New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-19
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WASHINGTON, Friday Sept. Is, 1857.
The naval officers assume from certain indica-
ticDs that sixteen dropped officers have been re-
stored by unpublished decisions of the President
upon the reports Of the Naval Courts.
Senator Bigler of Pennsylvania is here regulating
local appointments.
Letters from officers in the Utah expedition state
that The scurvy is prevailing to an alarming extent
among the troops, and allege that as the cause OF
the humorous desertons which have taken place
recently OF three thousand cattle which were
driven by the troops for supplies of beef, the 10.
diars had run off 1000. The prospects for the
Winter are gloomy.
The Leavenwohi correspondent Of THE 81.
Louis Republican writes:
The officers constituting the Utah Territorial Gov
erment have not yet started though at time they
on the point Of doing So and were only stopped
by an order from the War Department Five hundred
officers and soldiers yesterday set out for New.
Mexico COL Johnston Of Texas is 10 take command
Of the Utah Expedition, instead Of Gen. Harvey,
which, by the by, seems to be strange treatment OF
tie General. But Gov. Walker We are satisfied,
thinks his presence important 10 Kansas and be has
Gov. Cumming il getting impatient to visit the domin-
ion Of Gov. b. Young ard would like to be under way.
AS soon as the Colonel commanding arrives, the ex
petition will move forward, but even then forced
marches will have be made in ORDER 20 reach Salt
Lake Valley befoie the Winter sets in.
Gov. Walker is now at Fort Leayenworth, prob
ably col sulting with Gen. Harvey as to the course
herestt,r to be pursued.
To the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Friday, Sept. 49, 1857.
The Administration is determined to enforce the
Neutrality lava, and to-day took the nitistory steps
e. tbatp ba, e
the fitting out Of three several eIpedi iors, viz at
NewYork New Orleans and Mobile, for the reinva-
sion of Nicaragua, under the leadership of Gen.
Walker.
Intelligence from an official quarter has come to
hand of another expedition having its center il, if
indeed is not altogether confined to- Texas for the
invasion of Mexico and it is supposed, for the seizure
of the State Of Tsmaulpas. Gen. Sam Houston is, By
the report received, implicated as its leader.
To-day the form of instructions was prepared by
executive authority and copies of which will be d..
patched tomorrow to the various United States Mar
shals and District Attorneys on the seaboard as well
as to officers Of the army and navy, to use all lawful
means at their command to prevent such expeditions
leaving the United States for the invasion of any
country with which at peace; in other words,
erjoDpg them to strictly enforce the Neutrality laws.
At present no Presidential proclamation will be
issued.
Jacob Bans has been appointed Register Of the
Land Office at Sheboygan, Michigan, vice Taylor,
resigred.
a. K. Eaton Receiver at the Usage Land Office in
Iowa, has resigned.
Cen Henningsen arrived here to-day from the
South, en- route to New-York.
The mail az far south Mobile, as late as due, Is to
hand.
The Charleston Courier states that the schooner
Emily Wood, which Is sunk of New Inlet, had
cargo of rice and cotton and belonged to II. j. Wood
of New.York.
The boll.worm was committing ravages In the cen
trail counties of Alabama, destroying, in some in
stances whole fields Of cotton.