Important News from Deseret.
By the steamer Robert Fulton, from the Missouri river, yesterday, we received the Frontier Guar-dian Extra of the 14th. It announces the arrival of the United States Mail from Salt Lake city, with dates to the 3d of August. The troops stationed at Fort Laramie were making preparations to leave shortly tor the States.
The Guardian publishes a letter from Brigham Young, and other leaders of the Church, addressed to Mr. Orson Hyde. It is dated on the 28th July, and represents that Salt Lake City had been crowded with emigrants since the 20th of May. The letter says :
The emigration poured in here in such numbers that they raised provisions to a very high price.- Flour sold for one dollar per pound, which was suf-ficient to induce some of our speculators to sell their last morsel, and go without. Harvest commenced with the 4th of Julv, and has continued until the present. Some of the earliest pieces of wheat were injured by a frost which occurred when it was in the blow. Since harvest flour has been selling for twenty-five dollars per hundred The amount of grain sowed last fall and spring was immense - The great majority of the fall grain has produced an excellent crop, and the spring crop looks re-markably well.
The Deseret News says, that on the 1st July they received a long letter from John VV. Jones, Captain of the Oquawka company of emigrants, giving the the particulars of an Indian fight at Yellow Creek, eleven miles west of Bear River, on the 27th June. The Utah Indians burned six lodges of the Snake Indians, at the place named, killing seven men and four squaws, and captured five Indians and forty horses.
Capt. Stansbury's corps Topographical Engineers had closed his survey of the country of the Great Salt Lake. The News contains a letter from Capt. Stansbury, intended to contradict reports which reached the States, that the object of his expedition had been forcibly opposed by the inhabitants of the valley.
The emigrants commenced arriving in the valley on the 20th May, and then there was a continual rush. The mail was carried from Kanesville to Salt Lake City in 32 days, mules and horses in good condition.
Many of the emigrants attempted to pass counterfeit coin in the valley, which the people there neither wish to buy or sell, and advise, them to keep their bogus out of sight. Also, bogus gold dust had been offered, consisting only of copper. The main California emigration passed through the valley about the middle of July - [St. Louis Republican, Sept. 23.
