Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-12
Review of the Week.

The terrible fire at Chicago has over
Swallowed all other news. A large mum
Der of lives have been lost, and the de
struction of property is immense. AS th
full particulars have been given in th
columns of the HERALD, no further men
ton need be made-There are terribl
fires raging on the prairies and the loss o
property is said to De very large. A mum
Der of lives have been lost, and over 15'
miles of territory have been swept over
Arizona is suffering from drought.-Sui
eide is active again.--Hon. VIM. II. Sew
ard reached home last Tu8sday.-A Gu
ban victory is reported.-The Crane
Duke Alexis is expected to arrive mex
week, and Parvenu and Shoddydom are
making extensive preparations for bis
proper reception.-Brigham Young was
arrested on Monday, the I'd inst, on the
charge of adultery, and he was left prjs
oner in his residence, he being too sick Il
came into court, and G. J. Mexican re-
fused bail till he should appear in person
| The Mayor of Salt Lake city was also ar.
rested and admitted to bail $4,000. These
blows have been struck at the highest
persons IN Mormondom, and the question
so long in debate is on the eve of decis-
ion This is due as much to railways as
to anything else. Those ways have
brought Utah fairly into the country, and
the country cannot submit further to the
ed settlement in the wilderness, far re-
moved from christian communities, prob
ably the government would not have
troubled itself about its local ins'i-
tuition" for some years to come bnt
railways have converted that COM
munity into q fast growing Territory,
which must soon become q State, accord
ing to the usual couree of things, and q
State of this Union with polyQamy ~
its chief distinctive institution l. some
thing not to be thought of coolly for u
moment. 1t would be wise in Brigham
Young and his brother saints to, Surrender
at ones, and move off to some other land
-er to an island Rosa de Plata, which is
in the North Pacific Ocean, would be about
up to their mark, for it woui3 require
long time for civilization to reach i. it
lies so ''far amid the melancholy mein."
-Constantinepe has the cholera hotly,
and the fgures that announce the uum-
Der of deaths are ki9b.-Ma1y shipwrecks
have occurred on the English coast, at
tsnded with much loss of life -Princess
Tbyra, sister of the Princess of Weles
is spoken Of as likely to become the wife
of Prince Arthur. A later report says
that no such marriage is contemplated
President Theirs does not get along hap
PLY with the assembly committee that
was appointed to watch him. The old
gentleman may have to turn the boys out
of doors, which is the usual French way
of convincing political opposition that it
is all in the wrong.-It. is strange an
nour c mont that there has been an insur- |
rection il Portuguese India, at Goa,
which WAS put down.-EnglaDd is called
upon to give up the opium trade she car
sizes on with Chins, and from which she |
gets annual revenue of $4,000, COO. Her
argument il, that she can't afford to give
up such a revenue, and she really cannot, |
in business sense. 1t would be good |
thing if the fiscal systems Of all nations
were so remodeled as to abandon all
vicious modes of revenue Russia raises
very large sums from the intemperance OF
her people, and her government is
directly interested in the prevalence
Of tho most odious of vices, a vice
hat feeds all manner of crimes. SO is the
English government, which gets enor-
nous annual smouuts from the vicious
indulgence of men aud women. 1t is the
same in this country, which raised money
oy taxes, direct and indirect, on liquor
md tobacco, the omission of wbioh from
popular consumption would be the great
,st of blessings. Were all the nations to
.eform, were they to cease the consump.
ion of liquors, opium and tobacco, to
top gaming, and live less luxuriously
han they now live, their public tressur-
es would become bankrupt at bound
md universal confusion would ensue in
he whole business world. We all hope
hat the world will one day have reform
ID itself, and that morality will become
he public law, and the strict rule of pri
'ate life. That would! be mans restora-
ion to Eden. But that must be the
work of time, so that the change may be
,radual, and suit itself to the condition of
A VIOLENT change probably .
would be followed by remission, and that I
" reaction, and 80 the last state of man I
would be worse than the first.