The Utah Territorial Election.
THE "GENTILE" TICKET DEFEATED—UNUSUALLY
LARGE VOTE—PROCEEDINGS IN THE UNITED
STATES COURT—ARMY NEWS.
[From the New York Daily Times.]
Saturday, Aug. 7, 1858.
The election for Territorial and county officers, which was held throughout the Territory on Mon-day last, passed off, as far as we are able to learn, very quietly and peaceably.
In this city, although there was, for the first time since its foundation, votes cast in opposition to the nominees of the Church, yet it created no distur-bance and but little excitement.
The Mormon leaders, perfectly satisfied that we could not carry the day, did not trouble them-selves farther than to order all of their subjects to vote ; in consequence of this order, however, the vote polled this year far exceeds that generally cast in the city.
The highest number of votes on the Union or "Gentile" ticket, for any one person, was 37. The highest number of votes cast was 1,056. Those on the Church ticket who received this vote being voted for also by the "Gentiles."
The following are the members of the Legisla-ture elected in this county on Monday last, and the vost cast for each, as appears from the returns filed in the secretary's office :
REPRESENTATIVES.
John Taylor……………1053 Joseph A. Young…….1,019
Orson Hyde…………...1,056 H B. Clawson…………1,019
Daniel Spencer………1,056 H. Hooper……………..1,014
A. P. Rockwood……...1,017 Edwin D. Woolley... 1,017
Hosea Stout…………...1,019 Alexander McRae….1,018
Jas. W. Cummings ….1,018 S. W. Richards…...... 1,019
Jesse C. Little 1,019
This election will, however, be contested at the next sitting of the county court, it having been conducted illegally in many respects. In the first place, there is no record on file in the secre-tary's office of the election of any justices of the peace in this precinct since 1852, and it does not appear in the archives of his office that any cer-tificate of election has been given to a justice of the peace since that time. The law provides that the senior justice of the peace in each precinct shall be the judge of the election, and shall ap-point a clerk, &c. The justice of the peace who served at the late election acted without authority, not having a certificate showing that he possessed any authority. Again, the judges of election, such as they were, did not watch or protect the ballot-box. At noon they were all absent, and their places filled by others not legally authorized to be there, one of whom was a candidate for the Legislature, and was elected upon the Church ticket. Thirteen Representatives were voted for and elected, al-though this precinct is only entitled to twelve. This was done in consequence of the law passed at the last session of the Legislature, attaching Green River county—in which Fort Bridger is situated—to Great Salt Lake county, and, of course, increas-ing the number of Representatives in the county thus formed. This law, however, has never been signed by Governor Cumming, who was at the time in the Territory, but was signed by Brigham. Its validity, therefore, though recognised by the Mor-mons, will not be recognised by the present Secre-tary of the Territory.
In consequence of this law, there were but few Mormon votes cast in Green River county. The residents of the county living at Fort Bridger and on Green river voted, however, for the officers to which they are entitled, and elected by a major-ity of over 100 the Democratic ticket, upon which. William J. Osborne, Esq., formerly of Kansas Territory, was their nominee for Representative in the Legislature. The official returns have not yet been received, so that we have not the exact number of votes polled This secures us one Gen-tile Representative in the next Legislature, for, although the Mormons will contest his right to a seat, they cannot sustain themselves in their position.
A most interesting case of habeas corpus was tried during the past week before Chief Justice Eckles and Associate Justice Sinclair, of the Su-preme Court of this Territory. It seems that about four years ago the wife of Mr. H. Polydore, a law-yer residing in Gloucestershire, England, joined the Mormons and ran away from him. Stealing their only child, a daughter, from the boarding-school at which she was placed, she brought her, in a company of Mormons, to this place.
The father, in the meantime, made every effort to discover the whereabouts of the mother and child, and a considerable time elapsed before he found out that they were here among the Mor-mons. Finding that his individual efforts would be unavailing in procuring the return of his child, he applied to Lord Malmesbury, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in England, for the aid of the Government in his behalf An application was made, therefore, by the English Government, through Lord Napier, to Secretary Cass, for the assistance of our Government in the matter, who thereupon forwarded instructions to General John-ston, directing him to use every effort in his power to find the child and secure its restoration to the father. As soon as the civil authorities had be-come established here, the case was placed in the hands of the United States District Attorney, The child, who is only twelve years old was found with her aunt, who is the fourth wife of Samuel Richards, one of the twelve Apostles The mother of the girl had returned to the States
Upon examination the court ordered that, the child should be restored to her father, and she will accordingly be sent on, as soon as a suitable escort can be found, to Lord Napier, at Washing-ton.
The Hon. C. E. Sinclair, one of the Associate Justices of this Territory, arrived in the last mail from the States It is with pleasure that we an-nounce his arrival, for we have long looked for the arrival of the Judges who are necessary for the organization of the judicial branch of our Terri-torial Government.
We understand that Kirk Anderson, Esq., for-merly connected with the editorial department of the Missouri Republican, is now on his way out here with a complete printing press, and every-thing requisite for the publication of a large news-paper in this city.
This has been more needed, perhaps, than any-thing else.
With a regular weekly communication to the States, a "Gentile" press, and an independent judiciary, we can wish for no other aid to effect the regeneration of this Territory than the influ-ence of energetic, fearless ministers of the Gospel, and these we must have.
The Sixth Regiment of Infantry, in command of Col. Andrews, arrived at Fort Bridger during the past week. This regiment has come over the new road explored last summer by Lieut. Bryant, which, leaving the old road at the crossing of the South Fork of the Platte, passes through Bridgrer's Pass, and strikes the old road again at Fort Brid-ger. They report the road as a good one in regard to grass and water, but it will take a great deal of work to make it equal to the old one for travel. It is, however, some 75 or 80 miles shorter.
The Sixth has been ordered to proceed imme-diately to Fort Walla Walla, the seat of the In-dian war in Oregon ; they will not, consequently, enter the valley, but move from Bridger directly up the Oregon trail. Lieutenant-Colonel Canby, with two companies of the Tenth, and one com-pany of dragoons, will relieve Col. Hoffman in the command of the post at Bridger. Several of the officers of the army now stationed here have pro-cured leaves of absence.
Governor Cumming has rented the large, fine house of the late Secretary Babbitt. He boarded up to this time with Mr. Staines. A. B. C.
