The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-19
NO. sos.
Z ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.

q fUh AN X.
Brigham Young recently sent a ssucy report
to the Department, in reference to his admins
tration Of Indian affairs in Utah. The Com.
missioner Of Indian Affairs has replied to him
in very decided language. We quote few
paragraphs;
"You have been denouncing this Govern
rnen;, and threatening an armed resistance to
ire authorities sent out by the President. In.
deed unless you and your coadiuto are most
grossly misrepresented, and your language mis-.
oooted, the appearance of those authorities
among you is all that is necessary to prompt
YOU to an overt act of treason. Il could never
have been intended, when the appropriations
were made by Congress, that the money should
be used in arousing savages to war against our
own citizens, or to enable o subordinate officer
10 carry on reasonable practices against his
own Government. The rule of this Office is to
withhold annuities from the Indians whenever
they place themselves in hostile or antagonis.
tie attitude towards the Government and
know Of no reason why the same rule should
not be applied to you at this time but as the
appropriation has been exhausted, it is not ne
cessary to consider that question now.
You say, the troops must be kept away
for il ia prevalent fact, that wherever there
gre TIE mos. of these, we may expect to find the
greatest amount OF hostile Indians, and the
least security for persons and property The
troops are under the direction of the President
and il is far to presume that he would not send
them 10 Utah Territory unless there was a ne
cassity for so doing; and if it be true that wher
ever the greatest number of troops are, there
are to be found the greatest number of hostile
Indians, it arises from the fact that the troops
gre necessary at such places to preserve the
peace, and to keep the Indians in subsection.
There is no reason why persons and property
should be any the less secure in the neighbor-
hood Of he troops, nor is there any reason why
peaceable citizens should object to their pres
ence If it is your intention to preserve peace,
the troops will not interfere with you but if
you intend otherwise, then it is necessary that
the troops should be on the ground to enforce it.
at is much to be regretted that such state
Of affairs should exist, and it is always with
great reluctance that we arrive at the conclu.
sion that American citizens should at any time
require the strong arm of power to compel obe-
dience to the laws, or that subordinate officer
should 80 far forget his duty as to use his Off
cial position to injure one portion of his fellow
citizens, and to ALLEVIATE another portion from
loyalty to their Government. But when con-
WINGED of the existence of such facts, the Chief
Executive has no alternative left but to crush
ou, rebellion, and for this purpose all the pow
ers of the Government are placed under his
control"
A Tilt AT THE BoNNErs.-The last number
Ct the Westminster Recie,c contains lively ar
tcle upon the dress of modern women. 1t is,
upon the whole, scathing criticism of the at
tire Of the ladies of the year 1857. Here is q
specimen of its criticism upon bonnets:
Balancing at the fashions for 1857, what do
we see2 On the head is a something, the pur.
pose Of which it would be difficult to discover
By reason; structure of silk or straw, adorn-
ed with flowers, ribbon, and lace, crowded on
the angle of the jaws and the nape of the neck,
and with its fore part Just reaching the crown
0! he head. We have Mr. Spurgeon's author.
ity for the effect to the eye of the spectator in
front Being advised to preach against the
prevailing folly in head-gear, he paused as he
STOOD upon the platform, looked around him,
and said: | have been requested to rebuke
.he bonnets of the day, but, upon my word, l
do not see any, This is the bonnet Of 1857,
pinned to the head in some troublesome way,
leaving the face exposed In a manner which
one need not be Turkish parent to disapprove,
and causing the hair to be powdered with dust,
and the head and face to be alternately heated
and chilled By sun and wind, 80 that the physi.
Clans are easily believed, when they declare
that cases of eye-disease, of toothache, and
neuraigic pains of the head and face. are be.
yond all precedent in their practice. For many
months past, English women, and the ladies of
America, where the extremes of heat and cold
are greater than with us, have been subiecting
themselves TO the inconvenience of going out
Dareheaded, with the added annoyance of an
apparatus which heats and worries the back of
the neck. the broad -brimmed hats are a piece
OF good sense in the midst of mass of folly.
EaHch, and other satirists, may quiz the hat as
cevice tor locking young; but the ridicule
touches only the elderly wearers. and leaves the
hat uGimyeached. Some quizzical specimens,
piUmed and beribboned, and 80 turned up and
twisted about as TO serve no more useful pur-
poses than the prevailing bonnet, may be seen
here and there; but the simple original hat,
With a brim which shades the eyes, and a crown
which protects the head, is worthy of all appro.
baton, while it is exceedingly becoming to
young wearers. As to older people-if they
sensibly decline wearing the bonnet which ex-
poses their gray hair to the very crown, and
irei that the hat is too jaunty-why do they
uot rscur to the Indigenous, serviceable, be-
coming, unobjectionabe English straw bonnet
OF all times?"
The courage of the Westminster is worthy of
admiration, but we fear that it did not compute
the chances of discontinue before it offered
battle with the women of our times.