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Startling" Disclosures of Four Hun
dred Kormon Women.
The Mormons in the valley of
the GroakSalt Lake have a serious
schism in their Church which has
led to very serious political and
social complications and created
crreat bitterness of feeling. This
We have received; our paper, , division is complicated by the
C. L. MINOR, Editor & Proprietor.
Saturday, June S. 1S72.
TO OUR BEADEE8.
Nexvp, edited by KWerGEOj:KQ. I TBLIOGKAPVUC NOVS
Uannon, denounces mis peuuon
asmisreprentin-tho factsofihe, j rp t, wteru Union Line 1
case, and charges that many of j 1 v-iw. j
but too Into to issue our. supple
ment. Next week, however, we
shall come out as of old.
GEff. 0. 0. HOWARD.
On the ISih of March last, Gen.
Howard was in San Francisco,
on his way to Arizona, where he
was interviewed by a Chronicle
reporter, and in that conversation
the General admitted that the
battle of Chancellorsville had been
lost through his own neglect, but
this was not made public until the
arrival there of Gen. Joe Hooker,
when it was published. On the
22d ultv at the request of Gen.
Hooker, the same reporter had a
long interview with him. The
General laid the mystery of the
loss ol that memorable battle to
the disregard of a telegram sent
to Gen. Howard by himself, with
regard to 'the movements ol the
Confederate forces. In answer to
a question as to Gen. Howard's
roman among the troops. If he
,vas not oorn m petticoats, ne
have very little to do with com-
'nmrnand a nraver meeting with
good deal more ability than he
, .1 H 1TTI1.1. . - 1 J
WUU1U Jill iiii-ii-. y ion iuy.in.. lu
his mission here in Arizona, Gen.
Hooker says he can give more in-
e -J.? 2-1 1 11 1 I
got from Gen. Howard. "He
vestigation of certain Freedman's
Bureau affairs. The Government
i,. :iim xi iii v;im 2111 ;mv inai if i lis
nil !i I i I 1 1 x i mrsi-iim I ii n l ill ."
Job Printing. We have just
received a large assortment of
type, and those in want of
lrj'iiuir-;. nrr. . win mm n. 111 cnnir
the Sentinel, office.
large influx of Gentile population
attracted there by the silver dis
coveries in their mountain ranges.
The Gentiles, as a rule, taking
sides with the apostate Mormons,
and thus giving emphasis to what
would otherwise be but a family
or Church quarrel. Nearly all ol
the United States authorities, both
military aud civil, have sooner or
latter some in conflict with the
Church dignitaries. General Con
nor waged against the Mormons
an unrelenting war; the late Fed
eral Court has done the same
thing, while the present Governor
is at open feud with the Priests,
Bishops and Elders of the Chuich
of Latter-Day Saints of Jesns
Christ. The last sensation in Mor-
mondom is a petition addressed to
the Congress of the United States,
and signed by some four hundred
women, protesting against the ad
mission of th estate of Deseret into
the Union, and praying Congress
not to withdraw from them the
strong protecting arm of Govern
ment. Among other serious ut
terances, the petitioners say: "The
rule of the Mormon priesthood is
a bloody despotism,and none more
so has disgraced the earth in mo
dern times." That Brigham
Young, in "the self-appointed
character of God's Vicegerent has
held the lives, liberty and proper
ty of the people in his hands; dis
obedience to him has been ac
counted a crime not to be atoned
for except by blood." Property
and life was held by his will one
tenth of their property had been
tithed for the Church; his orders
none dared disobey. " Bread has
been taken lrora the children's
mouths to swell the revenues of
the Church aud enable its rulers
to add house to house, and field to
field." During all the years of
priestly rule "no man's life and
woman's honor had been safe
if either stood in their way.
Never in the world will the his
tory of their dark and bloody deeds
be xully written, for the victim
and witness of many a tragedy are
hidden in the grave." The peti
tion charges that polygamous
marriages are on the increase, and
that since the previous 1st of
November "scores of young girls
have been led up to the Endowment-house
and sealed to men
who had already from two to five
families. The history of
Brigham Young's reign is writ
ten in characters of blood." This
memorial, dated the 1st of Feb.
1C70 Ic- ciminil Ivtt orvmn f -.!, linn
dred women, most of them mem
bers of the Mormon Church, amd
resident at Salt Lake City ;ffom
two to twenty years. The Mor
mon official organ, the Besseret
the signatures have been given in
igoraiice of the character of the do
cument. The petition is now
printed, with :tll thesignaturesat
taohed,auditsoemsthatno names
have been withdrawn and there
:ire no proofs that the signers were
not willing ones.
Thus tho indictment of murder,
lust and robbery is boldly prefered
against the Mormon priesthood by
400 women of the faith. None
sooner learn or better know f
priestly infamies than women of
a church; none are so slow to de
nounce crimes prepetrated in the
nairie of religion, as women. The
document is pointed and specific
in its charges, and strong in its ar
rav of names. It must be answered
and not sneered at; it will have to
bo met and refuted as a grave in
dictment of high crimes; crimes
against humanity and civiliza
tion. Murder, lust, rapine, done
.n America, in the 19th century,
in defiance of civil law, but under
the sanction of an ecclesiastical
authority, discloses a condition of
tilings that cannot be longer eng
dured. The duty of the Govern
ment is first to investigate, and if
the assertions of this petition are
true, it should be suroandswiftto
punish. The more emphatic and
resolute should be the condemna
tion ol ihese leariul crimes oe
causp they are done under the hy
pocritical sanction off spurious re
ligion. All the priestly disguises
should be torn from before these
priestly criminals, and the mantle
taken from them under which
they seek to hide their crimes.
One of the early resoltions of the
Republican party was opposition
to tho twin relics of barbarism
slavery and polygamy. Slavery
is abolished; let polygamy be era
dicated though it makes martyrs
of all Mormondom. S. F. Chronicle.
A Faithful Woman.
A middle-aged woman, rceenfly
frora New Hampshire, called at
one of the numerous employment
offices in this city, and told the
clerk she desired a situation as do
mestic in some family. A gentle
man happened to be present who
was anxious to procure just such a
person in his own family. A bar
gain was made at once, and the la
dy accompanied him home and
commenced her duties immediate
ly. A few days after a gentleman
was invited to dine at the house.
When all were seated around the
table, this lady came into the room
and recognized the gentleman as
her long-lost lover. It appears
that about twenty years ago they
had known and loved eacrh other,
and were engaged to he married;
but the Californiafever had car
ried him off, aait-did many others.
It was an old old story overagain.
He had Jbeen unlucky in the
mines for many years, but finally
eamoo San Francisco, a few years
agogota position as clerk in a dry
goods store, saved up money and
invested in Crown Point, and is
now up in the millions. This story
may sound a iirtio romantic, out
it is every word true. They will
soon be married, and the faithful
woman rewarded at last for her
constancy. -S, E. Republican.
v.
Domestic Dispatches.
No reply has been received at
Washington, up to the 2d inst.,
from the British Government, re
lative to the supplemental article
in the Washington Treaty. Lend
ing Senators regard the Treaty an
a thing of the past, although tho
State Department still entertains
slight hope In the Senate, on
the 1st, Sumner, in a speech on
the Treaty of Washington, se
verely attacked the Administra
tion and President Grant Tho
suit between the (.'hollar-PotDsi
aud Julia Silver Mininig Compa
nies of Virginia City, Nevada, be
fore the Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, has been decided
in favor of the latter company.
...Decoration day. was gener
ally observed in all the principal
cities. In Washington, the cere
monies were magnificent. Thou
sands of people gathered at the
Arlington cemetery, where the
graves were profusely decorated.
A terrible freshet has wrought
great devastation in Southern
Missouri. Whole farms in the
valley of Spring river have been
washed away, and live stock of
all kinds drowned m large num
bers. Hundreds of yards of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad wero
swept into tho adjoining fields.
Fsreign Dispatches.
The British Government con
siders the negotiations with the
United States, with regard to the
Treaty of Washington, to have
failed", and will inform Parliament
that it will withdraw from the
Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration.
Official Order of Gen. 0. 0. Howard.
The following important order
has been issued by Gen Howard,
permitting Gem Crook to go for
ward with vigorous operations
against- the Apaches:
H' DQU ARTEBS DEPT. ARIZONA,
Preseotr, A. T., May 0, 1872. j
General Georsre Crook, Com
manding Department: General:
The object of the telegram of the
21st, to prevent collision as far is
possibly between the troops and
the Indians, was to enable the Sec
retary of the Interior to make one
more effort to settle trouble peace
ably. That effort has beeninade
through me, as Special Commis
sioner. As robberies and. murders
still continue amongst the incor
rigibly hostile, to those who are
not on "Reservations; and who will
not go on Reservations, there is no
course left but to deal with them
with vigor, according to your dis
cretion, till tho murderersand rob
bers and those who sympathize
with them, whatever tribe they
belong to, be made to feel the pow
er of the Government to punish
crime. I will, in the name of the
Secrtaries of War and of the Inte
rior, who sent me here with dis
cretionary power, and in accor
dance with the spirit of tlio Presi
dent's order, relieve you lrom any
thing in the said telegram that
shall hinder this vigorous course.
Yourobedi6ut servant,
(Signed) O. O Howard. ,
. Brig Gen. U. S. Army, Special
Com, ""Indiau Department.
