Show i M MB R EDITOR I 1 have read an article in in the reflecting upon the virtue ot of the ladies and the integrity of the gentlemen connected with the ball lately given at balbas Val baclaa Bal laa bas hall ivsich I 1 thlik deserves the censure cell ture and nd just condemnation of every honest bonest man the irti articee efe all alluded eded to is as bad As the slang of 0 billingsgate can make it and proves the author to hai bale e lived in such a place or worse it if such exists if the ladies who a attended debile that ball bali vi were ere harlots so are IVe and nearly alt all the ladies inthis in this city cily for those who were there belong to the b best eit families in in this place and the they y were well belia d as mod modest estand and as chaste in in action an and d conversation as any ladies iddles that I 1 have ever seen ia the I 1 X gentlemen tle also without exception cep tion ca conducted themselves with the utmost decorum and but fara at a pistol shot 64 theiOn the dowby some eo cowardly tool fool everything thing was pleasant and agreeable it is no trouble for a discerni discern ilig rigman man to iee see the object of such communications th they e y are afraid of the good example and conduct condu ct of these gentiles and dare not trust their women whee they will learn the truth ever every mormon knows that the lil influence fluence exerted in in society by obese these benti ll 11 is a dead shot at polygamy that girls it if permitted to go to their balls and parties will H lit learn sooner br or later that in america woman is reserved for a higher and nobler a aim lt than the harem and the corn field they learn that the first duty of a gentile is to respect virtue and defend it with his life they learn thab in other countries women are permitted to exercise their own judgment in in the selection of a husband which makes the marriage bed a couch of roses instead of a kennel to lit litter terin in this is the afie cause of ali all thi this s trouble nor doican can we blame these miserable creatures tor for guarding this pass most vigilantly vigil arld y out of the forty fort or f fifty fly gentlemen for whose benefit this dirty and scurrilous arti cle was written half of them hem are married men med and have left wn es and children in the states and come out he here re at a risk of life and property for the very purpose of oe building build ln up the very institutions that the mormons cormons hate these are the men they call basilisks basilis ks 11 no wonder they wish to keep them at a distance for it if theado they do not cot there are thousands of girls I 1 la this territory who before the autumn winds of the year 1800 1860 shall watt through this va valley will be offering up pray pra I 1 i i clr ers era fo for rt arthelle these helle very basilisk baillis ks e sayi aal ed them fion aiom their horrible fatt fate there ard are thousands of women it in this tore 1 ar beav between ecat ab the agea g e ot of f fourteen a and twenty abo would gladly walk barefooted bare footed all around the world to find some place to bide from these hoary beary leaded headed ravish ling bishops elder a and priests and the time is is close a at t hand when bell all who vish to esc escape ape from the thesa selu lustful turks a eau air have llave the lopper tunit eunity y for it is generally dundei stood that a very gallant old gen gentleman known all over ever the m arid as uncle samp sam has the means and the ability to furnish transportation slid and i rations nations to every ever woman that wishes to toes es cape from this territory orv and we assure them they can fiust their gentle bodies mith vi ath tins this good old man without the precaution of mating or endowments GENTIL E 21 CAMP FLOYD U T t oct bill 1859 our camp and vicinity are re equally as tragic in in every particular as your own city or even california in its earlier history on oil sunday the 2nd and costs dinst about 4 p in another race came off at the course a short distance north of fairfield between horses owned by gamblers named madison adison and johnson the result was that M matisons Madi adis sons nl horse won the race A young man residing ln in fairfield field named faust alleged unfairness in in the manner in in which Johns horse borsa was put upon the track an altercation ensued of which the result was w as the death of 0 faust by a knife in the hands bands of a boy whose coldmon name was jack who acted as champion for johnson the murd murderer berer was taken into custo y and is is now awaiting the preliminary investigation before a magistrate we require a few strong examples in this territory to deter the inc invariably manifested on the part of the gambling and sporting fraternity to use knives and pistols for slight we received a slight addi addition fion to the numerical strength of this command by the arrival va I 1 of two companies of or the ath artillery from fort laramie they ate are arned ind as infantry and are acting as such at the present the late mail brought little or no army arra in in anee r hadeed the general intelligence tle dern rived ed from newspapers except local loca iones ones is of a political nature at the present and this does not interest the soldier much should any difficulty ensue from the state of f altairi on the oregon boundary then raa may we look for something to do something to dispel the m monotony anoton y of camp life the different li places jacas of amusement are rot not 1 doing a very heavy business bu it at present not withstanding they are each doing all they can i to present attractive c features feature in their exhibitions exhibitions 11 I 1 seethe see the JM D company are a going to present to the public another tragedy I 1 I 1 0 dy t this it is evening As it la Is the benefit of mr air wair warren of the fth infantry Inta nry I 1 trust we the celii company will vili amilie do their ir utmost to make it interesting 1 of it its 3 success I 1 will OT ill 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