The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-31

transportation OF your domestic mails and bons IN.
community will soon enjoy the benefits which will resIs
Government has recently established overland mali
routes upon most liberal basis This arrangement x,u
furnish greatly increased facilities for tryye and
successful operation OF this great enterprise will produce
an almost continuous line OF settlements extending
the continent; and this now isolated Territory will be-
brought into more familiar contact with other portions Of
the country.
To enable the people to be to some extent independent
OF mportatons we should encourage domestic manufac
lures but an entire independence In such matters Is
neither practicable desirable Social intercourse and
Neither communities nor individuals perma-
nent prosperity or happiness in condition OF complete
isolation.
Soon after my arrival in this Territory l COM
municated TO the Secretary Of War my views
IN regard 70 me supposed practcability of navigas
ing the waters or the Yellowstone including its tributary,
the BighOrn by the adoption of this route navigatoa
might be established from the Missouri to point no<
exceeding four hundred miles from Salt Lake City also
requested him TO order detachment from Camp Scott
with instructions to make reconnaissance between Wind
river and the confluence oil the Yellowstone with the Mis-
souri,.
The acts of kindness extended by this people to the ID
dams who nhabt these valleys are credabIe to the If
generosity and forbearance but they seem to have
confirmed the Indians in sothfu and vicious habits ami
ostered spirit OF INSTRUMENTATION which prompts them
occasionally to commit acts Of violence against their bene
factors
The government has established Indian farms in this
country, which, if considered means Of inducing In
dams to labor and produce the articles necessary for
their subsistence, to have been unsuccessful in
plshng those Objects and unless they can be conducted
differently In future, 1t would be well for the Indian De-
parmen to purchase food for them rather hnn endcavor
10 induce them to cultivate the soil The Ind ans must be
fed The supply of game is already insufficient, and they
cannot subst much longer upon the precaros aid recev
ed from the hand OF charity
will call your attention to certain recent
brutal assault was committed by some Indians, in the
vicinity OF the Spanish Fork upon the persons of
and her child To enable the agent make the Of
the offenders became necessary TO resort to military
force an Indanno one OF those charged with tn,
onencewas unfortunately killed. The cuprits were
rested and are now in confinement awaiting trial before
the Second United States District Court The dead bodies
OF two respectable citizens Of Mard county found
recently the road TO Chicken creek supposed to have
been killed by Indians. Superintendent Forney is now
in the neghborhood Of Man TO investigate the affair aud
will endeavor to secure the persons Of the murderers The
hands Of the United States District Attorney, who will
prosecute the murderers when arrested
cannot strongly urge upon you the necessity of ex
tending the benefit of common schools TO every child in
the Territory, and would recommend the levyng of
general tax Tor the support Of such schools On the proper
education of its youth depends the prosperity and happ
OF community. The statistical reports of the prisons
in this and other countries show that the proportion Of
crime is in an inverse ratio TO the amount of proper edu
cation received.
would call your attention to providing for en-
forcing the law relative to bridging the rrigating ditch
sances they of serons inconvenience TO ira
veers.
entertain the opinion that has become ndispeusab,y
necessary to provide for the building of and
nodous JAIL at point the centre Of population,
for the confinement of persons charged with criminal Of
feuces and recommend tax for deirayng the expenses
of IFS construction.
As errors the forms of egisa ion are liable to occur
in all territories, would suggest the appointment Of
committee to revise the acts and resolutions of the Ie
gislave Assembly Of this Territory with instructions to
report to your next annual meeting or earlier if deemed
expedient.
1t is necessary that you take carly action in filling Off
vacant in the Territory in consequence Of the parties
elected having failed to be qualified, and in other
where the offices have not been filed.
There does not appear to have been provision made
hitherto defrayng the expenses of the courts when
sitting territorial business. for the payment OF
charges for the maintenance and custody of prisoners The
importance of this subject will hope, secure for your
consideration.
herewith transmit the report of the Auditor OF
Public Accounts and that Of the Territorial Treasurer,
which submit for your action. A. CUMMING.