Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-03-11


law library of Messrs. Stiles and Williams
bad also been extracted. While we wer,
yet lingering about the premises, it wa
discovered that privy in the backyard hae
been destroyed by fire, the smouldering re
mains of which were still visible, and OF
examining the vault, several books wert
found, partly burned and still burning.
On the morning of the 10th day Of Jan
uary, 1857, the house of Charles CLARK, il
Great Salt Lake City, was attacked, il
open daylight, by band of rufiians, ane
raised TO the ground. Clark had rented
the house the day before (paying the rem
in advance, and was just moving into it
He demonstrated, but to no effect; offered
resistance, but was oveipowered, His wife
cried for mercy, but was not heard. He
then appealed to know why he was thus
treated, to which the only reply was; awe
don't intend that any damned Gentle shall
live in our ward" Clark and his wife
were left standing in the street, in snow
three feet deep, not knowing where to lool
for shelter from the storms of ruthles:
winter.
On the night of the 18th day of the
same month band of rufians repaired tc
the house of Henry ]. Jarvis, merchant
on the corner Of South Temple and Emf
grafton streets in Great Salt Lake City, al
the hour of 10 o'clock, and calling Mr.. j.
into the store-room udder pretense of want
ing to trade, clinched him by the hair, jerk
ed him instantly over the counter, threw
him violently upon the floor, and com
menced stamping upon him. Jarvis strug.
gled for life, and as most of his assailants
had loosed their hold on him, for the pur.
pose of stamping, he succeeded in throw
ing himself out of doors into the street.
His wife and some female visitors, hearing
the fracas and the cry of "murder" in the
well-known voice of the husband, fled also in
CONSERVATION into the street, but the ap-
pearance OF men armed with bludgeons
frightened them back to their rooms again.
Seeing that their victim had escaped, the
incendiaries set fire to the house and re-
treated in the darkness.
"On the night of the 18th day of March
last, three men, two of them by tue name
of Parish, father and son. and one
man named Potter, were most inhumanly
butchered on the public highway, about {.
quarter of q mile south of the town of
Springville, in Utah county. I am of opin-
ion that if the testimony IN this case shall
ever be brought to light, it will present
one of the most bloody atrocities known
to the catalogue of crime. The corpses OF
the dead men were literally riddled with
rifle and pistol balls; the throat of each Of
them was cut, and the elder Parish had
his cheek cut off and his bowels ripped out.
With as little noise as possible On inquest
was held over the bodies, which found
"death by unknown assassins." And then,
as if to add insult to injury, 1 have heard
men attempt to justify the deed by saying
that "they had threatened the Bishop"
and again, to satisfy the poor Indian, who
could not see any reason for spilling SO
much blood, that they chad threatened
the Indians" One man told me in round
terms, that the less l could say about it
the better it would be for me. know
nothing of these men-the Parishes and
Mr.. Potter-except that they were dissent
ers from their church. Potter was a
brother of William Potter, who was mur-
dered with Gunnison, and it may be that
''the Lords secrets were in DANGER" and
'sthat dead men tell no tales" is maxim
which they seem to understand and appre-
ciate. The testimony in this case is now
struggling for .utterance in the breast of
many an honest man and woman in Utah,
and, should it ever come fourth, will rend
the veil of secrecy and show up men and
measures in their true colors. H
"On the night of December "a, 1856, a
female who had recently arrived in hand
cart train committed suicide in the eastern
suburbs of Great Salt Lake City, rather
than submit to polygamy, the existence Of
which had becu denied by her teachers in
England. Soon after her arrival she had
been told that she must be sealed to the
man in whose family she was then living,
and on refusing to do SO, she was informed
in a peremptory tone that she would be de-
MED protection and the means of snbsit-
ance from any source, and denounced as a
prostitute. Such announcements brought
her unfortunate situation too plainly before
her. 1t was too mach for the tender cords
which bound her spirit to its mortal ten
ement, and the fatal razor was brought to
its relief.
"And these are the persons who are
whining continually and pitiously of in
juries inflicted on them by persons outside
their society, but is it not plain that they
are professional complainers, who whine at
any and everything for the purpose Of in
stilling sympathy abroads They calun,-
Mate all who presume to raise their voices
against them. By well-adjusted system
of falsebood. chicanery, fraud and calumny,
they have long deceived mankind in regard
to their abominable institutions and prac-
tees. They have deluded, decoyed, and
ruined forever, thousands of honest people
robbed them of their property, deprived
them of their constitutional rights, and are
now urging them forward in n system
of treason and rebellion which will lead
them inevitably into war, devastation and
ruin.n
SUICIDE OF MIN1sTER.-A cores
pondent of the Presbyterian Of the Vest
under date of the 23d ult., says that the
Rev. Seth Howell, in fit of deep and
Protracted melancholy, committed snicide
by hanging, n bis own house, on Thurs
day, the 18th ult. He was native oi