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OWAM 15 greitGREATGREAT SALT LAKE CITY WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8 1862 VOL yliXII

miscellaneous EASTERN ITEMS

at the late election in dacotah TerriTerrterritoryporyForYory

for delegate to congress gen todd the pre I1

sentsenjseat delegate wasas as per report reelectedre elected9by a small majority over gov jayne whoseems to have made a gigantic effort to secure

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a majority of votes by means of stuffing thebalballot1bohboxboi and other tricks which hashaarenrenlerierlei d b im quite gnpunpopularcopular with many of thesettlers the saysgays hishavehake exceededexceeded anything ever practiced inina

kansas or nebraska in relation to elections

ifILirsoso the frauds perpetrated upon the peopleby the imported functionary must have beenenormous

at the recent state fair held in rulandRuIrul andvt Mr Greeley delivered an addressin which I1

it is said after reviewing the history of agri-culture in that state from the days of his

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boyhood up to the present time anaand predict-ing its future tie advised the farmers to usemanure produced on their farms and not com-mercial fertilizers and then gave tobacco andrum soaked farmers a rough handling babul 1

saysbays a reporter he could not avoid in aclosing peroration on the state of the na-tion 1 giving free utterance to his emanci-pation nonsense

the honilon Ilcllohoratioratio seymou of oneldacocoriatyrinty was put in nomination for governor

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by the democratic convention of new yorkf recently held theile D in the empire 1

state are moving iliin opposition to abe powerstbthabthatat be ascavrellr elleil as in moistmoat ofotibethe states otof thenorth and according to reports democracyhasbas of late been lookinskiost up but the abo-litionists and republicans intend to repulse

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their opponents at the polls the severalpolitical parties are so mixed vpup and thepeople have imbibed so freely of the spirit ofconfusion that they seem not to know howbow toextricate themselves from the difficulties inwhich they have become involved the feceszionists inn sou hernbern illinois have of late be-

come considerably emboldened according tothe reports in circulation and occasionallytrouble their neighbors to that extent thatthey have for safety and protection appliedto gor yates the shooting of all secederson sightbight is recommended by some of the ultrarepublicans of the sucker state and govyates bayssays no sympathizersympathiser with treasonshould be suffered to live in illinoise

shocking tales are told about the bufferingsufferingof the wounded soldiers of popes army whowere left on the battlefieldsbattle fields in virginavirgin a afterthe late conflicts between the Rapparappahannockbannockhannockand potomac some of them having remainedthere till they were famished and theirwounds were filled with worms it is allegedthat thousands died who might have beensaved with proper caecare

the confederateerat a exchanged one thousandfederal prisoners for a like number of theirown men who by the fortunes of war hadbadfallen into the handsbands of the federal armythe swap was effected at harrisons land-inging on james river on the of sept

afterater all the emigrants for the pac fie

ichovh0 passed over the routes throughe h thecountry of the hostile indiansindiana had either been

killed or got so near their journeys end as to

be out of danger the acting commissioner of

indian affairs frofrom reliable informationwhich he had received deemed it bibhis duty tolotife all persons contemplating crossing thecontinent through the country of the shoghones bannocksBan nocks and other indians that

I1 their were good reasons to apprehend hostili-ties from those bands and that it would bbee

well for them to btbe on their guarduncle sams officials are generally very

ilowalow in heirtheir movements and seldom act iniasuchch matters till all necessity for them to doso ceases to exist

A difficulty havinhavingt existed for somebome timebetween briggenbrig gen jefferson C davis andmajor general nelson the former is reportedft0 have asked the latteriatter joto apologize tobisno

wrwhich general nelneinelsonon answered

by a bap in the face and the uewe ol01 oppre

ianfanlanguageanguage thehe result of which wasdavis pro ared a pistol and shot nelson kill-ing him almost in stanlylllyilly the murder wascommitted at the gault house louisvilleky on the 29 h uit what was done withduvisDAVIS has not transpired

john cradlebaugh3b late a federal judge forutah and nowow delegate to congress fromnevada hayhaa been commissioned colonelcoonel ofthe ohio infantry and taken theahe fieldagainst the enemy illshis friends expect grgatthirlthings0 s arop him andnd his regiment

ARRIVAL OF CHURCH TRAINS

the third church train capt horn arrivedon Wedneswednesdaylay the dinst this companyleft florence on the of july an i consis-ted of about fivefire hundred and seventy personspersonawith fittfiftyy two wagons they bad a veryprosperous journey2 butbat little sickness and noserious accidents

the fourth church train capt ansel har-mon arrived in this city on sunday eveningthere were some five hundred immigrants inthe train most of whom as represented werein good health on their arrival but therethere was

sickness among them during thefirst four or five weeks after leaving themassurimissmisburiburlsuriurluri river principally the whichunfortunately prevailed among the childrenchildredas we are informed to a great extent andproved fatal to some ten or fifteen A wagonor two upsetupsel by which two chilchiichildrendreu lost theirlives and one or two adults were injuredthere were no oherother acciA butaeita gottby otof botenoe

I1 and all seemed on their arrival theI1 teamsters particularly who lad drivenox teams to the missouri river and back ex

much satisfactionbatisa action on getting backhome again most or all of them wereresidents of great salt lake city

THIRD independent COMPANY

capt james S brown with hishia companyarrived from the plains on thursday the addinst there were about two hundredgrants with forty six wagons and aboutthree hundred head of ststockock tha companyleft florence on the of july and madethe journey in fifty seven traveling daysthere was but one death by the way a mrsthompson from england

A complete report of the company was for-warded from laramie on the slat of augustand should have been received within a few I1

daya thereafter but from some cause did notcome to hand tiliu lastiasu evening the names of

1 theth immigrants1I1

M migrants were as filtjifallowslowslowb

jamesI3 S brown levi garret and williamC moodynoody returned missionaries simon at-wood eliza lester and family I1 sco-vil and wife kew henry mills andamilyfamily josiah dixon john thompson and

family wmwin bates and family george davisanna dale ralph wardle and amilyfamily josephberisford and wife elizabeth gentry eliza-beth white and family elizabeth claybournjohn farnsworth and family magaret courad and family thomas patrick matthewjordan and wife chas williams and familysarah henry and john musson andrewmortimer and family john rura yan edwardcash henry rudy and fartarfamilyailynily jane evansand family joseph davis and family edwardevans and wife samuel purdy and familyIL A russell and family J C orton ananddfamily henry ne son dr A hood and fami-ly lohnjohn horspool and family edward batcliecileceieforfor david davisdavia frederick hand family thomas harris and family will-iam B Wil kinon and family georgg slawtillia chaschag W johnsjohnst n andson lohnjohn and wife james ratelfrandandwife andrew millwardmilmii I1 ward and w fe seth wat-kin and family brower pettit and familyedward sawyer joseph evrettev rett and familyjames cochran and family samuel marmoyand family simorsimon stewart and family johnstuart and family

COMPANIES EN ROUTE

among the companies on the road from theeast to this city alejare capt canfieldCan fielda whichwill be as supposed among the first that willnext arrive capt train thefifth and sixth church trains aandaA freighttrain in charge of capt 47 11II dimedam tucthe I1

fifth church train capt it millerillerliler is upsupposed to be somewhere between fort ridgerbridgerJS

and green riverfiver capt alightII11 light with tthebeesixth chuchchu ch train is believed to be nearlyone hundred milesmilea in the rear of capt midermillerand capt dames frelfreifreightabt train heavily idaded in the rear of all and may not yet havereached the south paspaa

it will unavoidably be late before the lastcompany will get over the mountains andmore than one of them may encounter snowstormstorms before they get into thisthia valley butit is hoped that the weather will continuefavorable and that no heavy bormsworms nor ex-treme cold will occur till after the last himmlimm-igrant or freight wagon this fall bhailrhall havereached this city

progressing theabe work of constructingthe levee on the west side of jordan for theresregretrieval of the thoele roid from the domin-ion of the flood preparatory to its being re-paired and constructedreconstructedle so that it may againawainagain0bbe usable a progressing and has been so farcompleted that teams not heavily loaded canpasspabsa on the embankembankmentin criterit and it will boonsoon becompleted if no unforeseen obstacle shall bepresented to cause delay it has been moreof a job than supposed before it was com-mencedme aced but when finished will be a perma-nent improvement which those who havebuitsuiTbufferedsufferedered so many inconveniences from theoperations of the longiong continued flood will

appreciate

meteoKsOnorson on wednesday evening the litinstant there were two very brilliant meteorsmeteorseen in thisthia city the first at 8 pm waswasaagramgrand etberialetherial phenomenon but being abovethe common air was bright0 without any

tthe second at nearly 9 pm was lower

down in the atmosphere eoso that besides itslucid stream of brilliancy it gave a heavyrumrumblingbling noise like distant thunder as I1itmade a vacuum in the air nothing strangein these heavenly occurrences bocles dis-placing air make a noi seand those higher uplike heaven arearc still and grand

acknowledgment before during andsince the exhibition several fruit growers inand about the city seemingly reposing espe-cial confidence in our judgment and tastein relation to the kind and quality of theirpears apples peaches grapes plumbplums etchave requested us to test the excellence of somanynany varievarle tietSe that we have not time to re

aportport specially in each case but to the best ofour judgment nonot having taken time to ar-rive at conclusions mathematically the spe-cimens to which attention has been so agree-ably called have been excellent with no ex-ceptionception the typos concur

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AMERICAN PAPER CURRENCY

the united states hive lately made severisever 1

frgreate al discoveriesliscodiaco verlesveries some of which will bencealorthr tb fof0 in par of the tiatinationalonal stock of know-ledge e others willvill be superseded by fu-ture discoveries they have discovered thatan uncompromising domestic policy and anarrogant bearingbearin produce civil warmarthatthat agreat war produces enormous debt wllallallaaila taxa-tion that these produce 1 aper monel thatthis in titimeI1 ne bebecomesloines ininconvertiblec on fur thepresent at least thatthai therefore the preciousmetals rise to a high premium then disappearall this is A B C to usas but A B C is hardlearning to those who have not learnt it

america iais the child of original geniuswhich insists on learear ing for itselfand willliiill take 1010io0 o hing on trust ti I1 convincedby expeap ariment it will not believe that the fireburns that edge tools are dangerousdan gerou that toomany lollipopslolli pops induce sicgicklieskries or that it isbetter to keep out of the way of a lioiiohotshoiss 29shindbind legs

the present stage of american informationis represented in tuethe fact of the largest andat the same time the smalsinal est inconvertiblepapaperer currency hiin the world the union isflooded with paper it descends like a owin flakes worth a halbat penny apiecepiecea cartl-oad s ojof paper ceneen a iesuetsue daily from tthehetreasury and are sown broadbroadcastgast over thefederal states

not only gold and silver but even thethagreasy little nickel centcelt pieces have disap-peared and it is paper or rather cardboardeverywhere in a me of our charity schoolsthe children bavebaehae tickets of merit for eachdays attendance which on presentation atthe end cfef the half year count up into a prizethey are nearly as valuable as the Americamericandexaixcurrency

but the value of each cent piece is itself acalculation from day to dayclay everyE very time yourequire small change you will have to learnfirst the exchange otof the dav siysay the pre-mium on silver is 14 121 2 and the charge uponyou is a dollar and thirty five cents estimatedin metallic currency the sum will be as fol-lows 12 or the fig-are

fig-ure

firequiredired viz 1000 the resresultat

willwiilillili be that after getting a headache by thesum and buying a paper dollar and fifty four

t paper cents there will remain a fractionI1to be settled between you and the shopman

it is now only a veryiery few years since theunited states having everything eseelse theycould possibly want suddenly discovered thatthey possessed an inexhaustible treasure ocofgold we may all remember howbow they ex-ulted in this new confirmation of the flatteringtheory that the world was made forthe unitedstates and that they were to go on prosperinggrowing multiplying increasing adding aadannexing till they comprised the willingworld even in gold first and oldest idea ofwealth and the fiercest object of old worldenterprise and ambition they now took thelead yet in this short time all the gold hasmade itself wings for such indeed are themyriads of lit ie paper promises never to bpbo

every ship brings away gold andsilver never to return until the states areeither once more united or amicably sepalsepa L

rated even henbenthen unless the deckfleck be clearedbybr one gigantic acact of repudiation it is hardto see how the treasury at washington canever be in a condition to resume a metalliccurrency thus itkovit no v stands californiais on one side washington on the otherfastpast as the diggers can extricate their handhaudtuis of dust in california a engineat washington is showering paper over thestates an I1 involving the whole people inili oriaorlaonmatted massofmassotmass bf indebtedness

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destination OF SL

the burlinburlingtonoton argus is responsible for thefollowingfoll owin

D A mahoneyaboneyAl and D sheward editors ofdemoDamodemocraticcatic papers in the state of iowa whowere arrested on a charge of disloyalty andleft burlington on the of august in chargeof government officers bound for 8omesome pointthey knew ntnut ofor and when enell route for thathouse fronfrom which no traveler returns saveat his own expense while at a place on therailroad where had to change and waitan hour were taken to a hotel theofficers in charge registered their names withthe office of capt line of 17 S A mrmahoney registered his named A mahoney

aana thefeildfit ad iowa the officer in charge deeminseeminglyayiyto torment his prisoners remarked to thelandlord make those men register theirdestination the landlord gave the orderand mr alM stepped forward and added tahiatehlaname as follosfollows bound for hades sentthere by the devil in charge of some of hisandelsansela for speaking the truth

mr S came forward and added coundsound1foror the same place and for the same rearcasonon J

tireTHE PRAYERS OFor AMERICAN WOmetaimeraiMETAtkta meeting of several hundred wwomenomendenominations heldheid at the park street churchboston S 8 a circular waswag adoptedto the women of the united states suggestingsuggest mgto them to form circles of prayer throughoutthe land and to pray for the outpouring ofthe holy spirit on the entire nation for thepresident and hkhis councillors for the officersof the army and navy for our soldiers andaniseamen for their familfaunl es for ministers ofthe gospel and for the oppressed of our landand agreeing to observe monday of everyweeweekk as a day of especial prayer assemblingat id10 am anand 3 pm each service to occupytwo hourshouri N Y world

will their prayerspray ersera be of any avalayalavalayal

con INS RETURN liiMAI MEXI-CO60 govgorov Corcorwinscerwinswins friends at lVwashingtonashingtonsayssaya overland correspondence statesstate that bis jiklikbikelyely soon to return fromfroni AIAlexiexicocopcoy and armaratalking of a plan to have him returned to0ocongress again ilejie only went to mexico tonegotiate a treat as the Senate is thoughtto navehave virtually rejected that hhlahias friefrieldsfriendslidsthink he wiliwill regard blahia work there as29 endedand commecorns home at once ilehe said whanuhan hewent out that he did not expect to be gitleopemore taiath 0 a ear