The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-05-26
Highly amporsa mt srsn Utah.
A Terrible social Picfvrs-Progress Of
Crime and Outrage Insults. TO United
States Officers.
Correspondence n. Y. Times.

GREAT SALT LAKE ClrY, March 2, 1857.
Shut in ms we are, from the world ntlarge
by the SHOWS of winter, and unprotected by
even the show of a judiciary, the head OF the
church have been enabled to perpetratc
against us every species Of crime and cruelty,
Gentiles have been robbed Of valuable prop
erty dissenting Mormons, WHO have become
Disguised with the fendish rights OF the
ssSaints," have been outraged and murdered
and even women who have presumed to rebe
against the commands OF the misnamed
church, have been mercilessly prosecuted
and driven from house to house, until they
were compelled to yield to the brutal de-
mands Of their tyrants or seek refuge from
them in suicide. On Christmas night young
woman cut her throat, as the only way IN
which she could escape from the more terri
BILE fate that awaited her. Self-destructlon
by the less violent means OF lnudanum is very
common. There is class OF young girls
who, too timid to resortto extreme measures,
are driven to become the concubines OF the
loathsome vipers who pretend to be "Saints''
of God. Their hopes and happiness are for
ever blasted, and the consciousness Of deg
radiation continually gnawing into their
hearts. OF this the following is melan-
choly instance. A man named Nash came
to this Territory last fall, bringing with him
his daughter, lovely and beautiful girl Of
seventeen summers. He settled at Provo, a
town sixty miles south of this city, and in
consequence Of her great beauty, his daugh-
ter was much desired by many Of the vile po-
lygamists. She succeeded, however, in es-
Gaping them all until the death Of her father,
her only protector, which happened in early
winter. The funeral rites were performed
BY Bishop Carter, who, after finishing his
PRAYER over the newly made grave, turned to
the heart broken maiden and roughly told
her that she must now become his wife,
The gentle girl, left friendless, and seeing nc
place wherein she could take refuge and es
cape condition she 80 much dreaded, was
obliged to yield, and 10 now doomed to q life
of sorrow and dishonor. She is Carriers
seventh victim. What an amount Of blood
and tears of agony will call for judgmen,
against a powerful Government, which has
knowingly permitted such viliainy and out
rage to continue four years unchecked within
it's jurisdiction.
One Of the principal features of Mormon
ism is the constant endeavor OF the rulers to
make the women mere creatures Of passion,
and slaves of their will. The barriers OF
modesty and virtue are overthrown BY them
in ali their discourses, and all refinement and
elegance are studiously obliterated. They
glory, as Heber c. Kimball says, sin calling
things by their right names." 1t was only q
few Sundays ago that Kimball, in the pres
ence of between two and three thousand peo-
pie, delivered discourse on the intercourse
Of the sexes, in which he made use Of Ian.
guage too obscene and vulgar for the mos,
degraded to utter, literally calling things by
their right names. frequently, to further
their villsinous designs, they accuse women
BY name, in the .sward meetings. Of being
prostitutes, thus making them lose oil self
respect, and inducing them more easily, as
they Gee there is no incentive to chastity, TO
Yield 80 their opportunities. A certain Bish.
op in this city took fancy to his neighbor's
wife, . beautiful woman. Finding that she
was too pure to consent to his suggestions,
he determined to effect his purposes by other
means. He told her husband that his wife
was unfaithful, and that he knew she had
often been visited by other men while he
1.-THE husbsnd) was absent; he added, that he
would not have his ward defiled by the pres :
ence of such woman, and unless he turned
his wife away, his house would be pulled
down over his head. The husband, infu-
enced either by the slanderous tale, or intim-
ida,ed by the more powerful threat, discard
ed his wife, when the Bishop Immediately
proposed to her to come into his family,
which she Indignantly refused, and took ref :
Bishop, however, was not to be fooled so
easily. He compelled ell the families who
sheltered her to turn her away, until the poor
In~ n,sho lad IN Ri - D
sympathies, and begged him to protect her
from her prosecutor. But Brigham advised
her to be ''sealed" to the Bishop, and in ut
ter despair she at length complied. The
Bishop accomplished his purpose, but the
connection was Of short duration, and Brig
ham was soon called upon to ''unseal'' the
two.
Those who have left the Mormon church
are the object Of frequent outrages, and
whenever any Of them are suspected Of en-
deavoring to leave the Territory, they are
stripped of everything they pos
sess. Mr. Jarvis, who has store on South
Temple street, was excommunicated last fall
on account Of apostacy, and has been en-
deavoring to sell his property in order to
leave for the States in the spring. On the
night OF the 18th ult., some man entered the
store Of Sir. Jarvis and asked for tobSeco.-
Mr.. j., IN handing it to them, was seized BY
the hair and dragged into the street, and
there most mercilessly beaten by some OF the
party, while others Of the villains broke up
the counters and shelves, built fires on the
floor with the fragments, and threw the goods
into them. Thoy then repaired to the cham
bers, where they also built fires, burning the
furniture and clothes Of the family. Some
females who attempted to give the alarm were
set upon with revoivers and knives, and
frightened into silence. Having made a
wreck Of everything, the ruihans left, carrv-
ing away all the portable property. 9he
frcs which were smouldering on the floors
were finally extinguished by the females,
though They were much burnt ~ weu as per
sonally injured BY the demons.
Mrs. Switzerland, . s'gentle" lady of
great respectability, and widow Of Mr.. South.
eriand, who was killed on the plains with
Col. Babbitt, had been driven from her home
by threats Of violence, and had Hed to Mr..
Jarvis for safety. She was in the house at
the time OF the attack, but succeeded in ma
king her escape thsefrom /; some Of the gang
saw her when in the street, and gave chase.
In Turning corner she fell in the deep snow
and feeling entirely exhausted did not at.
tempt to rise; the man happily not seeing her,
passed On, aud she sped in another direct n,
wandering through the streets all night, GOV.
cred only with her night clothes, barefooted
and bareheaded, and sfraid TO ask for shell.
ter-the snow being ut the time over two
iees IN depth and the mercury below zero
II IS almost needless to say that Brigham wa.
al the bottom OF the affair, and that the Da.
mites committed the deed BY h,s direct or.
ders. He had previously said at the taber
nacle that Jarvis should never leave the Ter
ritory, or il he did he should not take any d
his property with him. There has BEEN