Show EDITOR OF THE VAILEY TAN SIR si R I 1 had bad occasion last evening wed ties d y dinst to go some four miles south gouth of this city on my way back this morning about sunrise the country was wag covered with a thick white frost and in some 0 of f the irrigating irrigating ditches I 1 gathered ice about the thickness of a five cent piece I 1 could not lot perceive however that the corn or potatoes had been injured by the frost the country through which I 1 passed is low bott bottom om land and liable to late frosts and more so this season on account of the he over overflowing fl owin g of the maun mountain tain streams keeping in the earth saturated and consequently cold and backis backward ard the crops generally ire are several weeks later asua ut have ajie althy appearance t cincinnatus we hear bear that on sunday morning may 21 1859 1839 at the tabernacle orson pratt delivered a discourse set out mith an exceedingly cee ree lengthy apology for the seeming presumption in an humble individual like ile himself attending attempting to enlighten or instruct ct such an intellectual intellect i al congregation but avi h file assistance of divine providence he would w proceed edwith w ich lug his remarks lie spoke 0 the coming of christ to reign over his kingdom on earth gave a graphic diacri eption of the gathering of the latter day saints on that occasion and the great joy which they would experience how happily they would live under the new administration indeed inde edhe he appropriated the intire entire kingdom kingdo in to 0 o the use and benefit of the mormons cormons Mor mons not leaving one quarter section unoccupied lie portrayed the awful doom which will come tipon the ungodly us its gentiles magnifying the nuts of wrath that ire are to be poured out upon pon them into quite respectably sized bottles ile he also made a labored defence ce fence of the anne of a plurality of wives 21 said the mormons cormons were charged with the crime of polygamy pol gamy asked who mho said it was a crime crime aside from a gentleman gentl emai occupying an orchestra seat or stage box my grand mam mammy i yes your grand grandma mammy ammy for I 1 defy the world to place a finger on oil a word or a line contained contain 1 in the scriptures which pronounces it a crimel crime but oh says one on custom makes it a crimel custom be ze I 1 did not care for custom the patriarchs of old took as many as they wanted and so would the latter day saints was not going to limit himself and his brethren to one each I 1 just because the romans did they so le he said being the first to put on the limits ile he referred to a prophecy in in isa isaiah bah iah relative tu to the coming of the lord and painted a glowing glow ing picture scene on earth just prior to the removal ren oval of the masculine saints from the old kingdom to the new each male saint was represented as having seven distressed females clinging to the of ilia his coat weeping and insisting upon pon retaining their holds that they might through his righteousness be saved professing to be able and willingto supply their own wearing 1 apparel rations and other necessary outfit without putting him to the least expense or inconvenience ne azat fience on their account the speaker said that this prophecy chih alrh is yit ettori et tobi to be fulfilled is a fit full endorsement endore ement of the doc tri Baid eaid lie ile compared the 6 stale ate of society in this Terri territory toty where wen men have wives without fl umbers ber with that of new york N where here each man is allowed but one wife but many mis tresses while all is is peace purity arid and holiness in the one place prostitution and all manner of corruption reigns in tho the other ile he congratulated the legislators of this territory upon the wisdom they displayed in in not making it illegal tapered his remarks remark down to a blessing arid and vacated the stand for their beloved president who had been lolli loll frig ng on a sofa in the pulpit during the entire discourse the president then arose smiled looked cunning survey edthe ed the congregation andraid and said im here again 1 I aint dead yeti yet 1 I 1 gone yet et but am her h e r doing as I 1 always have done that is is the best I 1 can call its all right just lay low look out for black ducks with a twist of the head and motions of the hands more difficult of compression than the deseret alphabet these trials we are passing through are nothing it 11 11 be all right sing son song 9 tone gestures with the hands a 0 la node mod e turning jack from the bottom E exhorted x aborted the people to ie be firm and put their trust in in god faith was what hat they wanted possess that and the lord would ngit fight their battles for them though not literally a fly as some of the brethren breth rn once thought in in missouri it seems that during their troubles in in that state joseph prophesied that the lord would send his angels and overthrow their enemies one day some two hundred of them found thirty five hundred of the enemy drawn up to give them battle whereupon some of the brethren having josephs prophecy in in mind began to look around for the promised celestial feln reinforcement specimens of low iona comedy acting by the Belov beloved edl congregation delighted but not seeing any signs of 0 their approach slipped off their coata coals put them on wrong side bide out and run over to the enemy on rather intimated that he did not want a y more i such faith as that thai seemed to be of the opinion that lie he and the few that remained could have wiped w aped out the thirty five hundred had the fight taken place imaginary rifle shorting log ing which should it ever be realized w will ill make fearful havoc in in the ranks of the op position ile he referred to the apostates called those who aided them in in leaving the Is spawn s p a w n ot of o t f liem li e M 1 1 was sorry they were w ere going as he would be acir much annoyed by their importunities for assist assistance anceto to return ile he must have forgotten that bro pratt in in his bis discourse w was aa glad they were w ere leaving ile he told the brethren god bless their souls that hat they were all the time prating about living the celestial law uben they know what vi hat celestial law was that it has nev never e r bet be n revealed to them or only detached e if portions of it just to try them hem that if it were revealed in in its ful it would be beo yond 0 id their comprehension that finite be beings 11 gs could not understand it lie ile part particularly exhorted the saints to stop slop swearing Sto nii weal illustrated an all idea by relating a story which was as full fall of god damns as he claims to be of morality said the mor mon mons can beat the world rt at anything iny thing whether at meanness amen stealing ditrol dit tol robbing plundering eD encore corel or any ther ither i given vice or virtue that the meanest of all mean men was a mean mormon he touched upon several other subjects and said many things which are not now remembered after blessing them hem all lie he turned to the congregation in rather a con manner and took his seat having about a halt half an hour we copy the following from the california bulletin Bulle tm being from its corr correspondent es in in this his city GOV CUMMING WHO sympathize WITH HIM hiat nothing more has beet heard from gov cumming nince hince he issued his ila protest nor has lie he taken any further action publicly publicly ilia his course is is universally condemned here I 1 know not of a single man mail outside of the mormon church in this territory who coincides with him or approves of his position except secretary hartnett and as I 1 am informed it fort ned dr forney superintendent of lidian indian affairs these latter gentlemen ba hageal elal ways upheld the governor in in every step it he e has taken this correspondent says lie does not know of any one but the secretary and a n d superintendent perl perin i nten dent of indian affairs who support gov cumming this certainly is not the fault of either of these gentlemen or his hilj excellency it was not in reason to expect these persons to supply the correspondent with information j and if i they the superintendent of indian affairs and secre tary of state slate did uphold gov cumming Cu and proper objections can be made let thern them be set forth we allude to this article more particularly on oa account of its being in appearance appears nce oile oas of those abuse und of action dost 1 in tha d ark e i CAMP FLOYD Fiovo 1 May la pona MR ma editon having read in your 1 to b i of the 3rd ard of may the statistics of pa per th the e Y fc ies ica in europe at the present time arta the 14 vu hill tob some five millions of men I 1 could noth ft thinking of the remark so BO much I 1 ay iy 1 the citizens of tte amongst some countr courtrier coun trier in more ore so in this great republic 11 04 tell 1 tha than ti v where here else it is th this is 11 once a solder ld at to atal tf 1 I 1 lie more a in mini an A coll 11 i however true or applicable the espres st 3 t may be in some countries it is not net the 1 tl in all of the five millions of cal c ia jal men at D oat fin ent enrolled in the armies of europe ci the 1 mould be hard bard to make exceptions it their long servitude and I 1 0 ing 4 not f small p pay ay 1 not to feel speak of the systems which uphold f iron broll d perhaps is the only stat slat count i europe zihere v here the soldiers are lolea in 1 fore K up jad with anything like respect but let me ae oil in vi tice the application of it to ourselves V gen G the army of the united states sta tes run S cat present between thirteen and fourteen fou arteen th ahn the tait gaii sand men composed of nearly all the be nat nation 9 of europe we are arc however more ion fortu 1 nate tha than n our brethren in ill europe 0 in i so in the respects in ili the matter of pay we are del tl deadly we have also the con consolation of kno abo c ing that the government under which aich ore serve is the best in the world and and if us wear are the tea not looked upon with the favor a and nd rested ill i of the people of the united states the tefan th fault fan il i must be with ourselves it ag 1 certainly is ii tt la on account of those who have worn our mn 1111 w forms and carried the national standard be if iss fore us there is no armain the world thit fl p has a brighter or more glorious retrospect of 0 it the past to look back on no army that holds his 1 a useful and pro more more honorable fins 1 t I 1 ll 11 I 1 in the cause of liberty and progress oi of the the t th a human race at present esert pr scattered ove over r a cir wa 1 frontier of thousands ainIs of miles than the w t aal aol pioneers and of T 1 1 protectors freedom ly what h at if we do in our five years enlistment barcli aci as the thousands of miles mile I 1 many and build a anew ne tb allm post every year are we e not stil the benti pro r nets nels of civilization while the ti tide de of 0 our sn oppressed brethren in fit europe ralls on to oro lire wards freedom and independence ff ed these are some of the co 4 f 1 which a private soldier in the army can lo 10 loot k 11 to fer the privations which lie 4 im in the contempt with m lich he may ay iy think he is i if r looked upon E eatery ery private lIL s 0 adier should remember that lie he is much b better e ater situated lire no now than were the glorious founders and G 1 soldiers of the republic the men nto id cl wintered with the W arr i ft d i valley forge endured every privation that u war can inflict we should remember that I 1 ile we march under the same banner arid and for the lh tal th same cause and ana out of respect to the illus til arious heroes of 76 should conduct our oar ol of selves in a manner that would show that b though we cannot win of the terns heroes ta fa of the past we still have a ve loi iq yi their memory a and nd their cause so much I 1 for li go the past and present now to the future f ell there is only one or two more remarks to that I 1 will make at present t the he on one e in rela go tp tr tion to the courage of our army the ghys phys 1111 m ical courage of the army is proverbial but tul tin there is ig also another sort of courage naces sary to make a v good soldier I 1 mean inar al courage there are not a few of us who ullo cannot face the enemy without getting ile de feared and often if not laid hors dv du comet taken prisoners of war this enemy is ia not the valley tan of which you are gei general eral now me e must try and resist this toe foe he hc I 1 our worst and only ene enemy in y I 1 I 1 have seen in til i I 1 army yet so hoping that the rank and til fit fl will remember that the price of a drink will um a buy them a copy of your paper and ana ila hail the good sense and moral courage to choose between the friend and enemy I 1 remain yours truly A PRIVATE SOLDIER |