Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-05-23
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I MORE Mormon 0UrRAGEs-I4r Men Aur-
dared We present below another chapter of
Mormon outrages, which are becoming of al
most every day occurrence Itiscertainly high
time there was astop put to it by the proper
authorities:
During the month OF March a wholesale trag.
edy was enacted near the walled town Of SPRING
VILE, which contains about 1900 inhabitants,
and Is distant some sixty miles from Salt Lake
City. A man named Parrish, seeding Nor
mon, had determined upon leaving the Territory
and coming TO the States and in order to do sn,
sold out his property mud purchased some llors-
es and a wagon. In the course of the night
previous to isintended departure his wagon and
horses were stolen, and some time had passed
before he discovered which way they had gone
He found them in the town of Provo, some
miles of, button Identification and application
for them to the Mayor of Provo, lie was Jeci-
dedly refused all relief Finding it no use to
demonstrate, he returned to Springvile and
finally, IN company with his two sons and two
other men, respectively named Potter and OAR
ger, he set out for the States on foot They
had not left the place more than few hum
dred yards behind, when they were attacked
by number of men armed and disguised
Potter was shot dead, five balls having entered
his body; Parrish fell wounded, when one of
the assailants rushed upon him, and in his dis
HSlSp CUT MS throat from ear to ear,
and ripped up his abdomen. One of Parrish's
sons ran about eighty yards, when he was struck
down, his throat cut, and his abdomen ripped
up. The other young Parrish and Darger con-
triVed to escape. The only notice taken Of the
Meter by the Mormon authorities was the sum
case and returned verdict of assassination
| by some persons unknown" 1t is stated that
DAY y or r two before the day which Parrish had
hxed for leaving, the, Mormon Bishop of SPRING
vile sent a wagon express to Brigham Young
/ IN Salt Lake City, which went and returned
| within twenty-four hours. This nnexampled
circumstance is thought to connect Young with
/ priyity to the murder, and the further fact is
stated that, Just before the bloody transaction,
the aforesaid Bishop of SpringEille blessed a
number of his flock preparatory to their under
taking work of the Lord, /" and prayed that
the "Lord would give them strength to per-
form his work" r,
Potter WAS brother of ono of the men killed
IN Gunnison's massacre, and was one of the very
few who know the secret history of that sangJli-
nary transaction. Parrish and his sons were
also well acquainted with the Mormon secrets,
having once been in full Mormon communion.
Another tragedy, not very dSsimiIar, is also
reported by the last mail from Utah. 1t oc-
CURED abont seventy miles from Parowan, ON
the California road, and the victims were asmall
party of seeding MOrmons emigratins to Cali
lorna. -Four were shot as they sat encamped
at the foot of some rocky hills The names Of
two of these menwere Tobin and Peltro. Tbev
too were well apprized Of the aims and secrets
OF the hormons, and therefore too dangerous TO
be allowed to emigrate. -
vi the other, the adulterous branch of Nor
mon practice and policy, only a fact or two, is
stated Joseph Young, son of Brigham. Inns
returned from England, to which he had been
accredited as missionary. He left q younp
wife behind him when he undertook his mission
but since his return has taken no notice Of her
10 make up for this deficiency. he has sssealedn
two new wives, one of them a niece of the de-
ceased Jedediah Grant Brigham's Youngest
daughter, Alice, by his first and true wife. has
been recently SEALED, y much against her moth.
er's will as well as her own, to man named
Slawson, who had already three or four wives
Baptisms had been very frequent in Great Sail
Lake City. AT one of these ceremonies four
hundred Mormons were baptised and rc.bap
tised, and at another three hundred went THROUGH
the same purifying" rites.
We have been advised, by accounts of prior
date, recently received, that crimes of the most
horrible description have increased to snch AZ,
extent that the life of no settler in the Territory
IS safe; while secret society called Danites
nave to some extent disorganized the Mormon
society by introducing a general system Of mur-
der, arson, robbery, &C., on the most extensive
scale.