The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-31

pected to take his place ia the Senate
during the present sitting Of Congress-
his health i much Improved.
Judge Douglas Is also in much better
health.
The st. Louis Bseaing f'slietia am
iIounces, en- the authority of the editor 90
Tie drcada roPea, The organ d Mis- !
souri, mining interests. intelligencs 81 the /
discovery il SouthfEast Missouri of 81
vein Of hornblende rock which il Is be-
lieyed viii yield $4,000 worth Of gold
to the ton. Full particulars were prom
ised at an early day
Washington Irving died at lexington
on the 9Th November
CERrAIE MRMBERs on CoEaREss The
N. Y. Herald Of the 10Th uIt. abiding
to the passage through THAT city Of the
Delegate from Arizona, says. ..He has
some fine specimens Of the mineral
wealth ofthe new Territory, which can
not fail 70 make profound impression
upon certain members of Congress. z
None dispute that Tie Herald Is posted
at Washington One would think IN.
reading the above allusion to a profound
Impression" made upon certain menu
bers Of Congress" BY mineral wealth, !.
that he had some knowledge of the Utah
Army contracts, and how they were got
up. five thought the Herald required.
them, we could furnish a akink OF two
TIM DELEGATE FROM UTAH We had
the pleasure yesterday Of meeting Cap
tain w II, Hooper. the lately elected
Delegate from Utah Territory, now on
his way to the Federal Capital. Captain
Hooper, some twelve or fifteen years
since, Wasione Of the most energetic and
popular steamboat commanders on the
Western waters He will be we'll recol-
lected by many Of our steamboat build
ers, whom he patronized on several oc-
casions, and especially by goodly por.
ton Of our old business men, as athors
ough-going member Of their class, pos.
sessing high integrity Of character reli-
able in all his engagements, united with
an indomitable will and go-aheaditiyeness
of character well calculated to insure
success in all his enterprises. We are
snre that he will be well received at
Washington: Captain Hooper Is a ma
tive Of the eastern shore Of Maryland,
and has been d citizen Of Utah for some
ten years, Ex.
The ship Josiah Quincy, lost on her
voyage from Leghorn to Boston, had
on board quite a valuable collection Of
works Of art, belonging to Bostonians
who have recently visited Italy.
h The present Congress is expected to
be highly interesting over the Niger
question.
f WHAT Brown REALLY INTENDED Al
HARPER's FERRY-0f the multifar-
/ ious motives and plans ascribed Il
/ John Brown for his s'insurreetionary'
movement at Harper's Ferry, We have
mot yet read anything that has had *
l much consistency with facts as the fol
lowing from q correspondent Of the N
/ Y ssTribune:a He says: 81 have no
heard Of anybody who, whatever crimes
The may have attributed to Brown, ha:
doubted his word Here IS his own &C
count Of his purpose at Harpers Ferry
/ He had calculated upon, and fully ex
d pected to accomplish, a rescue Of u,
! great number Of slaves. TO maintain
. q warlike position in Virginia for an,
definite period, was not his object. III
Idea Of his SEEKING tie Armory for til
sake of the weapons it contained, b
! viii not admit. He says he had IA
a better weapons of his own. His occu
lpying it at all was \ variation from hi
original determination. He had de
cided to take Col. Washington and thi
J other prisoners to the Harper's Ferr,
Il Bridge, and there to establish q com
] manding position, from which he eoul
J. insist upon exchanges Of slaves fo
his prisoners. In case he should hay
] been dislodged, he would have retreate
i lin haste to the mountains, with the in
& Itricacies of which he had made himsel
I lso much more familiar than the inhab
Il itants themselves, that he believed b
! could defy all attempts to apprehen
efhim. He had supposed that, after
! few days OF successful evasion, b
: would be joined by hundreds of slave
i anxious to escape, by whose aid h
could have perfected arrangements e
an enormous rescue. This, as Ilrndel
stand ii, was his real plan, The rel
Eson Of the change was, he AYERS, tn
i as the night Of the rising was vel
1 severely cold, hesuddenly concluded
81 have the prisoners taken to the A
Il nory, where they would not be expos,
le1 to the weather, anticipating no troub
g in moving off with them, in case ]
should not be able to effect the e
j change with negroes before the gener
q alarm should spread. Disappointed
Z, this hope he had only to fight to Z
r end. Some one the other day ask
i. i Pro,,,y,, tha reason whv he did not /