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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 371 eighth day of their encamping, but without accom lishing much. Several were killed, however, and a few wounded. 6 hen the com-pany first apprehended an attack, they formed a corral with their wagons, and filled up with earth to the wagon-beds, which made a protective fort. White men were present and directed the Indians. John D. Lee, of Earmony, told me, in his own house, last April, in presence of two persons, that he was present three successive days during the fight, and was present during the fatal day. The Indians alone made their last attack on the 8th of September. On the 9th, John D. Lee, and others whose names I gare in my letter of the 23d ultimo, displayed a white flag, and approached the corral with two wagons, and had a long interview uith the company, and proposed a compromise. What there occurred has not transpired. The emigrant company gave up all their arms, with the expectation that their lives would be spared and they be conducted back to Panther creek and Cedar city. The old women, children, and wounded, were taken in the wagons, and the company proceeded towards Panther creek, when I suddenly, at a signal, the work of death commenced, about one and a half miles from the spring, at a place where there was about an acre of scrub-oak brush. Here not less, I think, than one hundred and fifteen men, woman, and children, were slaughtered by white men and Indians. Three men got out of the valley, two of whom were soon overtaken and killed; the other reached Muddy creck, over fifty miles off, and was overtaken and killed by several Indians and one white man. Thus terminated the most extensive and atrocious massacre recorded in American history. Whoever may have been the perpetrators of this horrible deed, no doubt exists in my mind that they were influ-enced chiefly by a determination to acquire wealth by robbery. It is in evidence, from respectable sources, that material changes have taken place in the pecuniary condition of certain individuals suspected of complicity in this affair. It is to be regretted that no well-directed effort has been made to bring the guilty to trial and punishment. I furnished to the proper officials the names of some of the persons who, I had reason to suppose, mere instigators and participators in this unparalleled massacre, and also with the names of witnesses. It was my intention to visit the southern portion of the Territory early last fall, for the purpose of bringing to this city the surviving children; but the public interest, the safety of emigrants, and of tbe United States mail, then carried on the northern California road, 1 required my resence among the Indians in the Hnmboldt Valley, , which place f visited in September and October, 1855. Upon my return from that region, the weather mas too inclement to travel, with so many little children, nortbwardly. I started as early this spring as practicable, and arrived back with the children the beginning of May. It is proper to remark that when I I obtained the children they mere in a better condition than children generally in the settlements in mltich they lived. Inpnrsnanceof instructions, I started fifteenof the surviving cliildren the 29th of last June for Leavenloorth City, nudcr the general super-vision of Major Whiting, United States army, and special care of |