The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-07
OUR OVERLAND LETTER.

Polygnmists 10th to Give Up Their Flesh
pot v-Manifest Destiny-Diaz Still "Holding
the Fort'-Tho Mountain Meadow MUIR
derer.
VIRGINIA, New, Feb. 20.
EditT Rutland Globe Winter fingers
in the lap Of spring, does hep Well,
should say 80, and q capacious resting
place he finds it-so cspacious, indeed,
that he has lost himself and has not been
seen for month. We can see snow on
the north side of the hills, and we can look
away and see the white peaks of the Sler-
ras covered with their perennial shining
coat, but to look about the city Yer
monter would think it May instead of Feb
ruary. And then we can step aboard the
San Francisco train tonight and daylight
tomorrow morning will disclose 10 view
broad fields of grain, six or eight inches
high, and green pastures where lazy sheep
and cattle lpxuriate upon the rich feed
which IS the result Of the late rains.
Should we make mistake, however, and
get aboard the wrong train at Reno, we
should wake in the morning in zero wea-
tbor, with the snow from ten TO twenty
feet deep and an even chance of being in
vited to get off and lend hand at shovel
ing the engine out of drift. Ten hours
ride is sufficient to take man from Sacra-
mento, where iced lemonade is staple ar
ticle the year around, to climate where
fur overcoats are indispensable, and are
convenient in the hottest Of summer wea-
ther. And that in state where one can
remain in the same place the year around
and never witness dozen degrees varia-
ton in the thermometer, as is the case in
San Francisco.
Although Brigham Young has reached
about the age when wives are superfuity
even to Mormon, the supposition that he
was likely to abolish polygamy appears to
have been based on insufficient grounds.
The saints will continue to have
AS MANY WIVES AS THEY WANT
and can maintain. This is evident from
the fact that Briggy, jr. has just returned
from the state of Sonora, Mexico, where he
has made arrangements for colony of
fifty families who are to emgrate thither,
forthwith. This new departure probably
means the same as old Brigham's migration
to Utah. He wanted to get out of the
reach of United States authority and went
to Salt Lake, then belonging to Mexico.
He had only been settled there year when
he found himself again under the domin-
ion of Uncle Sam, whose authority he re-
out with troops enough to command obedi-
ence. Brigham has ever since defed the
laws in various ways, especially since he
received the revelation that a man was in
duty bound to marry all the women he
could support, or rather marry all he could
get and make them support him, as is the
more common practice. Were this new
colony founded under the lead Of any other
than Brigham, ir,, 1t would not be as sig
nifcant as it is. 1t might then mean only
that colony was to be planted which
might or might not acquire importance.
But young Brigham has recently been
elected his fathers successor as,the head of
the church. When his father concludes
to kick the bucket he will, if located in So
| nora, propably make that the headquarters
Of the Mormon church. The object of all
| this can be nothing but the
PRECIPITATION OF PoLYGAMY
which is now threatened with abolishment
| by the United ptdLeB. SONORA is rich
state with an area of 81 ,022 square miles
and population of 109,3SS according to
the last reliable census, which was taken
nearly eight years ago. Directly south of
of Sonora lies the richests gold and silver
bearing portion OF Mexico. The state ad-
| joins this country on the north and is sepa-
rated from Lower California on the west by
| the gulf of California and the mouth of the
Colorado river. There is cotton factory
| of sixty looms, seven steam -four mills and
| a large number run by water. In 1870
there we're IA gold and silver mines and the
mints coined over million dollars the
| year previous. There were 105 schools.
| These facts, added to the one that the
| agricultural productions are great, cattle
| raising prosperous, fruits abundant and the
| fisheries unsurpassed, explain why it is &C.
lected as site for Brigham jr's future
| home and dominion. He is said to have
| obtained favorable offers and guarantees
| from the Mexican government, by which
| he will be benefited for the present, but,
| to borrow the language somebody puts into
King Philips mouth, when he has grown
| strong and mighty and bold he will "spread
| out his parchment over the whole and say,
1T is mine ?" That is at least the way it
looks to me. His father before him want
| ed to be monarch of an empire. The son
of an ambitious and enterprising Vermont
| sire, he is not likely to aim lower than his
father did The northern Mexican states
have a natural leaning toward independ-
ence. Mareno, another Mexican citizen,
| is in Lower California, and would be only
| too likely TO join in united struggle for
| liberty at some suspicious time.
BUT WHAT WILL UNCLE SAM DO?
From the past history of Mormondom
and the past history of Mexico, there is
every reason to believe such is the pro-
gramme of young Brigham, the move only
being delayed until he shall have got his
followers massed in the new home and
some of the periodical outbreaks of Mexico
shall open the door for the final break.
But think he does not give weight enough
to manifest destiny in laying these plans.
If the present Mexican claims which it
looks as though Mexico could never pay,
do not lead to q further conquest of Mex.
lean territory by the United States, some
thing else will. Only last week was told
of a Yankee who has squatted on large
tract of land in this same state of Sonora,
which he believed contained untold mineral
wealth, and was waiting for the territory
to become part of the United States so
that he could invest capital in mining ma
chinery to develop the wealth of his claim.
There are hundreds like him. They
Il h,,sl khn L.,