Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-01-30
Later News From Utah Guerilla War
Determined upon by the Mormous.

Through a gentleman who left Salt Lake
City on the 10th of December, having ar
rived there via California, the N. Y. Time,
has interesting intelligence from the seat Of
MOrmondom, considerably later than any
before received. We quote:
Stopping at San Bernardino. on the way
to Utah, he there had an interview with
Captain Hunt and other Mormon leaders.
who were crowded with business. in ma
king preparations for the emigration of the
whole Mormon population from that coun-
try to Great Salt Lake City.
The Mormons in that region were selling
off their farms, mills. workshops, DC, at
great sacrifice. Six months " the same
property could not have been purchased for
ten times the prices now accepted. Every
thing they possessed was TOR sale, save the
means of transporting them to the goal of
their hopes, and the ctceteras OH the Jour
ney,
There is no question that the Mormons in
all thu settlements are fully posted on the
war question and the Indians secm quite az
much interested as they are, They have
rubbed up their firearms, cleaned their locks
and arc particularly sparing Of the use OF
powder and lead
Ia the settlements south Of Great Salt
Lake City the Mormons were united. and
very busy threshing their grain, which thew
had in great abundance from the last har.
vest.
On the 9Th day Of December, the day af.
ter arriving in this city, our informant at
tended at the preaching in the Tabernacle.
and heard several of the leading men. Al
fusion wac made by all the speakers TO their
peculiar position. in being besieged by the
troops on the East, but the gi.t Of ali was.
particularly, the necessity Of the people be-
ing united and exercising faith. From the
preaching and from conversations with sew.
eral persons, 1t was easv To perceive that
they all had great confidence in ultimate
success. There were strong ex%Lortations to
trust in the Lord. but at the same time there
was 10 lack Of effort 10 keep the powder dry
Nothing Of Importance had occurred very
recently, 70 far IS the Mormons were con.
cerned but the %couriers we're daily enter
ing the city, with reports from the East.
ern Expedition" which caused considerable
excitement every day. They have a regu
lar postal communication betw cen the camp
and the city, 90 that the absent lords were
continually cheering their families with
nswe.
The suffering among the United States
troops was. naturally enough, a subject Of
congratulation in the city, when friends
met. The people believe in the entire des.
t%ruction OF the troops now at the foot of the
mountains and as many more a. NAV ioin
them in the Spring not by the superior
human force which may be brought to on
pose their entrance into the valleys: but bv
the exercise Of Almighty power" Thss
Mormons see no possibility Of the troop ever
getting in, though the valleys should be be.
seiged on every side. The narrow defile.
must be passed, in which bodies of men can
be awfully harrassed by guerrilla parties.
and for that business they seem readv and
weH skilled. They have strongly fortified
hcho Cdnon-as the troops are now in that
direction but every other entrance will be
made q place Of defence before Summer
Every Lle-bodied man will be Under arms
as soon a. they have put In the Spring crops
and they say that in the time of harvest
little men cannot return-the women and
the rising generation, together with the
fathers in Israel, will lend their aid. Ma
ny OF the women are not o~ver-delicate
In frame. Many ofthsm, natives of Europe
have been accustomed to work of the fielda
and factory; 70 that under the sctual ,urer.
vision Of Brigham Young, there 10 littie
doubt that much Of the harvest, II NOT IN
win - secured.