Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1858 — Important Utah News, if True. [ARTICLE]

Important Utah News, if True.

The Leavenworth City <Ledger>, of the 25th ult. says: “A dispatch arrived at Fort Leavenworth on Monday night, requesting immediate reinforcement or the troops near Salt Lake. A company under Captain Anderson have had a severe engagement with a guerilla party, in which a few of the enemy were killed, and three of their own men wounded. Three companies marched yesterday to their assistance—one light battery, one heavy battery, and a company of dragoons. So it seems the war will not end in smoke, notwithstanding the predictions to that effect.” -----

{Ks"Tlie London Post of 31st ult. says: We' know that our friends across the Atlantic are rather restive of advice, even when it is tendered in the most respectful and conciliatory spirit; hut with this knowledge, we tjUll cannot refrain from stating that the protracted existence of the Mormon insureetion is a scandal and a disgrace to the authorities, executive as well as legislative, of the United States, and that it steps be not promptly and vigorously taken to resto r e the supremacy ot the law, a fatal blow may be , struck at the permanency and integrity of the nation. ’

reached Fort Leavenworth on Monday last, by express, that a band of outlaws congregated on the Little Osage, and a small detachment of" U. S. troops, under command of Capt. Anderson, had an engagement at arms. One soldier was' killed, and Capt. Anderson'was wounded in the fleshy part of the leg, and his horse killed under jiiin. A battery of four guns, hnd one or two companies of dragoons were dispatched on Tuesday to tho scene of difficulties.