Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-05-19 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

UTAH. Just before the end of March Mr. Brassfield. a welbknown citizen of Nevada engaged in the freighting business between Salt Lake City and Reese raver, was lawfully joined in marriage, by Judge McCurdy, one of the Associate Judges of the United States Courts in and for this Territory, , to a lady of this city, who was claimed by the Mormon leaders as the wife in polygamy of a Mormon now absent on a foreign mission (says a Salt Lake paper). This lady, by the eanction of law and by the authority of one of the highest legal officers of the Territory, abandoned the false position in which she was placed, and legally) oined herself in marriage with Squire Brassfield. Charges of resisting the police on the night of his marriage were instituted against him, and his wedding night was passed in one of the cells of the city prison. The lady, fearing that efforts would be made to take her children from her, caused a writ of Habeas Corpus to be issued from the United States' Court, in order to ascertain whether she was entitled to the custody of them or not. The writ was triable bef ore Judge McCurdy. By request of the opposing counsel, the bearing was postponed until Monday evening, the 2nd of April. Mr. Bromfield was in court with the counsel for himself and wife. Judge Snow announced to the Court that the case in issue involved the legal and constitutional right of polygamy, and thought it better to state the case in plain words. Additional time being required, by mutual consent of both counsel the case was further postponed until 10 a.m. on the 4th, and the Court adjourned. Within half an hour thereafter Bromfield, when within a few steps of the hotel where he resided, and when in company of the United States Marshal, was shot in the back, and within one hour from the time he left the Court-house he was a dead man. It would be useless to deny the fact, in the opinion of the gentile community of this city, the killing of Mn Brassfield was a deliberate planned scheme, concocted and advised by men high in authority in the Mormon church. TIIE SEAT OF SENSATION IN A CHINAMAN !—A Chinaman was lately condemned in France to hard labour for life for sine of those outrages which are by no means peculiar to denizens of the Celestial Empire.. He considered the wholothing as a joke, and was infinitely diverted by the solemn aspect and grotesque robes worn by the representatives of French justice. He even joked when taken to prison for life; but when the Atropos came with the avenging shears to cut off his long tail, no ! he never would submit to that indignity. They might take his life, cut off his head, his legs, his arms, anything but his pigtail, But gaolers are not wont to listen to the objections of their charges; they inslded on the sacrifice, and used force to accomplishtheir end. The strong-minded and able-bodied exotic, whose feelings did not interfere with a murder or two, sank under the operation. lie fainted away when his on every subject says that he was and the Moniker, which speaks by Imperial authority whet.? he may 000 n recover Chinaulau'a seat of sensation. 'lonffirtmhearyam,putation. The tail is the tailfr from conveyedtthe wase cutte,iy, et cho tet