The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-25

UNDA JULY 20, 1908.
WIS precisely that which would be adopted
under similar circumstances BY any father Of
Family or head of q household
The whole affair Is only an exaggerated form
of the proverbial impertinence Of nurs-
ing diplomats. We remember an ARRAY
which occurred here several years age,
when the Secretary OF one of the South
American governments iisulted the wife Of
citizen iu public piac, The indignant
husband wreaked summary vengeance with
pair of stout fists upon the couateuance Of the
Secretary-impairiDg the beauty Of his face and
the dignity Of his government, 80 it was said,
to an alarming extent. These adolescent red
tspists will do we'll to remember that they are
not in the South Sea islands, and that there ia
certain amount of respect and courtesy due to
q woman, even If she does chance to bs hand
some and rich. Because they happen to form
the tail Of foreign legation, it does not follow
that they are licensed to stare every woman cut
of cOuntenance, and bully every man who has
Q right to call them to account for their
court suits, moustacbes and eye glasses will
keep these young Tsllsyrands in order, the
arguTnentam baccua,sum will occasionally be ap
piled even to their sacred persons The Wal!
street men needn't be afraid. The European
governments won't to go to war with us about
secretary of legation or two They are too
plenty to have much fuss made about them.
UTAH AFFARs-BEAUTTEs or QUE MAI. SYs-
rHM.-There appears to be now no doubt, jddg
ing from all the intelligence that We have lately
received from the Great Basin, including Nor
mon newspaper items which we publish to-day,
that the Latter Day Saints never had any Sc.
United States government, and were az little
in earnest in their pretences about aban-
doning Salt Lake. We knew that Brigham
Young was too cute Yankee to run his neck
recklessly into halter. 1t did very we'll in the
BoYery-as they call their tabernacle-to talk
fire and birthstone, and of running the troops
to hell across lots," to quote the unctuOus lao-
guage Of the Saints; but when it came to a
proof of their courage or their sincerity it was
quite another matter. Brigham has had quite
too good q time of it for some years past to en-
terrain any longing to add his own name to the
roll of the army Of martyrs; ard consequently,
it was not to be expected that he would allow
a shot to be fired upon our troops by one of his
fanatical horde He quietly submitted himself
and his people to the authority of the United
States, but INDUCED in some excusable, though
equally sincere, menaces about abandoning
Utah, and transporting the ark of their taber-
nacle to Sonora, or somewhere out Of the juris-
diction of the United States
That was all bluster, too The Saints did
evacuate Salt Lake City, but only to show that
they were in huff, and-to come back
again. They know that, after all, the visi-
tation was godsend to them; aud no
doubt if their secret thoughts were known. all
but Brigham and his hierarchy are rejoiced at
il. At all events, they will not abandon Salt
Lake. nor the desert which their industry has
made productive. With all their faults we can
not deny that they are industrious and frugal
to remarkable degree. They have been plant
ing fruit trees and raising fruit with great sue
cess; and now they have commenced the Guilt
walton Of tea-tbe plants it is said growing
thriftily. Brigham, himself, has his house sur
mounted by beehive, as an emblem of indus
try. We hope that their industry will not have
/. received q check by the late expedition, but
that the Saints relieved of little of their noH-
sense, will go quietly back to their old homes
and resume their former occupations under the
protection Of the laws of the United States,
and with q respect for the prejuiices of our
Christian civilization.
In connection with Utah afairs we would
beg to direct the attention Of the Postmaster
General to the beauties of our Post Office sys-
TEN, or at least of its operation We first
learned the news Of the submission of the Nor
mons by telcgrophic despatch from St. Louis
In two or three days the government received its
dispatches at Washington by mail. The same
mail brought US the st. Joseph papers contain
ing the news, but did not bring US our own cor
respondence. This should have arrived at the
came time, but did not reach Us for five days
subsequently. And on Friday only, we re-
ceiyed the Descret Ee1rs. Now ali .hese-the
dispatches to the government, the St Joseph
papers, our correspondence and the Salt Lake
papers-must lave all come By the same con.
veyance. At leas. they ought 70 to have come
Why, then, the iuegulari.y and difference Of
time in their delivery? WIN the Postmaster
General please TO solve this curious enigma aris
ing ia the affairs Of bis department