Show hor bor 4 AFFAIRS AT CAMP FLOYD CAMP FLOYD april 21 1860 HON hox E SMITH DEAR SIR SIB the weather here during the past few days has been quite pleasant thus affording every advancing with the preparatory arrangements for the removal of the troops which are being vigorously pushed forward the order and discipline pline enforced are truly gratifying and speak in high terms in favor of the commanding officer bat col C F smith and his associates there is I 1 believe a general feeling of congratulation among the tr troops s composing the companies ordered from uta utah at the prospect of leaving as they call it this godforsaken god forsaken country 12 their stay here is esteemed by them as ast thoy thol hoit holt it were a term of banishment fair fairfield ifield adjoining camp floyd lloyd presents an unusually usually nn businesslike business like ilke appearance trade ia Is brisk and speculating on a small scale ig Is I 1 carried on extensively money is somewhat carce scarce as is usual about the expiration of the month and just before ray gay gayday payday pay day arrives arrifes arri arrit ies fes cs in consequence of t the e projected removal of the troops the theatre which has afforded aldor alTor ded them much amusement during the past winter and all ifie its fixtures tures being principally owned by the soldiers belonging to companies ordered to marcil march will be either disposed of at a great sacrifice crince a or left ag as a bonus to those remaining te the performances have been very credit credits able considering the disadvantages under which they have labored the actors though soldiers and required to perform their regular camp dutie dutle swill compare favorably with those of other pat ts and some same of them would unquestionably rank rauk as stars in the best tb theaters eaters the scenes daily occurring at fairfield are i quite in contrast with the order and quietness of the camp a while at the latter place you wl will ill lii se seldom adorn C nar mar hear of a row or of a shooting affray fray oray in fairfield such things are of daily and frequently of hourly occurrence probably in london or new york even in their worst i points could not be found a more revolting I 1 state slate of affairs than now exists at the town I 1 called fairfield and if names so far as practicable ti are given to designate or imply some property or quality of a town or other thing it must be conceded that fairfield fair field is altogether out of taste tha past two weeks has been most prolific in its record of casualty cas nalty outrage and crime I 1 the most notable instances of 0 which I 1 w it 11 give you in the order of their occurrence on the ath dinst ika iwa ina dispute at a gaming table tabie frank garvey drew a pistol 1 stol and gired fired two shots at one curney cunney curley Cu ie the bar tender neither of which took effect effects upon which curdey cuddey curley Cu diey returned the fire mortally wounding ills his assailant in the left breast on or about the night of the same day a passageway passage ewas was cut through the into the stable of 0 M C rumney and a valuable horse stolen A day or two afterwards while linder under the tho influence of depression of spirits a clerk in a company of the ath infantry cammi committed bitted suicide by blowing off the top of his head with bis his musket on sunday four soldiers were publicly whipped for desertion I 1 during tn ane e cavalry drill and while making a gand grand charge a horse ran off and coming in i collision with a heavy freight wagon was V knocked down throwing his rider some distance and so injuring him that his life wa was despaired despai despal red zed of the horse died ai ved led two ur three days afterwards another man was thrown I 1 and broke his bis leg at af daylight one day last week a wagon arrived from and stopped at a house of ill fame kept by a man named D of notoriety 71 the e wagon contained a woman her two children ana and a girl girt about eighteen 0 years Y ears of arre afre age who had been induced abd by flattering promis promises e s to come como to this place upon reoh learning the character of the house de signed as their future resi resl residence derice they refused to leave the wagon wagon venting their outraged beelin feelings a in bitter crne crie which excited the sympathy gym pathy eathy cf many bystanders the wretched ed perpetrators of or the abduction escaped coats of tar and feathers fea theis which some had bad threaten threatens J by taking themselves off the women were taken aiken charge of 0 by esq wells wao who doubtless will wui do them justice I 1 this execrable traffic in women however ong oas hundred dollars being bed ben the price pr i ce offered for each eael female delivered at that infamous establishing tab lishing is not the most de stable feature I 1 1 i of the peculiar institution of modern cerili civilize a tion as wd at and around camp floyd I 1 am fully assured that there are at fairfield many ho honorable noraVe men and possibly virtuous women bux buz bu this fact has been most clearly demonstrated in thie the history of the past few mon months fils flis that virtue in either men or women in I 1 this place lace is exceedingly rare i G gold 0 d is good and useful but when men are disposed to barter even the most sacred rights and desecrate the most end endearing earing zaring ties tics to accumulate money or to gain what they term a i i legood living it is withered to a curse and dittly becomes the root of all evil 1 an assault was made upon one Stevens from cedar fort a night or two since by some dozen fellows who having dragged him from bis ills bed beat him with clubs abs in in a most unmerciful manner and left him for dead he had bad just returned from california and if reports 1 axe are true tzue there were things transpired i i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 i I 1 i i i 1 1 it during tring his absence which were ivere the immediate cause of this brutal assault in a quarrel between two mexicans one of them stabbed the other several times inflicting mortal wounds and when in the act of fleeing was shot dead by a person standing near by such are a few rough jottings cottings jot tings from memory of incidents transpiring in this sink of prostitution tit ution drunkenness gambling and every species of pollution I 1 may write you again should anything of interest occur respectfully ac occasional FURTHER ACCOUNT OF INDIAN HOS brigham CITY april 19 1860 EDITOR DESERET NEWS the indians who assaulted the man on friday last near King sons fort fled after committing ane deed and came to a party of their tribe camped camp ed near brigham city geni west sent orders to col cummings capt nichols to arrest the desperadoes shortly after receiving the order capt nichols was informed b by tj a friendly fri iri endly indian if there is any such that at the guilty indians were then in camp but a short distance from our city whereupon he repaired with a small posse to their lodges 0 to ascertain the facts and make the arrests after some conversation with their chiefs in which the captain explained tc them his business and requested the chief to give up those who had committed the deed which they were unwilling to do captain nicols nic lols lois then left their camp and on pas passing siti through the city I 1 one of the supposed guilty was pointed out to bhim i him whom lie he caused tobe arrested immediately and taken to the office of jud judge jude 0 e smith and one man only placed over him as a guard in ashoot a shot t time three other armed indians came to the office rushed in and released the indian in custody alleging that he was innocent and in a few moments a number of warriors were in the city w m hooping and yelling having t loaded rifles in their hands apparently andio anxious u s for a fight right on the spot after a short consultation they resisted desisted des isted fired their guns in the ar air shook hands and left ter t for their wicki ups the next morning as soon as possible they left taking t up their line of march northward aati acting ng very saucy firing their guns over and around dwelling houses and surrounded a vacant house be belonging longin g ato to sheriff cutler and f ired fired about a dozen rounds into it stole two horses that night from mr chester loveland and four the next night from the willow creek geek settlement their conduct upon ton ion the whole evinces very unusual hostile feelings and while traveling through C the set itie itle ments north they were singing war songs songs i w whooping h coping yell ng ng firing guns and challenging 11 everybody for fiat fight I 1 in regard to affairs in the north the weather is cold and the farmers are only about haie hale through seeding it takes all day for cattle to fill themselves on the range those that work have yet to be fed As ever J C WRIGHT FROM GREEN RIVER COUNTY extracts from a letter received from a traveling correspondent dated millersville Millers ville green river county U T april 1018 10 1860 GO ED news we left great salt bait lake city on the 21 2 1 dinst at noon in company with gen eldredge add and others for the states that night we camped near lambs mill on the parleys park road the next morning before daylight snow commenced falling ii a i d con COB linued without cessation through the day making the traveling very bad as the snow was soft and deep ble bie the tha company had to hire ox teams ta take their wagons through the park and over to the weber at the mouth of echo we met with J L stoddard and others from farmington who uha were waiting for usand us and with whom ve have traveled in company thus far 0 i yesterday yesterday evening four or five of the company stopped I at vort fort bridger 10 ridger on business but had not been there two autes kutes batore one I 1 of the company isaac bullock was knocked down tw ce and two others struck by a man mail who was agn e entire tire stranger to them the cause for this unceremonious pugilistic ma manifestation niresta was the hatred of I 1 tae ane operator to the mormons cormons Mor mons of which community he supposed that they were members they thought best to leave as soon as convenient of course not very good natured natu aatu red tho no one was badly hurt hurl from what they saw and heard beard they readily came to the conclusion that it was not a very ery cry safe place for any person who was suspected as being a mormon all he hell heil is evidently out for imon noon in this region and those passing pa this way will do well to govern themselves accordingly at the mail station on muddy twelve miles milca west of fort bridger erive cr we saw thirty sacks of mail matter I 1 which the keeper of the station informed us had haa been there about two or three weeks many of the sacks were badly torn and papers and pamphlets i were scatter scattered ed about the warehouse as if they were of no use or value we saw baw papers and periodicals directed to citizens of 0 great salt lake city and others to camp floyd among those that were thus scattered about such mail mall conveying would not be tolerated long in any other country or part of the union but for utah anything will do and be all right seemingly excepting g the tram transportation ort atlon of the mails I 1 across the conti contZ continent ilent according to contract and we shall probably find other deposits de of mail sacks before reaching the frontier the season in this part of the territory is s cold and backward the whole country is covered with snow and the roads are very bad the company is now moving ahead all well R RL L |