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Show PIUTE ON OLD TITLES; Tell us about the Viiholy Alliance. Al-liance. Salt Lake City, Sept. 9,'7&- Editors Herald1: ' " k 0 l": - I had not intended to reply to the communication of Dr. Congar, published pub-lished in your issue of the 5th inst., chiefly because he had not controverted controver-ted any of the statements in my former for-mer letter, but also because I thought I discovered in the closing sentence of the doctor's aricle, some faint evidence evi-dence of ft repentant turn of mind, some slight pang of regret over " his present irksome association with the. men of pretended "old titles," and, over the past moral support which he; has consented to give to their prcpos-; tcrous claims. But now, lest this re-, luctant repentance may give' way again to his natural obliquity of purpose, pur-pose, and possibly to show tho neces-sitv neces-sitv of that repentance, I have thought it best to remind him of what he has sworn to in Court that; he drew up in Salt Lake the notice of location for the .Great Eastern mine, leaving blanks for its course and distance of initial point' -from the St. Louis lode; that Brain selected tho location on or near-' Grizzly Flat, and filial up the blank for the distance from the St. Louis lode with the words "one and one quarter miles ;' ' that the notice so filled up was posted there on Grizzly Flat and recorded in the district mining record book ; that afterwards, when he (the Dr.) went into the canon, to overlook the work ot his subordinates, he removed the notice of location from its position on Grizzly Flat, at a distance of li miles from tlie St. Louis lode, and, without changing it iu any particular, not even to signify the change of distance, did plant it within of a mile from the St. Louis lode, but made no fresh record of it; so that - no one whu might sec it, or the record, could for-a for-a moment suspect that the initial point of his location was any where but at a distance of 1 - miles from the St. Louis Lode. Let the Doc-tor remember that it does not help the case that the record may have been long subsequently altered so as to rend "i of a mile, Ac.'' . 1 therefore urge the Doctor to persevere per-severe in his present repentant fnood and "never to consent, for one moment, mo-ment, to an undue use of these old titles to subserve the selfish purposes of any person."' But if I have, ever so much confidence iu the fixedness of his puriose, I despair of his com- plete reformation, when I consider i the confusion of his ideas, .s at one time lie speaks of the " obtuseness,'" and iu the next sentence, of the "conceded "con-ceded acutcuess" of the trilnMo. which I belong. I wish no controversy with the Debtor. Deb-tor. I have long known him and am his friend, and will, therefore, use. the privilege of a friend while I give him a bit of advice. There ;ire among those old ti tiers some who arc ready to break away from the uuubinatir.n. Let the Doctor put himself :t the." head of the schism where he belong and tell us all about the unholy aiii-aiice. aiii-aiice. ' PinE. , |
