Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-27

Messfs- 6errIsis ana Aorreii arrived nero 81
the middle OF last month, direct from the States;
they had been long time on the way and had
endured many hardships and priyations; they
had been exposed to extreme cold, and raFrow.
iy escaped being overwhelmed and buried By
the tremendous snow storms that rage in tie
mountain passes. nevertheless, with indosaitable
rc-'everarce they orercame all obstacles and
arrived safely in this city. They brought Us the
extremely welcome news that United States
Marshal had been appointed from among the
Gentle residents Of the Territory, and it Is some
consolation for us and the converted Mermons
who have endured the most atrocions and hor-
rlble outrages that deyiiish minds and hands
could devise and execute, to think that although
we have been 80 long neglected the Government.
is doing something to relieve US at last.
Shut In, as we are, from the world at large by
the SHOWS of Winter, and unprotected by even
the show of a Judiciary, the beads of the Church
have been enabled TO perpetrate against US eve.
ry species of crime and cruelty. Gen,iles have
been robbed Of valuable property; dissenting
Mormons, who have become Disguised with the
iendish rites of the Saints" have been out
ragged and murdered; and even women who
have presumed to rebel against the commands
of the misnamed Church, have been mercilessly
prosecuted, ana driven from house to house, IN
Gil they we're compelled to yield to the brutal
demands 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 terrible fate that
plainly awaited her. Sef-des.ruction hy the
less violent means Of iaudanum is very common.
There is a class of young girls who, too tinlid to
resort to extreme measures, are driven to be-
come the concubines OF the loathsome vipers
who pretend to be the saints" of God. Their
hopes and happiness are forever blasted and
the consciousness Of their degradation is con-
tinusliy gnawing into their hearts. Of this the
following is u melancholy Instance. A man
named Nash came to this Territory last fall,
bringing with him his daughter, q lovely and
beautiful girl of seventeen summers. He settled
at Provo, town sixty miles south of this city,
and in consequence of her great beauty, his
daughter was much desired Dy many OF the vile
poiygamists. 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
friend!ess, and seeing no place wherein she
could take refuge and escape condition she so
much dreaded, was obliged to yield, and is now
doomed to life of sorrow and dishonor. She
is Carriers seventh victim Wha. an amount of
blood and tears OF agony will cali for Judgment
against powerful government, which has
knowingly permitted such vIany ane outrage
to continue four years unchecked within It's jul
risdction.
One of the principal features of Mormon,sm is
the constant endeayor of the rulers to make
the women mere creatures Of passion, and
slaves of their will. The barriers of modesty
and virtue are overthrow by them in all their
discourscs, aud all refinement and elegance are
studiously ohliterated. They glory, as Ueber
c. klmball says, 'in calling things by their right
Names" 1t was only few Sundays ago, that
kimball, in the presence of between two and
three thousand people, delivered a discourse OIL
the intercourse of the sexes, in which he made
use OF language too obscene and vulgar for the
most degraded to utter, literally calling things
by their right names. Frequently to further
their villainous designs, they accuse women by
name, in the "ward meetings" of being prosti-
tutes thus making them lose all seIf-respecf, and
inducing them more easily, as they see there is
no incentive to chastity, to yield to their impor-
tunities. A certain Bishop in this city took a
fancy to his neighbours wife, a beautiful woman.
Finding that she was too pure to consent TO his
suggestions, he determined to effect his purposes
DF oluef means. lac lOlu neF nuSodhu uiat Ills
wife was uniaithtul, and that lie knew she had
often been VISITED by other men while he (the
hllsband) was absent; he added that he would
not have his ward defled by the presence of
such woman, and unless he turned his wife
away his house would be pulled down over his
head. The husband influenced either by the
slanderous tale, or inundated by the more pow
erful threat, discarded his wife, when the Bishop
proposed to her to come into his
family, which she Indignantly refused, and took
refuge in the house OF an acquaintance. The
Bishop, however, was not TO be toiled so easily.
He compelled all the families who sheltered her
10 turn her away, until the poor woman in her
anguish appealed to Brighams sympathies, and
begged him to protect her from her prosecutor.
But Brigham ddyiSed her to be "sea!ed" to the
Bishop, and in utter despair she at length com.
Piled The Bishop accomplished his purpose,
but the connection was of short duration, and
Brigham was soon called upon to 'unseal" the
two.
Those who have left the Mormon churcl, are
the objects Of frequent outrages, and whenever
any of them are suspected of endeavo:ing to
leave the Territory, they are Immediately strip
ped OF every thing they possess. r.;Jarvis, who
has store on South Temple street was cxcom-
last Fall on account OF apostasv, and
order to leave for the States in tie Spring. On
he night of the 18th ut., some men entered the
store OF Mr.. Jarvis and asked for tobacco. Mr..
J., in handing it to them, was seized by the
lair, dragged into the street, and there most
beaten by some of the party, while
others OF the villains broke up the counters and
shelves built fires on he floor with the lrag-
nents and threw the goods into them. They
hen repaired to the chambers, where they also
quilt fires burning the furniture and clothes of
he family. Some females who attempted to
give the alarm were set upon with revolTers and
tnivcs and frightened into silence. Having made
| wreck OF everything the rufans lett, carrying
away all the portable property. The fires which
we're su:o!dering on the floors were finally ex-
inguished by the females, though they were
much burnt well as personally injured by the
lemons.
Mrs. Sutherland, a "Gentiie" lady of great
,espectab:!ity, and widow of Mr. Sutherland who
Vas killed on the plains with Col Babbit, had
1een driven from her home by threats OF vio-
ence, and had fled to Mr. Jarvis's for safety
She was in the house at the time of the attack,
out succeeded in making her escape thereirom;
some Of the gang saw her when in the street and
gave chase. In turning corner she fell in the
ieep snow and feeling entirely exhausted did
1ot attempt to rise the man happily no. see
ne her passed on and she sped in another d.
'ecton wandering through the streets all night,
covered only with her night clothes, barefoo.ed
md bare headed and afraid to ask for shelter
he snow being at tie time over two feet in
depth and the mercury below zero. It is almost
needless 10 say that Brigham was at the bot
om of the affair and that the Dauites committed
he deed by his direct orders. lie had previous
V said in the Tabernacle that Jarvis should
,ever leave the Territory, or if he did should
.ot take one particle of property with him.
On the 18th Of last month the house OF man
vas torn down because he had presumed to dis
,bey orders and refused to turn away some Gen
lies who were boarding with him. Attempts
nave been made to fire the dwellings, of T. S.
Williams, the Attorney, and Judge Stiles, the
United States Judge, for the part they took in
he Hockaday Tanne"y case. Both haze been
ut offrom the Church, and denounced as apos-
ates, for darin. 20 do their duty and trying to
enforce the laws CT the country 1t was the
anxious wish OF the Mormons to destroy the re-
lords OF this case that induced then, to burn the
books and papers of the United States Circuit
Court. The United States officials, Gen. Burr
he ourveyor-General,a and DR.. Hart, the Indian
Agent, are now in avery dangerous POSITION
)pen threats of burning or tearing down their
'tces and killing or maltreating them are daily
made, and in one of the southern settlements at
Sunday meeting it was voted to raise party
n como and rut their 1hrpo+S JTplass tho CIV.