Show interesting FROM THE elli EAST i BY PONY EXPRESS SPECIAL correspondence FOR THE NEWS WASHING washington ton Tox D C dec lith 1800 knowing tho anxiety of the citizens of utah concerning what is transpiring in the east at this very momentous period of our national existence in which ion lon long iong years seem to be crowded into very short days says I 1 have concluded to send the mews news a weekly letter by pony or as often as there seems intelligence of importance to merit that attention political affairs seem rapidly hastening to a culminating point which to all human appearance must lead to the secession so in much h threatened it is difficult however to determine on anything from either that which is whitten written or spoken by the leading men on either side within a month from now five or six of the gulf states must come to a conclusion one way or the other and the chances preponderate in in favor of their separation the border slave states are laboring hard for the peaceable secession of the other slave states but are exceedingly anxious to remain in the union the themselves melves but how that peaceable secession can be accomplished none can tell the government may consent to the withdrawal of these extreme southern states but upon the division of the bublic public debt debond tand land property and the all abdor absorbing in question of aggression upon their slaves by the north it is is hardly possible to restrain the antagonists from a bloody strife already the northwestern north western men speak of carving their way to the coast with the sword and the southwest south west speak of locking up and tolling the mouth of the mississippi which would never be tolerated by the west the debates in the senate and house relative to the committees appointed to digest a plan for conciliation are bitter and acrimonious and it seems to me that every day that passes the breach is made wider and deeper the impending crisis as the present struggle is termed has not come upon the saints unawares yet I 1 often ask myself are we prepared for the eventful times that are clo cio close 8 e us so far as utah is concer concerned n ed there is clearly an improvement in in the tone of public feeling politicians generally who make any pretensions to hones honesty tys have come to the conclusion that the mormons cormons Mor mons have been much misrepresented and belied I 1 think that when the delegate from utah presents again the constitution of deseret and asks admission into the union there will be noth nothing i n I 1 int ant ike like the former scrugg shrugging bilat of shoulders and I 1 violent I 1 ib speeches from what I 1 learn I 1 do not think the house will 0 object j act to the admission of utah this is a p particularly a artic trying in time for politicians and not at all favorable for refusing a friendly offer of adhesion to be brief the thought is evidently in the minds of the leading politicians that if now refused utah will be likely to take her own course and setup an independent government the peculiar turn which things have taken politically political ly has I 1 think changed very considerably their views on polygamy elders orson pratt and erastus snow are at the present writing in in new york elder geo Q cannon and other elders sailed from that port on saturday last As far as I 1 have heard all were well there is much talk of the probability of an extra session of Con congress gresi gresk immediately after the inauguration of the incoming administration col hooper is in excellent health but very much occupied his lady is expected here hereto tomorrow PRESIDENT KIMBALLS NEW SCHOOL HOUSE on christmas eve we are informed that president kimball gave his family and the children of some of his neighbors a party in 1 the new school house that he bab has recently built he has lately been rather unwell but on the thie occasion referred to be was able to mingle freely in the dance with bis his family and friends and delivered a very encouraging b aldress to the youn young it is said a vigilance committee rode a south carolinian on a rail near va a few weeks since because he would net not tell them his busness the roman catholics of montreal are to erect a monument to the memory of mgr lartigue who was the first bishop of thai thag city it is said that mr john AT baker of bards barns ville caldwell county is the tallest man in iri kentucky he stands seven feet eight inches in his boots weighs two hundred and forty fety pounds and is twenty three years old |