Warsaw Message/September 20, 1843/Page 1

J. Moore--Naples, Ills.

D. G. Whitney--Quincy, Ills.

E. W. Gould--Warsaw. "

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The Subscribers are prepared to do a General Commission and Forwarding Business. Any business entrusted with them, will be happily received, and promptly attended to.

Liberal advances made on Flour, Wheat, Pork, Lard, &c. to our correspondents in Boston, N. York, or N. Orleans,

Feb 25. n3 6m DAVIS & DUTCHER.  THE BRAHMIN AND THE CRYSTAL DROP.

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BY MRS. JANE L. SWIFT.

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"Nay Christian, I may never taste

Of viands such as these;

I could not share thy board, and know

Another hour of ease.

From early youth, I have been taught

To love each living thing;

To guard with care the crimson stream

That finds in life its spring.

Perchance the drops that circle now

Within these aged veins,

May flow afresh, in meaner form,

When all my vigor wanes;

Perchance some being I have loved

May hover round me still,

As bird, or household animal,

The vacant place to fill.

I know not, christian, but it seems

A cruel thing to me,

To smith, with unrelenting hand,

What never injured thee."

"Ah! Brahmin, thine's an erring creed,

Though dear to thee it be;

I will unveil in one short hour

Its wayward subtlety.

There's not a step that thou canst take

Upon yon sunny plain,

But presses out the pulse of life

That cannot throb again.

There's not a plant, or herb, that serves

Thy table to supply,

But makes a home for myriads,

Unseen by naked eye.

Each crushed leaf of the attar rose

That yields the sweet perfume

Bears many a living atom on,

to find its destined tomb.

Instinct with life--thou canst not breathe

The purest summer air,

Without disturbing in their flight

The mots that revel there."

"Thou wouldst not mock me, Christian yet

I cannot help but smile,

To hear thee speak such monstrous things

Without one loook of guile.

Wouldst tell me that the crystal drops,

Within this brimming bowl,

Can be the home or element

Of many a creature soul?"

Aye, Brahmin, I would tell thee so,

For thou mayest quickly see,

A tiny world of life exists

Which is unknown to thee.

Behold this glass--a simple thing,

And still it magnifies

Then thousand times the atoms small

That mock the keenest eyes.

Here is one soft and silky hair

That's fallen on thy brow,

Thou seest how fine it is, how fair--

Brahmin, behold it now!

Aye, start! tis wonderful, I ween,

To thy unpractised gaze,

To find that hair like hempen cord

Which holds the anchor stays.

I've taken from the costly fringe

That decks thy turbaned head,

But a small portion of its woof,

A single golden thread.

Look at it, Brahmin, see how coarse

Its texture doth appear;

Surely, thou wilt not doubt the truth

Of what I show thee here."

"Tis wonderful, I will allow;

But, Christian, thou hast shown

Only in strange and ruder guise,

The things I long have known."

"Stay, Brahmin, here's one crystal drop,

It came from yonder spring;

Now look--and truly tell the thoughts

That single drop can bring.

Thou turnest pale--I see thy hand

Is trembling as with fear;

Ah! Brahmin, 'tis a mighty power

That formed that crystal sphere."

"I would not, Christian, for the gold

That now in Ophir shines--

I would not, for the gems that glow

In famed Golconda's mines,

Have dashed to atoms the belief

I held when first we met--

I do forgive thee, Christian, but

I never can forget.

How many hopes are blotted out,

I need not stay to tell;

But life seems different now to me--

Oh Christian, fare thee well!"

"Nay, Brahmin, thou hast only learned

How weak is erring man;

How powerless boasted reason is

The works of God to scan.

Thou'st learned that each created thing

Can teach some truth divine,

E'en as a crystal drop could shake

A faith so firm as thine."

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New use of the Tomato.--The Cheraw Gazette states that, in addition the advantages of the tomato for table use, the vine is of great value as food for cattle, especially cows. It is stated that cows fed on tomato vines, will give more milk, and yield butter finer flavor, and in greater abundance, than any other long fed ever tried. It is thought too that more good food for cattle, and at less expense, can be raised from a given quantity of ground planted in to tomatoes than from any other vegetable known in the southern country.

Asparagus out of Cucumbers.--Some time ago, on the authority of a correspondent, we recommend that cucumbers be dressed in the same way as asparagus, and a dish would be produced equal to the latter. We have tried the experiment, and find that our correspondent is correct--many thanks to him.

Horn ail in Cattle.--Cattle that have this disease have been cured by loosening the skin near the back bone. In such complaints the skin adheres closely to the bone, and the circulation of the blood to the head is obstructed. A distinguished French author on this subject says that the free circulation of the blood near the spine, from the head to the tail, is all that is wanted to prevent what is called the horn ail or the tail sickness.--  NAUVOO CHARTER.

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AN ACT to incorporate the City of Nauvoo.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all that district of country embraced within the following boundaries, to-wit: beginning at the north-east corner of section thirty-one, in township seven north of range eight west, of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of Hancock, and running thence west to the north-west corner of said section, thence north to the Mississippi river, thence west to the middle of the main channel of the said river, thence down the middle of said channel to a point due west of the south-east corner of fractional section number twelve, in township six north, of range nine west of the fourth principal meridian, thence east to the south-east corner of said section twelve, thence north on the range line between township six north and range eight and nine west to the south-west corner of section six, in township six north, of range eight west; thence east to the to the south-east corner of said section; thence north to the place of beginning, including the town plats of Commerce and Nauvoo, shall hereafter be called and known by the name of the "City of Nauvoo," and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name aforesaid, and shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.

Sec. 2. Whenever any tract of land adjoining the city of Nauvoo shall have been laid out into town lots and duly recorded according to law, the same shall form a part of the "City of Nauvoo."

Sec. 3. The inhabitants of said city, by he name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever; to purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, in said city, to purchase, receive and hold real property beyond the city for burying ground or for other public purposes for the use of the inhabitants of said city; to sell, lease, convey or dispose of property, real and personal, for the benefit of the city; to improve and protect such property, and to do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons.

Sec. 4. There shall be a city council to consist of mayor, four aldermen and nine councillors, who shall have the qualifications of electors of said city, and shall be chosen by the qualified voters thereof, and shall hold their offices for two years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. The city council shall judge of the qualifications, election and returns of their own members, and a majority of them shall form a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance.

Sec. 5. The mayor, aldermen and councillors, before entering upon the duties of their offices, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States and of this State, and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their will and abilities.

Sec. 6. On the first Monday of February next, and every two years thereafter, an election shall be held for the selection of one mayor, four aldermen, and nine councillors, and at the first election under this act, three judges shall be chosen viva voce by the electors present, the said judges shall choose two clerks, before entering upon their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation such as is now required by law to be taken by judges and clerks of other elections; and at all subsequent elections, the necessary number of judges and clerks shall be appointed by the city council. At the first election so held the polls shall be opened at 9 o'clock, A. M., and closed at 6 o'clock, P. M., at the close of the polls the votes shall be counted, and a statement thereof proclaimed at the front door of the house at which said election shall be held; and the clerks shall leave with each person elected, or at his place of residence within five days after the election, a written notice of his election, and each person so notified, shall within ten days after the election take the oath or affirmation herein before mention ed, a certificate of which oath shall be depos ited with the recorder, whose appointment is hereafter provided for, and be by him preserved, conducted and returns thereof made as may be provided for by the ordinances of the city council.

Sec. 7. All free while male inhabitants who are of the age of twenty-one years, who are entitled to vote for State officers and who shall have been actual residents of said city sixty days next preceding said election, shall be entitled to vote for city officers.

Sec. 8. The city council shall have authority to levy and collect taxes for city purposes, upon all property, real and personal, within the limits of the city, not exceeding one half per cent, per annum upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same in any manner to be provided by ordinance, not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or of this State.

Sec. 9. The city council shall have power to appoint a recorder, treasurer, assessor, marshall, supervisor of streets, and all such other officers as may be necessary, and to prescribe their duties and remove them from office at pleasure.

Sec. 10. The city council shall have power to require of all officers, appointed in pursuance of this act, bonds with penalty and security, for the faithful performance of their respective duties, such as may be deemed expedient; and also to require all officers appointed as aforesaid, to take an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices.

Sec. 11. The city council shall have power  and authority to make, ordain, establish and execute all such ordinances, not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or of this State, as they may deem necessary for the peace, benefit, good order, regulation convenience and cleanliness of said city; for the protection of property therein from destruction by fire or otherwise, and for the health and happiness thereof; they shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen by death, resignation or removal, in any of the offices herein made elective; to fix and establish all the fees of the officers of said corporation not herein established; to impose such fines, not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence, as they may deem just, for refusing to accept any office in or under the corporation, or for misconduct therein; to divide the city into wards; to add to the number of aldermen and councillors, and apportion them among the several wards, as may be most just and conducive to the interests of the city.

Sec. 12. To license, tax, and regulate auctions, merchants, retailers grocers, hawkers, pedlars, brokers, pawn brokers and money changers.

Sec. 13. The city council shall have exclusive power within the city, by ordinance, to license, regulate and restrain the keeping of ferries; to regulate the police of the city; to impose fines, forfeiture and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the recovery of such fines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of such penalties, and to pass such ordinances as may be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers specified in this act: Provided, Such ordinances are not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or of this State; and in fine to exercise such other legislative powers as are conferred on the city council of the city of Springfield, by an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Springfield, approved February third, one thousand eight hundred and forty."

Sec. 14. All ordinances passed by the city council shall within one month after they shall have been passed, be published in some newspaper printed in the city, or certified copies thereof be posted up in three of the most public places in the city.

Sec. 15. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the seal of the corporation, and when printed or published in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be printed or published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts or places without further proof.

Sec. 16. The mayor and aldermen shall be conservators of the peace within the limits of said city, and shall have all the powers of justices of the peace therein, both in civil and criminal cases, arising under the laws of the State; they shall as justices of the peace within the limits of said city, perform the same duties, be governed by the same laws, give the same bonds and security as other justices of the peace, and be commissioned as justices of the peace in and for said city by the Governor.

Sec. 17. The mayor shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases arising under the ordinances of the corporation, and shall issue such process as may be necessary to carry said ordinances into execution and effect, appeals may be had from any decision or judgment of said mayor, or aldermen, arising under the city ordinances, to the municipal court, under such regulations as may be presented by ordinance. Which court shall be composed of the mayor or chief justice, and the aldermen as associate justices, and from the final judgment of the municipal court to the circuit court of Hancock county, in the same manner as appeals are taken from the judgments of justices of the peace: Provided, That the parties litigant shall have a right to trial by a jury of twelve men in all cases before the municipal court. The municipal court shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases arising under the ordinances of the city council.

Sec. 18. The municipal court shall sit on the first Monday of every month, and the city council at such times and place as may be prescribed by city ordinance. Special meetings of which may at any time be called by the mayor or any two aldermen.

Sec. 19. All process issued by the mayor, aldermen, or municipal court shall be directed to the marshal, and in the execution thereof he shall be governed by the same laws as are or may be prescribed for the direction and compensation of constables in similar cases. The marshall shall also perform such other duties as may be required of him under the ordinances of said city, and shall be the principal ministerial officer.

Sec. 20. It shall be the duty of the recorder to make and keep accurate records of all ordinances made by the city council, and of all their proceedings in their corporate capacity; which record shall at all times be open to the inspection of the electors of said city, and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the ordinances of the city council, and serve as clerk of the municipal court.

Sec. 21. When it shall be necessary to take private property for opening, widening or altering any public street, lane avenue or alley, the corporation shall make a just compensation therefor to the person whose property is so taken, and if the amount of such compensation cannot be agreed upon, the mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of six disinterested freeholders of the city.

Sec. 22. All jurors empannelled to inquire into the amount of benefits or damages that shall happen to the owners of property so proposed to be taken, shall first be sworn to that effect, and shall return to the mayor their inquest in writing, signed by each juror.

Sec. 23. In case the mayor shall at any time be guilty of a palpable omission of duty, or shall willfully and corruptly be guilty of oppression, malconduct or partiality in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall be liable to be indicted in the circuit court of Hancock county, and on conviction he shall be  fined not more than two hundred dollars, and the court shall have power, on the recommendation of the jury to add to the judgment of the court, that he be removed from office.

Sec 24. The city council may establish and organise an institution of learning within the limits of the city for the teaching of the arts, sciences and learned professions, to be called the "University of the city of Nauvoo," which institution shall be under the control and management of a board of trustees, consisting of a chancellor, registrar, and twenty-three regents, which board shall thereafter be a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, by the same of the "Chancellor and Regents of the University of the City of Nauvoo," and shall have full power to pass, ordain, establish, and execute all such laws and ordinances as they may consider necessary for the welfare and prosperity of said university, its officers and students: Provided, That the said laws and ordinances shall not be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States or of this State, and Provided, also, That the trustees shall at all times be appointed by the city council, and shall have all the powers & previleges for the advancement of the cause of education which appertain to the trustees of any other college or university of this State.

Sec. 25. The city council may organise the inhabitants of said city subject to military duty into a body of independent militai men, to be called the "Nauvoo Legion," the court martial of which shall be composed of the commissioned officers of said legion, and constitute the law making department, with full powers and authority to make, ordain, establish & execute all such laws & ordinances as may be considered necessary for the benefit, government, & regulation of saidl egion: Provided, Said court martial shall pass now law or act repugnant to, or inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, or of this State, and, Provided also, That the officers of the legion shall be commission by the Governor of the State. The said legion shall perform the same amount of military duty as is now, or may be hereafter required of the regular militia of the State, and shall be at the disposal of the mayor in executing the laws and ordinances of the city corporation, and the laws of the State, and at the disposal of the Governor for the public defence, and the execution of the laws of the State, or of the United States, and shall be entitled to their proportion of the public arms, &, Provided, also, That said legion shall be exempt from all other military duty.

Sec. 26. The inhabitants of the "City of Nauvoo" are hereby exempt from working on any road beyond the limits of the city, and for the purpose of keeping the streets, lanes, avenues, and alleys in repair, to require of the male inhabitants of said city, over the age of twenty-one and under fifty years, to labor on said streets, lanes, aveneus, and alleys, not exceeding three days in each year; any person failing to perform such labors when duly notified by the supervisor, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar per day for each day so neglected or refused.

Sec. 27. The city council shall have power to provide for the punishment of offenders. by imprisonment in the county or city jail, in all cases when such offenders shall fail or refuse to pay the fines and forfeitures which may be recovered against them.

Sec. 28. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect on the first Monday of February next.

Approved, December 16, 1810.

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Our last weeksedition of the Proceedings of the Anti-Mormon convention being entirely exhausted, and there being still a demand for them, we republish them below:

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For the Warsaw Message.

ANTI-MORMON MEETING.

At a public meeting of the citizens of Hancock county without distinction of party, held at the Court House in Carthage, in pursuance of previous notice, on Saturday, the 19th of August, A. D. 1843,

Maj. REUBEN GRAVES was called to the Chair, and WM. D. ABERNETHY appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting was then stated by Valentine Wilson, in an animated address. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Walter Bagby, and also by Hiram Boyle, of Adams county.

On motion of F. J. Bartlett, a committee of nine was appointed by the chair to draft and report resolutions for the action of the meeting.

F. J. Bartlett, Walter Bagby, Valentine Wilson, G. M. Swope, R. T. Madison, J. A. Bebee, John Wilson, Henry Hunter, and Jno. Cameron, were appointed that committee.

After a short absense, the committee submitted the following

REPORT:

Your committee respectfully request to be excused from making a formal report at this time, owing to the short time allowed them, and the importance of the business that has called us together, and ask to be discharged from further duties; and recommend that a committee of six be appointed to draft resolutions and make a report to an adjourned meeting.

Whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed to compose that committee, viz:

Walter Bagby, F. J. Bartlett, Stephen Owen, Stephen H. Tyler, Valentine Wilson, and Joel Weston.

The meeting then adjourned, to meet again at this place, on the 6th of Sept. next, at 1 o'clock, P.M. REUBEN GRAVES,

W. D. Abrrnethy, Chairman.

Secretary.

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September 7, 1843.

Meeting convened pursuant to adjournment. The former Chairman not being present,

EDSON WHITNEY, Esq., was called to the chair, and the meeting being organized, the following Preamble and Resolutions were submitted by the committee, and unanimously adopted:  Preamble and Resolutions.

This meeting having convened for the purpose of taking under advisement a subject of vital importance, not only to this county, but to all the surrounding counties, regret that we are necessarily and irresistably forced to the conclusion, that a certain class of people, have obtruded themselves upon us, calling themselves Mormons, or Latter Day Saints, and under the sacred garb of Christianity, assumed, as we honestly believe, that they may the more easily, under such a cloak, perpetrate the most lawless and diabolical deeds, that have ever, in any age of the world, disgraced the human species.

In evidence of the above charge, we find them yielding implicit obedience to the ostensible head and founder of this sect, who is a pretended Prophet of the Lord, and under this Heaven-daring assumption, claiming to set aside, by his vile and blasphemous lies, all these moral & religious institutions which have been established by the Bible, & which have, in all ages been cherished by men, as the only means of maintaining those social blessings, which are so indispensably necessary for our happiness.

We believe that such an individual, regardless as he must be, of his obligations to God, and at the same time entertaining the most absolute contempt for the laws of man, cannot fail to become a most dangerous character, especially when he shall have been able to place himself at the head of a numerous horde, either equally reckless and unprincipalled as himself, or else made his pliant tools by the most absurd credulity that has astonished the world since its foundation.

In the opinion of this meeting, a crisis has arrived, when many of the evils to be expected from a state of things so threatening, have transpired. We feel convinced that circumstances have even now occurred, which prove to us most conclusively, that Joseph Smith, the false Prophet before alluded to, has evinced, in any instances, a most shameless disregard for all the forms and restraints of Law: by boldly and presumptuously calling in question the acts of certain officers, who had fearlessly discharged the duties absolutely imposed upon them by the laws, particularly when they have come in contact with his own sordid and selfish interests.

He has been heard to threaten--nay he has committed violence upon the person of an officer, because that officer dared honestly to do his duty according to law.

He has caused his City Council to pass laws contrary to the laws of the state, and subversive of the rights of citizens of this State.

Citizens have been arrested, tried, and punished, for breaches of those mock laws, from time to time, in such manner that they have been compelled to the humiliating necessity of seeking an asylum elsewhere, in order to escape tho tyranny and oppression of this modern Caligula.

He has caused the writ of Habeas Corpus to be issued by the Municipal Court of the City of Nauvoo, in a case not provided for in the Charter of that city, and indeed contrary to the letter of that instrument; and, himself a prisoner, arrested under grave char ges made by a neighboring State, brought before said Court, tried, and acquitted:--Thereby procuring his own rescue from the custody of the law.

Citizens from the adjoining counties have been denied the right to regain property stolen and taken to Nauvoo, even after they have discovered both the thief and the property; and themselves, under the most frivolous pretences, arrested, fined, and other property rifled from them, to satisfy the mock judgments and costs of his cormorant officers.

Persons upon whom stolen property has been found in the city of Nauvoo, have been brought before this religio-political Chief, and he, in the capacity of Mayor of the City, has refused to convict them, where the cases have been most clear and palpable.

We have had men of the most vicious and abominable habits, imposed upon us, to fill our most important county offices, by his dictum, in order, as we verily believe, that he may the more certainly control our destinies, and render himself, through the instrumentality of these base creatures of his ill-directed power as absolute as a despot over the citizens of this county, as he now is, over the serfs of his own servile clan.

And to crown all, he claims to merge all religion, all law, and both moral and political justice, in the knavish pretension that he receives fresh from heaven, divine instructions, in all matters pertaining to these things; thereby making his own depraved will, the rule by which he would have all men governed.

He has caused large bodies of his ragamuffin soldiery to arm themselves, and turn out in pursuit of officers, legally authorized to arrest himself; he being charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, committed in the State of Missouri and those officers arrested by the vilest hopocrisy, and placed in duress, that he might enable himself, to march triumphantly into Nauvoo, and bid defiance to the laws of the land.

In view of the above grievances, this meeting feel, that it is their bounden duty, to resist by every landable means, all such unwarrantable attacks upon their liberties, Therefore,

Resolved, 1st. That inasmuch, as we honestly believe that the combination of people, calling themselves Mormons, or latter-day saints, have given strong indications, in their recent movements, that they are unwilling to