Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-11-27
From the New York Daily Times.
The Mormon City.
CRY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE, }
Saturday, August 81, 1859. (

'A'c'~N ~'i 'NN~'
AT last we find ourselves in The great City
of the Mornons, after tlavul Of ihiriy-nine
days. We have passed the greatest noun
tain barrier in the world-we have seen |
successfully immense sterile valleys, huge |
mountains of naked granite, tunbed in in
cXricahle confusion, fertile savannals, where |
the buffalo, the deer, the elk and the noun |
tain sheep delight to wander and rnnges of
peaks clothed in vordurc ut their bases and
capped with sparkling coronets of snow.-
We are now in the midst of the strnngest
sect which has sprung up in modern times
n sect which had its origin in ignorance,
craft, wee and superstition; and yet n sect
which has already accumulated population
in this wild region, of over thirty thousand
people has It's missionaries in every country
of Europe, in Asia, in Egypt, in South
America and all the chief Islands of the
Pacific; and the final desiines of which
battles the speculaiions of philosophy.
1t is difficult to conceive anything more
/ beautiful than the situation of this extraor-
dinnry City and the surrounding region. 1t
lies on the western base of the Timpanogos
Mountains, which stretch from the Northern
horn of the great Salt Lake southwurd to
the sources of San Joaquin, aud forming tho
dividing ridge hetween the valley of the
Colorado of the West and the great basin of
California, aud OH the eastern shore of Utnh
Lake, which is fresh and pelucih, and pours
lis waters into the Great Salt Lake. At the
hour of sunset il we look to the west, the
beautiful eXpnnsc of waters liz M with the
departing rays Of the sun, aud dotted over
with islands, presents n scene of fary-ikc
enchanlment. Ii we look to the east, an
nnpithoaire of mountains clothed in rich
verdnre and capped with snow, reminds us
OF those gorgeous scenes in eastern story,
where the Genii hold their dwellings.
The whole style and appearance Of the
City differ from thai of any other city in the
world. u is laid out into blocks of ten acres
each, with rectangular streets, about sixty
yards in width. Streams of ice water, CON
Quoted in trenches, run through each of these
streets. Each square is subdvled into lots
of one and a quarter acres each, which have
generally become the property of n single
individual, and upon which he erecls his
house and ruises his crop of corn, outs,
wheat and vegetables. Certainly nothing
could be more lealthful or give SO pictur-
esquc an air to city as this arrangement
The greater portion of the houses are built
Of ad0hes or sundred brick, but there are
some constructed of logs, boards, or pnnks.
They are usually but one story high, with
{ few Two story ones m.erspersed here and
, there. These larger buildings are occupied
hy Brigham Young and other elders of the
church. There are many people too-new
comeis cliefy-who actually live in tents
; and wngon-bOdcs scattered along the spa.
cious streets. Their fences present n curl
, ous medley. They are sometimes constructs
ed of poles hauled from the mountains
sometimes of pInnks, sometimes of spill
boards, sometimes Of of posts and raw hide
f framed like wire fences, sometimes of ridges
of earth, and sometimes of adobes.
, The Tabernacle aud the Council House
. are the two chief objects of attraction in tic
City. The former long, low, brond build
Il ing, capable Of containing six thousand per
@ sons, Is the temple in which this people per
h form the public ceremonies Of their religion
, The latter. smaller, of course, in size, is the
= place for the distribution of Justice. The
emigration is greatly larger this year than
S during any one since 1850, and il is doubted
1 whether II does not even exceed that year.
, When arrived here the streets were filled
: with them, and black smiths, wagon makers
mud the shoers Of horses aud oxen were
busi'y plying their trades in preparing them