The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-29
FROM UTAH.
FROM OUR SPEcIAL CORRESPONDENT

FROM OUR SPECLAL CORRESPONDEN
CAMP ScoTT, L. T. May 10, 1858.
During the last week the camp been thronged
with Indans-Utcs and Shoshonees. have before re-
marked that these Indians remarkably peaceabe for
wi foks-that they show it in their face well
history of their intercourse with whites an
ditiona proof will now instance their queues. These are
so long that they trail upon the ground and when their
hair is not long enough for thu purpose they exc it
out with the hair of bufaloe To these queues are gen
orally attached series of brass disks, varying in
size from five to six inches in diameter beginning with
the largest the head gradually taperng
off towards the heels where they larger than
dollar. With the hair thus arranged, complete suit
old casto soldier clothes cap boots painted
red bow of cedar three feet in length in hand quver
full of iron pointed slung the bacthe Ute is in
his full costume, and is spirit of satisfaction pride,
walking the earth with gadness and joy His wives his
sisters his little all daubed in the with red
they paint even more than civilized ladies.
In of quarrel if Ute should another by
the long and commence whrlng him around there
would soon be centrifugal force generated cosmica
character which, however great might be the
tpeta impulses of the subject would still keep
him in orbit quite remote from retaliation With his
head drawn back and his face outwar regarding every
possible object in the visible horizon except enemy he
would become helpless subject inexorabe law of
Nature, and remain till his enemys should have
Hence
Ctes would not in fact wear these if they
quarrelsome.
There is gloomy trait of their character reported
through camp and doubt correctly 1t is that chief
having recently died, avorite his, some
ten years of buried with him alive in order to
bear him company to the new hunting grounds SINH
lar ceremony said to have been observed great
Ute chief Parker died. several Pap Utes tribe over
which the Utes dOmineer being slain funeral as
suitable retinue to the other world
One of these Pap Utes was brought into camp
time since and sold to of the connected with
the expedition. The article was sold for boy, but
proved to be young woman Fortunately she fell into
good hands and to be of the happies exsten
in the universe There puppies in the estab-
lshmen which she belongs she has enough
English say that one is bigger than the other swing
was made for her. but man got into it and broke it
down, she said that he was bigger puppy than she
When the willows put forth their first catkns she deco
er hair with if crowning herself queen
May. Sheis certainly genius.
The penchant which these people exhibit for the
of civilization naturally leads the question
whether they might not evnce the aptness for the
internals An Indian whom we saw to-day besides the
full already mentioned had pair of goggles
which rested just above his and gave him such
exceedingly intellectual and sapient look that regard
ed him with respectful admiration
If there aspect however, in which these Indians
do not show very avoraby as cviizabe beings it is
when they are around the ofal of slaughtered
beeves They anticipate the wolves, the and the
buzzars leaving not one particle that these animals
could CLEAN to save them from starvation
But tho they so remarkably fond of the white
mans clothes very few of them have our armsour rifles
owling pieces They still adhere to the of the bow
and arrow aho the heads of the always iron
Yet before iron introduced there silcious
knives too and in such an admirable condition for these
purposes that it would almost have scattered
here by benefcent Providence, with view its by
the red consists ofquarz flint, agate. cornelian
chacedony opal &C. poradcay scattered about the
surface of the soil in small sharply angular and edged
pieces if thrown up in spliners from depths below
Obsdian too, volcanic glass is occasionally met with,
and many are the fragments of stone with which you
could skin and dress buffalo, if you had nothing better.
Speaking of mineral substances, am reminded of the
bumnous coal which found at various points in this
region. The more of it. the question the fire.
quent recurs to as to why coal supposed to be of
vegetable organic production? Would it not be
able infer because shells found in limestone that
limestone therefore consists of shells it is
the presence in coal beds that the therefore,
consists of trees? If we are not mistaken we have
palm tree taken from Bohemian coal mine, which
petrifed and not carbOnized. The immense amount OF
potash in this region oois that perhaps, like coal of
vegetable origin may not both in fact without
the necessity of previous organic existence?
Another load of produce in Saturday, and met
with rapid sale, although the price of butter one
dollar and fifty cents the pound and cheese potatoes and
onions in proportion Happy was the man who could get
them terms The market price of salt still
at 81 so per pound.
One of the remarkable of the past has
been the apparition in camp of an elephant! frame
work. covered with gray blankets and buffalo skins, sup
ported by four men, each man performing the functions
of leg and led through in the dusk of the evening"
sufficiently resembled that quadruped to afford the unn
itiaed the qualification of seeing the elephant The
keeper remarked by apology for his appear
that he had been half rton during the winter
but that he had great deal of life in him STILL whereupon
the intelligent animal waved his trunk in emphatic
confirmation of his keepers words.
Several Mormons arrived to-day from the rear their
way to Salk Lake city. They had wagon drawn by
mules, and stated that they left Council Bluffs the Sd
of April. One of them recognized by of the
camp followers having belonged to party which
mitted murder this point several years He
arrested and held bail in the three thousand
dollars, and was bailed out by of his companions
who that he 1.-THE balor possessed of property
the Territory of tab to the value of ten thousand dol
lars No one, however, has any confidence in what a
Mormon whether he to it not The party
after short detention, passed on.
MAY 13thThe chief object of the assembling
Indians here at present is the holding of council with
DIR. FOrney, superintendent of Indian affairs for Utah
with the view of establishing peace unity and brother
hood the Utes Shoshonees and Banacks This lat
ter tribe from the and they might well be called
An1kS tall and large their persons They have the
most peculiar expression of countenance of Indian
| tribe that have They indeed lCild men,
having which you might expect with
human shoulders in the other orb space
There is something in their physognomy which
of the primitive when tree ferns waved wind
that breathed gently level and half desoate
earth Modern civilization finds reflex in their faces
christian ideas echo in their souls Conceive red
six feet more in heghth his face glowing with
vermon his wry hair dyed purple and rising straight
up in front, his tall frame enveloped in nicely
buffalo robe; for the tribe down as far as the head
waters of the Missouri to hunt long queue half
dozen of them hanging down behind with bow and
rows, beads and brass trinkes innumerabe and indie
scribableconceve such being this evoked from this
mountain soil by the and you form idea Of
the Banack when dressed in full costume and the
to the council. The Banacks wife is refreshing
specimen OF nature She dresses to be seen and quiet
smile of satisfaction turks thro her features look of
much distressed is shade plat when brought to the