The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1859, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8296. ome ————————————eSE MORNING EDITICGN—MONDAY, MAY 23, 1859. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM UTAIL Anticlpated Colllsion Between the United States Troops Under Gen. Johaston and the Bilitia under & Wells—Five Thourand Mormoss Under Arms by Order of Gov. Cumming— Charges Against the Judges and the Army, &e., key &e. ‘We yesterday received detailes of the Utah news and pri- vate advices tothe 25th ult, from which we learn of a eater probability of a collision between the army and the itizeos then has been manifested at any former period in lbhat Territory, even net excluding the tima when tbe faitbful were mareballed in defence of Zion, Th cause of the present trouble is the misunderstanding xis ing between General Johnston and Governor Cum- m'ng—the General believing that he hes authority fo fusing the military on the request of the judiclary indepen nt of the order of the Governor, and the latter dispating authority, The extracts trom the earlier corres- Ipondence, which we publish this morning, to- ether with the affidavits, eet forth the Mormoa view of the cavecs of the recent disturbances at ovo, and which have contr-buted to the apprehensions of he difficulty reported in our latest news. It would de od a much larger share of our space than we can afford pur Mormon brethren at the present time to publish itber their affidavits or correspondence in full; the ummary we have maie, however, is comprehensive bnough to show that Utah Territory is at the present mo- pent in troublesome times, and that unless the instruc- ons of the administration, recently sent to General jobnston and Judge Cradiebaugh, on the use of the mili -y, &c., arrive early, we may expect the next mail to eport a collision, as it is very evident that voth partie fully convinced of holdicg authority independent of bach other. Our Salt Lake Cty Correspondence. Great Sart Lake Crry, April 23, 1859. 5 ¢ Harvest Promising—Crime Increasing—Inte- vesting Developements—The dormons Aiding Deserters— Emigrants for Pike's Peak—The Mails, dc., &c. Spring te again upon us, and the husbandmen are dili- pt in seeding and all work that pertains to the season. ‘nrift seems once more to inspire every effort and to sti. pulate every inhabitant of Zion. Farms, gardens, houses @ even towns are assnming tangidle forms end definite hapes, where but a short time since a!l was locked in the y fetvers of barsh and hoary winter. Both town and pountry show pew signs of life. Mother earth warme into ptitude and opens her bowvls for the seed of the coming ‘vest, Our merchants are busy receiving goods, though ibe duties of the searon make their customers few and ineir sales slow The stock raisers, herders and rancaeros e busy with driving, reclaiming and braading their tock, The rising of the sun is heralded and late sleepers roured by the herosman’s trumpet, calling Ww the boy erders—aged from six to twelve yeare—to bag their din- re, seiz9 their whips, band and drive thetr cattle to the actes and mountain sides, to grazo during the day. he going down of the sua brings the lowing kino to their tells and caves and the young herders to their homes, hus pagees every day hfe with the Sante in the kiogdom, jome free and pure #§ the air of the mountams over bich they roam and are reared, whilst others, stainec ith the blood of their fellows, old in crime, and weighed jown with fear, seek the same mountains as hiding laces, and doubtiers ail upon the rocks to fall jpon them, even as we are told in the Scriptures. The cataiogue of crime in Ctab is atili on the increase. 1e confession of Durfee, one of the prisoners secured Inder Judge Cradievaugh’s efficient exertions, discloses yw features and participators, lifting the veil trom off he “holy of holies’ titi we see blood upon the would-be jure—the fountaia that would send forth pure waters o° If impure; the Trinity of Zion conseiviog doctrine, Istroug doctrine,” and iesuing orders that when carrie it produce death. Verily, of such is not, cannot be tho pgdom of God, but rather that of the devil. Last week a youth, tired and travel worn, trembling ith fear and hoping for favor, eutored the lines of the camp” and sought the proper ollivers and prayed pro- potion, etating that be had fled from Tooele valley, whither had been restra ned for months past, under tureats of b if he leftor reveaied the murder or murderers of is father and brother, to him so well and eadly kaown. ncouraged by the decided stand of the United States \dges for right, and their late efforts to bring criminals b jnatice, be made good his escape, and arrived in Camp ‘eyo to tell his pa bful tale and seek redress. A posse as despatched to tind the remains of his relatives and heir slayers, and ip corroboration of hie story they found he bones of father and brother where he directed, and ured the murderere, or a portion of them, Thus each ek, yea, aimort cach éay, brings to light some new nd dumbable feature of this despotic fanaticism. We ght cite other instances, which we have from thoge who pow them, but dare not ut present, lest the ends of et exposition (for we despair of just puaishment) trated. Parties woo bave suffered and have sor- pwed under this yoke are flocking tothe military and dicial avtborities wo digclore ibeir wrones and seek pro- ction and recress. Yet the church organ pretends ig. rence of these outrages, proclaims peace and prosperity, salty and good wil to men, questions the actions the officials, casts inuendos upon the Gentile sojourners, bouser£ corres ondenta of falsehood apd misrepresenta: pp, abd, as is meet for euch a tool and instrument, F ures the testimony in the late investigations of sub. pation, the disciosuree of being hatched up by overjust ges aud by tractors” for the purpose of specula. m and detention of the army here, to the anno Het, feaceable and Joyal citizens, and issues i ped cry of “religious pergecution.” But we suppose le editor imbibes the “stroog doctrine” ins wughta, tbat be considers the bicody 3 rilhyg”? facta which e the woole church and Terri- ‘y, and must look the whole nation andthe world in fe face, as mere sacrifices to appease an offended deity. euch a palliative, such a barbarous superstition, consoles is bardened heart and heated imagination, with thoge bis compeers in crime and fanaticism, are they sufficient palgy ‘he strong arm of the law? so defeat the ends aud mis of justice? to screen a horde of murderers under le plea of “roligiour toleraace,’? and thus prostitute that red inetrument, the constitation? Or should i suffice gull our admivistration and rulers, to lull a Christian jon into fatal repose? God forbid! A few days since a deserter from the United States my. who has been at work for Brigham Young for some p Months past, whilst “on a drunk’? became penitent, nt to the United states Marshal and confessed hiscrime, put under guard, and returned to the army. This is it one of hundreds of instances of Mormon aid and suc- to dererters. They deem it a special privilege to help e ceserter on his way, as it weakens the force of the my in their midst. mu Monday night last a shooting on took place be- een two of Afric’s sable sons, in which ono received jv shots, one of which is feared to be mortal; the other ebutant had his nose broken, Cause of rencounter, ‘al “phelinks and affect ions’? for a colored Djana. sbeoter is held in heavy bonds for a further trial. Pn Thursday, the 2ist inst.,a military detachment left op Floyd tor the Santa Ciara, to meet and escort Major nce on big return from Cahforvia with the “rhino.”’ hand cart train, numbering about ten persons, started me ©: ‘ince for Pike’s Peak. Other adventurers are fitting for the same point. fe have bad no Esatern mail since the 9th; the high ters are the supposed cauge—South Platte in chief, and ler streams in course. The last California nail ar- jed this weck in ten days. Great Sart Laxe Crry, U. T., April 28, 1859, Hoe Sinclair Threatens t Quarter the Troops in Great alt Lake City—Arrival of an Express with News of ‘roops being Ordered to Make Arrests—Governor Cumming Prders the Militia to be in Readiness--Five Thousand lormons Under Arms on a Few Hours’ Notice—A Col- om Imminent—A Stirring Appeal to the Nation, de. jn my last letter I informed you of thw threat of Judge lair (hat he would hold court in this city during May, h three fourths of the army now at Camp Floyd quar- ed in Union square, ready to carry out his orders. The prehension of a collision which that threat inepired urably died away in tne bosoms of the people gen iy, and the youthful Judgo was beginning to get credit idle braggadocia, and his tongue was regarded ag hay- only divulged what was in his heart to do, it only could get tho chance; but, alas! the day after departure of the last mail from here, rumors of his tions were in circulation at Camp Fioyd, which leave ho reagon to doubt that bis threat was no idle boast, is in reality the fixed determination of his heart, to to acollision between the citizens and troops. Of Govornor Cumming is apparently fully convinced, as tho other officials outside of the judicial: clique. By the ure of the next mail pians will be better developed, jot ever then carried into execution, or at least at- pted; ant should you then hear of the eagerty sought oliision having taken place, it can be witwosgod that ave not son,tbt it, but that it is the doop Iaid scheme juttlers, degraded judges and disappointed officers of our great republican army, for the sake of perishable gold, gratification of personal revenge, and the empty glory of swords to be crimponed with the blood of fellow citizens, who #0 love the liberty bequeathed to them by illustrious ires that they will Oght for its main- tainance, though their homes should be made desolate and their wives and children left without protectors in the land of freemen’s inheritance. An exprees from Camp Floyd arrived here on Sunday night with the intelligence that two regiments were eoming to the city to make arrests, and it was expected tbat they would bave orders for forced marches, to come in upon us unawares, Immediately on Governor Oum- ming being made acquainted with the report and circum. wances, which leave no room to doutk of the plans of the Judges, he notified General D. B. Welles to held the militia im readiness to act om orders By two o'clock om Monday morning five thousand men were under arms. Had the United States troops at- tempted to enter the city the struggle must have com- menced, for the Governor ie determined to carry out his instructions. What has deferred their arrival here we know not; but now that this plan ia known, a watchful eye ig kept on the camp, and the shedding of blood seems mevitable. We haye confidence ia the overruling care of our Heavenly Father, avd whatever does take place it will eventually turn out for geod, Major ——— told me yesterday that General Johuaton ‘was resolved to carry out his orders, and he affirms that they are to use the military on the requisition of the judges, and not on the requisition of the Governor only. I have just learned that five hundred soldiers were on the march to San Pete settlement to arrest Persons there whom the Judges are seeking after. The jucicial-military-inquisitorial farce played at Provo satis fles everybody that it is not violated justice that seeks re- dress, but the madness of men drunken with whiskey and vengeance, that seek satiety im blood. There is not an official in any settlement outside of this city but what expects to be handled as were those at Provo, and the only safety they have from judicial vengeance—not per- sonal, but vengeance against the community—is in flight to the mountains. Inthe south, where the weather has been excellent for early agricultural operations this spring, the fields have been Jeft uncultivated, and the seed that éhould be fructifying im the soil is still lying in the barn—the end of whi must be famine— for unless the Governor has power to restrain the Judges from calling the military to act asa posse comi!a'us, pO man of any influence will trust himself at home. We fear no judge of the United States. The Supreme Judge of all we fear, and in His fear we live, and eartuly tridu- nels have no terror for us; but the ipsolence of men like Cradlebavgh and Sinclair, and the despotism of their military aide, drive the iron to our souls. The very latest Dews now in circulation in the city is tbat the judges have bired the Indians to scour the mountains in search of the persons that the Marshal and military have been urable to discover at home. What next? Shall a price be offered the rea men ot the forest for the ecalps of our citizens? Oh, my God! what shall we be driven to? My heart sickens at the outrages to which we have been subjected, and I dread the future Nothing shall be done on ovr part to basten hostilities; but if impossible to avoid them, the responsibility is theirs. Governor Cumming bas no disposition, nor has this com- munity ary, to screen any man or men from the punish- ment due any crime or misdemeanor they may be accused of; but he will not suffer military terroriem toreign in the Territory over whick he x Governor, and we are toa mon ready to sustain him. We appeal ‘to the American nation, and ask any man whore goul isnot abeorbed with the acquisition of perisbable pelf only, what can we do more than we bave done to preserve peace, and what couree is open to us but to defend our rights as citizens of the Union? Our religious faith bas nothing to do with the atter now in question: that is our own. We force none to accept it, and we know thatthe faith of no man is at his own disposal, We are what we are, and go are all otbers what they are, and circumstances’ made them go. Our present difficulties are worthy of the attention of every man who leves his country and the glorious consti. tution bequeathed to us by honorable, honest and just men. Are we to be incessantly bored to death with such men rep. resenting the parent government? Thesubjecte of despotic Rursia are freer men and women than we are. We live in terror, and know not what a day may bring forth. Who- ever is free to-day cannot boast of enjoying liberty on the morrow. AD apostate, to satiate his epieen for some pri vate or family grievance, denounces somebody, or at least darkly hivts that this man or the other has done some- thing, snd that another man may possibly know some- toivg’against him; that little bas been sufficient, time and “guin, to cause both the accusea and the hoped-for wit- ness to be arrested and kept in the military jail. The Go- yernor says that that military jail is illegal. He bas not been inquired of for s posse comitatus of the citizens of the country, as the spirit of the law and its own term signifies, but'‘those noble, honorable high minded, pure and virtuous judges leap that which sbould be a barrier to their wanton outrages, and call for bayonets and the attendance at court at the beat of the drum. Allowing that somebody has blundered in not rescind- ing the authority of General Harney, in 1857, on which General Jobnston pow acts in 1859—Iis the fact lees certain tbat the men who should dispenee justice,and who ahould trent their fellow citizens as equals, are burning with zeal to do wrong? What possible respect can this community entertain for men who take refuge for their wickedness in the blunder of another associate for the govern- ment of the nation? Instead of laboring with the civil government to remove causes of com- plaint from those who have regarded themselves as oppressed and unjustly dealt with in the past, the; treat the chicf executive with eontempt, and burn wit zeal to distinguish their reign of terror by consigning to the gallows some victim of their hate. Everything thet they could porsibly do to make them- selves hated they have done, and for the consequences of their acts the government who sent them is respon- sible. If they are not removed trouble must come; for the personal contempt which they have managed to create against themeelyesis sure to end in some conjured up contempt of court, apprehensions of somebody, and the train of circumatances which freemen, conscious of their integrity, are not likely to submit to. THE USURPATIONS OF JUDGE CRADLEBAUGH. {Extract of a private letter from n Mormon. | Sarr Lake Crry, April 18, 1859, Judge Cradlebaugh signalized his judicial proceedings by holding an illegal court at Provo, employing a thousand soldiers to help him; charging the whole community, and eepecially the prominent members, with complicity in crimes of the greatest magnitude; ignoring the existence of the Territorial civil officers; placing the prisoners in mili- tary custody; subpcnaing witnesses, ewearing them, and then arresting them on bench warrants iseued without the knowledge of the Attorney General, to prevent said wit- nesses from giving evidence before the Grand Jury; abus- ing and summarily dismissing the juries, without allow- ing the presentment of several prepared bilis by the Grand Jury, lest the subterfuge of “church constraint” sbould be non available; discharging, witbout trial or re- cognizances, prisoners who had been indicted; holding others in custody against whom no indictments had been presented, and taking those in custody to Camp Floyd, with the prospect of indefinite confinement. In view of tbe above, is it strange that menare not at all eager to ap- pear before his Honor, and that they prefer the freedom of the mountains to the chances of treacherous arrest— to the uncertainty of ever being legally tried—to military incarceration and possible massacre? His Honor bas had a remarkable anxiety to get hold of the leading men of the Territory, of which you may form a correct estimate from the following examination of Mrs. Parrish:— JUDGE CRADLEBAUGH ATTEMPTS TO INCARCERATE BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE LEADING BISHOP: SCENE IN THE COURT ROOM AT PROVO—THE I VESTIGATION OF TRE PARRISH MURDER—JUDGE, MARSHAL AND DSPUTIES, GUARDS, PRISONERS, WITNESSES AND SPECTATORS—EXAMINATION OF MRS. PARRISH. Super CRapienavce—When did you go to see Brigham Young? i Mrs. Parnist—Some time between Christmas day and New Year's. JepGE C.—To what place did you go? Mrs. P.—To Brigham Young’s office. ‘Who did you see there? Brigham’s clerks and several other persons. Did you see Brigham Young? io, air. Did you ask to see him? P.—Yes, sir. Jvpcx C.—What reasons did Brigham Young assign for not seeing you? Mus, P.—The clerk said he did not wish to see any one and I bad better apply to Bishop Hancock, and he would tee Biehop— Jupcr C. (interrupting)—Stop, Mrs, Parrish, let them tuke that down—(after a pause, during which clerks take votes)—-Now, go on, Mra. Parrish. Mrs. P.—He said j bad better apply to Bishop Hancock, the Bishop of the place where I live, and be would peo Bishop Joingon, and Bishop Johneon would— Jvpex C.—Now, stay till they have taken that down. (Clerks again take notes.) Now, Mrs. Parrieh, you can go on, Mrs, P.—Then he said Bishop Johnson would seo Bishop Rowberry, who would most likely see that the horses were returned to me. Jvupar C.—Now, you ray that Brigham Young said you were to apply to Bishop Hancock? Mrs. P.—No, sir; the clerk said 80. ‘ JvvGr C.—Yes, but he brought the message from Brig- Mra. P.—No, sir; ho didn’t. Jvpar C.—Did not “re Young advise you not to ap- ba any Gentile court rs. P.—No, sir, Jvpar O.—Well, what did Brigham say? More Pet don’t now, el. ie 4 UpGE C.—Then what message did ham Yor Ben to you by the clerk? va 5 re. ua [shy “mn of ey moersage. upGE O,—Thea how came the clerk to tell to go te tho Bishop? von Mrs, P.—He said that was what he should do if he were im my place, instead of trewbling Brigham Young about it. JvvGEK C.— (evidently disappointed)—To the [ar pa) attorney —Have you any questions to ask Mre. ? HOW GOVERNOR CUMMING IS REGARDEO— THE JUDGE SUSPECTED OF SCHEMING MISCHIEF. [Extract of a private letter.) Great Sant Lake Crry, April 16, 1869, ‘The court was adjourned sine die on the 4th ins&, and the Judge’s remarks at the time of adjournment were replete with rancor, illegal and unwarrantable accusa- tions, and evident disappointment in not being able to criminate President Young. He left no means untried te get cause against the President. He could not disguise his anxiety and ceterminaton to arrest him; but ipnogence snd truth in that reepect have triumpkel as Jet, although efforts were mace to implicate some eminent ecclesiastical oflicials, The Judge is at Camp Floyd; wnat he is domg Im not aware. He is, however, concocting rome mischief upon the inbabitants o' this Territory. What that mischies is we cannot tell, but we feel confident that all attempis to trample on our rights and to injare the innocent will fall op himself. altbough the court i+ adjourned, and po businers was on band to warrant bim to conunue it, yet his Deputy Marshals are prowi- ing about ‘the country, like the —— “seeking when they may devour.” On Wednesday night, the 6th jnst., they went into Springville, expretiog ‘to arr Several persone, But when men see the very constitution dierespected by loyal officers, every mean and illegal mearure entercd into to rob them of their liber- ty, and witneeses arrested to deprive the arcnsed of teati- mony in bis favor, they are careful not to place themse!ves: in the tender mercies of the wicked, We fully expect that the Judge has retired to camp to consult with orbers be” tc a reply to the Govert or’a proclamation. e Judge, army officers g. ally, and euttiers are much digpicased with the Governor's straightforward and honorable course, Indeed it was currently reported that they threat- ened to arrest the Gevernor if he was not careful ; but 1 think that were such @ thing attempted (though it 8 scarcely poesible to conceive such m measure), the whole army weuld fail to succeed, for the people are Joyal enough to sustain the executive, and would, I think, t. Governor Cumming’s course is straightiorward, manly and patriotic. He is rather in a pecuhar position, Op thé ove band the Mormons look to him to sustain them and defend them from the inreads of judicial prejudice, and be is willing to do his duty to them and “defend the right;” and on the other hand tbe interested itinerant eet- Uers, denomipating themselves Gentiles, want bim to “* pitch into” the Mormons, and feel very angry when he thwarts their nefarious designs. Nevertheless, he neither courts the Mormons’ favor, nor dreads the scowl of their enemies. He takes his own course, and seeks in taking it to promote the wishes of the administration at Washing- ton. THE AFFIDAVITS, THE JUDGE STRONG ON HANGING. The g@fidavit of Aurelius Miver, counsellor-at law, sworn to before Justice Smith, April 4, 1859, attests that he heard Judge Cradlebaugh, in a public sitting room at Provo, eay “that he would hang Rauosh if he could, with- out judge or jury, and that he would hang him whether he was guilty ‘as one of the perpetrators of the Mountain Meadow massacre or not.’? And in speaking of the Mor- move accused of participating in the same affair, he further said, ‘Gf he could get one pf them convicted he would bang’ kim @0 quickly that he could net possibly bave time to procure a pardon from the Governor, unless the parcon was made out in advance.” NO OCCASION FOR TROOPS TO GUAKD MORMON PRISONERS AT PROVO—TREATMENT OF PRISONERS, ETC The affidavit of William M. Wall, Sheriff of Utah coun- ty, of which Provo is the county town, makes affidavit before Justice Smith, April 6, 1859, that upon the openiog of the recent term of the United States District Court at Provo, he waited upon Judge Cradiebaugh, showed him his commission as Sheriff, with which the Judge pro- fessed himself eatiefied, and then agsured the Judge that he was prepared to take charge, as the law required, of all prisoners under arrest, and to provide for them more comfortable quarters then a tent could afford; and that if hig responsibility were doubted he would increase the security named in his bond to any amount that might be desired. The Judgo declined to accept this legal and proper course. The prisoners, in the co dest weather, were retained jn the tent without fires, beds or blankets, until at the solicitation of Mormons outside, their friends were allowed to supply them with the latter necessaries, The food supplied to the prisoners was also unpaiateable and ins flick nt, votil public outery shamed the oflicers into decency in that respect. In enother affidavit of Sheriff Wall, sworn to at the same time and before the same magistrate, be avers that while the prigoners were in the Provo Seminary, some person unknown threw astone, or stoves at the soldiers guarding the building, in coneequence of which Lieut. Dudiey, who commanded, stated to the Sheriff that tho guard was ordered to Gre in the direction trom which any further mitsiles might be flung, the prisoners should be at once massacred, and the firing commenced. PROCESS OF LAW USED AS A MRANS OF WANTON VEXATION AND INTAUDATION, An affidavit of David Evans, the Biehop of Lehi, sworn to April 5, 1859, before Justice John Brown, sets forth the feveral attempts of Marsbal Dotson to compel bim to ap pear before the quasi court martial of Judge Cradelbaugh as a witnees, without showing a subpana and without stating the case ih which his testimony was required. As the ex- Planation the Marshal gave of the business was confused and contradictory, the Bishop hesitated, but finally went to Provo and appeared one day in court, where it became evident that his arrest ‘was intended, and he then withdrew, and returned home He haz since learned that he was wanted to testify in regard to the murder four years since of J. Lance, touching which he knows nothing save by common rumor. The affldavit confutes the statement that Evans absented himself to avoid giving evidence respecting the homicide, FREEBOOTING OF THE FEDERAL TROOPS. The affidavit of Robert Reeder, herdsman of Spencer & Co., taken by Peter Clinton, J. 'P., Aprit 12, 1859, sets forth the outrages perpetrated by company I of the Tenth Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant Marshall, at the ranche of his employers, on the Military Reserve. The company encamped on the ground, taking forcible posses- sion of the houes, converting them into stables, and com- mitting various excesses. In saving a drove of sheep from destruction at their hands, young Spencer was knocked senseless and dangerously wounded by a subaitern officer; and during his consequent ilinets cattle were wantonly slaugbtered and used, without consent or offer of compen- sation, and a large number of sheep consumed, and re- moxetrance of the proprietors only produced blows and insults in response. FURTHER WANTON EXERCISE OF MILITARY TER- RORISM. [From a Private Letter.] Sarr Lake Crry, April 15, 1859. It will be recollected that the position assum d by Governor Cumming, under the plain letter of the law, is that the federal troops cannot be summoned or used as a posse without a requisition from the Governor himself, A few days since, a:Mr. Brookie, United States Deputy Marebai, by order of Judge Cradiebaugh, who is acting in Camp Floyd as acommiiting magistrate, proceeded with tome eoldiers as @ posse to Tooele, an in custody Mr. Lyeander Gee. Gee told Brookie that he would not be arrested by a military posse, but tat he was perfectly ready and willing to go with him to Camp Floyd, and did 80. I bave heard that Gee was wanted in some question about a epan of horses; but when thero bas in no case been the least resistance, or any thought of it that I am aware of, to apy civil process, even when said process has been illegal, why make every kind of and all arrests with | military aid? Is" ft not obviousiy done with a view to stir up strife if possible, and create abroad an unjust preju- dice against Utah, and assist the contractors’ war upon the Treasury? The Mormons at Chicago. [ter the Chicego Tribune, May 19.} At the Michigan Central Depot groun: ing arrived a special train from Detroit, bearing a small party of Latter Day Saints and Saintesses, only seven hundred and fife itro7g, ry freah arrival in’ this country yy the Liverpool liner packet 8! ‘illiam Tapscot, at New York, on Friday last. 2 They were an assorted cargo of humanity, made up from the several proselyting agencies of the Eiders of Joseph Smith, an chiefly representing the British isles and | the north of Europe. As they embarked from the long train and filed into the depot and waiting rooms, the spectacle drew numerous curious spectators, who rather pressed upon the en- trances to the crowded ladies’ rooms, some of the sinners ee more or less favorably inclined to the Mormon ith by this or that glimpee at its sisterhood. One stout matron, in fact, seemingly became scandalized at her ebare of the inspection, and dashed the Gentile crew by @ proposition to “pags ‘round the hat, if the show is to be mes up.”? e learn that among the number one disciple has. in his family five sisters, to each of whom he is at once brother in-law and husband, Another has a mother and her daughter in the same relation to his bearded and sanctimonious looking sel Police Intelligence. Inucmasrry To 4 Cuiup.—Elizabeth Lewis, residing at No, 205 West Thirty-ninth street, was brought before Jug- tice Quackenbush on the complaint of Susan Sampson, charged with having assaulted a child named Bertha Kinda, by throwing a basin of boiling water over the face and neck of the littic one, scalding it in the most shocking manner. The magistrate held the prisoner to bail in the sum of $1,000 to answer. Hicuway Ronprry.—Henry Crawford was arrested on a charge of bighway robbery preferred against him vy Edward Gilroy. Complainant was returning to his home on Friday night, when vear the corner of Canal street and Wert Broadway, he was attacked by three or four men, knocked down and robbed of twenty-five cents. He iden: tifled Crawford as one of the gentlemen who took such an unwarrantable libersy with his person, whereupon the accused was committed for trial in default of $2,000 bail. A Promising Youn¢ Man.—The store of James Hard. wick, 162 Maiden lane, hes been robbed frequently of late, in such a mysterious manner that the proprietor was at a logs to know the how thief effected an entrance. Deter- mined to solve the puzzle, Mr. Hardwick set a watch upen the premises lagt week, and engaged two. men, named Da- vid Bond and Joseph Silvie, to sieep in tho store every About nine o'clock on Friday evening the watch- beard the door unlock, and Presently a young man entered the store, They immediately seizod the Intruder, who struggled desperately to free himself, and was only brought to terms by the application of a revolver to his head. The prisoner was taken before Juatice Connolly at the Lower Police Court, where, upon examination, it wae found that the youth was none other than the sou of Mr. Hardwick. The astonishment of the father on learning the facts can be better imagined thao described. the magistrate committed the accuged for examination, yesterday morn- | 2 PRICE TWO © The Vanderbilt European Steamships. THE QUICK PASSAGE OF THE VANDERBILT—THE BAlLINe OP iB OCKAN QUEBN-—-HER DESORIP- ‘TION, BTC. ‘The temarkably quick passage of the Vanderbilt, which arrivedas this port (nm Saturday, and the sailing of the Ocean Queen om her first trip at sea the game day, have attracted some etgention to Vanderbilt's European line. ‘The Vanderbilt left tho Neediog at seven P. M. on the 11th inst. and arrived at her dock about half past 12 o Saturday, ter suffering detention by Leavy fogs coming down the and up the bay, making about nine days, seventeen jand a half frem dock to dock, or, allow ing for ‘Mine days, sine hours and twenty six minutes, witch ig. @ remarkably quick passage. But when allowance is) for her deiention at the lower bay, it is claimed that thie is the quickest westward passage on record. Varipug accounts have been published as to the time of her grrival at theligtttebip and at Sandy Hook, Papers of Saturday differed materially Of her passage. From the most authentic could gather, she arrived at the light- on Friday evening, which would make and seven hours and fifty-six minutes ‘ing for the difference of time; allowing her one aw half to come upto her dock, she would bave the passage in nine days nime hours and twenty-six had she not been detained in the lower bay by the fog. The Vanderbilt made the passage herself in nine days and twenty hours last June, and she made the Eastern passage last June ip nine days and thir. teen hours, equal to thirty minutes shorter than the Per- sia’s fastest Eastern trip. Even giving the Vanderbilt the disadvantage of her detention, and counting from dock Ww dock—it being remembered that sho ran ninety miles further, could take no observations for three days, came down tho last 900 wiles without seeing anything, and was detained below—her time was within a few minutes as quick as the three famous passages of the Baltic and Persia. The Baltic, in August, 1851, made the pasaage from Liverpool in nine day eighteen houra and forty three minutes, andin July, 1854, in nine days sixteen hours and forty-eight minutes, anc the Persia in June, 1857, made the passage in nine days eixteen hours and forty-one minutes. Taking the longer distance, that of ninety miles from Liverpool to the Needles, and the de- tentions into consideration, the Vanderbilt has ma‘te the quickest weetward passage on record, and added to the already enviable reputation of American marine archi’ tecture. The value of the triumph is enbanced by the fact that the Vanderbilt consumed but 2,100 tons of coal, while the average con:umption by the Persia is 1,400 tons. THE OCEAN QUEEN. The comparatively new steamer Ocean Queen took her regular place Saturdsy in the game line, starting at 12 M. fer Southampton and Havre, with 249 passengers and a heavy epecie list. The Ocean Queen was built by J. Westervelt, in 1857, for the California trade on the Pacific side; but this is her first voyage She wae bought by Mr. Vanderbilt in 1858, and comphtely overhauled aad refliited for the Eu- ropean trade, adding an extra deck and altering her in- ternal arrangenerts. Her dimensions are: length of deck, 330 feet; jength of keel, 318 feet; breadth of beam, 42 feet; depth of hold, 30 feet; carpenter’s measureraent, 3,678 tons; Cwtom House register, 2,601 tons. Tne frame and floors are of the beet white oak, bolted to the cross timbers with iron bolts in cach. The outside planking is s!x nch white oak timber, with two garboard stakes, ten inches in thickness, fastened with tren «ils and copper bolts Che bull is diagonally braced with iron straps and woolen braces, and firmly bolted. The cross beams are of Southern pine, kneed on both sides of the ebip. She is provided betwoen decks with » double set o& water ways, put together in the most substantial manner, as algo seven water tight compart. ments, either of which might prevent the ship from sink: ing. She has an immense beam engine, built by Morgan &Co. It is of 2,000 horse power, with a 90 inch cylinder and tweive feet etroke, capable of makiog 18 revolutions per minute. The walking beam ‘is very large, made of ‘wrought irm, supported on a heavy white oak frame firmly braced with iron rods and bolts running through from the fop of the frame to the bottom of the ship, fas tened to thr knees of the ship and bolted to the bed plate. This galloys is co firm that the working of the engine is scaroely perceptible to those on beard. Her smoke stacks, of which tlere are two, are covered with incombustible felting. Ske bas flue bollers enclosed in an iron casing as a safeguari against fire. In the lower hold are two emal engines wit an independent boiler, used for the purpose of filling the main boiler, washing decks, and in case of fire, The vessel is supplied with one of Pierson’s steam condensers The wheels are 36 feet in diameter and 10 feetin widih. The rigging is of wire, adding much to the stifaess ofthe ship. The fir cabin is quite spacious, neatly deco- rated, anddecidediy comfortabie. The staterooms are as commdlious as those of a North river steamer, and have :very arrangement for the convenience of pas. sengere—¢ven to a cofa for cach—a great desideratum for agen yoyge There was algo much attention paid to due ventilatiow—every port can be opened in fair weather. ‘The cabinj are heated by steam. The promenade deck is sixty fectiong, the forward deck thirty feet. A large apartmen| in the stern of the vessel is devoted to the mails, and under it is the specie vault. The departments for the oflcers are admirably arranged, and the storage rooms ar¢commodious. The veeeel will carry 1,600 tous of freight, besides 1,000 tong of coai, She has accommo- dations far 400 paseengers. The alvrations made eince Mr, Vanderbilt bought her are important. Besides adding a new deck to her accom- modations, the vessel was double bolted throughout; an additional deck beam was put between every two beams, adding immensely to her strength. These improvements were made by Mr Vanderbilt's nephew, Mr. Simonson, the builder of the Vanderbilt; and altogether she may be considered ag strong and seaworthy a boa} as is now afloat—combining lightness, and no doubt speed, with extraordinary strength. This Mr. Vanderbilt does for his own. protection, as he never ingures his ships—preferring to take care of them and run the risk. The consequence ig that the insurance companies insure goods in them as low ason any other steamers afloat. The Ocean Queen is commanded by Captain Seabury, formerly firet officer of the Vanderbilt. Mr. Barnett ‘Smith, the chief engineer, is the gentleman who tovk out the Kamschatka to Russia, and was employed some time superintending the overhauling of steamships belonging to the Rusgian government. He has been in this line for a number of years, and bad charge of the Ariel at the time she was £0 long missing. There was quite a crowd on the pier yesterday to notice the departuro of this noble steamer, and as she moved out into the stream she was greeted with load huzzas. Shortly after she left, the Vanderbilt, which had been lying to some hours outeide, took her place, a largo crowd collecting to witness her entrance. Preparations were soon in operation to get her in readiness to sail on the 4th prox. One hundred passages have already been taken. Among those on the pier on Saturday we noticed the in_ domitable Commodore Vanderbilt himself, and, though an ‘undemonstrative man, he could not conceal bis delight at the performance of his favorite ship, the Vanderbilt. ‘Wo regret to learn that Captain Lefebre, in the midet of bis gratitication at the quick passage of the Vanderbilt, was det d to receive, at the moment of his arrival, th news of the death of his child, Tux Crors In THE West.—The Chicago Tribun of the 20a instant says:—Woe present this moraing large number of letters from different portions of th West, giving a most cheering account of the prospect of the growing crop. A giance at the map will show thoss ‘who are not familiar with the geography of the West, that they refer to a wide exient of country, all lying north o the latitude of St. Louis. Our advices from Southern Ili nois are equally encouraging. In a week or two th harvest will bave fuliy commenced thore, and we hop soon to announce thas the crop is safely gathered. Oa» of the editors of the Press and Dribune visited Madison, Wisconain, last week, and all aiong the line of the St. Paul and Food du Lac and the Milwaukee and Missigaipp! ros the wheat looked finely. Most of it was spring, of which a very wide breath has been sown in this se.tion Preparations for corn algo appeared to be very extensive. Accounts geperally from Wisconsin agreo that the pros. pects were never better for an abundaut crop. Superior Court-—General Term. Preeent Chief Justice Bosworth and Judges Hoffman, Woodrull, Pierrepont and Monecrief. Samuel G Ogden, Jr., vs, Wn. M. Raymond,—Jadg- ment affirmed. Samuel G. Ogden vs. Charles Acdre et al.—Judgment affirmed. Witlinm Kiernan vs. Jorenh Rocheleau,—Judgment taken by default, to be set aside without costs to either party. Political Intelligence. Democranic Divisions iv Kenrvcey.—There is at present considerable difficulty in the democratic ranks in Ken- tucky, which, if allowed to work on unchecked, will Prove fatal to the success of the party in the August elec. tion. Some of the democratic journals seem intent on making the question of “Congressional intervention to pro- tect slavery in the Territories” a part of the democratic creed, while another portion, as well as most of the candi- dates, are striving to keep that doctrine in the background, and continually declaring that it is not im issue, as the State Convention had voted it down. If this division continue some of the democratic candidates for Congress will be gacrificed, A Spur iv mmm PeNNsyLyaniA “Prorie’s Party.’—A County Convention was held in Norristown, Montgomery county, Fa., on the 18th inst., which, after a considerable ‘amount of large and stoall talk, resulted in the selection of two sets of delegates to the State Convention, The split occurred between the republicans and Know Nothings. Borry’ Last.—Hon. Jobn M. Botts has now, he says, written bis last card previous to the election. The latest epistle is asort of apology to Mr. Letcher for accusing him of speculating in lots in Washingtoa, and he says it was eomebody else, not him, who first made the accusa- tion, Mr. Botws washes his hands of all responsibility, and dismisses the subject forever. His card closes, however, in a very belligerent tone. He says he will take up another subject of far more interest and importance to himeelf, in which his own character is implicated, and which he wJi] attend to ag soon as the elections are over and the public mind has recovered its natural tone. It appears by this that the excitement in Virginia is to be carried right along—there is to be no cessation of hosti lites. Orrosmmon to Te Democracy.—The opposition to the democracy sail under a variety of names in different sections of the country, In Massachusetts they are Jeffer sonian American republicans; in Missouri, free democrats; in Virginia, whige; in Marylard, Koow Nothings; in Cati fornia, Broderick men; in Pennsylvania, the People’s Party ; and in Kentucky, Tennessee, and some of the other Southern States, where proper names have all been used ‘up on the niggers, they call themselves simply the Oppo- sition. Here-is material for a tusion. BRODERICK AND Gwin ON THE STUMP IN CaLIFoRNLA.—The San Francisco National says that Hon. David Broderick will take the stump during the approaching campaign in Californie, and invite Senator Gwin to meet him. The National is not very complimentary upon the new Sena- tor. It says:— There 1s not a mining camp in the State, there is nota country town wi:h’n our borders, wherein dozens of men capnot be found better abie to inform their fellow citizens about the political events or issues of the day than the burly braggart Broderick. “G.—The opporition in Georgia are considerably in doubt whether it would be pradent to nominate a can didate for Governor in opposition to the democracy. Oue thing, however, they have decided upon, and that is to watt until the democratic party shall have constructed their platform and started their candidate, and then, if they cannot swailow the principles of the democracy, they will probably present their issues gnd sail in. TRYING 70 SHAKE OFF THE MASSACHUSETTS AMENDMENT.— Hon. J. F, Farnsworth, member of Congresa from the Second district of Illinois, in a letter, saya:— I protest againet any attempt, come from what quarter it may, to fasten upon us or to make the republican party ib any mavner reeponsidle for a principle like taat 1a volved in the Massachusetts amendment. It will not do—the hook is in the gilla, and the more the republicans squirm the greater will be the rent. A Counter MoveMent To THE Great SourHER CoNvES- TION —A mass meeting of the peopie of the counties in Mississippi adjacent to Vicksburg who are opposed to the revival of the African slave trade was to have been heid in Vicksburg on Saturday, the 2lst inst. A number ot Aistinguished persons from different parts of the State ‘were expected to present their views to the meeting. Gone INTO MOURNING —The New Orleans Bee (an Ameri- op) declares that the American party in Louisiana ie hopelessly, irretrievably diesolyed, and that any attempt to organize an opposition to the democracy will be ua- availing. Jvper Dovaras 1x Marve —It is reported that the Maine democracy bave invited Judge Donglas to artend twetr State Conventian. A Very Goop Story Usmit 17 18 Coxtrapicrep.—Ia Cin cinnati the Americans and democrats have coalesced, with 8 view to carrying the comieg State election. Tae coali- tion, says the Albany Statesman, is as yet confined to Hamilton county, but it is to be pushed throughout the State—J. Scott Harrigon, son of the ex President, beiag the candidate for Goveracr. He is a democrat, with whig and American antecedents, and the combination is made With the fall concurrence of thedemocratic party. He is to run as an independent candidate, and the democrats are ‘40 give him their support. Sovim AGAIN Ser Back —At the large and enthusiastic mass meeting of the democracy of St. Landry, Louisiana, held at Opelousas on the 7th inst., the following seati ments were enunciated. Let the Soulés and otbers who have eesayed the destruction of the democratic party ia Louisiana read and learn the fate they foreshadow to their faction in the State Convention:— Resolved, That the foreign and domestic policy of the present administration mects our cordial approval, aud we hold it tne duty of every good and true democrat w give a hearty support thereto, Resolved, That the meeting held at Odd Fellows’ Hail (Souté’s meeting), New Orteaog, in April last, intended, 4a it undoubtedly was,to create d: in the democratic party, invokes the j true and loyal demcerat, and we unbesitaiazly reprubats every similar movement throughout the State looking to the same end. Opening of the New Church Edifice of the Sixth Universalist Soctety. The new church edifice in West Twentieth street, near Seventh avenue, was opened for divine service yesterday morning, and was filled by a highly respectable congre gation, who had left their ormer church for this more commodious one. There could not have been less than fifteen hundred people present, The cnurch is of brown stone, not very large, but preposeessing in appearance, and its interior decorations piain, but chaste. It contains & swall but weil toned organ, and the choir is excellent composed of Br. Peterson and Mr. Sewell Moody, bass; Misses Jeany Down, Emma Down, Mary P. Earl and Mrs. Moody, soprano; Miss Sophia Debaun, alto; Messrs. G. F. Brown, H. B. Jobnes, R. W. Roberts and Jobn C. Smart, tenor—under the direction of the organist, Mr. R. L. Jones, who is the composer of several pieces of music. The ceremony opened by the choir singing “The earth is the Lord’s,” and during the service, hymns 16, “0, Thou to whom, in ancient time;’’ 451, ‘The bird let loose in and 218, “Joy to the world, the Lord is come.” The Rev. J. H. Shepard offered a prayer, in which he implored a blessing upon their new undertaking, &e. The discourse was by the Rev. Thomas J Sawyer, yn the 23d verse, 4th chapter of St John's Gos pel:—But the hour cometh, and now is, when the truo worshippers shal! worship the Father in spirit aud in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship bim.”” Tne reverend geptieman congratulated them upon the increase of the members and success of the society. To-day was the Tealization of their bepes. It is well to aucoced, but it is better to deverve euccess, a8 he felt they did. They bad hoped fondiy, patiently, and had waited long; but they must not think thst the battle was won—tbat they bad nothing to do but to lie down and enjoy themaelves. They had only gaimed a vantage ground on whied they could fight the good fight of faith with a littie better success. In this modest but tasteful edifice, he read, as in every. thing elte, that man is religious. Throughout the earth they found the religious element in the breast of man, and religion bad reared its moaument in every isiand and continent, and in every tongue all over the world, Men will have some form of religion, true or false; a pation of atbeists never existed in tho whole history of our race for 6,000 years, and such an anomaly would never be seen: wherever buman beings took up a resi. dence there would be a belief in some Higher Power. The deist argued that the Bible was of no ase; that rea. scn was given man to guige him, and if he adhered to that he would be rigbt. Mencould be rational without being invariably guided by rules in the affairs of life; but it was one thing to possess a faculty, and another to atisin its bigbest use. The errors that man fell intd sbowed bow very difficult it must be for man to do right wirhout s guide. “In Christian lands it cost very little to be religious, and it made us peacetul and happy; but go into tbe dark corners of the earth, and see the Hindoo wotber sacrificing her cbild, or the fanatic throwing him self beweath the wheeis of ‘the deadiy Joggernaut. Was hot that a mighty power that could moud to ite will the mightiest affections of the heart, The deist, while he de- Lied the Bible to be a necessary guide, copied from the law of Moses every point tbat was good in bis belief, like ® chid tying up a bunch of dowers with a dirty steing. If Moses was not an inspired map, a8 the deist raid, he was the greatest man that ever lived, exorpting only our Savicur, Mores was the #ervant, Jesus Christ the Son of God. Mores tanabt the law and’ revealed the command. ments of Goo; Christ made known his mercy and compas. tion. The Jaw gives place to tbe Gospel. Tu the afternoon Rev. E. H Chapin, D. D., delivered the edication serwon. iv the evening Rey, Heury Bian- { chard, of Brooklyn, officiated, HYSTERIOUS AND HORRIBLE Arr, The Mutilated Remains of a Woman Found in @ Vault—Supposed Victim of Aboruon= Corener’s Inquest upon the Body—Verdict of the Jury. The discovery of the mutilated remains of # young wo- man, about twenty years of age, in the privy vault in the rear of the tenement house No. 125 Columbia street, yes- terday morning, created an intense excitement in the Eleventh and Seventeenth wards, cspecially among the German population in that part of the city, The remaing were found by Wilhelm Betsch, one of the occupants of tbe premises in question. Firata thigh, wrapped up im come picces of paper and linen, was discovered, and then the trouk of @ full grown woman, cut in halves, also done up in paper and linen. Neither the bead, feet nor arms of the deceased could be found, notwithstancing diligent search was made for the game. The first intimation that Betach had of the Presence of the corpse was on Saturday morning, when he found the thigh already alluded to. He then supposed ‘hat it was @ portion of asubject deposited there by some medical student, and did not make further search until vesterday morning, when upon lsoking down into the vault again be was astonished to see two other bundles very near the spot where he discovered the first. Aided by some of the Eleventh precinct police, he succeeded in fishing up the bundles, each of which contained further portions of @ human body, and which upon a subsequent examination proved to be the divided trunk ofa full grown female. The remains were pot decomposed in the least, and had evideatly been inthe vault buts day or two, judgipg from the color of the fiesby matter on the thigh upd breasts. The poice made diligent inquires in the neighborhood, but could find no clue to the nane of the upkbown woman. No female was ‘ound to be missiog in that quarter of the city, which rendered the case myste: rious and puzzled the very shrewdest of the Metropoli- taus. Corcver Jackman was notided of the occurrence, and an investigation was commenced by that official forth- witb, but resulted im nothing dednite or satis. is true of the tenants stated bupdie ip his bands, and that upon returning from the premises tbe stranger without the parcel. The cir- Cumstance did not create apy suspicion in the mind of the witbees at the time; but the foliowing day, when Mr. Betecb found the thigh, he recalied the incident to mind ano communicated bis suspicions tothe police. Annexed wil’ be found a report of the Coroner's inquisition and the verdict of the jury:— Louis Hesse, being duly sworn, deposes and eays—I re- fide at 125 Columbia street; yesteraay morning I was in- formed that there was tne thigh of a female lying im the Vout; this morning I was told that the re- mander of the body was discovered in the contents of the vault; I went to see the remains, and found the parts lying in the yard; they seemed to me as though they were the upper portions of a body. Wm. Egbert, being sworn, sava:—I reside at No. 125 Columbia street; on Frioay night, sbout balf past ten © clock, I saw a man coming trom Stanton street with a bundle in his arms; the bundle appeared to be covered with black cloth, I was standing at my door when I saw the man coming down the s:reet; he went up the alley way which ig rext to my house; he went towards the privy, and remained there about tbree minutes; wien ho returned be bad po buodie in his hands; he proceeded back py way of Stanton strret; he was a stragger to me; the pext mornicg I was told there was the limo of a woman on the floor of the privy, which is siuated in the rear of my house; acer can be bad so this privy torough the alley way; eut to Kee the limb; it was a thiga; tors morning 1 saw the wok of a female divided two parts; these remains were Jyipg in the yard when I saw them. Wiliam Betrch, betpg duly sworn, says :—I reside at No, 125 Colombia street, in ibe rear; oa Saturday morn- ing about balt-past six o'clock I got ‘up and went to the privy, and while there saw @ bunds uoder the seat; I got It Up; it wak covered with two thicknesses of paper and wrapped on the outside with a piece of linen; I found. that it was the thigh of a person; I then informed the police; when I found this bundle there was uo otner one there; this morning I went out to the privy agam And saw two mere bundles lying in the same epot as the one yes erday; I then notified the police, who aided me ip taking the bundles ont of the sink; we found the last bundles covered 1p a similar macwer to the first, with the exception that pext to the vody there was a piece of table oileioth; Iam coafigent tbat the last two bundles were put cown efter the flret one was taken up. Pohceman Hawks and Frank Dhotder heard the state- ment of the previous witaes# and fully corroborated him in ail be said. THE POST MORTEM EXAMINATION. Jobn Beach, M. D., beisg culy swora, deposed apa said:—I have made a post morten examiaa- ton of the body of a femae now lying dead at the Eleventh precinct station house; chloride of hme bad very recently been sprinkled upon it; upoa msking an incision into toe muscles they presented the usual fresh appearance of a body two or three days after ceath; upon examination I found the head amputated at the Leck from the articulation of the atias with the axis of cervical region; apteriorly the incision was carried around to the superior edge of the thyroid cartilage of the laryvx; the mamma were ve-y large; the Jeft arm was renoved with the scapula; the right arm had been am- putated at the articulation with the scapula; the inferior bmbe bad both been removed from the trank in- ao un- skilful manner; the head of the femur in each limb hud been divided at its union witb the neck, leaving tue head enclosed within toe capsular ligaments: the trunk was divided posteriorly at the articulation of the vpper lumbar with the lower dorsal vertebra anteriorly; the abcominal walls were divided four inches above tae vmbilicus, thus separating the trunk into two parta; all the organs of the thorax were removed; ali the abdomi- nal ano pelvic organs thas could be foucd was the uterus with its sppenéages acd rectum; the uterua, externally viewed, appenrro very lerge; upon laying open the vagina i was touud bighly congested; interualiy it was wflamed, ana 2 mncous mexoorane thickened; from the cartia- givovs concition of the sternum I infer that the Geceased was quite young; from tbe appearance of the mamma, uterus aud vagina, together with the wnskuivl toacrer in whieh the head and limbs hed been dismembered, I am of the opinion that abortien has been produced when the uterus was three OF sour months impregnated, the resuit of which produced metrevis, from which tbe woman may have died; aud m order 10 conceal the crime, comm/tted by gome person or perrone, the body bas thus been mutilated, Police Surgeon Kombark corroborated the testimony: of Dr. Beach, end gave it as bis opinioa that she deceased. bao becu delivered of a three or four months’ foetus. The case was then submitted to the jury, wao, after due Genberation, rendered the following verdict:— “That the Ceceased came to her cearh by foul means gt the harcs of some person or persous vnkoown to the jury.” Inspector Squires, of the Eleventh precinct, manifests a etermsnation to soive the mystery surrounding the fate of the unfortupate woman, and will be uctively engaged. for a weck or two in seeking by every available means to ferret the circumstances under which the remains were placed in the privy in question. The vault will be emptied to-day, and other efforts will be made to recover the missing portions of the corpse. At present, all is in- volved in Garkness. How long tne matter will remain g0 ig a matter of uncertainty. Marriages Among Slaves in South Carolina. REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CONVENTION, AT ITS SESSION IN 1858, TO REPORT ON THE DUTY OP CLERGYMEN IN RELATION TO THE MARRIAGE OF SLAVES. The Committee appointed by the Convention to con- sider and report under what circumstances a clergyman may unite slaves in marriage, respectfully submit the fol- lowing report :— Here follows tbe report, which we omit, inasmuch ag the substance thereof is embodied in the following con- cludipg reeolutions, which the Committee recommend to the Convention, to’ wit :— 1. Resolved, That the relation of husband and wire is of divine inatitotion, and the duties which appertain to it are of upiversal obligation, and bind with the eame force the master and the slave. 2, That the mjauetion of our Saviour forbidding man to separate those whom God has joined together, is obliga- tory upon the conscience of every master, and prohibits the separation of those who have been united ia marriage. 8. Tbat the power over the slave, which is conferred upon the matter by the law of the land, should be exer- ceed by every Christian in conformity with the law of God: and, therefore, every Christian master should 60 Teguiaie the sale or disposal of a married slave as not to infringe the divine injunction forbicding the separation of bur band and wite 4. That while this obligation is generally recognized by Christians, yet many cases arise in which separations among married slaves occur from voluntary abandon- ment of duty by the parties themselves, or from circum- etances beyond their control, and it is desirable that some judgment should be pronounced by tne church which may establish for its members a uniform rule of conduct. }. That the cases of separation produced by the yolun- son of eithe rof tbe parties to the marriage con- ly condemned dy our Saviour; and thig sentence, as a y tiated, embraces master an‘ slave; but involuntary separation,$produced by causes ever which the married parties have no control, do not appear to come within the gcope of any direction recorded in the Scriptures. 6. That in the absence of such direction, the sound judg- ment of the choreh, guided by the general principles of religion, and directed by the great Head of the Church, must be exercised in devising the best rule for the action of its members. 7. Twat where an involuntary and final separation of married elaves bas occurred, the cage of the sufferers is to be distinguished from any’ buman agency which has Separated them. The latter is responsible to God for Gweregarding bis commands; the former are entitled to sympathy and consideration, 8. Tuat in such cases of separation, where neither party is in fault, ana where separation appears to be permanent al, the refural to aliow a recond marriage would often produce much evil and bardehip, and thia Conven- Lop, ib giving ite judgment in favor of such marriages, would do go inthe qualified language apphed by the Apcatio to cases of self restraint—I' they cannot contain, let Vapor a for it is better = marry than to buro.”? Ail which ts respectfully submitted, May 11, 1869, C. G, MAMMINGER, Chairman.