The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-11-18


EInportant from the Plains and
Utah-AGormon Resistance
Snow-Scant Supplies-U. 8.
Train Destr~oyed-Prcspect Of
q Fight-Bad Condition OF U.
s. Forces. - .3t q
The St. Louis R~cpu5licdn Of the nth
has the following:
Highly important intelligence has
just been received at Fort L~eavenworth,
by expresss from Fort Laramie, with
advices of Oct. 22d. Lit. Cookies COM
mand of Cd Dragons were four miles
this side, and had encountered a snow
storm five dayspreviously. Col Albert
johnson was last heard from 230,miles
beyond Fort Laramie, and snow was
seven inches deep 100 miles this side
of where the express left him. Owing
to the slim suppl5of corn, and entire
absence ofigrass, tbevteams of the en-
tire commend and the horses of the I'd
Dragons we're failing. rapidly.
l5 News had reached Laramie that the
Mqrmonstad burnt three government
trains (seventy-fge wagopsl near Green
river, ninety miles behind Col. Alexap-.
doris command Goth Infantry which
constituted ~the-yanguard Of the army.
II was rumored that the 10Th and 5th
Infantry. and the batteries of arti lery,
would go over and take possession Of a
Mormon village on Bear river, for wiz
ter. The Dragons had only a months
supply of corn, at half allowance, and
not a particle of grass. There was pro
badly never before any portion of our
army subjected to such pfivations, and
70 whom the future {presebts such a
gloomy pictures as isIthe1case at present
With the Army for Qtsh-insi1 .sof.aas.
We doubt IF, Col, Johnston will be
hble5wkong his whole force is eeneeHtra-
ted, to muster over 1000 men for duty.
Such am army, So far from The base
line is too small to- cope long with vi.
goious resistance. auastfH :
A correspondent from = the United.
States Camp, under date of . Gamp on
Sweet Water, October 49, writes ."iss
TIE Mormon problem IS solued al
last They haze seized upon the very
FIRST opportunity aff.rded them of per-
petrating an act of war. On the night
of the 5ih inst, about ten O'clock, they
seized and destroyed 70 heavily loaded
wagons, containing Government supplies
for the army. The trains were some
forty miles distant from each ether
This proves that there are more than
one company of Mormons. My ipforml
ant says neutrality-suspicious. Destroying
Angel Bill Hickman, commanded one,
and - Locksmith.t the other party, of
about so men each. Zone train of 26
,wogons was destroyed 81 miles west of
US, and the other, of 50 wagons, was ia
ken near Green river, 80 miles west Of
Colonel Alexander's train. There we're
no soldiers with these trains, and the
offered no resistance. For
their docility in this respect, the Nor
mons them one wagon and SEINE
provisions. with which to make their
way back to the States, aud burnt the
residue. They profess to have between
the Devils Gate, on this river, and the
Mormon Ford on Green River, 700 men
under arms. On hearing of the loss of
the trains, Colonel Alexander, who was
encamped on Hams Fork. sent Captain
Marcy with 400 men back to Green ri
yer, and enabled theteamsters to-collect
their cattle and take them on to heat
He also sent on a French
I think the Mormens will attempt to
emigsstei in thes spring 70 the Sandwich,
Islands or Vancouver. ytf.Hau
n .iaSq .'4sassY gaifk sxaxlsa& 49,