over. It is strange that not. only is the horse | wrong in its opinions, and never in its feel-
afraid of the elephant, a fear which is easily ings. If this be the case, and there really be
comprehended, but the elephant is equally some sympathetic impulse which tells a na-
timid with regard to the horse, and consider- tion when deeds are great and estimable,
able training is required to get rid of this certainly General Havelock was a hero. More
mutual distrust and alarm when the animals than any man engaged in India he fixed_the
have been unaccustomed to each other's so- attention of his countrymen at home. It is
ciety. The use for which the elephants just probably in conjunctures like this that a man's
landed are especially wanted is carrying previous character most stands him in good
commissariat stores. They can carry an stead. When a man has passed through
enormous weight, and can go in places where life with blameless character, inoffensive man-
a cart cannot move. One elephant takes ners, and evincing always a strong sense of
with ease on his back two large soldier's duty, he has laid up for himself a treasure in
tents complete, each made of double cloth the esteem of others of which, when the time
and capable of accommodating sixteen men, comes, the interest is returned to him in full.
and can march at the rate of four miles an It is possible that if India had never been in
hour with his load. The driver, sitting on revolt Colonel Havelock might have gone to
his neck, guides and urges him on by means the grave with only the reputation of a
of a short iron instrument, pointed at the meritorious officer and a good man, but when
end, with which he pricks him about the once he had an opportunity of exhibiting. his
head, and having a small sickle-like projec- greater qualities all the goodwill of those
tion at the side, which is inserted into the who knew him added to his renown, and their
pendulous flap of the ear, and serves to turn descriptions of what he was went to form
him to either side as occasion requires. that ideal which his countrymen conceived of
Many of the elephants are much disfigured his character.
by having their ear lobes torn in various direc-
tions by this instrument. The ear and cer-
tain parts of the head, are alone sensitive to
the goad of the mahout; musket bullets
glance off the thick hide of the body, and
even the conical rifle bullet frequently fails
to penetrate its substance.

From The Times, 8 Jan.
GENERAL HAVELOCK.
SELDOM has an event been received by the
nation with a more bitter feeling of regret
than the death of Sir Henry Havelock at the
close of his wonderful campaign. It is not
too much to say that we must go back to the
days of the great war for a parallel to the
universal sympathy and sorrow. We all felt
that Havelock was no common man. His
victories were not the natural result of the
opposition of European troops to Hindoos,
but were achieved by his own skill, courage,
coolness, and indomitable energy. He not
only defeated the enemy, but he surmounted
the difficulties of a situation which would
have daunted most other men. He was in
the heart of an enemy's country with a mere
handful of troops; his communications were
interrupted, his supplies were threatened,
every day added new strength to the muti-
nous levies, and decimated his own band by
fever and cholera. Yet not for one moment
did he quail, nor did he ever submit to ab-
stain from offensive operations. He marched
as few leaders have marched before, attacked
the enemy, wherever they were to be found,
and, at whatever odds, never attacked but to
conquer.

It has been said that a people is seldom

Perhaps, however, the point which it is most profitable to notice is the long and patient service of this accomplished soldier. Those who, in spite of reason and common sense and the rough teaching of experience, still fancy that the profession of war is no profession at all, and that any man of spirit and sound limbs can command, would do well to consider what has been the training of the men both Queen's officers and Company's officers, who have distinguished themselves of late. They have all been men who have devoted themselves to their profession, who have served campaign after campaign, and they have been mostly such as have permanently selected the great Indian field for their career. General Havelock was one of these. Though a Queen's officer, he belonged entirely to the Indian school. He had gone out to India in 1823 at 28 years of age, and in India and the East he served until death removed him from the scene where he had conferred such great benefits on his country. He went through the Burmese War, and took a part in most of the operations in the interior of India, and yet did not obtain his company until 1838, when he was 43 years of age. He fought under General Keane at Ghuznee, joined in the second invasion of Affghanistan, was engaged in the Punjab under Hardinge and Gough, within the last year took part in the war against Persia, and was present at the battle of Mohammerah; yet at the age of 62 he was only a Colonel in the army when the Indian Mutiny broke out. Such a man can certainly not be said to owe much to fortune. After 34 years of Indian service, after campaigns in the swamps of the Irrawaddy,

In the plains of Central India, in the passes | quence of this procrastination the year had of Cabul, and on the parched shores of the advanced too far, the snow fell, the grass Persian Gulf,-after fever, and shipwreck, failed, with the failure of the grass the mules and long years of fatigue, the veteran still lingered in comparative obscurity, and must have consoled himself only with the thought that he had done his duty.

dropped off, and as the mules dropped off the supplies dropped off. The consequence is that Colonel Alexander, with 1,000 bayonets and two field batteries, is now encamped From this point of view his career is cer- in winter quarters on Ham's Fork, 143 miles tainly a lesson to those who come after him. from the Salt Lake City, waiting for the How many men complain that in the military spring. Colonel Johnston and Colonel Cooke, or naval service there is no reward for merit; with 600 more men, have probably before that the truth of things rarely becomes now joined him. But, though the expedition known; that one man does the work and has failed this time, it is obvious that 1,600 another gets all the glory. How many urge men, reinforced by double or treble their in defence of officers' short comings that they number in the spring, must overwhelm the serve for nothing; that their pay is barely Mormons. The leaders see this well enough, the interest on their commission, and that and are beginning to look about them and to the nation is a hard master, wishing to reap prepare their followers for another movewhere it has not sown. All these arguments ment. The spirit of prophecy is coming have something of truth in them, just enough upon them, and Mr. Brigham Young preto raise a superstructure of false conclusions dicts "an almighty stride of Mormonism upon. Some people tell us that promotion into influence and power." "I know it," by merit means only promotion by favor, be- says the prophet, "as well now as I shall cause merit is undiscoverable; others say five years hence "-which is probably true. that as long as soldiers are poorly paid it Wake up," says Mr. Heber C. Kimball, will be impossible to get able heads and " ye saints of the MOST HIGH, and prepare willing hearts. But the example of the gal- for any emergency that the Lord our God lant General who died before Lucknow should may bring forth. We never shall leave these be sufficient to dissipate these impatient valleys till we get ready-no, never, never!" murmurings. Here was a man who had That is also a safe prophecy; but the next is served his country from youth to old age bolder and hazards a fact,-"We will live without any further encouragement than is here till we go back to Jackson County, Misopen to the most friendless subaltern. He souri." In spite of this prophecy the region was certainly not promoted by favor, and marked out by American opinion for a new though, as the event proves, possessed of Mormonite emigration is not Jackson County, transcendent merits, he slowly worked his but Sonora, the most north-west province of way with ordinary men. Yet, still he rose, Mexico. The description of this region is and at last the time came when he could attractive, and makes the choice sound not show what his powers were, and gain glory unlikely, the Mormonites being good judges for himself and his country, and honors for of advantageous places for settlement. Its his family, by a brilliant campaign. All the climate is warm and agreeable, and its prodifficulties which are before the youngest ducts comprise gold, silver, pearls, cotton, ensign were met by Henry Havelock, and wine, European grain, and live stock. Here were overcome by him. His suddenly gained they will be out of the power of a United reputation in the very evening of his life is, States' army and will be subjects of another perhaps, more instructive than if he had Government. But, whatever the choice may been famous in the prime of manhood. It be, another Hegira seems to be determined teaches the soldier not to despair of his pro- on. Further emigration to Utah is prohibited, fession because promotion and honors are the missionary establishments in the United slow of coming, nor to think, because he re- States are broken up, California is abandoned, mains unknown to fame till his course is and a new great step is evidently contemnearly run, that therefore his has been a use-plated. less and undistinguished career.

Mormonism is the most forbidding, the most disgusting, and the most stupid subject which before they come out are pronounced of the day. It is one of those phenomena impossible, and which as soon as they do come out are immediately commonplace. The gross follies of animal magnetism would have appeared incredible 20 years ago, but as soon as they appeared nobody was surprised at them. The most astounding reports of persons looking through brick walls, seeing

with the backs of their heads, reading with the presumption of the Mormonites,-setting the pits of their stomachs, and smelling with themselves up above the whole Christian the ends of their fingers, were received with world, and defying its moral standard and phlegmatic coolness and the simple interroga- law!" But presumption is also a very old tion, "Anything more?"-whereas it would phenomenon, and a very familiar one. Many have been thought beforehand that certainly people much better than Mormonites-many there was something surprising here, either very good and religious people, exhibit this the phenomena themselves, or the folly which feature almost to the extent of insanity. believed them. In point of fact, however, There is hardly a limit to the defiance which the whole affair became perfectly common- one man individually, standing on his own place in a few weeks. Table-turning and two legs, and without any other support, will spirit-rapping were incredible one day, and hurl at the unanimous conclusions of the trite the next. We do not mean to compare whole human race, from Adam down to the these comparatively harmless levities with present hour; and if half-a-dozen people in Mormonism, but only to use them as proofs a room find themselves agreeing in such an what poor judges we are of what turns opposition, they immediately vote themselves human thought may take, and what new the whole world, and so settle the question. 'mental phenomenon may start up next. All Then the prophetic element in Mormonism is sensible and sagacious men have long ago one with which we are very familiar in the given up the idea of limiting human audacity Puritan school, and we are are also familiar with and human imbecility-the extent to which Old Testament predictions in the same school. men will exaggerate evidence and will anni- Then the enormous credulity of the Morhilate evidence, will be satisfied without proof, monites in their capacity of followers is all a and will resist the most palpable proof. All trait of human nature as old as the hills. this department of human nature is un- Here is a succession of elements and ingredifathomable, and therefore the issues and ents, then, making up in combination the fruits of it are wholly incalculable. Up from phenomenon of Mormonism, each of which these dark abysses stream these lurid vapors is individnally quite old and familar. It is and overshadow our bright earth. Nobody only their mode of combination which is could predict 20 years ago the new opinions new. Sensuality in connexion with religion, of the last 20 years, and nobody can predict now the new opinions of the next 20 years. All this has been said fifty thousand times, been said without refutation, and even without denial. Some men of remarkable sagacity have indeed devoted their whole philosophical lives to the illustration of this truth. Solomon was one of these philosophers; Montaigne was another. The moral from The human mind on its bad side both their books is that human nature is a exhibits a variety of morbid impulses and most profound and inexplicable medley, that motives, a mass of speculations, dreams, nobody can possibly tell what mankind may, visions, fancies, a great deal of sensuality, under different circumstances, think, do, say, some brutality; it is impossible to say how feel, believe, expect, hope, fear, regret, or these elements will combine in the next boast of. All the individual elements of eccentric phenomenon that comes before us, Mormonism are very old and familiar ones. but we know that there they are, and that Sensuality is a very old phenomenon; sen- the novelty will lie in the combination rather suality in connection with religion, or the than in the material. Such phenomena profession of religion, is also an old phenom- generally assume their peculiar form from enon. We have it in the Bacchanalian mys- some dominant impulse of the day, as, in the teries, in the Assyrian mysteries, in the mys-present instance, from emigration. teries of Brahminism, and in other mysteries wonderful at first sight, the shifting nomad which "Veiled Prophets" and similar im- temper of a prosperous community, as the postors founded for their own private benefit Mormonites are, its readiness to change its men who felt a certain class of religious quarters at a day's notice, and seek a new sensations and emotions which they contrived home in the world. But this readiness for to combine with sensuality, and thought the moving is a feature of our day; the world is mixture not only exactly suited to their own untied from its old moorings, whole classes constitution, but a very commendable, genial, that fifty years ago were as stationary as the and harmonious one in itself, and capable of earth itself are now ready to go in search of the best moral, religious, and philosophical new homes at the Antipodes, and the nomad defence. temper of Mormonism only reflects while it

presumption, the prophetic element, the pseudo Old Testament, the expectation of an earthly paradise or millennium-all separately old and well known manifestationshad only to, combine and adopt in addition, and as the crowning trait, the modern and nineteenth century impulse for emigration, and we have the whole of Mormonism before us.

"But only think," a person will say, "of exaggerates a whole phase of society

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