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Northerner.
PAW TAW, MICHIGAN.
tfEWS OF THE YfEEK.
FOREIGN IKTEIXiaENOE.
Montenegro tubbornly refuses to relinquihh
the territory conquered by her wur with Tur
key, and biu burned a circular to the power
ktatlng that nho will continue to occupy and
defend the diHtricU In question againat any at
tempt at recapture. The rorte, under pres
sure of th fanatic who will not liHten to the
fxegotiatiou of a peaoo that docs pot involve
the restoration of this territory, U compelled
to demand its trarreader, and thua tho matter
elands.
The deaths in London from small-pox aver
age 100 per week.
A sharp battle haa been fought In Japan be
tween tb-e Government troops and rebels. The
latter were touUmI at every point
The induKtrial criala in Germany grows worBe,
wid. destitution is spreading with significant
raindity. A. Deputy recently stated in the
Iieichntag that actual famine was impending in
the G iant xaountains, Bilosia. In Berlin, a com
mittee has been formed to initiate measures of
relief, and other cities and towns have asked
permission to begin important public works to
give emifloyment to tho poor. Altogether the
situation is diJtxessing and the famine threat
ening. For tfce AM time in the history of the En
glish university races a dead heat has been de
clared. The annual race between Osord and
Cambridge, on the 21th of March, was the most
exciting ever rowed on the Thames, and at the
finish the judge refused to decide in favor of
tnthar, and the heat was declared off.
A London dispatch announces the death of
Valtf r Bagehot, tho well-known writer on po
litical economy.
A Home dinpatch says : 44 The Tope's illness
is quite serious. When the fainting fits have
occurred ho has remained unconscious longer
each time. He does not wish his illness to be
txflocived, and mades strong efforts to liide it,
producing a painful reaction."
A British war steamer lately went up tho
Congo river, on tho west eoast of Africa, and
hammered seven negro villages to pieces, as a
punishment for capturing and plundering an
American schooner.
The London Time perceives in the present
interruption of England's negotiations with
llsssia tho possibility of an antagonism which
may develop into a great conflict, and, evi
dently regarding tho negotiations as practi
cally at an end, says the eyes of Europe once
more turn to the members of tho triple alli
ance. One of the Khedive's American officers, Col.
Mitchell, went a littlo Vk far in the late Abys
tinian expedition, nd is now a prisoner,
chained to negro soldiers, and suffering terri
bly, in the euemy's country. Negotiations for
peaoo have not yet been brought to a successful
isce.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
A forger of railroad bonds, named James
Kirkpatrick, has been arrested in New York
with 100,000 worth of spurious Missouri Pa
cific bonds. They are said to be an almost per
fect imitation of the genuine bonds.
A, Oakey Hall, ex-Mayor of New York, and
for many years one of the most noted men in
the metropolis, has mysteriously disappeared.
His friends lelievo that he has either been mur
dered or lias committed suicide, as it is said his
mental facilities have lately shown signs of
failing. Another theory is that Mr. Hall has
ailed for Europe to escRpe testifying against
his old friend Peter B. Sweeney, for whom ho
had a warm regard.
The Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Good
Templars has refused to admit colored people
to uicmlxTship.
Tho village of Madrid, near Watertown, N. Y.,
was viited a few nights ago by burglars, who,
after plundering some stores, net lire to the
town and almost burned it up.
The Senate of Massachusetts has passed a
resolution providing for an amendment to the
constitution of the State under which women
shall be emjHiwered to vote at all elections.
Tho breaking of a dam at Staffordsville,
Conn., the other day, let loose a tremendous
Hood upon the mills and manufactories located
in that thriving region, sweeping into general
ruin buildings, bridges, tenement-houses, etc.,
and causing damage at first estimated among
the millions, but at last accounts placed at about
750,0OO.
WOHt.
A daring robbery was committed at Indianap
olis the other day. A thief entered the Indiana
National Bank, and, placing a small box
hich he carried upon tho floor, leaped
upon it, And, reaching over the railing,
grabbed a package containing $20,100, and
made off vith it before tho attendants and
clerks could give the alarm.
A dispatch from Chico, Cal.. says the persons
five in number engaged in the lato massacre
of Chinese have been arrested. They are all
members of the order of Caucasians.
Five highwaymen recently attacked tho
Cheyenne and Elack Hills stage near Dead
wood, Dakota. The driver was shot and
killed, whereupon the horses took fright and
ran away, not stopping till they reached Dead
wood, nearly three wiles distant. All the pa
engers escaped except one, who was thrown
from the top of the coach. Tlw robbers fired
about twenty shots at the flying stage.
Black Hills tramps now infest the Union
Tacific railway between Omaha and Cheyenne,
and are giving train-men a great deal of
trouble.
J. Clark Hwayze, editor of the Topeka (Kan
sas) Blade, was recently shot and killed by
John W. Wilson, editor of tho Tojka Time.
Houtli.
A number of persons have been arrested by
NichoUV police in New Orleans for enlisting
men in the Packard militia, and committed to
prison without bad.
The Tennessee Legislature has adjonrncd
without making any arrangements for the ad
justment of the State debt.
The President scut another dispatch to Gen.
Augur, at New Orleans, last week, notifying
him that the true intent and meaning of all
previous orders is that he is to let thingi alone,
and allow no violent change to be made by
either party in the existing situation.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A delegation of prominent colore! men
called upon the Resident 1 1 e other day and
thanked him for the appointment of Fred.
Douglass as Marshal of the District, The Pres
ident, in reply, said that' in making this ap
pointment his object was to show to the coun
try that it was his purpose to fully carry out
the declaration of his Inaugural. The amend
ments to the constitution must be strictly ad
hered to, and all citizens protected in their
right, lie referred to the appointment
of colored persona, and said that no
discrimination must be made on account of
color, Should any publio officer, having a po
sition to be bestowed, make any such discrim
ination, he would consider it sufficient cause
for his removal. In conclusion he referred to
his policy of reconciliation, and expressed his
confidence in its success.-
At a Cabinet meeting held last week, the
policy of sending a commission to Louisiana,
to examino into the political com
plications of that State and present a state
ment of all the facts in the case, was
fully decidod upon. It was also settled that
this step will bo taken before any material al
teration or disturbance of the present situation
is brought about by the administration. Upon
the proposition to immediately withdraw the
troops from the vicinity of tho State House in
New Orleans the Cabinet was divided Messrs.
Evarts, Schurz and Key favoring, and Messrs.
Sherman, Thompson, McCrary and Deveus op
posing tbo proposition.
Tue Army Board of Engineers, consisting of
Gens. Duane, Wright and Giihnan, mho wto
ordered to examine the Washington inojm
xnentand the foundation upon which it is
built, after a careful examination of the work
done, and the strata beneath the foundation,
have ordered the work to oeaso. All the mem
bers agreed that the monument could not
be completed according to the regular de
sign, because the formation of tho ground
below the foundation will not admit of more
weigtot being put upon tho monument. The
foundation was originally placed 8 feet be
low the surface, and ha now settled 8
inches. Tho settling began while the monu
ment was in process of building, and as in set
tling the shaft leaned north, tho builders still
built according to the plumb-line, and tho whole
pile is crooked.
Owing to the utter inefficiency of tho recent
f eminino appointees in the Dead-Letter Office,
women in future will be subjected to the rules
which govern the admission of masculine
clerks.
Minister Washburue has asked to be recalled
from Paris.
It was decided, at a Cabinet meeting held on
tho 23d of March, to invite Chamberlain and
Hampton to Washington for the purpose of
having a conference with the President touch
ing the political troubles in South Carolina, and
a note was accordingly addressed to each of the
rival gubernatorial claimants by the President's
Private Secretary, inviting them to visit the
capital in person.
An investigation of tho charges against As
sistant Solicitor of tho Treasury Conant has
been completed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury Department, the result being tho exonera
tion of Mr. Conant.
Humors that Mr. Schurz will retire from the
Cabinet and accept a foreign mission aro em
phatically contradicted by tho Secretary himself.
Secretary Thompson declares that he intends
to use his utmost exertions to keep the ex
penditures of the Navy Department within the
appropriations.
Ten millions more in tho old 5-20 bonds have
been called in by tho Treasury Department, in
terest to cease on the 27th of June. An equal
sum of per cents, will bo issued in exchange
for tho retired Cs.
The President appointed as Postmasters Wm.
A. Denny, at Vincennes, Ind. ; Luke E. Heniin
way, at Moline, 111., and John L. Hauser, at
Fond du Lac, Wis.
POLITICAL POINTS.
A Washington dispatch says : 44 Minister
Washburno informed a friend that ho had
asked to bo recalled, and he xected his re
quest would bo complied with. His friends sayj
ho will return from Paris in tho fall and pre-
pare to contest tho Senatorial succession with
Senator Oglesby."
It is stated from Washington that "the com
mission of Waldron as Marshal for the Mem
phis (Tenn.) district has been made out. This
is tho officer w hom tho President nominated,
and who, through false representations made
to Senators, was allowed to lie in committee
without action. Tennessee men who desire to
como in accord with tho administration are
highly pleased with tho final success of Wal
dron." Touching tho President's Southern policy,
the Associated Press agent at Washington
sends out tho following semi-official dispatch t
"Concerning tho alleged assurances of the
President to Southern gentlemen, involving tho
withdrawal of the troops from the capitals of
Louisiana and South Carolina, there is authority
for saying that tho President has given no as
surance of immediate action on that subject.
In all cases ho has said that the gravity of
these questions required caution and delibera
tion, aird hence his recent letter to Govs.
Chamberlain and Hampton, inviting them to
Washington. It is further stated in official
quarters that previous to the President's in
auguration he meditated sending a com
mission to Louisiana. Several of the
prominent Southern men, who had been
referred to as parties to tho various
alleged agreements on the subject, say they
are as well satisfied now as at any previous time
that iu the end no Southern State Government
will bo sustained by Federal troops. They con
sider that nothing has been done by the Presi
dent since ho indorsed tho sentiments of Rep
resentative Foster's speech, or since ho mado
them more emphatically his own in his inau
gural address, which violates or indicates any
intended violation of policy thus announced,
and, therefore, even if the assurances given by
Matthews and Foster had been made by tho
President himself (which was not tho case)
there is no ground for asserting that they will
not bo fulfilled."
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.
Minister Cuahing is coming home from Spain.
There is a great rush of gold-seekers to the
Black Hills.
Ex-President Grant left Washington last
week for St Louis. He will sail in few days for
Europe.
Commercial failures : John M. Ferguson,
Louisville, Ky., pork-packer, liabilities, 1240,
000 Walter C. Adams, New York, commission
merchant, $-000,000 ; Callaghan A Lynch, San
Francisco, rtock brokers, $900,000 ; World
Mutual life Insurance Company, New York ;
Evans, Clifton A Co., Cincinnati, iron manu
facturers, 1115,000; Lenfz, Bonnie A Co.,
liquors, Frt Wayne, Ind.; reck A Stone
breaker, Hagerstown, Ind., pcrk-packeri,
fl20,000 R, A. Hoskins A Co., commission
merchants, Toronto, Canada, $140,000 ;
A. T. McOord, banker, Toronto, 1240,000 ; L.
It. Baker, dry goods, Beauharnois, Canada,
50,000 the Bank of Lansingburgh, N. Y. ;
George llencken, Jr., jKirk-packer, New York,
9100,000 1 the National Bank of Gloversville,
N. Y.; Caleb Iwa; Detroit, f 470,000 ; It. M.
Parker, piano-tool ' manufacturer, Bockford,
I1L, 133,000 1 William D. Morton A Co., De
troit, 1130,000.
The amount of grain in tight in the United
States and Canada is as follows : Wheat 10,141,
070 bushels; corn, 11,499,354 bushels; Oats,
2,950,000 bushels ; rye, 783,052 bushel ; barley,
3,002,908 bushels.
Will the Black Hills Prove a Failure
My stay in the Deadwoexl region was
of live daya Juration. - The mines now
in operation are all gulch, or sluice mines,
although urospocting for quartz mining
is constantly going on. Fire or six, pos
sibly ten, mines in the whole region pay
from $200 to 2,000 per day. The largest
amount I saw taken from any one excava
tion in a single day was 81,085, which
was the result of the work of seven men
employed by the owner. The average
Deadwooel gulch mine will just alout pay
"grub," and those that pay good living
wages are rare. Seven out of every ten
men in the whole region have no money
and no means of getting any. Tb e Dead
wood ground is all taken up, and men do
not dare to go out prospecting away from
the main body on account of the In
dians. Summed up briefly, the condi
tion of mining affairs is this: Placer mines
all taken up; quartz mines the only re
source left. In order to work these, cap
ital, machinery and mills for the crush
ing of ore must be introduced. Men of
wealth will hesitate about sending capital
into a country so far from railroad com
munication, and about which so little is
definitely known. Most of the men now
in the Black Hills are laboring men, in
experienced as miners. Their chauces
for employment in the mines, then, are
small, and their prospects in quartz min
ing aro even poorer. The mineral riches
of the Black Hills cannot be developed
for fully twenty-five years to come. So
far no great success has followed the bent
efforts ; what future work will bring
forth is a matter of uncertainty, of
course, but there seems little reason for
5)rophesying anything remarkable,
firming there is out of the question.
Throughout a greater part of the district
heavy frosts begin in September ; snow
storms did not cease last spring until the
1 1th ilny of June. Every fanner will s;e
that a country where winter reigns from
September to June cannot support
its inhabitants upon its agricultural
products. It follows, then, that the
necessaries of life must always be
importeel at immense cost. There is to be
considered the collateral fact that during
a greater part of this long season of ice
and snow, placer-miners cannot work.
Can men earn enough money in two
months of labor to subsist with profit
through ten months of idleness ? It is
asserted by miners ani engineers, grown
gray in experience, that a region where
mining cannot be carried on at least sev
en months out of every twelve can never
be of any permanent value to its oper
ators. I have no hesitation in saying that I
think the Black Hills will eventually
Crovo a failure. The trip thence would
e a severe trial for most men, even if the
danger of being murdered were removed.
At present the journey is exceedingly
dangerous, and if by good fortune the
gold-hunter succeeds in surviving its
hardships and getting through alive, his
enhances for success are few and his ex
penses netiessarily will be large. L. P.
llichardon, in Scribncr for April.
Saved from a Wildcat's Claws.
Louis and "William La Duke, aged 17
and 13, went out hunting five miles from
Port Huron, on the Block way plank road.
They had two dogs with tliem, one a
bloodhound, and the elder boy was armed
with a shot-gun. They had gone into
the woods forty rods from the road, when
the hound, which was olT a little elistance,
began to bark. The boys looked and
saw, as they supposed, n coon striving to
avoid the dogs. William ran to head the
animal oiF, when it rush eel upon him.
He turned to run up te his brother. The
animal sprang upon the boy's back, utter
ing horrid growls. With his claws upon
the boy's forehead, the terrible creature
was about to begin to mangle its victim,
when the elder brother rushed forward.
The beast threw up its head for an in
stant, with a growl at the new comer.
The boy, although four rods away, saw
the opportunity, and, leveling his shot
gun as quick as thought, sent the full
charge through the throat of the fero
cious beast, killing it instantly. The
shot passed squarely over tho head of
the younger boy, not missing him by
more than an inch or two. The boy was
only slightly scratched. His double
escape may be considered miraculous.
The wildcat was large, and in good fight
ing trim. Port Huron (Mich.) Com
mercial. Family Succession in Congress.
TheCamerons don't present the first
instance of family succession in the Sen
ate. The present Senator Bayard suc
ceeded his father, and both were elected
to the Senate on the same day the
father to fill a vacancy and the son to
succeed for the long term. Two brothers,
Saulsbury, have rotated in the Senate
from Delaware Willard having served
twelve years and Eli having succeeded
him, and now just entered his second
term. Benton sat in the Senate? with his
son-in-law, Fremont, and Dodge, of Wis
consin, serveel in tho same body with his
son from Iowa. Butler served in the
House with a son-in-law (Ames in the
Senate, and Chandler served in the Sen
ate with a son-in-law (Hale in the House.
The strongest representation of any one
family in Congress was the three Wash
burn brothers, who served together in
one Congress Israel from Maine, Elihu
from Illinois, and Codwallaeler from
Wisconsin. Ph iladctphia Time.
Prince Bismarck having brought an
action against Mr. Iludolph Meyer, edit
or of a clerical newspaper, for saying that
the Prince had accepted several shares
from the Credit Foncier Company, the
result is that Mr. Meyer goes to prison
for nine mouths and pays costs.
The premium bale of cotton, which
won the 81,000 prize at the Centennial
Exhibition, is to be sent to the Interna
tional Horticultural Exhibition in Hol
land by the Cotton Exchange of Memphis.
A GREAT CRIME AYENOED.
Execution ot John D. Lee for the Mount
ain Meadow Maiwutrre I'artlrulttni of the
Horrid Crime.
Salt Lake, Utah, March 23.
At 11 a. m. precisely, John D. Leo
was brought upon the scene of the mas
sacre at Mountain Meadows, before the
executing party, and seated on his ooffin,
about twenty feet from the shooters. Lee
made a speech, in which he said :
44 I have but little to say this morning.
Of course I feed that I am upon the brink
of eternity, and the solemnities of eter
nity should rest upon my mind. At the
present I have made out, or endeavored
to do so, a manuscript and an abridged
history of my life, Tliis will be pub
lished. Sir, I have given my views and
feelings with regard to all these things.
I feel resigned to my fate. I feel as
calm as a summer morning. I have
done nothing adversely wrong. My con
science is clear before God and man,
and I am ready to meet my Redeem
er. This it is tli at places me
upon this field. I am not nn infidel. I
have not denied God or His mercy. I
am a strong believer in those things.
The most I regret is the parting with
my family. Most of them are unpro
tected, and will be left fatherless. When
I speak of those little ones, they touch a
tender chonl within me. I have done
nothing designedly wrong in this affair.
I used my utmost eneleavors to savo
these people. I would have given
worlds, were it at my command,
to have avoided that calamity but I
could not I am sacrificed to satisfy the
feelings, and am used to gratify parties,
but I am ready to die. I nave no fear of
death. It has no terrors, and no parti
cle of mercy have I asked from the court,
nor have I asked the officials to spare my
life. I elo not fear death. I shall never
go to a worse place than tho one I am
now in. I have said it to my family, and
I will say it to-elay, that the'Government
of the United States sacrifices their best
friend, and that is saying a great deal,
but it is true.
44 1 am a true believer in the gospel of
Jt8us Christ. I do not believe every
thing that is now practiced and taught
by Brigham Young. I do not agree with
him. I bcReve he is leading people
astray, but I believe in the gospel as
taught in it, purity by Joseph Smith in
former dayB. I have my reasons for
saving this. I used to mako this man's
will my pleasure, and did so for thirty
years. See how and what I have come
to this elay. I have been sacrificenl in a
cowardly, dastardly manner. There are
thousands of people in the church hon
orable, good-hearted, that I cherish in
my heart. I regret to leave my famih.
They are near and dear to me. These
are tilings to arouse my sympathy. I
declare I did nothing designedly wrong
in the unfortunate affair. I did every
thing in my power to save all the emi
grants, but 1 am the one that must
suffer. Having said this I feel resigneel.
I ask the Lord my God to extend His
mercy to me, and receive my spirit. My
labors are done here."
After the speech Parson Stokes
(Methodist) made a prayer, commending
the soul of the condemned man to God.
Immediately after this a handker
chief was plae'ed over Lee's eyes. He
raised his hands, placing them on top of
his head, sitting firm.
Nelson gave tho word to fire, and,
exactly at 11 o'clock, live guns were fireel,
penetrating the body in the region of the
heart, and Lee fell squarely back upon
his coffin, elead. His death was instan
taneous. lee's confession.
Shortly after the conviction of Lee,
in September lust, he made a full
confession in writing of his partitu
pation in the Mountain Meadows massa
cre, from which we make the following
extracts:
My name is John 1). Lee. I was born
on Sept. C, 1812, at Kaskaskia, IUnderiph
county, 111. My mother belougeel to the
Catholic church, and I was christened in
that faith. My parents died while I was
still a child, and my boyhood was one of
trial and hardships. 1 married Agathe
Ann Woolsey in and moved U Fay
ette county, III., on Buck creek. There
I became wealthy. In . 18I3G 1 became
acquainted with some traveling Mor
mon preachers. I bought, read
and beliewd the Book of Mormon.
I sold my property in Illinois and movent
to the far West in Missouri in 17, where
I joined a Mormon church. I took an
active part as a Mormon soldier in the
conflicts between the people ot Missouri
and the Mormons, which made Jackson
county, Mo., historic ground. When the
Mormons were expelled from Missouri, I
was one of the first to settle at Nauvoo,
111., where I took an active part in all
that was done for the church or city. I
traveleel extensively through the Uniteel
States as a Mormon missionary, and acted
as trader and financial agent for the
church from the eleath of Joseph Smith
until the settlement at Salt Lake City.
A 8 a duty to myself and mankind Inow
confess all that I did at the Mountain
Meadows massacre without animosity to
anyone, shielding none, and giving the
facts as they existed. Those with me en
that occasion were acting under orders
from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints. The horrid deotls then
committed were done as a duty which we
believed we owed to God and our church.
Wo were all sworn to secrecy before and
after the massacre. The penalty for giv
ing information concerning tho crime was
death. As I am to suffer death for what
I then did, and have been betrayeel both
by those who gave the orders to act and
tho most active of my assistants, I now
give tho world the true facts as they ex
ist, and tell why tho massacre was com
mitted and who were the active partici
pants. The Mountain Meadows massa
cre was the result of the teachings of
Brigham Young, and it was done by the
orders of those high in authority in the
Mormon community. Tho immeeliate
orders for tho massacre were issued by
Col. Dame, Lieut. Col. Isaac C. Haight,
and the Council at Cedar City, Utah.
Lieut Col. Haight snid the emigrants
were a rough set ; that they were bod
men, robbers and murderers, and that
they had helped to kill the Missouri
prophets. I believed him. I was or
dered to raise the Indians to attack the
train and run off the cattle, and to have
the Indians kill tho emigrants. Maj.
Higby made a speech, and said that the
emigrants were all to bo killed who could
talk, and that we must get them out of
tho fortifications by treachery. We hatl
a prayer-circle and then more seeches
were made, and it was agreed by all
parties that it was tho will of God for us
to do as we wero ordered. A
flag of truce was then sent forward.
It was carried by William Bate num.
He was met half-way by the emigrants,
and they held a parley with him. Bate
xnan then returntd and reported that the
emigrants would surrender their arms
and do as they had been requested. The
Mormon soldiers then marched out to
within 200 yards of tho emigrants. They
next took the wagons and went to the
camp and stated their orders. The emi
grants then surrendered and put their
arms, sick and woundetl, and children
into the wagons. While they were bury
ing thenr dead men the emigrants burst
into tears and said they feared treachery.
As soon as the wagons were loaded the
train was starteel The emigrants
marched in single file, the women and
large children being ahead. Then the
men came. When the wagons were half
a mile off the firing commenced. The
Indians killed all the women and large
children, the Mormons killed the . men,
and the drivers with me killed the sick
and wounded. We saved seventeen
children. The dead were stripped and
mutilated, and the corpses left on the
field. The horrors attending the mas
sacre of the emigrants were beyond my
description. I went to Salt Lake City
and made my report to Brigham . Young
ten days after the massacre. I told him
all, everything, who were there, who
were guilty, and who were active in kill
ing the emigrants; in fact, all I knew. I
said to him, 44 You must sustain us, or
release us from the endowment oath
to avenge the tltmth of the proph
ets." Brigham Young said 44 1 will com
municate with God." I went back next
morning, when Young said 44 Brother
Lee, not a drop of innocent blood has
been shed. I have gone to God in prayer.
God has shown me it was a just act The
people, did right, but were only a little
hasty. I have direct evidence from God
that the act was a just one, and that it
was in accorel with God's will. I sustain
you and all your brethren in all you did.
All I fear is treachery on the part of the
brethren concerned- Go home and tell
the brethren I sustain them. Keep all
secret as the grave. Never tell any one,
and write me a letter laying all the blame
to the Indians. I will then report to the
Lnited States Government that it was an
Indian massacre."
CIRCUMSTANCES OF LEE'S HORRIBLE CftlSIE.
From a w York World Interview with Judge Mc
Keun, of Utah.
Learning that Judge McKcan, of the
United States District Court for Utah,
was stopping at the Astor House, a
World reporter questioned him as to the
circumstances of the Mountain Meadow
massacre.
44 1 suppose your memory does not ex
tend back to the time of tho massacre it
self," said Judge McKean. 44 It was in
18o7 toward the fall of that year, I
think. . So you see it is almost twenty
years age. President Pierce had ap
pointeel Brigham Young to bo Territorial
Governor, and when Buchanan came in
he appointed a man named Cummings to
succeed him. Brigham Young rebelled
against this and prepared to prevent
Cummings from taking possession of the
Government. Col. Albert Sidney John
ston, who was already known as an ex
cellent, brave officer, was marching across
the plains at the head of the United
State s troops, under orders to suppress
any forcible resistance that might be of
fered against the new Governor. About
this time it happened that a very large
compniy of emigrants, who wero on their
way to California, stopped at Salt Lake
City for supplies. This was one of the
largest and best equipped companies of
emigrants that ever started for the far
West. They came f rom Kansas and Mis
souri." "How mauy were therein the com-
pany ?"
" Well, there were from 120 to 130
killed, and fifteen or seventeen children
I besides, who were saved, but tho exact
! number of the whole company before the
j massacre is not known. As I was telling
, you, the emigrant s put in at Salt Lake
City for supplies, but wero refused all
facilities to procure them. After som."
j delay they left tho city and starteel off on
their long march across tho plains, A
e 1 n i n i n 'it
iew uays aue rwam iteorge A. omilli,
gene rally recognized as Brigham Young's
right-hand man, also left Salt Lake
City, passed the emigrant train, visited
the settlements through which it would
have to pass, and gave orders forbidding
anybody to furnish the emigrants with
supplies upon any consideratitm. Not
withstanding these hardships, the emi
grants pushed on till they came to the
Mountain Meadows, in the southwestern
corner of tho Territory. There they
made a halt to fted their cattle."
"And it was thero that they were at
tacked?" 14 While there they saw a company of
horsemen advancing toward them, and,
fearing that it was an enemy, they hasti
ly formed a corral of their wagons and
baggage, within which they gathered
their company and effects, and prepared
to defend themselves. They were pretty
well armed. AVhen the advancing party
had como within rifle shot they appeared
to be all Indians, and for many years
after the massacre it was generally be
lieved that thero wero no white men
among tho murderers. It was after
ward discovered, however, that thero wero
both Indians and white men present, the
whites being disguised as Indians. The
attacking party iunneebately opened fire.
Tho emigrants returned it, 'and as often
as they got an opportunity they scooped
out holes in the ground and let down the
wheels of their wagons so that the boxe s
would make a better defense. , The emi
grants could not have been overcome by
such a force if the enemy had not resort
ed to strategy. Thero was a spring near
by where the emigrants were corralleel,
and the enemy soon took measures to
cut off the supply of water. Having
leen compelled to Buffer the pangs of
thirst for a long time, they finally clothed
a number bf their little girls in white,
and startexl them off to fetch water from
tho spring. The murderers opened fire
on the children, and they wero obliged
to put back. Still tho emigrants main
tained a strong defense, and at last two
or three from the attacking paity ap
proached them under a flag of truce.
Somo of the emigrants went out and a
parley was held The leader of the at
tacking party, who, although dressed
like an Indian, apoke English fluently,
demanded a surrender, promising to
1.a livM of the Drisouers ami te
escort them safely out of the country
The conditions were reaauy Hwrjiieu.
44 And yet the prisoners were put to
death?"
41 They laid down their arms ana
Their nroix'rty. which
was considerable, was taken possession
of, and under the eseon oi uie Auuinu
they began their march toward Salt Lake
City. They had not gone far when at a
signal tho enemy opeinnl fire on them,
and tho whole company, with the exc
tion of a few small children, was butch
ered. One man escaped and ran away,
but he was overtaken somewhero on the
plains and put to death."
44 What was done with the children ?"
44 They wero . distributed around Mor
mon families. ' It is said that one of
those children, a little girl, on seeing a
Mormon woman wearing the dress that
had formerly belonged to her mother,
said, 'My mamma used to have that,
dress.' Soon after the girl disappeared.
She knew too much."
44 How did the truth about the massa
cre finally come out ?"
44 The facts were got mainly from men
who have quarreled with the Mormons,
or become disgusted with Mormonism.
It was long ago proven beyond all doubt
that John I). Lee was the man who, dis
guised as an Indian, went elown under
the flag of truce and held the parley with
the emigrants."
44 Why i it that none of the others,
have been brought to trial ?"
44 Well, of course they did all they
could to cover up their crime, and be
sides they were aided by all their Mor
mon brethren. As I said before, it was,
a long time before auvlody thought that
a single white man had a hand in the
crime. Somo of the perpetrators took
the precaution to move away' quietly be
fore they began to be suspected. Lee
himself removed down on the Colorado
river. He lought up a large tract of
hind and lived there perfectly isolated
from everybody but his many wives and
the rest of his own household. At the
time of tho massacre Lee was a sub-In-dian
Agent, and was employed by th
Mormons to teach the Indians farming.
This was probably only part of the gen
end scheme of the Mormausto get on the
blind side of the Indians."
4 4 Why was Lee shot instead of hangeel?"
IWausc with us the law allows a man
I u.,WnTw.n,1 tst ilpntli tn leet whether it
shall be by hanging, shooting, or decap
itation. Lee, when he was sentenceel to
be executed, elected to elie by shoot
ing." Twins and Triplets.
There is a pretty constant increase in
the decennial number of plural child
births in the kingdom of Prussia. In
Hie period between 1824 and 1834" this
class of births amounted to 112 per
10,000 births, and the same proportion
was repeated in the succeeding decenni
um. From 1844 to 1854 the proportion
was 114 to 10,000; from 1854 to 18G4,
123; from 18G4 to 1874, 128. Of these
plural .births, the immense majority,
nearly 99 per cent , were twins. Trip
lets were somewhat less than 1 peir
cent In over 6,000,000 births there
were only 79 cases of 4 at a birth, and
one case of 5 at a birth. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
A Destructive Insect.
It was in 18C5 that the phylloxera ap
peared in the vineyards of the South of
France; its ravages have been continued
ever since. , The Department of Gard,
which used to produco 120,000,000 gal
lons of wine, now yields not one-fourth
ns much. One commune, Castries, in
the Department of Herault, annually
produced, before the appearance of the
phylloxera, 3,000,000 gallons; one year
later the product was 250,000 galfons;
three years later the vineyards had been
entirely destroyed !
Female Bank Directors.
So far but two women in the United
Stites have been elected as directors of
national banks, Mrs. Bradley, of Peoria,
111., being one, and Mrs. Louisa McCall,
of Canton, Ohio, who was but recently
elected, the other. Mrs. McCall's hus
band was President of the bank at tho
time of his death, and she has leen
elected, as well fitted by her business
ability to represent his large interests.
There are many other women who are
equally competent to fill such positions.
New York Graphic.
THE MABKETS.
NEW YORK.
Beeveb g 50 (11 50
Hogr 5 75 6 03
Cotto ii nj
Ilovr Hnporflne WeHtoru 5 7o' 6 00
Wheat No. 2 Chicago l 43 j 45
Cokn WeHtrrn Mixtl fir,
Oats Wentorn Mixed 39 44
Ute Wentcm m
IXrk New Menu 14 75 13 00
Lari HU-aiu 914 9
CHICAGO. 4
Beeves Choice Graded Steer.. . . 6 25 5 SO
Choice Natives 4 00 5 00
Cow and Heifera 2 60 400
Oood Second-clan Steer.. 3 90 4 15
Medium to Fair 4 20 4 40
Hook Live 5 15 5
1'LOi'B Fancy White Winter 7 00 8 00
Oood to Choice Sj ring Ex. 6 00 6 25
Wheat No. 2 Spring 1 27 1 ikm.'
No. 3 Spring l 18 1 20
Cor No. 2 , j 41 v;
OatNo. 2 saV
Rte No. 2 64 7
Barley No. 2 f4 55
Hctteh Creamery si 33
Kooa Freh 15 10
J'ORK Mens ....!!!!l30 13 75
La0 9 V
MILWAUKEE.
Wheat-No. 1 1 44 1 45
No. 2 1 33 1 35
Cors No. 2 3-jl; 41
Oats No. 2 i 81
69 70
llARLEY No. 2 76 78
ST. LOUIS.
Wheat No. 2 Rod Fall 1 K4 I 55
Corn Western Mixed 37 aV
Oats No. 2 3.1 v art'
Rte 67 68
I'ork Mess 14 00 14 25
Lari v
Hoos 4 50 50
Cattle 3 2a 6 00
CINCINNATI.
Wheat 1 50 1 CO
Corn 41 43
Oats 86 40
Rte ; 74 75
Pork Mohs 14 00 14 25
Lard 10,
TOLEDO.
Wheat Extra.... 1 57 1 M
Aniber 1 M
Corn
Oais No. 2 w
DEI UOIT.
FLorn Medium 6 50 7 00
Wheat white 1 M 1 5V
Corn No. 2
Oats Mixed 41
Rye 7ft
l'oaa Ma 1 50 1 "5
EAST LIBERTY, TA.
Hood Yorkers 5 20 5 fto
I'bilMdvll'hia 5 K.I mi
GaTTLE Bt 5 7.', 6 JO
Medium 4 f 1 5 50
Sheep 5 tki ti 50