The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-15


The mail ssrvd 1t Indie. eDdcnce. M, cn the
evening of the II tDlst, bringing full iss Of the De
snd NsSs. from which sucb extracts have beeu
taken ~ We detmec hbely a. interest oar readers.
What follows In from Information furnishej ny Mr..
hsgrsw. oce 81 the contractors who cAn.e through
To the UDi,ed States Court, lief Justice Kinney.
psts,dip assisted b. Judge SchseiIsr, Longnsr
sDd Antelope, two Utah Inoisns were tried fog muir
der coznm.tse In Utsr county 90 the 8tn day Of
August, 1854. on the BODIES Of two Mormon lads,
were found guilty. and sesteDced TO be hung on
the l5tb u't.mo. The prosecution WAS ably con.
duc,ed by joseph Holman, District Attorney for
the Ter,is, ~ OF Utah (a'e OF Washington county,
,, ks,ylnDd) snd the defence by Col J. C. Little
arc Hosea Stout Stout. OF G; s. I. Cry: with the
distr Rpisbed. Affairs IN Utah are oSperous.
NJ. 1aeIsw hsssd that gold bad been discovered
Cd Sweet Water. and that quite q numner OF per-
soDe wtye yrDspectoR M thai river and its tributa
ries. Reports seUresepted that success WAS good
a. prospects fatteripg.
TbeIe are pow CD tho way aoroas the plsios about
forty Mormon mssif Da-ks, under charge Of elder
tfuvei In conn any with about an equal number Of
returning CsliforY is1s snd together With about
tsenty traders NJ explorers, they make party OF
shout hundred, probably the last considerable
party that VII come eastward this season.
The trading house on Deer Creek about eighty
miles wet Of La amie, when passed, was almost
entirely consumed, ard the caral and other out
Luiiolnes were In dsmes, and everything Indicated
mates vere understood 70 have left in consequence
OF the previous difhculties At Laramie Saw no In.
dial that dsy, except four AIap 2hoes.
Seventy five miles west OF S4ls Greek, passed q
party OF fourteen P8wLteR supposed to Ne the same
which attacked party Of Californian 8, wounding
ore. II v rights previous. on that stream. From
sier blood on the ground Of the stack the sup
position ia that ut leash one Ind'an hsi been kill
co. and the party y orste in the fight.
Tho contrary has been com yelled TO abandon its
station built Ut con- iderabe expense, st Ash Hot
lo~. on the North Platte, in consequence Of noti-
fica'i0h from the head Chief Of TIE Sioux nation,
that II Lot d0ned. he would cut the ttroats Of
OIL fonnu iheje sfer given day, The employees Of
tht company chose the alternative OF going to
Scnt's Bluff, so miles further vest
Met this side OF Kearpey, half dozen different
rfeius belonging TO siceht Indian traders. being
probably ali that are on the route They are getting
on well.
in consequence Of The immense number Of stock
driven across the fpiains and partly owing to the
work Of the erasahOg pere.
Upon hearing some distance west Of Laramie Of
tie ssir Of that post the conductor yielded to the
solicitations OF pass cngsrs, and delayed five days
a. Devils Gate awaiting other travellers from tue
West to strengthen tho party. The travel from La
rhme to this place WAS performcdin nine and half
dsys, probably the shortest time on record ross
the plains.
TIE outward bound mail was met on the North
F oIk Of thePlatte. All was quiet at Laramie, the
sDus syDg sp q Ss. the
nan's Fork, from seventy TO hundred miles dis
tant from TIE fort.
Tw Keys before arriving at Keasnsy, Indians, sup
pased to be Sioux, stampeded twenty-five head Of
gove,r ment horses and nales about an hour by sun
In the mo- ning and within bali mile Of the fort.
They we're pursued by the soldiers, bnt -ith wha.
success is not known. Passed Capt ketchum with
bis commend o. two companies eighty miles this
side Of Kearney, and C,l Hoffman, with Q small es-
cort, at Pens0neau Grove. ell well.
COL 6teptot 3 command arrived in Salt Lake City
on tie last day o. july Ulcers and men all well,
ard stock In remarkably fiue condition, only eight
amin sis having been lest on the route. Met the last
Of the Mormon emigration on the Sweet Water,
doing well.
We nust not forget to cay tnst the high 'compli
me hts psid by the Desert Meas to the Postmaster
at Independence weIe all intended for D. Weber,
wtose head lies dabbEng In its own gore. PTes
dent Pierce has such accurate disc animation of
mtiit as there is at Salt Lake and here.