Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-16

| nve g3HonS OF native wine were preparet
for the dinner.
Baziel and John {two Indians) said the,
wanted to drink toasts. Baziel said-'.l
want you to live and never die, that yor
may raise plenty of the good things We
have had to eat to-day, for they make my
heart feel good" ss=e asa
John said he had toast for the young
saying-"It would make nv heart fee
good to see our women look like the white
women" sa.
At Provo, among the toasts. was this:
The Mormon Battalion: May they be
blest with long lives and many wives.
There must be q sad state of things in
Salt Lake City owing to the parched con-
dition of the earth. The Meas of Aug.
18th says:
Every accountable being in this city
knows that City Creek is very low, that
the soil is very dry, and that many fruit
trees and plants are suffering through want
of water. 1t is equally well known to be
an extremely difficult matter to divide out
the water with perfect exaetness, and We
presume that the water master and his as
sistants officiate in this matter with the
best skill they have. But now follow the
mysteries: some full grown men, and pro-
fessed brethren, water their gardens pro-
flsely, while those of their neighbors are
parchiDg with droutb; others, whose lots
were mostly in wheat, claim the same
amount of water after the wheat is cut
Others soak down a very little patch of
onions, cabbage, beans, and few squash
vines, the whole not worth five dollars,
with as much water rs is allotted TO a full
lot; and others bountifully irrigate pota-
to vines that will have no tubers aud corn
stalks from which the leaves have been
plucked, stealing part of the water to do
so, while imported gratis are whitening,
when one of them is worth more than all
the unproductive vines and matured corn
stalks on large plat.
We have ranked this conduct among the
mysteries, though in fact it is not strange
that some should yield to temptation, even
here, and knowingly and recklessly infringe
upon the rights of Others.
As to the pinching want, We quote from
discourse delivered by Professor Kimball,
in which he says:
The people are out of grain and out of
bread, and have but little myself; and
from what l see should think very many had
none, for if you were to go to my house
and stay one day, you would see enough
to craze you, for they come in crowds and
are hungry, and l feel to pity them, but l
cannot feed all creation.
Utah must be a miserable country if
the News tells the truth when its says:
As has been frequently observed, and as
all passers-through well know, Deseret is
not desirable by the gentiles for settle
ment; and as oil and water will not mix,
so the violent possession by gentiles of the
buildings and farms now gladdening these
wastes must needs be through their aban-
1snment by the owners, which would
speedily cause their reversion to their ele-
mentary condition, and their evacuation by
all gentiles, for they will not labor where
The toll is so constant and excessive, and
The return therefrom so light and uncertain.
This then is most excellent abiding place
Tor Saints, because it contains nothing COW
etable by the gentiles, nor even by apos-
tates.