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Show A HUGE ' RIOT " A "riot" on a very extensive scale, and resulting in the destruction of a large amount of property, occurred in Brooklyn recently, of which the telegraphic tele-graphic dispatches at the time gave us brief intelligence. We call it a "riot," not because it comes under the usual acceptance of the word, but because that is the term applied to such acts here in the District Courts, and accepting accept-ing the new attempts at lexicography, lately made in defining ."riots," "insurrections," "in-surrections," &c, wc noto and proceed accordingly. This Brooklyn ''riot ' was a premeditated premed-itated affair, and was planned and executed ex-ecuted by General J ourdan, Assessor of Internal Revenue for tho 3rd district of Brooklyn, "aided and abetted" by Supervisor Su-pervisor Dutcher, Assistant Assessor Wass, fifty special deputies, 400 men of the First U. S. Artillery, under command com-mand of General Vodges; COO men of the 8th U. S. Infantry, under Colonel Bomford; 100 marines, under Colonel Broome; an engineer detachment of 100 men; and 40 men of the 1st U. S. Infantry, In-fantry, under Lieutenant Dougherty: in all about 1300 men. Our information informa-tion is obtained from the Internal Kevenue Kev-enue Record, of the 14th inst. This raiding, or "rioting," party, took forcible for-cible possession of. fifteen establishments establish-ments illicit distilleries in the Fifth Ward of Brooklyn; seized five copper stills and five worms; and destroyed mash to the value of over $200,000. The liquor of various kinds was pumped out of the tubs into the gutters and streets. During the' progress of the raid large crowds interested in the illicit distilleries were assembled and threatened threat-ened the officers, assailing them at times with volleys of paving stones and briek-bats; but soldiers placed on the house tops and artillery trained to sweep the streets, made them pause and allow the work of demolition to proceed, which it did until it was consummated. con-summated. These illicit distillers were doing precisely pre-cisely what was done here last summer aud is still being done to an extent: pursuing their traffic iu . opposition oppo-sition to and defiance of law. No doubt they consider the revenue rev-enue laws oppressive, and show by their persistency their determination to resist them and act in defiance of the provisions of Congress, just as in a more limited degree certain vendors of liquor in this city endeavor to act in defiance de-fiance of the law and sell their liquors without paying the revenue known as license which is required of them by law. The Brooklyn men. we" say, show their persistency, inasmuch as a number of the establishments lately destroyed were broken up in Novem-. Novem-. ber last for similar illicit practices. These are the facts. .Now, suppose that mob, kept growling growl-ing and at bay by armed soldiers and loaded cannon, had been blessed with the friendship of certain official .functionaries .func-tionaries such as are in Utah, what would have been the results ? -. Instead In-stead of the action of the revenue officers offi-cers having been styled a raid on notorious no-torious law-breakers, it would have been branded as a "riot;" and deputies, depu-ties, to meet the exigencies of the case, would have been sworn in to the number num-ber of five for every one engaged in the destruction of the property. Then suit would have been planted against the Government for a sum covering say three times the amount at which the owners of the property destroyed might value it. That is how it is handled here, by government officials offi-cials against the city authorities ; for Salt Lake City, by iU authorities, did precisely what the U. S. government by its officers has done in Brooklyn. In Salt Lake the parties whose liquor is destroyed are styled injured men and judgment is given iu their favor ; in Brooklyn the same class of men are called "roughs" and law-breakem who have to be awed into submission by i.-annon, rifles and bayonets. This 5 a lair illustration of how matters work iu Utah. Xo matter what the law passed by municipal au-tority au-tority or Territorial legislature, certain men stand ready to act in defiance of it, and their opposition finds encour-. encour-. ugement and support from government govern-ment officials, not because these men havc.juitii;c on their side, but because .aid officials desire- to "put down" and "crush" the "damned Mormons." We state plain facts, gentlemen, known t-j the public: and what arc; you going to do about them ''. Wc prcsumo this h uot the only part of the l.'nitcd .Stales when; .wno public officers arc derelict of duty, but we do think it is the only pari, of the Kcpublie where offic-r-i of '."jvcriimenl openly affiliate with luw-lirunkurn, espouse their cause, and eii'l;avor t.o Huslain them in Iheir violation "f law: and of law recognized :n riidileou : and juif ihrnuihoiil the r-i vHiz-'l world. We might enquire, in closing, what amount of bonds General Jourdan and his aids would have been put under in the court, had they executed their raid in Salt Lake City, if the leaders had been required to find sureties for 110,000 each and the rest at $2,000 each? In Brooklyn the "whisky ring" are' recognized as law-breakers by the judicial authorities;, in Salt Lake tho "whisky ring" ha.s another and very different completion. Nev Mexico Mines. Glowing accounts ac-counts are given of the new eilver mines; near l.alston, New Mexico, the ore assaying from $-U to $8,000 per ton. and the average being 2,282 per ton. Artefinn wells are being sunk at the new placers twenty-five miles below, be-low, and water has been struck at eighty feel. |