UNWITTING WITNESSES. VI. According to the Book of Mormon the second race of people who settled upon the land of America were called Nephites. They left the city of Jerusalem B.C. 599, being the first year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Israel. The animals spoken of were im- during which time they had many ported into the country by the first wars with the Lamanites; "and colony. Book of Mormon, pages the more wicked part of the Ne572, 573 and 581. Shortly after their settlement, and spreading over the face of the land, the Nephites discovered evidences of a former numerous race having previously occupied the country. This discovery, which was a surprise to the new settlers, was made by accident. phites were destroyed." Mosiah, one of their prophets, was warned of the Lord to flee out of the land of Nephi; and as many as were de sirous to escape the awful turmoil and bloodshed, were invited to accompany him into the wilderness. In their wanderings northward they came to the section of country called Zarahemla. "Behold it came to pass that Mosiah discovered that the people of The colony comprised Lehi, a patriarch of the lineage of Joseph, who was sold by his brethren; his The first section settled by the wife and six sons-Laman (after colony of Mulek was called Zarahemwhom the Lamanites were named), la, which is supposed to have been Zarahemla came out from JerusaLemuel, Sam, Nephi (after whom north of the headwaters of the river lem, at the time that Zedekiah, the Nephites were called), Jacob Magdelena; its northern boundary king of Judah, was carried away and Joseph. After this family left being a few days' journey south of captive into Babylon." Page 156. Jerusalem they sojourned in the the Isthmus. About thirty years There is little known of this small wilderness for a considerable time, after the landing of the Zarahemla colony that left Jerusalem eleven and while there they were joined colony, Nephi had become a prom-years after Lehi. Their present by another Israelite named Ishmael, inent leader, and thereby excited leader was Zarahemla, after whom his wife, three sons, and five the envy and ill-will of his older the country was named. Their foredaughters. The father died before brothers. In his record, Nephi de- fathers journeyed in the wilderness, the colony started to cross the ocean, clares that "their anger did increase crossed the great waters, and had and the sons of Lehi took the against me, insomuch that they did dwelt in the land for nearly four daughters of Ishmael to wife. seek to take away my life." Page centuries, when Mosiah discovered There was also a servant of Lehi, 70. In consequence of this ill-will them. They had brought no records named Zoram, belonging also to towards him, Nephi gathered to- with them, and, probably, had kept Jerusalem, who joined the company gether his family, and also Zoram none, as their language had become in the desert, married one of Ish- and his family, and Sam, Jacob, corrupted. And after Mosiah had mael's daughters, and emigrated and Joseph his brethren, and his been appointed their king, they with the colonists. This colony sisters, their families, and as many were taught the language of the constituted the original founders of others as would go, and departed Nephites; and then Zarahemla gave the second race, and were the abor-into the wilderness to seek a home a genealogy of his fathers, "accordigines of the present Indian tribes where they might dwell in peace. ing to his memory." Whatever of the New World; the people of The record says: "After we had their religion might have been when Zarahemla having become absorbed journeyed for the space of many they arrived, they now "denied the into this race. days, we did pitch our tents. And being of their Creator." While Lehi's company tarried at my people wanted that we should different points on their route from call the name of this place Nephi. Jerusalem to the place of embarka- And all those who were with me tion, they employed the time, like did take upon them to call themthe Jaredites before them, in gather-selves the people of Nephi." ing provisions, grain and seeds, "This land of Nephi is supposed," ship-building and other necessary preparations. The course they took was "nearly a south, southeast direction until they came to the 19th degree north latitude; then, nearly east of the Sea of Arabia; then they sailed in a southeast direction, and landed on the continent of America, in Chili, thirty degrees south latitude." See Compendium, page 289. says Prof. O. Pratt, "to be in or Jacob, the brother of Nephi says: "And it came to pass that Nephi died. Now, the people which were not Lamanites, were Nephites; nevertheless, they were called Nephites, Jacobites, Josephites, Zoramites, Lamanites, Lemuelites, and Ishmaelites. But I, Jacob, shall not hereafter distinguish them by these names, but I shall call them Lamanwith them, and were soon rewarded of Nephi; and those who are friendites that seek to destroy the people with abundant harvests. They ly to Nephi, I shall call Nephites, Upon their arrival the colonists commenced tilling the land, and sowing the grain they had brought found "beasts in the forests of every according to the reigns of the kind, both the cow and the ox, and kings." Page 129. These were the people whom Coriantumr fell in with after the complete annihilation of his people, and with whom he dwelt "for the space of nine moons." It is probable that Coriantumr died and was buried at the end of that time; for it had been prophesied that if he would not repent, the whole of his people and also his household should be destroyed; "and he should only live to see the fulfilling of the prophecies which had been spoken concerning another people receiving the land for their inheritance; and Coriantumr should receive a burial by them; nd every soul should be destroyed save it were Coriantumr.” Book of Mormon, page 602 The people continued to spread both north and south, and from the incidental discription of the localities they settled it is easy to recognize their agreement with the localithe ass and the horse, and the goat, We find that the colony had ties in which have been discovered and the wild goat, and all manner spread now over a large area of the ruins and relics of just such of wild animals, which were for the country. After landing on the peoples, such customs, and such use of man. And we did find all Chilian coast, they worked north- events as the Book of Mormon manner of ore, both of gold, and of ward, toward the Isthmus. The records register. silver, and of copper." Book of Nephites had dwelt in the land In North America they occupied Mormon, page 47. of Nephi for nearly 400 years, tracts "covered with large bodies of water." Page 385. "And they did travel to an exceeding great distance, insomuch that they came to large bodies of water and many rivers. Yea and even they did spread forth into all parts of the land." Page 433. "And it came to pass that they did multiply and spread, and did go forth from the land south ward to the land northward, and did spread insomuch that they began to cover the face of the whole earth, from the sea south (Atlantic, south of Cape Horn) to the sea north (Arctic, north of North America), from the sea west (Pacific) to the sea east (Atlantic). Page 434. They not only traveled by land, but they also used ships in their migrating. "And it came to pass that Hagoth, he being an exceeding curious man, therefore he went forth and built an exceeding large ship on the borders of the land Bountiful, by the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by, the narrow neck which led into the land northward (North America). present State of New York-"the indelible marks, both of their great Then the presence of more modern South America was called Lehi; because Lehi landed there. North America was called Mulek, because that was the country he first landed upon. Page 445. Mulek was an ancestor of Zarahemla, and probably the founder of that numerous people; for we read: The only people inhabiting those regions now, and whose history has been written, are the Incas; and their history dates no further back than the incursion and conquest by the Spanish, in the early part of the 16th century. Nothing has been written of their ancestors; and all that is known relating to preIncarial times is derived from the outrageously fabulous traditions of the Indians. The social economy and national government of the Incas, or ancient "The land north was called Peruvians, was decidedly theocratic Mulek, which was after the son of "And behold, there were many of Zedekiah; for the Lord did bring and Mosaic in character. This is the Nephites who did enter therein Mulek into the land north and Lehi clear, by their uniting under one and did sail forth with much pro-into the land south." Page 445. and the same head, both their secuvisions, and also many women and Another section of country north lar and religious affairs. The Inca children; and they took their course of the Isthmus, occupied by the-the representative of the Deity, or northward. And in the thirty and eighth year this man built other Nephites, was called Desolation. sun, as the name implies-was at ships. And the first ship did return, | Page 582, note h. A large city of the head of the Prieshthood, and and many more people did enter that name was its capital. Page presided at all the principal religious into it." Page 427. 553, verses 5, 7. This is the locality festivals. He made laws for the where the people of Zarahemla dis-social government of his subjects, covered the ruins and remains of and imposed taxes; he was the source the extinct Jarelites. Page 303, of all dignity, authority and power. verse 30. It was also the place where the Mulek colony, afterwards called the people of Zarahemla, first landed. The lands first inhabited by the Nephites as permanent settlements were near the Isthmus of Panama. This locality is often referred to as "a narrow neck of land." From thence they spread into all parts along the coasts and also inland. The river Sidon, which "ran by the land Zarahemla," has been recognized by Prof. Pratt, as the Magdalena. Frequent mention is made also of their location in the vicinity of rivers, and large bodies of water, forming another identification of ward. analogies between the geography of the country and the record. Alma 1: 29; etc. Great respect was shown for heirs, and ancestral branches of the royal line; all of whom shared, with the ruling monarch, the sacred name of Inca. Blasphemy against the sun was punished with death; as were also theft, adultery and murder. cidedly Israelitish. There was no money used among them. They were a race of workers; but they wrought as the members of one family. The Nephites took advantage of their position on this narrow neck of land, by spreading out, from the east sea to the west, and fortifying The empire was divided, like the the passes; thereby preventing their tribes of Israel, into equal divisions mortal enemies, the Lamanites, from and subdivisons. First, into four penetrating into the country north- grand divisions; then into departments of 10,000 inhabitants; then Thus in the races which are de-into various numbers, the least of clared by the Book of Mormon which was ten. The revenue and writers to have inhabited the west- apportionment of the land was deIn their southern settlements they ern coast of America, in the earliest would meet with the copious hydro- and subsequent periods, we disgraphy of the Andes in Chili and cover those characteristics, circumPeru. The great rivers Amazon, stances, and doings, whose signs Orinoco, and Rio de la Plata alone, and mementoes still remain upon with their numerous tributaries the face of the land. We are told of The soil was divided among the would be sufficient to justify the races, sufficiently mixed, to account people; the apportionment being reference as to rivers; while the for the strange variety and incon- regulated according to the numbers large bodies of water referred to by gruity of the remains; and at the in the family. The division was Alma as being met with on the same time, so distinct in their origin revised every year. The territory North American coast will be ex- and peculiar nationalities as to be was separated into three parts, and plained by the great gulfs, bays and easily separated, and their deriva- was cultivated by the common peoarms of the Pacific which indent it. tion assigned. ple. Religion, or the sun, embracMormon, when he spake of "A land Thus, the Jaredites, the most an- ing the costly ceremonial, and of many waters, rivers,, and fount- cient settlers, have attested their numerous and illustrious Priesthood, ains" (page 560) referred to the presence by the most perfect and were first provided for. a The pro The manufactures of the country, and the working of the mines, were managed upon the same co-operative principle. * * * * * * as ducts of the second division were straightway he sowed the Gospel of the public domain contained devoted to the support of the royal seeds, and they have borne good enough of civilization and civilized household, and defraying the ex-fruit. Of course in my hurried trip people to entitle it to recognipenses of the government; and the I could not expect to reap much; tion as a commonwealth. When people, at so much per head, divided yet I have the satisfaction of know- this condition was reached, the third portion. ing that my testimony has been be- the conferring of political indeThe territory devoted to the sup-lieved. At Ainteb two persons dependence was to be a matter port of religion, was the first to be manded baptism, but I advised of course, and the action of Concultivated; that belonging to the them to wait until my return in the gress and the Executive somewhat people next; and, lastly, that be- spring. Many are investigating. a formality; statehood was not to longing to the Inca. The whole We need more missionaries. Elders be grudgingly handed out a population turned out at the same Sjodahl and Locander shall be very great favor, but to be placed within time to labor on the monarch's welcome, both by the Saints and our easy reach of the dependencies share of land. friends here; and of the latter we which were in a position to enhave many. I first met Brother title them to it. With the conSjodahl a little more than two and tinued growth of the country has one-half years ago, in Christiania, come the obliteration of the fronThe labors of the Norway, and there bore my testi- tier, the homogeneousness of the people were light, and pleasantly mony to him, and now he comes to people and conditions, and the comdiversified with frequent holidays be my fellow-laborer. Is not that a lete change of meaning of the word and festivals. The monarch was blessing? I rejoice exceedingly at Territory, as applied to a political loved and revered by his people, the prospect of meeting him. * division. The only condition and it was considered by them, a The Saints feel well. thereafter which could be imposed pleasure to serve him. In such an A Russian lady has been with justice would be sufficient organization, and with subjects of baptized, and she is filled with a population and resources to enable such a temper, we discover the desire to labor in Jerusalem, and for the commonwealth to live within secret of the influence which those her countrymen especially. Thou- and of itself. In all these respects ancient rulers wielded. The Incas sands of Russians visit that city the Territories of the United States could direct the energies of the yearly, and many of them, she says, are equal to the situation, and as all whole people as they chose; and it are really honest, but are woefully are desirous of emerging from the was thus that they were able to con- blinded. I have had condition of dependence, which is struct those gigantic works which some rough times, and have en- anti-American and unprogressive, modern ingenuity, even with the countered dangers; but God has to that of independence in all assistance of European machinery, borne me up, and brought me in things, which is the correct theory safety to this sacred land. and practice on this soil, the passage We need a good, faithful man-a of all of Mr. Springer's measures native to translate, for we, being looking to that end would seem to foreigners, can scarcely do it prop- be proper, timely and just. erly. I am not master of the language yet, though I speak it quite fluently. I think, however, that we have found the man we need. He is a teacher in one of the colleges, and is investigating, and I hope the Lord will bring him into His fold, that he may be an instrument to bring the Gospel to this people."Millennial Star. cannot excel. J. H. KELSON. [To be continued.] IN PALESTINE. * * * THE OMNIBUS BILLS. * Looking, perhaps, more to selfish ends than with a desire to foster the We are in receipt of a letter from best interests of the nation as a Elder F. F. Hintze, who writes whole, Congress has seen fit to regfrom Haifa, Palestine, December ulate the number of members in 22, 1888. Portions of his letter, either house and to make it imposwhich are of general interest to the sible for it to be increased except as Saints, are given herewith: "I armay be provided by law. Under rived here two days ago. My trip that regulation, a Territory must has extended much further than I have 151,000 inhabitants, or therecontemplated; but I now look back about, before its application for upon my labors with much satisfacmembership in the national housetion, for thousands have received hold can be entertained. This is the more or less testimony, and a great IT IS understood to be the present basis of representation in Congress, interest is manifested in many intention of Chairman Springer, of but why should it be made to apply places. At Marash and at Ainteb the House Committee on Territories, to new States in this day and age of the people flocked around me by to secure the admission of all the precocity, when communities of a scores, and from early morning till Territories except that of the Indi- tithe of that number contain as late in the evening asked questions ans, Alaska and of course the Dis- much of wealth and enterprise, if concerning the Gospel. I have vis-trict of Columbia. This is sweeping, not of learning, as the full quota ited twelve cities on my trip, and and yet that it would be right is be- did fifty years ago? And besides, have remained from one to two yond question. Those who contend no such limitation was fixed then; weeks in each of a majority of them. to the contrary perhaps do not stop not one of the Territories admitted In Sivas, however, I remained a long enough to consider the question up to the time of Nebraska being month, and there the greater part of in its entirety. When we had a taken into the Union contained more the work has been done. This was frontier to pass which was to be im- than half that number, if even so effected greatly through the instru-mersed in a measurably barren wil- much; and now, with all the admentality of Brother Shahabian, derness, it was of course proper that vantages favoring limited numbers who providentially came to Con- the only recognition extended by in our vast communities, they are stantinople about eighteen months the government be that of an owner proscribed by being required to have While in that city he heard until, by the process of immigration as many people as a long-settled testimony, and returning and natural increase, such portion | Congressional district before being ago. my listened to. This is all wrong, because contrary not only to the spirit of our institutions but also to the march of progress and the genius of civilization holding full sway in all the Territories named. BAYARD'S ATTITUDE. fa's followers, the deposition and banishment of Malietoa-all these, IT SEEMS that the only fault that with the United States' interest in can properly be found with Secre- and on the islands fully equal to tary Bayard is, that he is too em- Germany's and with a pledge on inently conservative, and thus fails our part existing that no interferIf a State can maintain its state- to keep pace with the sentiment ence from any foreign power should hood with 50,000 people, Territories of the country. On great occasions be allowed, surely amount to suffiwith twice that number should in particularly, when action would be cient provocation; and the burning all justice be given a chance to try. fraught with grave consequences, of Americans' houses, the insult Nevada has not many if it has any he prefers to "make haste slowly." offered to and destruction of the more than that, and we question This method of procedure, especial-Stars and Stripes, the numerous seriously if it has ever had as many ly at a time like the present, outrages upon our individual citias the most thinly populated Terri- makes his countrymen impatient; zens, the unwarranted search of an tory in the list. We do not sub- they want things done at once, or American vessel, and finally the scribe to the practice of snub- an announcement that they are not taking control of the islands and bing and pecking at our near- to be done. This is beyond ques- everything on them, if not in themtion the more American disposi-selves a declaration of war are at tion of the two, but it is not a least a bid of defiance, whose meansettled fact that precipitancy, as a ing need not be misunderstood by rule, even in the face of repeated anyone. wrongs, is a safer or wiser plan than a careful survey of the field. In contradistinction with the head of the Cabinet's policy, stands the action of Secretary Whitney, of the Navy Department. This officer has gone to the extreme limit of his authority and seems to regret that he is held in check. The fact that his method strikes the popular chord and Secretary Bayard has to defend himself, tells the whole story. POISONED BY TOBACCO. est neighbor because of its inferiority in most respects; but whatever is proper for it should certainly be proper for its surroundings, more particularly when their superior ability to maintain the dignity and meet the expense of sovereignty Mr. Bayard is, of course, aware is considered. And yet at the that his inaction and alleged irresoPresidential election which occurred lution are causing marked disconon Monday, January 21, Nevada tent, and that this increases by not cast three votes for President and being regarded; in fact, he has reVice-President, and they will be cently spoken on the subject and counted the same as though they given some expression of his feelcame from a constituency of half a ings. "I would like the gentlemen million, while Dakota, which repre- who have been criticising everysents the latter condition, was de- thing done by the State Departprived of the former; so were Wash-ment," he says, "to show one inington, Montana and New Mexico, stance in which I have broken the A CASE of poisoning by nicotine against whom not even the excuse law or permitted it to be violated. occurred some time ago in Paris. of want of population exists, each I do not know such an instance. The victim, a man in the prime having fully if not more than the There has been a great deal of mis- of life, had been cleaning his pipe amount required for a Congress-representation, and in time my with a clasp-knife; with this he ional district and being amply countrymen will see that the State accidentally cut one of his fingers, equipped in every other respect. Department has done everything but as the wound was of a trivial And if these are to be given their that could be done. I have yet to nature he paid no heed to it. Five rights, which seems an imminent learn that any American has been or six hours later, however, the probability, why not go on and let injured, or their rights, as defined cut finger grew painful and became Idaho's 100,000, Wyoming's 100,000 by law and treaty, taken away. Our much swollen; the inflammation to the arm and Arizona's 75,000 or more have policy has been fixed and steady in rapidly spread each as much to say in the next the preservation of American and to the shoulder, the patient Presidential election as Nevada's rights." These statements are suf- suffering such intense pain that he 50,000 will have? And prior to that, ficiently dignified and defensive to was obliged to betake himself to bed. let them each have as much to say characterize the high source from Medical assistance was called, and and do on the floor of the Senate whence they came; but they will ordinary remedies proved ineffectual. and in the House of Representatives. awake no friendly echo of response The sick man, questioned as to the This would be justice of the even- among the masses of the people, the manner in which he cut himself. handed kind. majority of whom, we take it, will explained the use to which the pocWhatever measure of continued be disposed to say that the latter ket-knife had been applied, adding injustice, undemocratic rule and un-portion of his language is unsup- that he had omitted to wipe it after representative government may ported by the facts in the case, and cleaning the pipe. The case was prevail in our own Territory-better that these must have been as well understood, and the doctors decided prepared as it is than any of its amputation of the arm to be the neighbors for the boon of political only hope of saving the patient's autonomy-we hope and desire that According to a strict construction life, and this was immediately done. they at least may be disenthralled. of the international code, the con- His life was barely saved. No wonLet them take the places to which clusion seems irresistible that Ger- der smokers so often have sore and they are entitled, and if we then many's recent, if not her former, poisoned mouths, cancer of the lips, have to occupy the anomalous as actions at Samoa constitute a dis- and like troubles. well as conspicuous position of being tinct and unequivocal casus belli. the only competent commonwealth The arrogant assumption of authorheld under the yoke, so be it. If ity, the unjustifiable alliance with soever repenteth and cometh unto there is not enough of justice to go the rebel King Tamasese, the un- me, the same is my church.--Doc. all around, let it go as far as it will. provoked hostilities toward Mataa-and Cov. known at the State Department as Behold, this is my doctrine: who The Deseret Weekly. PUBLISHED BY Utah have carried with them the THE DESERET NEWS COMPANY, tion have been, generally speaking, 1.50. EDITOR. A NEW DESTROYER. AS AN offset to the heavier and stauncher war ships of the great incorrect on their face, and many European powers, it is claimed by of them were highly tinctured those who ought to know in the Uniwith the color of absurdity mixed ted States that the new dynamite $2.50. with malice. One of the chief in- cruiser Vesuvius fills the bill exactly. gredients favorable to the majority It does not and cannot represent has been the disgraceful spectacle of the "slugging" which the bigger a grip-sack governor leaving his post and stronger vessels resort to in a of duty to lobby against the majori- fight, but is to make a specialty of ty of the people, and in favor of his running, dodging and getting in own official interests. His position | blows on the sly from a distance. In is humiliating and against even the most ordinary instincts of good breeding, to say nothing of what he owes to the people and the dignity of his office. February 9, 1889. FORCED PROMINENCE. THE position of the community of Latter-day Saints is one of the chief wonders of the age. They are comparatively small in point of numbers-a mere handful-and As if to make Utah and the in some degree isolated. They "Mormons" still more conspicuous, claim to have a mission involving and turn toward them the eyes of the publication of a message to multitudes, the Church suit was the whole world. They are being presented in the Supreme Court aided in the attainment of that simultaneously with the arguments important duty to a marvelous in relation to Statehood before the extent by the conspicuous position House committee. So far as the into which they are forced by those who seek to crush them. Their name is known in every nook and corner of the civilized world. fact, it is a marvel in point of speed, making within a fraction of twentyfive miles an hour under full headway, or as much as the average express train, while a man-of-war with eighteen inches thickness of chilled steel encasing it all around cannot do more than half as well. This great advantage being demonstrated and conceded, the next questions are as to accuracy of aim and destructiveness of the missile when properly placed. To solve these, expresentation reached the public periments were recently made through the press, the fact was which, it is claimed, gave perfect made clear enough that the suit, satisfaction. A projectile containfrom the inception of the statute, was ing 150 pounds of gelatine and dy naWere it not for the opposition they simply and succinctly, as appropri- mite was discharged from one of the have to meet the Saints never could ately expressed recently by Judge pneumatic guns, and after a bowed become so famous as they are. The Zane-the taking of "a large flight of over a mile, in which the report of them has been carried to amount of money from a church," missile "wobbled" considerably bethe ends of the earth, so that in what- the taker having not the remotest cause of having been loosely adjustever part of the globe an Elder of the right in the premises. ed in the gun, it struck the water Church appears, he immediately Then look at the local squabbles point foremost, as was intended, becomes an object of interest. That over the spoils! What a spectacle and in a moment exploded, the body of people whose views he was here presented! The receiver throwing up a column of water to represents have been scandalized, and his attorneys charged by ex- the height of 100 feet. Few vessels and the opinions entertained con- Chief Justice Zane with fraud, cor- could long endure, if at all, such tercerning them are false, does not al- ruption, and unprofessional con-rific shocks as that; but it should be ter the fact of the way having been duct, his withdrawal from the in- remembered that that was a prepared that he may not be treated vestigation of the conduct of light charge, the maximum with indifference, which is less pref- which he alleges them to amount of gelatine, dynamite or erable than opposition. The be very guilty, and the manner other explosive which the shells can obstacles that confront him, in the of his retreat. The document in contain and the guns project and form of prejudicial views, wake up which he signified his intention not deliver at that distance being 600 his energies, as they give him work to proceed electrified the court. By enough to destroy the in removing the rubbish from the means of it he appeared to take the strongest ironclad that floats. In minds of the people, that the ground Supreme Court of Utah by the nape every instance, the shells went just may be cleared preparatory to laying of the neck and dash its nose square- far enough beneath the surface to a foundation of truth. ly against the snubbing post. It accomplish the greatest results, this Doubtless our readers have rewas a documentary bombshell, and being an arrangement that is very marked the manner in which the seemed to cause as powerful a sensa-ingeniously devised; the outer coatSaints have been thrust into prom- tion as if it had been one made of ing of the tubing, which is of brass, inence of late, and the showing has real explosives, and had burst di- contains holes through which the in this phase of the process of push-rectly under the bench. ing forward been greatly in their And so the work of spreading the The operation of giving fame of the Saints goes on, and them wide publicity has blazed out there does not appear to be any imat several points simultaneously. mediate stopping-place. It will all There have been the arguments pre- result in good in the end to those sented before the House Committee who stand upon an honest basis. on Territories, at Washington. Reports of the statements made by both Therefore, if you will ask of me sides have flashed over the wires. you shall receive, if you will knock While those of the representatives it shall be opened unto you.-Doc. of the majority of the people of and Cov. favor. pounds salt water runs as soon as the shell is submerged, and when it is thus filled the action of the fluid is such as to produce the necessary concussion, and the explosion takes place. This is within twenty seconds of the time it strikes the water. But if it should strike the vessel marked for destruction, that would explo le it also, and the result, while not so completely disastrous as though the projectile were underneath, |