, 1864-11-21
FROM TEE FAR WEST.
Gen. Connor'e DepArtn.ent--r1atters
In MornondoM1--The Indian War
ON tho Plains.
TFrom Onr Own Correspondent, !

[From Our Own Correspondent
FoRr KEAnHzx, N. T., Nov. 10, 1851.
The military district OF Con. Connor has
been greatly enlarged, so as to includo almost
the entire route Of the overland mail lineHrom
this place to Virginia City, distance ofabout
1900 miles. The General is soon expected at
this place with some four or five hun.
dred troops, to look after the Indians who
have been-murdering and scalping the emi.
grautsand ranchmen. Very little has been done
against them, asy yet, and thereisa q very general
complaint against the officers commanding our
troops. The troops themselves arc sadly de.
moralized, and, OF course, dissatisfied with
them. A party Of thlrtty-nine soldiers went
out from Valley Station few days aiuce, on
the trail Of some Indians who were following
Kanyona, some forty miles, for wood. The
soldiers had abort rattons for three days, and
had already (wben VI passed the station) bten
out four days. We saw the remainder Of their
company, who felt 80 keenly the danger of
their comrades, that they were getting up q
oall for thnt night: and were telhog Of sending
Of them. This state of thlngs has
probably led to the employment Of Gen. Con-
nor's Jurisdiction. which, following as it does
the attempt instigated by the Mormons to
procure bis removal, is proof Of the increas-
ing popular confidence in that officer.
secta, are al rebels. they preach and believe
that the North and South are to continue
fighting until they become sufficiently mum.
erous TO control the dcstinies Of this conti-
nent.. Il will be remembered that law of
Congress, approved July l, 1869, forbids and
Furnishes PolYgamy by fine Of $500 and i'm
y3H1C Cny3t,7H 7HtS| {7rA A1vA &hn
leaders, and as many Of their followers as ore
able are In rebellion against this law. The
same statute fo1bids any religious or chari-
table corporation to hold real estate in value
above $5O, 900. Their church is In deadly 1e-
bellion against this law. Of course no Federal
officers, military or other, can hold friendly
relations With them while they continue thus
being guilty Of completely with traitors. But
80 Tar from regarding himself rs q criminal,
Brigham carries himself with all the haughti-
ness Of monarch Of the house Of Stuart.' He
has never called On Gen. Connor, but expects
him, as other Federal officers have done, to
recognize him as his superior, and thus lower
the Federal flag before this, would be s'lion
pretensions Of the Mormon leaders thus bring
them in direct antagonism with the United
States. and one party or the other must sub
NIT. The onlypossib2e peaccable solution Of
this, difficulty, Is the plan of Gen. Connor,
viz: to encourage and protect by force the
free utterance Of thought and opinion among
them, which will weaken their spiritual des-
from the leaders their political supremacy, by
opening the rich mines in the neighbor-
Ing mountainB, and thus outnumberlng them
at the polls by mining population.
;. 1t would seem that Bingham himself con
templates such contingency as possibly near
nt hand. It Is said BY those who claim to
know, that the Bank Reports Of Great Britain
show that he has deposited almost fabulous
sums Of money in the Bank Of England, and
bis late instigatcd attempt to procure Gen.
Connor's removal is confession of his alarm.
Meanwhile the increase Of the Mormons by
emigration goes steadily forward. We met
trains Of these. poor deluded beings number.
Ing IS high as thousand wagons and some
ise thousand people, and when once across
walled in as # in prison; and read
nothing, and hear nothing but from Mormon
sources. They are set back in the scale Of
civilization more than a century, apd their
preachers give them little besides gospel Of
100, ,0o0 people, with metropolis (Salt Lake.
containing some 10000 people, there il not q
single bookstore, and except 4 little wretched
Mormon literature from the Desert Nt,cs Of
fee, almost no book sold, 1 could not learn
that there was copy of the Bible for sale at
Salt Lake, though I inquired Of intelligent
Mo1mons and others. Yet mormons profess
to believe the Bible.
OF course the intellect of such people
must speedily become paralytic. Those who
allow others to think for thcmin religion will
either not think at all, or think to no purpose
in anything. The first yisor Of the emigrants
will soon die away all enterprise will soon
be in the hands Of those whom they brand as
"Gentiles," and as these have no religious in
stitutions Of their own, worse human con.
dition can scarcely be imagined thvn theirs
What our Mission, Tract aud Book Societies
mean BY neglccting this population, one can
not wei understand. Yet there is not to-day
9 preacher Of any thing but MoTnonism 10
that vast miscellaneous and motley multi.
tude. Let us hope that it will not long re.
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