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5IURDE11EHS. TH 3 MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. Tho Facta of that Crowning Infamy of Mormonisra. An Interview with Col Damo, One of tho Leaders. CO MINI TO JUDGMENT AT LAST. ttte nnrcaiKED tarty numbered a iiun3ED AND TlllRTY-OSE-SOME OF TUB EU rCH K RS TO BS TRIED AFTER SEVENTEEN KKFKBENO TO TII CRl&INALS TUE PROPHET'S PARflCIPANJV. The Baver Lke correspondent of the Chicago Times reviews the crowning crime of Mormonism in connection wBh the cr.minats soon to ba brought to lbs tar of tbe courts be'.ow for trial and judgment. This memorable Mountain Meadow massacre commute J Sept. 7, 1S37. more than 17 years go. Much fits boeo said and written i concerning it, aid a grestdsal more, by ; mains unsid an 1 unwritten, and which the world will niver know, unless rome of those now charged with its commu. on turn state's evidence on tria and reveal the shaking truths Iu thl. hrd ypr..bibl9 event, what ii now generally believed to b fh his tor of tie would asfictsbv living and unimpeachable eyi ence. MM or John D. Leo. tbe man who ed the slaughter, and who is now in chain awaiting trial, may possibly bo the man who will reveal the truo f c s and lay the blame wbere it more properly beiongs-Brisham Young, the than governor cf tbe territory, aud the beiJ of the church; hi two counse or., Heb C Kimball and Geo. A. Smith; Inlel II. Wells "lieutenant general commanding the Nauvoo legion; and the twelve rpos tios," in whose hind M?j. Dame, Lieut. Col. llauht, and toe other participant were mere instruments, ar- ing UQdrr instructions aud inspired by their fanatical sial for the church, their uevoLou to. or rather fer of, the church remains unchanged, with the excep loo cf le, ho h teen "cut off." and is branded by all good MornoHaa apostate. Not ItbstanUiog his apostacv.lhe church has not et.tirely forgotten Lim, but as a recognition i or his services whicu reunited in his present trouble, has generally employed counsel to defend bini. Were it not for fear - of the "destroying asli." who would pursue au enemv öf the church to the endsut tu earth, or death, doubtless aonioof those who are now HIDING IN THE MOUNTAIN P.ECE3SF.S from an avonglng Justice would saunier themswlsxs to the authorities, confo33 their guilt, and free their remorse stricken contc:enc33 of their terrible burden?. Rut in Mormondom there ia a "higher law" than the -constitution, or tbo laws thereunder-it is that of the "blood atonement," and a member who betray his terrible oaths and sacred vows never feels at res', and sooner or later his life Is tortciteci to iu vtuu'. of the churoh, nd aa a punishment lor bis betrayal of its secrets. Kvidently, this blood-atoning dr-itrina was touudod on and u?g?sted by the teaching ot the murderous lied Cros" and cth?r orders that exised throughout Italy in tbe dark cUva of superetitiouand the Brias. Indirectly, if not directly, a woman was the cause ot tbo mm-ar-re. Pariey I. Pratt, one of the "twelve tposrlo?," was seht on a mission to Arkansas Koon alter the Mttlement of Salt L.ke, in and while there preaching niapec-u iar tectrins bn cnvertia Mrä. Jleanor McLan,wholp-Hl witb hlin tothi city. Becoming difatlsfied and mouruin the loss oilier children she tinally persuaded Tra't to return to her dishonored horn- i n Arkansas and bring tai mto l.er. "Prdt YouujjImuie iiitBly saut tbt apos le" ou anotbftr mission ta'that state. Ileso jn abducted the threo c lildren froaa their sorrowttricken father, and bronxbt thorn to tbnr mother and bis wih atSU Lake, llts w f and children f-toien, and bis homo lorcver destroyed, the reveueer.il t it'jer startsd in pursuit of the vill.iin wh.) had dwtroved his peace on earth and dishonored bis wite. He met and kille i l'ratt af-w years aiter, wuile Id Arkansas while o-i another mission, aa i EOi far di-tant irom tbe onto peacolul HOME US HAD ECINED and caused to b d?a-rted. On learning the a fiw vee)s. later, is was along ia the prin of 1S57, it is said that Brubam Younp prophesied" that th3 dsath or bis aios;le would bo aronged in the ratio of a 100 lives for one; and many Mormons have been beard to say that their religious faith would exonerate the one "who would kill the flayers of their prophet, Joseph Smith, which occurred at Nauvoo, 111., June 27, 13H. Ia tbe Bummer of 1S57 two trains of t-mi rants from Arkansas aud Missouri arrlvedatalt Lake City. The-e were the first to arrive iu Ucan attar the killing ot Apostle Prat:, and tbeavengiDS "pr jphscy" ot President ilrij;bam Yout'fj. They wereen route to California. Of tte 1H etnigr-aats, Ciweremea and bovs capable ot bearic arms. Anrmg the Arkanans weio several f.om tbe immediate neijbOurhood of McLean, and one, it is charged, who a-;sisiod iu the killirjs ot l'rit And the Missouti pirt-y, t is id, ccn aiDed two ol tbefslayers of JoaepbSmiih, at Nauvoo, one ol whom, on ftevral occasions, boastlutly exhib tid tue pistol with wbica r:o did tbe ehO itiDR. This city, lying directly on the ou.beru aud iuom acce.-siola rouve to California, was tbe caural beajquaners for pmiyrai.t trir.p, wh-re t they would haltt rest ttie.r bx:k, retlen:sb '. their tnpplyof provi-ion, and irequeutly ' winter in seasons of extreme heavy snowfalls and impassable roads. Bui instead of securing its usual hospitality aud trade, th emigrants were peremptorily ordereu t break fiD camp and leave .Sa t Lake. With scarce ten dais's provision, themselves sore and d.sneartened, and their teams almost exhausted, they meokly and obediently resumed their j urney ot more than six cuadrtd miles over tb WATEELESS TEAISS AD IIOT, BCRNISO DKSKBT8. TVe reasons elven for this inhosD'.tab'e and Larsh treatment were that Utah had ju-,t de clared war agsinst theUcitoJ States, aud was practically nndxr martial law; thtt Albert Sydney Johns ja was jat e i.t rlas tbe terrKory w.tu an army fjr their fuSjupstion, anI, coust'iuetlr, c.t'zens oi tii United JStaiei were tons derp l aliens and enmiea. 'I'bia wmh ik doubleily One f tn causes, bnt not the m ini ooe, fur J eph fSanll), the prophet and fouuder of tue church, and Tratt, tbe apcatle, Lad hce,i alaln by epntil band', b cus of their redgion, and the propucv" bad be-n reveded and tho raardtroj fiat already bt-ued. This wan au unusually prosperous year in Utah, and tbe irr: aria Ion.; tho inukiy Xlled to buratio, yet they could cot pur

chase any. It was a matter of strange conjecture with the emigrant why tho settlements along tfceir lengthy rcuta should act in concert and aU refuse them assi-tance and hospitality. But thev never knew that the "angel of death," in the ahano or Brigham Young'a Becond counselor, üeoro A. Smith, general of the Nauvoo legion, preceded their train, preached to tbe .Mormon eittlers, anu charged them, under p?.in of excommunication from the holy church, not to sell provisions to emigrants, or in anywise relieve their wants and necessities, no matter bow great orpainlu!. And this ordr was to them a ocrel law, and held to ba inviolable. It is hsld that Smith was at that time also on a mis.Hinn m Mni. John D. Lep. the Indian

agent at Parowan, and carryicg instructions Irnm Presifient" Youpb to massacre the emigrants. Near tho border of Mexico, and fifty miles from Mouutiln Meadows, was theheaquarteraol the Indian agency of tbe territory. THE NAUVOO EEQIOIT, 3,700 ETBONO, was also cacarnped at this place. Tbe town was surrounded by au a Joba wall abont ten loet hich, and was entered through four gates one on each eld3 ol the town. A few days feince, in aa interview with Col. Dame, one of tho commanders of the legion at the massacre and now awaiting trial, the limes correspondent was told that the wall was built for protection against the Indians. But it is well known that tbe Indians were all iriendly to tbe Mormons, received supplies at their band?, and were their allioi. Their leader, "Old Kanosb," a half-breed, was created a bishop of the Mormon churcü for his red dioces9. Before the emigrants reached Parowau, a council of war was held witbin tbo walled city, when In all the plans and deUils of tbo massacre were agreed upon in accordance with in-tructions from headquarters at Salt Lake City. The Nauvoo legion were directed to be in readine33 immediately, with friy rounds of ammunition, and tbe militia of tbe territory, j at that point, were officially ordered, by wriitenftrder to report for duty immed:arely. Oi thoir approach the outpost guards notffied theeraigrarts that they could not enter tbe cates of tbe city, and they were compelled to drive around it. At that very moment tbe troops were lormed in linp, and recsivin their arms and amamnitioas for th3 comniissi in cf the bloody work they wt-re ordered t do. The parsoss who nlanned the details of this mass tcra were Lieut. Oea. D. II. Wells, commanding tbe til. IftiU. U, ii' ticiu, vuuj"'"""'h ivoo leg'oo, an 1 who is row first privy nsolor to I.risbam Younr;; Urig. Nau cunsol Gen. Geo. A. Smith, the second privy counselor to Brighaui, and the talrd member of the theocratic government; Col. W. H. Dime, new indicted and awaiting trial, Col. J. C. llaiibt, now indicted, and Joiin L). Lw, who led TUE SLAUGHTER ON TEE FIELD OF CARNACJF, and who is also awaiting trial at Beaver, Southern Utah. Tbe place selected for tbo slaughter was Mountain Meadow s, about fifty milefl distant from Parowan, where the plans wera matured in council, and 350 miles south of Salt Lake. The "Mountain Meadows aro about one and a half miles long by cao milo wide, and form tho base of a precipitous mountain, oval in form, and gradually fclopin tt the level plain, north and west. The eastern end w as walled in br a r.iz-red mouctain side, and at Its south ern end the rneidows abruptly drop into a deep and rugged canyon below, darkened bv dense undergrowth and walled in by hiib rock palisades. At this end oftt:e meadow?, overlooking the canyon, a grassy mound, about loi) Jnet long ov iuu wme, almost abruptly rose to the height of aliout 50 fees, and here was found the only prins: in the maadows. On this Bpof, about 30 feet from thesprinz.thoeaiigrantseamped. After prayers to tneir Aimiguy woa ror ineir delivoranc from HiekijMss and starvation, the emicrarts sought relief from their worldly tr .moles i.i the repose of flep. Th9 ticxt niortdpR at th dawn ot lijrhf, Mon day, S pt. 7, 1S."7, they were awakened with horror t tho roar an l ritt'.o of musketry, a f9w volleys and tbo firing comparatively ceased, h d when th smoke hsd Cleared avay it was found that fix emigrants had been killod and 13 wounded all tiisle. Immediately the entire uamp was aroused aad with a rtinirkabla presence of msnd tbe wagons wtre wheeled Into line, and iu a very short time sutlident earthwork was throurn up to form an almost impenstrable barricade. For tix days and savnn nizht was this sioge kept up, und during this time only 15 emigrants were küle i and about a dcz3n wounded. Only three Mormons were wounded none killed. Ot the emigrant?', several of those who were killed and wounded bad at the tima entrusted themselves WITHOUT THE BARRICADE to obtain water from the adjacent spring, which was covered by Mormon sharpshooters. Nearly dyiog from thlrat.a woman boldly ventured out, thinking they would hardly harm her. She immediately was shot dead. Every effort to obtaiu water from the tprirg, either by day or by night, was met by a volley of bullets from the ambushed sharpshooteri". As a last rcBorf, as an appeal for mercy, two little girls, under feix years of ag, were clothed in pure white, arul.band-in-band.they started to thefpring. Almost immediately they fell their innocent bttle bodie riddled with bulleif. Prajers fjr mercy having failed, and thö cruel slaughter Rtill continuing unabated, on the evening of thi fourth day thi em -grants drew up a petition, addressed to the iriends of humauity evtrvwhere, h ttiug their perilous situat.on, and asking fir imniedia:o aiMt-ab. At ached to ibis petition werj the n ä.' s ot the emigran's, tneir place ot nativity ,"tgrf, occupa;i jn, religion, and names of tue society orders of wuicu ta?y were niembors Trie li?t ot killed and wouudbd was uNo included. It was proposed to send this do'jumeut to Califorid abou; -O'J miles distant tbe nearest r ises from wLenca aid could be expected. Turee eraigrantf. whosa bravery is hon ored, though their names ate unknown, voluttaered to under take tho perilous journey. That uibt, mounted on the swiliest hordes iu the camp, tnay "run the blockade," and on the wins of i be witid seed on their journey of hope and safety. Exhausted, almost famished, and acutely uUarinst from extreme thirst. the emigrant-', on tho seventh day of tb h'.f' '. euteitaiuMd terms ot cspitulation, aud thud virtually eiued their own death warrauts. An t migrant train was espied in the dis-ance, boanu a vvbita Hag tue eymbd ot truth. TUB WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRIED FOR J IF, and tha einijjraLt-b ilieved their deliverance an J eafety was at lund rescue lud cjine from an unknown and unexpected source. It was but a decoy. The emlgrauts of course ceaied firing, and a deleatldu was sout out to meoi their eupo?ed friends who Lrovtd tobe no ether tbau '-MBjor" John p.. Lee, and a few Uniieil Etatas military JblBcer, with the Nauvoo le'un in tbodistäne, flying the Ameriuft 11 g. Seeing ouca m-jre tbe tf and trip(P, and knowing thai B.lgbaiu Young was governor

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of the territory, and commander of the militia, n twitt sUuditig the presence ol Lee, the emigrsnts suspected no treachery acd felt that their Lour ot delivery irom the murderous tiege bv the "Indians" was at hand. AVif h pympatbMc leara Leelihtencd to their utTering, and offertd tbf tn protection from tbe MnuiaD"," it possible, if they would contiHUA in their journey and promie not to further niolfs; the Indian. Ol course, this ofler was giadiy accepted by the defenseless emigrants. Lee retired from tbe camp, under the pretense of holdiDg a council with the Indians. Ho soon returned, pgsin bearing aloft the white fi sg, and Informed the emigrants that the Indians were very loth tn make any terms of ieace. but finally consented to their departure, if th em'igraLts would surrender their arms. Foolishly they cave to their executioners their riflsa, revolvers aud ammunition, and willingly marched out of their only pla.e cf safoty, to be mrcdesiy shot down like cattle ia a slaughter pen. About fifty armed militia, under John IX Lee, were drawn up as a guard of safety at tbe entrance ot the emigrants' camp, tween this cuard of soldier?, racing in open rank, the now unarmed men marched out from bebind their defence, the women came next, and the children followed lastly. The separation of tbe men and women was a preonceited arrangement, made by their car tors, ia order to boitcr carry out their fiendUa designs. TUE PROCESSION OF DEATH had reached only about ose hundred yards when It was halted, and John D. Lee, an officer under the United State government, and a major of the territorial mili'ia, gave the order, "make ready, aim, fire!'' wLich was simultaneously repeated by the other officers down tbe line. With agonizing chrieks and piteous appeals to heaven for mercy, men, woman and children, in an parts ot tbe huddled croup, fell bleeding totheeartb, pierced with bui'et-; thick as bail the leaden missils poured in upon them gray haired aires, wun upiwteu Danas, appealing to tbe throne or grace, ieu dead actoss the bodies ot their murdered sons and daughters; defenseless womeu, crazd with fear, clinging around their unarmed husbands and fathers for protection. were ruthlessly shot dowr, desp t3 their heartrending criee. and. ia eoveral lnstancps.whllesuppliantly knooiing at the feet of their assassins, and a few were publicly debauched, and immediately aUer killed upon the dishonored spot; little ciliaren clinging to their motbei'a skirf, were nrciuly taken from them ana their throats cut, amid their iunocent cries to their "mammas" for safety; and babs w?re snatched from the maternal breast, aid their brains dashed out against the wagon-wheels. After about three hours' bloody work, the dreaoful carnage ceaed, and 112 emigrants lay dead and dying upon the lidd, witnln a circumferenco of 100 feet ibou tilty were piled one upon another within' a square space of thirty feet. Tbe wounded and dying were relieved of their sufferings by being shot, stabbed, or beheaded with the battle-axes of the Lord," the favorite war weapon of the Mormons. Of the 1112 massacred fifty were men and boys net one being spared who was able to bear arms. The others were women, litt'e children, and a few bibrs. For some unaccountable reason, probably disgusted with THEIR BLOODY AND INHUMAN WORK, the lives of seventeen children were spared. Their ages range from four to thirteen yearn. The threo brave meu, who escaped tbe vi$il of the guards on the liigbt of tho toufth day of the 6lfge, bound for California fjr aid acd relief from the besieper?, and bearing with them the paper containin? tbe names, occupation, nativity, etc., ot tbo doomed emigrant', were the next day overtaken by the Mormon Indian allies. Two wero killod outright, and tho other, after being horribly mntlla'.ed, was burned at adak. Thus peri-lied the last reu aining man of that emigranttraln fifty-five men in II. Tbe lirst victim was youut man named William Aden, from Ar'kaasas. Tho dv beforo the massacre beiölt the camp iu qu8t or supplies. V, Lile w atering hia horse in a stream, in com. .ny witu another emigrant, N.sveu miles'frora their camp, they were overtaken by the ii-tjrijus Mormju bishop. Bill S ft wart, and a young b ty. Stewart cov. red Adsn with a revolve r, i;d bade tho timid boy draw a bead on the other emigraut. Stewart killed b a man, but the fngheoed boy was erring in his aim and his iDtnded 'victim escaped to the train. Tals first vicMm, the fires couriers, anl the fi:toen killet during tho siege, comprise the total of 131 mnrderel emigrant 53 miles aud 72 females. The remslidnz 17 children that were spared on tho tild of death, i- all that IsleLot thi 113. The children were gtthered op and taken to the homes of the murderers ol their fathers and mothers, many of whom were named by their Mormon captorsbeing too young to know or tell their parents names. About one year after. Dr. Foroey, the Indian agent, who succeeded BrigbHin Young, wph two companies of United ttes soldiers, scouted tbe neighborhood for 50 miles. AROCND THE SCENE OF THE MASSACRE, and succeeded in finding seveuteea believed to be all that ;was spared. Oa learn ing of their wereaboots, a few ot tbe children were returned to their nearest rela tions in Missouri and Arkansas, and several yet remaiu in this territory aud California, and will altend tbe forthcoming trial as witnese. Tnougu very ycunz, indeed, it is tto jght that many important facts can be proven ry lhve ihiej outhful witr.e?sts. The eldefct Is a girl ot th'utten, who afterwari says she frequently saw the wives ol Lps and IlaiuLt wearinz the j-wels and tlre'ses of her murdered mother. Ono bjv, aced nina, named John C1viu, now living in Arkansas, saw Ln kid his father, aud another boy recollected distinctly f Be;in;; his ftLr. mother, grandfather and grandmother allklllet at one?, and lying in one heap. An Indian cLui uamed Jackson, who murdered the first of A he three couriers eu route to California, found on the person ot his victim the ptper giving the names, condition, etc., of the emigrants. He gave ths paper to a Mormon, who, oi showing it to Lie, tbe letter immediately snatched it and tore it to shreds. To this fac t the honest old Moruun ia willing to testify on trial. He is evidently tamdlar with the coit?ii'scf tuo destroyed psper, as he was heard frequently to remsrk: "1 believe if the Ma-otis and Odd Fellows knew how many of their brethren were slain tbey would no iongsr let the accursed Mormons co ucpuuisbed. This crime is charged to the Indiana. Indian warfare is different from auy other taey Invariably scalp their victims. Of the r7 'aln, not one boi the evidrncs of bmg sjalped. llveu could this utrong circumfiHi.tiai eviidnce bo re'nt-d. and lie I'jdMDs proven to have done the bio idy work, the fact that the Mormons and Indiana were alilos, and their chitl b lug a Murmon bishop, and tue further undisputed tact that Li', lim'jt ao i iiamo, , MOUMOM ELDERS, WERE ON THE GROUND at the time aud in command of thb Nauvoo legion, clearly fttsblisbes th indirect if not direct connection of the Mormon church sod its followers with this horrible and nnjustin a Die wholesale murder, mo nigut tuiiow

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corpses were f tripped of their clothing and vluables, and left stark naked on tb r.ow deserted field, a prey to vultures and ravenous animals. "With the ex ception oi a few blank ts, etc., civn the Indians, Iho blocd-stslued articles were all deposited in the "lithiug effioe," at cejar City about twenty rndss dibtai-t The wagons, stock, booka, etc., of tbe dead emigrants were also brought to this officp. and a few days after sold at public suction. Itishop John M. Higbeo acting as auctioneer. Tbe auctioneer took eppodal pains to tear tne moon stains and names of the murdered owners from the books snd other ariicles before offering them to tho highest bidder. There being ltttl3 money In the country, the articles were 601a on a credit antn tbe next harvest, to be paid In wheat. A tew paid their wheat into tbe " tithing office," which, of course Teveitfd to the church. But a majority never paid, as in the following spring Johnson's army entered Utah, marching on Salt Lake City, when the ectiro valley of Utah. from Silt Lake to the southern extremity of the territory, over 300 miles in extent, was immediately deserted by the frightened Mormou; leaving their lands, homes and fields of waving grain to devastation aud ruin. Their objective point was Mexico, Dm nerore rescuing wnicr country, how ever, the proclamation ot President James Buchanan giving amnesty to tbe Mormor.8 for ail past political offenses was received, aid they returued to their abandoned homes Three or four weeks after this memorable "Black Sunday," thesameood old Mormon from whom LKB SNATCHED AND TORE CPTIIK TAPER containing tbe names of the emigrant, visi ted tbe desolate and nowetencbed field of carnage. He gathered up the ecattered bones and lacerat9d fragments of flesh, and buried th?m in tbe very in'renchment the emigrants had dug lor their own defense. All honor to this brave old Mormon, in thus expressing bis charity to the dead foes of his religion, by giving tbelr remains a Christian burial at tbe risk of his life. Though, for political reasons, known to but few, woon the proceedings of this trial are published, the world will learn the name of this 'Good Samaritan." Tbe ravenous wolves soon dug through the dirt locs-ly fcatiered over tbe remains of the emigrants, and, after devouring ths lleab, scattered tbe bones over tbo meadows, where they lav bleaching in thesommer's sun, until a detiil of soldiers, under oomraauu oi ting. uen. uarlton, gathered Ihem up and again hurried them. After this b irial.on tho very spat watered by their blood, the soldiers gathered stones from tho adjent bills, and over their few remains erected an oval monnmsnr, about four fe-t hitb. acd 20 feet long, by about six feet wids. On iLssumnxt a plain wooden cress was erected, bearing ths inscription: "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay ! sita the Lord." A few weeks later tae i-tone3 were scattered over the meadow", and the cross and inscription torn down. The soldiers rebuilt the monument, and again reared on its summit tbo croB, bearing those burning words of heavenly vengeance. A few months later Brii:bam Youug and his secretary were driving by this lonely sepulchre, and on reading the words on the cross ackuowldged his own guilt by ordering bis secretary tj TEAR DOWN TUB INSCRIPTION, and EutsdtutinE: "Vongsanco is mine, and I have had it. Brlgham Young." This iuBiltiog and sacrilegious inscription was eood torn down and destroyed, but tho monumentof stone still remains, to mark the place of the commission ot one of the mo. -t cowardly, treacherous and brutal deeds ever psrp-trated by man, civilized or savage. Ce l. W.U. Dime and Met. John D. Lee, who were both enmm inding troops on the day of t:ie maskiere, are the onlv participants now under arrest and awaiting .trial. As many as e'ght or ten others have been indicted, but remain urcaDtureJ depit9 the exertions of the autocrine?. Le is about sixty years of see, and came to this country ia 1S50, from Illinois. At present b!H bealih U rapidly faillnir, and hesiysbe foars nt t the result of tbe trial. as his Ufa ran not be prolonged bur-a lew y-ars, even In ca.su of acquittal. Dame is a New Hampshire f trmrr, forty-six years ot aire, and a religious fanatic. In a recent conversation with the Times correspondent n e-mpnaticaiiy oemeii bis guilt, and, in tbe naini of heaven, de nied thai thecburca and 1 President" Young were In any manner c.j-ioettdd with the horrible affair. Les and Dune were indicted last Ott ober, and arrci-tsd a few weeks af.er. Damsmade no etfort to escape, bat was arreted peaceably in his o. n bouse at Parowan. Anticipating his arrest, Lee, lor several years, has ben living ia a swamp, several miles from Parowan, in an old fort. Becoming euiboldted, one day he visited his family at ids frm near by. Oa suddenly seeing the officers approach, he ran into tne yard and hid In a chicken coop. He was capturf d and tken to Beaver City, where be has been confined ever since in the military camp. Dame was brought tj this city and confined IN TUB TERRITORIAL PENITENTI ART until a few days ao, when he was taken to Braver, where the trial is to ba held in a lew days. The recital ot the evects ot this massacre sounds mere like the bloody d?et!s of St. Bartholomew's day and the wholesale butcheries in the days ot the reiormation and "go d Q-ieen B-j," than a probablo ovurreuco in this agi. Fanciful romancists have indulged considerable sentiment about tho freedom of copscienoe, the exercise of religious belief, the persecutions of i he eaily Mormons, thir expulsion a:-d tl ght from the states, are thf-ir icng and tedious j mrnev to their New Z:on on tbe far et -rti con lines 1 civilintion, in initiation of their mnny criuit s committed tn the tntno of tbtlr religion. But no matter what may bavo in-en their wronirs, ral or imaginary, thfct book from whence thev pretend tn f;uni th-ir faith plainly teaches thai 44 Vengeance i min, and I will repsy, su tt the Lord." The Mormon version is, "Veil gai cs is mine, and I hive had it Brlgham xoucg." Potter Palmer could not hold out against tbe combined pleadings of his wife's rela tions, backed by tbe arguments of Col. Fred, the future cashier. He weakened yesterday, and a grand reconciliation took placo. Pt ter kissed Fred ar.d both kissed their father-in-lw aftfr which thev all adjourned to the tlning rom and swore eternal friendship for each other, and everlasting enmity to tbo Chlcsgo Times. Of course, t'jat terrible paper had trld of their troubles about the maternal bo ml t ill. Not on that lofty brow, so pale snd calm, f hit on bis pou in bps the klB he ir sd (9 lovers do h know wht b.-stl The whil, p rcbcd on qulv'riug knees, forvootr. Scene tor some modern Tlogirlh to embalm, ot Ola Age :oubfTlii In tne lap of You.h. The Chicago Inter-O ean having beard of the abduction of Charlie Tls, dispatched a reporter to interview tie father and ui.cleot th-s lad. Tbbe reporter gf t In b s work on the 12 hot April, having bad two or three days notice from Lead quarters.

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SOLID AGAINST CIVIL R'GHTS. THE MOST UNPOPULAR LAW KVKt'. rvssn EY THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE CASKS CITKD IN PROOF. Kodflbld, of the Cincinnati Commercial, has renewed his correspondence from tbe South on ths civil rights bill, and the ay it is rec-ived m the Siath: The civil rights bill is perhaps the mo-t unpopular law in the South that an American legislature ever passed. Too feeling agaiast iUssonntnimous and so bitter that it tho whole United S'ates army w as concentrated ia a single Southern state the law could net be enforced In its full scope. There is no class among the whites who give it oountenanance and support. Ifcidicals, rebels, old whig", conservatives, exfederals, and, iu tact, all, or nearly all, men with white sking, are arrayed in opposition to this measure. In tbe whole state of Tennee eo I know but three white men who favored the passage of tba law. All three have been the recipients of office at the hanas of the blacks. Candidlv. I doubt it I tiero aro in the whole state 100 white men who will say that they favor the measure and its enforcement. In the lace of such an opposition as this, bow cau a law be enforced? We find among its mcBt bitter opponents those who advocated negro suffrage in 1SG3. It is regarded as a piece of class legislation, which gives the colored man the benefits cf sundry pains and penalties wblcb a white man can not bring to his aid. A white man may be refused hotel accommodations for reasons sofHhient in the eyes of the landlord, and for this congress gives no remedy, but a colored man has had bis damages assessed, and put at a high figure at that. Gen. Stokto expressed the feelings af toe unionists who advocated negro suffrage, but opposed tbe civil rights bill.wheu he said to a crowd ot colored men at Athens, last fall: "I oppose that infamous civil rights Mil because you already have all the richts thst I bave. AND I'LL EE D D IF T0X7 SUAS.L HAVE ANY MOKE I" Stckes claimed to bs talking for tho ex-federal soldiers of East Tennessee when he said that. The Southerners say that they intend to evada and ignore the law, if not in one waythnin another. They claim that it is unconstitutional in the first place, and passed by an expirirg congrer-s, which had been repudiated by tbo people, in tho teaond place. Bot without inquiring forieason, it is onough to know that th9 Southern whites are open in their threats not to submit to it. But, if tbe administration remains in the hands ol tbe republicans, will there net be an earnest effort made to enforce this law, and will net we bave trouble all over the South borore it is settled, one way or the other? At one ot the Memphis theaters a fw nizhts ago two colored men bought tickets and applied lor admission to the dress circle. Tney get as far as the door, when Mr. Mansger Divy said: "Boys, yon don't want to to in there." "Do yoa refuse os?" they asked. "No." he replied, "but I simply suggest that if you enter the dress circle there may be consequences unpleasant to you. My advice is, not to try it." The col ored men saw that there was a fine prospect of a row if they persictoJ a row that would terminate bidly for theui (ts does every pffrsv lit t we en the races atlco Southland they withdrew, receiving bscfc their money. In couvetsatlon afterward with an Avalanche reporter, Mr. Divysaid: "I am satisfied, irom the temper f tbo public on this question, that, if theso colored men had entered tue parquette, tney wouia nave tared b3dly. The question has to be met, however, and just how to meet it is what puzilcs me." PullmaD, ot car lame, has met the issue at the threshold, but in a manner which WILL LEAD TO TROUBLH on the Southern lines. lie has issued orders that colored men be given equal accommolations with the whites for the Bams money. Now, you may prepare for sleeping-car difficulties. The negro in tbe sleeping-car wi 1 bo a new phase of the everlasting question, and may abide with us some time. Last Saturday, on tbe train eastward from Macon, G-orgis, we are informed by a local paper, that a large black negro entered tbe slefpiog-car and presented tbo conductor his t cket for upper berth No. 15. The conductor, we are told, examinded the ticket very closely, trying to find a getting-ont-place, but, alasl there was none, Pullman's orders holding him dd to the scratch. "The lower birth," continues the account, "was occupied by a Baltimore lady, who immediately left it and took refuge in the passenger car, where she remained seated during the night." The Mobile Register, speaking of this, says: "Mr. Pullman shows ne disposition to prevent tbe intrusion of negroes into the sleeping cars. Ol course eo decent white citizen will berealter patronizs a man who allows his wi e and daughter to be brought into contact with negroes. We hope the Southern press will represent the daugers to which our travelers are exposed from the fanatical efforts ol Mr. Pullman to transport foul odors, vermin and disease." The Meridian Mercury, in speakicg of equality in sleeping cars, says: PITT A BUCK NEGEO TO ELEEP in the same section with an elegant Southern lady, do you, Mr. Pullman, and expect to run your cats through these Southern states? IVhaw!" It seems tbst Mr. Pullman intends to serve the colored people tlie same as white?, and to run Lis cars over the Southern roads. But it can cot bo accomplished witbeut trouble, and without a loss to him of more dollars and cents than tbe custom of the negroes will return. But a greai principlo is involved, you kuow. These great principles are troublesome when onr colored friends are invo.ved, and they are involved in about everything that has been discussed in this country for the last ball cectury, and promises to fill up the remainder. The Mercory, from which 1 quoted above, has a Je vmoro observations tj offer on the sucj-cr. It says: '-Pullman is an ass, and a vicious one. lie is a mean radical, who has issued an unnecessary order to sleep negroes in his pilace sleeping cars without necessity for it, gratuitously to insult and provoko the SutLern whitts to violent resentment ot negro insolenc?. He Is a dangerous man, who, teeing an opportunity, is evidently placing for 'outrages' on hi cars, to add'to the ROiieral stock, to fire the Northern Lcarr. When behearsof fie Gwrgi case be wili, doubtless, be ssdly dissi poiLte.i tbaUt e Biltimore lady dldu't bave a fr-erd to take the impudent darky by the nap of the neck and pitch Lim HEADFOREMOST OFF TUB TRAIN and break it, so that Southern lawlessness would r avo been ventilated in tbe North in emmction with his nimo. Pilllmiu has doublings, bmi seized with political aspira Hons for place, and is trying to lay tip capita! to grt it with. If be can manage to have his citM the fn quent scene ot disgusting aud insulting Intrusion, and tbe violence which oayht naturally to ibllow.be imagines it will givehlm as much prestige lor prclerinent sn

.VHOLE jSTOlBER 1,70

5 it heb vlleen a member of conzrras rt vote! for the third ttra bill. If iL ßalti more lad, has a insCd, h should go to Pullman; le j, tbe r6Jr0Saa;Dl inar, and -bould be beJd t ai cuuuU!i:y. PollmaaN tar otuöt U be taken off all Sjithsrn lin -s." ti Mobile i- ur.uxppy oceans onr old truud tbe irrej.ro sibls P.n.'hback, r de ia aliening cr from Louisvi'le to Mobile. I hanptn to know that the car w chartered thron-h for the exclusive use of Pinch back ar.d his friends cf color, including tfia li6uteoant governor of the state. Can't a eolored man charter a car and ride over tbe country if he has the money to pay for the atan-:e-mer.r? Horsemen frequently charier Cir for tho transportation of blooiad stock. Tho hoisa Longfellow u aml tomed to a special ar from Lexington t Saratoga. Are we, therffor, subj -et d t horse equality, and degraded to a level wi'-k an animal, whaiever that may be? Iau opposed to hor-e equality; it is bsd for tho horso. The Itegister observes mildly: "Oi Monday last that ianpndent and debased mulatto cf New Orleans. Picchback, with a company or blacks, occupied ths sleeping car which reacted Mobile from Louiivid. flerowasan opportunity for Mr. Pullman to have said t j ibis filthy bubble whioli ha amen upon "THE CESSPOOL OF LOUISIANA PO-inOS. 'Yon may disturb the Umted States Senate, but you can not ride in my car.' " Aad again: "The Pullman cars traverse the entire network of railroads in the South. Mr. Pullman is a white man, and made bi money from the patronage of white a en. i:.ttrem-3 republican as be is, be must uu dorstand the antipathy ol the races, especially at the South, and most sympathize with our white citizaos who abhor tho contact of the vulgar acd filthy creatures who composs nineteen twentieths of the regro rice." Tbo Livingston Journal has these thoughts to ofler on the subject: "The Pallman Sleeping Car Company, a Chicgo concern, toav ordered their conductors to pcil tickets to all who apply. Which means, admit; to lb cars whites and blacks indiscrimlnau-ly. As the civil rigiits bill dors net apply to sleeping-cars run under special arrangement with railroad cotrpantes, the instructions to admit all classes is a bid lor negro patronage, acd we bops they wl!l gft eo other on the Southern roads. Beware of traveling-poit-houses." These flashes of sentirnf nt", frmn the Southern press, Jndiste corrtly the popular feeling on tbe subject. Itouie, Gacrgta, has had a spa m of exii'enient. Three negroes attempted to take front seats at a poblio entertainment. The Rome Commercial has bad eevend articles on tbo "outrsgs."" Tbe leading editorial iu last Sunday's is-e isdevotedto the theme. I quott; Potn:, Jobosoa, Armstead Billups and Ike Bav. U are tba aspiring black Butlerita who attempted to thrust themselves into eocial contact w.th white people at the publio hall in this city seme evenings ago. We find upou icquiry, as we supposed we should, that tbey are all of tbo most worthless and vicious character. TLey bave been repaatedly CONFINED IX THE CALABOOSE for disorderly conduct, and one, the meat impudentof tbe three, has been but very recently discharged from the chaln-gaug. Two of them are strongly suspected of having perpetrated a murder upon one of tholr own race near this city, and this suspicion is largely shared in by their owu racs. Th.y lead an idle, vagabonJ life, and aro a pst it tho community and a disgrace to thsir race. ve call attention to the fact that none but tbe nicrd, worthlo acd vicious characters among tbe colored people, living about the streets of the towns aud eitle, L&vo made auy attempts under this vilo act. In many casta tven these wortbbss blackr hvo been prompted and encoursged by whites more worthless and despicable tkau themselves." At Birmirghm, Ali, tli.ro has been but one civil ri.t-ts cso. A ;eio, in the employ of a railroad company, thought that tba bill gave him the rigut to have his lace scraped ia a barb-jr sbo , a Lt bad -it bcrsp'sd. paid tbo needful lä ci'd;, and returned tu his work to tiod an order ot discharge. He lvfet Lis plsiv l-cu- U "was shaved ia a shop Uf.ro ihe men of our supaibr race ine wo.:t: Lave thuir sca:pj rubbed. A local paper conclude s an account of the srlair by spying, " Alter ail, this is the best solution of civil rights that we know of." And I hear ot iL bt-ing acted upon in numerous instanoo.-. Many a poor, darky has baen thrown out of employment becauso he proposed to uki advantage of a law passed tor his especial benefit. Nor is there anything in the law, or out of it, to prevent such discharge. Thd colored man who ventures to assart bis rights under tbe law does so at a great peril. HE CAN HARDLY AFFORD TO DO IT. In a Macon paper I find tho follawlng significant paragraph. Read it carefully, ploaae, for it lets a ray of light on the situation, where light is needed: "An Atlanta negr who works at the Kimball Houä?, went it a nice seat at the opera bouse. Tüiagn looked rather warm, eo he left. Tho next day be was discharged, and Lis name, with a foil description of him, published in h dally paper, as a warning to all respectabl-j persons not to Lire him. Toe way that darky eeeketh emploj -niai t, but findetn it not, is to-xieihia hitherto unparalleled. The pl adopted was apital, aud ia worthy cf iai tatioii." "TLirgs locked rather warn., so ho left," but be lost lis sii.uution all the ram", and a dtioripIk'U of him is pnbiishf d from one end f tt:e state to tba other, po that he can no get employment. What can a law of o jsgresa accomplish against such a stated feeling as this? Iu au editorial in tte Itome(Ga.) Commercial I find thaf'iJenry Garuegan, ex lore d, requests us to say t ib publio that ho is not taking any civil rights nonsense In bis. Instead cf intuiting tba white people that he lives among, he desires to bo on liiendly terms with them. Henry reasons well upon these thing, and wb publish what be says with pleasure." So d we. Henry evidontly thicss that so loag as bis woolly head is in the lion's mouth h will not stick pins iu his tongue, even though a color-blind congress a thcusia 1 miles away may give hm tho right. When that pure patriot, Pctr Carapboil was elected speaker ol tie house of d Regste for the District oi Columbia, be bad n paroxysm or liberality, that M-tci.:1f, and t'lso gratified his friends. Ho cid; rod true inwsrdi e-x for fill har.ds r"-ud, !neiutiing Ihn j)ccs, consisting of spring thickens, soft shell crnl s on toakt, oyster, saudwIchcF, cbatnp9gD, brandy and ciara So far sog'od, but nav day cna, and with it came a bill for $1.013. "Petr fmdapor faeuity for rememb ring orders incurrii-C liability, and could not rein-iiibpr tit ht ba.d fiiilfjf dt fl'Uf thing of tv. kiod, though be thougLt tint some gsiloots had bofeasting and drinking st Iiis exi ense. '1 L; courts are trying to refresh Petrrs reoolle-o-tion, and with sorre utow of euccosii.