New York semi-weekly tribune vol. 14 no. 1405

              UTAH. 
MORMON LAND GRANTS. 
From Our Special Correspondent. 
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, U. T.,  
Oct. 1, 1858.  
I have compiled this week, a list of the principal grants of land, water, and ferry and bridge privileges ever made by the Legislatures of this Territory. Those which I have omitted are chiefly grants of herd grounds to the Bishops of southern settle-ments. When not otherwise described, the dura-tion of these grants is usually stated to be during the pleasure of the Legislature, with the exception of the grant of the City Creek and its canon to Brigham Young, which purported to be absolute. 
THE FIRST PRESIDENCY. 
BRIGHAM YOUNG. 
Act granting the sole control of City Creek and the canon through which it flows (now known as Brig- ham's Canon), upon consideration of the payment into the City Treasury of $500. Approved Dec. 9, 1850. 
Act granting the privilege of diverting the waters of Mill Creek to the channel of Big Canon Creek. Ap-proved Feb. 5, 1852. 
Act granting the exclusive right of establishing ferries and bridges on Bear and Weber Rivers, east of the main Wahsatch range, and fixing the rates of toll on the same. Approved Jan. 20, 1854. 
Act granting the exclusive use of Kamas Prairie for a herdground. Approved Dec. 18, 1855. 
Act granting (in conjunction with Jos. Young) the right to establish and run for three years ferries be-tween the mouth of Bear River and a point five miles east of the canon where said river comes through the mountains; 10 per cent of the proceeds to go to the Perpetual Emigration Fund. Approved Jan. 4, 1856. 
Act granting (in conjunction with Apostle F. D. Rich-ards) all the right to take water out of Mill Creek which Willard Richards ever had during his life- time. Approved Jan. 14, 1857. 
Act granting (in conjunction with Apostle Wilford Woodruff, and J. W. Cummings and Wm. A. Hick-man, both prominent Danites, et al.) a tract of land in Rush Valley, for herding and grazing purposes. Approved Dec. 27,1856. 
Act granting all that portion of Tuilla County, known as Aivenpah Valley, and its waters, for herding and farming gurposes. Approved Jan. 8, 1858. 
BRIGHAM YOUNG, 
Trustee in trust for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 
Act granting the exclusive use of Cache Valley for a herd ground. Approved Dec. 18,1855. 
BRIGHAM YOUNG, 
Trustee of the Perpetual Emigration Fund. 
Act granting the exclusive use of Antelope and Stans-bury's Islands, in the Great Salt Lake. Approved Jan. 12, 1856. 
HEBER C. KIMBALL. 
Act granting the exclusive use of the waters of North Mill Creek Canon, and the canon next north of it, for mills and manufacturing purposes. Approved Jan. 9,1851. 
Act granting the exclusive use (in conjunction with Jeaediah M. Grant et al.) of Parley's Park for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 19, 1855. 
Act granting the exclusive right (in conjunction with Jedediah M. Grant et al.) to run a road and collect tolls on it from the mouth of Big Canon through Par-ley's Park to Kansas Prairie. Approved Jan. 19, 1855. 
Act granting all that portion of country in Cache County, east of the summit of the mountains east of Cache Valley, for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 12,1856. 
Act granting the exclusive use of a tract of land in Tuilla Valley and of Box Elder Creek, in said valley, for herding and farming purposes. Approved Jan. 3, 1857. 
WILLARD RICHARDS. (Died A. D., 1853.) 
Act granting the exclusive right of working roads into North Cottonwood Canon. Approved Jan. 18, 1851. 
Act granting the exclusive right of taking water out of the natural channel of Mill Creek for irrigation or other purposesApproved Feb. 3, 1852. 
JEDEDIAH ST. GRANT. 
(Died A. D., 1856.) 
Act granting the south end of Weber Valley for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 2, 1856. See Heber C. Kimball. 
DANIEL H. WELLS. 
Act granting the exclusive right and privilege of run-ning ferries across Green River for three years, from May 15, 1853; 10 per cent of all proceeds to go to the Perpetual Emigration Fund. Approved Jan. 17, 1853. 
BRIGHAM'S BROTHERS. 
PHINEAS H. YOUNG. 
Act granting the exclusive use (in conjunction with A. P. Rockwood, Brigham's cousin) of Fremont's Isl-and, in the Great Salt Lake, for a herd ground. Approved Dec. 27, 1855. 
Act granting the exclusive use (in conjunction with Apostles Lorenzo Snow and F. D. Richards) of a tract of land south-east of Malade River, along the shore of the Great Salt Lake, for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 12, 1856. 
JOSEPH AND JOHN YOUNG. 
Act granting the exclusive right for three years of run- ning ferries on Bear River, and also of bridging the Malade River; 10 per cent of all proceeds to go to the Perpetual Emigration Fund. Approved Jan. 21, 1853. See also Brigham Young. 
LORENZO D. YOUNG. 
Act granting the exclusive use of a tract of land south- east from Great Salt Lake City, for a herd- ground. Approved Jan. 14, 1857. 
THE APOSTLES. 
ORSON PRATT. 
Act granting the exclusive use (in conjunction with Bishop E. D. Wooley) of a portion of Lone Rock Valley for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 5,1856. 
Act granting a tract of land in Tuilla Valley, bordering on the Great Salt Lake, for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 8, 1858. 
EZRA T. BENSON. 
Act granting the exclusive control of Twin Springs and Rock Spring in Tuilla Valley, for mill and irri-gating purposes. Approved Dec. 9,1850. 
Act granting the exclusive control of the timber in all the canons (and on all the mountains neighboring those canons) leading into Tuilla Valley. Approved Jan. 9, 1851. 
Act granting the exclusive use (in conjunction with W. H. Hooper and David Caudland, an adopted son of Heber C. Kimball) of a portion of Lone Rock Valley for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 5,1856. 
GEORGE A. SMITH. 
Act granting the exclusive control of the timber in all the canons on the east side of the range of mountains west of the Jordan. Approved Jan. 9,1851. 
ORSON HYDE. 
Act granting the exclusive right to build bridges over Carson River, in Carson Valley, and run a road up the canon of that river, and collect tolls on the same; ten per cent of all proceeds to go to the Perpetual Emigration Fund. Approved Jan. 19, 1855. 
JOHN TAYLOR. 
Act inserting his name among the grantees in an act donating a herd ground in Rush Valley to Seth M. Blair et al. and extending said grant so as to take in all the valley not included in a grant to Brigham Young et al. Approved Jan. 14,1858. 
LORENZO SNOW. 
Act granting the exclusive use of Box Elder Valley in Box Elder County for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 14, 1858. See also Phineas H. Young. 
FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS. 
Act granting the exclusive use ( in conjunction with Bishop Aaron Johnson of Springville) of portions of Cedar and Juab Vallies for a herd ground. Jan. 5, 1856. See also Brigham Young. See also Phin-eas H. Young. 
WILFORD WOODRUFF. 
See Brigham Young. 
MISCELLANEOUS. LEWIS ROBINSON, 
(Quartermaster General of Nauvoo Legion). 
Act granting the exclusive privilege (in conjunction with Bishop Isaac Bullock) of running ferries on Green River for three years from May, 1856; ten per cent of all proceeds to go to the Perpetual Emi- gration Fund. Approved Dec. 27, 1855. 
Act granting a tract of land about five miles square, on Black's Fork, around Fort Bridger, for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 14, 1857. 
AARON JOHNSON, 
(Bishop of Springville, among whose wives are four sisters, his own nieces). 
Act granting the right to the one third of the water of Spanish Fork for irrigating purposes. Approved Dec. 27, 1855. 
Act granting the right (in conjunction with Bishop John L. Butler) to take also one fourth of the water of the Spanish Fork for irrigating purposes. Ap- proved Jan. 14, 1857. See also Apostle F. D. Rich- ards. 
ELIAS SMITH 
(Judge of Probate in G. S. L. City, and ex- Postmaster). 
Act granting the exclusive use (in conjunction with S. W. Richards, a young man with more than a dozen wives) of a portion of Juab Valley for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 2,1856. 
W. W. PHELPS 
(The Devil in the Mormon endowment). 
Act granting the exclusive use of a tract of land along the Weber River for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 12, 1856. 
SETH M. BLAIR 
(Engineer of the fortifications in Echo Canon and candidate for the office of Chief Justice in the place of Judge Eckels. Five wives.) 
Act granting the exclusive use of the tract of land in Rush Valley for a herd ground. Approved Jan. 14, 1857. 
CAPT. JAMES BROWN 
(Of Ogden; one of the most notorious Danites). 
Act granting the exclusive right to erect toll- bridges on the Territorial road across Ogden and Weber Rivers. Approved Jan. 6,1855. 
Act granting tlie exclusive use of Ogden Hole for a herd ground. Approved Dec. 27, 1855. 
This is beyond question one of the most extraor- dinary records which any Territory can present. Thanks to the patriotism of the frontier population of the United States, it is the only instance in which a Territory for eight successive years has perse- vered in a series of statutes which every legislator at the time of their enactment knew to be uncon- stitutional. Not a foot of land in this Territory has yet been opened even to preemption by the United States, and the Territorial Legislature has no more right to dispose of it than it has to sell the Capitol grounds at Washington. Nevertheless, these grants have practically had all the validity which the grantees could desire; and this has happened for two reasons: first, because the people are ignorant of their rights and of the illegality of such acts of their Legislature; and secondly, because there has been a combination of ecclesiastical influence to sustain the grants, against which no Mormon dare rebel. The only instance in which resistance was ever made to one of the grantees was in 1853. An act was passed, which will be found among those I have enumerated, granting the exclusive privilege of running ferries on Green River to Daniel H. Wells for three years. This was a most valuable grant, for Green River spans the whole Territory from north to south, and all the Californian emi-gration is obliged to cross it. There were ferries already on the river at a point north- east from Fort Bridger, in the hands of some moun-taineers, who had built the boats at great ex- pense, strung the ropes across the river, and in the Spring of 1853 were expecting from the com-ing emigrants a return for their labor. Suddenly a party of Mormons, commanded by Robert Burton and James Ferguson, which had been fitted out from this city, made its appearance on the bank of the river and demanded in the name of the Legisla- ture and of Mr. Wells, a surrender of the ferry. The mountaineer who had charge of the boats, a stout, honest fellow named William Walker, re-fused, saying that he and his partners had built the boats, etc., and had a better right to own them than anybody else he knew of; whereupon he was set on, shot in the back, and a volley of rifle balls was poured into him as he lay bleeding on the ground. One of the parties concerned in this butchery, a Mormon named Wakely, was arrested at Camp Scott last Spring, and held to bail in the sum of $5,000, to await the action of a grand jury in his case. 
After a glance at the list of grants, it will not be hard for you to understand the causes of the great disparity of wealth in this community. The staples of wealth here are grass and cattle. During the Summer there is no difficulty in pasturing the herds, for the animals can graze up to the very summits of the Wahsatch range; but with the ap-proach of cold weather, they must descend the mountain slopes, and, when Winter comes, seek pasturage on the sheltered bottom hands. It is then that these apostolic landed proprietors reap their golden harvest, charging so much per head for wintering stock upon their illegally granted herd-grounds. Most of them also take good care to have large herds of their own. Just so in re- spect to wood. During the months of August, September and October, every family is busy lay- ing in its stock of firewood for the Winter. Where the family is large, one son is usually employed a whole month long with an ox- team for this pur-pose. The most eligible spot in the vicinity of the city for cutting wood is Brigham's Canon; but the priestly proprietor under the illegal grant demands that every third load cut there shall be hauled to his own corral, in payment for the privilege of cut- ting the other two loads. He has built a strong stone wall across the mouth of the canon, and men are constantly stationed there to enforce the regu-lation. 
The plain English of the matter is that these grants, unauthorized and unconstitutional in them- selves, have been so distributed as to benefit a few church dignitaries at the expense of the mass of the people. Those to Apostle Benson alone have made him one of the wealthiest men in the Terri-tory. By means of them he has built up a settle-ment in Tuilla Valley called, after the initials of his own name, E. T. City. Tracts of land which would make continental earldoms, are bestowed on favorites with utter disregard to the right of the squatter to pick a claim wherever he can find un- improved and unoccupied land. It would be dan-gerous to the personal safety of any man, Mormon or Gentile, to contest the validity of these grants. Let the fate of Wm. Walker bear witness to the truth of my assertion. It is a matter in which Congress ought to take action. The mass of the people of the Territory are ignorant of their rights, and too pusillanimously subject to their hierarchy to maintain them if they knew them. 
TERRITORIAL FAIR. 
From Our Special Correspondent. 
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, U. T., 
Oct. 5, 1858. 
The Territorial Fair opened also on Monday. The streets were filled all day long with women, boys and girls, in holiday dress, and Social Hall, in which it was held, was crowded from sunrise to sunset. The managers extended a polite invitation to fifteen or twenty Gentiles to visit the Hall at a time during the afternoon, when the crowd should be shut out in order to allow us to inspect the arti-cles on exhibition at our leisure. Punctual to the hour, we pushed a path to the entrance through a throng of women and children, while the Nauvoo Brass Band saluted our appearance with a strong blast of wind instruments. The exhibition was really interesting, and very creditable to Mormon industry and ingenuity. Its chief feature was the display of fruits and vegeta- bles, which I have never seen excelled in the East, and which could be equaled probably only in California. The specimens were care-fully selected from the gardens of Brigham Young, W. C. Straines, Wilford Woodruff, and other hor- ticultural saints. On one of the tables, I noticed a bunch of tea leaves grown at Provo. There were no samples of cotton on exhibition, though I was told that in the neighborhood of the Vegas in the Southern part of the Territory, there were 200 acres this year under cultivation, the average yield from which will be nearly 1,000 pounds to the acre. Of flax, there were many excellent speci-mens. The home-manufactured cloths which were displayed, were very creditable in respect both to fabric and texture. Affixed to a board near the main entrance, were many of the Colt's re- volvers and rifles manufactured in the Ter-ritory. They were well finished, and in external appearance, will bear comparison with the arms made in Connecticut and Massachu-setts, but owing either to an inferior quality of iron or to some deficiency in its manipulation, they will not invariably bear severe tests of strength. In a corner was a table covered with Mormon Bibles and other doctrinal books in the various lan-guages into which they have been translated. One of the most curious features of the exhibition was a display of bedquilts around the walls of the room in which the fruits were exhibited. Some of them were covered with elaborate devices in needle-work, each square being marked with the name of the girl by whom it was executed, and the center-piece containing an inscription that "this quilt" was made by the young ladies of the — "Ward as a present to their dear Bishop ---. Re- "quiescat in pace." In the same room was a large banner roughly painted with a picture of the cross- ing of the South Platte during the emigration from Nauvoo. The walls of the main hall were hung with portraits of distinguished Saints, among which those of Joseph and Hyrum Smith were prominent. One painting was a family group de-picting Brigham Young, his first wife, and their children. There was also a plaster bust of Brig-ham at one end of the hall. After we had finished our tour through the rooms we found a table set for us with eveiy variety of fruits. The doors were opened soon afterward, and the hall was filled again with a dense but orderly crowd. 
THE ARMY GOING INTO WINTER QUAR-TERS. 
CAMP FLOYD, Cedar Valley, U. T., 
Oct. 7, 1858. 
The whole army has moved from its former camp at the northern end of the valley, and is busy now in building Winter quarters. The ground all over a space of several square miles has been plowed by a thousand teams, until the dust lay six or eight inches deep. The steady rains at the be- ginning of this week have changed it into a gigantic mud pudding, and the appearance of the camp yes- terday was suggestive of the town of Eden, com-memorated in Martin Chuzzlewit. Military water-gods, in soaked blue overcoats and cowhide boots, were wading disconsolately around the adobes, some of which, from lack of roofs, were beginning to melt under the patter of the rain. Most of the company's and officers' quarters are in long one-storied buildings, divided into rooms twelve or fifteen feet square, with comfortable fire-places, and windows whose size is proportioned to the price of glass. Some of the companies, however, have preferred to build a circular or an elliptical wall of adobes, four or five feet high, and spread over this their Sibley or else bell tents. The whole 7th In-fantry will be quartered in this manner. Water is supplied from copious springs, around which a corral has been built to keep out animals, and also from wells. Water is struck in a stratum of sand which lies upon a bed of clay, at an average depth of about 25 feet. When all the buildings are fin-ished it will be found that the army has constructed and occupies the third city in the Territory in size and population. There are now about 3,000 troops in Utah Territory, including the garrison of Fort Bridger. The regiments have been augmented by troops till they are almost full. The most recent arrivals at the camp have been Major Reynolds's Light Artillery Battery and the remaining compa- nies of the 7th Infantry. They came from Fort Bridger over the new road which has been opened through Provo Canon. This is better supplied with wood and grass than the old road through Echo and Emigration Canons, and bids fair to build up Provo at the expense of Great Salt Lake City. 
On my passage to the camp, from the city, one fact was specially noticeable. The fields all re-main just as after the gleaning of the harvest. Not a single one has been broken up and sowed with wheat for next year's crop, nor have any preparations been made for that purpose. I am told that this is the case throughout the entire Territory; and it is regarded as ominous of an exodus of the Mormons next Spring— whither, Heaven knows. The semi-annual General Confer- ence of Saints met yesterday, in the Tabernacle in Great Salt Lake City, and its session, which is secret, lasts throughout the day. It comprises all the Presidents, Patriarchs, High Priests, Bishops and Elders, from far and near, and consists usually of about 2,000 persons. At this October Confer- ence Brigham Young is annually elected Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and First President of the Church. Appointments to all the missions, foreign and domestic, are also confirmed at this Conference. 
TROUBLE BETWEEN THE TROOPS AND INDIANS. 
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, U. T., 
October 8, 1858. 
A most deplorable emeute has occurred between a battalion of troops and a portion of Pet-tete-nete's band of Pah-Utah Indians, which may end in the alienation from the Americans of all the Utah Indians in the Territory who have hitherto sympathized with them against the Mormons, and will certainly result in the abandonment of the Indian farm on Spanish Fork, which I described in a recent letter. 
I wrote to you that it was reported that a Danish woman and her child, a girl nine years old, had been outraged on Sept. 10 by two Indians at a little village called Pondtown, between Payson and Spanish Fork settlement, and that Dr. Hurt had gone down from this city to investigate the affair. The facts in the case appear to be these: During the absence of Dr. Forney, on his journey to the Humboldt, Gov. Cumming has arrogated to himself the functions of Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and assumed the authority of giving direc-tions to the subordinates in that department. Dr. Hurt's commission as Indian Agent ran out during the month of August, but he has been retained since that time in the employ of the Superin-tendent. The Governor directed him to proceed to the Indian Farm on the business referred to, and has guided his subsequent movements. On his arrival, he called a council of the chiefs and demanded the surrender of the two young men charged with the commission of the out-rage. After deliberation, the chiefs expressed their willingness to give them up on the spot, pro-vided the Doctor would cause them to be shot im-mediately, but not otherwise. They said that the young men had rather die than be imprisoned and suffer what other Indians had done who have been confined in past years by the Mormons. Dr. Hurt then placed a warrant for their arrest in the hands of a Mormon constable, who proceeded with it to the camp of the army in Cedar Valley, whither the two young men had gone. On his arrival he found that they had returned from the camp to the neigh-borhood of the farm, and he accordingly traveled back again. The Doctor then called another coun-cil, with the same result as before. He then re-ported the facts to the Governor, who directed him to summon a military posse for the arrest, and made a requisition on Gen. Johnson for that pur- pose. 
After holding a third council, with no different result, the Doctor went to Camp Floyd on Sept. 27, and returned to the farm on the morning of the 2d inst., with two companies of the 7th in-fantry, commanded by Bvt. Maj. Paul, and a squadron of dragoons, under Lieut. Anderson. They found that the whole tribe had quitted the farm and its neighborhood, except fifteen or twenty Indians, among whom were two chiefs, Tintick and Pintutts—the latter an adopted son of old Pet-tete-nete. These they surrounded, following the Governor's direction, intending to take and hold them as hostages for the surrender of the two criminals, who were not present. The Indians broke and ran in every direction—some toward the Lake, others toward the Spanish Fork settlement—pursued by the dragoons. Pintutts, who was on foot, took the latter direction, and had almost reached the settlement when a dragoon, by whom he was pursued, shot him dead, after first ordering him to surrender and then firing his pistol into the air as a signal that he would shoot him if he did not halt. Another Indian, who had snapped an old brass pis-tol at his pursuers and then run into the lake, would have been killed had not Lieut. Livingston of the 2d Dragoons knocked up the muzzle of the revolver of the soldier by whom the Indian was followed. Among these captured was Tintick. The next day two of them were set free on parole, to proceed to the tribe and offer a release of all the prisoners on condition of the surrender of the two criminals. A desire for the liberation of Tintick, who is one of the most popular chiefs of the Utah nation, probably contributed to the decision which was made. The criminals were surrendered and Tintick and his fellow-prisoners were thereupon liberated. 
The Indians who were given up are very young men, neither of them, to judge from their appear-ance, being more than eighteen years old. They were brought to this city yesterday by a Mormon guard, and a complaint against them was entered before Judge Sinclair. Upon the hearing, affidavit was made that time was necessary to produce witnesses for the Government, and further proceed-ings were postponed to next Friday, the Indians being consigned in the mean time to the Penitentiary. The Governor has made a requisition upon Gen. Johnson for more troops, for the protection of the inhabitants of Springville and its neighborhood, and 100 men from the 5th Infantry under Bvt. Lieut. Col. Ruggles, and 100 from the 10th under Capt. Tracy, marched yesterday from Camp Floyd with three weeks' rations, to take post in that neighbor-hood, making altogether a military force of more than 500 on the eastern shore of Lake Utah. 
The Indian Farm is totally deserted. Pet-tete-nete, with his whole band, remains among the mountains, and is probably arranging some plan of action in combination with Arapine, another powerful Pah-Utah chief.