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Show Valley-movement, though apparently a failure, for that evidently threw the new federal regime off the scent, and gave the officers a fair opportunity which they embraced eagerly of exhibiting their animus towards the Saints. Had the Rio Virgen expedition been mooted first/ doubtless^, that section of country, invaluable to us p.t present, would have been honored with the attention of Vr. liar-tin and .Mr. Lincoln, and would have been declared an Indian reservation, which will hardly be the case now, seeing that the above named worthies have been so signally foiled in their endeavours to annoy the people of Utah, by preventing them from spreading out in the mountainous country and making the Uintah wilderness to rejoice and the arid desert to blossom as the rose. It should be recorded in the States newspapers: A gred anti- Mormon Victory! Uintah taken by the Federal forces! Dreadful Carnage among the Hormonal Estimated Less 1,000. Hone of the Federals injured, except Superintendent LIartin_slightly wounded in the seat of honor! y .: (H. B. Y. 447) ,: |