New York semi-weekly tribune vol. 8 no. 1332

              LATER FROM UTAH. 
INDICTMENT OF MORMON LEADERS FOR HIGH TREASON. 
BRIGHAM YOUNG'S MESSAGE TO THE LEGISLATURE. 
A Collision between Mormons and Troops. 
NEW MORMON ATROCSTIES. 
Dispatches from Our Special Correspondent. 
A NARRATIVE OF MORMON ATROCITIES. 
CAMP SCOTT, near Fort Bridger, U. T.,) 
December 24, 1857.) 
At the request of several gentlemen, and for the better information of the public concerning the treatment experienced by the Gentiles in Salt Lake City last Winter, Dr. Garland Hurt addressed to Gov. Cumming a few days ago a letter, which has been privately circulated, and read with great attention. It is valuable for the light which it throws upon the so-called Mormon Reformation of October, 1856, the real essence of which was the forcing of polygamy upon the entire population—no longer as a matter of choice, but as a rite pleasing to God and essential to salvation—and also the inculcation of hatred toward the Government of the United States, and toward all Gentiles as a religious duty. 
The following is the substance of this interesting letter. That portion which testifies to the destruc-tion by fire of the United States law library (a fact persistently denied by the Mormons) deserves special attention. In the important business which is now maturing for the Courts there is imperative need for an extensive and well-selected library, Which ought to be dispatched from the States as early as possible in the Spring. The only law books at present within the reach of the Court are those which constitute the private library of Mr. Hockaday, the United States Attorney for the Territory. 
After a few introductory sentences, Dr. Hurt addresses his Excellency as follows: 
"I would premise that I came to Utah three years ago, fully resolved to divest myself of any predilection or prejudice, either for or against any of the people of the Territory, knowing that I should have an oppor-tunity of forming an acquaintance with them from personal observation, and determined to make that the basis of my opinions and actions with regard to them. 
"Consequently I endeavored from the outset to lender myself, in every respect, as courteous and affa-ble as I could toward them. Under this Course it is mot unreasonable that I acquired many friends among the laboring classes, with whom I necessarily associ-ated much, and for whom I confess I contracted a sympathetic regard. It was not long, however till I recognized among them the existence of a heart-felt hatred for the people of the United States, and with surprise and regret I was compelled to witness that this hatred was fed and sustained by harangues from those in authority with the church, whom I have never known to lose an opportunity for fanning the flames of this rebellious spirit. Under a series of the flimsy pretexts, and by distorting the history of their connection with the Government and people of fule United States, they present to the world a fist of mevances which constitute the theme of every orator, e initiatory lesson of every new convert, and the uitive doctrine of almost every mother to her child. “This state, of things rendered my position among ese people not by any means unin eresting orirrespon-le. With, a, lively interest for their pecuniary wel-e and political prosperity, I could not avoid inter-esing, as occasions were offered, efforts to correct the jrors and misguided impulses under which I con-ived them to be laboring; but on all occasions I en-avored to act with becoming deference for their struelings. In this cause I labored with zeal but with ‘A ubtful prospects of success until the Autumn of wo56, when matters assumed such an aspect that it All quired no prophetic or visionary power to discern in finge minds of the people a disposition to assert their ‘onstitutional rights. A spirit of independence was th vidently abroad among them, gradually infusing itself into their thoughts and actions; but the eye of the priesthood was upon them, and watched with no ordi-nary solicitude the course of events, until at length by one vast revolution of the subtle machinery of priest-craft all our hopes were blasted, and the voice of lib-berty hushed throughout the length and breadth of its dominions. This miraculous feat of interposition was conducted under the name of a Religious Reformation. 
"Leaving out of view their revival and practice of the hypothetical dogmas of nineteen centuries ago, to-gether with their adoption of many ridiculous prac-tices deleterious to themselves and their posterity under distorted ideas of moral and physical law, it is purpose at present to discuss Mormonism in its re-sotions to the Constitution and the laws of the country der which it arose and has advanced to its present rsition. 
'The doctrines of religious toleration and freedom of conscience are favorite themes of the Mormon mis-sinaries, but many of theirnew converts have learned by sad experience that no such doctrines have ever ben tolerated or practiced within the borders of this Zion. To show with what vaunted applause the Rormation above referred to was heralded to the wrld, I must quote from the pen of one of Brigham Yung’s satellites, who says: 
'When this Reformation commenced, there was not a distil-ley, brewery, grog-shop, gambling saloon or house of ill fame in th Territory. No rowdyism, incendiarism, prostitution, homi-cides, suicides, infanticides, forgeries or murders. What then, says he, is the condition of the people that they require reform ?"
“And in answer to this interrogation he brings up the old Missouri persecutions of twenty years ago as the came of this necessity. He then breaks forth again inmost enthusiastic adulation of the peculiar featnresof this work, thus: 
" 'This Reformation bears no resemblance whatever to secta-rian revivals. There is no excitement, no enthusiasm, no work-ing upon he feelings of the people, nothing but a calm appeal to their judgment. Hence the fruits are different.' 
"In his beau ideal of felicity, the mind of the reli-gionist n contemplating so exemplary a condition of society as is here portrayed, would naturally revert to this New Zion as the chosen seat of divine interpo-sition for the perfection of human happiness, and in prolific imagination picture in this Reformation a glo-ous transition from earthly furmoils to a more perfect similitude to celestial creatures. It is to be regretted that so sublime a picture should ever have been en-cumbered with a dark side, but that such is the case of is instance, I shall endeavor to show as I proceed to discuss Mormonism in its relations to the Constitu-tion and laws of the country. 
“During the Reformation a proclamation issued from the 'Lord's Anointed,' announcing the solemn pact that the people had violated their covenants with God, and commanding them indiscriminately to bow at the confessional, and to repair to the streams of the mountains and be rebaptized forthwith. Under the execuion of this mandate thousands now in Utah will not be surprised when I say that I have seen men and women weeping in the bitterest agony of soul; ind when I attempted to console them they would say that they abhorred the idea of being forced into a con-cessional, but dared not refuse. Others would say that they knew not wherein they had sinned, but that they dared not disobey, the counsel. Again, those thousands will not be surprised when I say that I have heard their teachers announce to them on numerous occasions, in round terms, that if they refused to the mandate they would 'get their d—d throats cut.' oor creatures! Like flies in the spider's web, they would struggle to be free again, but after every effort, nk down exhausted with the strong fetters of power ore closely drawn about them. 
"That Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exer-cise thereof is a clause of the Constitution which the Mormons feign to cherish and observe, but those in tah who felt constrained to differ from them nscientiously, can testify with what imminent peril their lives they have been forced to abandon the ercise of this sacred constitutional privilege. Un-r this clause of the Constitution the Mormons tempt to justify themselves in erecting a system of eocratic autocracy, which recognizes the shedding of human gore for the remission of sins, and have ormed themselves into a religious body politic, with municipal regulations, institutions and practices which reflect dishonor and insult upon the enlightened age in which they live. They have kept an organizod po-lice of banditti, whose business it is to prowl about the domicile of the citizen, or crouch in some nook upon the highway, in the dead hours of the night for the purpose of exacting under its sable curtain the penalty of their bloody ritual from some unfortunate creature who may have incurred the indignation of the Priesthood. Under this system of pseudo-religion the torch of the incendiary, and the knife of the assa-sin, are the chosen instruments of vengeance upon those who may have dared to lift their hands or voices against the authority of the Church. It matters lit-tle by what chicanery and falsehood they may have been inveigled into this society of abominations, the only hope of safety lies in the servile acquiescence in the will of those who have plotted their ruin. 
“These other clauses of the Constitution are disre-garded or overlooked, which declare that 
“’The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against all unreasonable searches and seiz-ures shall not be violated.
“’No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment by a Grand Jury.
“’Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb.
“’Nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case to be a wit-ness against himself,
“’Nor be deprived of life, liberty or prosperity, without due process of law.
“Here, Sir, are a few clauses of Constitutional law worthy of our most ardent esteem and devotion, as forming the basis of civil liberty, the protecting ægis citizen's rights; but with what degree of good faith they have been observed by this Mormon hier-archy will best appear from the recital of a few inci-dents among many that have obtruded themselves upon my notice. 
"On the morning of December 29, 1856, I was in-formed that the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court had been, broken open the night before and robbed of the docket, official papers and library of the said Court. To satisfy myself of the truth of this report, I visited the office rooms, where I met C. E. Bolton, Deputy Clerk, and also Judge Stiles and T. S. Williams and to my astonishment found nothing but the office furniture remaining in the apartment. Not only the books, papers, documents, &c., of the Su-preme Court but the law library of Messrs. Stiles and Williams had also been extracted. While we were yet lingering about the premises, it was discovered that a privy in the back yard had been destroyed by fire, the smouldering remains of which were still visible, and on examining the vault, several books were found, partly burned and still burning. I was a little surprised to learn, from a letter published by Mr. Bolton subsequently, that the Court records had not been destroyed, as I do not recollect of his having made any allusion to their safety at that time. In a conversation with Mr. B. a few days after this occur-rence, he told me that he was satisfied that the bur- glary had been committed by a party of mischievous boys (whose names he did not mention), but said that it would be useless to try to bring them to justice, as the evidence was not sufficient to produce conviction. 
On the night of January 8, 1857 in the western sub-urbs of the City of the Great Salt Lake, the voice of a female mingling with the outcries of children was heard in the streets. Morning came, and with it the news that the house of Mary Collins, a poor widow had been attacked about 11 o'clock at night, and de-stroyed by a band of midnight incendiaries. Mrs. Collins fled with her three small children, in their night-clothes, into the street, where the snow lay three feet deep and every gust of the night-wind pierced them to the vitals, they came nigh perish-ing before they found a charitable door. 
“On the morning of the 10th day of the same month the house of Charles Clark, in Great Salt Lake City was attacked, in open daylight, by a band of rufi-fians, and razed to the ground. Clark had rented the house the day before (paying the rent in advance) and was just moving into it. He remonstrated, but to no effect; offered resistance, but was overpowered His wife cried for mercy, but was not heard. He then appealed to know why he was thus treated, to which the only reply was : 'We don't intend that any damned Gentile shall live m our ward.' Clark and his wife were left standing in the street in deep, not knowing look for shelter from the storms of a ruthless Winter.
On the night of the 13th day of the same month a band of ruffians repaired to the house of Henry J. Jar-vis, a merchant, on the corner of South Temple and Emigration streets in Great Salt Lake City, at the hour of 10 o'clock, and calling Mr. J. into the store-room under pretense of wanting to trade, clinched him by the hair, jerked him instantly over the coun-ter, threw him violently upon the floor, and commenced stamping on him. Jarvis struggled for life, and as moat of his assailants had loosed their hold on him, for the purpose of stamping, he succeeded in throwing himself out of doors into the street. His wife and some female visitors, hearing the fracas and the cry of 'murder' in the well-known voice of the husband, fled also in consternation into the street, but the appearance of men armed with bludgeons frightened them back to their rooms again. Seeing that their victim had es-caped, the incendiaries set fire to the house and re-treated in the darkness. Jarvis reached the doors of his nearest neighbors and implored their protection, which was denied him on the ground of his being a dissenter from their faith. Finding that the ruffians had left, Mrs. Jarvis and her companions went into the store and by means of snow succeeded in extin-guishing the fire, which was kindled on the counter, and had not yet reached the walls of the building. At a late hour Mr. Jarvis returned to his house accom-panied by William Bell, esq., late a merchant in Salt Lake City, who remained with him during the rest of the night. 
"On the night of the 15th day of March last, three men, two of them by the name of Parrish (father and son), and one named Potter, were most inhumanly murdered and butchered on the public highway, about a quarter of a mile south of the town of Springville, m Utah County. I am of opinion that if the testi-mony in this case shall ever be brought to light, it will present one of the most bloody atrocities known to the catalogue of crime. The corpses of the dead men were literally riddled with rifle and pistol balls; the throat of each of them was cut, and the elder Parrish had his cheek cut off and his bowels ripped out. With as little noise as possible an inquest was held over the bodies, which found 'death by unknown assassins.' And then, as if to add insult to injury, I have heard men attempt to justify the deed by saying that 'they had threatened the Bishop;' and again, to satisfy the poor Indians who could not see any reason for spill-ing so much blood, that 'they had threatened the Indians.' One man told me in round terms, that the less I could say about it the better it would be for me. I know nothing of these men—the Parrishes and Potter—except that they were dissenters from their church. Potter was a brother of William Potter, who was murdered with Gunnison, and it may be that 'the Lord's secrets were in danger,' and that 'dead men tell no tales' is a maxim which they seem to understand and appreciate. The testimony in this case is now struggling for utterance in the breast of many an honest man and woman in Utah, and, should it ever come forth, will rend the veil of secrecy and show up men and measures in their true colors. That 'murder will out' is an old and pretty well estab-lished maxim, and 'as the Lord reigneth, judgment will yet be laid to the line and righteousneas to the 'plummet.'
"On the night of December 24, 1856, a female who had recently arrived in a hand- cart train committed suicide m the eastern suburbs of Great Salt Lake City, rather than submit to polygamy, the existence of which had been denied by her teachers in England Soon after her arrival she had been told that she must be sealed to the man in whose family she was then liv-ing, and on refusing to do so she was informed in a peremptory tone that she would be denied protection and the means of subsistence from any source and de-nounced as a prostitute. Such announcements brought her unfortunate situation too plainly before her. It was too much for the tender cords which bound' her spirit to its mortal tenement, and the fatal razor was brought to its relief. 
"Here, Sir, is presented a catalogue of crimes of the deepest dye, most of which have been perpetrated in the metropolis of this New Zion, the capital of Utah and the home of Brigham Young; and in respect to either of which comment is unnecessary to show that one or more of the above clauses of constitutional law has been most shamefully, openly and flagrantly disre-garded. In the face of all these facts, David O. Cal-der, Brigham Young's chief clerk and letter-writer, is eager to have it understood throughout the world that no such crimes were known in Utah when this reform-ation commenced, i.e., about October 15, 1856, but that all was peace; love, sobriety and good order This we are bound to believe, was the happy state of things in Utah about the time of this reformation. What then follows in its wake ? Midnight plundering, burg-lary, ruffianism, arson, suicide and murder! 
"But it may be argued, by way of extenuation, that, these crimes were committed by outlaws, over whom the civil authorities have no control; or that the vic-tims in the above eases were themselves violators of law, and merited the maltreatment they received. 
“I would ask, in the first instance, whether the Mormons make any effort to control the perpetrators of these crimes ? Does The Deseret News, the organ of Brigham Young, lift its voice to notify the victims of the presence of danger, and to demand that the lawless evil-doers shall be ferreted out and brought to justice ? No; but its columns are devoted to com-ments on a ‘late conflagration in San Francisco,' a ‘riot in St. Louis,' or a ‘drouth' or ‘tremendous hail-storm’ somewhere in the States, predicting therefrom the destruction of the Gentile world. Examine the discourses of Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and their coadjutors, as they appear in the columns of that sheet, and tell me if you see anything discountenancing the perpetration of these enormities. On the contra-ry, is it not plain that they are winked at and en-couraged? 
“And in the second instance, I would ask if the people of Utah have not laws for the regulation of society and the punishment of evil-doers ? Have they not been provided with Courts and Grand Juries ? Then, if Mary Collins and others have trodden the forbidden paths of crime, why not bring them to jus-tice by due process of law ? 
"But no doubt these persons are of opinion that the office of the Supreme Court was an institution of great annoyance to themselves, and deserved to be abated, for that Court is bound to recognize the sacred consti-tutional guaranty to every man of the right of trial by jury, and to condemn those who seek, undercover of night, to inflict lawless punishment, whether de-served or undeserved. 
"But I owe their Territorial enactments a passing notice which may exemplify more fully their utter in-difference to constitutional law. 
"They have endowed their Courts of Probate with full concurrent jurisdiction with the District Courts of the United States in all cases, both civil and criminal arising under the laws of the Territory. They have empowered them with Grand Juries, which convene from four to six times in each year, at a vast expense to the people, to inquire into crime and misdemeanors in each of their respective counties. In these Courts of Probate therefore a man may be indicted and put in jeopardy of his life. But perhaps the Grand Jury of the District Court of the United States is convened during the week following, and charged to take cog-nizance of all crimes and misdemeanors arising within the body of their district, both under the laws of the United States and of the Territory. What right has the District Court to presume that another tribunal has stepped inland removed the burden of responsi-bility from its shoulders ? And I have doubted in my own mind any right on its part to recognize the ex-istence of such an institution as the other tribunal. Then if my position be correct—Probate Courts not being of right Courts of competent jurisdiction in the case—the man who was indicted and tried for murder fast week m one Court, may again be presented and placed in jeopardy of his life, in violation of constitu-tional law. 
"They have enacted that an attorney shall be re-quired in all cases to depose, whether for or against his client, all facts which come to his knowledge in his capacity of attorney, which is in effect a violation of constitutional law. 
"They have also enacted that in criminal proceed-ings a suit may be stopped at any stage, by agreement of parties and payment of costs, thereby opening a door for a species of bribery and corruption the most deleterious to public interest that can be imagined. 
“And these are the persons who are whining con-tinually and piteously of injuries inflicted on them by persons outside then society, but is it not plain that they are professional complainers, who whine at any and every thing for the purpose of instilling into de-luded victims prejudices against the Government under which they live, and for instilling sympathy abroad? They calumniate all who perfume to lift their voices against them. By a well-adjusted system of falsehood chicanery, fraud and calumny, they have deceived mankind in regard to their abominable institutions and practices. They have deluded de-coyed, and ruined forever, thousands of honest peo-ple, robbed them of their property, deprived them of their constitutional rights, and are now urging them forward in a system of treason and rebellion which will lead them inevitably into a ruin.” 
INDICTMENT OP THE MORMON LEADERS. 
CAMP SCOTT, Dec. 30, 1857. 
The Grand Jury of the District Court of the United States for this county returned into Court to-day the following indictment for treason, against certain Mormons who have been prominently identi-fied with the acts of violence perpetrated thus far in the rebellion. It is to be regretted that the evi-dence presented to the Jury did not justify the addition to the list of the name of John M. Bern-heisel, the Mormon Delegate to Congress. The position in which he is placed by the revolt of his constituency, is such that great curiosity exists in camp to learn how he has demeaned himself at Washington. 
After some remarks by Judge Eckels compli-menting the Jury for the fidelity with which they have performed their duties, they were discharged from further service.
THE INDICTMENT. 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TERRITORY OF UTAH, 
GREEN RIVER COUNTY, ss.—District Court of the United States. December Term, 1857.—The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, impaneled, charged and sworn to inquire for the said United States within and for the said Territory, and the body of the District and County aforesaid, upon their oath present: That Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball Daniel H. Wells, John Tay-lor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rockwell, William A. Hickman, Albert Carrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terry, John Harvey, Daniel Jones Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Burton, James Fergu-son, Ephraim Hanks, late of the County aforesaid, yeomen, with a great multitude of persons (whose names to the Grand Jurors aforesaid are at present unknown), to the number of one thou-sand persons or more, being inhabit ants of the said Territory and residents therein, and under the protection of the Constitution and laws of the said United States, and owing allegiance and fidelity to the said United States, not weighing the duty of their said allegiance, but wickedly devising and intending the peace and tranquillity of the said United States to disturb, and to stir move and excite insurrection, rebellion, and war against the said United States, on the fifteenth day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within the Territory, District and County aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, unlawfully, falsely, maliciously, and traitorously did compass, imagine, and intend to raise and levy war, insurrec-tion and rebellion against the said United States. And in order to fulfill and bring to effect the said traitorous compass-ings, imaginations and intentions of them, the said Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rockwell, William A. Hick-man, Albert Carrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terrey, John Harvey, Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Burton, James Ferguson, Ephraim Hauks, and the great multitude aforesaid, afterward, to wit, on the fifteenth day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within the Territory, District and County aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this Court, with a great multitude of persons whose names to the Grand Jurors aforesaid are at present unknown, to tie number of one thousand persons and more, armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say with rifles, pistols, swords and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defensive, being then and there unlawfully, ma-liciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together, did falsely and traitorously assemble and combine against the said united States; and then and there, with force and arms, did falsely and traitorously array themselves against the United States; and then and there, on the fifteenth day of September, in the, year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within the Terri-tory, District and County aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, in pursuance of such, their traitorous inten-tions and purposes aforesaid, they, the said Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor, George D Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rockwell, William A. Hickman, Al-bert Carrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robin-son, Joshua Terrey, John Harvey, Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Burton, James Ferguson, Ephraim Hauks, with the said persons so as aforesaid traitorously assem-bled, armed and arrayed in manner aforesaid, most wickedly ma-liciously and traitorously did ordain, prepare and levy war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of their said allegiance and fidelity, against the form of the act of the Congress of the said United States in such case made and provided, and against the Constitution, peace and dignity of the said United States.
And the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present: That Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rock-well, Win. A. Hickman, Albert Carrington, Joseph Taylor Wm. Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terrey, John Harvey Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, Wm. Young, Robert Burton, James Fer-guson, Ephraim Hauks, late of the County aforesaid yeomen with a great multitude of persons (whose names to the Grand Jurors aforesaid are at present unknown), to the number of one thousand persons and more, being inhabitants of and resident m tie said territory, and under the protection of the Constitu-tion and laws of the said United States, and owing allegiance and fidelity to the said United States, not weighing the duty of their said allegiance, but wickedly devising and intending the peace and tranquillity of the said United States to disturb and to pre-vent the execution of the laws thereof within the said Territory to wit: "An Act to establish a Territorial Government for Utah," approved September 9, 1850, did, on the fifteenth day of Septem-ber, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within the Territory, District and County aforesaid, and within the juris-diction of this Court, wickedly, maliciously and traitorously compass, imagine and intend to raise and levy war against the said United States; and to fulfill and bring to effect the said traitorous compassings, imaginations and intentions of them, the said Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball Daiel H. Wolis, John Taylor. George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rockwell, William A. Hickman, Albert Carrington, Joseph Tayor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terrey, John Hrvey, Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Brton, James Fergu-son, Ephraim Hauks, and the great multude aforesaid, after-ward, to wit: on the fifteenth day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within he Territory, District and County aforesaid, and within the juidiction of this Court, with a great multitude of persons (whose names to the Grand Jurors aforesaid are at present unknown) to the number of one thousand persons and more, armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say with rifles, pistol as words, and other war-like weapons, as well offensive and deensive, being then and there unlawfully, maliciously and traitorously assembled and gathered together, did falsely and traitorously assemble and com-bine against the said United States; and then and there, with force and arms, wickedly, maliciously all traitorously, and with the wicked, malicious and traitorous intention to oppose and prevent, by means of intimidation and volence, the execution of the said laws of the said United States within the said Territory, did array and dispose themselves in a Warlike and hostile manner against the said United States and then and there, with force and arms, in pursuance of such their traitorous intention, they the said Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rock-well, William A. Hickman, Albert Crrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Johua Terrey, John Harvey Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Burton James Ferguson, Ephraim Hauks, wth the said persons so as aforesaid traitorously assembled, armd and arrayed in manner aforesaid, wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously did levy war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of their said allegiance and fidelity, against the form of the Act of the Congress of the said United States in such case made and provided and against the Constitution, peace and dgnity of the said United States. And the Grand Jurors aforesad, upon their oath afore-said, do further present: That Brigham Young, Heber C. Kim-ball, Daniel H Wells John Taylor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Peter Rock well, William A. Hickma , Albert Carrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terrey, John Harvey, Daniel Jones, Phines Young, William Young Robert Burton, James Ferguson, Ephraim Hauks, late of the county aforesaid, yeomen, with a treat multitude of persona (whose names to the Grand Jurors foresaid are at present un-known), to the number of one thousand persons and more, being inhabitants of and resident in the said Territory, and under the protection of the Constitution and Inks of the said United States and owing allegiance and fidelity to the said United States, not weighing the duty of their said allegiance, but with wicked de-vice and intention the peace and tanquillity of the said United States to disturb, and to prevent the execution of the laws thereof within the said Territory, to wit: An Act to establish a Territorial Government for Utah, approved September 9, 1850, and to stir, move and excite insurrection, rebellion, and war against the said United States, n the fifteenth day of Sep-tember, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within the Territory, District and County aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, did wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously conspire, combine, confederate, and agree together to levy war against the said United States; and then and there the said Brigham Young, in pursance of the said wicked, malici-ous and treasonable conspiracy, combination, confederation and agreements, did issue a wicked, malicious, and treasonable procla-mation in the following words and figures, to wit: 
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. 
CITIZENS OF UTAH: We are invaded by a hostile force who are evidently assailing us to accomplish our overthrow and de-struction. For the last twenty-five years we have trusted officials of the Government, from Constables and Justices to Judges Governors and Presidents, only to be scorned, held in derision insulted and betrayed. Our houses have been plundered and then trained, our fields laid waste our principal men butchered while under the plighted faith of the Government for their safety, and our families driven from their homes to find that shelter in the barren wilderness, and that protection among hostile savages which were denied them in the boasted abodes of Christianity and civilization. The Constitution of our common country guarantees unto us all that we do now or have ever claimed. If the Constitutional rights which pertain unto us as American citi-zens were extended to Utah, according to the spirit and meaning thereof, and fairly and impartially administered, it is all that we could ask—all that we have ever asked. Our opponents have availed themselves of the prejudices existing against us because of our religious faith to send out a formidable host to accomplish our destruction. We have had no privilege, no opportunity of de-fending ourselves against the false, foul, and unjust aspersions against us, before the nation. The Government has not conde-scended to cause an Investigating Committee or other person to be sent to inquire into and ascertain the truth, as is customary in such cases. We know those aspersions to be false, but that avails us nothing. We are condemned unheard, and forced to an issue with an armed mercenary mob which has been sent against us at the instigation of anonymous letter-writers ashamed to father the base, slanderous falsehoods which they have given to the public; of corrupt officials who have brought false accusations against us to screen themselves in their own infamy, and of hire-ling priests and howling editors who prostitute the truth for filthy lucre's sake. The issue which has been thus forced upon us compels us to resort to the great first law of self-preservation and stand in our own defense—a right guaranteed unto us by the genius of the institutions of our country, and upon which the Government is based. Our duty to ourselves, to our families, requires us not to tamely submit to be driven and slain without an attempt to preserve ourselves. Our duty to our country, our holy religion, our God, to freedom and liberty, requires that we should not quietly stand still and see those fetters forging around us which are calculated to enslave and bring us in subjection to an unlawful military despotism, such as can only emanate (in a country of Constitutional laws from usurpation, tyranny and op-preasion. Therefore I for am Young. Ger the name of the People of the United States in the Territory of Utah.
First: Forbid all armed forces of every description from com-ing into this Territory under any pretense whatever; 
Second: That all the forces in said Territory bold themselves m readiness to march, at a moment's notice, to repel any and all such invasion; 
Third: Martial law is hereby declared to exist in this Terri-tory from and after the publishing of this Proclamation; and no person shall be allowed to pass and repass into, or through, or from this Territory without a permit from the proper officers. Given under my hand and seal at Great Salt Lake City, Terri-tory of Utah, this fifteenth day of September, A. D. 1857, and of the Independence of the United States of Amer-ica the eighty-second. BRIGHAM YOUNG. [L. S.]
With wicked, malicious, and traitorous intent to levy, and thereby wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously levying war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of his said allegiance fidelity, against the form of the act of the Congress of the said United States in such case made and provided, and against the Constitution, peace and dignity of the said United States; and then and there the said William Stowell, in pursuance of the said wicked, malicious and treasonable conspiracy, combination, con- federation and agreement, did have in his possession, and attempt to carry, and did carry a wicked, malicious and treasonable com-munication from the said Daniel H. Wells to the said Joseph Tay-lor, in the following words and figures, to wit: 
HEADQUARTERS EASTERN EXPEDITION,
CAMP NEAR CACHE CAVE, Oct. 4, 1857.} 
MAJOR JOSEPH TAYLOR: YOU will proceed with all possible dis-patch, without injurying your animals, to the Oregon road, near the bend of Bear River, north by east of this place. Take close and correct observations of the country on your route. When you approach the road send scouts ahead to ascertain if the in-vading troops have passed that way. Should they have passed, take a concealed route and get ahead of them. Express to Col. Burton, who is now on that road and in the vicinity of the troops, and effect a junction with him, so as to operate in concert. On ascertaining the locality or route of the troops proceed at once to annoy them in every possible way. Use every exertion to stam-pede their animals, and set fire to their trains. Burn the whole country before them and on their flanks. Keep them from sleep-ing by night surprises. Blockade the read by felling trees or de-stroying river fords where you can. Watch for opportunities to set fire to the grass, so as, if possible, to envelop their trains Leave no grass before them that can be burned. Keep your men concentrated as much as possible, and guard against surprise. Keep scouts out at all times, and communication open with Col. Burton, Major McAllister and O. P. Rockwell, who are operating m the same way. Keep me advised daily of your movements and every step the troops take, and in which direction. 
God bless you and give you success. Your bro. in Christ, 
DANIEL H. WELLS. 
P. S.—If the troops have not passed, or have turned in this di-rection, follow m their rear and continue to annoy them, burning any trams they may leave. Take no life, but destroy their trains and stampede ox drive away their animals at every opportunity. 
D. H. WELLS. 
With wicked, malicious and traitorous intent to levy, and thereby wickedly, maliciously and traitorously levying war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of his said allegiance and fidelity, against the form of the Act of the Congress of the said United States in such case made and provided, and against the Constitution, peace and dignity of the said United States; and then and there, the said Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor, Geo. D. Grant, Lot Smith, Peter Rockwell, William H. Hickman, Albert Carrington, Jo-seph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terrey, John Harvey, Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, Robert. Burton, James Ferguson, Ephraim Hauks, and the great multitude afore-said, in pursuance of the aforesaid traitorous conspiracy, combi-nation, confederation and agreements, did traitorously assemble and gather themselves together; and then and there combined, confederated and assembled in manner aforesaid, and armed and arrayed in a warlike manner, that is to say, with rifles, pistols, swords and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defen-sive, did wickedly, maliciously and traitorously issue wicked, malicious and traitorous speeches, writings and proclamations; and then and there, with force and arms, so as aforesaid traitor-ously combined, confederated, assembled, armed and arrayed, did wickedly, maliciously and traitorously set fire to and burn commissary stores belonging to the said United States, of great value, to wit: of the value of one million dollars; and then and there, with force and arms, so as aforesaid traitorously combined, confederated, assembled, aimed and arrayed, did wickedly, ma-liciously and traitorously disarm divers citizens of the said United States having charge and custody of the commissary stores afore-said; and then and there, with force and arms, so as aforesaid traitorously combined, confederated, assembled, armed and ar-rayed, did wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously steal, take and drive away oxen, horses and mules belonging to the said United States, to the number of one thousand and more, and of great value to wit: to the value of one hundred thousand dollars; and then and there, with force and arms, so as aforesaid traitorously com-bined, confederated, assembled, armed and arrayed, did wickedly maliciously and traitorously oppose the march of the army of the said United States by the erection of military fortifications on a public highway, with wicked, malicious, and traitorous intent to levy, and thereby wickedly, maliciously and traitorously levying war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of their said allegiance and fidelity, against the form of the act of the Con-gress of the said United States in such cases made and provided and against, the Constitution, peace and dignity of the said United States And the Grand Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath afore-said, do further present: That on the fifteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and fifty seven, and continuously from thence hitherto, an open, public and traitorous rebellion and war against the United States of America was and yet is prosecuted and carried on within the Territory of Utah aforesaid, by Brig-ham Young, late of the County aforesaid, yeoman, and a great multitude of persons (whose names to the Grand Jurors aforesaid are at present unknown), to the num-ber of one thousand persons and more, inhabitants of the said Territory and residing therein, and under the protection of the Constitution and laws of the said United States, and owing allegiance and fidelity to the said United States; and that Heber C. Kimball, David H. Wells John Tay-lor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rockwell William A. Hickman, Albert Carrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Terrey, John Harvey, Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Burton, James Ferguson, Ephraim Hauks, late of the said County, yeomen, and a great multitude of persons (whose names to the Grand Jurors afore-said are at present unknown), to the number of one thousand persons and more, inhabitants of the said Territory and resident therein, and under the protection of the Constitution and laws of the said United States, and owing allegiance and fidelity to the saw united States, well knowing the premises, but not regarding the duty of their said allegiance, but as traitors against the said united States, and wholly withdrawing the allegiance, fidelity and obedience due by them to the said United States, and traitor-ously contriving, conspiring, and intending, by all the means in their power, to aid and assist the enemies of the said United States so as aforesaid traitorously rebelling and levying war against the said United States, did, on the fifteenth day of Sep-tember, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, within the territory, District and County aforesaid, and within the jurisdic-tion of this Court wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously ad-here to and give aid and comfort to the said enemies of the said United States ; and then and there, in the prosecution, perform-ance and execution of the traitorous adhering aforesaid, and to fulfill, perfect, and bring the same to effect, they, the said Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor, George D. Grant, Lot Smith, Porter Rockwell, William A Hickman, Albert Carrington, Joseph Taylor, William Stowell, Lewis Robinson, Joshua Ter-rey, John Harvey, Daniel Jones, Phineas Young, William Young, Robert Burton, Ephraim Hauks, with the said foresaid traitorously adhering and giving aid did comfort to the said enemies of the said United States, did wickedly, maliciously and traitorously, by traitorous speeches writings and proclamations; and then and there, with force and arms did wickedly, maliciously and traitorously, by assembling and gathering together, armed and arrayed in a warlike manner that is to say, with rifles, pistols, swords, and other warlike weapons, as well offensive as defensive; and then and there with force and arms, did wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously by furnishing intelligence, provisions, and munitions of war and then and there, with force and arms, did wickedly, maliciously and traitorously, by setting fire to and burning commissary stores belonging to the said United States, of great value, to wit, of the value of one million dollars; and then and there, with force and aims, did wickedly maliciously, and traitorously, by disarming divers citizens of the said United States having charge and cus-tody of the commissary stores aforesaid; and then and there, with force and arms, did wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously, by stealing taking and driving away oxen, horses, and mules, be-longing to the said United States, to the number of one thousand and more, and of great value, to wit, of the value of one hundred thousand dollars; and then and there, with force and arms did wickedly, maliciously, and traitorously, by opposing the march of the army; of the said United States, by the erection of military fortifications on a public highway adhere to and give aid and comfort to the enemies of the said United States, so as aforesaid rebelling and levying war against the said United States, contrary to the duty of their skid allegiance and fidelity, against the form of the Act of the Congress of the said United States in such case made and provided, and against the Constitution, peace and dig-nity of the said United States. 
J. M. HOCKADAY, Attorney for the United States. 
A true bill. 	JOHN D. RADFORD, Foreman.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEAR'S IN THE CAMP. 
CAMP SCOTT, Jan. 2, 1858. Christmas and New-Year's Day have been cele-brated by the army with as much gayety as if we were in cosy cantonments, instead of under canvas roofs. The mornings were devoted to the discharge of holiday courtesies, by calls upon all the ladies and the principal civil and military officers. On Chistmas eve the non-commissioned officers of the 5th Infantry united to give a ball, and New-Year's eve was celebrated by the non-commissioned offi-cers of the 10th in the same manner. The ball room of the latter was constructed from five large hospital tents, and was decorated in good taste with flags and bunting. At midnight the regimental bands made a tour through the civilian settlement and the camp, serenading Col. Johnston, Col. Waite, Col. Alexander, Gov. Cumming, Judge Eckels, and all the ladies who accompany the army the utmost good order prevailed, and not an arrest was made for any breach either of civil or military decorum. 
There was a very welcome arrival, a few days ago, of 1,000 pounds of salt from Fort Laramie. The quantity dispatched from that post was 3,000 pounds, but many of the pack-mules perished in the snow at the Rocky Ridge, only 16 out of 46 reach-ing our camp. The remainder of the salt was cached on the ridge. 
You are probably by this time officially informed of the amount and kind of commissary stores de-stroyed by Mormons on October 5 and 6. I have seen to-day the invoices of the Quartermaster's rearty contained in the trains which were burned. to have consisted principally of me-chanics’ implements, stationery and horse medicines. Probably, been spared. If the Mormons had more easily have three on the road, they would indeed have done damage, for they would have destroyed almost all the supplies of clothing. I wrote to you in October that it was originally intended to assign to each train a proportion of all the articles to be trans-ported; but I have since learned that Col. Thomas of the Quartermaster's department, who super-intended the lading, did not pack them in that man-ner, but loaded train after train with such freight as lay most conveniently at hand. 
The Army was mustered day before yesterday—the infantry regiments, the artillery batteries and the squadron of dragoons at headquarters, by Major Porter, the Assistant Adjutant-General; the regi-ment of dragoons by Col. Cooke; and the battalion of volunteers by Brevet Lieut.-Col. Chapman, of the 5th Infantry. The volunteers presented a cred-itable appearance, considering the few weeks dur-ing which they have been subjected to drill. I sub-join a list of the officers of their battalion, as I have already forwarded to you a list of the officers on duty with the regular Army: 
Lieut.-Col. BARNARD E. BEE (Capt 10th Inf.), Commanding. 
Second Lieut. JAMES H. HILL (10th Inf.), Adjutant. 
Second Lieut. JAMES DESHLER (10th Inf.), Quartermaster. 
Capt. W. M. F. MAGRAW, company A. 
Capt. DANIEL MCLAUGHLIN, company B. 
Capt. GEORGE W, CHERRY, company C. 
Capt. SAMUEL FOSTER, company D. 
First Lieut. JAMES KNOWLES, company A. 
First Lieut. JAMES BENNETT, company B. 
First Lieut. HENRY K. HARTLEY, company C. 
First Lieut. GEORGE W. FULLER, company D. 
Second Lieut. W. P. COWNE, company A. 
Second Lieut. JOSEPH R. CHAUNCEY, company B. 
Second Lieut. BENJ. F. THOMAS, company C. 
Second Lieut. W. O CLARRSON, company D. 
(From my previous list of officers of the regular Army on duty with their various corps in Utah, the name of Second Lient. AR-THUR S. CUNNINGHAM, 10th Infantry, was inadvertently omitted.) 
A petition in the following language has been signed by the entire volunteer battalion, and will be presented in Congress at an early day: 
"To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled: 
"We, the undersigned, members of the volunteer companies serving with the Army of Utah, respectfully request from you an early consideration of the circumstances in which we are placed 
"Trusting entirely to the magnanimity of the Government we have entered the service of the United States at a time when we thought we were in duty bound to do so, without any appropria-tion having been made for our pecuniary reward. We are situ-ated in peculiarly embarrassing circumstances, many of us being without funds, and all the sutlers, with a single exception re-fusing us credit. Consequently, we are deprive d of many com-forts, and, indeed, of some of the necessaries of life. Such being the case, we respectfully hope that you will give this, our memo-rial, your earliest consideration." 
Very little comment, certainly, is needed on such a petition. No well-informed gentleman can ques-tion the wisdom of Col. Johnston in assuming au-thority to enlist and organize the battalion. It has afforded employment and subsistence to men whom the inclemency of the season and their distance from home would otherwise have rendered pension-ers on military charity throughout the Winter; and its organization has contributed to the quiet, order, and discipline of the camp. It has shown discre-tion in selecting so excellent an officer as Col. Bee for its commander, and before the Summer, through his efforts and those of his staff, it will be in con-dition to render valuable service in the field. I can imagine no reason why Congress shall not imme-diately indorse its enlistment and organization, pro-vide for its pay, and place its officers on the same footing in respect to emoluments and commissions as those of the volunteer regiments employed in the Mexican war. 
The lunettes designed to complete the fortifica-tion of Fort Bridger, the work on which has been superintended by Lieut. Webb of the 5th Infantry and Lieut. Kensel of the 4th Artillery, are com-pleted. This work has been attended with much difficulty on account of the season of the year at which it has been prosecuted, every clod in the frozen ground having been moved by the pickax. 
A general court-martial was convened to-day at headquarters by order of Col. Johnston. Its mem-bers are: 
Brevet Lieut. Col. WM. CHAPMAN, 5th Infantry. 
Brevet Major H. H. SIBLEY, 2d Dragoons. 
Capt. JOHN DUNEVANT, 10th Infantry. 
First Lieut. GRIER TALLMADCE, 4th Artillery. 
Second Lieut. C. J. LYNDE, 5th Infantry. 
Brevet Second Lieut. T. J. LEE, 10th Infantry. 
First Lieut. WM, A. WEBB, 5th infantry, Judge Advocate. 
Toward the close of last month we were visited by a party of nearly 300 Utah Indians, a portion of them delegates from the baud on White River, along which Capt. Marcy may be compelled, to pass on his return from New-Mexico. They waited on Dr. Forney, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory, and received from him presents of the value of several thousand dollars. It is a matter of satisfaction that both Dr. Forney and Dr. Hurt are alive to the importance of conciliating the Utahs and Snakes and weaning them from the control of the Mormons; otherwise these tribes might seriously retard the operations of the troops in the Spring and Summer by committing depredations on our cattle. So far as I can judge, the influence exercised by Brigham Young upon the tribes within and adjoining the Territory has been exaggerated. It has un-doubtedly been considerable, but by no means, I be-lieve, so constant and universal as is supposed. All that we want of the Utahs and Snakes is that they shall remain neutral. By judicious management this object can be attained; and even more, if desirable, their sympathies can be enlisted on our side. 
I have often referred to the new road opened as for as to the Pacific dope last Summer, by Lieut. Bryan of the Topographical Engineers; to the sav-ing of distance which it would effect, and to the changes in the location of military poets which would follow its adoption. Mr. Bryan's official re-port we have, of course, not yet received, nor are we likely to receive it for an indefinite period, un-less some improvement takes place in our mail service. But information which I have gained con-cerning the character of the country through which, it will be necessary to run a road to connect his road with any route traveled at present toward the Salt Lake Valley, causes me to cherish far less san-guine expectations of immediately favorable results from his explorations than I have heretofore enter-tained. I understand that he ran his road success-fully to a point near the head of Bitter Creek, where he was certain that it touched waters which ultimately fall into the Pacific—and no further. The information I receive concerning the country extending at least one hundred and fifty miles west from its termination, to Green River, is authentic, and leads me to believe that that country can never be traversed by large trains, unless it becomes sup-plied artificially with pure water and ample forage for animals. Its waters are all impregnated to an extraordinary extent with alkaine matter, and its grass is very scanty, chiefly bunch grass, and grows m patches—not a blade being visible frequently for eight or ten miles. I know that Col. Johnston has become anxiously interested in this matter, and has commissioned several intelligent persons, conversant with the requisites for a good military road through this country, to traverse various trails communicat-ing with Bryan's road, and to make reports of their observations, to be forwarded as promptly as possi-ble from Fort Laramie to Camp Scott. I fear that they will confirm the views which I have ad-vanced of the present impracticability of the route; and I believe that all the heavy trains started from the States for Utah will be obliged, for this year at least, to traverse the old road up the Sweetwater and through the South Pass. 
MORMON HOSTILITIES—THE DANITES 
AND THEIR MURDERS. 
CAMP SCOTT, Jan. 3, 1858. 
Feldmann, the Hospital Steward of the 10th In-fantry, who was taken prisoner by the Mormons while passing from the camp of the 10th to that of the 5th on Ham's Fork, about the end of October, has been released by Brigham Young, probably as an equivalent for Elder Almeiron Grow, who was sent to Salt Lake City with Gov. Cumming's pro-clamation. He arrived at Camp Scott last even-ing, accompanied by two teamsters who were cap-tured by the Mormons during the month of Octo-ber, and were released at the same time with him-self. Gen. Wells furnished them with conveyance from Salt Lake City to Bear River, and from there they made their way through the snow on foot. 
They bring the important intelligence that the Mormons are already fitting out an expedition to intercept Capt. Marcy on his return from New-Mexico in the Spring, stampede and seine his mules, and destroy his escort. The date on which it is anticipated that Capt. Marcy will start from Santa Fe, or from Taos, is March 20; but I doubt whether the first of April; the will be able to move before can collect will not be less than 1,200 oules which he the grass will not be grown along his route suf-ficiently to support so large a herd on a journey commenced at so early a day as the 20th of March. He is an officer admirably adapted for the service which he has in charge, having a previous and thor-ough knowledge of the country through which he must pass; and being aware that the result of this year's campaign depends in great measure on the success of his expedition, he will encounter no hazard which a prudent man would avoid. It will therefore, be practicable for news of the movement in preparation against him to reach Gen. Scott in time to allow arrangements to be made to secure him against any force which the Mormons can de-tach to operate in his direction. 
It is probable that a similar effort will be made to intercept the droves of horses which may be sent down to the army from Oregon. I believe that I wrote to you that Mr. Ficklin was dispatched to that Territory at the beginning of December, to purchase horses with which to remount the dra-goons. His principal operations will be among the Flathead Indians. 
Feldmann states that many of the Mormon troops have been withdrawn from Echo Cañon, and esti-mates the number remaining there and in its vicini-ty at 1,000. He confirms the fact that there is a series of little posts along the main road from Salt Lake City, the nearest being within forty miles of this camp. By means of these, news of every move-ment in our army is conveyed with great rapidity to Brigham Young. He says that the Mormon parti-sans who operated against us last Fall were the best equipped portion of their forces. Every two men were provided with four horses and one pack-mule. He confirms the fact that there is a great scarcity of clothing and groceries in Salt Lake City, although there is abundance of the products native to the Territory. During his confinement he was well fed, and on the whole humanely treated, although he twice endeavored to escape, succeeding once in traveling more than fifty miles from the city before he was retaken. He was not placed in irons, but only guarded by a sentinel. Wen he was taken to Fort Bridger, soon after his capture in October, the Mormons examined his Minie rifle with great curiosity, and asked him many questions about its range, but, he says, he had taken the precaution of breaking off the graduated sight of his piece and had snapped the ramrod in two. 
He confirms the suspicion that a most atrocious murder was committed by William A. Hickman, the chief Thug or Danite, on a mountaineer named Yates, in October. To the circumstances attending Yates's disappearance and probable death I have heretofore only distantly alluded, for I was unwill-ing to lay charges incapable of proof against a man who is already burdened with a greater variety of crimes than any villain mentioned in the Causes Celébres. 
Yates and Ely, two mountaineers, had a small post on Green River, near Baptiste Lnoison's, and lived by raising and trading cattle. When Col. Alexander's command crossed the river last Sep-tember, Yates disposed to the army of some kegs of gunpowder which be was keeping for sale at his post. He also contracted to supply the commissary with some beef cattle, and a few days afterward drove them up to the camp on Ham's Fork, and re-ceived in payment more than $1,000. On his re-turn to Green River a party of Mormons captured him, and conveyed him to Fort Bridger. From there he was taken to Salt Lake City, and after be-ing confined for a few days was allowed to start east-ward, accompanied by Hickman. Since the day he started nothing has ever been heard of him ex-cept the report which is now brought by Feldmann, that he was murdered and robbed by Hickman, as being a man who had forfeited his life to the Mor-mon god for the sin against the Church of the Latter-Day Saints of having sold gunpowder to the United States Army. It is said that Hickman ac-knowledges the murder, and has exhibited articles which are known to have been in the dead man’s possession. 
A true narrative of the life of such Thugs as Hickman, Porter Rockwell and Lot Smith, would, beyond question, make a story that would become classical in criminal annals. These men all live on small ranches near Salt Lake City, where they graze a few cattle, farming and stock-raising being their ostensible employment, but their actual subsistence being on the spoils of the victims whom they sacri-fice to the vengeance of their church. One of their number was taken prisoner to-day in our own camp. I passed him an hour or two ago, sitting on the sod in front of the 5th Infantry's guard teat, smoking a pipe as composedly as if a noose was not dangling over his neck. His name is either James or John Thompson. He is a Mormon elder, and a Thug or Danite. He came to camp this morning, accompanied by a Cherokee Indian called Jim (who has visited us twice before), leading a mule loaded with butter and eggs, the first which have been seen by us since the Summer. Although disguised in soldier's clothing, he was recognized while dis-posing of his butter in the store of Messrs. Gilbert & Gerrish; and information being conveyed to headquarters, be was promptly placed in arrest by Major Porter, the Assistant Adjutant-General. His avowed object was to discover what mails, expresses and bearers of dispatches were to leave the camp, and about the time of their departure to send word to a band of Mormons who are lurking somewhere in our vicinity, so that they might cut them off. In this project he probably intended to employ Chero-kee Jim as the messenger between himself and the Mormon band; but there being no proof of this intention, Jim was dismissed with a warning both from Col. Johnston and from Dr. Forney, the Su-perintendent of Indian Affairs, that he will be im-mediately arrested if found again within the pre-cincts or in the vicinity of our camp.
Thompson's employment during the Summer and Autumn has been to forward to Salt Lake City information of the movements of the troops. For this purpose he stationed himself at John Richards's trading poet at the Platte Bridge, about 120 miles west from Fort Laramie. The circumstances attending his final departure from the bridge in November, after Col. Cooke had passed westward with the 2d Dragoons, were somewhat singular. With the October mail from the States a man named O. W. Thorpe took passage, with the design of pro-ceeding to Utah to offer to sell to Brigham Young Col. Kinney's claims or pretensions to Central American territory, anticipating that the straits to which the Mormons may be reduced might be such as to compel Brigham to think seriously of a propo-sition so chimerical. Thorpe quarreled with every-body connected with the mail, from the conductor down to the drivers, and upon arriving at the bridge and learning what had occurred ahead, abandoned that mode of conveyance, and engaged Thompson and a man who was once employed to tend the Mormon Church herd in Cache valley, to pilot him to Salt Lake City on the Bitter Creek roote. Under their guidance he traveled as far as Green River, but unfortunately for Col. Kinney, he quareled with them as violently as he had done with the employees upon the mail; and there they abandoned him and made their own way to Salt Lake Valley across the mountains. He remained a fortnight at Baptiste Luoison's trading post, and then started back to-ward the States. How far he has proceeded on his return and in what quarrels he has involved himself, I do not know. So there is no chance for a Mormon exodus to Nicaragua.
Immediately after Thompson's arrest, Lieut. Grover of the 10th Infantry was appointed Provost Marshal of the camp, and to-day he has entered upon the discharge of the duties of that office. It is to Mr. Grover that the credit belongs of having shed the first blood in the Mormon war. On Oct. 16, while in command of a detachment of Captain Dunevant's company of the 10th In-fantry, he fired upon a party of Mormon marauders, on Ham's Fork. The distance, more than 700 yards, was too great to allow the vol-ley to do serious damage; but we have just learned that two shots took effect, one killing a horse, and the other passing through the foot of its rider. 
The circumstance that Thompson was disguised in soldier's clothing when he was arrested induces me to allude to the necessity of some further meas-ure, whether by law or military regulation, of checking the assumption of the army uniform by civilians, which is so universal on the Plains. In the present state of affairs in Utah it is a master deserving serious consideration. Almost every teamster and camp followers, of this in an overcoat and fraudulently sold, either to or to a third party, by some sol-principal purpose of a uniform—to estab-lish a distinction between the civilian and the soldier which shall be palpable to the eye—is thus frus-trated. I might allude to the various embarrass-ments which arise from the practice, and to its prejudicial effect upon the discipline, and in some measure the esprit of a large army, but they will readily suggest themselves to you. The simple fact that Thompson, had his face escaped recognition might have passed for a teamster or an artificer with more ease than if he had worn the usual garb of a civilian, of itself relieves the subject from the reproach of triviality. The sale of the garments by the soldier is already punished by military regu-lation, but this regulation is not sufficient, as the frequency of its invasion proves. The purchase of them from deserters by civilians in punished by law and I believe that circumstances justify the exten-sion of the penalty to the purchase from any soldier whatever, and the making the possession of the clothing prima facie proof of the offense. 
The system of espionage practiced toward this expedition by the Mormons has been complete and successful. Not a single detachment of troops, nor a train, nor hardly even a party of civilians travel-ing across the plains either on business or for pleasure, left the Missouri border during the Sum-mer without being accompanied by a Mormon spy in some subordinate capacity, such as teamster or cook. I do not know what additional precautions could have been employed against this system. The baggage of a suspected person might, if searched, furnish means of detection. Every Mormon who has undergone the process of endowment is ex-pected to wear thenceforth a species of under-gar-ment, which has been described to me as a shirt and pair of drawers, knit together so as to form one piece of clothing. This is put on by means of a long slit cut in it behind and tied together with strings. On the breast, and on one if not both arms, a piece in the shape of a lozenge is cut out, and then in-serted with a broad seam. 
Our greatest privation at present is the lack of news from the States. Our latest dates from the East (with the exception of half-a-dozen newspa-pers forwarded to Col. Johnston from Fort Lara-mie, by express), remain those received by the mail which started from Independence, Mo., on Oct. 1, and reached us on Nov. 20; more than three weeks behind the time stipulated in the contract. The party which brought in the salt from Laramie at the close of last month, report that the November mail had stopped at the bridge over the Sweet Water, on the other side of the mountains, to graze its ani-mals, and that there is no probability of its arrival in camp before the middle of February. In the meanwhile the Mormons are in posseession of later news from the States than ourselves, as appears by the newspapers brought from Salt Lake City by Feldmann. 
This negligence on the part of the mail contrac-tors, shameful thought it would be under any cir-cumstances, is peculiarly aggravating at this time when we know only generally that a great monetary crisis exists at the East, without being informed as to particulars. The army has certainly discomfort enough in the hardships of its position and of the season, without having also to endure a prolonged anxiety as to the health and social and pecuniary welfare of friends in the States. The Administra-tion owes it to the expedition, to remedy immediately such an evil as this, for the Postmaster General has She matter entirely in his own control. 
The back mail which accumulated in the States during the Summer months, and was started by the contractors from Independence about September 25, was brought up to camp only yesterday, and has been distributed to-day. I know of one instance—which is, however, not solitary—in which a gentle- man has received from it a letter affecting him pecuniarily to the amount of more than $10,000, which was mailed in Washington during the month of May. He would have received it more promptly if he had been living in Cochin-China. 
THE MORMON LEGISLATURE—BRIGHAM 
YOUNG'S MESSAGE. 
CAMP SCOTT, Jan. 4, 1858. 
The Mormon Legislature met, as was announced, at Salt Lake City on Dec. 14. The Council organ-ized by the choice of Heber C. Kimball as Presi-dent, and the House of Representatives elected John Taylor Speaker. On the 15th Brigham Young sent in a Message, which was read in the House by James Ferguson, Clerk of that body. This Ferguton was Sergeant-Major of Col. Cooke's Mormon battalion during the Mexican war. On the 21st the two legislative branches unanimously adopted and signed a series of resolutions indors-ing Young's Message, and pledging themselves to sustain him in the rebellion. On the 22d they passed an act attaching Green River County, in which the U. S. troops are encamped, to Great Salt Lake County. Of this act, the resolutions, and the Mes-sage I inclose you copies, and also a list of the mem bers and officers of the Legislature. 
The general opinion among persons acquainted with Young's style of composition, is that this message was not written by himself, but by John Taylor, who is by far the most accomplished man in education, travel and manners among the Mormon leaders. He is well known as for many years editor of the Mormon newspaper published at New-York City. If along letter, which he addressed to Capt. Marcy during the month of October, in which the points at issue in this rebellion are discussed, has yet been published in the States, I think that a comparison of its style with that of the message will justify the opinion to Which I refer, concerning the authorship of the latter. 
I inclose to you also a file of The Deseret News for the month of December (with the except-ion of the number for December 30), which was brought by Feldmann from Salt Lake City. One thing is remarkable in all the printed discourses which it contains, which is also particularly nota-ble in Young's Message—the absence of allusions to the presence of the new civil officers of the Terri-tory, and to the reception of Gov. Cumming's proc-lamation. In a hasty glance through the sermons, I have been able to detect only one reference to that proclamation, and that but slight and casual. In the sermons there is also less obscenity and profani-ty than usual.
Another notable feature in the newspapers, and one which gives us an insight into the social condi-tion of the Mormon community, is the frequency of such advertisements as the following: 
“WHEAT AND CLOTHING.—Bring along your substantial Clothing and exchange on liberal terms for wheat, corn, cattle, pork, and other domestic products, at the Deseret Store. 
"For the purpose of a more equal distribution of clothing throughout the settlements, it has been suggested by the First Presidency that clothing of every description be deposited at the Deseret Store, and those who are in need to bring In their grain, it c., and be prepared to make the exchange for the articles needed, 
"Let everybody look over their wardrobes, turn out their drawers and boxes, and see what can be collected to supply the present wants of a large portion of this community." 
A MORMON PRISONER—HIS TRIAL. 
CAMP SCOTT, January 5, 1858. 
William Stowell, the principal Mormon prisoner, was arraigned yesterday in the District Court upon the indictment for treason returned by the Grand Jury on Dec. 30. Since the escape of his fellow-prisoner, Taylor, he has been confined by steel shackles, which, however, were removed so as to enable him to walk without discomfort to the Court-House—about a quarter of a mile from the guard-tents of the 10th Infantry. His escort—a corporal and four men—surrendered him into the custody of the United States Marshal, Mr. Dotson, at the door. The Court room was crowded with spectators, among whom were Col. Johnston and Gov. Cumming.
Stowell is a thick, heavy-set man, not more than five feet six inches in hight, with a rough and obsti-nate, but not malignant countenance, short and shaggy black hair, and an illiterate expression. He was clothed warmly, and with tolerable neatness, Judge Eckels having personally inspected and pro-vided for his physical cleanliness before the arrival of the Marshal at camp. 
He listened to the reading of the indictment with composure, and was evidently gratified sur prised to find his name in such nobid company. 
At its close he question by Judge Eckels, what time the prisoner would desire to prepare for his trial, his counsel, Mr. Charles Maurice Smith (formerly a lawyer at Port Royal, Virginia, and more recently associated with Beverley Tucker in the editorship of The Washington Sentinel), stated that by agree-ment with the United States Attorney he should re-quest that the case might go over to the next term of the Court. The prisoner would desire the pres-ence of witnesses, whose attendance, in the present confused state of affairs in the Territory, it would be difficult, if sot impossible, to procure. 
The United States Attorney, Mr. Hockaday, said that so far as the Government was concerned it was prepared to proceed to the trial at any mo-ment, but he thought the interval requested by the prisoner no longer than reasonable. He should of-fer no objection to the request of the prisoner's counsel for another cause, that, although, as he had said, the Government was prepared to procced at the earliest moment, a brief delay would suit the public interest. There were important witnesses in the States, whose presence before the Grand Jury it had been impossible to secure, and in the same indictment with Stowell there were numerous other names of persons who had not yet been ar-rested. 
Judge Eckels then said that the delay requested was certainly not unreasonable, and that the case might lie over. In consideration of the grave char-acter of the offense charged in the indictment, upon which the prisoner had been arraigned, and its im-portant significance in view of the events transpir-ing in the Territory, he deemed it his duty to remark thus publicly what under ordinary circumstances there would be no occasion to say, that in this Court there should be no undue haste, neither undue delay in the trial of any case, and least of all a case of this magnitude and description. No prisoner should be abridged in time for preparation for his trial, nor denied any facility for procuring witnesses which the Court can afford. 
Stowell was then again surrendered by the Mar-shal into the charge of the military, and returned to the guard tents. On account of the restrictions imposed upon that officer by his instructions from the Department of the Interior, and for other rea-sons, it has been impracticable for him to provide a place in which prisoners may be kept safely in civil custody. By an arrangement between Judge Eckels and Col. Johnston, the embarrassment arising from this cause has been obviated, and the army guards all persons held in custody by order of the Court. The Colonel, and indeed every officer under his command, have displayed a disposition to assist the Court in the discharge of its duties, which deserves public acknowledgment. 
The United States Attorney will start this even-ing for Washington, with the intention of returning before the Army can move in the Spring. By the permission of Col. Johnston the duties of his office will be discharged during his absence by Lieut. Henry B. Kelly of the 10th Infantry. Upon the receipt of the news of the proceedings of the Mor-mon Legislature, the Grand Jury, which was dis- missed on Dec. 30, was to-day re-convened, and will probably find an indictment for treason against every member of that body. 
Mr. David A. Burr, sort of ex-Surveyor-General Burr, was to-day appointed Assistant Clerk of the Court. 
The animals on Smith's and Henry's Forks have improved perceptibly under the influence of the mild weather. There has been little snow since I last wrote, and but few days when the thermome-ter has ranged far below zero in our vicinity. It is posible that before this letter reaches you that the camp may be shifted to some point higher up the Fork, perhaps between the volunteer camp and Eckelsville. All our wood has now to be hauled nearly two miles to the tents, and principally by hand. The fringe of cottonwood trees along the Fork has been very much thinned for more than a mile north and an equal distance south of the camp, only so much of it being left as is necessary to shel-ter us from the winds that sweep along the valley. The bare boon driven to-day for the corners of a log-cabin, which it is proposed to build near the road, tope used as a theater. 
While the scurvy is prevalent at Fort Laramie it has not yet made its appearance among us. 
MESSAGE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG TO THE MORMON LEGISLATURE. 
DELIVERED IN GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, DECEMBER 15, 
A. D. 1857. 
Gentlemen of the Council and House of Representatives. 
The people, for the promotion of whose advancement in correct government you are now assembled in a legislative capacity, are so remote from the high-wrought excitement and consequent entangling ques-tions common to the populous marts of national and international commerce, are so little prone to deem mere property, rank, titles and office the highest prizes for human effort, and through enlightened choice are so invariably peaceful and law-abiding, that your duties partake but in a small degree of that varied, perplexing and intricate description go charac-teristic of the legislation of most, if not all other com-munities. But, however orderly and upright are a people, the changes and experience incident to trans-piring circumstances, and consequent new views and events, afford ample scope for the exercise of that candid deliberation in a prudent forethought, without which legislation is liable to be far more detrimental than beneficial. 
Those unparalleled habits of industry, sobriety, order and respect to the just rights of all, which so preëminently distinguish the occupants of a region un-inviting to qwellers in more favored climes, have con-tinued in a rapidly-increasing ratio to advance Utah to a position in social and political progress worthy the highest commendation. During the past year, for reasons well understood, our progression has not been so particularly marked by improvements under appro-priations from the Territorial treasury as it has by un-ostentatious, persevering and skillful individual efforts most successfully applied to extending the area of our tillable land, to the gradual introduction of a more economical, systematic land judicious cultivation of the various products adapted to our soil and climate, to the requisite care and improvement of stock, to the erection of more commodious private dwell-ings, and to a large and highly-encouraging in-crease in domestic manufactures. These pursuits and their results, in he comparatively humble, limited and tardy mode as yet compelled by the time, thought and means that can be devoted to their conduct and attainment, are tame and uninterest-ing to those who dwell amid the whirl of mental and physical energies constantly taxed to their utmost tension in the selfish, unsatisfying and frenzied quest of worldly emolument, fame, power, and maddening draughts from the siren cup of pleasure; but they are laying for us and our children a foundation broad, deep, strong and durable, upon which, through the blessings of our God, to rear a supestructure for the temporal well-being of ourselves and the thousands upon thousands who will seek unto us for sustenance and the enjoyment of the inalienable rights of civil and religious liberty. 
Whether our agricultural interests, though so broad-ly underlying and essentially upholding all other avo-cations, require at present the further aid of special legislation, may well be questioned, since private en-terprise has accumulated individual means until our agriculturists and graziers are abundantly able, either singly or by a combination of a few of the more ener-getic, to procure those approved labor-saving ma-chines and import those kinds and numbers of domes-tic animals that their ripening experience may dictate. And aside from that constantly increasing experience and ability, and a higher tone of energy in their appli-cation, the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society have, through the appointment, from time to time, of lectures upon these and other practicable branches of industrial pursuits, and the annual dis-tribution of prizes for the best specimens of home products, diffused a laudable emulation for attaining superior excellence in every department pertaining to our temporal advancement, insomuch that with the fa-cilities as yet at our command it would appear advisa-ble to still leave those and kindred interests to the able management and fostering care of that Society. True, their recurring annual fair, held in this city in October last, owing to circumstances beyond their control, was by no means so fully attended nor the articles in ex-hibition so numerous and varied as would otherwise have been the case, still the most casual observer could not but note and be gratified with the abundant evidence of the industrial prosperity of our Territory. The mechanical skill of our artisans, so far as ma-terial would permit, has also been assiduously applied to the home supply of those necessaries and comforts so essential to well-ordered civilized society, thus freeing us in a goodly degree from the heavy tax of imported goods; yet there is an ample and ever-in-creasing demand for the products of their labor at very liberal rates of compensation, which will doubtless afford all necessary inducements for home manufac-ture to the full extent of the raw materials in our pos-session, except, perhaps, in the article of iron. They also, in common with all other classes of our pro-ducers, share proportionally in the benefits arising Fairs.
In some instances, especially so in relation to the sugar cane, cotton, wool and dye stuffs, the want of the raw materials has been a serious drawback. It therefore affords me the greater gratification to be able to inform you that there is a fair prospect, at an early date, that our wants in those particulars will be amply supplied, independent of the burdens of importation. The Sorghum or Chinese sugar cane has been general-ly and successfully cultivated in small patches in a great variety of soil throughout many of our settle-ments, and has been proved to be well adapted to a wife latitude of our climate. This plant is an almost invaluable acquisition, being singularly prolific in seed as well as in a largo amount of most excellent forage, and affording a remarkably large proportion of juice, highly charged with saccharine matter, which can easily be manufactured into a sirup almost if not quite equal to the far-famed golden sirup of the sugar refine-ries, thereby relieving us from the necessity of sub-mitting to a burdensome drain of our circulating me-dium or the deprivation of a healthful article of diet. A small crop of a very good sample of cotton was suc-cessfully cultivated in our southern settlements during the past season, also a few stalks of indigo, and prepa-rations are being made in that region for the production of cotton and indigo to supply oar demands, as speedily as indigo seed can be procured in sufficient quantity. Madder can be raised in all our settlements, and it is a matter of astonishment that no seed of so useful and easi-ly cultivated a plant has ever been brought into this Territory, so far as I am informed, and it is to be hoped that our friends abroad will take the earliest steps to supply this want. Our quantity of wool is still far short of an adequate supply, chiefly caused by a measurably culpable inattention to the care of so valuable a class of stock as is our sheep, and to de-pending too much upon foreign supplies which are at any time liable to be beyond our reach. Your in-fluence, counsels and example can do much toward eccouraging the production of wool and flax, that our spinning wheels and looms be not compelled to stand idle, and the people caused to suffer through their own improvidence in affairs within their reach and compre-hension. 
The manufacture of iron has not been prosecuted with that success so fondly anticipated and so much desired, but an engine having been furnished to the company, it is expected that all compatible attention will be given to supplying an article which enters so largely into our various daily operations. In fine, there is no known limit to the resources kindly pro-vided in the elements surrounding us, no trammel upon the skill and energies of the people, to hinder any from putting forth their talents to the fullest stretch for en-riching, beautifying and making heavenly the moun-tain and desert region in which our lot is cast. 
Our schools, to those unacquainted with the facts and circumstances connected therewith, may seem not to have received that attention which their importance demands; at the same time each Ward throughout the Territory has provided one or more comfortable school-houses commensurate with the number of pu-pils to be accommodated; and proportionably more has been done in Utah for the true enlightenment of the rising generation, than has ever been accomplished under like conditions in any other portion of the Union. And aside from the stated hours and exercises of schools, education is constantly attainable from books, from conversation, from reflection, at home, abroad, in highways and byways, and as its develop-ments implant the desire for still higher attainments, academies, colleges and universities will arise at the summoning wand of increasing wealth and leisure for learned acquirements until, ere long, we shall as far outstrip the world in every branch of true science as we now do in that knowledge which savoreth of eter-nal lives. In this great cause, also, your influence and example can be made productive of much good, even though your judgment should lead you, during your present session, to waive direct legislation upon this subject. 
Reports from the Auditor and Treasurer, which I have the honor herewith to transmit, will furnish you the requisite information touching the condition of the financial affairs of the Territory. 
The parent Government exercises a general super-vision over the aborigines within its borders, yet a brief allusion to the red men within and around Utah may not here be inappropriate, the more especially since the expense of their care and support has, from the beginning, fallen almost exclusively upon us, and from present appearances bids fair to do so altogether; and still, after we have invariably fed and clothed them, and treated them with the utmost forbearance, in proper consideration for their degraded condition, if we do not turn out and safely, and without charge, es-cort to their destination those passers-through who have cheated and then poisoned and wantonly slain untutored savages, lying and corrupt presses through-out the Union will send forth against us a united and prolonged howl of base slander and false accusations, charging upon us all the murders and massacres occur-ring between the Missouri River and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with the sole intent to excite to frenzy a spirit for our extermination. However much we may be disposed to deplore that savage usage which wreaks indiscriminate vengeance, we still more deeply deprecate hat double-dyed villainy of fiendish editors and their lie-loving readers who willfully suppress and falsely color facts and subvert truths for the sole purpose of raising an unhallowed hue and cry against an innocent people, for those editors and readers have been better taught; and suggest that if all such characters would organize themselves into patrolling Vilgilance Committees for the purpose of restraining the cruel and outrageous conduct of a por-tion of the annual passing emigration, they would soon learn that the Indians are tar oftener, if not al-ways, when difference of education and habits is in-cluded, "more sinned against than sinning;" that the most forbearing will not forever patiently endure a continued tirade of unjust threats, abuse and vitupera-tion; that kindness is much more winning than sever-ity, and that the inhabitants of Utah, as ever, are at home noiselessly pursuing their peaceful avocations and struggling to mete out even-handed justice to all, irrespective of creed or party. But, however Govern-ment may neglect, and however enemies may rag a and falsely accuse, the experience derived from a long observation of the yearly improvement in some of the most degraded Indian tribes upon the Continent, strongly prompts me to again recommend the con-tinuance of that humane policy so uniformly pur-sued by Utah toward her wild denizens, gradu-ally leading them like children in the rudi-ments of civilization, which has so often resulted and will ever result in saving lives that would other-wise have been and otherwise will be destroyed, and which my judgment dictates to me the wisest, most humane and even cheapest policy that can as yet be adopted.
You are already aware that upon examining the bids for carrying the mail on the route between this city and Independence, Mo., in the Fall of 1856, the contract for that route was awarded to Mr. Hiram Kimball, a citizen of this Territory, in compliance with a rule requiring the acceptance of the lowest respon-sible bid. You are also aware that the requisite ser-vice began to be put upon that route so early as Feb-ruary last, upon the first unofficial intimation of the acceptance of the bid, and several weeks before the arrival of official notification, the letter containing that notification having wintered at the Devil's Gate in care of a mail conductor in the employ of the for-mer contractor. So soon as that notification came to hand, arrangements were entered into for the services of the requisite number of trusty and efficient men to transport the mail and select sta-tion points at convenient distances, and erect suitable buildings and provide grain and forage thereat; ani-mals and vehicles were rapidly forwarded throughout the whole length of the route, aid with such liberality and energy were these proceedings conducted that, in-stead of occupying and often exceeding the schedule time of thirty days, as had heretofore been the custom in the most favorable seasons of the year, the trips were performed in a less and still lessening number, until Mr. John R. Murdock and Company took the July mail through in the unprecedented short time of fifteen traveling days, with every prospect for even that brief period being still further shortened. This prompt, safe and reliable service, attained by the ex-penditure of upward of $125,000 in a few months, was well understood in the Post-Office Department in Washington, but instead of even making punctual quarterly payments at the low contract rate of $23,-000 a year and extending every legal facility and encouragement in their power to the con-tractor, that Department, taking an unjust and altogether unwarrantable advantage of a clause wise-ly designed for the protection of public rights, tyran-nically disannulled the contract, alleging, as cause for such outrageous usurpation, naught but a failure in commencing the service at the time required, when they well knew that service was put upon the route weeks before the arrival of the acceptance of the bid, unduly detained through the fault of their pet con-tractor, and bolstering that allegation with the false and slanderous assertion, "the unsettled state of " things at Salt Lake rendering the mails unsafe under "present circumstances." To all human appearance such conduct could only have been actuated by the fell design to prevent Utah from receiving a single dol-lar of public money for the performance of public ser-vice honorably contracted for, even though that ser-vice were performed in a praiseworthy manner hith-erto unexampled, and to deprive us, if possible, from becoming acquainted with the exterminating plans con-cocted in Washington against the most loyal Territory known since the days of the Revolution. Would they have dared to thus treat any State or any other Terri-tory, or to have even suggested such treatment? Every one knows that they would not. What is ob-viously the only inference to be drawn from such ty rannical usage by so important a Department of the General Government? That a deep-settled and pre-determined plan has been agreed upon to deprive us of of constitutional rights for that usage accords only with the cry, constantly reiterated throughout the States, "Destroy the inhabitants of Utah," thereby compelling a numerous portion of the citizens of our boasted Republic to fall back upon the indefeasible right of self-defense and adopt lawful measures for their own protection. 
It is a matter of deep regret that officers of a Gov-ernment, founded at so great a sacrifice by our fore-fathers upon "a land choice above all other lands," have become so sunken in degradation as to have utterly lost sight of those pure and just principles em-bodied in the Constitution, and prefer, in the mad pursuit of low, groveling and selfish aims, to adopt and carry out that suicidal policy, a persistence in which can but end in rending to pieces a nation that otherwise might become the happiest and most powerful on the globe. Reckless office-holders and office-seekers have their poisoned fangs so deeply buried in the vitals of the body politic and are so thoroughly organized and drilled in the defense and attack of the spoils, while the tradesmen, the mechanics, the husbandmen and the humble laborers—the real virtue and sound intel-ligence of the Republic—are so busily occupied in their daily toil, and, except here and there a few, are so little aware of the dire portent of the future, and of the measures necessary for insuring public tranquillity, that it is a discouraging task to attempt arresting the turbid current of official corruption that would sweep every vestige of truth, virtue and human rights from our unhappy country; but the crimsoned satellites of plunder, oppression and usurpation may rest assured that every friend of liberty will resist their destructive progress and stand fast by the Constitution and all laws conformable therewith. 
True, all human instituted governments contain more or less of the weakness pertaining to imperfec-tion, and to this law our Government is by no means an exception; still, I am not acquainted with any man-made form of government in which are sown so few of the seeds of its own dis-solution. Lovers of justice as were the Revo-lutionary patriots, endowed as they were in their delib-erations and acts with a goodly portion of that wisdom which cometh from above, and wielding an influence seldom attained by so small a number, yet they were unable to devise a republican form of government without a system of checks and balances, dividing the federative power into three distinct branches con-trollable only by the will of the sovereign people. Their former experience makes it matter of no surprise that in their deliberations and acts they leaned so strongly to the side of the largest degree of individual freedom, nor, having suffered so sorely under the cruel rod of religion established by secular power, that they so clearly and strenuously guarded and guaranteed the widest scope to freedom of con-science and consequent right of worship in ac-cordance therewith. But with the sound judgment and experience possessed by those great statesmen, it is only another evidence of the weakness incident to humanity, even when acting under the best of motives, that after having so long groaned under the bitter op-pression of British colonial rule and successfully strug-gled for the establishment of the inherent right of each and all to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," with the positive guaranty that every one should be privileged with and protected in the blessings flowing from a republican for in of government, whose character-istic consists solely in the well-defined and well under- stood fact that the rulers and laws shall proceed only from the election and consent of the governed, they should in April, 1784, pass Resolutions, and in July, 1787, over two months previous to the adoption of the Constitution, pass an Ordinance specially legislating for American citizens residing on public domain, directly contrary to the very genius of the Articles of Confederation by which they had mutually pledged each other they would be guided. And that very leg-islation, contrary as it was to the authorities and limitations of the Articles of Confederation existing at the time of the passage of the cele-brated Ordinance of '87 and to those of the Con-stitution adopted in the same year, as well as to the great truth embodied in the Declaration of Independ-ence, that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, could be and was in-dorsed by Americans so long as the usurped power was exercised in justice; and the portion of that ille-gal legislation copied into "Organic Acts" for Territo-ries could still be endured, were it not so grievously abused, as is the case when officers are attempted to be forced upon a free people contrary to their known and expressed wishes. Still, looking as our patriot fathers measurably did to the governmental experi-ence and example of the mother country, and sur-rounded as they were by so many conflicting views and entangling questions, it is not a subject of so much surprise that they inadvertently took so illegal a course, as it is that an early Congress, under the Con-stitution, continued to perpetuate and endeavor to make legal that which neither was nor aver could be law, without first destroying or re-modeling the very Constitution from which Congress derives its power to act. And, again, the course of that Congress is by no means so surprising as that Congress after Con-gress, with a lengthening experience in the workings of the governmental machinery and a boasted in-crease of enlightenment, should still continue to fasten a portion of that unconstitutional relic of colonial bar-barism upon American citizens, whenever a laudable spirit of enterprise induces those citizens to lawfully occupy and improve any portion of the public domain. And it is most surprising of all, that Americans occu-pying public domain in Territories have so tamely submitted to such long-continued and obvious usur-pation. 
Even since the more odious features in the Ordi-nance of '87 have been omitted in the Organic acts more recently passed by Congress for Territories, which acts are but illegal patterns after that uncon-stitutional ordinance, officers are appointed to rule over American citizens in Territories, and to have a voice in the enactment, adjudication and execution of Territorial laws; and worse still, those officers are frequently appointed from a class well known, through the rightfully expressed wishes of large majorities, to be justly objected to by those whom they are appointed to govern. Call you that republican ? It is British colonial vassalage uncon-stitutionally perpetuated by tyranny and usurpation in the powers that be. It is difficult to conceive how a people so enlightened as are Americana should far so long a period have suffered themselves to be measur-ably disfranchised by usurpations curtailing their rights when passing an air-line from a State into a Territory, more especially when that changing of lo-cality is to result in the improvement of regions that would otherwise remain waste. 
It is foreign to my present purpose to detail that policy which should have governed from the begin-ning in relation to enlightened residents in our Terri-tories, a policy that would not have curtailed them in the least Constitutional right, and would thereby have utterly excluded that odious and suicidal incon-sistency existing from the first until now between the form and the administration of our Government, and would have caused the administration as does the form, to guarantee equal freedom to all, in Territory as well as State, but will merely remark, in passing, that the continued practice of that wretched inconsistency has done and is doing much to undermine the fair fabric of American liberty. Utah, also, like other Territories, saw fit to waive those Constitutional rights so illegally denied to citi-zens who cross certain air-lines of a common country to extend the area of civil and religious liberty, and an act organizing our Territorial government was passed by Congress on the 9th of September, 1850. Fortunately for us a wise and good man then occupied the executive chair of our nation, a statesman whose sound judgment and humane feelings prompted him to extend to us our rights, so far as the "Organic Act" and hungry office-hunters would permit. He appoint-ed a part of the customary appointees in accordance with the wishes of the people, and no doubt thought that he had appointed good men to fill the remaining offices, but in this he was partially disappointed, being deceived by the foolish although very common habit of recommending men who are not worthy. I am also confident that his successor endeavored to make as good appointments for us as circum-stances and unwise counsels and recommendations would allow, but during his administration prejudice began to set in strongly against Utah, and he was so unfortunate as to appoint, at the instigation and solici-tation of a then influential Senator in Congress, a per-son who proved to be as degraded as his capacity would admit, and who, it is reported, came, acted, left, and still acted in accordance with the instructions from the Senator who procured his appointment, but in a manner outraging morality, justice, humanity, law, and even common decency. 
The members and officers of the last Legislative Assembly, familiar with the evils visited upon the in-nocent by the miserably bad conduct of certain officials heretofore sent here by Government, knowing that all republican governments, which both our General and State Governments are in form, are based upon the principle that the governed shall enjoy the right to elect their own officers and be guided by laws having their own consent, and perfectly aware that by the Constitution residents in Territories are guaranteed that great right equally with residents in States (for Congress has not one particle more Constitutional power to legislate for and officer Americans in Territories than they have to legislate for and officer Americans in States), respectfully memori-alized the President and Senate to appoint officers for Utah in accordance with an accompanying list con-taining the names of persons who were her first choice for the offices placed opposite those names, but if that selection did not meet with approval they were so-licited to make the appointments from a list contain-ing other and a larger number of names of residents who were also the choice of the people, and if that selection was also rejected to appoint from any part of the Union, with the simple request, in such event that the appointees be good men. In this matter of appointment of officers, what more rights could the most tyrannical in a republican government ask a Territory to waive ? Yet up to this date no official information concerning the action, if any, taken upon that memorial has ever reached us. 
Time glided by, and travelers and newspapers began to confirm the rumor that the present Exec-utive and a part of his Cabinet had yielded to the rabid clamor raised against Utah by lying edi-tors, corrupt demagogues, heartless office-hunters and the ignorant rabble, incited by numbers of the hire-ling clergy, and were about to send an army to Utah with the sole and avowed purpose, as published in al-most every newspaper, of compelling American citi-zens, peacefully, loyally and lawfully occupying Amer-ican soil, to forego the dearest constitutional rights, to abandon their religion, to wallow in the mire and wor-ship at the shrine of modern civilization and Chris-tianity, or be expelled from the country or exter-minated. Where now are constitutional rights? Who is laying the ax at the root of the tree of liber-ty ? Who are the usurpers? Who the tyrants? Who the traitors? Most assuredly those who are madly urging measures to subvert the genius of free institutions and those principles of liberty upon which our Government is based, and to overthrow virtue, independence, justice and true intelligence, the loss of either of which by the people, the celebrated Judge Story has wisely affirmed, would be the ruin of our Re- public—the destruction of its vitality. And ex-Presi-dent James Madison, among other purposes, declared it to be the purpose of Government "to avoid the slightest interference with the rights of conscience" or the functions of religion, so wisely exempted from "civil jurisdiction." 
Has Utah ever violated the least principle of the Constitution, or so much as broken the most insignifi-cant Constitutional enactment ? No, nor have we the most distant occasion for so doing, but have ever striven to peacefully enjoy and extend those rights granted to all by a merciful Creator. But so unob-trusive and wise a course does not seem to please those who live and wish to live by office, and those who make and love lies; and since those characters are numerous, and also powerful through well-discip-lined organization, and since Utah has yielded right after right for the sake of peace, until her policy has emboldened the enemies of our Union, it must needs be that President Buchanan, if he has ordered an army to Utah as reported—for he has not officially notified me of such a movement by his order—has at length succumbed, either of choice or through being overcome, to the cruel and nefarious counsels of those enemies, and is endeavor-ing to carry out a usurpation of power which of right belongs only to the people, by ap-pointing civil officers known to be justly objectiona-ble to freemen and sending a so-called army under mere color of law to force those officers upon us at the point of the bayonet, and to form a nucleus for the collection and protection of every gambler, cut-throat, whoremaster and scoundrel who may choose to follow in their train. Such a treasonable system of opera-tions will never be endured, nor even countenanced, by any person possessed of the least spark of patriot-ism and love of constitutional liberty. The President knew, if he knew the facts in the case, as he was in duty bound to do before taking action, that the officials hitherto sent here had been invariably received and treated with all the respect their offices demanded, and that a portion of them had met with far more courtesy than elsewhere would have been extended to them, or their conduct deserved; he also knew, or had the privilege of knowing, that the memorial of the last Assembly, as already stated, respectfully informed him that Utah wished good men for officers, and that such officers would be cordially welcomed and obeyed, but that we would not again tamely endure the abuse and misrule meted by official villains, as were some who have formerly officiated here. Such being a few of the leading facts, what were the legitimate inferences to be drawn from the rumors that the President had sent a batch of officials, with an army to operate as their posse ? That he had willfully made the official appointments for Utah from- a class other than good men and placed himself, where tyrants often are, in the position of levying war against the vary nation whoso choice had made him its chief executive officer. 
Fully aware, as has been justly written, that 
"patriotism does not consist in aiding Govern-
“ment in every base or stupid act it may per-
"form, but rather in paralyzing its power when 
"it violates vested rights, affronts insulted justice, 
"and assumes undelegated authority," and knowing that the so-called army, reported to be on its way to Utah, was an undisguised mob, if not sent by the President of the United States, and if sent by him, in the manner and for the purpose alleged in all the information permitted to reach us, was no less a mob, though in the latter event acting under color of law, upon learning its near approach I issued, as in constitutional duty bound, a proclamation expressly forbidding all bodies of armed men, under whatsoever name or by whomsoever sent, to come within be bounds of this Territory. That so-called army, or, more strictly speaking, mob, refused to obey that pro-lamation, copies of which were officially furnished them, and prosecuted their march to the neighborhood of Forts Bridger and Supply (which were vacated ad burnt upon their approach), where it is said they n-tend to winter. Under these circumstances I respet-fully suggest that you take such measures as your c-lightened judgment may dictate, to insure pulic tranquillity end protect, preserve, and perpetual a-violate those inalienable constitutional rights whih have descended to us a rich legacy from our foe-fathers. 
A civilized nation is one that never infringes upn the rights of its citizens, but strives to protect ad make happy all within its sphere, which our Goven-ment, above all others, is obligated to accomplis, though its present course is as far from that wise ad just path as the earth is from the sun. And, under to aggravated abuses that have been heaped upon us the past, you and the whole people are my witness that it has more particularly fallen to my lot and bes my policy and practice to restrain rather than urs resistance to usurpation and tyranny on the part of te enemies to the Constitution and Constitutional law (who are also our enemies and the enemies of all re-publics and republicans), until forbearance under suc cruel and illegal treatment cannot well be longer exei-cited. No one has denied, or wishes to deny, the right of the Government to send its troops when, where and as it pleases, so it is but done clearly within the au-thorities and limitations of the Constitution, and for the safety and welfare of the people; but when it sends them clearly without the pale of those authori-ties and limitations, unconstitutionally to oppress the people, as is the case in the so-called army sent to Utah, it commits a treason against itself which com-mands the resis-tance of all good men, or freedom will depart our nation. 
In compliance with a long-established custom in ap-pointing officers not of the people's electing, which the Supreme Court of the United States would at once, in justice, decide to be unconstitutional, we have peti-tioned and petitioned that good men be appointed, until that hope is exhausted; and we have long enough borne the insults and outrages of lawless officials, until we are compelled, in self-defense, to assert and main-tain that great Constitutional right of the governed officers of their own election and local laws of the own enactment. That the President and the counsel-ors, aiders and abettors of the present treasonable crusade against the peace and rights of a Territory of the United States may reconsider their course and re-trace their steps is earnestly to be desired, but in either event our trust and confidence are in that Being who at his pleasure rules among the armies of heaven and controls the wrath of the children of men, and most, cheerfully should we be able to abide the issue. 
Permit me to tender you my entire confidence that your deliberations will be distinguished by that wis-dom, unanimity and love of justice that has ever marked the counsels of our Legislative Assemblies, and the assurance of my hearty cooperation in every measure you adopt for promoting the true interests of a Territory beloved by us for its very isolation and forbidding aspect, for here, if anywhere upon this foot stool of our God, have we the privilege and prospect of being able to secure and enjoy those inestimable lights of civil and religious liberty, which the benefi-cent Creator of all mankind has, in his mercy, made indefeasible, and perpetuate them upon a broader and firmer basis for the benefit of ourselves, of our chil-dren and our children's children, until peace shall be restored to our distracted country. 
BRIGHAM YOUNG. 
RESOLUTIONS, 
Expressive of the sense of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, relative to the Message and official course of his Excellency Governor Brigham Young.
Resolved. Thai we unanimously and moat cordially, for our-selves and in behalf of the well-known feelings of our constitu-ents, concur in the sentiments and doctrine advanced in the mes-sage delivered by his Excellency Governor Young to the Legis-lative Assembly of this Territory, convened in the Representa-tives' Hall in Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 15, 1867. 
Resolved, That the entire policy and all the acts of his Excel-lency Governor Young have been able, just and humane—condu cive to and protective of the development of the best interests and welfare both of this Territory and of the General Govern-ment, so far as that policy and those acts could accomplish so de-sirable a result.
Resolved, That we hold ourselves, our means and influence in readiness, to sustain his Excellency Governor Young in every act he may perform or dictate, in accordance with the Constitution and constitutional laws of the United States and the laws of Utah, for the protection of the lives, peace and prosperity of the people of this Territory. Resolved, That neither the present nor any other Administra-tion of the General Government shall enforce profane, drunken and otherwise corrupt officials upon us at the point of the bayo-net, and that the attempt so to do, by the present incumbent of the Executive chair of our nation, has incurred that contempt and determined opposition of all good men, which such an usurped authority and oppression so richly deserves. 
Resolved, That, while we deprecate the bitter hostility mani-fested toward a most loyal and innocent people by the present, Administration of the General Government, we will continue to resist any attempt on the part of the Administration to bring us into a state a warsalage by appointing, contrary to the Constitu-tion, officers whom the people have neither Vote nor voice la electing; nor shall any persons appointed to office for Utah by the present Administration, either qualify for or assume and dis-charge, within the litmits of this Territory, the functions of the offices to which they have been appointed, so long as our Terri-tory is menaced by an invading army (for such an army cannot have been sent to protect either the citizens or the passing emi-gration, but is manifestly sent to aid in trampling upon American liberty), nor so long as such appoint as are so pusillanimous as to require a numerous armed force to attend their heck to enable them to carry out the traitorous designs' concocted for depriving, American citizens of their indefeasible and vested rights. 
Resolved, That we will at least have our Constitutional rights to a voice in the selection of our Territorial officers, and in the enactment of local laws for our Government. 
Resolved. That these resolutions be signed by the members of the two Houses and be printed in The Deseret News. 
Unanimously adopted and signed, Dec. 21, 1857. 
COUNCILORS. 
HEBER C. KIMBALL, President. 
Daniel H. Wells, 		Lorin Farr, 
Albert Carrington, 	Benjamin F. Johnson, 
F. D. Richards, 		Leonard E. Harrington, 
Wilford Woodruff, 	Warren S. Snow, 
Joseph Holbrook, 		Lewis Brunson, 
Lorenzo Snow, 		George A. Smith. 
REPRESENTATIVES. 
JOHN TAYLOR, Speaker. 
W. W. Phelps, 		Reddick N. Allred, 
A. P. Rockwood, 		Chauncy W. West, 
J. C Little, 		Jonathan C. Wright, 
Daniel Spencer, 		Aaron Johnson, 
Alexander McRae, 	James C. Snow, 
Orson Hyde, 		Preston Thomas, 
J. W. Cummings, 		Jacob G. Bigler, 
Hosea Stout, 		George Peacock, 
Joseph A. Young, 		P. T. Farnsworth, 
H. B. Clawson, 		Isaac C. Haight,
John Rowberry, 		John D. Lee, 
John D. Parker, 		Isaac Bullock. 
In compliance with their unanimous and cordial desire, and as nearly eve v man, woman and child throughout this Territory would gladly do, the officers of both Houses of the Assembly subscribed their names to the foregoing resolutions, as follows: 
OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL. 
LEO HAWKINS, Secretary. 		SAM'L L. SPRAGUE, Messenger. 
JOHN T. CAINE, Assistant-Sec'y. 	JOHN SHARP, Foreman. 
GEO. D. GRANT, Serg't-at-Arms.	CYRUS H. WHEELOCK, Chapl'n. 
OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE. 
JAS. FERGUSON, Chief Clerk. 	BRIGHAM YOUNG, jr., Mess'ger. 
PATRICK LYNCH, Ass't Clerk. 	WM. DERR, Foreman. 
W. H. KIMBALL, Serg't-at-Arms. 	JESSE HAVEN, Chaplain., 
AN ACT Disorganizing and Attaching Green River County. 
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative As-sembly of the Territory of Utah, That Green River County is hereby disorganized and attached to Great Salt Lake County for election, revenue and judicial purposes; and that the representa-tive apportioned to Green River County is hereby apportioned to Great Salt Lake County: Provided, That this apportionment does not take effect until after the present session of the Legisla-tive Assembly. 
SEC. 2. All laws and parts of laws conflicting with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved Dec. 22 1857. 
I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original act on file in my office.
	WM. H. HOOPER, 
Secretary pro tem. for Utah Ter. 
NAMES OF MEMBERS AND OFFICERS
Of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. 
COUNCIL. 
Great Salt Lake, Tooele and Shambip Counties—Heber C. Kim-ball, Daniel H. Wells, Albert Carrington, F. D, Richards, Wil-ford Woodruff. 
Davis County—Joseph Holbrook. 
Malad, Cache, Weber and Box Elder Counties—Lorenzo Snow, Lorin Farr. 
Utah and Cedar Counties—Benjamin F. Johnson, Leonard E. Harrington. 
Juab and San Pete Counties—Warren S. Snow. 
Beaver and Millard Counties—Lewis Brunson. 
Iron and Washington Counties—George A. Smith. 
OFFICERS OF THE COUNCIL—Heber C. Kimball, President; Leo Hawkins, Secretary; John T. Caine, Assistant Secretary; George D. Grant, Sergeant-at-Arms; Samuel L. Sprague, Mes-senger; John Sharp, Foreman; Cyrus H. Wheelock, Chaplain.
STANDING COMMITTEE'S IN THE COUNCIL. 
ON PRINTING—Albert Carrington, 
ON MILITARY—Daniel H. Wells, Fianklin D. Richards. 
ON ELECTIONS—Geo. A. Smith, Wilford Woodruff 
ON CLAIMS—Wilford Woodruft; L. E. Harrington, Benj. F. Johnson. 
ON JUDICIARY—Daniel H. Wells, George A. Smith, Lorenzo Snow. Albert Carrington.
ON PUBLIC WORKS—Joseph Holbrook, Lorin Farr. 
ON INCORPORATIONS—Geo. A. Smith, Lewis Brunson, Lorin Fair. 
ON ROADS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES—Wilford Woodruff. Joseph. Holbrook, Warren S. Snow. 
ON EDUCATION—Albert Carrington, Franklin D. Richards, Lorenzo Snow. 
ON LIBRARY—D. H. Wells, Lorin Farr. 
ON ENGROSSING—Albert Carrington, Lorenzo Snow. 
ON PETITIONS—Geo. A. Smith, L. E. Harrington. 
ON AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND MANUFACTURES—Albert Car-rington, Wilford Woodruff, Geo. A. Smith, Joseph Holbrook, Lewis Brunson. 
ON REVENUE—Daniel H. Wells, Lorenzo Snow, Lorin Farr. 
ON COUNTIES—Benjamin F. Johnson, L. E. Harring on, War-ren S. Snow. 
ON HERDING AND HERD GROUNDS—Warren S. Snow, B. F, Johnson. Lorin Farr. ON TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS—D. H. Wells, Geo, A, Smith, W. Woodruff, A Carrington. Joseph Holbrook. 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
GREAT SALT LAKE COUNTY—John Taylor, W. W. Phelps, A. P. Root wood, J. C. Little, Daniel Spencer, Alexander McRae, Orson Hyde, J. W. Cummings, Hosea Stout, S. W. Richards, Joseph A. Young, H. B. Clawson. 
TOOELE AND SHAMBIP COUNTIES—John Rowberry. 
DAVIS COUNTY—John D. Parker, Reddick N. Allred. 
WEBER COUNTY—Chauncy W. West. 
MALAD, CACHE AND BOX ELDER COUNTIES—Jonathan C. Wright. 
UTAH AND CEDAR COUNTIES—Aaron Johnson, James C. Snow, Preston Thomas.
JUAB COUNTY—Jacob G. Bigler. 
SAN PETE COUNTY—George Peacock. 
MILLARD AND BEAVEBL COUNTIES—P. T. Farnsworth. 
IRON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES—Isaac C. Haight, John D. Lee. 
GREEN RIVER COUNTY—Isaac Bullock. 
OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE—John Taylor, Speaker; James Fer-guson, Chief Clerk; Patrick Lynch, Assistant Clerk; Wm. H. Kimball, Sergeant-at-Arms; Brigham Young, jr., Messenger; Wm. Derr, Foreman; Jesse Haven, Chaplain. 
STANDING COMMITTEES IN THE HOUSE. 
MILITARY AFFAIRS—J. J. Little, A. P. Rockwood, Isaac C. Haight, H. B. Clawson, J. W. Cummings. 
ELECTIONS—W, W. Phelps, J. C. Snow, Preston Thomas. 
CLAIMS—Daniel Spencer, H. B. Clawson, C. W. West, J. C. Wright. 
JUDICIARY—Orson Hyde, Hosea Stoat, Aaron Johnson, J. W. Cummings. 
PUBLIC WORKS—C. W. West, John D. Parker, I. C. Haight, J. G. Bigler. 
APPROPRIATIONS—A. A. Rockwood, Aaron Johnson, A. McRae. 
INCORPORATIONS—Isaac Bullock. A. McRae, Geo. Peacock. 
ROADS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES—Aaron Johnson, Daniel Spen cer, John Rowberry.
EDUCATION—W. W. Phelps J. C. Wright, Hosea Stout.
INDIAN AFFAIRS—Hosea Stout, I. C. Haight, John D. Lee. 
ENGROSSING, PRINTING AND LIBRARY—Jos. A. Young, H. B. Clawson, J. C. Snow.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS—J W. Cummings, J. C. Snow, J. G. Bigler.
AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND MAVUFACTURK—Orson Hyde, J. C. Little, Daniel Spencer, Preston Thomas, Joseph A. Young. 
REVENUE—J. D. Parker, R. N. Allred, P. T. Farnsworth. 
COUNTIES—J. Rowberry, P. T. Farnsworth, R. N. Allred. 
HERDIMG AND HERD GROUNDS—Isaac Bullock, John D. Lee, Geo. Peacock.
TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS—J. W. Cummings, A. P. Rockwood. J. C. Little, C. W. West.
NEWS BY WAY OF CALIFORNIA. 
The Los Angeles correspondent of The Alta Cali-fornia, under date of Jan. 10, writes as follows: 
"Several gentlemen arriving in this town, this week, from Salt Lake, say that the Aikins, John, Tom and another brother, who were taken prisoners and robbed, some months since, by the Saints, have been killed while escaping out of the country. It is said that the three brothers and another person re-ceived passports from Brigham Young to return to California, They were undisturbed in their retreat until the first night this side of Cedar City, when their camp was attacked by Indians, and two of them killed. The other two returned to Cedar City, and claimed protection, but were shot down in the streets in day-light by the people. One of the gentlemen who came through says he saw this last outrage. 
"The emigrants from Carson Valley have reached the settlements on Cold Creek, Iron County. The ad-vance wagons of the emigration from San Bernardino had reached Salt Lake City. 
"From a private letter, dated Great Salt Lake City, Dec. 6, 1857, to a friend, I am permitted to send you the following extracts: 
"‘The soldiers are at Fort Bridger, and I expect they will stay there all Winter. Their animals have given out and can't come any further. They hare shot thirty or forty rounds at our boys several times, but have never drawn blood. Two or three times they have shot through their clothes. Our boys are all called home now. The people are in high spirits, and hope there will be no fighting to do, but that they "Will go off end let us alone. 
“'Business is rather dull at present, but provisions are plenty, and the people can get along very well Groceries are very scarce, but we live in hopes of better days.'
"Fourteen thousand head of sheep, and one thou-sand head of vaquillas (young cows), arrived in this county last week from New-Mexico. The owner was very fortunate. On the entire route he did not lose an animal."