New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-08

Fort Brdger 900 feet above the sea with gurgling
little rs threading its parade ground, and sup
plying Its neat loo barracks is d beautiful spot Hero
the road branches the North Fork going 20 she rich
Nortnna gold disgiugs The post sGter, whose gres.
warehouse is crowded with goods. docs a business
said TO net So 90 per year. We did ample justice 10
his hospehlc breakfast and listened wOuderugy while
lis pretty daughters and their royerncs evoked music
nom their piano. Tho instrument answered spritedly
20 their touch, rianestng neither loneliness de-
billy aiser lis journey Of . 100 miles from hegNork
oue-hall Of il in an ox-wagon
| When we pressed on the day was charming. Coming
from desert drcary as Sahara. We began 20 view
mountains that rival Switzerland and skies Of more
llan Italian beauty. The air vas soft and warm
flowers abouudcd ana mGskeioes buzsed about u.s.
though patches OF Stow were on al sides. From Tie
ridges We looked over On immense area oi green val
eys. gay with flowers and bright with silver streams,
ard mountains Of every hue. dotted with dark cedags
rugged with rocks aud sfcakod with snow fading
dim drearv leocy clonds Once we stopped the coach.
and in Little aspen Ticket where the Is Zee.
DEEP had rough and tumble snowba!ling irolc. But
Of ills diversion We soon discovered that wants
but little here below nor wants that little long. So
this IOh OF June. with wel.peited faces. singing
and aching hands, we came back the green sward.
among the nusketoes roses. surowers vioets daisies
and forgot-rDe nos. to the dusty road.
We dined with Mormon Elder whose young wife
rarely gave us glimpse Of her black eyes. The driver
assured us that she his 6A-that her four rrcGc
sessors all away from hin. From his cheerful
good humor think he classes them among blessings
which frightened hen they took their liglt.
That evening We passed through Echo cafon. twenty
miles in length 1t IS wonderful gorge in the noun.
taius where the Offer slle down aud oyerwhem
travellers. party Of Eve thus persisted during the
last Winter. AS We crossed is flashing stream. and
ratified over crazy log bridges. the grew wilder
and wilder. o. tie Lett CO ep, grassy, suow.crowned
slopes the ri.ht On abrupt wall Of red oonelomcr
ae rock with lateral cshona breaking it, With he
Der mouths Of DARK opo.ing into it, with swal
lows nests pssto.ed ito iis Jiis. and those "dewy
iaasons Of the caves" twitierirg about
teen. Here the Mormous fortified the approach
OF Johnston's army in 1851. Their rife pits in tie
valley, aad their little stone houses with loophole
the very top ofthe dizzy bluff ere sil visible. Higher
and higher towers tie stone Wal right until at
last smooth rs II dressed wifh The hammer true II
lined by the plummet /, reaches altitude wbioh an
assured Is more than 600 .cc TO Echo Canon is
worth Journey across the Atlantic.
On Sunday morning We breakfased with Mormon
Bishop from Essex Couaty, Mas One OH wives did
the Donors Of the table several others. reside at his
house In the city, ] am told TINT be lac married three
sisters Up one teuibo bin down on is opposite side,
through o cation. where VIC met company Of caTalsy
and a band OF music from the cr 20 escort Mr. Cola1
IT, aul we we're upon another bill At oar icoi was
great basin walled in by snogSireakcd mountains
dotted with blue lakes and intcrsceted ~ slser
stream lying across it Ike a ritbon In tie midst Of
the green ysleJ-a picture Of Oriental bcautyvc saw
tho neat houses the quaint public ba1ings tho deep
sLadctrces the broad streets and tie faslins ryue,
Of the City Of Croa. salt Lake.
AinERr II. RICHARDSON.