New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-18

represented III our last account. from Utah as being
abandoned BY the Inhabitants, commences near the
northern boundary Of the Territory, about seventy
miles distant fom Salt Lake City, 10 the valleys of
Cache end Maade, which sre used, however,
chiefly for the pas.urogo Of tho stock belonging to
the church. There TIRE also tw0 small settlements
on the Beer River bat the fret place approaching
Salt Lake City from the rorth, which caa be called
town, is Boa Elder or BTigbams City, about eight
miles south Of Bear River sne ffty-seveu from Salt
Lake City. This town, which Is inhabited pr;n 81
pslly by Danes and Swiss, is very handsomely stu
ated on plain ab ut two hundred feet above tho
level of Bear River. The bou-es yell built ard
hurdromey arranged. Five niles soutt is willow
Cree X, Ia the vicinity Of which 10 mach god lard,
producing the heaviest crops Of wtest raised 10 the
Territory. Twelve miles south of Willow Creek
Fort is Ogdeb's Hole f 10 valley surrounded on
81 sides by mountains, except the narrow Psss at
ITS ent,aoce. 1t contains 6se hundred nts5itants.
Three miles southwest Of the Hole Is Bicg-
hams Fort, containing eeyen huodiei inhabitants.
Two miles from Blpgbsms Fort and thirty
five f'om Sss Lake CITY, is Ogden City, on
Weber RIVER, one Of the larsest towns ia tie
Territory, ard contc'aing macy handsoue
buildings The population is four or five thou
sand. East AID Wet Weber Forts, On tho
opposite banks Of the rivs-, about eight miles
above Ogden City, contain ABOUT five hundred in
hahitants. Eight miles further south is keysville,
containing about thousand i1h.bitants. 1t has
some good arabic land, and flee stock range
Pennington City, the county seat OF DAVIS County,
contains about the same number Of Inhabitants
Three or four miles further south is Sessions, a
strsaeIipg settlement, scattered some Eve miles
along the road but with many foe houses, and To-
cluding tie best lands 10 the Territory. Eight
niles from Sessions is Salt Lske City, which Is
supposed to conta about third part OF the entire
popuia.,on Of the Territory, or from fifteen TO
eighteen thousand people. 1t was originally laid
out eleven years sgo--in July, 1S47-in two
hundred ard sixty blocks Of ten acres each, sepa-
rated by streets hundred and twenty -e'got iees
vice, and irrigated BY canals from the River Jof'
dan. There are eight houses in each block, 80 ar
ranged that no two houses front each other. IL
has many fine and some elegant bulldogs the pna-
c,ps of which are the Tabernacle, IN which all
religious ard other public meetings are held, the
Council douee, the Endow nent House, the unhn-
sbed Temple, the Court House, nineteen school
houses aid many costly houses erected ~ the lead
ers, among which are twJ belonging to Brigham
Young.
All these settlements, built up in the course OF
ten or eleven years by tie unurlne lnoustr, Oh the
Mormons, are now in the progress Of abandonment
and decreod or the advance Of the troops into the
valley to total destruction. 1t is probable, also,
though that does not yet distinctly appear that this
abandonment extends to the lice of settlements
along the shores of Utah Lake, some sixty miles
south Of Salt Lake City, and Of which Provo, con-
tnioipg about four thousand inhsbItants, is the
principal.
Where these unhappy people are to CO. or what
is to become of them, does not appear They are
m,yng south. but, so far ss we know, there are 10
that direction no iohsbtable tracts Of any cOnsid-
erable extent within seven hundred miles OF theie
lste settlements. SO extraordinary migration Is
hardly paralleled in history. The dePopulatl'n OF
Acsdle hundred years ego, strong political req
sons as there we're for it, has not left very fra
grant door behind it. TIE diving of the Mormons
from their homes By military terror will hardly
contribute much to the honor of the country, or to
tie posthumous reputation of Dir. Buchanan
Presidency.
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