Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-11-18
From Utah.
Correspondence of the st. Louis Intelligencer.
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY,
September 3, 1852.

september D, lCOZ.
The climate of this Valley is so delicious
ly soft and bracing, that consider any one
little less than a heather, who would will
lingly confnc himself to the close air, and
dull prospect of walls and houses, when he
can freely go forth and breathe the pure at
mosphere, and gaze upon the magnificent
mountain scenery, that exists in such rare
perfection in this immediate vicinity. Here
all nature invites to active out door sports,
exercises and employments. To me the in
vitation comes in terms so sweet and Sc
ductive that | cannot possibly resist their
persuasive eloquence, and consequently
spend two-thirds of my time in the open
air. In comparison with the sportive and
healthful excitement Of fishing, rambling
over the mountain sides and tops, and bath
ing in the clear and sparkling streams that
rush gracefully and impetuously down the
mountain gorges, find the duties of cor
respondence an irksome and ungrateful task
indeed. 1t is with extreme difficulty that
l can confne myself to their performance
even for few hours, and even then when
engaged most assiduously with my pen,
often find my thoughts wandering with tru-
ant glee to the lake, or my friends the
speckled mountain trout, or to some quiet,
shady retreat, where l am wont to bathe
every day at the clear still hour of sunrise.
If you should occasionally discover or i'm
agine that you discover evidence Of such
wanderings in these letters, recolect that
the temptation was great, and visit neither
the offence nor the offender with too exact
ing and rigorous criticism. l sometimes
fancy that the golden sunset beauties of
bright charming Italy are revived and borne
TO me again in the rich mellow lights and
gentle shadows that settle at evenings close
upon mountain, lake and valley in this high
ly favored spot Of nature. In contemplate
ing them from some favorite point of view,
such as Ensign Peak, l experience at the
same time the exquisite pleasures Of pre-
sent enjoyment with the less intense but
more chastened joys of sweet, pleasant men,
ories of the past. One must be an unrea-
sonable, fastidious epicure in regard to eli
mate indeed, who could complain of the
mild genial climate of the Salt Lake Valley
at this season of the year.
IIaso J;.o,.o o,J e;ol,,o,, opl JaotI
almost unknown. One meets with robust
frames, glowing, ruddy cheeks, and eyes
sparkling with the elastic vigor and energy
of health on every side; while the feelings
are rarely pained, or the eyes shocked with
the spectacle of premature decrepitude, OF
feeble, helpless decay. Since l have beer
in the Valley, nearly four weeks, have no
heard of single death, and have seen bu
| one funeral procession, that of pious sain
, who died while upon a mission in foreign
land, and whose bones were transported tc
| the Valley to receive more sanity buria
at the hands of the Fathers af the Church
: This in population of eight or ten thousand
= | regard as quite remarkable. Medicines
and the administrators of medicines, ply
: sicians, are alike discountenanced by tn,
e Mormon community. They say that TN
= more men leans upon the skill and science o
S man, the weaker becomes his sense of de
n pendence upon, and the more removed hi
thoughts from the goodness and mercy o
his Maker; that if he will only trustingl,
rely upon the Providence OF God. that Prov
. idence will not forsake him in the hour O
sickness and suffering. Hence they dis
trust and repudiate, except in extreme cases
e the efficacy of medicines and of medicu
science.
These principles carried to the extent O
c totally rejecting the services of the medica
d profession, regard as most certainly
: very foolish and dangerous one. But th
idea of an implicit dependence and trust i
the mercy and goodness of the Creator, eve
in matters of sickness and death, is 10 m
mind strikingly beautiful and Christian
:, like feature of the Mormon faith. Ther
y are very few features of the faith that
} admire. Let me at least give il credit 70
such beauties as it possesses.
There is not regular drug store in III
Valley. Only one of the merchants pre-
d tends to kcepa supply of medicines. HI
d stock of medicines is very limited, compri'
ing only few of the most ordinary and nj
:, cessary-to be found upon the shelves
e every apothecary in the States.
" Gov. Reid, in his late message to IL
legislature of North Carolina, recommend
d the passage of an amendment allowing O