New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-23

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this district hiss decided that there was probable
cause for the seizure Of the Pdnehita, although, in
consequence of the contradictory nature Of some Of
the testimony, there was not proof sufficient to de-
| teImire that she was SLAYER.
| II the Administration intend to upheld the policy
of Gov Cumming, or to carry out the principles
laid down in President Buchanan's proclamation,
sent TO Utah BY the Peace Commissioners, the first
thing to be done evidently is to remove the whole
body of civil officials subordinate to the Governor
with ChefJus Eckes at their head. AL our
adyices from the camp make it evident that in the
concilisto,y and pacific course toward the Mormons
which Gov. Cumming has had the wisdom and
humanity, and, We may add the courage, to pur-
sue, be has stood entirely alone as little supported
by his staff of civilians as by the military part of
the expedition. These gentlemen, 1t is plato, have
adopted an idea, in common with the officers aud
soldiers as to the object for which they have been
cent TO Utah, totally ut variance with the tenor of
the Presidents peace proclamation, and we are
therefore not at all surprised at the CONSERVATION
so to speak, which that document is reported to
have produced s,nong them. During the long Win
ter that these civil aud military gentlemen
have been yirg encamped at Fort Bddger,
they would seem 10 have imbibed certain
portion of the fanaticsm which inspires the con-
duct of the Mormors, and to have come to look
upon themselves in the light Of body of crusaders
cent to compel tbese msbeievers to renouuce their
false opinions in religion, and the course Of conduct
based upon those opinions. The scheme devised
by Nfr. Chief Justice Eckes aud which he began
to put into practice the moment be set foot within
the extreme limits of the Territory, was 10 csuGe
juries, grand and petit to be constituted from
among the Transfers and other camp. followers Of
the army, by whom Brigham Young and all the
rest of the leading MOrmOns might be indicted aud
convicted at pleasure, the army to be employed
as a posse comiotus in arresting the prisoners to
be tried, and in executing such sentences as the
Court might award That the people Of
Utah were not in the least inclined to sub nit to
jurisdiction Of this sort; that rather than do So
resistance sesinet overwhelming force being hope
less-they preferred to abandon their homes and
to flee into the desert and the mountains, is not
surprising. Had martial law been proclaimed; had
the people of Utah been submitted to q purely
military government, with liability to be tried BY
courts martial on charges Of heresy aud polygamy,
their situation would have been infinitely better
than tbs in which they would have been placed if
lift to the law of Chief Justice Eckles and his
iuries of Transfers and p-fol'owers-the Off
GERS of the army instead of acting as judges, being
reduced to fill tie places Of coustables, jaers aud
executicners.
II appears to have been taken for granted in tho
camp at Fort Bridger that tee overthrow OF the
Mormon Church and the destruction Of the religious
il fluenee of Brigham Young was the real Object of
the expeditions aud the long scourn OF the officers,
civil and military, at that uncomfortable station in
constant contact with men filed with the most
bitter hatred Of the Mormons, has evidently inspired
them with feelings and antipathes which dsqualify
them from entering upon the offices to which they
have been appointed, and which make, it inds-
pensabe for the President to select other persons
for that purpose. 1t is plain, indeed, from the
letter which we published yesterday from
our correspondent at the camp, that there is
already an open breach between the Governor and
the Chief Justice the Chief Justice having gone 90
far Us to egg on the Marshal to call upon the Gov
error for posse of the Territorial militia to aid
him 10 arrestipg Brigham Young and others, under
the teamster indictments for high treason found
against them last Winter. The Governor, who
seems to be quite as much lawyer as the Chief
Justice, had parted this attack BY calling upon the
Marshal to show that any posse eomtatns was
needed; but it will be impossible for the Governor
to get on with all bis inferior officers bent upon
thwsrtng bis peace policy, and if the Government
at Washing on means to sustain that policy, the
least il can do is to give the Governor sabor!inates
who will act in conformity to it.
We may observe, by tie way, that in the zeal Of
the civil and military officers at Fort Bridser for
the suppression and punishment Of pOlygsmy-upon
which subject, We fear with the very intention of
tn~art0g the peace policy Of the Governor, tho
Chiei Justice lately delivered learned charge to
Ms 'eam'ser Grand Jury-they seem to have quite
overlooked somewhat analogous offense, Of which
probably the instances within the county for which