New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-20

! n Ocean Couaty. In the summer Of 1919 Iremoyet
with ny family to Great Salt Lake City, striving mere
Sept. -. Then there was not house IN the cry
with the exception Of Whist is called the od t,rt-a
cluster Of shares reared in lsi7by the pioaees. AZ
the present time the city contains /! Or ~
! CuO sous and some buildings which respect
sbie!Ockirg as any in Ithaca. whore Mr. Ferris re-
sides His description If the city Is partly correct.
the streets are eight rocs wide, running norh ant
south east and vest and crossing each other 81 right
angles each block contains ten sores and Is divided
INTO eight lots. Doe OF these squares was reserved
Tor public buildings, on which tabernacle hiss been
erected. capable of accommodating 5000 per-
sons This Is mostly filed every Sabbath and, to
use Mr. Ferris own language TO me of what he wit
messed the day be attended meeting he attended
but once during his 'C !o!H the e. preach sa
,bly surprised and highly pleased with the order
obc Secorum, while the Sacrament WAS sd-
roinistered 10 over 1000 communicates, and that
a more cheerful, attentive, well behaved, better
dressed eongree alton including women sad children,
be never saw The other public buildings IN the city,
that would not disgrace the City OF New York, are the
Social Hall Tthng store, and Council House, beside
many large elegant private dwel'ings. They are
mostly constructed OF adobes sun-dried bricks,
which when properly made, are durable and impat
beauty TO the edfoes, giving them the appearance OF
stone From q residence OF hve years, the most OF
that time in Great Salt Lake City can say that
more healthy, a more vlrtuous, more contented or
better disposed community cannot be found on eartn
the sayings of Mr. Ferris 10 the contrary, notwth-
standing As Industrious temperate, and Intelligent
a comm usiiy is where TO be found as n Uiah; as
prpcf Of their union and industry witness the appear
anee of that country.
Atthe present time with settlements extending be-
tween 800 and 400 miles north and south, with cities
-four and sswmls, fine cultivated fields producing
eat from sixty TO one hundred fold, aud all the
ret.es of the vegetable kingdom belonging TO the
temperate growing TO perfection, may she not re-
ioce Ard who has been the means Of producing this
great cbangel The Mormons people that seven
dsiVa from auyOo tf,r,lt ha
tolls of a wdernf ssllfe among sayages and wolves;
their unheard of suferngs and prvaiions a. winter
ouarters in the winters of lsi7-is caused even the
stoica Judge Brock 10 weep. This Is the people that
Ferris is endeay oring hod up TO the and rd
cue of the world. With due Difference TO Mr.. Ferris
A. man, must say that he is Incapable of Judging
of things pertaining 10 God 5 Kingdom
Mr. B. G; Ferris arrived in the city of Great Salt
Lake in October 1853. hired room of Mrs. Farnum
in the Twelfth Ward, for which, he informed me be
raid ten dollars per week, exclusive of wood. Mrs
Faruum is q member of the Church, but not sound In
the faith of the Gospel She keeps bosrdes IN the
absence of her husband no has gone on mission to
Australia is president Of that mission, and al editor
of a newspaper. Her boarders consisted of mer
chants and their clerks who followed the Mormon
toail in order 10 skin the Mornons. They were all
outsider doubtless some OF them biacklegs and
gamblers that had served their apprenticeship ia Mis-
s1ur. thus he obtained his materials for
hook from men who feared not God nor regarded
the laws OF man. However, have his word that
lard Richards, Judge Snow, Professor Darlington,
Oh C. Kmbsll and q Mrs. COBB one Of Brighans
wives A short time after his arrival aud settlement
in the city, gave him call az understood oy me
publish.d account Of arrivals that our Secretary
hailed from Ithaca, near the place OF my nativity
After an introduction | discovered that he was ap-
proschable but not very dgLi6ed in hls appearance
He was sociabe and appeared reJoced to snake
hands with countryman OF his in the Far West, De-
yond the Rocky Mountains he informed me that he
was ACQUAINTED with my relations, who were his near
neighbors and that he did not claim affinity with tue
upler-ten but was born in log-ca0ln raised d nohg
the hemlocks, &c. In the winter OF 1888 he wrote
lengthy epste his friends concerning Utah and the
! MoTmons. Ii was published in the Ithaca Chroatcls,
| but contained not word against the Mornons; Sub
s.quent to his leaving he Informed me thar ne was
pleased with the country and the people ana that II
Gen Scott was elected he should remain bnt Pierce
/ Was elected to the Presidential chair he would
/ start Immediately for the White House. in order to
] solicit a reappOiDtment before the arrival OF tue
Eastern mail. In the spring of 1853, news came wa
/ California that Pierce was elected About tue same
time received an appointment by the authorities OF
the Church in Salt Lake to go to Germany, and IN
formed Mr.. Ferris, in a jocular manner, that was
going TO Europe, and should probably pps through
Ithaca, that he must be careful Ia spinning us
Mormon yarns" to keep truth on his side, aud In
"nothing exteBuate, nor set down aught in malice,
lie remarked that he had nothing against The people
or their reg o. and regretted his inability TO attend
any religious and social meetings. but added, he
had procured all of publications excepting the
Book of Mormon which he wished to know where he
could obtain | let him have mine, and reminded
him of one thing he had gained by coming to tne val
lev; namely a knowledge Of the plan OF salvation,
and that IL he did embrace II now 1t might DE 100
late and he would be left without excuse for his neg
lect On bis arrival at Wa hingtOn, he found he was
too late the Hon. A. w. Babbitt had got the appoint
meLt, which may account for the following item of
news published in many of the leading papers IN Sep
temher last: -
We are informed by telegraph from Washington
that G. B Ferris Secretary of Utah. had Just arrived
from Salt Lake, via California, stating III at the hall
had never been told Of the degradation Of the men
and women; that Brigham Young had forty tive
wives and that sedition was rife in Utah
| will leave it to your readers TO Judge now lar
notifies or filthy ucre influenced his pen In getting
nm his book will merely add, that 80 far as my OBJ
seryaops extend the health of the valleys and of the
/ mountain is very good sickness at all except
/ mountain fevers, contracted by hardships and ex-
/ nosures TO which the euigrant is subject unless
/ lie takes proper care to ward them Oh. There
/ are some few cases of chronic diseases. which, II
/ NOT too far advanced soon disappear. under the
healing influence Of the pure, inyigoratng at
uosuhere and mountain breezes. That much
/ dreaded scourge, the Cholera has not been
permitted to scale the everlasting hills, although
/ II has found its way into almost every nook
and corner of our globe. AS for women dying with
premature Old age, have not seen any thing in the
sppeaapce of he sex other than that they are more
/ Ikey 10 bloom on TO good old age than those OF
this lower region. As for children, Mr. Ferris Is
/ very much mistaken. He never has been blessed
with apy Of the little pratters and 1t was probably
jealousy that caused him pen the article relative to
babies When will the world learn wisdom when
will the people be as willing to believe the truth as to
give no heed TO lice Yours, with respect,
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