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Show A Sanguinary Outrage. , With unfeigned rrgret we are obliged to chronicle a junguinary on- ! slaught upon the liberty of the Amer- 1 icsiQ press. The victim in this case is a Herald commissioner dispatched to Utah to declare war. This person was sent out in pursuance of ft policy adopted by the journal above mentioned. men-tioned. It was proposed that the non-Mormon non-Mormon populatiou of the Uuited States, or at least thkt portion of it which immediately surrounds the City of the Saints, should capture the Mormon establishment, loot the storehouses, and divide among the captors the fat lauds and chicken coops of the hierarchy. There was about this scheme an easy, ofl-kand freedom which commended it to the BUpeinciul and unthinking. It was a sort ot holy war with the holinesg left out, the resulta being the same, namely, an equitablo division of the spoils. The Herald commissioner was accordingly sent with positive in structions to decluro war within ten days, failing in which he was to be recalled and sent on an exploring expedition ex-pedition to Nev Jersey and adjacent foreign lands. It nucd not be said that the commissioner tul tilted his instructions to the veiy leitur. Ha first secured an interview with the Mormon Pant arch, disguised in the humble garb ot a corn-doctor. corn-doctor. While the prophet submitted sub-mitted his apostolic feet to the skillful scalpwl of the commissioner, commis-sioner, under the impression that ho was being treated by a Polish count iu reduced circumstances, the diplu-malic diplu-malic correspondent succeeded in extracting not only bis corns, but much valuable information. The principal point of this fraudulently-1 obtained confidence was that the. prophet wanted peace. "Let us have," said the Pantarch, writhing with the agonies of aud excised bunion, bun-ion, "peace." This, however, was not what the Herald commissioner was soul lor. War to the knife was the boon be craved; aud the prophet having failed in sporLing language to omie to time, it became necessary for the correspondent to invent a series ot bloodthirsty interviews. It ueed not be said that in this he entirely succeeded. suc-ceeded. Brigham Young, unctuous and suave tLough he is, appeared in the character ot a Mormon Figbting Joe Hooker. The startled telegraph wires bore eastward the burning words which bo uttered as he bias pheined all the orthodox saints, and qufled his cheerful cup of alcohol aud gunpowder. He swore that he would make Rome howl and cause the grans to grow in the streets of Washington. Wash-ington. He defied the combined talent tal-ent of the Herald, and invited the army of the United Sin Lea to seek him in un uiouuiaiu nome, anu court death and destruction iu the fastnesses of Utah hay fields and orchards. This suited the mysterious purpose of the Herald, and war was announced as already declared. The consequences were harrowing. Says the commissioner in bis latest report to headquarters: "Last Saturday Satur-day evening, between 10 and 11 o'clock, I, who am acting here as your correspondent, was returning to my hotel alone iu a buggy Irom a drive." There is a reminiscence of the late G. P. R. James in this which is quite touching. He was alone, it wus late, and the shades of night ware falling fast. "When lour blocks east of the Lion bouse," continues the narrator, with scrupulous topographical topographi-cal exactness, "I was fired upan by a miscreant who had posted himself behind a tree, about fiftr teet away, on a cross street." A miscreant who would post himself fifty feet away and Ore anything less tnan a rifled cm- nun at HeruM nni-oP mn.t h indeed a fiend of the deepest dye. Who ever beard of a reporter being i killed at that distance? E7en in the celebrated Maryland duel, fought when the snow was on the ground, sixty feet was all that was allowed between the trembling chief and the man who had previously set him up on his head in front of the Uuion club-houje. It is unnecessary to say that the Mormon miscreant njieeed his aim, as h deserved. The additional statement that the war curreBpoudeut wan saved by the epeed ot his b oralis is a gratuitous tribute to the excllence of the livery stables of Salt Like city which should be de-. ducted from the expeose account of ; the correspond eut. This dastardly! ; attempt at assassination was renewed. 1 On Friday, a dark Friday, the miscreant mis-creant called the reporter to the door of his bouse, and, after some light compliments had passed, lunged at him with "a short knife," (cane-uuife,) (cane-uuife,) striking him in the left breast, just about whore a newspaper correspondent corres-pondent is known to carry his notebook note-book aud brier-wood pipe. The I miscreant bad not miscalculated his! aim. According to bis intended vie-1 tim'a account, the fatal blade passed. i through porte monnaie containing a free pass over the Union Pacific i road, a laundry bill, and a pass to Tony Pastors theatre. No blood was I shed, but the agitated commissioner satd'-wn and wrote to bis paper a j double-leaded dispatch which was calculated to fire the heart of the Gentile populatiou of the United' States, and cause B. Youag to wish that he bad never been interviewed by a Herald commissioner. pressure of the cares of slate. Secretary Secre-tary McCrary will not see here a just cause of war. Utah is notoriously and admittedly a foreign state. We have buen looking for an occasion to invade its territory and capture' its granaries and hencoopa. Will the secretary of war note the fact that the correspondent of the greatest journal in all creation has not only been fired at in the dark, at a distance dis-tance of fifty feet, but has had his suspender buckle bent by a murderous murder-ous caae-knile stroke? In the name of imperilled liberty and au untram-meled untram-meled press, we trust not. So loug as that miscreant is at large in Utah and roams at will through the streets of Salt Lake city, miming newspaper correspondents at fifty feet, so loug is the palladium of our liberties in danger. So long, too, in the eloquent language of the Herald, dues "the blood uf this Litest victim to a lustful priesthood cry out in vain from bis bent suspender buckle. "New York 'limes, June 2d. |