Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-10-06

the rebellious intentions of the Mormon
leaders, if less openly exhibited of late,
have by no means been abandoned. From
the Salt Lake correspondence of the n. Y.
Times, under date Of September lst, we
extract the following facts, which are there
secounted with-more minuteness than else
where. -~eervFzRz zE-7
In July hast, Judge Sinclair, ofthe Uni
ted States District Court. after many un-
successful attempts to find a -oom in Salt
Lake City fit for the Court 70 sit in, was
forced to accept an apartment in the Nor
mon Council House. For the use of this
room he was. indebted to the Territorial
Marshal, Mormon; but he soon found
that this courtesy was of small account
No sooner was the Court organized than
motions were filed by two of the Mormon
attorneys on behalf Of clients 10 qpash the
array Of the Grand Jury, upon the ground
that they were not summoned according
to the statue Of the Territory, which pro-
yides that the Grand Jurors shall be select
ed by the Clerk of the County Court.-
These, motions were orerruied by the
Court, and the statute thus declared by
him to be Invalid. -
"A few days after, the Judges found it
necessary to issue writ of habeas corpus
for Deloss Gipson, who had been tried and
sentenced to death for murder by the Nor
Mormon Probate Court. This tribunal
was therefore enjoined to abstain from
the future exercise ofits powers in cases of
such a character. Notwithstanding his
Illegal conviction and subsequent liberation
by Judge Sinclair, Gipson has been rear
rested by the Mormons, who are deterniin-
ed that he shall be executed, as his crime
was the killing the son ofa bishop of their
church. a Is iz- izs.-1s "a, u i-s.s-7-s
A few days after Gipson had been re-
leased, a large number Of civil eases came
baase Judge Sinclair. Among them was
a suit which had been brought BY Frank
lin E. NcNiell against Bingham Young
and several others for false imprisonment,
in which the damages claimed were $780,
Ooo- McNiell was imprisoned during the
winser of lS5s-5s, and kept during that
time in chains as pyssoeer of sody, for
no other offense then that of being an
American citizen, opposed in sentiment to
the Mormon rebellion go
On Tuesday night the 2l day Of August,
the ..Gentilen community were shocked to
hear that McNiell had been brulaIly assas-
sinated by some unknown person at ihe
door of his boardipg-house, on Main street,
lthe most public thoroughfare in tue ety.
at about 10 o'clock. - p 1,. 8, .e...2i :. '-'
1t appears that McNieIl having coca
sion to step ott on the sidewalk for a min
ute, was there met by man who advanced
towards him, as he thought to shake his
band; instead of lis hand, however, the
uan presented pistol and shot him
through the abdomen He died from the
effects of i the next day. just lefoie dying
be made declaration, in which he named
one Of the, DANTE band as his murderer s
Thus by the murder of MeNiell was
this suit against Brigham Young ended
The action being brough, for sevsonal dam
ages, abated with the plaintiffs death.
= During The session of the Court, beside
those Above mentioned, numerous instances
of malice and insubordinalion on the part
of the Nornons were constantly being ex
hibited. Witnesses whose testimony would
injure The cause Of the Saints, were run
off; juries composed of Mornons obstinate
y refused to be shut up while deliberatine
on The cases they had been trying, and
sought ia egery way to prereat the con
finuanee of Judge Sinelair's labors-
At latest accounts, murders were Of al
raest daily occurrence ia the streets of
Salt Lake City, and the Gentle inhabit- |
ants were forced to undergo every species !
Of petty persecution and annoyance Judge
Sinclair, discouraged and -disgasted, was
about TO lease for Washington. to repre-
sent the deploable eonditioa Of the judi |
cary. and 10 suggest measures for its relief |
at the hands of the Administration and of |
Congress - s z %