Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-08-03
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Late adyices from Utah state that
Gen. Johnston's command entered Salt
lake City without encountcring the
least opposition, on the Goth Of June,
and marched on the 3Oth to West
Creek Cannon, eighteen miles from
Salt Lake, whence they were to remove
to permanent quarters in Cedar Val
ley, distant forty five miles from the
Capital. At this point. barracks were
TO be erected, and a permanent military
post established. Gen. Johnston had
made military reconnaissance, with a
view to the selection Of suitable sites
for other posts. The army was in fine
condition. The Mormons were rapidly
returning to their homes in Salt Lake
City and other parts of the Territory.
Brigham Young, however, had not
ceased his fulminations against the
Federal Government. A discourse de-
livered by him at Provo, abounded in
vulgar personal reflections upon the
President.
Adviccs from the United States
steamer Niagara, dated at Queenstown
on the 18th inst, state that the Mag
ara was then fully ready for sea, pre-
pared to start at moments warning.
The previous statements made IN the
press in relation to the serious dam
age sustained by the Agamemnon du-
ring the last expedition, arc fully con-
firmed by the reports of the officers of
that vessel. 1t is stated that the cable
parted on board the Agamemnon while
undergoing the operation Of shifting
from the upper deck cone to the cone
on the lower deck.
1t is not generally known that an Of
fer is pending from the IIudson's Bay
Company, to dispose of all their prop
crty in the United States to our Gov
eminent, Such, however, is the fact.
Under the provisions of the Treaty of
1915 the Company own and hold a
number of forts, posts and trading
houses situated in our territory, togeth-
er with large stocks Of horses, sheep
and cattle. Lord Napier has been au-
thorizcd to sell the entire of this prop
erty for the sum of 100000 which is
considered by competent judges to be
very cheap. Several meetings were
held on the subject at the State De
partment during the last Winter, and
the Secretary of State was favorable to
tie purchase, but there was doubt as
to the disposition of Congress to make
the necessary appropriation, and there
fore the sale was not effected.
James Kelley, who killed his wife
Rose Kelly, on the 18th of April, at
the corner of Mary and Prospect
streets, Brooklyn, was executed be-
tween II and o'clock on Friday, in
the yard attached to the Kings County
Jail.
We find in the Montgomery (Ala.)
Confederation the Constitution of the
league just formed in that city be to
known as the " Montgomery League
of United Southcrners." The meet
ing at which the League was formed
was held pursuant to call issued by
Col. Yancey, and the object Of the
movement was declared by that gentle
man to be, not disunion, but a consti-
tutional union.
On Thursday of last week the
friends Of Senator Hammond, at Beech
Island, S. c., honored him with the
compliment Of public dinner.
The famous Log Cabin" long the
residence of General Harrison, at North
Bend, Ind, was destroyed by fire on
the 25th ult. The house was occu
pied by Col. Taylor, sonin-law to Gen
Harrison. A mass of valuable cores
pondencc was destroyed.
The operatives in cotton factory
at Philadelphia, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and at the Harmony Mills
in Cohops, N. Y. have struck for high
er wages.
The Boston branch of the Ameri
can Tract Society has issued an Ad
d;esa, stating that its organic relations
have not been changed, but that it
work will proceed as usual.
Mr.. Geo. P. Edgar, of New York
we'll known as leading member o
the Young Mems Christian Association
during the times when party politics
ran high around and in that Associs
tion, and more lately as the publishe
Of . religious paper that lived but a few
weeks, and was known IS The Way g
Life, was on Wednesday arrested b.
!, order Of Judge Ingraham, and lodged
in Eldridge street Jail. The affidavit
On which the warrant was Issued 81
l6gs that NJ. Edgar obtained, It differ
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