nj A i IK H meadow azas ACRE IN idt the delivery of tho the lecture sis six six bis months in utah by mrs kra st chere clair air on tuesday jasu jast at the theatre Thea trey there was an al made by the to what in iq known as us the mountain meadow Afas massacre sacre 11 there was nothing in her treatment of this pal point int in her lecture that was offensive ivd ive to her audience bub bufe she evidently was unfamiliar with the facts and as a general misapprehension exists abroad incela in relation to them simple justice demands that they be correctly stated our oar silence upon this subject is frequently construed as an evidence of the inability of the people of this thid territory to defend themi themE themselves elves against the cruel charges which have been made against them in connection with that tragedy it is almost a pity to break this silence now for there is a class of anti antl mormon only writers whose entire stock of trade consists of the mountain meadow massacre and a few other acts of violence which have occurred in this territory and upon which they ring cons constant coustant tant changes holding the imas massacre over our heads somewhat as an old schoolmistress would a rod over a naughty child we scarcely knoy v bow these threats and menaces huud to people who ohp live outside of this territory Terii Teni tory uta they only excite either or contempt here hero where the facts are aro understood i after atter afeei governor alfred aifred reached this city and was fairly installed led in office considerable having ac been en aid raid i about the massacre of gfa a company 0 of e emigrants I 1 m migrants at mou mountain etain Mea Mear dowis towa the pra pro fall ex governor young urged upon the governor and U S di tract attorney wilson the propriety of taking step to investigate thih this occurrence in the wish for a thorough ez tion he was wai seconded ded by tho the oin orn nin for ali all felt thad that most moat brayl cruel and nud aud ut unjust just had ahu 61 c cast t upon toem to render renden wha ald aid he ie coutu pre Proff erred to go with tb bf federal futral F ut ral rai off officers leers to the thu of the outrage antl ami uhe use every effort in ll lim 11 power to sift tile tiie matter malter to tins luuy uttermost and discover the guilty oties ones but bilt this was waslo no pitro part of tho policy of bt the who were then here nor ncr tb the at tat darhes hes bes of the camp such a course would settle kettle the question quention burthy butth y were interested ili in keeping it open at provo in the spring of 1859 a grand jury ou on U 8 bu business biness undertook the investigation of tf the mountain meadow massacre they requested the theu U S dietrict attorney mr wion a citizen of pennsy vania to be present wilb with them aud and examine the ses sea two hwo indians mose and looking gla s had been committed for the crime of bf lape jape perpetuated upon a white woman and anti hor her i daughter a girl of ten years in the midst of the investigation of the mountain meadow case the judge john cradlebaugh eallen caned the grand jury into the court room and administered to the members an abusive lecture and summarily discharged them at the same fame time be he turned the fhe savages Mo M seand lookingglass looking glass loose upon the community the grand jury protested but in vain against this unwarrantable proceeding by the court district attorney wilson also Te reported ported that he was present at the deliberations of or the grand jury and at the request of its members had examined the witnesses aud and that the jury were proceeding in the matter efficiently thus thua ended the attempt to have the transaction investigated judicially I 1 I 1 from the earliest years that white men traveled through the country now incorporated in the southern portion of this territory and the tho northern part of arizona autra outrages es upon the indians were ere frequent when hen colonel fremont pas passed ed through the southern desert in 1842 his party killed without any provocation atlon several pah rah ute indians indiana neal neais neals the rico virgen when new mexico was organized governor calhoun superintendent perin of indian affairs recommended to the department at at washington the extermination of the pah utes emigrants passing through by the southern route to california had also frequently shot them whenever they came in s sight to such an extent had this custom prevailed that when dent floo asmith and party hod bod 9 tha the pett pelt lement at parowan carowan Pa rowan iron roll roil county in 14 january 1851 ibn then miles from settlements klementson tle tie ments menth on the north and upwards 0 of on the the tho south a delegation of baht pahi utes from new mexico now flow Ariz aniz arizona oria orla visited him and besought that the indis andisi criminate shoot shooting ln of indians indiana by emit grants should celise oease cease as they were dist disi posed to be friendly and wished to trade with them president smith could only speak foghis own people from all that is known respecting th company of arkansas emir emigrants rants who were killed at mountain meadows they eon conducted ducted themselves in a hostile malli mani ner towards the indians wherever they saw gaw them at corn creek ill ili lillard lard co president george A who was wag oming from a visit to the southern settlements tle tie ments menta in company with several friends found a company of emigrants camped they had about thirty wagons and a considerable herd of stock he and his party crossed the creek and camped about forty yards from them three of the company visited his camp and onil tras vas introduced as the captain odthe company after inquiring where dent smith and party were from he asked if there was any danger to be feared from the indians who were camped near bear by he was told that if his company had committed no outrage upon the indians there was no danger ing early while president 8 and party were hitching up ups the captain of the emigrant company again coined them he pointed to an oi ox which had died during the night and wished to know if the indians would would eat the animal he was told they would that they were in the habit of eating cattle that died and that if he would give it to them th they would be thankful As president 7 8 was starting one of his party asked him what the captain I 1 was doing over at the dead ax with a bottle in his hand band he replied that he was probably taking a the tha indians ate the ox and ten of their number died it had without doubt been poisoned A portion of these indiana were and others were pah utes who lived in the vicinity of the mountain meadows and were on a visit to the there is reason to believe that this company til toi poisoned boned the spring also ako for thirty head ef cattle which drank of its waters died with every symptom of poisoning the pah ute indians who survived returned home hornet with the news of the death of heir their companions but the company that had occasioned their death was not lost sight bight ef of another outrage had been added to the long list which had been accumulating from the days daya when fremont premont had parsed passed through their couri country tryo and they were ie resolved solved to wreak a terrible revenge they rallied all the neighbor ing indians and when the emigrants reached tane eane taue cane spring in the mountain meadows they attacked them iha ai the first intimation of it received at parowan carowan was by indian ruo rua runners riena tiera to a pi edem edea iu in that vicinity vie vic tinty who was Bumm rued to assist them from the pi eulen elea the citizens learned sonis somis thing about a difficulty between bet weeti the indians and a boremi of emigrants emigrant and succeeded in weeping them from joining the pah utes rumors still Hr ur riving rivina that a battle nattle lug tug inq on a party of citizens from cedar pt atu arted teti teil for the purpose of relf reif avint the trailers huu hut arrived too tate late ate they succeeded howe however veria verla iu a few children who had been preserved by the indiana agreeably to their victorious of keeping children to trade another company which was following in 0 the arkansas corn fired upon bome some indians near beaver blaver and wound 1 ea one of them the indians Inilla us appeared determined to destroy them aud and they probably would bae bave done doue done so had bail not col cot D ame me of Pa rowau sent bent a detachment of or militia nu ilida who pacified the indians to extent t aud guarded aed the company on their road some three hundred miles abe abb rho above is s a brief ou outline tillie of the circumstances connected with this massacre the determined policy of the enemies of the people of this territory has been to not investigate ate atu this transaction during the yeas yeara 1858 1853 9 an army of several fio dlo usand men inen were stationed la in the Terr territory IUry lury without any employment employments the federal judges who were here at thal that timo time were the open and avowed enemies of the people and 1 is 5 1 it probable that with such ft a force to b back a e kp kethern thern them tf if there had bad been the least probability of crimination the mor mer mori her mons they would have suffered BO so good an opportunity to pass the fact is the newspaper rumors concerning this affair answered a better purpose than investigation in affording an excuse for keep ing up of sustaining troops where they wenet were nott needed i 0 igho igno ia there has never becil a time when president yai ine lne ardithe peopled pe have not been ready to give every a aid d in 4 their 1 tower power lower to ta have tuis mccurren ae ll rigidly A 1 I 1 1 I f i 4 iii ili 1 rf 4 i t r THE n of mining and engineer la in central europe wat pre tte enc ent enc euc much mach engrossed wita with tbt the astonishing bg in act effect produced by the ex of saml I 1 of idu allne a recently discovered explosive agent its alsin ita inventor was for several years engaged as director of the roy royal at powder muis at Bp audau near berlin which position he lert left to become the thle technical direction direct lor ofa nitroglycerine nitro glycerine manufactory belonging to mr nobel the ln venter of that powerful agent experiencing in his person the dangers attendant upon the fabrication storage and application of nitroglycerine nitro glycerine this thia gentleman sought to discover yer ver a new bow agent that could bo be handled with greater safety than glycerine dyet possess its essential qu qualities alit allt he aad aud ad mr amri nobel invented invent eLt ett what is called dynamite iya iva a substance fully as na power fal us a a laitio baltro glycerian yet in la every avery way less lesa dangerous in its ita application abrl abri catlon and transportation there are sire objections however to the use ube ot that by the development oc a noxious gaail gas tb through the firing of blasts miners are prevented from resuming work for souie soine time persons have be been known to 0 o be made ill III norm horn entering a mine fully folly an ua hour hoar after the tho explosion bad had occurred another urged its ita application is that at a alow low temperature the substance packs together 9 ether other aud and cannot bo be exploded it is again slated seated thai that like nitro a it I 1 is almost too violent in its action it rock nock and coal especially niara neara crushing it in small fragments instead of large pieces and lumps not satisfied with this die dle covery this gentleman mill till persever persevered eI in ili bis his cu to find aa agent tuat that should combi lie nio all the advantages of nitro dynamite and powder without p possessing the tha evil effects of auy any of if th tin v uzl ull in dum Dua Du aliue litte issana to be buch such aa an agent and ta thiu thlu deseri desert bed IDu dealine Du allne aline is a coarse power of a ligh brown color looking very much like sawdust or like virginia am aking tobacco tob iceo it will neither decompose even by being brought into late i coln Coin contract tract with acids 1 nor lor congeal lice nor pack together nor iose loss 2 any ny of dofita its properties during a spell spelt or of cold or hot weather it la Is luima enat enal whether the tbt maga magazine zibie in which duaime is kept be dry or damp hot or cold dealine Du allne aline by its explosion does not cause the development of ay a y noxious gases miners hava bava bee beet abie able tn to i esome work immediately ely after sever tl it blasts had been aeeti fired red la in a mine thab that was waa not au well venti abed dealine Du aline if fired by a flame or coal will barni barn burn iu athe the open air without witti out exploding twenty ity tive five po pot ads ot d du mi aline litte contained tn in a strongly madu maily keg over which a large nife fire was baitt built commenced burning rather nather I 1 slowly uly after the st t ves had been bea burnt buret t through U 1 but if it conduced in enclosure as ta in a well camped tamped blast bust hoie hole in the bok box of a mine in a torpedo etc etc ete dua line can be exploded like powder by a tase tuse ia br r fa spark p ark I 1 he stronger rOnger ht the ibe enclosure is the tho h I 1 9 greater reater Is the effect of the explosion in open air or with a tamping of lose sand band or r water it is ne cesary necessary to use a cap in order to cause the dua duanine litie to explode dealine Dual duzi inels ineis Is so little sou seu silve to concussion that it may without any danger of prem prema ture we explosion be used for the bursting charge of shells dealine acts on rock and coal less violently than nitroglycerine nitro glycerine and dynamited dynamite d i it ts explosion produces in coal a larger quantity of lumps and round coal than even a corresponding char charge go of powder would produce the remarkable insensitiveness of dealine to concussion and friction and its nature render it much less dangerous than common powder it may be stored transported and applied with hardly any risk tik rik at all thim this p substance ia is said to b be e ly cheaper than either nitroglycerine eor eon or and is 13 also relatively cheaper than common blasting powder powdery tor hardly one fifth of the I 1 work ork a and in d ti time e required for using the tatter latter is needed for successfully operating n with donaline dual aline allne rie 11 with sadet safet yand and certainty of action together get herwit with a considerable savin expense ense this new found fondd substance may be e destined to take the ibe place ofal of ali all other lother explosive agents in pining milling and blasting ng operations this place it has occupied led iu 10 europe since last may when it avas first tested alexandria va is a model city it has bas ns people and not billiard table tenpin ten pin pla alley roulette or gambling sado saro otti