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iUHa m ■inrni -TiyfagnMaafiaa mm W-.;. THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN ‘SAffl’L B. CRAFTON,~ COUNTY PRINTER. SANDERSTOLE, GEORGIA- THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN r „ m „. Tt-RAId—For the paper in advance , $1 50 if not paid in advance, $2.-00 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*