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PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XIX.
WVSIII\4. r.\ LIiITKR,
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
January 19th, 1883
Propositions to change the whole
government of Utah have been discuss
ed in Congress during the week, and
tome important and facts
bearing upon the Colony of Salt Luke
faave been developed. Notwithstand
injj the pressure of business upon Con
gress, the variety and daily tuereu-ing
cumber of questions denunding legis
lation, many members realize the ne
cessity of action for the suppress - ! n of
wholesale polygamy among the Mor
mons of Utah, and otoer Territories.
Public sentiment having long since
asked for the extirpation of the evi’
refuse-1 >be satisfied with the results ol
recent legislatten. Congressmen goner
ally profess a wil ingnoss to give their
support to any measure which seems to
be practical, and far-reaching; but there
are comoaiattvelv few who thoroughly
appreciate the difficulty of dealing
with a society ss firmly entrenched
and perfectly organized s is the
Mormon church. Several mess
ures dealing with the chronic evil
have boon offered in each branch of
Congress Notably, among those
whe have given the subject of anti-
Morman legislation careful study
are Senators E Imunds of Vermont,
and (Julian of Illiuois, Represen
tatives llosecranß of California,
and Cassidy of Nevada, The Lit
ter having lived near the Mormons
of Utah for twenty five years, has
had the best’opportunity for ob
serving tho eff-ots of polygamy.
He has long been an uncompromis
ing enemy of the institution and
has taken deep interest in all
pchetnes for the suppression of the ;
'•‘twin relic". IPs bill provides
for the abolition of the Territorial
legislature ; arid ih vesiing of all
power of government in a commis
sion of fifteen, to be appointo I by
the [’resident, and divided he
tween the two great political par
ties. This commission is to have
tho power to enforce laws, punish
criminals, and will he responsible
to Congress for its actions. The
District of Columbia has the same
form of government, and Mr. Cas 1
saidy claims further procedent for
the appointment, in a bill passed
by Congress in 1803, creating a
commission of thirteen members, -
who, with a Governor, constituted
the government. of Louisiana
Senator Cullums bill also provides
far tho reorganization of the legis
lative power of Utah, and he ad
dressed the Senate on the subject
eeveral d*v ago. Senator Ed
munds does not believe in arbitra
ry measures witn ff/ormonism
His bill provides for the gradual
disenfranchisement of polygamous
Mormons of both sexes; so that,
while eveiy member but one, of the
Territorial Legislature elected pro
yiou9 to the adoption of that meas
ure was a polygamist, every mem
her last elected is a monogamous
.Mormon. The one-wife Mormons
however are said to do the bidding
of the Church as faithfully as did
their polygamous predecessors ;
the Mormon invariably making
affairs of state subservient to the
interests of his Church For this
reason, the government of the Ter
ritory of Utah is considered a man
ncs to Republican institutions. Most
Congressman favor mire stringent
measures, and Senator Garland of Ar
kansas following Senator Cullum in
the disoussion of the matter, compared
the Edmunds bill to the remedy of a
corn plaster for consumption. Gen
Rosecrans proposes to do away with
the evil by a prohibitory amendment
to the constitution. Rut others not
favoring this policy say that, tho Msr
moos laugh at law,and theypvi 1 scarce
ly treat an amendment with more re
spect. Polygamy is every day beeom
io" stronger in Arizona, Idaho, Wyo
ming, and Montana, and from the tem
ps: of both partirs, there is no doubt
some sort of legislation will bo enact
ed. The objection to a eonstiiutional
amendment empowering Cuoigres® to
pass a unilortn law of marriage and Ji
vorce for the Unite and States is the fact,
that it would throw another large body
of litigation into the Federal courts,
which have already more than they ca
attend to; an ! tend to encr aeh more
upon the State tribunal'. The jeal
ousy excited by this tendency is one of
Ule reoiso's why it is so difficult to
piss a unitoroi law of bankruptcy, or
to secure it from beinu repealed soon
after it is passed Moreover. Congress
docs not pay the f’otiwral judges
enough to keep the best ability on the
bench. This is without reference to
the almost irreconsible differences be
ts.on the various States on the moral
; question involved m the marital rel i
tion Any kind of a divorce low. for
instance arouse commotion in South
Carolina, which er.ly tolerated fora
i few years the tinorce law passed by
| the Legislature doling the reocn
'si: notion era. and boats a record of no
■ divorces before or since
\ (II lilt OK KIT IIOJIA X<U
Search of the Indians (or a Stolen
Child.
J will erulevor to writs y--. '
little story. It is the true history
of a little Indian girl, who w.s
about I vour old at the time, ac
cording to mv recollection
In 1838. when the Cherokee In
dians wera being remove 1 from
what was known as Cherokee, Ga,,
to some territory which had just
been given them by our government,
a young white man named James
Vaught, living in that country, h id
married a half-breed Indian The
mother having to go West wi'.h her
tribe, the father, not wishing to ac
company them, stole their little
girl. Josephine, from its mother,
anil for sotno days hid in the woods
with it. The alarm was given, and
otir soldiers, who were to conduct
the Indians, scoured the country
for the lost chill, but :o no avail.
The father wade his escape on horse
back, with hia dear little child on
a pillow before hit, which some
friend had kindly given him, and
carried his little darling tn his
aunt's, Mrs David Grier, in Wash
ington count , three and u half
miles from where I lived then and
now. He left the child with his
atiot. and, going away, requested
her not to give it up to any one
without his consent. The child re
mained with M is. Giier several
months —wo all saw it It was a
pretty quarter Indian child Mr
and Mrs. Grieg lived on the public
road, and often entertained travel
rs '.or the night. A few months
alter the child was lft thero, a
stranger stopped for the night, ?nd,
seeing the child, inquired how it
came there He p-oved to bs frutn
the Cherokee country, and on his
return he reported to ?ame of the
Tamil v the whereabouts of the
child. A Tew weeks after thia a
party conststiog of several wom
en and a tall, fine-looking uutj.w .
half-breed Indian, arrive! in 'a
oeighbarhcod. Mrs Grier, heir
ing of it, sent the child to t -'-
plantatatien, The party ciT I on
Mrs. G., and one of the women
asked her to take a w ilk and Raid ;
“M>s. Grier, I learn that uiy
chiM is here, and I have come all
the way from the Cherekee Nation
for it. Please give her to me. ’
Mrs. G., feeling much sympa
thy lor the distressed mother, said
to her : “Your child i3 not far off;
but I am not authorized to give her
up I made my nephew a solemn
promise not to give her to any one
without his consent. The way may
be open to you to got yotir child
I would not return home too soon.”
The party then went to Milledge.
ville, fourteen miles, and consulted
with Governor Gilmer in regard to
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People,
GREENES BORO', GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1884.
| what steps sheuld be taken to pro
cure the lost child. The Governor
advised them to be quiet a few days,
and upon inquiry learned that Mr
Harper Tucker owned a negro man
I named Pom pev, whose wile lived
on Mr Grier s plantation. With
the assistance of Mr. Tucker, Potn
pey was brined to fiud out where
the child was hidden. lie reported
that the child was locked up
iu the plantation bouse of Mr.
Gner. HTth this informa-
tion a search warrant was obtained
iruin the proper officer and placed in
tlie bauds of the Sheriff, Mr. Clias
Lunin, Grandfather of our present
Sheriff, who, iu company with the men
of the party, proceeded to the place
designated, and found the child .The
Indian sprang fjrward and pressed the
child to his bosom, saying : "I’ll die
by this child uelure 1 give it up.”
He carried the child to MilleJgeviile
and delivered it to its mother, who re
joiced exceedingly —the lust was found.
There wai muah sympathy for th.
mother, and the people gcneially were
glad when it was restored to her
Governor Gilmer mentions this loci
! • his book, and said his wife and
••-•s made suitable clothing for
the’ olid, and the glad mother and her
party went on their way rejoicing.
The father re urn -d in a few weeks to
look alt r his precious child aud his
disappointment was great when he found
that his little Josephine had been car
ried away to the Cherokee Nation by is
mother. He coull attach, however, t o
blame to his aunt, Mrs. Grier. She
was one of God's noblest and
l lived 11 be about 91) years of age, and
died last spring at the old homestead.
She often expressed herself as ready
and waiting to be taken to her God,
whom she had served so long Ex.
1 Over the door of a small trame build
ing in which a colored family is living
| in Greenville, Tenn., is a pine board on i
which is the legend, uuw almost erased
by rain and st.srm, “A- Johnson,
Tailor.” A li.lie beyond the western ;
border of the towu is a uiardle uionu- :
ment that marks the last home ol
‘ Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States',
Professor Huxley lias declared that
i in his voyage around the world, and iu
i.all his studies of savage life, ho found
!no people so miserable, wretched aud
degraded as those who cxiet in the
; poorer quarters ol London. The
barbarians, who live in a constant stale
of violence aud depredation, aud who
are exposed to tho worst rigors of cli
mate and weather, have more enjoyable
and indepenont lives than these misera
ble workers aod artisans, aud ho says
! that if he had to make his choice, he
should unhesitatingly prefer the exist
ence of the lorouer.
Edgar A. Pu s left Richmond on
October 4, 1849, for Philadelphia;
arrived in Baltimore on the filth aod
took the train that evening; for Philit*
delphia; was found by the couduotcr
in the baggage-ear insensible, and at
Havre da Grace or Wilmington was
transferred to the train going back to
Baltimore, whero he is suppose! to
have arrived during the evening ol th*
sixth; was lound early on the morn
ing of theaeveoth lying upon a bench
on Light aneot wharf aod was taken •<
' Washington University Hospital,
, : . u : ;re ho died about uiid
ni. Octodcr T 184!) tod was buried
on the ninth in Westminster burying
ground. This is the true story, says
the Richmond State, as vouched for by
the late Neilson Poe
Chatham, in the Savannah News
discourses thus of onr railr; ad commie'*
sion;
The railread commission was not
born of the people of Georgia On the
13th of July, 1877, iu theeonstitulional
convention in this eity. Judge D. B.
Harrell presented the “Memorial of
the Board of Trade ef Amerieus on
Railroad Tariffs and Oppression," and
the late Dr. Cooper, of that city, was
its earnest aud eloquent advocate on
the floor of the convention. Out of
this movement, and the later action of
the distinguished member of the
general assembly from Sumter county,
grew the railroad commission*
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