The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-22
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S1TVRD1E 0cTOBBR 81. 1859.


a5s "a N Aet<s., 49, ~ - 4sl7s
crs, when We inform you that the awful
bug-bsar, with which yOu haseso often
and 70 long been threatened, exists III
your midst 10 Martial law ii Is IT.
tcmptsd % give preFaleney il Utah.
a anothsr column W. give ! clipping
from TIE ..Desert News touching tho
arrest Of j fellow named Smith, and
his sudden and mysterious rescue, d
~ attempt at II, from Camp Floyd.
The wit % Habeas Corpus il one of
the richest requests Of olden times, and
against i We trust We shall never b
found making war il any shape. Yet
We may indulge ii Teminiscences and
contrasts.
Not many months since, young
man was suinmarily arrested il this
cityon ! 'scapias issued by Judge
kckels from Camp Floyd, and uncer-
remonionsly carried into tie garrison
limits a petition was presented q
Judge Sinclair, praying for ! writ
ct Habeas Corpus; and tie reasons ct
forth were TINT the crime, ii Il al
committed By the petitioner, was COM
united in this, and not IN tie First.
judicial District. Tho petition Was
refused, and the poor fellow had u
wear his chains, and abide his trial BE-
fore, what We still believe Is have been.
2 court without proper jurisdiction.
IN the case before Us We have 1
worthless fellow, as We believe, dele
gated 70 our city on ! mission 81 blood.
: common street braMIer, j foe alike
70 God and man. He comes Is our
suburbs. His coward heart fails him.
and he begs courage from the whisky.
jug His guilty prudence abandons5
HIM - his courage resiYes, and he I'M
folds bis hearts secrets. He was az
rested II his brawIing, and put il safe
keeping Stern Justice and self-pres-
eryaticn On the part Of threatenedl
parties might have saved the necessity
of . writ Of any kind. But how
prompt, how very prompt, comes forth
our sympathizing Chief Justice 10 tho.
rescue.
simultaneously, il IS said, q caucus
Of demnre-faced scoundrels Is held il
Great Salt Lake City; self-confessed
assassin gets drunk on his road hitler
and unfolds their schemes; the drunken
traitor i arrested, and his honor, On
the arrival 81 Camp Floyd Of an ex-
press, has, i would appear, writ pro
pared for his release.
These are no idle surmises, good
friends. They are said to Be facts,
Proyeable facts. We have not begun
% learn tho gangrened blackness sc
the hearts we have to deal With. II
would horrify ua 10 contemplate half
the measure of their iniquity.
Perchance you look for villains
solely in tho gambling den and whisky
shop. Il 80, you make q great mis-
take. TO be sure you viii find plenty
Of them there But the concocters of
mischief are found elsewhere You
viii find them in 5 variety Of shapes.
Some, when you see them, viii Be found
poking their long venerable noses into
their mighty ledgers. Others With fair
locks and lack-lustre traitor-eyes viii
% planning schemes for the hurried
consummation Of Indian civilization.
Others again win be prating Of the
horrid crimes 81 weekly preparation IN
Utah and suggesting plans for their
abatement. Merchants, ex-oficials,
lawyers, doctors, clerks, 40, &C., II one
grand league. They will shake YOU
smiingly BY tho hand; but beware! the
idle hand holds dagger. We have
elsewhere said that We know them. W.
do From the grey-headed excrescence
Of . cobWebbed hack-ofice. ID. he
straight-backed popinjay with sable
rhiskers, We know them all. They can
find no chamber 50 secluded, no corner
% secret, but into Il the eyes of the
50 oft-insulted and threatened citizens
win make way for scrutiny. And
should they once raise the curtains for
the tragedy,what closing tablesu there.