New-York tribune., 1877-09-03
BUNE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1877.

"sarne night and nt about the same hour-fOr CON-
"pared uotes--while Boucicautwas playing tho Col
eileen Bawn at the Adelphi Theatre, woman, under
"the influence of deep emotion. gave birth TO chiid'
I" and died before she could be removed In one case
it was death resulting from an Of humor and
in the other the effect Of strong pathos" Is IL hOt
to catastrophes like these-probably more common
than Mr. Sothern and Mr. Boucicault think il prudent
10 admit-that we ought to attribute the decline oil
the dramap Neither the actor nor the dranatist,
supposng him to be a man of ordinarily humane
feelings Is capable of putting forth his full pow
ers with the consciousness that an ambulance
is waiting to carry of the victims Ol DIS
talent How dares he be as funny as he can, OF
open wide his hoodgates of emotion, when ne
knows that he may thereby hurry fellow-creature
into a premature cofin or premature cradle' ~
the case may bel Think of the mental suiferng'
of n successful actor whose pathway to glory Is
stained with human sacrifices. Above the piauuI'S
Of the crowd be must always hear, in Imagination
the gnrgles of stranged adults and the walls oi ul-
expected babies. MIR. Sothern Is to resume BIS
destructive career this evening. 1t must De FIeat
relief TO the Board of Health that Mr. Bouclcault
refrans from playing 1.-The Colleen Bawh Oh tno
same night.
II wonld be a mistake to suppose that the break
ing-down of the Mormon policy of discomaging the
immigration of people of other religions which must
speediv follow the dea' of Brigham Young, IS gong
to omen an extensive field in Utah TO agricultural
settlement. The amount of land in the Territory
available for cultivation is relatively very small,
and if is probable that the MormOns have already
made the most of it, Indeed, the crOwding OF p0pu-
lation in the basin OF the Great Salt Lake and the
narrow valley of the Jordan caused Brigham Young
wears ago to push his settlements southwark nearly
five hundred miles to the borders Of Arizona. lie
planted colonies ateyery spot where there was pros
pact that few score of settlers could get a lvIng
from the land. No land lin Utah IS valuable
for farming that cannot be irrigated. mus
il is only in valleys where neighborng mountain
ranges afford a supply of water from springs or res
eryoirs of melting snow, which can be conducted
over tho fields by suceways and dItches, that
the farmer can raise crop. In 1870. according to
the United States census, the population OF utah
was S67s6. Since then it has increased to about
10000; not by the growth of its agricultural ee-
ment however, but by the opening of new silver
mines A Government explorer thoroughly conyer-
SAINT with the resources Of the territory recently cs
timated that 100000 inhabitants were all 1t
would ever be capable of supporting The Mormon
farmers are an industrious, but very dull people,
consisting chiefly of importations from the lower
orders of European Dcasantry. Possibly, they nave
overlooked opportunities which shrewd Yankee
settler will one day discover and utilize; but long
as there is fat prairie land to be had in the West.
ready for the plough the tide Of migration will not
set toward a region where the farmer must con-
stfuct system OF water-wOrks before he can plant
a hill of corn.