The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-20
BALTIMORE.
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1858.

Excellent Mrs. GLASS in her once popular COOK
Book prcfaces her recipe for dressing mare, WIN
the sage precauton, ''First catch your mare 10
us it appears quite evident that If the hare is want
ing its subsection to the chemistry OF the Kitchen
is absolutely impossible. But the advice is good,
nevertheless. and is susceptible of variety of al-
pljcations First catch your hare, says Mrs GLASS.
First catch your Mormons. The latter are already
caught, if kilograms reliable sources of in
formation but doubt will creep in, notwith-
standing. 1t is possible, that our troops will meet
with no resistance, whatever in their attempt to
enter the valley of Salt Lake. They may even
now be comfortably quartered in log harems, and
cap-boarded endowment houses. They may have
made themselves acquainted with the mysteries of
the Lion House and the sanctites of the Baptstery
Brother BRIGHAM may have extended to Governor
CUNNING the right hand of fellowship, and brother
HEBER may have invoked Mormon blessing on the
head of Col. JOHNSTON. Slaternly quasi wives may
have done the honors of their respective households
to the army Of the Gentiles and their tawny brood
of semi-savage young Saints may have stared in
open-eyed wonder, at the bearded warriors, whose
lnlSSlOn llitu Decn SO cOitScly anu Vcnenenlly q
nounced by the Chief Priests and Elders of the
Mormon Hierarchy. All these things may have
occurred, but rs yet we have no evidence of the
fact, beyond flying rumors, and the corroborative
testimony of a private letter. fine old lyric tells
us that ''prudent haste is wsdoms leisure" but
in this instance, at least appear TO have reached
conclusions not by the usual process of reasoning
upon given data, but in the quicker feminine way.
These conclusions may be right but then, again.
they are just as likely to be wrong. Because Gov
ernor CUMMING had consented to visit Salt Lake
City, at the instance of BRIGHAM YOUNG, it does
not necessarily follow that the Mormons have de-
termined to lay down their arms 1t is scarcely
probable that they would do so, while indictments
for treason are pending against their lesding men.
Let us examine the complexion of die latest in
telligencc from Camp SCOTT On tie 9TH of April
Governor CUMMING left the camp, for Salt Lake
City, accompanied by Colonel KANE, and under
the protection of Mormon escort. If no unusual
obstacles interviewed, be was to have reached the
city on the 18th of April, where 'thandsome apart
ments' had been provided for his reception. As
it required six days for Governor CUNNING to reach
Salt Lake City, and as he could not have entered
intelligence of the surrender of the Mormons TO
have reached Fort SCoTT on the 18th? All must
have been surmise, and surmise only. Again. in the
Washington Union of yesterday, there appears a
communication on this subject, which will be found
in another column. The writer of that commune
cation denies emphacally, and in sem-author-
tatve tone, that Col KANE has been charged by the
Government with any mission whatever TO the
Mormons. He further contends that the rumors of
peace originate from Mormon sources, and have
only been put forth for the purpose of disarming
suspicion of their designs that the negotiation
with Governor Cumming is but q part of the same
tcmporizng policy and that no good results are
likely to arise from it. In confirmation of these
views, the Union reproduces letter to the New
York Tribune, dated Camp SCoTT, March 10TH
which contains the testimony under oath of EDGAR
Brown, Missouri teamster, who had been taken
prisoner by the Mormons, but had succeeded in
making his escape. Among other things, this
man deposed that ''the Mormons declare il to be
" their intention 10 resist the troops while they can,
- and when overcome TO burn and destroy every
thing, and lice TO the White Mountains which
lie on the west side of the Great Desert They
propose to poison the springs on the southern
route from California, if troops come that way.
The Mormon people informed the deponcnt that
they had Monnons with the Cheyenne Indians,
and that these white men had occasioned the
." troubles between the Indians and the United
Estates"
Still the fact remains that Governor CUNNING
has gone to Salt Lake City, and we may rcasona-
bly, infer from this, that the Mormons are pacifcal-
Iy disposed Much will depend of course upon the
terms he is empowered to offer TO BRIGHAM YOUNG
and his associates in counsel If the interview
should prove satisfactory on this score the submits
sion of the M0rmOns to the Federal authorities NAV
reasonably be anticipated. But if the grave in
dictmcnts now pending against the Mormon Chiefs
are to he enforced, it is more than probable that
they will either incite the people to an armed re-
slSttnce, or advocate general abandonment of the
Valley of Salt Lake, and a removal to some other
stake IN Zion" OF course when matters arc
brought TO a crisis there are many CONTINGENCIES
mat may occur either to modify the programme of
the Hierarchy, or to influence the movements of |
the Government troops. But whatever may be the |
hnal result of Governor CUMMINGS mission it is at
all events of advantage to be cautious in express
ING a decided opinion, without first taking a care.
'ul survey Of both sides of the tapestry