The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-08-13

and diligent in their intellectual pur-
suits at the university"
THERE is some evidence that the Nor
] mons are going to make scapegoat OF
John D. Lee, and let him be convicted,
in the hope that some of the greater
lights of Mormondom will escape the
punishment which they so richly de-
serve. Brigham Young is strongly
suspected of having given the order for
the massacre; at least the evidence in
the pending trial at Beaver points that
way. The prophets affidavit has been
taken, and he stoutly denies having
heard anything about the Mountain
Meadow affair for some months. He
stated that the reason that he did not
take active measures to bring the per-
petrators of the horrible deed to justice,
when he heard of it, was because new
governor had been appointed, and he
supposed he would inVestig ate the mat
ter. It does not seem at all likely that
Brigham heard nothing of the massacre
for some months. 1t is said by the
Mormons themselves that he received
his share of the plumber when it was
taken to Salt Lake City.
The Panama Star mourns over the
fact that the Pacific Mail Steamship
company and the Panama Railroad
company have raised freight to such an
exorbitant rate that the banana-pro-
ducers on the Isthmus will come to
grief, not being able to ship their fruit
to New York, except at considerable
loss. When shipments can be made
$4,000 per month in American silver
is paid to producers. The law is there
fore keenly felt, and the selfishness of
the transportation companies is evident
from the following paragraph theStar {:
When the Pacific Mail refused to di-
ANA railroad company then charged
sufficient freight for the two miles
transportation of the bananas to cover
one-third of the two thousand miles sea
transportation. Meanwhile, these two
companies contend about the division
of freights, the banana merchants are
ground between the upper and neither
mill-stones, their profits destroyed, their
business ruined, and the most important
branch of Isthmus exports vanishes.
The recent death of Lady Franklin
brings to mind the discovery by Capt
McCIintock of the fate of Sir. John
Franklin. This is the dreary record
son the 9Th of May LIEUT. Hobson
pitched his tent besidea large cairn
upon Point Victory. Lying among some
loose stones, which had fallen from the
top of this cairn, was found a small tin
case containing a record, the substance
of which, was as follows This cairn
was built by the Franklin expedition
upon the assumed site of Sir James
Ross pillar, which had not been found.
The Erebus and Terror spent their first
winter at Beechy Island, after having
assembled Wellington Channel to latitude
" deg. north, and returned by the west
side of CORVALLIS Island. On the 18th
of September, 1916, they were beset by
the ice. Sir John Franklin died on the
18th of June, 1847. On the Odd of
April, 184S, the ships were abandoned
five leagues to the north-northwest of
Point Victory, and the servivors, los
IN number, landed here under the
command of Capt. Crozier. r." There
has been but little said of one
feature of the relics of the Franklin ex-
petition. The discovery of human
bones in kettles did not permit observers
to avoid the conclusion that the starving
men had cooked and eaten deceased
comrades.