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Show CALIFOBNIA. We copy tho following; which was represented as "jiumcrousjy sighed," from tho G. S, L. City Correspondence of tho San Francisco HcrahU ',fTo OsNKaM, A. S. Johnstok, Commanding Command-ing the Department pj" Utau: 'Sta; W& the undersigned residents of Great Suit Luke City, represent to you General, that our Hveff nre in peril every moment in. this city. Within the last few tlays two of our people have, been shot down in the streets; one of them had a Suit depending against JJrighom Young and other leading Mormons; the other was a soldier of your army, who was in this city to answer an indictment preferred by a Mormon jury, for ejecting a woman trespasser from a military reserve. Outrages Out-rages are constantly occurring, "We are citizens of the United States and entitled to its protection. Wo chum that protection from you, tho General commanding the military forces in this Territory. 'What your instructions from tho Government may be, tt is not for us to know, but we feel assured that 'with or without instructions, and by an inherent power inseparable from you as a Military Commander, ypu can extend to us the protection for which we ask. We believe that bands of murderers and assassins, organized, controlled and directed by the Mormon leaders, are kept ready and in waiting to take our lives whenever they shall see fit to do so. We are not afraid, but we feel unsafe, and we earnestly request re-quest you, as well on our own account as on account of your soldiers and officers, whom we have to protect here at the peril, of our jives, to station immediately ia thia eiiy;jk,,toilttary force adequate to. eur protection. "Very respectfully; sir, yotir obediettts. "Great Salt Laktf City, Aug, i I , ,8fi4M Tho trobps belonging to Fort - Cirook had. had a brush, with the, Indians in Shasta Cp, . Thirteen. Indian! said .to bb killed; - , - . 5 - s i r . . '' Tiuom.GBSTtEOTra'dALi?6niJlA. --Mossrav Grcelyy J5ana and " Taylor haVp bcenWying compliments in per son to, the, Golden State,. v' JCho - Sacra-mcptb Sacra-mcptb Unibn anticipates 'some interesting inter-esting literaturb is:thb resujt. , , Wo-'aro indebted ''to; tho,. Sacramento Union fpr tUq; f bllpwing interesting ptectf of infprma'tipnfi-i. ' , .a JSlphMoK -ATUQQixjf,-A loiter in tho Fort :Smith Times states that in the midst of tho Mpunlain Mcadow mas3tt-c.re mas3tt-c.re tt g'rl thirteen or fpurteen years eld throw herself upon John I). Leo (the captain of the band of murderers and a iTanito Saint), and plead, for her lifoi after seeing her fathbr,- mother and brothers murdered;' lice took her into tho bushes, robbed her. of that' jewel which to a virtuous girl is doarer than life, and after: satisfying! liis, beastly desires, deliberately cut her throat, and left her weltering in her life's blood. Company E., Sixth Infantry, wcrp under orders to movo from Sah Bor-r nardinb to Fott Mojavc, on the Colorado. Color-ado. Indian Affairs Nooth. The Red Bluff "Beacon," speaking of the late achievements pf Captain Brcckon-. ridge'a company in Tulare county, says: "The company enly cPnslsted of abpufr nine, but during their short campaign' they killed twpnty-ni.no Indians and wounded about twenty more, a great mahy of them seyerly. Among ihe lulled and wouhded there were only three or fourwomcn and children, and thqy would havo been scared could tho men havo killed tho bucks without hurting them. Thoy ulso took thirteen women and children to the reservation. John Brockenridge, in a card in the Red Bluff "Beacon under dato of Septoraber 3d, makes tho following statement: "yhilp myself and three other mcit! whoro-in chargo 'ten Indian prisoners on Butto -creek, that had been, captured cap-tured by General Kibbe's commands-one commands-one Cain, a miner, camo to them and claimed a snnawi one of the nrisonciis and undertook to take her away, when ho was prevented from doing so by myinen'and myself. Said Cain then .went down tho creek, and in abput two bout's returned withambbpf forty-fivo.menand forty-fivo.menand Poputy Sheriff Cheese-man, Cheese-man, and took H. S. Sadorus, G. M. Strattoh, and M. Amesby and myself prispners and reloaded all the Indtans.-Said Indtans.-Said Cain took tho squaw ho claimed, on the 27th of August, to Dogtown, and was there married to her whilp her "buck'' was still alive, although shot, lam of the opinion that the only motive mo-tive tho mob had was to secure tho squaws and keop them on tho creek," ! The Late Massacbe. A correspondent corres-pondent of tho . Marysville "Express," who writos from Gravelly Ford, under dato of August 9th, says of the Indians, Indi-ans, who recently murdered an overland party: "Tho Indians aro a portion of a band known as tho Box Elder Indians. Thoy live in and round the Mormon settlements, and it is Surmised, and, I think, correctly, thattho Mormons are at tho bottom of jt, and that it. is a sequel to the .Mountain Meadow massacre.'' mas-sacre.'' Go- on, gentlemen, continue lying. Suppose you say that the. Mormons were guilty of all tho murders, rapes, robberies, burnings and villainies of you own Pacific State. Wo shall have then just as good an opinion of your veracity. |