The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-10-29
MORMuN u,IfRAGEs.

late SURVEYOR t,ru,rn nj nt ttrl, l'ii ~ "hnu" al
the ollie" When he. lot lts sa'.,v. iri, The
Territory las, sprung. This statement r"it"h"r- +
n,cd the report published ~ ~" mi"r several
weeks nvn from, patty "i r"Lin"d 'ali!ornirns.
riuruvI,Lr. tN~ sept. *.
H,nr .S.r: | embrace The earliest, opportunity
t"r NV arrival her" of srn.ing You an ne
count al nay c.rnpc from Salt Lake city. ar
rived ON saturday, the 18th instant weary. w"ru
foot, sore and nearly furnished. having walked
nearly all the way l'rc:""t aud almost naked
BY tn. next mail will give YOU nll The partsr-
lars of the i"imps of the Mormnns.
On Saturday, July ~, while engaged in con
vrrsali"nwith II number Of cmirran's, WAS as-
sautch by gang "f M"rmnns cd on by Dick
Petit and -- Th"mIsun, who beat me with
stones and clubs most uninrrcifully The emf
grants We're about to rally to my assistance, but
dissualcd them from doing 80, telling them that
it would only result in their destruction. When
reached home was insensibIc. The same after
noon they attacked Deputy Surveyor Mo:.o, as
lie was going 10 the office, by st0ning him; and
compelled him tn take refuge in the store. On
Monday, the 21th of July, about midnight Icing
awake, suffering from the wounds the Mormons
hal inflicted, | startled by loud kuocking
at the front and back doors Of tho office. (Which
udjoius my rcSidrncr,) and heard Mr.. Wilson,
the other clerk, VIII" occupies the upper part of
the Office building ask from the window what
was wanted. The rclly was Il demand, in the
maine of Brigham young, that he should come
down and surrender. | then heard crash the
door having. been burst open, and MIS- Wilson
sh,rkinY AMI begging them hot to take away
her husband. They hru,aly told her To keep
her mouth shut anI stop her noise, or They would
make her heard Mr.. W ilson ask where they
were going: t, take him. anI what for. They
said in reply: "Coinc along, and no fuss, or we'll
DIT soon show you
| was incapable Of rendering ass,tarcc, and
was thinking what to do when nav back door
was forced OPEN and II party of rm.!;ar,s r,slr,
in npf pTi .;.I tn 81
anI put on my pants and one stnckinr. But, :,S
it occurred L" me that they would murder uS, |
resolved to try To cSchIr iii'l cautiously opened
the window for that pnrl"S,, when Il prrrmptory
order ina lc for me tn make haste md colnr
down. | replied that | WAS coming, when they
made Il rush for tide stairs. | jumped ont of tn.
window, and escaped to the ho,iS,. Of friend
where staid until daylight. When went T."
the store, the boys gave nc pair oi mocc;,SinS
an old ragged pair of pants, check shirt, au
IN oll hat. In this Disguise started the next
evening, and Travelled along the banks Of the
Jordan and Of salt Lake until day. WHEN struck
for the mountains had hardly reached n place
o. concca!iicnt when | saw seven mounted Nor
mons in pursuit. twice narrowly cScnlm.I.-
Once hear the Weber caution they came within
ten feet of me, but they riding fast and
was hid behind sage bush. They iol!uwcd l.r
to Willow Creek. where the Indians were leaving
ii tax oi Il shirt AMI Il blanket on every cnyrumt
My pIrsucrs were heard to SLY, let him go
the Indians will gc, him bcfu,. he goes very far
down the IIumbolt.' The Indians got many
poor f'llows Oh this river during last sulGmcr.-
Many men. women and children have been slaugh
tered 10y wholesale. Ono wrman was scalpcl
alive, AMI her childrens brains knocked out over
the wagon heel She is still living. | can en-
uncrnte dozen such instances I saw on the
road the Indian Peter who used To come to the
Surveyor Generals office. lie told me that
Brigham Young sent him out 1" get "pInrocs,"
(horses} and carbincS. lie knew me, and said |
was wainoe, (good because had often given
him bIshc"pe (rcd paint) lie informed me that
there was "hcap of Indians on llumbulIi, heap
pnngocs, heap curl,incs," cite. had not left him
an hour before he shot with four balls
But the man escaped, though not much injured
! hav" not time to recount the sufl:rinus en-
d,'red while upon the road. have Travelled from
Carson Valley to this place with nothing but two
buiscuis To cnt, l am ::a" working in Il stone
quarry, nearly naked and barcfn"tcl, for very
little more than something 10 cut-,hat is ulou,
twenty dollar month.
III: M"rm"ns are all leaving here and Car
son Valley for the purpose Of defending Zion.
Surety IF Letters omd Goii at !Sra--Mr. Jos.
all Foster, Of Sandwich, Mass, has Just brought
before the public m invention Of his for securing
the safety Of gold and valuable papers in cases
where the vessel i'll which such matter is trans
ported Is lost at sea- 1t is called the "P:,tcnt
Marine Safe and Metallic Mail bag" The Hos-
ton Advertiser publishes the following Rcpor,
OF the Cornmittrr who have examined il:
The safe exhibited by Mr.. Foster was about
the size of medium sized mail bag and so con-
slructrd that II must remain perfectly water. t,pht
though il should he pressed under the water and
Kept there for years When filled ,u its utmost
capacity with mail matter and thrown overheard,
IT ftonted upon the water like cork and to test
the extent of its buoyancy, It Was afterwards
loaded with two hundred and tlI.rty-six pounds
oi stone, and 1t was then sufficiently buoy
ant to buoy up two The loss of so
large an amount Of gold and the mails by the
iounderlng Of the Central America. suggested to
Mr. Foster the idea of marine sufe, which he
has succeeded in perfccting, and which needs on.
~ to be seen, and the buoyancy Of it tested, to
convlce of its utility, and the importance of it's
oe'hg brought into general use in the transport
atioii OF mnIis whenever conveyed bv water; and
without doubt it will be substituted FOR the leutE-
er bags now used, as submitted TO the i'm.
speetion of the Post Office Department. After
nn examination OF this safe our astonishment ut
It's buoyancy is only exceeded by our astonish-
ment that something Of the kind has not long
since been intrOa .ced.
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Tile FI"y If tic Conguercr-a Relic of tie
Ia@. The American flag which Heated nt the
masthead ot the brig Enterprise, during the nc.
t'"n with the British brig Boxer in 1913 Off Mon
hegan, can now he at the iewclry store. No.
l9 Exchange street. The history of the battle,
- ~ ' - d Ichr, Is ihls On the first day
oi September 1873, the United States brig En-
terprlsc sailed from Portsmouth, n. H.. on n
cruise. On the fifth day. after chasing one yes.
sci 'hto Portland, she fell in with the British
brig Boxer, Of Monhcgan, and captured her nfi er
ah acton OF forty five minutes Early in the
ae,'oh burrows fell mortally wounded. Refusing
10 be carried below, and remaining on The deck,
cheering on his men, lie pointed to the flag of his
country, proudly flonting To the brccsc, and re-
d"ested that it should never he struck and when
INC SWORD oi the enemy was presented to tho dy-
ing conquerer, he cnspcd his hands and exclaimed
II die eonsented;" then, and not till then. was
ne carried below, where he breathed his last in
lew hours, envcIoped in the same flag that
" waved so proudly at the masthead That old
nag once the winding sheet Of that gallant nun,
Is preservcd.-Statc Of -Nuinc.
melancholy affair took placeim York District
u lew days ago, the particulars of which we learn
from tho Chronicle. n,au named John Fee,
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