Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1861-10-12

20 WV ~" vi vuly EilH'
MORTALITY on THE DESERT. mipors b,ro
dlel on the Desert, in what is known M Death
Valley This is the place where tbe argo baJv 81
en'sran,s oieo III lSl9--out of train ofone hun.
IIea and twenty wagons only fifteen arrived in
california on the l4th ofJuly last potty of
lIlree started IRON Potosi for Owen Lake, and had
th'ee animals with them They had not proceeded
iar over l1e burning waste till their water became
exhausted and as none could be- found there great
distress ensued One of the party, Townsend
started ahead to look for water and succeeded IN
3OIa'n'ng H. but on his return found his comrades
aeau. lheT names were Daniel Holden, former.
yol Brownsflat, Sonora from Philadelpbia ahout
l0Tty ilveyears old, aud William Dewey from
" ashoe' formerly from Missouri, about twenty-five
years OF age Dewey had been in the Wasboe war
Of last year, and was shot in the side. Townsend
1851 the animals, but was able to make his way
back to Potosi on foot.
ANOTHER SuEcoE'-0n the 23d of July at Los
Angeles, Peter Herman cut his throat and died
TWO hours afterwards lie appears to have been
on spree"
Muss AND lOMCmE,-.4t Oak Grove. San
dabrle Canon, on July 10th, muss took place at
hndahBo Constable Cunningham, who at,
tempted to arrest the ringeaders, was set upon
by them, and fired in selfdelensc, as he says
hereby he killed Cholo.
IRoFAHINd THE GRlyR.--An expelilion was
sent from Fort 1ejon in April, 1859 to bring the
remains oil the large train that was lost in the
Mountain Meadow massacre This was done and
monument erected on the spot. BY u lato arri.
val from Potosi it appears that of that mausoeum
not one stone now stands upon another, aud that
the bones Inferred at its base again lie bleaching
on the desert The Star remarks that last NAV
Brigham Young visited Mountain Meadows, the
outer boundary of his domnions; two days after
ne lelt the malso9um was destroyed For the
staying OF the A ostle Parley Pratt, in Arkansas,
his particular friend in MormDnism, ho prophesied
at salt Lake that vengeance should be executed
upon Arkansas, and that "the bones Of her chill
dren should bleach on the plains without burial 80
heIp me God !! Has lhigham's visit any conuec.
u0h with the ensure OF that pile?
MoRE SACRuEGE-The remains Of Thomas g.
" ''''""'i NHlVi' idu beVn lnteITeU Q0u rDlnterred
near Bitter Springs tho scene Of hls murder have
again been desecmted by some fends in human
sh'pei the grave has again been opened aud the
glaStly remnants Of poor humanity thrown out to
whtten on the mountain side Truly will tho pro.
phecles of the Church be fulfilled.
MILITARY MovEanSr-0rders have been recei.
we'd from tho Military Department of the Pacific
for the transfer of the headquarters Of the First
ungcons from Los Angeles to Fort Churchill
In consequence, the band and regimental records
will be transferred by the next steamer for the
north.
Colonel B. L. Beoll promoted by the resignation
1l Got Fnmllcroy has been granted leave of ab
'ence on the sick list
Major G. A, II Blake, commanding at Fort
Churchill, has been promoted to the Lieutenant
Joonelcy Of the first DHgOons, wee Beall.
Colonel Andrews passed through here this week
N his way to Fort Yuma to relieve Lieutenant
Colonel Cady promoted to the Seventh Infantry
Captain Maceary relieves Captain Foote, at
Sort Yuma going on sick leave