United States Army peacefully enters abandoned Salt Lake Valley under the command of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston.
29th In company with G. A. Smith A. Lyman & S. M. Blair
I called upon Mr Simonton who was stabed yesterday
by Filmore he seemed quite comfortable we repaired
to the Historians office & talked over Utah affairs &
Johnstons Armey affairs we then met at Capt Hoopers
President Young ^and council^ Governor Cummings & several of the Twelve
& conversed most of the forenoon upon the Indian affairs
& other subjects. Mr Simonton came in & spoke of reporters
said that it was the duty of a reporter to state facts just
as they were But the Editors would then Handle them
Just as they pleased sometimes they would turn them ^w^rong
side out & publish them Just contrary to what the reporters
stated. Gov Young Cummings said the reporters called upon
him when they first came in and introduced themselves
to him and I told them I considered them poor miser
able Devils ready to lie about evry thing they see and from
his own confession here to day I consider the publishers & rep-
orters of News papers more Diespiseable than a Hoar house for
a woman is to be Despised who prostitutes her body but
when man Prostitutes the most Noble part of man even
his intellect & powers of mind to falshood & deception
he is far more Despisable than a woman who prostitutes
her body many remarks passed upon various subjects
Bishop Burton came in and said it was reported that
there was several Navahoes in the Neighborhood some
300 warriors in one of the canions & it was feared they
would mak war the Indians were vary savey had
turned their horses into our wheat taken the pools to
make wickaups off & was stealing horses & shooting cattle
Gov Cummings was going down to see them I spent
most of the day in the office we wrote a Letter to Lyman
Wight in answer to a Letter which he wrote to me
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