Show for the news ADVICE TO FEMALES the most wise judicious and intelligent people in the world have jiava all the misery and sorrow they are willing to endure when their course of ilfe life is regulated by all the combined excellencies of their weir character this thin valley vailey proves to be directly buthe on the great western thoroughfare leading to the golden mountains and shining vallies of the far famed california thousands and tens of thotis thousands ands swarm along aloag its course and call at this HALF hals WAY HOUSE to rest and recruit themselves and their animals many conclude on arriving here to go no further to make this place their home and embrace the religion of this community by being baptized ac it is highly gratifying to every saint to learn that such is the fact provided they come with honesty in their hearts and sincerity upon their tongues but as different men are actuated by dlf dif Terent different motives it becomes tile the females of this valley to be on their guard and to suffer no man inan to 0 o gain a seat in their affections until he has gained the confidence of the church and of the tiie authorities of the same by a high minded and honorable course of virtuous actions will you young ladies give yourselves to the stranger to the transient and uncertain traveller whose intention may be to remain here only until the yielding snow will admit his egress through the mountain passes in ir the coming spring will you thus hazard your person your character and perhaps your salvation and join your destiny with a man who for aught you know has a family in the states or in some other country remember that it requires something 0 more than baptism to constitute a saint and my advice to every unmarried ried female in this tills country is to wait till the proof of established righteousness ZD virtue sincerity honesty and integrity appear in the man before she consents to enter into any marriage covenant with him if you regard this counsel of a friend in the spirit by which it is dictated you may rest comparatively safe but if you do not in four cases out of five your union will only last long enough to io accomplish com your ruin and you left to welter under the shame and mortification of your hasty and ill advised marriage fathers and friends 0 ought to interpose in behalf of the simple in such cases the wise ylse will never become thus ensnared every virtuous and good man whether he be jew or gentile will not only honor this advice and counsel but will see at once its pro propriety y and acknowledge it but the libertine the hypocrite the and the unprincipled man may rail against it while good wishes are arc reserved in the breasts of this people for the sincere and honest stranger 0 who seeks among us the words of life and salvation duty calls upon us loudly to guard against za the en croach ments of worthless and unprincipled adventurers against the serpent in the grass who in a moment least expected thrusts his deadly fangs into our heel respectfully submitted by ORSON HYDE nwe we are pleased with the above communication and we say to all when you hear a any ny MAS MAN TREAT LIGHTLY ulc tile foregoing sentiments 1 know assuredly that THAT X man MAX am is the hypocritical lan nen ler LET LIBERT LIBERTINE Pr referred to and ifancy if any w wo 0 nun man shall or think lightly of those teachings she is just a fit subject for to be a cm companion panion to that Lbert ibert libertine ine lne and is unworthy of the kingdom cf of god we ave believe in in treating strangers with all due respect and kindness but common decency regardless of reli rell religion mien glen rs requires quires that they should prove upright and virtuous before they approach too familiarly the domestic circle a and nd w when lien llen any man no matter bow great pure or holy loly his profession shall violate the sanctity of or a virtuous family or community he is worthy only the attention of that coin corn community to cast him out from their society ant and let his bis naine name rot with his carcass WE wr |