The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-05-31
From the Cincinnati Atlas.
The MOrmonS.


Ne'wish 10 call the readers altentio II
to the new, and most extraordinary con-
dition of the Mormons. Seven thousand
of them have found resting place in the
most remarkable spot on the North Ameri-
can continent. Since the children of Is
rael wandered through the Wilderness, or
the Crusaders rushed on Palestine, there
| has been nothing SO historically singular,
as the emigration and recent settlement of
the Mormons. Thousands of them came
from the Manchesters and Shefiields of
England, to join other thousands congre-
gated from Western New York, and New
England-boasted defendants of the Pill
grim Fathers-together TO follow after 4
New Jerusalem in the West Having
temple amid the churches and schools of
Lake county. Ohio, and driven from it
by popular opinion, they builtth Nauvoo
OF ILLINOIS. LII becomes a great town.
Twenty thousand people flock to it. They
are again assaultedby popular persecution;
their prophet murdered-their town de-
populated. and finally their temple burned,
Does all this persecution to which they
have been subjected, destroy them? Not
at all.-Seven thousand are now settled,
in flourishing circumstances, on the Pla-
teau summit of the North American CONT
nent. Thousands more are about 10 Join
them from Iowa, and thousands more are
coming from Wales. The spectacle is
most singular, and this is one of the singu-
lar episodes of the great drama of this
age. The spot on which the Mormons
are now settled, is, geographically, one of
the most interesting IN the western world.
There Is no other just like it, that we
recolIect, on the globe. Look at the map
a little east of the great Salt Lake, and
just south of the Southwest Pass, and
you will see In the northwest corner of
California, the summit level of the waters
which flow on the North American CONT
nent. 1t must be six thousand feet, per-
haps more, above the level of the Allan
tic. In this sequestered corner, in a vale
hidden among mountains and lakes, are
the MOrmons; and there rise the mighty
rivers, than which no continent has great
er. Within a stones throw, almost, of
one another, lie the head springs of the
Sweet Water and Green Rivers. The
former flows into the Platte river. that into
the Missouri; and ihat into the Mississip-
pl; and that into the Gulf of Mexico, and
becomes part of the Gulf stream, leaving
the shores of distant lands. The latter,
the Green river, flows into the Colorado;
the Colorado into the Gulf of California,
and is mingled with the Pacific. The
one flows more than $500 miles: the
other more than l, 800. These flow into
tropical regions. Just north of the same
spot are the head streams of Snake River,
which flows into the Columbia, near lat.
40 deg. after course of 1000 miles.
lust south are the sources of the Rio
Grande, which after winding ZOO miles,
finds the Gulf of Mexico. 1t is remark
able point in the earth's surface where the
Mormons are; and locked in by noun
toms and lakes, they will probably remain
and constitute a new and peculiar colony.
Observation-Disclosures are proyerbiai'
for their off-hand gallantry. Yankees, we
believe are equal TO any of :hem. A case
in point:-Recently there came to our city
on visit, a verdant youth direct from
snow-clad Green-Mountain-dom. His city
connections are Of some importance, and
it was not long ere he had an invitation to
an upper-ten party. Dressed IN his Sun
day-go-to-meetins, he was ushered into
the parlor at an early hour. Among the
company was very pretty and quite be-
witching Miss, to whom the youth paid
his special devoirs. She is quite petite
he fully 'six-footer.' When the COM
pany was invited from the parlor to par
take of refreshments, the tall youth wait
ed on the pretty, petite Miss. They took
a position back of the table, where the
crowd was large and room scarce. The
youth invited his partner to step up on
stair which led out into another apartment.
'Oh, no' she returned, Il should be foo
far aboue you.' Not at ALL he replied,
casting a significant glance at her; men
are little lo,cer than the aagets!r
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