the territory, taken by
direction of the Governor, shows a population of 56,984, in addition to
the Indians. The Boundary Commissioners were on the Rio Grande, near
Dona Ana, and had decided to place the corner-stone six or seven miles
below that place.

The news of the formation of a Territorial Government for Utah, and the
appointment of Brigham Young as Governor, was first received at the Salt
Lake, by way of California. The General Assembly of the Church for the
State of Deseret, have transferred all their powers to the Territorial
Government, and adjourned. The "Quorum of Seventies" had agreed to erect
an extensive rotunda in the Salt Lake City, to be called the "Seventies'
Hall of Science." The Mormons have established a colony in Iron County,
about 250 miles nearly south of the Salt Lake City. Several families,
with 130 men and supplies of all kinds, under charge of Elder Geo. A.
Smith, left on the 7th of December, and when last heard from, they had
1600 acres cleared, and 400 sown with grain. Elders Lyman and Rich left
early in March with 150 wagons, to form another settlement on the
Colorado, on the Californian line. The Mormons design establishing a
continuous line of stations on the Pacific on this route.

The steamers which left San Francisco on the 15th of April and the 1st
of May, carried away $3,000,000 in gold dust, nearly all of which was
shipped to the Atlantic States. The news from all parts of the gold
region is unusually favorable. The rains which came on towards the end
of March continued for two weeks, and furnished an abundant supply of
water for the dry diggings. The piles of earth which had been heaped up
during the winter, were yielding excellent returns. In the higher ranges
of the mountains there had been heavy falls of snow, which had cut off
the supplies of some of the remote diggings, and several persons were
frozen to death near the head waters of Feather River. The rich placers
discovered in this region have attracted many thousands of miners; and
the trail through the snows was lined with the carcases of mules which
had perished from the cold. On account of the scarcity of supplies,
board had risen to $56 per week.

Important discoveries have been made in Shaste Valley, in the northern
part of the State. One thousand acres were tested, and found to yield
ten cents to the panful of earth. The first discoverers averaged $80
apiece daily. The diggings differ from all others in the circ