New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-22
TIE UTAH EXPEDITION.



sisn 20 day. With the exception o. pe'D'
persons, Who were prepared ior tuca
bv r.ssctjon on Col Ksne's m:ssion' e'efyoo
WAS a.,oni,bed Of its purport. IL seemed ncred-
;,l. t,., sner the o;cur 'nces oil ldst Autumn aud
w., The President of the United STATES should
. .,s,cse toward the Utah rebels leni.y which he
.,fu.d 10 show 20 the Free-S.ete men Of kan.as,
xbo were also indicted for treason snd se1lton.
Itmsy be regarded as inconsid-ra,e 10 exp:ess an
opin,on vet az 70 its effect upon the condition of
afairs: but know the state of feeling In the camp
TOO well to doubt tina. j. will be DISASTROUS in the
extreme. The action of Gov. Cumming with ref
erence to Col. Kane hiss caused breach between
certain prominent officials, which tbs proclamation
will widen. perhaps, too far for Gov. Powell and
Mai. Mccullough 70 repair. 1t is the firm belief of
every civil officer of the Territorial Government
except his Exceency, that it is useless to postpone
the "eyi day." They arc satisfied that Mormon
ism unless checked now in It's Infringement of civil
and social rights will prosper rather than decline
They believe that if Brigham Young and his asso-
ciates accept the Presidents proposition, their
subms sion will be temporary and hypocritical, aud
that this expedition viii be only prelude TO another
expedition, which popular sentiment will direct
against them, perhaps five, perhaps ten years
hence, at a greater cost of labor money and
blood when their population shall have increased
TO at least 100 COO and they shall have learned the
extent Of their resources, and the strength OF their
natural position. 1t il not desire for a fight
which peryades the army l have lived amid 1t
now for upward of six months, and l can declare
with authority that the sentiment which gervades it
toward the MOrmOns .s anything but blOOdthirsty.
Its leaders desire no forcible collision They are
anxious only that the purpose for which it was orig
nally dispatched to the Terrtory-to serve as a
Posse comitduS to the civil authorities Ia case OF
need TO establish three military posts, and by its
presence TO convince the people OF this Territory
that the Federal Government is equal to the rule Of
all its provinces, however remote and rebelliOus
their populaton--shall not be frustrated by pOti-
sians. They realize the enormous cost of this ex-
petition more fOrcbly than the people of the States
and are anxious to avert the possibility OF another
expedition at still greater cost They believe also
that the political importance OF the questions agat
ing this Territory, in which they are involved, are
not properly appreciated in the East.
I might mention a hundred circumstances which
Indicate how hypOcritcal will be Young's position
if he shall accept the Presidents offer and submit.
On Sunday, May 2, as you are aresdy aware by
your Utah correspondence, Gov. Cumming, accom-
panied by Col. Kane and Brigham Young, made bis
appearance on the stage Of the Mormon Tabernacle
m Salt Lake City, and delivered an address to the
audience, in which he said he was glad to meet
them, &C., &c. In the afternoon, when Cumming
was not present, Young made harangue, in the
course of which he sad, You heard what Cum
" ming said to you this morning. thought then
I" that he was liar I tell you now that he is a
damned liar" Two persons who were present
offered TO make oath that this language was used
by Young, and Tat they heard it, will not CON
6nue the catalogue, but am IN possession OF ndis
puable proof ct other gross insults offered to the
Governor, behind his back, during aud after his
tour with COL Kane.
There is, however, one feature of Gov. Cum.
miDgs's visit to which am glad to advert. BY
rome arrangement between him and Brigham
Young q number of families have been permitted :
by the Church to leave the Mormon community.
wO trains, containing about $50 persons, have ar
rived at our camp. Most Of them are desllous to
reach the States and fo-sake M0rmOnism forever,
but more destitute crowd have seldom seen de-
scend from the deck of an Irish emgrant ship at
New-York or Boston. Many belonging to the first
train were half naked 1t is fact crcdtable to the
amy that private soldiers, by the score, shared +
their abridged rations and their scanty STOCK OF
clothing with the poor wretches and IN less than
day after their arrival they were provided with Ge
cent clothes. What t9 do with them Is now the
question, Humanity forblds Us to leave them To
starve, and yet there is no available provision OF
food for them, and the majority possess no means
Of transportation to the States having come mere
from the Valley on foot.
The officers of the army, and The civil officials,
they could afford for their support. Some, know,
have empted the last dollar from their pr0ckets.
But this charity 10 Intellectual in country where
al articles of food command prices more than
thousand per cent higher than in the States; and
vet these people will not listen TO any proposition
by hich they shall be returned TO the control OF
Brigham Young.
The supplies which the COmmissary has now on
hand are sufficient to last TO the 9th of June, at
the present rates of issue; but as Capt. HAYES
will arrive day after tomorrow with large drove
Of beef cattle and Capt. Lowell on the day follow
ing with his eupply train, there Is no longer danger
Of recourse TO mule meat
Gov Cumming intends to proceed to Salt Lake
CITY with the Commissioners shortly after they ar
rive and, understand, proposes to take his family
with bin. The Morn Ons, under the lead of Brig
ham Young remain at Provo, and the last news
received from their camp is that Young had
preached sermon in which he declared that IN the
course Of six weeks he will tell his people whether
they shall return to the city or abandon their homes
forever He said also that Col. Kane would return
to them within sixty days from the date of his de-
parture from the Valley. There is one fact TO be
added 10 the history of Kanes expedition. gente-
man Of intelligence, whose name is NJ my disposal II
choose to use il, tells that he was assured by
Bishop Butler Of Spanish Fork (whose name has
already figured in my letters in connection with the
escape of DIR. Hurt from the Indian Farm that
Kane, during his stay Ill Salt Lake City, was re-
baptized as a member of the Mormon Church. and
went through the ceremony of the endowment.
correspondence has originated between Gov.
Cumming and Marshal Dotson, which may be Of
public importance. lnasmuch as the Governor has
officially declared that he has the Territorial militia
now under his control, the Marshal acting under
instructions from the Court addressed to himys few
days ago letter requesting him to command the