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1ft"NIx 1 - -t 1 ? !! ft r! - i- Aimrmsai i sra. BY WILLI1M B, OiLUOBU. Cri Freedom from lier mountain heights : What of tbe viln that tie bf low I Who mow tne o'd- n battle aghts Against the oiden tovl" Stot.i, Luxury and Pomp and Pride li ie eoti i ' turn and raoti replit d ; Wuil I'wd m, witil her motmtaiu-bird, li?aa'd iroiu the ejrried oUffa aud heard. Said Sloth on elbows stretchM at length. And lookiiiR ni with languid eye : "Our viw are quiet; alt our strength in quiet ev-r lit a. . The nn come in, the year go oot ; Wo feel no jnr, we hear no shout. The ceuturn s to their climax move, 1 But leave tu quiet in their groove." Said Luxury from robes of far And vrlvet skirts and beds of down : We fcometixues f-el our mansions arir ; . None yet have toppled down ; TSie trumpet blast we hear afar ; Whun nearer comee the din of war, V'- wul our mercenaries out." He kpoko in inin from gorge aad-gout. Said Potdt1 beside his clarjfrtna sword, bile ilaacrd his lithe and towering plume : " Tbe ay i short between mjr word And ev-ry fimn'a dosm ; Ttiiue eurcies up.in moonw With clt r.(t r thiuk to strike us dumb ; 1 vrav- ru; sword I iris's cmnttal 'ihf y fall, and gome the thirsting land ! SaisT Pride who curl'd hie haughty Up, And spoke in accents curt and loud : 1 rartly ev'u a linger dip lit wbat concerns the crowd. War ctnne or not t do not know; I itthr fetit nor fear Its blow ; lu lii.es ot light, far back, I see Ihi- guid Uiat still my shield shall be." Cries Frred -no, from her mountain heights : 1 spoke to mm, and not to you, Wo now the nideu battle fights t Tj Freeot m who stands true T Wuo arms ai aiuat Aggressive Power? AV j. waits, si If-poised, the perilous hour? Aal Frredum, with her mountain-bird, le&u'd from the cliffs again, and heard. A roar went up as from tbe sea ; A ruitituoiuoushost sang out ; -Tbe thunae:-but of victory Is pot s manlier shout : " Sisud, Fr edoui I on thy heights again ; Tti itlauc e n uvl tar o'er vale aud plain, Aud see arise, to meet thy ken, The myriad f urms of brawny men I" That voice against the ramparts dash'd ; i use shont through all the wrlkin rang ; And frrerd m'e eyes with glory fiash'd, Aa upward uow she sprang. About her, fold saluting fold, The glittering flg of lame unroll'd ; Its ieugtn, far-Hosting up and down. Flash 'l with the stars of old renown. Cries Freed im from her mountain heights. Bright as of old the morning star, " Who nt w, wi en sounds the battle, Cfchtst" The answer came from far : -" Look ! where the plow its farrows makes Look ! where tbe neld its greenness takes' Lock I where cozues in the loaded wain Look ! where is heap'a the gartter'd grain 1" And this : ' Where In the orowded mart, The hammer on the anvil rings ; And where, beside his groaning cart. The driver walks and sing ; And where the spinner spins his thread ; And where tbe loom is deftly fed ; "Where flames the forge ; and wherssoe'er The brawny arm of Labor's bare 1" Cries Freedom from her mountain height. As round her sweeps her bird sublime : " Enough ! w rong triumphs not o'er Bight ; Be patient ; bide your time !" Then rose at once, with Iod acclaim, A voice with judgment wingld that came : Swkab !" We do swear, that earth may know, When comes the hour, then falls the blow 1" Said Freedom, on her eyried cliffs. Her listening bitd beside her now : -" That voice brings up no ' ands ' or ' ifs, Afcs not the ' when or ho$r; ut waits with patience, which is power, Alike the ay. the means, the hour ; And purpose, link'd in such a chain, Has uever j et been balk'd or vain ! Her warder-bird now caught the gleam That shot from out her fiery eye ; Then echoed from the cliffs the scream With whioi he rent the sky. And then, at ptai-is and valleys sane, Mountains and hills responsive rang ; And freely to the gale was given The banner s' riped and siarr'd from Heaves ! Cincinnati Commercial. A TALE OF HORROR. The Mornitajn Meauf ow Massacre of 1857 Klrst and Only Authentic His tory of tbe Horrible Slaughter Ozts Hand red stud Thirty-five Innocent Kralgiranta RathlNilr Bntchered -Tbe Deed Xlxeented fry site Hsrnra The Chicago Tribune prints the first authentic account of the Mountain Sfeadow rjsnssacre that had ever been given to the world. It is written by a gentleman wno nas long resided in Southern Utah, and who has expended much time and labor in collecting the facts and incidents embraced in his narrative. We give the closing portion of this thrilling and bloody chapter of ju.orm.cn mstory : FBEPAB1NO FOB THB lfASSAOBK. From the sworn affidavits of those who participated in the slaughter it is con- KATIOA AI -euisiveiy established that Brig. -Gen. George A Smith, C6L William H. IJDatae. Liient-Cwl. I. O. Haight and . .Maj. John D. Lee held a council of war at Bacowan. They determined upon tbe'place, the manner, and aH the : minor details of the maseaore. Where the California road crosses the Santa ' Clara Canyon the crime was to be per petrated. Shut in between the per jpervdicular walls of rook, the very wagons were to be piled up as a block ade to prevent the escape of a single soul. To make doubly sure, however, Xra Hatch was sent, with others, be- .jfH yond the canyon to the ".Muddy" to S3ut off stragglers. Guards were also placed at Buckhorn Springs, nearly seventy miles this side of the Meadows, and at all the springs and watering places near Cedar City and Parowan. These guards would be certain to dis cover and shoot down any fugitives who mistht accidentally escape. The. Utah militia received a positive - military order to report for duty. The very language of this written order was hat they must come farmed and equip jpedas the law directs, and prepared jior field operations. "A highly respect able gentleman tells me that he hap pened to be lying on one side of a high adobe wall while the order was being read to two men oa the other side. He .did not dare leave for fear of be ,ing discovered, and was forced to listen to tbe conversation. They were directed to be in readiness within one hour, with forty rounds of ammunition. These two men knew the import of their instructions, and sat down and cried ilike children at the thought of the hor rible deed they were compelled to per form. They both said they would rather leave the Territory and desert homes and families than to engage in , -the bloody work. To refuse to comply vrith the order, however, was certain -death, for the guards stationed at the watering-places rendered escape impos- ; "-sible. - BEADY FOB TUB S&AUOH22BB. " From Cedar City the emigrants pro ceeded out invest to the Meadows, a dis tance of about forty miles. Camping at the Meadows, they were quietly resting their cattle and gaining strength to 'Cross the doner t. Suddenly, nnexpect- .dly, and fl reely, on Monday morning, Sept. 10, 1&7, they were attacked by .Indians. ;r; . At the very first fire seven were killed and fifteen wounded. - Thoughtless of danger, totally unprepared, and in fact while most of them -ware fast asleep, thev Ml hopelessly before the bullets their unseen loes. xjmo. auey : pw essed Je-s bravery, lea determination, the entire party would have been mas eacredon the spot. With prompt ness ntiparalleled in all the history of jndUn warfare, these V emigrants wheeled their wagons into an joblong T i with shovels - and picks threw up the earth from the enter of In an incredibly short tnace of time they had an excellent barricade. An eye-witness says that it was done with such remarkable celerity that the plans of the painted assassins were completely frustrated. The original plan had been, as be fore stated, to attack them at Santa Clara Canyon, but the Indians became too impatient. These " Battle-axes of the Xiord had responded to the call of the Indian Agent, John D. Lee, and the liberal promises they had received caused the premature attack. The largo herds and the rich spoils, the blankets, clothing and trinkets, the gtms, pistols and ammunition, a por tion of all of which was to be theirs, in duced them to make the attack at Cane Spring. They intended to kill as many as possible at the first fire, and then charge upon the remainder. The charge never was made. There were crack marksmen in the train, and in a few moments there were three wounded In dians. An Indian runner came into Cedar the first night, and reported the unsuo- oessiui assault. The Mormons imme diately started to the Meadows to as sist. JlBight told a certain man that orders had come from headquarters to massacre the last d d one of them. The man's boy, now grown to middle age, overheard the remark, and is my authority. The same person says he saw eight or ten men start out about 9 o'clock that night. They were armed with shot-guns, Kentucky rifles, flint locks, and every imaginable firearm, and went under military orders. Maj. John D. Lee had command of the forces which started from Cedar City, and, finding these inadequate, sent back to Cedar and Washington for reinforce ments. Sworn affidavits tell us that when the auxiliaries had arrived, the entire com mand were assembled about half a mile from the intrenchmexits of the fated emigrants, and were there coolly in formed that the whole company was to be killed, and only the little children who were too young to remember any thing were to be spared. But the order could not be immediately carried out because of the determined resistance of the emigrants. The Meadows are a mile and a half long and a mile wide, but the mountains which form the high rn of the little basin converge at the lower end and form a wild, rugged canyon. "Just at the mouth of this can yon is Cane Spring. A mound some 200 feet long by 100 wide rose frem the Meadows about thirty rods above the spring, and com pletely shut out the view. Low hills with deep ravines came down on either side, and completely hemmed in the party. Bullets from every 6ide of this death-pen swept the inclosure and whistled through the wagon covers. Such cattle as were inside the " coral" were shot down, and the herds outside were stampeded. Yet for seven or eight days they bravely held out, and seemed to be masters of the situation. Water was their great need ; a little babbling brook murmured along not forty feet away, and the fine, clear spring was not more than two rods off, but yet they suffered indescribaby from thirst. THB SIEOS. The Mormons were painted and dis guised to appear like their savage al lies. Not content with the superior advantages which nature had given to their position, they threw up breast works of stone on the adjacent hillsides. From behind these their rifles could sweep the little grassy plain below without a single portion of their body being exposed to view. Every attempt to obtain water, either day or night, awakened a score of deadly reports from the cruel concealed guns. It was supposed at first that none but roe men were in danger. A woman who stepped outside the coral to milk a cow, fell pierced with bullets. Two innocent little girls were sent down to the spring. Hand-in-hand, tremblingly, these dear little rosebuds walked to ward the spring. Their tender little bodies were fairly riddled with bullets. The old breastwoiks still remain in places, and no one can visit the spot without being surprised that the emigrants held out so long. Behind the mounds, and just bejond the low foothills and the mounds, are level fiats concealed from the emi grants' view. Here the Mormons and Indians were pitching horse-shoes, and amusing themselves in various ways. The cowards well understood that cruel, pitilesss hunger and burning thirst were their powerful allies inside that corral. Wagon-loads of provisions were arriving from Cedar, for the be siegers, and each day lessened the scanty stock of the emigrants. Who can picture the torments of mind and body which those poor people suffered ? In a bleak, 'desolate country, hundreds of miles from help, surrounded by painted fiends, and dying of thirst and starvation, how deep must have been the gloom 1 Three Bpies had been sent with the train from Cedar. Ostensibly thev were apostates going to California, but, in reality, they were to learn the strength of the party, their scarcity of provisions, etc. 1 heard the names of the men. but did not note them down when mv in formant gave them, and may be mis taken. I think they were Elliot Wil-1 den, or Willets, a man by the name of Beeves, and Bill Stewart. They are well known in Southern Utah as " the three, boys." They were unable to accomplish anything after the siege began, and so escaped to the Indians. They dressed in savage costume, and put war-paint on their faces, and throughout the black days of the horrible siege and butchery uiey uiaveu a uiuouy pars. - A OKI OF TO8TBXSS. One thrillingly horrible incident gives a vivid idea of the anguish of the emi grants. It shows that the brave, true hearts of those Arkansas men scorned death and danger if only a little hope could be seen of saving the wives and babies. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesdav. and Thursday passed. The weary hours of fear and suffering dragged slowly by. Te whizzing arrows, the whistling bul lets, the cheers and ribald laughter of the coarse, brutal assassins, told how bloodthirsty were the besiegers. Thurs day mgnc tne emigrants drew up a peti tion, or an humble prayer for aid. It was addressed to any friend of humanity, and A A t - "I " 1 ' . . staiea vxie exact oguaiuoo oi anairs. It told that on the morning of the 10th the train was attacked by Indians, and a -a s . j . . a . - r mat tne siege naa continued uninter ruptedly. There was reason to believe, it stated, that white men were with the Indians, as the latter were well sup plied with weapons. In case the paper reached California, it was hoped that assistance would be sent to their res cue. Then followed a list of the emi grants' names, eaoh name was followed by the ag, place of nativity, latest residence, position, rank, and occupa tion of i its owner. The number of clergymen, physicians, farmers, car penters, etc., was given. Among other important particulars, the number of Freemasons and Odd Fellows was i stated, with the rank, and the name and number of the I dge of which j they were members. It was a forlorn hope, this letter a sad, despairing cry of distress. It is the only expression that ever csme from within that corral, but it gives such a thrilling picture of their torture and mental anguish as nothing else could. Seventeen years have elapsed since that signal of dis tress wa3 made. Yet it is not too late to answer. ; There is raany a strong heart in the world to-day that will feel its pulses thrill faster when it hears that these men, in their strong death-agony, appealed for aid to their brethren of the mystic tie. The paper also contained an itemized list of their property, such as-wagons, oxen, Horses, etc. Who should attempt to break through the line and bear this letter to California ? It was a desperate under-, taking, but it was the last hope. Vol unteers were called for, and three of the bravest that ever lived stepped for ward and offered to attempt to dash through the enemy and cross the wil derness aud desert. Before they start ed, all knelt in the corral, and the white haired old Methodist pastor prayed fervently for their safety. In the dead of night they passed the be siegers, but Iudian runners were imme diately placed on their track. PLEKIUQ FOB TKBTB LIVES. They traveled until completely ex hausted. An Tndian chief, named Jack son, boasts of having killed the first, having found him lying on his back asleep, between the Clara and the Bio Virgin. The savage crept stealthily up to the sleeping man, placed the flinty arrow-point just above the collar-bone, drew back the bow-string, and sent the shaft down into the sleeper's throat. Springing to his feet, he ran nearly forty yards before he fell, faint and dyinor. There is every reason for sup posing that he lived long enough to be tortured. In after years my informant was taken by Jackson to the remains. The skull and larger bones were charred and burned, and the smaller ones were wholly reduced to ashes. Whether tortured or not, his body was burned by his fiendish murderers. The letter was found on a divide, near the murdered man. Jackson dis covered it, and gave it to my informant, who kept it safely for months. Hap pening to show it one day to a man who was a leader in tne massacre, lie prompt ly destroyed it. The honest old Mor mon, however, is perfectly acquainted with the nature of its contents, and has no sympathy with the tragedy or its perpetrators. In his simple, straight forward style, he said : " I believe that, if the Masons and Odd Fellows knew how many of their brethren were in the train, they wouldn't let the ac cursed murderers go unpunished." He is willing, at the proper time, to testify to tne contents oi the letter. The two other emigrants traveled forty miies further and came to the Virgin Hills. Here the Indians overtook snd surrounded them. The deadly arrow3 wounaed one, and ontn wero cap tured. The Indians stripped them stark naked, and gave them to under stand that they must run for life ! Both started, but the one was so badly wounded that he could not run. The other bounded away with the swiftness of a deer. The fleetest runners were engaged in the pursuit, and to use the language oi my lniormer, "tie ran right away from them." Even the shower of arrows missed his flying body, save one, winch struck his arm, inflicting a severe wound. Meantime, savages had gathered about the faint ing form of the man who could not run, and had tied him to a stake. Faggots were soon blazing around his quiver ing body, and he died amid all the ex crutiating agony known to savage tor ture. HTJKTEIS TO THE DEATH. The third and last naked, wounded, without weapons, food, fire, or drink. without map, compass, or guide made his way across the desert, fifty-four miles ! The Vagas Indians, another band of Piutes, discovered him in such a weak, exhausted state that they pitied him. Yes, these hostile savages pitied the condition of the white man who was fleeing from the cruelty of white men. They gave him a pair of pants and moc casins, and let him have some mesqnite bread. The mesquite is a thorny shrub, one species of which has a pod con taining a sort of bean. These beans are ground by the Indians in stone mortars, and from them is made an in ferior kind of bread. He was able to travel eighteen miles further to what is known as the Cottonwood. Here he met two young erentlemen from Cali fornia, Henry T. Young and Can Young. They gave him a horse and some clothing, and bade him godspeed to California. He started off, but soon came riding back and overtook them. He was so weary and feverish, and his arm pained so dreadfully, that he feared he could not make the trip. He wanted to return with them to Salt Lake, and would run the risk of being known. They had gone but a little way when they met the Indians track ing him. The cruel bloodhounds seemed bound that not one of the doomed emigrants should live to tell see tale. Instantly recognizing, him, the Indians would have fired at once, but for the : efforts of the Young brothers. These gentlemen drew down their rifles and kept the Indians at bay. Hardly had they traveled two miles before they met more Indians and Ira Hatch, the interpreter. Ira told the Young boys that they were "all right." but that the man -custdie. No sooner had he said the word than the Indians discharged a shower of arrows at .tne poor leUow. Fierced by a shower of the sharp-barbed arrows, he leii from his horse. The Young brothers had all they could do to preserve their own lives, xne Jast they saw oi tne fugitive, he was crawling away on his hands and knees, and an old Indian was stabbing at his throat with a butcher-knife. It seems that one of the savages put an end to the torture by striking the man on the head with a stone, crushing his skull.', Thus per ished, tLe forlorn hope of the emigrants. .- "' FALSE SIOKaXB. The besiegers found it impossible to take the train by storm or by fair means. Evidently the. poor victims had resolved to perish fighting , rather than deliver their wives and daughters into the hands of brutal villains. But lo I an emigrant train is seen coming down the meadows bearing a white flag 1 Ah ! what tumultuous hopes orowded tha Knumfa nt that TAmiflhimr. perishing people. It is said they cried ior joy, and danced and emDraoea eacn other, and gladly rushed . out to meet their snrmfuin.l 'rianda Thev were armed friends, too, as it soon turned out, ior it was no less than John u. Lee and tbe officers of the Utah militia. . - w uiuflfi nave - those terrible days and nights, to have seen the stars and stripes, and fee that th m r.4 at. TWri torv of the United RtAtM wu nnmn to the rescue 1 Brisrham Tonnff. the sreat Governor of Utah, Commander-in Chief of the military forces, and- how per fectly sale it was to accept sneiter un der his protecting arm ! The "In dians " were awed by the very presence cf the Mormons, end had ceased firing. Surely the painted savages were per fectly controlled by their white supe riors I How kindly and tenderly these officers talked. Lee is said to have wept like a child as he sym pathized with their sufferings ! How providential it was mat such tender-hearted Christian gentlemen should have learned of their dreadful situation and come to their aid 1 A man so eloquent 1 so smooth-tongued t as was good Mr. Lee ! A man who was himself Indian Agent, and for whom the Indians had the most marked respect 1 A Major, too, in the militia I Lay down their arms ? Certainly they would. If protection could so easily be guaranteed by these philanthropic gentlemen and their regiment, what reason for letting the wives and little ones die of starv ation? Lee was too polite to make many promises at first. He must consult with the " Indians." Having just arrived he had not had an opportunity of learning their terms or intentions ! Accordingly he went back and pre tended to hold a council. Was there ever such base perfidity ? Were white men prayerful, God-fearing white men ever guilty of such unprincipled treachery? Well might such a das tardly cowara hide in a chicken-coop when the officers came ,to arrest him. Again he came, bearing once more that white flag, that pure symbol of peace and truth 1 An angel from heaven would not have been a more blessed sight to those tired, anxious, tearful eves. They laid down their trusty rifles that had been their strong defense. Taking off their belts, they delivered up their good revolvers and faithful bowie knives. John D. Lee is as smooth a talker as I ever heard. While I listened to him last week in Beaver Jail, I kept con stantly thinking of how he talked those emigrants out of the intrenchments from which powder and ball could not dislodge them. Only fifteen had been killed in eight days. The corral was a bulwark of safety, but the honeyed words of a white man won their hearts. A guard of soldiers, well armed, were drawn up to escort them in safety. The men marched out first, then the women, and lastly the children. Did nothing whis per to those brave hearts the horrible fate in store for them and their dear ones? Was there no pang of regret at stepping out '-of that strong fortifica tion? Certainlja.not. There was the American flag, "the dear old flag, and rallying 'neath its folds, they felt that the strong arm of the Union enfolded them, ' And now, God help them ! As I write the events of the massacre I almost shriek with terror. It is too terrible to believe or talk about ; but seventeen years of silence and peace is quite as much as those scoundrels de serve, and I shall write every incident. I shall write each one without divesting it of a single horror that it received as it came direct from the lips of eye witnesses. THE HOBBXBIiB MASSACRE. Suddenly, at a given signal, the troops halted, and down the line passed the fatal order, " Fire !" It was given by John D. Lee, and was repeated by the under-officera. The poor, pitiful emigrants gave one agon izing shriek, and fell bleeding to the earth. The Indians lay ambushed near the spot, and joir ed in the slaughter when they saw the white men begin. Sworn statements of participator s Bay the militia fired volley after volley at the defenseless, unarmed men who had intrusted their lives to the militia's keeping. It is the most heartless, cold-blooded deed that ever disgraced the pages of history. The cowardly assassins could not have performed one single act that would have added to the blackness of their perfidy. They feigned friendship and sympathy, and induced these brave men to lay aside every weapon, and then shot them down like dogs ! The venerable, gray-headed clergyman, the sturdy farmers, the stalwart young men, and the beardless youth, all were cat down, one by one. and -above their dead bodies waved the Stars and Stripes ! But this was not all! The women .were not all killed just yet ! Many fell by their husbands, and lathers, and brothers ; but others were not permitted to die yet it wa3 a deliberate, prede termined ioretneugnt that the women were separated from their husbands' sides as they left the corral. Men that had proven themselves fiends had yet to prove themselves brutes. And they did so. Oh, God ! had not the weary, terror stricken women and maidens suffered enough to have merited at least speedy death? It Beems not. Tneir pure bosoms could not quiver 'neath the plunge of the cold steel-blade, nor their white tnroats crimson before the keen knife's edge, until they had suffer ed the torments of" a thousand deaths at the hands of their brutal cantors. Yet this was done in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the cruel, heartless beasts are living peace fully in the midst of the American nation. There were two or three sick women, who were unable to walk out from the corral. They were driven up to the scene oi tne massacre, shot, strippeed of their clothing. and the bodies thrown from the wagon with the others. Some of the young men refused to join in the dreadful work. Jim Pearce was shot by his own father for protect ing a girl who was crouching at his feet 1 The bullet cut a deep gash in his face, and the furrowed scar is there to-day. , Lee is said to have shot a girl who was clinging to his son. A score of heartrending rumors are afloat about tbe deeds of that hour, but there is no proof adduoed, as yet, and enough can be proven. One rumor, however, comes from a girl who uvea in i-iee s own fam ily for years. She told Mr.. Beadle, the autnor ox several vaiuaDie works, that one young woman drew a dagger to de fend herself against John D. Lee, and he killed her on the spot. A horrible story is believed by beveral people in Southern Utah, with whom I conversed. I give it for what it is worth : A young mother saw her husband fall dead. He lay with his face upward and the purple life-blood crimsoned his pallid cheeks. She sprang to his side just as a great brutal ruffian attempted to seize her. Laying her tiny , babe upon her hus band's breast, she drew a small dirk knife and like a tigress at bay confronted the vile wretch. He recoiled in terror, bnt at the next instant a man stepped up behind the brave woman and drove a knife through her body. Without a struggle she fell dead across her hus band's feet. Picking up the dirk she had dropped, the fiend deliberately pinned the little babe's ' body to its father's, and laughed to watch its con vulsive death-struggles. There, it is all over I The brawny muscled men lie ctark and cold, and their sweet, saintly wives have finally passed bejond the reach of their tor mentors. BUT THB CHILDREN I The orders were to kill all excent those who were too young to remember. xm Stewart and Joel White were " set apart" to kill the rest. My informant was first toid the following by an Indian who witnessed the transaction, and afterwards heard it from white men. The old Indian cried while telling it. My informant has testified to the fact that the statement is just as he received it: " The little boys and girls were too frightened, too horror-stricken, to do aught but fall at the feet of their butchers and beg for mercy. Many a sweet little girl knelt before Bill Stewart, clasped his knees with her tiny white arms, and with tears and plead ings besought him not to take her life. Catching them by the hair of the head, he would hurl them to the ground, place his foot upon their little bodies, and cut their throats 1" THE FIELD OF DEATH. A man who saw the field eight days after the massacre related to me the following : Men, women, and children were strewn here and there over the ground, or were thrown into piles. Some were stabbed, others shot, and still ethers had their throats cut. The ghastly wounds showed very plainly, for there was not a single rag of cloth ing left on man, or woman, or child. except that a torn stocking-leg clung to the ankle of one poor fellow. Tljg. wolves and ravens had lacerated every one of the corpses except one. There were 127 in all, and each bore the marks of wolves' teeth, except just one. It was the body of a hand some, well-formed lady, with beautiful face, and long, flowing hair. A single bullet had pierced her side, and stilled the beating of her heart. It seemed as if the gaunt, merciless wolves had deemed her too noble and queenlike for their fangs to mar. THE HEAPS OF SLAIN I Most of the bodies had been thrown into three piles, distant from each other about two and a half rods. Old and young, matron and maid, white-haired men and tiny suckling babes, boys and girls, all were thrown indiscriminately together. One young woman lay in the sage brush in a hollow or sag 175 jards southwest from the main body. She was badly mutilated by the wild beas ts but it was plainly to be seen that he. head had been half cut off 1 There were no scalp marks. Indians would certainly have taken scalps or burned bodies if savage revenge had been the- only thought. The closest ex amination was made, and not the slight est traces of the scalping-knife could be discerned. Two months afterward a single Mor mon all honor11 to the man ! gathered up the bones and placed them in the very hollow the emigrants had dug in side the corral. He acted upon his own responsibility, and went alone and un aided. He did the very best he could. but tne tasa was horribly disagreeable, and the covering of earth which he placed over the bodies was necessarily light. The ravenous wild beasts soon dug up the bones, and they became scattered all over the ground. The kind-hearted old Mormon deserves none the less credit, and all good men will pray God to bless him for doing what he could for the bones of the murdered party. There has been much doubt as to the number of the slain. This man tells me that just 127 skulls were found. This does not include Aden's, nor the three killed on the desert. The total number of the emigrants massacred.- so far as is known, is 131. Two cmldren are said t have been murdered after-: ward, making 133. A Texas Duel. Manning and Molett, rival physicians in Giddings, Texas, quarreled, as most rival physicians do. They agreed to settle their difficulty with knives in a quiet place in the woods just out of town. There were no seconds or spec tators, and each of the physicians took along lint and bandages to dress his wounds. Their accounts of the fight are alike, and as follows : The weapons wore long bowie-knives. They stripped to the waist, and at the fir&t onslaught got such a firm hold of each other that the weapons could not be used. After a long struggle they sepa rated and stood warily watching for a chance. As they at length rushed together Manning received a slight stab in the neck and Molett a more serious cut acioss the arm. They stopped long enough for each to dress his own wound, and then faced for another round. With great caution, and many feints and dodges, they spent what they say seemed like half an hour before coming together. Finally Molett caught Man, ning's head under his arm, and, while for an instant he was able to hold him in that position, stabbed him deeply twice in the breast ; but Manning, with his arm free, was able at the same time to plunge his knife into Motett's baok. These serious- stabs ended the fight. Molett was able to reach his surgical appliances and attend to his wound. Manning fainted, and fell insensible and bleeding. After attending to his own hurt, Molett cays he was about to go away and leave his adversary to bleed to death, but his better nature dominated, and with considerable effort he saved Manning's life. Assistance soon came, and they were taken to their homes, where they will be confined a long time by their injuries. New York Sun. - :'- Vabkishuiq Papeb Diagrams ash Maps. The first and most essential operation is the proper sizing of the paper, as. if this be imperfectly done. almost any kind of varnish will pene trate the paper s as to make oil-soots. Glue-water of the proper consistency is the best protective against the absorp tion of the varnish. It should be of the right strength, however. If, after being dried, it cracks in bending a cor ner of the paper, it was not diluted enough. When dry. the map is var nished with a solution of mastic, sanda rao, or some other colorless resin iu tur pentine or alcohol, or a mixture of both : experience shows the best con sistency in order to lay it on evenly witn a orusn. in ooid weather it re quires more of the solvent. ' When yon see a big. pudgy, drop sical-looking fellow, with a flabby, col orless countenance a fellow who looks as though he had been manufactured out of the curd of an ass' milk, or who reminds you of an exaggerated chestnut worm you don't feel any more like ac cepting his opinion as to the " survival of the fittest" than you do like shaking hands with him. Brooklyn Argue FARM AND HOME. Swamp Muck in Obchabds. Lucky is he who owns a reclaimed swamp with the muck all thrown out in a heap, and mixed with lime, for this forms a stimulant to trees which cannot harm, and never fails to invigorate in a won derful manner. Keeping Fbutt in Whites. After all the discussions the pith of the matter may be boiled down to a very small atom : keep winter fruit at a uniform temperature, but slightly above the freezing point, and if that is attended to oaref ully, very little fesr neeo oe entertained about I aring fruit all win ter long, provided it is sot all eaten early. Ik the archives of the United States Patent Office you may find, among the ancient forfeited applications, a device for a perpetual cow-milking maohine. It is designed to be always attached to the udder by straps and tubes. The milk flows through the latter as it is secreted, into a receptacle, from which it is drawn by a tap as needed. With this handy article the peripatetic milk man may drive his dairy to his cus tomers' door and draw the lacteal fluid fresh, from the limpid fount without suspicion of water. " PrBSEBvrsa Egos. -The Parmer Advocate recently offered a prize for the best method of keeping eggs over winter. The recipe here givan took the prize : Whatever excludes the air prevents the decay of the egg. What I have found to be the most suc cessful method of doing so is to place a small quantity of salt butter in the palm of the left band end turn the egg round in it, so that every pore of the suell is closed ; then dry a sufficient quantity of bran, in an oven (be sure you ave the bran well dried, or it will rust). Then pack them with the small ends down, a layer of bran and another of eggB, until your box is full ; then place if a cool dry place. If done when new Md, they will retain the sweet milk and curd of a new laid egg for at least eight or ten months. Any oil will do, but salt butter never becomes rancid, and a very small quantity of butter will do for a very large quantity of eggs. To insure freshness I rub them when gathered in from the nests ; then pack when there is a sufficient quantity. Tbimmixo Cp. All farmers, perhaps, are not aware of the great improvement in trimming up in the general appear ance of their farms, and especially when done in the immediate vicinity of their buildings, which can be accom plished by cutting and clearing worth less bushes from the roadside. Besides ! affording a clearer and better view of "verdant field and pasture green" on the other side to the passer-by, it is an unmistakable evidence of the thrift and enterprise of its owners. This may seem to them of small consequence when there is so much other necessary work to be performed ; yet we can as sure them that people passing by always notice and comment upon the appearance of their premises, and judge the man hy his immediate surround ings, and are generally pretty correct in their judgment. If you wish to sell your farm, the expense of brush-cutting will prove a paying investment ; if you wish to keep it, it will pay still bet ter in the pride and satisfaction it will bring you. A certain amount of pride should be fostered by all clashes, and we think it more becoming among farmers than most others, as they have greater opportunities and inducements to exercise it. Peterborough Tran script. , To Matrw Habd Soap. The following is a recipe for making hard soap which is excellent and economical : Nearly every family accumulates through the winter drippings from beef and mut ton. These can be utilized for the grease by boiling in water, allowing it to cool, then removing from the water and boiling till all the water is expelled. Of course the whiter the grease the nicer the soap. Take six pounds of sal soda, six pounds of grease, three and a half pounds new stone lime, four gallons soft water, half pound borax. Put soda, lime and water into as iroa boiler ; boil till all is dissolved. When well settled pour off the clear lye, wash out the kettle and put in the lye, grease and borax ; boil till it comes to soap, pour into a tub to cool, and when suffi ciently hard, cut into bars and put on boards' to dry. This is very nice for washing white flannel and calico. How to Indocb Hobses to Lib Dowsr. Mr. Home, a veterinary surgeon of Wisconsin, Writing to the Country Gentleman, says : "There is no better way to coax a horse to lie down than a good, clean, dry bed in a clean, airy. loose box. I have had horses which would not on any account go, even if forced, into a stall where thev had suf- fered, but would go immediately and cheerfully into any ordinary stall. Any practical veterinarian knows how often horses otherwise quiet and obedient re fuse to approach his infirmary, and even the sound of his (the doctor's) voice will produce quite a nervous trepidation in an animal upon which he has operated, evidently causing the animal pain and suffering. We very much - underrate the capacity of our no ble domestic animals to appreciate a kindness or to resent a wrong. This is more often manifested by the no ble and faithful horse and door. A change of place will often give en couragement to a horse, and he will lie down, although having persistently stood up in his accustomed stall, from uaving received an injury there, or from its much resembling the place of former suffering. I do not claim this is the only cause, for I have known horses for many years that would not lie down anywhere, and which had never had the above cause for thi s refusal. Again. I repeat, a dean, loose box Is the best to bring abouc a chancre in this horse' nabits. The Fabmsb of the Future. It has always been k marvel to me to see the disgraceful and ill-bred airs whioh some of the town people assume when deal ing with farmers the very men who give them their daily bread, and help uieui w swonmuiate in one season what would seem to the countryman a snutr VUUO. UUW . lOXOy WU1 dOO-gO around corners to intercept their unsus pecting victims on a day when trade is brisit ana everthing lively, that is, when they can buy low, with a fair prospect of doubling their money. They inva riably set the price on the farmer's produce, but are far from allowing them the same privilege if they have goods to sell. The first time I remember to have, seen this demonstrated, thinks I td myself," that's a queer way to do ; but since I've seen more of the world I discover it's a trick they all have when dealing with farmers. Thev seem to have it all their own way, and the unwary countryman, rather th,n ta.k his load home again, takes what he can get, spends it-for high-priced goods, and returns very often with mmntv pockets, a sadder, and perhaps wiser man. But this state of thin era has al i most come to an end by the farmers rising as one man and boldly asserting their rights. Will not the coming farmer be on an equality with those who sit in high places? Will nothiscbildren attend colleges, and be as princes and prin cesses of the realm?- While I am aware that " men of noble souls abound " in all the walks of life, I believe it is gen erally admitted that farmers as a class have always been possessed of that strength of character and integrity of purpose, when called upon to hold places of trust and honor, that charac terizes them as being the perfect man. Cor. Prairie Parmer. A Story of Ben FranklJn. A little incident worth relating hap pened to Ben after he had become a married man and was living in a small village down in Connecticut J. W. Dusenberry's great circus and menag erie just arrived from Blossenburg, and was going to give a performance in the evening, and Ben's oldest boy was seized with an irresistible desire to at tend. So at the dinner table he asked permission of his father to attend the circus in the evening. " No, no I My son, you must not go to the show. It is an unfit place for me, as I consider it ; how much more dangerous must it bo for you ; I will not allow a son of mine to attend a circus performance where I myself would blush to be seen. Go to bed, my boy, and your mother . and I will go to prayer meeting. To morrow I will buy you a testament for your obedience." He went to bed, but not to sleepr An hour afterward Ben and his wife might have been seen seated on a top board , under the brilliantly lighted circus tent. Ben's face glowed with enjoyment, and his jaws worked indus triously upon a big end of twisted dog tail tobacco. Once he bowed his head and allowed a half pint of juice to issue from his month and descend between, the seats. t ' A smothered cry of pain came up from below. Said old Ben : " Gracious, I do be lieve I have spitten in spme one's face." Said his wife: "Toe badl but, oh 1 just see that man bend the crab J" and they both became engrossed in the antics of the clewn. Next morning, at breakfast, this boy appeared with a swollen eye. J6aid bis father : "My son, what ailest thine optic ?" " Some blamed fool spit in that is it is darned sore. I don't know what ails it," said the confused lad. Ben and his wife exchanged rfgniflcant glances end wisely held their peace, and the premised testament wasn't alluded to afterward by either father or son. Cincinnati Saturday Night. Tbe Business Outlook for 18 7o. McKiilop & Sprague's Commercial Agency in reviewing the past year and forecasting the future feels warranted in anticipating a general improvement in business for 1875. No doubt some of our readers may suggest that such a prophecy requires small inspiration, since things mercantile have been so drooping for a year that improvement -cannot well be deferred much longer. But if we compare the December of 1874 with the same month of 1873, we shall have little difficulty iu believing that the tide has turned, and the march of upward progress once more set in. In point of fact, there have be?n no more mercantile failures this year than were gazetted the year before, and if 1873 were credited (or charged) with the bankruptcies and financial " dis tresses really belonging to it, the pres ent year would have the better record of the two as regards failures among businessmen. Moreover, reasonable ground for hopeful prediction is furnished by the fact that, during the past twelvemonth, our people, including the mercantile and trading class, have been schooled in economy. Indebtedness has been, largely diminished, values have been reduced, and probably $400,000,000 will fairly represent the sum that has been economized during 1874. Then the crops have been good, the rural dis tricts are in sound condition, and both in tewn and country much of the de moralization foisted upon us by the war has been sloughed off. Business men are less speculative in their habits and ventures, and, like children who have been burned, they have now a wholesome dread of the fire. Hence, we may calculate upon a somewhat general return to the good old methods of doing business and a consequent re establishment of old-fatshioned confi dence between all classes of the com munity. New York Evening Mail. What They Eat at Sew York Hotels. The amount of food consumed at the hotels in the course of a year is enormous, and must oertainly surprise every one who has not given the sub ject any previous thought. Of the 54,000 pounds of fresh meat required to supply these fifteen hotels weekly, about o5,000 pounds are of beef alone. A bullock averages 1,000 pounds in weight, when slaughtered and dressed ; but as the hotels only take the best outs from the bullock, it requires at least the slaughter of 350 bullocks every week, making it necessary to kill 20,000 head of cattle every year to feed the guests of only a small portion of the hotels in this city. The aggregate con sumption of mutton, veal, pork, etc, is also very large. It will be seen that the yearly consumption of fish is near ly 600,000 pounds, while 15,000,000 oysters are required during the same period. Five million eggs are also UBed in theso fifteen hotels during the year while over 1,500,000 pounds ef poultry and game are consumed in the same space of time. About 10,000 barrels of flour and nearly 20,000 bar rels of potatoes are also required, in addition to a very large Bupply of green and root vegetable, taxing the capaci ties of many of the neighboring mar ket gardens. Nearly 150,000 pounds of coffee, 35.000 pounds of tea, and nearly 700,800 pounds of sugar are wanted every year. Over 85,000 cans of milk (or about 1,500,000 quarts) and nearly 170,000 quarts of cream are necessary for the use of these hotels, and the product of several dames in the country is thui consumed. Over 450 000 pounds of butter are also used every year, and although our own nmishes a large quantity for this demand, it has beenfound neces sary on several ocoasions to tax the re sources of other States. Tribune. nn, in a doe belonging to a Con cord (N. H.) fire company which always, takes it upon herself to spread a fire alarm, and makes a great ado about it. When a nr ww sgw, -he rushed to a sleeping fireman, and, ., him bv the throat, waked him. She then went to the house of another iireoian, and naving cnuea mm. out Dy t.i nna una a. -ik, imkusu uuuu ju clothes and tried to hurry him up. ' i sliiB w ss-ss-w. ' W .