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being off their guard will fall an . 'illfr 14
" Late ad vices received from
'4v that there was at that place and at-aort I,
1,500 armed men encamped, all th e i a
children having bean sent into Salt Lake City.
" Mr. Roup, agent for Russell and Wardell,
Government freighters, went into Salt Lake City
about the middle of last month to buy provibicna
for his teamsters. This proclamation was issued
the day ho left, and Brigham fgave him the follow-
ing passport :
," Governor's office, Great Salt Lake City,
ljtah Territory, Sept. 16, 1857.
" ' To whom it may concern,
" 'The bearer, Mr. Roup, agent for Russell and
Wardell. may have business to transact in the city or
other portions of the territory.
" `Therefore, I with Mr. Roup to have the privilege
of passing anywhere in the territory where his biviness
call him unmolested.
" ' This pass will also extend to any one of his men
Munn he may wish to send on business legitimately
belonging to his operations.
" 'BRIGHAM YOI7NG, Governor.
" "_' Ex-officio Superintendent of Indian
• Affairs, Utah Territory.'"
"Mr. Roup says that Mr. Wilson, the clerk in
the office of the Surveyor-General in Salt Lake
City, had fled for his life, and it was suppose i he
bad taken refuge among the Indians of the Pelentee
band. The office was left unprotecind, and pro-
bably may be ransacked anti 'destroyed. Jesse
Jones, who had been for some time one of the con-
ductors 13,,tween Magraw's mail train and
.Indepen-
dence and Sslt Lake, went to Fort Bridger to look
after some flour which Mr. Rota had purchas-d
there. The Mormons arrested him, and when last
seen they were taking him to Salt Lake in irons.
A Frenoh mountaineer, just from Bridger, says
that Jones bade him farewell, and told him he never
expected to return. He bad heavy chains on his
hands and feet. Jones is a brave, determined man,
particularly hated by the Mormons for having de-
fied their power, and conducted from the ten itory
the .train that left 'there last spring with the Go-
vernment officers' who were flying to escape death,.
A few days ago Mr. Roup received the following
hitter from D. H. Welli :
"Fort Bridger, Sept. 30, 11157.
" `Mr. Itoup—Sir,—Should the troops undertake to
move into the city or settlements they will be met with
a determined resistance. You will therefore see that to
be with them might involve a total destruction of your
men, and will take such measures for their safety as you
shall deem proper. Mr. Jones returned to the city.
One of the teams loaded with flour for you mistook the
road, and went back. The amount of flour can be for.
niched front this place, and will be forwarded to you.
" ' I am your friend,
" 'DANIEL H. WELLS, Lieutenant-General
Commandir g Nauvoo Legion.' "
" What impudence ! He says that Jonesreturned
to the city without saying how. Mr. Simpson,
waggon-master of the rear train, which was burnt
on the Sandy, arrived in camp on the evening of the
7th. He reports that on the morning of the Gth his
train was 'corraled' at the last crossing of the Big
Sandy, about 5 miles from Green River ; that about
9 o'clock in the morning, just as he had sent his cattle
into the hills for grass, a band of Mormons our-
rounded the train,'disarmed the men, burning up all
but two of the waggons, with their contents ; these
two waggons were saved through the firmness of
Mr. Simpson, who insisted that they should leave
provisions for his men to return to the States.
After the burning of the train the teamsters were
released and the Mormons went up the road.
Simpson says that Lot Smith, who was in command
of the party, had come to his camp while the train
was on the Sweet Water, and remained all night,
representing that he was from California on his way
to the_States; that he had wintered in Salt Lake
City. He cursed and -- the Mormons up and
down, and when be went off begged provisions
enough to last him to Laramie. In this way the
Mormons have been collecting information about
the trains all the summer. Smith said that the
party under his command numbered 800 men; that
they wore going back on the road to burn and de-
stroy every train from there to Laramie. He said
that Livingston and Kinkead's train of 65 waggons
was only 30 miles back, and that they would burn it
up that night, and also that a special party had
gone to capture Magraw, dead or alive."
Another communication from the same correspon-
dent, dated the 28th October, says :
"On the 10th inst., Mr. Perry, who has a train
of merchandise en route for Salt Lake City came into
camp from. below. He left a party of Magraw's
train on the Sweet Water waiting for provisions.
Morrell, the P.M., with his train, was with them.
Mr. Ficklin, the agent of Magraw's, passed down
and conveyed the news of the burning of the trains
by the Mormons. The trains below will, therefore,
be on their guard. Mr. Perry was accompanied by
two men. They were stopped by the Mormons, and
closely questioned, but finally suffered to pass on.
" On the same day (the 10th inst.) an express
from Brigham Young came into camp. They
brought with them a full file of the Deseret News
and other papers, with a note from Col. Alexander,
saying that he sent them, hoping that in the ab-
sence of news from the States, they would tend to
relieve the monotony of camp life. I learn that the
object of the express was to make a proposal that
the mail which is on the way should be delivered to
Brigham's agent at the Territorial line, and let
him carry it into the city.
"On the 11th the whole command loft their
camp and proceeded up Ham's Fork 19 miles.
The grass had been burnt nearly all the way.
We camped en a small spot which the fire
had spared. George and Jefferson Hickman,
brothers of Bill Hickman, came to the train while
on its march this day, with a note from Bill to Mr.
Perry, requesting an interview on Green River to
settle some business matters which he had left in
Hickman's hands for settlement when he was a
merchant in Salt Lake city. After consulting with
Mr. Perry, the commandant had them arrested as
spies. •It stowed nearly all day, but melted
as it fell. On the 12th we continued our
march up Ham's Fork. After camping for the
night we were surprised by the intelligence that
the Mormons, under the lead of Lot Smith and
Porter Rockwell, had taken some 800 head of
cattle, being principally those that belonged to the
trains lately burnt, together with a large number •
of beef cattle, within three miles of camp. The
men in charge of the cattle were allowed to, come
in. Bill-Hickman sent word by them that if his
brothers were not released within five days he
would scalp a dozen soldiers for it ; and Smith and
Porter declared that if the command persisted in
advancing they should all be slaughterd.
"The prisoners were searched, and a belt was
found on one of them which was identified as be-
longing to an artilleryman who had been missing
for several days. The prisoners stated that the •
man passed Fort Bridger on his way to Salt Lake,
and there exchanged belts with him.
" Oct. 15.—Continued up Ham's Fork for the -
last three days ; route very rough ; and camped
about four miles below the California-road
(Babbitt's Cut-off.) Yesterday Jefferson Hickman
was released, and sent with an express to Brigham.
An express was also sent to Col. Johnson, inform-
ing him of our movements. The advance party
this morning nearly captured some Mormons, who
were setting fire to the grass in this bottom. It has
been decided to remain here until we receive some
intelligence from Col. Johnson and the trains on
the road.

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when we have read of it in our quiet days. We
have seen depths of sufferings which in our worst
forebodings we never dreamt of. And we have
also seen how in men and women of our own mould
and acquaintanceship, our gossips and familiar
friends, suddenly called on to die, or to act differ-
ently from their whole lives, our English nature
has towered up to a fortitude, a self-devotion,, an
endurance, a majesty of quiet and unshaken he-
roism, and, in many cases, a brightness and beauty
of Christian grace, which lift the days in which they
wrought or suffered above the ordinary level of our
prosaic times. And after all, so swiftly has every-
thing passed that in the short six months from the
first news of the revolt has come also the tidings of
its utter ruin. Within those short six months have
happened, not only the tragedies of Delhi and
Cawnpore, and all those other frightful scenes
which have made so many Indian towns words of
horror in every English household, but Delhi has
been hesieg, d, Delhi has resisted long and anxiously
—at last Delhi has fallen. Cawupore has been in
part avenged. Lucknow has been on the point of
perishing; after a heroic but vain attempt to relieve
it ; then, after another effort, it WAS reached by
Outram and Havelock, only for them to be enclosed
without escape in the fiery sea of insurrection;
then again Lucknow has been reached, fought
through, and its garrison met and set free. And
yet these great events, on which the fate of
India and the East, perhaps of England, were
hanging, were but episodes in that display of
courage, resource, strength, so gigantic in its
thoirgli so diminutive in its tentres, and
sources, and instruments, which hai extended over
the *hole area of Hindostan, and subdued, pacified
or made use of its millions of men. Yet all this
happened within six short months.
Those months have not been unimportant ones at
home. But at home the interest, if le s acutelypain-
ful, has been less elevating and less cheering. It can
hardly be said that the exertions of Government in
England to save India have bean commensurate
either with the greatneis of the object at stake or
with the desperate daring and masterly skill dis-
played against fearful odds by Englishmen on the
spot. Lord Palmerston and his Government were
inclined to take things very easily at first ; and but
for a suocess to which they did not contribute, they
might now be, not without some j ustice, the victims
of that indignation which flamed up so high at the
Crimean disasters. But their delays, their want of
appreciation of the magnitude of the crisis, their
failure in resource to meet so terrific a peril, will,
perhaps, be forgotten in the achievements of Sir J.
Lawrence and Sir H. Havelock, and in the steady
courage and untiring activity of Lord Cannin;.
But it ought not to be forgotten that they have
been tried and measured during the last few months.
Much will have to be done for India of the utmost
difficulty and importance, after the revolt shall have
been quelled. Yet theirs are hardly the hands to
whom we should like to see committed the grew
task of reconstructing the system of Indian Govern
Men t.

Indee 1, at home the autumn has been in all its
ending features rather a painful contrast to the rare
beauty of the season itself. It has been a time of
failures. There have been strange and remarkable
failures of criminal justice in the detection of fright-
ful crimes. There has been a failure of our vaunted
currency system. There has been a shameful break-
down and collapse of mercantile character in a
number of establishments of vast credit and lofty
pretensions, which have sunk, not from the ordinary
losses of a crisis, but front the exposure of the fraud
and gambling which formed their regular mode of
business. Almost all our groat boasts have had
their rebuke. Science, which has lately dared such
gigantic attempts, and with somewhat overweening
confidence, his had her share. Her‘monAer enter-
prises have had at least to wait. The telegraphic
message has not yet flashed b:.‘neath the Atlantic.
Tho Gre.it Eastern, after the misapplication of
enormous mechanical power, and the squandering
of money equivalent to a large fortune, is still un-
launched. Big Ben has to be recast. There is a
ludicrous congruity in adding to the list of failures
—Lord Palmerston's monster mortar.
To us at home who havb sat still in security and
ease, the retrospect of 1857 is not a very gratifying
or satisfactory one. There is; indeed, a strong re-
lief to this ' • but we must look abroad for it. We
must look for something to set against levity and
feebleness in the Government, againstextravagance.
boastfulness, and dishonesty in our domestic enter-
prises—we must look for the proofs that the nobler
elements of our national character are yet strong
and undecayed—to where danger and difficulty has
elicited them abroad. There have not failed—
whether in the wonderful display both of silent for-
titude and of resolution, helpfulness and the spirit
of command, which has saved us India, or in the
wise and loving enthusiasm with which the mis-
sionary has opened up new regions, and won to
himself the wild wins of savage men—or where
rough soldiers have shown the crowning and most
touching glory of their discipline, when they stood
on the deck of the burning Sarah Sands, as their
comrades—alas, not so fortunate—had. done on
that of the sinking Birkenhead, calmly and obe-
diently giving up their chance of life to the weak
and' helpless, or plunging down, volunteer after
volunteer, into the smoking hold to empty the
powder magazine. It cannot be for nothing
that we feel ourselves to be kith and kin with such
men as these. And one effect the events of 1857
seem to have already produced at home. They
have awakened in the country a sense of our re-
sponsibilities, not only as men, but in a most re-
markable—we had almost said unaccountable—
manner, as Christians. The Indian revolt seems to
have brought home to men's minds, with a vivid-
ness perfectly new to numbers, the difference be- j
tween Christianity and no Christianity • and to I
have drawn forth from stern men of action,
hardened in the business of the world, bold and
earnest expressions of their regret and shame at the
cowardice, the disgrace, the mischief, of the indif-
ference which we have shown among the heathens
of the East towards the religion which we professed,
and which has now been proved by so many to be
their strength and comfort. What there may be in
this feeling, and how it is to be directed, are further
questions ; but the feature itself is a very notice.
able one in the public writing and public speaking
of the time. And it is an encouraging one to mark
the beginning of 1858.

THE UNITED STATES' EXPEDITION
TO UTAH.

The special correspondent of the New York Times
writing from "Gimp of the Army of Utah, Ham's
Fork of Green River," on October 9, says :
" The game is settled. Brigham Young has de-
cided the question that so many persons have so
long speculated upon—that is, what the Mormons
intended doing, and what would be the best policy
for the Government to pursue with regard to them.
Col. Alexander received to-day a copy of Brigham's
proclamation, which he issued to the Mormons.

" On the sth inst. the sth Infantry reached
Black's Fork. On the way the guides found a trail
of some 400 Mormons. The colonel sent back that
night an express to Green River, to warn the
trains of the danger. Early the next morning
three teamsters arrived in camp, and reported that
two trains of 58 waggons were burnt up. It seems
the train reached the river the same day we left. In
the night these three men were about three miles
from the camp, herding the cattle, when they sud-
denly heard a great noise at the trains, and imme-
diately the waggons commenced burning. The The
men immediately fled, leaving the cattle.
.
colonel felt very uneasy at this intelligence, but
feared to send men to look after them. We reached
the camp ot. the 10th Infantry and of Phelps's
Battery of Artillery on the evening of the 6th.
Captain Reno's Battery of Artillery overtook the
6th Infantry, and
came up with it. In theneivoent-
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ing the express man who had been sent to warn
the trains came in. He says he reached the trains
between eleven and twelve o'clock at h
1. asleep.
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The two trains were encamped some
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andthe h
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eat. Just as waggonhe had finished (wino, a body of
Mormons came out from the willows 'on the river
they bank and surrounded the train ; then went to
each waggon and awakened the men, n
fire to every one of them. After the waggonsadther se
t
fire
were
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burnt, they gave the teamsters six days' provisions
and let them go. They took from the waggons all
the arms and anitnunition, and provisions enough
for the men. Everythingaesan horses.
d else was
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sters sayde=troyed.
They also took the m
that the party which surrounded the wag-
gons consisted of about 80 men, but that there were
from 300 to 400 around the camp a short distance
off. They had mules with them that belonged to I
the rear train, and the probability is that it was
burnt up first. The Mormons inquired particu-
larly about Ma,raw, and swore they would catch
and kill him. .'We tear that all the provision trains
between this and the South Pass are destroyed, and
that all the trains now on the road, and perhaps
the Governor and other officers, will fall into the
hands of the Mormons, for we are not apprised of '
there being but two companies of infantry between '

"Oct. H. —A party of about 100 mounted volun-
teers (soldiers and teamsters), under the command
of Capt. Marcy, of the 6th Irifantpryo,initeft
and c a m p
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ri this
morning at daylight for the purpose of exploring
the country between this and Muddy Creek (a.
stream midway between this
Bridger) ; Capt. Neal and Lieuts. Bantchard,
Lewis, and Lynde, of the sth, and Lieut. Gore, of
the 10th Infantry, accompanied them. They had
not gone more than two miles from camp before a
party of 55 Mormons
acame
thertsuddenly upon them
from
y immedi.stely formed on
their
thed rear.lce
dl
e hcall Ouratr- i'
the hilt-side, and Mormons drew up in a lino,
two deep, within about
l anye at analon tt h talk
partof t i‘ali,ic advanced
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150 yards. Their captain
he
wday'i; atvml heldp a lk with Capt.he
to be the purpose of the
Mormons to resist
Tjwansitle)3,d, States'Brioh troops to advance, and also that it
am, s order that the trains had been
burnt.

" Atter this parley they were permitted to move
off unmolested. They had not gone far before they
commenced shaking their blankets, yelling loud
curses and shouts of defiance. The animals of our
party were so weak that pursuit would have been
useless.

" Soon after some men of our party, headed by
Jim Baker, an old mountaineer and guide, for the
command, rode to the top of a hiil and discovered
the Mormons at the foot, on the bank of a creek.
Tho Mormons no sooner Saw them than one of
them fired, whereupon our party returned the fire,
wounding one, and putting them all to flight, they
no doubt supposing that our whole party were upon
them. Baker pursued them more than a mile, and
found scattered along the route several packages
of provisions which had been dropped in their hasty

Our party arrived at Lower Springs, about 12
miles from Ham's Fork. Soon after starting on our
return to camp we surprised a party of five Mor-
mons, who were carrying supplies to the party seen
in the morning, two of whom were captured, and
proved to be the leaders and important errant
They gave their names as Col. Taylor and
o 6001 b. of
were captured, with. their
. loading,
Their pack animals (3
flour and other provisions.
h were found upon the
" Important closPat° mule.soamml horses