Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-05-04

tier they were Informed that Brother Brigham
had received a revelation from God, directing
that In order to try their faith and thus test
who among them were worthy the honors OF
the faithful, they should journey TO Salt Lake
10 hand-eart trains
Accordingly, their pilots and lsadsrs-6lied
with the grace acquired al the feet Of their
Prophet Brigham-kindly purchased the band
carts for them at cost Of eight dollars eecn-
and generously put them at the disposal OF the
newly-arTiVed brethren at exactly double that
sum- OF course the entire party we're com
PEELED 10 90 on foot, six TO each hand-eaIt,
which they dragged along with its contents,
consisting OF seventeen pounds Of luggage to
each person. All the property Of the eDigrants,
over and above this, they we're compelled to
throw away, OF course-thns losing the little
remnant Of their savings after having been
most religiouslY robbed Of all their cash. Nov
dissensons rose among them, and the result
was that they did not reach the banks OF the
Missouri, from whence to start westward, un-
til the lat Of September.
Here, then, they stood, with twelve hundred
miles of weary travel on foot before them, and
the merciless rigors Of a Northern winter
staring them in the face. The eommonest
humanity would have inspired the leaders OF
the deluded band 10 stay their steps until tue
opening spring. But they seem to have been
oblivious 10 any such sentiment. They got up
another revelation from on high, In which the
travellers were hidden onward, aud assured that
the angels of the Lord wosld be upon their
right baud and their left, shielding them from
harm, providing them sus.enance and protee-
ton, aud conducting them rejoicing into The
valleys Of the mountains, where dWelt the
giories Of Israel's God
Thus twenty-five hundred honest, simple
souls, fail Of honest faith and zsal-old men
and young, gentle women and tender children,
plunged into the wilderness, never doubling the
result Sad to relate OF that entire band, only
about two hundred frost-bitten, starving and
smaeiatsd brings lived TO tell the story Of their
suferings Mr.. Lobs, himself, witnessed the
entrance Of the survvOrs-many even Of whom
were compelled to the Tudest kind OF surgery
for the amputation OF limbs already frozen to
death. Twsnty-thrss hundred Of the devoted
band had fallen by the way, tortured victims
Of hunger and cold, some of them, indeed, torn
by famishsd wolves while life still struggled
for the victory over Punishment and frost.
The picture is too horrible to contemplate
but my informant states that its truth is well
sttested by many persons who soon after
passed over the scene Of this march Of death,
and found 1t strewn with its thousands of ghast-
" human skeletons. He says, too, that among
the Indian tribes Of Utah while children are
now living, who were picked up from the snow
By the savsges, and thus rescued from the
death which the parents had failed to escape.
Mr.. Loba well asks whether it is not the
province Of Government to take Eotice OF such
events as these, and essay an effJrt to prevent
their recurrence. It was far from safe, how
ever, to suggest such an idea In salt Lake City.
A London friend Of Mr.. LIS, named Jarvis,
stung to the quick at sight Of the miserable
remnant Of The hand-csrt immigration, remark
ed, that if such an event bad occurred in EGG
land, Brigham Young would have been called 10
account by he Government For utterance OF
this sentiment Jarvis became At once the OBJ
jsct Of cruel persecution. The Destroying An
gels burned bis house, robbed him, and dragged
him out BY the hair Of bis head. He was
obliged to hy for his life, abandoning all his
Of every description.
The condition OF the female portion Of the
community at Salt Lake is represented as most
deplorable. Large numbers Of them feel deep
" the degradation Of their position, and look
forward with Joy, even 10 death, as means OF
release. When the army shall have reached
the Valley. Mr. Loba believes that the great
er portion Of the female Saints will avail them
selves Of the protection thus afforded them and
abandon Mormondon. Many Of these will do
so because OF their sufsrings, notwithstanding
that they still maintain faith in the doctrine Of
the Saints, while large number will because
Of their intense disgust Of the whole affair.
have thus given you a few of the prominent
facts and suggestions derived from my inteli-
gent informant. His intensely interesting per-
sonal narrative shall BE- Forthcoming as soon
as he has had time to make it complete.