The Northern Galaxy

LATE FROM THE MORMONS.-A friend has shown us letters of a late date from the pioneer camp of Mormon emigrants. They had at length reached the great Salt Lake, near which they had made a halt, and their wearied cattle were enjoying the sweet grass and fresh water with which that region is favored. They had made a new road from the Omaha country to nearly the base of the mountains, which will no doubt be valuable to other emigrants from the United States. It keeps north of the Oregon trace, is said to be more direct than this, and is carried, by substantial bridges, over most of the principal streams that it meets. By the pioneers it must have been traversed with difficulty, since they have evidently been subjected to great hardships. After leaving Grand Island, however, they had an abundant supply of buffalo beef, which greatly renewed the strength of those whose health was suffering from forced abstinence. A single herd, with which they fell in, was estimated to number over 10,000, or, according to the calculation of one letter-writer, must have contained from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds of meat; a large supply, he says, 'to be sent by quails in the desert.' Should Whitneys railroad, or any government work, be undertaken along the line from the Missouri to the Pacific they will find their best contractors and workmen among the Mormons-hardy children of persecution—who appear to despise persecution, who appear to despise difficulty and danger.

[Pennsylvanian.]