, 1858-06-04


F. Smith takes the command of the forces
in Utah. Brigadier Gems. johnson and
Harney are to be assigned to separate
commands under him. The army will
number about six thousand men, and it will
be the best appointed army in every respect
that the country ever witnessed 1t has
been understood that Gen johnson, who
is anxious fora fight with the Mormons,
after having been so long cooped up in
winter quarters, would advance in May,
with his present force, to Salt Lake City,
at all hazards.
The strong disapprobation with which
Congress views any step that will provoke
war with the Mormons, has induced the
President to send ont Peace Commission
ers-Messrs. Mccullough, Of Texas, and
Powell, late Governor of Kentucky-to
Utah, with Instructions to grant an amnes-
ty for all past offences, il the people of the
Territory will submit, hereafter, 10 the
laws and authority of the United States
The commissioners are on their way, and
when last heard from were at St. Louis.
Orders have been sent to Gen. johnson,
by an express, not to advance, until the
commissioners shall arrive, No movement
against Salt Lake City will be made until
after the commissioners shall have execu-
ted, and failed in their mission
The Deficiency Appropriation BILL in
yolving ten millions Of dollars, contained
large items for the fitting out of the new
expedition to Utah, and on this account,
the House rejected the whole bill by ma
iority of eighteen. But, the next day, the
House upon q sober second thought passed
the bill. 1t could not have been passed
had not some of the Republicans gone for
it, Had the Utah items been presented
in separate bill, they would have been
rejected. The deficiency bill is now before
the Senate and will finally pass
The President will not accept Yolun-
teers under the act authorizing him to ac-
cept the services of three regiments, mount
ed or otherwise, at his option, until after
the deficiency bill shall have passed. 1t is
well understood, however, that he will take
them from the West. Que regiment is to
be employed for the defense of Texas and
the other two for the suppression of Indian
hostilities, or of rebellion in Utah, or the
protection Of emigrant travel.
New Granada will probably ratify the
Capt. Heron treaty. Nicaragua, it is
well understood, will persist in the refusal
to ratify the treaty negotiated with Mr..
Yorrizori.
The Nicaragua Transit Route is no. to
be re-oponed, perhaps for years Congress
will not attend to the matter, while en-
crossed with the Kansas squabble. Upon
any negro question they will contend with
the spirit of martyrs. The President has
done nothing on the subject, and probably
could not do anything with the aid of this
Congress at present .....-
The New York Company for colonizng
Central America has obtained charter
from the Legislature OF that State, aud
have organized. They have already sent
out small colony to the Bay of Fonseca.
New York will be their central point, and
many men of capacity and enterprise are
concerned in the project
The revenue of the Government has
slightly improved Of late. 1t is snow about
100000 . week. The expenditures are
likely to DO enormous, and the extent Of
them is not yet known. 1t has been sup
posed that the Treasury would ask for an-
other issue Of Treasury notes on war, but
they will try to get along with the present
authority to issue twenty millions Of Treas
ury notes They have obtained eleven
millions, and are about to issue five millions
more, leaving four millions for the emergen-
i ries that NAV arise in tho rnsnlt