Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-26

THE VOLUNTEERS
! Correspondence of the ST. Louis Republican,
WirewOTking has at last been successful in
! drawing into the Territory, and placing right
| over the city about q thousand volunteers from
/ the Pacific coast Proverbially, the citizsns Of
Utsh have an aversion to the presence of soldiers
and ETobsbly from the antagonism that impreg-
mates everything in this generation, and pre-
! dominates everywhere are we indebted for the
presence OF Col. Conner and his command
within the enciTelng 8gis of the Wabsatch
mountains. Had the MormOns petitioned for
the IS sblishmsnt of the troops where they are,
the encampment would have been located az
leGss hundred miles from where they were
wanted No doubt of il We sll 90 BY contra
ries to-day, and, ike the Irishman's pig, If our
drivers only whisper that we are going to Cork
We are certain to set faces for Tipperary
coed story is told of Albert Sidney johnson
when he marched through Echo with his troops
in 1853. To him Cache valley, one of the finest
valleys in the noun isins, wss urgently recon-
monded. The general couldn't see it, and
marched into Cedar valley, than which worse
selection for an encRmpment could never have
been made Albert sat down in Cedar and the
citizens took possession at Cache.
The former is to day little better than vast
dust hole the latter filed with fourishing set
Elements and com Portable hOmesieads I ana
dry goods and q hundred other things and
showed determined Iepugnance to receive every
thing Of that kind of course the army and the
merchants who followed after were as deter
mined TO force upon the commuaity the scorned
favors, and after the FIRST blushing, and - Nc,
thsnk you" were over, the dry gools and tbs
thousand ct eeieTs8l lchaneed hands and made
things exceedingly easy and agreeable. Some
of the merchants got broke, used up, played out,
) IL T-HHr r gar- L. "a
as merchants will break, and some brothers and
listers viii fall these small affairs passed away
but the amelioTated condition OF the territory re-
mains visible and palpable eveTywheTe. re-
member when the first intimaton was made
that Camp Floyd was to be brose ~, that
story was put in circulation down east that
trouble was expected with the MormOns. which
story was ct one time charged home upon the
Mormops as their own ruse to keep the troops
among them, and at another tins charged the
Tuse Of the sPeeUstoTs 70 favor their own affairs
Where It sprung from is OF no consequences, but
as sn illustration Of how pipes are laid, and
how wires are worked to fleece Uncle Sam, il
is here given, and would have been successful
ia keeping the troops here, spending millions Of
precious dollars, bad not the necessities at the
outbreak of the rebellion called them sway
To day we have the 81 infantry and the ID
cavalry Of California volunteers encamped to
y
Of the corporation; but for what purpose its
honorable commander las failed TO discover
The volunteers enlisted "for the war" but
yielded 10 the call to guard the mail line" and
marched from the Pacific over that mai me,
finding nothing 20 do Fired with aU' son to
serve their country in its hour Of trial and dis
gusted with nothing TO do, the troops while en-
eamped at Ruhy Valley, three-fourths Of the
way here, combined their dollars and offered to
relinquiSh their claims of seven months pay
upon the government, If they wOud only let
them return to the Pacific where they might
yet, this fall, take the steamer down the Pacific,
cross the Isthmus, and reach the Potomac for
service Offering, st the same time, TO contribute
$25 600 towards their expenses. One private
offered s. 600 to this end. Colonel ConnoT
sustaining the honorable feeling of his COM
manG, telegraphed sll this to General Halleck,
but apparently wire working prevailed, and The
troops, by some one in authority, were ordered
to camp near Salt Lake City. They are here
building temporary barracks for the winter, but
for what purpose beyond enriching the people,
no man with brains knows.
Colonel COnnOr, Judging Of the utility Of
things by their necessity feels unpeassntly that
he and his command are consuming ths precious
dollars Of the treasury while his country is in
need Of those dollars elsewhere and Governor
Harding in his speech welcoming the troops,
and evidently feeling that the sbsurdity Of
things would evidently be sadded on some one,
cleared his shoulders: confess said bis
E1cslleDey, 4" that have been disappointed
somewhat, in your coming to this city. Ighsye
known nothing Of the disposition that has been
made Of you and for the truth of this asser-
ton. appeal to your commander, and to every
individual with whom I have had communica-
ton On this subject"
I am CAD that His Excellency was so emphai-
ic for in the position he holds, be would GER
tsinly have been the person on whom the respon.
sibiity would have fallen for having required the
troops to locate here while the continuance Of
the overland mail is in continual jeopardy from
the Indians to the east Of Bridoer-st least the
employees on the route and at the stations feel
insecure, and are spprehensive Of attacks, and
that is sbout the same thing IS if the Indians
really meditsted all that the whites imagine.
Gen. Hughes, of Atehison, the president Of the
Overland Stage company, was here last week,
and know from personal intercourse with the
general, that the company viii not again submit
to the losses Of stock and property in running
the mail If government will not give them the
protection needed this winter. Gen. Hughes IS
urgent for troops to the east Of Brdger, but can
not procure them Must the California troops
as efficient body Of men IS ever offered service
to the government-be deprived of the honor
they seek in the battlefield, for the purpose of
feeding spectators, OF gratifying the folly OF
others
Yesterday contracts were awarded to Mr. Jas.
Walker Of Missouri. for three hundred tons
Of hay at $24 so per ton seventy thousand
pounds of potatoes at one dollar per bushei, and
to Mr. z Hickey two hundred tons Of barley
and oats at ninety cents per bushel. A contract
for one bundled and twenty thousand pounds OF