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stalment of Governor Cummings, an event occurred whose only 

 parallel was in the desertion of Moscow by its citizens. In Salt 

 Lake City and in all the settlements north of it commenced a 

 human stampede which continued during the months of April 

 and May. Bidding adieu to their houses and lands, the devoted 

 Mormons migrated in large bodies to the southern end of Lake 

 Utah, where in a half-starved condition the}^ dwelt in every 

 manner of abiding places. Twenty-five or thirty thousand 

 people thus migrated from the northern settlements. Of the 

 deserters from Salt Lake City, the more fanatical burned their 

 dwellings, while others were content with tearing the wood- 

 work from them, or otherwise disfiguring them. On the 26th 

 of June the Utah army, which had left Fort Bridger on the 

 12th, entered the city, which the}^ found silent and deserted. 

 The troops remained here until the 29th, when they removed 

 to Cedar Valley, their present encampment. The deserting 

 Mormons, who were encamped at Provo, gradually returned to 

 their homes during the summer, and by the latter end of 

 August they were all installed in their old quarters, and affairs 

 soon began to move on in the old way. 



This is all the author has to say of Salt Lake City, except 

 that the sight of it did not make the impression on him that 

 it has made on other travelers. This was doubtless because 

 he beheld it at an unfavorable season, when the shade trees 

 along the streets were denuded of their foliage, and when the 

 gardens and orchards, which in the summer form the chief 

 attractions of the city, had lost their bloom, blighted by the 

 severe frosts of November ; and besides it had not burst at 

 once upon his view, as the way had been paved for beholding 

 it, by the hamlets and villages he had previously seen. But 

 delightful and refreshing in the extreme must be the sight of 

 this city in the month of June, when the dust-begrimed trav- 

 eler, emerging from the tortuous, gloomy defiles of the Wah- 

 satcli, comes in view of it; its gardens in bloom, its trees robed 



