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Show will he made the base of operations against the mormous and a strong military movement will be mal in the spring from the -:PkciEc side." San Francisco paper, j Another paper state 't&aifc "tite-mormons "tite-mormons will leave Salt Lake tnd ! make their way to Sonora, a province pro-vince in Mexico and advises means to cut off their retreat" January 31, ' 1858. Today the mail arrived from the East and we have the following from elder John E. Young, written in San Francisco, Cal. He says: "a few months since a few men 6 in number left here for the valley with, the intention of starting a gambling hell . and house of prostitution among the mormons, and what is strange is that upon .their arrival at Ogden they met with a hearty welcome that is, they were conducted con-ducted with due courtesy to the Penitentiary, where they were kindly relieved of 24 revolvers, four thousand dollars in gold and all of their gambling apparatuses." ' ' Missionary. V , To Be Continued.) j Written for Th Union. ; Incidents. Continued. Honolulu, Sand wich . Islands, Thursday, January 7th, 1858. Fast-day. There were a large turn out of natives, both saints and sinners, when we had a good time. Many confessed their sins and wept like children and wanted to renew their covenants, whereupon 22 native saints came forward and were re-baptized by elder John S. Woodbury. " The same day we had the following in a California paper, saying that 72 wagonalpaded with supplies for the army, while crossing cross-ing the plains, had been destroyed by 300 mormons, acting under the direction of Bill Hickman and Lot Smith, two noted leaders of the "Danite Band," or destroying angels; that this took, place about the 4th or 5th of October, without the shedding of blood, for the i reason that there was no resistance made against the mormons and that this act of the mormons and some others of a more startling character have solved the troublesome trouble-some Question '.'what shall be done with' the mormons?" "and' have made the answer an easy one. By overt acts they have now fully declared their treason and the utmost power of the union will be brought to bear to. crush out their rebellion and punish its infamous in-famous leaders." 1 On the 15th we had the following: follow-ing: United States soldiers,' many of them deserters from Fort Brid-ger, Brid-ger, have joined the mormons, by whom they are well treated," and that "the present disposition is to call out valunteers from California, TFashington and Oregon to serve in the Mormon war with General Joseph Lane at their head. President Presi-dent Buchanan in his message takes the strongest possible ground in favor of a, vigorous movement for the subjection of the Salt Lake rebels. It is now certain that California |