New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-07-02

II buildings and whsrses eoald Be transported resd
" vessels and merchandise IL easy 20 saa thai Al thu
end Of ak months there weaa be h trsIsr "A N
Mackinac The twoscr three hundred tAousa.d aolsra
there invested 10 stores dwellings and vhsrves 50 mach
fixed capital 10 be sy lost unless potion II this
growing trade can be kept there.
tish can only be soli reouced prices without n.Dso
ton The Inspector coany sthoer and resided :.
Maekinsc Last year saint james sent market seven
teen thousand barrels OF ash Yet the Inspector would
not give US Deputy To send them TO Msckiosc foe
.pecton would transportation. wharfage and in
p.ctors fees from SIXTY to seventy I've cents per barrel
and consequently they were generally sold without aspe
tion al the la.s Of sly cents on the barrel
Now we have own Inspector, and with our improved
snd improving facilities for buiness the result cannot f1
being foreseen and the hope Of Proongng decay
III some favorable Of the wheel OF fortune shall
bic present holders Of real estate IN Nscknsc 10 sell out
,uf6cepy powerful incentive TO Action 20 account tor
more than act OF injustice.
observe that the communicAaou yo1 copy rom IN
F,ee Pres charges the Mormons with and exraord
nary boesess dng IN 'h-ir rOooeres gives Ns an
instance the stealing some Two handr'a osrre OF nsn
and the destruction Of sone $4,000 ~or OF property
birch Point and this bodness by saying
that "oenses committed upon the shores and waters OF
Lake Michigan between the lin. running hom ro'nt n
Lyman the Straits 10 Old Msckioac and line ran
hing from the south side Of Grsno Traverse BAY TO Men
omonee River are exclusively in Emmett County and tne
oe sders bs tried BY Nor tribunals, With good
"hormons for witnesses an Jurymen"
Unfortunately tor the Orce of TINS Argument, brsh
Point lot within those bounds lea, the County
of Emmett but in the body Of the COuuy Of Mackinsc and
oenss committed there BILE 81 u.iv-ly by MAck
tribunals with good hscknsc men for witnesses and
"JDrym II the! nave the mdaOtsole evidence they
tell Of that the robbery Committed by from Bsar
lssnd they viii Of course avail OF the pres
snt occasion to put them "durAnce vile The Mornons
sre Of opinion thst something far short iadablbs er
deRce would suffice they fell into the hands Of the Phil
shines at Mscknac.
Moreover il not true matter Of Law, that offences
committed any part ne Lake MtoAigaa,
se e.clrsivey in the jurisdiction OF Emmett County The
Cosntes Of Nsn Buren,, 81 JosAph Aueg.n, Ottawa
Oceans snd Emmett have concurrent jurisdiction the
waters OF the Lake To the State line.
stealing AuHfrfd barrels ASA
sosnds rather 6shy Ii isl fa match 10 that OF man
who stole MILL and got well ~ bat detected IS
be went back after the dam Two hundred barrels are
big pile 10 steal Birch Point is more than twenty miles
C Ia the ne Mormon settler but there several
little settlements of fishermen not noted tor extra al
owsnce Of honesty winerng along the shore in that vicu
y They might have stoi-n Jew nsn 10 eat Ia course
oi the winter bat two hundred barrels too big pile to
steal
The fishermen at Birch Point and the north shore
generally receive their outhts from Mscknsc, and
almost to in debt for them st year they dad but
differently and unable 20 settle up tho fall
Al the close Of the the traders send their vessels
around and not only get all the hsh they can from their
but gather up all their barrels and salt Such
articles are only left the dshDg grounds In small guam
titles and at Ole places prudent business
man will readily believe. Most certainly II the traders in
Mscknac bsevea the OF what they have said OF Mormon
dishonesty and rHpscy ritnu tno as1 tae, years tney
would not leave thousand dollars worth of moveabss
on the shore of the Lake only twenty miles from the
Mormon settlement from the close OF fishing tae fall Till
the opening in the spring and no one to guard Either
the truth of what has been said for years
past is false, this story must be
The MOrmons known by everybody In that region 10
have three vessels ~ tnvsu, two, Dol
min and Emmln hauled out last fall repairs and
as late as the 18th May had not yet been launched, and
this fact can be proved by the officers Of the numerous
steamboats, which call almost daily al Beaver Hrbor.
Ihs ether the Seaman, passed Mackinao on a trip 20
Drummond Island some days before the burning OF tho
shaRnes nj Birch Point arrived at Drummond time
previous to that outrage and remained there at least 20
miles from the that crime, till several days IL
was done and known in hackinac Aud tsis fact
proyed by he settlement AZ DE
whom are Mormons Among them Is Hon. Ebenezer
Warner Register al the Land Oihce at s.llt ste Marie
There was winored last winter Ia little nook or bay
Of Garden Island the yacht Mary Clark belisve-for
the name is painted out, and the name Defiance daubed
over -formery Of Chicago, and probably the best sser
on the Lakes now in the hands Of Capt shepard.
neither Mormon friend Of the Mormsns though he
wintered in their neghborhood THIS vessel went out
som. day the burning the Shsne.s It Birch Point
and did not return I'll time after and its business
At that time has besn coultsd tor Ii any coni.
cradle quantity property was In fact stolen this fact
would be Of Importance But candidy. most truly be.
i.ye the story OF stealing hsched up by SONS dis
honest ssh.reD excuse for not paying up their ar.
feas with the traders who supplied thsIn burning
done, give force TO the statement perhaps
cover up some trhiHg pecustiOn which the fishermen
were practlcing each other The valuable build.
ings we're not burned, they would have been hal the
obs waste and destroy and II u beyond meas
ure incredible that that amount Of property should bs .
in such place
Allow me to add that this is the drs or second time
that charges Of the most astounding crimes emanateA
from Mackinac against the Mormons At Beaver Island
That At different they have been made the subject Of
legal Interrogation sni IN every instance the result has
,ndicaed the UprghiDess aud nt-g .nce of the Nor.
mons. Yet greedy the public for some tails Of
Mormon corruption that scarcely possible To in
vent so barefaced and incredible e thai shall not ind
place in some respectable Psper and believers among its
readers.
As an instance, may mention that The Bg6rio Roxgh
Notes last published edtorsy, with pointed com
meuts the ment Of sailors the MOrmOns on
Beaver Island went boldly in ths day time on bodrd he
lax, t0IerS in armed bCdies and praed from them and
were unwbpped Of Justice and Mr. Cad Eaadsr the able
conductor that journal opened his eyes 10 the
utter Incredibly OF suchan assertion until pointed it ost
To him. ! presume many Of bis readers believed it
dOubiiDgiy.
deprecae such publications. because their tendency Is
to produce disorder and violence They encourage
ment TO those who resort mOb the prsense IN the
law is strong enough What sad about the boun
dsues of Emmett County and Mormon rbun ais Juryrnsn
AMI Witnesses could only BE- designed excuse fOr re-
sorting to other than legal remedies.
The resOrt to civil against the Mormons has been
made in two three instances sim lar pretsnses but
believe that al respectable look upon those scts "A
national disgrace nearly every writer has alluded to
them snd All ihs tribunals Shch have invest gated Them
have exonerated the hormo0s from the charges which
they we're mobbed.
But th. Mormon tribunal which Is to let the criminals
90 free what is Il Is Circuit Court 81 the State Of
Michigan 10 be held by Hon Samuel I. Douglass II the
CIV a Detroit This Is ths only tribunal stcsv Courts
held BY Justices Of The Peace OF thsse Il Is enough TO
say that the appeal would be- 70 the Circuit Court has
hIeofore 10 c Dtfrra Cont aud under the old CODstu.
ton 10 the County Court a. Uacktaac where numerous
judgments rendered by Aaee been agyeasd
AsD sOT EEFEhsED.
Bot the whole alusion to Mormon tribunals, witnesses
aud urymen Is gratutous The tribunal has not been or.
gained the 0ry men have not been empAnneed nor the
Witnesses brought INTO Court,
Men iuoge f the moral standard Of other conduct
By their own and for any 10 say OF the tribunals jury
mep &c Of kmnet County, before they have ever done
an act that they Wb Their poser tor corrupt purposes,
Is ia pre- isey the zane say, II be had their OPpor-
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