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TWO DOLLARS PKK ANNUM. } GS OX) ^VTSTD^ OUR COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE: ??ll! SxVRJRDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5, 1874." NUMBER 43 UTAH. New Light oil tho Mormon Ques tion. A TR UK lUST?R Y OF THE MA SSA CRK AT MOUNTAIN MEADOW. TUE MO/?M(.X LEADER AT. JUSTED. HR IG Ii AM YOUNG AND POLYGAMY DOOMED. P I- , -f ; After the JVopJirt Eriyltam?Vfhtitf Salt Lakk City, Nov. 8.1ST t ? >: ... Yru liavc. no diult. already boon ml vised by telegraph of (be arrest of a man by the name of John 1). Le? in Cedar Citjv, Beaver ooun^y, on tho charge ol bavin"; been the loader in the horrible Mountain* Me idow ?iii:iss:?,iro. the circumstances regarding which, tho readers of tho ller.ild not', p?rhip?, being familiar with, T will relate : NARK ATI VK OF TUE MA RS A CUE. William II. Rniiers. a Government tigont, crossed ihe Plains with General Siduey Johnson's army in 1S.">7, in charge of tho treasury train. Honors hoard of the terrible massier.: ab M ?in tain Meadow on his way across lh ? Plains. It was reported that the e ni grants wire uiurdtr.d by Indians '1 h> sc cmiginnt.s were white men. Ai Ii" r tun citiznis of Arkansas. General A Igt: lion S. Johnson's army was tin liblc tb reaih Salt 1 i.l.eCitv in season. :ud was obliged to encamp at Fort Piii'^tr H>r the winter of 1S.")7. In lite Fprtug "f 15-S. however, the ar ny man bed into ihc valley of t he Great Suit Lr.kc. Oh npproathing the valley they wore met by I'caee Cuuiurssioueri. j->iit by our (.iiiveruniciit. who had pre reded the aru y and had ?ceil tho gie.r Pn.phot id' tho Latter Hay Sai?U . re - ._._ ,.1.. l._ i 5.1 .l.ol-iiMiti ami the .Mormon I'rophot to tl.e tili it that the army .should not run p within li.'ty miles ol any M.uin in Settlement QoU5Ctl?Clitly tllO army ; ivtis s-tatioiiid at what is now called 5 Old Camp Floyd,'' a distance ul" fifty live miles southwettwar 1 iVon Silt Lak>! ( iiy. While located hec, in form it ion v:as received in rcg.tr! to tho Mountain Meadow inarsacie, and ih-j action ol the Government at Washington, appro printing SI0,000 for the recovery of th. children presumed to have b -en save I In di ti e nit fs:.i re. and nippofcd to be in the bain's of the Indians. .Mr. Holers, Iciog a] p( inUd Indian itgonl was instructed, during the. summer o: 18f>8, to irotccd to the scene ol the mnt-racru und rescue the surviving child nil. lie lock a company of cavalry mid left Camp i'luyd for Cedar City near- the scene of the tun.ss.aeio Ou arriving on the grouud he fount] the bones - of a hundred und thirty hu nan ?beings, men. women ijiid children. In feathering up the remains ior buiial, he discovered that a large number o' the iui.rdcrcd persons had been shot through the head?the bull -c^itcring the back part of the hoad and coming out ul the ire-nt. 'J be wolves nod coyotes had eaten the fictb Irutn tho boues A two luthel basket ol women's hair that was .-l re wed around amoiig the sago bru-h ?was gathered up by Mr. Hogers, it might bo here stated that Mountain Meadow is situated twelve miles from Cidar City, aud vlic sauio distance from a temple of the Latter Day Saints. Till: CTfAllACTKK of TUN MASS ac It kd KMICHANTtb It appears, that iu 18 1!), upon the ?ixcitcmeut created by the gold dis ?covcrics in California, several ptou3crs of Arkansas went to California iu search of the precious metal They wore very successful. Iu the fall of 1856, with their largo accumulated 'gains, they returned to Arkansas for the purpose of taking their luutlicsaud seme of their relatives to scltlo iu the ticw Kl Dorado, iu whioh they hud ? bocu so forluuiitu. They purohas<{d a largo amount of blooded stock, and titttd ot t u tiain of about forty wagons. They numbered about oua hit mired and forty-six, men, women .und children. Tbey wcro kuowu to boa very wealthy train, Iu tho spring of 1857, as we have stated, they starred across tho Plains. On arriving at Salt Lake City they were told by tho Mormons that they were too late to cross tho Siern Nevada mountains by the old emigrant route. The Mormons assured them that there was x BETTER l'ASS by going down through Southern Utah, passing til rough Southern Nevada, going over the ratine of the mount tins, and coming out near Los Angeles. Lower California. This route the Mnr nioris a.*snrid the emigrants to he praeti ruble and saf'o. Plioing confidence in tbc reports and statements of the;Mor lii'nns, the emigrants starte.1 b> th i southern route. Passing down through the si'ttlemruts of the Latlor I) iy S iints unmolested, they encaaiptl it what is known as MOUNTAIN MF.A DOW. a little narrow valley dividing the bill ion! mountains on each side, with a plentiful supply of grass and witor? n beautiful place to camp Little di 1 there emigrants thiuk that this beauti ful Fpot would in a short time be their sepulchre, the scene of a singuiuary massacre?the worst missacre that wc have any record of in the history of tin bloody deeds of the savages upon the early defenceless American settlements The horrid story of the Indian murders in Wyomint! Valley, whi h Campbell si ?dnquontly depicts, affords ti i parallel to the butchery of those oui?ri!rs at Mountain Meadow. While on t t npo l in this lovely spot they w're 'ittiikad from behind the adjoining hills by, as ihey supposed, Indim*. Suveral of their iiumhor were woaiilel. The pioneers, however, being used to In liau warfare and well skillcl with th s hi i I \\n-? of the old Kentucky rifle, were aid,' to keep their nsa tilings at a Ion; range. Their Wagnis wore driwn into a ctirvlc, forming a sort of ibrti.ic uioti 'I he wheels were stinken down to their axl^tree^. L.irthworks were thrown f... ji.j. 0,....;.iL. ..r j't.g .v........ . .....!.:..... temporary but somewhat formidable lie fence. A ditch was dug from.this fbrti ?uation to a spring ncirathitid to cn able the omiirnnts to rna di wi'ur und if cover* K??r live Ion.? diyithe/ woro able to siistaiti thomsclves here w'thou* any furtluv loss in w >u i 1 ? 1 or l;il e I Their stuck hid been captured a id driven rifl early in tho attack. On the the flxtli day, early in th ? morning they discovered a large body of men coining up the road from toward Celir ('it;,. No firing had been done th it m ruing, and no snpp ised IndilUS in sight. A white flat; was hoisted by the whi c nu'u approaching th on, an 1 these ilooiiicd emigrants, believing tho new comers to be friends, dressed a nKAUTiFUt. rouxat.ini. in white mi l placed her outsido of the fortifjeiit'iiti iu token of friendship Tho presumed friends at once approached hey \icrc Mormons?Latter Day Saint? iud headed by JOHN D. I.KB, tin* man just arrested for crimiml p.irti uipation in the miss acre that loll iwid. A parley ensued. Lee t<?ld the etui j.'ran tu that iluic w re Itirge nuiribors of Indians in the hills; but if 'they (the euiigfau s) would My do.vn their anus liny would protect theni -tutl take ihem back to the M irmoti settlement, they then boiHis .'l')U miles s mthwe^t fro.u Salt Lake ( i y mi I n sir the Neyad i line. After a hoi/parley tlij euiig/ants consented to ilie prop Mitt ?:i of Lie. It may be here remarked that these ouii grantb Ii?.I with th m about ONE UHMHIKD AND FlFTV THOUSAND DObbAItS IN U >U>, which* tboy bud procured by tlu ir pre violin ventures iu California. Leo told them that if they took their arms with thoui tho Indians were in such groat numbers that they would massacre tUotn. Plunder, said tho iMurmon chief, was all tbc Indiana were after. Tho pio ncirs thereupon laid down their arms, taking with them such of their valuables as they could conveniently carry, and consented to accompany the Mormons j back to Cedar City?iwclvo wiles. Tho emigrants marched out of their fdrtiUea tiuus iu the direction of th-j ubovo uamcd place. Tho Mormons, HEADED RV LKE, fell dircotly in their rear. At this tiuu not an Indian was in sight, and 200 yards from tho wagons of the emigrants was inaugurated the scone or this t ;.n kl it!,r, DKED. Lee nnd l.is party commenced firing up on tin emigrants, shooting Hcver.il of the most prominent men through tho head on tlie first fire. The emigrants being entirely unarmed, the slaughter was an easy ta^k. After all the men and most of the women bad been killed, a young ln'ly of eighteen sum turn sprung forward, and, clasping her hauls fell upon her knees in front of Lee, bni^ine; him to sr-AUE her life. >? She then rose and clasped him around ?he nock, declaring to him'that she hud a lover in California to whom she owed her life, that she was en gage 1 to tnarr/ him on her arrival there Lee, after lint rim: her pitiful story, took Ii *r aside lavished her and then with his knife ^ CUT II EH Tllll OAT, leaving her body on the spot to bo oai ten by wolves. i SIXTEEN INNOCENT CHILDREN were saved from the general masioro Two of the number were seven year* old, the b.ilaiice between one and five years ol age. TO RETURN TO MR. ROGERS* S TAT MENT Alter Mr. R >gers, the Indian agent", had buried the bones of the cnigriuU that hid been left to bleich withii, twelve mil ? of tlie M ?r.ro i te u il i. h e re nin: l to Ced ir City and fomil th| children in the bands of the; Mormons; SI IjC^ bavin ; tw.i of the .luuhjr. Tav Mormons ASK KI) PAY from the .i-^eiit I'.r taking care of the children. Cp to this time the world -upp so l the emigrants were MtltDK.tlKD 11Y Til f. indians, but the subsequent relition will show how far the savage Indians wjre really i eoiiueoti'd with the affair. Mr. Hogers gathered the ehil Ire i t i gelber, ruf using to piy the ransom de um mied lor their release by the Mor mons. Alter ho had the children iu hi* Camp, near the Mormon settlement at Cclia " City, two of t'leiii, then a'o it eight years of age, told .dr. Hogers that Lee and the white men. >IUR DE'iF.D THEIR PARENTS. Of course Mr. Hogers was astonish od at this, the first information he bad re j ceived oflbo real authors of the diabo i lien I massacre, lie pursue Ibis iiiVcsti ?rations among the children, and their t. stimoiiy w is corrobor itivc of the in Icliigcnce be had previously obtained. It should be here stated that hn Mor? iiions came to the ten*, of Mr. Hogers at midnight, about this time, to l tu'. 1 him that their HE A UTS WEHE PRESSED WITH ft KIEF. II he (ihe agent would spire their live-; they wool 1 give hi n a truj his'-try of the awful inass.uro. Ro/ers tdl them to proceed an 1 op?ii their hearts. These two Mormons (the nimd-i of whom Mr. It ogees does n a recall i told him they i were MUiuuibnud by John I). J^ec, the j t.l e com im nder of the Nauvoo L*gion at Cedar City, to hppear in INDIAN COSTUME, pa'nted with long hair, fully to rcpro sent the native stvago, prep ire 1 ti go Mountain Meadow. The Mono ins at lacked the train of the emigrants in the disg-i.-o of Indians. Lee, finding that the emigrants were too strongly fortified, after five days si?go, retired back and dro-ised iu citiz ins cloth is, as wo have above described, decoyed the emigrants into a surrender ol their arms. This statcmcut was made iu fall to Mr. Hogers by the two MonnoiH wc bavo referred to, thus corroborating ful ly tho .statement Ii ade by the rescued children. Further more, they stated that the blooded stock and wagons of the emigrants were taken back to Co dar City to the Mormon tithing estab lishment, and (hero sold at public auc tion for the benefit of tho Morinou Church. THK DOOM OF MORMONDoN. In connection with this brief recital of the frightful tragedy giveu abjvc for which the Mormons are substantially responsible, aud for participating in wb'cb the Mormon leader Leo is now under arrest by tha Unite I States au thorities, we n:ay mention sometning concerning tbc reigning prophet, liri* ghnm Young, and his adherents The i Prophet is at tha threshold of death. AFTEIl HIM?WHAT? Polygamy is pronounced a sin by civ j ilization and n crime by the laws of the United States. As an illustration of its sinfulncss as practised by one of the scions of the house of the groit an 1 im maculate Prophet, JOHN \V. VOCNQ, son of the Prophet and expectant suc cessor of the parental mantle of the Church, is distinguished for tho ninuner in which he lias troatod his wives. Some eii-ht years ago he married two Mor mon women. They were industrious, virtuous, good, plain women. After the marriage to these two good worn in, the young man makes a visit to Philadol I phia.?There he happens by chanco to become acquainted with a young lady, J whom he induced to accompany him to Utah, crossing the plains by wagons. According to the Mormon faith, bcliev ing that it is necessary to havo several wives to save their souls from eternal damnation; the lady from Philadelphia consented to be sealed to the son of the Prophet, and thereby passing through what is called in Mormon parlance the ENDOWN M K N'T HOUSE. For some little time the young Pro phut seemed t) live happily with his three wit es, but more recently, finding that it was a ra her expensive luxury to support three wives, h : <? inel 1111 to I discard hi.: first and second wives. * 11 i -i Grsl wife secured a divorce from the Mormon Church, the husHan 1 agreeing to purchaso a house for her her in Og den, Utah, (where .she now lives ) and give her $00 per month lor her support which he has failed to do. Sin has called upon the Prophet Brigh.i n, the ?father of her husband for aid. Brigham jpd'usid to aid her, stating tint he was ? Ii.<ii CM ntl/ir I i.?.? r..t>.. IV '?? ?> 1 .-'.P. .I IO "u* ? ? ?> '?-?'? ? ? and with the expen-cs of his own family lie was un ible to asd.st her. Tho two forsaken wives may mourn the loss of their husband, but what effect will that , have upon Eastern socic'y? THE DOWNFALL OK MOIIMON1SM is decreed tho mo neat th it Brillit tu j \ oung dies, lie ha.* no progeny who ? h ive the ability nn 1 mrvo to carry out the grand project of his life; In has not as much property, as the world gives him credit for; he bus no apostL-a to propagate his peculiar the tries, au 1 as the world grows ol lcr fewer f mis I 1 believe iu them.?Hence we infer from the arrest of the Mormon fiend LoJ for his participation in the horrible Moun tain Meadow massacre and the rapid de cline in physical strength of the Mor ; mon leader himslf, that the days of Mor j mondoin are uumbcicl.?.V. V Tferabl. ' A man em ployed in a Boltimoro fae tory committed suicide the other day bv drowning, The deliberatedess of pur | pose evinced by him was remarkable. He first took a drink of liquor, then wal ked to a wharf, laid his coat and i book in which he kept some of his employers account on the edge, and leaped into the water in full view id' the crew i f a schooner lying a few yards distant and of several persons nearby on the wharf, The men on the vessel throw lops of wood o vet to him, and once setz ed a rope ami rosscd it "so close to him that ho was obliged to change his posi tieu to avoid it, To all entreaties to save himself he answered tint he w mid not as he was determined to die. A boat ^wns then procured, and several men got into it and tried to resoao him with pi boat book, which was wound abr ut the leg of his pantaloons, After numerous off- i ts, the unfertun ito man was drawn out, lie gave two or three grasps but although every exertion was made to resusiuitate him. he soon cots cd to breathe, There is no tnoro human nature in thiH remark th .to wo of to a fin 1 iu so brief a space: * Determined before hind wo gravoly protend to aik tin opitii > i and thoughts of a friend ?hould his dif for from ours ou any proteuco wo pity his want both of judgtooot aud sonso: but if he falls iuto ami fl itters our plan why really wo thiuk him a sousiblc uia i. A Liu end About Lawyers. Flow One Game to nr. in Heaven. [Translated from the Preach.] A journal lately announced that the corporation of" sheriffs had aidressed a petition to tho ministers of justice, re questing that the office of justice of tho peace should hereafter be accessible to rotirei sheriffs, an 1 uot pertain esclu sively to lawyers and attorneys who have left the bar. I was rccontly talk ing ?beut this request with a sheriff. "Why not?" said be, with heart. "We are as good as the lawyers. Per haps we tiro better. Of what nre they so prou l ? It is true, they sty, that the sheriffs have never furnished a saint for Paradise. I do not dispute it. But Ibe lawyers ! they have furnished one, and even he entered Heaven by a trick wot thy oT his trade." ' Ah !" Faid I, "is there a lawyer 1 si Paradise / I avow this surprises me. I believed the celestial dwelling guarded ngninst lawyers as firmly as against res taurant keepers au 1 tailors ! Rol ito to me the history of the lawyer who has forced the celestial guard." ??Willingly. About three centuries ago, a lawyer slipped into heaven under the name id* his cousin, Abbe de ('itcattx, who had just died in the savor ol h din -s; All wont well for two or three day-*, and no one suspected that there was an intruder iu the celestial dwell ings. Put at the end of two days our lawyer was homesick for the oui't. He set nut, therefore, to survey th j court of heaven, staring at the passers by as he had formerly done in the hall of Pas Per.In. in order to plan. hin 1 upia a good client. "A cause! a cause'. I tnu-il have a cause !" said he. clenching his fists. "I want a cause! ou^ht I to plea I for noth i:?g!" But all the pa.-scrs had a joyou? air which hardly den ited the prrticcupi lions of chicanery. He whs dismayed ?furious. All at ohec ho espied a young woman clothed in long morning robes, who, with eyes cast down and mciuuthnly brow, walked slowly along, leading a child by the ban 1. ? Victory !'" cried out man, making a joyous gambol "Behold the cause! Bch >ld ihe widow and tbc orphan !" With a turn of his band he adjusted his band, draped his rojje elegantly,an 1, presented bims- Ii' i> the widow, miking one of bis most amiable bo.vs. ".Madam is a plaintiff," said ho, iu a honied voice . Oh ! you may have, madam, all confi dence in my ability. Por the rest, I have the ear of the tribun il. II ive you the papers!' As for jus?" T e 1 idy raised h :r eyes an 1 title red a cry of terror. "Mon Dieu 1" said she ??but this man is Metis. ParUcroux." At the cry raised by the widow, a groat crowd gathered They fiurrotmded her, they questioned her, they un dcrstooi tho truth. Immediately a general clam or resounded under the whole celestial vault. A lawyer! there is a lawyer iu Para disc! But what is St. Peter thinking of? St. Pctorsoon arrived on the spot. He i creeived his error, and commanded the intruder to leave instantly a dwell iiig that was forbidden bim. M. Par Iccrcux, intimidated for an instant, vor}' quifkly iceovors his assurance. He mounts a small hill, turns up his sleeves, coughs, blows his n? so, then extending his hands towards the auditory, he cries? Quid* Cm.' Qnomodo? Quirn do ?" "You tire me," bluntly repliol tbc euardian of heaven. "(Jo hence I ! have already said it, I repeat it to you." '?I consent to it, if only the thing is legal. I demand oi tho tribunal per mission to put ore question to it." "Put it, bu! quickly." "(lentlolien, if there is in the un: verse a place where the law ought to bo respected, it seems to mo that thero is tho sauctuary of eterouljustice Ah, w ? 11, gentlemen, according to tho law a proprietor is uot to expel a lodger with out tending a summous to him by a sheriff. I await my summous and I make my reserve." St. Pctor was moved by this re?30u iug. "So bo it. Lot somo ouogo after a : h* rift to wake tbo summons." Five or six officers immediately started in quest of a sheriff. But after a long search they earno back without briagiog with them the civil officer. "Ah, well/' said St. Peter, ''where is the sheriff "Impossible to fiud one la P:\radiso" "In fact, although Ihavo not thought of it bcrore, there hoi never b?oa Oao admitted here What shall wo do not to violate the law ? A burst of loir cunning replied to him It was M?ns Parlocrous who nearly, swooaod with delight oa seeing the embarrassment of the celes idol guardian "I shall wait my sum! mnns a long time," said ho, making ft victorious gesture "The sheriff who will bring it to mo is not yet born" St Peter was token aback One of bis advisers whisperod to him tho idea of allowing a sheriff to entsr ? Paradise for a fow hours only, in oriar to hasten the departure of tho lawyer 'That would bo a bad expedient/' re plied he, "you do not kadif lad/era Ours would God means of cavil n$dd tin legality of the summons fie woull plunge ut into tho trdabhd \7 ?t ?m of th l law, and finally he would not loxt) a? After that I should find mysolf with a lawyer and a sheriff on my hands Tho first is enough," And this 1* ho* thsra en mo to bo a lawyer in Paradise A correspondent of tho Erie, Penn., Observer, sends to that journal tho fol lowing anefduf?: Mrs. J; has for some time past been the owner of a fiao Kf? quimaux dog. A few months ago, Mrs J. became the {mother of ft beautiful little little girl, of whom tho dog at first very jealous, II U better nature, how ever, soon assorted itself, an 1 he^became very fond of the child. A few weeks ago baby was crying loud and Ion?. Doggie came upstairs in evident dis tress of spirit, whined in answer to the child's cry; but finally, as if sudden thought had started him, trotted quick ly down stairs. He presently returned with a bono, well picked, of courso in his mouth, which, standing on his hint legs, ho gravely presented it to the little Stones about theWe Ilorica QrceTey and his hand writing nrostill "gjoingthe rounds. This is the latest from the St. Paul's Press: "Horace wroto a note to a brother editor iu New York whose writing was [equally illegible wltii that of his own The Tccipiont of tho note net being able to read it, sent it back by the same messenger to Mr. Greeley for elucidation. Supposing it. to be the answer to his own note, Mr. Gre?ley looked over it, but likewise was unable, to read it, and said to the boy: "Go back with it. What docs the d?m fool moan ?" "Yes sire," said the boy "that is just what he says." At a recent New York funoral, wh re the deceased was a young and .beautiful girl over ?'.1000 worth of flowers wore distributed in and around tho Coffin. A chorus was sung by hired vocalists. On cither side of the coffin stood four young gir's dressed in white, each holding in hei hand a wreath of flowers. While the minister prayed, a bell wastolel in the hallway; and a ohant smg by' the b red vocalists. The lady friends of the deceased thought the cntcrtainraint 'perfectly elegant.' Mont Blanc, it is said, has bo a dwaf cd by the discovery in Europe of ft Ul Icr monarch of mountains. Mnunt Klburz; on the Kuropcan side of tho C uicasian j water has been found to be 18,526 feet high, or 2742 feet high cr than the greatest estimated heightot Mont Blatte. The mountain is in shape a flattened dome, and although posses sing tho Alpine characteristic! of snow field, ice lakes and glaciers is oltmbod by experienced mountaineers: Rub'nson Crusoe's island, in the South Pacific ocean, is now peopled by ft Oer man colony of about 70 souls who lan ded upou its shores in 1832. On their arrival they found large flocks of goats, 30 halt wild horses, about 60 asset and a number ot o.her domeitio animals, They brought with them cows, hogs, fowls farming utensils, small boats, and fishing taokle, Two hundred and forty cambric haul kerchiefs says the Herald, were catura ted on Friday evening at Booth's while Jefferson was performing iu thu last sccno of'Kip Van Winkle.* *