The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-20
WASHINGTON NEWS

THE GOVERNMENT OF UrAH-Judge Cradlebaugh,
of the United States Federal Court of Utah Terri
tory is now in Washington, and has addressed a
letter to the Representative from that Territory,
inviting him to public discussion of the different
Mormon questions at issue before the people of the
United States. The following are the points that
the Judge alleges he will prove:
lst That the Mormon people are subject to a
theocratic government, and recognizes no law as
binding which does not coincide with their pre-
tended revelations promulgated by their ''Pro-
phet, Seer and Revelator," Brigham Young.
I'd. They have taught, and still teach treason
against the government of the United States.
Sd. That they practice poygamy in manner
shocking to the moral sense of the world, and ag-
gravate the offence by incest and murder.
4th That they teach the doctrine of ''the shed
ding Of human blood for the remission of SIM" as
defined by their own ecclesiastical code, and these
teachings carried into practice. The murders of
Jones and his mother at POudtown; of the Parishes
and Potter at Springyille; of the Aiken party at
Chicken Creek, the mud fort at Salt Creek, and at
the bone yard, and Of Forbes at Springville, are
the natural results of these vile doctrines.
5th That they teach the doctrine that it is right
and godly that Mormons should rob Gentiles when
ever they can do so with facility and escape public
exposure. The Mountain Meadow s>acre is a
melancholy proof of this fact
9th. That they teach the doctrine and practice it,
of castrating men, and have declared from their
pulpit, with public acquiescence, that the dav was
near when their valleys would resOund with the
voice of Eunuchs.
THE ARMY The Secretary of War has order ed
one thousand of Joslyn's breech- loading carbines
for the use of the troops the frontier, well as
to meet the demands which have recently been
flowing in upon their department for the supply
of this style of arm to the individual States. The
test to which this arm was put by both the Navy
and War Departments was of the most severe
character, and its patronage by the government
is due almost wholly to the complete success which
attended its trial. This makes with the five hun
dred rifles ordered by the Navy Department
fifteen hundred Of this style of arms shortly ia
be in use in the service. They cost about S35 per
gun.
The order of the War Department transferring
Capt. Megs to the charge of the works under con-
struction at the Tortugas on the Florida Reef has
been countermanded by instructions from the Pres
ident 1t may possibly have been done at CAPTAIN
Meigs' option to leave him perfectly free to
NEE: any investigation which may be moved in re-
gard to the Capitol extension. -
MEXICAN AFFAIRs.-The railroad in Mexico, the
grant for which was obtained under Santa Anna,
and which Generals Wheat and Rino have reason
to believe will be renewed by the Juarez govern
ment tor the aid which those generals with their
| outgoing army will render the liberals, commences
at Aransas Bay, Texas, and continues to Camargo,
on the Rio Grande across Mexico to Mazatlan.
Action on the Mexican treaty has been delayed,
owing to the voluminous documents in connection
with it not being printed. The order for the latter
purpose was given TODAY.
( KANSAS AFFAIRs.-Judges Petit and Elmore, and
the United States Marshal of Kansas, and other
officers of that Territory, are here. Report SAYS
they are opposing the admission of Kansas as a
State. They unjustly charged with a desire to
prolong their official existence. 1t is understood
that each of the Judges desires the appointment Of