Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-21
Startling Disclosures Arrest Of a Mem
Der Of the Tennessee legislature.

Sunday last Mr. John W. White, the |
Of Hamilton county in the !
Legislature Of this State, was arrested upon
q charge Of procuring land warrants to be
issued by the Government upon forged pa
pers. So far as we can learn the facts, they ,
are about these; Mr.. White himself has,
for sometime past, correspondent with the !
proper department at Washington directly
or indirectly, or through Hon. S. A. Smith,
the Representative from his district at
" ashlngton, as an agent or attorney for
those entitled to land warrants or pensions.
Recently some nine. or ten applications COM
ing from that place were forwarded from
Chattanooga, the place Of Whites residence,
in the name of Farquharson. These appli-
cations coming from that place, and the fact
being known to the Department that White
was engaged in the same business and had,
up to that time apparently the controLalmoste
of that species Of business in hiareg NJ 81
cited some suspicion, and upoh Ee!slIlll
it was ascertained from rolls in tle - 49,
that one person in whose behalf applicati6ns
were made had died twenty years since. A
special agent, Mr.. Lucian Peyton, was dis
patched to Chattanooga to arrest and have
punished, if possible, the person who, by
his forgeries, had been deceiving both the
Hon. Mr.. Smith and the Department. Mr.
Peyton arrived at Chattanooga some days
since, and was industriously engaged in
searching for Farquhorson Hearing of no
such man as being there or having ever
been in Chattanooga, he concluded the name
was one used by some other person, and he
was not long in ascertaining that White was
probably that person. Sunday last he had
White arrested. He was brought to Athens
for examination before Judge Patterson,
then holding the Circuit there. He, how
ever, declined the examination, when the
warrant was returned before William Lowry,
Esq, United States Commissioner. Gen
Ramsey, the United States District Attor-
ney, who happened to be on his way to
Memphis, was intercepted at Chattanooga
and returned to Athens to prosecute the
case. For the prisoner. John. @. Burch,
Esq, and several other attornies, appeared
and asked continuance, as upon the afida-
Wit Of White, until Saturday next. This
was granted, and the prisoner discharged
upon bail in bond of $4,000 to appear at
Cleveland on that day. How far the facts
then to be disclosed will implicate Mr..
White we know not. If guilty, his position
should by no means shield him from pun
ishment; if innocent, the mere imputation
of such dishonesty upon one who has enjoy
ed in SO high degree the respect and con-
fdence of his friends and the public--of one
whose family, and that with which be is
connected by marriage, is SO high in the
esteem of all to whom they are known, is
to be deeply regretted. -Southern Citizen.
The Mormons.
Advices from Salt Lake City to July 10th
report that the Mormons are returning there,
being assured Of not being molested. They
are described on all hands as a destitute
and poverty stricken people. Women were
Travelling barefooted aud the men were al
most without garments. Everything wit
messed by the gentiles 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 Presi-
dent from sending an armed force into that
country A correspondent Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer gives the following statements ::
IA pieous spectacle was witnessed on
this road, which pointed Individually to the
vile degradation Of the Mormon people as a
mass. We saw two women hitched to a
cart, dragging it along through the dust
like oxen, Or, in the disgusting language of
Heber Kimball, like cows while the bar
barian, 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 woman-kind
in the Christian world pity woman in Utah
No where IS woman SO degraded, so tram
Piled 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 neces-
sity to marry persous of known fidelity to
the church. Many industrious young men
cannot get wives at all.
"All the women I have seen are poorly
clad, many of them barefooted, and desti-
tute almost Of clothing. AS we passed along
the Provost road, meeting hundreds of these
poor deplorable women, many bright eye
gazed at us imploringly and hopefully, as if
expecting from us the means of their melio-
ration. am satisfied that but compare
lively few of them voluntarily submit to the
plurality system at first. They have been
decoyed here by the honeyed words and de-
ceptive promises of Mormon emissaries
abroad. Many women, the best and most
enlightened in Mormondom, pratice all this
from necessity, who do not in their hearts
believe in Mormonism but thousands do
believe in Mormonism, with all its vile and
absurd doctrines They think Brigham a
divine prophet; the leaders know they are
imposters.' H.
a Dog Blowing HANS Brains Om.- :
Yesterday morning, a little before 6 o'clock
S j. John, furniture dealer, % East Fourth
street, residing near College Hill, arose,
and opening the front door and seeing a
hawk flying about the barn, he called SER
want girl, the only person about the house,
to bring him his gun, which she did Hav-
ing asked her if it was loaded, she said she
thought not, when he requested her to 20
to his room and get box Of percussion
caps. During the girls absence he raised
| the hammer of the gun and was about to