New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-31
From Our Special Correspondent.

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FROM Our Special Correspondent.
AUSTIN Nevada, Saturday, June "a, 1863.
In nv last Utah letter i limited at the
difficulty Of enforcing the antPolygamy law. The
ossos rnnst usnay be tried before Mormon nres. The
Cfense must always DO proved by Mormon witnesses
FOL their marriages ere Solemnzcd in the pres
enoo of entiles and no records of them kept out
aide Of the Church. But the Government Of least
throw ts moral weight against this relic of barbar
ism" The Federal offices in Utah may continue to be
flied by Mormous-we have quarrel with their re- !
gion-hut they should not. some important ones now
arc, be filed by practical Pol5gamists.
In few years by natural laws TIE introduction Of
large mining population viii settle the question. Al
ready-porhaps in view Of another possible removal
the Church has bought large tract in the Sandwich
Islands and sent cOoniSts thither One of stage
drivers expressed sentiment which will find many ad
vOeates among the future miners. by and by said
nc 81 shall take one of these second Mormon wives
myself Only the FIRST marriage is good in law none
of the latter ones arc worth q cuss."
On Sunday VIC again attended the Bowery and heard
Brigham Young preach TO five thousand people. n suit
Of solemn black which had taken the place Of his gray
bomespun gave him the clerical air. despite bis sleek
porily form and his enormous neck. lie claimed a.
distinctive feature Of the Latter Day Saints tia, they
God created Adam "by tho only process known 10 ma
turc-ust as men create Children cited history
TO prove that Polygamy had been sanctioned both by
Martin Luther and Church Of England; and declared
that TN Erclish husband. dissatisfied with his WIFE,
could even now lead her tie public market and sell
her,
The presence OF our party must have had something
OF the wetbllnket effect upon him; for bis remarks
were rather tame and disjoniel. IDdscd an Elder
assured that the poorest effort he ever heard
from the President of the Mormon Church But We
had at least ebuili,ion Of na!nralness lie SAID;
1.-THE Latier.Day Saints the happest people in the
word tho mos; industrious the most pcaeealle among
themselves. At least they would be, bat for few
miserable sinking lawyers who open Offices gu Wis
key-st and for s. wiz prove that black is white =
Thus spoke Brigham
In the eyeBing, from the same platform Mr. coiix
repeated Lis euloey upon President Lincoln to fully
5000 people The great audience had excellent op-
portunty The contrast between the two speakers
and their aIplalse was very warm and frequent
On Monday We continued our journey westward
Two1ty.two miles ont looking bac. through the clear
atmosphere upon toe beautiful city of the Latter Day
Saints, We could SEQ lis buildings and shadctrecs with
great disii1ctness We passed Lake Utah, shining
among the mountains in quiet beauty; crossed The Jor
dan-the last stream for 100 mesand rolled Out upon
the trceess oshcn desert where the fnc alkaline dust
constantly enye,oped US in Z" pillar Of cloul."
Al enc lonely adobe station we encountered Go
shoot Indian who had been waiting FOR two days to
HOOK ut MIR. Col.ax lie asked which was the Great
Captain" tlen bestowed upon the Speaker long stare
cfcuriosy and seeming approval for he concluded by
agunt of Good w and the request for little 'tobnc"
This Indian has been steadast friend Of tie whites
yet during the hosiihes two years ago. through mis-
.I-s,l I'D ~: ,ln
pwn lodge. When speaking of il be sometimes throws
himself upon the roand beating his heed in the agony
sfrenembrancc. should sympstlize more with the
general frontier feeling that the Indians ought TO be
sxteI1linated, had L not known many Of these
lamentabe mistakes" 10 say nothing Of gross
and prcmeditated barbaTities am no believer il fhe
Noble Savage Ifhe ever existed outside Of Mr. Coop.
er's romances he long ago extinct. The Indian is
rrue blooGthirsy snG treacherous; but in proportion
to his intelligence. he often behaves quite as well as the
pale-face.
Twice each day met a coach going East. For a
moment the painting horses would stop and the two
great clouds Of dust blend into "What news from
The Sta.esr Give US some San Francisco papers"
"Did you have any trouble with the Indiansi" "Au
set; 60 on driver" The whips crack, and the two
oars Of the desert-poDeers from the advancing
vans Of cyilization-go rolling forward. Now ii ia
only the rattle of the coach but long it Will be the
screech Of the locomotive. Here the astonished
plains New.York and California, London and China,
will meet TO exchange greetings and newspapers while
respective trains are stopping for breakfast.
A line drawn from Baltimore to San Francisco will
inersect or pass within very few miles Of Cincinnati,
ST. Louis LeayenwOrth and Atchison, Denver. Salt
Lake. Austin and Virginia City. 1t is by no mere
chance that this row of great cities is sprrging up,
almost the bird fies the continent Nature
has ordained it, Here is the line Of travel the grooves
Of commerce, the pathway OF Empire
Along plains. over hills and down steep. winding
cshons our horses leaping at their utmost speed
One rou of eight miles Travelled In thirty minutes
wonder II that beaten in the palrnest days
OF tie stagecosch Reaching Austi3 40 We whirled
around the last street vehicle for several
yards poised upon two wheels while the other two
more than foot from the ground. But II righted
again and with This finishing stroke of the driver
ended ride Of four hundred miles accomplished in
6ftyone hours.
Like most mining towns Austin struggles FOR two or
three miles down deep crooked caIon On each side
Of It's principal street. ashen treeless hills rise
abruptly for several hundred feet They are excayated
like a mammoth prairiedog town. Hundreds and
hundreds OF apertures surrounded by piles of reddish
earth attest the industry OF searcLers for silver ore
The Notifications Of Mcclellan on the Peninsula the
fifty miles Of breastworks which commemorate Hal
Iecks superdous failure before COrnth dwarf in COM
parison The proyerb truly that II requires
gold mine TO work q silver mine, often to find
one.
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