UTAH.
RETURN OF THE REFUGEES.
Movements of the Peace Commissioners.
SINGULAR COURSE OF GOV. CUMMING.
Hostile Disposition of the Mormons.
THE PEACE FALLACIOUS.
From Our Special Correspondent.
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Saturday, July 10, 1858.
THE RETURN OF THE MORMONS
The week closing to-day has been a busy one in the valleys. I informed you in my last that the people were beginning to return to their homes, abandoned upon the approach of the army by order of their Prophet and Priest. Day and night they have con-tinued to pour in, and the roads to the Southward are literally swarming with people, their wagons and herds. The principal road, that to Provo, may be seen from the city for a distance of 25 miles,—its whole length absolutely covered with the great fami-ly procession. The weather being very dry the roads are shockingly dirty, and the travelers are al-most smothered in the clouds of dust, the more an-noying and uncomfortable because composed in con-siderable parts of particles of alkali, which fill the nos-trils, excoriate the face and lips and nearly blind the eyes. Nevertheless, the population is crowding is, the streets are lively with children, shops of all kinds are preparing for work, and business signs going up on every hand. It will take a month, however, at least, to enable the people to get back again with their limited means of transportation. The experi-ence we are now having upon this point, by the by, is suggestive of the utter folly of Mormon statements, prior to the peace, that they could move their house-holds and three years provisions faster than the army could follow. They have an abundance of oxen and mules, but are deficient in wagons ; and if they were fleeing before an army would be compelled to aban-don everything except the small amount of provision necessary for a few weeks travel. Thus is exploded another element of the stupendous game of Mormon brag which frightened the President of the United States into his mistaken policy of obtruding an un-asked pardon upon ungrateful traitors rather than incur the responsibility of subduing them and so ef-fectually curing their treason.
The scenes among the returning refugees upon the road confirm all you have already heard of the ex-treme poverty of many of the people. Any number of females, old and young, are seen passing along barefoot, with scarcely enough of clothing upon them to cover their persons, and the few rags they have of the coarsest material. Many are entirely with-out even a calico gown, wearing a coarse petticoat, sometimes made of a scant pattern of old carpet, or a worn-out coverlet, and a calico or muslin waist, which their best efforts cannot coax up to the re-quirements of modesty. An Army officer who was in town the other day, on his return to camp, passed over a road on the west side of the Jordan, which is less frequented than the direct road from Provo on this side ; sud-denly he came upon a company of a dozen or more females, walking along the road on their return from Provo, in company with two or three male "Protectors," who were mounted, something after the fashion of herders driving cattle. These fe-males were so destitute of clothing that several of them had blankets wrapped around them after the fashion of Indian squaws. They had, probably, taken the bye-road to avoid observation, and, upon meeting a stranger, fled affrighted from the road, evidently conscious that they were not in suitable condition for a stranger's gaze. This is the officer's story, and in view of what I have myself seen here, I have no difficulty in realizing its truth.
BRIGHAM YOUNG has brought up all his families, and his mansion, freed from the board window coverings, begins to look less like the house of pestilence. His gates, however, are carefully closed, and not a fe-male is seen to leave the premises. Passing, towards dusk last evening, I saw two females of his household leaning pensively upon the lion's figure surmounting the front porch of the Lion House ; but an opportuni-ty to speak with any of them is out of the question The apostacy of one of BRIGHAM'S wives would be most dangerous to the reputation of the man, and the greatest care is observed to prevent so startling a catastrophe. Judging by appearances, BRIGHAM must himself be aware that some of his spirituals are cha- ing under the bonds which bind them, and aching for the opportunity to go free. BRIGHAM, I am informed privately, has an armed guard quartered within his walls both day and night, but whether to protect his harem, or to save the Prophet himself from personal danger, we are unadvised.
RETURN OF THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS.
The Peace Commissioners left here quite suddenly on Sunday last, on their return to Washington. They had been much annoyed prior to their departure by flying rumors, industriously circulated by leading Mormons, to the effect that they had agreed to con-ditions of peace which had been violated by the army. Governor POWELL had been waiting two or three weeks for the report of his speeches in the conferences with the church leaders. When he ob-tained it at last, a week ago, he found it so badly mutilated as to be quite beyond recognition—whole paragraphs ascribed to him which he had never ut-tered, and many things which he did say were lost altogether. By a strange fatuity, Mr. CARRINGTON, editor of the Deseret News, who had charge of the re-porting, had only a day or two before quite publicly intimated his expectation that Gov. POWELL would leave out of his speech, in revising it, his expressions pledging the Government to certain conditions of peace. Upon looking over the report he refused to attempt its revision, but repudiated it altogether, de-termined not to leave matters here in such shape that disagreeable "fire in the rear" might be successfully directed against him. Governor POWELL addressed a note to BRIGHAM desiring an interview. This he sent by the hands of Major CLARKSON, of California, with the request that he would deliver it in person. The Major proceeded to BRIGHAM'S palace, stated that he had a note for him, and, after waiting some time for the return of the servant who carried in his name, was requested to send the note in. The Major re-plied that he was no lacquey, and that he desired to deliver the note in person. Upon the return of the servant a second time, he was requested to go around to the back gate, and replied that gentlemen were in the habit of entering at the front door, and he saw no reason why he should depart from the rule. He suc-ceeded at last in obtaining an interview, and arrang-ing for a meeting between BRIGHAM and the Commis-sioners, at which the parties drew up a paper, all joining in its signature—BRIGHAM included. This paper, I am informed, sets forth in brief he chief facts in connection with the Peace Conferences, stat-ing them almost in the precise language of the Re-port which the Commissioners had already made to the President. This, of course, effectually sets at rest the story that the Commissioners had agreed to conditions of peace, other than the acceptance by the rebels of the President's pardon, and their agree-ment to receive the federal officials and yield obedi ence to the laws of the Union. As a fair example of the truthfulness of the leaders in the Mormon church, let me say that only the evening before one of the most intelligent and respectable of them came to me in the presence of a witness, boldly declared a state of facts directly the reverse of that set forth in the document above alluded to, requested me adopt his statement in my correspondence, and make it the basis of an attack upon the Commissioners. I then suggested that he might be in error, but he assured me that he had the evidence in the handwriting of Governor POWELL himself, but, of course, he was not at liberty to show me the correspondence !
THE PEACE FALLACIOUS.
The Commissioners presented a dignified silence while here in regard to their own impression of the people ; but if I am skilled in observing the teach-ings of an emotional face, they both left this city with sentiments of profound disgust. I predict that in their personal report to the President, they will as-sure him that the present peace is fallacious, and that this community is not likely ever to make good and safe citizens of the United States. They know full well that the people here have a higher regard for the law of the church than that of the Union, and that all their protestations of love for the Constitu-tion are idle whenever BRIGHAM'S edict stands in the way. They could not investigate specifically the many charges laid to the door of this people—but I do not doubt that if they are induced to express them-selves at all upon the subject they will admit their belief that they are capable of the Jesuitical system of crime, long laid to their charge. It will be remem-bered, however, that I speak not by authority, but express only my own convictions as to the views of the Commissioners.
You will remember that last Autumn, just after the treasonable burning of the trains on Green River, General JOHNSTON addressed a dispatch to the War Department, in which he suggested that this act had relieved the Mormon question of its difficulty, and rendered it "easy of solution," The General's policy, of course, was a rigid exertion of the Civil and Military power until the treason should be prop erly punished, and the rebels be compelled to suc-cumb humbly before the law. He was much abused for his suggestion by partisan presses and politicians, as well as the mock philanthropists of the country ; but experience has shown that the old soldier's com-mon sense and practical view of the question was sound. This will be the more a parent within a few months, when we see the very forms of law availed of by this community to destroy its spirit—when Mormon juries perjure themselves rather than find verdicts according to the facts elicited by Gentile evidence, and when Mormon witnesses ease their consciences by "mental reservations," and fail ut-terly to remember anything tending to the injury of the "Church and Kingdom," or any of its human pillars. That they will do this, I am free to predict for any other course would be inconsistent with the entire spirit of their conduct and conversation. Nor am I alone in this opinion ; every Gentile here, who is not silent upon the subject, takes the same view of the case, and especially those who have had largest experience among this people. In short, the Presi-dent, by his volunteered pardon, has thrown away the only opportunity for an "easy solution" of the difficulty, and the country will necessarily rest under the disgrace attaching to the anomalous condition of affairs here, until some accidental brand shall have fired the magazine before the cunning of the Church leaders is able to prevent it.
GOV. CUMMING IN CLOVER, AND OTHER GENTILES IN MISERY.
Gov. CUMMING continues in high feather with the Mormons, and is treated by them with the utmost cor-diality. This conduct towards him is the more marked in contrast with the treatment which other Gentiles have received. The Peace Commissioners were compelled to occupy their ambulances as bed cham bers for a fortnight after their arrival, and then, by BRIGHAM'S consent, secured a single room, without other furniture than a small table and two chairs. Judge ECKELS, a gentleman against whose reputation no charge has ever been suggested, was utterly una-ble to obtain shelter upon his arrival here, and was compelled to sleep upon the ground between two wagons. At last he succeeded in renting a small house from a man then in good standing in the Church, who at once became an object of suspicion and hate, so much so, that his wife's friends told her frankly that they dared not entertain her. This man and his family are now living out of doors and sleep-ing in his own wagon in the rear of the Judge's house, feeling that they cannot safely go beyond the Judge's protection.
The Governor, his Secretary, and Dr. FORNEY, the Indian Superintendent—all of whom, as I have al-ready informed you, seemed to become satisfied at once that the Mormons are about as good people as the Lord makes—have been well cared for; but all other Gentiles, no matter how careful not to give expression here to a word calculated to offend, have been served, generally, with a cold, freezing po-liteness suggestive of genteel strangling. We have been quite unable to obtain rooms in which to lodge, and are compelled to sleep out of doors, and leave our personal effects to the mercy of any passer-by, whose appreciation of the relative law of meum and tuum may be eccentric or indistinct. There are houses enough vacant, but their owners dare not, or do not choose to, rent them to us avowedly because the church do not wish it. A New-York merchant and myself made a bold dash for the room vacated by the Commissioners, but the owner assured us that the only way in which we could secure the privilege of paying him our money for shelter, was through BRIGHAM YOUNG. I asked whether he did not consider it a hard case when a man could do as he chose about renting his own property. He replied that we might think so, but he did not, as he had been brought up to it. These straws indicate very forcibly not only the system of the church, but its extraordi-nary power to maintain it. Add to the facts stated above, showing the partiality for Governor CUM-MING, the further fact that leading Mormons have been constantly engaged in efforts to depreciate the labors of the Commissioners—even going so far as to request us to state in our correspondence that the effect of the presence of these gentlemen has been rather to reopen and aggravate the difficulty which CUMMING and KANE had closed—and there would seem to be some confirmation for the rumor here originating in Mormon boasting, to the effect that CUMMING accepted the Governorship, in the beginning, at the solicita-tion of prominent Mormons, and that the expectation of being made a United States Senator from Utah was the inducement. You will remember that when first offered the place, CUMMING declined it perempto rily. A few days later he reconsidered the subject, and requested a friend at St. Louis to telegraph to Washington his acceptance. The rumor referred to says that during this period of vacillation, leading Mormons held out the Senatorship aforesaid. It is difficult to understand the nature of the singular rela-tions of Governor CUMMING with this people from the beginning to the present hour, except upon the hypothesis either that they know the terms upon which it is agreed that BRIGHAM shall be Governor in fact, or that they are satisfied of their ability to mould the former, like potters' clay, to any shape they will. Certainly they look upon Gov. C. as their property, and bestow upon him all the care with which a wise master in Louisiana would regard his most serviceable slave. I omitted to mention that the very best house in town next to BRIGHAM'S was placed at CUMMING'S disposal upon his arrival, and that BRIGHAM fitted it up with his own furniture. The public will make up its own judgment as to the causes which produce effects such as I have de-scribed.
ADMISSION OF UTAH INTO THE UNION.
BRIGHAM and his people are very anxious for ad-mission into the Union, and are exerting every effort now to accomplish that result. It is their last card, if I mistake not, before abandoning the game as members of the Confederacy. They maintain that it is their constitutional right to be admitted, and they desire it, so that they can make a law legalizing Polygamy, and placing it within the charmed circle of "States' Rights." They do not admit for a mo-ment that Congress can impose any condition upon their admission prohibiting Polygamy. It may be well just here to examine this question; and I sug-gest for consideration the proposition that the framers of the Constitution, in granting to Congress the power to admit new States, necessarily con-ferred it subject to the restriction that a State applying for admission should have a social organization assimilated to and in harmony with that existing at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. The compact between the States form-ing the Union was based upon the then existing state of facts, and cannot be made to recognize Poly-gamy as a "domestic institution," which we shall not consider when Utah applies for admission. The same argument is a sufficient answer to the Mormon argument which holds that the President in his Par-don Proclamation has pledged the Government not to interfere in any way with the "domestic institu-tion" of Polygamy. Again, Utah is without sufficient population to entitle her to a State Government. The city of Provo, when I visited it, contained a large proportion of the people of this city and Ogden, the only large settlements in the Territory ; and yet I do not believe there were over 20,000 persons at Provo. That certainly is the very highest figure to be accorded them. Taking that as a basis, the entire Mormon population does not exceed 35,000 souls, and intelligent army officers, who have had experience in making such estimates, place the number at not to exceed 30,000.
MORMON OUTRAGES.
The leaders of the Mormons and the mass of the "faithful" continue to look upon the Gentiles with doubt and suspicion. BRIGHAM himself is cross, mo-rose and sullen. They are only a little subdued by the presence of the Army, and are not conquered by the President's act of clemency. There is no hearty forgetfulness of the past, and anticipations of future peace. Within a few days, however, it is probable that their loyalty will be put to the test. Judge ECKLES, who is bold and fearless in discharge of his duty, proposes to issue writs at the suit of an Ex-Mor-mon, named WADSWORTH, for the arrest of certain parties at Payston, 70 miles south of this, for kidnap-ping WADSWORTH'S adopted child Mr. DOTSON, the United States Marshal, is expected to serve the writ within a few days, and to take the accused (WM. YOUNG and GEORGE WADSWORTH) to Fort Bridger for trial. This will test the power of the law, and show us whether the threats uttered in my hearing—that any man who attempts to serve writs upon "this people" is to be shot—are idle or otherwise. The Judge's firmness is a subject of general admiration, and we regret to learn that he has requested leave to resign his post.
While out at camp a week ago, Judge ECKLES was applied to by a Mr. JONES, of Tooile Valley, who stated that he left his home and went South with his family much against his will, but not daring to diso-bey the order of the Ecclesiastical authorities. His wife was in a delicate situation when the order ar-rived, but this was not admired as an excuse, and he was forced to move, with most serious consequences to his family ; his wife lying very low in Provo and having no house in which to shelter her. Mr. JONES determined, now that peace had been made, to return to his home He started accordingly, but was met at a lonely point on the road by a Mormon guard of six men, who beat him so badly as to cause a serious rupture. They told him that they had orders not to let any families pass down from Provo towards their homes, and turned him and his family back, his daughter driving the team, as the father was too much injured to sit up. Jones stated further that, soon as he was able, he went to Governor CUMMING, with a view of claiming protection, but finding him surrounded by Mormons, did not dare to state his case. Thence he went to the camp of the army, where he laid the case before Judge ECKLES. The Judge offered to issue writs and send them to be served by the United States Marshal, to obtain his family and arrest the men who beat him ; but learn-ing from JONES that he had a quantity of flour stowed near his family, with the expectation of selling it to the army, which his enemies would be likely to destroy, the Judge advised him that he had better get his flour away, and then, if there seemed to be any prospect of further resistance to the removal of his family, return for legal assistance. As the man has not returned, he probably had no more difficulty.
ELIAS—, a Kentuckian, from Fleming County—who was raised in Montgomery County, Ind., and came here some time since from California—was one of the party of emigrants who went out to Bridger when Governor CUMMING first came into the city. The Mormon guard—the same claimed by Governor C. as his militia, acting under his orders, you will re-member—stopped him on his way out, and turned back his wife and child, though they followed him with piteous cries and tears. The man came in with the army, obtained his family, and has returned to his home at Ogden, where he will remain until he has saved his crops.
Mr. SUTHERLAND and his wife, whose cases I no-ticed in a letter from Bridger, also returned here with the army. SUTHERLAND was for years an elder in the church. His wife is an elegant English lady, but their former companions and friends pass them with-out recognition, with the exception of a few, who are secretly apostates, only awaiting opportunity to get away. Mr. and Mrs. S.—than whom mere are none more familiar with the secret workings of Mor-monism—are evidently afraid of their lives, and are careful to keep with friends continually. These are a few specimens of the terrorism which reigns here even at this hour, with the army within easy call.
THE POLYGAMIC INSTITUTION.
The arrival of returning families present us with a new view of the system of Polygamy—but by no means a satisfactory view to superficial observation. The plurality wives, so far as one can observe, are distrustful of each other, and meet their husbands with a restrained, uncertain, unconfiding air, which, I should suppose, would be exceedingly unpleasant to a man of heart or refined sensibility. The hus bands generally, will admit, when pressed closely, that their wives do not love each other, or agree like sisters ; but this they ascribe to the difficulty of over-coming the proneness of all flesh to evil, and never to the natural sentiments of humanity. Occasionally, I meet a man who protests that even the women render a hearty assent to the system. A tailor while sewing on a button for me, took occasion to expati-ate upon the advantages of Polygamy, remarking that he had two wives, who could not be separated, and that he did not see how any man was able to get along with only one !
The people are no ways back ward about discussing the subject, indeed they oftentimes press discussion on a stranger, over-confident in their ability to de-molish every Gentile argument against Polygamy. One of the gentry tackled Governor POWELL, the oth er day, determined to make a convert. The Govern-or, at first, declined discussion, but his companion in-sisted upon proving, by the Scriptures, that he was in great error to be living without any wife, and that it was the duty of a well-preserved man of his years to take a half-dozen at least. The Governor at last consented to listen. Mr. Mormon cited Solomon as one of the wisest and best of men, and presented the fact that he had 700 wives as an unanswerable argument. Said the Governor in response : "You depend upon Solomon's example, do you, as the gage of your duty ?" "Certainly," was the ready response. "Well," continued the Governor, "I'll accept Solomon as a pattern for the sake of argu-ment, Accrding to the text you have quoted, Solo-mon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Now, where's your concubines ?" The Polygamist was floored and abandoned the discussion.
THE MORMON FAITH.
The Mormon faith is a queer mixture of Infidelity, Romanism, Materialism and everything else. They teach that God is only a perfect man, and that all men may become Gods in some future state, if they con tinue to progress in truth and righteousness. They deny the virginity of Mary, the mother of Christ, and maintain that the latter was only a man—"the son of God" just as all other men are sons of God, only that he was the first-born son. Of course they suppose the spiritual Christ which entered the body of the child born of Mary had been living for ages before in some other sphere. BRIGHAM is as much a God as Christ was, only that he has not yet reached the same stage of perfection. This view of a single point of Mormon doctrine will give you a key to the character of their general faith.
The Mormon will always tell you that he knows Mormonism to be true. Ask him why, and in-stead of presenting the operations of his rea-son based upon the study of the book of Mormon, he will give you, as like as not, some extraordinary revelation to himself, or recount some weird-like tale of remarkable occurrences, which afforded con-clusive evidence to his mind that JO SMITH was a prophet. I asked a genteel-looking waiter at my ho-tel yesterday to let me see the book of Mormon. He replied that he had it not with him, and added that he had been a Mormon sixteen years without ever having read it. In response to my inquiry as to the founda- tion of his faith, he proceeded to tell me that just af-ter he "embraced the Gospel," he received the "gift of tongues." I asked him to explain what he meant by that. He replied that he began to talk in a tongue which he had never heard before,—and had never heard since, either, as I found upon pushing him closely, for he admitted that he hadn't the slight-est idea as to what tongue it was, didn't understand a word of it, and didn't know anybody else who did. In pity I forbore asking of what use he found his mi-raculous gift.
THE STOLEN CATTLE RESTORED, &C.
A few days since the Church turned over to the Army a portion of the cattle stolen last Fall from the merchants by Mormons. The number thus restored was 198 head. Of these GILBERT & GEBRISH got one steer out of 145 stolen, JOHN RADFORD, sutler, received one mule out of 159 animals lost, and RUSSELL & WADDELL 196 out of 1,600 taken from their trains.
In my last I told you that the Mormon leaders steadily deny the existence of the order of Danites. A well-known Mormon, named WM. L. LYNCH, was over in the camp of the Army last week. Getting his tongue loose by frequent draughts of whisky, he boasted that he was a Danite, and declared that if BRIGHAM YOUNG directed him to observe the position of any officer's bed in his tent, and to go there at night and assassinate him, he would not hesitate to obey him implicitly. He stated, also, that a good many soldiers and Gentiles that he knew of, had been "sent to the Lord's pocket," that he had worked GATES' horse repeatedly, and that he knew who wore GATES' boots. GATES was the name of the man sup-posed to have been murdered last Fall, for selling his stock of powder to Colonel ALEXANDER, under compulsion.
I forwarded you some time since Gov. CUMMING'S denial that Col. KANE is a Mormon. Here the lead-ers of the church deny that he is or ever was a mem-ber of their Church,—but some of the more simple-minded claim him, while there are Gentiles who as-sert that they heard the Colonel say at Bridger this Spring that he was a Mormon, but not a Salt Lake Mormon.
BRIGHAM YOUNG don't like to be reported by Gen-tiles,—and it is publicly stated that he does not in-tend to preach any more while the Gentile reporters are in town.
The army moved from its camp on West Creek on Tuesday last, and has gone to Cedar Valley, 35 miles from here, and only from 6 to 10 miles from Provo, where Winter quarters will probably be established. The Valley contains an abundance of grass, water and wood, though not much timber,—and the soldiers will be obliged to live in tents. There is little news from the camp. On Saturday, 3d inst., 13 guns were fired in honor of the memory of the late Gen. SMITH. On Sunday, the anniversary of American Independ-ence, a salute was fired by Capt. PHELPS'S Battery, of 32 guns, one for each State, including Minnesota.
The Mormons are abusing Gen. JOHNSTON for letting his animals eat up all the grass in the valleys. AS Uncle Sam owns every foot of land in this country, and the citizens not one, the latter seem to think the old man's cattle ought to starve !
The anniversary of American Independance was slightly celebrated in the city on Monday, the 5th inst., when the Mormon brass band serenaded the Governor, his Secretary and Judge ECKLES,
The announcement of the appointment of Gen. HARNEY to the Brigadier-Generalship, and of his near approach to the valley, has created quite a sensation here in all circles. In the Army the expression of disappointment is quite universal, not only because the hope had been indulged that General JOHNSTON would have received the position, but also because Gen. HARNEY is disliked exceedingly, as a rough, vulgar, ungentlemanly personage, who treats men with familiar brutality, and officers ditto. The "Saints" too are alarmed by his approach,—for they look upon him as one who will provoke a collision if opportunity offers. We received the news by the mail which arrived here on Thursday in 18 days from St. Joseph. It spread like wildfire, and the ef-fect upon the community was instantaneous. The Mormon leaders with lengthened countenances be-gan to gather in groups upon the corners of the streets to discuss the future. I mingled with some of these, and found it quite impossible to convince them that there was no danger of their being trou-bled by the Army, so long as they obey the law and respect its officers. In reply, they point to the fact that the militia of Missouri, called out to protect them from the frenzy of a mob, joined the mob itself, and they cannot and will not see that the Fed-eral Army is composed of different material, and is swayed by different influences. They consid-er the appointment of HARNEY to the command as almost equal to a declaration of war against them ; and look upon the approach of additional troops as an indication of some secret purpose of hostility. It is difficult to believe that the leaders really think this, but they impress these ideas upon the people, and thus keep them in a high state of exasperation. It is further evident that the "Saints" are in constant fear that some warrant will be issued for the arrest of Ex-Gov. BRIGHAM, and that they are prepared to make desperate fight in his defence against any such effort. There is no doubt that he is subject to arrest and trial for crimes charged to have been committed years ago, but I cannot learn that any warrant against him is contemplated at present. "The wicked flee when no man pursueth."
We have some fresh evidences of the power of terrorism with which BRIGHAM rules his people. One of the brethren a day or two ago opened the Towns-end House as a hotel. The Gentiles hailed it as a great convenience; but the landlord had scarcely got his doors widely open before he received orders from headquarters to close it up. Whether this order was prompted by the alleged fact that BRIGHAM is proprie-tor of the Globe restaurant, or whether it was feared that the Townsend House would become a nest of Gentiles, dangerous to the peace and harmony of Mormondon, we are left to conjecture.
Postmaster MORRELL, too, had hired very conve-nient apartments in the same building, to be used for the Post Office, and when the order from the Hierarchy came, he was besought by the landlord to relieve him from his contract, and to leave the premises, al-though he had only been in a few hours. MORRELL, by the way, has discharged his Mormon clerk, much to our rejoicing. He has thus removed the cause of distrust among his Gentile friends, who have confi-dence in him as a faithful and honest public officer, although they did not feel that it was safe to trust their correspondence to pass through the hands of a man who had been in the office when the mail was regularly robbed.
A Mr. NIXON rented his warehouse to GILBERT & GERRISH, merchants, whom BRIGHAM had refused to let any building to ; and strenuous efforts have been made to induce him to withdraw the lease. The merchants, however, will stand no such child's play, but insist upon their rights. NIXON, it is evident, is fully conscious that he has incurred some danger by his course.
Captain JOHN B. COOPER desires me to state that BRIGHAM absolutely refuses to purchase the Kinney-Mosquito grant, which he came here to sell. I learn also that he has made a sale of it to Colonel HARBIN, of California, who is now here, and will remain for awhile. Notwithstanding these statements, I am still confident that BRIGHAM still is considering the propriety of removing to Mosquito, and that he will do so within a year or two, if he sees the way open and clear, and that if he stays here, the Federal au-thority must be superior to his own. S.
[BY TELEGRAPH.]
ST. LOUIS, Saturday, Aug. 7.
The Utah correspondent of the Republican, un-der date of July 3, says that BRIGHAM YOUNG has had all the animals taken from the Government trains last Fall driven into Salt Lake City, for the purpose of having them delivered to General JOHNSTON. YOUNG has desired Governor CUMMING to receive them officially, and forward them to General JOHN-STON. Companies are forming in this city to proceed to Fraser's River via the Plains.
