Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-27
MORE MORMON TROUBLEs.


We learn from letter published in the st. Louis
Republican that serious disturbance has lately
taken place in the upper part OF Adams county,
Illinois, between portion Of the aold citizens of
that and Hancock counties and the Mormons. The
letter, which is dated at Quincy the 18th instant,
says:
GA gentleman belonging this city returned from Lima,
the vicinity of the outbreak last evening" and informs
that Thursday last the anti Mormons attacked settlement
known by the of Morleys Settlement, short distance
northeast of Lima in this county, and that up to the time he
left f,cy fire thirty houses had been burnt together with
several barns and wheat stacks The excitement very
great and large numbers of ntiMornons pouring in
from the adjoining counties and from Missouri and they
still burning and destroying property and determined to
drive the Mormons out of the county Our informant
about fifty Momons under within about miles from
the settlement who appeared determined to defend themselves
was in contemplation by the an-Mormons to attack two
more settlements last evening.
In addition what stated in the above letter. the Repub
can informs that gentleman who had visited the camp
OF the anti Moons, Lima, estimated them to be about
three hundred strong He also the camp Of the Nor
mons and found them number about hundred After
leaving the camps he returned to Warsaw where he remain
ed time, and learned there that the Momons had all
moved into Nauvoo and that the Mormon Sheriff had ordered
out the legion those who had commenced these dis
orders The Republican adds that if this report be true and
the legion turns out conflict inevitable letter received
St Louis from Warsaw that business suspended
of the difficulties with the Momons, and that
| veral houses had been burnt and lives lost.
LATER.-The st. Louis Republican of the 18th
instant says
sour accounts by the last boats brought down Sun
day night The work Of destruction progressing, and
extending itself with hourly increasing violence The anti
Mormons it is understood, have taken to
general concentration of forces from far and near and they
declare that they will stop short of the expulsion of every
Mormon from Hancock countyn which Nauvoo is situated
said that to Sunday night about sixty houses had
burned down in Adams and Hancock counties"
LATER STILL.
Accounts from ST. Louis late the 10th do indicate
any cessation of the between the Momons and anti Nor
of Illinois The "Nauvoo Neighbor" that up
wards of forty houses and ouhouses had already been
burnt Green Plains and Lima districts II reported that
the process of burning the Momons has been
menced in other settlements On the 18th instant an anti
Mormon of the Of FRASKLIN A. WoRRELL, mer-
chant Of Carthage, and lieutenant of volunteer company
shot dead by party of Momons This it is feared
will increase the excitement correspondent the St. Louis
Republican, writing from Warsaw under date of the 18th in
stant concludes his letter follows
s'This week, believe bring matters an issue
From the apparent with which the anti Mormons
acng-the simultaneous attacksthe deep and deadly
hatred which they entertain the Mormons-the fact that
the Mormons from all the settlements Of Nauvoo are
being driven into the city, Judge fight must come off
sthis week, which will probably give predomnancy to
party the other. shall wait the result 1t is very
doubtful whether the Governor civil authorities can act in
time prevent the worst results"