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Show and before the overflow was richrv gtkw adorned with growing grain. Na nrt SATURDAY, WEDNESDAY Pul.ihd erory it is a desolation. ' t,y the Oodks PunUMIINO CoMfANt. Rising above its banks, a Charles W. Penrose, Editor. the from Albuquerque, awl Btimnoss MiinaKwr. river rushed through several settlements, aud, forming a 'new channel threatened to destroy the above WEDNKSDAY, JULY 1. 1871. named city. Thousands of people weie driven from their homes, and .11 OSCK OK Mil. WHITE. starvation stares them in the face. Wc jiuUUslv.tJiis evening a com- Several families and a nujaber of losses munication from Mr. White. Mr. Indians were drowned. The W. is Justice of the Peace at Evans-to- are estimated at 82,000,000. Want He is the Justice of levees has this season exposed to Wyoming. of before whom Williamson, the escaped destruction immense amounts She guurtfon, littb-distanc- ;ii:. Utah. I-:- n, felon from Ogdcn was brought, and property in many places. who, after being informed that Gova demand ernor Woods had mat-iANNIVERSARY Otf THE fur the prisoner, and knowing that MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH our County Sheriff and City Marshal AND HYRUM. were present, and were taking steps This is the anniversary of a memto obtain the necessary papers from orable event in the annals of the the (iovernor of Wyoming, put the Christ of Latter Church - Jesus prisoner under bonds of $100 and turned him over into the custody ef Day saints. Thirty years ago and Ilyrum Smith were an officer who was intoxicated, who (27th)Joseph in Carthage jail, Illinois, had interrupted the prosecuting at- murdered with their by aband of torney three times in open court, by At the same time the Justice's own admission, and had faces blackened. at John Elder Taylor, who is repeatedly called the prosecuting n liar, according Urigham City, defending by speech a (- .- d d for which he then suffered to the testimony of our officers, who the cause in body, was pierced with four bul-- ' let the prisoner escape as booh aa it lets. He survived to tell the tale, was possible to do so, and who during the the time he previously had the pris- but the Prophat and Patriarch of with sealed their Church testimony oner in custody, as the Justice was numbered and are their blood, among officially informed, allowed him to aud for who lived truth the maftyrs roam about whenever and wherever died in its defence. Their innocence I : ho pleased. . , declared by those who slew them. Mr. White gives his explanation of was said they, the matter for the second time. The "Law cannot touch them," ball The will." "but powder and public can read it and form their own asof this opinion. Mr. White is mistaken, to perpetrators sassination wer never brought to use as mild a term as possible, when be sayi we Yecused him of ''discharg- justice, although the slain men were under the pledged protection of ing the defendant for a consider, the Governor of the State. It tiou." This isthu very thing wa to accuse do. Mr. White is the fashion we would these great and good m angry, and anger bliudl the mind. tho followers of When ho cools off Kt him read men with the crime of bloodshed,and the Jiwction again, and he persons whose aim and object are will see that ho is in error. similar to those of the Carthage asOf Mr. White and Mr.' White's sassins, frequently call for retribution "Mor-inou- " course wi khbvr nothing, personally, on the heads of the presumed murderers, against whom there Our information was from is not a shadow of evidence, but never tl officers, who rehmied without their prjsyuer,' through oo. fault of lift voice or pen for justice upon or their own, but through the inefficien- ia animadversion of the murderers of Joseph and Ilyrum Smith. cy of somo one at Kvanstort.' If there The end in view, in the sacrifice of was uootber, course far Mr. White to pursue than put the prisoner in the the "Mirmon" leaders, vwas the delisinji of the officer as above described, struction of Monnonism." It was M r. White was right,and ia altogether believed,. that with the death of its lovely; there is nothing Hack about supposed founder, thi system itself him. If uot, and there is an if in the would die. But tho principles of Smith was the expublic mind, thou not,' and that is all which Joseph we care about it. If the Evanston pounder, emanated from a higher bepeople are satisfied with the gentle source than man, aud no human is men, we havo no cause to complain ing essential to their existence or to their success. any more than wo have cowplained,aud necessary bat is, we think Williamson might the same fallacious notions which have beeu.aud ought to havebeen.held prompted the massacre of thirty years shallow minds of the necurxly uutil formally delivered to ago, move the e spirits, the murderers of Joseph and ilyrum Smith. "Vengeance is mine and I will repay," is the terrible promise of Him Time will bring who never lies. this home to the living who are responsible for (ho crime of June 27, and the assassins in heart who approve the deed and inherit the spirit that prompted it. And eternity will reveal its full force on the wilful murderers of the innocent, and those who aid them by tongue or pen, when all shall stand before the Judgment Seat "to give an account for the deeds done in the body." Saints can afford to The Latter-daleave their cause to the Judge of all the Earth, nnd will not be afraid to meet their detainers and accusers at the Great Day, when all the martyrs, as well as all the murderers in act and spirit, will stand face to face and be known and understood as they 1S-- y are. RELIGIOUSLY RYLED. O- to-da- y, anti-Mormo- to-da- y , cold-bloode- de-dar- d ed now-a-da- ys ; obt-iine- , To-da- y tho lj tali officers.1 Mr. White has had all the opportunity he could ask "of us to present bis side of the (juestiou before the public. We have opened our columns to his communications, aud given them without 'curtailment, and we thiuk ho ought to be satisfied.' If he wishes to say more, aud doesu't get cross over it, we will assist him further by giving" him uuother chance. We say agaiu, justice for the Justice. OVERFLOW OF TUB 1UO V ,".U VGUAXDJ2. One f of the greatest disasters of the time is the overflowing of the li lo Grando. One of the finest dm trLcts ,of New Mexico has btwi denuded of its crops. The Valley of thf'Rio-Grauis (ACik1 with beautiful rixicYadj ana fru'.t orchards, , l tradueersof Joseph's successor, Pres- ident Brigham Young. They think if they can blast his character, ruin his credit or destroy his life, that "Mormonism" will be correspondingly affected. They nro as much in error and as murderous in spirit us their fellows of 1844. They will work and lie, and trump up false accusations, and hunt like bloodhounds for a trace of evidence to criminate the man they hate for his virtues and his influence, and, so far as "Mormonism" is concerned, with the same results as followed the bloody deed of their confreres of thirty years ago. The syse tem they wish to destroy will to grow and extend and work out its mission among mankind, and will ba a power in the earth when its unprincipled adversaries of to day are gnashing their teeth in their own place, in company with their kindred von-tinu- The llev. J. C. Kyle has gained some notoriety in English ecclesiastical circles by the publication of evangelical tracts. lie is now considerably riltd, religiously, of course, over the dangers which threaten the "Church of England as by law established." lie thinks the Church must, for its safety, be acknowledged and sustained by the State, and would rather see the Dissenters in power, and either of the unorthodox sects acknowledged as the national Church, than behold the calamity of complete disestablishment. Says he: I had far ratbersee our next sovereign crowned in Westminster Abbey by Mr. Spurgeou, or Mr. liinney, or Dr. Gumming, with an extempore prayer, and the ArchhUhop of Canterbury standing us a private individual in the crowd, than see our government turning its back ou Cut lHtiiinity altogether. One can judge of the perturba- tions of the soul of Kyle, when he could conceive of the possibility of such a catastrophe as the above. Fancy tfie Archbishop of Canterbury a "private individual," and, above all, an extemporaneous prayer being offered up in Westminister Abbey! Why, it would be enough to make loved lo wander were young, and we so r 'i.eatb the shades oi willow. . injr the All seemed to fully enjoy beautithe as well extended, as Smith-fiel- d leit we 6 pm. ful groves. At and arrived in Logan a. MO, stopto make the necesping at Hyde Park of passengers, etc. sary exchanges ot pleasThe day has indeed been one were delighted ure to al,, the children with the varieties of scenery and changes of entertainment; the older lads and lasses were pleased lo enjoy each other's and older middle-agesociety, while the ones took pleasure in comparing the ten the facilities years ago with the present, and very many many, the of country, other subjects of interest and profit to the citizens of Cache and Utah; nothing the peace and having occurred to mar be rememwill it the of day, harmony is one feaThere bered with pleasure. wherein this all with connection tured we pride ourselves; viz, we were able through the goodress of God and our friends, to charter our own cars, upon our own road, and ride through our own eountry, all of which has been paid for dearly by the swent of our brows, and dollars. And notwithour destanding Congress may enact laws.to our of us to our deprive peace, stroy country and homes, our liberty and fortunes, they cannot deprive us of that hope that would stimulate us to action tthd build again such cities, towns and villages, were we cast upon the islands of the sea. Yours truly, in kind-nesse- s d hard-earne- d .Observer. SCROOE EXCURSION. Addison has left lowing important .jul' who have chosen eadi persons out of all the species, with the sign to be each other's mutual com tort and entertainment, have, jn very action, bound themselves to hi good humored, affable, joyful, foriv nig and patient, with respect to eaci other's frailties and imperfeetion, ' to the end of their lives. T t't A little boy heard his mother tP of eighteen head of cattle bobs" burnt the other night. "Weret their tails burnt also?" inquired tic verdant youth. Senator Jones, who voted against woman suffrage in the Senate" was when a plain, honest, miner in the Navada Legislature, its enthusiastic advocate. Stewart was formerly op- .mo xuvh isf ine vote iv n. jvcu-was a humbug, like the resolution in the Prant platform in 1872, which was carried into practice by sendiD"-SusaB Anthony to prison, and denying her the right of trial by v jury. A writer in the Milwaukee Sen. Unel deserves the respectful sympathy of all gentlemen who give out their washing. He says: "It'is awFranklin City, June 24th, 1874. fully annoying to have some other Editor Junction: this settlement was favored fellow's clothes left in one's room by with a visit by the Logan Sunday School, the washerwoman. Saturday we put who took an excursion trip, arriving on another fellow's shirt, but'couldn't here at 0:30 a.m. wear it. Although it was ruffled This visit has been anticipated for the around bittom, the sleeves were nearly a week by the Franklin people, too short to button cuffs on, and tfcere and considerable preparations wire made for the reception of the visitors. was no place for a collar." The train on which they came was Two fatal accidents occurred at decorated with pine boughs, being part-loverat covered the sides, but open Merthyr Tydvil, in Wales, a few days head with canvass to shield the excur- since. Four men emplpyed at the sionists from the solstician rays. They with a dreadhonworks met were met by the Sunday School of this Cyfartha ful death the bursting of the by place, Weston and Oxford, at the Y and of a furnace within a few feet greeted with a cordial welcome in the breast form of a banner suspened on two pine of where they were standing. Two trees one on either side of the track. were envelop sd in the dreadful hot The procession marched up to the meetblast and gas from the molten metal, ing house, where they were convened, and charred to a cinder instanwere and as many as could find room were as comfortably seated as circumstances taneously, their remains having lo would permit; for there were some fourbe raked out. Two others who were teen hundred of the excursionists, near at the time were fearfully burneight hundred, (or thereabouts) of whom ed and have since died. In the same were Sunday School children of Logan. The house was called to order at works, a few hours afterward, an exabout 10:30, when the meeting was plosion of dynamite occurred. While opened with siBging and prayer, the preparations were being made to Logan scholars doing the chanting. blow out a furnace, under the direcThatcher gave an Superintendent address to the audience, in which he tion of Mr. Urqubart, an explosion sudcongratulated them on the progress made from some unaccountable cause since the first settlement of this Valley. denly occurred. One man was blown Bishop Preston spoke for a short time on to atoms. Mr. Urquhart was fatally the prospect before us, and encouraged soon after tho occudying the children and aiso the elder ones injured, and several men are suffering rrence, therein. from severe Hatch made some remarks injuries. Bishop To-da- y . y the effigies on the tombs and in the niches tremble with indignation, and the dried bones in the sculptured and the meeting was dismissed. The was excellent and a credit to to astonishwith singing sepulchres quake tho juveniles. ment! During the meeting the assembly What an awful country the Uni- were served with lemonade, and after ted States must be, in the estimation the dismissal all were treated with canwent dy, crackers and cider. All of the Itev. Kyle! We have no State merry as a marriage bell," and the oiily was that the company would religion, and even recognizeno "God regret not tarry all day. They returned to in the Constitution," and yet the Smithfield to spend the afternoon in spirits, and very well satisfied country lives, and grows and flourish- good with the treatment they had received es. And it may be that when Eng- by the people of this city. The Franklin Sunday School accomland turns its ancient but currupt panied by thosefrom Oxford and Clifton, church organization loose to shift then concluded to make out the remainfor itself, the country will move der of the day in the order wherewith it was commenced, and accordingly met along quite as well as of yore, and at 2 the singing was resumed that true religion will not suffer in by the seholars under Isaac B. Nash, who is vory much interested ia the the least degree from the inevitable business ; Something to think Aba ? RED. PINE LUMBER! Cheap for Cash. rt HA VI JC3T OV NEW STEAMSAW MILL And arc now tuning out a ' p.m.,-whe- change. - ' . OXE THOUSAND EXCUR- SIONISTS. Under the above heading-ocorrespondent "Observer" sends us a lengthy account of the school excursion from Logan to Franklin, the particulars of which are anticipated in the communication from him. We give the latter part ef the acoount as it takes up the excursionists where the Franklin letter leavei them: At 1.30 we were all seated again in the cars, and bidding adieu to our many friends in Franklin, Bnd thanking them for their good feelings and warm reception, were hurried away towards Rieh mond.atoppingtolet those otf who wished, and pped on to the grove at Srfiitfcfield. On our arrival, Mesm a. Noble & Lang-to- n had their school arrayed in their "scarlet and white," and led the way to a "rest for .weary pilgrims found," a beeutiful natural shade provided with muie to. seats, swings, dancing-floorHere we danced, sung, swung, ate pie. nio, rambled amid brambles lovers' bowers, and, indeed, it quite took ua back to those days of youth wun we ur -. being at once chorister and A few pieces were Superin ndeat. sung and the benches were then cleared out and the little ones were favored with a dance, which they enjoyed until 6 o'clock, when all retired intent on having a grand ball for the larger ones after supper. r Bo you see that the passage of the Poland Bill did not succeed in distracting the poople sufficiently to destroy the peace and harmony of enjoyment. Franklin is soliciting Salsbury & mail company to make this their station instead of Corinne, for the Montana line. If thjit company agree to propositions made them by the people here, I think both parties will be benefited thereby. Three hundred dellars are offered the companyon the eonsidera-tio- n that they locate within the limits. I will bring my epistle tocitya close lest I weary you, as well as I must, howtver, say that Frank, lmis being fust built up, and stores have sow become more numerous tbaa could have been anticipated fivo years since. The crops look well, and the prospeet good for . an abundent harvest. The health of the people u generally good and though we have some doctors here ' they do not find a great deal to do. I am very respectfully j. u. m. A No. 1 ' Quality of RED PINE LUMBER, Which w.vrtUietlrt " Prices for Cash. Bed-Ro- ck Gil-mor- COWLEY & Logan, Cache Co., PRODUCE CO , Utah: STORE. my-el- f. - a- Ha. repwrnl hi oM Hani fur the pnrchwe STRESS 0 FIFTH i ! lt ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE Garden and Grass See1 ieer-At his BOOK STORE adjoining he I all the Perineals and Newspapers the day, also a full stock of Stationery. Wall l'apr, l'ictuies, Frames, eie, O. W..IUM. .28-- 0 s |