The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-06-21
The Mormon Trouble.

The New York Herald has an interest
ing letter from its Salt Lake correspond
ent concerning affairs in that territory.
The spirit of the Mormon leaders at the
time Of the Mountain Meadow massacre
Is shown in Il letter to John ID. Lee from
\ 0ung in 1898, assuring him that the
president had combined the Mormon Of
lenses: He pardons YOU because lie can't
Kill You without its costing him too much,"
writes Brigham; " but he calculates to
spit on bis hands and begin again We
must save our prov iSions and Get ready"
At the time Gen. Sidney ,Johnson's army
was approaching, Young declared martial
law in the territory ,torbidding the passage
OF any person through / tail without pass
from Mormon authorities, but the Alkan-
SaS travellers did not have the proper pass.
for which they suffered horrible butchery.
But link upon link in the chain Of evidence
which will convict those at the bottom Of
the affair is being riyetcd. The subordi-
Mates aghust ut Lee spunishmelt, propose
to have those who ordered the murders,
Committed in the name Of false rchgion)
suffer us we'll as themselves. The district
attorney has evidence in his hands fixing
the guilt ofa number OF prominent officers,
but wishes To complete the chain, and is
working i'll i cautious, though effective
manner, to attain the desired result and
it is believed that the conviction and pun
isInnent of the originators of those heart
rcntling crimes is in the near future.
II there must be divorces - and it is
altogether probable there must be it is
worth while to undertake to model them
after the ease which occurred in Con-
necticut court the other day. When the
trial had been in progress for some time
the counsel for one side announced that
he had reserved the worst testimony. and
was about to introduce some of it when
the Judge said that he had few re-
marks to make, Both the parties to the
suit, with their children and some of
their friends, We're present. The Judge
said he had been thinking Of this case
with particular reference to bringing
about an umicable settlement, and he
didn't like the idea that either party
should suffer by the presentation of lln-
clean evidence he referred to the chill
oren III such terms us to put nearly all in
the court room in tears. Even the law
NcrS Wept, and when lawyer Weeps in Il
court room it is for no ordinary thing.
The Judge concluded with 4 proposition
that there should be Il consultation be
tween the counsel and the parties to the
case before it went any further. this was
agreed to, and IT, the satisfaction Of all de
cent people the conference did not have
much difficulty in arriving ut an amica-
Bile adjustment. This is divine law on
earth, and the Connecticut Judge de
serves a niche higher up in the temple
than most of his Kind should occupy.
The LAST or TABLE Rock. On the
:.lth ult. the last of what was SO long
known as Table Rock broke of and fell
into the river. The mass weighed nearly
siNty-tive tons, and up to 1876 over 1000
names Of visitors had been carved upon
it.. The portion which fell on the 24th
composed only half Of the original rock,
the balance having fallen in 1929 On
Saturday, JAN |, lS2.o, u surface Of the
rock supposed to be the size of half an acre,
forming the Bed OF Maiden Walk, broke
loose, and was preclptated into the i'm
mcnsc chasm below The crash was heard
for 4 distance of five miles, and the effects
in the immediate vicinity resemble the
shock OF an earthquake. The water run
ming under the bank is supposed to have
caused the fall on the 24th, and the shock
when the rock struck the water was dis
tinctly felt three miles from the fall Sev-
rral of the trees which stood on the rock
are now seen standing in the river as
erect as when in their original places on
the rock. Where the rock shelved off
from the bank, at a distance of twenty
feet from the top, can be seen the root
of a tree estimated to be two feet in
diameter.
SUOVENIRS OF THE "SWAMP ANGEL
DR.. Shepard pointed out to me the posi-
tion of General Gilmore's ''swamp angel"
battery, and said that only the other day
his Workmen dug up one Of tie meXplod-
ed shot in the medical college yard. 1t
was rather large tor war souvenir, and
about as dangerous as rattlesnake.
The cap was perfect, all ready for the
light tap that would explode it. No
soaking would ruin the powder filling,
and SO after looking it over he had it