Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-06-03
Movements i'm Utah.


matters in Utah. Certain tits that Col.
Kane, of Philadelphia, has returned from
Salt Lake, wither he went, "on hit own
hook" to prevent collision between the
Mormons and our troops. We say "on his
own hook, as the Administration organ
dlsavows any connection between that
gentleman's journey and President Buchan-
an. Soon, no doubt, the result of that
mission will be definitely known, as Col.
Kane must be near Washington now. 1t
is also certain that Governor Cumming has
gone TO Utah, from Camp Scott, under a
Mormon escort, and it happens to be well
authenticated that the Mormons arc leving
Salt Lake City and making their way
South. The New York papers have very
full letters just received from Camp Scott
but there is little which appears authentic,
being made up very much of rumors in
Camp. These letters come down to April
9th. Col. Kane arrived at Fort Bridger
unattended, and in so exhausted condition
that he was taken from his horse, put to
bed, and for long time was unable to
an interview was had with Col. Cumming,
lasting some hours. When it was known
that Col. Kane was the visitor, and that he
was the one who had written work favor
able 10 the Mormons, much suspicion was
excited, and he was thought TO be Nor
mon emissary. Hyde, in his work on Nor
monism, states that Colonel Kane was bap-
tised into the Mormon Church in Iowa.
The suspicious were lulled when it became
known that he brought letters of introduc-
ton from Washington.
Col Kane is evidently sort of "dare
DEVIL" and probably undertook the exploit
partly in qualification of spirit of adyen-
ture. How he made the whole garrison
"turn ont" on a stormy night, is thus given
by the Tribu,e's correspondent:
On the morning of the 18th inst. Col.
Kane started from here toward Salt Lake
accompanied by a company Of Dragons,
who escorted him for several miles beyond
the limits of the camp and returned. We
were informed that his object in going out
was to have an interview with some Nor
mons. Between s and o'clock on the ev-
ening Of the same day, the whole of the
garrison of Fort Bridge was aroused and
called to arms by an alarm from the senti-
nels of the Fort, who had been, as they re-
ported, fired upon four successive times
The night was so dark, as the storm which
had ragged all day, had scarcely abated,
that nothing could be seen; and it was ap-
pretended that this might be an attack
from the whole Mormon force. The can
non was therefore loaded, and everything
arranged for a vigorous defence. The guard
however, upon starting out to reconnoiter,
soon surrounded a solitary person, who
proved to be Col. Kane. 1t seems that he
had arranged with the captain of his escort
in the morning series OF signals by dis
charging his pistol in certain manner,
which were to be used on his return when
approaching the pickets. In the storm and
darkness of the night he passed the picket
guard without meeting them, and mistook
the guards of the fort for picket and fired
his signals, which not beiug understood
caused the alarm. Happily only one shot
was fired at Col. Kane in return, and the
soldier is generally considered as deserving
of credit for having missed him. The
weapon employed was yager-distance
two PAGES. The promptitude with which the
soldiers of the garrison took their places
and formed into line deserves commenda-
tion, for every man was in his place with
loaded gun, and all tie cannon were man.
ned and charged in four minutes after the
alarm first sounded.
The Fort Bridger correspondent of the
New York Times, in letter of April 9th,
learns from Mr.. Gerrish, just from Salt
Lake City, as follows:
Tile people arere all preparing to leape
tile Valley. On his way up to the City,
he found the road lined with families mov-
ing South, among whom, near Provo City
he met Brigham Young and He5er G.
Rim5aN with their families. Brigham
himself, however, subsequently returned to
the City, arriving there the evening follow
ing Mr.. G.'s arrival. He also passed a
large number of wagons going up from the
Southern settlements to assist the brethren
residing in the northern settlements to
move.
The current report was that they were
all to move to the White Mountains, in
the southwestern palt of the Territory, OH
the western side Of the Great Desert. The
women and children were to move imme-
diately, whilst all the fighting men were to
remain as a rear guard. The families
were starting at the rate of from two to
three hundred wagons day.
The Sunday before Mr.. Gilbert's arrival
Brigham preached most abusive and trea-
sonable sermon against the President and
the United States Government. This ser
mon had not been published in the Deseret
Neacs, but was printed in pamphlet form
and distributed throughout the settle
mentS.
On his way up, Mr.. Gilbert passed and
visited the scene of the massacre Of the Cal
ifornia emigrants last fall. He says that
the ground is strewn with human skulls
and bones of all sizes, whilst the place was
covered in every direction with locks and
tresses of woman's hair. The sight of
these relics of the most inhuman and bar
barous massacre that.'can be found on the
pages of our country's history, was truly
sickening, which caused cold shudder to
pass through the whole frame; and yet on
such spot, the. Mormon guide jocularly
remarked that this would be IN "excellent
place for dentists shop"
Brigham now says that if we will permit
him and his people to move from the Val
ley unmolested, he will Immediately move
h,,f if wa rareist in follow;u, opd J;,t,,.h