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Show An Iowa laaaiidy, who lives near a glue factory, makes a very Iusl-ic-us article ar-ticle ot jei-y cake, by JaVitic C'-Vd ba:k wheal cakjd ar d p.ii;:-r thoai un w:'h altercate ;ajer- ui n u-. A ceLt tcp-dre-sine of puJver Z-d el: aifc St;s then on,md the boarders' rcou:hs waitr,umii they bite into tkj deceptive structure, . "llifc; SAD CASK OF UTAH." General Ne-'lty, of Pennsylvania.ac-C'JiijpatJicd Pennsylvania.ac-C'JiijpatJicd dd-Jime C. air gelt, .'f Mon- taua, aud Merriit,of Idaho, a few days 1 aiiO, to s;e Preideul Grant 00 the subject of the Mormon-. J heae dek-Kaics dek-Kaics fn.'uj thn Western Territories know very well t 1j 3t uvtbiug wuuld i make lhui i-o popular with a large number of ih'.-ir constituent as to be ! i he iim'kh of driving Bnghani Young a.d :he lurmuns cmirciy out of Utah, j n-) tint tiie l-rau'.it'ul city of Salt Lake, I wi'h ii biuek s of well constructed bu-i-, m.;s houses and its many tastefully-arranged tastefully-arranged private residences, toother wilh the thousands ol improved farms, i rcaciuLg I'rom 6oda 8pnnk-s oq he nj.'th to the new fcttiements in I Arizona "n the south, would tall with-I with-I out purchase money into tho hands of the orjititucQts of Messrs. Claggett and Meiritt. M early all of the Gentile adventurer of the lioeky Mountains have cherished ill will for the Mormons Mor-mons lor many years. Ia times gone by they were aixuatoujed, alter spending spend-ing the summer mouths in rambling over the mountains in quest of treasure, to go to alt Like to spend the winter. Now it is well known that men who have been subjected to hardships and privations for months without seeing a civilized being are apt to indulge in extravagances when they return to a civilized community. When these Gentiles got drunk in Salt Lake they were arrested by tho Mormon Mor-mon polico. When they ran olf with a Mormon's wife they were brought back and punished as tho law provides fcr in such ea-e- Sometimes the? were seen by their friends working with other law-breakers in the chain-gang on the streets of the Saintly city. They have never forgotten the degradation there endured, and will never loso an opportunity to hit the Mormonn a lick. lhc iricnds and acquaintances ol these old mountaineers naturally espouse the cause of the Gentiles, and the consequence conse-quence is that the politics of Utah and parts of Idaho, Arizona and Nevada aro divided into Mormon and anti-Mormon. anti-Mormon. Mr. Claggett, of Montana, is one of their oldest enemies. Ho was a politician in Nevada while Nevada was still a Territory and when the Mormon question ran high. Though now representing Montana, he seems determined not to allow all the elo-qoenco elo-qoenco which he then prepared on that subject to become rusty lor the want of use. Mr. Mcrritt 's interest in tho question ques-tion is sufficiently accounted tor by the tho fact that he is tho Gentile dclogate from Idaho, and Idaho has a large Mormon population. In tho interview with President Grant wc think, however, these gentle men made a very ticnoua mistake. They asked that a special committee be . sent to Utah to investigato, and President Presi-dent Grant expressed himself favorably favora-bly disposed to the proposition. It is tho very proposition abovo all others that will please tho Mormons, for then the truth would bo brought to the surface. If an impartial oommittee is sent to Utah they will find the most orderly peoplo in the west. They will find that while Montana, Idaho, California, Cali-fornia, and Nevada were living for years under no law except the precarious precari-ous protection a Horded by vigilance committees," Utah was aB well governed as one of tlio eastern States. While Montana, Idaho, and Nevada were hanging men by the dozens without any trial recognized by civilized law, Utah has never been accused of more than one outrage of thia sort the Mountain Meadow massacre and that tho Mormon officials, with Brigham Young at their head, at that time of fered a large reward for tho apprehension apprehen-sion of these assassins. They will find a peoplo who have lower small vicob and live a. together a moro moral life than Buy people in America, They will discover that the agent of the as eociatcd press is a porverter of the truth and a manufacturer of canards to prejudice tho eastern people against the Mormon?. This oommittee would find the Mormons ready to concur in almost any plan by which their political politi-cal liberty and the peaceable possession of their property would bo assured. We predict that tho Mormon papers will favor tho suggestion of Messrs. Clagett and Mcrritt. Thoy want nothing noth-ing better than the truth to be known. Mr. Merritt, of Idaho, in this-inter-view, for the moment forgot that he was not conversing with one of his mountain constituents, andcommenoed telling the President that all except the Mormons were excluded by Brig-ham Brig-ham Young from a share in tho riohes of Utah. Truly, he must havo thought tho President moro ignorant than his Goshoot squaw. Seeing by the looks of his auditor that he had heard of such Gentiles in Utah as Mr. Husscy, of tho Km ma mino, and the four Messrs. Walker with their millions of money and property, he took another tack and informed tho President that the Mormons are all slaves, and Brig-ham Brig-ham Young is their master, and that is the reason why ho can build railroads rail-roads and all kinds of pubiio works so cheaply as to drive away all competition. competi-tion. Poor delegate Merritt! Is it reserved for you to be tho first who shall appeal to the anti-alavery feoling : in vain? But really you Bhould consider before you make statements so vory, : very thin. Kentucky Gazette. |
