Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-03


AusrIx. Nevada. Saturday. June -. 1856.
In nv las, Utah letter hinted at the Diff
Guilty OF enforcing the anti-Polygamy law The
ca.es nos, usualIy be tried before Mormon Ia
ries. The oaenss must slsAys DO proved by
! Mormon Witnesses, for their marriages are never
solemEized 10 The presence OF Gentles, and no
records OF them are KEEP; outside OF the Church
1 Bot the Government can NJ least throw its moral
weight against this "relic OF barbarism" The
Federal Offices IN Utah may continue to be filed
/ by Mormons-we have DO quarrel with their
reIigion-bu; they should not. as some impor-
tant ones nov are be filled by practical Poly.
gamisis.
In a few years. by natural laws. the introduce
ton OF large mining population will settle the
question. Already-perhaps in view OF another
possible remoyal-the Church has bought a large
tract in the Sandwich Islands and seGt colonists
thither. One of our stage drivers expressed a
| sentiment whieh will fEd many advocates among
the future miners. by and by" said he, II
shall take one Of these second Mormon wives
myself. Only the first marriage is good by law:
mono OF the latter ones are worth q cuss"
On Sunday We again attended the Bowery and
heard Brigham Young preach to FIVE thousand
people. A suit OF solemn black, which had
taken the place of bis gray homespun, gave him
| the clerical air. despite his sleek, portly form
and his enormous neck. He claimed as die
tnctive feature of the Latter Day Saints that
they believe implicitly every word Of the Bible;
said that God created Adam Z" by the ony pro
| cess known to nature-just as men now create
children" cited history 70 prove that PolYgamy
had been sanctioned both by Martin Luther and
the Church OF England; aud declared that al
| English husband, dissatisfied with his wife,
could even now lead her to the public narke,
| and sell her
The presence OF our party must have mad
something of the wet blanket effect upon him;
for bis remarks we're rather tame and disjoned
Indeed, al Elder informed US that it was the
| poorest effort be ever heard from the President
Of the Mormon Church. But we had at least an
ebulliIion of naturalness. lie said: g" The Lat
r-Day Saints are the happest people in the
world the most Industrious the most peaceabe
among themselves At least they would De, but
for few miserable, sinking lawyers who open
offices on Wbiskey street and for S. will prove
that black is white - Thus spoke Brigham
| Ia the evening. from the same platform, Mr.
! Colfax repeated his eulogy upon President Lin
coin. to fully 5000 people The great audience
had an excellent opportunity to see the contrast
between the two speakers, and their applause was
very warm and frequent
On Monday we continued onr journey west
ward twenty-five miles out, looking back
through the clear atmosphere upon the beautiful
city OF the Latter Day Saints, We could see its
buildings and shade trees with great dstiuctness
We passed Little Utah. shining among the
mountains in quiet beauty; crossed the jordan
| the last stream for 4OC miles--auG rolled out
upon the ,reeless. sshen desert, where the fine
alkaline dust constantly enveloped Us in pillar
| Of cloud.
At one lonely adobe STATION We encountered a
| Goshoot Indian, who had been waiting for two
days to look at Dir. Collar. lie asked which
was the Great Captain" then bestowed upon
the Speaker a long stare Of curiosity and seeming
approval for he concluded by a grunt Of Good -
aud the reuuest Tor little "tObac." This Indian
bad been a steadlast friend to the whites, yet
during the hostilites two years ago. through
mistake, our soldiers killed his wife and children
in their own lodge. When speaking OF il he
sometimes throws himself upon the ground
| beating his head in the agony of remembrance
| should sympathize more with the general from
tier feeling that the Indians ought to be exter-
| minated, had / not known many cases of these
lamentable mistakes, TO say nothing of some
! gross and premeditated bsrbarities | am no
| believer in the Noble Savage Ii he ever existed
| outside of Mr.. Cooper's romsnces, he was long
| ago extinct. The Indian is cruel, boodtbirsty
and treacherous; but in proportion to his intelli-
gence, he often behaves quite as well the pale
| face.
Twice each day we met a coach going East
For moment the painting horses would stop.
and the two gread clouds of dust blend in one
What news from the States2" Give US some
San Francisco papers," did you have any
trouble with the lndiansg' "All set: 90 OH.
driver" The whips crack, and the two cars OF
| the Gesert-pIoneers from the advancing cara
yans OF ciyilization-go rolling forward. Now il
is only the rattle OF the coach. but ere long it
will be the screech of the locomotive Here on
the astonished plains. New York and California,
London and China, will meet to exchange greet
ings and newspapers, while respective trains are
stopping for breakfast
| line drawn from Baltimore TO San Francisco
will intersect or pass within very few miles of
Cincinnati St Louis, Leavenworth and Atchi-
son, Denver, Salt Lake, Austin and Virginia
| City. It is by no mere chance that this row OF
great cities is springing up, almost as the bird
| flies, across the continent. Nature has ordained
it, Here is the line of travel, the grooves of
commerce, the pathway of Empire.
Along plains, over hills, aud down steep,
winding canons our horses came leaping at their
utmost speed. One route of eigh. miles we
travelled in thirty minutes / wonder if that was
ever beaten in the palmlest days OF the stage
coachl Reaching Austin. whirled around
the last street corner, vehicle ran for sc yeral
yards poised upon two wheels, while the other
two more than foot from the ground
But it righted agail and with this neat finishing
stroke of the driver. ended our ride of four hGn
dred miles, accomplished in City one hours
| Like most mining towns, Austin struggles for
| two or three miles down deep. crooked canon
On each side of its narrow principal street
ashen, treeess bills rise abruptly for several hun
dred feet They are excavated like a mammoth
prairie dog town. Hundreds aud hundreds of
apertures surrounded by piles of reddish earth
attest the industry OF searchers for silver ore
The Notifications OF Nc Clellan on the Peninsula.
the fifty miles of breaStworks which commemo-
rate Haleck's stupendous failure before Corinth
dwarf in comparison. The proverb assure. US
truly that it requires 4 gold mine to work a silver
mine, and often TO find one
The population Of Austin is from three to four
thousand. Far up the billsdes little dwellings
of stone, brick, wood, and adobe are curiously
niched and scattered In this thin air. 8 900 feet
above the sea, TO climb 10 them is no light labor
Along the ravine huge quartz mills thunder in
cessan.ly; and some of the business blocks are
large ana substantial. At night the brilliantly
| lighted drinking and gaming saloons, with open
fronts, are filled with motley crowd Women
conduct the game at several monte tables shut
ling the cards and handling the piles OF silver
coin with the unrutsled serenity Of professional
gamblers while men Of all classes fight the
tiger with the unusual earnestness of that in
fatuating pursuit
Here We first encounter several features Of the
Pacific coast / In lieu of hotels on the Amer.
lean plan only lodging houses. with restau-
rants quite distinct and usually in another part