The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-14

less than eight hundred to capture Gavin
pore, and less than regiment to hold such
places as Allahabad and the other stations of
the northwest against any force the rebels
could bring against them, what will become of
the sepoys when the $4,000 Englishmen who
are to be in India by this time are let loose
upon them? Why, there will not be the shadow
of shred of sepoy uniform to be found in ell
Bengal or the Northwest by next spring. Thou
sands Of them will have expiated the monstrous
cruelties Of Mana Sahib and his men with their
lives; the rest-like the King of Delhi and his
sons-will be very glad to seek some obscure
shelter in the dress of women.
The rebellion in India may be regarded as
over already.
Commenced against the Government.
A few days since it was reported from the
West that the Mormons among the Rocky
Mountains had captured the advanced provi-
sion trains of seventy-eight wagons belonging
to the United States army corps en- route for the
Great Salt Lake. A special correspondent at
Washington now informs us that the President
has received official confirmation of this intelli-
gence through a despatch from Judge Echols,
(appointed for Utah as the new Chief Justice of
that Territory, and accompanying the army
corps,) dated at the army camp on the Sweet
Water, twenty-one miles east of the South Pass.
From this despatch we learn that three go
vernment trains, numbering in all seventy-eight
wagons, together with their contents, had been
captured and appropriated by the Mormons
without resistance; and that the advanced Nor
mon force concerned in this capture numbered
seven hundred men, while the reserved force at
the Salt Lake numbered fifteen hundred These
acts of treason and rebellion appear to have
been committed at several points, within two
hundred miles of Great Salt Lake City; and as
the army route over this interval lies through
confused mass of wild and desoate mountains
with frequent difficult passes and defles highly
favorable for guerilla warfare, we may reasona-
bly, infer that, having crossed the Rubicon, the
Mormons will follow up their work in stub
born defence of these mountain approaches to
their capital We should not therefore, be sur
prised if the next information from this new
seat of war were tidings of the destruction of
an advanced detachment or two of the United
States army by the infatuated followers of the
Mormon prophet.
The inhospitable region into which the gov
eminent troops were penetrating affords sub
sistence for neither man nor beast The emf
grant trail through this bowling wilderness is
perhaps as thickly strewn with the skeletons
of wasted caravans as the desert route to Tim
buctoo. The season is advanced Ere this
those Utah or Uintah mountains and their de-
files are covered with the SHOWS of long win
ter; and if an army force of less than two
thousand men, despoiled of their main supplies
of subsistence, shall still be able to push through
to the Salt Lake, ii may be considered very
fortunate or very wonderful achievement.
More likely, from the loss of their provisions,
the government troops will be compelled to
fall back upon the plains, and wait the return
of spring before resuming their expedition.
All our advices of the last three months from
the Salt Lake have foreshadowed this plan of
operations on the part Of the Mormons, as COM
menced in the capture of these provision trains.
II was certainly anything but a wise movement
to send them so far in advance of the troops.
The usual rule is to bring up the baggage and
provisions in the rear of the army. To be sure,
with all their thrcatenings and military prepa-
rations, it was not supposed that the Mormons
would be 80 foolish az to invite the alternative
of forcible expulsion from the country, by an
overt act of rebellion; but a good soldier guards
against all possible contingencies, and is par
ticularly careful of those supplies upon which
the very existence of his troops depends
We see now that Brigham Young is really in
earnest, and that his programme is desperate
struggle to maintain his dictatorship ana his
polygamy. We have been led to believe, from
his speeches and his movements, that he expects
to be able to beat back the present army expe-
diton Of the government that by the next
spring he proposes to organize all Mormondom
into movable camp, and, with the approach
Of an army force which cannot be resisted his
plan will most probably be to evacuate
Utah with the whole Mormon commu-
nifty. burning or destroying everything
in their retreat which they cannot carry away.
From his tour Of exploration last spring, the
Mormon prophet will thus perhaps, move north
ward, across Oregon and Washington Terrific
ries into the British Possessions, to try the hos
pitality Of Queen Victoria. II is certain, at all
events, that Brigham Young is fully aware of
the extreme folly Of attempting TO maintain by
arms his occupation of Utah against the United
States government. Accordingly, we think 1t a
safe conclusion that his scheme is to beat back
the present government expedition, and to
evacuate Utah in an Israelitish exodus or by
peaceable dispersion of the Saints in the
spring, to be collected together again at some
new Canaan, as their means and facilities may
permit