The New York Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1857, Page 2

9 ~ “THE MORMON WAR. Additional from the Utah Expedition—Interesting Private Letter from an Officer in Camp, &o., &e., &. IMPORTANT NEWS IF TRUE. COL. JOHNSTON'S COMMAND ATTACKED BY TIE MOR- MONS—-ONE HUNDRED UNITED STATES TROOPS KILLED—COL. JOHNSTON FORCED TO RETREAT. The San Francisco papers of the 5th inst., received by the Northern Light, which arrived at this port last evening, contain the following:— The steamer Commodore, which arrived yesterday from Oregon, brought imporignt news ding the Salt Lake Expedition. % Oo. furnish us with the following despatch: — PortLann, Noy. 27, 1857. By the steamer Mountain Back, yesterday from Cas- cades, we havea report that an came from Col. of the Salt Lake ition, with intelli m (80 Jobps' Expedi that the Mormons had cut off bis train, and killed his then, and that he had been forced to retreat. The above news was sent to Col. Steptoe, at Fort Walla Walla. The Portland pay of Novy. 28 do not contain this news, but it is the enstom with eduntry weekly pa- pers to print their edition 4 day or two ahead, in or- der that it may reach country subscribers on the day of publication. Passengers assure us that such a re- port was current at Portland on the sailing of the steamer. The news was sent to Col. Steptoe, at Fort Wallawalla, from thence it was carried to the Cas- cades on the Columbia river, and from thence to Port- ' which last place it reached on the 26th of No- vember. The steamer Republic, which left Portland twelve hours later than the Commodore, confirms the circu- lation of the report, but gives no further details. We give this report as we find it, but have no faith in its truth. Our last accounts from Col. John- ston’s command were to the 8th of November. At that date he was moving towards Fort Bridger at the rate of three miles a day, and had had no collision with the Mormons. It is hardly possible that news of a later date than Nov. 8 could have reached Port- land in the brief space of nineteen days. INTERESTING PRIVATE LETTER FROM THE CAMP. Brack Fork, 16 miles from Fort Bripcrr, Nov. 7, 1857. Dear ****:—You see how slowly large masses move when clogged with broken down ox trains and debilitated mules, and snow is falling in our path. We have been wanting snow fora long time, and now we have it in abundance sufficient to protect the grass trom being burnt, and not too much to clog our march. We could not have moved a day earlier with any safety, as the Mormons stood ready to ap- ply the match to prairies of grass, which, once on fire, would have been destruction to large portions of our supplies. The enemy did not expect us to come this way, and have left us large fields of grass for our animals during our short hal! proba- bly move tomorrow. C—— C— 1 reported all the supply trains up, and the in excellent order. * * * Nosmall force can render the route safe for trains. The Mormons have their emissaries and incendiaries at every station, and™pies and sentinels on every hill, and of conrse, guafded with so little care as are supply trains generally by teamsters alone, no train unless guarded by soldiers can reach this valley without their will. Tspoke to you in my last about the Cheyenne Pass; 1 should have said Bridger’s, the route pro- posed by Bryan. Another error I made was in the map—Fort Supply is on Smith's Fork, about south from Bridger twelve miles. Both of these places are reported destr syed, but I do not believe it. The route by the Cheyenne Pass is the old Cherokee road, and is much longer than the others. The army is in good health and fine spirits. Mach, oh! wonderfully cheered by the arrival of the Co- lonel, (Johnston), who inspires confidence and gives courage where it appeared to be wanting before. He will not disappoint the expectations of the go- vernment in any manner. The officers generally are a fine set of young, active, energetic men. * * * The elements have been against us, though if they had been otherwise we could not have advanced, or rather should not. We cannot reach our destination this winter, and compelled, as we will be, to make our homes inthe mountains * * * we will come forth in the spring intact with light hearts and vigo- rousarms. * * * You have nothing to fear for us; we will winter weil, and not be trammelled in the spring by a large train. The inclemency of the season is too great to trust to keeping open communications, and, be- sides, we are not in the least sure of our messengers not falling into the hands of Mormons. * * * All our trains were near_ being destroyed. The plans were all consummated. * * * Well, good-bye till spring. We hear nothing of Cooke or the ernor. I expect we will be com- elled to winter at Bridger and send the cattle and orses to Henry's Fork. OUR UTAH CORRESPONDENCE. Sar Lake City, Oct. 8, 1857. A Mormon Account of What the Mormons are Do- Conference at Salt Lake City—The Mor- Ready for the Fight—Gen. Harney not ing mons Heard From—Exchanging Clothing and Grain | in Preparation for the Struggle—Forts Bridger and Supply Burned by the Mormons—The Inhabi- tants of the Territory on the Qui Vive—Drawing Pluck for the Present From What Is to Be One Hundred Years Hence, §&¢.—A Mormon Prophecy Sor 1915—Hew New York Will be Engulphed and a Copy of The Herald Dug Out—A New Signification for the Eagle and Goddess of Li- berty, &¢. Our semi-annual Conference terminated yesterday. The News being printed in advance of its date, to be ready for the departure of this morning’s mail, pre- vents the insertion of the Conference minutes. You will receive them by next mail, together with the sixteenth general epistle, i ¢., should we have the privilege of sending to the East another mail. Of this we are uncertain, as it may please our would-be masters to stop the Cufifornia mail, as they have, at their own good pleasnre, to show their brief authori- ty, closed up the route via Independence. We have long suffered from the tyranny of men in authority; but in the stoppage of the mail we have the satisfac- tion of seeing that the government cut off its own means of gaining important information. This is something in these days of retribution. Of the Conference, I may say it was a time o great rejoicing. Ihave never seen a better spirit prevailing with this people than that which is now daily manifest, and was particularly visible during the sessions of the Conference. The reformation began just in time to separate the tares from the wheat; and now, when faithful, valiant hearted, men are wanted, thank God the corrupt have been shaken to the East and to California in time to inflame the armies of the tyrant to rush on to their destruction ; for the Lord our God will stand by the oppressed and will “speed the right,” and if “ Old cht” does not find that ont before, he will when he rejoins the pressors of this people who have gone to their own ee ‘The brethren who spoke at Conference were filled o P with the Spirit of the Lord, and unreservedly wit- | fyi'uhe iden of their coming with such force looks rather nessed before High Heaven their determination to do right and eacrifice all things for the establishment of the Kingdom of God, and the assembled thousands made tly sir to resound with their approbative amen, Tuesday and W ednesday were days which will long be remer ed. We may never have another Opportunity of holding Coxference in the valleys where we have long and arduously labored to make home sweet; but, whether or no, [liberty on the mountains is preferred to slavery and the abomi nations which tyrants seek to intr: : and for this spirit, so abundantly habitants of the Territory, my soul p Father, Jeans Christ, the Holy Ghost, the angels of Heaven, and my tongue cries aloud by day and by night— Hosannah! Hosannah to God and the Lamb!" The brethren and sisters are exchanging freely of their abundance, so that those who were ill-provided with clothing are baing supplied by those who wer more favored with a good supply. The emigrants who have come in recently, welt supplied with many NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1857. command of the advanced troops, but he is before this acquainted with our decision to keep out of the valleys the armed bands he has brought up to mountains. 1 enclose you two copies of nor’s proclamation, by which you will poly true pee. Copies of the same, with ot! things, ve been sent on to him for his edification. If had any doubts on our intentions, they were dissi- patet on Saturday last. Having learned that the invaders were calculating to winter in forts bees and and Supply, the boys went out and burned our im- nen there, so that their hopes of resting com- fortably at our expense will have to undergo some slight modification. in sight of the mercenary ban In the East you will probably be well posted on all that is going tobe done with us. We have learned enough of the dreadful things; but there isa com- mon saying that it takes two to make a bargain, When it is all over both sides will be better able to speak with precision. The inhabitants of the Terri- tory are on the qui vive, very diligent in every good work, and the right men in the right piace everywhere. Life without the liber- ties for which our fathers fought and died is not desirable. We would be unworthy of our honor- ed sires if for the perpetuation of those rights we would shrink, in the hour of trial, where they are not coly threatened, but a giant effort is made to wrest them from us. In 1845, during our heavy trials in Nauvoo, and immediately preceding our expulsibn from that place, a prophecy was revealed in a vision to one of us as to what would be the state of things one hun- dred years hence. A new “temple of the Lord in Zion™ was revealed, the towers sparkling with dia- monds—a pillar of fire, as the sun rose ssti- cally, mellowed into a whide cloud, as a shade for the temple from the heat. The dwellings had the ap- pearance of precious stones, and the streets glittered with gold. The great earthquake mentioned by Jobn and other prophets had levelled the mountains and the whole earth, and the sea rolled back as it was in the Beginning, A magnificent feast day of the Lord was given to Joseph and Hyrum Smith for being martyred. In digging for the foundation of the new temple, near where the great cityof New York once stood, a large square tin box was dug up, containing a copy of the Heranp. It contained a record of fires destroying $25,000,000 of property, and a large number of murders, suicides, riots, robberies, hints of expected war and columns of divisions among the churches about slave! \- derdonking, and right of way; and the Archer of Paradise remarks that all that was transacted in the “last days of Babylon, before Satan was bound.” A_ silver coin was found, containing the words “United States of America” and “Half Dollar” around the image of an eagle on one side, and a woman sitting on the word “Liberty,” and holding up a night cap between thirteen stars over 1845 on the other. » only idea that could be gathered from all this was that the government had fallen from the splendor of an eagle to the pleasure of women, and was holding up the night cap asatoken that the only liberty enjoyed then was starlight liberty, “be- cause their deeds were evil.” Another coin had the appearance of gold, with “Five Dollars” upon it; but it was found to be brass. The prophets awoke per- fectly enamored of the vision, and now believe im- plicitly that it will be realized; that the day shall come When there will not be a Canaanite in the land, and when we shall occupy unmolested our Temple of Zion. MORE MORMON CORRESPONDENCE. ‘From the San Francisco Chronicle.) The following is a copy of a letter written by Elias Smith, who is the Postmaster at Salt Lake City, to Silas Smith, one of the Mormon elders who arrived here from the Sandwich Islands, whither he has been as a mission- ary. Elias Smith is acousin of the famous Mormon pro- phet, Jo. Smith. The letter will be found tocontain much interesting intelligence, and also corroborates the pre- viously received information to the effect that the Mor- mous intend to resist the United States forces:— Groat Saut Lake Crrv, Sept. 6, 1857. Bro. Sitas—This evening, after supper and by the dim light of a candle, I sit down to write you some of the news of the day, aithough I hardiy know where to direct it that you may receive it at the earliest date. My health is none the best. My wives and children are well; so are Mary Jane and George, who live with us. Sarah has gone home—was well; as also your folks, one and all, afew days since; and it is generally healthy in and throughout the mountains, although death takes away, now and then, one of the Saints. Among others, on Fricay last,the 3d inst., Hilevette, wife of Jesse J. Fuller, died at Provo. Her husband left home on the 25th of August, with a company of fifty men, under command of Capt. Joreph Clark, to guard in the emigration and look out for Uncle Sam's army, which has been preparing to come to Utah all summer, to teach us morals and obedi- ence to law. One hundred men went from this city on the same errand. They are yet out, and I do not know when they will return. When Jesse left, his wife was well as usual; she was soon taken sick, and by her death Jesse has lost a good companion, and Esther's little children a mother—for such she has been to them since Esther's death. They are now without any one to see after them in particular, though I know that Elizabeth and Sarah will do what they can to see after and take care of them till Jesse returns. It will be a bad stroke to him, as he thought much of his wife. Her constitution was naturally feeble; still we had hoped that she would be more healthy as she increased jo years; but it has been otherwise ordered, to which we have to submit. T have not time to write you much of the passing news of this eventful period. If you was here, I could talk to you and write to another at the same time; but I cannot write to two persons on different subjects, and at the same time be waiting on folks calling at the office, as they are this morning. In relation to Uncle Sam's expedition to this Territory that 0 much has been said about this summer, I will say, in short, that it bids fair to be a most magnificent failure. This was done, I am informed, Gen. Harney, who was to command it, bas been appointed military Governor of Kansas, where war again ri , and the most efficient part of the troops ordered here have been detained to keep peace in that bleeding Territory. | Colonel Johnston, commanding in Texas, bas been appoint- ed to the command of the Utah expedition, which was re- duced to 1,600 men, all told; and by express on Saturday | last, we learn that 400 or 500 of these have deserted al- | ready, leaving about 1,100, and at that rate there will not | be many left by the time they reach here, if they come this side of Fort Laramie, which is much doubted. The advance guard was about one hundred miles below Fort laramie when the express passedthem, about the 25th of | Col. Sumner, who bas been hunting after the ammer, has hada brush with them. His repertsays that he killed nineteen and burnt up some three hundred lodges, with @ loss of two men killed and nine wounded. The wounded mgu were sent to Fort Kearney, with an escort of twen's five men under Capt Foote: The Jast accounts from that party they were within twenty five miles of Fort Kearney, five days before J. R. Murdock, who brought in the express, came past that post. What has become of them no one knew, The presumption is that the Cheyennes know more about them than any white man. Of the beef cattle that were in the rear of the army en rows for Utah, the ae had stolen and ran off one drove of between eight and nine hundred bead, and the persons in charge of the other drove or droves had turned their backs toward Fort Leavenworth—so if the army should come here this fall, there will be no beef for them, for they cannot get it here. Much of their freight ix this side Fort Laramie. some near Green river, and the Quartermaster is expected here to-morrow to make arr: ents for quartering the troops during the winter. I think he had better make ar- rangements for quarters further east, as they are not to winter in Utah—that is decreed! Now I must close. When you come home, and those with you, come well Fo gong with arms and ammuni- tion, if you can get in California. Guns are in great demand here, and powder and ball scarce, though mach needed. Do the best you can—and may God bless you for ever, is the prayer of in brother, FELLAS. P. 8.—Yeeterday, Thomas B. Marsh was on the stand, having arrived on Saturday from the States. He seems bumble and penitent, is broken down, and looks like an old man. He told the people that if ot wanted to see Se: to look at him. I could but gy bim from the of my heart. LETTER FROM A MORMON. {From the Cincinnati Commertcial, Dec. 18.] A friend permits us to copy a portion of a private letter received from a Mormon relative. The letter is dated September 4. A considerable portion of it relates to the sufferings of the Mormons in times , and the services they rendered the United States inthe Mexican war. Of this year’s crops of the saints he says :—We have raised the heavicet crops of grain and vegetables that I ever saw. Some fields of wi have a at i seventy bushels per acre, already threshed, and it is thought that some of the fields will turn ont as much as eighty bushels per acre. Corn is ip jon, aud so are and - tables generally.” Of the feelings of the saints at the prospect of invasion he says:—‘There was never a time when the saints felt more united than at the Prevent time, and more vigorous in the blessings of God. e bear that Uncle Sam is sending out about six thousand men soldiers, teamsters, &c.,to force a Governor on aa, and other officers. Well, we have never as yet resisted any of Uncle Sam’s officers, and we would not now if the cere would bave come alone and behaved themselves. bad; and they have stopped the mail from coming from the hast to this place—that also looks bad. T think Unele Sam ought to look back a little at the time when our pil- grim fathers broke the yoke of oppression by foreign * power. * * Uncle Sam owes the people of this Territo- TY $100,000, which is their honest doe, and now refuses to pay us. He has suffered us to be driven and broken up five times without making us any redress." The wri- ter expresses great confidence that the Lord will take care of the Mormons, and exhorts his friend with deep ferven cy to “be faithful, so that the epirit of God may give you light eo ae to understand the things of God."’ ——<$—<—<—<$<$<$<$—$<$<——- A Case or Crt. Con, ix St. Lovis-—The scan- dal loving portion of St. Lonis have had a treat last things not in abundance jn the Territory exchange | grain, &e., 80 by this means every family is better provided for the coming straggle than what the fhort sanguine could have anticipated. We have labored diligently in putting in early crops, and tral, we can may we are blemed temporarily an spiritually. Health is remarkabl: t present, ‘and has been for rome time back. i si We learned that General Harney had b replaced in the command of the expedition against U by Colonel Johnston, bat where he is or how we have not positively learned. We are not advised of who is in week, in the case of Mrs. Bridget Barrow, arraigned before the Recorder o1 a charge of adultery, alleged to have been committed with a young man named Féward Curry, who was in her hashand’s employ. it was proven, and was not denied, that the two were very foug of each other, and were often known to indulge in very warm and a caresses. The right, took two vand, suspecting that all was of hig fends with ira, and entered his wife's room at tWo o'clock on Fridgy morning last, and found her enjoying the company of ber paramour. Curry fired his pistol at Barrow, but as ball had been wately drawn, no great harm was done. The Z Man was arrested and held to bail in $1,000 answer the charge of assault with intent to kill. On the trial for adultery, the counsel for defendant moved for a discharge, on the ind that the cri ) was imlity, if to be “open, grom and povorions,” as iired by the statute. The motion was taken under advisement. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. the Gover | Posting Up Matters During the Recess of Congress, &., &o., &. Our Washington nee. Corresponde! Wasurneron, Dec. 23, 1857. The Congressional Recess—The Black Republicans —Senator Douglas in New York—The Proposed Walker Dinner—General Quitman and the Neu- trality Laws, §c., §c. Theré is much good feeling expressed among members this morning at their contemplated holi- day of ten days. If I am not mistaken in my guess, this recess is particularly acceptable to the black re- publicans, a majority of whom will leave for their homes and and the neighboring States, to work up Kansas capital and excite public opinion against the administration until their coming together again. Iam informed that Judge Douglas will spend some of the time in your city, consulting with friends and arranging matters for a public demonstration, which is to be given solely with a view to the glorification of the Senator. ‘is ismodest, but it is thorough Douglasana. You must expect an invitation to the Senator to accept of a dinner that was intended, but not given to Walker; for it seems that $2,000 had been subscribed for the latter object, which amount is still in the hands of the committee of ar- rangements, and must be disposed of without fur- ther delay. ‘These ten days intermission will bring Congress again together eabout the time with the arrival of the Lecompton consti- tution. It would, indeed, be a pity if all the fine calculations and arrangements entered into by the Douglas and the republican manceuvrers should, after all, ape a miserable failure. I con- fess 1am somewhat of this opinion, and should not be surprised to find the South introduce @ measure at the opening of the debate upon the new consti- tntion that will place hors du combat all the specu- lations of these earnest and well intentioned agita- tors. certainly would be bad for Douglas and his devoted sup} rs among the government em- ployés in the city of New York and in Boston. There exists a doubt in the minds of many whether this Kansas imbroglio can be kept alive be- yond the month of January. In this event a new national issue will be required, and can be furnished without pny General Quitman stands ready with his Neutrality bill, which has an eye, among other improvements, tothe seizure and annexation of Cuba, Northern Mexico and Lower California. It is supposed by some that the General's bill for the abrogation of the neutrality laws may help to shape out a re-or; tion of the democratic party. The suggestion, which is freely canvinsed, is by no means acceptable to certain of the members of the diplomatic corps, who prefer the Kansas agita- tion as present to all other agitations. But the gal- lant Genera! is resolute, and I may venture to assert that the bill alluded to will be introduced by him in the House of Representatives at an early day. Any movement that may have for its object the nationa- lizing of parties, will meet with the strongest BPO sition from the several sectional divisions in Con- ead U e There is, however, no questioning the fact that there is at this moment a strong conservative party in this same Congress, which can be rallied on & common platform when a_ pro; ive question is brought before them for action and decision. Gen. Quitman thinks he has such a question in his Neu- trality act. This, however, is to be ascertained. Wasarneton, Dec. 25, 1857. ‘The Treaty with Nicaragua—Will Martine: Ratify it ?— Watker’s Chances, dc., fc. There seems to be considerable uneasiness about the ratification of the late treaty with Nicaragua among those interested in the speedy opening of the Transit route through that State. No one acquaint- ed with Central American politics ever believed that this treaty would be ratified by the government of Martinez. It will be considered as calculated solely to protect American interests, and as, under certain circumstances, authorizing the use of United States forces in Nicaraguan territory to insure this protec- tion, whilst it only guarantees to that State what she has always owned, and until very lately actually pos- sessed, and what’ she deems herself fully competent to regain and peer that the treaty is in eve respect favorable to American interests, whilst it forces Nicaragua into the humiliating confession that she cannot protect her own territory and needs the assistance of a foreign Power. This may be true; but Martinez and his partisans are not the men to thus publicly acknowledge it. Besides, it would be, in a public capacity, denying what he and his part, have always maintained and confirm and endorse what his political enemies, the liberals or democrats, assert—that the present race of Nicaraguans cannot, unaided, govern the country. f The contract made by the democrats with General Hornsby to bring five hundred armed colonists to the country, who should become citizens and settle on the Costa Rican frontier or along the Transit route, | and the decree of ex-President Rivas offering two hun- dred and fifty acres of land to settlers who became citizens of the country so violently denounced by Mar- tinez and his partisans, will be proven to have been sound policy, for it cannot be disputed but that po- | licy that looks to the protection of a country by its own citizens, although a portion of them be adopted and of foreign birth, is far superior to that which would submit it, or any portion of it, to the protec- tion of a foreign Power. Martinez owes his position as President of Nicara- gua to the Central American alliance. The govern- ments forming this alliance believe—and nothing that this government can do or say. so jong as the doctrine of “manifest destiny” is decasionally pro- claimed from the m and the press, will drive them from the posi wt the United States is anxious to possess of the whole country, They believe, as they say, that “the voracions North- ern eagle is calmly hovering over us, only awaiting a favorable opportunity to fasten his greedy talons upon us.” The proffered protection to the Transit route, with the recommendation of President Buchanan to abo- lish the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, will be consider- ed the first step towards occrpation and final an- nexation, and will be opposed by the entire Central American alliance, and of course by their creature, Martinez. It is extremely doubtful, if Martinez were free to act in this matter, that he would consent to the ratification of a treaty that did not make England, and, if ible, .France—the model government o the “gdrvi” party of Central America—a party to the protection of the Transit route. He_ is distin- guished even among his partisans for his hatred to Americans, and would be the last man to consent to anything that might tend to the increase of Ameri- can influence in that quarter. The quarrel between him and his friend, isan and former , Mora, is like those domestic feuds between hiaband and wife, and which is pretty sure to cost him who meddles @ith them a sound abusing, if not a sound thrashing, by the united ef- forts of the contending parties. The latter will be the fate of Walker unless » of recruite. This quarrel tended to divert the attent of the “li- berals” from the “reforms,” as the concentration of all the rs of the government into the hands of that illiterate Zambo, Carrera, of Guatemala, was termed, and which “reforms” both Mora and Marti- nez are striving to adopt. Mora and Martinez have doubtless, ere this, agreed to bury the hatchet until Walker is disposed of. Aw other course would encon! a rising of the liberals or democrats—Walker's allies—and result not onl, in the overthrow of Mora and Martinez, but of a the existing governments of Central America—the Central American “holy alliance.” This is well un- derstood by their excellencies, Captain-General Car- rera, Captain-General Mora, and the would be and will be—nnless interfered with fete ee General Martinez, Guardiola and Campos. A mutn al agreement has no doubt, ere this, been made that Yrissarri’s treaty shall not be ratified, but that the United States—in order to induce her to watch the filibusters more closely-shall be led to believe its ratification as certain. The treaty, after having been kept a# long as possible, will be sent back the United States, with a new minister, not refused, but amended in such a manner as to render amendments by-our government necessary. 1t will then be re- turned to Nicaragua, when, if sufficient time shall have been gained for the disposal of Walker, it will be retu with amendments rendering it nu 4 It ix believed, by those best acquainted with the sub. ject, that, Senor Yrisarri, at the instance of the British and French Ministers, despatched a measen- mer by the last California steamer to Nicaragua, with instructions to withhold the ratification of the treaty until it could be known what course these —- would take in case Walker should get a foothold in Nicaragua and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty he abolished. Certain it is that Senor Yrisarri rather hurriedly despatched a messenger by the last Cali- fornia steamer, and that this messenger, the re- nowned filibuster Cotonel hlessinger, is said to have intimated toa friend that such was the cha- racter of his mission. WAsHInaton, Deo. 25, 1857. The News from Yucatan—Hostilitia Not Yet Over. The despatch from New York, which appears in the papers, purporting to come by way of Havana from Yucatan, to 6th inst., is certainly incorrect, aa we have advices from Campeachy up to the 7th inst., which states nothing of the cessation of hostilities, but brings intelligence that the beseiged Cam- peacheroa have “plenty of arms, powder and ball,” with four or five armed vessels cruising on the coast, and other information, shewing that they are pre- pared fora long seige, except in articles of food. Campeachy is one of the best fortified cities in Span- ish America. It is enclosed with a heavy and sub- stantial bastion wall, built entirely of stone, and ca of withstanding any attack from Mexican ce. Back of the city, however, the land is somewhat elevated, and from this commanding sition, the government forces bombarded the city. This force, which had been from 600 to 800 strong, has, at recent advices, been diminished 400 by the government wirhéreving Wise number of troops and sending them to Merida to suppress an apparent in- surrectionary movement at the capital. The blished this despatch pu morni ther in su: rt of ita claim to authentioi }, that the “Island of Carmen had submitted to govern: ment.” Now, Carmen is ninety miles southwest df Campeachy, and the city of del Carma is 120 miles distant from peachy. Aci to the most reliable advices from the peninsular, there had been no systematic effort on the part of the rele to subdue Carma. The main opera- ions of the government forces have been at Cam- peachy. But, as proof itive of the unreliable Patel of the despatch mare the closing paragraph, viz.: “ re bardment and capitulation of Sisal false.’ This despatch is more “ false” and ridicu- lous than anything we have yet had from that trou- bled country. Let us look briefly into the facts. By various arrivals about the last of November, we had information of the capture of Sisal by the revo- lutionists. The news, as all information from that one should be, was received with caution; but the Mexican schooner Rafaela arrived at New Or- leans on the 9th inst. with advices much later than those previously received. Her dates from Cam- peachy were to the 27th ult., and from the capital two days earlier. By this arrival positive and relia- ble information was received touching the opera- tions before Sisal, and of the progress of the revolu- tion, as well as of the counter efforts of the govern- ment. The New Orleans papers of the 10th inst. thys speak of the Sisal affair:— r By this arrival our previous reports of the capture of Sisal by the Campeachy troops is confirmed. The attack- ing force was commanded by Andres Cepeda Peraza. He had one man killed and three wounded. The enemy lost three killed and six wounded. The victors captured four a prraiers, one 16 pounder, two 12 pound carronades, and a quantity of munitions. They also took several pri- toners and a little armed vessel called the Carolina. ‘The Soletin thinks that the capture of Sisal has assured the triumph of the revolutionary party. Immediately afterward more than a hundred volunteers came over to the Campeachy people. The Boletin expected risings to follow in Merida and Fl Oriente. This, certainly, is satisfactory as to the result of the httack upon Sisal. Information, however, has since reached here that the attack was rather a sur- prise, and that the government troops soon after re- captured the place. Sisal is important as the port of Merida, and its possession by the revolutionists would be fatal to the government. On this point the New Orleans press of the 11th thus notice the more re- cent advices than those brought by the newspapers which conveyed the news published on the 10th inst.: We are this morning placed in posseasion of still further intelligence by the schooner Rafaela, from Campeachy the 28th ultimo, than was at band last evening. It is most in- teresting and important. The revolutionists had been re- pad from Sisal, which city and port were at last advices the hands of the government party. It seems the bombardment of the town was a surprise, and the revolutionists held it but a few days, till reinforce- ments could arrive from the interior. ‘The reyolutionists, however, wore not discouraged. Some four or five armed brigs and schooners were cruising between Campeachy and Sisal, and the latter port was in a state of blockade. R M ject in making this correction is to disabuse the Pubic mind ot tie rumors which unscrupulous agents of a foreign Power now watching co the movements on the peninsula of Yucatan will be constantly making, from this time forward, until their purpose is accomplished. The very latest pub- lis] advices (those by the Rafaela and the steamer Tennessee from Vera Cruz) represent the condition of things on the peninsula as deplorable in the ex- treme. The white races were warring among them- selves for a mere question of supremacy—the ins de- siring to stay, and the outs striving to get the go- vernment—while the indigenous races were com- bined to a man in one dreadful and bloody effort to cut off all the whites and possess all the power and wealth of the country. Backing the Indians in this work, it is ping with re degree of truth, are the Briti at the lize. Guns, ywder, balls &e., &c., are freely furnished these ruthless savages by their Christian allies. The Indians, smarting ‘under a conceived aggression of the most aggravated kind—that springing from a war of races—are most willing to receive this aid, and push forward a war of utter extermination against the whites, «It is these Indians, and the power now urging them forward in their fierce and relentless warfare, that we will have to watch. With the poli- tical revolution now distracting a portion of Yuca- tan, we, as a government or as individuals, can have nothing te do, or feel the slightest interest in its termination one way or the It is gd a disturbance among themselves, which should not cencern us in the least. Understanding, however, the operation of affairs down there, 1 was surprised by reading the despatch alluded to in the morning pers, and at once suspected its origin and motives. ’e have proven it to be utterly false and unreliable, emanating, if it came from Havana, from some emissary of that ping nation now ruling at the Belize, and impatient for the ion of the whole of the peninsula, of which the Belize settlement now cubences some of the finest and most produc- tive portion. “Watch” is the word that should be used totvard that nation in all her operations South. She will literally have filled the measure of her am- bition if she can succeed in controlling the destinies of tropical America, thereby accomplishing two 1 objects—extending her own power and domi- nion and restraining that of the United States. En ssant, if the facts could be ascertained, it would, in all probability, be seen that the despatch alluded to had its origin in this city. The recent news from Yucatan has, to the certain knowledge of the writer, greatly exercised certain diplomats here. Wasminaton, Dec. 26, 1857. Applicants for Foreign Appointments— The Pawnee Indians— New Indian Policy, &., &e. ‘The papers in the State Department pertaining to consulates and to missions abroad, and to applica- tions for foreign appointments, have been sent for: The President will get this troublesome piece of work off his hands as soon as possible. The names of those ambitious to represent their country abroad is legion. Generally the most worthy but not most successful are those who are the least importunate. The practice has been to give where the cry was loudest and most incessant: especially was this the case during the last two administrations. Mr. Bu- chanan, however, has had great experience and knows men well, and will discriminate between real merit, which is usually unobtrusive,and the pretence of merit, which is generally accompanied by noise and pertinacious clamor. I remember an expression of the late sagacious Secretary Marcy, which shows how well he understood this. “A week or two after the inauguration of Gen. Pierce a gentleman of the District of Columbia, then a clerk in one of the de- rtments, applied for an important office in one of newly organized Territories. Living in Wash- * in the habit of “ round” a great deal to the and other p! } mingling with members and Senators of jason, , being a an Odd Fellow, a leading man in the Jackson Demo- cratic Association, and so forth—being, in fact,a man who “spread himself” extensively, he had it faci- lities for tg ‘is recom- mendations and his industry in obtaining them were about the only merit he for the position he sought. He had a formidable list of names an letters to back him, and President Pierce, who had romised the office to another, appointed him con- rary to the wish of Mr. Marcy, who knew how easy it was to obtain a recommendation on paper from almost any member of Congress. On the friend of the gentleman to whom the President had first mised the im) calling at the State Department, in disgust at the deception cee upon lim, Secre- tary Marcy sa’ told the President, sir, that man was not fit for the office; I told him he was too well recommended.” Among the gentlemen who are to have the nnhap- piness of being removed as foreign officers of the go- vernment | am well informed that Mr. de Leon at Alexandria, Mr. Forsyth at Mexico (may be to ob- tain another mission), and Mr. Campbell at London (next spring) will be removed. Mr. Epping, of South Carolina, preseed by Mr. Orr and the th Carolina delegation, is likely to obtain the position of consul at Hamburg. He has spent much time in Germany, and is assisting the State Department use- fully in matters relating to our commerce and re- ations with Germany. W. W. Dennison, the United States agent for the Ottoe-Missouri and Pawner Indians, is here from the Platte river, Nebraska Territory, with six- teen Pawnees, twelve chiefy,and four braves. They have come by invitation of the government to see the country, the capital of the republic, their rapat father—the President of the United States—and the power of the great people with whom they have re- cently signed a treaty. The Pawnees, in four bands, comprising one nation, number about four thousand, The government has been endeavoring for several years to make a treaty with these Indians. A conn- cil was held by the nation in September last, when prgen were made on the ‘of the government states far- Gen. ver, as United States Commissioner. After five deliberation a treaty waa signed. By this treaty, which now awaits only the ratification of the Benate to become opemtive, a new era is in- augurated in our relations with and treatment of the ine The treaty provides that the Pawnees be furnished wk ekilled white mechanics, ar- Soon ee pa iartenctonn dip Soe of life c and prac! agriculture. The Pawnees are to place a certain number of the men of their nation as apprentices under these white instructors, nuke them far- mers, iths, mamiths, millers and so forth. There are to be not less than two manual labor schools for the children from the to sixteen, at which they must atte: months in the year, to teach them habits of of eight for nine its school education, Buch are the whee and beuevelead | rovisions of a treaty to civilize these nana of bry ep Had aah a been in- augurated in the early ages of our h, aor might have been Cera) an infersating tee! and we have avoided the painful remem- ive in- brance of a deep stain on the character of our fore-, fathers. The territory of the Pawnees embraces a tract,of, tween the Platte and Niobrarah rivers, the east by lands heretofore ceded by the Omahas, and on the west by a line running pa- | rallel with the forks of the Platte, embracing ten millions of acres. Indians reserve a tract thirty miles long by fifteen miles wide—288,000 acret—on the Loup fork of the Platte. In reference to this selection of a reserve in that part of their peep’ Mr. Denver, the Commissioner, asked the chief of the Pawnees where they would like to make their permanent home. , the prin- cipal chief, said: “As my great father has ‘iven us the privilege to select our new home, my feat feels big,” (putting his hand on his breast) | “and all we ask is that we may go to our old home Ps the Loup fork, from where we were driven by the jOuxX. The Pawnees are located while in Washington at “Jimmy Maher's,” the usual abode of Indians while in this city; and his house is the “Indian Queen.” Jimmy Maher, known as the friend and associate of Gen. Jac! , a8 a gardener, has a Magar affinity for the Indian. It may be that this springs from the temporal advantages arising from his business, but philosophers in the science of physiology main- tain that the affinity is more natural, and dates from a period antecedent to Columbus’ discovery of Ame- rica—that, in fact, they are of the same race. You are aware, Mr. Hekaup, that learned Celts have claimed the American Indians as their own. Man traits of character are adduced as evidences, arth splerty those of bravery and impulsiveness. the American Indians came from Jreland (as indeed all creation is said to have come by some of its patriotic philosophers), then the weighty question is solved without further #rgument. There are certain traits of character of these in- teresting Indians—the Pawnees—now present in Washington, as to their memory and affection which 1 would notice. Mr. White, of the Indian Bureau, whom they had seen but for a short time in their country, way recog- nized and embraced with all ‘the fullness of heart with which one dear friend meets another. The daughter of Major Dennison—a young lady of the of thirteen, who has been among them and travelled with them—has so won their affections by association and by her childlike kindness and atten- tion, that they are unhappy unless they see her every day. She first went with them to a railroad car or truck in Missouri, on their arrival there, and induced them to ride on it. This was before the train started in which they were to travel. They were so astonished and delighted that they named her, after serious consultation, in their Indian language, “the Female Railroad.” I may give you an account of my dinner with Mr. Pe-ta-na-sharo, the head chief, and other chiefs and gentlemen of the Indian Bureau. Wasnineron, Dec. 26, 1857. ‘The Foreign Appointments—Duff Green and the Iron In- terests—The “Cards are Out’’ from Gov, Brown’s—Gen. Walker's Prospects, dc. It is understood that the foreign appointments will be considered and action taken upon them in the course of a few days. The open defection of j some and the incipient defection of others among the leading men of the democratic party in the Northern States, cause the President to be more de- sirous of rewarding those who are “strong in the faith” in that section ef the country. It is believed at the State Department that Gov. Price, of New Jersey, will be offered an important foreign mission. The “Jerseys” are considered ‘‘sound in the faith.” General Duff Green is in the field again. Vol. 1 and No. 1 of the American Statesman is out, and will be continued if it “receive sufficient patronage to defray the cost of publication.” It is intended to be the “organ” of a movement to relieve the railroad and iron interests of the country. The object of the movement, connected with which there is to bea Convention of those interested in railroads and the manufacture of iron, in Washing- ton on the Ist of January, is to induce the govern- ment to capitalize the pay for mail srvien by rail- roads, which amounts to $2,500,000 9 year for twenty years, and to issue the amount, $56,000,000, thus capitalized, in conpon bonds, chat ble on the revenues of the department and payable at the pleasure of the government. There are many details, but this is the basis of the scheme. Should the movement amount to anything worth notice, I will inform you as it makes progress. Cards of invitation have been issned for a grand entertainment at the Postmaster-General’s for the 29th of December. From the well known liberality and wealth of Governor Le red ey le anticipate a “great affair.” The season is to be decidedly “gay.” The ladies are making great preparations for it. They say Pa angpere nd they will endeavor this winter , to soften down sectional and political asperities by festive re-unions. They deem this, and wisely, not only conducive to the union of the sexes, but to the perpetuation of the Union. Apropos to this, I occa- sionally hear men speak of a dissolution of the Union, but I never an American lady so; on the contrary, I heard last evening a charming girl, daughter of a Senator, check with a sort of shudder certain gentlemen who were dis- — in certain contingencies the probability of such an event, remarking that such a thouglit ought not to be entertained, and that “should the Union be dissolved she would no longer have a coun- try here.” How characteristically expressive are these simple words of the pure American affection for our whole country which lies beneath sectional agitation and political strife. General Walker's prospects are considered, even by his friends here, as hopeless. The President is determined to prevent him, if possible, receiving re- inforcements from the Uni States, and it these his most sanguine friends do not expect he can be snecessful. The President looks upon him as a cold-hearted, selfish adventurer, calculated to do much mischief, and not having the power or nature to do any good in the distracted countries of Central America. The President, it is understood, is not op- posed to the Americanization of the Isthmus routes, provided it be done in a proper manner, but he is op- posed to Walker and his movement. Letters to Journ {Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.) Wastuxeton, Dec. 20, 1857. Our Relations with Mrxico—Notables in Town. The President in him message, it is to be remarked, makes no allusion to Mexico or to our relations with that bewildered republic. The omiasion of any notice of our neighbor uj this occasion is very significant of an in- tention to take more apecialmotice of her hereafter. Tho with Mexico, carried on under the late admin- istration by our minister, Mr. Forsyth, in the city of Mexico, ended in a treaty project which Was intended to seitle all difficulties between the United States and that verument. But the treaty failed to receive the appro- of the Pierce administration, and was even more objectionable to the Buchanan administration. A wew treaty is on foot. It is Lm for the President to show hs hand on Among the notables in town pow are General Henning- sen, of Nicaraguan fame, and “ Mike Walsh.” Gov. Geary, an [rw a bas also exhumed bimself, and I saw him at Willard’s. ‘correspondence of the Pennsylvanian. f Wasntxaton, Dec al, 1857. Sir W. Gore Ouseley's Mission—Object not Known—Central American Questions—Appointment of General Lamar— Flurry among Diplomate— Yucatan. The nature of Sir Gore Ouseley’s mission has not been fully communicated to our government. The correspon dents from Washington are undoubtedly mistaken in al leging, on the 5th imst., that the object of bis visit was made known to the Secretary of State. There has been more than one informal interwew between Gen. Cass and Sir Gore Ouveley, but the object of his mission has been certainly withheld. The decided tone of the Pre- sident’s message has doubticss contributed to this delay, and we think it questionable' whether the pur pose of his visit will be commundcated until positive in structions shaal have been received from his own govern- ment Central American affairs are becoming more and more truly American, patriotic and emphatic ‘e movenge has completely discomfitted ly hoped for a less decided and more My Lord Palmers. those who have conciliatory expression of sentiment. ston will to change his tact if he hopes to effect a ent of this long pending vexations question ton-Tiulwer treaty, which is now pretty generally aga blunder and an absurdity, will have to be abrog: 4 as the President enggests, or Lord Palmerston ven it by Mr. Buchanan all his expressed opi 1 fully sustain the Pre- must comme to the interpretation ae Minister to England, and sin tons concerning it. The county sident in any coursefhe may this traly vexed ques. tion. Tho joliey of the gumin will be American, despite all the afforts of if enemies at home and abroad. Certain diplomatic gentlewen have Kept up almost a constant fluttering during the last two or three months. Every fresh cause of excitement puts these gentlemen into & buzz, and diplomatic circles become mauifestly exercised. ‘The news of Walker's landing in Contral America, put these excitable tlemen into general commotion, and before the ¢: ment had time to sub: aide, a new cause of upeasiness presented itself in the ap- pointment of General Lamar, Minister to Central America In sending Gen. tanga Central America, the Presi. dent bas an object to . He ie determined to have a man there who will watch well the American interests; and who will rigidly enforce every Esa that_no European power gains a footbold in Wwrritory. The pee of the Momroe doctrine are to be tenac red to by this administration, The appointment of Gen. Lamar, we have sai @ new sensation in particular circles. Some of tlemen who have rendered themseives consp finding fault with the f policy of the admi may have forgotten a certain minister whose cones. was not the most acecptable to a forme’ istration; or a still more recent one, whose q from Washington was not the most voluntary life. Ferbum sap. It bas been charged in certain warters, that tein, in. view of ‘out from the. Gontral pretensions, is where with the pros; % quisition—we mean Yucatan. It is alleged making rapid encroachments in that direction- iy og the Indian depredatiogs which are State, with the clear view of soon sec: “protection?” of the * {Correspondence of the Boston Courier. ‘ania poner 5 oe f ! Payiof Members of Co ‘The bill introduced into the Senate by | pty hod pornos acres of the public land: uy) 7 in the District of Columpi: ines the land ¥o be given to the cities of Ws u Georgetown, in proportion to their lation. is w be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, tents for it are to be issued to the two cities in th rate capacity,and they are to control and have sell it; and the money arising from sales is to con trust fund, never to be reduced, the income to be| to the instruction of free children (including b course) from 6 to be eres of age. Mile ment and control of the fund and the schools is to the municipal authorities, It is not supposed bill will escape ition. At the recent Educational Convention, held at th sonian Institution, the statistics of the schools in} were ented, showing the number of pupilsén lic and private schools, and the number subject tuition, who are not provided for in either publi vate schools. The whole number of children, aq to theso statistics, is 10,697—of whom 3,228 are in schools, 2,400 in public schools, and 6,669—ne: half—in no school at all. There is one measure—consummated yesterday, concurrence of the Senate—in which the House initiatory step. It is a joint resolution of memberr. The law passed last year, regu compensation of members, by which they were the year, and not as ormaely, vy. the day, is fo defective in many respects, having been’ concoct hurry, and passed amidst the confusion of the Petalley the marhen me ‘a provisions, especially that whic! es the ‘of the compensation to the close: (Healy n times, when the respectability of the thing was, a consideration for legislative services, it was dea good time to pay when the work was done, i. e. close of the session. It is quite a modern innovati this respectable and decorous custom, to pay leg as their work prog , and thus, from the natu employment, to phy partially in advance. sessions are so long now-a-days, members fi day put off to an inconvenient period. Hence Con and Massachusetts, too, in conformity with the p ive spirit of the day—has discovered that law 1 who oay themselves, and make provision for thd compensotion, ought to see to it their allowanq be forthcoming once a month. The joint resolution referred to, to remedy the di the present law, provides that on'the first day of sion compe of the second or any subsequent session he shall his mileage as now allowed by law, and all compel which bas accrued during the adjournment, at ti aforesaid, and during said scssiou compensation per at the same rate. The resolution passed both Houses without an} punctions or misgivings, and is now the law. Und you will see, members—receiving as they doa uu of $3,000—may now draw all the p attbat yearly rate, from the 4th of March last present time, and mileage also; and $250 each afterwards. Your Governor elect will draw about for his campaign services at home and for ki three weeks actual service here. Avorner Free Love Estasuisnment Bi Ur.—The free love establishment at Ludlow, for the last year or two has been a’ stench nostrils of all decent people, has been broken last. Justice Allen, of Palmer, caused Ed vord, the chief of the family, to be ht him on Thursday, and sentenced him to tl! of Correction for six months, as a bond. Clark—or as she now calls herself, Bo Love—her sister and her “late” husband ha’ the town, and the le congratulate them that the old den of infamy has at last been cl out. They have taken the law into the hands twice, but tar and feathers have not effectual in either instance. Alvord is a man 0 35 years, and used to live in this city, where said he once kept a “saloon.” It was in e that the only work he had been known to do he lived in this free love family was washing d sweeping rooms, &c. the last mont women concealed him in the house and drew 4 town for supplies of wood, provisions, &c., unt last the Selectmen concluded to hand them o the State Almshouse, when the whole tribe fi the Shakers. The however, and ha’ haunts, Mr. Allen Alvord has very foolishly appealed, and havin] friends to go bail for him has been committed jail in this city, where he will pass six mont awaiting trial, giving the officers of the law time to secure evidence to convict him of adi when his case is called up next summer.—Sp field ( Mass.) Republican, Dec. 25. ‘Weekly Report of Deaths tu the city and county of New York, from the 10 ps TE ; women, 76; : girls, 101— Adults} 147: ‘children, 246? males, 310;, Tom? colored persons, 6. i (DISRASKS. Apoplexy.... Atrophia of th Asthma, Inflammation of Tnfluenga,.,, Tntem| Rupture of tho bladder. ire of a blood v ~ ee Breeeer me Blea eee mee Mee Seenwee memo jer 1 year... Ae 2 years. : 60 6 yours. cr o 10 yen 1 10 to 16 years. 7 15 to 20 years. ? to 25 years. 17 26 to 50 years, 19 Total Austria. Brith Scotland Switzerland United States, . Unknown West Indies... Wand Prince. Germany Ireland Itty... Total. 89 Total... GHORGE W. MORTON, Cit tty Inspector's Department, New Work, Dec. |, ae