Show NAUVOO LEGION all the officers of the great teat gait salt salt sait lake afflit military ary district of the eglon legion met in the social hall on monday af ter ernson n oon ansti at 4 and were addressed by crests brigham young heber C kimball Ki and daniel H wells and elders eiders WH ford woodruff and geo A smith pres fres young wisely suggested the propriety of performing military duty on foot and of dispensing with cavalry at least for the present orders to which effect have been issued by tha the I 1 lt general as will be seen by reference to page I 1 we hail this as an important movement and trust it will be unanimously entered into ag as a project calculated largely to increase the skill and effectiveness of the legion and save I 1 thou th on I 1 sands of dollars in the expenditures for cavalry equipage to say nothing of the value of horses annually disqualified for emmi effi efficient elent tient serj vice by excessive riding and the well known advantages to health and physical endurance acquired by marching or traveling on foot TIIE THE EASTERN MAIL under the conduct of mr ephraim K hanks arrived at 2 pm of june 23 mr hanks left independence at 6 pm of june 1 and safely brought through ugh every thing committed to his charge he made the trip inside of 23 days which is the shortest on record save one also made by mr hanks elder feramorz little and sisters sayers and vose yose arrived with the mail elder eider little reports having met br john Y greene grebenc od on the ath of june 12 miles up the little blue who stated that the hand cart company of elders was then probably near the loup fork they I 1 havin having gone down on the north side of the platte col sumner with waith his baggage train was passed june 8 16 miles west of plum creek his troops were proceeding up the republican fork and were wera to meet him at laramie where be he expected to rece receive lve ive instructions to govern his bis further movements As col sumner at the time of passing was about a mile from the road there was no opportunity for conversing with thim mr A 0 smoot conductor of the down june mail was met at noon of the 12 miles below laramie the grass on the line of the road below laramie is unusual unusually y scant and very dry and was burning in many places where the old grass had not been burnt off it is estimated that head 4 of cattle are on the road for the california california market and many of them weri were dying no troublesome esom a indians were seen or heard of on the route |