iiifiil PUBLISHED WEEKLY.). A FAMILY PAPER DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MINING, AND NEWS. PRICE $2 PER YEAR In Advance. RUFUS M. HERRON, Publisher. ROBERT P. WAftlMG, Editor itor. 1 tfsjSj VOL. 3. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1854. NO. 15. I SBosintw .Cnrta, &r. s. r. WARIHC, .Wormy at .rnr, OJSce in honcrgaiCs Brick Uuilditig. 2nd floor. ; n a k i. ott , If. :. ELMS At JOHNSON. Forwarding and f omnii-sion Merchants. NO. lo VENDUE RANGE, CHAKLBSTUH S. C. W. W. ELMS. C. JOHNSON. June 23, '51. 48lf. K. HAMILTON. K. M. OATKS. HAMILTON & OATES, COMMISSI! JH E RI B A TS, Corner of Hi ,. 'son aud fjtiurrl Stints, COLUMBIA, S. & J inc 9 1851 ly tk.iio' sr. N. AVKK1I.I. T. VH.MIOIM . A to., FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, ivo. 2 Jlui'ic Street, CHARLESTON S. C. liKKKK TO Hand, Williams & Wi.'rox, I ... . ' . Pulin, Charleston, S. - .1. K. Harrison Ik Co. Wiliiams, Dixon isc Co., $ Char'otte, N. ('. l. I handler, C liatanooa An;. 1 1 , '' I fim RHETT X FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, As. 1 mi' 2 Atlantic Wliit, , CHARLESTON, S. ('. !"' Liberal advancs aia':e nn Consignment. I (" S;o-i i! att-iiticiii ifivcii to the sale ( FLair, tun, v e . anl from o r 1 mg eapvrieMea in tin; business, we eel emtfiJent f iriviu;j s.ui.-luc'ioH. March 17, 1851. 34 -lj Dry Goods in Charleston, So. Ca. ivroirn.xs or dry (.'Oops, N..s. CDS ami 31 I K i nr street, corner of .Market Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. 11 i nt it ion Woolens, Blankets, &.C., CaflMHiagfl anil c.iri.iin MaterUK. SMkk and Rich Drees Good, Cloaks, M inlillis and Shawls. Tcraa Cash. One Priet Only. March 17. 1854 3 1 ly RAMSEY'S PIANO STORE. MUSIC A.l .Ml SICAL INSTRUMENTS. N U H N S & CO.'S Patent Ptagoaal Grand I'lAKOSj Hallet Davis i C'o.'s Put Mit Satpcniton Bridge PI AM OS ; t( kicker lags, Trtrei s" ami other best aaakera' Piano-,, at Ike Kartory Prices. Columbia, S. C, Sept. 23. 1353. 10-1 y BY JENNINGS B . KERR. 4 ha riot te, J. January 28, 9Sit WINDOW SHADES, Paper 3E3CaxxsiriSJS, AT GREAT P. IRGAlNS. III-'. Mihsrrihcr lias in store, ot his own aaamsfacfare MhI imoort.itioi: e-norn.i.ns s-t -k of WH T SHADES, Oitl "omii es, Paper Hanging, M it i ;;sses. Satin I), laim-, Dantaakr, Lace and IUulin Cnil..ins, Tassels, Luana, Ar. All oT wliii li are- otl'i r-cl at priees thai ara aail I tiall d by all r lose buyers ami ee-oiionucal laaacdwi j rs. 11. IV. KINSMAN, 177 King st. Mar24,51 ly Charleaton, S. C. 4 Mini.;;; MacldHCi y. ((ORNISH PU MPs, Lifting and Forcing, Cornish Crushers, Stamps, Steam Engine, and general Mining arork, made by the nukscribers at short notice. LANG. (') K ev ' ()., Hodson Machine Works, Refer to Hudson, N. V. Jas. J. Hodge, Esq., New-Tork. jn is .! s-, 1 "-y Xon istt Pi I Allows, vi : Tuk Co::msii Pi ariKj Rii.xE, nigh and low pressure Paaaping, Maanping and Hoisting Stkaii Km.im.s; Coi:msii i mi s, Sn.vrs, CarsatEKS, W Means, 1ki Blocks, Pi llsvssI ali si.e. and every variety of Mnckiaerj tor Mining purposes. THOMAS, CORSON eV WEST. jnne 3, 1 1 1-7-1 y MEDICAL NOTICE. "I vll. P. C OA IDWELL kaa assoeiated his son. Dr. 1 ) JUSBPH W. CAI.HWi:i,l wiib kin in the Prac tice oi Medicine. Oiln.'e, Sad story in Kims' new brick boildiag, m ar the Courthouse. March 24", 1854. S3 tf N. n. All persons indebted to ino by accounts arc rvijucstiti to settle the: same at an early day. Mar 24 P. C. CALl)vVELL. The American Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C BEG to announce t m v friends, the public, and pros tut patrons of the above Hotel, that 1 bavalaascd the s line tor a t'-rin ol years Ironi use 1st el Janu iry next. After which time, the entire property will be thorough ly rep:"cd and renovated, and the honsc kept in first Class Mjrle. Tins Hotel is near the Depot, : nd pleasant ly ituat.-d, rendering it a djsirable house for travellers u id famines. Dec 16, 1S53. 221 C. M. RAY. MARC a Ac sharp, AUCTIONEERS ano COMMISSION MERCHANTS, COI-I-MCIA, s. c, TTI LL attend to the sale of all kinds of Merchandise, Y Produce, &c. Also, Real and Personal Property. Or parchase ami sell Slaves, Ace., on Commission. S.vi.ks R iom-No. 1-2 I Uuhardsou street, and imme diately opposite the United States Hotel. Feb 3, lS'il vnos. oaacn. j.m.e.shakt. Livery and Sales Stable, BY 8. II. REA, VT the aland formerly occupied by R. Morrison, in Charlotte. Horses fed, hired and sold, tlood ac cotatataoatiiMts for Drovers. The custom of his friends aad the public generally solicited. Febrmry 17, 1854. 30-y 3STotico S hereby jjiven that, application v.'.'. he made to the next General Assembly of North Carolina nt its n xt cssion, to amend fhr C barter of the town ofCharlolte. Aor?5, 185 l .MANY TAX PAYERS. From the Home Journal. RopoiiililitR's of American Women. Tlio sjiring-iime of the Old World has passed, and we look not now over ihe eastern waters for the dawn of new hopes, hold aspirations and bright schemes, bespeaking a wealth of prosperi ty, for the summer has rested upon tho wide fields of its clussical and political art, and the golden sheaves have been garnered for the threshing floor. Life and aspiration have departed from I he mar hfe fines of (ireece ; and the expectations of the world hare lung been withdrawn Ironi its crumb ling shrines. Rome, with her proud brow crush- ! N to the dust, and the foot of tyranny upot; her neck, cannot elat.n the tribute, bidding us hope lur the day when Liberty, clad in spotless robes, i shall hallow the shade of her time-wrapped Coli seum, and make again the "city of seven hills" the proud Mistress of the World. The day ol ibeir glory balb long gone by, and she rehearsal ol their greatness of the victories of their Alex ander, and the royal pride of their Caesars is fading away in the dim recesses of the past But ihe world must have its hope and a bright .spot upon which it may rest. Though the star ray be feeble, and broken off by clouds, yet if it giveth but a promise ol better things to be, naught can break the prayerful gaze of millions. One deep and earnest longing arises now from the hearts of the world's noble brotherhood the fra ternal band, who whether they be Jew or Greek, Protestant or Roman, can unite their voices in a grand diapason ol harmony calling upon the Cod of their fathers for their sacred boon of lib erty. Monnrchv r.nd despotism have o-rown seed: their tr asured crowns rest uneasilv upon their brows, and alien they chance to fall, what faithful i-Lit d have they to replace them ? Well may America be proud cf tho hope that are centered upon her youthful endeavors and al most untried skill. Well may she foretell a fu ture's rosy dawn, glad with the fulfilment of gold en expectations, prosperous in the unceasing wealth In r industrious band bath planted; When the nations of the Old World shall turn from the grand architecture that piks in sublirni'y their cathedrals against the sky : from their sculpture, lilts-like with impassione d thought ; their glowing canvass, their libraries of ancient wealth, and their moss-roofed cities, to gather from the fresh and-brilliant stores that decorate and enlighten the wild Uauty of her clime. Nor does &he depend for tho fulfilment of her aspirations upon the brightness of her dream, the flattering hopes of those foreign to her aid, or even upon those illustrious sons who lived and died in her interest. These mav cheer and make the labor seem more light ; but her destiny rests with fearful weight upon the characters ol the ; greal men of the present and future day, Win n we say it rests upon the character nf the leading minds that govern us, how quick is the pi rception of the true heart of our prosperity, tho garden that nourishes the tree we love. American daughters have the keeping of this sa- 1 crsd hope, and it depends upon their watchful care aud interest, a bother it shall live or not. Can our Republic anticipate an era of sterling' intellectuality, polttieal wisdom and true morality, if the preceding generations are nearly devoid of any one germ of these virtues (Jan we expect 1 another V ashington in the ripened manhood of one whoso youth was debased by dissipation, cor- rapted by unrestrained vice, and unpurified by lhe holy influence of a home and mother? Can Liberty hope for peers with her Jefferson, Adams, and other li'xe glorious minds, whose hallowed light si. II lingers a hies ed memory, if anion- lhe j mothers of her sons there are none with hearts of sufficient purity, and minds of true womanly ' mould, to abandon forever their fashionable in- activity, and stupid life routine, and labor firmly , i i,i it.. .. , i ir r i i , 1 nnd ho(ji for luc brilliancy of her destiny ! i .... ' ' rhe pulpit, lhe platform, or the statesman's desk do not cntl I on woman now ; but a voice is . constantly re vioraling Irom neglected fire sides, ; l-l I . . fl L'.int? II .. . ...'. .1.11. 1 . I n t . . . . linn, ii j.iii.-., i in i ii le --) uiiuiiieis, - give US, rmuners ana wives, tne aours iodgave ye loronr devotion, and which ye spend so lavishly upon the ftiOtsy webs of literature, and the frivolous pur sues ol fashion ! Smile around your own hearth stones, and they will give back a blessing, and not the curse that follows with a blight ihe simper of the gay !" Decs w -man wish to guide tho helm of Stale, to purify iis laws and elevate its aims ? Does she- wi-h to restrain tin- frightful march of intern pe ranee, the increase of immorality, and the vice that strains with indelible dyes the hearts of our youth' Cod bii ss her pray er, and every effort j she may advance; but let her not forget that in no station, nor any place, can she exert the pow ft and influence greater than that within the cir cle of her homo. When we say that American women ore un- j mindful of the important station they (ill, and lhat their habits ol life, instead of having an ennoblino- influence upon their posterity, possess rather a ! corrupt and vitiating tendency, we do not include those Hue hearts who are striving, both in public and in private, for the e!vationof their sex; but the general inas of our sisterhood whose en leebled minds are too much absorbed in triflin" vanities, to devote one thought or exertion towards the accomplishment ol a blessed duty, or even the guardianship of their own children. Can a woman I wtiom vj..a limn given sons ana anugnters, with hearts and minds capable of becoming a blessing to lhe age in which they live, and a glorious ex ample for generations yet to come, fulfil her trust by making her off-springs the automata of fnsh- ionable life ? Can we expect tr.- find a true moth- i er s heart, superior intellect and a purifying in lluence, in her w ho, with wealth at her command. ! and neolected objects awaiting its disposal, will flitter away the short time of her existence at fashionable watering-places, during lhe summer, enervating her already broken constitution, as a ' preparation tot the winter's festivities ? Can we expect to find in her sons men of expanded minds, and wise judgment, guided by hearts so honest nnd noble that the nation will submit to ilwdr gui j- ! ance, nnd treasure their memories with lhat of1 Washington ? Can a mother hope all this of a son whose unrestrained youth is devoted to the sporting of fast horses, giving champagne suppers, I and drinking and gaming half lbs night? And; y-tf, where docs Uc responsibility res: : The daughters of these pleasure-seeking and fashionable. aspiring women, what has Liberty to hope from them? Poor bullerflies ! Blighted apples on dwarfed trees! Little souls plum ed over with mannerism, affections and fooleries, shedding just light enough to draw the moths! minds of sufficient airy roominess to shelter the sentimental fiction of the day, and hearts so hu milit v-clad that they aim no higher than ribands and beaux ! And yet, how great the hope that America place upon them ! These are lo be come the mothers of the nexl generation shed ding an everlasting influence upon posterity ! These are to become the wives of those that form the strength of our Republic, and th' ir union shall either facilitate or retard our ptogress. America's hope is centred around her flro-sides, and her destiny depends upon the influence ihey j emit. 1 he eloquence ol statesmen mav re-vibrate through the land pulpits may send forth their appeals of trulb and tenderness science may labor and bestow her undying tribute, and art may petrify her dreams yet the garland will fade from Liberty's brow, and disappointed millions send up their cry of despair, if woman's heart refuse an interest in the work. Let our daughters be educatcrJ for lhe sta,ioa of rruo and noble wo. men ; let them learn to discard the soul-wasting vanities of the day, and enrich their minds, and so purify their influence that it shall be their last ing monument lor long ages lo come. Teach them 6o to labor that ''generations yet to bo" shall look back and call them blessed, and hallow their memories as the lives of those who placed the brightest and the purest star on Liberty's brow. ''. pin to day, nor end til! evil sink In in its due grave ; and if at once wc may not Declare the greatness of the work we plan, lie sure, at Jcust, that ever in our eyes It stand complete before us, csa dome Of light beyond this gloom ; a house of stars, Encompassing these dusky tents ; a thing Absolute, close to ill, though seldom seen, Near as our hearts, and perfect as the heavens. He this our aim arid model, and our hands Shall net wax faint until the work is done." Jenny Marsh. Darnnna's Speccli on aTumbtcs. Delivered at Stamford, on (he occasion of the Ag ricultural l utr, Fairfield County. It scerns to be a most unfortunate circumstance that 1 should be selected to speak on humbug, as looking on the ladies, whose profession if pecu liarly fits, 1 find it hard to express myself in their presence. Everything is humbug ; the whole .State is humbug, except our Agricultural Society that alone is not. Humbug is generally defined, "deceit or impo sition." A burglar w ho breaks into your house. forf! " !' ''hcn'S OU "'" -VOUr ProPerty. or rascal, is not a humbug; a humbug is an impos ter; but in my opinion the true meaning of Hum bug is management t.ict, to take an old truth and put it in an attractive form. Hut no humbug is great without truth, at the bottom. The woolly horse was a reality. lie was really born with a woolly coat. 1 brought him in Cincinnati for $500, ami sent him on to Connecticut, Out for a long time I doubted what I should do with him, and leared that he would die on my bands. Just at this limn, in 1849, Col. Fremont and his party were reported to have been lost among iho Rocky Mountains. The public were greatly excited, but shortly news came lhat he was safe. Now came the chance for the woolly horse. It was duly announced, that after three days chase upon the borders of the River Gila, an ani mal had been captured by the quartermaster of Col. Freemont's party, who partook in a singular ,,,, "!uuri m mu ou(,,,lllJ' pe ana CBme'; . 1 St'-V WnS s? 'ar ,ruo ? 1 m'fsU tbf HnuMmt woo captured him, and 1 ch.a a for tho sight. 1 he picture ufSh!l! ,,,c exhibition depicted the animal as jumping- over a ledge of rocks : now i the animal i , 1 ., , ,fa , - , , bad really leaped, os shown in the picture, he mU9l have p:iSs0ii over a space of five miles. To havc believed that he could have survived such a o voul(J hjve been the grossest hum- J ,r I. . r t t ..iT i - i Rif But Col. Henton, who understands no humbug but his own, arrested my scheme, and prosecuted j me for obtaining money under false pretences, as lhe horse was not what it professed to be, but 1 think wrongly, as the people who saw it were satisfied, nnd they got the worth ol their money, j Now the scientific buoibug should know the ! precise moment to act as 1 did, or the world would j never have been blessed with a sigh, ol lhe woolly horse. When the woolly hon-e arrived from Connecti cut he was put in a stable near Lovejoy's Hotel. One o.' the boarders who eame to see him recog nised him as an animal he had seen at Bridge port. "Good heavens!" he cried, "I have seen that animal before; it is really an extraordinary humbug." He took up a friend from the same ho el, tind after lie had seen the animal Jet him into the secret, and in succession, thirty-seven persons were carried up, all of whom look the humbugging in good humor except the last man. j It. t . -. f f I hi tranlf tl T . i --.!! trt ' t:cf n m n I crtion t i lie humbug, I am only an humdle member of the j profession. .My ambition to be the Prince -of Humbugs I i will resign, b it I hope the public w ill take the will ' lor lhe deed ; I can assure them thnt if I had beer, j able to Hive them all the humbugs I have thought i of, they would have been amply satisfied. Before I went to England with Tom Thumb, I bad a skeleton prepared trom various bones. It was to have been made eighteen feet high ; it ! w as to have been buried a year or so in Ohio, j and then dug up by accident, so that the pu.ilic might lenrn that there were giants of old- The price 1 was lo pay ihe person who proposed to put the skeleton together was to have been Put finding Tom Thumb more successful lhan I thought, 1 sent word not to proceed with (he skele ton. .My manager, who never thought as highly ol the scheme as it deserved, sold the skeleton for $30 or 875. Seven years af erivnrds I received from the South an account of a "iantic skeleton that had been found. Accompanying it were the certifi cates of '-fienttfic and medical men as to the genuineness. The owner asked 'J0.O0O, or 81,000 a month; I wrote him if he brought it on 1 would take it if I found it as represented, or would pav fii expenses if not ; I foond it was my own old original humbug come back to me again; of course I refused it, and I never heard of it alter--w jrds. I'aiSs Fashions. Fiom the October letter of the New York Jour nal of Commerce s Paris correspondent, we extract the following: For full dress visiting toilette, silk is the most fash onal le. A dress of gray or violet moire indijue, ornamented with gray or violet silk rib bons, with velvet stripes and black lace, is inreat v 'gue. The corsage should be made high, either fastened to the throal or open to the waist, accor ding to the taste of the Wearer ; it is edged with a narrow lace and a narrow velvet, which is con tinued down the front at the distancw of Iwo or three inches, the habit shirt is seen between the l! rs. The waist is rouMl, and rather pointed in front, r.nd behind it is lengthened over the nips, and fulls over the skirts in points two inches deep. Ttiese points are bordered will) a row of black velvet, and another of lace. A ribbon with velvet stripes is placed down ihe front, slightly gathered a la virile, between two rows of black lace, about ! an inch wide; a bow of ribbon with velvet stripes!, is put on al the point of the corsage in front. 1 he full sleeves are held up so as to form two yells, falling one over the other ; they have three slushes borden J with velvet and black lace, through which appear the pull's of the under sleeve. A black lace 6nhes the bottom of the sleeve, and fulls over a guipire lace. The simple skirt is disposed in four deep points about a half yard in deptli, in which :s sewed a watered silk flounce fuller than the ski t, and the seams of which are hidden under a plaited ribbon. This same dress may be made for the evening, by cut'ing the corsage lower, and be composed of a lighter moire, or of a gold and silver brocade with a flounce of the same as the skirt. Bodies with braces retain their favor. For cool weather these corsages are high, plain atid with lappets, and are ornamented in front with two velvets laced us a breastpiece; the space between ihem is filled with smaller velvets placed trans versally and lo which are suspended small buttons. Two velvets placed as braces, begin at the lappet in front, rise over the shoulder, and go down lhe back seam. These bracps are connected by cross velvets enriched by small velvet buttons. The sleeves and the lappets are ornamented in the same style. We havfl a brilliant choice of wool tissues, this autumn. Valencios with satin or velvet stripes ; woolen brocatelles with running patterns; figured barpoors damasked and watered ; woolen poplins, with small sqnares for neglige toilets, or children's costumes. The plain woolen popling trimmed with a contrasting velvets, an inch and a half in width, forms a very comme il fant in-door dress. A husquinc is very fashionable nt this season. It is a pretty little garment which is worn over the body of the dress, open in front, and almost tight to the waist, where it forms a pretty half flounce. Those made of oriental cashmere, em broidered in bright colored arabesques, have a charming efTect. Gold and silver embroidery will be again, this winter, decidedly the most fashionable ornament for all articles of fuli dress. Tull robes with double siirts are to be trimmed deeply with bunions of tulle, with dots of violet and gold leaves. Many tarletane dresses have twelve to fifteen stripes of gold or silver tissue worked in the mate rial. The skirts are double, ton one looped up with bows of floating ribbon, or with rich agraffes of precious stones. Co'd and'silver embroidery, mixed with rich shades of silk, upon tulle or organdi, are also in high repute. 1 have seen some coiffures to : ccompany these toilletts, dis playing the exquisite taste of Madame JHontel Gal? ; one, formed of four white feathers, turned with bind-weed foliage of gold blonde; the leaves meet on the forehead in the shape of a diadem. Another consists of a coronet of crape leaves, the edges of which are frosted with gold ; many garlands are of foliage, and flowers of crape embroidered with gold or silver. We see a great variety in the forms and mate rials cf mantles and cloaks. Velvet cloaks trimmed with deep lace will be the favorite gar ment of the season. For winter, expensive furs, will replace all other ornaments with ladies of fashion and large fortunes. The Almaviva mantle, intended as a full-dress costume, is composed of velvet of any color, according to the fancy of the wearer.and is made round and short, likea pelerine; it has for ornament, around lhe bottom and Hi lhe neck, medallions (formed by an insertion of lace,) bordered by a gathered row of lace about nn inch wide, from which fell two lace flounces 13 inches wide. When this mantle is trimmed with a fringe, the lace medallions'are replaced by embroidered ones. A Rcatitiftil Picture. The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels that by the law of ihe land in which he lives by the law of civilized nations he is the right ful and exclusive ow ner of lhe land w hich he tills, is by the constitution of our nature under the whulesome influence not easily imbibed from any other source. II; feels oilier things being equal more strongly than another, the character of a man as the lord of an inanimate world. Of this great and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the baud of Cod and upheld by his power, is roll ing through the heavens a part is his his from the centre of the sky. It is lhe space on which the generation before moved in its round of duties, and he feels himself connected by a link with those who follow him, and to whom he is lo trans mit a home. Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his fathers. They have gone to their last home, but he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors. The roof which shelters him was reared by (boss to whom he owes his beinsf. Some inter esting domestic tradition is connected with every enclosure. The favorite fruit tree was planted by his father's hand. He sported in boyhood beside the brook, which still winds through the meadow. Through the fiel l lies the path to the village school of earlier days He still hears from the window the voice of the Sabbath hell which called his fa ther to th house of God ; and near at hand is the spot where his parents laid down to rest, and where, when his lime ha come, he shall be laid by ids children ; lhfse are the feelings of the owner of lhe soil. Words Cannot paint ihem. They flow out of iho deepest fountains of the hear! they are the life-spring of a fresh, healthy and generous national character. Edward Ev r,it!. From the Richmond Ewpiircr. Mormon ism lefiaiit It is represented that President Pierce is resolved to reduce the territory of Ut ili, from its anomalous attitude of independence, to subjection to the laws and sovereignly of lhe Fe'deral Government, ond that to this end. he proposes to replace Brigham Young by a Governor ol christian faith and decent demeanor. This is a step in the right direction ; but why not at once adopt a thorough policy ? A mere show of authority must only exasperate, while a sudden nnd vigorous idow might reduce the people of Utah to a salutary sense of depen dence. Perhaps, therefore, it would be wiser if lira Cabinet would summarily eject every Mormon from office, and bestow the judicial as well as the executive authority in ihe territory upon men who revere the principles and usages of christian civ ilization. But, what if Brigham Young and his thirty, thousand Polygamists assume an attitude of defi. ance, and refuse to submit to the authority of tho Federal Government? This is likely enough, for when tiiey were less powerful and insolent, they drove away a Judge with a Federal commission in his pocket, because he did not choose to speak respectfully of their polygamous usages. Indeed Brigham Young has avowed a purpose of resist ance. In an address in the JJtseret Keics of March 10th, 1854, he said : " We have got a territorial government, and I am and will be the Governor, and no power can hinder it, until the Lord Almighty says, ' Brigham, you .need not be Governor any longer,' and then I am w illiog to yield to another." " No persons need trouble themselves aboul whether or not he would be removed, for the Lord would control that matter just as he pleased, and either President Pierce nor any other President would remove him until the Lord permitted." " Every man that comes to impose on this peo ple, no matter by whom they are senf, or who they are that aie sent, they lay the axe at the root of the tree to kill themselves they had better be careful how they come here, lest I should bend my little finger. IP-re is a public defiance a declaration of war against the Federal Government, in the event that it chooses to assert iis authority in the territory of Utah. Will the Cabinet be intimidated by this threat of violence ? On the contrary, it supplies them wilh an additional argument in favor of an energetic and thorough policy. The Mormons betray a spirit of vindictive and undying hatred of this government. They refuse to recognise its authority. They will not comply with its requi sitions so far even as to transmit a copy of their laws, or a statement of their public expenditures. They openly declare that the Federal Government must either tolerate fheir barbarous institutions, or else prepare to vindicate its authority by force. Utah cannol come into this confederacy with polygamy as a legal institution. Squatter Sover eignty may affirm the right of a people of a ter ritory to " determine their own institutions ;" but there is a sovereignty above the sovereignty of squatters. Ihe sovereignty of reason, of reli gion, of civilization the sovereignty of lhe col lective will of the American people, forbids a fra ternal association between a people who profess the pure morality of the religion of Jesus, and a people who live under the dominion of lusf, and practice the licentious excesses of oriental barbar ism. Utah cannot approach the bridal altar of this Union covered with the scars and polluted by the poison of foul disease. She must purge her self of the presence of polygamy; she must come wiih the bloom of virgin innocence and strength. There can be no fellowship between Mormon and Christian. They cannot exist under the same social system they cannot be partners in politi cal power. Freedom of conscience is one thing, exemption from the rcs'raints of decency and mo rality quite another. The constitution guarantees religious liberty, but gives no license to the ex cesses of concupiscence. lMormonism is theocracy and involves not only asocial gradation and inequality, but an anil-republican alliance between church and State. No country can be free in which polygamy prevails. Utah can demand admission into the Union by no claim of reason or of right. The people will re pel i:s embrace with universal and unconquerable ave rsion. K, then, there is this antagonism between Chris tianity and Mormonism, between the essential vir tues of society and the polluting vice of polygamy, between (he Liberty of Republicanism and lhe theocratic institutions of Utah, why should the Federal Government parley and temporise, and seek, by expedients of conciliation, to postpone the inevitable conflict ? Nothing can be gained by delay tr concession. To talk of compromi sing with Mormonism, or of tolerating it in the least repulsive of its aspects, is to insult tho rea son and the conscience of ihe country. Relent less repression is tbe only cure for the evil, and the only policy which the good sense of the public will approve. The work should be done quickly. Already has Brigham Young thirty thousand peo ple utider his sway, and their ranks are daily re cruited by a continuous stream of immigration from every quarter of the globe. Intrenched in their mountain fastness, iniccessible on one flank, and with a wide waste of desert country lying in their front, surrounded by tribes of savage In dians, who would readily respond to any invoca tion of blood, the Mormons at this moment are no contemptible foe. A few years hence they will be infinitely more formidable, for their numbers and their strength increase in a geometrical ratio. And then ibeir subjugation will involve many more obstacles, and certain intricate problems of constitutional power, which may be now avoided. It is sound policy in the President to grapple with the difficulty at once, and with a resolution to con cede nothing to the pretensions of Mormonism. M el a Ncnoi.v Death. We regret to learn that Col. Riehard Lowry, of this vicinity, was killed on yesterday on his way to Concord to attend lhe meeting of the Presbyterian Synod. We are not in possession of the particulars, further than that his horse became frightened at the train on the railroad, and itl attempting to hold him, was thrown and struck in lh temple by the wheel of his buggy. He died in a few hours after. Col. L. was a most excellent citizen, a kind and oblig ing neighbor, and a useful member of the Presby terian Church. He has left a wife ana numerous friends lo motjm his death. SnlisfntryWalehinan. Tlic Life of Sir John Franklin. The following particulars of the biography of the distinguished navigator, the discovery of whose unhappy late has-engaged the attention so much of late, 'we find in the New York Post: Sir John Franklin, who at a very early ago manifested the adventurous spirit that character ized his later career, was born at Spilsby, in Lin colnshire, in 1786. The evident bent of the boy's mind for a sailor's life not meeting wilh the lath er's views, he was sent on a voyage to Lisbon in a merchant vessel, in hopes the reality would ope rate as a cure. The attempt failed, and at the age of fourteen he entered the British navy as a mid shipman, on board the Polyphemus, in which ca pacity he served at lhe battle of Copenhagen. In 1803 he accompanied his relative, Capt. Flinders, on a voyage of discovery to the South seas, and was shipwrecked on the coast of New Holland. He was aAerward signal eiflicer on the Bellerophon, (the ship on board which Napoleon took refuge in 1815,) at the baitle of Trafalgar, nnd in 1814 served as lieutenant noon the Bdford, which car ried the allied sovereign to England. In 1815 he was at the attack upon New Oilcans, which ended so disastrous for the British, and won considorablo reputation by the capture of an Americsn gun boat. In 1 81 6 he was appointed to the command of lhe brig Trent, which formed part of the Polar Fxpetlition under Cnpt. RnchsO. Ho afterwards held a command in the expedition under Ross and Parry, at which time lie rxarnihed the coast as far north as Cape Turnagin, 03 degrees 30 minutes norih latitude, and returned to England in 1822, after having su!b red great hardships nnd priv.t. lions, and was onjy saved from d uth by the kind ness of the Pi quimaux. Promoted to the rank of post captain in 182.r, in company will; the same parties he und' rlook tt second voyage to tho Polar seas, and examined the coast between the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers. He returned in 1827, having reached 70 deg. 30 min. north latitude and 150 deg. west lon gitude, and was knighted by George- IV, m ac knowledgement of his services. In 1830 he was in command of a ship.of-the-line in iho Mediter ranean, and was afterwards sent as Governor to Van Diemnn's Land, from which post he was re called in 1843. Early in 1845 he returned to England, arid was al once appointed to the com mand of tho expedition to the Polar seas, from which he never returned, and which was expected to add largely to the stock of geographical knowl edge and that of the laws which govern tho mag net. The Erebus and Terror, the two ships with which lhe younyer Ross, in 1839, had made his celebrated voyage to the South Polar seas, were rapidly fitted up with everything necessary for fho service, and wilh lhe distinguished officers, Cap tains Creizier and Fitzjames. who wern nplrrtmrl by Sir John himself, the expedition left England on the 19th of May of that year. It was spoken by several whale ships on the 4th of July, and on the 20th of the same month was seen for the last time in Melville's Ray, lat. 77 north, longitude 66 13 west from Greenwich. Fears respecting the missing navigators becamo general in England in 1848, andsince tfiat period several expeditions have been fitted out there, as well ns one from this eensntry, for the purpose of either rescuing or ascertaining the fate of Sir Jehn and his companions. They have oil returned without success. The only truces hitherto discov ered have been the graves of three of lhe party, atid some empty cans used (or containing preserved meats, such as were furnished the expedition. The searcfies instituted at the request of the Eng lish by the Russian government among its posses sions on the Arctic Sea has met with no result. Hut lhe veil seems about to be rifted, and should the report of Dr. Ren. which has reached us frerm Cnnadn, prove correct, we shall soon probably know all that can ever be known of Sir John Franklin and ihooC under his command. - . . The ittoutli ot October. How beautifully docs our colemporary of the Edgefield Advnlisrr speaks of this charming month, read w hat he writes : Of all the months in tho year give us October. How bracing, the buoyant influences of an Octo ber morning ! How soothing, tho musical whis pers of an October noon ! How charming, the mellow-tinted light of an October eve .' It is the month of Gratitude ! For the harvest is come, and the granaries ef men are replenish ing, and the blessings of that God who gives the incrense to the labors of the husbandman, are spreading over the land in such golden abundance that all but the most obdurate of hearts must be filled wiih thankfulness and praise. It is the month of Memories! The dropping loaves of an Autumnal day, are ihey not signifi cant emblems of those we've seen around us tall!" The chastened hues of an Autumnal-sunset, do they not call to mind the joys and pleasures of the past ! The natural harmonics of the Au tumnal winds, as they moan amid the high pine tops of the forest, do they not carry us back in sensibly lo the earlier days of our earthly exist ence, while all ol life was but an opening vision of bliss ! It is the month, loo, of Religion ! The year is dying around us. The frosts ol Winter are pre paring to wiiber the green garb ol nature. Change and Decay ore everywhere seen coming over what was lately so fresh and beautiful. "And such is life," says the philosophic mind. " It it but as the changing year first, Spring with its radiant flowers; next, Summer with its clustering promises; then Autumn wiih its yellow sheaves, and lastly, Winter with its eleathlike freezes." And the soul longs to find a hope beyond the Win ter of Death; and, looking upward towards Hea ven, learns what it is to be religious. Dear old October ! Ever welcome art thou, with thy bounteous blessings, thy saddening charms and thy sober lessons ! 'Ma, do you know iho reason why horses do not wear hats ?" " No, my dear." " 'Cause it would give them a hosstile ap pearance. Frenchman, wishing lo speak of ihe cream cf the English poets, forgot the word, and said " de butter of do poets." A wag said that he had fairly churned up the English language.