The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-08-12

| tbs DELUDED MoRNoNs.--A correspond.
| ent at Salt Lake writes thus Of what he saw;
| when We arrived ~ Salt Lake City, Brig
| ham Young was making tour OF the prov
inees, and, ss hs went from one place TO
another shoals of the rural population we're
seen vending their way &c the government
Land Olce, obtaining their titles to their
farms, aud passing them over to Brigham
Young. An ignorance 30 dense is almost
inconceivable. We could not believe il was
possible until we went to the Land Office
and ascertained FOR ourselves that these de-
luded people, who had conquered the desert
and wrested their farms from the sage brush
and who are entitled by law to the ownership
of their homestead with the United States
flag flying only three miles away, the symbol
OF power ample for their protection, were
actually putting oil their property out of
their reach, not in the form Of q trust, but in
fee simple. And it was not few here and
there who were thus blindly dispossessng
themreves and disinheriting their children,
but hundreds every day; in fact, all who were
entitled, under the laws of the | ulted States,
TO receive certificates. And no. merely the
newcomers who had entered their lands
under the Homestead act Of lsG2, but those
who preempted their tracts ten and fifteen
years ago, and who could not be supposed to
owe anything to the church for their original
outfit and expense Of colonization.
The Florida legislature sat only three
weeks at its late extra session. The mem
bers have yearly salary, and not per diem
pay.
A correspondent Of the Eccntq1 Past, dis
| pleased with the fare at Mount Desert Island,
Maine, says that fresh herring looks like
trout, and lasts like moist shavings.
Mr.. Peter Slocum, OF Noversink, has in
his possession sword of Major Gen. St.
Clair, which be bought Of an unnppreciatiyc
Jerscyman.
e. NJ. Stanton is better His asthma is
better, and he proposes TO lice from the
ghost OF Mrs. Surratt, and visit Ashley IN
Arizona, the friend of his friend Sanford 4.
Conover.
A young lady, gaily promensdiug in Gin.
cinnRti, the other afternoon, suddenly
dropped her hoop skirt, She picked it up
and cody carried it home under her arm.
Two Erie railway locomotives we're seized
by the sheriff Of Tioga county, few days
ago, to satisfy an execution in favor Of one
Floyd, of Waverly, for damages received at
the Cars Rock disaster. The case will be
taken to the court of appeals.
Dr. Muad has recalled nearly AL his for
mer practice. His innocence of completely
with the late Mr.. john Wilkes Booth is CON
ceded, and his old neighbors love him the
more for the injustice which no has under
gone, and for the christian patience with
| which he has suffered it. His health, how.
ever, is much impaired
Two young men in Fond du Lac got bad.
ly frightened the other night by what they
supposed to be ghost. Close investigation
proved that it was fastened by pins to
clothes line, and was simply an undergar
ment invariably worn by the gentler sex.
The vlrtuous young men excuse themselves
by saying that they bad never seen anything
of the kind before
Except for the disgrace which his removal
inflicted upon Secretary RRwlins and Sur.
geon Barnes, there is no damaging incident
in the retirement Of Mr.. Loury because he
married the innocent daughter of the limo.
cert Mrs. Surratt. Mr. loury ia now in n
much more remuncrative business than that
from which he was displaced. He lives in
| Baltimore.