THE MISSIONARIES.
Their Destination and the Object of the Mission.
The Recent failure of the United States commission to confer with the Indians for the transfer of the Black Hills, and the ill temper of a number of the Indians at the council have led many to suppose that Indian troubles on the plains are probable, and that an extended and serious Indian war is probable. —News.
The withholding by the priesthood of the information as to the field of labor to which the recently called missionaries would be sent, was a significant fact, and now the information comes out, that of the hundred and fifty Mormon tramps who were called at the Conference, about one-third of them are to be sent, under the leadership of James E. Brown, an Indian interpreter, to labor among Brigham's Battle axes. The Navajoes are the Indians who will receive the immediate teaching of these minions of the priesthood, and their influence will, beyond doubt, have the effect of cooperating the tribes of the Colorado with those of the plains in a general war upon the whites as foreshadowed in Granny's prophetic surmise. A trustier slave than Brown could not have been found to whom the priesthood could, with safety, have trusted the important charge of instigating the Navajoes to hostilities towards the whites, and, therefore, when the Mountain Meadows press talks of an extended Indian war they know whereof they speak.
