Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-05
OUT Matters with Utah
Great Danger Of Corfit 6etween tie
Aormons and United States Troops


Great Danger of ConHict 5etreen @'
Aormons and United States Troops
The u.s.. Utah expedition, which iei'
last Summer for the purpose OF compel
ing Brigham Young and his horde of big
am;s,s IN submit to the authority at Wash.
ipoton has. at last advice dated 5th Of
Sent, reached within 300 miles of its des.
,ination. Many of the cattle and mules
belonging to the expedition were giving
out and dying, on account of the poor feed
along the line of the road.
The expedition numbers about 1000
men, and is under command of Col. John
son.. A portion of the expedition were at.
tackled by band of 200 Indians between
the North and South Platte River. A
feint was first made by them on the front
/, of the train, and whilst the men were pre-
pairing for an attack from this quarter, the
Indians suddenly fell upon the rear, cut.
g,ting off five of the wagons, and killing
three of the men. The remainder of the
train was Immediately acorraded," thus
forming rude foretress. The Indians in
the mean time commenced plundering the
wagons, but the teamsters, armed with U.
s. rifles, carrying Minnie balls, which form
ed part of the loading of the train, fired
! upon them from their "corral," and after
killing one Indian and wounding two others
I, succeeded in putting the rest flight. As
soon as the Indians had retreated, four of
the wagons were recovered, but the tongue
of the remaining one being broken, it was
abandoned. The names of the men who
were killed are Geo. johnson, Geo. Mich
OILS, and John Burke. The Indians carried
off one case and half of United States
rifles, and large quantity of amunition.-
Fifty head of cattle were lost, and several
were wounded in the encounter.
Capt. Van Vliet, Assistant Quartermas-
ter U. S. Army, arrived in St. Louis, d.
rect from the Territory of Utah. He says
that the Mormons are determined not to
allow the United States Troops to enter
Salt Lake Valley, and will use force to
prevent them if necessary. They look up
on the present movement of the Govern
ment as only the renewal of the persecu-
tions which they complain of having endur-
ed in this State and Illinois, and are de-
termined to risist it at the outset.
Capt. V. passed a week in Great Salt
Lake City. He was treated with much
consideration and invited to partake of the
hospitalities of the leading men of the city.
But on all occasions. and from every quarter,
be heard only one expression of opinion
and that was, that they never would per-
NIT United States troops, or the officers
appointed by the United StatesGovernmen
TO get foothoId in their dominions. In
all their public declarations and in their pri-
vate conversations, this sentiment is boldly
avowed they will never suffer the troops
to enter the city, and if they do, it will be
after the town has been committed to the
flames, the Territory around it laid waste,
and all the inhabitants have fed to the
mountains Their fanaticism knows no
bounds; they believe Brigham Young to
he the appointed agent of the Lord, and
whatever be commands them to do they
will perform with aiacrity. They say that
they have provisions sufficient to last them
for three or four years, and that prosecuted
rs they have been and are, by the Ameri-
cans, they will resist to the last extremity.
These statements being true, as they un-
doubtedly are, the Government haze to
make levies Of rev men, and to dispatch
heavy reinfonements to the army in Utah
next Spring.
DR.: Bernhisel, Delegate to Congress
from Utah arrived in company with Cap
tain Van Vliet.
The Washington correspondent of the N.
Y. Tribune says:
"To return to the Utah expedition. II,
as in all probability they will, the Nor
mons resist the expedition, the country is
likely to be shocked with disaster simi
lar to that which befeil the British in Aft
ghanistan some years ago. As the old
Mohawk Hendrix said; "The force sent is
too large for sacrifice and too small for
an army" Capt. Van Vliet who had
good opportunities Of observation, estimates
the Mormon force of men that can be bro't
into the field at 5000 or 5000. The Uni
ted States force now on its way to
Utah is, think, less than 1000. AS re-
Inducements cannot be sent till uext sum-
mer, in case of collision, the advantage
of numbers is thus largely with the Nor
mons. Brigham Young is doubtless fully
aware that he must ultimately submit to
the United States in spite Of the natural
strength of his position among the noun |
tains and his present superiority of num-
bers to the force now on its way against
him. But we may be sure that he will
prefer to make terms with arms in his
hands rather than submit passively to an
authority utterly destructive of his power,
his rank, and all he holds dear If he is
to be destroyed politically he will natural
ly conclude that be had best fall with eclat,
with the distinction of a martyr and he
70, in which case he and his dynasty will
have in the future all the advantage which
a sect never fails TO derive from persecu-
ton"
SUSPENDED RAILRoADs.-Within the
last thirty days, the following railroad COM
panies are reported as haveing either gone
to protest on their floating debt, suspended,
or mado an assignment of their property:
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