The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-01-16
Late and Important from Utah.


HIaENrsL.-During the year 1857, the clerk Of
Wythe county issued SO marriage licenses.
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Late and Important from Utah.
Aormon Preparations for Ho.tlitie.-Defont S,,,.c6
-...... q, IF Brigham Io1@g. a
Advices from Great Salt Lake City by way of
San Francisco are TO the Sd of November. The
proposition to declare Brigham Young prophet,
Seer and Revelator' of the Mormon people, was
sustained unanimously in the Tabernacle.
TheDeseret News of November 4th, says: The
company from Carson began to arrive op the LIST
inst, and will probably all be in by the Sd. This
company with few exceptions, embrace all who
were sent on foreign missions to that region; also
several from California and Oregon.
The News, referring vaguely to the burning OF
the Government wagons by the Mormons, says:
For these reasons our brethren bave as vet been
restrained from harming those officers and SOL
diers else the late battle between the soldiers and
aprairic fire. which Gen. Hsrney may record as
his 10th, would have been the prelude to their sur
render or being wiped out.
In reference to the Mormon prisoners taken bv
Col. Alexander, Brigham in an address in the Tab
ernacle, holds the following language:
Did he not granny it off admir- ably about the
prisoners when he wrote? / need not assure Won
that not hair of their heads will be hurt. Ma
dare not hurt them; neither has he the first par
ticle of reason for hurting them. lie has relsased
and sent in the younger brother with an exnress
under the alleged consideration of his hayipg a
wife and three children entirely dependent nnon
him. i wonder that the Colonel had not a Young
officer to send with him.
Nr. Bell, who, in company with others, left Salt
Lake on the sth of November furnishes Calisorn;.
paper with the following:
The force of the Mormons has been greatly ovsr.
estimated; almost every available man has been
| enrolled. In passing through the settlements Mr..
Bell found that the men generally had been called
out to the mountains; and yet the whole fnrce
fell far short of 10000 men.
The winter has set In with severity In the CITY
the snow was two inches deep, and in the moun
tains, where the Mormons We're encamped IL must
have been from six to twelve inches deep Ths
Mormon army was In a very poor condition. badly
clothed. poorly armed and with very little pro-
visions. The families represented as being in
| a suffering condition--wanting in provisions and
wood ihe winter already commenced, and the
men all called off TO the camps.
Mr.. Bells company had passports from Governor
Young. but were only asked for them once. II
| seemed as If intelligence had been sent ahead o
| them, and all knew of their journey to Caifornia
bnt at station Nevertheless, it was nccessar,
| at each settlement to cali the bishop, hire al
| interpreter, and send them ahead of the compan,
to treat with the Indians for their safe passage
BY representing Themselves as Mormons usip.
every precaution, and more particularly by the ex
penditure of over two thousand dollars amons
bishops, Interpreters and Indians, the compan,
succeeded in making their way In safety
We have confirmation ofthe report that was cir
culated at the time, regarding the cornpany tina
was massacred some time since, that they sufferef
at the hands OF the Indians, in revenge for crimi
| nal indiseretons on the part of certain of thei
members. Small bags containing poison wer,
found in springs, the water of which caused sick
ness and death among the Indians They ,nusteref
their forces, followed and massacred the Who'll,
party -31-
With regard to the Indians of Salt Lake. 4, ..
more than probable that Col. johnson has propitia
ted them, and they will foun if not ON the siie a
the government at least neutral.
In of resistance to the troops. there is eve
~ reason for confidence that Colonel johnson will
force the passage of the cannon, and make good
his advance to the city.
On the sth of October. Brigham Young deIivere<
speech in the tabernacle in relation to the nd
vance of the United States troops into the Terrific
ry- He said:
As soon as they start to come into our settle
mepts let sleep DEPART from their eye. and slum
Der from their eye.lids until the sleep in death fo,
they have been warned and forewarned that wa
will not tamely submit to being destroyed. Men
shall be secreted here aud there, and shall waste
away our enemies in the name of Isrsels God.
In another part of the same discourse he says
Another year am going TO prepare for the worst
aud want you TO prepare to cacho our grain and
ldy ,odste this Territory. for am Determined, 4
driven to that extremity, that our enemies sbai
find nothing but heaps of sshes and ruins We
will be SO prepared that in few days all can be
consumed. l shall request the Bishops to see that
this people in their wards provided with two OF
three years. provisions.
There is enough already raised in many places
this season, TO supply the people from two to three
years, and wish them to take care Of IL. though
expect that in all probability will raise great
many crops before our enemies again come here q
disturb us. and expect We are inily able 20 de
fend ourselves, and that our enemies will not bs
able to come within n hundred miles of u.s.
know that ten men, such as corid narne and 80
lect, cocld stop them before they got to Laramie
And If we had seen fit TO have sent snch men this
season, they alone coud very easily have so atopp
ed our enemies, that they never would have gol
through the Black Hills. i count five such mer
equal to twenty-five Thousand, and believe that two
of them could put ten thousand TO flight. l be
leve we are now where that could be done. will
take Ave or ten such as can name and il two car
put ten thousand to flight, an sure thar ten are
perfectly able TO do it.
Ifthey undertake 10 send fry thousand mon Il
Utah will venture TO say that they cannot raise
50 large q company In tho United States bnt what
would cut each others throats before they travel
ed thousand miles across the plains, to say both
ing about any other person molestfpg them. They
would be scursing, daming aud bowling all the wsy
know that the comparatively few scattered here
and there o-er the country and in the mountatns
can spoil their march before they corid get here
Itwould seem to be the intention Of the Aormons
in the event of their defeat, 20 burn mp and desero!
everything in the Territory, and retire to SOM
other place. It will be rceoliected that very m,
terious tourney to the North was made by Brig
ham Young last summer. lie took large an'
we'll appointed train with hfn, and was absent
nearly two rrcnths. IL Is reported that be rene
trated far into the British possessions on the north
and may have there settled upon location for {
colony. Neither the object nor the result OF tna
iourney has ever been clearly explained In tn
Mormon journal. -
sorv, r.ruvv THE pefrait Mich Tribun