The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-15
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SdTURDdK 0cT0BRR u. 1850
UNPUBLISHED CRIME IN UTAH.

been introduced into the ranks of Utah
Correspondents. To those afar "a
there might DO some difficulty IN az.
counting for this. 10 US At homo ther,
is not the semblance Of riddle abou,
the whole affair. We take our usua
pm. promenade down and up Mer
chants Lane; and, as we call upon eacl
mercantile friend and inquire how trad,
IS, the inyariable answer Is ssdulI. yer,
dull. We ask after the money mar.
ket, and are referred to their Qroanin,
shelves Of spelling goods. The cashier
has his hands in his pockets. III,
book-keeper scratches his head ant
tremblos as Ne presents the balance
sheet; while the proprietor himself
wings bis hands in despair as he secs
the dark clouds Of bankruptcy gathering
thick and thrcateningly in tho East.
Here, then, is the mystery unrayelIed.
Did combination Of spectators IN i
combination Of financial trouble ever
want ready friends to assist them, al-
ways provided that there was 8 fair.
prospect Of fair remuneration aheadp
Our answer is found in the columns of
the New York ssTimes,n that popular.
medium Of scurriIity and lies. There
We find, under the head of --latest
news from Utah, = &c, letters from.
Great Salt Lake City. and Camp
Floyd. No responsible name Is signed
to them. One assumes "A. b. J, anoth-
er Orchards, " and 50 on, cad infni-
tum." It's no matter what name 81
pen they assume, they all bear the
stamp 81 PURCHASE, base, degraded
purchase. We have some glinlmerinp
guesses as to the real cognomens of
them all OF Richards we are pretty |
certain. He has been in the spectIa-
tVe-political market since he first came
TO Utah, and has ever been ready 10 /
knock himself down to the highest 4
bidder. He has sold his lies and /
Islander BY tho paragraph, and has
hitherto been well paid. On his latest
editions he had better given mortgage
ct Q discount; they are getting stale.
But what is the whole terrible bur-
then Of their doleful dittyp Why ii Is 1
UNPUBLISHED crime IN Utah.
Where IS the crime, and why un-
punishedp The Mountain Meadowsl
are continually thrown up before US with
their bloody landscape. The ghosts Of
the Parishes and Potters are eyerlast-
ingly called up in horrible array. The
incestuous couple, Jones and his mother.
haunt the chambers Of the Judges and
cry aloud for vengeance. All the blood
that has been shed in Utah, from that
Of the first adultorer, who paid the just
penalty Of the Law, to that of the
scoundrel Mcneil, who fcll d victim toll.
his own debauchery and quarrelsome-
ness, IS mingled in ono huge cauldron
and boils over tho fire of the indigna-
ton Of these pure-souled correspon-
dents. ss
The events Of our past two or three
years history, as they moved along,
made too indelible impressions on our
memories to be EASILY erased. Late inl
1851, the Mountain Meadow massacre
is reported to have been perpetrated, /,
At conference with the U. S. Com
missionors in June, 1858, q demand
was made by the citizens of Utah for
an investigation Of, not only that whole.
matter, but Of every crime of which
Utah was accused. The investigation
vas denied, and s1et-by-gones be by-ff
Cones, was the only answer. The
citizens were not satisfied, and still de-
manded an investigation. The arnyl
was permitted to come in, and went vent a
INTO quarters; the judges came and Q
Found chambers whore they chose;---and c
m Investigation was stil demanded.
What was the response2 A pompous y
display of empty judicial dignity and Il
differing steel. Brass howitzers and Y
'iege-guns formed the bench Of justice, /
md mercenary dragons secured the O
in search Of prey. The den t,
d the gamester was Quilted to furnish 81