New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-17
IMPORTANT FROM Utah.
ESCAPE OF A PRISONER IRON sally LAKE, CHI
The Mormons Resolved ON War.
INTERESTING RUMua FROM foaI lsAytHwoaEx.
MORMON LEADERS FLEEING TO TIE noUSFalIs
Gov Cumming Invited to Gal! Lake City.


We are in receipt Of important news from Ssas
Lake City through Gentle prisoner WHO iater
escaped from there which viii surprise many q
these who stu persist in undertaking the fssaticirn
which has thus far sustained the power Of ~
Mormon leaders. In vain have persons who have
resided among them for several years past repre-
sented to the public the complete subsection Of The
Mormons to their prophets 10 vain have tAeg
recited the evil purposes to which the prophets
applied this power. Truth was stranger IN
fiction, and a. fiction il was rejected. We new
find that it is the settled purpose Of the Latter
Day Saints to oppose and resist to the last al efforts
which may be made to bring them into subjectisa.
II remains to be seen what success they may attain
in their design.
The pews which we have received 10 contsiss&
principally in the following affidavit, which Wa
taken before Chief Justice Eckels:
d" Utah Tsrr1torv Green Rirer County, a.-Edgsr
Browp, aged 80 years, being duly sworn ststes %
osth--rhat he is a native and resident Of Madisce
County Missouri that he came TO this Territory -
herdsnsn and arrived at Camp Scott the latter part
of November last that he left camp in company with
John Houck, Charles Jones and Henry May, for the
State of California the LIST day of December, aaA
on the next day they up with body Of one h-
dred armed Mormons urder the command OF -
and hired them to haul their provisions and baggage
to Salt Lake City, having no baggAge-wagon Of their
own and that they arrived at the city on the 9Th q
December, 1887. -
"They went from Salt Lake City 10 Provo Valley.
when. on account Of the warlike disposition Of the
Indians and the SHOWS Of the northern route, they
deemed il mprudent to proceed further; they re-
manned there at large until the 18th day Of Fe6..sy.
1858 When depOnent IN company xltn mi IiS p sso
the night and reached Salt Lake City on the eveanG
of the next day, where they stayed all night They
left the next morning for Camp Scott ana FGt
Bridger and got far as Yellow Creek thirty nAs
miles from Fort BIidger where they met with fcsr
armed men These took them back txenty.sevea
miles through Echo Canon to station In the Csaoe.
three or four miles from its southern end, where nx
men were stationed Being very much injured ~ the
SHOWS on the mountains the Mormons stopped at this
place until they tho prsonersl could recruit enough
to be able to travel to the city, On the thru aighe
after reaching the last station this deponcee
escaped from his guard, and from there came oa -
this camp on foot where he arrived on Tuesday aghts
the ID day of March, 1888.
Gle saw but few persons who expressed any syn
pathy with the United States, and even these
dare not make such sentiment known. There va
very general concurrence among the mofmsoo
in the rebellion advised by their church leaders.
Three hundred armed were TO start on the hrst oa
this month under Captains Lot Smith, Porter Reoh-
we'll. and Willam A. Hickman, for the vicinity Of
| Camp Scott to stampede and take back whstevec
stock left, and then pas on the road toward s9rt
Laramie to cat off the mails and destroy any supplies
that might be on the road. One thousand men, % .
regular force were TO proceed about the same time.
| either for Echo Canon, for this camp: depenees
did not particularly underst and their Destination The
Legislature adjourned short time before he leh He
was informed that the Mormons had takea the farming
utensils from the Indian farm, made by Dr. HUT 40
we're also taking the grain. This was makngth usan
Indians dscontented they love and esteem Dr. Hurt
very highly and purpose 10 90 and see the Doctor -
| soon as the SHOWS will permit. Two men, America.
Transfers passed for California before tho party a
deponent and their dead bodies were found by t90
Others who passed a few days after near Fillmore
City, The bodies stripped Of all their clothags
and these men afterward Mormon with . coua-
fort and pair " boots, which they recognized ~ b-
longing 10 one of the murdered men, Finding IL unsafe
10 proceed they returned back to Sprngve and gave
this deponent the foregoing account of the murder q
these teamsters, who were by birth lrlshmen.
"a Californian reached Springvlle and dissppeare4
mysterously and his body Is reported To have beea
found lmurdered). -Four other men were killed BE-
low Fillmore but he did not learn the PARTICULAR ana
he knows OF the fact only by information derived ku
others. ,.u
sist tho troops while they and when Overcome -
burn and destroy everything, and tee to the White
Mountains, which lie on the west side of the Great
Desert. They propose 10 poison the springs Oh tho
southern route from California, If troops come that
way. The Mormon people informed the dep9nens tnss
they had MormOns with the Cheyenne Indians, And
that these white men had Occasioned the troubles Do
tween the Indians and the United States.
"He saw some Of Radford and CsbboAts, and some
of Gilberts and Semsh work cattle n the Valley q
Salt Lake, and knew them by the hands. All the
cattle taken from the army and susNsrs are Cachs
Valley and the Mormon stock are On an island N Saas
Lake. Their stock is in good condAon. - fssaes
Of Green River department. deponent was iuformedt
was murdered by man OF the name OF Conover, and
horse which deponent saw in the possession OF Coz
over was said to be the property OF Yates This mAa
Yates was the partner Of Eli Met, in stsre on Gresu
River He did not learn the name of the person whe
was to command the troops about to start from SAT-
Lake City. And further depOnent saith not"
Dir. Brown also states that the Normons arc Ne
lively engaged in making preparations for planting
q large crop Of grain, &C.; that tho inhaoitants
have been divided into two classes-Agricultursts
and warriors; that they are well supplied with
arms and ammunition, and that they arc nearly al
mounted on horses which WERE at tho time hs teft.
in excellent condition
An expressman from Fort Laramie reached here
Yesterday, and to our great disappointment brought
us no news from the States. He left the Fort 81
the 25th day of February and at that time neither
the mail, which is due there on the Goth, nor asy
military express had arrived. On the road between
here and there he signs Of the parties which
were sent from here respectively TO tho Platte
Bridge for two sacks Of mail which had been Left
there, TO the South Pass for salt 5000 peundsl.
which was abandoned by the party bringing it in.
and to Wind River for the animals, wagons, &C.,
left there by Capt Magraw, the Superintendent Of
the California Wagon Road. ALI three Of these
parties have been expected back daily for week or
more but their not having been seen BY tho express
man leads us TO fear that the MormonS have captured
them. Several parties, who, taking adsantAss Of
the mild weather, bad started for the States from
this eamp were met at different points betwssa hare
and Laramie.