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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
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COUNTY PRINTER.
SANDERSTOLE, GEORGIA-
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Late
from California.
By the arrival of the Empire City at New
Orleans the papers of that city have San
Francisco dates to the -10th December; The
following account of the Indian difficulties
is the only news of interest brought by this
arrival. We extract from the Picayune:
Itappearsth&t the threatened Indian war
did ■not proceed to any great length. At
oae time it was thought the affair would be
very serious. The Indians had fortified
'themselves injj £deep£mountainjpass ’"or ca-
ndn, about sixty miles from San Diego,
where'they had thrown up rude entrench
ments.
I ““-On the^brink of the heights on both sides,
they had collected piles of huge rocks, ready
to be hurled down upon the Americans in
case they attempted to force the canon. Un
dcr'the circumstances, an attack on a. posi
tion so- strong wasjdoemed imprudent,! and
the volunteers, after skirmishing awhile, re
named 10 San Diego. In the fc meantime
some friendly Indians succeeded in capturing
the notorious Bill Marshall, a ^Californian,
and an Indian, all supposed to be implicated
in the rebellion ot the savages. They brought
them captive into San Diego, and’delivered
them into the hands of the whites. As pre
viously stated, martial law had been pro
claimed in the country, and as soon as the
prisoners were brought in the volunteers
organized a court raartialjto’ try them. Un
like the usual practice of courts martial,
however, they gave them the benefit of a
trial by jury. This Bill Marshall is a noto
rious character. He was once an English
tailor, ran away from his vessel two or three
year ago, and|,married i an ^Indian woman.
He is bdlieved to have been instrumental in
the murder of twelve white men some time
last year, and from his great influence with
the Indians, hisjiostility to the whites, by
whom he was out-lawed, and his ferocious
disposition, as well as by more direct evi
dence, there is little doubt that he instigated
the savages to"jeommence hostilities against
tbejwhites. He is described as A a villainous
looking desperado, perfectly reckless and
hardened. He was taken under tbe gal
lows prepared for the execution, but exhib
ited as much uneoncern as if not aware of
the purpose forjwliich it was erected.
Subsequent intelligence showed that the
danger had subsided, and the insurgents
had dispersed. The volunteers were conse
quently disbanded. The leader of the In
dians was captured and was to be hung.
Later—Important prom San Diego.^
On the other jband the Delta publishes
the following in its evening edition:
We have received a letter from, a reliible
source, dated San. Diego, California, Dec.
1 / , tvhich states the Indians were up in; arms
throughout the whole Southern portion-of
the State, swearing a vengeance, and threat-
eningfto exterminate all the white inhabi
tants.!
The letter states that there are not less
TUESDAY FEB. 3, 1S53.
We are requested to say that there will
be a.Temperance meeting at Bay Spring
church on Saturday next, and preaching on
Sunday following. The Rev. Mr. Vining
of Texas, and the Rev. W. G. Barks will
be present.
We commence, this week, to pub
lish a list of the acts passed by the Legisla
ture. They are quite lengthy and we shall
have to give them to our readers in broken
doses; this is probably the best way to
tnke law, as many are doubtless awaro.—
We shall also publish next week, the bill
establishing the Ordinary. These will break
up our usual variety for a while, but they
are matters of general interest and will
make up for want of spice, &c.
Boot Making.—Those who wish a fine
article in the line of Boots and Shoes,
are referred to the advertisement of G. A.
Reinhart. Mr. R., has some fine workmen
in his shop, and is prepared to do a larger
business than heretofore. He puts up the
neatest work that we have ever seen in this
market.
Whitney’s Railroad to the Pacific
Miv Asa Whitney has again brought before
Congress his magnificent project for a rail
road across the continent to the Pacific.
He asks no aid from the government ex
cept the grant of lands on the railroad route,
as a compensation for which he is to trans
port the U. S. mails free. He states in his
memorial that his project was highly favor
ed in England, and that the requisite capi
tal for its commencement - and prosecution
has been there offered to him.
The bills against the Christiana ri
oters for murder have been ignored by the
Grand jury, and the prisoners discharged
from custody. The rescuers of the fugitive
slave Jerry at Syracuse, the last summer,
are now on trial, before the U. S. District
Court at Albany, there are eight white
and four black men. The Republican says
that the trial so far gives promise of a long
and fruitless one.
A Chance for Good Scribes.—By an
advertisement in this paper, it will be seen
that the Inferior Court of this county pro
pose to let the transcribing of a large pro
portion of the old records in tbe office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court. This was
a suggestion of the last Grand Jury, and
the Court have wisely adopted it. Many
of the records are in a most mutillaied and
worn condition, and require transcribing to
preserve them from entire destruction.
The Court should see to it, that the best
bookstore procured for the work, this they will
doubtless do, as they will have the procure
ment of them.
Our iHerchauts.
It is hardly necessary to say to persons
trading at this place, that goods can be
bought here as cheap as at any place this
side of Savannah, for every one who has
tried it, knows this to be the fact. The
Dry Goods market is and has been amply
supplied with as good selections as the
northern markets afford; and every
variety of goods which taste or fancy may
call for can be had of our merchants on very
moderate and reasonable terms. In the
Grocery line, we doubt whether Sanders-
ville can be surpassed by any place of its
size in the State, for the supply and cheap
ness of every leading article of family gro
ceries, in fact the retail prices of this place
and Savannah, are not sufficiently marginal
to cover much over transportation. Messrs.
The London News publishes a
statement from a Hamburgh paper, that
Turkey has addressed a note to the English
Government, protesting against Kossuth’s
return to England.
Georgia Beer.—Most of our Eastern
Cotemporaries have been sampling Freder
icks Beer, made at Augusta. They speak
very highly of it.
State Road.—We learn that Governor
Cobb has sucseeded in engaging Mr. Wm,
M. Wadley, as Superintendant of this road.
This is a judicious selection. Mr. W. is a
most sagacious and practical man, eminent
ly worthy of the trust, and we doubt not
but that the interest of the State in this par
ticular will be greatly advanced under his
administration.
P. W. Porter, of Memphis, Tenn,. has
invented a self loading and firing rifle or
pistol, which he represents as perfectly
safe, is free from complication in its ma
chinery, susceptible of being loaded and
fired at least forty times in a minute, shoots
with as much accuracy as any rifle, and
propels its balls with greatly more force
than the ordinary rifle.
JEST The celebrated astronomer, Sears
C. Walker, became deranged in Washing
ton on the 13th ult., from intense excite
ment of mind, having, it is said, made a
discovery by which Logarithms are render
ed useless in mathematical calculations.
Cost of Smoking.—During the past
year there was imported into the United
States $5,521,000 worth of cigars.
For California.—John R. Brown and
Chas. Rawlings, two young gentlemen of
this county left for California the past
week—our best wishes for their success.
Louis Napoleon seems to fear assassina
tion, and itjis said that his carriage is made
bullet-proof. The ministers object to' his
appearing'in public, even with a strong
escort of dragoons, riding with each man's
right hand upon his pistol stock. They are
all afraid he will be taken off.
The notorious Forrest divorce suit has
been determined in favor of Mrs. .Forrest,
and $3,000 per annum allowed her as ali
mony. Forrest’s counsel applied for a new
trial.
Hodges and Brantley always
than tei^thousandiludiaftsjin the mountains, j supplies on baud, especially atfthis season,
between San Diego and tbe Gila and Colo- 1
rado rivers, well armed and ready to attack
the ranches and vilages along the coast
The greatest excitement prevailed at San
Diego, and there was no person but tbe
rk,
A Congress of Nations.—A resolution
is pending before the Pennsylvania Legis
lature, requesting the President to open: a
correspondence with foreign nations, with
a view to establish a Congress of the civil
ized nations of the earth for the enactment
and enforcement of a code of international
laws.
The Honesty of Printers!!—At the
have good j Franklin banquet at New York, on the 16th
ult., Mr. Bigelow, of New York Evening
their store rooms are well filled, and from \ Post, said that he had had the honor of
the number of carts and waggons that are ; being, for three years, Inspector of State
J£P"The Democratic Convention of Ala.,
have nominated the Hon. W. R. King for
the Presidency.
Havanna consul.—It appears from an
official statement in tbe Washington Re
public that the Government has received
entirely satisfactory assurances in regard to
the reception of Judge Sharkey, the new
United States Consul at Havanna. The
report that the Captain General had refused
to recognize him is improbable, from the
fact tliat he has authority to do so, until
the Consul’s exquater comes from Madrid.
J8T The~Hon. R. M. T.^ Hunter has
been elected by the legislature of Virginia,
U. S. Senator for six years from 4th March
1853, by a vote of 166 to 63, for all others.
He had previously been nominated in a
Democratic caucus by acclamation.
JXgT The reported death of Kossuth’a
mother is contradicted.
Andrew J. Ogle of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed charge to Copenha
gen. *
constantly to be seen loading from their
stores, we should judge that purchasers had
quarter master and his clerk, to protect the found out that they ean buv as cheap here
depot of supplies, for the whole Southern *
■division of the army, where there was near
ly a half a million of dollars worth of Gov
ernment property. We will give this im
portant letter to our readers in the morning,
it We have.also received an extra, issued at
the office of the San Diego Herald, dated
December 16, containing an account of the
expedition against the Indians—burning of
the Indian town Agua Cailiente—capture
of Bill Marshall and Juan Verdugo, bv the
Smi Diego volunteers—their trial by a’court
martial-—conviction, sentence and execu
tion.
Panama Rail Road.—A^IetterfroiH Mr.
E. H. Mitchell* in the New Orleans Pica
yune, gives the .foliowitig^account of the
progress of this Road :
1 he road is now completed from Navy
Bay to Miller’s Station, or “A Ilorca La Ga-
ta,”^ distance of^thirteen^iniles,Jwith the
exception of a gapjof about one mile in ex
tent, upon which the rail is already laid,
and over which cars run daily, the filling in
is not completed. ^Passenger cars will com
mence running over this distance about the
middle of the present month, at which time
the steamers wilfland their passengers at
Navy Bay. This will give a passage of
thirteen miles by railroad,ij in the place of
twenty-seven miles by river, the distance
from Ohagres to Miller’s, fas now travelled.
At Millers, passengers who will take boats
to Gorgona, a distance by 'river. of thirty-
two mile?.
From Millers?towardsfGorgona, the road
is completed to Boheo Solado, a distance of
three miles, with the exception of a gap of
“three-fourths ofa^milejupoii which a large
•force.is employed, and^wliich^ will soon be
-completed.
The distance from Navy Bay to Gorgona
by Lhe road is twenty-eight miles, and from
Gorgona to Panama twenty miles, making
-the whole leng
miles. ^ --
ThuM*
of the road forty-eight
ludes several curves, a-
mountingid'ii'^isfcaaee of eight miles, ma
king.the air line between Navy Bay and
Panama, a distance of forty miles,
The engineers state that by far the worst
.portion of the road is completed, almost the
entire distance from Navy Bay to Miller’s
•beingthrough swamps and marshes where
it- is exceedingly difficult for ii e i to work.
They have uow advanced to the higher
lands, where it is comparatively healthy,
and where, during the presents dry season
iaige^notint of labor will be 'accomplish-
.,ve now engaged upon the
a thousand laboring men.
Prisons in New York, and among all of the
prisoners confined there, every order of me
chanics were represented except printers.
There was something in that fact which
merited their consideration. Mr. B. con-
Goods will not be : eluded by proposing the memorv and hon-
customers without: or of that calling which is unrepresented in
the State prison.
as at Savannah.
Friend Butcher, who deals largely in fine
fancy and staple Dry
passed by any of bis
calling in to examine his latest arrivals,
and they seldom go out without making a
pretty good "bill with him,dor he has almost Union Convention of Alabama.-—A
a little of every thing, -and is so accommo-'' Union Convention was held in Mont-
dating and courteous, withal, that J one !& 0TT,er y» Alabama, on the 16th inst., which
more in danger of buying too much, than I "dopfod resolutions similar in many re
not getting ' u what lie wants; 'Hebry is a
prince of a fellow and deserves a deal of
spects to those set forth in the Georgia
Platform. In addition, the convention
good luck which we|hope he may ever have, i £ roun d against sending delegates to
We invite attention to his with other
mercantile advertisements in this paper, re
marking what every person knows to be the
truth that an “advertisement is a pretty
good sign,” of tbe sort of merchants to
trade with.
Mail Robber ArrestSD.—The Augusta
Constitutionalist «fe Republic of the 26th
ult. learns, that C. Colson, who was arres
ted for robbing tbe U. S. Mail at Caraac,
and made his escape from Warrenton jail,
was re-arrested at Camac, and passed
through that city, the day previous under
charge of the U. S. Marshal, en route
for Savannah.
Since the above was put in type we
notice a statement in the Constitutionalist,
saying that Colson was regularly discharg
ed from jail, and voluntarialy gave himself
up to the Marshal with intent to stand his
trial.
The Gardiner Claim.—The N, Y. Iter*
aid has a dispatch from Washington which
“understands, from respectable authority,”
that most astounding and conclusive evi
dence has been received at tbe State De
partment, from the American Minister in
Mexico, that the notorious Gardiner Claim
is a fraud—absolute, entire, out and out;
and that evidence has been procured to
show that all the books and vouchers of
Gardiner, upon which the claim of half a
million was paid, were forgeries.
J- P. Benjamin (Whig) has been
fleeted by the Legislature of Louisiana, as
U. S. Senator from that State.
either the national whig or democratic
conventions, but declared in favor of hold
ing a national Union convention in the city
of Washington, on the Second Monday in
June next, to nominate Union candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.
Eeight delegates were appointed to repie-
sent the Union party of Alabama in the
proposed Contention-,. and nine candidates
selected for Presidential electors. The
convention alsofdeclared ngainsP the Kos
suth heresy of intervention.
Trig American Government and Louib
Napoleon.—A dispatch to the Charleston
Standard, from Baltimore, says : “The cor
respondence between Mr. Rives, the Ameri
can Minister in France, and Mr. Webster,
relative to the recent French revolution,
has been published. Mr. Webster directs
an acknowledgement of the new form of
government when ratified by the people,
but regrets the overthrow of the Rtpubli-
can Constitution. He approved the course
of Mr. Rives, in awaiting the action of the
people od the President’s usurpation.”
Important Disclosure.—The Savannah
Republican, hitherto a conservative and in
fluential journal in the Union ranks, exhib
its its ultra feelings towards the peculiar
institutions of the north in the following
racy style. The Republican used to tell
the Fire-eaters to keep cool, whenever any
of them intimated the slightest disrespect
towards the Union, but now that the Fire-
eaters have been whipped out and every
thing cooled down, almost to an entire
freeze, that paper with singular adroitness
takes advantage of the general mail failures
to utter its treasonable sentiments :
“Mails.—We are are again without a
mail beyond Richmond. The ice in the
Potomac is given as the ‘causes. It seems
to us that the Post Master General might
make a temporary arrangement to trans
port the mails by land between Washington
and Philadelphia. The Potomac is liter
ally the dividing line betweeu the North
and South at this time. The Union is not
dissolved, but is frozen together so closely
as to produce a condition of non-intercourse.
How do our whilom friends the secession
ists, like this practical illustration of being
in the Union and out of it at the same time?
Union men as we are, we should like to see
a dissolution of the (icy) bands which now
bind us to the North.
A bill introduced into the House of Rep
resentatives of Congress for the relief of
the Cuban prisoners was passed by a vote
of 147 to 22.
From Washington.—A correspondent of
the Savannah Georgian, who seems to be
tolerably familiar with the movements a t
Washington City, has.the following in re
lation to the Kossuth policy.
Some days ago, Mr. Clarke, of R. I., sub
mitted a series of resolutions, declarative of
our-Foreign policy. They adhere to what
is familiarly deemed the box terrapin policy,
and maintain that Washington’s advice to
us ought never to be departed from. Gen.
Cass has offered a substitute, going about
half way to what is now known as tbe Kos
suth policy, while Gov. Seward propises
another going square up to the Kossuth
doctrine. You will do well to publish the
three sets of resolutions in full, for they ar ®
not long, and from such a parrallelism, tbe
reader will obtain a clear idea of tbe coming
contestin the Senate on this interesting
subject. Friend and foe admit, that Sew
ard’s substitute embodies a magazine of
weapons. It turikes directly at Napoleon
ism and Russiauism. Kossuth said, while
here, that he felt bound to obtain the ver
dict of Congress, upon the prayer of Huuga
ry, a» preferred thro’ him, but he had not
decided upon the mode of bringing tbe
question before that body. From present
appearances, he need net trouble himself on
this point, any longer, for our public men
have precipitated the question into the
arena.
The probability, is that the debate on tbe
subject, will be spiced with an actual diplo
matic rapture with Austria, for it is expec
ted, that Hulsemann will get his passports,
if YVebster can bring himself up to the stick-
point, and that McCurdy will be treated in
tbe same way, if Schwarzenberb’s. heart
shall not fail him. “ '
In relation to the presidential projects
the correspondent says:
Mr. John Minor Botts has written to
your Govenor it is ailedged on authority, to
know whether he will consent to let his
name be used on the Scott ticketl Mr.
YVebster will not accept the nomination of
the Whig National Convention, on YVbig
party grounds, even if it be tendered to him,
of which there is no danger, but what is of
more importance, he will be a Union can--
didate, let who will be in tbe field—Fill
more’s adhesion to Webster’s candidature,
has long since been given in, and will be an
nounced at tbe proper time. It is already
felt aud acted on by the several officials.
Meantime, Mr. Clay, dead or alive, is resol
ved to exert his influence to prevent any
Whig, from being President. .He prefers
Gen. Cass to any other on tbe Democratic
side, and so do his friends, because their
Achilles does. But more anon ©» this top
ic.
Jenny Lind and ole Bull] it is thought
will join in giving series of concerts.
From Texas and the Rio Grande*
Tbe New-Orleans papers have dates from
Galveston to the 16th inst. A letter from
Eagle Pass (Texas) dated 1st inst, says;
The Fillibuslers have been almost entire
ly defeated in the late engagements with
the Mexican troops, and are now, for the
present, obliged to take shelter in tbe woods
below “Fort Ringgold,” and are almost star
ved out, anxiously awaiting tbe rrrival of
Col. Ford from San Antonio, who is daily
expected to arrive with a reinforcement, to
renew hostilities. The 2d Dragoons are
now out in pursuit of them, and about 50
of the soldiers from the several companies
of.the 1st Infantry, occupying the frontier,
have deserted and joined the party.
Tbe Brownsville Flag, of the 16th inst.,
has an article on the- revolutionary move
ment, under the head of “Fiilibusteros.”—
The editor says:
We have nothing reliable to give our rea
ders as to the movements of this renowned
band of knights-errant, but learn they are
8 til I occupying some of the unknown regions
between the Rio Grande and the Colorado.
YVe have seen some three or four of their
leaders about town for the last few days.
No doubt what force they have is not far
from this city, and it is whispered around
confidentially that they have 1,800 men and
two pieces of artillery arrived with Capt.
Ford from Texas. YVe judge, from all we
can learn, some reinforcements have really
Another KomutH.—A near relative of
Louis Kossuth, the Rev. Frederick William
Kossuth, is said to be at present one of the
most successful Protestant Pastors in Bo-. arrived at last, and that another attack up-
hemia, In 1845, he undertook to gather j Matamoris is seriously meditated, perhaps
, i- -n * * * * r» I ere many days. Gen. Avalos has under
»<* urel * of P'otetants at Pra- ; h|s c0 „,4 lnd at kagt 2 500 „ ith
gue, and several converts were made. His ; ftn< i entrenchments; in fact, every material
congregation last July numbered eleven ■ requisite for a successful defence of his posi-
hundred persons. He started a periodical I tion* If he cannot, so situated, take care of
1840, entitled the “Herald of the Bohe-' JJ" 8 ^e.band of undisciplined men, why
7 _ _ ' Thon iVlOVIDn mow no «rp.ll A 1
mian Brethren,” but it was afterwards sup
pressed by the Government.
then Mexico may as well drop out of the
family of nations. Nous verrons.
A correspondent of the Delta, at Eagle
Pocket Stoyks.—The Milkwaukie Ad ; Bass, states that on the 27th ult., John Clark
vertiser says that a gentlemen of that city
has invented a spirit stove which, while on-
pnvate of company D, U. S. Infantry, was
deliberately shot dead, by one Mortimer
ly a foot square, will warm.any ordinary a discharged soldier, lhe citizens_of
sized room. It weighs less than ten pounds i Passj it seems, or at least a portion of
is convenient for carriages, cars, and even them, had passed a resolution to the effect,
small otaed may be carried in one’s pocket that any soldier found in the village should
of a cold day, and producing neither soot, h e shot, and they deputed Cook to execute
smoke, nor ashes, might be made as orna- resa lution. Cook was arrested and irn-
mental a piece for personal wear as a watch ’ P , t ’ son8 d h° the military guard-house, but
or a breast pin. It only consumes a pint 1 j 1 he rated by the local Justice of the Peace,
of alcohol per day. ® whose house the murder was committed.
Several robberies had recently been com
mitted in Western Texas, by bands of In-
diads, supposed to be Camanches.
Agricultural Fair.—-The Executive
Committee of the late Agricultual Fair have
recommended that the next Annaal Fair be
held at Macon, in as much as the city au-
Gen. YY m. 0. Butler has been nom -
inated by the Democratic State convention ! thousand doHa^fo^ 7te
of Kentucky, almost unanimously for the
Presidency.
A hint to Blacksmiths.—The cutting of
;bats of iron or pipes with the chisel, is a
j thorities have again offered the sum of four' laborious and tardy process. By the fol-
d dollars for its location at that! lowing mode the same end is attained more
place. Further and enlarged accoramoda-! speedily, easily and neatly. Bring the!
The YVashington G*. Gazette of
the 23d inst.j says : “Our town and neigh
borhood have been infested' by a gang of!
rogues for soma weeks past, aud there is
little doubt but that a branch ot the orga
nized band said to extend throughout the
Southern States, is located in this county,
tions,jn the way of building on the grounds iron to a white heat, audlhen fixing it in a , 1 creasing,
will tfe mad«. vice apply the common saw, which witbout 1 or mnrA R1
U. S. Senate on the 26th ult. to repeal the a carrot.
fugitive Slave law and for the abolition of —-— 44^
slavery in the District of Columbia. The The difference between “tweedeldiim”
Free Democracy of,Ohio have rccommen- * n d “tvveedeldee” is that the latter is pro-
ded him as a suitable candidate for the pounced with more ease (ee’s) than, the for-
Pre8ideuoy---he is, very. : roeir “ MdnU Reg. ^
From the Mobile Advertiser*.
Mississippi.
They are having warm work, politically
in our sister State. Two Democratic State
Conventions were held at Jackson on the
Sth igst., to appoint delegates to the Na
tional Democratic Convention to nominate
a candidate for the Presidency. The Un
ion Convention took their stand on the old
Jackson platform against Secession and
Nullification, and also in favor of tbe Com
promise. Tbe Secession or State Rights'
Convention gave the go by to Secession.-
The Committee on Resolutions simply re
ported to the Convention the resolutions of^
the Baltimore Convention of ’43, the Ken
tucky resolutions of 1709', and- recommen
ded the adoption and ratification of them
to the Convention.- The report was unan
imously approved. No reference whatever"
was made to the Compromise measures.
The Secession orators were very severe on*
the Union Democrats, Jefferson Da Vis-
made a bitter speech-,- in which he spoke of*
Gov. Foote with great acrimony, aud rung
the alliterative charges upon, “Foote, Fill
more, Freesoil and Fraud;” a concatena
tion which seems to have aroused the fury
of Gov. Foote, who, in the Union Conven
tion, retnrned these epitbt ts upon the Se--
cessionists with a double Foote power of
denunciation. His speech was most re
markable, however; for the open defiance:
with which he declared his purpose to meet-
tbe threatened course of the Senate in re
gard to the vacancies in the United States
Senate. It is rumored that the majority in
the State Senate will refuse to go into the
elections, attempting thus to put them over
to another Legislature twr*years hence. In
alluding to this plan, Gov. Foote proclaim
ed in the Convention that he was Beady for
the war. From a sketch ©f his speech
published in "the Natchez Courier,, we ex
tract the following paragraph :
“Senator Foote referred to the rumor
that was spread about, that the Senate
would refuse to go. into an election for Sen
ators. He did not believe it; he could
not credit that they woeltl refuse to.perform
a duty enjoined by them official oaths, and-
so add the crime of moral perjury to that of
factious and traitorous, denmgogtiisin. But
if they did he gave them full warning off
what he should do. They .had opposed to-
them a m»D they at lea>t eoukl not brow.
beat or put down,. Heow.-d only allegi
ance to the constitution and the sovere gn
people; and be would stard by the form r
and appeal to the latter. It was- a cc te-1-
which he defied them.. If tbe Legislature
failed to fill the two vacancies-in the U..S..
Senate, he gave fair notice that he should*
appoint two Union Senators 1© the vacant
places, as he had the power to do; and iff
they failed to elect to tbe six year’s term
commencing March 4, 1S53, he should call
an extra session of the Legislature in Feb
ruary, 1863 for that especiali purpose; and
if they then failed, lie would lake issue on.
that point' before the people,, and devote
himself to that canvass l *1 have said it,’
said lie, ‘and I will uot take back-.one word.
As sure as there is a God in Heaven* if liv
ing I will stand to what I have uttered!” .
The Tronble in Utah—The Pin -
rality Wife System.
A long document, addressed to Presi
dent Fillmore, has been published, by Chief
Justice Samuel G. Brandbury, Judge Perry
A, Brew?ehns and B. D. Harris. Secretary of
State of Utah, in reference to tbe reasons-
that led them to abandon their official posts
at Salt Lake City, and come on to Wash
ington. It is, however, but a repetition, in
ah extended form of the statements that
have already been made. The hostile and ‘
seditious feeling of Hie Mormon Governor,
Brigham Yfotmg, and the Mormon© gener
ally, to the United States government and
its officers are said to have been such as to
make a longer stay there not only danger
ous but impracticable.
The officers repeat the charges of pro
fanity, blasphemous allusions by Governor
Y oung to the death of Gen Taylor, and con
temptuous defiance of the government of
the United States. The Mormon Gover
nor is also said to have abused Washington
at a public meeting, saying that “he was a
greater man than Geo. Washington;” that
lie “knew more than Geo. Washington ever
did,” etc. The excitement of the people
became bo great that the officers feared for
their lives. Misappropriation of the Uni
ted States funds is another of the charges
brought against Gov. Y’oung. The vice of
polygamy, according to these recreant offi
cials, has reached an enormous height. We
extract the following in reference to this
point, from their letter to the President:
“We deem it our duty to state, in this of
ficial communication, that polygamy or
“plurality of wives 1 ” is openly avowed and
practised in the territory, under the sanction
and in obedience to the direct commands
of the church. So universal is this prac
tice, that very few, if any, leading men in
that coir inuuity can be found who have not
more than one wife each, which creates a
monopoly, and which was peculiarly hard
upon the officers sent to reside there; The
prominent, men in the church, whose ex
ample in all things it is the ambition of
tbe more humble to imitate, have each
many wives—some of them, we are credi
bly informed and believe, as many as twen
ty or thirty, and by Brigham Young, the
Governor, even a greater number. Some
ten or fifteen days before we left the terri
tory, the Governor was seen riding through
the streets of the city in an omuibus, with
a-largecotnpanyrof his wives, more than
two-thirds of whom had infants in their
arms—-a sure sign that the evil was in-
It is not uncommon to find two
or more sisters married to the same man ;
and in one instance, at least, a mother and
her two daughters are among the wives of
a leading member of the church. Thi*
practice, regarded and punished as a high
and revolting crime in all civilized countries
would, of coarse, never be made a stat
offence by a Mormon Legislature; an
crime at common law, the. court
gweiless to rorrect the erilj*