HOOKE’S EUEA1 NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JULY 12. 
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IN THE MEADOWS. 
BY BAYARD TAYLOR. 
1 lib in the summer meadows, 
In the meadows all alone, 
With the infinite shy above me, 
And the sun on his mid-day throne. 
The smell of the flowering grasses 
Is sweeter than any rose, 
And a million happy insects 
Sing in the warm repose. 
The mother lark that is brooding, 
Feels the sunshine on her wings, 
And the deeps of the noon-day glitter 
With swarms of fairy things. 
From the billowy green beneath me 
To the fathomless blue above, 
The creatures of God are happy 
In the warmth of their summer love. 
The infinite bliss of Nature 
I feel in every vein ; 
The light and life of Summer 
Blossom in heart and brain, 
But darker than any shadow 
By thunder-clouds unfurled, 
The awful truth arises, 
That Death is in the world ! 
And the sky may beam as ever, 
And never a cloud be curled, 
And the-airs be living odors, 
But Death is in the world. 
Out of the deeps of sunshine 
The invisible bolt is hurled ; 
There’s Life in the summer meadows, 
But Death is in the world 1 
if*’* It**'MW. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ERRORS OF THE HEAD AND HEART. 
A TALE OF THE MORMONS. 
BY EDWARD WEBSTER. 
[Continued from last number. - ) 
A regiment of Illinois militia had been or¬ 
dered out by Governor Ford, as a “law and 
order” force to keep the peace and prevent acts 
of bloodshed between the Mormons and their 
opponents ; but they arrived upon the ground 
too late to binder the expulsion. Indeed, it is 
doubtful whether they would have strenuously 
opposed it, even if they bad, for they were part 
and parcel of the anti-Mormon party, and, as a 
consequence, sympathized with them secretly, 
if they did not fraternize openly.- At all 
events, the squad of armed men who perpe¬ 
trated the outrage on Carter acted ostensibly 
under State authority, a cover too often made 
use of, both before and since, as a shield for the 
perpetration of the most dastardly acts of vio¬ 
lence and wrong. Whether they reported the 
exploit to higher authority claiming the reward 
for deeds of prowess, or repented of it after¬ 
wards when their blood had time to cool, we 
are incompetent to say, further than that they 
showed no disposition to harrass the helpless 
family, but furnished them with food and com¬ 
fortable quarters for the night in one of the 
deserted houses. None of the captives, howev¬ 
er, took heed to the one, or tasted the other; the 
children wept until they fell asleep from sheer 
exhaustion, but the mother, with her head 
bowed down in grief and horror, sat stupefied 
and bewildered, while hour after hour glided 
away. 
The sun, while these matters were transpir¬ 
ing, had wheeled his great red disc down the 
western sky, until it buried itself beyond the 
river in the bosom of the prairie ; twilight, and 
then thick darkness had succeeded, unlit by 
the rays of a solitary star, for dense clouds had 
slowly visen above the horizon until they en¬ 
veloped the whole heavens ; the whip-poor-will 
had discontinued his note, the bat had ceased 
his flight, and even the owl, whose lonely boot¬ 
ings sounded like a lamentation, had folded his 
wings and choked down his sobbings, for his 
great round eyes were not of sufficient magni¬ 
tude to catch a single ray of illumination. The 
monotonous note of the fall cricket alone through 
the night broke the death-like stillness that 
pervaded the scene. A camp fire was burning 
in the area before the temple, its flickering rays 
illuminating a brief space around with an un¬ 
certain light, near which lounged a guard in 
that careless and unmilitary aspect so charac¬ 
teristic of State militia. A single sentinel also 
stood before the door of the house in which the 
captive family were confined, but his musket 
leaned against the door-post, and his whole air 
betokened a man detailed for the performance 
of an irksome and unnecessary duty. As the 
night wore on, the camp fire burned down into 
a mass of glowing embers, now and then shoot¬ 
ing out a tongue of half smothered flame, as 
some buried and unconsumed brand by chance 
received a breath of vital air, and anon sinking 
down again, leaving the scene around all the 
darker for the fitful illumination. The guard 
around the fire had fallen away into half-un- 
consciousness, while the lone sentinel at the 
door had stretched himself out upon the steps 
and entirely gone off into the land of dreams. 
A solitary candle, with untrimmed wick, was 
burning dimly in the room occupied by the 
woman and children, disclosing through the 
shutterless and uncurtained windows the scene 
within. 
An hour before the break of day, two human 
figures glided along amid the darkness of the 
deserted streets, with the noiseless step of a 
cat stealing upon her prey, ever and anon paus¬ 
ing to listen, and then gradually approaching 
the light of the watch fire. As they turned the 
corner of a street which gave them full view of 
the house, from the window of which streamed 
the light of the candle, one remained behind, 
while the other approached more cautiously and 
alone. Having taken a thorough survey, and 
apparently satisfied himself of the true position 
of things, he retreated to the side of his com¬ 
panion, and, after a brief consultation, both 
advanced together. One of them passed is over 
the prostrate and unconscious form of the sen¬ 
tinel, while the other quietly drew from hie 
pocket a flask of liquid, and amused himself by 
pouring a portion of tlie contents down the bar¬ 
rel and into the pan of the sentinel’s musket; 
then passing along half creeping, he mingled 
with the sleepy guard around the fire, and, with 
a dexterous movement, from time to time ad¬ 
ministered a similar dose to each of their fire¬ 
locks in turn, after which he withdrew in the 
same manner he had approached. Meantime 
his companion, who had entered the house, ap¬ 
proached the female and whispered in her ear. 
She started from her seat and would have 
shrieked and fallen, if he had not placed his 
hand upon her mouth, at the same time catch¬ 
ing her in his arms. 
“ Keep quiet, lor the love of God I” whisper¬ 
ed her husband—for it was he—“I am safe and 
sound as you see, and am come to rescue you 
and our children from this den of thieves 1” So 
saying, and without more delay, he proceeded 
to awaken the sleepers as quietly as possible, 
and taking tbe boy, who was the heavier, in his 
arms, he bade his wife follow with the other, at 
the same time chargingher to be specially care¬ 
ful how she stepped over the body of the pros¬ 
trate sentinel. Thus they passed quietly from 
ihe house and its dangerous vicinity, and being 
joined by their companion, vanished amid the 
grey shadows of the morning, which at the 
moment began breaking in the East. 
It is perhaps necessary to explain at this 
point how Carter came to be rescued from his 
perilous position on the river, and was thus en¬ 
abled to become the deliverer of his family._ 
The fugitive Mormons on the Iowa side, it seems, 
had the day previous, and at all times since 
their expulsion, kept an eye upon the move¬ 
ments of their enemies from a bluff covered 
with tall rank grass, which rose upon the river 
bank over against Nauvoo. Here a sentinel 
posted with a glass could observe all that passed 
within the city, and had noted what happened 
to Carter and his family. A small party 
therefore, with the only boat in their possession, 
was despatched down the river along shore, 
until hid from view of either side by a bend in 
the channel; whereupon they struck imme¬ 
diately across, and rescued from his perilous 
situation the solitary and involuntary voyager. 
It was therefore with emotions of the profound- 
est gratitude, and with feelings akin to those 
of one who experiences a special and divine 
interposition in his favor, that Miles Carter 
found himself in safety and among his brethren. 
He was destitute of resources, having been 
robbed of everything by his captors, but he 
thought not of that while an uncertain fate hung 
over bis family. The sect, however, were in no 
better condition, being themselves destitute of 
comfortable quarters, medicine, and even whole¬ 
some food—while at the same moment, their 
own crops, sown by their own hands upon the 
opposite side of the river, were wasting for the 
want of harvesters under their very eyes. But 
all this availed them nothing; the fair fields on 
which they had expended so much labor were 
to them a benefit no longer, and the only hope 
now left was to overtake, as speedily as possi¬ 
ble, their comrades, who, since the winter pre¬ 
vious, had been proceeding in detachments over 
the plains in the direction of the setting sun. 
They themselves were intending to start, next 
day, but iu consequence of the captivity of 
Carter’s family, at once determined to delay 
the march and attempt a rescue. A large num¬ 
ber volunteered to cross the river for that pur¬ 
pose, but one small boat was all they possessed, 
insufficient to convey the number necessary to 
effectanything by force. Stratagem was there¬ 
fore resorted to, by Carter and one companion, 
the success of which we will now proceed to 
disclose. 
The sleeping sentinel, over whose prostrate 
form our fugitives had passed so noiselessly, 
resting rather uneasily upon his bed of stone, 
at length undertook, unconsciously, to change 
his position, and in doing so/lost his balance 
and rolled down the steps, overturning his gun 
in the descent. Leaping to his feet in some¬ 
thing of a fright, and grasping his weapon, he 
looked within the house to assure himself that 
all was secure, but at a glance perceived that 
the premises were deserted. More than ever 
confirmed in his first impression, that he had 
been prostrated by a blow from an unseen hand, 
he raised the alarm of a Mormon invasion and 
rescue, which alarm the guard around the fire 
in a panic immediately took up and repeated. 
The light of the morning, however, being now 
sufficient to admit of seeing that no enemy was 
m the vicinity, they gathered courage and 
marched towards the river, without waiting for 
the muster of their brethren in arms now being 
awakened within the quarters. As they ap¬ 
proached the bank, a boat containing the fugi¬ 
tives and their rescuers was pushing from the 
shore, and making all haste to put as wide a 
space of water as possible between them and 
tbeir pursuers. One or two other boats belong¬ 
ing on the Illinois side of the river were lying 
on the beach, hut which the party just leaving 
had taken the precaution to stave. 
“ Come ashore instantly, or we’ll fire on you!” 
shouted the leader. No attention was paid to 
the order, and each moment was widening the 
distance between them, when the word was 
given to fire. Every trigger was pulled at the 
order, but not a gun discharged. A volley of 
oaths, however, was sent after them instead, and 
the discomfited party thereupon withdrew from 
the beach. 
The Mormon rear guard, which had been 
lingering near the river for the purpose of col¬ 
lecting the stragglers of the outcast people, 
deemed it now no longer safe to remain in that 
vicinity, and therefore the succeeding morning 
took up their line of march upon the trail of the 
advanced companies. A melancholy trail it 
proved to he, marked at frequent intervals by 
the graves of old and young, who, from sick¬ 
ness and privations, had fallen by the way.— 
Many of the young men had been detailed to 
scatter themselves incognito, and seek employ¬ 
ment among the farmers of the Western States, 
in order to obtain the means of aiding their 
brethren on'the way, leaving the old men and 
those with families to move forward with the 
trains. The country at this time was engaged 
in prosecuting the Mexican war, and just as the 
scattered trains had become consolidated near 
the banks of the Missouri, they were overtaken 
by a body of United States troops under Col. 
Kearkey bearing a letter from the Secretary of 
War, asking for a company of five hundred vol¬ 
unteers to aid in the subjugation of the Northern 
provinces. A council of the people was called 
to consider the matter, at which it was found 
impossible to meet the requisition with a regi¬ 
ment of young men, and they were therefore 
about to reject the proposal, when Miles Car¬ 
ter arose and said : 
“Although an abused and persecuted people, 
we are still citizens ol the United States, to 
which we owe allegiance and duty. If we re¬ 
ject this proposition under any circumstances, 
our opponents will reproach us with a want of 
patriotism, and fix upon us the charge of con¬ 
structive treason. I am not without suspicion 
that the call was suggested at the War office for 
that very purpose by our enemies; let us there¬ 
fore vindicate ourselves and bring confusion 
upon them. I, for one, offer myself as a vol¬ 
unteer 1” 
“What, then, will become of your family ?” 
inquired one of the elders. Carter’s counte¬ 
nance fell at the pertinent inquiry, for in the 
enthusiasm of the moment he had become 
oblivious of them. He was relieved of the ne¬ 
cessity of a reply, however, by another, who 
suggested that in case the quota of volunteers 
was obtained, the families should become wards 
of the church and be supported at the public 
expense until such time as they should return. 
This suggestion was immediately adopted, and 
in three day’s time the company -was enrolled 
and ready to march. Carter was one of them. 
The leave-taking of their wives and families, in 
the midst of the wilderness, was a bitter trial, 
but stern enthusiasm and a sense of duty buoyed 
them up, and the regiment, enrolled under the 
banner of tne United States, marched away to 
triumph over the enemies of the Republic, and 
to conquer for our common country an area of 
territory sufficient for the seat of a future galaxy 
of States. 
The remaining emigrants reached the Potta- 
watamie country late in autumn, where they 
halted for the winter, cut a store of fodder for 
their cattle from the bottom-lands of the Mis¬ 
souri, and erected a rude and temporary town, 
in which they sojourned until the opening of 
spring. With the first melting of the snow and 
ice, a detachment of robust men, with imple¬ 
ments and seeds, were sent forward to plant and 
sow a crop of grain in the valley of the Salt 
Lake, which should serve as a subsistence for 
the people when they might reach that point in 
their wanderings. This movement was crown¬ 
ed with eminent success, and, when at length 
the main body reached the valley after the 
summer’s toilsome journey, sick, and destitute, 
and ready to perish, they found an abundant 
harvest well secured, huts constructed, and all 
the other conveniences which time permitted 
them to make. They were enchanted with the 
beauty of the scenery, the richness of the soil, 
the seclusion from the external world, shut in 
as it is on all sides by lofty mountains, and at, 
once determined to go no further, but to make 
the valley of the Salt Lake tbe abode of the 
Mormon people forever. With an eye of faith 
they looked upon their wanderings as ended, 
and Utah as set apart by Divine appointment 
for the promised land. 
The volunteers in the meantime marched vic¬ 
toriously through New Mexico, planting in ev¬ 
ery town the banner of the United States, until 
they arrived in California, and joined them¬ 
selves to the conquering legions of Fremont 
and Stockton, who had already brought that 
land of buried and unknown treasure under 
the dominion of the Stars and Stripes. Peace 
was soonafter concluded, and the Mormon regi¬ 
ment thereupon disbanded ; but the paymas¬ 
ter’s department being destitute of funds, scrip 
was given them for pay instead, subject to fu¬ 
ture redemption. How to join their families 
was now the question. They had heard that 
the final determination of the people was to re¬ 
main at Salt Lake, but the snowy peaks of the 
Sierra Nevada intervened, and pack mules and 
provisions had to be obtained, in order to ac¬ 
complish the arduous journey. To this end, 
after a consultation, the members dispersed 
themselves throughout the territory, and, in the 
seaports and at the ranches, sought employ¬ 
ment. Carter, with two or three of his com¬ 
rades, in their perambulations at length arrived 
at Captain Sutter’s ranch upon the Sacramento, 
and offered themselves for hire. Their sun- 
embrowned faces, enormous beards, and thews 
endued by all the hardships and exposures of 
ranger life, gave them the appearance of despe¬ 
radoes rather than of honest men; but, in an 
unsettled country as California then was, to be 
reached only by a long and perilous voyage by 
sea around Cape Horn, or by a still more 
toilsome and dangerous journey over land, and 
across the continent, external appearances did 
not usually go far in making up an estimate of 
character. The patriarch of the ranch was at 
the time engaged in the erection of a mill, the 
raceway of which was yet undug ; so without 
extended parley, he struck a bargain with the 
applicants for labor to make the necessary ex¬ 
cavations. The ingenuity and mechanical skill 
of Carter now came to their aid, promising a 
handsome speculation out of the undertaking; 
for, observing the loose and porous nature of the 
soil, he directed his associates to open a narrow 
trench, through which, by diverting the waters 
of the stream, they might be made auxiliaries in 
the work. This was accordingly done, and a 
huge volume was speedily rolling its turbid 
current through the channel, bearing upon its 
bosom a burden of sand and gravel. Carter 
and his co-laborers were aiding the work, now 
removing a boulder from the channel, and anon 
picking loose some more tenacious portion of 
the bed, when, as the waters partially cleared 
away, little bars of bright yellow sand remained 
behind, which seemed too heavy to be removed 
by the tide. The particles had a singular ap¬ 
pearance, being in the shape of smooth thin 
scales, in many instances taking the form of a 
piece of battered lead. The idea of its being 
of any value whatever did not once enter their 
heads ; and for a long time they directed their 
efforts, by stirring vigorously, to cause it to 
move out of the channel and deposite itself, they 
cared not where, upon some broad sand bar of 
the Sacramento. 
A huge pebble of the yellow stuff at length 
rolled along the channel and came to rest di¬ 
rectly under Carter’s eye, the singular appear¬ 
ance of which'caused him to examine it mi¬ 
nutely. Except in color, it appeared like a 
piece of iron, which, in a molten state, had been 
poured into the ragged crevice of a rock ; and 
which, being subsequently removed, still re¬ 
tained a piece of milk white stone firmly set 
within its bosom. The fragment had appa¬ 
rently been rolled along a stream, until all the 
prominences had become smooth, while in the 
indentations the sharp outlines of the melted 
metal still remained. Carter had seen in a 
cabinet of minerals beautiful specimens of iron 
pyrites, that looked like gold; but then this 
specimen was almost twice as heavy as iron. 
“ What if it were really gold ?” he murmur¬ 
ed ; but such an idea seemed too incredible. It 
staggered him nevertheless, and recollecting to 
have heard a cheminal lecturer once say, that, 
of all the counterfeit resemblances of gold in na¬ 
ture, not one of them would admit of a shaving 
being cut away without breaking, he took out 
his knife and pared off a thread of metal which 
rolled up before the edge of the blade like a 
shaving of iron before tbe chisel of a turning en¬ 
gine. Wrought up to the highest pitch of ex¬ 
citement as the magnificent truth forced itself 
upon bis conviction, he called out, “In the 
name of God, comrades, we are treading on a 
bed of gold!” 
[Concluded next week.] 
it iiiili luiiifli'. 
Jonah Outdone. — The Pittsburg Express 
fishes up the following paragraph from a paper 
published in 1767 : 
“On a passage to Jamaica, with troops on 
board, a little boy, who was a lifer, sitting on a 
gunwale, by a sudden roll of the ship, fell over¬ 
board, and was directly swallowed by a shark. 
A hook was baited with a piece of beef and 
thrown over the stern, which was seized by the 
shark, and he was presently hauled on board. 
On opening the shark, the boy was found snug¬ 
ly seated between two ribs, and unconcerned, 
playing a tune on his fife.” 
Wanted to Know —If steamships are used in 
navigating the “sea of troubles ?” If it is ow¬ 
ing to the rate of interment being so cheap, that 
so many are “buried in oblivion ?” If ships “ in 
stays” are subject to “ tight lacing ?” Whether 
the “ tale” which the ghost of Hamlet’s father 
could unfold, was “ founded on fact ?” The el¬ 
evation of the “pmacle of fame” above the 
ocean. If hydropathic treatment would be any 
ways likely to cure the “ eruptions” of Mount 
JEtna. 
Don’t be Sentimental —It’s bad for digestion. 
Remember, the best tonic is fun, and the best 
physician a joker. For giving a tonic in the 
stomach, one good hearty laugh is worth all the 
pills that were ever paid for or patented.— 
Cheerfulness is a moral armor. It protects the 
mind from the javelins of dyspepsia, and 
makes it as impregnable to the assaults of duns 
and unliquidated due-bills as Gibralter is to 
pop-guns. 
The other evening, one gentleman pointed 
out a dandified looking individual to his friend 
as a sculptor. “What ?” said his friend, “such 
a looking chap as that a sculptor ! Surely, you 
must be mistaken.” “ He may not be the 
kind of one you mean,” said the informant, “but 
I know that he ‘ chiseled’ a tailor out of a suit 
of clothes last week.” 
Wm. Howitt, in his Australian tour, says he 
lived three weeks on friccasied kangaroo; at the 
end of that period he acquired such remarkable 
agility that he could jump 60 feet without strain¬ 
ing the seat of his unmentionables. He did’nt 
discontinue his diet until he found himself be¬ 
ginning to acquire a growth of fur. 
Enamored writing-master to a young lady 
pupil—“I can teach you nothing ; your hand is 
already a very desirable one, and your I’s 
(eyes) are the most beautiful I ever saw.” 
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so, Bedford Co., England; got by Diamond, (5918) dam Fatima, 
by 3d Duke of Northumberland, (3647) g. d. Formosa, by Sir 
Thomas, (3636) g. g. d. by Sir Alexander (591) g. g. g. d. by 
Marske (418.) Per further particulars see Herd Hook. 
S. S. MOREHOUSE. 
Aven, Livingston Co., N. Y., April, 1856. 331-lam3m 
KEDZIE’S RAIN WATER FILTERS, 
MANUFACTURED BY J. E. CHENEY & CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
These celebrated Filters have been fully 
tested for many years in almost every State 
in the Union, and the demand is constantly 
increasing. There are five sizes, made of 
oak, iron-bound tubs, with reservoirs inside, 
from which can be drawn about 11)0 gallons 
in twenty-four hours, for all domestic uses. 
The most impure Rain, River or Lake 
water by this means becomes pure, clear as 
crystal, and without taste or smell. In this 
condition only is water fit for family purpos¬ 
es, as a means of promoting the general 
health, and as a preventive of cholera, and 
other diseases incurred by the use of impure water. 
They are portable, durable and cheap, and are not excelled 
by any other filter known. Address 
330eowtf_ J. E, CHENEY A CO., Rochester, N. Y. 
LY ON’S COFFER LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR. 
PATENTED JULY 11, 1854. 
The subscribers have purchased the entire interest of the 
Patentee in the manufacture of these celebrated Conductors, 
and are prepared to furnish them with the appropriate fixtures 
to all parties holding the right to territory, in any quantity, and 
on short notice. Circulars sent on application. Address 
321-lam-tf BRITT AN A EDWARDS, Lockport, N. Y. 
WHEAT FARM FOR SALE. 
Located in Farmington, Ontario Co , N. Y„ 3 miles from Vic¬ 
tor village, and 1/ mile south of BrcVvnville. Containing 93 acres*; 
soil well adapted for wheat or other crops. Large stone house, 
new bam : peach and apple orchards of choice fruit. Price $5,- 
000. Inquire of JOHN G. ROBINS on the premises, of S 
BOUGHTON, Victor, or the subscriber, East Pembroke, Gene¬ 
see County. D. C. HOUGHTON. 
February, 1856. 818-lamtf 
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