| Show ae onue orge ff CANNON kannon 3 argos E PUBLISHER wl oce ece set imber imbor 25 1872 1 THE tun southern states appear to be lu lb a icv overy ery erk poor gay way politically louisiana aik air alabama hamn hams south bouth card Vard carolina firis arkansas and arid florida have been advancing 10 to a siale stale they appear at least t to be in a chronie chronic condition of mis wip miserable erable party i squabbling worst of all is ia Louis louls talia lalia bija bria gith with a three fourtha fourths degro legislature and torn to elect o by bold and unscrupulous partisans parti her best and most moat intelligent citizens apathetic from being numerically overpowered and from havi bavi having baving ngow no cial elal sympathy with either ot of the openly antagonistic parties the state stale government virtually overthrown and the preb prea eLee elce of federal troops alone preventing bloodshed and anarchy the south rn states many of them are manifesting the imprudence of pulling down a houm boum about the ears of its inhabitants before there Is ia another built for them to reside in a common COMMOD taut faust with most d reformers that the building up faculty though more rare than the pulling down faculty la 13 really pf af vastly greider greater importance to the well weli being of society under the old oid 0 ld regime the thie boatti presented a passable degree of order and prosperity although some of her ber ansti tuti ors ois and aud political and social features might not have been exactly such as most people could wish through the lat ewar some of 0 her institutions were overthrown bome some of har her political doctrines scattered to the winds and the eon con contrell troll ing portion of her hiir able experienced and int intelligent ellig ent ant public men flung fluhr out of the current of official and influential life before any other portion of the bouthern southern population was educated up to a standard requisite to fifi tift the vacated position the 11 poor whites and the manumitted negroes were entirely lo adequate inadequate to fill the places of public tr and in iri vacated by the and intelligent bons sons of the south who went d wn into utter or partial oblivion in nand rand through the war then rushed into the south a flood of shrewd bold hungry and unprincipled carpetbag carpet bag gers who managed to secure positions of controlling influence fighting over the political spoils they hive have been largely instrumental in bringing the south down to hen ben present pres ent low and find disgraceful estate or at least in preventing her from recovering from the effects of the war and advancing towards a fair degree of prosperity again compared with former times lr in matiy portions ot the bouth south there bisno is no high toned society there ire bre are no stable there is no portion of the inhabitants fit andrt and aud prepared eclid to take the lead and comman command the 0 r respect peet piet of the co community w i mur lity the miserable lei corrupt squabbling carpetbag carpet bag office holders office 6 seekers and political adventurers generally gerer geier ally mily are man bated hated and aud evin even tu intense tense tenee cordis cordiality ilg liv by ibo the better beater class of southerners with and through whom the political and rna na terai terni teral e elal prosperity of the country must ut codi come e unless in alie romr boar cely brohm probable tiie tile event of trie immigration of un fin equally intelligent class keis to settle in the south at pre e tahe aros debt for the bouth south loo iod keb feb ke fes glo my R recovery covery froni from the present pr e sent tui uni erable erab of ef affairs bo it work of time lime bind and we wish we could see fee ea some bone indubitable indication s of the good time which all good citizens wish was certainly coming ao AH to the carpetbag carpet bag fraternity goner gener ally nothing good can be ba hoped from tbt than m they are worthy of ve deither delther ither respect t nor consi utah has had some unhappy experienc a with them they have tried hard to drag drug her down dowd to i a condition of wretchedness al milar similar to that which prevails iu in the worst afflicted port portions lons ions of the south but have noey ik et succeeded haayen grant that they nover never will tle tie THE tir presentia pre present sentha ha ireen keen a most mont consa leu ous oua immor for fur and ald vio lent storms isles on an the ocean and ln in other parts of europe the dispatches again report severe in the heaviest of the season snow enow twelve binche inches a deep and ard great inundations in the midland cou counties aLles hurricane on the middle east shore bhore anu and an d damage all a across ross robs the island SAYS bays one ofle of the greatest newspapers ln an the union awe we appear appear in the midst of a monstrous cyclone of crime What rim crim inai inal horror shall we have next and again is there no medicine for the debased public publia morality morat ity which leads to much buch crimes this baat last cry is similar to one uttered ages agea ago what shall we do to be saved it may received rec rece elvea ivea alvea similar answer we r believe on theford the lord jesus christ which when followed to io its natural re J involves repenteD tence tenee ce of bin sin baptism for fun the rem bielon of the same the reception of the holy ghostly Gh ostby authorized laying on of hands and a life henceforth of devotion to the ples pies of life which include all that is right abd aud good discuss tuis thiis as men may there I 1 in no effectual for crime erime nut out probity tor for vice nug hug virtue for dis dle honk bont boutall euy buy but honesty boue houf esty eaty for huite huito but peace for discord and antagonism but harmony and union in bhart for death but life it if the people are bre vicious vice will prevail if they are virtuous virtue will prevail if they are quarrelsome quarrels wiil wui prevail I 1 if tah tuh ebey they ey are peaceable ble ale peace wili wiil w all lil prevail nothing can be mure more himple simple a a bud and ud natural Lia iia lural tue the reason that crime prevails so BO greatly in thebe these united states is because so BO many of the people have become corrupt they have indulged in that which is not just and rint right and they have become di seabed as to morality chete Is evidently nou nol bumm buff lelent sufficient strength of virtue in where tiera crime an and d vice pie pre rev vail all mil so BO extensively alad aud they bust must continue to prevail unless thee thel people will reform and live the lives of upright men here to is ohe the kernel hernel of the question reformation oh everybody is forward to reform his hib neighbor but that la is not ene une point polut it ism ibm isa ah individual matter seit belr not neighbor is the very identical being chati thau makes all this mischief beform Reform astion to be of any auy practical value mude begin at home there is plenty of room tor for or it to work with effective nebo nebb but there Is ia usually the last place where it is permitted to work every man in the community who comella it a vicious or erl eri noti noth aoi act contributes contributed to athla fearful aggregate of vice and crime which startles and und shocks the community om and be bb is ia responsible for it so eo far if he wishes vice arid crime to di minlah diminish jet let him cease to andul indulge 96 in 10 vice and crime brime himself and then he will have made the most telli telling tig effort of which he be is capable towards a consummation so BO devoutly to be as the material reduction of the aggregate amount of crime in the community the cupidity the worship of pecuniary a V success the insane lust for gold and the luxuries it commands chion characterize american society are among noma some of demoralizing influences to produce the swelling nood hood of criminality so s 0 much and so BO loudly complained complain plain pla ined fd or 01 and if these are nou not checked we the pame ame tale of deell decline no and rind fall will be told it tit this republic us as hab hns been told of others which rose to great power and prosperity and through vice and crime became numbered with the jainga that hat hal were it is s and righteousness alone thal that permanently exalts A iua ius tion tiou und aud it is impossible for a nation to be ber righteous collectively unless iua ith people are righteous ln individual ly there liea lles the gist of the matter our oun dispatches state that crusade against he cormons mormons Mor m mons conall ibin lain process of inception in washing tob lob more manifest development atter after the holida holiday yr tuat that president grant graut has hns recently expressed a determination to put an end to the mormon institution and that a change among th the 0 high official ia of ulah utah is rumored to be impending alia tha last change is greatly needed aud it to la to co be hoped that al all of the next batoh batch of af officials will be of hilti character good sense benso sound bound discretion and und sterling Inte integrity grit Y we have had so BO many mariy of a contrary character already that the people are heartily sick of them nutem As to the other two matters mattero it to ia not bur our that a new crusade cruh atie atle should be reported as a certain mad malicious lelous parties have been trying for months to get one started if the statement concerning president grant Graut Is ia true we beg to aa asi bure aure him that he be is hent bent upon a mistaken policy toward utah which he will himself learn when he is more perfect ly informed of the true condition of affairs in the territory if he really makes any credit by the energetic pur annee of a persecuting policy he be will be the first ruler in the history of the world that ever did ho he may have read that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church but it does not lie within the range of cf the duties of a prudent power to demon demonstrate the truth of that proverb pharaoh herod and in later years buchanan Buo Bue banan hanan and mckean tried to do it but neither of them made capital itai ital by his efforts in that direction As for the pure gold it dreads not thellie the fire nire neither summers puffers loss 1088 by contact there with but it may be ba that corruption has made such advances in the union that a public spectacle of the sublimity of unfaltering integrity to principle Is ie really necessary to bave save the nation from speedy decay and dissolution in this view if it must come we feel rather dispo disposed sed eed to welcome than avoid the new crusade if president grant chooses to the role of persecutor ot of the saints as rumored we dj di not but on the contrary it if we were compelled to make choice of one of the two we should unhesitatingly elect to be numbered with the persecuted saints we believe the latter would pay the b st in the end while it would insure the supreme satisfaction or of a gb good 1 od conscience confidence alithe aalthe all ali the time tue THE dispatches which we pub lian ilan isn today today to day duy hire bre of consider considerable able abie interest the tire fire fiend cont ivues his ravages in several places jacbo and fire nire proofs heem seem to be small malters matters in his way dewitt tai Tal balmages maged mages agtos church the central presbyterian tabernacle brooklyn la ib autong the number humber of buildings des dea troyed the walls sua aua roof of new church were of corrugated iren iron mud und the structure was considered fireproof but it went down an easy prey to the devouring flames furnishing another evidence that iron lion Is far from being suen buen a prote prole olon cion from destruction by fire as has been beun generally supposed iron under the influence of fire fare warps twists curfs curls 1 becomes red hot and sets bets fire tire to com oom combustible buh but tible material softens melts and Is exceedingly untrustworthy and dangerous when the fire has once gol goi a start bids matter ollire of fireproof nire hire proof material for building is one of unusual it lieres just now and brick and plaster and eolia solia beams of timber seem to have the best beat of it so far whitelaw reid Beld it is stated vacated his seat as ad chief editor of the newyork tribune on saturday and john aghas bard hard nas baa been installed luB tailed mana mand manager ger the tribune is announced under the new proprietor proprietorship ah ip to be an independent administration paper it is furtner stated that mr orton has sold bold to reid beld fifty of the ehe hundred shares of the property yOrton ert orton orion retaining one with the elective tive position of trustee this leads to the supposition that thad reid ebid will reconsider hib his resignation and probably deac capt the poti petition tion of chief editor editon if tendered to him hidi colfax it appears is entirely out of the cou concern cern editorial lys lyt which will wiil doubtless be fortunate for tha paper while we are axe enjoying a very mild christmas timo time what are termed the northwestern states are shivering under the most severe cold known for years f so 50 the tee report comus comes ohio had it 15 degrees delow zero on saturday night at chicago the mercury on n saturday was eight degrees below at noon at 7 p in 12 below at eort yort garly gany 42 below at thu hiu pui baul and minneapolis 80 30 be below low at 20 at noon that is ihl rather sharp tor for before christmas probably in consequence of the intense trost frost we have accruals of several instances of exploding water wafer pipes of kit kitchen cheil rang ranges es home rt suiting fatally to persona near leath death in ill the kitchen in that way we y may induce the inventive genius of me the country to etevise devise some safer method of water supply in england the inundations continue old father thames widely overflows his basilies bati bauks bauke ilby ilsy bribing a foot on saturday of ncr ner 19 of land are submerged and the hurte hulne hume home park at windzor in a vast lake this Is the inundation of the tha thames wes mes for twenty years news comes of the death of geo Catl Cati inthe luthe indian painter and tra traveller no further sensation concerning utah the last two or three yeara with ith the increase of basili inis city clo a large increase in the tho number of lulla kuil huil dings has taken place and in the business portions of the city they have been erected in closer proximity to each other than was previously the case tonny to any great extent many of the new now erections built are very largely of timber and therefore are more combustible than 1 J f adebie concrete brick or rook rock were more commonly used as was formerly ik the case with the increase of business has bbs also come the influx of a desperate class of population drawn hither by bk reports of the prosperity of the territory who it seems pretty certain would inot not scruple to add arson to their other criminalities in III the hope of securing available means for which other merw bens sens have labored or from some other reprehensible motive these facts have led to the introduction of measures for the prevention of destructive fires and their speedy extinguishment should they unfortunately occur within the laet few months considerable rr ogress progress has been made in this direction the city bas has constructed and put in general reservoirs for water works to supply the city eity arid arld several beveral se tanks have been dug at the most prom luent points in the business portions ot of the city for special local use in case of fire A steam and a band hand fire firu e are ready at the city engine house besides the smaller one owned by Z C M H I 1 and others in private hands bandh A fire department has been organized which at present includes three companies the pioneer eugine engine company no |
