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Show FACTS FOR GJEW. MAXWELL S CONSIDERATION. General Maxwell alleges there are not over twenty-eight hundred legal voters in this Territory. In view of this statement we will present some facts for his coasiJeratiou, requesting him to bear in mind that the population popula-tion of Utah has not been of a floating character, such as has opened up a large portion of the west. It is understood that Utah Territory was settled by the Mormons,,,. In .1 S46 -twenty-five years ago, remember there were in Nauvoo, and in Hancock County generally, io Illinois, -some twenty thousand, members of this religious reli-gious body. We place it at a very low computation when we say there wore at least as many more in the Eastern, Southern and Middle States. By the exodus from Nauvoo, which led to the settlement of Utah,"at least a half of the first twenty-thousand traveled westward in the first two or three years The earliest body crossing the Missouri river were in sufficient numbers to spare five hundred men to aid 'in' the war with Mexico. We .could introduce you to quite a respectable number of that five hundred who passed through a portion of the Mexican war, reached California, traveled east overland to Utah, and are now residing here.- One of them stepped into our office day before be-fore yesterday, paid his subscription to the Herald, and looked as if he could keep doing it for forty years to come. There must have been several thousand persons on the Missouri river at that time . to spare fire hundred men; and, recollect, that every soul of the ten thousand about twelve thousand thous-and is the correct figureswho traveled westward to Utah, of those Hancock county people, reached the legal age of voting nearly four years ago; as did all the children born to them up to August, 1S-K1. Of those residing in the Eastern, Southern and Middle States over fifteen thousand emigrated to Utah, which a careful canvas of historical his-torical data will show.' They did not; all come in one or two years, but kept crossing the plains, year after year, in large companies,, in small companies, and in small parties mixed in vith other companies. Kemember, General, Gener-al, we are referring to native Lorn Americans, many of whose fathers had fought in the war of Independence, some who had fought in the war of 1812; and among the number, we believe, be-lieve, wert a few of the old Revolutionary Revolution-ary heroes. There wasn't a single Chinaman among them. With them came a number of foreign for-eign birth, naturalized citizens of the United States, and some who were still aliens. But here were say twenty five thousand native born Americans, every one of whom residing in Utah to-day, j and not disabled by law, is a legal voter. Some have died; but we venture ven-ture to say that the births from 146 to 1849 would almost equal the deaths among them up to the present; for they have- long had the reputation of being prolific, and temperate lives are powerful aids to prolonged life even while enduring great hardships. Some have left the Territory. We are willing wil-ling to strike off three thousand for surplus ucains over tunas ana tnose who have left Utah which will more than cover it, and then you have left twenty-two thousand legal voters, without with-out taking into account the thousands who have been naturalized. - Now, suppose you are - ungallant enough to refuse the franchise to the ladies, although the law has t'h'en them that right, and what then? Of that twenty-two thousand you would be willing to allow there must have been ten thousand males all legal voters in any part of the Union where they had fulfilled the conditions imposed im-posed by local Li, by duration of residence res-idence in the place where they voted, j We have purposely kept these figures fig-ures below the actual facts, to how you how absurd is the statement that there are not more than twenty-eight i hundred legal voters in the Territory. And, -now, how many votes did you get last election, including Chinamen, passing immigrunU, tcamslors from Montana, lumber men from the mountains moun-tains in Idaho and Wyoming, and "gentlemen from the south" not 'juite three weeks in tin: Territory? And how many of them wm'o legal ? ' We have tiikeri no account of the many naturalised citizens who fire entitled en-titled to vote, and a lew of whom cant about half the legal votes received by ! JenoraI Maxwell. A cartful registry ! would slow a uiueL larger number of legal voters in the Territory tban ilio'i i actual number of ballot cint nt the -ix election. . ' ' ; Dion b us beaten Daniels at billiards, in tlte Teuton rn itcb of French earonm, .100 Kiitit. v.nrinK the :'.ii to Daniels' HI. - Railhoads -in Nevada.B? the Reese River liiceille, of Monday, wc seo that a company has been incorporated, incorpo-rated, with the title "Eastern Nevada Railroad Company," to build a railroad rail-road frSraElko, on the C.P.R.R., to Hamilton,' White Tine, by the most direct practical route The Ut- of incorporators in-corporators arc ; . Dr. Volney Spauld-ing, Spauld-ing, John Gf. Mott (of Gillig, Mott & Co.), Wm Hendrie, Hernan Saddler, Fiank Wheeler (Red), D. J. Elmore, John D. Treat, M. P. Freeman, L. Wilsey, N. Wescott, J. B. Fitch and M. Luke. - A bill has heen also introduced into the Nevada Legislature, granting a right of way to a road from : Palisade to the Colorado river, by Mineral Hill, Simpson's Park, lureka, Hamilton and Piochc. If work is pushed on either or both of these roads, the inte rior of Nevada will be greatly' benefitted benefit-ted thereby; - t .-- -i . . |