Show THE PEEP O’ its invisible termination without drawing back with a cold shudder The prince knelt down and examined the surrounding ground with great care At length he raised a small square stone which covered a metallic plate and taking from his vest a cornelian talisman covered with strange characters he knocked thrice upon the plate with the signet A low solemn murmur sounded around Presently the plate flew off and Alroy pulled forth several yards of an iron chain which he threw7 over to the opposite precipice The chain fastened without difficulty to the rock and W’as evidently constrained by some magnetic influence The prince seizing the chain with both his hands now swung across the ravine' As he landed the chain parted from the rock swiftly disappeared down the opposite aperture audits covering closed- with ths same low solemn murmur as before rection Towards sunset they wore within a few miles of the broken mid rocky ground into which the mountains and afar off Alroy recognidescended sed the cupola of-thlong expected well With reanimated courage and rallied energies hb patted liis courser’s neck and pointed in the direction of the cupola and the horse pricked up his ears and increased its pace J list as the sun set they reached the well Alroy jumped off the horse and would have led it to the fountain but the animal would not advance It stood dreadfully shivering with a glassy eye atld then it bowed its head and with a groan fell down dead Niglit brings rest night brings solace rets to the wearv solace to the sad And to the desperate night brings despair Morn breaks a silver light is shed over the blue ' and starry sky Pleasant to feel is the breath of dawn Night brings repose but day brings joy The carol of a lonely bird singing in the wilderness ! A lonely bird that sings with glee ! Sunny and sweet and light and clear its airy notes float through the sky and thrill with innocent revelry The lonely youth on the lonely bird upgazes from the fountain side High in the air it proudly floats’ balancing its crimson wings and its snowy tail long delicate rand thin shines like a spark-- : ling meteor in the sun The carol of a lonely bird singing in the wilderness Suddenly it downward dashes" and thrice with circling grace head of the Heit flies around brew’ prince T Ti by his side it gently l fresh and fragrant drops a bunch - dates gone ’tis gone ! that cheerful stranger gone to the palmy land it loves gone like a bright and pleasant dream A moment since it wTas there glancing in the sunny air and now the sky is without a guest Alas alas ! no more is heard the carol of that lonely bird singing in the wilderness “ As thou didst feed Elislm so also hast thou fed me God of my fathers !” And ' Alroy arose and lr£ took his turban and unfolded it and knelt and prayed Abd then he ate of the dates and drank of and full of confidence in the fountain the God of Israel the descendant of Da- " vid pursued his flight He now’ commenced the ascent of the mountainous chain a wearisome and painful toil Two hours past noon he reached the summit of the first ridge and looked over a wild and chaotic w aste full of precipices and ravines and dark unfathomable gorges The surrounding bills wore ploughed in all directions by the courses of dried-u- p cataracts and here and there a few savage goats browsed on an occasional patch of lean Vnd sour pasture This Waste extended for many miles the distance formed by a elevated more range of mountains and beyond these high in the blue sky rose the loftiest peaks of Elburz shining with sharp glaciers of eternal snow It was apparent that Alroy was no utrangor in the scene of his flight He had neverhesitated as to his course and nowr after having rested for a short time f on the summit he descended towards the left by a natural but intricate path until his progress w as arrested by a black ravine Scarcely half a dozen yards-li-vide- d him from the opposite precipice by which it was fonnea but the gulf beneath —m one eould ihoot a ghnee at ' ’Tis (TO of the southern country “by our means” which we most certainly intend to do should have sent an intimation of this (kjterminatiou before only we did not’ know’ till now that the’ Presidency of the Church had removed towards Lehi ! We will make ail application of Mr Brown’s letter to tho distinguished personages called like ourselves to the “cotton country” i AVe ' October 1864 Gentlemen: I have heard with surprise that you intend to cany on your usual business Operations in the north I have discovered that yon profess to be wamj ly attached to the Mormon cause ConIf I mistake not last ference of the aforesaid body I heard your names called in connexion with a mission to the southern part of this Terrritory Now sirs if your devotion to Mormonism is as intense as you represent it permit me to suggest the propriety of your tilling that mission Should you afterwaids have time to attend to business in the north I may consent to give you ny distinguished patronage Respectfully v C1IAS BROWN EF CONTINUED) — A COOL ' Since writing the above we have discovered that Mr Browu holds a publie Permit ui positional his neighborhood to suggest the propriety of bis filling “ mission before he proceeds further “Should he afterward have time 77 to attend to otir affairs — as bo seems eminently Adapted for minding othr people’s business — we will avail : ourselves of his wrvices vz::rz 11' 1 EPISTLE The following epistle was received from’ within one hundred miles of Lehi We have more regard for our correspondent than he has for liiinself and have therefore suppressed his real name We should have done the same for David Caudlaiid last week had he sent his letter to us privately blit lie took particular pains to Know- give publicity to his own letter ing well that we lived in the city he sent - the letter through the public post to ' 19 LITERACY MAGAZINE DAY— A 18th 1864 Editors of Peep O’ THY: Gentlemen : Your letter of October date in which you request me to act as agent for your new paper entitled the “Peep O’ Day” arrived duly also the first lumber of your magazine From the reading of vour first number I discover that you profess to be warmly devoted to the Alormou cause ConIf I mistake not at the last ference of the aforesaid body 1 heard your name to a mission the in connection southwith called ern part of this Territory sirs if to Mormonism devotion is as Now your intense as yon represent it permit mo to suggest the propriety of your lilliug the mission assigned Should you afterwards have time for the you editorship of the FUEl O’ Day I may consent to become your agent Respectfully OKAS BROWN We present Mr entire the writer Charles Brown’s letter has ricucc nufl §Ut Camp Doughs first intending to publicly insult us and then the Camp That it might insult fully and completely lie sent the all letter hoping that might see it When a man will write a letter calling a settlement of over five hundred persons bv another name for bell and then send that letter to that community — privacy after that is a burlesque and a sham Furthermore as Mr Candland prepared his own letter for the press actually marking which words w ere to be in capitals and which in italics as well as stiffW e grtftit to all ly pointing the whole men a right to differ with us but we cannot concede to them a right to insult or lecture us without notice : October that however omitted a necessary intimation lie should have added after his name — President of the Church of Latter Hay Saints This however is simply an omission as from his style and language lie evidently bolds no less a positiou Wo beg then to say to President Brown that at the last General Conference we were “ called on amission to the southern part of this Territory” we were not however called upon to give up all business here anymore than any other person named — at least tee were not until 3fr Drowns letter arrived — but we were called upon to assist in the development Wiiy a Lamp Wick hoes not Buun — If wc take a piece of wick -- and place it in the flame of a lamp it is immediately consumed but tlio same kind of wicli placed in the lamp and lighted at the top lasts the whole evening and if the lamp is supplied writli alcohol the wick is not even charred ' The cause of this was a perfect mystery until a hundred years ago when Dr Black of Glasgow discovered that principle of latent heat As the oil or the alcohol comes near the flame it is evaporated and by this change in its form a large quantity of heat is destroyed or rather is rendered latent so that it does not manifest itself in any way It requires a great quantity of heat to change a liquid into vapour so that evaporation always cools surrounding objects The wick is coolda or’el-coliby the evaporation of the oil below the temperature at which it will combine with oxygen! in other words be!owr the temperature at which it will burn ol An enterprise has lately been set on foot in France for tlic manufacIdro ture of guano from fishes refuse from fisheries lias been for some time past employed in this manner but it is now proposed to organize fisheries for the purpose of manufacturing the article which possesses several advantages decomposing neither too quickly1 nor too slowly and exhaling no ammonia |