The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-07-20
GOV. CUMMINGS RECEPTION
At SAT- Lake City, bY Gcatile Rcfuqec.

/ aThos Corndale, Gentle, who passed the win
! ter among the Mormons, and who took advantage
of Gov. Cummings protection to escape from Salt
Lake City, thus describes his reception by Brig
ham Young and the twelve Apostles and the Saints
of Utah @ aEe
! Brigham passed out into an ante-rOom, and re-
/ turned with two gentlemen, whom he introduced
to the audience as Gov Cumming and Col Kane.
Kane never said word Gov. Cumming said TO
the people he had come there as Governor of Utah,
/ to do them good-not harm.
! The people cried out, "Speak louder"
! The Governor repeated what he had said and
added, 81 am your friend'
! V0ices-'sI don't believe it'-''Tt is lie 80
! "Governor Cumming-I have come out here to
see that justice is done to you--to see that YOU
are protected from the Indians. | have come on
my responsibility, without escort, or guard,
or any arms, not even penkntc."
Audience-"It is not true; it is false. Yoll
have come supported by 900 bayonets" This
was haloed out with great noise and rage, 1t was
then added, awe won't believe you are our friend
until YOU send these soldiers back" 1t was por-
feet Bedlam the people halloed out any and every
thing, and gross personal remarks were made. The
audience became so violent that Brigham frequent
ly had to interfere to quiet them.
| One man said, 'sYou are nothing but an Office
seeker" The Governor replied that he obtained
his appointment honoably, and had not solicited
it. The people then cried out, ''We will not have
a Missourian to rule over U.s." The Governor re-
piled that he was not Missourian, that he was
Georgian Il. f. Aa.at
John Taylor got up and apolo9ized, saying that
Mr. Cumming must excuse them-they had
! thought ne was Missouran; then he went on to
recount what they had suffered from the hands of
the Missourians, when Brigham stopped him by
saying there was necessity for narrating that.
The hallowing talking and screaming lasted over
two hours.
John Taylor made speech, saying, "We are
free from the Gentle yoke, and we never will be
under it again; we will remain free forever" The
whole assembly clapped their hands at this senti-
ment Brigham, continued Taylor, 'has slipped
out of the yoke, and old Buchanan is nearly crazy
because he has to carry it alone. We never intend
to be yoked up with Gentiles again; no, never,
world without end for their dominion is sealed"
Governor Cumming had paper read which
sounded like proclamation. The Governor said
in it that he governed the Territorythat all its
armed citizens were under his comnand-that all
the roads in the territory were open and free for
| travel 4 - ..-. err. +. -sf.... -.-,.. !,
An Irishman named Clenmens, who is not a
citizen of the United States, spoke two hours. He
called all persons who desired to leave, rascals and
| scoundrels - w.. F.. - - ...g. .5.
Brigham Young then got up and said "If there
is any man woman here who really wants to go
away, and feel that they have been deprived of
their rights, | want them to hold up their right
hands" | looked around to see if any hands were
held up, expecting good many would be, but
there was not one. then raised my hand, and
the people cried, "Here is a hand, Right after,
others were held up. y
Brigham Young then asked ne If l had been
treated right while in the territory. said as re-
CARDS that, some two or three Of the Bishops have
treated me very kindly; but must say, there are
great many pee pie in here who are not as honest
as they should be. ta1ts
Brigham said, F'That is So" The people APP
plauded that. Brigham said, '.Lct every man and
woman who wants to go away, give his name to
Governor Cumming, and they can go and welcome"
EXTRAORDINARY DEcEprIoNs The Paris cor
respondent Of the New Orleans Picayune, writing
under date Of May goth, says that singular fraud
has been discovered at Versailles. A lady known
by every person in that decaycd city, and honored
for her name, position and pety, died four or FIVE
days ago, and when she was shroudcd it was dis
covered that she was a man! This pseudo lady
who has played her part for forty-two years-evcr
since 181G-prctcndcd to be the Countess dc Sol
eye de La1ge and the last member of that noble
family. Having been the Superior of a convent
suppressed at the first revolution, she wore a mon
aatic costume, which sngularly favored her deceit
and she enjoyed pension Of 81 200, which seems
to have been the principal motive for this bold i'm
position 1t is not strange that this impostcr, who
TOOK possession or All Je papers OF the true COun-
tess, (who, as It's believed died abroad as an emf
grant) should have played the part forty-two years
without exciting the least suspicion, and without
being exposed for khave by amy accident The
pretended Countess lived III great retirement, and
visited only the Fanbourg Saint Gcrmain families
who treated her with marked attention, and sent
her the earliest vegetables and fruits Of their gar
dcns g
The police arc endeavcring to ascertain who
this adventurer is but mask forty-two years
is likely to prove mpenetrable. This is the most
extraordinary imposition / have ever heard of, al
though the adventure Of the Count Of Saint Helena
is more dramatic. You may rely upon it, this
story is no hoax. Versailles is in fever about it.
Something like it occurred few years ago at Brus
sels On the death Of chief clerk in the Minis
try of Foreign Affairs it was discovered that lee
was woman. He had entered the public service
as supcrnumerary clerk, and had gradually risen
from post after posts to the chief clerk.np, whose
duty it to manage the political correspondence
which he did with extraordinary ability And it
is not long since an old soldier at the Hotel des
Invalides, having fallen violently sick, was discov-
cred to be a woman; she had served as an artillery
man through most of Napoleon's battles from
Egypt to Waterloo.
~. G entlemen, -listcn one and all,
Big, thick, little, short and tall,
OF this welLbehaved community
! Don't read the scopy' laugh or talk -