Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-07-30

. next visited by a wagon bearing white fla
~ and containing Jacob Haight, then on
u of the Presidents of the Mormon
IL Church, and John D. Lee, Mormon Bishol
u and adopted son of Brigham Young. Thes'
men protested to be on good terms with tn
e Indians" and offered to act as mediators il
{ the interests Of peace. 1t was proposed tina
j the emigrants should march out from camp
= leaving everything behind, including theil
Il guns, tie Mormon emissaries agreeing tC
y furnish guard thence to the settlements
u These conditions were accepted. The emf
grants marched ont Of their camp, and were
all fred on and massacred By the Mormon
{ militia, a dozen or fifteen children alone es-
Gaping death. The plumber was taken TO
, Silt Lake City and the adjoining settlements,
and divided. Mr.. J. Forney, Superintend-
ent of Indian Affairs for Utah. stated that
the church dignitaries alone received prop
er;y estimated 20 be worth $50 600. Tie
skeletons Of one hundred and twenty persons
were subsequently collected on the scene and
buried in one mound. y pile of rocks marks
the spot and On a huge cross, erected as
monument, was placed the inscription,
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord"
At that time the United States troops
were marching to Utah by direction cf
J President Buchanan and the Mormons were
in high state of excitement Lee, who
has lived for the years since the life Of an
outcast on the plains, and other Mormons
have endeayored to make out that the mas
slcre was solely the work of the indians
but the lapse of years has only deepened
the conviction that the murderers were
Mormons, sent out by command of the heads
of their ecclesiastical government This was
not doubted at the time, and Judge Cradle
baugh, then one of the Associate justices for
the Utah circuit, opened court in 1859, and
endeayored to bring to justice the guilty
men who were VIGOROUSLY conspicuous in
Salt Lake City. But the grand jury refused
to indict their own brethren and when
the Judge, disrnissing the jury, issued bench
warrants for the arrest Of tie accused per
sons, they fed to the mountains.
About forty men were ordered to be ar
rested in CraGlehaugh's warrants in 1859.
Ten o. these have now been indicted in the
United States District Court sitting at Beay-
er, Utan. OF these, Bishop Dame ana John
d. Lee aye the chief Lee led the as,ailing
party Al the time Of thc massacre and Dame
issued orders To Lee. The testimony row
ELECTED shows the horrible character of the
massacre, and it /, To be hoped that tie
surviving perpetrators may Yet stretch /
hemp.
It i very ioabtlul, however, it any yer !
diet can be secured from the ilry that has !
been impanneled in tins case. 1t is compos-
ell Of both Mormous and Gentiles, and sore .
Of the former, it Is >aii. swore to having /.
lived from 10 to IS years in the region of
the massacre and Yet never heard it
talked of. Further, pheg had no opinions
On the subject. This H. Of course. not very
promising ior the ends Of Justice
Breadstuhs are advancing in Europe, and
the prospects for brisk grain trade with
this country grow more promising each day
The New York T1ilqe recently Sc; one Of
its reporters the task Of discovering the
price of an average New York funeral lie
made an exhaustive examination. and it
would appear from his report that one can
not be buried genteelly in the metropolis
much short of two thousand one hundred and
ninety-one dollars. This sum, it must be ex-
planned, includes "only a modest display of
flowers" Rather startling that, for people =
If moderate means rather tending to rem c
Ter the exelaim, Il would not live always" t
.
Rich SPEECH BY DUBLIN LAWYER on :
HE AMERICAN PREss.-At the dinner re- q
entity given by the Dublin corporation to Il
Alderman Cole, of New York, after the stock i
oasis had been disposed of, the chairman :
allied upon Mr.. William Lane Joynt, soil a
itor to the crown and treasury, to propose v y
he next toast, in performing which duty h
ne gentleman paid the following remark n
bic tribute to the American press II
Alderman Cole represents the mu- N
lcipal idea. He comes accredited OF
= his fellow-burgesses of New York. q
nd thus We, who venerate and n
gard municipal institutions, have agreed W
honor and regard him as their represen- a.
tive. | am bound to express the delight | 81
el that the press, of which he is the repre- H.,
NATIVE here tonight, has given to the rio
Grid of literature, of craftsmanship, of or,
lthorship, and to the higher realms of i'm co,
,Inatlon, some of the brightest ornaments
modern American society, names that the
ord will not willingly let die. Mr.. James aP
lssell Lowell, the author of the Biglow lng
Ipers, is an American pressman, and re-
-ed the highest diplomatic honors. Mr..
mes Cullen Bryant was lately crowned in
e capital of his country as his country's int
ireate, with honors which reminded one see
the times of Petrarch, and he has been, a..
d is still, a handwriting member of the 'n'
nerican press. The inimitable author of the
Heather Chinee, Mr.. John Green pet
Il Whittier, is the editor Of an American pro
rnal and hope yet will rival and sur ser
IS those compositions of more serious 1t.
lracter, which entitle him to be better ON
OWN In this country; and | believe am the
wrong in supposinc that tho nonc e3f the
1gfellow, itself. a household word in This tina
lntry, was associated with the American 60
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