| Show pio fio 0 erom FROM HOME eor FOB neive NEWS 6 on opening opening a atch batch oft exchanges of gesa geba a few days da ys ago and looking them over ove r we felt inclined to ru rub b our ur eyes pinch our elbows try b hartshorn or pr by so some in e other means find out whether we were awake ar or had suddenly become subject to the visitation of a distorted dream the extraordinary excitement and terrible doings in utah and particularly in in great salt bait lake city of which some of them spoke were certainly news new p to us as they no doubt will be to our readers what sly people and wonderful a as sly the mormons cormons Mor mons must be to have such doings around and keep it so quiet we chronicled somi gomi some e time ago agu an ail account of this city being cannonaded which the benighted benl beni eted citizens knew nothing of jintil the information was ivas brought to them a distance of some two to w thousand miles n 1 iles lles or auf this flaig Is more moro extraordinary rya sull ill ili this whole city it seems has been in a state of the in i olf esp asp excitement all an th the gentiles hayd been notified i gea jea leave eulid eurid under er penalty en althof dof dea death lh yoli you gentile friends felds A of ours oura down street have nou not heard of i th that thai a lt before 1 and the whole pl place a c e has been a perfect maelstrom of excited feelings in which no persons life was wa safe aa fe it cannot be that we have imitated rip van winkle winkie and have been beell sleeping all through this terrible scene we have thought that we were walking up and down the street daily as usual al and ind that everything and everybody was pursuing the even tenor of their way except it might be a few who in some back place were conco coneo concocting concoct eti etl ing ng stories of af lawful A awful doings in utah we never imagined there was wag buch huch a volcano under our very nose foni from which streams of the deadly lava iava of fanatic violence and wild pa passions i were daily couri pouring 1 ng we presume bres pres ume we will have to hire dikea a team and bandwagon wagon bearing a moderate sized field piece to protect us lis on our peregrinations from the sanctum to the domestic domicile amielle the poor deluded people through the city who are daily dally attending to their avocations and duties dutle gin gln in life h have ailef no idea that they are s such sach terrible folks and openly perpetrating buch ouch fearful acts of violence as are recorded As ks we sit looking out occasionally from froni the window while writing tIng this short artl arti articie article cle ele and see the lovely gre green 1 en of the burst bursi bursting n foliage from shade and fruit trees and witness the quietude ina lna and ind peaceful ah hir which characterize every passer up and down the street we becan ean not help askin ashin asking i gour ourselves selve what manner I 1 I 1 of spirit men must be pf af when they can manufacture such barefaced bare faced falsehoods out of whole cloth nave have they been pen 1 so successful u 1 in their perpetration an 9 OF past slanders that theys they think the great public will swallow jv anything no matter how incredible about the mormons cormons Mor mons it looks looks ilke like it 1 h Gentl Gentle emern emeri of tile the press presa east eat and west and elsewhere pu publish lishia it an and deill be responsible on that there h is not from the atlantic to the pacific nor non n from maine A tain rain e to florida any eity city of the fiame size as this where I 1 ther there ei is more pace peace I 1 ai and quietness and where iv re life is mare more moro secure or more highly estimated than thau ledat in great salt lake city 1 ove we might say more and justly just lyso 60 we mi might say it is the quietest and most orderly city eity of ia it size in the union bui hui tut 1 as a s mrs arr parting g ton says comparisons are odorous 11 and so we forbear f A many efforts have I 1 been b eq n maae made a e dai dab for some time tim 0 past b by y the clique i ali of gree greedy A y speculators and wid their coadjutors who would like to 10 geta geva get a little 1 more abie by way hay of fat contracts from uncle samuel to bring about strife s taw andain and sir sit the people here up to do something in n retaliation for their and hounding course oi arse that might make capital for or them nuit nult U t they have signally and miserably failed they are known here hero their objects are known and the people look upon them an and their theli efforts with supreme contempt they have sunk unk so low i already that their vilest slanders almost fail to excite even a passing feeling of annoyance they are to and getting to lo be so evell even 11 in their eil ell ow own eyes to be bd worthy of an any feeling except indifference this thil last i effort of theirs their io f people 0 f utah viah is so outraged outrageously vion vien it will kill iiii have the opposite op effect from what they desired those who might have been inclined to ta give same p radeord credence d ence enee to their statements ts heretofore will vill heco deco become cautious though there is a blass class of sensational te s who ho will publish anything ihahn likely to excite attention for the e moment irrespective of its probability p very likely those who 6 furnish rn lisle formation about utah may feel inclined to draw it more mildly fora for fona 3 a tine ilme holthe till the remembrance ea r n J pook of this thi alast R a st baich batch of 4 i athe abbe authentic n uc i intelligent int elligen bevi has bie bip bee been n measurably forgotten N |
