New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-14

The lstest sdyiCes from the army Wulch mas Deen
cent TO pass the Winter amid the SHOWS Of the
Wshsstch Mountains, are anything but encouraging
In fact they tend to confirm the wont fears which
have been entertained as TO the result Of this i'll
starred expedition. There the troops ore, thou
sand miles end more from the frontier, isolated
amid the SHOWS ard among mountains Of which II :
MormOnF, aud they alone, know all the passes
Arcady, ut The commencement Of Winter, their
animals we're pershiDg at the rate of hundred d
day. The grass is all burnt, and their supply Of
provisions notw outstanding the vast sums Of money
spent on the comuissariat and transportation de-
psrtments, - 80 short that very strict economy,
if not, in fact, putting the troops on short allow
ance, will be necessary to carry them through the
Winter. With insction and short allowance will
come disease ard discomfort and it is but
bic to expect that by the Spring the effective force
of the troops viii be very greatly diminished.
Without draft cattle or means of transportation, it
will be impossible for them TO move; and inetead
of marching against the Mormons, they will be ex-
ceediugy lucky if the Mormons do not march
Against them.
1t seems highly probable that Brigham Young
will reprefent 10 his deluded followers that the
financial disasters which have visited us are
Judgment from heaven upon us for our sin and
wickedness in maxi. war upon the Saints; and
should the Spring present the soldiers, as seems
almost certain, in IN enfecbled condition, he may
he apt to consider that very fact as call from
heaven upon him TO cut them on. AZ to the idea
Of an intended removal ON the part of the Nor
mons, end that the troops viii have nothing TO do
but to march in and to occupy their empty city
and abandoned habitations, we see no plausibity
in any such suggestion. There is no place to
which they can remove; and the determine ton OK
pressed by Brigham Young not to yield up the
valley, except he is driven from it by superior
force, is in al probability the actual resolution to
which he has come. That being the case, it is by
no means probable that he will wait quietly till the
army can be reinforced and supplied by troops and
provisions moved isom the frontier in the Spring.
1t may be set down as almost certain that any
such supplies and achievements will be antici-
pated by desperate stack early in the Spring
upon the weakened and dispiritcd forces at Fort
Blidger. The course which, as it appesrs, has
been adopted by Gov. Cumming of declaring the
Territory in state OF rebellion, and organizing
oouxt for the trial OF offenders, will naturally ex-
sspcrate the Mormons, aod lead them to abandon
all hopes of stsying of an armed contest.
The Government at Washington, by its shameful
Encouragement of this whole expedition, has
placed Colonel Johnston and his whole army in this
dangerous position. What does that Government
intend to do by wey of getting them out OF it
Does il intend to leave these two thousand men, or
such of them as may survive the Winter, to be cut
to pieces by the MOrmons in the Spring If not,
something ought TO be done at once for their relief
and reinforcement. The merely issuing orders for
new troops TO hold themselves in readiness to
msrch in the Spring does not al all meet the neces
sites Of the case. Long before these troops could
arrive, il might be all over with the force they
were cent to relieve. The responsibility of this
whole business rests upon the Government, and
very serious responsibility it ia. Should Colonel
Johnston and his two thousand men come to any
HARM their blood will rest upon the heads of those
who placed them in their present perilous position.