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Wednesday, November 25, 1857.
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST.—We desire to
direct the attention of our readers to the ad
vertisement of Orange Judd, of New York,
for his "American Agriculturist," found in
another part of this paper. The Agricultu
rist is highly recommended by the press, and
doubtless is an excellent work. Read the
advertisement.
A. Hundred Dollar Bill.
The Valley Spirit states that a merchant in
a small town in Virginia went to Petersburg
lately, taking with him a Bank Note of the
denomination of One Hundred Dollars, to
pay a debt of that amount due by him. He
paid out the note directly after his arrival in
the place in the early part of the day, and
before he left in the evening, the , very same
note was paid back to him by one of his debt
ors. Curious to know the circumference, so
to speak, of the circle it had made from the
time it left his hands till it came back again,
the merchant made inquiry and found that it
had gone from one hand to another, till it had
paid debts to the amount of One Thousand
Dollars in a single day, and, as before stated,
had come back to the same gentleman who
paid it out in the morning.
This incident will serve to teach us what
good we may all do by circulating our money,
if we have any. That Hundred Dollar Bill
was a relief to at least ten persons. It paid
their debts, and doubtless lightened their
hearts. It went around all day, doing good
work as it went, and in the evening it came
back to the worthy gentlemen who had start
ed it out in the morning. That gentleman
paid his debt of one hundred dollars, and yet
carried home as much money as he had when
he set out; and What is more, he carried home
the very same money he had started with.—
He also carried home with him the conscious
ness that he and his Hundred Dollar Bill had
done a good day's work, and that was worth
something too.
Now, what was done with this Hundred Dollar
Bill may also be done, but in different degree
by a note or cr_in of smaller denomination—
by a five dollar bill or a quarter eagle. In
deed, the smaller note would in all probabil
ity circulate far more rapidly than the lar
ger, and t'hus in a given period discharge a
larger indebtedness in proportion—in other
words, a
f ford relief (for that is it precisely)
to a greater number of persons. Some men
find pleasure in paying their dues. They are
the men who give life to business. Others
hold their money with a hard grasp, and
only pay it out when payment is unavoidable.
They injure others without benefitting them
selves, for the less they give,' the less they
can receive; whereas if they paid out freely,
their money would return to them, as did
the Hundred Dollar Bill to the Virginia mer
chant.
THE FORTHCOMING MESSAGE.- - The' special
Washington correspondent of The .1 2 )-ess- says
it is rumored that Mr. Buchanan, in his first
annual message to Congress, will take bold
ground on the currency question ; that he
will re-affirm the principles laid down so
clearly in his celebrated speech on the Inde
pendent Treasury Bill. He believes that it
was the intention of the framers of the Con
stitution to establish a hard-money currency,
and that the action of Congress since has been
a steady departure from that intention. It
will be his object, then, to retrace the false
steps taken, and to bring the government
back to the true ground.
The issue will be made in the next Con
gress, whether State banks have the consti
tutional power to issue circulating " promises
to pay." There will be a large party to take
the negative of the argument, who will not,
it is said, yield until a decision has been given
on the question by the Supreme Court of the
United States. A general bankrupt law for
the banks will be presented for action. This
will provide a fixed legal course for putting
into liquidation insolvent banks all over the
Union.
The Five Points
The following paragraph, from the New
York Express, gives an idea of the fearful ac
cretion of vice and squalor in the field of la
bor occupied by the Five Points' Mission :
"In attending to his duties recently, Mr.
Pease found A dying woman in a foul apart
ment in Cow Bay, occupied also by eight
other women and one man, all drunken and
debased and infamous in the last extreme.—
In the upper end of the same pestilent court,
or close, were found, in fifteen rooms,. twenty
three fami lies, making an aggregate of 17.0, per
sons, or twelve to a room! In five of these
fifteen rooms, intoxicating liquors were kept
fur sale ! Indescribable filth, privation,. dis
ease and indecency reigned through.them all.
. Yet seventeen children from. these rooms at
tend the schools of the House of Industry.—
In eleven other-rooms were-eighteen families,
and in nearly half of these rooms spirits
were sold. In one of the garrets lived two
negroes with eleven, abandoned white women.
In twelve other rooms were found twenty
four families, consisting of 124 persons.—
Here were two blind women, two just past
the peril of child-birth, and seventy-one chil
dren, only eight of whom. attended any
school."
Here, it would seem, is a field large enough
for the exercise of sham or real philanthropy,
without going to the cotton fields or rice
plantations of the South for subjects to shed
crocodile tears over. %Then will charity begin
at home ?
Ozlgin of Thanksgiving Day.
The New York Times, and some of the
Philadelphia papers have expressed their dis
approbation of the appointment of a Thanks
giving day. They think a day of fasting
and prayer would be more appropriate, as
though in the present distress we had nothing
to be thankful for. To those who think thus,
the following history of the origin of Thanks
giving day may prove instructive:
When New England was first planted, the
settlers met with many difficulties and hard
ships, as is necessarily the ease when a civil
ized people attempt to establish themselves
in a wilderness country. Being piously dis
posed, they sought relief from Heaven, by
laying their wants, and distresses before the
Lord in frequent set days of fasting and
prayer. Constant meditation and discourse
on the subject of their difficulties kept their
minds gloomy and discontented, and like the
.children of Israel, there were many disposed
to return to the land which persecution had
determined - them to abandon.
At length, when it was proposed in the
assembly to proclaim another fast, a farmer
of plain sense, arose and remarked that the
inconvenience they suffered, and concerning
- which they had wearied Heaven with their
complaints, were not so great as might have
been expected, and were diminishing every
day as the colony strengthened; that the
earth began to reward their labors, and to
furnish liberally for their sustenance; that
the seas and rivers were full of fish, the air
sweet, the climate wholesome; above all, they
were in the full enjoyment of liberty, civil
and religious. He therefore thought, that
reflecting and conversing on these subjects
would be more profitable, as tending to make
them more contented with their situation ;
and that it would be more becoming the
gratitude they owed to the Divine Being, if,
instead of a fast, they should proclaim a
Thanksgiving. His advice was taken ; and ,
from that day to this, they have in every
year observed circumstances of public happi
ness sufficient to furnish employment for a
thanksgiving day.
A Deplorable Picture,.
The following is an extract from a letter, of
a highly respectable and intelligent citizen of
Baltimore to a friend in Washington city.—
It gives a deplorable picture of Baltimore.
But, deplorable as it is, the picture is not a
new one to our readers:
BALTIMORE, Nov. 5, 1857.
"A word now with regard to the election.
In this city I had hoped, from the promises
of Mayor Swann to the Governor and citi
zens, that the democrats would have been
protected in the attempt to exercise the proud
privilege of an American citizen—viz; the
-.elective franchise; but how villainously have
we been deceived! Not only have thousands
been denied that privilege whose misfortune
it was to be born in =other clime, (many of
whom had resided here for twenty, thirty,
and forty years,) but others who were born
on American soil to the number of several
thousand, some of whOm- had been engaged
in the war of 1812—'14, and defended this
very city from the invasion of a British sol
diery. Th9B Iknow of my own personal ob
servation. The plan adopted to deter such
from voting was to approach every person
with a Know-Nothing ticket, and if they re
fused taking them to - issue threats, and to
drive them from the place of voting.
In one instance, in a family of my acquaint
ance, where three sons of a lawful age, and
a father, who had lived here for ten or twelve
years, they were all compelled to flee from
' the polls without voting, rather than be beat
en from them.. In every instance almost
where a foreigner approached the polls he
was knocked down and beaten in a most
brutal manner, and . half grown youths dis
guised and made to vote the know-nothing
ticket.
The torch of the incendiary lighted up
the dwellings of the Democratic voters ere
the close of the day's brutality on the part of
the ruffians. The papers do not contain one
sixteenth part of the doings of yesterday,
simply because the reporters were deterred
by fears of being assaulted hereafter. The
intelligence from other portions of the State
is cheering to the Democrats more especially
from the north western, as you will perceive
by to-morrow'S papers. This city is a doom
ed city, and many will be compelled to go
from it for peaceful security and the exercise
of a freeman's rights. God knows I desire
to leave it, and I trust in God that something
will turn up to my advantage by which I may
be enabled to do so."
AFFECTING INCIDENT.—The editor of the
New York Independent, in the leading article
of that paper of last week, says :
A friend of ours was called upon the other
day for assistance, by the wife of a mechan
ic, a saddler, who had always had work
enough at this season of the year, with ample
wages, but who was now entirely out of em
ployment. The gentleman offered to give the
husband work, for a day at least, in his own
cellar, splitting wood, piling coal, &c. But
the man had pawned his last coat for a trifle
—as well as his watch, and all his furniture
—and must borrow another before he could
come. The next day he came, in the gentle
man's absence, and worked till afternoon ;
when, just when he was leaving the house,
he asked the domestics to give him some
bread, if they had any, as he had eaten
nothing till then all day. Another friend of
ours was compelled the other day to dismiss
nine of the men employed by him in
_manu
facturing a certain article, Said he, 'I dis
missed all the unmarried ones, and I shall
retain the others as long as I can. J3at it
was pitiful to see the suspense and fear of
those men as I went up to pay them last Sat
urday night. Their faces actually whitened
before me, in the evening light; they could
not look me in the face, fearing that I should
say I had no more work for them.'
ytm.lt is said that the seat of Mr. Ruther
ford, of the Dauphin district, in the State
Senate, will be contested by Mr. Haldeman,
on the ground of fradulent voting on the part
of the Black Republicans.
yThc Brownsville, Washington and
Waynesburg Banks continue to pay specie.
From the Huron (Ohio) Reflector.
Immigration on the Plains--; , The Mor-
mou Hand Carts.
Mr. Henry Buckingham, of Norwalk,
Huron county, who went to Oregon seven
years ago, has returned by the overland route
making the journey by way of California,
in a little over one hundred days.
Mr. B. gives the following memorandum
of the number of emigrants, cattle, horses,
sheep and wagons that had passed the Devilts
Gate this season, as kept at the Mormon mail
station:
Emigrants, - . - - - 12,500
Wagons, - - - - - 950
Cattle, - - - - - G 7,000
Horses and Mules, (about) - - 2,500
Sheep, - - - - 113,000
There were several large droves of cattle
taken on speculation, hut as a general thing
the emigrants took only what they thought
they would need on the plains, and for a good
start when they got there. I noticed a few
fine blooded cattl,
About fifty wagons would have gone the
Oregon route, but were afraid of the Indians.
Nearly all the emigrants went by Soda
Springs to avoid Mormondom. There did not
seem to be much love between the Mormons
and Missourians.
The Mormon emigration is not in3luded in
the above list, which Mr. B. thinks did not
exceed 1000. He thus describes the new
propelling power which "the Lord revealed
unto the Latter Day Saints by the Prophet
Brigham" last year, whereby a Saint cap
became a "perfect hoss" on the plains—a
hand-cart train l
It was certainly the most novel and inter
esting sight I have seen for many a day. We
met two trains—one of 30 and the other of
50 carts—averaging about six to the cart.—
The carts were generally drawn by one man
and three women each, though some carts
were drawn by women alone. There were
about three women to one man, and two
thirds of the women single? It was the
most motley crow I ever beheld. Most of
them were Danes, with a sprinkling of Welsh,
Swedes and English, and were generally
from the lower classes of their countries;
scarcely one could speak English plain; most
could not understand what we said to
them.
The road was lined for a mile or two be
hind the trains, with the lame, halt, sick
and needy. Many were quite aged and
would be going slowly along supported by a
son or daughter; some were on crutches;
now and•then a mplher with a child in her
arms and two or three hanging hold of her,
with a forlorn appearance would pass slowly
along; others whose condition entitled them
to a first-class seat in a carriage, were wen
ding their way through the sand. A few
seemed in good spirits journeying to the
promised land; but the majority thought
"Jordon a hard road to travel."
Hard to Explain.
Our Republican friends, when reference is
made in their presence, to the numerous vic
tories recently won by the Democracy, tind
it rather difficult to answer them satisfac
torily. If we ask them how it came that
Gen. Packer was so triumphahtly elected,
they will answer :
`Oh, the Quakers did not vote.'
'But we have carried New Jersey, Quakers
and all ?'
'Oh, that is owing to the railroad.'
But look at New York ?'
`Oh, that is owing to the canal.'
`But we have carried Illinois ?'
'Oh, that is owing to the Germans.'
'But we have carried Indiana?'
`Oh, that is owing to the Methodists.'
'But Louisiana is also with us ?'.
'Oh, that is owing to the Catholics.'
'New York city is overwhelmingly with
us ?'
`Oh, that is owing to the Irish.'
'But Minnesota, where there are few Irish,
Germans, Catholics, no canals and few rail
roads. How does it become Democratic ?'
'Oh, that is owing to the Federal Govern
ment.'
`And Connecticut ?'
'Oh, that is owing to the Yankees.'
'And California?'
'Oh, that is a new State.'
`And Virginia ?'
'Oh, that is an old State.'
'Look at the South, which is composed of
an Anglo-Saxon population—a race unmix
ed, and where internal improvements and
.eternal salvation do not enter into politics?"
`Oh, that is owing to slavery.'
`But the north is organizing equally with
the South, in support of Mr. Buchanan ?'
'Oh, that is owing to emigration?
`But New Mexico is Democratic, where
the people came over shortly after Columbus;
and which was settled before Cape Cod?'
`Oh, that is owing to Heaven knows
what.'
Finally, the opposition run out of apolo
gies, excuses and explanations, as the Demo
cratic victories pour in, each one requiring a
different theory.—Pittsburg Post.
CRIME IN NEW YORK.-1118 increase of
crime in our midst is truly alarming, and
enough to make the stoutest heart quail.--
Within the past three days we have been
called upon to chronicle the murder of no
less than three persons, and the mortal wound
ing of four others. Where the carnival of
blood is going to end wek.now not. Citizens
can- no longer resort to the public highways
after nightfall, without the fear of sudden
death beneath the bravo's steel.. The killing
of young ITamilton in a drinking saloon in
Canal street, marked the commencement of
the bloody epoch. The following night Fran
cis Vincent was murdered in North William
street; Wm. Marshall, the negro, was mor
tally wounded in West Broadway, and a
grocer in 17th street, named Fraser, received
a fatal stab while ejecting a rowdy from his
store. Scarcely twenty-four hours had elapsed
when we were again horrified by a wholesale
butchery at a dance in W:tter street. The
following table of the names of those who•
have died, and those who are now dying
from the effects of wounds received at the
hands of assassins, will give our readers some
idea. of the extent of crime in the metropolis
since Monday morning last:-
I—Henry F. Hamilton, murdered on Ca
nal street.
2—Francis Vincent, murdered in North
William street.
3-Iklo.l - anus, murdered in Water street.
d--WilliamMarshall, (colored,) mortally
wounded, corner of West Broad Way and Ca
nal streets.
s—jno. Fraser, mortally wounded in West
Seventeenth street..
o—Richard Barrett, mortally wounded in
Water street.
7—Susan• Dempsey, mortally wounded in
Water street.--N. &raid, Nor. 21.
Posting the Books.---The Next House of
Representatives.
Elections for members of the House of
Representatives of the next Congress have
now been held in all the States of the Union,
with the following result:
Dem. Blk Rep. K. N.
Maine, 6
New Hampshire, 3
Vermont, 3
Massachusetts, , 11
Rhode Island, 2
Connecticut, 2 2
New York, 12 21
New Jersey, 3 2
Pennsylvania, 15 10
`Delaware, 1
_Virginia, 13
South Carolina, . 6
Florida, 1
Arkansas, 2
Missouri, 4 1 2
Illinois, 5 4
lowa, . 2
Wisconsin, 3
Indiana, 6 . 5
Ohio, 8 13
Michigan, 4
California, 2
Texas, 2
Kentucky, 8 2
Tennessee, 7 3
North Carolina, 7 1
Alabama, 7
Georgia, 6 2
Mississippi, 5 .
Maryland, 3 3
Louisiana, 3 1
The House of Representatives consists of
234 members-118 members constituting a
majority. It will be seen from the above
table that the Democrats have a clear major
ity of twenty-two over the combined vote of
the Black Republicans and Know Nothings.
This majority will be increased to twenty-five
at an early period of the session by the ad
mission of the three democratic members
from the new State of Minnesota. It may
be added as a most significant fact, that six
of the seven Territories of the United States
will be represented in the next Congress by
Democratic delegates.— Tfrashington 01,1011.
ND'..The political representation in the IT
S. Senate is as follows:
Dem. Opp
Maine,
New Hampshire,
Vermont,
Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, • 1
Connecticut, '
New York,
New Jersey, 2 •
Pennsylvania, 1
Delaware, 2
Virginia, 2
South Carolina, 1 Vacancy,
Florida, 2
Arkansas, 2
Illinois, 1
lowa, 1
Wisconsin,
Indiana, 2
Ohio, 1
Michigan, 1
California, 2
Texas,
Missouri, 2
Kentucky,
Tennessee,
North Carolina, 2
Georgia,
Maryland,
Louisiana,
A labama,
Mississippi,
35 25
Democratic majority, 10,
111)-:*200(0)0kv4Wei, , . Soon fp(*),;
Colonel Alexander, commander of the van
guard of the Utah expedition, was within
thirty miles of Fort Bridger, which place is
occupied by Mormon troops, when he receiv
ed the following Fetter from Brigham Young,
through the commander of the " Na,uvoo Le
gion :"
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, UTAU TERRITORY,
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 29,1857.
To the Officers Commanding the Forces now
Invading Utah Territory :
Sir—By reference to the act of Congress
passed Sept. 9, 1850, organizing the Territory
of Utah, you will find the following :
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that the
executive power and authority in and over
said Territory of Utah shall be vested in a
Governor, who shall hold his office for four
years, and until his successor shall be ap
pointed and qualified, unless sooner removed
by the President of the United States. The
Governor shall reside within said Territory,
shall be Commander-in-Chief of the militia
thereof, &c., &c.
I am still the Governor and Superintend
ent of Indian Affairs for the Territory, no
successor having been appointed and qualified,
as provided by law, nor have I been removed
by the President of the United States. By
virtue of thesauthority thus vested in me, I
have issued and forwarded to you a copy of
thy proclamation,. forbidding the entrance of
armed forces into the Territory. This you
have disregarded. I now further direct that
you retire forthwith from the Territory, by
the same route you entered. -
Should you deem this impracticable, and
prefer to remain until spring in the vicinity
of your present encampment—Block Fork on
Green River—you can do so in peace and un
molested,. on condition that you deposit your
arms and ammunition with Lewis Robinson,
Quartermaster General of the Territory, and
leave in the spring as soon as the condition
of the roads will permit you to march ; and
should you fall short of provisions, they can
be furnished you upon making the - proper ap
plication therefor,
.Gen. D. 11. Wells will forward this and re
ceive any communication• you may have to
make,
Very respectfully,
BRIGUAR YOUNG,
Governor and Superintendent of Indian .Af
fairs.
The following• is the proclamation referred
to by Brigham Young :
PROCLAMATION' BY THI GOVEANOR
Citizens of Utah :—We are invaded by a
hostile force, who are evidently assailing us
to accomplish our overthrow and destruction.
For the last twenty-fiVe years we•have trusted
officials of the government, from constables
and justices to judges, Governors, and Presi
dents, only to be scorned, held in derision ) in-
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suited - and betrayed. Our houses have been
plundered and then burned, our fields laid
waste, our principal men butchered while un
der the pledged faith of the government for
their safety, and our families driven from
their homes to find that shelter in the barren
wilderness and that protection among hostile
savages which were denied them in the boast
ed abodes of Christianity and civilization.
The constitution of our common country
guarantees unto us all that we do now or have
ever claimed. If the constitutional rights
which pertain unto us as American citizens
were extended to Utah according to the• spirit
and meaning thereof, and fairly and impar
tially administered, it is all that we could ask
—all that we have ever asked.
Our opponents have availed themselves of
prejudice existing against us, because of our
religious faith, to send out a formidable host
to accomplish our destruction. We have had
no privilege nor opportunity of defending
ourselves from the false, foul and unjust as
persions against us before the nation..
The government has not condescended to
-cause an investigating committee or other
person to inquire into and ascertain the truth,
as is customary in such cases. We know
those aspersions to be false •, but that avails
us nothing. We are condemned unheard,
and forced to an issue with an armed merce
nary mob, which has been sent against us at
the instigation of anonymous letter-writers,
ashamed to father the base, slanderous false
hoods which they have given to the public—
of corrupt officials, who have brought false
accusations against us to screen themselves
in their own infamy, and of hireling priests
and howling editors, who prostitute the truth
for filthy lucre's sake.
The issue which has thus been forced upon
us compels us to resort to the great first law
of self-preservation, and stand in our own de
fence—a right guaranteed unto us by the ge
nius of the institutions of our country, and
upon which the Government is based. Our
duty to ourselves, to our families, requires us
not to tamely submit to be driven and slain
without an attempt to preserve ourselves.—
Our duty to our country, our holy religion,
our God, to freedom and liberty, requires
that we should not quietly stand still and see
these fetters forging around us which are cal
culated to enslave and bring us in sul t jection
to an unlawful military despotism, such as
can only emanate, in a country of constitu
tional law, from usurpation, tyranny and op
pression.
Therefore I, Brigham Young, Governor and
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Ter
ritory of Utah, in the name of the people of
the United States, in the Territory of Utah,
forbid
_
First—All armed forces of every descrip
tion from coming into this Territory, under
any pretence whatever.
Second—That all the forces in said Terri
tory hold themselves in readiness to march at
a moment's notice to repel any and all such
invasion.
Third—Martial law is hereby declared to
exist in this Territory from and after the pub
lication of this proclamation, and no person
shall be allowed to pass, or repass into or
through or from this Territory without a per
mit from the proper officer.
Given under my hand and seal, at Great Salt
Lake City, Territory of Utah, this fifteenth
day of September, A. D. eighteen hundred
and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the eighty
second. BRIGHAM YOUNG.
The following is Col. Alexander's reply to
Brigham Young :
Headquarters Tenth Regiment Infantry,
Camp Winfield, on Ham's Fork,
October 2, 1857. .
Brigham Young, Esq., Governor of Utah Ter-
ri tory ;
Sir :—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of September
29, 1857, with two copies of a proclamation
and one of the laws of Utah, and have given
it an attentive consideration. I am at -ires
ent the senior and commanding officer of the
troops of the United States at this point, and
I will submit your letter to the General com
manding as soon as he arrives here.
In the meantime, I have only to say that
these troops are here by the order of the Pres
ident of the United States, and their further
movements and operations will depend entire
ly upon orders issued by competent military
authority. Very respectfully,
The News from Utah.
Front the Nebraska News, October 24
We learn by the arrival of the Salt Lake
mail that the advance party of some thirty or
more United States troops sent out during the
summer, have been driven out from Salt Lake
City. Brigham is preparing to receive the
whole posse of the United States troops. He
declares vengeance upon all heretics. Our
informant tells us that robberies and murders
are frequent on the plains by the Mormons
and Indians. Five hundred United States
troops have started for Utah ; but these are
thought to be a force totally inadequate to
quell disturbances at Salt Lake, and it is not
expected that this small force will reach, this
season, the Mormon hornet's nest. They are
to winter upon Fall ri'ver.
We have late intelligence by express, sent
to Messrs. Russell and Waddell, says the
Leavenworth (Kansas) Times, that three of
their trains, consisting of seventy-five wagons,
in charge of Dawson, Simpson, a nd Barrett,
containing government stores for the army en
route for Salt Lake City, were captured and
burned by the Mormons at Hand's forks of
Green river, on the 10th of Oct. Five wagons,
and sufficient rations to reach Fort Laramie,
were allowed the drivers and those connected
with the trains, and ton minutes given them
to leave.
They have burnt all the government stores,
but did not offer to hurt any of those connect
ed with the trains, saying that they did not
wish to spill blood, unless one of the saints
should be killed, and then they would anni
hilate the whole United States army.
They have burnt off all the grass for a dis
tance of two hundred miles around Salt Lake
City, for the purpose of starving the stock
with the Government trains.
Jesse Jones, one of Russell & Waddell's
agents, had gone to Fort Bridger for supplies.
He was detained there as a prisoner, and is
supposed to have been killed, as it is known
that he is well acquainted with all the roads
and mountain passes leading into the city.
Had the troops of Fort Leavenworth, under
Gen. Barney, been pushed on early in the
spring, Utah might have been awed into sub
mission without the sacrifice of life or prop
erty. Now we, may look for both, and along
and bloody fight besides.
P. S'.-IVe have unofficial intelligence that
the advanced trains, consisting of three hun
dred and fifty wagons, are with the troops,
and are safe,
E. R. ALEXANDER
From Washington.
Special Correspondence of the Daily Pennsylvanian
W4.BIIINGTO.N, Nov. 22, 1857.
Great preparations are being made for the
gay season,. notwithstanding the financial re
vulsion. Parlors are being newly filled up ;
milliners and mantua-makers are busy doing
their parts ; tailors are' making men by the
score ; confectioners are increasing their sup
plies; a theatre is being fitted up, several
largely attended concerts have been given,
and in short the indications are that we will
have a fashionable season.
The beads of the different departments are
busy - 'making up their annual reports. This
ig ame re occupies the greater portion of
their tim4 for it is well known that no little
reisearekr is required in making them. The
-report of the Postmaster General will be un
usually interesting. The expenditures of
that department ter the closing fiscal year
exceed the receipts to the amount of upwards
of four millions of dollars ! This is a very
large deficiency—much greater than that of
the previous year.
The propriety of making the Colorado-River
of the West the base of our operations. against
the Mormons, is urged upon the Administra
tion with great force, since it is generally be- -
lieved that these rebels must sometime next
Spring leave Utah for Mexico, I can,• how- -
ever, hardly credit the fact that they will at
tempt to escape to the South. Should they
determine upon such a course, the chances
are that they would be intercepted long be
fore they could reach their destination. The
position of our troops, if nothing else, will be
sufficient to keep them in check.
The Mormons can fight best in their own ,
strongholds, and it is quite certain now that
they will he able to keep our troops at bay,
until spring, but after that they will be forc
ed to change their tactics—to fight on the de
fensive instead of the offensive, and when
that takes place, they will be forced to•beat
a retreat, And the safest retreat to which they
can go is the Russian possessions.
It is generally understood that bills will be
introduced into Congress, at an early day,•for
the organization of two new territories—Ari--
zonia and Sierra Madra.
From the Sacramento Age, 0ct.16.•
Mormon and Indian Alliance.
Twenty Thousand Indians Ready to Take the'
Field Against the United Slates Troops—
Women to be butchered.
Yesterday we had an interview with a gen-•
tleman from Carson Valley who, from inti- -
macy with Mormon families, has some knowl-•
edge of their future designs and plans of
operation. If his conclusions be correct,•
not only the settlers east of the mountains,,
hut even the people of this State, will have'
reason to deprecate the exasperation of those"
American Bedouins. lie says that the Mor-•
mons of Carson Valley and San Bernardino
have sold their cattle and property for nearly
nothing, and, at the bidding of their chief,
have repaired to Salt Lake, with the secret
design of re-organizing, arming, equippin
returning, murdering And plundering their
Gentile enemies. They-declare that, lbr ev-•
ery Saint slain by the United, States troops,,
ten Gentile women shall make atonement:
that they will first exterminate the troops
from the east, then come west, and in preda
tory bands, allied with Indians, they will
ravage the border, rob, plunder and murder,
until they shall have replenished the Lord's.
treasury, and revenged insults put on his cho
sen people.
Of their ability to execute this threat we
have but little doubt. At.the order of their
leader and prophet, they dan muster 15,000
men, armed with the most effective instru
ments of destruction. They have many
thousands of the finest horses, trained to
camp service; they have,' a foundry where
cannon and shells are cast; a powder mill
and a factory, where revolving rifles and pis
tols are manufactured, equal to those made
at Hartford. They have every munition of
war, and necessary provision and means of
transportation, within themselves, and even
the women and children are instructed in
the use of arms. Add to this their geograph
ical position. To reach Salt Lake, from the
east, it is necessary to pass through a canon
of twenty-five miles, under hills so steep and
rocky that a dozen men could hurl down an
avalanche of stones on an approaching cara
van ; and even in the event of several thous
and troops reaching the valley; the beseiged,
with their herds, would take to the moun
tains, and, reinforced by their savage allies,
would, in turn, besiege their beseigers, and
Cut off supplies until the invaders had starv
ed oat,
They have, it is said, 20,000 Indian allies,
whom they are ready to furnish with arms
and horses on an emergency. These Indians
are partially instructed in the Mormon reli
gion—enough to make them superstitious in
regard, to the God of a superior race, yet
modifying none of their ferocity. With al
lies like these and fighting for their homes,
and, according to the belief of the ignorant,
under the direct supervision of the God of
Battles, and from the ramparts with which
nature has surrounded them, it is easy to
conceive what would be the fate of a few
thousand troops, who traveled a thousand
miles to fight their own countrymen,, brave
as themselves, as well armed, better used to
field life, and stimulated by their love of home
and family, and assured of victory by the
revelations of their prophets,
A CANADIAN VERDICT—SPECIAL 'PROVISION
FOR A FAMILY.—We find in the Toronto Globe
and the Montreal Transcript some interesting
details of another action a.gaiiiskihe Great
Western Railroad Company, to recover dam
ages for the death of Mx. Alexander Grant,,
caused by the terrible accident at the D. esjar,
dins bridge. The action was brought by
Mrs. Elizabeth Grant, the widow of• the de
ceased, It appeared in evidence that Mr.
Grant was a man of great industry, ability
and foresight.. He had commenced business
as a gardener,, penniless, seventeen years
ago, but he realized sufficient to commence a
curiosity store on Goat Island, at the Niagara
Falls. In it he acquired a considerable
amount of property,, and at the time of his
death was making $3OOO or $4OOO per an
num, in the regular course of his business.
He left behind property worth about $33,000
and debts to the amount of $13,000. But he
was not alive to meet the latter,, and certain
mortgages being due, his property had - to be
sold, leaving his wife and children—of whom„,
four were- girls under 16- yews of age—. l
almost destitute. The jury, after half an
hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for
the plaintiff. Damages-as follows:
For the widow - - - - $ 6 , 000
Ist child . 400
2d do, Y 600
3d do. 1,000,
4th do. 1,200
6tb. do, 2,000