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Show TERRITORY OF ,UTAH. m you so ably advocate, will be aided by your influence to procure that amount and speedy application of appropriations so justly due. I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, BRIGHAM YOUNG. G w e m a nd m o r n ~ ~ ~ e r int endelnndtia 'n Afaim. Hen! GEORGWE . MANYPENNY, Comnai s s i~In dian Affah, Wmhinglon ckty, D. C. No. 98. Omm INDIAN AQENT, Greet Sdt Ide City, U. T., September -, 1856. B PIR: Pursuant to instructions received from your office early last spring, I left this place on the 17th day of May last on a western tour, for the purpose of lending my influence for the protection of the live^ and property of emigrant citizens along the western road, between these settlements and Carson valley. A minute detail of the trip would, I think, be interesting, but would render an ordinary communication too prolix. Passing beyond the settlements, we saw . but few straggling Indians till we reached Thousand Spring valley, on the 31st day of May, where we met a small band of about sixty men, momen, and children, who had heard that we were coming, and had been watching the road for several days. The appeared harm- less, but very destitute and degraded. Their chieB , however, whose name is Setoke, was well dressed in skill, and quite intelligent. .On the following morning Mr. A. P. Haws came to our camp, having left the bridge on the Humboldt the evening before and travelled a11 night. He reported the suspected massacre of Carlos Morray and family, who had started early in May from the Humboldt, on their return to Salt Lake. The chief appeared ignorant of the affair, but said he thought it was right, for he had understood that Murray was a very had man, and had killed an Indian the year before at the place where we were then camped. Mr. Haws also reported a large band of Indians in the caiiou at t6e head of Thousand Spring vallej, whom he suspected to be the perpetrators of the massacre. On ap-proaching the caiiou at about noon, we discovered a party of some thirty or forty ridingat full speed towards us, but halted on reachin the open plain, and awaited our approach. They were dressed an 3 painted in the most fantastic style. Though friendly, their move ments excited suspicion, and when we drove up and camped near their lodges, they were in a stateof great confusion. Some of their s uawa commenced crying, and the young men were seen driving their ff orses across the mountains towards the west in great haste. I sent my in-terpreter to invite them to camp, but it was with difficulty that he persuaded them to come. I asked them what their squaws had been crying about, but they hesitated, and at length said that a papoose had died. I told my men to treat them socially, and to propoae to trade with them, with the hope that they would offer something that |