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Show UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. 211 copy of which is enclosed herewith, coAveying to him the same intelligence, which thev deemed altoeether reliable, and nreine that tr3oos he raised here for tempo;ary service, a& until the troops ofvthg Uuited $;atpa could reach thin country. No notice app1:nm to hare beru raken of these: repreeentatious, wnainlv no favorahlt. rt!snunac. was ziven. and it i~ suonosed. from tile nuhli.shed letter of Brigham ~ o n n ~ , ~ ahlesroew ith enclosed, rwldZfrom other information, our efforts to protect the lives and property of our citizens and the overland mail and telegraph lines have been counteracted by his, or some other invisible influence. and that our exertions have resulted only in increasing his powe~in this country and not that of the United States. The Pmsident having con-ferred upon him the authoiity to raise troops and withheld it from the officers of the United States. The events which have occurred since our commnnications were made con-firm the correctness of our information, and prove that the assertion of Brigham Young was not reliable, that "the statements of the aforesaid telegram are with-out foundation in tluth," as he believed. Ucfore the ?migration appearrd on tile road the Shoshone%i,n connesion with the l).acutnbu and CItt.yenne~,r ulbc-d t l~cu re~.lnnJc on~pn~u~t' y11 11:irs tock upon , mow tl~irut l~rel:I lundrrd nliles of the road wc~to f 1,'ort L:lm~nie,k illed st.v~~rnl of their drivers and employis, and effeetnally stopped the mail. Early in June, Smith,.Kinkaid, and others, forming a small party, on their way from California to the States, were attacked by the Eastern Bannacks, who hunt with the Shoshones between Raft river, near Fort Hall, and Bear river, and all but Smith and another were mtwdered, and the entire party robbed. Smith was shot in the hack, with an p w , but succeeded in reaching the settlement on Bear river, with the amw yet in him. In that month three emigrant trains were waylaid by the Shoshones near Soda springs, and the people rohhed and killed. During the month of July I am informed of several trains being attacked and rohhed and many people killed. A man retnrned from Salmon river informs me that at the crossing of the Salt Lake and California roads he saw two wagons standing in the road, and the dead bodies of three white men lying beside them. There is Lo doubt that there have been many murders committed there of which no account has been given. The robbery of two hundred head of stock last month, owned by Jack Robinson and other settlers, took place near Fort Bridger, and within six milee of the cam.p of the forces -p ut into service bv Brigbam Young. 1 also transmit herewith a statement of the chief "Little Soldier," of the danger of a proposed general rising of the Shoshones and Utahs, made to the interpreter, and yesterday I received information that the Indians in Tadla, and Rush valleys declared their intention to commence robbing on the western road. They have stolen many horses and cattle of late from the settlement, and they enter the houses of farmers and in an insolent manner demand food, and that mpls shall he cooked for them. A regiment of California volunteers, ~ n d e trh e command of Ooloncl Conner, are said to he at Fort Churchill, in Nevada, six hundred miles west of this, on their way to this city, hut unless their march is hastened they will not rcach here until winter. A telegraph order from the Secretary of War to increase their speed would soon bring them upon that part of the road which is threatened by these Utah hldinna. I t is stated that General Craig is five hundred miles east of this city, and |