Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-29
PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES.

An Examination Of the Constitu.
tion, Manual, etc., Of the order
of (aucs sians More fessfOns
Of the chico Murderers.
SAN FRANCISCO, March %.
4 number of prominent citizens.
representatives OF the press and Off
Ger, OF the Order of Cauca>ians, met
last night to examine the constitution,
manuals and instructions Of that order,
bv invitation Of The Secretary of the
Executive Committee, P. S. Dnrney.
The Investigation failed to show any
thing resembling the statements re-
Gently published, pnrporting to he ex-
tracts IRON the constitution OF that
order. eDjoining AT unlawful course
towards Chinamen, but proved the
order to be virtually a vast labor TX
change. seeking To remedy the Chinese
evil by harteriug the patronage of the
brotherhood for the promise of using
the or Ter as a labor exchange.
Later advices from Chico show, by
the confession of John Slaughter, that
the recent murders, incendiarisms and
other outrages in that vicinity were
rOncocted ia due form ty Al as>ocia-
ton known a. the Laburers' Union,
where had also been discussed the
question of assassinating reputable cit
izens who were ex.rting Themselves tai
suppress crime. II is limited that still
more sensational facts will ne brought
out in the confession Of II. L. Jones',
who did not accompany the others to
Oroviiie yesterday.
seizure Of the Schooner Montana
by the Mexican Aushorities-Th.
Case II Gov. PachecO Before the
Supreme Court.
SAN FRANCISCO, March %.
Shippers by the schooner Montana,
that was recently seized by Mexican
authorities at MAzailan. have received
Information per steamer City OF San
Francisco. from Panama. via. MaZat-
Ian, that all the goods were removed
from the schooner by the authorities,
when she MAS permitted to sun her
voyage. The Lackawanna will proba-
bly, sail for MaZatlan to-day or to-
morrow to investigate the matter.
In The Supreme Court to-day, on
motion of counsel for Gov. Pacheco. il
was ordered that the respondent file
an answer in the case on u r hetore the
fir>t day of the April term or show
aus way a perernptory writ of man
date should not he issued.
rhe Original Order for the Massacre
at Mountain Meadows.
TUCSON. A. r., March 90.
The Star prints the following: The
following il "A correct copy of the orig.
intl order given concerning the Mount
ain Meadows massacre. The order.
-..,Ix 49, % q .l..- 49,, "a
vas found among the papers Of the
ia'e * Chief Justice John Titus, of Ari
zona. and formerly Chief Justice OF
Utah:
special Order.
"SALT LAKE, April 10th. 1858.
The officer in command of the es-
cort is hereby ordered to zee thai every
man il well prepared with ammnni.
lion, and to have it ready at the time
you see those %teainsters a hundred
miles FROM the settlements. Prr>i-
dent Young advises that they
should all bs killed, to prevent their
returning to Bridger To join our enc
my. Every %precauti0n should be
taken and see that not n escapes.
Secrecy is required. BY order of Gen.
eral Daniel III. Wells. ia. Ferguson,
Assistant Adjutant General" The
original order, wi h atiidavits, are in
my Possession, and l have had fire.
quent conversations with the late
Judge Titus, my former law partner,
in regard to the matter and he never
doubted the Renuinrness Of the order
or guilt of Brigham Young.
(Signed) l.. Z. HUGHES.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2S.
The Dispatch Concerning the Noun
saim Meadows Massacre.
Referring to a dispatch from Tucson
Arizona, To the effect that the order
Tor the massacre at Mountain Msa-
dows was found among the papers ofthe
late ex Chief Justice Titus, a gentleman
living in this city, formerly \ resident
Of salt Lake, says he had the above
document at one time in his posses
sion, and has doubt of its genuine.
ness. 1t referred, however. to some
eighty men who had been teamsters in
Albert Sidney Johnston. to escort the
new Governor who replaced Brigham
Young In 1857. An early tall nj snow
forced Colonel Johnston and his
troops to winter at Fort Bridger, l2C
miles east OF Salt Lake. and Is the
Mormon troops under Lieutenant Gen.
sral ID. IL. Wells had burned W two
trains Of supplies for the United States
army east OF Green river, the General
was forced to put his soldiers upon
rations, aud in the early spring of 1858
these teamslers we're discharged from
service and permitted to return East,
where they had entered the Govern
ment service. They preferred to go
West, and started for California. They
believed that, as o c0mbatants, they
would be permitted to pass through
Utah unm0lested, but as o % as the
teamsters came over the mountains
and entered Echo canyon. they we're
taken prisoners and made subject
to martial law that had been pro-
claimed some months before by Gov
ernor Brigham Young. A gentleman
who was then among the Mormons ia