| Show arg art Ual kel csefai but bat not finier enter ghe gho interminable army jbell about gil til atae com cam huander mandella in uhler why congress hlll V gil III noa not pana pasa une tho bily bill more moro nan gnan baa bills before lle the gwo tiro houses washington jan 1876 editors aws just at present there ig Is very little to write about from washington congress is occupied with bills and debates that are the reverse of interesting and exciting except to the special classes they affect of course they affect all indirectly through taxation but the american citizen la is in the habit of paying bis his taxes doggedly when he cannot avold avoid them indifferent as to how much money goes gots to the disabled and hud pensioned veter teter veteran ail arl or to improve the naM navigation gation of the north fork of little muddy bun run the army bill is a tolerably live subject I 1 but this bill so po popular when I 1 it I 1 was first I 1 introduced and which almost all parties agreed had excellent features it is feared h hab has a been already killed hilled by pre pro legisla tive discussion I 1 believe that one of bf the greatest objections to the bill is the great authority it con confers fers on the unpopular general of the army gen sherman is the antithesis of grant in that be he talks and talks if gen grant must be called the silent sagacious us in man an then general sherm bherman sherman an is t he the noisy loquacious man not that he does not talk well and convincingly ng but he is devoid of magnet magnetism in I 1 and while his ability is conceded he is not loved either in or out of the army the american world sees and anti hears too much of him he is too conspicuously ubiquitous if it he be would only fold himself bithis ia his military cloak and affect the trick of mystery ho he might go down to posterity as ad a great man and have h a bronze equestrian monument in which he would bei be almost as io to as the horse but general sherman prefers to enjoy the present rather than posterity his motto is vivo dum vivo 9 so he talks incessantly is the hero of a thousand interviews ter ten views writes letters and books dances at public balls balis occupies the most conspicuous box in the theatre the most prominent seat on the platform when henry ward beecher lectures until the army congress and the people begin to feel that the commander in chief has lost novelty and dign dignity itys has in short be come vulgar when the czar of russia asked the first napoleon at ut a ball in parisi paris if it would be prudent for forham him to dance with a popular actress the french emperor told him hira to dance if he wished to read comments of hia his sal Bal performance for mance in all ali the paris baris papers the czar kept out of the paper papers but the newspaper penalty would not deter gen sherman ele eie he would have his dance perhaps the only way in which a real reform can be effect eda reform that will change the top 9 of the army and reduce the disproportion of one officer to every five men will be to elect a congress that has no desire for a second term every member has the right nigh t to nominate one cadet to west point this is one of hla hia perquisites the son of the most influential constituent in hl his district gets the nomination in this way the M 0 strengthens his own political fortune and to a certain extent insures insurer hir his hi r it is expecting too much of human nature baturo to suppose that politicians will vote disinterestedly on a subject that BO so nearly affects their personal fortunes and the west point mill will continue to grind out high pay officers at the rate of 75 per year there are too many other abuses local and national crying for reform for the masses to concentrate on this as an issue and even if it should be embodied in the national platforms congress would find some way to evade it y snows mau mac air reforms renor lyls 1119 may be DO evaded so long as men and omen women have bread and in a republican form of where whore it is impossible to fix responsibility reforms of what are called minor abuses are less attainable than in monarchies A parliament will more readily apply the pruning knife to the overgrown perquisites of the crown crow nthan than it will cut off its own perquisites it looks as if the ol 01 old oid dsa saying ying of making many books there is no end would have to be revised by substituting bills for books there are no woven 7 I 1 bf bills lia ila pending in the house and senate there is no statute to prevent tany any citizen of the united states from tV baving having ilig his 1118 hobby bobby brought before congress the patent bill was again before the senate on yesterday while the house was occupied with witly the district of columbia embla bill 0 CAS A S cream ermie RIDGE afon AIon mouth county N X J rau nan jau tan 21 1679 editors dc deseret geret seret mews news rn november last while burau ing ag my genealogical labors I 1 in a essex county mas mass I 1 had occasion to go to a village ten miles distant from the home orsome of bome some friends with whom I 1 was stopping there being no wa other means mearis of traveil traveling gj walked the entire distance only to learn on my arrival that the town clerk in whose custody were kept the records I 1 had come to search pearch was absent from the vila village ae while the records were locked up in a safe in a store of which the atif town clerk was the proprietor the clerk in the store sympathized with me in my dilemma as jt appeared that my journey was futile when an idea occurred to him and he recommended me to call on mr B P who wh 0 he h 0 sni pat said bald d was something of a ge genealogist nea loaf st and I 1 d ve very ry familiar with th the 01 ol old oid d town r records e cords and probably able to assist me I 1 accordingly called at mr B ba Is residence and was ushered into his bis study where the gentleman himself soon joined me I 1 gave him div card containing my name and address he glanced at it and said from salt lake I 1 see are you a mormon I 1 replied that I 1 was an elder of that church expressed great pleasure at a representative of that peculiar people his urbane and pleasant manne manners rEmade nade me feel at at once onee I 1 then at stated abed that the object of my cn call cail a 11 bras was to see if he could give me any y information relative to the tho families I 1 was tracing naming them be he replied that he could abdat and at once produced manuscript and printed copies of some of the oldest records of marriages and baptisms in the town dating years back precisely what I 1 wanted he placed these together with writing material on la a table and in a very cordial way told me to make myself at home and take what extracts from the records I 1 desired I 1 fell to work at once but immediately discovered that one or two days would be required to accomplish com what I 1 wished so copious was the material and ant aft B took BO so much pleasure in inquiring and conversing about our people history religion etc that I 1 pro pressed bui but slowly with my work arrived and he pressed me to take supper and remain all night I 1 did so and spent the next day and night with him also on both evenings he jie conversed with me till midnight upon our religion etc ete listening with great pleasure and attention to what I 1 said eaid he was a non professor of faith in any religion or even in the bible the latter he said baid might be true though he was not prepared to accept it massuch as such he was a graduate of a new england college and of harvard law school had received from bowdoin college the honorary degree of master waster of arts and was a practicing attorney and country gentleman combined his views were broad and comprehensive and abd hia hla disposition generous cordial and urbane and he was a model of hospitality all the religions with which he was wat familiar were to him inconsistent and absurd and he despised the hireling priesthood system when I 1 spoke in denunciation of the prevalent social sins of this country he coincided heartily with me adding some statistics the village of K R in which he re blaed sided contained about 1000 inhabitants and basing a calculation on information obtained from a resident physician very good authority there nad nud ticen ficen not lebs leas than 50 cases eases of abortion or prenatal destruction st of offspring during the past year in the villager vil lagel from information which he had obtained asa as a practising practicing attorney there had been within a year in the comparatively small county of essex not leps than for divorce when I 1 stated our belief and the predictions of the prophet joseph esmith hsmith regarding the coming destruction lest st cUon of this republic unless the people repented he replied in ja effect effects aa as follows I 1 can also agree with you there perfectly you say c you believe in the speedy dissolution of this republics republic and that that belief is founded on modern inspiration I 1 do not believe in inspiration nor revelation ancient or modern nevertheless I 1 have come to the same conclusions that you have though in a very different way history teaches me that when 1 any nation has commenced to rlee rise or increase lucrease in power or civilization they have prospered in their advancing courso course just so long aa as their social customs and institutions were kept pure but simultaneously with the tho spread of sexual corruption among the inhabitants of any nation there have bave aird also aiso spread agencies that have caused its decadence and downfall the PC science fence of social and political e economy cono my explains pla pia ins thi thle the family ia Is the ba is ls bis eis 11 of society society of national governments and organizations when the family or sexual relations have become impure corruption la Is at the root 0 of the mit dit national ional lonal tree which must decay and fall the fall of this nation will be more rapid than was that of greece or rome bome for they were campara ively free from social vices in which this nation ia Is steeped vices whose very natures arato aro ara to disintegrate and destroy society aej he by the cold methods of philosophy hll hil had reached precisely similar conclusions to which the right of modern revelation has led the latter day Sa saints IlIts and thus it will ever be found that there Is a perfect hal hai harmony armony between revelation and philosophy rightly so called after mutual expressions of pleasure at our acquaintance I 1 left him on the third day of my stay h having v with his geno generous irous assistance obtained several beveral hundred names very respectfully 33 F cumminas JR |
