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Show ASOTKER ARCTIC HORROR. The present season gives us another Xorth l'olc horror, lcs ides that oi'Cap-Lmi oi'Cap-Lmi H.dl's Expedition, tfwjiieii sent out an exploring party under 1 "rotes" st.r Xoftlensjold; dp;tenhcrgen being the ripply point. Tw) tra.nsiH.irts hjving Iven jnissing -iiue last Xo-emlt?r, Xo-emlt?r, two attempts were tnade to find them but botli in vain. Li June lifc-t. three fishing vessels, ia Advent Hay. discovered evidences of the mis-iij:g mis-iij:g men having X'cn tlicrc. liiey begun be-gun a search and soon came across tlie nnlbrtnnates seventeen iu number desul. Their ici s were ycilow and mouldy. Blanket, clothing, Ac, were (bund piled upon cor'acs in var-fous var-fous placet-. A daily journal had becu kept fxum the Mh -vi Octoler until the lyth of List April. ' This told uf tlioir wandt.Tiags over the ice, of places where bottles of let tors had been Ie:1, and tijc various incident of . their lives. All were well until the 1st of Deccmler, "when one man was taken sick. Bears, foxes and rein- deer funned their article of -!. After the '.'th of December the ,-irfc j Ui pmdually increas.d nml deatiis were reported until the T'th of April, 'hen the lit intrllig, nt record s-howtd the ilrath of one man. A tier that a few entries were li-ui-! that read like the nvings of an in-vine persA'ti. The entire sevent-'en were litne,lby Uie riihcrnu n who, within a Jiort time, returu-xl to rfwevle.i and n-Uttxl the sad fate of their count n--'"t-n. Thus is add-, I one m,.ro tale t horn ,r to tho Irtorv of I'-lir ' piorAtious. SPECIAL LEGISLATION Tni- is al-.ut the Sr.i.-on wh- U the tilM ll.it.-S arr M.tll.fl.d Of t'ie U-ual aninial Imwl tor ,-p. .-i;J le :;-!at 'm by I ('ii-:r--s tbr l"t:di. .ie nii'-t im- a-jint- that anoli-.-r X' :t'n l'"i'L V.x-- tiair.ii wm i Id not .-Urt: li.al a i - i' ' -n VwV.iL'r arr...-- tliC Ati'uuir Wi":id iml ho pri'ji-rud; tiial tin-.m I-'i-..nr:-i o Aviti.v pi..i' . t h.vl I" - n i'.j-..-tti-n; that"i!il r.it" t i' m - intjiini.i hatl reiinl anytiiiti1,' hopn -babie. in- dnd, rxn-pt tii.U f-i(-cial l.'-'i.-Jn lit n for t'tah would iii-t.br son-.-iit ly tin-"rarp'-t-hag" brigade and liieir ! 'bfr.id-an.l-hulti'r" ai:i. -. Tl:e p-ri- pl-i-iy of thiU i-innbii'.ilii'i! kn -'.Ml as , the '"'in"" is :i'.'aiu bring mnq-lrUd. Torn- app-'an-I a l-n-ak or two in it 1 la.,t prin-, and .-.mi.- sanguine Niuls, , 1 plarini. n.iiiidrnee in the protestations ! ,,! ,,iiu that had place in it, thought thry would never be found there, again. But as natural as the crow seek.- carrion, so do these necessary 1 links -erk their approi.riate place in i "ring.i" .-ynewhere. They are the! natur.d PTvitors where there is a ; eon ih ination for -any purple that aims at robbing the people of rights, property, power, or anything hy which there maybe secured otfal to ding to these jiirkal-coyotes tluitseek to run down prey for the regular wolf. We can tell now, nearly three months before Congress meets, what kind of special legislation will be de1 ntanded. many idortive bills have lieen .vrt.cix ted here and forwanled to Washington fbr proiJf- pll!:JlV tUllt ! there id no longer uny question .o j what is sought. SummurUing, !.'"iely, j ("'(mgresH, as usual, will be artketl to l take from the people of Utah the last vestige of u republican form of government, gov-ernment, and make tlieii; jh.- abject serfs of a small combination i'iiiMr ered by and acting-in tho name of1 the nhio wlw nnpjints. But in con: ! templating such ft eniingrney there ! is one consolation: It can not be d;)ie j without striking such a blow at repub- Hcan government as will sooner or ! later rn!Je he whole countn, unless ..there in a widespread deionnhjation in adviince to welcome imperialism with open :inm. and throw id o republicanism, re-publicanism, not only withouta struggle strug-gle hut uiiderst.-indingly and willingly. This condition tiio fount ry has not yet reuchrd, nor is it likely to do .i for long yeai'fi; etill, republican iiirtku-tions iiirtku-tions are . daily ( threatened, aud . hv those who talk loudest of them; ami if an attack upon them made directly against- t'tah wilt-be. the mums of arousing .the. nafion to .its deadly peril, the sooner it is made the bolter. i e nave no hesitation in saying, although' Congress contains some of the best lawyer in the ("nih-d States, that there has not been one of these prescriptive special bills eoiteerning Utah yet introduced in the national .legislature-'hat has not been luirou.-stitutimah luirou.-stitutimah hut flppjj'witly some such measure will have to he passed, tested, test-ed, and carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, that a plain de- cision may he obtained on the powei-s f of Congress, which that body, of Into 1 years, has been seriously overstepping. |