The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-01-11


fcient for any travel of troops. military SUP
4 plies or emigrants p This route abounds in
b grass and water; Offering very great advanta
res at tits time for travel, which will be still
further enhancrd whenzthe posts contemplated
shall have been added 70 those already ON the
hpe. -eF oEi Is5i.,s.E-. afs 4 - e
| l as tsli UTAH., I'll t-.E &.
A fairs in the Territory of Utah remain very
much as at the date OF my last aanual sreport /
The army is inactive, and stands in the atti-
tude of menacing force towards. Il conquered
an sullen people. [ ans satisfied that the pres
ervation of right and Justice, through the
means of any Jurisprudence known, or recog-
missed bv i,le ,tsysiss st5nfs,d States Is
impossible in that Terrinry. 1t is governed.
practically, by SYSTEM which is in total dis
regard of the laws or Constitution of the land
The laws of tbs Mormon church and the will
of the hierarchy are alone potential there
Beyond a outward show OF aequiescence
in Federal authority, they are us irresponsible
to it as any foreign nation. s -ft
There is, in the present attitude of affairs.
scarcely any Necessity for the presence of
troops in Utah, and they will be Otherwise dis
posed of in the oonsins, season. There
complaints of Indian hostihtics towards the
Mormon people All other Territories and
people upon vast frnntier suffer from In
dian depredations, but the Mormon people
joy an immunity from All their outra. ese For
the protection Of these people againts Indians,
there is no necessity for the presence of j sim
gle soldier. Murders and robberies oi' the
most afr ,cious character have been perpetrated
| in tho Territory upon eihigrants from the States
| iourneying towards the Pacifc and IN some of
the most shocking instances by white men dis
guised as Indians. i he general impression,
so far as I have been able to ascertain it,
amongst those having opportunity to know, is
that these murders are the wolk of the M0r-
mon people themselves, sanctioned, if not di-
reeted. by the ant hority ri the Mormon church.
I cannot commend l.. terms too high the
wise prudence and officer Ike conduct of the
general commanding the army in Utah. The
discipline Of his command is admirable. and
its efficiency is unsurpassed. Much has been
done through the army under command OF
General Johnston towards IMPROVE the roads
in Utah. and to give the public Il fuller
Knowledge of the condition and resources OF
the Territory. Captain j. Ii. Simpson. Of the
typographical engineers. has. during tfe past
season. explored and opened two routes
from Camp Eloy to California. either OF which !
IS about 250 miles shorter than the old eIi- |
grant route by the way Of the Humb 1t river
and far b, tier for grass wood, and water =
Over both these routes lie conducted party |
of sixty fye men and = train OF Fourteen WAY.
ofls aud, since his return to Camp Floyd. |
many emisran with large herds OF cattie ha'<
passed over the route by which he returned
which is the better tlsiI. Itineraries Tor
both have been furnished to the publ C through |
the press in California and Utah. The saving |
in time of travel hy these roads to emigrants
for California IS about fitt days, and for the
mails about four. The saving in stock and
draught cattle on these routes over those for
nlcrly tray eed, owing to pure water and abun-
dant2 grass, is estimated at twenty five per cent.
Captain Simpson has alsa. under the irstruc- |
tons Of General Juhnston, folnd new wagon
road pass frem the valley of the Great Salt t
Lake, by fhe way of tie I m anagos RIVER
valley. of Green river. which will shorten the
rou pursued by Colonel lo-ing from Camp
lloyd TO Santa Fe probably as much eighty /
miles; and should pract cable pass he f,und
through the Rocky mountains, by the way OF
White river, through the mid lie part between
the headwaters of the Arkansas and the Ca
che La Poudre IA tributary Of the Platte.
wagon road will be obtained through the Pixies
Peak gold re. III, which will be considerably
shorter to the States than any we now have.
OUR TEXAN FRONTIER.
More than the usual amount of disturbance
has occurred during the past summer upon
nearly the whole line of our Texan frontier
Brevet Major General Twggs, then the COM
mander of that department., during the carly
spring issued orders for the abandonment of
Fort Brown, and the concentration of the
troops at other points upon tli, froi tier higher
up the Rio Grande Doubtless that fficer
supposed that danger likely to follow
from withdrawing the troops from point op-
posiee to large and foarishing Mexican town
at at time when We were at pea with that
But these well grounded expecta
tipns were disappointed. The banditti which
abound in that part of Mexico mustered their
a. Il
some ranches in the neighborhood. threatened
to sack and burn the town of Brownsville. I'm
upon receiving information of the
danger which threatened the inhabitants,
force sufficient for their protection was sent
tn their defence. There is every reason TO be-
l;evo that tranquility is restored to that quar-
ter of the State. a-.f
The condition of things along the whole ex-
tent of our Mexican boundary, some sixteen
hundred miles in length, demands Imperative
II trat Congress should adopt policy WHICH
which shall give peace and security to our cit
zens and render punishment for crimes com
ntted upon them By Mexican banditti and
.avages residing within Mexican territory
promt and certain. The chaotic condition of
The Mexican Government throughout the north=
prn provinces ronders every hope of the rcsto-
ration ofurGcr by public authority utterly vain.
Indeed, the local tiovernu ents, if they deserve
he name enc,nrise AMI perpe rate nilny Of
thcse wr,ng@, Our territory has been entered , ,
BY them eur citizens have been robbed and
murdered, whilst The peri etrators of the crimes
pass across the borders and claim immunity ,,
from pursuit and chastisement by our troops.
under the treaty stipulations of peace between ,
he two Coufedericies. These treaty stipula-
ions, so far as they protect our citizens in the
territories of Mexico, are contemmed and de-
,pised Our people, either resident tran ,
,ient in their territories, are imprisoned robbed.
and banishcd, without even the form Of trial :
md with no more authority thar the arbitrary
lrder of some petty usurper who may hold
temporarily a local command. I, is, condition !.
IF Oh nGs is no less llurtful to Mexican inter
,>tsi than to our own. Thor settlements have
,apidly reeeaed before the meursons of the