Show E ED 1 off sst ells ATO fe r OE ottha f t mos mob moby moey remarkable remarks le lof ahn th many remarkable letters anaik hibb are d about utah i and the trie trio mor ff mons appeared recently in the new york evening post the writer boasts of the unusual opportunities which habad ani afi ana aka here and becoming acquainted with lead in e ensa a common boast with this thie cla cia blaiss ss of pe r e 0 hi the extent of his facilities caw be batt iris tris known that ho he was wab in salt bait lake city bleday bhe day but bat then idanna Dick dickenson ebson ebbon can obtain obain material enough during a aitay itay in iii this city olty of one or two da days ya to make a thrilling lecture about the mormons cormons Mor mons 10 a if newspaper newsy ahrer correspondent no credit to hia his profession professional ag the world goes now who cannot in twelve hours obtain material enough for a two to column letter dr vincent was here a few hours a short time since and just after leaving the city he tolda told a gen gentleman tieman ileman that he saw a man matt who knew a man that had killed thirty persons because they were so stubborn that they would not join the mor mons the gentleman to whom he related this could scarcely credi credit at first that he was as in earnest in saying that he believed such a transparent lie as this but bat tho the doctor assured him that be he did believe it for a federal officer had told the story to bim ulm him after that who could dispute it he had vt visited cited utah without prejudice but belefo convinced after hearing this fabrication that all the bad stories he had heard heard beard about abdat the mormons cormons Mor mons were true if this correspondent of the post had only met with this federal officer or some one with no more regard for truth and honor and with an imagination equally fertile he ouid have had no dipti difficulty cults in filling up a few co columns laulas in an ordinary newspaper there have been federal judges here who could keep a correspondent busily employed writing stories of this kind if ho he wielded aa as facile a pen as ds dumas pore pere and it may be questioned whether the class Is extinct yet the correspondence to which weal we al lude ludo is remarkable for the ignorance c e w which the writer wlter displays of the he subject upon tipon which he treats and the circumstances cum eum stances which surround a people in iii settling a new now country Con considering the tho immense quantity of good lani iani land there asin is in the united states he thinks president dentY young xoung oung made a mighty p poor noor oo 00 r land speculation someone told him thatis that if irrigation were stopped for ninety tyla days ays not a tree shrub or vine would remain alive in the country then the tho soil sell is full fall of stones and fuel fuei and timbe timber r are so po distant i and difficult to procure president young took his people he be pays a thou i f sand miles through desert to sq settle bettle atle the them M in a valley where every acre must musi mus have cost coat them he should sayf sayi in labor or money to get it ready for fon agricultural usa use not pot less than ope or two hundred dol doi dollars lais inis when in illinois iowa or missouri better betten farms ready made could could be had jn those days daya for a dollar a and i nd a quarter an acre without the untold hardships which had bad to be endured to conci come here this he palls a huge b blun iun jun der dei to prove that it was he dwells upon the appearance app barance a of the city aften after A frei so period perlo dof of hard haid work and unceasing industry the city has the temporary look of a new settlement the tabernacle which he calls an admirably arranged but ugly building is roughly plastered a and 41 the seats or pews as he i calls ELIN them models of comfort in their shape are unpainted the magnificent organ the second in size only to the boston organ and far sweeter beeter in tone than the organ in plymouth church it has a case very well shaped tut 0 if of shabby stained pine these forsooth are very weighty proofs that the removal of the people to these valleys was a blunder western men mien accustomed to settling new c countries will appreciate such proofs this correspondent just from new york expected expected probably to see stores such as line ine broadway broad way and houses like those on fifth avenue excellently paved streets gas and water in every hoube house a frescoed and elaborately finished tabernacle and a mahogany framed organ and nil all this thia in a little lattio over twenty because all these improve ment mints svere were not mot visible then the bettie bettle feht orthe valley was a blunder this is a ope opp specimen eimen elmen of the style of many correspondents they may way never clever have been out oat of ane sound bound of the chimes of trinity church during their previous lives burthey but they com eWest and they feel warranted in assuming the most lofty style of criticism upon subjects concerning which a loy who had not noi reached hi jeene w who resides in thie ilace ch they visit kh knows nar far inor enor ettha 1 b 0 1 1 to B 1 4 i r in alluding t toaland 0 la u d in II 11 I 1 I 1 chois ois lowa iowa w a and missouri mis Mip and n d co u t witti i t h landia land in la utah lf lie lle e 1 shows an arr art unbar unpardonable don ignorance he seems to think that the whole country was open before lefore president young and ats people to se lee ike make such selection in fertile states and a of desert wa pal wai another evidence that lethad be had committed commit teda a blunders blun derr dery he bays says that polygamy was waa the only reason of the of tho the imor mornion 71 if it it had not been for that ever every evers k state w was open to 19 them and their indu industry stry and thrift would have been welcomed in missouri jowa iowa ac this will not on only ly be news to all well informed americans but to the mon uon mor amok manall mons and the old residents of Miso misouri url uri iowa and illinois they certainly will not be abl abi able abie e to recollect that polygamy was the cause 0 the expulsion of the mormons cormons Mor mons from their states and if they accept the correspondent of the new now york evening dosta posts history they will be under the necessity necee sity of re writ arlt ing their histories the cormons mormons Mor mons will also aiso be bounder under the same necessity for according to i their recollections and records polygamy m y was not assigned as a cause of pene persecution cution as in missouri it was not ayt believed in by the latter day bain saints Salu tg and in illinois was only believed in secretly b by a few and moreo moreover veri before leaving leav y ng the tho states president young and his associates addressed letters to the governors of the various states asking for an asylum or the privilege of settling rig within their borders for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints polygamy therefore could not have been the reason why they did not grant this request neither did industry and thrift make them welcome anywhere there was no alternative then but the desert though it involved a long and weary journey and abne one oue or two hundred dollars worth of labor and money to malro make i an acro aero af pf around s suitable fon foe cultivation we can inform the why the mormons cormons Mor mons cimisi came to this valley it was because of the existence of such creatures As as its correspondent whom providence for some inscrutable purpose permit to be connected with the press the scribes and aud pharisees Pharis ees crua crucified jesue jesua they were the prototypes of the editors and preachers of the present datray day the savior is not here now or the tragedy of calvary might be re enacted but indis in his absence his fo followers llor are not forgotten ON the alth ith of june 1846 1816 his holiness pope pius IX was waa elected to fill the pontifical chair hence today to day is 14 the annual anniversary of his reign it isgard is said sald that only one or two of his predecessors rii ril have had as long a reign as a he beil and today to 0 day will wilano no doubt be celebrated throughout the catholic world with becoming honors the career careen of the present pope has not only been unusually protracted but also unusually cheque red in the levo leyo revolutionary lutio lation nary ary times timea of 1848 he was compelled to seek refuge in exile the people of the pontifical states proclaiming a republic the catholic powers interfered in his hia behalf and tu I 1 q 1850 he was reinstated instated re f in the possession of his temporal pow er before his exile his holiness was remarkable for his hia liberal tendencies but after his hia restoration no such tendencies were manifested by him band and with the spread of republican and liberal principles in europe the discontent of increased ncr nor eased until finally by a plebiscite or vote of the whole they abolished his temporal power in favor of victor emanuel this event occurred a few months ago and only a few weeks after the doctrine of papal infallibility had been declared by oneff one of the grandest councils ever over held by the church viewed in every light the reign of his hia holiness heg hag been as remarkably remark able ablo as it has an exile then proclaimed infallible and sud nd finally the church through him fon for ever deprived of temporal power IT will bo be remembered by bj many miny here that soon after the outbreak of the late franco prussian war general de tro arland commander of the post at camp douglas left on a furlough to visit france bib bis native country he arrived at tit new york a few darif ago agg on his hia return and was wag interviewed by a reporter of the world oh on the present condition of france and his opinion as to the form of the future government dheygre They Gre ji 8 iti A q rayj pg that everything 4 ianthe bavi of politics in france at thel the present alrae i 5 a quicksand banah treacherous brous krous Anix m I 1 X I 1 ture lure ure of ia aradi pre ludi judi and irrational th theories he is of the opinion that the government which will wiil finally grow tow out of the present st state stat at of ofa thi things g 9 notwithstanding the fusion wo f ct h e L a a n d bo u r lons ions bo n ajl be republican this be re 16 r had any one ot the off shoots of royalty andrear any rear prospect in bis his 14 efforts to try gain the crown the others woula would I 1 loin oin with wilh the republicans tp ide featham fea feath thim bhim hu the F hj e consider tho the worst france franco ever la drand there is bs not the lightest probability of the e restoration p r imperialism ime f the iyo lyo yorty bays says thi the e Gener ganer aLwill will report ti to hs s comman command diu din in istah july dylst lor boe va ir r IN Is yesterdays issue wei we published Lanew new cure for fok cancer the t e application of fi plant from rom buth america known aifong anious the natives of ecuador b by y the name of Cun durango the revelation of its virtues came about through the desire of a woman of that country to poison her ber hubband husband she mixed some of this plant with his food the husband stiffening fering stin stif from internal cancer was in agony the good wife knew that the Cun durango was an active poison polson what better could edul d she do than to administer an eternal cure dure and by shutting t ont oft his supply of breath end erid all his hig troubles les lej and her own at one oue blow but the man got welk well and his big recovery set people to thinking and the upshot was a diplo diplomatic manic communication from the he american representative at quito to secretary betting setting forth the novel circumstances of the caseano case and sugg suggesting an investigation of the meeli merical a ti qualities of the plant which cures poison by poison polson its it is now asserted asser teti teci that it is a sovereign specific for ulcers and scrofulous affections and that a practitioner in washington has sent his assistant to ecuador to collect the healing balm and the interior department has provided a ward waki in columbia hospital I 1 for th the e purpose of testing the new cure I 1 while the medical society of the district of columbia hab has appointed a commission of five physicians to apply the test THE tun PRESENT fearls year ia likely to be bb memorable if not nat terrible on account of the thil devastation committed on the crops by insects of various kinds which afe aee are making their presence felt in many parts pars of the country the eastern papers announce the appearance in illinois of the seventeen year loc joe locust a powerful insect about an inch anaa ana anda and a half long with ith black wings spreading about three inches and margined with yellow it can leap much further than a grasshopper and its ravages are so destructive that a district of country over which it has passed looks looka as if it had been burned the last year these pests visited the country it is said baia was in 1854 that season was also remarkable for excessive heat the chicago tribune predicts immense damage this season from the locust in th the e north or th the hessian hesslan fly inthe in the southern wheat fields the chinch bug in the wewt west and the poisonous po catoe bug which it says ia is all ali allover over the country to these may be added the grasshoppers ers in edme parts of utah nevada and california Alar alarming mIngus as the preceding may seem beem there is every probability that a large surplus of all kinds of grain and vegetables will be raised but the aggregate loss arising from this insect invasion will no doubt foot up to many millions of dollars DIAMONDS those of our readers who are possessed of the gem of gems gem s 11 I 1 and find we hop hope ethey they all are may be interested in in knowing how to mate their value they are invariably valued by the carat which is four assayers grains grains and mul mui multiplying plying the fhe result by the price of a single n carat theories the pries price it will thus SQ e seen increases in a multiple proportion to the weight the actual price if f a small rough diamond fit io to be pol poi polished shed ia Is about 2 per carat one of iwo two carats barats is worth therefore 48 8 one of four carabet carats the value increases bath both by size A and nd color color both for cut and uncut gems A set diamond may be detected by placing wax was on its back the lustre of a true gem will not be affected by this operation while the spurious brilliancy bril lanoy lancy of paste imitations will be totally destroyed by it ex |