Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-04-21
From ths Nsw York rimAs
CIah News and Col. Fremont.


From pnlygamous U.ah, our dates are forty
days later he mlny.wivyd had a Il. etina
ON the last day OF January, AMI EXPRESSED
thsns Ives very favorable iu the immediate
construction OF "a Pacific Railroad Col Bah
b,It was despatched on the I'd OF February to
bear their resolutions TO Washington, The
immigration to the Salt Lake country during
the year has been not less than 10000. A
paper mill h been established in Gre Salt
Lake City. The state debt is Sl2,43l-the
amount OF take. still due Sl6,9s6. We new
er turn tU The Utah news without expecting
something rch-eilhcr in Brigham Young's
sermons or the Legislative cnactments We
are not disappointed this time. The Legsla
ture, to procure supply of fuel for the
Saints, offers a reward Of 81 600 to any resi-
dent who will discover good coal mine not
less than a foot and half thick, and within
forty miles of the capital. This is novel
way oi raising the supply 0ffuel at least. The
same bod9 has enacted that all questions Of
law shall be decided by the court; that no
laws shall be cited during a trial except Uni
ted States md Utah laws, and that no decis.
ION or so lorth at any trial, shall be held as a
precedent on any other trial. They have
adopted new alphabet having SO letters in
IT, which are intend d to represent as many
sounds. 1t will be used in the schools as
soon as they can get type for it, though it
Is not intended 10 abolish immediately our
venerable old alphabet. The clergy tell some
hard stories. One OF them speaking Of Cali.
f)rnla, says; "A saint OF God may put all the
advantages OF climate, timber, soil, trade and
money together in she world, and he could
not Ilve under that Government One tells
about laying his hands on a child so sick that
they thought it dead, and it brcathed again,
and was playing in the streets HE next day
One (an elder) wriiing from Bombay, sa, S
that he, BY prayer, changed terrible storm
at sea into great calm; and then cured
cholera, blindness and palsy by laying hands
on the patients; and several Of them tell sto
ries that are not equaIed elsewhere than ia
!he advertisement Of quack pills and panaceas
Brigham is IN as good spirits as ever, talk,
very plainly TO :he saints for their lukewarm
ness about bringing in their tthes and sug
ges;s that the last revelation he has had fo
them, was a command that the lazy fellows
who go securing over the country hunlin!
und oating, should bring in their horses ans
some 500 yoke Of oxen, to the treasury Of tn,
temple.
We said that Col Babbitt had started fo
the east. he had been ont but week, wher
suddenly he came upon the exploring exped
ton oi Col. Fremont Our readers will re
member Col. Bcnions sanguine cdcton
he was hardly wiling to call them predic
uons, bat rather announcements Of facts al
ready sctllcd--that his route would Prov
equally feasible for winter as summer trave
! But the fearless explorer had lost seven O
his men by starvation and exposure Whel
t Babbitt came up he found them subsisting oi
a dog and single pint of four One ha,
dropped dead from his horse that nlght--poo
fellow, riding to the ! .st minute They ha
Just waded out Of snow six feet deep, an
/ were in a foot of snow when overtaken. TIL
whole party numbered fifteen-eight of ther
It Indians. Thinking to find game plenty, the
, had taken but little -four; but game had bee
t very scarce, and they had been compelled
= eat eighteen of their mules. Fremont wi
n not disposed to give up however. lie took
much provisions as Col Babbit, had to spar
e and in spite of the snow and other obstacle
which be presumed to lie ahead of him, hel
on his course. Col Babbt: brings letters fror
. him TO Col. Benton. and memoranda from I'll
lost Guunison.