The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-08-24
ONE WEEK LATER FROM UTAH.

The city. il is stated had resumed it's wonted as
pect nearly all the refugees having returned to
their homes and the pursuit Of their vocations.
An investigation of the Territorial Library had
confirmed the suspicion that the Mormon leaders
falsfed when they declared that the books re-
manned undisturhed. A large portion Of the law
books formerly contained in the library have disap
peared. The Mormons preserved the senblance
Of peace at last adviees, but their hatred of the
Gentle Eruption manifested in various un-
pleasant ways The New York Times has letter
dated Camp Floyd, Cedar Valley July L., from
which We take the following:
THE TROOPS IN CAMP.
The march from the Jordan to the present
camp vas about eleven miles up gradual ascent
to the base of a snoW-covered range Of mountains.
Here we aic it is said, to remain until the small
assaque or rrigating ditch, which runs through the
camp, dries up.
Grass is abundant in the valley, but the soil be-
ing very light, and apparently not been moistened
since the dcugc, is carried about by the wind in
all directions, and deposited among papers,
books, bedding and food in quantities sufficient to
insure our consumption Of our peek regularly each
week. Dpscrtions from the army have been fire.
qucnt Of late, under circumstances leading to the
conviction that the Mormons are melting it.
The weather is intensely warm during the day,
but the nights cool and pleasant. The troops
will, in few days move fourteen miles further
west. \ line Of daily stage coaches between this
city and the camp, has been established, and is
literally latronizcd.
4 MORMON MARKET HOUSE.
\ market-place has been erected in rear of the
camp where the Saints may bring their notions and
sell them under the protection Of guard. Milk,
butternik, butter, eggs, cheese, onions and pota
toes are the staples, milk at twenty FIVE cents per
quart butter sixty cents per pound, eggs sixty
cents per dozen, cheese fifty cents per pound,
onions twenty five cents Il small bunch, old pota-
toes two dollars, and new four dollars per bushcl
arc the usual prices.
SALT LAKE CITY.
Notwithstanding the people in this city have
quite settled down in their hCmes again, We had no
public service last Sabbath and it is said there is
to he no public assemblage of the people again
til winter The church leaders, however are al
most constantly in council. brigham remains con-
stantly confined to his house, and has not been
seen out Of doors since his arrival i'll this city
All the Gates in the walls which surround his
block are locked and barred except the direct
ly in front OF his private office, at which
guard OF five men is stationed continually, and
is admitted, within the outer gate, until
his name has been sent in, and Brigham has
scented to see him
SCENES OF DEsTITUTION.
The refugees returning from the southern settle
mcnts continue to line the road with their trains Of
wagons, herds and flocks. Some Of these trains
present scenes by no means pleasant to the eye
Here We young girl Of eighteen, with bare
feet and half clad form, driving yoke Of oxen,
and there, tender little girl scarcely eight years
of age, whipping up two three obtroperous pigs,
dragging her little feet YEARLY and painfully over
the sharp gravel road. Tie wagons are usually
piled up with the coarscst and conmonest furni-
ture, with chicken-coop and its cackling occu-
pants strapped upon the rear. Sometimes the pig
occupies this post, and the chickens are packed in
side the vehicle with the children But every
where rovcrty-rovcrty-s poverty, meets
us, turn will.
Spend half hour in a merchants store, and
We see old women and young girls in plentiful
numbers, approaching, with few new potatoes, a
dozen eggs handful of onions, pound Of butter
which they-half hopngy and half dou5tingly-
offer in barter for some trihe Of gooGs-a yard Of
cotton calico, little thread-c;sting their
eyes Nstfuy, the while, over the well filed shelves
of which they much in need The people have
been warned rot to trade with the Gentilcs, but
the cases are SO numerous in which the law Of ne
ceSsty is stronger than the law Of the church, that
the merchants are driving brisk trade, sending
their barter supply Of provisions to the camp,
where they find ready sale.
The MOrmOns who are returning to Salt Lake
City are described On all hands poverty strlck-
en- people. Women were travelling baretooted, and
the men were almost without garments Every
thing witnessed by the gentilcs goes confirm the
fact that the accounts by the MornoEs Of their
power and ability to contend with the United
States troops, were the most idle and ridiculous
boasts, meant to deter the President from sending
armed force into that country. y corrcspon-
dent of The CINCINNATI Enquirer gives the follow
ing statements:
"a piteous spectacle was witnessed on this road
which pointed Individually to the vile degradation
of the Mormon people mass. We saw two
women hitched to cart, dragging it along through
the dust like oxen, or, in the disgusting language
Of Hcber kimball. like cows while the barbarian
their husband, walked beside the cart driving them
on. We looked to see the brute get in the cart
and be hauled by his wives; but for shame, if in
deed he is capable Of such feeling he did not, so.
long as we observed him. Let womankind in the
Christian world pity woman in Utah. No where is
woman SO degraded, tramrlcd upon as in this
country. Women here little else than mere
chattels bought by the highest bidder or, what is
the same thing, compelled for many reasons to mar
~ persons of known fidelity to the church. Many
industrious young men cannot get wives at all.
'All the women | have are poorly clad
many Of them barefooted, and destitute almost of
clothing. As We passed along the Provost road
meeting hundreds Of these deplorable women many
brishteye gazed at us imploringly and hopefully,
as n pV tho