The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-04-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. any substitute. It must be allowed that, taking into The New York files received on Monday by the account the time of year and the probabilities ofl Inman steamer bring detalle of the execution of the weather, a march into the country for a field-day is, Mormon bishop, John D. Lee, for his complioity in not the most promising method of spending a brief what is known as the Mountain Meadow Massacre. Easter holiday; and if the mililary authiwities would; bee was conveyed under an escort in a waggon from not undertake the responsibili•y of preecribing it, the! Salt Lake Ott, y and on arrival at the place of execution Volunteers might, without much criticism, have left he was ordered to descend. There were about 80 ;It alone, But they have, from the first, taken the persons, including the military guard. Observing a opposite course, aud have refused to forego the op- I photographer preparing to take a photograph of him, portunity affordrd by the general holiday of Easter; the prisoner said: •'I want to speak to that man; I want for some prac' ice in their duties on a larger scale thall ;to ask a favour. Sir, I want you to furnish each of my. can ordinarily be obtxiued at other times. The three wives with a copy of the photograph." Then, custom seems, indeed, to be acquiring strength and to turning to the guards, he said he felt resigned to his be spreading. Without attempting to combine for a fate. He had used his utmost endeavoirs to save the great review, the corps of particular dist ricta, such as People who were massacred, but was poweriets to doso. those of the metropolis or of a county, meet at some The United States Government were losing their beat accessible point In the neighbourhood, and hare a friend in him, and those who had given him orders to simple field day. It has, in an annually increasing carry out the massacre had behaved in a most dastardly degree, the discomforts and the labours of actual war- manner to hie'. He was placed on the spot where the fare and very little of its glitter. It is a piece of mere murdered emigrants had made their last camp, and good work, and it reflects proportionate credit on where a huge cross had stood to mark their graves, those who carry it into etre& with the inscription, " Vengeance is mine; I will repay, sait ht he Lord. He quietly seated himself on the coffin, and begged the riflemen to semi the balls through his heart, so as not to mangle his body. Lee died on the instant. He left a written confession of his part in the massacre. He says he did his utmost to prevent the Mormon leaders from carrying out their designs' for the massacre. He gives a harrowing account of the butchery, and mentions some cases in which he alleges he interposed to save the lives of the emigrants' children. In conclusion, he says his autobiography will open the eyes of the world to the monstrous deeds of the leaders of the Mormon people. and will place in the hands of the attorney for the Government the particulars of some of the most blood curdling mimes that have been contn?ittod Utah, which, if followed up, will bring many down from their high places in the church.  At the Bury Petty Sessions on Monday, Messrs Petty and Stott, cotton spinners, were summoned under the 21st section of the Factory Act, for not having a shaft in their mule room properly fenced and secured, whereby a young woman named Sarah Ann Warburton met her death on the 15th February last. A line ol .1:20 and costs was inflicted.