FROM UTAH.
FROM THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES OF DEC. 31.
From Mr. W. B. Majors, who came in the last Express, we have later news from Utah and the Rocky Mountains. Every thing was quiet at Salt Lake and Camp Floyd, and the health of the army was good.
The snow in the Rocky Mountains is very deep. In many places the gulches are filled to the depth of six feet. There was but little snow in the South Pass. At Fort Bridger the weather was extremely cold; from the 5th to the 10th the thermometer stood from 28° to 35° below zero. Nearly all the mail carriers from Fort Bridger west had been more or less frost bitten, and one, Mr. R. P. West, had his feet frozen so badly that one foot will have to be amputated. As yet the mail has not failed. The snow be-tween the South Pass and Strawberry Creek would average about ten feet. The Valley Tan of December 7 has a long article on the pretended persecution of the Mormons. It claims that they have been peculiarly exempt from any thing of the kind, while they have practiced it towards the Gentiles in a manner almost too horrible to relate. The Utah-ites have been enjoying excellent sleighing. Decem-ber 6th the thermometer stood at 24° below zero, with two or three feet of snow. Subsequently the weather moderated and a heavy snow storm set in. A series of Friday even-ing "coteries" are to be held in Great Salt Lake City dur-ing the winter months. A military order of Good Tem-plars was established at Camp Floyd on the 24th of IN o- vember with great eclat. The ill- feeling between the Mormons and Gentiles was growing more and more modfied. No serious outbreak or trouble had occurred for some time past.
