The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-07-08
ARREST H1M.-There is now happily, but


that the outraged laws Of the United States il
Utah, be upheld BY all the power, if necessa
~, of the government. The question has, SC
far as the constitution and the duty of the ad
ministration are concerned, been stripped o
all ambiguity and difficulty, by the gross out
RACES and high handed acts of open resistance
to the laws Of the country By the Utah usurp
ers. The path it is the duty, Of the chief exc
cutive to pursue in reference to them has there
fore become plain and straight one, and
we are to credit information received from the
seat Of government, he is fully resolved upor
pursuing il with as little delay as the nature
of the circumstances Of the case will permit
The country has only to give the administration
in this respect a hearty support, and calmly
await the issue. There is one item that should
be incorporated in the plan Of operations, how
ever, which has not received sufficient proml-
nence, but which should by no means be over
looked. We allude to the arrest and trial Of
Brigham Young on distinct charge Of trea.
son. He should be tried by United States
court, fairly constituted, and under circum
stances which would insure q perfectly free ac-
ton of the jury, and the execution of the SEN
tence of the court, whatever that might be.
That lie is really guilty of treason against the
United States both in evil intent and overt act,
we think there is not the shadow Of doubt
Nor have we any doubt that there is sufficient
evidence to bring the fact home to him before
an impartial jury. The witnesses would be
United States officials who have been in Utah,
who have seen with their own eyes the conduct
of this arch and merciless despot, together with
other citizens who have been more or less cog
infant of the facts, and we think also many OF
the victims Of Young's oppression. We can
not doubt, that if they were perfectly secure
from his vengeance, that there are many, who
are now afraid to open their mouths, that could
testify to the bloody deeds that have been in
stigated, either directly or indirectly by this
wretch Indeed we have little doubt that he
could be convicted both of aiding in murders
and treason, and probably of a number of 9th
er fragrant crimes, such as opening the United
States mail, pillage, counteIfeiting the national
coin, etc.
In view of these facts the administration
will prove derelict in its solemn and sworn du-
ty to the country unless it deliberately resolve
that this hoary and perjufed despot shall be
brought to Justice, and follow up the resolution
by appropriate and energetic action. 1t is not
enough that he should be deprived of his Office,
and Of his power to rob and murder for the lu-
ture The record of his offences is too rank,
and black and damning, tobe thus ignored. 1t
would be setting most pernlclou, example,
which other base, bold villains would not fail
to follow, should he escape punishment We
trust the country may be spared the deep HUI
6 hat,
not an ota more nor less, may be done. Let
not the government finch from the ordeal. The
people will come up to its support with alacri-
". Let the laws be executed we say against
his man, as against the weakest and obscurest
n the land that violates them. Recollect we
place the ground of his arrest and trial, not on
account of his beastly character, his impos
ure, blasphemy, polygamy or anything of that
SORT but upon the distinct. charges of treason,
~ overt acts and criminal intent, abetting MUIR
Ter, etc. Com. Bulletin.
RA1LRoADs-Th Gazette, OF Cincinnati, in
1 leader on the s'railroad movement states
hat in Ohio they have $3.50 miles of finished
'allroad, the cost of which has been about 90
100000. They employ constantly about 80
700 men, six hundred locomotives, five thou
,and cars, and consume two hundred and fifty
thousand cords of wood yearly.
The Gazette, remarking upon the power of
locomotives, says that twenty years ago, it was
leld that a locomotive could not ascend grade
If more than fifty feet to the mile. But the
rains on the Baltimore and Ohio road pass
'ver grades of one hundred and fifteen feet to
he mile. 1t has been satisfactorily proved
hat a locomotive can ascend a grade Of two
hundred feet to the mile, with moderate train
If cars If this was not the fact some of the
most profitable roads in the country would not
lave been built.
In nothing connected with railroads has so
;reat revolution taken place as in the opinion
hat they would never prove profitable for the
of heavy freight. 1t was held
hat they should carry passengers only. But
has been proved that they are remarkably
veil adapted to the transp ortaton of the heavi-
st description of freight, and compete well, in
hat respect. with canals. The Reading road
5 an example, road employed almost exclu-
lively in carrying coal alongside the Schuylkill
anal. Four ffths of the ceipts of the Bal
more and Ohio road are from freights That
DAD carried last year four hundred thousand
ons of coal. The flour, cattle, &c, passing
ver this road from the west, mounts grade
me hundred and fifteen feet to the mile. And
we're it not that railroads were adopted to the
COMMON heavy freight, and that engines could
AIRY trains over heavy grades, there are few
Dads in the country that would pay expenses.
1t is believed that the Ohio and Mississippi
DAD will become the main carrier of the sur
illus corn, grain, whisky and hogs of the pro-
uctive country between ST. Louis and Cincin-
ati. And if so, its freight business will be
he main source of its profits. One of our
argest furniture dealers. assures us that he finds
t to his interest to bring furniture by railroad
rom Cincinnati to st. Louis. The tariff is no
igher BY railroad than. by boat, and the saving
n time is great. The Gazette well remarks
hat the saving by railroads is in time, interest
nd safety. ~ .-. -.
THE SONORA ExPED1rIoN.-By the Empire
lily we received copy of the San Diego Her
Id of May 23d, which gives an account of the
ecruits under major R. G. Wood, who started
rom Tucson to join Gen. Crabb at Cavorca.
hey penetrated to within few hundred yards
f Cavorca, but were unable to join Crabb, as
e was surrounded by some 500 troops, while
major Woods command only numbered 26
len. They fought their way back only losing
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