, 1864-11-09
FROM COLORADO.
GEN. CORNER AND THE
MCRM0M6,
Paet Hts1orY Of tho General-K1ow He
1seAf& with the RJl1gAmfkts-
1sis Future Rlnns.

OESFEB (ITY, Colorado Territory, Oct. 70
The readers OF the "TR1BUNE' recol1ect
the refusal Of Brigham Young to zelinqulsh
the cffice Of Governor OF utah; the march
Of Col. Johnson'6 troops into that territory;
the Mormons attacking and seizlng their
supply wagons at Echo Kanyon, sixty miles
this side Salt Lake City, and the final treaty
Of Steptoe and johnson With Brigham, b7
which the United States forces were stopped
ct Csnp Floyd and a promise given that no
troops should be quartered bearer than that
Camp which Was forty miles distant. This
treaty, fortunately, bound none but the I'M
mediate parties.
As Genera1 Ccunor, the present command
ant Of that post, is q very different person
from Gov. steptoe and Col. johnson. and as
Mormon hostility to the United States is
making his position ene of national import
ance, It will interest your readers to know
thxt Brig. Gen. P. Edwards Connor, -
Colonel OF Volunteers, hsd command Of
regiment ordered to SILT Lake, and that he
was promoted to Bdgadier Genera1shtp af-
ter the ssBattle Of Bear Rfver;'' perhaps the
greatest. and In its consequences the moBt
lmportAht Indian battle which has taken
place in these Sasr regions.
Before this fight, the gold regions Of Idaho
AID Montana were scarcely accessible, aud
were reached only with the utmost peril to
life Several powerful trfbes, the Snakes,
shobhannees, Bannocks, ETC., were resolved
that those gold fields should not be opensd
ard their hunting grounds disturbed, and
they mnr5efed every gold pilgrim they could
1t WAS mid~w}nter and the Indians strong
II entrerched amid natural fastneeses On
Bear River, some hundred tniles north Of Salt
Lake. sarentE-are Of General Connors
men had their feet frozen in the terrible
march, and four officers and thirty nine men
more wounded, many Of whom have since
died. Butcuulage and generalship conquer
ed. The Indians we're out1anked and Tout-
cd, leaving two hundred and 1Nenty-four
cead on the field besides some carried away;
serentJ-tiVe prisoners besides squaHs and
children, and one hundred aud seventytf1ye
horses; which last were honotnbly sold In
behalf Of the Government and the proceeds
1he road to the go1d-fields made safe where
settlements ere noW widely and rapidly
epraofug, and cities and to wns spring1ng up
like magic. For this service Col Connor
was nade BrIgadier General. The dread of
hie name and presence has prevented Doubt
Rut the ctief interest connected with
tlts interesting man lies In his relations to
the Motmops. He was ordered to take post
Lear Salt Lake and brigham supposed he
hsa % stopped @ d beiops Xetmop %ne snS Ynson YanKsa
sptculalo1s had already built olrrncls there
Tor him IN advance, which they hoped to sell
hen aad g. eood terms
with Brigham, Just as the news OF Connors
apprpAch reached the city, . youngegls man
Ii plain rev suit OF black, called at the
Governot'a c1f1ce in Utah It was Col Con-
nor, In disguise as citizen, but be disclosed
nothing OF his plnus to the Governor. beyond
en q a r. m p11n
| Of that pott. At least 60 the Governor HIM
| eeh declares. Well, Camp Floyd was reach
I'd. ind, to the horror OF Mormous and The
ehsesin Of barrack builders, passed Oct. %,
| little ana lazge, declared he could never pass
the Jordan, q emau stream flowing into Salt
[ Lake at their city. They faid that Brigham
had power from God to etop the whole COM
| mand, and make further apprsA Ach fatal. But
needless Of all these and other means used to
etop him, with flags flying and drums beat.
| ing, his command crossed the Jordan, entered
the sacred city, and the heavens did not fall.
| He dcplosed his troops before the residence
| OF the Governor, cheered the flag, cheered
the Governor himself, and then marched
through the heart Of the city, upon bsauti.
tul tract Of land, three miles out to ward the
/ mountains, Wherc- they are now encamped,
and where Brigham's palace aud Salt Lake
| City are but MAS Of pottery before his
guaA+ The chagrln and horror Of the Nor.
| mons was complete. They are all rebels.
I Their current open preaching had been trea-
son for sometime Heber Kimball had an
| nouIced again and again to the Yast audi.
euces in the Bowery that the "United States
| we're no more" On the authority Of God
[ in prophesy Of Joseph Smith, he assured
them that the North and South would ami.
| ot]ate each other, and they should take pos
session Of the country, "and," said the
impn.vagabohds and rnMans, s'What will
| sou do with the wives and daughters whom
thtT 1eayes What? why put them
said In the presence Of Governor
Harding himself Who was seated On the p1st-
| form near Brigham at the trial. And an old
tanattc and savage, whose pronunciation
| at this annunclstion Of The destiny Of our
American women to Mormon Polygamy,
"HA-MENln
OF courre the Mormons hate General Con-
| nor, and II money could move earth and
| ntayen, theT would move both to have him
| removed, Heber Ktmbal1 preached against
| him, his troope, the United States, the aboli-
| uoniEte, and, indeed. against the world in gen.
| eraa on the two Eabbalhs was at Salt LAke,
and an Informant who seemed to know. eald
the Mormnns were practiciag the drill In
sccrtt in cxFecta ion Of an outbreak.
Gen Conbcr, as q Federal officer, thought
that couru eyfequired Brigham Young to call
| on Lin first, ana go they hare not met. He
| il unwilling, as some Federal officers hsve
| done, 10 LAY the honor OF h1s government at
| the feet OF fanatic who is q rebel, merely
cecauee he has prfeatly horror over his
rupee, though be Wouid have no objection to
bs on friendly terms With him as an tnaig1d-