New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-18


| the city since the Summer informs me that Mr.
HYDE has made several efforts, through himself and
Others to communicate with Der and induce her TO
ioin bin in the States but that she refuses, and
once asserted n the presence of my informant, that
"She was Mormon, and Il Mormon she would
remain" He adds that he has heard from rel-
able source that she has married again. The
Mormon Church, it will be remembered, pretended
TO break the covenant of marriage between her and
! her husband after the latters apostacy.
CAMP SCOTT, Nov. "a, 1857.
By this mail number of afiidavits will be trans
United to Washington, on which various parties
expect to base applications to Congress for indem-
MITIGATION for losses which they have sustained
through this Mormon imbroglio
The most prominent of these applications will be
that Of Mr. Brdger, although there are Others in
which a far greater pecunlary interest Is involved
! Mr. Brdeer's reputation, as perhaps the oldest
and most experienced trader and guide among the
| mountains, is too general to need confirmation by
reference to the principal incidents of his life
He has passed thrty-four years in this region, and
established his trading post, sfcrward called Fort
Bridger while all this Territory was the property
of Mexico, and many years before it attracted the
gaze Of American ambition. He crossed the
Wuhsatch range and visited the Great Salt Lake as
cary as 1927. In this isolated and almost semi
barbarous course of life, he acquired all the Pc
cuarties of character which are common to these
mountaineers-a procyity to exaggeraton in all
statements of fact and opinion, an extreme sensi-
"a ,icio of hp nf such
statements, a habit of taking a mercenary view Of
men and affairs, shrewdness in all dealings which
after awhile becomes instructive. But his own
interests and the objects of this expedition have
happily conceded and his knowledge of the region
and the season has been very seryceable.
In 1865 he executed a conveyance of the Fort
and the land about it to Lewis Robinson, now the
uartermastcr-G General of the Mormon army.
The deed was drawn by Almeiron Grow, subse
quentb Mormon elder, and missionary to En-
gland. This Grow is now a prisoner in camp.
He was ARRESTED at Baptste Luoison's post on
Green River, last month, while returning from his
mission. He had accomplished the whole dis
lance from Council Bluffs on foot. Suspicion that
he was Mormon was first excited, singulariy
enough by the oddly of his appearance aud the
fact that he wore black beaver hat.
The amount that was to be paid by Robinson 70
Bridger for the property was $4,000, of which
| $4,O 900 was delivered in cash on the spot aud the
remainder secured by mortgage. OF the precise
| time specified for the payment of this second in
stalment am not aware, but believe that 1t was
at the expiration of eighteen months. have been
told that the money was ready at the proper time
| in Westport, Missouri; but however that may be-
it has never come into Mr. Bridgcr's hands, and he
has taken formal possession of the Fort and claims
| the right of foreclosure.
| The price which he now sets upon the property
is $40 Geo. and am informed that he has leased 1t
as depot for the stores Of the army of Utah for an
| annual rent Of 5000. Lunettes are being added
under the direction of Lieut.. Webb of the 9th in
fantry, to the quadrangles completed by the Nor
| mons, and when three pieces of ordnance are
placed in position with which it is intended TO for
tify the work, It will be mplegnsbe TO any attack
that can possibly be made on it by Mormon III
fantry.
In the multitude Of changes which must be eff.
fected within the next few years in the location OF
posts, and the disposition of troops in Kansas Ne
braska and Utah, it is probable that Fort Brdger
viii become prominent as military station Its
advantages for such an establishment are not exsg.
geratcd in Capt Stanbury's report. But it is to be
hoped that any negotiations of which il may be the
subject, will not be liable TO such mputations as
have been occasioned by the terms of purchase and
sale of certain other military posts.
The orders for the abandonment of Fort Kearney.
| issued more THAI year ago, hsVe never been re-
yoked, and if the line of road locsted this Summer
BY Lieut.. Bran, froIl Fort Riley to Brldgers
Pass, becomes is anticipated the principal high
way of travel over the Plains, the utility Of sus-
tanning Fort Laramie may well be questioned.
A multitude Of 96fdasits, on which claims are
based, have been prepared for the various suffers
contractors for Transporting supplies, and other
persons, whose cattle have been stolen by the Nor
mons. Severe losses have been sustained by all
these individuals, and the detention of their trains
| on the Sweetwater, by order of Col Johnston, uI-
doubtedly furnishes preteyt for calling on Con
gress for indemnity. But il seems clear that these
parties do not all stand upon the same footing The
detention Of either the suffers or the supply trains
| by order of the commanding officer, is an act es-
tablishiDg relations different from those established
by the detention of trains belonging to private in.
dividuals, and freighted with private property. A
| distinction may also be made between The deten.
ton of suffers trains, and that of trains engaged