New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-18

structon of property and life which attend H.
the natural sequence of an unhealthy state oil
affairs III the body polite Of 9TH, TO which the
National Government has tactly assented tor near!
ten years, and for which it is responsible.
CAMP SCOTT, Nov. %, lco7
The army has gone into Winter quarters at Camp
Scott " hateyer minor operations may be con'em-
plated will be assigned to attachments; but IL is
determined that no effort will be made TO cross the
Wahsstch range until next Spring.
The wisdom Of Col. Johnston's decision not 70
risk movement upon Salt Lake City, IN the pres
ent condition of our animals and the totsldetcency
of forage, is not questioned by any candid
officer; for it il not doubted that every cOnsdera-
ton. public and personal operated at headquarters
in favor of a contrary decision. Prudent counsels
hay. pre-, allied, and are received with acqulescence'
although they have caused general and severe ds-
appointment. From the highest subaltem to the
lowest private, there was every manifestation OF
Willingness to endure cheerfully all the hardshlPs
which would have been attendant on sn effort IA
cross the mountains. Our present fear is that what
we are debarred from undertaking viii DC accom-
rom the side before we can move
in the Spring The Army of Utah viii then
have had al the toll of a march unprecedented IN
length, through country whichit il complimentary
10 call desert and all the eHRus of Information al
an altitude of nearly 1000 feet above the level OF
the Gulf Of Mexico at a distance of only lib miles
from Salt Lake City, only TO see whatever glory
was to be gained from the expedition nure to
others.
Brigham Young will now have leisure to act ont
the programme which he developed to Capt. Van
Vlet Ul.css anticipated by rapid movement OF
volunteers from California, he can roze his city to
the ground without molestation, and make good
retreat TO the mountains. He has the power to
suppress any rebellion among his subjects against
such an operation. But when reflect upon his
probable situation after having completed that pro-
gramme become more astOnshed at his original
determination TO resist the National Government ny
force. If the administration of Mr.. Buchanan Is
earnest in its policy towards the Mormon COM
immunity, it can close VancOuyers Island on the
North Sonora the South, aud the Sandwich
Islands Oh the West, against his retreat, as eilec
tIIally as jackson County, in Missouri, ID closed
against it on the East. 1t is simply question Of
time and the kingdom of the Latter Day Saints
will crunble among the Wahsatch mountains as
soon as iii had remained on the PLAIN and sunk under
an administration of temporal power by anti-Mor-
mon officers.
Our Winter camp is in the narrow valley of
Blacks Fork, sheltered by high bluffs, which rise
abruptly on each side of the bottom, at the dis
lance of xix or hundred yards from the chan.
mel of the stream. The banks of the Fork are
lined with willow brush aud cottonwood trees,
blasted in one or two places by attempts which
were made by the Mormons before The evacuation
of Fort Bridger TO deprive us of fuel rs well AS OF
grass. The trees and brushes were fortunately too
green to bum, and the fire swept through acres
wood, doing 10 other damage than to consume the
dry leaves and sccrch the bark. The water Of the
Fork is clear and pure, and ripples nOisily over Il
stony bed, between two unbroken lines of ice.
The headquarters are upon little green knoll
around which the stream makes gentle bend
The 9Th infantry are. camped on the left, toward
Font Bridgcr; the artillery batteries and the 10Th
infantry on the right. The Dragons will be dis
trbutcd along IIenry's Fork, on which the grass is
unburnt. All the cattle and mules which survive
will also be sent there TO recruit.
The work OF killing cattle aud jerking the beef
has been prosecuted busly during all the week. but
the meat has suffered some deterioration in quality
fl ON the circumstance. of having been beaten with
oxwhps over thousand miles of road since the
beginning of the Summer. Indeed, to speak plain
", it is reduced TO muscle and grstle. To increase
the unssyory prospective, is added the fact that
there has been salt in camp for more than fort
night. The average cost of transportation from
Leayenv orth City to the Salt Lake is from l3 to IL
cents per pound and il was thought uneconoIncal
TO haul al article across the Plains at so heavy ex
pcnse the value of which at the expected termina
ton OF the march would not exceed > cents per
pound Sow are hountiiully provided with boil
ING kettles and I'll The machinery for operating on
the water of the Crest Salt Lake; but the Great
Salt Lake is unfortunately Just 1l3 miles distant
| shook the final grains from my salt-cear to-day
over a superb Mormon turnip taken fTom cache
unesrthed at Fort Supply.
The civil officers of the Territory have founded Il
Gentle city in a nook ia tie wood above the camp
of the 10th Infan,ry, and by the talk about
md. lofs h,-