Show ADDENDA WE understand it ia is expected that a prominent member of the united states senate will at an early date dute introduce a motion into the senate that the following three sections be added to the bill biu known as the chigin origin bill being A bill to provide for the execution of the law against the crime of polygamy in the territory of utah and for other purposes there is an outspoken frankness and fairness in these additional sections which recommend them to the respect of all they strike at the root of the matter and do not while hypocritically pretending to believe the religion of the bible seek siek to destroy its leading doctrines and practices sm SEC 32 and be it further enacted that the book called the holy bible bibie or so much thereof as pertains to plural marriage or provides for the legal inheritance of property by the tho children of such plural marriage is hereby annulled disapproved and repealed and declared null and void SEC gec 33 and be it further enacted cn acted that very every V person parson lefore before before holding any office voting toting at any election sitting as a juror or holding any position of honor bonor profit or trust under the tho government of the tho united states shall take and subscribe a solemn gath path oath under the pains and penalties of perjury that bo he does disbelieve believe and always ays w will diab disbelieve evo eto the holy bible so far as it pertains in anyway any way to plural marriage and that he detests moses jacob abraham tho tho the father of the faithful gideon and all the prop prophets hats who taught or practiced plurality of wives together with the saviour st paul and the tho other apostles who bet set set bet forth thebe these men as examples of faith falth purity and virtue SEC 34 and be it further enacted that the names of the twelve tribes of israel being children of polygamists be ox ex lunged from tho the gates of tho the city of the tho how hew J jerusalem eru salem A X Os ox the tho first day of tho the present year the tho now postal postil treaty between the united states and great britain went into operation thereby reducing the postage on letters between b 0 tue two iwo countries to six cents per half ounce or two cents each for the tho american lcarl ocean and british postage being equivalent to the penny postage system in vogue in great britain at first sonio some somo trouble was apprehended in the carrying out of this treaty from the tho refusal of the ers of the vessels engaged in this service 9 to accept as full fall compensation the amount established in the tho treaty for for lor carrying the mails across the atlantic but our latest washington advices advises inform us that this difficulty has been overcome and the postmaster general has deemed it necessary to establish au an additional weekly dispatch from new now york to england to this end he has made certain arrangements with the hamburg and american packet company which secure a weekly tri steamship service from new york on tuesdays I 1 Thurs thursdays davs and saturdays this company not only accepts the tho reduced rates of ocean postage established for lor carrying tho the united nates mates states and british malls by tho the late postal f convention as full fall compensation for the tho service but it also agrees to carry direct mails malls to cherbourg Cher bourg for two cents tho the single letter weighing not mono moro than a quarter bunco ounce from abo the tenor of our advices advises from washington wo we presume the post office department intends to give the public tho the ad advantage vantage of this agreement by reducing tho postage between the united S tatos states and ana franco to six cents thus establishing r penny postage to france franco as ns well as to great britain THE pall fall mall mali gazette notices that the gathering at rome romo will produce at least a philological result which to some profane outsiders may appear even more interesting than the solemn affirmation of the papal infallibility the deliberations are to ral Eal bo e carried on in latin but the pronunciation of this language differs so greatly in different countries that it was foreseen that thab if each of the prelates pr elates gathered together from the tho four corners of tho the earth were to adopt t his national mode of pronunciation the assembly would degenerate de enersto into a modern babel A committee has therefore been appointed to fix a standard stan pronunciation n nuncia unc une lation tion which each prelate will be obliged to learn and use during the debate debates s if one could hope that this decision might t eventually be adopted in all european schools the problem of a universal language for the educated classes would at last last lasi be do solved at present agerman and a frenchman each ignorant of the others language aro are de barred from meeting on the neutral ground of latin except excel t by writing to a great extent all that is being done by these learned prelates pr prelates pr elates to fix a standard pronunciation renunciation is already done for us by tte tto tho the introduction of our phonetic alphabet if teachers and especially if parents would interest themselves in causing the books now published in the deseret alphabet to bo be placed before the children of utah the rising generation would be grea greatly t aided in the acquisition of knowledge especial especially ay of language a most important acquirement for the children of this poo people |