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Show SATURDAY _THE WEEKLY “TRIBUNE: THE ie Weetin Tribune A LAK ©. deposits September other 10,000 by night to prevent smug- in the manufacture of wine, which is pronounced by connoisseurs to be of an excellent quality. RUE meee ‘Tun cattle plague having spread from Russia into Poland, the importation of cattle from the infected districts has been prohibited by Austria and Germany. Most likely England will follow in the same line, and close its ports against European cattle. This would bea further benefit to American tion with pean many Southern Pacific railroad bonds, which will enable the Southern Pacific Company to push on toward its West: capitalists are conti- said to have be-. come interested in the work, Se {ae INDIANAPOLIS Journal: “‘ Governor Williams was interviewed while in Oincinnati for the Commercial. . He couldn’t see why the elections in Cali. fornia and’ Maine should have any influence on Ohio, or why the election of Foster in Ohio should injure Demo- to Columbia penalty of vate enterprise is fast establishing a free zone in the adjoining province. <A revision of the tariff, or an impossible protective service, alone can check this -i}licit trade. ped anid SunarTorR Marr CARPENTER ‘says: “The Democrats will be forced to take up Mr. Tilden. I consider his nomination one of the sure things of the future. IT am equally confirmed in the belief that the Republicans can beat him with any. good man. Who that zood man is to be depends upon so many contingencies that any opinion with reference thereto would be mere guess work; but any goodman will succeed against Mr. iden: o Ture people of San Francisco have united, without respect to party or reHgion, to suitably receive the man whose two years’ tour through Europe and Asia has been one constant ovation, upon his regaining his native dispatch announcing their-preparations is headed in the alleged newspaper “Slop for the Gineral.” It isa great pity that universal mankind should have put so different an estimate on General Grant from that of the bald-headed snipe of the Herald. Sea Tue London News’ correspondent at Reme reports that measures for the destruction of phylloxera are being ener- in the Como and Milan districts. . Phylloxerated vineyatds in the district of Lecco, near Como, and the contiguous orchards and mulberry, plantations have been destroyed by order of the Italian Minister of Commerce. Three infected vine- yards in the district of Monza have been inundated in order to extirpate the pest. Similar measures have been taken in the adjoining Swiss territory. fen ee. Curtcaco Tribune: Washington “Mr. George Childs, surmounting the| gloom of the grave and the obituary business, appeals to the world in an editorial .bearing the caption: ‘Be Happy if You Would Be Good. If the greatest obituary poet in the world cun be happy we should think anybody else might be; and it must be that he is happy, for everybody knows ‘he is good. Or can ‘it be’ that he is good without being happy, and wishes {9 point out to others a shorter and surer road to goodness than that which he has traveled ?” ices THe’ following sound. talk is from the San Francisco Call: ‘Our mines of the precious metals after all are the great source of. prosperity for this side of the continent. Were it not for the amount of bullion extracted annually, the depression would be much greater. than itis at present, and we scarcely know. what California cidal course rightly mmproved; Every ton of sea-water con- table and animal life, with corresponding harvests of decay and death, the -work of mineral accretion and deposition began. Facts, according to Prof. that metals have would do to all seas have rolled over what is now’ mountain top and dry land. Sediment becomes rock, saturated with metallic particles. Volcanic throes and the shrinking of cooling rocks, open and leave crevices and fissures in crystalline and stratified rocks, and magnets currents with ~ hissing steam, molten matter and chemical gases altogether, form a veritable pandemonic laboratory in which are formed and collected the metalliferous veins of the. earth. Thus, gold and silver, by a sort of metallic evolution, pass from nebulous atoms into strata, from strata into veins, from veins into gravel and from the latter into a few favored pockets. So much for the origin of gold, all of which is as clear as mud or modern revelation. Opposing theorists while differing about the origin of gold, unite in accounting gravels and placers and disintegration matter by elemental in activity at various appear to for its diffusion in through erosion of rock and vein action, intensified eras of time; the debris being borne away to its present resting streams. With place by swift-descending : the vast regard to auriferous grayel fields now being so profitably unearthed in California by hydraulic appliances, been that the popular theory they have been formed has by deposits from former great rivers, whith, in ages past flowed nearly. parallel with the course of the Sierra range, and along its western slope. This ancient river, fed by drainage’ from the mountains and rich with metallic spoil, filled its banks to over- flow with auriferous gravel and huge boulders, and long since, with the unmonsters that Jamboled in its depths or stalked along its borders, became extinct. : trade in Turkey. The hundreds of girls who form part of the harem are, he avers, mostly Circassian slaves. The household of every Turk’ who is at all well off, be hea pasha, a bey, or a plain effendi, is stocked with acertain number of these slaves. They are generally supplied by Circassian families settled in the Empire. The parents, when they have daughters at all well. favored, bring them up carefully, with a view to their being sold. . Totits go about the provinces every year, just as horse-dealers travel in. the horse-breeding regions of claims an Now, if the energetic capitalist would take the,cars to Salt Lake City, and, without mentioning mines to the keen-sighted middle-man who is already atthe hotel on the lookout for been subjected to any capital. Some of those houses are in Tophanch, on the Bosphorus, and in the quarters. of the Sullan Mehemet and the Averto: Bazar’. Though they are not soid quite publicly, there is no concealment The terms of the sale are set down in a contract registered ‘by the chief courts, which contract’ provides for the rights of the buyer in the event of his purchase not being equal to the warranty, or of the slave making her escape. The contract authorizes the purchaser, when tired of his bargain, to sell both the mother and her child, and it appears that this oceutrs daily. hands, for hundreds or thousands of dollars, what, in the hand of a speculative middle-man, would have cost him of the ancient channels, where they can still be traced, proves that such was thefact. At that time the entire region was a broad and undulating slope, with an inclination of some- thing like 100 feet to the mile ina south-westerly direction from near the crest of the range to the distance of from fifty to sixty miles. Over ‘this undulating country mountain streams loaded with aurifer. ous grayel, cut their sinuous way to the distant valley. . These streams were shallow at times, and bore along only the finest sand and clay; at other times sudden and heavy floods from metting snows or terrific cloud bursts, would hurl along massive boulders and cut their way into the bedrock 100 feet and more. As these streams at sions and gradually but surely covered the highest Knolls with auriferous gravel. Thus in the course of ages the and into the solid bare the accumulated bed-rock, laying depositions of that these gravels are the work of glaciers or the deposits of a sea or lake, but that they have been diposited by running streams, flowing ‘as has been shown in the same general direction as the streams of to-day. OLp Bos Toomps says that he remains an outsider, and wouldn’t go into the Union as at present constituted, for the same reason that he would not go into a gentleman’s house far the purpose of burning it up. He believes that the Georgians want a Western ge for President. “ Their interests,” says, ‘are not connected in any way with the Union, but, if they are, it is with the Western section of eee on “Verily thus said the Lord se you my servant Joseph Smith, jr., and also ny servant, ro Ri doug and a so, my ee) t Hyrum mith and your Conpiseliors ae ate or shall és gee th unto all the elders Chureh of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pralusred abroad in all the world; a thus shal urch be called in the last. days, Sau She Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- -day Saints will consider it so. man could build up the kingdom. of the earth per. It appears fort and have it Bros: of every good the above that eight otganized, the Church of the hands of financially ened it? Why, of course, who: but Sid- ney Rigdon? The bantling being his: own, who had a better right to name it? Inthe History of Joseph Smith, (Millennial Star, Vol. XV, No. 4,) we read the following: KirtLanp, Onto, May 3, 1834. Minutes of a Conference of the Hiders of the Church of Christ, which church was organized in the township of Fayette, Seneca county, New York, on the 6th of April, A. D. 1880. President Joseph Smith, jr., was chosen Moderator, and Frederick G. Willliams and Oliver appointed Clerks. Cowdery were After prayer the Conference proceeded to discuss the subject of names and apellations, when a motion was made by ‘Sidney Rigdon, and seconded by Newel K. Whitney, that this church be known hereafter Church of Jesus ‘by the name of the Christ’ of Latter-day FE. G. WinLIAMs, OLIVER CoWwDERY, Clerks. The first name, then, of the C. of J. C. of L. D. 8. was “ Church of Christ.” crippled pros- At the conference meeting in 1834, on motion of Sidney Rigdon, duly seconded, the Mormon Church received its sécond name, which name was by the “Tord,” amended by revelation in 1838 ! Thus the Saints at home and abroad may fully understand how the name of the Church came into being, “as we now call it.” Mormon to the idle capital which hands of TO FACTS. every hole that, was the strength of the recently about after all, and that 18 age of all the silver lead ores will probably show over.30 per cent lead 30 ounces of silver per and ton; In the Cottonwoods 35 per cent lead and. over 60 ounces silver per ton; even the much abused Emma averaged 45 and about: 125.ounces average of tliree? lots ‘of from’ the Horn’ Silvér mine and aggregating 15,580 tons, gave silver 4734 ounces, and lead.38 oper cent. Itis not with any intention of slighting the importance of the ore deposits of Leadville that we make this comparative statement, but to show that it is hardly possible that any one camp should upset-permanent- ly, the standard of values; and further, that in times of wild speculation it is® well to: remember that the metals are hard to get, as product of Utah and precious the lead Nevada has been falling steadily from year to year. We hope, but doubt, that Leadville may make up the deficit. Well informed parties here’ ‘think that if Leadville produces ‘5,000,000, ounces’ silyer and 6,000,tons of lead during this year, it will do very well indeed: THERE is danger of a disaster to the Democratic party in Virginia, on account of a split on the debt question, and the Goldsboro’ Madi advises them to submit:all the papers to Dr. Worth, State Treasurer of North Carolina for arbitration. He will do justice, the editor says, alike to bondholders and to the State. The way things appear to be, there are two extremes taken upon the debt question, and a fair and honorable compromise would most likely secure to the bondholders more money in the end, while it would harza monize the people of the State. to rally assembly to be called no longer ‘“‘Mormons,” but the “Church of Latter-day Saints,” in order that they| might the more readily pass the Heads she met incog. on Sees United States navy and staff, judges of the Supreme Court and long array of civic societies. Amid the tremendous cheers of the crowd, discharges of cannon, ringing of bells and the screaming ‘of whistles, the procession started: up Market streét; bonfires. blazed at the street corners, ‘Huminations lit up every window, and the glare of Roman ception prepared for him, the conversation became general. As the City of Tokio continued her course, soon after the steamer. McPherson came alongside, and Major their way, the “Army of Zion,” took up vee ajor General McDowell and staff, Commodore ,E. R.. Calhoun, ‘of the the Tokio coming in. The tug drew alongside and the executive committee, quarantine officer and customs officials and a number of representatives of the press boarded. No ceremony was observed except a general shaking of . hands, and. after. the committee had. .announced the: object of their visit, and informed General Grant of the.re- At last, on the 4th of May, 1834, vot- ing in solemn candles and. electrie lights made.the broad thoroughfare as light as day. - nder the continuous archway ot flags, banners and festooned draperies, the procession moved up Market street to Montgomery, and turned down the General McDowell, “commanding: the division of the Pacific, accompanied squadby his staff, boarded. the Tokio, and rejoined his old comrade in arms. bered about two hundred and fifty, and While this was transpiring, the genarrived in Missouri in June, 1834. | eral committee of arrangements with latter street. Crowds blocked the side: walks, cheer after. cheer rolled aiong the whole line of march, anu almost drowned the martial strains of the their line of march in different rons for the promised land, They num- visited several of ‘the mounds which had' been thrown up by the.ancient inhabitants Lamanites, of this country, G&c., and Nephites, this morning Geeae June 1, 1884;] I went upon a high mound, near the river, accompanied by the brethren. On the top of the mound were: stones which presented the appearance of three: altars having been erected, one above the other, ac: cording to ancient order; bones were the ground. and human strewn over the surface. of The brethren procured a Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the name, Church of Latter- held in David Whitmer has reorganized the “Church of Christ”’—thus adhering to the original name. ..The Church, in the outset, being thus designated by “the Lord” in His revelations to it, David is to be commended, so far, for his consistency—the poor, imposed- upon “witness” that‘he is. Here is a page a © of Mormon history the trenchant ‘pen of Prof. Tar. brethren carried some . pieces of the skeleton to Clay county, Mo.- The contemplation of the scenery before us produced peculiar sensations in: our bosoms’; and, the visions of the past being opened tomy undérstanding by the spirit of the Almighty, I discovered that the person whose skeleton was before us was'a white Lamanite, a a thick-set man, and a man of God. was a warrior and chieftain under ie great known Prophet Omandagus, from the Eastern Sea, to hill nor Omandagus Book who was Cumorah, the Rocky His name was Zelph. or Mountains. [Neither Zelph are mentioned of .Mormon.],.The curse in the was taken from him, or; at least, in part; one of his thigh bones was broken b a stone flung from a sling, in battle years before his death. He. was killed in battle, by the arrow found among his ribs,‘during the last. great struggle of the Lamanites and Nephites—which occurred a. thousand miles eastward, around the Hill Cumorah back in York tate This account of the Lamanite war- rior, Zelph, is almost as good as the “history” of that illustrious (and yet to become more illustrious) “descendant of Ham) through the loins of Pharaoh,King of Egypt, who received his king-. dom from the Ruler of heaven and earth,” which “history”? was engraven in’ Kinderhook — hieroglyphics by} aid of Urim and and fatal Thummim is not around the youthful prophet, one can fancy him wondering within himself, as he did at the outset of his career to old: Peter Ingersoll, of Palmyra, New York, “what the damned fools would believe,” saying, at that time, he had got them “fixed’’ and-was going to carry out the fun. Mormon—More Good! And yet men claiming to be Apostles of the Sinless, school teachers in Utah. to-day are not ashamed to teach this and kindred stuff, in grave and solemn earnest, to innocent minds. THE JEWEL CONSISTENCY. al Matters Subsequent to 1870-Polygamic Theocracy boldly submitted to at the National Capitol,” etc., Elder Tullidge ‘thus holds forth: The question then arose with many, “Who ‘will be sent as Delegate?” Many excellent friends felt that it would bea great misfortune to lose: the services of Mr. Hooper at such a time. “No man’ was better known in Washington than he. His reputa: tion was excellent, and though: known as a Mormon, it was generally understood that he was nota practical po- lygamist. He had served the Territory efficiently and to the satisfaction of his constituents. Others, with excellent motives, but with little faith in the value of the Mormon movement in the age, not only counseled the sending of a conservative Gentile at that period to Congress, but the renun- righteousness, when George Q. Cannon,” son county was’ about’ 1,200. In the winter ‘of 1833-4 Governor Dunklin endeavored ‘to - bring’ the citizens of Jackson county to justice, and redress the injuries of the Mormons. But after an apostie and polygamist, Congress. parties’ under the guard of the “Blues,” the Attorney General advised the Mormons to abandon their suit, since justice in the case was impossible, considering the excitement and‘spirit of the people. They took his advice and returned with the guard. The knowledge of this outrage soon reached the ears of the prophet in Ohio. | He saw at onve the danger and advantage of theirnew position. In, deed, the world had become so incredulous already, and his followers:so divided among themselves, that some such persecution had become almost indispensable, to arouse the ssete and credulity of the one, trate and harmonize the and concen. already dis- tracted energies of the other. <A reve- lation, of unusual length, clearness and point, was soon forthcoming from the press in Kirtland, which was scattered abroad in the form of a handbill; and even sold for one dollar per copy. The main points adverted to in this com-: mand from Smith’s divinity are as fol-. ows a Phe Mormons had been chastened because’ of ‘jarrings, contentions alae lustful ‘and covetous desires tastic blazonry was sent to “But it must not be forgotten,” says the Elder in his Preface, to the life: of his modern Moses, ‘That I have been for many years, an apostate, and can, not. be justly charged. with a spirit. of Mormon propagandism.” A. Peenliar Duel. J was looking oyer the stories that were sent. in last week for the prize, and I wondered that the editor did not insert this one which is really too good to be lost: ‘There is a curious duel now pending in Boston, Pua began several years ago. Mr. A., a bachelor, challene Mr. Bia sated man with one child, who replied that the con ditions were not equal, that he must necessarily put more at risk with ‘his life than the other, and he declined. A year afterward he received a chal- lenge from Mr. A., stating that he, too, had now a wife and child, and posed, therefore, the objection - was ao longer valid. he sup. of Mr. Mr. B. replied that he now had two children;° ¢onsequently the inequality still existed. The next year Mr. A. renewed his challenge, having now two children also, but his adversary had three. The ae an come fr ieee between Market and besides the fan- ‘stars and CONTINUING THE MAROH. The’ procession imoyed through Montgomery Avenue to Kearney. street. On arriving :at iar street, the procession moving up:a few blocks coun: termarched:to the Palace: Hotel. “Here a magnificent arch-forty. feet in hight spanned New: Montgomery street blazoned with the national. colors and bearing the inscription, ipa; “WELCOME HOME.” ‘At this point the catriage’ contain ing the General was drawn up while the’ procession’ tiarched in review. Cheer after cheer rent. the air as divis: flags were flying, and‘the shipping along the city’ front were brilliantly with ensigns, streets the great Dragon ite fluttered its Golden Gate rose sharply ‘against the sky. From every flagstaff in the city decked cross stripes. spec ators. The sun was declining as ihe steamers and yachts, gay with| ion after division passed. - On the conclusion of the review the various or- festooned flags Oa ganizations were disihissed. IN THE HOTEL: and streamers. It was half-past five o'clock when a putt of white smoke from seaward and - General Grant was conducted to nik quarters in the Palace Hotel, which had been specially prepared and furnished for his reception. the streets the booming of a heavy gun announced that the steamer was near at hand. Another and another in rapid succession, and Fort Point joined in the can- leading to:the Palace were packed with nonade, firing with both'casement and battery uns; :at:. :dlime |,;Point added its thunders to the voice of wel- adense throng, through which the pro cession forced its way with great difficul.. ty. Thousands were clamoring for admit come. In a few moments the entrance tance, but cordons of police were at the to the harbor was veiled in . wreaths of |. entrances who denied entrance to all smoke and as. the batteries. of Angel but special permits to enter. ae Island, Black Point and Alcatraz the immense court . presented» opened fire in succession, the whole scene of surpassing beauty. Blectric channel was soon shrouded in clouds lights and five hundred gas jets lighted up. the vast ‘interior with a prilliant glow, and the dense throngs|, from their rapid discharges. Shortly before 6 o’clock, the outlines of the huge hull of the City of Tokio loomed through the obscurity of the smoke and the rapidly approaching shades of evening were lit up! ‘by. the flashes of guns, and in a few moments she glided that packed the court and filled the spacious. balconies and corridors swayed to and fro in anxious expectancy of the coming guest whom the packed streets had detained. into full view surrounded by a_ fleet of At 10. o’clock the wide steamers and tugs gay with flags, crowded with guests, while the yachts of the squadron brought up the rear, festooned from. brilliant bunting. deck to ruck: with alighted, room. thou- HAD REACHED HER ANCHORAGE. "As soon as of carrying Mayor party on the Tokio, reception committee, After the chorus In and his together with the General McDow- that A considerable delay occurred, durin which the crowd outside cheered and Debarkation. follows: FELLOW cisco: the Governor time has passed since you. departed from the Atlantic shore to seek the relief which a long period in your coun- try’s service had made necessary; but during this absence the people of the United States have not forgotten you. They haye read with interest the accounts of your voyages by sea and travels by land round the world, and they have observed with great pleasure the honors you have received in the different countries you have Visited, and the universal récognition which your brilliant career, as a soldier: and an. American citizen, has obtained. They have felt proud of you.and at the same time of this country, which you have so fitly represented. And now, sir, you are again on your native soil; and the thousands who here greet you "remember. that your home was once in this city. This bay, these hills, the pleasant homes about us. are familiar to you. Its a pleasing incident of your journey, that leaving your country at the ancient city-of Philadelphia, Mayor -as the General had heads of the CITIZENS OF San through tender you the freedom its hospitalities. all classes, I of the city and Gennral Grant responded ina few | brief sentences, returning thanks for the welcome extended him. He was. then conducted = enough to greet you more fully. |}: The General then withdrew amid prolonged and tremendous cheering, and, the crewd. at length reluctantly scattered. gga ee eaeee Mining Notes. Meeting yesterday Mr. Frank Reilly, Superintendent of the Empire; the reported strike was confirmed. He said in answer to a question seeking for a comparison between the Empire and Ontario, with the latter of which| ‘he was identified for some time, that the two mines yielded ore of. such | similar qualities, that “you. can’t. tell them apart.” he owners of the Hinpire atition pate as good, if not a better, result in opening the Sampson mine as they have in‘the former’ The Sampson is | an extension of the Empire, and the ore taken from this group ‘thus far car- ries ass Wm. to express the joy of San -Francisco,. that the hope of her, elder sister has been realized... The city. de- | sires to receive you as an old and honsnd resident and friend returning after| along absence, and to extend to you such courtesies as may be agreeable to you; and in obedience to such desire, extends FRan- After twenty-five years’ absence Stokely expressed the hope of that city for your safe journey and happy return; Jt is now my privilege which sur- Iam glad to meet you and assure you of my cordial thanks for the kind greeting you have given me. I shall. stay in. your city long and staff and the executive committee, and after a brief informal congratulation, the Mayor addressed him as fol- and pleasure to welcome you on your return to your native country. Some- soon rounding crowd, was, again greeted ‘with a succession ‘of cheers. When the noise subsided, he addressed them as ‘when the lights of the ferry boat were seen approaching the ship. She moved slowly into position, the platform was lowered, the band struck up “Home Again,” amid roars of applause from the crowd outside.’ General Grant came up the gangway, escorted by the ‘reception committee. He was Bryant, as was passed over the Hark dle had fallen, and‘it was 7:20 by Mayor .was rendered’ Gen- Bryant called the crowd to order, and the General, mounting a_chair which shouted themselves hoarse. met be finished his dinner he. would show himself. In afew minutes General Grant appeared, amid deafening and long-continued shouts. Mayor ell and staff and others had been trans. The should eral Grant in response to repeated calls). appeared on the balcony of the fourth oor, and bowing to the shouting crowd immediately retired. Still the enthusiastic: crowd~ thronged the court and refused to leave. Finally Mayor Bryant appeared and announced Bryvnt taking ferred to the ferry steamer Oakland. “it into effect, telling with their deep yeices, that the were assembled the gentlemen charged “General Grant was finished people of San Francisco have no sympathy with the spirit that would offer insult on political grounds tothe man whom the citizens are glad to welcome as their guest. with the duty of the immediate reception of General Grant. The board of supervisors was ranged on the left of the gangway and Governor Irwin and staff and the:executive .committée occ- the meantime the review Tosi out. At the moment of writing, the guns, manned by boys in blue, are ferry house his position about half way down. by and the various divisions had disbanded, the soldiers and sailors, veterans of glimpse of the the: As he alighted, Madame Fab- the late war, repaired to the Sand Lots witha field battery. It seemed a kind of poetic justice that here, where Denis Kearney had threatened a few weeks ago, tohang Gen Grant in effigy, the insult, althoughm éaningless and uttered without. the slightest thought and waiting im- for the first the gates of wa: off his overcoat. _ AN INSULT WIPED OUT, land. The sidewalks were blocked with hurrying pedestrians and the streets with carriages conveying the committees. The steamers and yachts made haste to land their passengers, and ina few minutes the vicinity of the ferry landing was literally jammed with people. Just in front of the land: ing, the entrances to which were Closed and guarded, a space was cleared by the police'and ‘marshals, in which hundreds of carriages for the use of guests crowded, and outside a constantly increasing throng: surged and ressed, excited and enthusiastic, Within his they returned to the Court, being reassured by an announcement that the General would appear on one of the balconies after he had had time to lay Market street, where Gen. Grant was to cheering at'intervals, crowding force of police who Mtocked the way, The crowds that had assembled on the hills and along the city, now with one common impulse began to pour along towards the ferry landing at the foot of patiently and the packed masses of human was urrie to is re and a chorus of five hundred voices opened from one of the balconies with an ode of welcome. ,The crowd rushed after Gen. Grant when. he alighted, leaving the singers for a moment almost without. an audience; but being stopped in their mad chase by the sands. The United States steamer Monteray, lying in the stream, “added the roar of her guns to the general welcome, and the'screaming of hundreds of steam whistles announced that the city of Tokio city’s honored guest. doors were thrown open and the barouche containing General Grant was driven within the building. He immediately through - beings CHEER AFTER CHEER burst forth from the assembled lows: _ MAYOR BRYANT’S ADDRESS. itself, and the | GENERAL GRANT: As Mayor of the of the Mormon city of San Francisco I have the honor men.» The number driven out of Jack- ‘the the with decorations. Even the Chinese quarters seemed to have caught the infection, and from hundreds of staffs heights beyond the Presidio, Clay street hill, the sea wall at Northi Point and every pier-head was covered with pied the right, ‘In the 31st chapter of his life of Brigham Young, headed “Congression. “On the 4th of November, 1833, a'conciation of polygamy flict took place [between the inhabipractical abandonment tants of Jackson county, Missouri, and mission in its vast society aims, allowthe Mormons] in which three or tour | ing the Church to quietly settle down were killed, and in the course of a to a “respectable” religious sect. Not month all the Mormons were com. | so, however, will the Mormons ever 'pelled' to leave Jackson county and re: think. President Y: oung and his comtreat to Ray county, where they were peers never will resign their mission, most hospitably received by the in- nor the Mormon people prove so unhabitants, who gave them employment, worthy as to give up the fraction, even, paid them good wages, and conducted of their institutions. * * * was toward them like gentlemen and freea grand’ manifestation of faith and assembling though the whole population of the city—men, women and children—had sought positians from which a view of the naval pageant could be obtained. Every emanence commanding the channel was black with the assembled thousands. Telegraph Hill was a living mass of human bodies, The bunting, moved lower down the chanshovel and hoe, and removing the nel. Low clouds hung along the westearth tothe depth of about one foot, ern horizon. Mount Tamalapas and discovered a skeleton of a man, almost entire, and between his ribs was a La-| the distant mountains of North Bay were veiled in mist. Mission Hill and manite' arrow, which evidently [just below this. arrow, certainly,] produced the seaward heights of the peninsula his death. Elder Brigham Young were shrouded in fog, but the channel was unobstructed, and the outlines.of ‘retained the arrow, and the styled the Church of the Lat- per cent |2 Yosemite and Old Telegraph mines.are now and lave been producing for years. In Bingham Canyon the aver- cent lead and» Kirtland, May 4,1834.. But Rigdon put in all. the “bobbin” at last, of that we may be sure. . It is understood that scare lead and 45 to 70 ounces of:siiver is not silver. The ore smelted called day Saints, at the conference with- so much better'than 56 per cent lead and 15 ounces of silver, such as the per permanently Church. of Jesus Leadville to be ter-day Saints, contumeliously called “Mormons,’”’? or Mormonites’”-— thus confirming Turner’s statement, given below, and it is therefore probable that the church did not receive the name, other little about the matter, we find that the’ ores much to 1834, sighed: by. Sidney ‘Rigdon and others, speak of the Church of Christ, scare that tne lead market tumbled this spring, injuring not only the owners of silver lead mines elsewhere, but really the mines of that district as well. And now, when Tor. TRIBUNE corres. pondent comes out and tells the truth of Leadville are not so history, written known. Official documents i in the summer of in 100. miles of that wonderful: camp had untold millions in ° it. It will be remembered that it was upon designated (after.a lapsé of how many centuries ?) did not give it the name by’ which it correspondent doubtful about even $18,000,000, and says that all the talk about $100,000,000 and 20,000 tons of lead originates just as we would naturally suppose, from speculators, who would make every .that began black be thus by Mormon pens, is not much more to of that camp will be $100,000,000 this year the product will not really exceed: $18,000, 000, aallowing that the product will be continuous every. day, storm or shine; but he wisely enough thinks there will be many days that will be believe that, and will be depended upon for data reliable and. truthful, than the. same history. from the pens of non-Mormons. It was long ago remarked, as a very strange circumstance, that “the Lord,” at the time of establishing “his” Church though it is claimed that the product. one house” around the prophet, from all quarters of the Union, to prepare for the crusade to the Hoiy Land. is found that Mormon expression stormy besides Sundays, and idle days. On the whole he is a This proclamation had its desired effect; it restored harmony, and aroused action and sympathy. The “strength “more good,” Mormon is a name good enough for anybody... Saints. are simply “more good” than other folks.’ It adheres says all our troubles in Missouri.] stated) nine years after the skeleton of the aboriginal warrior Zelph was exhumed—at a distance of twelve inches below the surface of thé earth. ’Tis no laughing matter. : Before the shadows of this everdeepening imposture scttled thick.and “investors who will buy and work like Leadville It is really and truly the Church for all ed from more) and the Reformod Egyptian mon, signifying good. So if Mormon signifies, as the prophet says, business men.”’ from outside tion of the Anglo-Saxon Mor (contract- the rose.” ‘We therefore echo the cry of the importunate Georgian, for more The Chicago Trzbune his caused Messrs. Fugate and Wiley, and “a por- ofthe L. D. Saints, have “blossomed like writing with tion of which” (Pike county glyphs) the prophet assures us. in his history he “translated” in 1843 (whether by the dicated, our mining wilderness would, COMING DOWN later—which inflammatory harangues, by those always speculators and favorite years other ‘who believe in giving things their right name. For itis founded on and in the Book of Mormon. The prophet said Mor-mon was a (happy) combina- money. If the wasted TELEGRAPHIC. was : Jesus was jointly christened, and. who christ- mine in pectors, when needed work niust stop for the want of ready money. A time when hard labor in the shaft and at the windlass hus discovered and open: eda rich and promising vein, which can only be made available bya liberal outlay for machinery,.with horse or steam power for hoisting or‘pumping, and for timber and other costly adjJuucts of successful mining. At this really triumphant point of the prospector’s life, with fortune seemingly within his reach, he stands a tantalized and helpless man, and it is at this point that the business man and capitalist is needed to put his shoulder ‘to the lagging wheel and with money, make difficulty a passage bands: . The broad ensigns An interesting occurrence of this. fa- several thousand invited guests as- numerous on board, alongside the wheel tossed in the night wind, glowing with mous expedition “to redeem Zion,’ is ‘sembled of the Pacific mail steamer China, and the light of fires and the glare of A light mist Christ of Latter-day Saints received. its given in the History of Joseph Smith, a number of steamers, while the tugs ‘rockets and fire balls. hovering over the city reflected the Millennial Star, Vol. X¥;No. 5: took the squadrons of San Francisco name—by “revelation.” = light of fire works and the iluminaBut by-the following it appears that We encamped on the: bank of the and Pacific yacht clubs in tow, and tion until the heavens seemed ablaze. started down the channel. ee Illinois] river until Tuesday, the 3d, previous to 1838, the Mormon Church In the. meantime it seemed as Not only the streets on the march, but _[June, 1884.| uring our travels we was continuous and urgent from the mining camp is, that there. comes a time history the a greatest He Reaches His Native Shore Once’ years after the C. of J. C. of L. D. 8. ing bought this mine, let him give his Saints. ‘Remarks were made by the personal attention to its. development members, after which the motion passed and the marketing of its ores, and his. by unanimous voice. Resolved, That this Conference recomchances of obtaining a competence or a fortune are immeasureably ahead of mend to the Conferences and Chiirches abroad, that in making out and ‘transhis neighbors who follow the beaten mi'ting minutes of their proceedings, paths of trade and commerce. such minutes and proceedings to be Every good mining camp furnishes made out under the above title. Resolwed, That “these” “minutes be’ examples of successful investment signed by the Moderator and’ Clerks, when supplemented by personal attenand published in the Hvening and Morntion to the business, and such examples ing Star, page 302. are the rule and not the exception. JOSEPH SMITH, JR., Moderator. The reason why the cry for capital is in the —four of the Lord’s It affords us great. satisfaction to lay before the Saints this unalterable name, by which’ they shall: be designated from) the spurious branches of the evil one, etc. It is worthy of notoriety that Lucifer and his minions have’ never, from the beginning, got exactly the true pattern. This teaches us that without revelation, no heaven on ! THE PROCESSION was formed and the line of march takMore. e n up in the following order: A strong | detachment of police under the comae The Grand Mar. mand of the Chief. Enthusiastic Reception at San Fran- shal, General W. L. Ellott, with a briljant retinue of aids. Volunteer offi-. Cisco. cers, soldiers and sailors of the rebelVee eee li ion, including ex-Confederate officers, [This revelation bears the unmissoldiers and sailors. The second brig. | The Reception. ade of the National ‘Guard, Oakland takable ear-marks of Rigdon. In it } San Francisco, Sept. 20.—Immedi: ately on‘ the receipt of intelligence that Light Cavalry as an escort to the | carhe ventilates freely those millennial riage containing General Grant, and the City of Tokio was nearing the views, which he had entertained since meyer Bryant, followed by veterans of port, the reception committee, consist1823,—“Yes, 1823,—(see Rigdon’s letters’ ing of Frank: M. | Pixley, Bae: Senator Mexcan war as a_ guard to Phelps), and in it one finds the germ Cole,,General Miller, and P. D. Corn- ue honor, the board of Supervisors and. the Executive ‘Committee. of Rigdon’s famous. (or rather infam- wall, repaired to the ‘tug Milton Grif. veterans of the war of 1812, regular ous) “Salt Sermon,” delivercd in. Far fith, lyin g with steam up at the Pacific troops of the United States army, His | Mail dock, and at once started to meet West, Missouri, in the summer of 1838, Excellency Governor Irwin and staff, the incoming steamer. Several miles _The Lord seems to be emphatically in earnest by repeating the name twice, andthe Saints who abide in the truth thousands or tens of thousands. \ Hav- considerable movements of elevation or depression since the commencement of the ered epoch.” Voleanic- movements of tremendous power occurred to the eastward of the gravel field, but the drainage of the gravel region, then as now, must have been south-westerly and the direction Mr, Goodyear’s lengthy and interesting paper. The conclusions he arrives at forces him to discard the proposition in the Turkish quietly slip off into the mining to use a fresh and accumulated ages. We have given a brief synopsis of transaction. good California, and in a paper read before the Academy of Sciences and published in the Bulletin of the 16th inst., propounds a new theory for the solution of the auriferous gravel problem. His first proposition is, that “contrary to what has been a very widely received opinion, the bedrock of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada has not Hungary, and about the for ordinarily extraordinary price, results in life-long poverty and disappointment. stock-jobbers, had been legitimately applied to mining in the way we have in- buy the girls from their parents. They arc brought to Constantinople, and there quartered until finally disposed of in houses mand yet itis a fact that Now comes Mr. W. A. Goodyear, who assisted under Prof. J. D. Whitney in the State geological survey of mighty accumulation went on, varying in depth from a few feet ‘to 200 feet. Atlast the volcanic era opened and from eruptive craters along the crest of the Sierras, vast quantities of volcanic material was carried on to the gravel beds, burying them from 100 to 1,000 feet. Over the slightly undulating surface of volcanic debris, the modern system of water courses took their meandering way at the close of the volcanic period. They have cut. their channels for hundreds of feet in depth in some instances through laya, grayel, es and the broad min eral land so generously thrown open to them by the. National Government, is a desirable and lucrative one, when taingd more or less of these atoms, They were wedded to sulphur and then to iron. With the introduction of vege- show men of good ing claims throughout editor That the Saints at home and. abroad may fully understand how the name» of the Church came into being, as we now call it; we have thought it. advisable to copy from the record of: the »Church, or law ofthe Lord, the following extract of a revelation, given at Far West, Mo., in April, 1838, through | Joseph Smith, ‘the prophet and seer of said Church, whose blood has sealed the truth of what “se revealed. It reads as follows: expensive the insane desire of the prospector, in too many instances, to load himself down with multiplied claims, or to de industrious Taylor, 1879. 27, GENERAL GRANT. 4, An explicit exhortation to the Mormons, to seek. redress from the civil authorities of the State and of the United States. d. A gentle reproof for giving up their stores, storehouses, etc. 6. An exhortation to hold on to their property in Jackson county to the end, at all hazards, since there and there alone the Lord had determined to build the temple of Zion. and Seasons and proprietor, had the following “The Name of the Church:” habits and with small capital, the business of prospecting for valuable min- A -CONSTANTINOPLE. letter in the Paris Temps gives: some interresting France, more of nature the atoms of both gold and silver first dwelt alone diffused through- While to first run over solid bedrock, the hollows and inequalities. would . first be filled with the wash, and the water thus displaced would seek other channels, leaving the old bed dry. The new ‘channel, crooked like the first, would in turn fill up, and so the thousands of streams that, for thousands of years, constituted the drainage of the mountains, filled:all the lower depres- Eogland, the: thing prove equally disastrous. Gunning, of June 1st, 1845, John business of mining, must, as a general gratify the extravagant habits of her citizens. As an instance showing how money is disbursed for opening the mines, it is stated that in Hureka, Nev., alone, $248,000 was: paid to miners for labor for the six months ending June a0th. The mines, which are worked in every direction, furnish the means with which to purchase farming produce ; were it not for this cause, many articles, would be a drug in the market,” details on the slave in Prof. Gunning, whose lectures on geology many.of our readers in Sait Lake will recall to mind, in a lecture in Sactamento on the “Origin of Gold and Silver,” insists that the precious metals have not come from a sea of fire below, but from a sea of water above. That they are of aqueous rather than of igneous origin. _ That in the order out nature. An éditorial in the 7mes orafarm by proxy, he must expect loss if not bankruptcy. The same sui- camps and visit the miners at their dumps and in their cabins, he could easily and certainly find prospectively valuable properties at moderate prices. Once impressed with the good points in a claim or mine, he could easily and readily obtain the advice and opinion of a thoroughly well infermed and re‘liable expert, and purchase from first pay the getically prosecuted for and and in sediments, through the decay of immense forests of sea plants. That during countless ages these forest-crowded from United States territory; under the new it pays handsomely, and pri- The the increased take a cheerful the Dominion tariff. Under the old tariff il did not pay to smuggle goods shores. demand. monetary purposes, must shortly seriously derange existing values him, Our neighbors in British beginning mining speculators for the information been drawn from oceans and deposited Ex.ConGRESSMAN Mackey, of South Carolina, reports the Republicans well organized’ in several of the districts. The South Carolina Republicans, he clams, are decidedly in favor of Grant’s nomination. ‘If Grant is nominated the colored people wili turn out and vote for him to a man, no matter what obstacles may be ‘Hier posed by the Democrats.” are ord, New York, writing from the gold region in Georgia, says: ‘Send out some investors who will buy and work like business men; we have had too: many speculators already.” Now this pro- The old man cratic prospects in 1880. is evidently trying to view of the situation.” proved disturb exchanges. News comes from Philadelphia that Col. Yom Scott, of the Pennsylvania railroad, while in Hurope, disposed of nental has ated particles over vast areas through | on which they base their investments, accounts for much ofthe loss’ and disthe instrumentality of water in running appointment attending such outlays. streams and placid lakes, he accounts for the placer diggings and auriferous Fair business habits and talent, with personal attention and sufficieat capigravels. He contends that the supply tal, is all that is needed to insure a betof gold furnished thus during the oldtime yoleanic period when the laboring ter average retuin on mining inyestments than on any other legitimate globe was being turned inside out, is branch of ‘business in this country. fast decreasing. That this presumed When a man undertakes to run a. store diminished supply, taken in connec- |. ferent parts of the State are being used many gravels, of gold, and the diffusion of the liber- A new industry is springing up in Florida. The wild, sour oranges which grow in great profusion in dif A great C. of J. C. of Le D.-S.: Rec. part of geologists. is the sort of ‘‘Macedonian” cry that Prof. Swess, of Austria, in a work may well go up from Utah and every published some two years since, adopts the theory of voleanic outcome as the| other great mining district ‘on this coast. The fact that investors in mines source of our gold supply. By disintoo frequently rely on middle-men and tegration of the rocks containing veins gling along the border. ee gee ern terminus. and lific of discussion and theories on the 27, 1879. A Oanapranjournal thinks it would take at least 10,000 men by day and an- farmers. A “MACEDONIAN” CRY. AND DISSEMINAOF GOLD. The vexed problem of the origin of gold and its dissemination in veins, Ei: ——_>—_———- > ATURDAY, ORIGIN TiN A correspondent of the Wining = SEPTEMBER B t ‘MORNING, OAH Seon ] extracted anc in the PME years: 1871, pgs to a carriage, Mayor ” ‘Bryant accompanying him, while the ae them,” by which they had eel: seven, and the challenge being yearly fee their inheritances. : various committees and others in atrenewed. »_London Trt uth. 2. Assurances of the favor of God, on tendance repaired to their own ¢arURE Slag lay Sag Pe tee repentance and a return to duty, and of riages. The gates of the dock were his vengeance on their enemies, “on Eureka Sentinel, 17th: The Land then thrown open and the vehicles whom I will pour out my wrath withCommissioners met in Hon. Thomas moved onward and took ‘their places, out measure in mine own time.” ren’s office yesterday, but no one ap- in the line. As the carriage containing’ 3. An exhortation to all their “warpeared to suggest any changes or General Grant made. its appearance, riors and young men” and middle-aged modifications in the laws relating to: cheer after cheer went up {from thous. men, “the strength of mine house,” to mining or Jands generally. Ata late ands of throats, while the surging assemble and march to the rescue of; hour last night the Commissioners. ‘crowds pressed forward and swayed {heir brethren, artfully concealed under were deliberating as to whether or’ not from side to side in their efforts to obthe similitude of a parallel of a parable they should depart for Virginia City) tain a passing glance at the familiar of a vineyard, this morning. lineaments of the Great ae With ag gee PB pea |
