The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-16
THE MORMONS.


messed by the Gentes goes to confirm the fact that
the accounts by the MOrmons of their power and
ABILITY to contend with the United States troops
were the most idle and ridiculous boasts, meant to
deter the President from sending an armed force
INTO that country. A correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer gives the following statement:
"a plteouS spectacle was witnessed on this road,
which pointed indubitably to the vile degradation
OF the mormon people as mass We saw two wo-
men hitched to cart dragging it along through
lne aust IKE oxen, or in the disgusting language
OF Heber kmball, like "cows" while the barba-
ran, their husband, walked beside the cart driving
them on. we looked to see the brute get in the
cart and be hauled by his wives; but for shame if
indeed he is capable of such feeling he did not,
so long as we observed him. Let womankind in
the Christian world pity woman in rtah Nowhere
is woman SO degraded, so tramped upon, as in this
country. Women here are little else than mere
chattels, bought by the highest bidder or what is
the same thing, compelled for many reasons of ne
cessity to marry persons of known fidelity to the
church. Many industrious young men cannot get
wives at all.
"All the women that have seen are poorly clad.
many of them barelooted and destitute almost of
clothing. As we past along the Provost road meet
ing hundreds of these poor deplorable women many
a bright eye gaZed at us implorngly and hone
tully as If expecting from the means of their
melloration. | am satisfied that comparatively few
OF them voluntarily submit to the plurality system at
hrst They have been decoyed here by the honeyed
words and deceptive promises of Mormon emmisa-
ries abroad. Many women, the best and most en-
hghtened IN MormondOm, practice all this from
necessity, who do not in their hearts believe in
Mormonism but thousands do believe in Mormon
ism, with all its vile and absurd doctrines They
think Brigham divine prophet; the leaders know
they are impOstors."
The correspondent of the New y York Times con-
firms these statements of the miserable condition of
the people, and adds some startling instances of the
tyranny of Brigham Young, who is yet, to all prac-
tical purposes, Governor of Utah
SCENES OF DEsTITUTIoN.
The refugees returning from the southern settle
ments continue to line the road with their trains of
wagons, herds and fiocks. Some of these trains
present scenes by no means pleasant to the eve
Here we young girl of eighteen, with bare
1eet and half-clad form, driving a yoke of oxen
and there tender little girl of scarcely years of
age, whipping up two or three obstroperous pigs
dragging her little feet wearly and painfully over
the sharp gravel road. The gons are usually piled
up with the coarsest and cOmmOnest furniture with
a chicken-coop and its ca ckng occupants strapped
upon the rear. Sometimes the pig occupies this
post, and the chickens packed inside the vehi-
Gle with the children. But everywhere poverty
poyerty-squalid poverty, meets us, turn as we
Will. Spend half an hour in a merchants store and
we see old women and young girls in plentiful num-
Ders, approaching, with few new potatoes, doz-
en- eggs handful of onions, pound or two of but
ter, which they-half hopingly and half doubtnglv
-oier In barter for some trife of goods-a yard Of
cotton or calico, or little thread-casting their
eyes wlsttully, the while, over the wefed shelves
OF goods of which they are so much in need The
people have been warned not to trade with the Gen
tiles, but the cases numerous in which the
law OF necessity is stronger than the law of the
Church, that the merchants driving a brisk
trade sending their barter supplies of provisions to
the camp, where they find ready sale
TYRANNY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG.
informed you week ago that the Townsend
House, opened as hotel by its owner, had been
suddenly closed bv Brigham's order Since then
Heber C. Kimball has purchased the establishment
and put an agent into it, under whose mauae ement
it is in full blast Townsend, who owned the pro-
perty and several adjoining buildings, but had been
fool enough to '.consecrate" it TO the church has
opening it and taking Gentiles to board without
Brigham's consent! You are already aware, |
suppose, that when Mormon ''consecrates'' his
property, he makes regular deed of it to Brigham
as to use the accustomed phrase here) 'Trustee in
trust for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saint. Thus he absolutel V signs away all control
over the property he has acquired, and becomes
beggar the moment he dares resist the dcspotic will
of his priestly superior! Do you understand that
these are solemn facts, incident to life in Territory
OF the United States under the American Constitu-
tion and in this nineteenth century 4?
Mr.. Nixon, who had the impudence to rent bis
warehouse to Messrs. Gilbert Gerrish, after Brig
ham had told them distinctly that they should obtain
none with his consent, has been ordered off upon
mission, as a penanee for his crime. Mr. Morell
VINO mad been requested to vacate the rooms rented
by him in the Townsend House for post-ollice pur-
poses, assured the brethren that if they compelled
MN to move again he would &c to the camp of the
army, fortytve miles distant for that he would not
be badgered about any longer. The Saints saw that
II they insisted there a fair prospect of being
more incommoded themselves than theGentileswoul
be, and so they have concluded to let him alone
The Quartermaster's Department of the United
States Army has issued proposals for bids for fur
nishing hay and lumber for public purposes and it
has been subject of prayerful consideration with
the church whether or no they shall allow their
people to put in any bids. Their numerous army
OF spies reported that it would be the policy of
the Government officials, in awarding the contracts
to discriminate as far as they could consistently in
1avor OF the poorer people, the small bidders, and
against the Church leaders, 1t was easy to magni-
ty this and declare it to be the fixed purpose of the
United States Army here to get up dssensions
among the people, and to destroy their unity, by
ludicious distribution of federal gold. The leaders
have started that story, attempting to poison
the minds of their followers with it, and to
their prOudices that they may more easily carry
out the policy which they intimate that they have
decided upon-to wit That of refusing to put in
any bids, whatever, with a view of frustrating the
efforts of the Army to procure its necessary sup
plies.
There is a continually spreading feeling of dscon-
tent among the masses of the people, however, and
we have to hope that the supplies of forage
needed will be offered in small lots Butthe canons
In which the timber grows, though legally the prop
erty of the United States covered by the squat
ter claims of Brigham and other leaders in Israel
and 1t looks now as though the necessary material
for covering in the buildings indispensable for stor
age purposes, and to make the army safe and COM
Portable during the winter, only be had by the
strong hand. When it is remembered that the title
to the timber is still in the United States no one
can doubt the justice of this policy, if the squatters
insist upon playing dog in the manger. Surely, in
such case, the law of necessity may and ought to
be applied without hesitation.
One more exemplifying the spirit in which
TINS 'Constitution-loving community OF "good cit
lzens' are indulging, will suffice. Mr.. Charles
Mogo, who incurred Brigham's hostility while in
the public service here 4 year or more ago, was
driven out. He returned hither with his family
when the army entered, to find his dwelling house
stripped of its furniture and all else that he left in
it. Having stock of goods on hand, brought in
with him, he sent them to some OF the Southern set
Elements for sale. The Church officers Immediate
~ forbade the people from making any purchases
OF his agent upon pain of communication SEN
tence which was executed against the latter, who
succeeded in secretly barterng away all his stock
with little difficulty.
AN INTERESTING MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ANTI
QUITGEs.-Dr. Davis, the well known explorer of
the Western Mounds, has the largest and most val
liable collection in existence, of the various relics
obtained from these ancient tumuli. Having devo-
ted much time, for many years. to the stud of the
subject and the comparison ofhs objects with others
found in different countries, he has been induced,
as we understand, partly by the persuasion of
friends, to make preparations for course of Lee
lures on American Antiquities. At his rooms in
the Medical College in Thirteenth street, he has ar
ranged the numerous objects in his possession, which
amount to thousands, and has long employed an ar
tist to make drawings of some hundreds of the most
interesting. These are eoored and finished in
manner well adapted to exhibition; and the addi-
tion of several large maps, showing in great detail
and with great dstinctness, the positions of thous
ands of the ancient mounds in the Mississippi Val
ley and its branches and elsewhere, form a collec-
ti1n OF the most Instructive and interesting kind,
admirably adapted to public lectures, and ilustra-
tive of a national branch of study, still almost en-
tireiy unknown, even to many of our best educated
countrymen.
Its gratifying to learn that interest in American
antiquarian researches continues to increase. The
American chronological Society have recently re-
ceived information that the State Historical Socie
ty of Wisconsin, in order to second their efforts in
favor Of the same cause, have published a circular
requesting the cooperation of the friends of knowl
edge in that State. They say that whereas, severa
eminently scientific gentlemen, some of whom are
connected with the New York (American) Ethnol-