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Show 'DOBS TICK" VISITS COVKUSOR ' WOODS. We clip the following liom the New 1 York World: Salt Lake, December 1, IsTI. L spent an evening recently with governor Woods, who is really a pleasant pleas-ant man to pass time with, and of most gentiemauly exterior, has a fine voice and the look of forty years, is oay mannered and srid to U; a big talker on t "tie slump. lu! lie is thoroughly thor-oughly a vesl.Tn politician, and sees 1 utility in an oOicc only as it plasters ! the pocket, wins notoriety, and can be ; made a ladder by which to reach some higher political niche. liis views of the "crisis" In taikedj evinced a ' happy concurrence with those of the judge. Their mercuries evidently rise ' and fall together, lie was firm as a rock for pushing the pending Mormon . indictment fur murder, polygamy, ; &c, and knew thcrf was other evidence evi-dence than Hickman's to insure conviction, con-viction, lie was full of dismal stories ' about ancient Mormon atrocities; he thought Brother Young would not vol- ' unteer a return for trial, but that if, the marshal went south alone to Ka- j nab and invited liim to share his con- j veyance he would travel up the Jor- 1 dan in "Mat's" company like a good boy, though he said there were no i Gentiles in the region of Kanab, near the Arizona line, but that (he Mor- j 1 mons there had a very sociable way ; of calling on strangers, catechising ' them as to their business and then kindly informing them whether or not 1 that was a healthy latitude ibr their j trade. Ilight here is; a good place to give I the statement of a reliable Gentile that he had been invited by " the nuthori- ; tics'.' to join a company of cavalry to wait upon Brig ham and escort him northward, nolriittvolrns, aud that mil- ', itary posts were to bo established at convenient intervals between Suit Lake and the Arizona line. This is loud talk, but will end in I smoke. 1 believe these Utah ullicials do not desire personal harm to Mor- j mons beyond what is needful by way of a grand scare and loud bullying to accomplish their own and their mas- ; tor's personal advantages. To give . lustre and certainly to their scheme ! they would now like control of the j person of Youug, with "a cloud of witnesses" in the distance. With that '.. handle they would hope to grind Mor-monism Mor-monism into a concession of their ex- ( treme demands. The plan is this: the Mormons, of course, are anxious to see Utah clothed with the rights of statehood. So arc the big Gentiles, wilbj the proviso that polygamy be abolished, thus pleasing i Mr. Grant's "moral" friends: and fur- ! ther, that these "big Gentiles'' be al- lowed to hold all the important olliccs j that will be born with the State, though j Mormon votes would bo sfc least nine j lo one. Governor Woods aud judge McKcan count themselves ripe lor the j , United Stales scnnle, whilo the beau- 1 ; tiful aud brilliant Maxwell has the itch j for the lower house. They would J consider Brighain's porsou a full guarantee guar-antee of these concessions wringing in a State, and wringing out its people's peo-ple's liberty at the polls. Jndecd, governor gov-ernor Woods told me that ho thought UlJ iuuiuiuua m;i aiiuiiuj willing IU j yield these.. points. I thought this smacked of a "compromise of felony," ; and that "mine host" had been Bound- ; ing the patriarchs of plural loves on these grave fjucslicms. L look to see these crafty manipula- J tors badly cuehrcd. ' And I think that J when Young returns to Salt Lake it will be pf his own free will aud to benefit bene-fit bis friends, pot his enemies. As matters now stand an interesting passage pass-age between the legislative and executive execu-tive arms of Utah is like!y to take place ! in January, (is the legislature is full-blooded full-blooded Mormon and the governor is 1 fiill anti. But he says he will have what he wants or accopt nothing, as he is vested with the power of absolute veto, without the usual appeal to a "concurring tsvo-thirds" of the legislative legisla-tive body- Tiie governor declares for pcaee, and that if any fighting is to be done they want the Mormons to take the initiative. This may found a claim to subtle policy, but if the star actors in this radical drama think the performers perfor-mers whom they would force to play the "initiative" before the tragic footlights foot-lights would retire after the first act, their low estimate of Mormon pluck and powor will turn to bitterest irony. But thero will be no resort to arms; Grant will for once conclude not to "fight it out on this line," Jf congress consents, Utah will become a State with past polygamy supplanted by future prostitution and present minor ills vanish van-ish that way. But without admission, or packed juries, or blood-letting, or any law but that of attrition with all the world, polygamy will speedily wear out and be known only to nioussrs among musly statistics. There is more power in the rich velvet cloak, the fancy -feathered hat, the false hair, the fine silks, tho bustle and the dainty slipper all draping and decking deck-ing the person of some rich Gentile's single wife iu this one occasional and increasing fact there is more ftower to annihilate polygamy than in all the "bulls" our Washington pope can perpetrate, per-petrate, or in all the laws congress can 1 pass or McKcan's court can fail to execute. ex-ecute. While there were some among Ml Am V)hn llrABdAfl nMlAI-nnUA aimnlin. ity satisfied the Mormon wiyes. But i woman's dislike to be outdone in dress is common to all. The Mormon wife j now goes upon the streets and to pub- I lie gatherings, and these costly trap- j pings are flaunted in her face at every turn; millinery and dross-making establishments es-tablishments arcasgaudyas elsewhere, and even her religion is not proof against the influence. She now wants the best, she longs Cor them, she muat have them, and so she tells her husband. hus-band. But we all know that no common com-mon balance in bank can outfit "in style" more than one and most creeds are weak in the presence of fashion, this will be no exception and if the wives already linked in plurality plu-rality get through the balance of life without trouble on the score of dress, their silent sorrow will be a warning to younger sisters, and bid them be i strong for a whole man that they may j enjoy his whole purse. This rock alone is big enough for polygamy to j split upou and shipwreck the faith. ; ' It is a pool that will work and settle itself clear, if an hypocritical admiuis-1 (ration and its cadaverous politicians will stop stirring it. |