New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-09
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Interesting from Utah.

The New York Times publishes letter of the
9Th ult, from Utah, from which we extract the fol-
iowings
The Indian troubles have occurred six hundred
miles west Of Camp Floyd. One or two stations
have been threatened between here and Ruby VAL
ley $500 miles west1; but between Ruby valley
ana Carson City the Mail and Express route has
been alnsest abandoned. immediately after the
intelligence Of the murder Of the Express riders,
Light Company b. Fourth Artillery, was con.
verted into an improuptu Dragon Company, and
Lieut.. Weed sent ovt with detachment OF twenty
men with orders to proceed as far as stuby alley,
there to establish depot and wait the arrival OF
Lsst. Perkins, who started the day after with the
remainder of the Company, about forty men. Inc
| whole Company was then to go or to Carson vat
| 10y. The volunteers from California VIII nndonol-
/ eily meet them there. What Lieut. Weed can do
with his handful of men against the swarm OF In
4 dians on the mail route remains to be seen. Ills
1 friends anxieusly wait intelligence FROM him.
| a new and perhaps serious cause of difficulty
| with the Mermons has occurred. To give an intel
lgent account of the matter it is necessary TO SO
/ back year and recall the account of the shooting
| Of DIR. Covey, and the assault on Lieut.. Sanders,
4 Second Dragons, in Salt Lake City, year ago
last winter. These gentlemen were spending the
evening in the store eff Messrs. Livingston and Kin
/ kad, and, as is the pleasant Mormon custom, were
/ degged by o body Of police. When the police
| were demonstrated with for spying around house
containing only peaeeable persons. they replied
| with oaths, and finally one of them struck Lieut..
Sanders violent blow in the head with stone or
cInD. Df. 4aVey on coming 10 Ills TeSGuG WAS Supi
4 by one of the party, and still carries in his breast
1 one of the balls he then received. The other occu-
pants of the store, while looking out of the door,
1 were saluted with such eXclamations as Pull in
| your head, c. d you.a This vigorous COM
/ rnand, enforced by oarbnes and pistols, was of
! course speedily obeyed. The officers subjected to
this inexcusahle outrage have, suppose, not yet
4 learned to forget and forgive. One Of them, while
4 leaving the Territory with one of the retiring
/ columns, recognized of his assailants while in
camp near the Moddy. This man, named Henifer,
was in camp with his brother, selling vegetables
on at least had with him wagon loaded with
i vegetables. He was seized by Dr. Coyey, and
pistol offered him TO defend himself with, which he
| would not take. He was then tied to his own
wagon and soundly thrashed witha .biack snake"
Meanwhile some OF the soldiers took his vegetables,
/ OF part of them. On learning this his castigator
prottered him payment for them, but the price de-
manded-S3000- an end to further negotia-
! tions. The mans brother was dHcked in the creek
\ to quell his disposition to interfere.
| This statement is made public in justice to Dr..
| Covey. The most exaggerated and unfoun6ed
statement appears in the lying sheet known as the
Monntaineer, and will no doubt, be copied into the
Eastern papers. No one was engaged in the affair
except the officer referred to, and all statements
| duplicating Lieut.. Gay, or any body of enlisted
men in in active participation in the occurrence
| believe to be nnfounded. Under ordinary circum-
stances this whipping would be iusly censurable.
But it must be borne in mind that there is here for
the Gentiles, law, and that it is not often that
the studied insults given by the Mormons can be so
richly repaid.
The sequel to the affair is not yet. 1t is an IN
doubted fact that on the night Of the I'd Of june
private meeting of Mormoas was held in Salt Lake
City;a and that nearly thirty men volunteered to go,
! and many OF them have gone, with the ayowed
purpose of assassnating the two officers named in
the Mountaineer. They can hardly be successful,
as is to be hoped that to be forewarned is in this
case, to be forearmed. Great excitement exists in
tho city, and Gentle has ne more ss show than
before the army came in.
Truly this is an entcing country. Human life is
at dicount, and men are killed here as partrdges
in the States. Murder is reduced to d science.
Sometimes man will be shot with from twenty to
forty buckshet from q double-barreled fowling
piece This was the case with the notorious Joa
quin Johnston, lately killed in the city. Sometimes
cooked Deringer, carried in the pantaloons
pocket, is made sort Of masked battery. When
shooting has become too tame, the knife becomes
a. favorite weapon, and a man is literally carved
up, as was Rhodes in the city the last winter
A corporal of the artillery command named OF
terbaeh was killed in January last, in 6 Frogtown,'
and all efforts to ascertain the perpetrators of the
crime were unsuccessful. But murder will out,
and by the confession of discharged soldier, it APP
pears that the corporal was murdered in q honse
of ill-fame kept by man and wife named Harris.
This man followed one Of the outgoing columns
with the moveable part of his establishment, and
was killed by the soldiers on his guilt becoming
known. 1t would be interesting to know how
may deaths from violence occur in this Territory
yearly.
It IS stated in many of the Eastern papers that
Iieafly d tuUlSdnu ldfc DStH ielt itt OHlup
Floyd. This is mistake. There are now less than
two hundred and fifty men there. When all the
troops are in camp during the winter the command
will not muster six hundred men.
The Utah war, from its beginning to the present
ridiculous state Of affairs viii never cease to be
exeerated by all familiar with its history, save the
contractors. If the little force now here, required
to protect Camp Floyd, the Northern Emigrant
route and the California Mail route part of it,
is sacrificed it will be fitting termination to the
blunders which have marked every step Of the ex
pedition.