American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-10-13
From The St. Louis Republican. !

S,WEBk IN NAUVOO-VIEW FROM THE
ShEMPLE--DESOLATE APPEARANCE OF
HE CIFY-PROGRESS OF EVENTS, SC.
4 WARSAW, Illinois, Sept. 29th, 1916.
arrived there on Monday evening of last
EEK. On Tuesday morning took stroll
SFough a portion Of the now deserted streets,
I'd for miles, may safely say, passed moth
but tenantless houses; some of them closed
3 d barred, and others with doors wide open,
if left In haste All alon5 the city, for miles,
lerever | went, might be seen on the doors,
on the walls, some notice that the tenement
DIS for sale, or for rent. Every thing indicates
at Mormonism is forever extinct in Illinois.
5 a people they are completely subdued. Not
4 he, in my opinion, will ever try to regain
othold in Hancock. They are selling their
h tie property at very low rates, indeed, al
/ ost giving it away-for the sake Of raising
cans to take them away. Horses, COWS, OK
p, and wagons, are in great demand Many
/ 1sign TO join the expedition, which has gone
advance, to the wilderness of the Far West
lille many others have already left for points
] p and down the river.
There are many instances of individual dis
ess and suffering, and how could it be other
Use in a case like this? Many, doubtless, have
4 1T the city with nothing to live upon a day in
1vanee. Many have crossed the river, who
ere entirely destitute of the means of sus-
lining their families before, and who now have
| 1ded TO their former miserles the want of a
ouse to live in, or a roof 10 shelter them from
ne "petings Of the pitiless storm" Many
ave nothing left them in the world but the
tile hut which they tenaned in the city, and
4 ne small patch of ground upon which it
hands, and for which, probably, they will not
4 e able to realize the sum of twenty dollars.
Jas present myself at the sale of two lots of
round, with log house and few fruit trees
lln each, for one Of which the purchaser paid a
.lorse, and for the other cow, and the holders
eemed glad to get away with so much. Low
s this, doubtless, seemed TO them, who had
Probably paid 5000 or $500 each; yet the pur.
Iehaser had better kept his horse and cow. If
III the lots in Nauvoo could be bought at the
anne rate, would consider them dearly paid
FOR.
During my stay took several occasions to
look at the city and surrounding country from
'.he top of the Temple 1t is, indeed, grand
and imposing scene, and presents the most
magnificent view to be found any where on
lhe banks of Mississippi. There is but one
point on the river that exceeds it in beauty, in
my opinion, and that is Rock Island. Ten
gears ago, when all that part of the city which
lies east of the Temple was covered over with
forest trees, and little patches of oak and 9TH
er timber dotted the flat part of the city nearest
the river bank, and the little town of Com
merce, with its five or six houses huddled to-
gether on the bank, it presented a very differ
ent aspect from what it does at present. Then
il presented nature in all its loneliness: the
placid and broad current of the Mississippi, its
islands and sand-bars-the far-reaching prairies
of Iowa-the bold bluff which runs in semi
circular form around the town of Montrose
(then Fort Des Moines,) with here and there a
wreath of ascending smoke, to tell the habita-
ton ofsome settler-that is the picture it pre-
sented ten or twelve years ago. But nov how
changed is the scene' What mutation it has
undergone! And yet, it is now o thousand
times more desolate. The only thing motto
ed which had undergone no change siuce | was
familiar with it in 1886 and y, was Cutler s
Grave. 1t was enclosed with a stone wall and
stood about half a mile from the river, near the
road which descended the hill from where the
Temple now stands-and there it is yet, stand
ing in the midst of all this desolatlon, LOOKING
the same as it did ere the hand OF man had
wrought all this change around it, Georgs
Cutler was one Of the earliest seitl3rs III
Hancock county, and one of the frs! county
commissioners dying, he was buried at thi:
spot.
took occasion to ascertain as near as posi-.
bic the number of houses in the city. From my
position on the Temple, could count large
portion of the city; and from actual count, and
estimate based upon count, l think there arr
TWO thousand houses in the city proper, and il
the suburbs five hundred more-mak ipG in al
two, thousand five hundred houses. About one
half of these are mere shantees, built Of LOGS
some of polls plastered over, and some framed
Of the remaining portion-say twelve hun
bred houses-all are tolerably fit residences
and one half are good brick or frame houses. =
There are probably five hundred brick honse
IN the city, most Of which are good buildings