ill-treatment from the army, which might feel an exasperation natural after the privations to which it had been subjected during the winter.  To reassure them, the General immediately issued and forwarded to Salt Lake City a proclamation, informing them that no one should be “molested in his person or rights, or in the peaceful pursuit of his avocations.”  On the same day, Governor Cumming issued a proclamation announcing the “restoration of peace to the Territory.”

The Commissioners had reached the city on the 7th.  They were received there by the Mormon officers who commanded the few companies of militia which constituted the garrison, and were conducted to a restaurant, where meals were provided for them, but no lodgings; and accordingly they slept in their ambulances.  The place was deserted by everybody except the garrison and a few individuals who were busily removing their property.  Besides these, the only beings visible in the streets were here and there groups of half-naked Indian boys paddling in the gutters.  Almost the only sound audible was the gurgling of the City Creek.  Through the chinks of the heavy wooden portal of the Temple square, workmen were to be seen engaged in demolishing the roofs of the buildings within the inclosure.  Over the windows of all the houses boards were nailed; the doors were locked; the gates closed; and in many of the gardens, crops of weeds were beginning to choke the flower-beds.  From some of the houses of the more enthusiastic Saints all the wood-work was removed, leaving nothing standing except the bare adobe walls, while a few had been burned to the ground.  In front of the tithing-office, a train of wagons was loading with grain for removal to Provo.

The Governor arrived on the 8th, and was conducted at once to the quarters he had occupied on his previous visit.  The next day, he, together with the Commissioners, held an interview with the two messengers who had been sent up from Provo by Brigham Young.  They returned to Lake Utah that same night, and on the 10th, about noon, Young, Kimball, and Wells, together with the Twelve Apostles, and twenty or thirty Bishops, High Priests, and Elders, embracing almost all the influential characters in the Church, rode into the city.  Brigham’s mansion was thrown open and the party dined there.  They called afterwards in a body upon the Governor and the Commissioners, and made arrangements for a conference on the following day.

The President’s pardon had reached the Mormon settlements along Lake Utah on the 6th, and the manner in which it was received by the populace showed that they were not satisfied with the position of their leaders.  It was read from the steps of the tithing-offices, and at the street-corners, to crowds who denounced in the fiercest language the recital of facts set forth in its preamble.  The excitement, which had been steadily fostered by Young and Kimball ever since the commencement of the rebellion, had amounted to a frenzy which no authority less potent than such a hierarchy as theirs could possibly have controlled.  Nevertheless, the morning Brigham rode into Salt Lake City, the capitulation had been preordained.