The Mormon War.
The news of a battle between the parties in this war, in which it is said that three Mor-mons and EIGHTEEN anti-Mormons were killed, we apprehend is not true, as it does not ap-pear to be confirmed.
Nothing further is said in relation to the compromise by which the Mormons are to remove.
The Hannibal (Mo.) Journal of the 23d ult., contains the following letter, dated
" Warsaw, Sept. 23d, 1845.
SIR :—Gen. McAllen has ordered out his bri-gade to march in three days to our county.—Capts Dunn and Singleton are at Augusta with 800 troop—Col. Williams has ordered his regiment to meet at Warsaw as soon as they can march in. A delegation from Quin-cy went up to Nauvoo on last night, with or-ders to the Mormons to leave, or they would bring their forces against them and compel them to leave. The Governor of Iowa has or-dered out the troops in the Territory, the par-ticular object not known. We now anticipate, a final settlement of our Mormon difficulties."
In addition to the above, says the Journal, we learn that 500 troops were on their march to the seat of war, from Pike county, Ill. They started from Pittsfield yesterday morning (24th inst.)
A correspondent of the St. Louis Reveille states that the Mormons were hauling grain and driving cattle into Nauvoo, expecting a seige ; and he says :
"When the Mormons find themselves sur-rounded, 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 coun-try for miles around. The saints have 24 pieces of artillery, (12 pounders,) plenty of am-munition, and are now laying in a stock of provisions, by plundering the old settlers, which will keep famine off for months. If a seige is commenced, what will be the consequences it is impossible to foretell. The whole country may rise en masse ; but can Nauvoo be sub-dued by a 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 1,000 stand of revolving rifles, besides common arms to any amount!
"The Governor, it is said, will not interfere, and if so, there is no telling the result of pre-sent movements. The military of our city, who are so anxious for a brush with Mexico, had better take up their line of march for the Holy City, and try their steel and courage in the expected seige of Nauvoo."
