The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-08

which have been LONG and snxioQsy waited for BY this
army, arrived to-day Had they been here month ago
the army would have, this time been ia Salt Lake
Valley for, be Understood, that though small IN mum
Der, this army hes 81 sny time considered IL pos
sole for the Saints 10 stop advance providing 1t had
means OF sub senoe and trans potson The army does
now and has ooRsidezst itse capacitaed 10 wipe
out entire Mormondom.
Colonel Hoffman brought with him sufficient provisions
10 subsst the army months limited cup ply of cloth
ipg, tents and osher Of Shoes especially
gratefully received by the troops, many whom
have been without tasm for months Indian ocassius
most instances supplying their place. The army will
receive full ratonE. The contents Of the four trains
brought up Colonel Hoffman have 10 be specifically
smined and taken charge Of by the oommisssry depart
ment, distributed throu nou the army per requstion
and then loaded into government wagons 10 be trans
ported To Salt Lake Valley This, may readily be appre
hsuded, Is small task and will require amour.
Of Labor and some time 70 accomplish IT,
Russell waddel deliver the trains TO the Uoed states
army authorities this place The contents OF the trains
have 70 DO caAlogued examined, numbered weighed or
measured that anything is missing to have account
Cd for, then given out &C. Just as tbs can be
v for the Canaan OF the Saints and every
possible despatch will be made r the doing Of it. General
Johnston not letting anything sleep but urges forward
everything pertaining 70 cur advance persisteuty.
Captain Marcy brought 10 with him 100 mules. 200
horses 100 oxen. de LEFT RayAdo, New Mexico, on
the 18th Of March, with $50 mep, 14o OF whom were
soldiers, the others were chiefly Mexican herdsmen.
Mexican named TN Goodals accompanied Captain Marcy,
with 700 sheep On the 2st Of March the expedition
reached The Ration Mountaios 10th the Arkau.
sas river me weathsr vas all the way very dne grass
exoeent roads good wood and water plenty He crossed
the Arkansas :. Old pueos, where there was formerly
Mexican trading station thence passed up the Founsine
Out BoiIle, branch Of the Arkansas, where he
remained thirty days waiting for rsiuforcemsns
April he was reinforced by Col Loring with $50 men,
ordered forward from where they New
projecting his expedition from expected attacks OF the
Normors. On the 29h Of April the urited expeditions
ridge oetween the waters ossne Platte ana Arsansss On
the evening OF that day thick
panied by terrific tempest Of wind, which lasted for
sixty consecutive hours, covering the ground with
to oepth Of three feet that the animals unable
70 obtain any subsistence from the grass. Capt
Marcy had some with which he fed them, aud thus
kept them alive During the 800 mules STAN peded
and fifty miles with the wind, clear back TO the
Arkansas river Some Of the Ne herders
them OF the two who kept on one was found this side OF
the Arkansas dead the other found the mules
crawling around in the snow on bis hands and knees In
state Of porary insanity, nearly starved to DEATH and
would probably hsve died in . few hours be had not
been found and taken into camp and well treated
within two hundred yards OF camp; the storm was
30 thick he could not find his way IN, and
The bones Of another man, supposed to be q dis
charged teamster, found where there had
them The poor man, doubtless suffering from
the cold had fallen into the fire and been burned up
save n,s bones Captain Marcy and all who were in this
they ever Knew So violent vas the wind and 40 thick
fell the spow that If man got few psces from his tent
10 call out at tho top OF his voice. his companions
within the tent hearing his cry would
soon a. The storm aoaed men desn.ched sou,b for
the stampeoed animals ali Of which with the exception Of
I'VE obtained and taken back 70 camp Not one ami
mai persisted during the storm no far a. could be
though several antelopee one OF the hardest OF
were found dead on the prairie near The csmp
nav nv atnp in
getting he s,ampeded snmss back s1d in wsitng for The
melting OF the snow wi -
ON The 18Th OF NAV the expedi,oo reached ,bs South
Platte: thew but 1stboai aud crossed the river in
,.d miles ~ The S.r,h p'ae Sn, ~, s,,ssw nVa
found the south Platte val the ooIv river That
could no, be forded on the rous. there was
of rrrsv wood and va,er All the vnv Along from Ssw
Me9eo 10 the south Pas,e Grass h GREEN during the
tire winter along under the mouptsins Capts,a Nsrcv
follow al the Cerokee em,grsnt trail from lrkansss
,krnc along ina bsse Of the ROCKY Mountains 10 inc
Plaue thence pro seeded 70 Green river Ten miles CAS-,
Ish ron,c And rooved II INIT, near The North Fore NJ
Plaf,e rive than tuyped ,th ana crossed ,bs rlvsr
sessc ne tar vh., called the Fam rop,s ana soo
"a m about thirty tvo milss wren he bore 20 the north
and made new road for thirty miles thus saving As ne
Ss made tbs Ritter crees ana so,IoveS n nm 70 S;reso
river thence by the Old roa1 70 Csmp Scott II viii be
M.rcv has onsnsS nee road inch !, consaeres ,I,
he mum driver and better during yet season than tho
regular Brio GERS pass road they do not run many miles
auss, however 90 either can es taken A. pleasure This
new Utah route BY Brdeers pass and Brysn survey Is
thousard per cent better In every wayn grass, ~ood
weier rschnese OF SOIL NC avoids All such places Is
~, w.. - - 49, 5000 An. poc,v w,rr,.r.,
impossible 70 tell there we're any mountains-it was a
perfeet plain for :. least 100 miles scroe The very sum
az az S, ,Se , ~ - 10, ,h d,sa, go h
tween he Atlantic And Pacific waters vM Nor Yves the
ascent o. decent nom the mountains hardly observable
nsrsv n.es 1900 v.sons o.nn sins,s n,gn, s,tsa",
rood ersss and water IN any season the yesr On and
IN The vicinity Of Bitter creek he found exhaustive deposits
=, co o. ..,y N DC 'S az" oecn
rived forty days earlier because the streams would not
have been 10 high snd he would have avoided that
sn ~ s, on , .nu s I'm 49, ,,.,, ,. ., N.
Rocky Nounts,ns bird which was not before rnowr 10
erfat n United Ststea. n species uarmi.