The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-13

AFFAIRS AT THE SALT LAgE.-Governot McNees who
river brings the editor OF the Sacramento Times some
interesting from the Salt Lake, and copy OF the
Deserei News OF July 9th The Fourth OF July cele
braed by public meeting in the Bowery. The general
assembly came together and the Mormon Legion were
marched in under command OF their respective officers
As many others could be seated were admitted The
received with three cheers he ascended the
stand, and made very energetic speech The people
were blessed by the lieutenant governor, and dismissed
The senate and house went into joint session An or
dinance concerning revenue adopted
Section provides that all spruous liquors sold in the
State shall be taxed fifty per cent upon the selling price
thereof Section orders that all iron steel glass, hard
ware, groceries, medicines boots, leather and other
tices, shall be exempt from all whatever
General r Hogue, formerly from Tennessee, and lat
tery resident OF Warren county, Illinois, committed
suicide on the 5h by cutting his throat
New potatoes, measuring SIX and half inches, were
dug for the Fourth OF July dinner. saa
EmIgrant camps are recommended 10 be located far
as possible from the city for the feed is short within
few miles, while beyond il good as need be wished
John T Ames, of Bloomfield. Wisconsin, writes most
enthusiastically Of the condition OF things in the great
CITY He gives the following picture oil how they APP
peared 10 live; saH T'.l elH t 's'
III oasis, might almost say PARADISE surround
ed by the lofty mountain peaks whose tops ghiterng
with perpetual fross, aud in the midst OF vast sandy
PLAN, winch shuts them out some thousand miles from
all civilization. 1 think may safely challenge the world
to produce The equal AIt ait a @a4iEa =.
'Think for moment A mere handful Of men driven
from their native land far into the Wilderness scattered
TOR great distance around and, in the short space Of
around to blossom the rosethe vast fields every
hand watered, not by the dew of heaven, but by the
brooks which flow from their mountain fastnesses which,
by incredible industry, have been turned in thousand
channels over their valley, making il what perfect
garden Large and commodious dwellings. where other
men could scarcely find materials for cabin, now
thckly scattered the valley In fact il like
exhaalion But this is not the greatest wonder. q
do no, know but that ain fast after what have
seen, | shall look for great things.)
Ihe people seem to have taken Nature for their guide
From the air they breathe and the crowned hills
they learn freedom and purity of morals from all Nature
and Natures God, they learn TO treat all equals
and friends doing others they would have others do
TO them. Drunkenness and quarrelling, lawyers and
prisoners, are not known here all is love and charity
the stranger is not turned away empty had the pleas
ure of attending public worship on the Lords day,
June so)I say nothing in regard their religious doc
trine as OF sect, will leave it for others to
argue-and must say never saw more orderly, re-
spectacle and intelligent audience than here Their
house Of worship was, suppose. about 60 by 1870 feel
upon the ground, and it was filled to overhowing. And
such array of beauty, for the size of the assembly
saws intelligence and goodness shone from every
face psrtrayng true beauty in its most lovely form and
may the Lord, who has certainly blessed this people,
bless them with His choicest blessings for their many acts
OF kindness to the poor strangereven those who have
been their enemies in former times "-Ereange paper