The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-05-12
THE W0RW0NS,


every day growing more and more por-
tentous-than which, if we except Afri-
can Slavery, none is more difficult of So
lution-is rising in the distant West, be-
fore the American Government and peo,
pie. Ere long they will have to grapple
with it. Whether it can be peaceably
solved the future alone can tell.
A new territory, carved out of the re,
cent conquests from Mexico, stretching
from the summit of the Rocky Mountain;
on the East, through thirteen degrees ot
longitude, to the land of gold. A branch
of the Indian family, the ah-Utahs-
roamed its prairies and claimed it as their
own. But new tribe and sect-driven
from State to State, fleeing, before an
indignent people, from Ohio, from Mis-
souri,, and Illinois, struggling with cold
and hunger, and encountering the most
fearful hardships and privations, daring
the ferocious savages that dwelt along
their route, and dragging slowly along
their children, goods and domestic i'm
plements, at length make their tedious
way to the home of the Utahs; and hav-
ing, as they no doubt supposed, reached
the isolated spot, SO far from all organi-
zed society that they would be free from
disturbances for many, many years, they
set themselves down in the valley of the
Jordan-in the 'land of the Honey Bee,
plant their absurd faith and begin a
new nation, Some six years have since
elapsed, and the census of the Great Salt
Lake City probably enumerates, at this
day, some forty or fifty thousand people
while in other parts of the world, two
hundred and fifty thousand more embrace
the Mormon faith. In this far-off will
derness, so recently known only to the
moccasin, the arts are fourishing in a high
degree. Woolen factories, to be supplied
by feeces from the Jordan valley-sug-
ar manufactures, to be fed with beets-
potteries and cutlery establishments, send
their hum through the astonished land.
No such noise did it expect to hear for
half century to come. On mountain
terrace, overhanging the city, the site of
a contemplated university is already laid
out and enclosed. School-houses are
springing up, and are supplied with COM
petent teachers from q central Normal
School Gigantic preparations are in
progress to build up Temple, which is
intended to surpass every existing or his
toric structure insplendor and magnitude,
The city is laid out on scale of magnif-
icent proportions, to which, hitherto, the
world has been a stranger-a scale cor
responding with the breadth of territory
on whose bosom they dwell-correspond-
ing with their expectations of growth, and
compared with which the narrow avenues
of modern and ancient cities, are but
mere mathematical lines-alrB ady, three
miles in breadth and four in length, its
streets are regularly diagramed, each
eight rods wide, with sidewalks of twenty
feet-every block forty rods square, con-
tanning eight lots of an acre and quar-
ter each, and every tenement obliged by
law to retreat twentyfeet from the front
line, to make room for delightful mar
gin of shrubbery and trees. A perennial
stream flows through the city, and pours
its pure waters down both sides of every
street, and carries irrigation to their
bounteous gardens, A warm spring bub
bles from the mountains, and following
pipes, reaches a public bathing house
A soil of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. stretch
es around them. Comparatively little
solicitation is necessary from the hand of
man to bring its grains and fruits to per-
fection and maturity. Twenty miles to
the northwest slumber the heavy waters
of the great Salt Lake. This vast body
of the purest brine-so densely impregna-
ted that man cannot sink in it, if they try
fills basin of thirty by seventy miles,
and will, doubtless, be the scene of the
exhaustless salt manufacture for those
future generations that will inhabit the
immense domain between the Rocky
Mountains and the Sea. Already u
nited States mail route reaches from this