FROM THE MORMON COUNTRY.—There is no confirmation of the story of a fight having taken place, in which eighteen or twenty Anti-Mormons were killed. No such event occurred. A corres-pondent of the St. Louis Reveille states that the Mormons were hauling grain and driving cattle into Nauvoo, expecting a siegs. He says :
"When the Mormons find themselves surrounded they will retreat to the Temple, and then if they are routed, it will only be by the hardest fighting that the country has seen for many years. The Temple commands the country for miles around.—The saints have 24 pieces of artillery, (12 poun-ders,) plenty of ammunition, and are now laying in a stock of provisions, by plundering the old settlers, which will keep famine off for months. If a siege is commenced, what will be the consequence it is impossible to foretell. The whole country will rise en masse; but can Nauvoo be subdued by force, commanding as the Temple does so wide a range of country, and armed, as the Mormons are, with 24 pieces of heavy artillery and 1000 stand of revolving rifles, besides common arms to any amount."
A meeting has been held in Quincy, at which some of the Anti-Mormons made violent and inflammatory speeches. A committee of one thousand persons was appointed to visit Hancock county, to bring the Mormons to terms. The Quincy editor winds up his account of the meeting as follows :
"Public sentiment is decidedly against the Mormons—THEY MUST GO—and Backenstos feel the full force of the law for killing Worrell! Our best lawyers pronounce it an act of murder—for which the Sheriff had not the shadow of law."
The Mormons, in reply to a communication from the citizens of Quincy, Ill., declare their intention to emigrate to remote parts next spring, provided they can obtain the necessary means by selling or renting their property, and provided they are allowed to make preparation unmolested by a repetition of those incendiary outrages of which they have recently been the victims.
