| Show MM nu release of or bishop dame ills lihs recer recel glon tion at nome wee Nee meetings tines tings paro FARO vvan IVAN sept editor deseret mews news vve vvo we ive rejoice greatly to be able to make the statement to you and to the readers of the sews NEWS that our honored and highly respected president W H dame is now a fr free ee in man an vou you Y du may already have learned this fact but never mind let us tell it again on the afternoon of the dinst in the second district court at beaver prosecuting buting g attorney howard moved to quash the indictment as nothing could be found criminating bishop dame and that he be be set at liberty the motion n wa adopted by the court an and d president dibi dame ne was set at liberty on the spot by judge B reman yes they nave have set him at liberty no now w after holding him a prisoner inn iri the jhb beaver jail and in the penitentiary at salt lake take city and arod around nd for nearly two ya y fears eib because after so long iong on they could not not nop flud nud anything against igil nat hm film suffering it has I 1 uga him nearly I 1 remember the words on of bishop dame to the marshal when arrested in nov 1874 1 I am inno cerit but I 1 will go with you what a brest great amo tint tinb af wrong and buffering suffering can be inflicted p on g individuals and com communities unities b by y the power of pre prosecuting attorneys grand Jurie jurle sand and othu othi others ars but why do not the high and honorable judges of our territory in righteousness nus ous ness outs puts short those w wrongs ra D S riat if ahby themselves be PJ diced dicea haw can they then where 1 Is the bope b ope of tb the e pe people 10 jonm f ani our ou r dally a walh na walk alk aik as h a people ps the va wholesale 1 charges 0 ot o eyll dyll made against us by our ur e mesi lot any hanest hij m travel through h our otin sut ski settlements lemen tso werve the course cairs or the pep people P ae in their faces fades anid arid judge them uhe hue ile fie can oan au only say bay they are not guilty biti otho othe wrongs laid to their thein charge and ana the latter day saints are a M a bober sober bober sober orderly and industrious us class of 4 citizens citizens and a credit ria lia a tion this is I 1 nat it iti Is but the simple simpie truth still I 1 know i our lives ilves as 43 lure pure as those af angel th there thero eri erl Is alsa A certain thirl class clash of our enemies who would see no beauty dus pua they are determined tasee tor ton see bee rione and aud our best and noblest ac tion construed to the meanest and moal moat ignoble motives they I 1 0 0 k V us it i mch sucu dark angen blous bious erous an minds that to them the wear black ai at all times unies and in aver every condition th there ere is n no 0 hope of appeasing thia this class the truth they will not listen to then jf they must let them theta howl on while lilie wo we trusting ingoe in god whose providence will work all thing together gether for the good dood of those who faithfully serve him unto the end can bide our out time bishop dame arrived at his bis home on tho the evening ety eky ening of the lath dinst the saints were exceedingly rejoiced to td hail ball him once more anre rea ree Q man about A beu bea 18 he was serenaded by the brass band under tinder the leadership of elder ElderD durham urbam shortly ly after the choir also under the leader leadership of elder durham gathered in front of the bishops Bi shops sheps house and sang bang hafk hark haik the song of jubilee our choir is known through the territory as a very excellent one but I 1 think they never sang sweeter than on this occasion after the singing the bishop in cited the choir into the house and as ma many any anny more as could be seated the porch and door yard were occupied with a large number that could not get into the house the choir then sang hard times come again no more and a number ber of other othen songs during the evening interspersed with social chat till time of 0 retiring when all expressed their pleasure and joy at his being with us in freedom and safety again and hoped that to him hard times would lw come again no more meetings were held here hetre on the dinst by prest erastus snow bp D mcarthur elders J gates J birch M ensign J townsend milliner and others from st SL george many good things thing s were gpo spoken ken keu and instructions given to the people very respectfully W 0 MCGREGOR WELSH INDIANS A SINGULAR story STOBY OF OP teb LAST CENTURY lu stewards washington almanac for the year of our lord 1809 17 is the following singular sin aiu guiar guJar story being the narrative of adventures yen ventures tures of capt isaac stewart taken from his own mouth in march 1762 I 1 was wab as taken fifteen miles to the westward of llort pitt phi about eighteen years ago by the Indian sand was carried by them to the wabash with many moro more white meny who were executed with circumstances of horrible barbarity it was my good fortune to call forth the sympathy of rose called the good woman of the town who was permitted ta ito redeem me from the flames by giving as my ransom ii a horse after remaining two years in bondage amongst the indians indiana a 8 spaniard p an ar came to the ration nation having j n g b been sent from mexico on discoveries u co overtes ov eries erles he made application to lb the chiefs for redeeming me and another white man ia im a like tion a native of wales nyale named job joh john sohn r davey which they complied with and we took our re in la I 1 company with the spaniard and traveled eleato the tha westward crossing the mississippi near la riviere rouge or red Rive rup which we traveled pall miles ea wien when we came to a nation of indians remarkably white and whose hair was of a i reddish ed dish C color oli at least mostly so they lived on the banks of a 9 smail email river that empties itself into the red bed biver which is called the river post in the morning of the i day aay after our arrival amongst thesa thesel indians the welshman informed me that he waa mas dep def determined to tg rei re i main with hem them giving asara q i son chat that he understood their lan lani i guage it being but very tery little dlf dif i ferent from welsh my curiosity W was a excited ve very ry much this in ip int t for matlon matloB 1 olp and I 1 went with rby iby my companion to t ane e chief men of thel the towny towns who yil informed nie a A iana i guage I 1 had bad no knowledge of and which biad had no affinity to that of any other indian tongue I 1 even ever heard beard that their forefathers orthia nation came from a foreign country and landed on the tho east cast side of ot the mississippi descar describing albing harily tho the country now called west florida and that tha on the them spaniards taking possession of mexico t hex hey fled to their then therl abode and as a proof of the truth of what he be ad adi i vance he brought forth rolls of parchment which were wre careful carefully y tied dp vp in otter skins on which were large characters written with blue blud ink the charac characters tem I 1 did not understand and the welsh n man an being unacquainted with letters even of his own language I 1 wa was not able ablo to know the me meaning n of the writing they are bo bold boid I 1 nj hardy intrepid people very ery warlike and thie the women beautiful when compared with other indians I 1 vve we ive left this nations nation after being kindly treated and requested to remain amongst them being only two in number the spaniard and myself and we continued our course up the waters of the red eed river elver till we came toa to a natio nation not ol 01 indians called WIn dots that had never een seen a white man before and who were unacquainted with the use of fire firearms aims on our way we bame came to a transparent stream which to our great surprise we found to descend into the wath and ami at the foot of a ridge of moun taing disappeared d it was remarkably clear and near it was found the bones dones of two animals of such bize size ize that thai a man might walk under the ribs and the teeth were very heavy the nations of indians who had never seen a white w hite man lived near the source of tle red bed river and othere the spaniard discovered to bis great joy gold dust in the brooks and rivulets and being informed that thai a nation lived farther west who were very rich and whose arrows were tipped with gold coset out in hope of reaching their cour country try and traveled about miles till we came to a ridge of moun mountains thins talus which we crossed and from which the streams run due west and at the fo foot toot ot of the mountains the spaniard gave proofs of joy and great satisfaction having found gold in great quantity I 1 was not acquainted with the nature of the ore but I 1 lifted up what he called gold dust from the bottom of the little rivulets issuing from the cavities of the rocks and it had a yellow cast and was waa remarkably heavy but so much was the spaniard satis satisfied nned fled he relinquished his plan of prosecuting his jq journey urney being perfectly convinced that he had found a country full of gold on our return he took a different route and when he reached the mississippi we went in a canoe to the mouth of the missouri where we found a spanish post there 1 I was discharged by the spaniard went to the country of the cherokees and iksoon reached ninety six in south carolina hell gate FINAL preparations FOB FOR THE GREAT EXPLOSION i NEW YF YEW v september 12 As the time approaches for the demolition of the reeks at hell gate the public interest in the explosion increases notwithstanding the de cir clr ration of the authorities in charge of the works that visitors ca be admitted a number of person pergo nsf nEf daily dally visit the scene and attempt to gain admission to t th the 6 galleries it is scar scarcely cely eely riece necessary Esary to say eay that their applications are refused the slightest accident would be inevitably attended by most fright frightful fui ful results the men employed employ d in the works are now engaged in charging the galleries which have been cul cut through the solid rock beneath the river with nitroglycerine nitro nuro glycerine rend rock and dynamite and tind a pre premature nature explosion would blow biow everybody in the works to atoms them there are about sixty men employed in this dangerous work 1 who are paid at the rate of and 3 per they are under the immediate superintendence of captain murdy the united states engineer in charge and work gravely and silently as if fully impressed I 1 with the sense of the hazardous nature of their enterprise the dynamite is brought to the mouth oath of the e pit in wooden cases and is contained in tin vessels somewhat resembling fat sausage sausages in shape which are carefully packed in sawdust half a dozen of these cases casek are taken to the mouth of ot chelp the pit I 1 r from which the galleries diver diverge ge at a time and are lowered to tw the men beneath b by y a derrick these cases eases are handled with the utmost caution and the tin vessels with their dreaded eon bon contents tents are lifted from their sawdust bed ag as mothers nurse sick infants one by one they are arrange arranged din in boxes subdivided into cells which have been specially prepared for their reception red eption they creahen bre are then carried into the galleries and placed in the positions in which they will remain until the hour of explosion there are ten ton galleries in all in which seven thousand holes lave have have been pierced pierce d and each hole will be filled W with tb dynamite each tin case is provided with a spring which secures itin it in its proper place in its particular hole this thi sis is a necessary precaution to prevent the tho possibility of any jar or fric trio tion sometimes a hole is deep enough to contain two or three cartridges as these dynamite cases are called caled and therefore each man engaged g ed in the responsible labor of cag charging a re ing them thum is acco accompanied b by a companion who with a long sti stick measures the depths of the different drillings and helps to get the cartr cartridges idies into nto i position captain murdy hopes to ninish finish the work of cliar cilar charging ging hy by the end of this week and soon afterward the electric wires will be put in I 1 n position and the battery will be complete due notice will be given to the public of the day and time of explosion and police boats will gua d 1 tiia tila approaches pro aches to hell G gite te to warn a I 1 vessels of the impending paneling im blast ex |
