Show THE GREAT A correspondent of the cincinnati dilating upon the present crusade against the mormons cormons Mor mons ip thus describes what he calls the ring 1 chief justice of utah J 13 mckean of new york state an officer of the volunteer army during the war and a prominent methodist formerly it is said a preacher mckean came here upon a crusade against polygamy and alid his hia fair abilities and great vanity have carried him through it thus far with about equal nourish flourish and fearless nes he la Is a wiry medium sized man with a tall tail baldish head gray side loek lock and very black sallow eyes at tinna times resinous in color like tar water B be e looks however to be in the prime of strength and will haa baa never communicated with brigham young personally since he arrive dand is ab absorbed sort in the purpose of intimidating the mormon church or breaking it up hla hia behavior on the bench has been des dea gitle botio and extrajudicial extra judicial to the li last lasi st degree agree and he has also been nate enough to compromise his deputa tion by mining speculations which have come before his court and received influential consideration there 2 K R N baskin the author of what Is called in congress the cullom bill and at present temporary prosecuting attorney before mi Mc mckeand Keans court a lean lank rather dirty and drowsy frowsy redheaded young man but a lawyer of shrewdness and coolness and inflamed against mormonism he said bald in a speech before mckean last friday that if joseph smith had been a eunuch he would never have received the reve revel lation on polygamy to this the mor mons retort that baskin is married to a woman for whom he procured a divorce from a former husband etc 3 george K R maxwell an ex officer from froni michigan with a game leg a strong dissipated face and belister of the land office here an irl Iti indomitable man manaut bub but accused of corruption and a chronic runner for Con oon congress greab greas against delegate W H hooper thinks con gross is a vile body because it will not put hooper out of congress for his creed as promptly as judge mckean would woula pub put 4 J H taggart united states assessor a person who was bitten by a dog some time ago and charged the bite to mormon assassins imperfect indeed doubtful record recoil in the army as surgeon and chiefly potential as a 1 gadder and street gossip against the bainte I 1 5 0 J hollister united states collector uninteresting man who married the half sister of the vice president and although a determined anti mor mon does not agree with several of the ring the bame same is the case with several others all want to be boss boas hollister deluges the eastern press from chicago to new brew york with letters of locuss picked up at hea hearsay reny reay and hardly reliable enough fora fors for a comie comic paper 6 dennis J editor and late partner with hollister in the Co corinne rintie gee lRe potter porter an irishman witty and abusive and incapable of working in harness barness the ring tactics have generally been to combine combino the God beltes beites and the tha a or party but at a meeting of the two beta seta some bome time ago denounced polygamy flyg eo so violently that godbe and elf bli it B apostates but polygamists rose up and resented it 7 frank kenyon proprietor of the review a paper which haa has superseded the salt lake link e tribute in irritating the mormons Mor mons a montana man xuan and with so little fortitude that when the indict ment of brigham was proposed he beat seat his domestic tre tro treasures mures to san francis franciaco 8 C M hawley associate ustice justice like with mckean but not servile like 0 F strickland the other judge hawley bores people on the streets by reading his long opinions to them he nearly made 0 P morton morion a polygamist lately by reading to him opinions the other way aj 8 0 M hawley jr son eon of the aforesaid a fop top whiskered insubstantial young man who stood challenger at the polls in salt lake like recently with too many horns into him and was arrested by the city police and confined two hours he now has a suit against the corporation for twenty five thousand dollars demage damage and one of the usual juries may award it 9 george A black secretary of the territory author of the proclamation i against the fourth of july here 10 geo goo L woods of oregon the governor a gristly large man of little little metal heft woods refused to let the mormon militia celebrate the fourth ef of july last year and ordered through black general De to turn out oat his regular army garrison and fire on the nauvoo legion if they disobeyed De who has a contempt for the gentile ring li like ilke keall ali ail all the regular army officers domce rs answered if I 1 do t this a thing there ia is to be no confusion nor debate about it upon the actual field I 1 shall parade my troops down to the mormon line the first order will be moy toy military rule role present armei armel the second order in proper succession will be firel the last order you yon must give woods refused to take the responsibility and threatened to make general grant remove De the latter told woods to go to the devil and said it was an outrage anyway to forbid the mormons cormons to celebrate the fourth as they had been doing for twenty years 1 De was removed as soon as Us dr newman hewman the methodist preacher i could see aee grant and general morrow waa was ordered here this is about all the ring except strickland a michigander on the bench wm win appleby the register in bank and B R H robertson rober Bober strick lands law partner seeking practice under the protection of the courts these people represent the avera average gei gel character of territorial officers political al adventurers for the most part paid the low stipends allowed in the wisdom of the federal government and p possessing 0 in common only an intense feel feeling I 1 ng begotten of conviction and interest terest t against every feature of the imo IKO mormon r m on church polygamy is the objective feature brt but the city and territory completely but of debt and both with plethoric treasuries th 5 great cooperative store paying two per cent a month and yet unincorporated and the value of bait salt lake city property for which aich a title has baa never yet been given 4 appear apes r to offer wonderful opportunities for plunder in case an outbreak can be devised utah although the richest and most populous territory in the union onion rea really ly ammonds affords lebs lees political pap than any a other othey th er the ant anti I 1 mormon lawyers and the court make a close society the court has lost its superstition in the territory and in criminal cabes cases affecting mormons cormons the saints say that their only chance la is to fee the ring law while the public morals of salt juske lake which up to ro two years ago barring polygamy had extorted the admiration ot of travelers are nearly as bad as elsewhere in nevada or idaho the court has given moral support to unlicensed liquor dealers and encouraged a them to resist paying the hitherto fed fod almost most prohibitory rates of license one engelbrecht having set pet the license law at defiance recently had his stock destroyed by mayor wells police and he brought suit against the city and got sixty thousand dollars damages W B S godbe leader of the God beites but a liquor dealer and polygamist also applied to judge mckean for an injunction to restrain the city from buin suin suing him hirn for vlola viola violating tIng ethe the license law all wil wll mckean was applied to for a dissolution of the injunction he put pu t it 16 in his pocket saying he would hold it under tinder advisement while meantime godbe goes on selling liquor encouragement coura gement from these cases has quadrupled in salt bait lake laake every bagnio bagato being composed of gentile women A day or two ago a streetwalker street walker was arrested for drunkenness and swearing but some of her friends the poker players at the wasatch club prompted her to sue the city for ten thousand dollars in short the officeholders ring bing led by the united states courland court Cour tand and supported by the liquor and land lana interests and all who want to throw off city taxation is engaged in an unequal grapple aple with the municipal corporation the east is liberally supplied with inflammatory am matory correspondence charging mutiny upon the mormons cormons Mor mons in despite of the fact that brigham young has submitted to arrest and appeared unattended in court the garrison has been increased to about 1200 men unwilling allies of the ring bing A large amount of capital invested in the rich galena mines has been diverted averted to nevada idaho and montana and other foreign capital apprehensive of a war has declined to come here brigham young with whom the united states haa has dealt upon terms of encouragement in a P hundred ways while as much of a polygamist lat as now using him to build telegraph and rall rail ways to furnish supplies to repress indians indiana and carry mails malls and which appointed him first governor of utah and continued him in the place for seven years thia this old man at seventy years of age is suddenly admonished that he Is a criminal and put on trial for fon offenses committed twenty years W ELDER deorge 7 arrived from the sandwich Band bana islands on thursday morning last in excellent health he left honolulu on the moses maylor taylor on the evening of the uit alt 1 and reached san ban fran cisco on sunday morning the ath dinst bro left the city for the islands on the of last february the seasons labor on the plantation of laie late has haa been a very good one the prospect for the coming crop of sug bug sugar bugar sugarcane arcane cane is encouraging bro Fro brom from mApril april conference to october conference the force of hands employed on the plan tation under the direction of brother and the elders from the valley who are with him never lost a single working day which speaks favorably for the climate and the industry of the native saints who reside there bro ships hla hia sugar regularly to san ban francisco and brought with him on oil this trip a small cargo to sell there the steamer on which he be made the passage was provisioned with beef raised on laie late recent becent missionary edfors enn oma ora in preaching the gospel on the other islands have been very successful and numerous additions of those who have never mover been identified with the people have been made to the church at the recent conference thirteen native missionaries were appointed to labor on the various islands under the direction of elder J H napela who will be remembered by many of our readers as the native who spent several months hera here during the summer and fall fail of 1869 1809 elder speaks of their appearance at honolulu where he met some of them as they were about to sail on the steamer for their destination on the windward islands asvery as very fine line they were a body of superior looking men intelligent and well versed in the doctrines of the church he lie felt proud of them the news which reached him before leaving laie late respecting the labors and success of the two native elders who had gone to the navigator islands was very gratifying they are laboring to excellent advantage among tha tho natives of those islands a kindred polynesian race whose language is very similar to the hawaiian there is an immense field for missionary labor throughout the pacific islands and the hawaiian elders are many of them quite capable of going as missionaries to those groups taking thib this view alone of the settlement at lale laie and we doubt not that as a place of practical training for the hawaiian people and in impart ing to them the necessary experience to go as missionaries to other islands stands it will be found to be of immense benefit and to amply prepay in the results which are likely to accrue all the trouble and expense which have been expended dupon upon it the names of the elders who are la boring on the navigator islands are kimo pello pelio and S B R Manoa old members of the church on the sandwich islands |