Show I GREAT’S X030 jn'E SEMI-WEEKL- T II JI STEMHOCSE 'Sr -- - Turn SD AY EYEHT" ITOSHAT AXI PUBLISHED TIIE SHIP OXVFIRE —A BRAVE TOLEGRAPII: Y W MKE ’ Editor lieutenant AVarn Toni's contribution to the uamtlra of "“Perils and ' Disasters' in tbo - THE EK1ML TEILL Sixpenny Magaxine has a Christian hero and a terrible shipping disaster for its theme and It auci ntn the tale is extremely' well told as the follow-in- g extract will shovr The hero is Charles Jou think jm liav won Frobisher captain of the Mendip transport-shi- p yr TTr rt MWTiti ' v: r— ' J t charterer! for Iisbonr The cargo was a Ti Util Uirnil frn lay kil an bokoavi miscellaneous one amongst which was about V? u aBitin Uws you wt natter to piertyea twenty barrels of gunpowderi- - yea— A?’ yu asd liith In those days When tbo : agency of steam comnoa earth cjmnon dear' ' Vn all if you was only applied in an infinitesimal degree to wrv te&J wouldne to riwea not rue! marine transit it was' frequently the case that ' l4i) (bkc oat the filmy thing fold after foU the Govermuent would : payliighly remunera-ptiv- e Xfial e if yondsare me V keep and to bold— i sums for the conveyance pf pQicers and Look tljfe oJ bearvLotho woratofitaalnclas whom it was desirable to end oflf to others frr the yciterdfj’a winning It if not your foreign stations In the instance of theMen-di- p U not mineI an toe proad to borrow — The twelve cabin and thirty-fou- r steerage to new height if 1 lovo'you leawrnm baths had been secured The ' cabin passen' " T Wv re aiMria! I’m plighted to ho J up your praUea gers were Augustas' Mervypf on attache of the British Embassy at the Portuguese Court As the turf at your fret sloes ita handful cf daisies- '' ’ That way life any honor— rey pathway of prUe Lieutenant Burt of the Sybil sloop in whieh But work yon if greener put groan either aide Frobisher had previously served sand not long '' before recommissioned for the lediterranean i L’t knew It and keeping in body with you da the dew! yjua wik in mj apint with fret station and six officers with the wives of " ' (bur of them belonging to tho"Gibraltar garYTe're mmeJT Ohpry that curloyh do not £iIC rison The steerage passengers were soldiers 1 hare aingc (atteued down and hid under my Toil 7 '' also 'bound for Gibraltar There' were with them can neverundo anJ tire light— you ihy them 'eight uromen (wives) and their children canrnerer their Ami tain la puriutthent flight— yon and pit of all band Total of passengers on board the Mendip And I’ii ef all f lpii a shkdew r dream a iike hinds men twelve wbmep' ten' children ran twenty-foufrpoyour J i:j creW cohsfsrted of twenty Irn'en arid boys Her " 'xjt call me not cruel and fear not to take me1was intended after It touching at Lisbon would make to be what you Iai jvnrs Lvmy e ' ' ‘‘to on to Gibraltar whence Lieutenant go Kli could find Burt an to join easily 'opportunity wear To my white yeil frr aaignir aorer v This man had always been the his ship ehaU or vfijrwa my losvfj beprorni myiord "bitter enemy of Charles Frobisher and at is A Crtrr frpeace that is dead wr token not unlikely that ‘they might'i have settled or ipokenT r’ that Can never Ie WTitten ' ?' their differences by fighting a duel but lbr the (act that Frobisher’s mother had made SllaCrittFiUAKEKS i him solemnly promise on her deatli-be- d that he - would never under any 'drcumstances W mil there in thleVorld be fotrni pome little jct of harpy ground of provocation take part in such --affairs of j -- ym i-- to-bli- to-ditr- i : v - ’ - to-J- y ?' “ - - - - E -- tc si - - - life-tim- : v 'j lint f ' 3 — t 1 j : 1 i - F -- v VhCre TlJIfge pleasure iniglit go ronud Yjlho lb ri Jig UttIiS(' IIuw douUy Ucet that place would be WLere aU might dwell hi liberty ' y v honour” The Mendip had dropped down the river and anchored off Gravesend Several of the cabin passengers amongst them the attache and his lady had not embarked at London and it was imperative to await their arrival' Lieutenant Burt and four of the military officers' preferred" to remain on shore during the ship’s detention Captain Frobisher proimsing to give them ample warning when the Mendip would lilt anchor They all five took up their quartern atuthe KojraL Motel The ladies decided to remain on board day the officers cme offi to thc ship two remaining ' and tinding the attache riniglit perhaps make waited for some days ' himself 4ionger also ‘ r": went on shore ' and joined their1 comrades Augustas Meryyn Estfo having at last put in an appearance Captain Frobishcr went him' self qu shore to apprise His passengers of that tliat: 'the Rict'ana important Mendip would' - set aaff at an early hour: ihejiext day The ' ' officers were just sitting down to dinner when Captain Frobisher reached the' hotel" He was invited to joiri'them And being a man of a social disposition! at onco accepted the : - 1 ' -'- Iftw from the bitfer tuiterjK i Of goesip' entile prattling! ' - " r Vlfiieli a eat were realty knowfi 'J "Lame Peace might ylaim it her own j ' Aud iu it she might fix her throne j Firerer ani for eTer Ih'ceJike a queen might reign and Hire W4iile every oqe would toon furgjeo The fittle attghta they might receive - i ? ' ' ' 'I j And be oflenied never ' r- "i ' Vy t - U- ! ! txida '' ' ) ’ Tlu that reaaosrf ' ' kar from our hafrti the of ' Ain! Icn’Kus all to dlMpprove ' Wbar rlTctaitMber pleasure' biachief-iiuker- e ft -- ij ' - r lixed in aitwiwuuai mevMire ' r ' ' ' ' f '! " sa s -- i tatwne’s part’biit VbrT Tbey veileard our cjse quickly then'i’ They' moo retail them all again TLry j ' - 1 1 dud then they've such a cunning way 'f J 0f tuUing tales - They whispering My “Don't mention what I say Iprayj x ' ' 1 would fit-- toll anotherT ' to your neighbor’s house they goy y Nsmitins everything tLey know ' Aid bimk the peace of high and Wife husband friend and brother'-- ' i OC that the mischixnaking crew j Wert all reduced tq ouo or two : And they were raintedied or btue'— That every one might know them TheaWuiilil one village sure forget To ng'-- and quarrel fume and fret t - "J 4 in-itati- onf : t ' -- i " ’ low-?--- ’ - ' I ' 1 ' V AUCuIlntoanangrjptt t j Yi itli - ft i tltingi eo much below them ' ' T Fqt iti a ad" degrading part T© m5k another bosom smvrt And plant a dagger in tliu heart We ought tjlove and cherish 9 Then let ’usevermore be fjuud In quietness with aU Around' Wliil friendships peace and Joy abound And angry feelings perish !i j ' a —diristiJurAdvdcate s : " tT - l : TVy t jld me of a haunted housa - i” Dt tLey had read perchance dismal Sjme tale of ghostly fora j " 'Thatailed an old romance ‘It needed not an idle Ulia 'j-- f '' To prove such things may be i i r Tlia dear cld hume where long l’veidwelt Seema unrated new to ne r r j ‘ j'--- ‘ - 1 i : K t- Where'er E I pace theUont room I mark the TACint choir And mmory fondly plctorei still 'T The form that rrited therq ' ' Around ur porch the' woodbine clipgv' And when I pass the door " ' ) I feci 'tin hauntedby the form That tended it ofyore' j ‘ k s' W q I J I almost leei tbie arm jo aulnw That tbere ae oft hae laiiu I know thead are but waking 'dreams ’ faint shadows round me caat'' Bat who has evir known a hobo s Kot haanted-b- LEi f e year of iron just were taken S i ' EngKsh Tpdjperj says: “Host eats' fast nawroughtiroh stnictures This no jnio f eMenailubular bridge at the soon be gleaning ”r At that rate it will 'j Jned away in old : iron' - i ' : tho--rou- gh - j"' : : - self-comma- nd - I" "P : 1 - -- the penalty of your braart insolencolV This was spoken in a load tone so that all might hear and as it was' quite erideut the captain meant' what he said there was no longer any fear that he would again be openly molested by his male ! passemrers! They were - quite exaware that the use of language' tendiug-tcite disrespect towards' the captain ' would justify him in a legal sense for having re-course f o tlio extrcnie liieastire which he had tfireatened The ladies could not be so dealt with and it was from the lips of their better-halve- s that the officers launched the arrows of a thinly-veile- d contemptuous irony The weather after the first days grew stormy—stormgnulually deepening into tempest and the officers could not look without astonishment and admiration at the cool active bravery displayed by Captoin Frobisher in his battle with the hurricane! "Whilst the tempest raged lie was never but for the briefest possible time abseut from the deck either night or day anil every especially perilous task which he'directed to e done he himself sot the example of achieving it— leading in- splringf as well as controlling his men A revulsion of feeling' towards the commander of the Mendip took place: It seemed 'that they must have mistaken the charactejrof the inau1 They were destined to witness a yet stronger proof that a man may fear God and not fear death During the tempest two out of the four ship's boats had been stove-i- n This was a source of great uneasiness to Captain Frobisher: there being seventy human beings on board" The tworemaiinng boats could not by possibility fiold all and who could say at any moment the lioats might not be the sole refuge of tho passengers and o ’ ‘ : crew! Tho storm had gone down— scarcely a breath of air stirred the surface of the water —the firmament was fretted with goldeh'stors Captain Frobisher ‘was in' his cabin writing when a cry of “Fire! fire!” ipng through the ship Frobisher was or deck in an instant and Immediately dived below How- - the fire originated was never ascertained but the hold was a mass "of flame to attempt extinguishing which would be simply absurd— death iu fact to all on board Ten minutes at the most the captain reckoned would elapse before the and all would fire reached the powder-barrel- s be over “He had Lrejoice'to believe’ says the writer of the narrative “a better opinion of me than of most others on board and when I startiug out of my berth at the dread summons and hurrying upon deck met him os he emerged from the hold lie whispered— certainly ‘Ton minutes— not more depend upon’ it—is hot fight JLieut Burt ' He provoked me begiven us to save the women and the children yond bearing but I was not justified even Go and bid the jadies dress: themselves in all for that in throwing the wine m his face I haste ask his pardon’’ An shout of derisive scorn fro BE CX)XTIXUEDT followed these words high above which rang ' L Out the vofoe of lieutenant Burt ‘‘Hold his died in Dallas M Philadelphia George d you the fellow was: a poltroon-- one native His last in the last day of year of the most miserable cowards that ever life hascity and his active and been position long disgraced his Majesty's uniform’' “Captain was ‘time his of A prominent great part Frobisher” said the eldest ofthe officers in a in the public service He had just grave tone “you must be Jesting yon who spent reached his majority when in 1813 lie went rank as lieutenant in therpyalnayy refuse to to Russia as secretary of the American give hohorabhrsatisfaction for 'the gross out- Minister anaprivate he remained in Europe until the rage which under the impnlsfiof uncontrollof Ghent He was State Attorney in peace able passion no doubt- you have committed! Philadelphia in 1817 in 1828 he was elected : gogb-vMayor ofthe city m l831he was sent to -- No in sneha case can the be United States Senate he was Attorney apology accepted” “I repeat that I am na djaeilist aud uill not General of his native tate in 1835 two years fight Lieitenint Captain Frobiah- - later he' xras American Minister to Russia err risihg'and 'jKttting 6ii hishat of deeply from 1843 toJJB49 --he— regret and agun apologise for having in a the United States and from 1856 to 1861 he moment of anger forgotten myself The Men- was! American Minister at the Court of St dip” he added ‘‘do - not forget will weigh James The list of liis offlcial poSitions js anchor fooif after dawn Good the chief material1 for the brief biography ’cf a evening gentlemen newspaper: He was' a ' zealous politician of ' The officers came off in sufficient time and the Democratic school a- quiet citizen and a afterwards tho sailwl vessel ' No one respectable lawyer shortly citv thepasq v - ' v Theywerc a frank jovial party with the' exception of lieutenant Burt who looked more than usually gloomy and repellant lie tiad been unlucky atplay and had lost daring the afternoon a considerable snm of money The dinner however passed off' quietly but the wine had 'not been 'long in brisk circulation when the mask —a thin one— of courtesy which Burt had worn when casually spoken to by Frobisher was flung rudely aside and lie addressed the captain of the Mendip in such language as no gentleman would use — uone tamely submit to The reply to it was a glass of wine flun in the bully's face by the merchant captain In those days such an act would almost necessarily be followed by a duel The officers present though they had taken part with Captain Frobisher in' the dispute felt there was no alternative and it was proposed that as the Mendip would weigh anchor early on the morrow the affair should come off at once Burtr agreed and one of the officers offered the loan of pistols which thelnaval lieutenant accepted A minute or two sufficed to restore Captain Frobisher’s mm mmlv white-livere- S - I mark at eve the sunset glow ’ ftttlthrongi the window pene i 2 who observed the handling of his ship by Captain Frobisher could doubt tliat he was Ik hardy skilful seaman and the alacrity and cheerfulness with which his orders were' carried oiit by the crew testified to their1 confidence in and respect for him Captain Frobisher presided as was his right at tLc cabin dinner But his position must have been hardtop bear: perhaps the sneering smiles of the ladies were the worst part of the infliction The captain- did not however betray any emotion He was not likely to again lose Ins Towards evening the weather fine and warm with a gentle breeze bring blowing the cabin passengers came on deck and remained some time The attache and Lieutenant Burt who were acquaintances walked apart with each other and Burt excited by the wine he hail drunk after dinner indulged? in open loud insult towards Frobisher the attache’ joining in the hilarious abuse They were brought up with a round turn and sharply The lieutenant’s glee was checked by a grip of steel upon his arm accompanied by words which effectually put a stopper upon his mocWngmerrimnt- — “lieutenant Burt this is a merchant ship I am absolute master: On board— responsible only to her owners and the law and I ward for all shall not Speak twice upon you the subjec" ” ‘ — ’ or gesture to weaken mv authority over the crewL and passengersT will place you iu irons and keep you iulrons till the end of the Voyage - The 'same waming upplies to you ' Mr Mervyn: I will not permit- any one - in this ship whatever his rankto excite laspint of contempt for me and consequent insubordi-natiou amongst tlie crewvXou are warned — be careful or make up your minds to endure : : -- - A " OF : JaSm TIIURSD AY : 1 THE HAtJXTED HOME - TYi IJTAI! to-morr- : 1 f- - 4 19 1S65 RETRENCHMENT? k is certain that the time has arrived for a strict national retrenchment: ' IVe are spending at a frightful rate- - Our taxes are stretched cut almost to the extreloans will soon mity The come to an end from the limit fixed by the gold returned in duties Neur loans will be placed and readily taken but they of our daicannot meet probably ly expenditure Production itself— -- the ' measure of our wealth— is already feel-ing the effect of the loss of labor and hns' diminished in the most important cereals about seyen per cent duriug the last year instead of increasing as we hoped it woulcfdo Itis true that "the most remarkable and fortunate development of our mineral resources during the - last yearsfin the produce of the mines of Colorado and Nevudaj and the sudden discovery of petroleum in immense quauti-- ‘ ties' give fits much hope for the future Still we are spending on a gigantic scale of this There is a limit even to the power ' natiou iii bearing a public debt It should always be bornp in mind that tional bankruptcy is among tue things pos sible' Of the crushing of the" ‘rebellion therri cah be no doubt but it may be gain- ed through the destruction of the - public credit Bankruptcy in the free1 States would bcfa calamity of which in all the material etijs f this ivar weihavc never yet experienced even the resemblance The problem is simple We are spending perhaps four times bur income We have but two paths out of the difficulty: to borrow from the future or reduce cur expenses" The latter we believe can now be done with safety1 We must have compacter armies reduce our navy cut off that large number of private vessels under commission which areforever' entailing expenses and doing nfithmg draw in useless garrisons cut off the thousands of now superffous officers and those' who are rawing pay but performing no service' The 'various governmicut charities towhite refugees and black freed people should all be rigidly stricken off We believe a thorough and patient investigation and effort would stop tip innumerable leaks over the whole country The time has come for the most thorough revision of our war expenses That the government is cheated1 a great deal by contracts we doubt for according to our observation tie contractors jobs with the government have riot been generally very profftableenterprises to their undertakers But what we fear is that the governmental expenditure is on too large a scale for our means and mist in some way or other be reduced or the whole ’nation will plunge into the abyss of bankruptcy We invoke the early consideration of tins vital subject by (for legislators and public men— N Y Times gold-bearin- g: one-ha- lf - ‘ : : : : CalliajAt the Salt Lake House the ether d Mr Sirrine LanAeJ na (o’Jo w in ciinunicttoh from gcatlcxaan going to Sootlicrn Californian f ' la f 4 ’ ccmrounitifs there are degree of moral ‘ geodnow and temporal prosperity and while few X claim fiivt rank ct t will take S can eohVidco amount of pleading in court or oat ta the Salt Lake folk tht thrj stand on tht leu est round cf tho ladder mU 4 jtly i J ” " Salt Laos TixroforK: C r About to leave the city cf Salt take perhaps never again to tee it pleatant and commodious I ptreeto with their marginal brooks and-tredeem it right tf mj that after tusking a stay of fifteen days and taking eland points so that I Editob T-i -- - es : mijrht getas thorouch a inonrledge r4 the talterv day Saint a possible' 1 liayf arrived at tha follow ififf conclusions:- - -- - lt I have never met nor made the acquaintance of a more temperate indnatricus and eco nomieal people than these Mormon really are 2d I have never had the pleasure of asaoeiattas " villi a more obliging hospitable tad pleasant people than these much abuse! - nd ‘undeservedly ' ' j j- -' slandered community ‘"Sd So far aa ft transient resident can see and 1c arn from aU the fact that preent themselves a more happv and contented community than theo people are throughout jthc entire ' Territory i jio Jfowhcre 'have where toje found tn the world 1 found any evidence of misery etarvatirttt3tr Xo person are teen Jn the atrtfa of discontent Salt Ike City or in the Territory' asking alni u l Uenuchet6 the siynaof aqnaUd poverty a ho passe along the streets or resting'' stranger at the hotel: bnt all ira c aiid female1 old and f' young scepaliappy and contented- 1 have attended divine service at the Tabernacle one Sabbath and fonnd a large and really rc-ptable looking congregation of all agoatTud kaxes " who conducted themselves quite as well asianyf- the Christian denominations in the States: I hare also attended the Theatre several time and seen there moderately good playing apleudid arranged and commodious "r scenery and most the llut interesting matter to tbo building stranger is the large andtor respectable audloncof assemble there happy J Mormons that are wont and perfectly contented Idokiug faces giving- - ’ the lie to the story that these people are irtetfhea ' under tlicir bishops and rulers and if wi ara ts judjre from extreme appearances happiness and' ' content arc tho chief characteristics ul thciio peu ! 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I 1 ‘ i : pri-sea- ec 4 - a-w- ell ’ : pic- - i This brings to my mind the great originatoiuamf of the convenient and Usefiilamraaeinentsj planner both private and public that are to be Pound iu' and around the cUy"showtng the master hand am mind f Then why sliquld the outshlo world pcrsocntt‘ and slander these people? All whoTiuvo lived among them know what wc have written on this to be true subject ' This is the opinion of an apprchidiccd ' ) " ' santi:tk county following letter nuswers n great The’ : cn- - uaaj ’ - quiries: I’ost Office IVpartmcnt Contact Office I i Washington Dec 22J 1SC4 Sin: The petition forwarded by you to this oilioe J praying for mail service between-Gunniso-to the lion and: J F-- i Circle Volley has been referred Ke it! have Uuli from that Kinney liclegnte miy i declared a post road bv tho present Congress etc Very respeetrullv 1 ! n 5 Geo W T: ‘H Sicnhonse Esqj Special Hail Ajtcnt Salt take City Utah' McLulin IT ’ axd TiiEnK —Tho dlirofcrico betwcifo the currency of the Atlantic Statrs nnd States is well illustmteil by two eimplo facte Tho Secretary of tbo TreasuryMs now i preparing to issue febmc mllhous of throe cent j Treasury notes to relievo down' Easters from CAUELESSWRITERS tho exactions of the dealers : who- - corral all the one two and three cent jiicece and charpo The report of Postmaster ' Dennison a premium of ten or twenty ior cent for i shows on extraordinary amount of care- them— while our I Mink 'refuses silw eoin in lessness on the part of the letter writing liugA sums than five dollars and even tho Three million five hundred Telegraph Company has at length found4t community and eight thousand' three hundred and necessary to adopt the same rule in self ‘ de1 1 tun i l'a-cif- ic 1 -- -- - J s 1 ! : - ' ' fence — Alta Cal ' ' A riumbor of noble Polish ladies have been J tried and convicted : in Austrian Poland onj tlio cbargo of belonging tolho female national i committee in Gollicia and sentenced to iin- ( prisonment for" terms varying from threp months to five ycarsl The Cbuntcsa Ostraw- ska received the severest ‘sentence because 1 she was the treasurer for the committee j A Sabbolli School girl in Bangor only ten years old recently received the prize of a Bible for committing IGO verses to memory in six months The teachers should be pro-- ' V" ’? gecuted 7: The excavations at Pompeii have joatTed to the discovery of the Temple of Juno on j: v:: the flags of which wrere scattered about more than 200 skeletons of women and children the eruption of Vesuvius hasten- who About the middle of November seven: ed to daring the protectloa of the temple to implore " ' " teen ffatboats containing ISO miners frOm the goddess' f i ' f i' Montana arrived at Yanktob Dakota Lee an Amefican lady has been Miss and took the stage feast: r They l6ft Vir-gin- riiairied jHary in'Piffis 'to' a Trince of Schleswig--Holsteina- ri on the first of Octo City1 (BI'TA able' diplomatist and accomplish-- ’ her arid took the jboats (which! they built ed gentJemani tHat miles east of place hemselvesj'130 JefT Davia asked for an advance of :wages arid descended the rii6uritairitributarieSpf and the Confederate LegUIatnre saM “Yres” "the Y ellow&tone as far as the Yellowstone and pnt him on rations ’ I letters were received during the past yeat —over nine thousand a day Many of these letters contained money deeds bills of exchange drafts checks jewelry and Other valuables Some tf them were misdirected others not directed at all others unstamped and others only partially directed Thousands of these dead letters were- returned to the writers but the great majority had to be destroyed: This statement ought to teach the public to be mpreJcarefuPin their correspondence for! the amount of suffering caused by these lost ietters is dead- - twenty-fiv- e ( : ! -- - -- - iniukbte -- yellowstoniTboatfleet- - : ' ' im Z' ‘ 'f- -‘ 1 I' ia - - ' They arrived at Fort U rifon near the " It is contemplated to con3tnict a railroad- junction of that stream with the Missouri into’ Liverpool by way of a tunnel under the ' on the 27th arid reached Yankton on the river Mereey 7 17th of November having made a run of A woollen factorr is being erected near 1 had goldsome 700milesin47daystheyall Buffalo to be entirely worked by British ortK more some less ' They deal inthe ‘stuff il'v ' i bills in the i r often pay ng by 'Weight nugf The death of General Tiprftndia Rnasian getsJ Nearly all of them "intend rerafn-m- g officer well known in the- Crimean war is anin the Spring: via the Misssouri and nounced He' led the Russiaxf troops at Y ellowstone— Leaven worth Times - - "v ' - - ' ¥-- : --- lr - In-kerm- : -- i X CORKESrOXDEXCE v ’ jr i r“r‘- r - - ‘ ao |