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Show 179 Burning, while their matrons are sedate and stately. Polygamy is by no means general, there are hundreds of Mormons who have only one wife. WELSH SETTLEMENT LN THE MOUNTAINS. Indian Walker, an Utah chief, relates, that on two low mountains, situated between the Red and Grand Rivers, there is a colony of white people, who live in rough stone houses, two stories high, with no windows in the lower story, and accessible only by a ladder. These people have an abundance of sheep, and some cattle; they raise grain on the base of the mountain- this statement is corroborated by other Indian testimony, Brigham Young says, in reference to the above, that he believes them to have been originally Welsh families, who emigrated many years ago, before the settlement Of this country. He told me that he intended to send a Company of Mormons to search for the colony. May 6th.-The exploring expedition of the late Capt. GunniSbU, now under the command of Lieut. Beckwith, with an escort of twenty-four mounted dragoons, under the command of Capt. -Morris with orders from the government, left this morning, to explore for a pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, on a parallel with Great Salt Lake City. My old compagnon de voyage, Egloffstien, accompanied them as engineer. |