Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-08-19
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FROM UTAH.

from Salt Lake City, to June
~. been received. The news is,
nnimportant. We make some
'' f.om the correspondence of the
r,rk Times;
s,gaes returning from the south
I',a "snts continue to line the road
;r trains Of wagons, herds and
''Ss Same Of these trains present scenes
oans pleasant to the eye Here
r ronng Girl of eighteen, with bare
e,o half clad form, driving a yoke
ilu and there a tender little girl of
gen. :. o;@ht years of age, whipping up
tbTee obstreperous pigs, dragging
...Is feet YEARLY and painfully over
.,,v E,rn Gravel road. The wagons are
!, ',-l Gliled up with the coarsest and
,dst furniture, with ehicken-coop
c,ckling occupants strapped upon
- Sometimes the pig occupies
5St ',t and the chickens. are packed in
h vehicle with the children. But
here, poverty-squalid poverty
.ns turn as you will. Spend half an
merchants store, and you will
women and young girls in plentiful
.rs. approaching with few potatoes,
n NE eads. handful of onions, pound
ofmtter, which they-half hoping
'jIalf doubtingly-offer in barter for
oools-a yard of cotton or calico, or
! tbread-casting their eyes wistfully
rbiIe over the well-flled shelves of
If which they are so much in need.
N ,aople have been warned not to trade
tb5 Gentiles, but the cases are 50
-as in which the law of necessity is
rr than the Church, that the mer-
!; arc driving brisk trade, sending
barter supplies of provision to the
\ i where they find sale.
informed you a week ago that the
Hs.snd House, opened as hotel by its
\ r had been suddenly closed by Brig
order. Since then HeberC. Kinball
purchased the establishment and put
rent into it, under whose management
!, in full blast. Townsend who owned
-nperty and several adjoining buildings
hal been fool enough to consecrate'
/ the church, has been ordered away
the city for his tcmerity in opening it
skinc Gentiles to board without Brig
consent! You are already aware ]
g,e that when a Mormon "cOnsecrates
ropcrty, he makes a regular deed o.
3 Brigham as (te use the accustomed
7y here "Trustees in trust for the
tah Of Jesus Chnst of Latter Day
-s." Thus he absolutely signs away al
tnl over the property he has acquired
becomes a beggar the moment he dare
/ the dcspotic will of his priestly su
r. DO you understand that these are
mn facts, incident to life in a Territory
be United States under the American
,tithtion, and in this nineteenth cen
he army is still at Camp Floyd il
lr Valley, but will probably move soor
its eastern extremity, Is or II miles
her westward. A line of daily stage
hes between this city and the camp
been established and is literally patron.
The Volunteer Battalion is to start
Monday next on the march for fort
where it will he discharged
members of the corps who prefer to be
aarged here, and be employed in the
rtermaatef's Department, are to be pro
d for in that way, and those who desire
o to California are to be discharged at
, with two months rations.
.e have news here of fatal affray at
lp, few days ago, between two team
5, named Simpson and Walker, in which
.atter killed the former, almOstinstantly
severe blow in the neck with Il Bowie
c. Simpson is stated to have been ;
d Texan bully He had attacked
lker, who is alleged to have acted il
defence But your army Correspondent
'btlcss will give you the particulars viii
re accuracy than | can at this distance
ertions from the Army have been fire
Mt Of late, under circumstances leadin,
he conviction that the Mormons are III
ig it.
Notwithstanding the people in this cit,
, quite settled down in their home
Il, We had no public service last sabbath
1t Is said there is to be no public assem-
Of the people again until winter
church leaders, however, are almos
tantly in council. Brigham remain
tantly confined to his house, and ha
been seen out Of doors since his arri
n the city All the gates in the wall
Ii surrounded his block are locked an,
ed, except the one directly in front q
own private office, at which a guard 0
men is stationed continually, and n
Is admitted even within the outer gat
! his name has been sent in, and Brig
has consented to see him.
Or my part | am heartily sick and tire
Intercourse with this strangely anoma
people, where no man considers
cath his dignity to play the spy, an
&c any one dares maintain a shade G
ilg independence.