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Show A Distinguished Visitor. -Quietly arriving and quietly departing, Salt Lake City has been visited during the past few days by one of the . distinguished distin-guished men of the age, in the person of Baron Albrecht Jochmus, of Vicuna, Vicu-na, Lieutenant Field-Marshal of the Austrian army. On Saturday last he j visited the Post at Camp Douglas and enjoyed the hospitalities of General Morrow, who took pleasure in receiving receiv-ing a soldier of forty years' service. The Baron enjoyed a brief but animated anima-ted visit at Camp Douglas. ; While our city has received calls from various members of the nobility of Europe, who have come with more or less ostentation, os-tentation, a brief sketch of the history of this Ttnostentatious but distinguished soldier may not be out of place: He was born in Hamburg iu 1SUS, took part in the Greek war of independence, inde-pendence, and held a high military position po-sition under General Church aud subsequently sub-sequently under King Otho of Greece. At the recommendation of Sir Edmund Ed-mund Lyons, English Ambassador in Athens, in 1835 he joined the Anglo-Spanish Anglo-Spanish legion under Gen. De Lacy Evans; and having distinguished himself him-self on various occasions he was pro-, moted in June, 1S37, by Espai tero, to the rank of chief of the general staff of the army of the Asturias. Under the auspices of Lord Palmerstdn he afterwards after-wards took an active part in the Egyptian Egyp-tian war, and especially in the capture of St. Jean d'Acre; and was at the head of the Turko-Anglo-Austriaa army ar-my from Dec. 1S40, until the close of the campaign on February li' 1S41. During this time his headquarters were three times in Jerusalem, and when there he resided in the house built upon the foundations of the one occupied occu-pied by Pontius Pilate when our Savior Sa-vior was crucified. Baron Jochmus was employed in the ministry of war in Constantinople until JSii, when he returned to Germany. In lS4'J,he was appointed. by the archduke John, vicar of Germany, minister of foreign affairs and of the navy. After the dissolution of the Frankfort parliament parlia-ment he again visited Constantinople. In 1854 he made a journey around the world, in the course of which he spent some time in the Uuited States. In May, lSo'J, he received the commission com-mission of Lieutenant Ficld-Mar.--hal in the Austrian army, and was attached at-tached to the Emperor's stall. This is his second journey around the world, and as he is now sixty-three years of age, it is probably tke Ja.-t time, as it was the first, that he will vi.-it this region. re-gion. During his call at Cam p Douglas, Doug-las, on Saturday, ' General Morrow, while enquiring among the troops if there were any Avtstrian-i, found two who had served in the Austrian army at the battle of Sadowa, which mu.-t have surprised the Baron a little, to find compatriots in the United States service away in the Great Bisin of America. He put up at the Towo:ud House, during his stay in this city ; and left by train for the east on Sunday. Sun-day. . , |