The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-16
FROM UTAH.


An express has also arrived to-day from Fort Laramie
The troops and train from that point were to have left on
the list inst Upon their arrival we shall doubtless
sumo the long suspended march 1t is high tme for
have lain here going months and as weather
is fine the soldiers share with the rest of the animated
world at this verna of the year. in the desire to be
moving. Their life in this desert has, in fact, become
very monotonous. Their woodhauling tomorrow
the mules having strong enough to do it for them
Not of their least for wishing to move is
longing fresh vegetables something of which they have
but barely had taste period of ten months. They
have had deSjccad vegetables but the whole their
raons has had much and has been so poor
in meat and of bread that they desire change of
diet 1t amusing Witness with what avidity they
pounced upon the other day who brought into camp
from Bear River, (about 40 miles in advance u.s. few
bushels of potatoes onions Poor fows there would
have been threcquarters of potato per man, had
they divided out the most exact principles dis
trbutive Justice What from the weather of the
advancing spring after the bracng gors of the winter
and from low diet they ngud and pale faced
those interesting school girls dine slate pencils
sup chalk and vinegar.
The weather has become quite warm, the thermometer
ranging during the last two days high 7Oo In
sequence, the the mountains is melting rapidly
the streams swelling and with renewed force of
rent tearing up their sandy bottoms while the trout
thrill and dart through their rapid waters with renewed
JOY In the few standing pools and quiet bends the frogs
nightly repeating their old complaints the listening
stars And there along the far south, lies long white
ridge fnged with darkng fir in intense repose yet with
the depth and ranging cast of expression that beam in the
long dark eye Of girl Add to this brilliant play of
morning sunbeams that flash the like span
gled gauzy skirts of ruddy dancing hour nile our
bands playing, "For the Love of Annie LAURIE
s''T was within mile of Edinboro town. and winding
of with stirring strathespy up and down Highland
Fling-high enough indeed, considering our elevation
above the 1t truly great piece of statesman
ship, wasn't ii? in recent minister of war to place his
paws, upon almost the last throb of military vitality
that such and similar craftsmanship has left among
But the country will be wiser, by and by, per,
haps, than to trust two such old stable institutions
as the army and navy to the management l of who
have been reared among the innoyang unprecedented
influences of the West
Every Western man you meet with talks politics
if he had the rabies, contracted from the bite
of some runaway disappointed Office seeker. 1t
is astonishing to with what gusto they will talk three
hours deXtrous instance of district or county man
agement piece of distinguished bar-room statesman
ship To listen to them, you would suppose that the ship
of state could glide only in the old common channel of
democratic routine and slang Divert them from this but
for one moment to more sensible and less political view
of things, and they stand much amazed and agasp as
nyou had suddenly exhausted them of breath. 1t in
deed wonderful that they should have become disgust
ed-nay, nauseaed with such stuff long ago; but they
seize hold of it with much avdty eenncss Of rel
iSh as if it something under the SUM- and they
had been the very first invent it-expecne
the Presidency foreign mission by the way of recon-
pense as matter of course.
Fortunately for stablcr and therefore better govern
ment, We have but little good land of the national
domain in which 'human freedom can run riot and dis
urb its ncighbors That great Mississippi Valley which
has doomed up in the future with its untold millions of
population is, to great extent better than desert
and will support only, it has done the food few
Indian tribes remarkable for their parseness at that All
that immense region of country between the 9th degree
of west longitude and strip of two three hundred
miles along the Pacific coast will hardly contain as much
good land as of old States The time then
is not far distant when farm had by every
runaway European apprentice who wishes spite his
master in particular, and all and any authority %eneI
and the landed interest, instead of adding insurrcc
tony innoyatng, revolutionary element TO govern
ment thus continually agravatng its fever will become
N naturally should be- the basis of conservatism, reu
lty, ORDER law, and adhesion to old principles until
ter ones be found BY the time that your oldest son
comes to seek for "a farm in the West" he will find
that that sort of thing is among the things that were
April 2Sth-To nation which has character lose
or one which has character ALL the aspect
presented by affairs here this moment worthy of
consideration. The circumstances are theseour Govern
or being in Great Salt Lake City the CAPITAL of rebel
lion and treason and the army on the ouse in hostile
attitude the United States Marshal for Utah Justice OF
the peace of said Territory and dozen went
few days since on Bear river to get beeves-somehin
which is becoming scarce, the last batch slaughtered
leaving the butchers in doubt which to take for raons
the hides or cacasses poor they But before
beeVes could be got the MormOns down upon them
and the party made their way back in hurry to camp
riding all night and arriving about midday yesterday
But state of affairs anomalous this is but the natural
hybrid issue which must be expected when such politics
as prevail IN our country become mixed up with military
matters
1t is said that the provisions of the army are gettr
az for tba
early arrival ofsuppeS yet that these arrangements have
been hwarted by orders emanatng from other quarters
ana that the only hopes based upon the arrival of
the train from Laramie facops ofagriculturasts were
along with pows pruning hooks etc, they might raise
enough provisions to supply the troops during the year or
TWO more that the Mormon maady may be prolonged
Heaven grant that the may prove chronic as our
Gmei justice says, and become offensive that of
Kansas.
There is current of fight between the Snakes
and utes but it is not very probable 1t is perhaps
myth gotup ny the Mountanccrs, whose religion it is to
devise fables they have other In this way they
have acquireda skill in ''dipomacy' that would excite
the envy even of a New Orleans man
1t is remarkable that these Indians do not fight among
themselves than they do considering that the crowd
OF migration through their country of late years has re
duced their game and thus rendered necessary wider
range of hunting excursions in which they must come IN
collision But they seem naturally TO he of more peace
full disposition than were the Indians the Atlantic board
ey SNOW II III thelf lce' winch Is often luminous with
bonhommie remember of no instance where they have
attacked the whites, tho these whites have resided amon
hem Tor many years and if game fails they often take
root eating Their numbers exceeding sparse comport
ing IN TINS respect with the barrenneSS
"lch lhey ma themselves situated without knowing
whence or wherefore Yet they seem to breed rapdly2
their skulls and bones lie mingled bleaching with
those of the Buffalo upon the surface the soil and pro
badly have so done through the long night of many ages
that interviewed between the creation man and the dis
coyery Of America Year after year the autumn SIM has
wheeled down winter wards the wide pasture between
this and the Mississippi wileits teemfng horizon boupd
herds OF attened buffalo have been chased by yelling
Indian who is hardly less animal than they after dark
ling age, here upon this wide prairie have they arisen
the pyer and the preyed upon and have gone down to-
| gcther!
One of the most prominent traits of this pcople-he
Snakes and probably of all these North ndiansis
their passion for gambling In their lodges of long
winter nlght one VIII sit with small bone in his
hands and endeavor to deceive, like thmberigeer as
to the particular hand in which it is party is drumming
with sticks and raising clamorous outcries with view Of
istractng the attention from the manoeuvengs of the
bone holder. Thus they sit and bet the long night
through-their yawling clamOrs mnglinp with tbe VAL
ing of the winds and the bowling of the wolves Their
sittings will continue sometimes for week during which
they often bet away everything they possesshorse
and CULVER lodge buffalo robes, peries dress-eyerv-
thing in fine, leaving themselves almost naked as when
| they were born
1t is another beautiful day-the zephyrs hanging pretty
garlands of cloud upon the white brows of the Untal
and spring touching the earth with her magic wand to
which the catkins OF the willow come FORTH the plain
breaks into bright broad mile of green and-bettrr
than ALL wild garlic plants lift their heads from the soil
Nothing could be more relishabe at this time than the
SAVIOR of this plant and men can be seen reach
ing for it over the country in the vicinity of the camp
1t is esteemed as perfect Godsend Oh We pampered
of prel We should learn to appreciate the Lumbe
garlic The spicy breath of Orient isle embosomcd in
the embrace OF amorous trOpc was never half so
sweet
Talking of sweets reminds of expcdient which the
young officers Of the camp have resorted to, in order
supply the place sugar in their coIee;t is while
drinking 1t, to think intensely of their hearts
Those who have daguerreotype licensees of their
hearts add reflection from them In this way the bev
said to be rendered savory it would be
with muscovado, tho some prefer to add spcng pa
trotism; it being S'ceet to die for ones country.
Nine o'clock nigh-The day that began bright has
ended as is not uncommony the other regions of
n ) oil
frequent occurrence that it takes every by surprise
Thunder storms, mean. They do indeed occur but are
never accompanied by much rain This has been inferred
from several reasons and among others from the that
the loose soil of the country and the steep banks of
river vales much quilted Even the that
ia are confined principally to the higher points
the mountains, and when they disappear especially from
inc lower grounds between the ranges it by grad
ua evaporation than by sudden dissolution 1t is in this