Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-01
THE CITY OF SALT LAKE.

Ertact FROM L@tter of LteGt. j. MITCHELL,
BRoNAUGH, Of California, TO has brothdr j. W. Bro
naugh, Jr dated Salt Lake City, July rs, 1852.
"Salt Lake City is situated some three miles west Of
the Eastern range of that bound the valley The
city is regularly laid out in form that Of right angle
The squares are immense and each house has
of ground attached to it. The houses built Of
sun-dred bricks called aobes generally story high,
but there many twostory houses. and few three
story. There two sulphur springs i'll the vicinity OF
the town. of which is the warm sulphur temperature
that Of the blood, % degrees by the thermometer
This spring is two miles north of the town. The
hot sulphur is two miles north of the sulphur; tenn
perature the boiling point. This spring perfect
curiosity 1t issues from the base of rock the foot Of
the mountains and few feet from where it emerges it
forms pool deep enough to swim In then passes above
and under the ground across the road and forms large
lake which covers than one hundred acres |
ced duck curew, snipe, &c. the margin Of the lake
Salt Lake, twenty miles distant is saturated solution
OF salt It is in view from almost any point without the
city Tho Mormons collect all their salt from this lake
1t from $50 to 500 miles in circumference and very
shallow, and is slowly receding indeed where there is
such extensive evaporatng surface, the Lake WILL in
process OF time, dry up there no doubt Of M There
be in it several islands, which mountain
Gus, and from the distance them they look high
as any that you see surrounding the basin.
esterday the anniversary of the arrival of the
pioneers Of Mormonsm in the valley Of the Great Salt
Lake. The procession formed follows: 1st Field
music 3D. the American flag; Sd, long line of me-
chancs carrying the emblems Of their trades 4th far
bearing bundles of wheat and OATS 9th, long line
was inscribed lions Daughters, children
glory' 6th grown girls in white, with straw hats and
blue sashes 7h twenty young men, in black frook
coats and white pantaoons; Sh twenty small boys
in yellow jackets and white pants 9th, twenty t-
tie girls in white dresses blue spencers straw hats trim
med with pink, and blue bets 10th, dragoon company
on foot blue frock- coats white pants, Kossuth hats and
pumes llth, the bishops of the Mormon church, in
long gowns each bearing banner with suitable nscrip
tions. Before each company banner carried. In
this formation the procession moved through the princi-
pal streets and then went to the residence of Governor
Young and escorted him to the Tabernacle. The Gov
took post with his Councillors and the Apostles in
front Of the Bishops Arrived at the Tabernacle songs
and speeches sung and made after this the pro-
cession left the church. and dismissed opposite the
State House. salutes fired during the day from
Temple Block, which is unbnt except its southeastern
face, occupied by the Tabernacle.
! "The Tabernacle is singular affair, some sixty feet
wide by upwards of hundred in depth. 1t is
story high shelving roof with openings its TANKS
On both its north and south fronts it has two doors and
two windows The interior presents arched appear
ancc; there no passages the whole floor being
pied by pews. attended church last Sunday, and the
from those who spoke just such you hear
in the States The essential difference between the Nor
and others is that the Mormons 60 in for unmit
cd number OF wives. caR have as many wives as
he can conveniently support and satisfy. Gov Young
has his full share, and has them quarered in different
parts Of the town The State House is very credtable
edce stories high and upwards Of forty feet
the ir story is of red rock second Of adobe and pas
tered red and white to correspond with the Grst story
The Legislature meets here, and the Courts hold their
sessions here.
I" Gov. Youngs residence is the neatest in town-two
stories high, built Of adobe, and pastered Light lead
color
"The Mormons treat kindly, and profess attach
ment to the Government Of the United States They look
upon Judge Brocchus the author of the ilibersl
ports conceAing them l never was in place in my
life in which apparently morality Of the most rigid kind
is practised ike you it here There baudy
houses in the town. and swearing on the pun
a hnuy finn IoNfrar 80 rtat
find on inquiry the Americans in large majority in
the Mormon population Americans fall all the Offices"