Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-01-22
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the Mormons succeeded in stealing between
f,ur and FIVE hundred head OF cattle belong
inc to the Suffers train of the 9TH infantry;
and the draft force Of the train was so re-
ducsd as to compel them u move only nan
the wagons at time, the animals drawing
q norton one dav, and going back Tor the re-
rainder the next. Taylor, the Mormon
nrisoner, against whom a writ for high trea-
son had been issued, had managed to make
his e,cape. 4 Correspondent OF the y. l.
Tribune writes:
The scenes presented along the road and
in the camp. by the dead and dying cattle
are truly pitiabe. Last night while i was
thaYing my hands OF ire OF CRACKING
willow twigs, one poor old Ok staIgereu
through the brush and passed between me
and Lieut. L., directly into the blaze 10
which it stood until the hair was burned from
its fore legs and the fssh was scorche1; theh
il retreated yard or TWO, and tell and dled'
The next morning | saw a soldier comt"r's'
DIV seated on its head, between the h'rhS'
smoking his pipe while he warmed Ills !ec' d.
the embers. Ga the same morning Wheh l
left nv tent at reUeiLie, Tor little walk IN tue
bracing air before breakfast, t~o oxen were
standing stifly a. few feet from the door
The only sign of life which they exhibited
when beat them to move them along was
slirht motion of the head. When our tents
were struck at noon, and moved TO our pre-
sent camp, Que Of them renamed !mmo'a-
bile IN the same position. mat night the
thermometer had indicated It, beio" zero.
On the afternoon marcia | counted repeatedly
five. and once seven oxen mules aud horses
lying dead from cold or starvation, within
the spacc of one hundred yards. They mad
dropued dead in their tracks.
There has been such a prOdlglOus loss Of
stock by theft, cold and hunger, that since
Nov. ! we have not advanced, on the aver
age. two miles n day. 1t is necessary TO
employ all the cattle on one day to haul along
pne.half of the trains, and on the next 10
send them back to bring up the remalnder
Most Of the artillery horses are cead' anu
their places are supplied by mules"
Nothing was lett of Fort BrIdger but the
cracked and backened walls. The Mormons
we're said also to have burned Fort supply.
The trours occasionally find heaps OF proVI-
sions buried by the Mormons, (cached. they
term it, An Indian who had been 10 Salt
Lake clry and won the confidence OF Brigham
Young, had joined the troops a cores
pondent say:
"Ue tells US that the male population OF
Salt Lake City is almost all under arms, and
is drawn out upon the road, between km!gra-
ton Canon and Yellow Greek. Bishop, or
rather Col. West, informed him that the
force posted 10 and about Echo Canon Is
2 GOO strons. His own ob-eryati0us have
satisfied him that this Is not 40 under
estimate. On the northern side OF the Canon
the bluffs are almost perpcndicular and
several hundred feet in height; but on the
southern -ile they are lower, and the Mormons
have thrown up earth-works along the Sum-
mit.liue. They have also dug bitches through
the Caaon and have 20 arranged an Ola oe"-
ver-iam on the Weber River that they eau
divert the course Of the stream into these
bitches and subnerge the road Tor miles
At the eastern end OF the Canon they have
also built fortiti1ations of earth, stone aud
wood. Among the persons whom Ben has
noticed within ten day, in the nelghborhood
of these works, was Major J1scpn Taylor
the same individual who escaned from our
guard on the evening of Nov. e.
The writer strongly condemns the conduct
r ,, a. --l. - o. ,bo ,in,a nT CnI
Of COL AZ Alh"T'' Wy ~ ~ -, bis i,-
,un''oo "'''In,i ",'' - 49, a,aI;,,n, -
eihc'ehcy 'ne ia'tutc y, W. ;,pS I,bors
Teach 9a'' h+Ne HHs '"'' 49,. ha,o
are a'so Ge"sH'eu W. VIZ P'''
borne. lie says: ., -L;,h ,bo
"lhe terrible loss o. "nL"a,s VIII on
army has suffered Is justly cua' S'1 U'o ""
those oihcers vi tue quarter
ment who were lutrusteu win VIZ plo'''''"
AID disposition 0! the supFiies' iney sot"'
to have entirely Ignored the posSioi'''y u r"o
Mormon community rising IN arms; t"e
public, 70 be sure had the r'sht 70 nouov 'n n
possibility out was o,'u''' "rL,'o I.,.r !,
those % leave II CUT u Wv 49,
was, ana VINO were p.','r,4 "''r ,,,an, +,
iunos 10 sua'I aS1'", ',.' 49,, s,;L;o.,
Is imP"sE'oie lot NE m', ~ i,;aIIa sooc
without 'ee,l"E, ~, u a., ,"I d;.,re.s baye
Iac.e9 .. QUIET ' n"no "D With these
ever "'s". 81 III, oa,,rrn,,o, dur;nc he
49, "'.e - r u% from Ear LARAMIE 49,
~. W ~ I'D rorore ari bry,ards
"a ,ho;, fast ,,han the sro,, has
,.,I 49, 80 Sar;o[, ,bo road wiII he GteraI.
-, ,n,Iloi n.;,h sLole,orsU
T r,' rrri,or novs warm tr;hute r, the en-
ad oa,;r,In of Mr. F,cki,n lof rim,
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