The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-30

! IHANKs.--E. ID. Long, Esq, OF the Fuller
House, who returned from Chicago by the
Northern Belle, has our thanks for Chicago
and New York papers, several days in ad-
vance of the mail. Fac 7 -
From THE LAND OF BRIGHAM YouNG.-
We give to-day racy letter from a young
friend of st. Paul, who has journeyed as far
as the Salt Lake City. 1t is well worth
reading. Et
! FILLMoRE's .NATioNAL;" PoLIcY.-In a
letter in the New York Herald, of Monday,
George Law gives thofsollcwing bit Of histo-i
y :-"Mr. Scroggs, in his letter, alludes to
Mr.. Fillmore's craftsmanship while acting
President. will refresh you with one re-
markable instance in which it was exhibited.
When the reciprocity treaty presented by
the British Government was under consid-
Grafton, Mr.. Fillmore observed that he saw
in it nothing that was seriously objectiona-
bic on his part, except the word vegetables"
being in the list of the free articles. He
made note to strike that out, as it might in
terfere with the sale of vegetables in tie Buff
falo market. And this extraordinary reser-
vation is noted in his own handwriting with
red ink, in the original draft preserved in the
State Department at Washington. Now
then, with mind like this at the head of our
Government, that could see nothing outside
OF a Buffalo garden patch, or the Buffalo cab
bage market, how was the treaty to be nego-
tiated-involving as it did the great interests
of reciprocity in trade between the United
States and the British North American pos
sessions, embracing an area of millions of
square miles, and all the vast and varied in
terests embraced in it? Of course nothing
could be done on subject so large as the
reciprocity treaty with mind so small as
the Presidents, and the Secretary of State
gave it up in disgust, and left it for his sue
cessor to arrange"
ENoRMons INCREAsE.-The value of the
ready made garments sold by wholesale in
the city of New York in 1855, reached near
ly to $4,000, 900, including mems and boys.
The amount sold in the same manner in Al,
was only $2,50O,0OO. The average earnings
of females in sewing on this work is calcula-
ted to be about $3.50 per week.
In PRIsoN.-The editor of the Detroit
Tribune visited the State Prison at jackson,
recently, and saw the Express men who were
sent there for the $4,000 robbery, of which
they were convicted. White was blowing
bellows in the blacksmith shop and looked
as sooty as Vulcan could Aver and King
were engaged in the wagon shop. The prison
dress makes Identification quite task.
Correspondence Of the Mnnesotian.
The Great Salt Lake vaIIey.-The Morsnons
and how they Live-General Items about
the Saints,
SALT LAKE CRY, L. T..
July 18, 1856.
EDITORS MINNEsoTIAN But few st.
Paulites have ever ventured so far out of the
haunts of men as to see such sight as is
presented in the valley of the Great Salt
Lake. 1t consists of vast valley bounded
on every side by high and towering noun
tains, and presenting an aspect as barren as
the Great Sahara. 'Tis true that this i'm
mense plain is interspersed at great dis
tances with oases, where water and settlers
can be found. On such spot is located the
far-famed polygamite settlement known as
|" Salt Lake City," And what city-and
what citizens I! Although it numbers up
wards of thirty thousand inhabitants, it
cannot boast of one brick or frame house.
and not one of stone, with the exception of
I" the Temple" which is in course of erec-
ton.
All the houses are built entirely of mud,
with the exception of the doorways, which
are usually filled up with buffalo robes or
blanket, butpersons who cannot afford these
luxuries keep their doors open.
The number of paupers exceed all bounds,
and street bcggars are SO numerous that it is
almost impossible to travel on foot.
The cause of SO much misery and poverty
arises from the fact, that they are poor when
they arrive here, and what little money they
have goes to the church, that is to Brigham
Young, the bishops and other dignitaries.
Also one-tenth of every mans earnings are
taken for tithes.
There are some American merchants in
this place who are denominated Gentiles,"
and who are shuunsd and hated by the
" Saints,S bu&, notwithstanding, do very
heavy business. Their lives, however, are
in constant danger, and they are frequently
denounced by name in the " Temple"
The night before last Bishop Lee preach
ed to large assemblage of the Saints. In
the course Of his sermon he denounced the
American residents as being too base for
hell-that the devil would blush to have
such scoundrels for his companions. Speak
|ing of the United States, he said that if our
government refused to admit the State of
Deseret they might 60 to hell, for in ano-
ther year they would be able to take care Of
themselves. Such is specimen Of the Ian
guage made use of by these disciples of the
immaculate Joseph Smith.
Polygamy prevails toa greater extent than
the people of the States have any idea OF.