Show PEACEFUL AGENCIES WE wn notice that the respectable portion of the eastern press is opposed to a war against mormonism on the ground that peaceful influences have not been exhausted that war should be thought bethought of and urged against a p people eople merely because they claim to exercise the constitutional and god given right of worshipping shipping wor according to the dictates of their own consciences without interfering with the rights of others ought to bo be matter for astonishment to all ril rii right ht thinking reflecting minds yet at sueh such teh ieh a policy Js Is strongly urged by a horde of speculators who desire to secure wealth out of contracts con tracts and from the plunder and spoliation of an innocent community and they are not without warm and interested adherents among prominent politicians urged on by the advocates of a lyate system m of that exercises powerful political sway while its spiritual influence Is fast waning this latter class envious of the prosperity of the latter day saints the result of their industry under the blessings of the almighty and grid greedily anxious to possess our property eagerly preaches a crusade against the people of OL utah iu in the shape shalie of a war of extermination to obtain the pleasant homes which toil hard labor and frugality have reared in this territory they would drench every hearth with the lifeblood life blood of its owners if they could and destroy the last ves I 1 0 of f a community that has justly become the wonderment of the age for thew orka accomplished under most trying and peculiar circumstances but there is a large and thoughtful portion of the nation that does not see the wisdom or expediency of such buch san guimary measures still we regret to note that oven with many of that portion the question of economy has greater force than sound bound justice yet we are willing to give them all due credit for their moderation one leading eastern paper says surely the time for war has not yet come como we have yet to give peaceful civilizing influences a fair chance Weare wo are eminently a peace aleace loving people peace order law and sobriety reign through our cities and settlements we aim at the highest form of civilization and refinement not those spurious kinds which se beek seek ek solely the increase of in activity while virtually laboring to destroy it by physical debasement ement and corrns borrup tionne desire to see generations coming upon the earth possessing sound minds in vigorous healthy bodies we desire to seo see those minds developed and cultivated their increasing capacity supplied with the purest and best knowledge with elevating truth wo we desire to see pee those bodies preserved far beyond yond the present span of bf life endo endowed wed with increased vitality having vigorous constitutions that will wilt enable ermle the minds which animate them to retain their full powers for f q much longer period than thau ia is now the ruie rule and thus bless coming generations with a matured vit wit dom eit ett enlightened lightened by an experience glued in well welt spent lives ilves we to mee see tho evils evila which the body social removed or remedied to bee which cast esst a blight on the age left behind in the march to the eternal exaltation of the race wo we wish to se all men and women pos emming emping t essing tho the fall measure of the liberty and freedom which they were formed ed to enji enjoy y aud and with dispositions to use and not nob abuse them to nobly and honorably restrain their de desires alres aires within due bounds ad avid not seek a condition of license under thenamae the name of liberty we wish to tosao seo see the people happy under the wlee wise government of leaders of their own choice and the rulers willing to resign place and honors henora should the public welfare require it we desire desir to see every raan man and woman filling the t measure treasure of his or her creation by becoming a fond father and happy mother proudly honestly and honorably where physical defects do not intervene tn prevent such a desirable condition of domestic felicity these are a few of our oar strong earnest wishes and hopes we believe we have found the means to bring about the condition ot of society which philanthropists have struggled for poets san sang 90 of and martyrs died for during the h his hia i tory of the world we point to the peace beace order harmony and of society inthe in the cities towns an and nud villages lages of utah as an evidence of what has been accomplished in this direction in a few years we invite honest comparison between the social condition of the people of this territory and that of any other community on the earth we claim that the gospel has brought about these thebe results wilh the power of god made manifest iu in the midst of the peo peon pie we say we I 1 know now this gospel to be true and we ak aik enlightened people Severy everywhere where are the rifle bayonet and I 1 cannon the proper arguments to bring to bear against us our efforts and the civilization we are rearing up if there ig Is a ea desire aire alre to win us back again to that peculiar civil civilization Iza tion which every true philanthropist in the world mourns over powder and bullets are not very convincing reasons to the mind the crawn craan that halts between two opinions ali all cheah see no god but in adly valy worldly wealth might shrink and hypocritically assume to ba be converted before their power but free men and women who know truth and appreciate preel preci pre clate elate ate it would meet death with a smile rather than give up one principle which jehovah had implanted as a truth in their hearts there jire ate thousands of man in the eastern states tates who can declaim loudly against the enormities of mormon i ism men eh whose profession Is to teach their fellows white necked I 1 kid gloved ilen llen men with hair parted in the mid middle middie die dle who havo studied for years the science of converting by verbal gas could they not be ibe employed aa as a peaceful infix ence 11 fi hould they come pome here as mission f l ariello ari aries eslo to convert oswe would treat the them kindly gentlemanly more eo so ihan than the they i treat our missionaries in their neighborhoods and all hll leask we ask of them is if it they cannot convert us by showing u us the fallacy of bf our position that if we overturn their arguments and maintain the fallacy of theire theirs they wilt will ill have the manly candor to confess their errors and become preachers of the tho truth but bu pro arc probably this would bo be ask ash lug ing fog f too mackof much of them r aquier modo of punishment lately adopted by a certain poughkeepsie school is that of compelling a student jo to run round the school houge house time times whole distance five miles the offender is cured byte byle by being ing lug made an invalid there are sixty four prisoners in the ohio penitentiary under sentence for life ilfe ilfe life the veteran is john gull gall from stark county thirty three years a convict vict vlot now seventy years old mind long iong gince since gone and a wanderer about t the lie lle yard one of the short rAll railroads roads leadin lesdin leading out of new yo york rk city has de eldell eidell to t 0 issue a free pass for a term of years to every head of a famil family ly building and occupying a house at certain points along the road in order to stimulate the building up of the suburbs no doubt the experiment will prove successful k the climatic influence of forests b has also bam observed in australia in the district of ballaran ballarat BAll Bill arav arat it became striking that since deforesting defore defor fiting esting was was commenced on a large scale from the years year 4 1863 1803 to 1868 a regular decrease of the amount of rainfall from inches to 1423 inched had taken place the government I 1 OVern ment in view of this fact has created the office of an inspector of the state forests the business of this office wilf wilt be bb to prevent the clearing i butof out of the forests and to see bee after tho the earing caring for and planting of doreata fore atts atti in the tho various parts parta of the colony there 19 on exhibition at leipsic a speaking machine invented by fabor which is a masterpiece master piece of art it is in imitation of all the parts of the human organs of speech executed in india rub ber and wood A keyboard key board like that of a piano played by a ayoung young glads lady glady puts the parts parta in nio motion tion while by a pedal and bellows tho the required air is sent bent through the windpipe wind pipe chekey the keyboard key board eza haa only 14 keys representing the bound sound of afao a 0 u i e j r W wf f s ab b ga g da d sh theothor tho othor sounds lo 10 wis mis of the alphabet are prod produced deed by the same movement and the admission of moro mora or lemair less lem ain air the sounds of m and b are produced by cios clos 1 ing the lips n andl and 1 by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth etc the french nasal sounds are pro 1 deuced by a separate contrivance the laughing says the german general sounds truly diabolical al and d very comical is the cro crowing wing of a rooster SCHOOL examination A correspondent from south mill creek sends an ac count of an examination of the pupils of the school districts thirty thirty one and thirty six taught respectively by jaw jai D murphey john johne E booth and jos ii L rawlins tie the the exercises consisted of reading arithmetic grammar recitations singing natural philosophy zoology geology ac and were of the most interesting and satisfactory character after the examination which lasted between two and three hours a recess was taken after which the pupils met mot and had a good time together dancing |