Show fa to taic lizt saints 8 LATEST NEWS washington CONGRESS ac so far as we have read Y we discover very uhle business siness of importance that has been closed during duri fig the present session of congress and in every thing that has been done or proposed to be done there seems to 0 o be an eye cyp from some quarter canvassing for the presidential elect bior how long iong it willbe will I 1 be better for a nation of congressmen to devote I 1 their heir time and talents to the attai attainment ariment of some petty party polite cal section sectional I 1 al democratic aristocratic free soil slavery anti slavery locomotive steam en gme e high down drag rout out r and black I 1 alard aard purpose than it would be to devote devole their heir united strength and talent talen tr mie the of 76 to prepare tor for tile the invasion of a foreign foe and promote domestic economy arid and home manufactures by suitable inducements to the people of all classes to and their own busin business esq and let other folks alone got god only knows know s unless he has revealed it to some soine of his p I 1 wb why y cant c congressmen do the business they are sent to do make laws I 1 anti aad let president making mai inai I 1 alone to the people where i it belongs I 1 but to the he news acco Ac coding ang t to the best information we could coula hastily gather from f om papers letters let terp ac up tip to the of april there had been bothin nothing g definitely devi devised sed concerning utah the rhe president seemed disposed alike to do justice to us and the govern government meni and not partake of the prejudices of many believed in the good old constitutional righetto to all to worship god according to the dictates of their own consciences we discover a query in the in minds in ds of some k knowing now ones who perhaps have never traveled far beyond the length I 1 11 of mammas apron strings string and had no better beiter guide in their youthful lessons than fremonte Fr emonts cliart chart most of tile the land concerning which he never saw or kneland kne wand the closer the investigation t of his diagrams agn i ms the greater ignorance why the legislature of utah fixed their capitol at fillmore its hi millard county but to those who inhabit this territory it is 6 no query the old pioneers who made the roads killed the snakes and made the bridges through these moun mainc aw though they chev m might abt not be able to see more than half a mile bayon i the end of their nose know ve very y well that filmo e is near the centre of the final population of the territory that the fattest and most extensive valleys of the great valley are in its immediate vicinity that they are already more or less occupied by inhabitants and that it is the people that want and not mile stones i we understand it if costs something to remove capitols on which malion I 1 were expended to erect and we wish to save the expense for better belter purposes would the 13 united states have located their capitol on the potomic ic if they had far foreseen escen that in a few years the centre of their population have been thousands of miles west of that point and the he circum ference of the union from sea to lo sea and almost from froin th the e north to 0 o the south pole and what would it cost them llo now to take up their cache and walk till they locate in the centre oi of 1 the union and shall we curry carry a millstone to mill in one end of the bag 31 and out our wheat in the other because our daddys daddes and grand did so before us we have the experience that a little litile economy is a good mixture in the general affairs of human life ile and we design to use it but as the knowis knowing ones referred to have not asked our opinion in this maiter matter we shall not intrude it upon them but b by y locating our capitol capital where it belongs will save money elou enough wi to fo help them thern move theirs when the people demand it for in federal republican governments ern ments officers are servants or should be and the people sove eign if not so wb we ask wh who 0 makes officers officer in our united states and if the people are accommodated then all are accommodated and that hat is the blessed design of the great american constitution but to the news the question has been before the senate has the president power to remove territorial rit orial officers who desert their posts which question we pres presume urne arose from the desire of some of the officers of utah who had deserted without cause to remain in washington retain their offices cei and at the same game time draw pay for doing g duty in this territory we think the senate would not query long on that point it if they were 11 cormons mormons mor mons I 1 11 we believe that if a man will not work he shall not eat unless lie he eats his own bread and if an officer will not attend to the duties of his aw office it is right to kick him out of doors tf if lie ae wont go out peaceably without kicking and put a man in hi his place that thai will do his duty ditty Is that republicanism or must the he whole sovereign t people boy boi to the will of some mean aspiring blackleg black leg demagogue 11 and ruffle his black his boots till he is disposed to believe that he has rode tile people long enough with long or w spurs spur and short bridles bridle the great flood of unmixed falsehood presented to the executive by the return retarn officers has been referred to the house by their request and from thence referred to their committee who at last advices advises ad vices had declined or neglected to make any report the eon or take any notice of it whatever ane committee had in part prepared a bill for locating the seat of government ern ment our capitol at great salt lake city with other things of minor importance but the last we hear has postponed f farther artber action till june the return officers tried to persuade government t to send 2000 troops tol tali tab to enforce the laws but b have bave failed we should like w t know what laws they wanted to enforce we dont know of any one who has broken any law in this territory but what has mended that law again except themselves and a f few ew 10 other gold goh digging travelers who h have ave run away before the marshal could get bisland bis land on OB them it is true that 2000 troops in our midst might make a ready cash market for our surplus produce were it not for our immense immigration which is likely to swallow up everything that we can raise and more adre too if they could get gel it but suppose these troops here and furnished furnish ed an abundant market for our surplus of what further farther use would they he be they would help relieve the U S coffers of from 3 to if not one million dollars pe per r annum of her abiff abundant funds which slie she does docs not know what to do with or how to spend that is all fait there is no more use for troops to protect emigrants from the states to california west of the h head ead of sweet water and east of humbolt or marys rive j or to the extent east of goose creek mountains than there is on the floor of congre congress g s sa and those who do not know this are unacquainted with these I 1 mountains and the indians who inhabit them as much as aa they the j are arc of the dust of the floor on which they stand at berday per alay the snake indians who are arc a prominent branch of the shoshone tribe inhabit the cal california route from the south pass not freemonth Fre emonts pass for he did not get gel there with the whites within a bout about one half a century soon enough to name it to hum bolts river and the snakes were as peaceful and 1 1 quiet as any white inhabitants of new ena england land notwithstanding their ignorance till some two or oi three years past when some of tile the emi emigrants r rants who W passed through this place towards california burn ing ng all the gross behind them and like some quad rupees and covering vering ca with their aorl for ail aft filth all they left behind beliinda them shot some of the snake squaws squads for the sake of a few ponies and if such wickedness I 1 ess of tile the deepest and most damning P die would not rouse the vengeance of any of efio good citizens of the U 13 cormons mormons Mor mons not except ed then we will confess them thein better than we now think them to be 1 and what wll wil pacify them 1000 in provisions presents and true trite talk will r nake make them more quiet than 1 in powder load lead buch buckram rain and epaul paulette ettes and the moi a standing standing army appears in their midst that will be the in moment orent for thein to esteem the whites their heir settled and determined enemies and they will harrass hiir rais them accordingly ing I 1 Y and cut off their emigration at every point they hey can get the advantage 9 e but teach them to lie be pe peaceful berul that bad men amorim among the whites that hive hake done them wrongs wrong that thai there are b bad ad white men and bad indians that the good cannot alwag alwa s hinder the bad from doing wrong and learn them to work and feed them and clothe them and no fears n need ced be entertained concerning their hostilities and we want our to remember these things thinas and govern themselves thereby for it will be for their sa safety f ety brethren Bret bren in the vallies WR we dafft you to know knoll I 1 and understand and teach it to your children for we are writing that which will go down to everlasting ages as the history of the times in which you vou live that the same same 1 spirit and class of m men en which I 1 would persuade the government of the U S to set a standing army in your midst to enforce the laws has burned the alie grass grasson on the prairie before them thein and behind them so that they might first get to ca california li and secure all the gold have shot indian squaws squads that thai they might take their pon ponies ies without being detected have defiled indian squaws squads to satiate their lu lusts ats have stolen and committed abom abominations nations atio s in our midst till the chain and ball wae were a mercy to bothem them and when pardoned by 0 our governor 0 r have departed hence written the most infamous lies they could invent left their writings 7 anonymous or placed names for which they have been flogged and hanged in california as we have heard and confidently believe in endeavoring deavo ring to show that we as a people had rebelled against the g general beneral government and set up a an n independent sovereignty olour of our own slid and found editors a plenty of their own craf tready to publish their anonymous lies and people enough to believe them till truth is well nigh extinct if any one has fins any doubts of these facts let them remember their own daily observation and the report of major holman indian agent for utah from froin laramie last SEep september concerning the indians and others of this territory and particularly concerning the tha indians and cormons mormons Mor mons and if you can find truth enough in said report to salt the falsehood we wont condemn hi him in but at present we ve think his report ought to be joined with the returned officers and we are sure that no decent man would condescend to reply to it anle to save his life if any troops are wanted on the tha route it is is among the pawnees Paw nees on the east but what w hat good have all the troops done in in that quarter have not the emi emigrants been robbed by them and the U S mail taid staid 8 by them thein last season and if they cannot take care of that little handful close by home what can government do so far off if anything iq n wanted of 0 f troops in in the weh wea it is is at or near humbolt Huni bolt riv river and that is is so far off thy can in better get their supplies from sacramento than this place and their trade will do us no good so if government should station troops at both bolh of these points for the purpose of in malting alting sale of our wheat it will cost them much and do us little good match march the senate passed a bill repeals repealing rig the act which debarres debarred de ds barred territorial officers from drawing their salaries when away front from their posts over 6 days rattler rather a queer bill but easily recounted cou anted for in in the acts of those thoe who have bothin nothing 0 to do but eat and di ink and spend the people PC ople s money yet we hope for the good gr 0 od of the nation the house v will ill have ha e sense enough to 40 correct the error what yes 0 what oh nothing only pay officers w who bo were appointed appoint eil years year ago to some particular station and who p repaired to their stations and much less entered upon their duties yes pay them well but those officers who stood by their posts at all times and done their duty stop their payment if the lightn lightning irig wrath of falsehood should wil waft its withering blight over the rocky mountains s top stop their payment so far a as s we can judge from appearances there are some a at t least at washinton washington who entertain the opinion that the returned officers were lent and without character and standing and that they hold bold on to their heir offices for the sake of salaries lanes ind and perhaps with a design to embarrass the administration we hive have no wish to cast reflection on the president for appointing such men the presiding officer of the alie general gen ertil government has thousands c f offices to fill by appointment and it is is not to be supposed that he is is or can be personally sc ac quaint edwith all candidates and the more extensive sive the routine of evidence for pir or against the more e easy the mistake its as to qualification or character and this is is sufficient plea in in our mind to waive waive indictment in in favor of the appointing power provided he does his duty when errors in in testimony are made manifest judge snows charge to the jury ul in case of howard egan which we published at length was not so favorable in in the eyes of the knowing ones at wash inston yet his hi opinion in in reference to the utah difficulties was considered onside red an able defence the returned officers report which we lave not I 1 considered worth publishing the whole being a mass I 1 of amalgamated falsehoods and lies of the most damning and obscene character and unworthy a place it in any decent press yet we suppose in process of time we shall be obliged tcp to print riat it or be considered an unfaithful historian stated one ime item which we will now give for a sample to the whole that no census census had beba aeeti taken in utah since deseret applied for admission in the union but mr ir kennedys Kenn edys S eer er I 1 j t from the census bureau shows conclusively ely I 1 that thai utah has 91 given ven as correct a census as any state late or territory in the union noth notwithstanding withstanding our governor habito had no blanks or special instructions to guide him in his census operations we understand that mr grant our worthy mayor has a number of letters in course of publication in the new Yok Herald but we have asen none bat b it the first which we copied not having rece received ived a full file of the herald as usual WO we are at a 0 loss IOS t to 0 know the precise situation of his heraldic correspondence sper per I 1 haps if his succeeding letters should contain as much truth as the first it would be more i I 1 than the people could bear 1 among our latest advices advises ad vices mr secretary webster had addressed a letter to the j judges udo 0 e s ie requesting questing them to repair forthwith to the that I 1 scene of their duties or resign and jhc thc they y iho judges were very wroth about it and V what will they do we shall see we believe it is pretty well under understood sto 0 at washington that a lady of that city has haa sent cen t judge 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