Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-23
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD
UNION.
DOMESTIC.

Union.
DOMESTIC.
Revelations OF The Mormon System and
Its Dangerous Methods.
CHICAGO, November 22d.-The Meas staff
correspondent at Washington says: The
discussion of the Mormon problem in con-
nection with the contest over the seat of the
delegate from Utah is likely to bring out
some unexpected facts. Ii is said that the
Mormon Church for years has been silently
but industriously laying its plans to control,
in . measure, the local government of the
Territories in the neighborhood of Utah. and
have in great measure succeeded in their
preliminary efforts.
A letter of recent date, written by resi-.
dent of Idaho, now on file in the Census Of
fee, says: 'Mormons already control the
elections, and are making strenuous efforts to
retain their supremacy by sending out colo.
MES into all the valleys that are susceptible
of cultivation, and are securing full control
of all the water privileges Of the Territory,
and hence, with all its material interests, the
outlook for Idaho is now but repetition of
the U tab curse. Their supremacy means the
utter subversion of all free Institutions, and
especially of the free school system"
In collecting the material for some branches
of the census, most especially in regard to
religion and education, it was found neces-
sary to ask aid of Taylor, the successor to
Brigham Young, as the head of the Mormon
Church. Taylor made show OF complying
with the request of the Census officials, but,
in fact, gave no information Of any value.
The work was at last put in the hands q
a non-Mormon resident, whereupon Taylor
began to throw obstacles in the way of the
Af Ia t..
ence with the Census officials Taylor while
trying to evade the questions to which it YVES
DESTROYS that he should make a reply, DIS
closed ore thing in regard to his church
which Brigham Young always studiously
concealed and denied. He had given I'll
number Of the Bishops of his church,
and to limited extent described their
functions. The Census people, in their
reply. assumed that the Bishops were to
the Mormon Church what pastors are to
other religious bodies, snd proposed to send
to them the census returns in blank, to
be filed out with statistics of their respective
charges. This was exactly what Taylor did
not want, and he therefore said that Bishops
were not pastors of the Church, but were in
fact Judges of the Mormon Church, there be-
ing system under control of the Church by
which temporal cases are tried. He said
that the Mormon Chief. referring to the
Bishop, sis also assisted by two counselors
who together with himself, from Court de-
nominated by us Bishops Court to In
vestigate and try all minor cases that may
come before him in his ward, whether of q
temporal or spiritual nature" This is
pretty plain admission of the charge of the
connection between the Mormon Church and
State, and of the practical dominance of the
former, and forcibly suggests what may be
the condition of affairs should the Mormon
control become entire over a State or Terri
tory.
Severe Charges Against an Ex-ConsuI to
China.
CHICAGO, November 22d.-A special from
Washington SAYS Some two years ago Col
onel John S. Mosby, United States Consul
to Hongkong, preferred charges against his
predecessor and the then Consul General at
Shanghai, General Bailey. The State De-
partment ordered an investigation, and the
charges being sustained, Bailey was removed
Il was given out that the Department of JUS
tice would request the Secretary of State TO
institute proceedings against Bailey in the
criminal Courts of this country, but nothing
appears, however, to have been done, and, in
consequence, Colonel MosbY is now on the
warpath, and what he has written here will
undoubtedly create a sensation, not only In
the State Department, but elsewhere. Colonel
Mosby, in his letter says: 81 am informed
that Bailey. whom | had dismissed for
stealing, has now gone home and has got the
appointment to some office 10 Cincinnati.
You know that he had been Consul at Hong
kong and was promoted to be Consul General
at Shanghai, which created vacancy here,
when | was appointed. Well, Judge Denny
succeeded him at Shanghai, ard he investi.
gated him there as had done here, and re
ported all his robheries while Consul at
Shanghai to the State Department, yet no
steps have ever been taken to prosecute him
or Loring, who was his Vice Consul. for their
crimes cut here, and Bailey not only forfeited
his bond as Consul at Hongkong, but also at
Shanghai." The last act Of his rascality was
draft. He also cheated the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, by bogus draft, out of
his passage home.
The New York Suicide.
New YORK, November 22d.-The follow.
ing particulars are reported with regard to
the suicide of Louis V. 3. Howell: De-
ceased came to this city from Cincinnati al out
year ago, to negotiate some mining
stccks, and for that purpose hired an office at
II Broadway. He started in life with indie
pendent means. and served through the war
with distinction, holding q commission as
Colonel Of volunteer regiment at its close.
He first went to the West about ten years
since, and there embarked a large part of his
means in mining speculation. For time he
prospered and had some prominence in poll
tics also az the time of the adoption of the
new State Constitution of California. Later
he met with misfortune, which pursued him
TO this city. He is described as
man of reserved manners, and not
such a one as to push a business
enterprise, and it is supposed that lack of
success in placing his stocks on this market
led him to take his life. No other cause is
known. It appeared that the unfortunate
msn had laid down on bed, placing his
might De done by blood. He smoked last
pipe, and then placed the muzzle OF pistol
above his right eye aud discharged it. The
report was heard by no one. The remains
were placed in charge of an undertaken, and
will be taken to Somerviiie, n. J., for inter-
ment. Hardly any papers and little prop
erty of any sort remained at the room, and
all was handed over to his relatives who
profess to be as ignorant of the exact motive
as any one else. Deceased had kept away
from them for couple of weeks past, and
nothing is as yet known of his latter trans
actions.
The Arctic Efgions-Report of Lieutenant
Berry.
WASHINGTON, November 22d--Under date
of October 10Th, Lieutenant Berry writes
from st. Lawrence Bay, reporting that he ar
rived there the morning before. After his
report of September 9th, he proceeded to
Herald Island, where ne made search for
traces of the Jeanette, without finding any.
He found a cairn on the island, left by Dr..
Ross in July last Lieutenant Berry
then went TO the coast OF Siberia, but
owing to heavy sea could not send
boat ashore. After waiting forty-eight
hours for better weather, he gave up
landing, and put out for Cape Serdge, where
he erected house and left Master c. F. Put
nam in command Of party of six, to remsin
until the ice viii permit of their being taken
off again.
Confirmation Secured.
NEW York, November 22l.-Two Rspu5-
lican Aldermen, uniting with the county
Democratic Aldermen, secured the confirm
alton to-day of the Mayors nominees for
Police Justices-J. Henry Ford and Andrew
J. White. Alderman Sauce (Tammany),
crit;cising the course of Mayor Grace. said
" It is the dirty, contemplate way in which