tions which involve such vast and terrible con¬ 
sequences. And hence, too, the paramount 
necessity on the part ot the people ot knowledge 
sufficient to enable them to form intelligent 
opinions on matters of state—knowledge which 
every one can have and ought to have, and 
which, therefore, no one can be excused for not 
having. Intelligence and knowledge alone val¬ 
idate the claims of conscience when opposed to 
those of law. 
victims, and some women, indeed, chafing un¬ 
der restraint, run counter to public prejudice, 
and appear- in a garb which makes them ridicu¬ 
lous in the eyes of the world ; but just so long 
as there is some one to point the way, or in 
other words 11 lead the fashion,” justso longtlie 
majority will follow, as blindly and as recklessly 
as the flock folio ws the bell-wether. But what’s 
the use of talking about it V None at all. I 
have not a single suggestion to make concern¬ 
ing a remedy, but I rvould like to have some of 
you ladies think over the matter. 
VVrltten for Moore’s Rural New Yorker 
SUNSHINE AND CLOUD. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Torker. 
SONG OF THE FALLING ROCKS, 
BY JOHN G. SAXE, 
Dash 1 dash! dash! 
Thro’ foam to the waters below 1 
The waters Hash, 
As they fall around; 
The waters splash 
As they reach the ground; 
And circled by spray as white as snow 
We thunder down with a crash. 
BY ROSETTE ANNIE ROSE, 
“ A man is, in general, better pleased when he has a 
good dinner upon his table, than when his wife speaks 
Greek."— Sam Johnson. 
Johnson was right. I don’t agree to all 
The solemn dogmas of the rough old stager; 
But very much approve what one may call 
The minor morals of the “ Ursa Major.” 
Johnson was right. Altliugb some men adore 
Wisdom in woman, and with learning cram her, 
There isn’t one in ten but thinks far more 
Of his own grub than his spouse's grammar. 
I know it is the greatest shame in lire; 
But who among them, (save, perhaps, myself,) 
Returning hungry home, but asks his wife 
What, beef-not, books—she has upon the shelf? 
Though Greek and Latin be the lady’s boast, 
They’re little valued by her loving mate; 
The kind of tongue that, husbands relish most 
Is modern, boiled, and served upon a plate. • 
Or if, as fond ambition may command, 
Some home-made verse the happy matron Bhow him, 
What mortal spouse but from her dainty hand 4 
Would sooner sec a pudding than a poem ? 
Young lady!—deep in love with Tom or Harry— 
’Tis sad to tell you such a tale as this ; 
But here’s the moral of it: Do not marry; 
Or, marrying, take yeur lover as he is— 
A very man—with something of the brute, 
(Unless he prove a sentimental noddy,) 
With passions Birong, and appetites to boot— 
A thirsty soul within a hungry body 1 
A very man— not one of nature’s clodB— 
With human failings, whether saint or sinner ; 
Endowed, perhaps, with genius from the gods. 
But apt to take his temper horn his dinner. 
Life cannot he all sunshine, 
Nor can it be all gloom ; 
From out the storms of winter 
Sweet flowers of spring shall bloom 
The birds sing songs of gladness ; 
The wiuds si«h talcs of woe; 
The flowers droop iu sadness. 
Where laughing streamlets flow. 
And ever, through lire’s journey, 
Must we this lesson learn, 
That Joy is tinged with sorrow 
Wherever we may tnra. 
Bat do not let us falter 
When clouds obs* are our way, 
But let us toil in patience, 
’Till darkness turns to day. 
Full soon the clouds will scatter ; 
And brighter for their gloom 
Shall be the light that cheers ns 
Iu morning’s golden bloom. 
Burton, Ohio. 
THE VINE 
The vine is one of the most extensively 
diffused of plants, and in this respect it fur¬ 
nishes a beautiful emblem of the universal 
spread of the Christian Church. Its early his¬ 
tory is involved in obscurity. It is as old as 
the human race. Its cultivation was probably 
among the earliest efforts ot human industry. 
It is first introduced to our notice as the cause of 
Noah’s shameful drunkenness, and as one of the 
articles of provision hospitably offered by Mel- 
cbizedek to Abraham. It is believed to be 
originally a native of the hilly region on the 
southern shores of the Caspian Sea, and in the 
Persian province of Ghilan. The Jews have a 
tradition that it was first planted by God’s own 
hand on the fertile slopes of Hebron. Certainly 
the climate of the hill country of Judah suits it 
so admirably that we may well believe it to be 
indigenous there. It was from the Judean val¬ 
ley of Esheol that the spies carried away the 
gigantic cluster of grapes. Every traveler who 
has visited this region testifies to the luxuriance 
of its vines, and the large size and luscious taste 
of the grapes. Vineyards abound there more 
than in any other part of Palestine; and the 
earliest and latest heraldic symbol of Judah, 
both in the prophetical and evangelical records, 
is a “ fenced vineyard on a hill of olives.” From 
this, its native region, the vine has been gradu¬ 
ally introduced into other countries. Its pro¬ 
gressive cultivation, and removal by wandering 
tribes and conquerors from one part of the earth 
to another, associates it in a very remarkable 
degree with the history of the human race. 
THE WIFE’S DIAMONDS, 
There was a fleshy duke of the last century 
who took his wife’s diamonds to a pawn-broker 
to aristocrats in difficulties, asking him at the 
same time to make a fae-simile set in false dia¬ 
monds, which he might place in his lady’s jewel 
case before she returned from the country. The 
duke lost a little of that higli-bred self-possession 
which distinguished him, when the pawn-broker 
informed him that the diamonds he had brought 
were false ones which had been made for the 
duchess, who had pawned the true set years 
before, and had never been able to redeem them. 
In those old days the 6ums invested in diamonds 
were enormous. When Mr. Spence took his 
bride to court we may judge of the value of 
both by an cr pede process: the bridegroom car¬ 
ried thirty thousand pounds’ worth of diamonds 
in his shoe buckles ! 
THE HARVEST MOON 
The moon has turned to a silvery gold; 
The corn is swaying around the fold; 
The lark is asleep by the plow at rest ; 
Day is hushed to the black night’s breast. 
Thatched like huts etand the slanting sheaves, 
On the broad Held strewn with the poppy leaves: 
And the red clouds hang, with a wandering love, 
The wood and the meadow and Btream above. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
CONSCIENCE AND HUMAN LAW. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN. 
Conscience, in its abstract idea, is the un¬ 
conditioned arbiter of right and wrong; human 
law is the conditioned umpire of human action. 
The former relates to man as an individual 
the latter regards him as a society. The 
one is theoretically divine, the other is practi¬ 
cally human. Which, in case of collision, is 
entitled to reverence, conscience or human law ? 
By way of explication, we may here premise 
that some consciences—like shapeless masses of 
moistened clay, which can be moulded into 
either jugs or pitchers at the will of the manip¬ 
ulator—are so excessively plastic as to bo affect¬ 
ed by every impact of circumstance, and thus 
render their possessors either knaves or saints, 
according to the dictates of expediency. These 
we call prudential consciences. For example, 
why did the southern clergy vindicate rebellion ? 
For conscience’s sake. What justified the bar¬ 
barous illegality of the trial and execution ot 
Charles L? A distorted conscience. Why do 
the Mormons so pertinaciously defend polyg¬ 
amy? To sotisfy the cravings of a greedy and 
capacious conscience. And so on, ad infinitum. 
“ Thus men go wrong with an Ingenious skill, 
Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will; 
And with a clear and shining lamp supplied, 
First put it out, then tabs if for a guide." 
Other consciences, again, through inveterate 
ignorance or depravity, are incapacitated for 
distinguishing right and wrong, especially in 
cases which are nvolved in much complexity. 
There are well tmlanecll consciences—so nicelv 
uumneea, indeed, tiiut \pven a leather’s weight 
destroys their equipoise. Now both these 
species of conscience are discounted by the 
problem before us. By conscience Is meant 
that healthy, intelligent, infallible judge of right 
and wrong, which normally belongs to every 
man’s moral constitution, and which the law 
supposes every voter to possess. 
Let me attempt to prove the superiority of 
conscience to human law, by a course of argu¬ 
ment which maj be new to most of your readers. 
According to the Declaration of Independence, 
human law, or in other words human govern¬ 
ment, is instituted for the 6ole purpose of 
protecting man in the enjoyment of those 
“inalienable rights” which have been conferred 
on him by a beneficent Creator. When, there¬ 
fore, government becomes “ destructive of these 
ends,” either by usurping powers which it has 
not, or by tyrannically perverting those which It 
has, the manifest duty of the subjects thereof 
Is to “ throw off such government, and provide 
new guards for their future security.” Consti¬ 
tutions cannot rightfully warrant either the 
dictation of religious creeds, the prohibition of 
religious worship, the prosecution of wars of 
conquest, the oppression of dependencies, or 
any other infraction of the “ divine rights ” of 
man. Such guaranies arc gross interferences 
with man's obligations to God ; and these obli¬ 
gations being superior to those imposed by any 
human Invention whatsoever, It follows that no 
human invention can justly interpose obstacles 
to their fulfillment And this is accordant with 
the plain teachings of Scripture. “Render 
unto Cabsau the things that are Caesar’s, uud 
unto God the things that are God’s.” This 
passage, as expounded by Watt.and, Mathew, 
and others, has direct reference to a collision 
between man’s obligation to human government 
and to God’s; and, taken with its contextual 
adjuncts, it impliedly declares that when these 
two duties collide, :nan is conscientiously bound 
to 6tand by his dutj to God. In brief, wo should 
always obey God athcr than mau; for, by so 
doing, we could n<jr/er violate sound law. 
On the other hind, good government is the 
“choicest of sublunary blessings,” and there¬ 
fore ought not to ic lightly resisted. Indeed, 
the loyal subject vill rather transcend “strict 
equity” in his adiesion to government The 
ligatures of society ought not to be severed,— 
the dormant elements ol revolution ought not 
to be agitated without a profound conviction of 
the necessity of a change, and of the possibility 
of establishing a Jess oppressive substitute,— 
which conviction tun result only from a radical 
and comprehensive understanding of the whole 
exigency, and fron mature and earnest delibe- 
History is full of significant 
WHY SO MUCH BEAUTY IN POLAND, 
I once heard a good Christian brother telling, 
in an evening meeting, how his mind had been 
exercised in thinking of the way he should em¬ 
ploy his time in Heaven. It is quite unnecessary 
to say that the ideas he had formed on the subject 
were drawn from what he probably regarded as 
tbe sources ol‘ the greatest happiness in this life. 
I have no doubt that he experienced much 
satisfaction iu ruminating upon the different 
modes of employment which he pictured to his 
mind as the lot of the redeemed. The occupa¬ 
tions which be named were harmless, and were 
not calculated illy to affect the soul. 8o I do 
not censure my good brother for doing as he 
did, but I have frequently queried if the habit 
were healthy for the Christian mind. I am in¬ 
clined to think it injurious, and that the Christian 
ought to avoid the temptation to speculate upon 
this subject. 
If there were no other reasons for our refrain¬ 
ing from an attempt to forecast the details of 
our Heavenly life, it would be sufficient that 
they are not imparled to us in Revelation. We 
may safely infer that whatever Revelation does 
not tell os of Heaven we do not need to know. 
It is quite as true that we cannot know anything 
of Gon and the future life, except what we may 
learn from Revelation. It is sufficient for us to 
..K, .. iu uu witn our oa> iocr in the 
place that He promised to prepare for His dis¬ 
ciples. Among His lust words, Christ said to 
His disciples that there were many mansions in 
His Father's house, and if it wore not so that 
He would have told them, lie says: “Igo to 
prepare a place for you, that where I am, there 
ye may be alsoend, “ whither I go ye know, 
and the way ye know.” Here the Saviour was 
pleased to end nis revelation ot the future life, 
lie had told them He was going to prepare a 
place for them, and He had told them the way 
thither. These things are known by faith. 
Reason cannot show us more. 
I hare before mo a book whose prcsunqduous 
title is “Life in Heaven.” It is an attempt to 
exhibit the conditions ol' our Heavenly life. 
Without expressing an opinion on the subject, 
it seems not very modest lor the author to 6ay 
that in a former volume ho had “ endeavored to 
prove Unit we will recognize our friends in 
Heaven.” The book treats of our intercourse 
in Heaven and how our friends and acquaintance 
there may learn much of those they left behind, 
“ by looking down from the outskirts of the 
world of glory.” This is not the place to review 
“Because,” says Bayard Taylor, “there, girls 
do not jump from infancy to young ladyhood. 
They are not sent from the cradle to the parlor, 
to dress, to sit still aDd look pretty. No, they 
are treated as children should be. During child¬ 
hood, which extends through a period of several 
years, they are plainly dressed, and allowed to 
run, romp and play in the open air. They are 
not loaded down, girded about, and oppressed 
every way with countless frills and superabund¬ 
ant flounces,so as to be admired for their clothing, 
nor are rendered dedicate or dyspeptic by con¬ 
tinual stuffing with candies and 6weet-eakes, as 
are the majority of American children. Plain, 
simple food, free and various exercises and an 
abundance of sunshine during the whole period 
of childhood, are the secrets of beauty in after 
life.” 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
FASHIONABLE PEOPLE. 
BY LIZZIE ST. CLARE, 
THE GREAT RULE OF CONDUCT 
I dislike precise and fashionable people. Just 
as though It makes any difference, if I go out in 
the street dressed comfortably and becomingly, 
whether I’m just in the tip of fashion! Sup¬ 
pose my bonnet is not a “perfect little beauty," 
or does not happen to be trimmed in the latest 
fashion, or that I don’t wear a short Eaque, or 
Balmoral skirt, will I not live just as long ? If 
I am black as night, am I going to dress in blue, 
because it is the fashion ? 
When people come to see me I want them to 
come and spend the day. I bate these fashion¬ 
able tea parties. I hate to sit, putting on airs, 
dressed in my best “bib and tucker,” convers¬ 
ing on literature, &c., and entertaining those 
who will laugh at me the minute I’m out of 
sight Glorious fun ttifi, ic. it not, of beeping 
on “woman’s everlasting smile” whether you 
feel like it or not ? Who knows or cares how 
badly my new Balmoral shoes pinch (although 
they are number six,) and how I long to leave 
that gossiping circle of friends, and rush out in 
the air once mare ? I am from the country and 
rather inclined to be countryfled. 
I like to see peoplo have a mind of their own 
and know how to nse it. Two-thirds of the 
people of this world think and act just as the 
other third sets the example. Every thing has 
to be strictly regulated by the fashionable rule. 
For instance, must not my m w dress (the latest 
fashion of course,) be made fashionably, and 
sweep the sidewalk with a t raj or drag a few 
inches long ? It, makes no diibrence if the 
clouds have jusl burst asunder, a\e great pud¬ 
dles of water are left lying on the sidewalk. So 
I pick my way along as best I can, thnking of 
the graceful figure I cut and the many &p,t s and 
stians on my light gray silk, which I am o jjged 
to wear for fashion’s sake, because that hap iens 
The rule of conduct followed by Lord Erskine, 
a man of sterling independence of principal and 
scrupulous adherence to truth, is worthy of 
being engraved on every young man’s heart. 
“It was a first command and counsel of my 
earliest youth,” he said, “always to do what my 
conscience told me to he a duty, and to leave 
the consequence to God. I shall carry with me 
the memory, and, I trust, the practice, of this 
parental lesson to the grave. I have hitherto 
followed it, and I havo no reason to complain 
that my obedience to it has been a temporal 
sacrifice. I have found it, on the contrary, the 
road to prosperity and wealth, and I shall point 
out the same rinlh t-C* — »• /'hiia V u ‘* 
suit.” And there can bo no doubt, after all, the 
only safe rule of conduct is to follow implicitly 
the guidance of an enlightened conscience. 
FEMININE TOPICS, 
Brigham Young’s daughters are ail ballet 
dancers in the Salt Lake Theatre. It must be 
the largest troupe of dancing girls known. 
There 56 only one “ mail contract,” 6ays a 
young lady, that she would care about embrac¬ 
ing or embarking in, and that is a promise of 
marriage. 
A correspondent, writing from Saratoga. 
| says mat ilie gamblers’ wives are “the best 
I dressed and most lady-like looking women on 
the stand.” 
A French bishop said lately, in a sermon, “Let 
women remember, while putting on profuse 
and expensive attire, how narrow are the gates 
of Paradise.” 
A lady of a certain age says the reason an old 
maid is generally so devoted to her cat is that, 
not having a husband, 6he naturally takes to the 
next most treacherous animal. 
Maj.-Gen. Hooker is soon to proceed to St. 
Louis, for the purpose of leading to the altar in 
marriage a wealthy and beautiful widow of that 
city. Wish them “much joy.” 
If Brigham Yonng has upward of a hundred 
wives, as we are told; and If all those ladies 
chance to be in the habit of favoring their lord 
with Curtain Lectures, what, oh what, must he 
the nature of “ Young’s Night Thoughts!” 
Milton was asked:—“ How is it that in some 
countries a King is allowed to take his place on 
the throne at fourteen years of age, but may not 
marry until he is eighteen V” “ Because,” said 
the poet, “it i6 easier to govern a kingdom 
ban a woman.” 
r N a Chicago street ear, the other day, a pale 
tRLprctty young woman gave up her seat to a 
onevgged soldier, and the gracious act led to 
the roognition of the mau as her husband, long 
mourno as dead. The scene closes with each 
in the over’s arms. 
CHANCE CHIPS, 
When we walk in the suulight of Fame we 
are followed by the shadows of Envy. 
A country editor thinks that Richelieu, who 
declared that “the pen was mightier than the 
sword," ought to have spoken a good word for 
“scissors,” Jcrrold called scissors “ an editor’s 
6teel pen.” 
Every other quality is subordinate and inferi¬ 
or to wisdom, in the same sense as the mason 
who lays the bricks and stones in a building is 
inferior to the architect who drew the planB and 
superintends the work. The former executes 
only what the latter contrives and directs. 
At best, life is not very long. A few more 
smiles, a few more tears, some pleasure, much 
pain, sunshine and songs, clouds and darkness, 
hasty greetings, abrupt farewells — then the 
scene will dose, and the injurer and injured will 
pass away. Is it worth while to hate each other ? 
Ipolators are not those alone who worship 
idols of wood and stone. There aro idol&tors of 
words, men whose sense of'the Deity h? as much 
darkened and shut up in verbal simulneru as that 
of the poor wretches who bow down beforo 
more material images. How many, who looked 
down In fancied superiority upon the fetieh of 
the degraded African, arc yet practising a fetich- 
ism of words equally pitiable ? 
Insects must generally lead a jovial life. 
Think what it must be to lodge in a lily ! Im¬ 
agine a palace of ivory or pearl, with pillars of 
6ilvernud capitals of gold, all exhaling such a 
perfume as never arose Bom a human censer! 
Fancy, again, the fun of tucking yourself up lor 
the night iu the folds of a rose, rocked to sleep 
by the gentle sighs of a summer air, and nothing 
to do when you wake but to wash yourself in a 
dew drop and fall to and cat your bedclothes! 
Wb hate some persons because wc do not 
know them; and wo will not know them be¬ 
cause we hate them. Those friendships that 
succeed to such aversions arc usually firm, for 
those qualities must bo sterling that could not 
ouly gain our hearts, but conquer our preju¬ 
dices in things far more serious than our 
friendships. Thus, there are truths which some 
men despise, because they have not examined, 
and which they will not examine, because they 
despise. 
Next to eating and sleeping, the bath may be 
ranked among the very foremost of the neces¬ 
saries and supports of life. It is of far higher 
consequence, and of moro general utility, than 
any kind of manual exercise, gymnastic, or 
sport. It affects the system more powerfully 
than these, even in the very points wherein their 
excellence consists; and it is applicable in a 
thousand circumstances where they are not. It 
doeB not supersede, but it ought to come before, 
these other practices. 
ration thereon, 
examples of the Let that it is always difficult, 
and olttimes impossible, to found a permanent 
government on the mouldering ruins of an old 
Utitution, recondite vestiges of which can 
no or be thoroughly eradicated. Hence pru¬ 
dent uud nicely balanced consciences are 
wboLr unqualified for the settlement of quos- 
In the face of the sun you may see God’s 
beauty; in the lire you may feel his heart warm¬ 
ing; In the water his gentleness to refresh you; 
it is the dew of heaven that makes your fields 
give you bread.— Taylor, 
