altered since we acquired it?  After a most diligent search and inquiry, I have not been able to find that any such change has been made:  and presuming that this law remains unchanged by legislation, all marriages after the first are by this law illegal and void.  If you are then satisfied that such is the fact, your next duty is to inquire by what law in force in this Territory are such practices punishable.  There is no law in this Territory punishing polygamy, but there is one, however, for the punishment of adultery; and all illegal intercourse between the sexes, if either party have a husband or wife living at the time, is adulterous and punishable by indictment.  No consequences in which a large proportion of this people may be involved in consequence of this criminal practice will deter you from a fearless discharge of your duty.  It is yours to find the facts and to return indictments, without fear, favor, affection, reward, or any hope thereof.  The law was made to punish the lawless and disobedient, and society is entitled to the salutary effects of its execution.”]

At the distance of a few miles from Fort Bridger, the Governor and Mr. Kane were received by a Mormon guard.  At various points on their journey squads of militia were encountered, and in Echo Canon there was a command of several hundred.  The Big Mountain, which the road crosses twenty miles from Salt Lake City, was covered so deep with snow, that the party was obliged to follow the canons of the Weber River into the Valley.  Upon arriving at the city, on the 12th of April, the Governor was installed in the house of a Mr. Staines, one of the adopted sons of Brigham Young, and was soon after waited upon by Young himself, in company with numerous ecclesiastical dignitaries.  The Territorial seal was tendered to him, and he was recognized to his full satisfaction in his official capacity.  He remained more than three weeks.  Except fugitive statements in newspapers, the only connected account of his proceedings is from his own pen, and consists of two official letters,—­one addressed to General Johnston, under date of April 15th, the other to the Secretary of State at Washington, dated May 2d.  The former merely announces his arrival, reception, and recognition, transmits charges against Dr. Hurt, of having excited the Uinta Indians to acts of hostility against the Mormons, and suggests that he should desire a detachment of the army to be dispatched to chastise that tribe, but a requisition for that purpose was made neither then nor subsequently.  The letter to Secretary Cass states that his time was devoted to examining the public property of the United States which was in the city,—­the records of the courts, the Territorial library, the maps and minutes of the Surveyor General,—­and exculpates the Mormons, in great part, from the charge of having injured or embezzled it.