Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-30

LATER FROM UTAH-We feCetVeO 1aSs vveoA.S
intelligence from Salt Lake City 10 the LIST Of April
It disproves the statement that Brigham Young had
been set upon by his people and forced to n.y. Notn'
ing of the kind had occurred, nor was such IN oc'
currence probable. Young is without doubt, %
strong in the confidence fears of his people as at
any former time. His power and tyranny are Is firm
and bold as ever.
Recitals are made of new outragesand the spiiDg
of blood by violence. During the month Of March
q wholesale tragedy was enacted near the walled
town Of Springville which contains about 500 in
habtants, and is distant some sixty miles from Salt
Lake City. man named Parrish, a seeding Nor
mon, had determined upon leaving the Territory
and coming to the States and in order to do So sold
out his property and purchased some horses and
wagon In the course of the night previous to his
intended departure his wagon and horses were stolen,
and time had passed before he discovered which
way they had gone He found them in the town OF
Provo, some miles of, but, on Identification and ap-
plication for them to the Mayor of Provo, he was
decidedly refused all relief Finding it no to re-
monstrate, he returned to Springville and finally
in company with his two sons and two other men
respectively named Potter and Darger, he set out
for the States foot They had not left the place
more than few hundred yards behind when they
were attacked by a number of men armed and dis
gused. Potter was shot dead, five balls having en-
tered his body; Parrish fell wounded, when one of
the assaants rushed upon him, and, in his disabled
condition, cut his throat from 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 contrived to escape. The only
notice taken of the matter by the Mormon authori-
ties was the summoning of coroner's jnry who sat
upon the and returned verdict of "assassina.
ton by some persons unknown" 1t is stated that
a day two before the day which Parrish had fixed
for leaving, the Mormon Bishop of Springvile sent
a wagon express to Brigham Young in Salt Lake
City, which went and returned within twenty -four
hours This unexampled circumstance is thought
to connect Young with privity to the murder, and
the further fact is stated that just before the bloody
transaction the aforesaid Bishop of Springville
blessed number of his flock preparatory to their
undertaking WORK of the Lord" and prayed that
the Lord would give them strength to perform his
work."
Potter was a brother of one of the men killed in
Gunnison's massacre, and was one of the very few
who knew the secret history of that sanguinary
transaction. Parrish and his sons were also well
acquainted with the Mormon secrets, having once
been in full Mormon communion.
| Another tragedy, not very dissimiar is also re-
ported by the last mail from Utah. 1t occurred about
seventy miles from Parowan, on the California road
and the victims were small party of seeding Nor
mons emigrating to California. Foar were shot as
they sat encamped at the foot of some rocky hills.
| The names of two of these men were Tobin and
Peltro. They too were we'll apprized of the aims
and of the Mormons, and therefore too dam
| gcrous to be allowed to emigrate.
Of the other, the adulterous branch If Mormon
practice and policy, only fact or two is stated Je-
| seph Young, son of Brigham, has returned from
| England to which he had been accredited as a mis-
| sonary. He left young wife behind him when he
undertook his mission, but since his return has taken
no notice of her. To make up for this deficiency
he has =" sealed" two new wives, of them a niece
| of the deceased Jedediah Grant Brighams young
est daughter Alice, by his first an6 true wife, has
been recently sealed, " much against her mothers
| will n well her n man named GlauSon
| who had already three or four wives Baptisms had
been very frequent in Great Salt Lake City. At
| of these ceremonies four hundred Mormons were
baptised and rebaptsed, and at another three hun
dred went through the same purifying" rites.
| We have been advised, by accounts of o prior date
recently received that crimes of the most horrible
description have increased to such an extent that
the life OF no settler in the Territory is safe while
secret society called Danites have to some extent
dsorganized the Mormon society by introducing q
| general system of murder, arson, robbery, &c, or
| the most extensive scale.
The proceedings of Young's emssaries against thu
Federal authority have become still more violent anG
rebellious. Attempts have been made to fire the
dwellings of the Attorney and the United State.
Judge. Both have been cut off from the church
and denounced as apostates for daring to do the
duty and trying to enforce the laws of the country
The United States officials, Mr.. Burr the Surveyor
General and DIR. Halt, the Indian Agent are in
very dangerous position Open threats Of burnn,
tearing down their Offices and killing maltreat
ing them are daily made, and in of the southern
settlements, at Sunday meeting, it was voted t.
raise party to cut their threats.
1t is further stated that of the Danites have
invaded the Courts, intmidated the Judge, and bro
ken up the proceedings by force. There is no lon
ger law or the forms of law in Utah.
The FOREIGN APPoINTMENTs.-Much interest is ev
identity felt throughout the county in reference t.
the foreign appointments. This arises partially
from the fact, that never at any former pariod hav
there been SO large a number of excellent names
presented for these appointments. The Presiden