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Show 213 I UTAH SUPERINTENDENCY. anthorize .James D. Doty, superintendent of Indian affaire, to raise and officer a , regiment here for three months, or until United States troops can reach here, under the general allegations that the property of the Overland Mail L'om any and the settlers are in danger from the Indians. So far as I know, the 1ngians in Utah are unnsnally quiet, and instead of 2,000 hostile Shoshones coming into our northern settlements, Washhekuk, their chief, has wintered in the city and near it, perfectly friendly, and is about to o to his hand. Besides, the militia of Utah are ready and able, as they ever R ave been, to take care of all the Indians, and are able and willing to protect the mail line if called upon so to do. The statements of the aforesaid telegram are without foundation in truth, so far as.we know. BRIGHAM YOUNG. Eon. JOHNM . BERNHISELW, a~hingtmD, . C. ,To these I will only add that I deeply regret the collision of these two de-sP atches. I very much respect Fuller and Doty and the chief representatives o the overland mail, but am forced to say that the Indians have, I think to them, been greatly misrepresented by interested persons. I have seen times in the mountains when there was anxiety, hut that is not the present time. If the traders on the eastern road, who are buying up stock for the Salmon rivermines, were all gibbeted, thel- would he less, if any at all, loss of mail stock. UTAH. INDIAN- SUPERINTEND~NCV, Utah Tmiiory. A u p t 5, 1862. At midnight on/ the 26 instant Little Soldier, chief of the Cum-urn-hahs, or Utah Digger Indians, who has always been a good friend to the white people, and who has always notified them of any approaching danger, arrived at the residence of D. By Huntington, interpreter for the superintendenen and informed him as follows: That the Shoshone, or Snake Indians, and the Ban-nack Indians, inhabitin the northern part of this Territory and the southern portion of eastern Was%ington Territory, have united their forees for the pur-pose of making war upon, and committing depredations on the property of, the white people, settlers in this Territory, and the emigrants to the Pacific coast by the northern route; that, for this purpose, the Shoshone Indians have set aside Wash-i-kee, the great chief of that nation, because he is a man of peace and a friend to the ivhites, and have chosen in his place as their leader Pash-e. go, becatme he is a man of blood; that they are trying very hard to get the Cum-urn-bahs, the Gos Utes, and Shoegars, or Rannack Diggers, to join' them; that they have already killed a number of emigrants, and- committed many depredations on the property of the settlers and emigrants, stealing horses, cattle;-&.; that lately they have stolen and run off one hundred and fifty horses and mules at and about Fort Bridger, s. large number in the northern part of the Territory, and three head north of and within ten milea, and seven head within fifty miles, of Great Salt Lake City; that they are now removing their families to the Salmon river country to get them out of danger, and that when the leaves tnrlred red in the fall is the time they have agreed upon to a~sernlile, and, when the leaves turn yellow and begin to fall, the time they are to fall upon and exterminate all the settlers in the Territory; that all these - war movementsare instigated and lea on by War-i-gika, the great Bannack prophet, in whom the Bannaeks and Shoshones have onhounded confidence and faith, who lives in the vicinity of Widla-Willla, in Or e-s n or Washing-t on Territory. Little Soldier v e ~ ynr gently warns the people of the grcat danger hanging |