The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-14
THE CONDITION or THE HoRMoxS.


Correspondence % the New York Herald july 10
Last Sabbath the teachers sent round TO command
the people neither TO buy from sell TO the Gente
not 10 work for them to hold any communication
with them. They even went 10 the poor washerwoman
of Judge Eckes and subjected her TO the Same order
The poor receiving four times MS much for
her work she could got from hen own people. She
bitterly amenied the decree but obeycd IT, Many other
Of the saints obeyed II but the majority Of the people
are beginning dare to disobey They have traded right
on this week at the Gentle stores Just though or
der had been issued There has been percepble fall
ing off in the trade, compared To last week.
Brigham rented the stores To the (ontlo merchants at
oxorbtant prices then commanded the people not 10
trade with thcn--an act of prophet The great trouble
with the people IL that they have certain worthless pic
ture papers sometimes called bills instead of gold
have the poor pithlc, ragged degraded crcaufs
go into store, price clothing and when they camo 10
pay for il have nothing but Brighams ''shinpmtcrs
which are not worth a cent on dollar When told that
that stuff would not be taken, they hung the heads IN
disconsoate gloom, said they had no other and walked
sadly of. Sometimes poor man would beg them Just
to take enough paper to let him have cotton for one shirt
The negative would send him off thinking Perhaps he
might ia his heart damn the GentiIes but moro probably
he would say to himself, When money taken
from and this staff given in its place, thought 1t
would come to this"
Colonel Kinneys Mosquito grant has been purchased
by j. M. Hardin, esq, Of California. Mr.. Hardin is
notable character since early boyhood he has been tray
cling the wild and babarous parts OF the American con-
tinent Without any education, he has achieved an IN
dependent fortune he is bold speculator, and has
transacted hundreds OF thousands Of dollars of business
without clerk he is of the landed srstocracy of
California has prnccly establishment there, &c. He
proposes to sell the grant TO the Morons for three mil
lions Of dollars, If they will take It II not he will move
down upon it himself establish agricultural and com
mercaf colony of industrious people upon it, Leaving
political wrangng for others, he will go in for material
prosperity 1t Is quite possible however when Brigham
finds how things working here that he will buy the
grant and leave this Territory 1t is matter Of some
In, fhat .,.fl
Smith has been found among his old papers which says
that the saints must return to Jackson county Missouri,
through Central America. How convenient these pro
phcsies and revelations are I!
i believe that Gov. Cumming has certified TO the
istence Of the territorial library here intact The library
has heretofore been locked up that no one could get
to il. Report had it That the Momons were
king strenuous efforts to obtain copies Of the books they
had burned, to restore the library. This week
Judge Eckcls, Wishing to consult some law books, de-
mauded access to the library. The demand was finally
complied with Out Of eight cata!ogued books that he
called for six missing Such is the condition of the
territorial library Some Of the books in the library of
Judge Styles and Mr. Williams not burned, and
have been used to restore the territorial library
The return emigration from the South ceased several
days ago still there great many Of tho inhabitants
Of this city who have not yet returned Perhaps tho
church don want Of them back Out of those
who have returned, many Of them have not got half
their things back Gen. Johnston took his army with
its supplies and munitions Of war; the suffers trains and
all the camp followers from the mountains to the east of
passed through the city and advanced beyond tho Jor
dan, in one day 1t took the Mormons more than ten
days. excrtng themselves to the utmost travelling day
and night, sending back relays Of teams &c, to get
back to their homes poorly Us they hare done.
Nevertheless these arc the people who were to run away
from the army carry three years provisions and hide in
the tops of the mountains where the army could not
reach them The fact Of it is, the army could 20 where
this people could dream Of going, and three times
fast 1t is ncompchensible what braggadocio this peo-
pie have shown, aud how little facts support their loud
talk