FROM OUR immigration G S L city sept 12 1859 TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE THE DESERET NEWS DEAR SIR Accordi according ilg fig to the request of pres 1 ident youn young ca we left this city on saturday august 27 to meet the immigration find out th their i position and give them such counsel and aid as their circumstances might require on the morning of the we were about starting from lewis station capt browns company rolled up consisting of 66 wag wagons ons ong and persons all the camp were in g good d health and spirits with the except exception don of three or four who were slightly afflicted with eating fruit which is in great abundance on the road having administered to them as they needed no other assistance we pursued our route we met the church train under the direction of captain he D haight hal hai and bishop kesler at Henne fers stati onon the weber as the they r had already been supplied and were met with teams at that point we bade them god speed on the evening of the we camp camped edwith with the handcart hand cart company under the direction of capt rowley at yellow creek consisting of 57 nand carts numbering souls the company were generally heal healthy thy and some of the young people w were ere very jolou joyous and sand beautiful jubilant bilant there were among them many beautiful singers who entertained us in the evening around their camp fires with some of the late popular airs and among the rest several amusing hand cart songs the chorus of which was some mno lofb and some must pull puli As A we gi go rolling up the hil hit tam taw merrily on the way we po fo until we reach the valley 01 and as they started next morning they in their prompt energetic action and uniform movements manifested a vivacity gilvra it and life which comported very much with t the e spirit of their song song we had a very pleasant meeting with them and gave them such counsel as their circumstances seemed to require the they had been met by bi five four mule teams and with provisions on lams hams iams fork with the aid of the mule teams and a horse team that went with us and two voke yoke of cattle which we furnished they were enabled to carry the aged aged and i weary and proceed comfortably A grother brother shanks from liverpool who was very sick a at t our arrival died next morning and was buried at yellow creek row informed us that he had bad had considerable trouble in in consequence of persons straying off from the camp during their travel and whom he had frequently had to send after and that prie one aged lady after diligent search having been made for her near Green river he had bad been unable to find we met peter jensen and another br who had been sent out to meet Steven sons company who after going a as far east as greer green river returned in consequence of one horses failing they reported that they had ob bained information from fromi the mail that steven sons bons ons ans company were livin living 0 on half rations and were scarcely able to move amov e for want of cattle we took peter jenson back with us on the of the second I 1 six wagons belonging to the handcart hand cart company that had been left behind at the devils gate to recruit these ox teams were not able to keep up with the hand carts we met capt R F Nes lins company at their first encampment on blacks fork 15 miles west of green river saturday evening the ad sept next morning a as the rear of capt Ne keelins elins company were rolling out the forepart fore part of capt edward Steven sons company came in view we found the statement in relation to their lack of provision and being crippled in regard to cattle to be false the ig captains of these trains informed us that their camps had been well supplied with provisions until that time and that although they had bad lost a number of cattle their losses were not as asi severe as most other trains and that they were making very good time we found the j companies iz in good health and spirits and their oxen in tolerable condition our oar supply bupp train now consisting 0 of 26 yoke of cattle ana four wagons under tie the tha direction j of capt george V thompson Ib ompson of cottonwood in this county was camped about two miles west of hams fork we returned with the j companies to that place divided the cattle be I 1 tween them and let them have 14 cwt cat of flour which the captalina cap taina assured us was au alt they I 1 re required hired to bring them comfortably to the tha vailey talley valley talley these companies of over one IM hundred wagons were about equally divid sd ed we partook of their hospitalities s held meetings with both companies after camping on m monday night with capt Nes lins comp company compans aigy argy about 18 miles east of Brid bridger gep gei we ve left the camps samps on tuesday morning in good condition to return to the city in passing fort bridger bridgers we observed that a great many improvements had been made and it presented a neat orderly aspect we were also informed that the rule prohibiting the sale and use of spirituous liquors is being enforced which will no doubt tend to preserve a better understanding between the military and civilians an object which all good men should strive to promote on ou our journey 0 urney out we met a lieutenant with a small detachment from bridger on a return from the neighborhood of 0 green river where he informed us he had been sent in pursuit deserters and that on his return he found the dead bodies of two young women who had been left behind by the handcart hand cart company and had been partly eaten by wolves and buried their remains and he also informed us that they had left people at random to perish on the road this horrible statement led us to inquire of all parties that had passed green river to ferret out if possible the truth or falsehood of this allegation we obtained about the following from capt stephenson Step Steph benson henson jenson and and their companies and others there was the remains of two persons one an aged woman the other a young person erson erbon gers which which some stated was a won woman others a man since the lieutenant llad had buried them they had been du dug up by wolves and capt stevenson had deau deputed t ed four men to again bury them deeply y in t the e ground round so that they could not be rea reached ch ed one oile of the party brought 0 a piece of th the e 0 old oid id ladys hair which was grey that and fr fragments ments of the attire showed it to be the old la ladys ys that capt rowley stated he was unable to find and who had met this horrible fate who the young youn lady or gentleman gettleman was we could not learn satisfactorily that two persons have perished is evident from the concurrence of all the reports the lieutenant stated that they were two young women this could not be for the thle color of the hair hair showed one of them to be aged and this is unquestionably the old lady to whom capt rowley refers another rumor stated thata that a young oun woman was dissatisfied and started b back to breen green river because they had not provisions ro visions and perished on the way back this is is to say the least improbable for we think there is scarcely a wretch to be found w i ho is so lost to the common feelings of humanity as on learning that a fellow being was suffering would not help them and if she diedt without giving this information who could tell it afterwards capt rowley must know who left his com company and it is due to the public compani pani panT and to the frien friends s of those who came with the hand carts that it be made known A young sister met an old sweetheart at devils gate and married him two families we are informed stayed behind at green river to work and calculate to come on in about a month further than this we can learn nothing in in relation to the statement that they summered suffered ared for lack of provisions this could not be true for they had flour at green river at which place they killed a beef and fifteen or twenty miles from there they met mule trans trains with supplies capt Nes linand and Steven sons companies expect Z act to arrive here on wednesday or thurs thurso day dax next ext we J N e met among the companies from diffie different rent parts of the united states england ireland scotland wales france germany I 1 switzerland norway sweden denmark greenland iceland africa namo pomo respectfully ac S JOHN TAYLOR j p F p D RICHARDS deseret A and M society CITY sept 0 IS 3 59 7 pm deseret agricultural and inz ing society met at the hous house e of prest hunten t present hunter woodruff oliphant i winder stal Stai oes and james A little minutes of or Se september ad were read and ac cepter cep ted mr woodruff moved that copies of the list of premiums be published blushed and distributed I 1 and also posited posted in ire ive ue principal cipal places in the cities carried foed that winder and oliphant wait on prest young and request the use of the social hall for the next agricultural show and also the use of the church cattle yard yards for the exhibition of cattle amon among the several subjects discussed that of home manufactures was particularly dwelt I 1 ton ion on and the necessity and importance of it I 1 orfed urged upon the people I 1 it it was reported that mr feramorz litti i has brought to this valley two splendid stud horses one of the messenger breed breeds the other a morgan which we expect will be ex habited at the next show voted that mr nir henry B maiben maiberg ie be ap pointed to superintend the decorating of tb the e room and for him to select his own ass abs assistants and he is requested to appoint those who teel feel an interest in the fair mr oliphant presented several vandyke peaches and prest hunter presented a sample of his sweet clip cling 12 which were very luscious voted that leonard W hardy fill the place of IV 11 hooper as one of the committee on class if 1 cloth cioth clothes and dry goods voted that ira eldredge dredge EI act in the place of john van cott as as one of the committee on class ey E Far yai farming implements adjourned to meet next saturday at 7 pm THOMAS BULLOCK p S secretary creta ry