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The Mountain Meadow (Utah) Massacre of 1857. First and Only Authentic History of the Hor- rible Slaughter, One Mundred and Thirly-five In- nocent Emigrants Ruik- lessly Murdered. The Mormons Attempt to Tasten the Crime Upon the Indians. But Late Developments and Confes- sions Fix {ho Guilt Where It Belongs. The Bloody Plot Emanated from a Military Council of War, And Was Executed by the Utah Mormon Militia, The Victims Enticed from Their Shelter by a. Flag of Truce, And Then Mercilessly Shot Down in Their Tracks. The Women and Children Tarned Over to Savages for Ravishment and Torture, Piles of Naked Dead Mutilatod by Wolves. The Guilty Leaders of the Massacre, and ‘Whero They Are Concealed, “VYengeance ¥s Mine, I Will Re- pay, Saith the Lord.” THE MOUNTAIN MEADOY MASSACRE. Bpeeial Cerresvondence of The Chicago Tridune. - Bavr Lage Crry, Jan. 1, 1875.—Ono cannot gain an intelligent idea of any great event with-" out kuowing tho causes by which it was pro- duced. Watorloo could never be underatood it only the jacidonts of tho battlo wers narratea. ‘The causes which led to tae Mountain Meadows massncre aro interwovea with the fun- damental principtes of the strunge religion of the Mormons, Place sourselt in aympathy with these principles, aud you can obtain & faint con- coption of tho motives which actuated those whose hands bear the dreadful stain, Plunder, lust, »2d pergonal animosity,iwould nevor have sprompted men to commit such & cruel, merciless alaughbter, had not tha toachings of & fanatical roligious belist sanctionad the crime. The good preceptaof the Mormon faith render tha people generous, kind, hospitable. The black precepts areall embodiod in this ono fiend- ish aot. g FACTS, NOT FANCIES, AT THE OUT4ET let mo state that Ihave no desire to make his- tory. My duty isnotto create avents, but to record them, Where anthoritios cannot be cited. whore I have not tho names of authentic men to corroborate statements, I shall always montion the fact. Bome of the incidents aro probably fictitious, and I shall atato that theyars only rumors, yot I shall record no rumors which are not belleved by those who oughtto know the truth, Bovonteon yeara of mystorious darknoss o'er- shadows the cimo, and whers the truth caunot be separated from the falsshoods, both will be given, and timo and tho courta of juatice will distingutsh between them, I have received the following *¢ causes " from the lips of Mormons. From tho * First Presidency " down to tho humblest farmer, I have diligently sought out ronsons. White they all attempt to aoften the wiry edge of public opinion by montiouing thoe provocation which bLrought ou the deed, I must bear witness that & MOBMONS REPUDIATE THE CRINE. ¥From no oue havel obtained a single word-of approval, or aught that could bo construed into & eanction, of the massacre. Far the sincero, ear- nest Mormons I havo learned to entertain the utmost regard. Devout piety, unboundod fanh, snd lberal charity, aro predominant characteris- tics. For soveral weoka I hLuve boen mingling with all the various ranks and classes, and, in Sustice to mysolf, I muet emphatically deny that this great crime ouglit to reat upon theshoulders of the people. No denunciation can bo too se- vere, no curscs too deep or bitter, for those who plavued and urged on the crimo ; but do uot infer that all this people are guilty. v I am undera thousand vbligations to wy friends in Houthern Utah, and wish to state distinctly that the follow- ing pages avo pot intendsd as & tirade agalnst Mormons or Mormonism, but 88 au outspoken charge against the murderous thieves and as- sassins whe committed or planned the massacre. ISRAFLITISU INTOLEBANCE characterized the Mormon Church from the be- ginning. The revelatious of Joueph Swith wade the Mormcos tho oue chosen poople of God. ‘“‘Gentiles” and * Babylonians " are terms which indicate that outsiders have no rights which ought to be respected.’' As the Isrselites, the ancient people of God, dealt with tho Egyptians, the Phillistines, or the tribss that opposed them, 50, It necomsary, might the Mormons desl wish ‘‘outs,” This “ceuss" hed much to do with the maseacro, A prayorful semsmblage wero *counselod " to the deed, and prayerful men led on the nlaughter. Y¥rom Jobn D, Lao's conver- mation, I have no doubt the atory is true which says ‘‘he waved his sword above Lils head after the massacra, and shoutod : ' This day ks the namo of Isracl's God been glorified| ' AVENGING A PROPHET'S BLOOD, Josoph Bmith in regarded by the Mormons as thn Bavior ia by other Clristian denominations, ‘The Mormons believa in Jesus Christ, but not more frmly than o this Latter-Day prophot. Doth suffered martyrdom at the hands of in- faristed mohs. 'The murderers of Josaph Smith are regarded with the samo intsure hatred that would attach to those of our Bavior, had He hoon cracified in this ags and day. Ope part of the great emigrant-train came from the portion of Minsousi from which tue Mormons had beon driven, aud at least one person claimed to have been at Lliinols when the prophet was killed. It in currently belioved that one of the emigranta swuug a pistol above his head, and swore that it Lielped Lilt * Joo Bmith," and was then losded for “Qld Brigham.” [ havo saked Mormous whether their roligion wonld exonerato the man who should kill the desporado tuar boasted of murdering tho prophet, and they bluntly auswerod * Yes.” AX APOSTLE'S MURDERERS. A waoll-known tenot of tha Mormon falth is that huebands may forsake wivee, and wives may dosert busbandy, for religion's sake. To galn rdmisslon into the ono true Church is worth infinitely more than family tios. At Cedar City # gray-haircd man waa pointed out to me, with the Loartfut asesertion: **There fa a man who left & wife and four children in England, that o might join tho Motmons in Utsh.” Tho ro- eults of this accursed doctrine ars prominently connectod with the bloody events of tha mas- sacre, Parley P. Piatt wan a bright and shining ight among the carly Mormons. Fe was one of the “Twolve Arostles,” and Lis influence was poworful and widespread. Ho practiced the doctrine ho presched, and one of his wives, Eleauor McLean, was the wife of an Arkansss mau. Deserting her husband and children, she oloped to Utah with Aposds Pratt. Piviog for ber children, e induced Parley I. Pratt to return to Arksusas to obtain them. A true and dovoted husbaud suddenly flods his home dectroyed, the joy and light of his life stolen away, his hopes blasted, the future a desolate waste, and Licart nod brain and uerves crusbod by tho singlo blow of anotber wman's hand! Is it strango that blood should be shed, if. whils hin heart is yet a quivering msas of pain, the seducor again crossos his path ? Yet the Mormons ses nothing eriminal in Parley P, Pratu's action, and follow, with dirs vengeance. the frievds of McLoan, Prait wasa martyr! ITis autobiogrsphy is ssiling rapidly throughout Utah, at present. The wife, Eleanor Pratt, died threo weaks ago, in Sali Lake City, and & young man, who was lier son and McLesn's, followed with thio mourners, The emigrant-train contained several persons who came from McLean's neighborhood. At least one man was believed to have baen inter- osted in the killing of Apostlo Patley P. Pratt. Do you seo the connoction ? INSULT TO PRESIDENT YOUXG, S Among the emigranta’ cattie was a pair of old staga which woro named *‘Brigham" and * Heo- ber.” In driving through a street or village tlhiese poor old eiaga uscd to receivo a gonerous shure of abuse. Next to Joreph Bmth, the Mormons worship Drigham Young and the “ Furat Presidency,” Oue gentleman in South- ern Utah iuterrupted mo when I chanced to say *3r. Young,” aud reverently suggested: **You menn President Young,"” ‘Theso emigrants publicly insulte! President Young and Hober C. Einshall, hig u?% coune-ioz, and shis 1sdult i always mentioned by the Mor- mous 88 one of the ses of prov »atiou for tho massacro. Tho very groundwirk of the Alorwon ‘Theocracy rosis upon unionnded rev. erencs to President Young, their provbet, seer, and iovelator, It s aleo charged that the cini- grants wovo his nama into vnlgar eongs, which were chantea throngh tho streets ? PROFANITY—POISONING SPRINUS—CHICKEN:STEAL~ 16, There ia or was a Territorial law prohiviting profamty. Homo of the emigrants were torribly profave, 'and upon enterng s towa jnvariably inguired : **Wuero is vour damned old Bishop, or President?” Theit profanity at last caused the suthorilies to attewmpt to arrest them at Cedar City. Dicsistanco was made, and the aathorities wore cowpetied to abandon the nt- tewpt. £ Asain, itin told that a texmster, in passing through the streels of Cedar, brougbt Jus henvy whiplash down awmong widow Evans' chickens and killed two, TRoemonstrated with, the mau sworo Le would kill the damned Mor- mons a8 quickly as their chickens, if they intor~ fored with lum much more, Leo says that whilo camped 2 miles b?ond tho town'they toro dosrn aud burned 15 rods of fence, and turned their atock upon the staoding grnin, . ul;‘:s rumored that at Corn Creek they poisoned beof, or o spriug, or & runving etream, and tho Indiavs sufferod trom tus offects. Quno iy said to have died, and the rest were terribly iuceuned ngainst the emigrants, < A Bishop informs mo that Indian runners were sont all over Sourhern Utali to arouse tho tiibea 1o veugeauce. TIE GREAT CATSE, Lowevor, was that Atbert Biudney Johnson's army wa ootering Utali, aud the Mormons weie marsialing to opposs Lim with force aud army, Tho United Stutes_was considered as au cuemy, and its subjocts wero trestod as foes. Yracti- callv, the Territory was under martil law, and the Nauvo logion drilled regulssly eoch week, Hero was tho richest and most powerful com- pany that ever iraveled the Soutlrern route to California. Thoir wagons, tcams, and looss stock, alone, amounted to over §800,009, and thoy hud the costliest apparel and jewelry, 'I{m wildest excitemont prevailed, and mur- ders wera frequent. Drivon from placs tu placa in the East, the Mormons resoived to fight for Utah. ‘Iho omigrants are nccused of having threatoned to camp ou tho southorn boundary of Utsh, and, when Johusou’s army entered at ‘the north, they would roturn and oxterminate tho Southern settlements, lictore tho suow fell, thoy would hang Iirigham Yuung and lieber C. Kimball, BLOOD ATONEMENT is maid to liavo had its share in urging on the deed, Ceriain disaffected Mormous joined tha train to go to California, Wheu their bodies were found after tho massacro it s said they were clotued In their endowment shirta. From theso causes, gloauod froay the sayings of Aor- mons, a littls idea may be gained Of tho 10asoun which actuated tho murdercro. } ‘I'ho emigrants were charged with haviug their hands criiosoned with the blood of Joseph Hmith and Pariey D, 'ratt; they were said to boe quarrelsoms, disordorly, abusive, profsne, chicken-thieves; they ~threatencd war, and Poluanad springs; aud they grosaly insulted oading Mormous and harbored apostates, I give all the reasons I ever Lieard asslgnod, because,when the provocation is sll summed up, thore {4 not sutlicieut causo to justify the dash- ing out of & single babe's brai. e THE OTHER SIDE, IN BUBUTTAL, abundant proof ¢an be furuished toshow that the compauy was orderly, Lighly respectabls, aud composed priucipally of quiet, Savbath- loving Christina peoplo. They held roligious servives esch Bunday, aud roveleuced the teach- inga of God's Holy Word. El B, Kotesy traveled with them from I'ort Dridger to Halt Lake City, aud he spoke of them in the highest terns. Jacob Hamlin L) houest old Indiau iuterpreter, who bas four wives, twenty obildren, and eightoen grandehildren, said to e of this train: **They seawcd liko seal old-fashioned farmors.” A revident of Porowan told me he bad visited them often, snd beeamo well scquainted with thom, and ha had never ssen a company of bot- ter people. z RXTERING BALT LAKE, they found to tholr great surprise that nothing could be procured of the Mormons for love & money, Thelr cash, their cattle, their immensa wanlth, could not purchase provisiunaenough to keep them from starving. Trainn worn alwaga Accustomod to obtain a fresh outfit at Salt Lako prior to cromsing the desmeits intervening botween Utah and Cuiifornia. Irighsm Young may not have beon guiity of the after events, but, beyond the peradventure of s doubt, be is reeponsible for whatever suffering may liave been endured becauso of an jusufliciency of food. s was Governor of Utal, vuo of the Territorien of the United Btates, and cortainly o ought to bave permitted citizens of the Union to purchsse necessary provisions while passing peacenbly through bLis confines. As it was, tley would bave died of etarvation hiad they not beon massacrod, though there waa an unusually abun- dant harvest that year. Asn climax to this in- Lospitable reception, they were poremptorily ordered to break camp and move away from Balt Lake City, THE SOUTHERN ROUTE to Californis was the only one that counld be traveled at that acason, aa the Sierras would be covored with impasssbls maow-barricra, Slowly they passed duwn through the villages that blossomed at the foot of the Wasatch Range, ex- poctlng to reach Los Angeles by the San Bor- nardino route. The corn bad ripened, and tho whest Liad been harvested. Every pranars was filled to bursting, aad yet money could not pur- chaso food. At American Fork, Battle Croek, Provo, Bpringville, Spanish Fork, Parson-Nephi, and Fillmore, they received the eamo harsh refusal to their raquests for trading or buyiug, Taey were orderod away from at least two places where they were halting to rest and refresh their weary cattle. All omigrants who Lisve traveled through Utah to California re- member Low friendiy and hoepitable tho Mor- mous ustally wereto passing trains. Tho un- unnal policy pursuod toward these people leads to tho inevitable coaclunion some very important oudor had boen iseuod from headquarters. Sure enough we find that THX AVENGER had preceded thom, in tha person of George A. 8mith, now Liigham's Firat Coanselor, And the second maa in the Theocracy, Ride iug awiftly, his fleet horae far outstripped the slow-moving emigraut-train. At every set- tlewont he proacked to tho Mormons, and paro strict ordors to goll no food or grain to emigrante, undor pain of excommunication. To the carnest, sincero Mormon, death ia freferablo to being **cut off " from the pnvileges of Lis res ligion. At least threo men laso told me that George A. Smith gave these orders. The enor- mity of the erime is appatent when we remem- Dbor that certain death awaited theso poor emi- grantain the sbape of starvation. Even the Mormon side of the story differs but little, I Teceived it from a zealous defondor of the Mor- mon religion, and give it in the very words of tue honest old man. Ho enjoys the highest con- fidonco of Brigham Young, and gives me full permission to uso his nsmo. THE MOBMOX YERSION, Ho traveled with George A. Smith from Banta Clara, which is on tho very confines of Utah, end is the spot selected for tho massacre. The Apostle bad traveraed the entire longth of tha Territory, and retracod his steps only after vieit- ing the very placo firat selected for tho butchery. ‘Tue man's own words, read {n his presence from my note-book, and approved by him, are a8 fol- lows: *I travcled with George A, Bmith#hrough the sottlements from Santa Clara, Wa stopped and preached at every settlement. Geurgo A.'s instructions to the peoplo were that our cnemios wors going to make us more troublo, aud that ths people should bo careful to eave every spoon- ful of grain and lay it away carofully and safe, Thoy must not aell any to emigrants tb fied horses, but abould let them have cnough for themselves. Thelr horses can 9at grasa better than our children, I never heard from George A. an idea or hint that we should molest or mis- troat an emigrant,” AT CORX CREER Goorga A. Bmith aud bis companion met the |> wmigrants, aud camped side by side with thenw /| Only alittle stream iutervened Dotween the train and tho camp-firo of the man who carried the fatal inatractions. The'omigrants even solicited adyica from Swith a8 to whero they could tind o sultzble spot to encamp and recruit thoir teams provious to croesing the desert. o snd his companion referred thom to Cane Spring, the identics) place whora thoy were nttacked! The Indians nt Corn Creck furmshed them with thitty busbols of corn! Prior to this¢ no sid or kindoess had been received from auy quatter, save when soms Mormon Lraver than s fellows would clandestinely steal into camp atdoad of night, bearing whatever he could in his army. The Indians befriendea them! 'That, too, at the vory epot, Corn Creok, whoro the em- igrants aro said to have beeu poisoned by the Indians | ATOUT THAT POISONTNG. Lee says they poisoned a spring and that from drinking it waters, or from eome otler cause, aa ox becams poisoned and died. ‘T'ho fosh of this ox was givon 1o the Indians, and cno or two perished, ‘Fho Widow Tomliuson, just this ride, ad an ox poinonod, and in attempting tosave the bide aud taliow tho poison inoculated into her systomn and sho lost her lifo. Her son camo very uear dying also, This” story s donbtod by even the Mormona. Telating or rather reading 1t from my note-bouk to the honest old man who camped beside the emigrants, and who ought certainly to have known thoe truth, he said: “Don’t say thatI told you that I think it is true, but T dou't know, Aud." contthued ho, “if you publish suat wiory, folks will disbeliove all you write," Tho Ubited States ofticials, with Doputy United States Marshial Rogers aud a competent military surgsou ut tho headquarters, gavo tho most thorough exsmiuation (o the epring alleged to havo boon poisoved, and this is tueir teport: It sends out a stream 88 Inrgoas aman's body, and a barrel of arsenic would not poison i OX SHONT ALLOWANCE, At Deaver the emigranis met with the samo cold treatmont, Thuy were actually compelled ta place themaelves on short allowsancs, although traveling tbrough a laud flowing with milk and honey, Parowan iva walled town, Tho tram ‘was refused permission to oven entor its strovts, andwera “forced to leava tho road aud pass aronnd tho town, 'The ouly theory ever ad- vanced for thia strangoe procoeding ta that rafal pn\rluuonl liad already been mado inside tho walls of Parowan, Honio say that the militia e even then aseembled under Col. William H. Dame, g THE WAR COUNCIL'S PLOT, PREPANING YOU THE NASEACRE, Froui the sworn aflidavita of those who particl- pated in the slaugliterit is conclusively estab- lished that Brig.-Gen. Goeorge A. Bmith, Col. William H. Dame, Liout.-Col. I. C, Iaight, and 3laj. John D, Les, hicld & council of warat I'a- rovan. Thoy determiued upon the place, the manuer, and all the minor details of the mas. eacre, Whero tho California road crosszos tho Hanta Clars Canyon the crime was to bo perpe- tratod. BlLutin between the verpendicular walls of rock, tho very wagous were ta ho piled up as a blackada to preveut the escape of & siugle soul, T'o make doubly surc, howover, Irs Hatch was scut, with otbers, beyond the canyon to the “Muddy"” to cut off stragglers, Guards were alo placed st Buckhorn Springs, neurly 70 miles this side of tlio Meadows, aud at all the springs and wateriog places near Cedar City and Paro. wan. These guards would be certain to discover aud shoot down any fugitives who might acci- dontally excapo. THE UTAM MILLITIA recelved & positive wilitary order to report for duty. Tho very language of this writton order wes that thoy must como *armed and equipped aa the law directs, and propared for fleld opora- tions." A highly respectablo gentloman tefls me that be bappened to bo lying on one sido of a bhigh adobs wall while the order was boiog sead to Lwo mea oo the atber side. Hoe did not dare leave for fear of being discove: foresd to Lsten 40 the conversation, Thoy wire T directed o be in readiness within one honr, with forty rounds of smmunition, Thess two men koew the import of their inatructions, and sat down and cried liko childron at the thought of tie hornble deed they were comroelled to per- form. They botb ssid they would rather leave tho Territory ar”.- 'sert howes aud families {han to engage h Vloody vork, To refuse to comply with €.~ v, howgvdr, was ocortaln deatl, for the gus, % tionadat the watering. places rendared esc, %, nosaible, 18 BRIOMAM = IMPLICATED ? Thousands of moa 2, 'ght Bro asking this quostion. Les answel, i" ,This answer ha will probably make on\ Told ! Jacob Ham- lin_ states that he happe 7. % be in the Council 8t Salt Lake whet a mas, =’ cams {u besring & statemont to tho effect h%: ‘2.0 emigrants wers threatoning and abusive, and asking what should be done. Brigham's answer, sharp, decisive, and immediato, was: *‘Let them alono; leb them pags; we have trouble euough already. Whon I want martial Jaw prociaimed, I'll lot you koow." There is no ovidenca in exintence, 8o far an s known, to criminate him as being Becessory bhe- fore the fact, unless it is connected with his mili- tary position. It was clumed, all the way through, thet ordera had coms from hoadquar- tors, 1le was Commander-in-Chief of the Utah militia, and 1t hardly seoms possible to suppo: that the militix would bedetailed to do such san- guinary work without some slight sanction from Salt Lake City. READY FOR THEZ SLAUGRTZR! From Cedar City the omigtauts prococded southwest to the Moadows, a distauce of about 40 miles, Camping st the Moadows, they wers quiatly resting their cattlo and gaining sirength to crous the desert. Suddenly, unespecledly, at daybresk on fonday morntag, Sept. 10, 145 they were attacled by Tndizns, At tho very firat firo moven were killed and fifteen wonnded. ‘Thoughtless of daagor, totally unprepared, and in fact while most of them were yet ssleep, they foll hopeleasly beforo the bullets of their unscon foes, Iiad shey possessed less Lravery, lass determination, the ontira patty -would hava bosn massacrad on the mpot, With a prompinsss uuparalleled in all the history of Indisn warfare, thess emigrants wheelod thelr wagons ioto an oblong corral, and with elovels and picks threw up tiic earth from the centre of the corral against the wagon wheels. In an incredibly short space | of time they Lad an excelleut barricade. An ere-wiincss eays tant it was dono with such re- twarkablo celerity that the plans of the painted asenusiue wore complelely fruatrated, TOE ORIGISAL PLAN Liad been, as Lefore stated, to aitsck them at Santa Clara Canon, but tne Indians became too impatient, Theso ** Battle-axes of tho Lord," had revponded to the call of the Indian Agent, Johiu D, Lee, aud the liberal promises they had re- ceived caused the prematuro attack, Tho larze herds and tho rich spoils, tho blankets, clothing, and triukots, the guvs, pistols, and ammunition, a portion of all which was to be theira, induced shem to make the attack at Cave Spring. They intended to lull as many as posuible at the first fire, and then chargs upon the remainder. The chargo never was made. Thero wero crack marksmon in the train, and in & few momoats there were TNREE WOUNDED INDIANS. The redskins bad crept up close to the train, and lay concealed along the banks of the craek, in tho littlo Lollows, aud behind the low sage- brush. They never dreamed of a ropulss. Dis- concerted by the prompt, dscisive action of tho cmigrants, they incautiously exposed their bodies. Oue acconnt says they actually charged upou the guard, but at all evonts, ono was light- ly wounded in tho shoulder, and two were shot In the left thigh. Thora was not an inch difforence in the locatio s of the wounds of tho lsat two. The bones wero crushed to splinters, aod both Indians died, Prior to ther dsatls, they wero conveyed to the camp near Codar, and Bizhop Higbee annointed their wounds with covsecrated oill It may not be generully known that tius oil is blessed and eot spart for the healing of tho sick., Instead of callingn pbysician, many of tha Mortnoua to this day, no matter what may be the naturo of the disease, pour on this ¢il, aud attempt to effect a cure by prayor ard TAL LAYING-ON OF HASDS. It is trus Biblieal doctrine, and wondrous cures aro effected through tho instrumientality of faith. Bishop ligheo went out to the campr after these murderers Lad boen brought trom tho MMeadows, anointed the wounded limbe, weut through all tho process of **layiug-on of Lands,” eud ferveutly prayed that tho Lord Jesus would heel them, ¥ informant says: “ I stcod by aud watched his motions and listen- ed to his prayors." Leaving the emigrants safoly intrenched be- bind their hasiily-imvrovised fortiticatious, lot us return to Presdent Haight at Cedar. lo hiad proachied from the pulpit before the train nrrived {n bls town that tho people wore not to trado with the Gentilos, Ono man hoard that o young goutleman by tho name of William A. Aden was with tho train, Aden's father, in Tennessee, bad onco saved tho life of tnis Mormon, aud out of gratitude he befriended tla young man in some way, Soon attorwards o party of Mormons came up to tho gate of the diwobedient brother aud struck bim over the nead with a club. s skull was cracked, and, although be is utill liviug, his miud is seriously unpared, The murderer of youug Aden buasts that the latler was M FIRAT VICTDA, Aden and & compauion wero retarning to the soitlemonts, probably tuattempt to obtain aseisz- ancaor food. At all ovents, they met Iull Stowart and a companion at Pinto’ Creek, 7 miles thia bido of the Meadows. Stewart had a revolver, aud Lis conpavion, a boy, Lad a shot-gun, Tho former said be would shoot one, and told the boy Iio raust kill tho other. As good as his word, Stewart sent & bullet crashing through Aden's Lrsin, white the borss of his unsuspeciing vie- tiw was quietly dtinking at u little creck. The Loy's courago failed, aud the other eumigrant es- caped 10 1ho train. A HARDEXED VILLALY, Yoarn after the murder, Siowart and a Mor- mon friend wera passtog the wpot. and the former related tho eivcumstanco. ‘Tho friend asked what hud becu doue with thoe body, and Btowart pointed to s clump of Lusbcs ss the placo where it bad been eoncealed, +* Is it thore now? " asked the traveler, ' I'don't know," coolly responded Stowart ; *let’s zouud sco.” Accordingly they went, aund tho horritied friend tells mo that to this day he shudders to think Liow Stewart went to the spot and brutally kicked nbou: the poor, bleaclied bonee, and examined the fragments of clothiog and ecattered locks of bair, Aden'y gray-bairod father advertised for his lost won, snd offered & raward of 31,000 for in- formation of his whercubouts, Surely 'twas a kiud Providenco thut kept him in iguoranco «f tho fact that tho boy's body was fool for wolves, and that for yoars the whitened Lonos bleschod woburied. 1le has sinco loarned that his eom was with tha cwigranty, but prubably e uever knew that his boy wad the flrst victum, and that ho was kiliod by a Mormon who still lives in Cedar City. 1 vould not daro publisli this horrible tale, but 1 havo it direet sud positive from the lipw of hizuly 1espectable goutlemou, whoae outhis aro yeady to back their assertions, AN INDIAN RUNNED 5 came into Cedar the Lirst uighs, und reported tho unsuccesslul assaule. Tho dvnnony imwediate- ly started tothe Meadows to ussist, Haight told a certain man that ordess hiud cutne from hoad- quarters to uassacro the last damned one of tuens, Tho mwan's boy, Bow grown to tniddlo a3v, ovurheard the rcwark, and is 1y authority, The same person 5378 o AW eight 0r tun men start out sbout Y o'clock that wight. They wero armud with shot-guus, Kontucky ritlos, flinte Jocky, snd every imagiuublo ivearm, sud wont undor wilitary ordera. Maj, Johu D. Loo had command of the forces which started from Cedur Cuy, sud, finding these iuadequate, vent back to Codar aud Washingtou for reinforcoments. Hworn sftidavits toll us that when the auxil- larics had arrived, the entirs command were as. sembled about half a mile from tho iutrench- ments of the fated emigrants, and wore there ©00lly laformed that the whole company was to (3 +Beribably from thiret, NUMBER 137, be killed, and only the little children who werd too young to remember nnythlnq wete to b ;;'mr!géa)(Sm Fanny Btenhouse's * Tell It ALY o 329). Dut the order could not be immed rled out bacsuso of the gt DETERMINED RESINTANCE of the emigrants, The Meadowa sze a mile and 8 half long and & milo wide, but the mountaing which form the high rim of the little basin cone vergo at tho lower end and form s wild, rugged csnon, Juat at the mouth of this canon la Canq Epring, HSome confusion has arisen AMong s Suorities by confounding this apring with anothe *Cano ™ Bpring 214 miles south, Thera was bnt one attack, ‘and that waa made at this Meadow apring, then calied * Cano,” bocause bf the peculiar rush, rosombling cave-brake, whick Rrew near ita wators. 3y authority is the maa who was ownor of the ground then and now. A mound oma 210 feat Jong by 100 wide rome from the Mendows shout 30 rods abovs the spring, and completaly ehut out the viow, Low hillswith deep raviuos came down on efthar nde, and completely hemmed in tho party. Bulleta from avery side of this + DEATH-PEN Bwopt the inolosura and whistled through the Tmazon-covers, Such cattlo ss werc inside the *corral” wera shot down. and the herds outside were stampeded. Yet for seven or eight days they bravely held out, and seemed to bs masters of tha mituation, Wator waa their groat need, & liitia babbliug brook murmured along not 40 feet away, and the fino, clear spring was nof mora than @ rods off, but'yat thoy auffored indo- W S THE SIEGE, THE MORMONS WEDE PAINTED AND DISGUISED to appear liko their savagoe allies, Not sontent with the superior advantages which naturs had given to their position, thay threw up breaste worxs of stons on the adjacont hillsides, From bohind these their rifies could aweop the litile srassy plain below without a singlo portion of their body being oxposed, Evory ate temol to obtain wator, either day or night, awakened a ecore of deadly Teports from the cruel concealsd guus. It was supposed at first that none but the men wero in danger, A woman who atappod outaide tho corral to mille & cow, fell piercod with bullots. Two lanncent little girla were sent down to the spring. Hand- in-Liand. tremblingly, these dear littlo rosebnds " nelked toward tuo mpring. Therr tender litile bodles were fairly riddled with bullots, THE OLD DBEASTWORKS atill remain in places, and no oue can visit the spot without Leing surprised that the emigrants Leid out uo long. DBehind the mounds, and just Leyond the low foothitlsaud the mound, are love! {lata concosled from the emigrants' view. Hers the Mormoas and Indirns were pitching harse. wiioes, and amusiug thomselves iu various ways. The eowards well undorstood that crusl, pitiless Lunger aud burning thirst were their powerful allies insido that corral. Wagon-loads of pro- vieions were arriving from Cedar, for the be- miogers, and each day lesscued tho seanty stock of the emigrante. Who can picture the tor- ments of mind and body which those pocr poos le suffersd ? In n bleak, dosolate conntry, huae dreds of miles from help, surrounded by painted fiends, and dying of thirsi and starvation, how deep must Lave boen the gloom ! THREE 8VIF8 had been sent with the train from Cedar, Osten uibly they wore apostates going to Californis, but, in realitr, they wero to learn tho strength of tho party, their scarcity of provisions, ete., 3 beard the names of thess men, but did not nota them down when my informant gave thom, ang may bo mistaken. I think they were Elliot Wile den, or Willots, a man by the name of Roeves, and Bill Btewart. They are well known im Southern Utah aa **the three boys.” They were unable to accomplish anything sfter tho slege began, and 8o oscaped to the Indiaos. They droesed in savago costume, and pnt war-paint on their faces, and throughont:the black days of the Lorrible siego and butclery, thoy played & bloody part, A CIY OF DIArREMS, One thrilliogly horrible iucident gives s vivid idoa of the anguish of the emlgrants. It shows that tho brave, truo hearts of those Arkansss men scorned desth snd danger if only s littlo hopo could bo geen of eaving tha wives and babics. Mondsy, Tuesdsy, Wednesday, and Thursday passed. The ‘waeary hours of fear snd suffering dragged slowly by. The whizziug arrows, tho whistling bullets, tho choors and nibald Iaughter of tho coarse, brulal assassins, told Low ploodtbirsty wera tha the besicgors. Thureday night the omigrants drew up a petition, or an humble PRAYER YOR AfD. It was addressed to any friend of humanity, and stated the exact condition of affairs. Ittold that on the morning of the 10th the train waa attacked by Indians, and that the sioge hiad con- tivued uninterrupiedly. 'There was reason to believo, it srated, that whito men woro with the Indiane, aa the latter were well supplied with powder'and weapons. In czze the paper rerched California, it was Lioped that assistanco wonld ba sent to their rescue, Then follawed = list of the emigranty’ names, sach name was followed by the age, place of nativity, latost residence, posi tion, raok, and occupation of its owner. Thy number of clorgywen, pbysicians, farmers, can penters, etc., was given. Among other uw portaut particulare, the number of PREEMANONS AND ODD FELLOWS wag stated, with the rank, and the name ani number of tho Lodge of which tley were memy bers, It wana forlorn hepe, this letter,a sad despairing cry of distrese. It is the only expres sfon that over camo from within that corral, but it gives auch a thrilliug plcture of their torturs aud meutal auguish o8 nolbiug else could Bovontecn years have elapsed siuco that signa of distress was mado. Yet it is not too late t¢ auswer. Thore {8 wany a stroog heart in the world to-day that will feal 1ts pulses thrill fastes when it lioursa that theso men, in their atrong death-agouy, appealed for aid to their brothres of tho wyutic tie. ‘Thio paper also contained an ftemlized list o) their property, su 5 Wagous, oxon, horses, eto. Who sbould uttempt to broax through the hne and bear this Jotier to Culifornia? 1t was o dos. perato undertaking, but 1t was the last hope. L’o!umeum woro ealled tor, aud thrae of the bravest meun that ever lived stepped forward and offered to attempt to dash through the cuemy and cross the wilderuoss and desert. Before they started, alt_Loelt in the corral, and the whits. Luired ol Mothudist pastor prayod fervently for their #afety, 1n thoe dead of night they passed the bosiogers, but Indian runuery were tinmedi- atoly placo.t on their track, FLYEING FOR THETR LIVES, They traveled untit completely exhansted. An Indian chief, oumed Jackson, boasts of having killud the firet, havivg found hun lying on his back asleep, betwween tho Clars and tho Rio Vir- gw. The eavage crope stealthily up to the eleoping 1nan, placed the ity arrow-poiub ust avove tho collar-bouvo, drew back tho uw-string, and sout the shaft down into tho sloopor’s throat. Bpringing to his feet, he yan nearly 40 yards before Lo fell, fuint aud dying. Thera iu evory reason for supposing that he lived long enough to bo tottured, Iu after years wy informant was taken by Jackson to the re~ waiun, Tho skull aud lurgor boues were charred and burnod, aud the swaller ones wore whoily reduced to ashes. Whether torturpd or not, his body was burned by bis tloudish murderars. TUE LECTUR WAS FOUND on a divide, near tjo wurdered man. Jackson discovorad it, aud yevolt to my iuformant, who kapt 1t sufely for ricothe, IHuppeuing to show it ouo day to s man who was & leader in the mas- wacre, be prowmptly destroyed 1t. ‘U'ho honest old Aorwon, howover, in perfeotly soquainted with tho nature of its contents, and hias 1o sympathy with the tragedy or its perpetrators. Ju hia sim- plo, stralghtiorverd stylo, bo eaid: I bolieve thas, it the Masons sud Odda Fellows kuew how many of their brethren wora in tho train, thoy wouldn't let tho acoursed murderers go unpun- ished.” He is willing, at tho proper time, to testily to the contents of the letter. The two other emigrants traveled &0 miles further and camo to the Virgin Hills. Here the Indisos overtook and surroonded them. The deadly sTons woanded ons, aud both ware cap-