Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-05-01
The News.

Colonel Robert Johnson, son of the ex-Presi-
dent, is dead.
| The Democratic State Committee is called to
meet in San Francisco May 18th.
The town OF You Bet, Nevada county, has been
destroyed by FIRE. Loss, S35, 900.
A prize fight was to come off at White Pine
April 18th, between two light weights, Murphy
and Fitzgerald.
The Oxford beat crew have accepted the
American challenge for four-oared race to
come off in August next.
Reports from St. Domingo represent that all
parties in that republic are il favor of annexa-
ton to the United States.
News from Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island,
shows that the crew of the wrecked bark John
Bright were murdered by Indians.
The fire still burns in the Gold Hill mines
On Saturday the steaming process was resumed.
About Eve hundred miners are idle.
The Spanish Cortes has rejected proposed
| amendment to the constitution securing freedom
of speech, of petition and of the press.
George Rookie has challenged Joe Coburn, the
champion of America, to fight him for So, 900
side, catch weight, at any time within fifty days.
Further accounts of the great storm in the
East, show that it was the most widespread and
Obstructive ever known on the continent The
loss of property is enormous.
Cable dispatches from London indicate that
France and England may determine to take
hand in the Cuban-Spanish imbrogo, so far, at
least, to resist any attempt which may be
made in this country to assist the Cuban rebels.
BIaAMY ON THE RAMPAGE.-During the late
conference of the Turks at Salt Lake, the subject
of confning and controlling the tastes and senti-
ments of the Mormon virgins within the limits of
the desires of the hoary villains Of the Latter
Day church, was warmly and enthusiastically
discussed, (It is TO be hoped that that church
is far the last of religious swindles that
nothing worse can come after t.) The young
ladies there have for some time shown de-
cidedly undutiful opposition TO entering that
beastly state of concubinage into which parental
authority has designed, and would force them to
go. Old Bgamy himself, whose daughters have
exhibited as much temerity others in resist
ing the divine authority revealed through such
devilish mediums = took the stand and char
acterized the conduct and unyeldng spirit of
the fair madens, as fully as his vocabulary of
vile, indecent and blasphemous slang enabled
him to. The language uttered on such occa-
sons, in the presence of audiences of thousands
of men, women and children, assembled in their
" Tabernacle" can find no parallel in profanity,
disgusting obscenty and absolute flthiness, in
the veriest brothels of the - Five Points" Old
Bigamy has for years predicted and boasted that
girls born In polygamy would eagerly embrace
it, in all its hideousness. But he is discovering
his error. The Mormon girls have witnessed so
much misery. sorrow, shame and remorse
that rather than obey the most positive t coun-
sci " to become a concnbine to any of the filthy
old wretches to whom they have been promised,
they would sooner die on the spot The future
supplies of concubines must be sought among
the ignorant, degraded and inexperienced prose-
lytes abroad and not from among those who
have witnessed the horrible workings of the sys-
TEN. The completion of the railroad through
that country will afford these young ladies, and
older ones too, the long sought opportunity Of
escape, and no extent of detective espionage can
prevent large numbers of them from improving
it. Old Brigham himself, shows his alarm at
the signs of discomfort and disobe dience, at
which the outside world will rejoice. He cannot
confne his anaihemas to his own children, but
flies off upon all provocations of whatever char
acter, to curse the Federal Government for not
sustaining his authority-he defies the Govern
ment and calls its officers q set of id scala
wags, IA mvorite epithet Of his) and the Presi-
dent as gambler and drunkard." The next
army that marches into Salt Lake, notwth-
standing his defiance of it, will doubtless quar-
ter in the Tabernacle, and preach sermons of a
purer orthodoxy than the deluded saints have
ever been permitted to listen to, and the women
of Salt Lake will be freed from bondage that,
next to death has already become the most in
| tolerable -Oak[dnd Ners