Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-09-30
MORE MORMON DIFFICULTIES.

n sup IIOW TIC OlllCC VI tuC SkuiISy
Daily Morning Courier, of the 18th inst,
announces serions disturbance which had
broken out in the upper part OF Adams coun
~, between the Mormons and Anti-Mor
mons. On the 18th, the anti Mormons
attacked settlement, short distance north
east of Lima, in Adams Co., known by the
name of Morley's Settlement, and they had
burnt 10 the ground twenty-five or thirty
houses, with barns and stacks Of wheat
The excitement was great, and large nun
bers Of nti-Mormons were pouring in from
the adjoining counties, and from Missouri,
and were still engaged in burning and dcs-
troying property, determined to drive the
Mormons out of the county. About SO
Mormons were under arms in the neiohbor-
hood, who seemed determined to defend
themselves, but further than this, it appears
that the attack was entirely unprovoked,
and that the Mormons made no resistance.
The 81. Louis Republican gives the follow.
ing particulars:
awe learn by the Die Vernon, that
gentleman who had visited the camp of the
anti Mormons, near Lima, estimated them
to be about three hundred strong. He was
diSo 1T Tic SotHp vi tilC NlOItIouSs dDu lOtuu
them TO number about one hundred. After
leaving the camps; he returned to Warsaw,
where he remained some time, and learned
there that the Mormons had all moved
into Nauvoo, and that Rackenstos, the Nor
mon Sheriff, had ordered out the Legion, to
arrest those who had commenced these dis
orders. If this report should be true, and
the Legion turn out, conflict is inevitable.
A letter to Messrs. Matthews s. Patch. of
this city, Oh Saturday evening, from War
saw, says that business was suspended on
account of the difficulties with the Mormons,
and that several houses had been burned,
and lives lost"
CIVIL WAR In ILLINOIS.
FURTHER FROM THE ANTI NOR MON WAR. !
BY the Quincy and 81. Louis papers, re-
ceived this morning from yesterdays mail,
we have further intelligence from the civil
war in Hancock Co. This intelligence
confirms the reports.l in another column
The origin Of the difficulty is stated in the |
Quincy Morning Courier, to be in an attack
of the Mormons on meeting Of anti
Mormons near Lima, assembled to consult |
upon measures TO protect their property
from the denadations Of the Mormons.-
Such an attack, simply firing gun at the
meeting, by which no person was injured,
was made but the Mormons charge it
upon their enemies, as their work, and a
mere pretext for commencing bestilities.-
This was followed by burning the houses
of the Mormons on Wednesday and Thurs
day. On Friday the 10Th, other houses
were burnt.
ADAMS COUNTY, Sept II, ls45.
ave, the undersigned, a Committee ap-
pointed by the Morley and Hancock settle
menis, "a branch Of the Mormon Church.
Whereas, as there seeming TO be some diff
Guilty between said body and the anti-Mor-
mons, we, as representatives of said body,
wish to make some propositions so as to
make peace. We wish TO sell our decided
lands as well also as our Improvements, as
ow as il can reasonably be expected-re-
serving to ourselves the crops on the prem
will take in exchange, working
cattle. beef cattle, any available property,
and give possession as soon as our crops
ian be taken off, and receive pay for The
same, the whole of which may be pur chas- !,
I'd from the undersigned, acting as commit
zee, or from the respective owners.
DANIEL TYLER, Il
HORACE S. RAWSON,
MARCELLUS McHOWN,
SAMUEL ALGER. ,
The correspondent of the Courier says: !
Mr.. Whitney remarked 10 the committee {
hat he believed their terms would be I'M |
satisfactory in one particular: that if he had I
o buy out a bad neighbor TO get rid of him, ,
he would like 10 know what distance he
would remove from him. The committee y
eplied they would not agree 10 leave Han /,
:ock, nor would they say in what part of the q
county they would again settle, Il is use i
ess perhaps TO say that the interview 10
mounted 10 nothing and the work Of de- b