Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 May 1857 — Page 2

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bEAW'FOEDSVIILE, Saturday Morning/May 30,1857

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rElHTED AND PUBLISHED KVERY8ATDRDAY MORNiyO BY S

HARPER'S MAGAZINE

"Frank Heaton has received the June .numberof this excellent Magazine also, Graham and Godcy. This establishment is just the place to get late publications, and the choicest articles of Books and State tionary. .},

Mfc i* I ""TIIE STATES." ,We call the attention of our readers, to the prospectus in another column of "The

States," a Democratic paper, recently starfad in Washington. Those of our Democratic friends who intend taking a paper from abroad should by all means subscribe (ojt "The States." It is the ablest Democratic paper bow published, iv trn -i! THE KENTUCKY HARVESTER.

We call the attention of our Farmers to •oi advertisement,in another column of this celebrated machine, which has taken the premium over all others that have ever been exhibited in this country. They are manufactured by Wingate, Miller & Co., at Llouisville, Ky., and no farmer should do without one.. A number of these machines are for sale at the Montgomery Agrionltural. Store of Christ man & Gregg, io Empire Block. Call and see them.

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iSTDr. McClclland's new brick is progressing rapidly towards completion. It willr.eontara two large store rooms, one hundred feet in length by 16 in width.— Above these will be a large town Hall, one hundred feet in length by thirty-six in width, with an eighteen foot ceiling, making one of tho finest halls in the State.-—: The hall will-contain two dressing rooms, and a stage elevated two feet above the main-floor?

MTNearly everybody has been humbugged into the belief that a great comet will.nialte its appearance on the 16th of nextmontlii and that it: will destroy the «arth. Nothing of the kind will occur.

:v J0* Bred Scott, his wife and two daughters, Were emancipated at St. Louis on the 26th "ins!!, by Taylor Blon. The parties have been "conveyed to Massachusetts by Mr, Ciwffeo for that purpose.

4 -Vj ifiT We are indebted to the Hon. GRAHAM N. FITCH, for a copy of the Bred Scott deciiWa, published by authority of the

United States Supreme Court. Ji MORTGAGES—IMPORTANT DECISION. "The Corydon Democrat reports a decisiob made by ,Judge Bicknell, of the Ciroalt Court, to the effect that under the exemptlen law of 1852, a person who gives a nfbrtgage upon property to secure the paymeni of a del}t, may, if. he be "a resident fcause-bolder," claim the mortgaged property as exempt- fW)m sale in' exactly the •line inahner, as if 'it had not been mortgaged. The effect of which, is, that' a mortgage ia no yortgage and no security al all, when .the "resident house-holder" is itortb less than $300.

|)B*Have you a sister 1. Then love and eberiahhtf ^Uh aholy friendship.—War-

If yon have no sister of your own, we to, love spmebody, else's sister. Gasftte. ...

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ivtnr advertisement handed in for publication, ahonldhare writcn upon it the number of times the ttv«rtiMrwi«hceitinsertGd. If not so stated,i twill Minaerted nntil ordered ont, and charged accord- __ fi 19' Wrwi»L Jt distinctly nriIerstood,that we afcva now the acrr'and the LAIIOEST assortment of

MTLW and TAVCT JOB Trrcever brooghtto this place. We insist on those wishing work done to call up, "f and wc will show them onr assortment of typs,cut«, •i Ae., We.bavc got ithem and no mistake. Work 4«BI en short notice, and on reasonable terms.

'V Agents for'the Review, Jt. WiCa**,U.S. Nowspaper Advertising Agent, Evans'Build inc. N. W. corner of Third and Wal-

B.atStreeU, Philadelphia, Pa.

8. H. PAKVTX. South East corner Columbia and Main «tr«cts, Cincinnati, Ohio is our Agent to procure advertisements.

V. B. PALMER, U. S. Advertising Agent, New

York.

A GREAT 8COUNDRBL.

Aa infamous swindler and thief by the name of GEORGE W. CB.0FUT, sent us a large advertisement last February, which bo requested us to 'insert and send bill, which he assured us should be promptly paid. Wc performed the work and although we have sent our.bill several times he has refused to answer our letters. We notic61hat he has swindled nearly every paper in the State, and wo. are glad to hear that steps are being taken to bring him to .justice.. Our cotemporaries should have nothing to do with newspaper agents.—

They are with but very few exceptions unmitigated rascals. Hereafter no advertisement from abroad will be inserted unless accompanied with the cash, and we hope every paper in the State will adopt the name rule.

Clay.the renegade Whig,"

has been, nominated by the Democrats of thtf AeUand District of Kentucky, for tiftgresL iHe has accepted the nomina-

This we Mppose? is his reward for telling himself iwdy and soul,.(mind, he has none) to the life-long revilers and calumniators of his lamented father. If we are not greatly mistaken the traitor will receive a severe and merited condemnation' at the^ensuing.-election. The Democrats, however have, a fit candidate in the, person of-one who tore, down his father's house, and peddled out $e pieces to, make canes and snuff-boxes!

We clip the above infamous squib from the Lafayette Courier. We want no better evidence of the moral turpitude to which Black Republican editors are capable of descending. Smarting and writhing under an ignominious defeat, they spew out from the black cells of their venomous hearts base and unmitigated falsehoods.— To show how true the assertion is that Mr. Clay tore down his father's house for the purpose of peddling out the pieces to make canes and snuff-boxes of, we will state that Col. Lane of this place has repeatedly pronounced the charge false in every particular. The idea of long-healed, wooly-head-ed Abolitionism party about "renegade Whigs" and the "lamented Clay" is like a Jesuit weeping over the fall of the inquisition ,.

KANSAS. 1

A letter from a distinguished citizen of that territory says: "All the world and the rest of mankind are here. Speculations run high and politics are seldom named.— Money now seems to be the question.— Stringfellow and Lane are good chums.— What will Greely do now, as Kansas has ceased to bleed?" •,

AN ITEM FOR THE OWNERS OF HORSES. —A gentleman writing to the American Agriculturist, states that he thoroughly cured a fine young mare, afflicted with the heaves, by feeding her on cornstalks, and that the disease never returned. The writer quotes Judge Buel's opinion as to cornstalks being a remedy, that distinguished agriculturalist having had a horse afflicted with that disorder, which disappeared after being so fod.

Senator Butler died at Augusta,

Ga., on the 26th inst., at 6 o'clock, P. M., of the dropsy.

LATER FLLOM KANSAS.

ST LOUIS, May 25.—Kansas advices to the 21st say that Stanton has issued a proclamation for the election of delegates to form a Constitution, on the third Monday of June.

Rcturns from nineteen out of twenty-six counties give 9,251 legal voters. It is said that many Republicans are going over to the Free State National Democracy. There is also an attempt making by Northern Democrats to send Free State men of that party to the Convention.

Ely Moore, formerly of New York, is solicited to run for Congress.

f®°" The Logansporfc Journal of last week says that Dr. Myers of that place has in his possession a large worm, snake, lizard, or some other reptile, which was recently taken from the stomach of a lady in Fort Wayne. The Journal thus describes it:

It appeared to be from two to three feet long, and at least one inch in diameter.— The scales were from one to of an inch in diameter, and very similar to those of a fish. The head, mouth, bones, &c., all showed that the creature was intended for active operations and an enteprismg lite. How the lady lived under such an entailment is a mystery. She thinks she drank it in water some years ago. A large number of persons saw the animal.

FREEDOM IN IRELAND.—The following is from the late assizes of Tipperary: "Patrick Ryan, a young man of respectable appearance, indicted for unlawfully having in his possession, in a proclaimed district, a pistol, was found guilty and sentenced to be imprisoned for 12 months."

Such is British freedom of which Abolition orators prate so much. Here is a white man, the brother, the equal of every other white man, imprisoned for having artais, for a privilege which is even allowed to negroes at the South. Oh! England, when will the cup of thy hypocrisy be full?

THE CALLIOPE ADVERTISED.—"Romans, countrymen, and lovers," the Devil has broken loose! Look out for him! He is with a. travelling circus, and goes under the assumed name of Calliope." If he comes near you, stuff cotton in your ears, for if he gets one fair scream at you you'll think an earthquake lias lit in both cars, or that a fallen star had hit you on the head. Dou't go within forty miles of the infernal thing, or it will squirt hot water on you. If it comes within ten miles of you, send the authorities to arrest all concerned, and to read the "Riot Act." It don't belong to this world, that is certain. Fair warning is given, and if you go home from that Circus as deaf as a post,'it is your own fault. „,jj

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NIGHT SPECTACLES.—Night spectacles,

see .withitt the dark, are suggested by a correspondent in the Scientific American. "They would be very desirable," he thinks, "in some situations, to see clearly when quite dark, when-acting as pilot, for example, on the river steamboats. The idea is practicable:- That which avails an owl to see4n the dark will enable a man to see in the nigh't.—Herschel could see with the aid of an optical instrument which he constructed, the dial on a steeple cloek, a mile distant, when it was so dark that he could see but a few feet with the naked eye."

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THF. WIFE.—There is a woman, youthful and quite handsome, who visits the Baltimore Penitentiary every day, and eonverses with her huatmnd for an hour or more through the bars.'' Yet this 'man is serving out a term of years for having cut her throat,—his wife's—and inflicted several stabs in her breast, from the effects of which her life was for along time disncired of. What an evidence of love ina constancy.

STILL LATER FROM UTAH. -----

THRILLING NARRATIVE OF FACTS. -----

MORE MURDERS OF APOSTATES. -----

The Baptism of Blood. -----

<Wholesale Immersions—Mormon Customs and Ceremonies—Gloomy Forebodings>. -----

[From the N. y. Times, May 20.] By last night's mails, we received another package from one of our Salt Lake correspondents, inclosing the following interesting letter, which brings the history of events in that distant region down to the 1st of April last:

GREAT SALT LAKE CITT, UTAH TER'Y., } Wednesday April 1, 1857. } I avail myself of a safe opportunity to send you the following record of crimes and outrages, and occurrences transpiring here, all of which are within my personal knowledge, or have been derived from sources in which entire confidence may be reposed. Be assured that affairs here are approaching a fearful crisis which cannot be much longer delayed and I write you now, not only to keep our fellow-citizens advised of the wickedness perpetrated day after day in this God and Government-for-saken country, under the direction of the chief representative of the authorities at Washington—Brigham Young—but also in vindication of the course which the victims of oppression may be driven to pursue in the protection of their lives and property, and redressing our numerous and frightful wrongs. I send accordingly a transcript of my Diary for the last month, with some occasional additions by way of suggestion and comment.

<Monday, March 9>.—The carrier of the Southern mail brings news to-day of an attack on a party which left here a short time since for California, consisting of four men named Pettro, Tobin, and two others.— They had encamped about 75 miles below Parowan, the last southern settlement on the road to San Bernardino before coming to the new settlement of Los Vegas, where they were waiting for the mail to come up. The place selected for their camp was at the foot of a perpendicular ledge of rocks in the vicinity of some bushes. About 4 o'clock in the morning, the moon shining brightly at the time, the attacking party crept up and fired down on them from the top of the rock. Tobin was shot through the head, the ball entering close under the eye, passing diagonally through the nose and cheek, and lodging in his neck. He was also shot in five other places, and left for dead. The other men escaped into the bushes, one of them, however, having been shot in the back of the neck, and another having had two fingers shot off. When the party returned to the camp they found that Tobin was alive, and with the assistance of the mail party, who soon overtook them, they carried him along with them. From the reports it is somewhat doubtful whether he recovers.

This Tobin was Orderly Sergeant in Capt. Morris's command, U. S. A., which served as an escort to Capt. Gunnison, when he was killed on the Plains. After his murder the command wintered at Great Salt Lake City, and during their sojourn in Zion, Tobin at one and the same time, became imbued with Mormonism and impressed with the charms of Alice Young, daughter of the Prophet Brigham. He embraced the first object of his adoration, and was led to believe, by the wily prophet, that, in the fullness of time, he would be permitted to embrace the second. After serving out his enlistment he returned here last Spring, brimfull of love and Mormonism, and figured extensively as employe and confident of Brigham, and Professor of the Art of War, drilling recruits to serve in the expected collision between United States and Mormondom, provided the incoming Administration does not shirk the question as the outgoing one has for the past four years. To return to Tobin: the current of true love with him, as with all heroes, ran with the ripple, and various reasons are assigned why the fair Alice took sanctuary in the arms of one Hiram Clawson, where some three or four doves had nestled before her. The gallant Tobin sought consolation in the arms of a Miss Rich; but even the charms of love and consolations of religion failed to satisfy his ambitious longings. He found it best to make a journey to California.

In other words, as we say here, "the country became unhealthy for him." Unfortunately, however, he had been a "leetle" too deeply initiated into the mysteries of Mormonism to leave the country, after his close intimacy with the Governor of Utah. When the attack was made the party were asleep, rolled in their blankets, and the bandits fired at their heads, but most of the shots were aimed too high. Their boots and shoes being at their heads, under the blankets, deceived the assailants as to their true position, hence, their escape. They counted 56 bullet holes in their blankets, and what was quite significant, the balls were from revolvers of the navy size.

The Mormons here, in speaking of this transaction, wink their eyes to each other, and say, "<The Indians are very bad on the lower road>." There is no doubt but the attack was planned in this city, and that orders were sent from here to exccute it. It was said publicly by the Mormons, immediately after the party left the city, that they would not live to get through to California, and reports came in several days in advance of the mail that they had been killed. The bandits thought they had killed Tobin, and probably spoke of it to some person on their return. The Mormons do not hesitate to publicly proclaim that no apostate shall be permitted to escape from their community "to tell their d—-d tales about them." We were disposed to regard these threats as mere expedients to frighten us, but are forced to the conclusion that they intend to carry them into execution.

With the mail that left for the States on the 1st inst., was Horace S. Eldridge, who has gone to St. Louis to take charge of that "Stake of Zion," and if possible re-light the <Luminary> (a Mormon paper,) which was extinguished for want of proper fuel last season.

Just before leaving us he had two young girls (sisters) sealed to him against their will and in spite of their tears and remonstrances. Their father was a bigoted Mormon, and compelled them thus to become concubines to a man who had several women in his harem already. He was too conspicuous a personage in the Church to be prudently thwarted, and the father in-, clined a deaf ear to their entreaties and turned them over to a creature whose soul must be insensible to every generous emotion. What else could be expected from a devotee of Mormonism, whose religious

belief is that woman should be the passive instrument for the gratification of a man's sensual appetites, and who laugh to scorn the idea of her moral or intellectual worth.

<Friday, March 13>.—Last evening "our peaceful city" was thrown into commotion by an attempt, on the part of some person high up in the Priesthood, to get away from T. S. Williams his daughter, who is not

yet fourteen years of age. In order that you may comprehend the case, I must give you a short sketch of Thomas S. Williams and his family. His father is one of the old Mormons, having been with them from the beginning of their career, and is, moreover, a conspicuous member of the Danite Band. His grandfather, old as he is, has been "sealed" to three young women within the last few weeks. A few days since I met him coming from Brigham's office, with a young girl apparently some sixteen or seventeen years old, to whom he had just been "sealed." His son, from his own story, was "<whipped into Mormonism> when he was only, ten years old." The early lessons thus forcibly inculcated, had their effect, and he has ever since—until within the last few months—been a firm supporter and devoted advocate, fighting their battles and contributing his means most liberally to the Mormon cause, presuming, perhaps, upon his long standing in the Church, and upon the important services he had rendered, he showed too much independence of spirit for a subservient follower of the immaculate Prophet, and

Brigham undertook to check his growing arrogance. The attempt, instead of humbling, only produced an obstinate resistance, which finally led to his expulsion from the Church. They hoped, by these extreme measures to bring him back to obedience and tn the Mormon faith but finding him more incorrigible than ever, they tried, without avail, to coax and bribe him back. Even this failed, and he commenced making preparations to leave the Territory. It had been repeatedly said by Mormons that he would not be permitted to leave here in peace, but we could not see where the obstruction was to come from. The curtain is rising, and we begin to see a part of the play. Williams's wife's family, as well as his own, are all Mormons, and their united efforts have been used to compel him to return to the faith; but he says that persecution has made him examine into their religion, and he finds it worse than worthless, and he can never agnin yield his support or acquiesce to so rank an imposition. Finding him still incorrigible, the next attempt was made upon his wife and children, who were told that they would be eternally damned if they followed the husband and father, and that their only chance for salvation was in abandoning him, and being "sealed" to some good man in the church, who "would persevere to the end." His wife repelled their advances, and declared her intention of following the fortunes of her husband. Then the grandfather and grandmother, the uncles and aunts of his daughter were employed to seduce her from her father. Appealing to her love for her parents, they represented that they were on the road to hell, and that she could save them if she would consent to be "sealed" to some one in the church. They knew the strong affection of the father for his child, and told her that her parents would not go if she remained, and then they would return to the church and be saved, and that by no other means could they escape perdition. Strong arguments these to a child who has never heard any religion taught but Mormonism. With such sophistry they had almost, if not quite, succeeded in winning this young girl to their schemes before her father was aware of it. The first notice of their villainy came from Heber C. Kimball, Brigham's first Counsellor, who met him on the street, and asked or rather demanded his daughter for his son. He told the father that he made the demand in accordance with Brigham's counsel (Kimball is the same Prophet who a short time ago offered a wagon and a yoke of oxen for a girl some 17 years old.)— This demand struck Williams like a clapp of thunder, and when I saw him a short time after, he was raving like a maniac.— He says justly there are no laws, as they have been rendered powerless, and our last court was broken up by an armed mob and rapine, lust, and slaughter run riot over this maddened and distracted country.— <Sauve qui puet>, is the word of these times in Zion. For the last day or two a body of the Danites have been hovering about Williams's house; what their object is no one can tell, but it is supposed that they design taking the girl by force. Williams has been an active partizan of Mormonism, and now retributive justice may compel him to drink from his own chalice. His early education in these abominations form his only apology, and he has certainly shown himself worthy of a better career within the last few months by his exhibition of manliness and affection for his child.

Joseph Young, the not over-bright son of Brigham, returned last fall from a mission to England. As the son of the Prophet, he was flattered, caressed, almost worshipped by the faithful abroad, and has returned inflated with vanity almost to bursting. He left a young wife behind him when he went, whom he has entirely neglected since his return, except to keep her locked up in his father's seraglio. He has lately been sealed to two young women, one of them daughter of one Grant, brother of the late Jedediah. She is about 17 years of age, and represented to be very amiable and lovely. She was most bittcrly opposed to the marriage, and begged and implored her father not to force her into the arms of a man whom she loathed; but he was deaf to her entreaties for the son of the Prophet must be gratified.— Since she was "sealed" she refuses to associate with him, and walks her room all night, her agony unrelieved by tears, in a state bordering oh insanity.

This is the hearty acquiescence that the Utah women give to their prostitution.— Women in this country are considered little more than household drudges, or mere toys, to be disposed of as the Prophet dictates.

Alice Young, the daughter of Brigham, who was last winter "sealed" to H. C. Clawson, a pimp of the Prophet's who had previously three other wives, a short time since packed up her effects preparatory to leaving her husband but the storm has blown over, or was stilled by the voice of the prophet. I am told that Clawson now seeks a younger sister to be "sealed" to him. The mother—Brigham's first wife— is almost beside herself with fear that he will obtain the father's consent to it.-— "Perfect happiness reigns in all the families in Utah!"

A young woman, who forsook her friends open robbery, determined to leave the Ter in England, and came to this country last fall, under the delusion that if she could only reach "Zion,'' her happiness would be completely insured in this world and the next, was taken into "Brigham's family on her arrival, as his mistress. She anxiously inquired if there was no hope for a change of this state of things, and being told that things were growing worse instead of better, she exclaimed in her agony, "Oh! I am lost! lost!!, lost!!!"

An Elder, a short time since, disregard= ing the remonstrances of a wife, was "sealed" to a young woman, one of the arrivals last season. The occurrence had such an effect upon the wife that she became sick and gave premature birth to her child.— The newly "sealed" woman seeing the misery she had brought into the family, became so disgusted that she left the man immediately, declaring that she would not live with such a wretch.

The Mormons pretend that no man can take a second wife without the consent of the first. That consent is frequently obtained by the use of the lash and by starvation. But Brigham has adopted another mode of insuring acquiescence. If the first wife evinces any repugnance to the addition he deposes her, as he terms it, from the position of first wife, and assigns the place to another.

There are some less grave stories told about this people. Elder W. W. Phelps, one of the very old Mormon rascals, who plays the part of the Devil in one of their ceremonies representing the Garden of Eden, persuaded one of the "hand-cart women" that she could not be saved unless she was sealed to him. She, not understanding exactly what was expected from the sealed ones, consented but when night came on and he wanted to share her couch, she exclaimed: "Is this what you are after, you old covey? I'll seal you," and thereupon struck him in the face with her fist, giving him a black eye which he carried several days.

A part of Mormon creed is "baptism for the remmission of sins," and this baptism is going on by the wholesale. As often as a man sins he must be baptised with water or with blood. If a man's sin be very great in the eye of the Church, his blood must atone for it. This is called baptism with blood. For example, poor Tobin was baptised with blood. The mandate has gone fourth that the whole population shall be baptised, and the Bishops and Elders are visiting every family in the city and country, compelling all, old and young, to come forward for that purpose. There are very few—how much soever they may dissent—that dare refuse, for they would henceforth be looked upon as "apostates." The people assemble by hundreds on a certain block at a specified time, when the Bishops and Elders march them to a pond or creek, where the immersion is to take place. A person witnessing the ceremony would not imagine that they considered it a sacred ordinance, for they make a grand frolic of the occasion. I saw one party the other day of which over four hundred were immersed, and of another party, three hundred. The shouts of merriment strongly reminded me of an old fashioned sheepwashing, when the farmers would drive their flocks into the water by scores.

<Saturday March> 21.—Night before last a gentelmen [sic] named Landon was followed by two men who dogged him all the evening. When near his house he asked them what cause they had for watching him, and was told they had orders to do so, and that every one who was in any way connected with a "Gentile" was also watched. On entering his house he found his wife in tears and very much frightened. She told him that some men had been there threatening his life because he had refused to come forward to be baptised, and to renew "his covenants," and they told her that if they did not both renew their obligations they would be "<dealt with>." They said the day would soon come when every one not with them would be "cut off" and that they were determined no apostates should live here.

Last night his house was again visited by two men, who announced that their errand was to require that he should be baptised and recieve [sic] the "endowments," or to demand to know the reason why he would not. He had a class of three young men whom he was teaching drawing. The visitors ordered the class to put aside their work, and forbade all labor while they were present. It is a custom with these "Teachers," as they call themselves, when they enter a house, to assume controle [sic] and order the family about as they please, and the people dare not do otherwise than submit. Having got the attention of the household, the men talked and preached until 12 o'clock, threatening the vengence of the Church if he refused to obey their requirements, and then left.

Soon after they returned with two more men and demanded his manuscripts, expressing a determination to search his house for them. Mr. Landon told them they were welcome to all they found but before they could search his house they must show a warrant for doing so. They replied that they knew he was capable of doing great injury to the Church if premit [sic]ted to secede from them; that they were determined to prevent it, and that he should take upon himself all the "obligations" of the order or suffer the consequences of his disobedience. Alternately threatning and cajoling him, they remained until 3 o'clock this mornig [sic].

<Monday March> 23.—A few days ago we recived the news of the robbery of a man named Parrish, (a dissening [sic] Mormon who was intending to leave the Territory,) in Springville, a town about sixty miles south of here. Some men came to his premises in the night and took tow [sic] span of horses and a wagon, with which he contemplated to leave the Territory this Spring. Hearing them moving his property, he went to the door, where he was met by a man who presented a pistol to his head and threatened to blow his brains out if he made any noise or offered any resistance. The next day he found one span of his horses in the stable of one Bullock, Mayor of Provo. He claimed the horses, but Bullock refused to let him have them. He then applied to ths Judge of the Probate Court, (a Mormon tribunal, the only Court left us since the forcible dissolution of the United States Court,) for a writ of replevin, which the Judge refused to issue, and he could get no redress.

We have now received the report and particulars of the murder of Parrish and two other men. A party of five "apostate" Mormons, Parrish, his two sons, Potter, and Darger, having been stripped of all they possessed by Mormon process and

riory at all hazards. Being unable to procure teams, they started on foot nd passed out of Spring-

about

eighty yards, when be was over­

taken, and <his throat was cut and his bom [sic]els ripped up>. The other two men, being a little in the rear, escaped.

Potter had a brother killed in the Gunnison massacre. His wife says that ever since that event the Mormons have been very suspicious, and have been watching him continually, supposing that he knew more about that affair than was consistent with the safety of certain men, particularly if he should escape from the Territory. The murder having been committed in such a public place, within a few yards of a town of 2 5000 inhabitants, and two men escaping, the authorities felt themselves compelled to take some notice of the afiair and therefore called a coroner's inquest, whose verdict was "assassinated by some parties unknown."

As soon as it was known that the victims of this terrible crime were making preparations to leave, an express was sent to Brigham, which performed the journey and returned in less than twenty-four hours, although the distance traveled was about 120 miles—bringing orders the nature of which may be reasonably inferred from the horrible results. The Bishop laid his hands on the heads of some men, (the supposed assassins,) previous to their starting out, blessed them and prayed the Lord to "<give them strength to perform the work of the Lord>."

We have reports of others being killed, but have no positive knowledge, as the Mormons take care to hide from us every dark deed when they can help it. One of the Bishops the other day, in preaching to his congregation, said that he "would cut the throats of the apostates with as little compunction as he would go into a pen of hogs and butcher them." One of the "Seventies" said that at first he shuddered at the idea of killing all the apostates—men, woman and children—but had become reconciled to it that he was satisfied he would be saving them and assisting in building up the kingdom.

<March>, 30—Mr. Mogo, a U. S. Deputy Surveyor, started out about two weeks since to commence his surveying operation taking with him a strong party of twentyseven armed men. It had been said all winter that no surveys would be premitted [sic]. Since Mr. Mogo's departure these threats have multiplied, and it is openly declared that he and his party are to be killed.— Mormons have been warned not to accom pany him, as they would thus endanger their lives.

A flying report has come in that the Deputy Surveyor and all his party had been massacred.

But I must close, for the present, this recital of crime and misery. For four years have we been anxiously expecting the United States Government to adopt some measure to prevent the coercive prostitution of women and to punish an insolent band of assassins and robbers, who exist here as a distinct and professional body, and whose impunity is purchased by their line of business. Are we to expect relief, or are we to be mocked by a re-eact-ment [sic] of the Steptoe farce. VIGO ---<>---

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ville in the afternoon. They had been watched, and as soon as they had started several men were called out to assist in the affair. The party had hardly proceeded a hundred yards from the gate of the town before they were fired upon by a party of disguised Danites. Potter was killed outright, having been pierced by five balls. Parrish and one of his sons were wounded. The murderers then rushed upon them, and <cut Parrish's throat from ear to ear and ripped open his bowels>. Other wounds upon his person showed that he struggled hard. His son, though severely wounded, ran about eighty yards, when he was over-

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GKIISIANV.—Since the year 1847,

the prices of provisions throughout Europe, as well as America h.ive had an upward tendency, and of course the prices of other necessaries of life have increased in proportion. In the German states, where the upward movement of grain has enriched the agriculturists at the expense of other branches of industry, political economists at first ascribed the rise to poor harvests but as succeeding years brought bounteous crops but no decrease in prices, this hypothesis was abandoned as erroneous.— The true reason of the high prices must be found in the fact that the amount of land devoted to the production of breadstuffs in Germany is now much less than heretofore.

In the Palatine, in Baden and Hesse, vast tracts of the best land, hitherto producing immense crops of cereals, arc now planted with tobacco, which is more profitable even than bread-stuffs. The price of German tobacco has risen from twenty-five to thirty-six and forty florins per hundred weight, and large quantities are exported to France, Austria, England, and Northern Germany.

In consequence of the high duty on West India sugar, beet sugar manufactories have sprung up in various parts of the country, and thousands of acres are now devoted to the culture of the sugar-beet. The leaves of this plant are dried, mixed with the tobacco leaves, sent to England, where they are manufactured into the "best mild-fla-vored segars."

Malt and hops are likewise in great demand, owing to the increased consumption of beer consequently more land is needed to produce these articles, which is consequently withdrawn from the production of breadstuffs.

Thus it will be seen that beer, sugar, and tobacco, are. in a great measure responsible for the high priccs of provisions in Germany.—N. Y. Evening Post.

The editor of the Terre Haute Ex­

press has been through the counties of Vigo, Parke Sullivan, Putnam, and Clay, Indiana, and brings us the pleasant news that the wheat fields in that section of the Stote never wore a more promising and beautiful appearance. The crops are not only very good and promising, but are very extensive in acres, and there are more wheat fields sovni than was ever before known in the game region. Many fields that the farmers were ready a few weeks ago to plough up under the impression that they would produce nothing, have come out surprisingly since the rain, and are likely to. produce a good yield. '.i»,.*•

An old hunter in California has made a chair for the President, out of elk's horn's the trophies of his own skill and rowess in the chase. It is jreprQsentedMto a very himdsomc affair/**

BTF MONTTUI 'ago,.$ith*

numbfr oft^era/TRUI trying TO4&K« litda sporiJ Thefout wghteenhi^M of poMeritwiB®WTgilnH&fiftel, and'laiB. mered in ftn iron plug-for brewh-^* and then applied a slow natch to the inrattttim and ran. But itdiicharged at the WWW eud, and the teiyoranr breech gin atracx

of Mr7 Fell about the middlf of

the e!gHth rib and passed on and entered the chest by fracturing the sixth rib. Physicians of Tuolumme county were consulted —could find the hole hat not the thin* that made it, and promised Mr. Bell, with extreme probability, a speedy death. He did not die as soon as he supposed he would, and concluded to make a slight emit to live. He put himaelf under the charge of E. S. Cooper of this city. He was assured that the proposed operation for the: removal of the substance was unusual, aad would probably be fatal—pomibly not.— But death without the operation being certain, he consented to the epxerimeat.

An incision, commencing at the opening of the skin over the eighth rib was node, four and a half ins. longitudinally, another three inches transversely, and perpendicular to the middle of the first, the flaps of the were turned back the 6th, 7th and 8th ribs were exposed two sections of the 5th and 7th—and two inches long each way and a portion of the 8th were removed with the saw, and an opening waa thus made sufficiently large to admit two fingers with facility. An ordinary silver probe was pressed against the heart, separated from that organ only by its delieate investing membrane.

The substance was searched for with one or two fingers, during which the fingers, repeatedly came in contact with the palpitating heart. The substance not yet appearing, Dr. Cooper introduced a steel sound, 14 inchcs long, into the cavity of the chest, and moved it in all directions, upwards downwards and backwards by turns, and very frequently gliding it around the vcrticlcs of the heart, and at length felt that the sound had touched the foreign substancc, without being able to discriminate its character, whether metallic or not, in consequence of its being covered with matter or membrane. Being satisfied it was no portion of the vertebra, although behind and a little above the apex of the heart, lie introduced a little tomy forceps, and grasping the substance, withdrew it from that great depth, and found it to be the piece of iron described above. This was done in the presence of many physicians whose names .arc, too numerous to men­

The patient did not take chloroform, nor any other anicstbctic. A large quantity of bloody matter escaped from the wound.— The lungs did not collapse on admission of air to the thoractic cavity. There was no suspension of animation during or after tho operation. The patient endured all those necessary but prolongucd manifestations with a calmness that was truly stoic—wo had nearly said stolid—it was so entirely free from the inaifestations of the agony ho must have endured. Five days after the operation, the patient is qnite comfortable converses freely, and is almost free from pain. If be floes not ultimately succumb we shall Iwh upon it as one of the most astonishing successes of surgery.—San Francisco Golden Era.

The following touch and felicitous

illustration of the power of idc-ss was givca by Weudell Phillips the other day in public speech at New York. The eloquence of Phillips is surpassed by nothing but hi* atrocious fanaticism:

I was told to-day a story so touching ID reference to this that you must let me tell it. It is a temperance case, but it will illustrate this just as well. It is the story of a mother, on the green hills of Vermont,, holding by the right hand a son, sixteen years old, mad with love of the sea. And,, as she.stood by the garden gate on a sunny morning, she said: "Edward, they tell, me—for I never saw the ocean—that the great temptation of the seamen's life is drink. Promise mc, before you quit your mother's hand, that you will never drink." And, said he (for he told nie the story), I gave her the promise, and I went the broad globe over—Calcutta, the Mediterranean, San Francisco, the Cape of Good Hope, the North Pole and the South—I saw them all in forty years, and I never saw a glass filled with sparkling liquor that my mother's form by the garden gate, on the green hillside of Vermont, did not rise before me and to-day, at sixty, my lips are innocent of the taste of liquor. (Applause.) Was not that sweet evidence of the power of a single word! Yet that was but half. For said he, yesterday there came into my counting-room a young man of forty, and asked me, "Do you know me?" "No."— "Well," said lie, "I was once brought drunk into your presence on shipboard you were a passenger the captain kicked me aside you took me to your berth and kept me there till I had slept off the intoxication you then asked me if I had a mother I said I never knew a word from her lips you told me of yours at the garden gate, and to-day I am the master of one of tho finest packets in New York, and I come to ask you to call and see mc." How far that little candle throws its beams! That mother's word on the green hillside of Verinont! Oh, God be thanked for the almighty power of a single word! (Applause.)*

POTATOES—How THEV ARE GROWN IN CALIFONIA J. A. Ilobart, of San Pueblo so says the California Farmer—planted his potatoes in July and harvested them in January. The yield was two hundred sacks per acre. A sack is one hundred

and thirty pounds, which, by our estimate, is two and one-sixth bushels, or nearly as much as the average auantity sold here for a barrel. It is equal to four hundred and eighty bushels an acre and it is stated that there were no small potatoes in the crop. The whole would probably average one pound cach.

How ttie ground teas Prepared.—The sub-soil plow was used up to the beam, and the mol'-'-board plow as deep as it could be driven, five seperate plowings, so that. the soil was stirred and pulverised about two feet deep, and frequently exposed .to the action of the atmosphere. The

was, the land produced a crop worth $600 or $700 an acre. vt Here is something for farmers in ,th» Atlantic Stites to think about.

LITERARY. Br. Kane's heira hate

been"

paid $57,000 for the sale of the lamented explorer's work, the Arctic expedition and Professor Longfellow, it it laid, netted $13,000 bv the «a!g of Hiawatha.