The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-11-09

WASHINGTON, Oct. 81 Correspondence
between Government and Government OIL.
GERS in Utah indicates a determination tc
crush out polygamy.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 31.-Daniel II Wells
Mayor of Salt Lake City. has been released
on a bail of $4,000 on the charge of muir
| der. Cases for divorce and alimony are
pending. In one case the ninth wife is 8
plaintiff.
The following is the history of the Yates
murder. for which some of the Mormon
Saints have been arrested:
Yates visited the Mormon camp during
the rebellion in 1857. ostensibly TO sell pow
der. The Mormons regarded him as a spy
and some weeks afteward arrested him and
placed him in the custody of Hickman, al
salt Lake. ID. Wells then commanded fhe
Mormon .roops- and Hosea Stout was Judge
Advocate. On the way 70 Salt Lake Hiek-
man killed ates. as he saws. by orders from
Brigham and Joseph A. Dung, and al the
inStig OF Wells and Stout. Hickman
is confined now at Camp Douglass. He
went with the officers to Rhode Cannon. aud
after pointing out the spot where he had
buried Yates, assisted in disinterring the
remains.
WAsHINGTox, Der. 3O.-Advices received
by the Government from Utah report that
the most shocking part of the testimony
against Hawkins WAS not published. il being
not only immodest but bestial. The verdict
came like a thunder bolt to the Alormons.-
1t is not believed that the other parties can
be saved. The presence OF troops is a check
TO disturbances.
The following is the sentence passed by
Judge MeKeon on the Mormon Hawkins:
| am sorry for on. very sorry. You may
not think so now, but | shall try &C make
you think So by the mercy which | shall
show you. You came from England to this
country with the wife of your youth. For
many years You were Kind husband and
kind father. AT length, however, the evil
spirit OF poiygamy possessed you; then hap
piness departed from your household, and
nov, by the complaint of your faithful wife
and the verdict of a awabiding jury, YOU
stand at this bar convicted criminal. The
law gives me lErge discretion in passing
sentence upon you. | might both fine and
imprison you, or might fine you only or
imprison you. | might imprison you for
twenty years or fine you one thousand dol
lars, and cannot imprison you for less than
three years nor fine you less than three
hundred dollars. Ii is right that you should
be fined; among other reasons, TO help To
defray the expenses of enforcing the laws.
But my experience has been such that were
L to fine you only, | am satisfied the fine
w0uld be paid out of other funds than your
own. and thus you would go free, absolutely
free from all punishment, and then those
men who misled the people would make you
and thousands of others believe that God
had sent them only to ray the fine, and that
Sod had prevented the court from sending
YOU to prison, that by a miracle you had
been rescued from the authorities of the
United States. i must look to it that nv
Judgement be not so severe as to trifle with
Justice. This community ought to begin to
earn that God does not interpose to rescue
criminals from the consequences of their
,rimes, but on the contrary He so order;
he affairs of His universe that sooner or
alter crime stands face to face with justices
md Just as the Master, | will say here and
low, that whenever your good behavior and
he yutlic good shall fully justify me in
LONG so, [ will more than gladly recon-
mend that you be pardoned. The Judgment
# the court is that you be fined $500 and
bat you be imprisoned at hard labor for the
ERIN of three years.
SALT LAKE Nov. I.-To-day everything
pacific, and there is not the least proba-
hlity in the city OF any outbreak or dill
city.
Tie Mormons all dIsclaim the most remote
Intention of resisting the law or opposing
tie United States officers in the performance
d their duties.
Judge McKean's course in admitting May
r Wells to bail is admitted in all quarters
70 be eminently wise and proper, while no
f4ult is found for refusing bail for Stout and
Limball, although it is not deemed that the
probability of their guilt is greater than
that OF Mayor Wells.
1t is understood that Marshal Patrick is
preparing an expedition to follow aud
arrest Brigham Young. Reliable reports
a-e to the effect that Young is still NOV
ing southwark, having with him eleven
wagons and one hundred armed men, moun-
ted.
The appointment of George c. Bates "a
United States Prosecuting Attorney for
Utah is ,pprehended by both Mormon and
Gentle press.