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Daily Union Vedette from Camp Douglas, Utah • 2

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ame jb PIT gaii LyDAr TU MAY 23 3 1865 tle ta man of mercy and of tithing in bis bar burlesque lesque pei formandofor manco at thetabernacle recently at which ho he fon found nd it necessary to 0 remind tho the peo ale that it WAS not a theater found an interval beti between veen lie he floods or of bil 0 it to mention liun a tem 1 tation to do a cleed of to which he had been 1 on oil his hia i ay up tip through the northern 8 lately hikly 1 but winchwhich with fonti fortitudetude he- re resisted isted it seems he hl hemet met the ind from camp ca rip connor bonnor conits way down and would have given them a dinner if he hadbad only thought 0 of it thanks to the provident careon cue of the government no thanks thank sto to brigham united states troops herebere as alse elsewhere abere arearc not usually objects of elra itty however rather than permit his ts kind heartbeart to burst with benevolence we would respectfully recommend him to lo let a little overflow for the benefit of abo ihlae de inis miserableerable victims of his unsatisfied avarice who daily appeal to and are fedfrom the bounty of the government albis post poat poor halfbalf starved hope asks wretches they come hither care ons alq irea weary with the he deep lines of phy physical and funtall misery stamped upon their penury shrunken features anil and with the afie inevitable story of all whom the oruel cruel spoliation of their fe fel 1 low wretched upon their lips to ask al alma of those who are falsely represented na as es enemies indeed not to the dupes of priestly legerdemain do we feel the least sentiment of Doati hostility lity but between us lis nn end the hungry bungey cormorants that devoter allm there can lq be no truce FIC TELEGRAPH TO till THE DAILY VEDETTE I baltimore may alay the amer americans icons Annn annapolis polis special say bays A transport lias has arrived from for gundina nu florida bringing thirtyeight rebel of ficera including col ol 01 brecken washington washing may the te witnesses for the dejesse in the 1 I assassination thial were today to day dismissed until monday about twenty thus far have bare been summonedand the united I 1 ettes states have 1 probably three thre mere emore to examine ia an effort will be made tomor to mor JJ 1 row to conclude the testimony for the prosecution gems grant gran and meade have testified to of stanton in the man nt of the WP war department the coriner sm semig inc that Stu iton ivion never inter I 1 bitted wit with his dulles and dictated cou coursed of campaign to him but al co operated opera ledi wath him new york May lotia ahe he Tr Trio roune mies washington corre correspond euttu seen the OW forthcoming report 0 of i iaci he i committee on the conduct of the war arid add says the testimony on the lied river river campaigns a ui is 1801 of ii a character damaging to any military creten preten hofgen of Gen and pronounces mm him to have bare beenbeda guilty of a Iner mercenary this benefit cucut of himself his speculation i affair substantially ir vindicated i in the petersburg anine failure which is adri attributed buted to ft a lack of confidence his part fAlur elto captured Cap lees army alter after the baltbatt leof gettysburg is id by albade at life same i- the indi fin ansinsift colorado ol orado territory by ay colonel call ChiT chivington ington have been abru lil lal and ft a disgrace dil grace to the country ry tho corlila Wor lila bayat it- is atia ru tha i and Kirby smith amab 11 and innas 01 government 1 is ing the th allt i 1 a 5 ji th samo atil 0 sp social caal sit says ys the mexica mexican ill emigrant agents have abandoned tre jhc thc system or of newspaper aper advertisements and recruiting officers and have bare substituted a system ot eilent organizations 0 all over the country corresponding one with the other audand are preparing means mean forthe forwarding 0 of largo lar age na tubers of emigrants to the mexican frontier the tribunes special says that the houston telegraph of april published tho the speech of gen at the war meeting on the day pr evion magrud Magruder er said hebe saw nothing 0 discouraging atif in ace surrender Hur render if tho the people of the trans mississippi would keep up tip a determination to tight fight it out ile he closed by shying avi come jtb what may 1 I rill aill stand by my coun country and never be a slave to yankee power il lie would rather lie be a comanche indian chief thau bend his knee to antl and wo ire have bare nel neighbors 9 cacir at hand butbul I 1 dont feel at liberty to say anything further concerning the matter at present it maybe may be that we may have hae aid from a source unexpected and at a time when least dreamed of let us its fland by our leaders and all williet wil lyet be bowell awell IV washington a 6 ai ag on wy may secretary seward for the firsttime since the ass assassination assignation assi nation went to the state department today to day and gave audience to one of the members of the french legation fred seward continues to improve i baltimore I 1 may jtb A letter from- on board the tuscarora Tuse arara to the american says the party we have consists vals avis his wife a small son and two daughters together with A IL II stephens 6 caay clay col col regan rea gen wheeler ler therebel raider and 15 16 or 16 others whose names have hare not been ascertained the le letter tte concludes by saving we leave for the potomac in a few hours new york may thetha commercial special says gov bance of has arrived tir rived and ana his has been lodged in the old capitol prison A delegation of loyal north carolinians have arrived and had a consultation with the president Preside nf to fo today day on the subject of the organization reorganization re or a animation aniza tion of that state the amnesty proclamation iris hw been finally determined upu 11 resident land will beissued dimmed bately the sew new orleans evening even ilg star of tile the and other papers contain some mexican news when col hecky went out to attack the literals at nava a greater part of his cavalry deserted when ordered to charge lie he fired upon them with his infantry and commenced retreating but was ambushed himself and arld killed and the remainder of his troops surrendered immediately the liberals libena la had marched marelted within eight miles mile of and Maximil maximillian liau native troops cannot be trusted A letter from rio grando grande city says A new nel revolution is breaking out on tho the frontier sixty natives and the Ba barcinas Bar finas I 1 have joined their forces with leonat leon at camargo and are expected to attack dittfach mata Mataro mora oras 1 the steamer er mccombs Mc Comba with wita a regiment 1 of cavalry I 1 for kansas city heavily I 1 1 laden aden with government freight 0 I 1 th theis i ss i ia erly es tera yo ives lives fost I 1 lost boat and cargo total loss cairo may gen forrest is address to his troops announcing anno the cho surrender Wr of dick taylor and instantly advising advie ing them to lay aside all beelin and revenge vengo re and cheerfully cheerfull cheerful jf lf the powers that bo beand nd go home anda and ve good olt citizens zens and use their best exertions 1 to restore peace and order aphis letin deniese the ti 1 11 iett iV tt azof ry of jor rests death THE rebels have av eara I 1 cup a of humiliation lation lit blyd I 1 az ik tj 41 sr nass ta nomi RESS 0 PEOPLE LE eg lr BY A RESIDENT RESIDENT OF 1 A 11 nm MCM 24 notwithstanding the strong effortsof the utah ecclesiastics to incite their ad- herentsberents 3 to the constant and prompt payi payment nent of tithes it was waa no very buncom won abiu thing dolind individual la ts manifesting in responding nor to hearbear those who possessed the requisite moral courage courage 0 to what purposes purpose the means collected were to be applied such stich tardiness was generally however ol of short duration for it were fruitless to attempt to evade payments so peremptorily demanded by those in whose hands were vested executive and judicial us as tt oil ell as ecclesiastical poix power er the threat to excommunicate non from the be church was generally sufficient far in in that threat was couchedothers of vz sr nature too serious to be disregarded or treated lightly excommunication from thutho church in utah in those days signified something more thanihan a mere erasure of the names of the excommunicated I 1 party arty from the church recordand that something more a retribution too horrible to benamed under the caption of this article suffice it to remark herebere that both tardiness and were ordinarily cured by a thre threatened atene resort to its unrelenting power or their exhibition prudentially postponed to a prospective period when involuntary servitude to at an arrogant should be among the things that were but are not and the once unwilling edg servitors of an invidious absolutism she should uld reassume their sacred rights withheld and be again in the glistening armor 0 of natural civil political andro and rc ro legious liberty lib cityeity gods greatest gift to man the pressing 0 exactions demanded of the people ext extended ended into every ramifica- tionof claimed tribute alike from the rich- and poor the employer and id tue tile employed in insider oi der to reach the condition circumstances and i aces of every person the system of tithing was divided into three distinct clas classes seb viz viz produce cash and labor 1 tithing thing those whose increase was derived from the soil the raising of stock and the jj various I 1 burces from which the revenue of 0 the fanner is usually obtained were ic quiren to paya pay a tenth of their in income come in 1 I produce pio duce merchants andolbers the conducting condu eting or of who ae bushi ess required cas cash were vere expected to pay one tenth of their income ibi cash mechanics Ic chanies and laborers by whose practical ingenuity stalwart arms audand unceasing 0 industry contributions to the wealth ofthe capitalist are ever being made were required to pay also the former class sixty dollars and tho the latter class forty five dollars per annum as labor kitbing tit bing and if by self denial and extra toil the poor mechanic or laborer should obtain tor his half famished and comfortless family it cow or two a few chickens a pig or a 9 aiden thetenth part of the butter and cheese made from the cow besides one dollar as tithing for each calf one tenth bf 0 the eggs and increase in chickens one ten the increase of swine saini besides one lenth of the pork bork irb when en killed and one tenth of all the produce of othe the garden was demanded by the watchful bishop besides his ila I labor tithing which lie he was vas expected to pay wh whether her in constant employ or not and except in some come very extraordinary cases indeed if it was not paid it was entered against him as a debt and he was in no very polite manner informed im formed that lie he owed the amount ofthe recorded indebtedness to the church and was expected i to cancel the same without buther prompting from his ecclesiastical superiors giors it mattered little what the penurious nou co condition of his circumstances be aitoof to what suffering hisbis familyjamily min might ht be reduced his tithing I 1 must A And not of was his manly dignity insulted by his prop property erty seekers with the harrowing taunt that hi his cir circumstances cum stances were the result of neglect to pay ther the tenth of that which to fo his grief stricken heart seemed so obviously apparent iwas was little more than halthall sufficient to keep body and spirit together as a whole thus in this PS in in every other 8 system of unjust taxation the poor man is the grea greatest test the only real su sufferer frerer wherever tyranny reigns and despotism asserts its sway he whose back tho the greatest burden boarsbaars whose visage sorrow impress wears nose heart ed by earescares to sate the despond Despo Dei td whim i A GREAT man corn COM conly disappoints those thoy hey are anthe on the lookout for his thun der audand lightning and lie he speaks about commoncornmon things like othe othar co 1 nay someji mea he may be seen laughing i 00 aey IN OIL 4 the rhe 01 allowing ol humorous oration on this subject frontfrom a hold botel proprietor in the oil regions 0 21 i isto to forcible and true to be lost loit 6 why haven I 1 made money in oil some oine inen are meant to make money in oil cut atil for it and nothing else they intended for it what sort of it a man is is is it that makes money III in oil ill tell fell you one of your tearing ripping sort of fellows such as aa will go 0 their whole pile on oil aidy any kind of ft a ban hand men that will look at a piece of ground serapescrape it with it a stick smellemell the end swear theres oilthere and slap down a hundred and fitly fifty thousand dollars on the counter and have the deed signed before the owner knows newswere hebe is your sort that makes money in in oil or else bust up lip bicher the crows fly now I 1 never couldrisk my iny bottom dollar on oil a epee and balance everlasting poverty against a pile of greenbacks green backs chances of course I 1 had chances in 1860 1 was owner of wells and the gushed out of them like greasy niaga- ra then the market was overstocked over stocked oil went downto down to thirty twenty five fifteen centscenta a barrel yes to ten cents men who i no agreed to find barrels for half the oil threw up tile the contracts A man would perlin perhaps ps stay withee say in ii tile the morning major im dead broke give me thirty dollars and ill give you an oi lwell then id seesec one of the children run half frightened to death into the next room and heir hear it holler hollarr mother mother fathers baing another oil well then come a rap rap rap on petition from inside and that bargain would be brocke off in a hurry so 0 then I 1 came over here this tavern is is my oil well gentlemen and the barroom my derrick derrick i EGANKANYON KANYO NEVADA the austin reveille speaks as follows of the mining in this locality A business letter fromfroin egan gives us numerous rinal erous itemsof interest from that very promising locality the writer says we are getting 0 along quietly and progressively gres every one 0 owning interests in the mines are arlindus indus tr bously triou sly at work trying to develop them he says lieho has never been in a mining bisti district act where thare th creore are less idlers and all are men of good character the owners rs of we tile gold canyon mine mine are energetically working it and deserve from ther their industry to meet with success the hope company 11 arearc also busy at work on both mill and mine also the new york company have resumed labor on their mines located by their agents last year the social company are running their mill night and day except sunday and alth although bugh having but flye five stamps furnish one twelfth of the bullion ahat hat leaves austin they crush no rock but fromfrani their flicia own mine and haa have haac llund hundreds reds of tons ahead of their mill the mill is by far too small for their mine RECENTLY we heard a good story of an oc occurrence durrence which aich to took 0 place in nl newburyport mass A servant girl in that town went to dr spofford for advice declaring her ailment to be a pain in the bowels the doctor gave her a carth artic and requested reverted ted her to call again in a few days when she did aie he askedhar herff if she hadbad takenthe medicine to which she replied in affirmative ite he then asket aska ima did anything pass you after taking it 11 yes sir said she a horse and wagon 1 and a drove of pigs 1 the basped remarking 1 I think you mastbe better 1 THE topeka kausaskansas record syasay elhat alya uie th workmen an ou the ull i 21 pacific 6 railroad at cal houns bluffy while excavating the rocks find in the I 1 acce crevices abes thousands of snakes every day rattlesnakes tle Ale snakes copperheads copper heads vipers etc the they are ahei in a torpid state i dad an cl ire arc wheeled of off an and intothe river A CONTRAST I 1 A en A writes fronifrom richmond i 1 next I 1 called on general gener nurit we zel at the house I 1 for or winch the city paid sixty five tIlOu thousand dollars in gold and presented to da viswhen lie removed his govern ment edt from montgomery in the parlor par loron on the point of betting out for an interview with mr lincoln on one of the gunboats gun boats wa was aidie hambell Oam Can I 1 bell ibell an elderly bald man bowed pale ale and witha with a look 0 on his face full of grave rave disappoint ment and sadness Os yet vet of great di dignity 9 anity I 1 could co uld but bout note tho eon contrast afforded by wei atzel abo in full uniform with sword at ilis loins was to go ro with him to the president it was the contrast between sorrow a and lid joy between bittar failure and glorious success between a thwarted and brooke conspirator whose dge a ge precludes any honorable retrieval a and nd a soldier who though not yet thirty has served his country well won ivon her gro greenest enest laurels and the respect and gratitude of good men the contrast between cataline defeated and cicero in his triumph the very courtesy of ive demeanor towards the old man but pointed the difference each roust must have felt in his consciousness ness it was mournful to walk about the city so many houses desert rt ed ady so many ladies in ng so many old nien men broken wi with th premature age age their hats made respectable by the dingy crapa that toldof sons slain and then that broad black waste where had stood the busiest part of the city 11 ANGEL ISLAND SILVER WARE the statement that fine specimens of silver ware ale aio manufactured from silver extracted from angel island rock san I 1 francisco bay will probably be received with incredulity yet such ware does exist the lady of maj andrews commanding on angel ang cl island has in her possession one of three beautiful soup ladles manufactured from silver and gold taken from a ledge on angel island the ladles weigh iveigh about ounces ancl ana euclid each contains about ei- ght eight dollars worth of gold the whole being bei no the product of one ton of rock taken out and worked at the time some excitement was occasioned by the reported discovery of silver mines on the island some day the island will doubtless be worked worried to advantage age ZD for its silver ore but at present military regulations prohibit 6 any work on the ledges call IT is a remarkable fact that pr pera sons son losing themselves iu lin a forest or in a snow storm macfeat invariably a tendency to turn round gradually to the le left to the eav extreme even of mo moving in a circle the explanation of this is found probably in the fact act that the limbs and i muscles of tahe th ra rig i lascara lA sWara are generally bester be ster developed chaa those of the leftside under alio excitement felt when one is lost and in the ilie absence of a any ay 9 guid mid ind line me the superior ener energy 1 of the right limbs throws the trian insensibly round to the left 1 INGENIOUS naj 0 Us one dark clark of discoll discovered red a alun for working into hardbard rock by building a firmat fire at theand the end of the tunnel his claim is of such hard rock that it cost per 1001 foot to ta cut in the tunnel but by burning ar a cordob of wood li he 0 bile succeeded ceedee ill two fi feet et in one olle day thus wang about 0 ill lu ash.

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