The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-12-08

THE MORMON DIFFICULTY m ENGLAND.


prophets The Delhi Of the United States is al Deseret
aud lis Great Mogul Is the caiph Brigham Young The
ugnes Of the undertaking imposed ON the government
of Washington by the constitution and precautions Of the
Mormon community does oh the undertaking
itself approaches maturity Our readers that
long ago the spring Of the present year exped
ton Of federal troops despatched the delicate mis-
sion Of bringing the elders to order and taking account Of
the repeated ouages upon the laws and dignity OF the
republic, which have been pepetraed under their
thoity. report may be trusted the prospects of this
enterprise have been little the taste Of the heroes
to whom 1t ntrusted for deserton is said TO have
gradually brought them down TO fraction of their org
nal strength Some color undoubtedly afforded to this
statement by the fact that 1t not until the 2eth Of
July that the commander Of the expedition whose head
quarters then established at Fort Leayenworth in
Kansas resolved to despatch military emssary to Utah
To survey the ground, politically and strategicay, pre-
paratory the further advance Of the army Of order
The report Of the intelligent officer depued TO this duty
has just been published and the state OF things to which
bears witness is not little curious, taken in commune
ton with the nominal relation subsistng between the To-
cal authorities Utah and the President of America To
illustrate the character still claimed for this connexion
we may observe that the journal which publishes
copy report contains despatch just received at the
Indian department OF the central government from Brig
ham Young in which he insists upon knowing why his
drafts the pay and perquisites due to him officer
Of the United States not regularly honored
II is evident that Captain yliet believed himself
be in an enemys country within the territory of the
writer Perhaps readers will think that there
substantial ground for this impression. The jour
ney from Fort Leavenworh to Great Salt Lake city
pied the gallant captain thiryt days and half On
his way he met many people from Utah. and Others from
the neghboring districts all of whom informed him that
he could only enter the Mormon paradise at the risk Of
his lie but that there probability OF his being al
lowed to enter at all These warnings he bravey disre
gardcd for his sake but pushed forward without his
escort He thinks it worth while to notice that he
greeted with courtesy due TO honorable foe Captain
Van vliet found however, that the accomplished
successor of Joe Smith potentate who the fla
mar glove of velvet the hand of iron In his FIRST,
and in all succeeding interviews the governor made
known, in very plain and unmistakabe language, his
views with regard to the approach of the United States
troops The United States officer represented that,
though the scanty force which was within months
march might very possibly be prevented from getting
through the mountain passes at late of the year.
the President would next year send troops sufficient
all opposition All this admitted to be not
only possible but certain to happen but the in
yariably When those troops arrive they viii find
Utah house win be burned to the ground
every tree down. and every field laid We have
three three years provisions hand which will
cache and then take to the mountains and bid defiance
to all the powers Of the government The solution Of
the embarrassment is by apparent 1t is evil
dent that the anati community have been successfully
inspired with the conviction that the vincaton of the
federal authority is only pretext for the
ment of the persecution by which they suffered bit
terly In Illinois and Missouri Supported by this belief
they will not be easily subued but the difficulty of
ducng them to order not to be evaded merely because
1t ID which stronger government than that Of the
United States will willingly be spared.
Tx SHOE TRADE or LYss.-The Boston Herald gives
the following facts in regard 10 the shoe trade Of Lynn
ssThe manufacture of shoes, a business
menced in Lynn in the year 1750of course in very
small way and at the time might be called only local
business Since that day very great change has
over people, and that which in its incpicnt stage
could hardly be called of the manufactures Of the
State is considered among the most prominent
Of the country.
aDuring the year 1850 there were manufactured In
Lynn more than ten million pairs Of ladies misses and
children boots and shoes The nett amount of sales
was more than five million dollars, and the number of
males and females employed by manufactures in and
out of the city, than twenty thousand Many
of our manufacturers employ operatives than
Of the largest cotton and woollen mills in New England,
which make village and yet the business in is
carried ON by corporations. Each manufacturer carries
ON his own business upon his capital And the only
machinery used is the sewing machine by females, and
the cutting and splitting machine by the male operatives
which have somewhat aided to lessen labor while at the
same time the operatives earn the more money.
The sales Of our goods are made six and eight
months credit and to every city in the Union to the
Canadas and for export to some foreign ports
Most of the sole leather used by manufacturers
il tanned In Maryland and Pennsylvania the goat skins
imported from Calcutta and South America, while the
astngs galloons &c. taken from the great marts of
England"
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