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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. Washington, Dec. 5. Delegate Cannon says the President's message has given the death blow to any idea of procuring the admission of Utah as a State this session. He criticized very severely the President's assertions concerning the Mormons, and says he recently had several interviews with the President, and disabused, or endeavored to do so, of some of the prevailing notions on this subject. Mr. Cannon says there is no truth at all in the intimations that the Mormons had something to do with the recent outbreaks. He argues that no people are more interested in preserving peace with Indians than are the Mormons. Washington, Dec. 5 The resolution prepared by the ways and means committee for the distribution of the president's message proposed to refer the portion concerning polygamy to the committee on territories, but the House amended it by referring this subject to the judiciary committee. This change of the reference is in the line of the preparation for the enactment of more stringent measures, which the judiciary committee is know to favor. Ansonia Conn., Dec 5. A man named Upton, returned home drunk, threw at his wife a lighted lamp, which fell into the cradle and his child; it was burned to death. His wife, while endeavoring to save the child was probably fatally burned. New York, Dec. 6. The Tribune's Washington special, speaking of the president's message on Utah matters, says: The Mormon question is one that will be more difficult to settle, in any manner at all satisfactory to the people of the United States, the longer its adjustment is postponed. The fact is not generally known that while the Latter-day Saints are sending forth missionaries to every part of the earth, and gathering the converts they make in Salt Lake valley, they are also establishing large colonies in the inhabitable valleys of Idaho, Arizona, and expect before many years to control both of those territories. The construction of new railroads and the opening up of mines north and south of Utah, may give such a stimulus to the Gentile emigration into Idaho and Arizona, that the Mormons may long remain in the minority in both, and perhaps they may never become numerous enough to outvote the other population; but as it looks now, the danger that the government may yet have to deal with polygamy in more than one of the western territories by no means an imaginary one. The correspondent argues that the only solution of the Mormon question is the immediate adoption of a constitutional amendment, prohibiting polygamy. This should be done before Utah is admitted as a state. New York, Dec. 6. Otto Wolf and wife to-day went out to work, locking three children in the room. By some accident a fire occurred, and before aid came the two youngest were burned to death. Washington, Dec. 6. The Star this evening published an interview with Delegate Cannon, which contains the following shrewd double-edged rejoinder to the question. "What would be the politics of Utah if it became a state?" Cannon is reported as saying: "It would be a democratic state. I am satisfied from my own observations that the feelings of the people are in accord with the feelings of the democracy. They believe in "home rule". I cannot say, however, what would be the effect should Utah be admitted by the republicans". Then it might be a republican state. "A feeling of gratitude to the party who let us into the Union would, no doubt, influence a very large number of voters who are not very decided in their political views." Cannon is also reported as saying: "There are about one hundred and fifty thousand Mormons altogether, of whom about thirty thousand are men, and not more than four thousand of them have a plurality of wives. It is over this small number that all this fuss is made. While the Mormons believe in polygamy, believe that it is a revelation of God, they are not going to violate the law of 1862, but there is no law to forbid our faith in our principles. There is no inducement that could be offered that would lead the Mormons to abandon their faith. We will cherish the belief but, as I have said, we will not practice it, because that would be a violation of law. London, Dec. 8. Queen Victoria, today, at Windsor Castle, received the officers and men who distinguished themselves in the Zula war, and conferred the Victoria crown and other decorations on one corporal and three privates. The Borhe's draft garrison, Generals Newdigate, Crealock and Pearson and other south African commanders attended the ceremony. New York, Dec. 8. Further Panama advices state that the storm and ?? of the 19th ult., and subsequently, was the severest ever know on the isthrow. The railroad was submerged for over thirty miles. It may be two or three weeks before trains can run through. All the native villages and river farms have been inundated, and livestock of all descriptions was swept away and drowned, and the poor inhabitants left to starve. As soon as the news of their condition reached Aspinwall a subscription was raised, and several boatloads of provisions sent out; but the report came back that the relief, though timely, was inadequate, and that to prevent starvation, further immediate help was necessary. Several bridges have been seriously injured and many passengers are waiting transit at both ends of the route. Everything is confusion and uncertainty. The World's Washington says Tilden is reported to be preparing a paper announcing his withdrawal from the political field for ' 80 in favor of Speaker Pandall. Denver, Dec. 9. A dispatch from Fairplay reports the discovery of uranium in the Sacramento mining district, a mineral found in Bohemia, but never before in this country as far as known. The present discovery was made by H. L. Rice. The ore runs sixty percent uranium, and is worth $1,000 a ton. Washington, Dec. 10. An amendment to the Constitution has been introduced in the House declaring that polygamy shall not exist within the limits of the United States. |