Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-04-26
LArRR PROM UTAM

Erpeetel Exodus If Fire thousand Apostdte
ILormoHs- COLLATION. toith FEDERAL Troops
The Neto NorHOJR. -ALRhabet-Serere Storm
IN the NiuntaiHs-vIa6 Saer Ten Feet Deep
gThe. Desert Talleg Tan of the 10th March 7
contains the follOqing news Of interest: III
The Deseret Mems is filed with lot Of hero
glyphics, whichis styled the Deseret alphabet. 1t
seems to be vocabularyip Rhch the Mormons
alone are to be taught. a9
The Valley Tan thinks that between four and
/ five thousand persons willleaye that Territory
| for the States and California, all of them apoS.
tates from the Mormon Church, in few months.
I Prior to the 22d OF February, ithad been Storm
ling Gorthree weeks 1t was The seyerest weather
lever Experienced in Btah. The snow storms IN
1 the ,neigtborhood Of the South Pass were ter
rifle. III '9g4W go I2Eg 5aLITf5 s.ItI
! A rumor ofa collision between troops station
ed at Provo aud Mormon citizens prevailed at
4 Salt Lake City on the 10th. The troops were
there by order of Judge Crudelbaugh, during
the session Of his courE The SiOrmOns petition
ed the Governor on the subject, and he went to
Provo to examine into IT. IL was supposed that
nothing would be done except to try two Indi-
ans, the Church hierarchy that controls this
people overreaching the jurisdiction Of the
United States Courts. Judge Cradlebaugh thus
explains this matter nihis charge to the Grand
Jury:
I 'iSpme, United States, troopsare here. Per
haps 1t is an unusual thing for them TO be here.
out of the csmp,Ta and also that there were many
/ guilty around here Of numerous Offences
was Informed thst there was no prison here,
and those troops were sent by fhe commanding
general at my request, to take care of the pris-
toner's now in -custody, AND not TO interfere with
any one. They are here to-preserye the peace
II prisoners are brohg ht they vii be taken care
OF, and the whole authority Of the troops is to
detains those persons 10 custody that may be
taken prisoners until they are called for by the
4court and they have no power beyond that"
The judge, in his chlTge to the Grand Jury
refers, to the fact that attempts had been made
to destroy the court and its usefulness, ant
even to bring the jurors into disrepute. HC
refers to many cases of murder and crime com
United throughout'the district, but IN which nc
indictments had been found by previous Nor
mon Grand Juries.
:. L. Hnbbell gives an account of his travels
from Salt Lake City 10 Weber Station. a
Emigration Canon, he met snow II to IL
inches deep; from there to Killon's house ii wa
two feet deep. Over the Little Mountain tht
snow was four feet deep; mt the spring on thu
Big Mountain, the mail party, having travelled
eleven hours, had ma two miles. Mr.. Iinbbcl
started next morning, and found the snow si'
to eight feet deep, Still further on, IN eigh
hours travel, they made half mile But tn
worst was TO encounter in getting down the Biz
nj Mountain, where the snow was at least15 or q
y feet deep. Tho mules were dragged through
the snow, where they sank in deeper than thei
backs for some four hundred yards, when the!
nil gave out. Monday, the 2lst of February
they made East Canon Greek, all nearly snow
blind, except ono Mexican andith writer-fou
4 Of them could only keep the path by holding Of
Ito mue-in snow six TO ten feet md not tn
sign of a trail, On the 23d they arrived a
Weber Station, and were relieved.
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