Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-08
T,oL EIecrion---saIr Lake City Matters.


The Great Salt Lake City correspondent oi
the Tribune writes August 5th, as follows
The election passed off last Monday very
ouietiv. although 4 yOte was cast more than
twice as large as at any previous eleetoh IN
the Territory Stimulated by the formation oi
a ticket by the Gentiles, the bishops and chlIeh
ci5. .itaries busted themselves IN every ward on
Saturday ami Sunday in distributing tickets u
their parishioners. The polls were at the Coun
ell House The voters entered one door ana
aassed out at another, dePosIting thelr ballots
I'M the yyav upon a table where they were num-
bered by a clerk and each number was recorded
,,posite the name Of the elector- The Repre-
-l1tatiyes elected to the Legislative Assembly
are Orson HYDE. John Taylor, Daniel Spencer,
p Rnckwood, Hosea Stout, James W. Gun
pipgs. Jesse c. Little, Joseph n \ oung, IL b.
Clawson, Wm. II. Hooper, E d. Woolley, Alex
tuJer McRae and 5. W. Richards, all jealous
Nsrmons. The average vote fer them was
gl6. that for the Gentle list was 81. just
b AT the entire strength of the Oentlles II
z.xn. The Governor did not vote. If l can
i15,-a bv the appearance and speech OF the elee
i,rs as they presented themselves al the polls
and by the representations OF persons long resi-
| den. in the city, more than hall the vote was
cast hy unnaturaiized foreigners.
A Gentle representative has been elected
/ from Green River county, where Fort BHdger
/ IS situated.
In his letter Of August 6th he says.
| Everything is staguaat in the city except the
| stores of the Gentle merchants, which are
tAr1ugcd from sunrise till dark with crowds oi
people anxious 10 supply themselves with the
| nscessaries OF life, which they have been De
! IrIyel more than year. The prices demanded
and paid for goods are Just about as exira'a-
| rant rs those which the Mormons set upon their
! l0ne-lroIuce, and, indeed, the cost OF hymg
mere is nearly equal TO what 1t was in CalltFg-
uia At the hight of the gold fever. A great
.lart Of the profits accrue 10 the Church, which
owns all the stores but one; that the Gentlles
| --.uuv. i. has affixed monstrous rents 20 them
| which, Of course, the merchants pay; but they
place a prOpOrtionab!y higher price on all their
! FOODS and as they have the monopoly OF the
market, the charge falls in the end upon those
| who can le tst afford 70 bear 1.-THE working
| scople OF tie ierritOry. 4 store close IN my
Aeighborhood, which the Church bought three
wears ago for only 5000, IS rented by Brigham
| Young to Messrs Ridiorl 4 Cabot for S2,UOi
per aunum- But 1t Is impossible fr prices tl
remain permanently al their present level iol
during the Autumn the Territory will be Hood
ed with the goods of Eastern merchants whC
] nave culeEeu uuIli- tue pLcSeAs S1A
lsra,ely nItO this salt Lake trade. Many o
chem cannot escape heavy losses.
Labor on the Temple has not been renewed
and the foundations of tina: building TemaII
covered with drrt; neither hac any attempt beer
made to returuish the public workshops wIthH
the Temple square, which were dismanIled ant
Iurooied at the time of the emigration to Provo
There have been no meetings IN the Iaberna
Gle, and the order for the discontinuance OF pub
lie religious services has been EXTENDED
throughout the whole Territory. 1t Is nov
more than a month since, among population
Of $4,000 souls, there has been pubic TeIgl
0us gathering, Of any description.
There are parties in the city who are makIni
LARGE purchases OF oxen from the merchants a
their trains arrive from the East. They pro
pose to send these cattle TO California, and th
, first drove, containing 1000 head, started yes
teriay. Twelve or fifteen families embrace
the opportunity 10 escape from the Iernt0r
? under the escort Of the hsrders. The PrlnclPa
person engaged in this speculation IS Nj
. Nathu B HaTbin, formerly Of Tennessee, I
- hom q transfer has recently been made q
all Col. Kinney's title to lands In Central Amel
ica.