Show editorials THE territorial enterprise virginia nev nov in an editorial article legislation for fa utah alludes to several bills relating to utah which have been introduced into congress during the present session these bills it very bays says have evidently been introduced at the instigation of the 11 mormon church authorities for the purpose of regaining the supremacy which is now it says passing from the grasp of president president young it adds that congress is beginning to understand this and nothing will probably be donl done done with the bills the article concludes with the follow ing extraordinary proposition if the mormon authorities are anxious that these measures shall pass they must submit gracefully to the only means by which they can become laws they must in the annexation of utah territory to nevada does the arrab arrangement gement suit them I 1 are we to understand from this that nevada her representatives ed editors igors and people e 0 pie are for sale that they are wiling willing to sell their thein influence with congress to have what the enterprise views as unjust bills passed by that body if the mormon authorities will only lend them their influence in adding utah territory to nevada or does the enterprise wish to convey the idea that congress can be bought we have heard of political bribery and jobbery of men selling their influence and their votes but bu t we never recollect seeing BO so bara baro barefaced faced and open an offer to sell out principle made public as this which appears in the editorial columns ot of the territorial enterprise of the instant if the bills be of a proper and a legitimate character why hesitate to pass them wh why y ask a quid pro quo for making them laws if they be improper and nud not for the public good as the enterprise affects to 0 o believe why ofner offer to pass them upon any terms or does the enterprise have a plan prepared by which if the mormon authorities ties consent to its scheme of annexation and the bills should be passed it can swindle or defraud the mormon people out of all advantages or supposed advantages es that would be likely to follow the passage of the bills in question the impudence of the enterprise pro position is only equalled equal led by its arrogance to read its article one might conclude that it had both branches of congress and the president under unde rits its entire control As to the question which it asks about whether the ai arrangement ran gement to annex suits the mormon authorities or not we cannot answer for them but we can say for that we are decidedly in favor of annexation when the proper time comes that is the annexation of nevada to utah it is very well for a debt ly populated region to propose to a t thrifty prosperous industrious and fr free ee from debt territory to have it annexed to it much as an old beggarly spendthrift who had squandered life health and fortune would propose to marry a young likely wealthy heiress with the expectation that when she was his he could take her fortuned fortu fortune nei pay his debts and enter upon a another career of extravagance but what hm has it to offer ori on im its side as us an an inducement for us to go into partnership nhip with it we are called hard names and are unpopular nevada proposes an alliance with us with the hope doubtless that our means energy vitality and new blood would pay her hirr debts redeem her from bankruptcy and infuse new life into her veins and thereby save her from extinct extinction iob lob but is her ber name and credit eo rood good that burs ours would be made popular and sanctified by the association we think not even with the bills thrown hi iri td boot which the enterprise promises to td have haye passel passer for us if nevada will pay her debts a and d then propose annexation we may t thin MA about iton it or if she bhe will acknowledge led e that she fig Is bankrupt haye have he help p from us we may consi consider dir her eme case but if neither of these will suit and ind she have the influence with congress that the enterprise would have us believe she has and annexation Is determined nand carried out we will do thebe thebert the belt beat Bt with her under the arcuni circumstances that we can 0 we will try and elect a sensible and economical governor legislature and other officers have light taxes husband the resources of the state cut down salaries fees feea and other othen expenses and live within the income collected iti Itt night take time to br bring ing ail ali all these results about but bui we have not a doubt about accomplishing them for despite the act and the proposed 0 P 0 cullom bill the women of ut utah a h still bear children and in the course courle of human events it is extremely probable that these children will become men and women SOME bome of the readers of the NEWS may way probably remember readi nag tag some time last fall an account in the telegrams t of a burglary committed at a store in binghampton Bing hampton N Y and the murder by the burglars of one of the clerks in charge of the store and the wounding of another the burg bung ulars were three in number and in making their escape they swam a river and two of the scoundrels were drowned the third made his bis escape the matter was taken in hand by the detectives and they kept on the track until the missing burglar was arrested his trial was brought to a close at binghampton Bing hampton on ori the lith dinst and he was sentenced to be hanged on the ard 3rd of march this mans name is edward ruloff buloff he is sixty five years of age and is without doubt one of the most extraordinary criminals crimi rials of this or any other age or country he seems to have been 9 a natural born scoundrel and to have taken to crime simply for the love of it he was born in tile the town of new brunswick new jersey and received an excellent education and now although tried and condemned to death as a felon be he is master of seven beven languages an efficient stenographer is well versed in the law and in fact is said to be thoroughly accomplished and a man of pleasing address and fascinating cina ting manners for nearly thirty years lie be has carried off on his big career of murder and robbery compelled to leave his native place ron tor some petty theft he made his appearance p pe arance in 1842 at Dryden dry den stomp tompkins kins king e county N Y I 1 as a teacher eacher and soon after induced one of his bis pupils a miss bliss I 1 a lady whose family moved in the most respectable circles in the town to become his wife in 1845 having removed from bryd dryden n to near lansing ansing Ii he according to a subsequent confession of ma his own murdered his hla wife and infant child the latter nine months old and sunk sank them in the lake near ithaca the friends of the lady missing her made inquiries and were informed by buloff ruloff that she had gone on a visit but as they could gain no clue of her whereabouts her family had ruloff buloff arrested and he was tri trl for abducting his wife and sentenced to auburn prison for ten years he served out the term spending his hit time in acquiring knowledge and became very proficient lentin in drawing patterns for carpets some of the most beautiful in the country being accredited to his genius at the end of his term as his wife and child had never been beard heard of he was re te arrested rearrested charged with their murder he was tried at delhi and condemned to death but through some legal defect the judgment was finally reversed in a higher court and his release ewas was ordered public feeling was wag so intense against him that the citizens in that part of the country banded together resolved to break open the prison and lynch him the sheriff got wind of the scheme and quietly removed him to cayuga county jail this was wag in 1859 he was finally released and since that period in vari our parts paris of the country and passing under several assumed names he has continued lils bis career of crime while ser serving servings vinga a term in the ithaca jail from 1856 to 1859 he studied criminal laar and also idso taught mixed classes in various carious ta rious branches of education among his pupils was the jailors jailers jai jal lors son then quite a youth and over him he gained such an n influence that he in deuced him finally to adopt the tho profession fes sion of a robber and burglar this young coulig mans ru lii ril name was wal jarvis and he alid niia and do another other named dexter and ruloff buloff worked together for years yeats and were accomplices in the robbery at ton and it was the two former who were drowned while crossing the che river this one crime it seems like ilke likely y no now w w will III ili be phe the he means of ridding the world of this trio of villains for it term terminated 1 their career and promises to do the same for buloff though as he has hail had the best of counsel fo to defend him almit it is not altogether improbable that some means of avertis averting the doom now handing hauring over him may to be found benore before the sent sentence enbe ende of death was pro bounced noun ced he was asked if he had any reason to offer why it should not be he replied that etwas it was not deemed desirable to say anything at present he heard the sentence without manifesting mai mal festing any concern whatever talking quite cheerfully with his counsel and those around him such a man would furnish an inter I 1 I 1 esting subject for the experiments of the phrenologist for being so highly educated his hia evil disposition must according to their theories be owing solely to a bad cerebral cerel ral organization and development a THE people of paris were reduced ta curious shifts for food during the siege A correspondent of the new sew york herald says that a lo 10 loer boer er could not better commend himself to hla hia dul dal dulcinea cinea than by sending her a few tons of coke or a few hundred logs of wood A yorkshire ham or a side of wiltshire bacon would plead more eloquently than the most impassioned stanza that lamartine or alfred de musset or victor hugo ever wrote he says be he knows an english lady who received shortly before the siege a large consignment of potted meats from england the cold australian corned beef is excellent and the canned legs of mutton put one out of conceit with everything served up at a restaurant this lady has given a few small dinners to her friends and she says bays the punctuality with which they render their diw oiw de digest digestion aon fon in the hope of df receiving future favors ia Is quite touching castor and pollux the two elephants lately installed at the jardin d Ace limitation and upon the backs of which in happier times so many children of all ages and sexes used to take a ride in the bois de boulogne had been killed the description which the gra Gfa ulois gives of their slaughter is in the hig highest hiest degree epic it was a anticipated n that following the ex example a m pie of their wila wild brethren whose f fury ury ary when wounded ia is terrible castor and pollux if not instantly killed would burst loose from their prison bouee house and scat ur er destruction dor for and wide but the poor beasts showed no mo more night fight than an expiring sheep pollux was the first to fall fail done to death by an explosive bullet the triumph of the great gun makers al devisme Devi sms skill the ball struck behind the right shoulder r and bursting internally produce produced a a terrible hemorrhage in t the e bowels the huge beast bore the wound patiently and after flooding his bis cage with blood expired without a struggle castor was slain by a young englishman mr milne edwards who aimed at the head in preference to the heart the first ball struck on the right temple and castor after a shrill cry of surprise and pain sank upon his knees the second bullet struck him in the centre odthe of the little hollow cavern sunk into the forehead and upon receiving the thir dhe fell dead instantly st tonight to night the restaurant at peters in the passage des princes is crowded with french eager to taste the flesh ofa of a new animal I 1 have just met an english friend who dined there and who bays says that eaten with or rather concealed by sauce haderup I 1 castor caston I 1 was delicious with this sauce the old french proverb says gione agone one could eat his grandfather yesterday says bays the there was a crowd crowd before the butchers shop shoo at the corner of the rue bue richelieu and the rue eue neuve beuve st augustin the two poor bears of the jardin deb dea plantes piantes old favorites of the parisian population one white and the other brown were being offered corsale for saie sale at st fourteen francs per pound tre THE coming spring it ia is rumored is to witness the recommencement of arctic explorations captain hall of cincinnati in recent lectures in the east has announced his intention to renew his labors in the frozen regions congress has made an appropriation appropriation to artist tho the captain and ag he e has avowed a determination not to return from this voyage until he has planted the stars and stripes in 90 of north latitude the captain has already spent five years in the arctic regions and he hd ia Is confident of success he understands the mature nature of the country he is going to explore and knows how to preserve health while residing there subsisting on raw meat and train oil he regards as the secret of health in those regions he has eaten he says in one day fifteen pounds of raw meat and drunk two and a half pints of train oil if men will feedon feed on such rations as this while there they may defy king cold A whale in those regions the captain considers a godsend it ia 1 equal to goo oxen and ia is the best eating he ever had the taste for raw meat once acquired is hard to overcome he often has a longing even now for it which is go so strong thal thai he sometimes gets into a place alone ilone that he may have an opportunity to indulge it other portions odthe of the captains experience sounded most strangely to the ears of his auditors speaking houses hopes aith aa they eyare are built by the maux he sa said sald d they were palatial residences and to sleep in one naked as they usually do and as he had done was the very perfection of bliss the length of his voyage he could not conjecture it might be thirty months mouths and it might be five years but he would not return until he had haa accomplished complis hed his purpose one thing would trouble him when he reached the pole namely the regulation of his chronometers chrono meters be he will not be able to tell whether they gain or lose every direction there will to e south there will bo be neither east west nor north the north star will be exactly overhead or nearly mearly BO so and on the day of march will just appear above the horizon and go round and round day by day dayd never rising or setting but gradually attaining a greater altitude until finally it will get to a height of 23 degrees and the gradually get lower and lower until on the of september it will disappear to be seen no more for six bix months what object can he sight eight to regulate his chronos eters he Hs has asked the question of the best beat talent in the country and nd no man can ban answer him the captain designs to leave about may he wm will go to newfoundland and there obtain some sealers to complete shi his hib sparty party thence to the western coast of greenland and lay in a supply of stockfish and skins he will then cross dayis davis straits to the land of the esqui maux and procure about nifty fifty dogs these dogs are the best for sleighing purposes jg in the arctic regions they are bred to it and at a pinch can go without food rood for a fortnight he will next crass crosb cross baffino Baff ins bay go island and westward to jones sound bound and 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