New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-26
A MORMON KILLED.-A letter from Salt Lake to
the ST. Louis Republican has the following: 49,

MORMON KILLED.-A letter from Salt Lake to
the st. Louis Republican has the following: .
Reports reached the city yesterday of the muir
der of the son of one of the Apostles" Geo. A.
Smith, Jr., by the Navajo Indians, near the bonn-
dary line of the Territory and New Mexico. He
was young man of nineteen years of age, and
one of party of ten men from Washington and
Iron counties. who had been out on an exploring
expedition. The Indians We're "mad' with the pale
faces for their losses further south, and this small
party unsuspectingly coming upon them aroused
the demon vengeance. Smith was half mile from
camp in search of horse, when the Indians sur
rounded him, took his revolver, shot him four times
with his own pistol. and fired into his body three
arrows. Some Of the explorers came up, and hur
ried of their wounded comrade; and had hardly
time to mount with him, before the Indians gave
chase. Favored by good steeds the party kept
ahead till the shades of evening, after twenty
mile run, gave them the advantage of concealment.
Some things fell from pack-horse which attracted
the attention of the Indians, and stopping to
gather them up, the pursued made good use Of the
advantage, and to that and the setting sun were
they indebted for their preservation. From the
great loss of blood and exhaustion in the chase,
Smith only lived three hours, and at length had to
be thrown into bush, the only burial his com
radea dared to give him. Geo. A. Smith, Sr., the
APOSTLE is one of the respected Mormons
| abroad, IS well as at home.
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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. We
have read some fifty pages of the work with inter
RIGA is exceeding small-almost wholly limited to
our recognition of it as grand mart whence we
should draw fifty thousand barbarians annually,
who, with good muscles and limbs, have never yet
properly learned how to use them; and who, in
their present condition, are quite useless to them
| selves and the rest of the world. We should like
to divide some half million of these poor monkey
people among the rice and long cotton planters be-
| lion more among the rice planters between Cooper
| river and Cape Fear, and a million more among
the cotton planters along the Pedee, the Santee,
the Edisto, and Savannah rivers where the poor me-
groes, rescued from cannabalism, might be taught
to earn their bread by honest 1absr, become de-
cent Christians forget cannibalism and appreciate
the beauties of the cotton feld.n
CosT OF CoERcIoN.--A private letter, written b.
a South Carolinan to q relative in New York
makes the following pertinent suggestions:
| If it cost the General Government, with all the
States unit, from eight to ten years war; and up
wards af 500 000o,0 900 to subdue half armed body
| of Seminoles, not exceeding in all Is, ,0C0 men
women and children, how long will it take, and how
much will it take, to subdue 400, 600 nen, women
and children, we'll armed, fighting for their homes
and sworn to hand down hatred to an Abolition
| Government as an heirloom?
/ Why, we will not have less than 900 or ,00t
negroes who, under the lead of their masters O.
Southern men, would like nothing better than tt
try the mettle of their pretended friends The.
/
hate old Scratch. But good bye.
| --sSsas------ ..~ w. s
/ WILLIAM MULLIGAN, RuFFIAN, IN SING SNG.-
| The New York Tribune says
The exiled Mr.. Mulligan does not bear his retire
| ment from the active scenes of Broadway am
/ Houston street with that fortitude which was to b
| expected from so fierce a fellow. He wilted terri
bly, when the stripes were handed him in exchang
| for his glossy kerseymeres, and when shorn of hi
| moustache he gave way to flood of tears. II
deed, he sobbed most piteously all the while h
was making his new toilet, and he finished by bef
ging to be put into the hospital department, wit
the view OF being treated TO light work. To th
first question that was, consequently, asked him b
the attending official, he was obliged to answe
that he could not write, SO bis hopes were ende
in that quarter, and he was consigned to the sol
tude of his cell. There the sudden change from
life of luxury and ease to the stern realities of
State prison completely unneryed him, and at mil
night the wardens were summoned to him wit
piercing and most piteous cries. His physical sy
tenn had for the time, completely broken dow
and he was carried moaning to the hospital, al
left there for the DOCTORS treatment, where at la
accounts, he still remained.
CANTHIs BE TRuE?-We hear it confidently state
that Lieutenant General Winfield Scott has late
prepared and voluntarily recommended to IL
President a matured plan of military campaign /
which to coerce and subdue all acts of resistance
the Federal Government, which may be attenpte
by any of the Southern States.
II this be true, it is matter which should not |
concealed from the people of the South by the
accredited agents at Washington. II it be untru
certainly no harm can be done by relieving Ge
Scott from an imputation Of otficous zeal for IL
shedding of Southern blood.
We respectfully submit to the Secretary of Wa
distinguished and honored citizen of Virginia,
our two Virginia Senators, and to each and all
our Representatives in Congress, that this is sui
ject concerning which the people of Virginia al
entitled to public explanation. [Richmond Eng.
We don't believe it.
TERRIFIC CoLLIERY EXPLOSION IN EN6LAND.-O
Saturday, December lst mine explosion hal
pened at the Black Vein Pit. Risca, about six mile
from Newport, Wales, and the property of til
Risca Coal Company. The colliery has been j
work some years in The production of steam Goa
and as gas is in such pits more less generated
the usual preventive measures were adopted. Th
pit was examined according to custom on Satu
day morning, after which, between and 6 o'cocl
some two hundred men descended. About 9 o'cloc
a terrific explosion occurred, which was heard ia
above the surface, and upon inspection it wa
found that at some distance from the bottom of th
| nit the Gas had fred. Considerable damape wa