The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-12

Our Utah COrrespondcnce.
CrrAr SAIr LAKu CtTY. March Ia. ]

ne I~cSams ed Indisn C1oiMs-fAe Weaaw Pony Ia
p~es-TAe SimpsOw Rosas- General Ienss, d.
fellow correspondent, whose episles take western
direction quite dull at the departure Of Last mail,
because no had deed Of blood to record. Habit IL
great thing More peacefully "reared," and inciinng
considerably 70 QuAkersm the shedding Of blood doc
trine, am otherwise affected than my California acquaint
ance, and therefore, take pleasure opening with the
announcement that have murders 10 record BY this
mail and 50 far as neutral take oognizanoe OF the
belgerent camps, everything is at present peaoeabe.
The eyes Of both parties are turned 70 Washington,
end both are somewhat anxious TO catch an early
glimpse Of the summers programme That there
b active wireworking going on at tho capital
b matter Of common talk and certainty, and
the arrival Of . mail express is big occasion for
development Of curiosity and language Everybody b
anxious to learn the news and everybody has rumor
for his neghbor. The Gentiles have however, most
tainly the advantage at the present time The mail and
post office are both in their hands have often thought
that must be very annoying to the Mormons to
express arrive from tho East and then another
press Immediately despatched TO Camp and still they arc
kept In glorious ignorance tall the numbering slow mail ar
rapgement comes in and that frequently with only por-
ton Of the mail matter One Of these expresses arrived
here on Tuesday evening BY which, believe the Nor
mons also received late advioes from Washington
whether direct through their neghbors is Of no
sequence matters little; they have all the learned
of the proposition Of Senator Green for dividing up this
Territory between the proposed Territories Of Nevada and
Jefferson likewise of the recommendations OF Messrs
Morrill, and Stevens for the punishment Of poygamy.
Theee gentlemen may rest assured that the folks
out here have their plans chalked out One
OF the reliable men Of the city told
that present when above information reached
h.ad Tnara f,uco n,p~
smile and the quiet from chief that should,
at any time else, any unconstitutional step be
taken to deprive the citizens Of Utah OF the political
rights which they enjoy and which other citizens
would enjoy If here that step would be the signal for
movement new State would be rganized, and Its
defence attempted every cost The above rclable
is the determination of the who have influence
hero. There never be o second Echo Kanyon affair
with the same termination. Unless, therefore,, Q grand
smash up is contemplated there is in laundering
on to some half way measure The Mormons fully
satisfied that they have political privileges beyond
those enjoyed by every community. They will never
cept OF less Hence any such measure that proposed
by Senator Green is regarded attempt upon their
rights, and these they will defend. little reflection will
suffice this matter. The Mormons may branded
fanatics. None, however who know them will be-
heve that they would quietly submit to be broken up.
Senator Green is regarded generally rs an old enemy
Tor consttuens) Missouri is great State for contract
ors furnished large of quatru peds for the
road.
GOVERNOR.
During the present week have had the visit of
large reputation of the Snoshone Indians from the north
portion Of the Territory. They came the
tans the Box Elder settlement shoes, rather
tattered than modesty habtue In arriving within
few miles Of this place they raernized with lodge OF
Weber Ues camped the neehborhcOd of the
springs, and united they made quite show in present
ing themselves before the Governor. His Exceency by
the by, in addition to dischargng guberDat0ral duties
presently and has been this last six months Secretary OF
the Territory, for about the he has figured
obgiDg disposition to his associates in federal Offices has
become marked and sociabe, that was jocuAry
ported that he ready TO obge the by
Stunning the command OF the army the departure OF
General Johnston and attending to all the other civil and
judicial offices under the patronage Of the administration
much inclined to think thai his Excelency endowed With
all those " gifts and caings," would be able to give
much better account of Utah. do more justice to the
been done here through the unceasng chcanery that
ever marked federal administration here.
Returnngto notice the Indians generally regret say
that the poor red skins throughout large portion Of the
Territory are very sick, not myserousy So There are
facts which the pen must not bring into daylight.
Within . circuit OF thirty miles round the camp
and all along the route towards California there great
sickness / saw Q gentleman yesterday, very recently
from the Rio virgin who tells me That the raysges O.
Within six months, from different parts of the Territory
have learned Of the shooting Of many half dozen
added ewdness-as In ninety mine out of
hundred the squaws the victims or the red and
white gentlemens negotiations for tobacco, whiskey,
Yesterday afternoon another band Of mounted In.
dams came in from the south. They were trading
expedition northward They seemed 70 have Jared better
than the Shoshones Butfor their awny skin they would
have passed for comfortable farmers. They had just
come from camp ,,v ,vn,,x xn.
The Surveyor General, understand, has recommended
to the department at Washington the immediate extin
and the establishment Of land office for the sale OF the
public lands already surveyed, amounting, s said, TO
upwards Of two millions OF acres This Is considered
here a very commendable recommendation. The
country is increasing rapidly in population and thousands
Of industrious and respectable citizens anxious TO OBJ
tain the government title TO their lands, under existing
pre- empton laws, or otherwise. Until the Indian
occupancy Ia disposed OF by treaty spulaOns and the
Indians I'm some districts very troublesome at presently
settled upon reservation remote from the white SET
tements the onward march of prosperity will be reard
ed Indeed the Indian Department in this Territory, as
universal condemnation and II the folly and extra
vaeauce practised could be known at Washington, 1t
would most certainly be put end at least check
ed in its Ubiquitous progress
THE PONY EXPRESS.
The agents Of Russell, Majors and Waddell, govern
meDt contractors, now actively engaged in prepare
lions for the Forthcoming experiment Of linking the Az
antc with the Pacific six days lively exercise of mule
flesh and telegraph Mr. F. Fickln the western Super
ntendent Of the concern arrived here Tuesday and
has already his subs out purchasing horses aud pre-
pairing the way for quick run to the Pacific
For the first two months the company will at
tempt make from st. Joseph, Mo-, TO Sacramento,
Cal in ten days When everything is Ia working order
they expect to abrdge that two days The EXPRESS oy
calling at Genoa Carson Valley, viii! deliver dispatches
that the telegraph forward to the Pacific ces and
thus abroge, far as that is concerned, another two
days There no doubt entertained here of the compa
pys ability carry their project in the given time
1t is Lot such great undertaking as 1t sounds. Three
hundred head of horses and hundred and fifty riders,
with stations every twenty miles apart will do the bust
The company estimate the first years expenses ut
hundred Thousand dollars. As government has
beer asked for any assistance, offered any,
tive for the enterprise purely and simply BUSINESSMAN
eye OF the future.
THE SIMPSON ROUTE
In the Eastern papers notice that the contemplated
pony express Ia TO pass the Simpson route to
California This not The Simpson route reads
fue on paper, but thats all The present mail route to
California is over the route explored by Major Chorpcu
ning's agents- the chief Of whom is the ndeatigabe
Major Egan To f the veil from official
report and to the undeceved emgrant who might follow
the Itinerary" should say that the route is unver-
sally condo mned Instead of the mail passing the
Captains route the Captain followed the Chorpennag
mall route for three hundred miles out and only left ten
miles west of Ruby Valley. He then took southerly
direction for the sink Of the Carson River On his return
he took southery route, and struck Chorpennngs
rflte ri F1Ovd. the places