Show GENERAL ELECTION 1872 OTICE 1 li belsby helsby given to the qualified L of 0 lake county anat lne the beneral alecil m fur me year 1873 1872 will be ba held la in be the several precincts in au lake nake county on monday the ane ainia of for foe the aur our pesse perse ot of detecting a delegato delegate Be legate to corgie a three to locate locale uain Lain dir dit six to the nett neit I alture oae hot hol selectman ectman a a sheriff imm lff a roner rooer a 5 a er ter kua kud A of common schools lor balt bait liike naho bounty hald haid electa election n to ba held and rv rf turu turn made in accordance accor dance danca with ib laws 91 me the territory of utah man la in relation ta D county clerk clark S L co county counti 9 dierks berks balce offic P 8 L county hajt hait like eity city july 17 U s 6 THE following copy of a letter from asael smith grandfather of joseph smith first president of the church of jebus jesus christ of latter day saints written seventy six years ago will be acceptable to our readers especially to the relatives and mends friends of the writer and interesting as a memento to the family and as a historical document to the public jan 1796 d sir having a favorable opportunity tunit altho aitho on very short notice I 1 wit with joy oy an and gratitude embrace it returning herewith wy most hearty thanks for your respect shown in your favor of thib the of november by mr willes which I 1 view as a singular specimen of friendship which has very little been practiced practised by any of my friends in topsfield Tops field altho aitho often requested ilmy my family are all through the good ness nesb of the divine benediction in a tolerable good state of health and desire to be remembered to you and to all I 1 inquiring iring friends 1 I have set me up a new hou ap since mr willes mies was wab shere here and expect to remove into it next spring nud hud to begin again on an entire new sew farm and my son joseph will live on the old farm if this ahat hat has been beed but four years occupied can b be called old aud mud carry it on at the halves which hait half I 1 hope will nearly furnish my family with food aw whilst hilst I 1 with my four youngest sods sous bous shall endeavor to to another farm etc gas gab As to ta news I 1 have nothing as aa I 1 know of worth noticing except that grain has taken a sudden budden riss rise amongst us about one third As to the jacobin party they are not very num hum numerous erous here hemi or it if they are they are pretty still there are sohie some in this state viz iu in bennington who like other children crying for il a rattle have blared out against their rulers I 1 in n hopes to wrest from them if possible what they esteem the plaything 0 of and trust but they have been pretty well weli eli eil ell and have become tolerably quiet again and I 1 am in hopes if they live to arrive to the years of dior dier discretion etlou when the empire of reason shall take place I 1 that the they will then become good members of society notwithstanding their noisy nolay nucleus behavior in their childhood for which they were neither capable of hearing or giving any reason reanon 1 for my pirt piri iam ibm lamn lamm so wa willing lung to trust trual the tiie go government vern ment of the world in the hrinda brinds bf buier ruler of salvature salba sal bal nature ture that I 1 do not at present wish to try to wrest it ft hs his bandh hands and 1 I have bavei BO 60 much confidence io in his abilities to tb teach oud udd Senat senators ors orb wisdom that thail 1 dono do not nob think it worth while for me t 0 from the litt little lestock stock of knowledge that he has bas favored me with in I 1 in the th 6 affair allair eith rim rone eway way or orthe the other he has haa conducted Us through a glorious revolution llon ilon lion and bm brou brought glit us into the promised land laud of pl peace nee nce ace and liberty tand band I 1 believe that her is about to bring all the world into the same hame beai beal beatitude tude in his own time and way which althof aethol hla hia ways my a piear never so BO inconsistent to dur dun our ifland rea yea bon son yet illet may be perfectly cona cong consistent lAtent with hla hia degna deigns and rb F elleve believe thit that the stone ston 0 is now cut out of the tha mountain without hands bands spoken of by daniel add and has emitter emit tuu tun the image upon his bis feet by which the tha iron the clay oay the bras i the silver and the gold viz all the monarchial and e ecclesiastical c tyranny will be broken to ta pieces and become as the chann chaff of he fhe summer thrashing floor tb evInd the wind bhail shall carry them all away that there shall be no place fou found nd for them give my best regards to your parents and anatel telf them that I 1 have takegi up mp with the eleventh commandment that the negro taught to the minister which thus the minister asked the ne negro grohow how many commandments there were his answer was cleben El eben air 1 aye 7 replied the other what is the arev eleventh nafi that is one I 1 never heard beard of the the eleventh Ele benth commandment sir la Is mind your own busine business so I 1 choose to do and give myself but little concern bout what passes in the political world give my best regards to dr meriam mr willes joseph dorman darman and mr cree and tell mr cree I 1 thank him for his respects and hope he will accept of mine write to me as often and as large as you can and oblige your sincere friend and aud well wisher signed asael aaen SMITH MR MB jacor JACOB TOWN JUN 11 the following appears on the back of the first page of the letter being evidently of the nature of a pt give my hearty thanks to mr charles rogers for his respect shown in writing me a few linea iines and tell him that I 1 should a wrote to him now bad I 1 had time but now waive it for the present as aa I 1 have considerable part of what I 1 intended to a writ to you if I 1 should live and do well I 1 expect to come to myself next winter which if I 1 do I 1 shall come and pay you a visit farewell tell mr joseph cres cree that if he be will come here and set up his trade I 1 will warrant him as aa much work as he can do and good pay on the margin of the second page of the ietter letter appears the following I 1 expect my son joseph will be married in a few days tj on the outside of the letter besides the superscription mr jacob town topsfield Tops field commonwealth of mab Mas massachusetts is ia this reed reald recd feb 14 1796 from asael smith from which it appears that the letter was one month on the journey from tunbridge vt to tops Top afield a distance of miles and was probably carried by private conveyance the letter amounts almost to a prophecy and manifests manifesto the strong faith of the writer in the stability and aud permanence of the then new government 0 of f the united states under the overruling hand of the almighty we are indebted to president geo ged A smith for this copy he having obtained it on his recent visit vleit in the east from a bon son of mr jacob town now the town clerk of topsfield Tops field who wished to retain the original copy THE tele telegraph graphia to dispatches have stated that the new york standard was wab tern term pora rily suspended the paper itself 8 bays a ys its circulation varied from to it was a republican and administration paper this is a bad time for an administration paper to succumb just gustaa as the grand political campaign JS really beginning in earnest the standard gives the reasons for its suspension when the standard was started only one third of its stock subscription was paid in after the first year the paper was an immense success but its firt instalment installment being spent after that it relied not upon capital but upon reu ret restrained t and almost superhuman labor the stockholder stockholders seeing that the paper has haa been getting along moderately i have committed the financial suicide 0 of t not coming forward with the remaining two thirds of their subscription money the present editor and publisher therefore deems deenis it prudent and sensible to male make a temporary suspension of uie ule publication of ane tile paper from th s date until further notice the standard was an ably edited paper and we shall miss mies it from our table australia australla is a going through another gold fever A sydney letter to the london limes bays says gold tin or copper is being turned up everywhere prospectus es of new landjaw creakingly named mining companies crowd out general intelligence fron the papers or oblige the proprietors to issue extra sheets new now companies appear every morning and nud bhare share brokers 8 rapidly increase money is so plentiful that it can be borrowed for 3 per cent and capitalists hitherto preferring any other Iii investment vestment are forced to stimulate mining industry and aud cautious peo pie invest in many ventures in order that by all ali means they maywin something handsome during the first ter of th Is y year ear the gold yield el d was ounces a great increase over previous yields it is supposed that the three remaining quarters will exceed that ratio an importation of skilled min ers is required but of pretenders and bunglers there is already an abundance of the situation and the prospects the sydney herald says say a the no I 1 south nil nii claim in the Tenter tenterfield nield field district has baa during the past few days yielded some very rich stone a piece weighing about 60 50 ounces was supposed to contain fully 30 ounces of gold the precious metal being about an inch thick and running right through the stone the party from whose claim the above specimen was obtained have some tons of rich stone to crush at solferino a large area of new ground has hab been taken up and therease ther there eare are now nose some or people on the field and the number is daily increasing to show the auriferous wealth of this locality it may be mentioned that a short cidio ago some twelve tons of specimens yielded about ounces some excitement was caused a few days ago by the discovery of a new reef it was wms found near the surface and some sume splendid specimens have been obtained from it of course there was a rush to the place and a number of claims were at once marked out at the perseverance beef reef in the clarence district some stone has been struck in a shaft that was being sunk which Is ia said to be so eo rich that shares placed in the sydney market for sale were withdrawn the thee last stone taken out of the claim will yield it is reported more than an ounce of gold to the pound of quartz another splendid reef has since been discovered in the same neighborhood some little excitement cit ement has been caused at tumut in the south by a report of further discoveries co veries for some little time past prospecting has haa been going on at a reef which had been deserted for several months some extraordinarily rich stone has at last been struck simultaneously with this discovery another rich vein has been unearthed in the same locality these valuable discoveries have given an impetus to mining operations in this district the last crushing at one of the claims on this nield field yielded about eighteen ounces to the ton A company has recently been formed to work the celebrated claim at wentworth extraordinary rich yields of gold were formerly obtained from this fielland fiel dand there is every prospect of before the new company 1 |