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Tkandar Febrnnrjr 4. 173
THE MOrTAI MEADOW
,HSSA(KE.
Madison, Wis., Feh. 3. The Legisla
ture in Joint Convention, this morning,
olected Aliens Cameron I. S. Senator.
The resnlt wns brought abont by coali
tion of the Democrats with Buttine, Re-
pabliran. The latter offered the Demo-
era ts fonr names from whirb tbf T might
choose as candidates. J ridge Cole, ex
GoTernor Lewis, Gen. Gnppey and
Anens Cameron. The Democratic cao-
-ens last night, nominated Cameron, con
diuonalJ, npon nu acceptance of a
platform that incladfs a hard money
tariff for revenue only, and the entire
upremacy of the civil authority in time
of peace. Cameron ia a lawyer and a
resident of LaCrosse, ia 49 years old.
and cam to Wisconsin in 1837. He has
erred six years in the State Legislature,
nd was Speaker of the House in 1867.
The vote stood: Cameron, 69; Carpenter,
58; scattering, 4.
Representative Hoogbton wH to-day
introduce into the National House of
Representatives a new bill to encourage
telegraphic communication between
America and Asia. It authorizes the
laying and maintenance of cables be
tween these coasts by Messrs. Hayward.
hood. Haggin, Tevis, Selby. Otis. Al
vorJ. Burr, Sullivan. Friedlander, John
F. Miller. Buttejworth, Sloss, Spaulding,
Fenton, Roacb, Noma and La Grange,
of San Francisco; Friedman and Trail
ing, of Oregon; William B. Phillips
nd O'Reilly, of New York, and L. G.
Gregory, of New Jersey. It also directs
the Secretary of the Navy to place one
or mora steam vessels at the disposition
of the company for surveys and laying
the cables. The bill grants no other
privileges and makes no regulations as
to the tariff of charges.
Absorb It. We are glad to see that
Ihre is community unrespectful
enough to be trilling to be absorbed
into Churchill. It ia a stand-off be
tween one desert and another ; bnt
there is no portion of Humboldt that
can be as useless as Churchill. I,et it
be swallowed np in the capacious maw
of legislation ; and let an enterprising
community attempt its digestion.
Ntk. Precisely how the good Gray
Eagle ia we hardly know. We hope
fce'a well. His, like Caesar's spirit.
will come back to plague the owls and
beta who bare flapped their black ears
boat the round, genemns summit of
lis fame ; but unlike Caessrn spirit,
Wsa will not come ' Ranging for re-
wwaga."
Dutch Flat, Cal., Feb. 3. A traveling
jeweler, named Geo. Seesle. auicided at
Patch Flat Hotel this morning. He had
been drinking very hard for several days.
The hotel proprietor scolded him for
getting drank aa4 not paying his board,
- He answered that ha would settle his
will; went to bis room and shot himself
inths ear, causing instant death
Vikoikia Itbms. A complimentary
-benefit has been tendered Mis. Moore
formerly ''Little Clara." of the Swiss
Sell Ringers which will take place at
Piper's Opera House next Monday night
when sh will appear in connection with
he fall Opera House troupe, and when
novel and varied entertainment will be
given.
In drift running east from the 1366-
foot level of the Ophir mine they yes-
teraey penetrated a Body of very neb
ore at a point vertically fully 60 feet eas.
of any on body that has yet been found
ia the mine. As yet not mnch is know
of the extent of the new body, bat "a
. regard to its richness then ia no ques
tion. During the past two days there has
! marked improvement in the
drift which ia being driven into the
Mexican ground from the 1465 foot
level of the Ophir. Last Friday the
whole mee of the drift was ia ore that
assayed about $1 per ton ; day before
yesterday and yesterday the assars
bad increased to 150, and they are now
confident that a body of good ore will
aoortly bo reached. Enterprise, 3d.
A Sao 8 Brush Forrest. F. W.
" Blake ot Winnemnrca, Nevada, who
has recently been o bjs exploring ex
pedition tola hwadwateraof the little
Humboldt, says that between tbe
aorta anal main forks of that stream
there is ex tensive forest of sage
ttrasb. He says that it covers at least
3,000 acres, and in the matter of size
teats anything- ha had ever seen or
, heard of in tba sagebnrsii line. The
brush is from fire to seren
feet bicb.
nd the wood, to a hiarht of three or
lour feet iron, toe ground, will arwr-f-aMnaent to take a bee hue for-"the aver
age six inches in diameter. It would
oak excellent fir wood, and fi near
er tba railroad would bo quite vaalu
wbl for that purpose. . i. . ; i.;
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To-morrow niybt Mrs. Sleuhouse, who
fur many years lived in Mormomiom,
will lecture ill tbe Assembly Chamber,
on the nlove sulject. Tbis ladv lived
iu Utah at the time of the massacre,
when Brikum Young held the appciui
mrnt of Federal Governor of tbe Terri
tory and Mormon fanaticism Lad reached
its culmination. Tbe ignorant Saints
looked npon Brighara as the Prophet of
the Lord, whose word was law, and
whose every act was sanctioned by tbe
Most High. A religious frenzy perva
ded tbe minds of the Saints, whose ha
tred of the Gentiles was kept at fever
heat by the harangues of tbe Prophet
and bis Apostles. A war with the Federal
government was imminent, and in every
county in Utah military companies exist
ed, whose officers were .c&tleg, bishops
or elders in the church Two emigrant
trains, one from MisssE ri, the other
from Arkansas, arrived iu the Territory
at this time, and took the southern route
from Utah to California, their des.
tination. lney were short of pro
visions, and the necessary supplies
were refused them in the Mor
mon settlements. They camped at
Mountain Meadows to recruit their
stock before starting ncrMs the deserts
which separate Southern Utah from
California. By preconcerted arrange
ments they were besieged by Mormons
and their allies, the Indians, and cnt off
from water, suffered unheard of agonies
for three or fonr days, many of their
number who ventured beyond the pro
tection of their wagons having been shot
down by the relentless besiegers, who
lay concealed in tbe bnshes. While in
this dire extremity a company of white
men bearing a whits flag was observed
approaching from the Mormon settle
ments. Their presence was bailed with
joy, and tbe confidiDg emigrants looked
npon them as friends indeed. The com
pany wag commanded by Elder John D.
Lee. who pretended to act as mediator
between the supposed Indians and the
emigrants. He advised the latter to sur
render their arms, upon the pretence
that the besiegers would accede to no
other terms, and promised them safe
convoy to the settlements. This was
reluctantly agreed to by tl emigrants.
Tbe women and children, aged and
wounded were then placed in the wagons
and started in the direction of tbe settle
ments, the men marching behind be
tween two files of Mormon militia, wbe
at a signal from tbe commander, fell
upou the unarmed emigrants and butch
ered them in cold blood. Children were
snatched from the arms of their mothers.
and their brains dashed oat against the
wagon wheels. The story of tbis unpar
alleled massacre ia told in detail with
many interesting facts concerning Mor
monism, not generally known outside of
tbe church.
STARTLING KEW8 FK9H VKNl'S.
(From the Boston Glo". .)
When the astronomers packed up the
implements of their trade and started
for the other side of the world to observe
the transit of Venus, it was supposed
that tbe results of their observations
would be of the most harmless kind.
Nobody expected any startling announce
ments affecting tbe ultimate destiny of
the human race, but supposed that the
astronomers were to do some of their fi
guring to obtain what they call their data
for the figuring, the sum and substance
of the whole thing being a resetting of
the universe and more accurate under
standing of heavenly situation generally.
But according to the special information
of t . New York World, tbe Oik of the
astronomers has a more thrilling aigni-
finace than we had any reason to expect.
It is said that they have found that the
distance of the earth from the sun is act
ually dimishing, and that if it keeps on
at the present rate our planet will plunge
into the great luminary of the solar sys
tem in about 1,440 rears.
Now.this is an unpleasant prospect for
tbe I ople who mar be residing on this
earth at this remote date, and it seems,
to. like rather an ignominious ending
ot tbis great experiment; does indeed
seem, an time to be almost a failure and
possibly it has been determined to give
it np and to dipose of tbe material in his
quiet but summary fashion. If, however
as it is claimed by philosophers of an
optimist turn of mind, the race is steadi
ly improving and come on toward mr-
fection, the inhabitants of the earth in
the thirty-second century ought to be a
pretty respectable set of people and it
teems rather bard katt they should be
aoomea to circulate about in close pro
ximity to tbe san, upon on s hnge spit,
it were, and be ereadnallr roasted ont
of existence. If tbe earth ware at this
plicatrd difficulties ont of which the wnv
seems very tl. It unuhl settle K-lloyg
iiriil tbe I.nniiana trouble in, perlinps,
tbe most satisfactory nuiiii er that conkl
be devised. It would relieve t:s from tbe
necessity of any fnrtber consideration of
tbe infallibility of the loie or tbe wis
dom of Bismarck's policy. It would put
an end to all scliisms and controversies
in church and State, and make fnrtber
contributions for missionary enterprises
unnecessary, tipnin and t nba would be
rut out of their misery, trance would.
at last find a place suited to ber tem
perament and all the nations of the earth
would have their broils extingnised in
one bnse and oVcisive broil that would
leave no trace behind.
But this sudden solution of terrestrial
difficulties is not do be. so far as we are
at present advised. Tbe process is to be
a gradual one, and it will be made hot
for the people, when it is to be presumed
mat mey win in a mtasnre have out
lived the troubles and sorrows and sins
of this unripe era. If tbis annouceroent
should be verified, it will fill us with an
xiety for the fenerations to come, albeit
for ourselves the prospect will not be so
terrible. In these January days when
colds and inflnenza and pneumonia, and
all the ills that our rude climate inflicts
upon ns, are almost universal, we take
comfort in the notion that we are draw
ing nearer to the central warmth; but as
the ages pass on, we see in fancy the
effects of the increasing heat, and have a
feeling of pity for the swelterinc popula
tions of the earth. The eternal ice and
snow of the poles will break in pieces
and dissolve, and the open polar seas
will become a favorite r- ort of navipn
tors. Substances which now are liauid
will become psseons. and solids will
turn to fluids. Tallow and wax will have
to be used in lamps, and lead will flow
down the monutains in ponrine streams
Ice will be at a trf mentions premium,
and hot drinks at the discount. But it
is to be presumed that tbe constitution
of men will adjust itself to tbe changed
condition of things, and tbat boiling
water will become a grateful drink, and
5(1(1 decrees in the shade will be endur
able temperature. Yet the equilibrium
of tLings must be sadly deranged. When
the n;o a's begin to liquify and shrivels
in the ardent rays of the sun. what will
the people do for tbe matrial for railroad
and steamboats. When the occean boils
like a pot and fills the heaves with va
por, will not navigation be interrnpted.
And when at last, the earth draws near
its ultimate doom and combustible sub
stances begin to take fire and conflAgra
tions break forth spontaneously and tbe
world takes to smoking at every pore,
it will be intensely disgreeable to live.
i hirtr-oeeond century people hnve onr
heart-felt sympathy, though possibly the
rest of us may at that ime be still worse
off.
There is one ray of hope in the terrible
prospect. enuswss never famous for
her virtnes. and possibly she lies, or it
may be that Ibe calculations of Encke
a hundred years ago were at fault, aad
that we are not 7.000.000 miles nearer
he sun now than then. It is barelv
possible that more accurate communica
tions may sbo that we are not Bearing
the sun and u imately destined to serve
as met to seep its names going. At all
events, we may find comfort in the idea
that enus, wbotel s tbis fea Tul storr.
will reach the bonfire fJL, and like the
messenger of the old Errptian despots.
suffer s fearful fate for being tbe bearer
of bad tidings. Anvbow, we of the
present day are safe, and need not feel
troubled en our own account. Let ns
keep cool while we can.
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URS. FANNY STENNOUSE,
OF SALT LAKE CITY.
TWEVTT.m i! YEA IM THR WIFK
of s Mormoa Elder. MissioBarr and Hiun
Priest, author of '-A Ladv's Life Among tbe
siormons, sua - leu il Ail." will drlirer Her
great jorcuro oa me ,
Mountain Meadows' Massacre,
AT....
The Assembly Chamber,
CARSON" CITY,
Friday Evening, February 5, '75.
Tho press orerywhrne prononoi-s this a most
intensely interesting and thrilling narrative of
a crime without parallel in the ninrto-nth cen
tury. The lecture la a record of I- ts. oiearlj
and comprehensively presented, so that every,
one who listens to this gifted and daring speak
er can understand tho fanaticism that culmina
ted in the slasfibter of over lt:S mea. women
and children. Everyone who has creased the
Plains should (to to hoar tbe story of the Moun
tain Meadow Massacre
ADMISSION, FIFTY CKXTS.
fea-td
NOTICE.
Ia tho Matter af flu Estate af Patrick
Henry Clayton
NOTICB IN BERKBY GIYRN BY
the underlined, Kxeeatrix ot the above
Banted estate, to the creditors of. and all per
sona bavins claims seal sat, said deceased, to
exhibit the sstse, with tho necessary vouchers,
within tea moatha from the SrM puolicstioo of
this notice, at tbe LAW OFFICE OF T. W. W.
DA VIES, ia tbe Biackrl Building, Carson Ci:y,
Carson City. 4 February. 1075.
8USAK K. CLAYTON.
Executrix.
X. W. w. Pavus. Attorney for Executrix,
fet-lnid
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