voice from the tombs will be with us —That Union is our country." months or the whole year. Work.—Wc have connected with our establishment a well selected assortment of Jou Type, which will enable us to execute, in the neatest •tvle. every variety of printing, licing practical printers ourselves, wc can afford to Jo work on as reasonable terms as any other office in the county. All letters and communications addressed to the Uazitt* must be post paid, and endorsed by a responsible name, to receive attention. The bcsl faculties of men must be devoted to the farmer's pursuits ; the best intellect must be engaged in if ; and the farmer's life must be a field wide and extractive enough for the engrossment and developementof every human faculty, or error, or ignorance and thriftleMness, will not be exploded, and the culling will not secure the elevated position it deserves. Happily a rapid change is perceptible. The first are no longer sought with so much avidity, the last no longer shunned. A wise man should never encourage his children to assume the duties, vexations, and hazards of precarious and unhealthy pursuits, no matter how dazzling the prospect, how brilliant the prize. There is a higher object than wealth to be guined—sound sleep and sound health; a higher object than personal distinction—a composed conscience. In times past there seems tohavc beea a kind of infatuation among the farming community ill regard to evasion of their honorable calling. Thirty years ago a father was prone to act w ith his children as though ho himself followed a degraded calling. lie seemed to deem professional or mercantile life the only road to high respectability, or social and official distinction. The Webstcrs, and Wrights, and Fillinores, were not retained to enoble their own, but crowded off to illustrate und adorn some other profession. It has somewhat mended of late. The public mind has liecome more sound. It bids fair to become perfectly sound. It certainly will, if men will speak the truth, and hear the truth, and practice on its precepts. The world will never regard the farmer's calling as tlie most honorable till it is so cherished by himself. In public estimation a pursuit is appreciated at the value placed upon it by those who follow it. Turn back, then, the tide of public sentiment among the agricultural population. The sturdy sense of many a sturdy farmer pierces the gauze delusions thrown around the fanciful and frivolous life of the townsman. In the expression of his judgement sound, he yet practically may have sought ull his life to make his children the very butterflies he detests. If lie would have his occupation take rank as the most respected and most dignified among men, he must not himself act as though he regarded it as a dull and stupid cxeroise of human powers. I know not so small a farm, so limited a garden, that may not engross ull a man's faculties and consume all his leisure. The time may be distant when each farmer may bo a geologist, a naturalist, a chemist, but the time has already arrived when the application of science to agriculture is producing a peaceful, certain, nnd gigantic revolution, elevating tho calling, multiplying its results, increasing its comforts, and promoting a higher civilization of the race. (Original  LINES Written on re-visitihg the Grave of my Father, For the Huston Gazette, BV ALT All ATA. Too early lost—tho' vanish'd from mine eye, His memory—his example cannot die; His virtues were his greatest wealth below, But riches could not. what they did bestow— An ever peaceful and contented mind, In trials firm, 'midst ills severe rcsign'd, Modest, yet manly ; gentle, but not weal'; Winning esteem lie did not basely seik, The right pursuing wilh a fix'd intent, And like the strong anil patient oiilt, unbe nt, In all the storms that tried his faith to shake, Whil st ever doing good for giDodnC ss sake, Preferring worth, tho' humble its estate, Is all the rank and honors of the great, And lowly independence prizing more, Than ull the gems the richest slave e'er wore. On the temple square they intend to have a garden that will coat at least 8100,000 at tjje commencement. Their missionaries have already made arrangements in tho Eastern States, in Great Britain, Fiance, Italy, Denmark, the Germanic States, and in the Island* of the sea, to gather the choice est seeds and fruits, and everything that can beautify and adorn the garden. At first the cily was laid oft' to contain one hundred and thirty-five blocks. Sinoe then an addition of sixty-five blocks has been made on the east, and sixty on the the west. They have laid off one milo square on the east of tho city for a Univer. sity. It will not be two years until next October since the first house was built in tliisoity, and it now numbers nine thousand.' They already have convenient houses built of dolies—dried brick—and most of the luxuries of life. They cxpect an emigration of at least 10,000 of their own people But few persons are aware of (he philosophical fact that our senses do not all drop asleep at the same time. The sense of sight is the first to succumb to tho enchanter's wand. Persons may be hearing words spoken in their presence, and yet be so tar asleep as to dream they are hearing them elsewhere. Individuals who are so unlucky or so criminal as to fall asleep in sermon time, continue afterwards to hear the words of the preacher, and only find themselves asleep by tho start that awakens them. When the senses of taste and smell sleep we do not know. It would be hardly possible to try experiments with the first j and as far as experiments have been made with the second, there are doubts whether it sleeps at all. In trying such experiments, pungent applications to the nose would not be allowable as a test, their direct action on the nerves might aroOse at once. The sense of hearing, probably, follows that of sight. Where there has been much to agitate the mind, and a desire to keep awake, at night, to listen for supposed danger, it is believed that hearing then docs not sleep, but keeps a rather indistinct and uncertain guard over its possessor. The sense of touch, and that which Dr. Brown proposes to add, arising from muscular resistance, are tho last to give in their adhesion to the reigning pow. er, and it is only when every sense is lapped in oblivion that (he sleep becomes sweet and refreshing. The sense of touch differs from muscular action. The former takes cognizance directly of difference of temperature, of the different degrees of roughness or smoothness on the surface of bodies, and indirectly of form ; the latter, of hardness and of angular or spherical 'figures. The sense of muscular resistance is going to sleep when the head nods, the hands 6lide down, the knees fail. It is probable that horses and some other animals are habituated never to allow this sense to sleep, and hence can sleep standing. What actual comfortable* rest can be obtained is a question. The whole subject is well illustrated by the experience of the mother in the care of her infant child. The eyes close and open and close again. If the song of the mother ceases, the start of the little slumberer shows that the sense of hearing was not asleep. But the time soon comes when ttiut sense too is steeped in oblivion and the notes ot the mother stop without waking the child. But if the protecting hand be even then removed that lay across tho breast of the sleeping infant, a start of wakefulness shows that the sense of touch was still waking and watchful, and the whole process must be renewed. Soon, however, the sense sleeps, the hand is removed, and the mother rises from the*cradle under the idea that the task is finished, but the cessation of the rocking of its cradle is felt by the '• muscular resistance," and the child again starts but a renewal of motion brings on that deep, death-1 ike sleep, in which the child may be removed without danger of arousing it. SLEEP. These virtues were to me his last bequest— Oh ! mav they ever dwell within my breast, And as } prize his memory, may 1 there The living image of my father liear. Hut hard the trials worth must long sustain, lis labors many—small its present gain; Vetliave I lioine them, and resign d, will bear, Tho' weak thro' sickness and exhausting cure. I sometimes droop, and feel the lixul too great, ileaven give me firmness to endure my fate! " That such a representative body was assembled as the one our thoughts have been directed to, must be ascribed to the character of the people by whom they were selected. Wisdom and virtue in the representative, where the choice is free, are an argument of wisdom and virtue in those by \yhom he is chosen." Father! assist thv son, if spirits may, t)n earthly errands, leave the realms of day, Or, from the brightness of their higher sphere, Watch o'er their mortal children wandering here Thro' darkest shades, ulong their doubtful way, " Huppy, indeed, must they be esteemed, whesc fortunute lot it is to act in times when 0110 great overruling purpose governs all desires, and that ono purpose such as justice and patriotism can warmly espouse. Happier still are they who are enabled to accomplish what justice and patriotism command them to undertake. Happiest of all, when this successful purpose, looking beyond the generation which affects it, seems to And its chief inducement in the accumulated of blessings for So oft misled by passion's meteor ray. Oh! guide to thy place of heavenly rest, Where my soul, mingling with the pure and blest from all earth's low, degrading passions free, Shall dwell forevermore, with iliwu and thee! A Thrilling Scene. TJic ligcr scene described below occur cd at Toronto a few days since :— this year. Pittston, Nov. 1 H'O The only method of cultivation is by irrigation , from what they call "City Creek." Just as this creek opens into the valley from the snow-capped mountains it di." vides into two main branches, which after, wards subdivide. This water, from the mountains to tho temple block, has an average fall of nine inches in a rod for a distance of more than ten miles, with a greater fall the further, you advance into the mountains. At one mile and a third from the cily is a warm sulphur spring, which possesses great cleansing and purifying properties, and which, it is affirmed cures most diseases of this climate. About a mile and a half further is a hot sulphur spring. On the south side of the valley is a hot spring of pure water. The water of this spring is twenty-nine feet and threo inches deep. " An afTuir occurred at our exhibition Tuesday last, of the most" intensely exciting and terrific description, nnd which, but for the intrepidity, daring and presence of mind of Van Amburg, would have resulted in the horrible death of our old friend, Signor Hydralgo. The circumstances were as follows: Night comes down over a'ship at sea, and a passenger lingers hour after hour, done on the deck. The waters plunge and welter, and glide away beneath the koul. Abuve, the' sails tower up in the darkness, almost to the sky, and their shadows fall a burthen on the deck below. Science. future ages." " It is well for us to dwell, and to dwell, frequently and earnestly, upon all that belongs to that period—to study it, to fill our minds and our hearts with it, not as a theme of discourso and panegyric merely, but as a living principle of action, a deep and fixed' instruction, something entering our very organization, and made a part of our nature so as to determine instinctively all our conduct in relation to our country. Nothing else tvill secure to us the continuance of the blessings we enjoy. Without it, tlio forms of free govercnient may be but a dead letter." In the clouded night, no star is seen, and, as the ship changes her course, the passenger knows not which way is hast or West, North or South. What island, what sunken rocks may be on her course, or where they are he knows not, All around, to him is mystery. He bows his head in submission of utter ignorance. " At about nine o'clock, Ilydralgo went into a cage in which had been placed our largest Panther, the Bengal Tiger, the African-Lioness, the spotted Leopard, a Caugar, and the Hyena. The exhibition proceeded, and Ilydralgo seemed to have the animals completely under his control, and the audience seemed to be delihgted and interested at the daring of the ' tamer.' Hut men of science have read the laws of the sky. And the next day this passenger beholds tho captain looking at a clock, and w ith the aid of a couple of books, composed of rules and mathematical tables, making calculations. And when he has completed them he is able to point almost within a hand's breadth to the place at which, after unnumbered windings, he has arrived in the midst of the sea. " The performance had progressed very nearly to its close, when from some unaccountable cause, the tiger became sulky, and refused to leap. D He struck him with a whip, which so enraged the furious beast, that breaking through all discipline, and with one bound and a yell of fury that terrified the audience, he rushed upon Hydralgo, and brought him to the floor of the cnge.-He could do nothing-he had lost all control over the brute.—Everything was in confusion, women fainted, others screamed in terror, children cried, and the men seemed paralyzed. It would have been all up with poor II. had not Van Amburg, who was on the other side of the arena, rushed to the spot, in • an instant he was in the cage, and in less time than it takes me to write it, he had the enraged animal under his feet in perfect subjection, and released his friend from his perilous position, fortunately more frightened than hurt. Van Amburg's presence of mind, his courage and intrepidity are deserving of all praise, which he received in three hearty cheers from tho audience. For the time it lasted, about two or three minutes, it was the most exciting scene ever witnessed." The city is located about twenty-two miles south-east of the great Salt Lake. The Lake is considered more saline thaij the ocean, three gallons of the water mak, ing one gallon of the purest, whitost, and finest salt. The valley is about thirty miles by twenty-two, joining to a valley of about fifty miles by eight in width. From the centre north to the south these two vaL leys are studded with settlers, numbering from fifteen to twenty thousand.— The Lieutenant-Engineer, Mr. Gunnison, estimates those valleys as capable of supporting a population of from one and a halt to two millions. " Our greatest danger may perhaps be found to lie in what would to be our chief happiness. Our ancestors had to struggle with adversity. We are to guard against the seductions of prosperity, an enemy not less to be dreaded. It blinds and lulls us with a false security, and thus enfeebles and unnerves us, until, at last, nothing is desired but ease. It is not in the order of Providence that blessings should be secured or preserved without exertion or watchfulness." Storms may have beat, and currents drifted, but he knows where they are, and the precise point, where, a hundred leagues over the water, lies his native shore. Here is reason appreciating and making use of the revelations of science. " A farmer should not consider it a presumption, but a duty, to gladden his home with all true, and genial, and intrinsically valuable comforts, that shed a glow and attractiveness aiflund the private home of the citizen. He can make it more inviting. There are few comforts and appliances about the home of a townsman which a countryman cannot enjoy. There are a thousand pleasures around a country residence which all the capital ofa city cannot buy. A fanner surveys from his window with unalloyed delight the field now groaniug by superior cultivation, under twice the crop of previous years. While he gains it, the world gains it. it is so much added to production. But multiplied and dubious are the ways in which a townsman mokes his gains. Sometimes 'tis the pound of flesh. Sometimes 'tis extortion. Sometimes a double value is given to the raw material, but oftoner his gain is loss to another. To say the least the townsman is sometimes exposed to inevitable necessities of expediency and dishonor. From such necessities the farmer can, if he will, always be free. John Sergeant, in his Eulogy upon Charles Carroll of Carrollton, delivered at the request of our City Councils in 1833, said some things about the origin and importance of our Union which should be repeated at this time, and disseminated throughout the land. We find the following passages noted in our printed copy of that eulogium, at the time as of surpassing eloquence. THE UNION. Night again shuts down over the waste of waves, and the passenger beholds a single seamen stand at the wheel and watch hour after hour, as it vibratos beneath a lamp, a little needle, which points ever, as it were a living finger, to a steady pole. " The path of duty is plain beforo us— we have more than a single star to guid e our foot-steps—we have a brilliant constellation, set in the political firmament on the 4th of July, 1776, and all over resplendent with the light of Union. That is the light which embraces us all, and belongs to us all, and exhibits us the world as the " One People," who declared themselves an independent nation. That it may be resolved into its elements, and these be hurled in mad confusion against each other, destroying and destroyed, until chaotio darkness become again, is as truo as that Heaven for our sins may withdraw from us protection and support, and leave us to our own blind weakness. But that man can do this, and not be an enemy to his country, is as difficult to conceive as that he can do it and not undo the work of the Revolution—as that he can do it and not destroy our hopes, and bring upon us a train of dire affliction and calamnity, of which the child unborn is to taste the bitterness. If blood be shed again, except under the flag of the Union, it can nover be mingled with that fllood which consecrated our land when men marched to battle with Washington to lead them. It will not produoe the same fruits. Armed men will grow up out of this peaceful soil—not such met) as put on armor to establish the Union, the independence, and the freedom of their country, and laid it down when her liberties were scoured—but men isup- On the south of this valley lie the Utah valley and lake about fifty miles from this city. The name of their city is Provo, on the south side of the Provo river. The lake is pure water, eight miles by  abounding with fish. About one hundred miles south of this they have established a settlement of about one hundred and fifty families. This valley is called San Pete. Mere there are many ruins covcred with hieroglyphics. One place in particular is called by tho Indians " God's temple."— Here also many remains of ancient pottery, both glazed and unglazed, are found in great abundance; and here, also, jn a mountain of pure rock suit is an abundance of bituminous coal. This man knows nothing of the rules of navigation, nothing of the course of the sky. But reason and experience have given him iaiih in the laws that control her course, faith in the unerfing integrity of the little guide before him. And so, without a single doubt, he steers his ship on, according to a prescribed direction, through night and the waves. " Where dwelt that informed and assured spirit, which, leading an infant nation, never hesitated, and yet never erred— which in that face of difficulty and danger, through a new and tried path, always advanced, and yet never missed its course ; which, by intrepid perseverance, accomplished its glorious purpose, so fully, bo widely, and so- well, that its friends had nothing to desire, and its enemies nothing And that fslith is not disappointed! With the morning sun, he beholds far away the summits of the grey and misty headlands, rising like a cloud in the horizon, and as he nears them, the hills appear, and the lighthouse at the entrance of the harbor, the spires and the churches and the shining roofs, a sight of joy, and he tries to detect his own dwelling. Push On with the Advanced. We hear ou all sides the cry that the world is going too fast—thut the tendency of the age is to destroy all, and build nothing ; that the cry of " Progress " is a cloak to cover designs the most pernicious ; purposes destructive of whatever is stable in government, or conservative in society. We think these gentleman are too soon alarmed. The object of their terror appears to us to want those giant proportions, and that capacity and disposition to evil which they are so ready to attribute it. Wo take it that this progresive movement which is now going on everywhere, which is now agitating the whole civilized world, „ is nothing more than a struggle for simple natural rights long withheld, but impossible to be destroyed or altered in their character. We take it to be nothing more, 1 this Frogress, than another name for uni- to censure." " The common characteristic of the Congress of 1770 is pure public  striking feature of its measures is mature During five months, of the year there can bo no communication with the northeast, or west, the mountains being rendered impassable by the snow. This city is ait. uated about forty and a half degrees north latitude, und one hundred and eleven de« grces longitude west ofUreenwich. wisdom." It is probable, that when our senses are all closed to external impressions that dreams do not take place, and that the character of our dreams mnv depend upon what senses are then watchful. " Union, as well as Independence and Freedom, is the birth right of every child born in these United States. He is born to the inheritance of a nation's glory, to the enjoyment of a nation's protection and power, to the high privilege of a nation's name, to something to love and to honour, to a country upon which he can proudly fix his affections, in whose prosperity he can rejoice, towards which he can direct his eyes when abroad, and to whose avenging power he can appeal when mcnaced with insult or daifiger." " God made the country, man made the city." Just so superior as God's works are to man's works just so far superior are the studies of the country to the studies of the town. If you look upon the rich and gorgeous developernent of nature from spring to fall, from the tiny germ to the abundant crop, with no more delight than on piles of stone, and brick, and mortar, then your life everywhere will be desultory, hard, and dull. When he gazed upon the miracle of his own frame, in awe and admiration; David exclaimed : ' J am fear- /D Smart Boy—A youngster who had eohunenced the study of natural philosophy, was one day asked to mention the properties of heat, to which he replied— Correspondence of the Western Christian Advocate The productiveness of the so-', js aatw}. jailing. We are here in the midst af«heir harVP8,, and never have we seen such » heat. U e will you one out of many authentic accounts. M. Holllday, fmm the south of this place, raised upwards of one hundred and cightv-flve lunheU 0f wheat from one bushel" of the seed, and throe hundred bushel* of r^4toe# one bush*| yf the The Oreat Salt Lake City. Early in April, 1847, one hundred and forty-three men, two women and two children started out as pioneers from Council Bluffs, Iowa. These Mormons ma tie an entire tie w road on the north side of Platte, crossing Elk-liorn to Fort Laramie ; they then took the Oregon trail to the Rocky Mountains. On 'he of July oft/in " The chief property of heat is that it expands bodies, while cold contracts them." " Very good. Can you give give me a familiar example 1" " Yes, sir. In summer, when it is hot, the day in long; while in winter, when ih* day i* col'l, it bftotrieK short: " In Unkm wc have found safety, pros