The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-14
OUR FORT LEAvENwoRrH CORRESPONDENCE.

OUR FORT LEAvENwORTH CORRESPONDENCE.
FoRr LRAvENwoRrH, Juae 20, 1855.
Mil,tary Changes at Fbrt Lsauenvorth- Departure
Of Major Richardson ,cnh Five Hundred Men for
Nc Merico--A,ripal of Col. Sumner ,ci.h Fou,
Companies Of the Neciy Raised Cavalry Deaths
By Chol.,a-R Return of Governor Reeder to Kansas
HIS Warm Rsceptton-I'he Governor Thyashed
eend you note Of some Of the recsnt changes ct
this post.
Major Richardson, Of the Third infantry, left here
yesterday with some Eve hundred men for New
Mexico. The officers with the command are COL
Grayson, Commisssry Department; Major Nichols,
Assistant Adjutant General Major Thornt,n, Ord.
nance Department Major Smith, Pay Department;
and Lieuts. Carr, Smead, Davis and Schroeder, and
Assistant Surgeon Perrin. The command takes out
scme 500, 900 government funds aud large supply
train.
Color ell Sumner arrived here yesterday with four
companies Of one of the new regiments of cavalry
other companies of the same regiment are expected
here soon. / III derstand the regiment is to be
mounted here as SOON possible to take the ieId.
There Is much sickness prevailing here from
cholera, and many deaths. Lieut. sheppsrd, Second
drsgoons Died here on the 27tn. The eldest daugn.
ter Of CDiet Justice Le Compile died to-day, In four
hours a ter being at lacked.
Governor Rec der mas just returned to the Terri.
tory. He 'psars to b in bad odos with the sove
rigD people. He has been called upon by General
Stripgteliow and two other gentlemen Of the Terri
tory, IN relation to some remarks mace by MIN Ia
fpee oh made in Philadelphia. In the course of the
interview, Rsedef drew pistol upon the General.
Tnis dem pstrasion Of the Governor, IL seems, did
not pro6ucs the result tina. ns anticipated, FIR the
General imme diatey invited him to ap pointm ,nt
after the usual form, IN w1ich tney should both be
furnished with one. This proposition, for reasons
49, n.uF nd Annl iuxSl
whereupon tie General, after allowing Reeder stiff
Gent time to consider his proposition, thought il
would be DO disrespec. to the sovereign people for
him to trsmpIe upon the Governors head, and this
be did, IL Is said, with good degree of ensrgy.
OUR NEBRASKA CORRESPONDENCE.
OMAHA CRY, N. T., June 20, 1855.
Late Ne,rs From the Plains Arrival of the Attor.
neg General Of Utah-Neps from Salt Like
ISoubh Among the Saints--Fort Laramie Safe
-Dnposttio~ Of the Siour Iadians-Specimen of
american Pedesfrianism on the Piains--1xs
Slorery Question in Neoraska-7Ae Ne,o York
Tribune on Nebraska Ge~erai Ne,cs, &C., &c.
Last evening Attorney General HOLMAN, Of Utah
Territory, and some fou, traders arrived here safely
from Bait Lake. He made the trip In twenty nine
days, travelling most Of the time In the night. to
svoid any war parties Of Indians that might be out
lucy btOPp0Q ~ fOrb L0kamio ON TOE lot1 ms
All we're well and safe there, yet apprehensive- A
few days previous TO their arrival ct the fort no
three or four Sioux chiefs had visited there for
talk, aud asked the Lieutenant in charge, 30 re port
rays, what they (ths Sioux Indlans) should, or
must do meaning whether they were to be friends
with the whts or must nght them. They we're told
TO 60 to HI Cor some new country as they At Fort
Laramie would have nothing to do with them.
The chiefs lett In no very good humor. A few
days after esving the fort, at ira ing station the
General and party told that in day or 70 they
would meet small train of emigrants, (it was
the last Of the season emigration to Ca ifornia
which passed through here some time mnce) They
never saw this train and the second or third day
they found carriage, which. from description, be.
onged to the train, completely torn to pieces, and
some clothing scattered about. The probability ia
that they were destroyed by the Indians. Not far
from this place they were in the vicinity Of war
party of two hundred warriors, and number of
Indisn fires were seen at various times; bat bv
travelling mostly in the night tbey escaped. They
speak OF the route now a. decidedly dangerous, yet
do not think the Sioux Indians will opsn general