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Colonist, Issue 10, 24 November 1857, Page 4

American Extract.

Amenities of Utah.—Governor Drummond has arrived in Washington from Utah, and with him have come letters to the New York journals from, to use an Americanism, " reliable sources." The picture a despotism compared with which John ot Leyden standing over Fides with a drawn dagger is an amiable gentleman. The general outlines of the picture have reached us before, but here we have the filling up. The correspondent of the Daily Times tells us of a Federal Court terminated with the bowie-knife and the revolver; of a Morman prosecuting officer entering nolle prosequis against Mormon murderers of Gentiles; of a federal judge intimidated by pistols placed at his head, and dirks at his throat, while sitting on the bench;. and of what they call in Kentucky a " free fight" within the bar, while these exciting amusements were going on upon the bench. The correspondent of the Tribune deals more in social matters. He tells how he heard a Morman bishop—one Kimball—"in the presence of between 2000 and 3000 deliver a discourse on the intercourse of the sexes, in which he made use of language too obscene for the most dregraded to utter." He says that the rabbi and chiefs of the Sanhedrim, accuse women by name, in their public discourses, of being " prostitutes," to further their own lascivious purposes; and gives the name of a bishop who accused a married woman to her husband of infideYitj to gain her to his own uses. He gives names and dates, also, for other outrages too horrible to be repeated. The circumstantiality of these narratives forbids us to disbelieve them. Public opinion loudly calls upon the government to do something to check the tide of corruption and treason.

Can this be True ?—Effects of Lynch Law.—ln connection with the recent lynching of Bargar, the murderer, in lowa, an incident occurred which can hardly be credited in a civilised community. Yet it was the legitimate effect of that brutality which scenes of violence inevitably engender in the human breast, and an emulation of the spirit of lawlessness and reckless disregard of the decencies of life shown by those citizens who snatched a criminal from the hands of justice and immolated him on the altar of human passion. The body of Bargar, after hanging for several hours upon the tree on which he was executed, was cut down; the corpse was placed in a rough box and was nailed up, and a hole being dug in a vacant lot, the box was thrown into it, the earth rudely filled in, and the murderer's corpse left to decay like that of a brute, his only funeral service the curses of an excited mob. Yet this was not the end, for next morning early some of his quondum executioners of the lower order, themselves probably fit subjects for the State prison and the hangman, opened the grave, took the body from the box, and placing it in a wagon, with clothes and hat on, drove it to the door of Cobb's hotel, where the horrible thing remained for a brief time with eyes and tongue protruding, and its agonised and blackened features making day hideous. In the hand of tliis strange boon companion of their revels the perpetrators of the ghasdy joke placed a slip of paper, on which was a call for dinner ,and horse feed, and then left the body to be removed and. again buried by those who chose to take upon themselves the disagreeable but necessary duty.— California Delta, July 5.

A young man went out hunting for deer' in the woods near Lamard, C. W., recently, and, as an experiment, he clothed himself in a deerskin, and took a stand where those animals were known to pass, quite often. While thus intent upon securing some game another hunter was nearly making game of him; for, happening to see what he supposed a fine deer through the thicket, the new comer took deliberate aim at it and fired. Fortunately the ball missed the counterfeit deer, but it succeeded in " frightening him out of his skin." A few nights since, a family in Charleston, S. C, was saved from death by fire, through the piteous "cries of a domestic cat," by which they were awakened from deep sleep at the dead of night. The fire, was designed, it is believed, to destroy the whole family, who barely escaped' with their lives.

Romantic Wedding.—A pair of Mississippi lovers, living in the vicinity of Friar's Creek, a few days since bethought themselves of getting married. Having procured a license, they set off on horseback. They soon came up to a parson "setting" on a fence—it seems he did something occasionally at farming—and requested him

to " solemnize the sacred rights of matrimony at once." The parson finally consented, and he " setting" on the fence, and they on their horses, the "sacred right" was "solemnized," after which they went on their way rejoicing. The Usual Rates.—-A western editor and his wife were walking out in the bright moonlight one evening. The wife was of an exceedingly peotical nature, and said to her mate —'Notice that moon—how bright, and calm and beautiful.' ' Couldn't think of noticing it,' returned the editor, 'for anything less than the usual rates—a dollar and fifty cents for twelve lines.' There is a gentlemen in Union, N. H., who will be 101 years old on the 7th July. His name is Ralph Farnham, and a strong effort was made to induce him to be present at the Bunkerhill celebration in Boston, he having taken part in the-battle. He declined on account of the distance, and when his son, a lad of fifty or sixty years, proposed to accompany him, replied:—' If he went, he didn't want to be bothered with the care of any childen.' He says he don't remember of ever being sick, but 'believes he had a fever or something eighty or ninety years ago.' American Ladies Far West.—Mr. Oliphant speaks praisingly of the belles at Ontonagon, generally; he had however, as was to be expected, his especial favorite :— " There was one lovely girl, with a noble, thoughtful brow, black hair and eyes, perfect features, and a most irresistible smile, with that clear transparent complexion which is never to be met with out of America, to whom I had from the first ardently desired an opportunity of being introduced; and I shall never forget the thrill of pleasure which I felt when, upon the two guitars of a fiddle ranging themselves along the bottom of the saloon, and striking up a lively tune, this fair creature, near whom I happened to be standing, artlessly remarked, * that she had a mind to take the knots out of legs;'—a piece of information on her part which I interpreted to mean that I was at liberty to offer my services to assist her in this proceeding, and I accordingly solicited the honor of being her partner, and ' annexed her right away.' " The American idiom is evidently one of forcible expression,—and the ladies seem fond of it. Thus, at a later period, when the traveller had just gone on board the steamer that was to take them from St.. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, down the Mississippi to Galena, they " went in search of cabins, in the course of which Bury found himself, by mistake, in the ladies' saloon, —a fact he was politely informed of by one of the occupants, who said, "Guess you put for the wrong pew, misterj!"— Oliphanfs Minnesota.