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Show TO WANSHIP SETTLEMENT. 75 would doubtless have had a vision in the night and moved his deluded followers to a place of greater security. The only casualty among the Mormons, that I know of,, during their short campaign in the canon, was the killing of a saint by one of his comrades, under the following circum stances. The man stood upon a tall cliff, and shouted to his companions below to shoot him if they could. It is more difficult to correctly estimate a distance perpendicularly than horizontally, and the man on the bluff thought he was beyond range, and so did the man who shot at him, in all probability, but the ball took effect and killed him on the spot. Passing this part of the canon amidst the shouts of the soldiers, for the reverberating effect, we soon came near its mouth, where we encamped. Opposite our tents the bluffs and hills were as high as elsewhere, and during the after noon some of the soldiers climbed to the highest points and shouted jocularly to their comrades below about the appear ance of Trinity Church spire and the Astor House, from their elevated stand- point. The name of the canon is well taken. The echo along the lower part of it where the bluffs are highest is loud and perfect, and where we encamped the most remarkable effect followed the beating of drums and the sounding of bugles. With the former all was confusion of sounds, and with the latter, when the short notes were sounded, not much more harmony existed ; but when the bugle calls were long and slow the perfect repetition of each note in the echo was heard with fine effect. But I failed to appreciate any beauty in the call for tents to be struck on the morning of our departure. All the luxuries, in the way of diet, with which I started from Leavenworth, had been consumed, and a few weeks before signs of scurvy appearing among the men, the Officers had turned over to those affected the last of their potatoes the only fresh vegetables then remaining. Our bill of fare had consequently become rather curtailed as to variety; but in the vicinity 1 obtained lettuce, onions, radishes, new potatoes, eggs, butter, & c., and the morning |