The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-09

Judge CRADLEBAUGH's investigation into the
only establishes the fact that a large number
of influential Mormons participated in it. but
that. they instgated the Indians to commence
the work OF blood, and carried off and divided
amongst themselves the larger portion of the
spoils. The more thoroughly the details of that
horrible series of murders become known the
more profound is the conviction that it was an
atrociy almost unparalleled in the annals of crime
MANA SAHIB has been held up TO the world as
monster whose name is only to be mentioned with
eXecrationi but awful as was the crime with which
he stands charged, it is in some measure qualified
though it can never be palliated by the fact that
he was wreaking upon his helpless prisoners the
hatred he had long borne in secret to race by
whom he believed himself to have been iniur
ed and oppressed. But the Mormon bishops and
elders who imbrued their hands in the blood of one
hundred and twenty-three men, women and chill
dreni sparing neither age nor sex; but delbe-
rately conspiring to put them to death, that they
might possess themselves of the mules and horses
and cattle, and wagons of their victims, have
sounded even lower depth of infamy than stthe
"butcher of Cawnpore,' whilst it is now to be
feared that they will never be called to account,
before an earthly tribunal for an act which for
cool and calculating ferocity excels any thing to
be found in the records of Eastern Thuggism
Letters from Utah, written by KIRK ANDERSON,
formerly Editor of the Valley Tan, state that after
Judge CRADLEBAUGH adjourned his Court at Provo
City, he travelled through the Southern part of his
Judicial district visited the scene of the Mountain
Meadows and 90 ha oil
afidayits and issued warrants against such as were
known to have had a share in it. From the infor-
nation received by him he came to the conclusion
that more than eighty Mormons were either active
ly engaged in that wholesale murder or were per-
fectly cognisant of it, and shared in the spoiIs We
are told ATROCITIES too horrible to be related.
"and which seemed to shock the brute sayapes
themselves, are related by persons who claim to
'have been compelled to join in that massacre,
Of the one hundred and forty persons attacked,
only seventeen small children escaped alive
We are told, moreover, that s'the per-
fsonal effects of the slain were taken to
the tithng office in Cedar City, and there sold
'tout. Many of the clothes stripped from the
murdered persons were piled in room in the
'tithers Office and not selling readily, from their
'being saturated with blood, remained there until
f'the room became offensive to stay in' During
the progress of his journey, Judge CRADLEBAuGH
also learned that at almost every camp between
Provo City and the Santa Clara river the herds
men and soldiers gathering wood have found skele-
tons of persons supposed to have been transfers
and discharged soldiers, who had been murdered
during the previous autumn and winter, though
not, it is conjectured, in these instances by the
Mormons but by bands of outlying Indians
Along the whole line of route from Provo to
Santa Clara, distance of three hundred miles,
although Judge CRADLEBAUGH passed through many
Mormon settlements, he neither saw a Bishop nor a
Bishops counsellor, President of stake-all
had either secreted themselves at his approach or
had fled to the mountains. The Danish settlement
at Spanish fork was the only one along the whole
line of route in which there were no reports of
murders having been committed within the last I
TWO years. The whole number of warrants is |
seee py the Judge during his journey, amounted |
- e'ghty' OF which one-half were against persons
charged with being parties to the massacre at
MOUNTAIN Meadows. Besides these, the murderers
ofthe two PARRIsHEs Of AIKEN, and 81 fla a.
and dumb boy, near Salt Lake civ vet rsm.;a :.