Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-26
The Murder of the Arkansas Emil
grants. An Awful Ecene,

One of the witnesses before Judge Cradle
baugh at Provo, while he was eulevoriny to
bring the murdcrous Mormons TO Justice, but
without success as yet, for the numbering and
plunderIng OF the Arkansas enligrant party,
consisting of some one hundred and thirt Y
people. of all ages ana sexes, thus testified :
While was residing at Cedar CITY | was
called upon by Messrs. Isaac Hight John D.
Lee and John Higbea-all three Mormon mil
itary officers-to go few miles out south of
the city, which l did. There founa thirty or
forty Others selected from different settlements.
| We were addressed by the above officers, who
told us that they had sent Canosh, the Para
want Chief, with his warriors, to destroy the
Aakallsas Company, and that if he had not
done it we must and that if any of us refused
or betrayed them to the Americans, they would
take good care of him hereafter. Here VIC
rere all ordered on the quick march to the
| Mountain Meadows, where we found the emf
grants, with their wagons formed into two cir
cles, with their families in the midst trying to
defend themselves against the merciess sava-
ges, who lay around in ambush, killing them
| as opportunity presented.
Hight and Lee formed their men into two |
companies and made precipitate rush at the /
poor defenseless victims. The men inside of !
the circles rose up, but instantly fell dead OF
mortally wounded, under the fire of the wretch |
es who SO cruelty sought their lives. Nothing |
remained to be DONE except to kill the fright |
ened females and their innocent children clasped |
in their arms. Others chung with desperation
to their bleeding, dying husbands, pleading in
vain for mercy at the hands of the Christians
who controlled the more savage Indian aSsail-
ants.
John D. Lee now sent to the Indian chief,
and his men in ambush, to come out and finish
the survivors, directing him to spare only the
little children, who could not talk. The sava-
ges came instantly, with knives drawn, and
speedily finished the bloody work. The scene
beggars description. The demoniac yells of the
savage monsters, mingled with the shrieks and
prayers of helpless mothers and daughters,
while the death-blows were dealing with un-
fnching hands, and scalps were torn from
heads which bloomed with beauty and inn0-
cence but few hours before. Now the work
of butchering ended The murderers threw
the dead into two heaps, covered them slightly
with earth, and left them, to feed the wolves
and birds of prey ;" and returned home with
their booty of cattle, and wagons, and great
quantity of goods, &c: i
Statistics of guicidea
A work on saicide, published by French
nan-M. Lisle-states that in France, from
1886 to 1852, inclusive, there were 80, ,126 sui
cides, Or mean of 3,O66 year. Before ,
1896, the proportion was one suicide to every
L 1903 inhabitants. In 1886, it was one for
14207, and in 1852, it had risen to one for g.
$40. In 1888 and 1889, England had one
suicide for every I5,900 inhabitants; France, :
one for every 12,489. Between London and :
Paris, for the same years, the difference is yet :
more remarkable, the figures being. London one 9
in $3.50. and for Paris one in 2.221. The
north of France is the most prolific in suicides;
nearly half Of the Whole number belongs to =
the north, which has increased its ratio by one
third. The north has one in 5,464 the cast =
one in 1885; the south one in 20,457. The
Department of the Seine, which includes Par :
is has risen with fearful rapidity; but Paris and
Marseilles, and all large centres, are the foci
Of suicides, to very striking extent. Russia :
stands the lowest Of European States in the
sca!e-her suicides being only one in 49, 50
while Prussia has but one in 14,4O4 Austria
one in 20,900; New York Jfe III 1871 Bos-
ton one in 22,5GO; Baltimore one in 1860 b
and Philadelphia one in ,873. t
The author maintains that suicide is not al n
ways sign of mental alienation, but, like ev- I
cry other human movement, obeys fixed laws, ]
and that hence, year by year, It can be conf /
IDENTIFY predicted how many out of certain pop a
ulation will commit suicide. The opinion is c
EXPRESSED that climate has little to do with the s
matter, and the author says, that in latitude /
from AZ degrees TO "a degrees the proportion {
is one in 38,882 from "a degrees, to Ga de- s
grees, ohe in 56,577. Yet the last figures in
clude Moscow and St. Petersburgh, and repre-
sent much more rigorous, damp, uncertain,
and ioyIess climate than the first.