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Show "GOUGES SUB TOGA." Blitbts Blown to Hia ox-Honor's Fall. IIcl4 Vp It r Tore Hi liar of I'ublic Opinion. Tho dispatches and papers from Salt Lake city furnish us with the details of the arrest and imprisonment of Urighani Voting, by tiie order of Chief Justico MeKean, lor "contempt of court." About eighteen months ago, Ann Eliza, tho youngest of tho prophet'a wives, felt dissatisfied with tho old man, and resolved to leave the home that he hail provided for her, and to try her fortune in arothcr direction. Tito prophet was old over three score and ten, and Ann Eliza was about a third of his age, good looking, smart, and in no manner disposed by nature to seek the cluislers of a nunnery. nun-nery. Thcro was some honor in being the prophet's "last wife;" but, as Sain Collins' German frou said, she liked something moro substantial than "full'" pork and beans for example, aauerkrout, sausages, and other like delicacies; so Ann Eliza was not satisfied satis-fied with "the honor" of tho thing, and she fled from the harem. Three distinguished lawyers of tho prophet's chief cit received the gay Ann Elizij to their "manly bosoms," and threw around her the spotless ermine ol their profession, and with the i-tars and stripes floating over her head, in luxuriant folds, she soon discovered she was "a h'ohjeet of h'interest." The lawyers undertook to revenge Ann Eliza on the prophet for his lack nf annrpc.i:ilinn nf hpr imrmn ntn! proceeded with a suit against the "holy man" for one-half of the profits. The damages were laid at $-00,000, which was a nice little sum to be equally divided bjtween Ann Eliza and the three attorneys. Besides Be-sides this, the lawyers claimed, in the outset of the suit, $10,000 for themselves them-selves for iho contingencies of the court, such as clerk hire, clerk's lees, pens, paper, pencils and envelopes. en-velopes. Brigham was a pretty large goono and well feathered, and the "limbs of tho law" thought that ho needed plucking, aud could stand it very well. It was very properly conceived that, during tho trial, Ann Eliza would require means of existence, as she had, bi sides herself, two boys eight and ten years of age, who had, in tho language ot tiie good book, been "begotten" by a former husband, hus-band, and which Brigham had very generously proffered to take care of", when he vowed connubial faith to their mother. As the three lawyers were on " the divy," they very naturally nat-urally suggested to Ann Eliza th.t they were willing '.to go shares with her in that also; but she "didn't see it," and sho "flew the track" and gavo tho lawyers "a little of her mind," and, fur a moment, it seemed that the law suit had reached a hasty and abrupt termination but it didn't. The Rev. C. C Strallon, a Methodist Metho-dist minister, Chief Justice Meivean, and another "Judge," fixed up Ann Eiiza several lectures, and a man by the name of Pond started out with tho runaway wife to tell the public the story of her wrongs, and for a lime the lawsuit was laid aade. - j About five months ago, the lawyers rtsurrected the case in the Court, and niiuu uiuv exouusieu meir logic against Brigham's purse, and the propbcL'a lawyers had defended his treasury to the best of their ability, the suit fell a second time out of sight, and nothing was heard of it till three weeks ngo, when Judge MeKean startled everybody with ordering Brigham Brig-ham to pay Ann; Eliza's attorneys $3,000 in ten day, to pay her $0,500 in twenty days, and $-00 a month ever afterwards, or tdl the court should hear the case on trial. Brigham took an appearand neglected neg-lected to bring the $3,000 into court to pay the lawyers, and so they obtained ob-tained from Judge MeKean a warrant war-rant for his arrest, and to make him show cause why he should, int be dealtwilh "as tor contempt of court." Brigham. was arrested last Thursday, brought into court, and there denied that he intended any contempt; but Judgo MeKean felt that his dignity was attacked, and he fined the "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" $l'o, and judged him deserving of one day's , confinement and so he was sent to the penitentiary. The "S.tints" feel that their leader has been greatly outraged, that Judge MeKean has been guilty of an unwarrantable display of tyrannical authority, and Mormonism from this time onward will be clothed with a new and stirring interest, when it otherwifcO would, have died from its own rottenness and mauilold stupidity. stupid-ity. Wc thoroughly detest the Mormon leader, and regard him rs a compound com-pound of knave and fanatic and an unmerciful tyrant over a poor, helpless help-less people; but we cannot but regret that Jud ire MeKean has. bv this im prisonment, contributed to prolong Biigham's reign in Utah. One night in the penitentiary over a matter solely of the court's dignity and not ot crime will help that shrewd, foxy old man to a thousand more sermons on persecution. The judge should have shown tho prophet where he had committed him&eii, and how he was liable to have been severely punished, pun-ished, and in the spirit o( the Great Master, he should have added: "Uo thy way and s;u no mere." With such words he would have killed the prophet, and all his fanatics: fana-tics: now they are "quickened into life again, and will be a greater pest than ever. Lyon Co. (Nov.) Times, llith. HURTING MORMONISM RATHER THAN AD MINIS PEKING THE LAW. There is in Utah tho shadow of a federal territorial government. It is composed of the usual number of ollice-holders who draw with punctuality punctu-ality the usual salaries. It has a stronger backing, too, than most territorial ter-ritorial governments, for the administration admin-istration considers it to bo necessary to maintain a large military force there. But this government has scarcely any relations except with the tientile population. The great mass of the Mormon population look upon it somewhat in the light of an inter loper, ocorn on me one siue is repaid re-paid by animosity on the other. The cried is most marked on the judiciary. The tendency to become -partisan appears ap-pears to be very strong. The result is that the judge rapidly takes on the character of the prosecutor. This was tiie trouble with the last judge. MeKean Me-Kean em cumbed to the same influence. influ-ence. Tiie current of his decisions for a long time has been to hurt Mor-mornisin Mor-mornisin rather than administer the law. This again is supplemented wilti a cliqueism which makes war upon everything that is not as ultra as itself. The new governor has! manifested a disposition toward con- I cilliatton which has brought down upon him the enmity of all the other oflicials. This, according to the tele-craph.ia tele-craph.ia thecauseof the late removals, including that of Judge MeKean. This Mormon problem is a dilficult one, aud should only bo entrusted to the bauds of wise and impartial men. In the nature of things it must undergo under-go great modifications in the imme diate future. Brigham Young cannot last much longer, and he lias been the main-stay ot tho institution. Ilia death will lead to division aud distraction. distrac-tion. Then the steady influx of emigration em-igration cannot fail to change the aspect as-pect ol the territory. When thu Cl-h- tile element is in tho majority, Mormonism Mor-monism will gradually shrivd up and disappear, altogether probably in time. S. F. Bu'U-thu OVEKDID THE BUSINESS. Tho removal of Judge MeKean from tho bench in Utah, followed soon after that of Governor Woods, may be considered an indication that the anti-Mormon anti-Mormon party, of which theso two were considered tho leaders, overdid the business. The country was kept in continual agitation by sensational proceedings and sensation tl reports. A little moderation end discretion might have served the cauae ol public justice more ellectualiy. Many of the Gentiles who lived in Utah or f-pent a little time there were disposal to side with tho Mormons, not out of sympathy with their doctrines, buton account of the extreme measures propose:! pro-pose:! by their enemies. We remeni ber to have heard of only one case taken up on appeal from Judge Mc-Kean's Mc-Kean's court to Washington, and in that the United States supreme court rendered a decision that was far from flattering to him. lie has quarreled with George C. Bates, S. B. Axtell and George E. Whitney, gentlemen who are well and favorably known in San Francisco, and though all may be wrong, yet there is a presumption that thero must be some blame on the other side. 8. F. Alia. DUnriED A "PURITAN BIGOT." We publish the particulars of the incarceration of Brigham Young for contempt of McKean's court in Utah. If a ii hpniili'iil fThibition nf tbfi personal littleness aud malice of the Puritan bigot who was kicked out of congress some years ago by a disgusted dis-gusted constituency in northern New York, and who was exported to Utah for the greater edification of that community. No right-minded man who knows the habitual deference of Brigham Young to lawful authority and appreciates his physical infirmities infirmi-ties can fail to have the most supreme contempt for the judicial tyrant who was capable of such an outrage upon a man who, whatever else he may be, has proven himself really great as a leader of people and as the founder of Utah. Such an act could have been justified upon no other ground than that Brigham Young had designedly de-signedly sought to bring McKean's court into contempt, which was notoriously not tho case. Omaha Herald. "terror of decent people." "It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good." General Grant has resented re-sented a series of insults and indignities indigni-ties to persons high in his favor in jSalt Lake, by the summary dismissal I of Chief Justice MeKean, of the 'Supreme court of Utah. The motive which lias actuated t:ie president to this courso may not in all respects be a worthy one, but his action caffnot fail to be incalculable benefit to the people of that wretched and demoralized demoral-ized territory. MeKean has long been the terror of all decent people, both Mormon and Gentile, in Salt Lake. Bald, reckless and vindictive in nature, nnd arbitrary and despotic in the adminia (ration of what he called justice, he combines qualities which fit him rather for a freebooter than a judge, and his removal should not nave been delayed so lone as it has. Virginia Citv (Nev.) Chronicle. A TRIUMPH F'Ml THE MORMONS. The course of Judge MeKean, of the Supreme court of Utah, however satisfactory it may have been to the "Gentiles" of that territory, seema not to find favor with the president, who has removed him. Among lawyers tnere Ins been doubt as to the de-fensibility de-fensibility of Judu'c McKean's action in dealing with Brigham Young. By many it has been thought extra-judicial, and perhaps President Grant is one of that number. At any rate; the stringent policy adopted by the judge against the Mormon prophet has cost him his olficial position. This will be regarded as a triumph by the Mormons, to whom the judge has rendered himself particularly obnoxious, ob-noxious, but whether it will servo to secuie greater obedience to the laws of cougrtss for the suppression ot polvgamy is very questionable. S. F. Call. |