Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-04-28
MORNING, AIRIL 28, 1860.

' ol sutliclent importance to make an addi tional effort, III order to ascertain whether It was correct or not. On arriving at Corn Creek. we found there three compa- nles of '. > troops from Camp Floyd, under the command of Cap tain Campbell, who was on his way south to meet Mai Prince, paymaster in the army, who was returning to Camp Floyd from California, with a large sum of money On meeting | these troops, Dr. Fornev furnished me with instructions, and directed me to return south again with the troo ps, and see if l could ascertain anything about the two children spoken of by K anosh. Judge Cradlebaugh, of the U. S. district court for Utah, was also travelling with Capt. Camp bells command into the vicinity of Noun tain Meadows, to see if he could obtain any evidence against persons who hai been
 harged with participating in the massacre, that wonll inStifv him in arresting ant holding them for trial. He was proceeding as a court of inquiry or investigation simply; ,nl informed me that he hal authority rom 1 Gen. Johnston to retain a portion of the troops under Capt. Campbell, if he deemed 1t necessary, either to project the court or to enforce it's writs. Judge Cradlebaugh, m setting out, was accompanied by deputy marshal. T. II. Stone, hht the latter was omnnllod to stop near Nfphi on account of sickness. Judge Cradlebaugh now re- ouostel me to take the place of Mir. Stone, as hal been previously sworn in and acted as deputy U. S. Marshal at the district court. held at Provo in the preceding month. As the dnties of this post could Ill no way l interfere with my search for the two chlldrfn l said to have been left, anl might enable me bo ter to find them, l ncceded to Judge | Cradlebaugh's request to act as marshal.
 In tho vicinity of Par4wan and below Cedar City, where the cqmmand "f Capt. CamnbeI encampel, thu soldiers, while hunting for wood, discova red human bones scattered in the bushes. anl at one place they brought an entire slle teton into camp the bones of which were still united and held together by sinews, showing that the person. whoever 1t was, could not have been a great while dead. We hal no knowledge lt the time anl never received any as to whose remains these were. or whether they were persons that hal diel from exposure or starvation, or whether they were the victims Of treacharv and murder. From the distan"e at which thry were from the ola"a of the Mountain Meadows massacre if ie not prosumable that they formed q portion of the party slain there.
 On arrivinr at Cclar City, President FTaight and Bishop Hi4by were not seen; but at tho canning ground few milcS beyond. Judge Cradebanghi issued writs for their arrest. and also for the arrest ot Bishop Lee of Harmony, and placed them in my hands for execution. These wrts were issued aS I understand, on the authority oi afiilavits. charging these mon with beng concerned in the Mountain Meadows mas sacrc. which were made before Judge ' Cadlolargh before he set out to investl- gate the matter.
 These writs were given to mo whom we were ahout four or five miles below Cedar City an1 about twelve or fourteen from Harmony; Int as nothing had been seen of ' Knight or IIighv in passing through Cedar City. I thought it best to proceed first to | Harmony and try to secure Lee, and after wards to return and try to arrest IIaight \ anl TIighv, if circumgtances gave promise i of any suocnss in doing so. T. is proper for mn to say here that not only lTai@ht and lIighv, but large portion of the male inhabitants of the different Mormon towns anl settlements through which we passed, either fed or sncretei themselves on the approach of the troops. The cause of this [ I donot know. un1nss from . consciousness of rnilf of some llinl, as tho troops were
 <. the inhabitants, but were simply on their way to act as m escort to a navmHstor of i the army. And .Irlrn FralInhanph dil not coolz to interfere with the rights O. 1 liberty or any man nnaccTsn1 of crime. l summoned to attend mo, and if nn 'eSearv at as 2 civil posse, in tho arrest of Loo, eight Orqrtnrmastnr's mon who wnrn tr1v- ding with Cant. CampheIls command on their way to California Accompanied hv these men, I started for Harmony on the morning that received the writS. On the way thithnr we pasSal through or ncar q small settlement containing five O. siy | houseS Stopnn1 here to make innuirins abont the two children. The residents of | the plare, mon. women ant chillrnn, mostly came ont of their houses whom had stop | ped. but none of them nro(eSSc1 to know anvthing ahort any children besides those that M. Hamhlin had collected l toll | them that ifthe children were in the country at all. every honse would be attached if thev were not given up. Al this. one of the men present. but who did not live in the place, hu had arrived thnre inst before ma. statel that his wifa had one of tho children: that he livel at PorkAtvil|e another small settlement forty or fifty miles distant. named from it's location in the mountains He stated that the child was very vouno. and that his wife was very much attached to fl, anl that it would give mo much trouble if took it away, and sccmel byall his remarks, to be anxious to retain it. told him that had no power to give the child away, and that I womb send and get it in few days. Mr. IIamhlin went over anl brought this child away in few days after I discovered where it was. This child was bright eyed and rosy checked boy, about two years oll, and must have been an infant when the massacre occurred.
 On being brought to Salt Lake City. and joining the other children, one of the oldest bows of the group, whose name was John Calvin Sorrow, ran up to 1t, and kissing it remarked thai it was his little brother; and that he did not know where he was. From this circumstance this child received the namn of Sorrow, after that of the ol,lcr boy, but whether 1t was their original name or not 1 do not know; it is, at all events, axpleSsve of their sal history. The sec ond child said to have been left, never heard of, although l inquired diligently nfter it. On arriving at Harmony, with the men accompanying me, l went to the house of Bishop Lee and inquired for him, but was informed by one of his wites, { 1 was told that they were thirteen in number, ) that Nr. Lee had been absent two or three days in the mountains; that he was there looking for copper with the Indians- Others besides his family of whom in quired, also informed me that he had gone away. As he had thus played the same dodge that President Haight and Bishop Higby gave me at Cedar City, 1 deemed it useless to wait for his return, or