The Empire County argus., 1855-12-15
From Great Salt Lake.


From the Southern Californian, of Dec. 5th WI
copy the following news from Utah:
The saints, it would seem, continue in the ever
tenor of their way and appear to have little tt
trouble them, with the exception of failure o.
the wheat CROP about which however they do moi
complain very loudly; the want of regularity r
the mails appears to irritate them more than any
thing else; and difficulties at times with the neigh
boring Indians.
The Nems says, buildings and improvements Of
various kinds are constantly and rapidly being
made; hence our citizens are so busy, peaceful and
happy, that they furnish spicy items with
which to swell our columns, and we sincerely
trust they may always so remain.
/ The accounts of the wheat crop are indeed dis
astrous At Mant corn and potatoes were doing
tolerably well, and there were prospects of few
bushels of wheat. Only 20 bushels of wheat had
been raised at Parowan, and frost had cut OFT the
expectations of late crops. In Carson county the
crops yield about two-thirds of the amount sown.
The fort at Paragoona would be built about 8
feet high this season, and when completed it is to
be % feet in height
In Gov Youngs office there was sample of cot
ton, beautifully white, fine and silky proving says
the Neus, that another important branch OF home
productions can be added to swell the channel OF
Utah's prosperity.
Various companies of immg mgrating saints had ar
rived, and were arriving at Salt Lake Valley.
They had had no trouble with the Indians but
reported that the government troops had brush
with the Sioux, not far from Ash Hollow, in which
they killed 120 took several squaws and children
prisoners, and had only of their men killed. Or
ders to cease trading with the Indians had reached
the trading posts at the Devils Gate and Hams
Fork and those traders had packed up their stocks
of goods.
Major R. T. Burton, with detachment of Life
Guards, returned to Salt Cake City on the Goth
Oct, from an expedition to Fort Supply and the
country adjacent, undertaken in compliance with
orders to inquire into and suppress the hostility
lately manifested by few Snakes in that quarter.
Maj. Burton reported all quiet and the existence
of friendly feelings on the part of the Indians
whom he saw The detachment met with no diff.
fculty or accident.
The market was being we'll supplied with large
stocks of goods and more were coming.
The Deseret News says:
Brigham Young is the only man that can gov
ern Utah to the satisfaction of the people. We do
not wish wholly to discourage those gentlemen who
may be plotting and schemng in order to obtain
political distinction and preferment in Utah let
them work out their own discontinue and disgrace,
and they will then feel as the niger felt after he
had been whipped--so much the better after they
have done smarting.
awe recommend all people henceforth to mind
their own business and leave Mormonism to those
who can handle it, for all its opponents who have
yet entered the field notoriously incompetent to
touch its interests in any manner.
1.-The Latter-Day Saints are known to be in good
hands, their destiny is with the Almighty; it is his
power and influence that has placed Gov. Young
in his present honorable station, and He will keep
him therein as long as it's expedient. The Lord
has given him sufficient wisdom to cope with this
generation no matter in what position he may be
placed, he is equal to every emergency He is a
perfect master of Theology in all its branches; as
a Politician he is unequaled as Tactican he
can not be exceed. His influence over the people
is hundred per cent. greater than that Of any
other Governor in the United States, and both
saints and sinners endorse him as the most honora-
BILE man in all the country"