Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-21

has trans pred in Washington since our last issue. It is said that MT. Thayer fully in earnest in all that he proposed and that this father of colonizng stock companies and cigant aid societies is truly about preparing company to settle in Central America If northern men can live there the slave driving Interest had like Col Crockrtts coon, best come down from the tree at once and save them selves from being shot, Eli Thayer head is still on his shoulders though border-rufians placed pffce upon it of from them, and Eli Thayer at the head of Nicaragua Emigrant Aid Society will be to Gen. tral America what he to Kansas All the South, however are not represented by Atchson and Stringellow and if report is to be credited several southern gentlemen of distinction are engaged with MT Thayer in his movement. highly pleased with the plan of colonizing the country. However this may be- we advise every one to read his speech certainly the most perfect specimen of cool sarcasm and hu mol ever delivered in Washington.
 The report of resolution from the Democracy of Indiana instructing their delegation in Congress to vote against the Lecompton swindle is unfounded, is also the report that MT. Buchanan would prob ably back down from his position. Says cores pondent of one of the New York papers ot Saturday
 The Administration are not going to do any such thing. They are going to make fight, if they are slaughtered in the field, think they will be- If have no other evidence of what assert than the fact that James Buchanan owes his election to the ultra South. and is controlled by them it is enough. TlIe important airs and arrogant tone of Fitch in the Senate day, is evidence that there is no intention on the part of the Administration to back down The declaration of Warren of Arkan- sas, in the House yesterday. that the Democracy n tend to vote for the Lecompton constitntion as ;t comes here from the election of December 2l DOT tends the same result. But do not found my jndg- ment upon these things when say that there is no longer any doubt. My authority is higher than these"
 There has been discussion in the House regard ing the appointment of a committee to examine in the bribery said to have been perpetrsted in the of the tariff of last spring. by Lawrence Stone Co., It seems that the vote for the bill stood 30 Republi can to 98 Democrat, that the chances of finding the money to have been divided among the iminact- late of the democracy seems very probable.
 The most interesting news of the week is that from Utah. which gives sad account of the state of our little army. Except from starvation there seems little probability of it's being overcome. Brig ham Young being too shre*d governor to attack 6 body of soldiers which represent an immense power like that of the government of the United States, and he has already evfnced willingness to recede from his hostile position The ateness of the season when the army commenced its march from Kansas has brought the troops into their winter quarters in starving condition. No forage can be found for their catte and at the time of the last re- ports from Fort Brdger nearly tho entire stock were dead from starvation. The snow commenced falling in September at the place of the army's encamp- ment. and from that time they have endured un- mitigated hardships. On November 18th the state of the troops was truly horrible They had been on half rations for month, their mules and horses were dying of at the rate of from 50 to 200 every night, and nc food could be got anywhere The reckless management of the War Department has in. volved the country in loss of millions of money, to say nothing of the valuable lives which will un- doubtedly be sacrificed Ample supplies of provis- ions are lying at Forts Laramee and Leave1wortb. Eighteen supply trains, each of 26 wagons. having been sent to these statons last fall, small portion of whose stores can be available to troops before next spring. Three wagon trains with stores val ued at a million of dol.ars was destroyed by half company of Mormon dragoors, and all this because our troops had to be detained in Kansas to intimi date the Free State and sustain the interests of slavery. At the last reports arrangements were be- ing made to forward food to the army on mule s backs from the depot of Fort Laramee; the distance is several hundred miles, the midwinter, and the country. too. of the most dreary and deso- late this side of the polar regions. The Mormons also in possession of the route and from the port of Engineer Mallory regarding this fact. and the encampment of the army far south of the bufa- 10 country it is highly probable that great portion of the troops must actually perish from starvation before spring.
 the spot, gives idea of the hardships endured The scenes presented along the road and iu the camp. by the dead and dying cattle truly pitia. ble. Last night, while was thawing my hands at a fire of cracking willow twigs one poor old OK staggered through the brush and passed between me and Lieut. L., directly into the blaze, in which il stood until the hair burned from it's fore legs an the flesh scorched; then it retreated yard or two and fell and died. The next morning saw a soldier comfortably seated on its head between the horns. smoking his pipe while he warmed his feet at the embers. On the same morning when left my tent at reseue for little walk in the brat. l ing air before breakfast, two oxen were standing l stiffly few feet from the door The only sign oi life which they exhibited when beat them to move them alerg was slight motion of the head. When our el ts wefe st uck at noon, and we moved to OuI present camp one of them remained immovable in the same pasition. That night the thermo omete, had indicated l6 degrees below zero On the after noon march counted repeatedly five, and once seven oxen mules and horses lying dead from cold star
 vation, within the space of one hundred yards They had dropped dead in their tracks.
 There has been such prodigious loss of stock by | theft cold and hunger, that since Nov r we have not advanced. on the averages two miles day. Il is necessary to employ all the cattle day te haul along one-half of the trains, and on the next to send them back to bring up the remainder. Most of the artillery horses dead and their pla ces supplied by mules
 But. in addition to the delay which such loss O stock has rendered inev table, the march of the ermy has been seriously retarded by the nef6ciencies Q
 the employees of Messrs Russell and Waddell, who
 have charge ot the supply trains Among the mum
 Der some are undoubtedly Mormons, and are glat
 to clog the progress the troops in any possible way
 Ot hers have been constantly drunk over night anl