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Show PURELY DISINTERESTED."! Tho pious soul of James S. Negley, rri rcscntativo in congress irom tho twenty-second Pennsylvania congressional congres-sional district, is stirred against tho enormities of Mormon ism; and in his Tc-awakoncd zeal ho wont with Mossrs. C'lagott and Morritt to inUuenoo President Presi-dent Grant or to aid major general tho ltnv. JJr. J. F. Newman, in influ-noo influ-noo him in pursuing "a policy of iinuncss against.thoJMormons." Gent-rat Negley, as a representative of tho land of coal and iron, believes there is virtue in railroads and land grants, t-till, it must not bo imagined that his wrath is kindlud against tho Mormons beeauso in his mind's oyo there is a liandsomo 'job" looming up, whioh might bo interfered with unless tho confounded pooplo of Utah could bo bandied in souio way to cripple their operations. General Negley, disinterested soul, merely asks from congress hvo or bix sections ot land ;per niilo for building a railroad from Sandy station, U. S. It. It., to Alta, Xiittlo Cottonwood that is, only fivo or six Equaro miles to the milo of road built, or about a hundred gquaro miles of tho most valuablo land in the United Uni-ted States, absorbing nearly all th0 mineral discovered or to bo discovered )u tho Cottonwoods, for building a ivntemptible eighteen miles of narrow gauge railroad. How much of tho spoils Nogley, Ciagctt and Morritt were to receivo, ibr giving tho Mormons Mor-mons fits and helping through this iittlo scheme, wo aro not informed; but a special from Washington to Chicago, Chi-cago, received over tho wires hero yesterday, yes-terday, and which appears in another column, tells that Negley has his ganio ct plunder under way. And it is no wonder that his soul is harrowed, over he evil doings of Utah, seeing that a company, of which Wm. Jennings, "W. II. Hooper, H. S. Eldrcdgo, "Warren llussey and Frank Fuller aro tlireotors, propose to build the same load and ask nothing from government but a right of way, and actually have about seven miles of it built. General Negley is not only disinterested disinter-ested but alarmingly modest in the trifles he aks from congress, whore I 'lab. is concerned. Last session ho mdeavorcd to engineer through a measure which many of our readers may remember wo denounced at the lime as the Bateson swindle. It merely tked a railroad franchise through tho Territory south, to the exclusion of all ethers, with the privilege of building Tvb.cu the projectors pleaded or not at uil, uuless some other company should jTopose to build one, when the Httlo Jranchisc sought for would stand in the Way and could only be moved b purchase- at th price general Negley 's iriends pleased to ak for it. Then, too, they claimed the same franchise fran-chise to all tho mining camps hat now exist or might ever have n existence south of this city, and between it and the Colorado river ; rr some such muter, worth probably to General Negley acd his friends Irom tive to ten millions without any needless ou:!ay. The present till is apparently a little moro moderate in its demands, as the road paposed to he built is under twenty miles io length; but anybody can see at half a glance how intensely disinterested is Negley in relation to Mormon matters in Utah, acd caa surmise for how much delegates Cbgett and Merrill's disinterestedness would sell, in a fair market, shou:d the proposed bill become be-come law. |