| Show important from 11 tile the quentio Que tio decided against an ail ettra eitra session 40 the president after af ter se several eral days consideration of the subject in cabinet council has concluded to dispense with an extra session of congress this decision being the result of deliberations limited to the fie financial embar embarras barras ras ments of the post office department caused by the failure of the appropriations from congress required for the support sup port of this important service it is 19 evident that the question of an extra session touching the ca I 1 complications of the affairs of mexico ico and central america is still subject to the developments and exigencies which may arise from day to day during the next three or four months the ile administration it thus appears has determined to assume the heavy task of weathering the storm without any appropriations for the th postal service with deficient financial resources in in other respects and without any authority or encouragement from congress to interpose for the maintenance of our rights or orthe the redress of our wrongs wrong 8 whatever may ma lie be the provocations pro vocations or mutations invitations that may be given us bonchin ton touching chin mexico central america or cuba we presume that in this decision the president has been buento to a great extent controlled by the distressed and pitiful condition of the poor chopfallen democratic party with all the efforts and plots of the factious leaders arid and president makers of the party of the last two years to break down lug his administration mr buchanan is still inclined to the exercise ot of I 1 forgiveness and charity lie he is under no obligations to the party he has no favors to asli ask nothing to fear from it and very little to expect but as aa an extra session would i probably be to the party the last parcel which breaks the camels back STAR orrice carlp mankosa Man posa oa cal I 1 mar march eh Ws 3 S kirs ANDERSON ESQ DEAR DEAB SIR SIB having had some little acquaintance with yon ou aile while you were connected vilh the missouri ammom republican n in st louls louis anil and having haling myself hud intimations while NN bile in utah in in november NON ember 1857 1837 made to me that certain persons then in salt lake city would be murdered I 1 have been re by a friend to write to you ou or some borne other reliable person pow now in in utah to obtain I 1 if possible the particulars in regard to the murder and the disposition made ot of the 1 1 bodies the circumstance as far z is as I 1 biow are about as follows two brothers thomas and john alken aiken well known throughout the southern portion of this state A J jones commonly known in ia this state as honesty jones and three other men names unknown left t this ilia state in in the latter part of the summer of 1837 to join the army in utah as they supposed the army would be there by the time they would in carson valley they fell in in witti with the mormon Mor mons who were going to the city in accordance with call with these mormons cormons they traveled to the goose creek mountains where hearing of the hostility of the mor alo r mons and consequent halt ot of the army on hams s fork they left the mormons cormons with aith whom they had been traveling and to avoil atoll trouble and delay cut acro across with the intention of leaving 0 ogden den city to their right and reach reaching Dg the army without delay or difficulty As soon as they had left camp the mor alor mons dispatched a messenger ger post haste to brigham t let him know that these men were e passing pas his majesty sent a body of men to cut them off they were arrested without resistance and brought down to the city ty I 1 was in in G S L city at the time the first night they were brought in they were kept in the social hall hafl and after that they were kept up stairs in in the house next above Towi sends hotel on the same side or of the street it if I 1 mistake not there was a saddlers saddler s shop in in the basement I 1 left salt lake city in company with wm win bell of the firm of livingston kinkead co 1 ray of gilbert S gerrish Gern sh horace dark clark and wm win huntington st of Spring springville ville as guides wilson and other I 1 left on the ath of nov and I 1 think the I 1 aiken prisoners laoner hi n M be c cIty 1 acy about ten days it was intimated to me by b mor mons that these men would be murdered I 1 a asked I 1 d on one e cotmon whose name I 1 remember I 1 b why by he thought so and it if any of these men b had ad ever abused mormons cormons in in california or elsewhere ile he said one of them had besides said and lie ile they have got in money and several first raaf animals animal all of which N we e stand i very cry much in need of just at this time but to return to the subject when we left the city it was not known publicly what hat disposition would be made of the pris ans boners but strange as it may appear before we reached san bernardino we heard that these hese men were killed and also heard beard where they were killed and to this day I 1 do not know how when or where the report got into our camp but certain it is that the next mail ail from utah corroborated the report in in every particular the report was that they were surprised and killed by the indians indiana just as they were preparing to camp at chicken creek near the sevier sev ler river rn er four of them killed dead on the spot and two escaped badly wounded and reached salt creek where they died of their wounds the next day it was also reported that brigham discharged them on condition condit fon that they would abandon the idea of going to the army arid and return to california and assuring them that they would w have no difficulty in in getting here they must have hav e been murdered about the of november 1857 1837 the widow of andrewt andrew J jones honesty jones has written to an acquaintance in this county to know the fate of her husband she wishes to know it if he was buried it if he was one of the two who reached salt creek or whether or not he was left upon the plains his flesh to be torn by the wolves and his bones to bleach in the sunshine his children of m whom hom an interesting group now mourn the untimely loss of their long absent father also express the most feeling anxiety a to know what disposition was made of the body of their father and as a relative of jones has recently lied died leaving him heir to a handsome fortune it will probably become b e necessary to establish the fact that he in dead in order that his w m odow and children may receive the benefit of his worldly goods I 1 have taken the liberty of addresS addressing ilig yo on u on this subject because I 1 believed you would woul d do all in in your power to obtain the information t so earnestly solicited by the late widow of ct a roost most excellent but unfortunate man mail i li perhaps you c could 0 u id obtain ata t hs broo from the indian agent A ant or it if ile he b ail r yet done soy so you will confer a favor I 1 by as 4 tt v gesting to him the propriety of ex exams an tt 0 into this massacre I 1 qu p your co operation cooperation is C earnestly g fh by yours most respectfully 1 was J pa layou t will at att givey particulars about the scene of the nig ott olt I 1 ol of the t h e mountain meadows as a 3 1 I passed 11 the ground a few weeks after the W 0 A A murder was committed and as 11 none 0 f body oi of emigrants escaped to tell the a 11 ll oe and this the only evidence w 1 e will ever lai 1 a 6 b be e circumstantial I 1 think I 1 tan can pro e ill 11 qua 1 elusively clu to every sed bund 1 con 0 ae greatest or that the company 01 n grants were killed by white men d till i 1 cor it t was the most cruel cou col yoo bi oded lt und w treacherous wholesale murder that ever erfe blott ii itt the dark catalogue of crime I 1 have notes and observation 41 11 SPI t hi A down on the meadows meadow together taa 0 ca micco v versa lions held with different 8 Morino 10 1 be e nj on the subject which would u le f sio I 1 i ite resting to americans and aich chich i 1 consent would cause great u fl 9 among tie tic k saintly murdene mur murl dere ereis a a 5 hoping to heir hear from yon soon jj fl I 1 remain fee J j y GS G S L CITY april 15 ah P 0 EDITOR VALLEY TAY TAS craving been a resident of tins this tenito t I 1 for some time and consequently seem 9 aai hearin hearing much to prove at I 1 least east to my iny sat is ro faction that a great many of the rapo fijn circulation ira ltv states and 31 k this ye peculiar culiar people are unquestionably rug di i rb true that prejudice often causes I 1 iian naan to allow his thoughts ta run out 0 E the channel but when prejudice gets eo farak into the minds of the leaders of a like the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 dhati hat it is is fy ce sary for the future welfare of a man s soul 01 to 0 o rob him of his substance under the becu liar name of tithing and then if he dares differ diffor with them in in any a ny of their reli oa 06 views to deliberately murder him then I 1 ny y ea it is is time for such ol officers racers a mascair rovern mg e has been pleased to sends send to their duty as they have hate commenced it fearlessly mt and faithfully Tine only fault being t government goi ern ment that such officers ers with such each as an 11 escort were not sent yew years ago id I 1 j ii Th grare tre arena abt a art az t w S community who ll 11 hiep a letter to the f h territorial enterprise from a person in in vasa ahk in city styling himself erin in behalf of tl tb i cormons mormons Alor mons V ho is etker in acquainted v alg G the mormon alio ho woodil not have hate tho ihli C why surely there 13 1 w 3 one oils is aniM gite te the bonmon leaders but Bu batalas talas alas it ajsa is arai aft i out game ahmoi amongst ast thet plead I 1 L obedi inie uce A alien lien they canut anthel pit y now itow if the editor of the entel arke aik y right in his surmise sas to nouh who Erini siJ sJ t I 1 think lie he knows this erin showed s 0 haloj T ally nicely and obedience to a nicety aorl I 1 j had bad an ocular and an a auricular uri cular cre tion of it such men as erin who are thi I 1 first to treat for peace and good will dorthi peopled people ought to be the th e first amongst thel a people to practice th that I 1 t peace and good vl they now nom sue for I 1 lie Is says say we have hate at hered to the united unite d states 4 have we aisted proper authority f 7 united states laws adhered tol to heaven i a 4 the mark parrish murder trial rants if when have we resisted pro kropi authority oh echo kanyon thou coult a tale unfold but allow me to introduce a little poe by byway way of a charge change J j to the good old tune of du duda da f then let us he be on lund hand by tung toung t to gaud egand and it if our oin enemies do wear appeal well drive alieni f from 1 the lanil well now it has struck me very forcibly for cillS I 1 many a time that I 1 am a gentile andew and fit 1 I stay round here but is is it mormon Mormont tle lei aaion that allows it Ts Is it the liberty ot ol out ou P aunly m which is is eyer every arm where here respected respect el ea tha fia allows it 2 A I 1 would answer in in the la language of sa lovingood nary time there ar are a felt hundred acres of land in this country that have been cultivated with gitlic vit lic car and attention the fruits thereof are not 7 palatable to the saints scattered berer abru the proprietors of the two farms 1 being bei nIMIA nia I 1 in favor of 0 the drill farming for crops 1 1 withstanding they answer the purposes it I 1 were intended for I 1 one of these farms is is situated about ft ty div five miles southwest south west the other about one 0 hundred and ten east the proximity imi of t these b ese gentile farms te t zion render it necta 4 1 1 sary on account of trade to have that 11 w be ty in all things w m aich were unknown in utah s before at least since the reign of M 0 r M D 0 ism am be I 1 e hoping that to you yon may still continue light to the unenlightened gentiles E I 1 remain yours |
