The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-03 00:00:00

Col. Alexander's march will be directed.

toldlem they had 'TtitleMormonswho intercepted the express men
Devil's Gate, through which the a force of 700 men scattered
is a dismantled Mormon
along through asswfeaertweaas.etrasflotwhse,
some of the logs o
exceed
about 200 miles from
thet:a t trains fwh.orhtteLwa Laramie, aw ma riem ,
ea an
adot nuaerfiafrreeewtflr)
noi which
station,
iffiaichuelet
theto which burnt
a week ago. But
of the
must be a gross exaggera-
tion. Neither
strength could cde
itvhhleasovoe in
gained i 1
n in
theb°r' rearan d ofit
ever since the army unobserved. It is a fact, however, that
they have been assiduous in collecting information
concerning the topography of the country, and
many of their leadersP,or.e understand it as thoroughly
as the most exf
ploymeat of a great
mountain guide. The sin-
rart of their young men in
herding cattle t'h is made them acquainted with
every little wrearn
to the sa'ldle. It anci
' kanyon,' and inured them
almost solely, who is
these young men, and these
from
the element of M T-
ime mlitaty force
be apprehended.
which there is danger to
have the will, to _ possess the ability, if they
warfare, sweeping down
on an annoying guerilla
from mountain passes upon
single travellers and
to make
trains.
" I am unable make an estimate of the
amount of stores o
of Oct. 5. The destroyed by them in their foray
Utah expedition was
original
Mormonscale hsl:ol'tirrtlteieadi
amount intended for the
2,500 men, and each tall' eight months' supply fir
tion of all the artiel rain
was assigned a proper-
s tobe transported, including
even Ordnance st
ires.whether different arrange-
ments were made when
it was thought necessary to
leave the 2d Dragodn,
Kansas I am
riot with Governor Walker iu
is the general impression aware. At any rate, it
that the loss of so
great a quantity of provisions as the 72 waggons
must have contained would necessitate a movement
towards Salt Lake Valley o were rot such a move-
ment on other accounts a
de-
struction. The season willonsequents of their
forbad the transini tau
of any further supplies of troops from the east than
are now far on their way.
avli
command has returned from its
pursuit ether Col. Sumner's
yennes to the Arkan...as ;whether
of the Che-
er Col. Cook is
marching his dragoons towards
us to fill out So far
as is now possible the original
army of Utah, which was disturbedprogramme of the
byovernor
G
Walker's schemes in Kansas
; or whether General
Sarney, Col. Johnson, Governor Cumming, or any
of the new territorial officials, are on their way
west, we are not informed, for the
most recent ad-
vices we have received from the o
than to Sept. 1. Ignorant as
we
are of what may
have occurred during the last 20
days, it is impos-
sible for us to fix the rcs • •
Pollutant y-for the delay,
so accurately as yourselves, upon those to whom it
belongs ; but some one is certainly to blame for the
fact, that of the 2,500 men originally destined to
the expedition hardly 1,400 are
flow
for the other fact, that of all the n available, and
territorial officials only one to my
anted
mY knowledge
(Chief Justice E3kels) is anywhere
duty. Mr. Morrell, the Postmaster of Silt Lake
near his post of
City, who was appointed by
President Pierce
last year, but whose commission was stolen from
the mail, is also an exception.
near the South Pass. and will place
lie is encamp!
under Colonel S.nith's peetection his
wagonsolTOW.
" This rising --
of a
1.11
news of the actual the Mormis
more in arms cannot surprise you uret
than it does those
on the scene of action. The Presence
Bern-
hisel with Captan Van Vliet on his Of Dr.
journey to the
States seemed of itself an offset to all the threaten-,
ing messages of which the latter was the bearer.
It seemed incredible that the Mormons should
have theassurauce to send a delegate to Washington
to uphold them in Congress, when
. they were iu =
hi-
ll armed rebellion. That they have
,ave been excited
to a forcible outbreak only by grossest the misre-
presentations I cannot doubt. As an instance of
these, I may specify one which •
18 by no means the
most absurd. When the general orders from the
head-quarters of the army for Utah for the estab-
-I:shment of three new posts in the territory reached
Salt Lake City, the circumstonce that they were to