Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-17
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IL, 1877.
There is a field beautifully whitened
to the harvest out in Utah, inviting the |
legal cormorants to thrust in their sickles
and reap, gathering in the ripened grain
for their good and behoof, and leaving
the chaf and the stubble to the sorrow
ing heirs who survive the red-handcd |
polygamons old prophet, Brigham Young.
Already the first notes of discord and
strife reach us from the desert city.
Charges are so soon made that he, for
getful of the interests of Zion and ca
tering to mercenary lusts, diverted the
revenues of the church into worldly
channels and devised to his numerous
widows and children property held in
trust for the church. Ambition, greed,
avarice, and selfshness are all elements
of the situation to be met and overcome
in the choice of successor to the defunct
despot, or the heritage of the saints
promises to be rent in fragments and
they finally led captive by the Gentle
invaders. So conflicting are the interests
of the various aspirants for the success
sion, that an harmonious choice appears
very remote possibility. Indeed, all
the advices from Salt Lake City seem to
indicate that the Mormon problem is in
a rapid process of dissolution without
extraneous aid from the Government.
"Is another strike imminent ?" IS the
anxious query suggested by the latest
intelligence from Mr.. Arthur, chief of
the Brotherhood of Engineers and his
co-workers Some correspondence be-
tween them seems to indicate a purpose
to blockade all the trunk lines of the
country month hence, when they are
most busy moving the abundant crops Of
the present season to market; and
there are very few who remember the
devastation, ruin and death wrought by
the mobs of a few weeks ago that can
contemplate their recurrence without
forebodings of the most dire consequence
es. When it is remembered that the
skeleton of an army left US by Demo-
cratic spite and demagogery is not suf-
ficient to meet present Indian and front
Ter emergencies, even after stripping our
forts of almost every man and leaving
millions of dollars worth of property
almost uncared for, and with the return
of Sitting Bull and his savages to this
side of the line more than an even prob
ability, it will be readily understood how
we'll provided the Government is for such
a contingency. Willingly or unwilling
ly, Congress must meet this matter OF
railroad management at the coming ses.
sion; and our future exemption from a
| chronic state of riot and instruction
) will probably depend largely upon the
wisdom and practical good sense it car
bring to solution of the many new
problems precipitated by the late dis
, turbances. OF course the determination
( of the administration to include Messrs
9 Arthur and Sharpe in the punishment tx
I be meted out to Mr.. Cornell for his in
subordination, is denounced by its op
ponents and candor compels the state
ment that majority of the supporter
in all its measures looking to the gooC
D of the country, would have been bette
pleased if each of these cases had beel
, dealt with singly and upon its merits
: As finally decided, if correctly reported
d it leaves the impression that the issu
: forced by Mr. Cornell had not bee
: squarely met, and as though there wa
disposition to shrink from offendin
mutinous Office holders whose social an
, political relations might render ther
n formidable enemies. At least nothin
n that has yet been offered in explanatio
r deters the censorious from that line q
argument.
1t is now regarded as very certai
: that Sitting Bull is still on Canada
h territory and the commission has not ye
IS been deprived of the opportunity to in
). mortalize ITSELF The terms to be offere
: him are said to be pardon for pa,
!. offences granted upon condition that b
le at once submits to be disarmed, return
lie home, goes on to a reservation that ma
N be designated by the Government an
lf observes all other rules and regulation
for his future guidance from the SAN
le source, failing which, he is to be left I
y the tender mercies of the Canadian Go,
c. eminent with fair warning that he wi
4 venture across the line at his peril.
- UNDINE.