The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-03-22
Our Utah Correspondence.

fillmore CITY, UtRh Torr1t1ry, JAM l, 1896.
Letter from Mo Ciy-Ca ofFsed at the Same-Progres,
ghs Cyty-Wha1 is Thought About the Faturt Wome,,
Wa1.ed, de-
A happy New Year. have juss linked my pen for tn
sake Of writing. without anything write oe anyb,a
to write to- But for fear Of letting pen Of ink dry up
the thought struck me, to drop line to the HERALD
thinking perhaps, the pubic would like hear from
this far of interior.
First of all, let say, the Normons have not ye'
starved to death, and if they do they will have
try harder than they have yet
Flour So per hundred beef 81 to SO per hundred
FOOT pork SIS to SIS per hundred butter, 35c to 6o
per lb potatoes roc 70 81 per bushe and oshes thng
in proportion True, crops rather short but oil
wheat helps TO lengthen out the Drop.
The winter thus far is rather severe some snow
weather very Did for the last ten days.
One wing of the State House 10 this city is completed
and the Legislature convened here opened the lob
December. The wing which it holds its session is fine
building Of stone, two stories, some thirtysx by sixty
feet, we'll finished and the upper part is q hall,
arched overhead and the double purpose Of House
Of Representatives and for balls &C. The probable cost
some thirty to forty thousand dollars
It stands eminenee in the midst of vast plain,
open three rides far the eye reach and
sperssd In the distance with lone mountains. o. the
east the Great Wahsack mountains loom up several thou
mis crowned with snow.
The vast valley has several streams Of water, and
good land while everywhere there abundance
cedar fuel and rich grasses.
The principle feature in the message Of his Excelency
Governor Young is the argent recommendation Of pre
minaries the port Of Utah to enter the Union,
sovereign State.
One Of the first acts Of the legislature at the opening
Of the present session, was to the necessary hws
for taking the census and calling . convention to
constitution, &C.. and it may be fairly presumed
there will be loud knock at the door Of Congress durg
its present session.
As to news nothing is string-no MURDERS little
steangs, no law SUITS few deaths and great many
marriages. There not in fast, the usual amount OF
PARTIES balls, feats, &c. This may be owing to the
great revival Of religion" which is everywhere
suumenay OF the home missionary oors appointed at
the October General Conference In Short great maet
ings the order or the day. and there is some tai
Near everybody is religious In these dggins ev n
to the Indians Some thousands Of the later have been
baptised during the last two three years. and have
ceased punderDg, stealing &C. and gone TO work raising
grain, &c
lgion any great extent, find ourselves almost Alone
and We hardly know how TO stem the overwhelming in
II ever religion Of any kind had serious mpressi
IT s when influence the savages Of these
mountains: 10 see people VINO, lew months ago
clothed and ied and washed and eombed, and dressed
ard pursuing the arts Of Iesce industry and plenty I'D
to see them bow the knee 10 Jesus Christ is indee
a strange sight Yet such is the fact with many and.
indeed with whole tr bes, with few exceptions.
The noian missions extend in every cirestion around
Of these missions, viz: Elk Mountain, Grand riva
broken up Of late by the Indians, and three
Allied The others are all successful.
The Indians in the Territory said to be upwards
twenty thousand and the white population is usually
tma,ed at some fifty TO eighty thousand But let me
here say in all candor, that this Is believed by many
TO be very Low estimate. The fact is, emigration
has come flowing in from all parts for several years.
California Australia Pacific Isles tributing no
small share. The country being healthy there
few Deaths and there IL peculiarly which will
soon a.y' bearing 81 on the
this people. Everybody Is conscisnce- bound to
as soon as they are old enough, ami it is MAJ.
ten which prevails here for every family to raise
all the children they II there was ever a coun-
here speek from experience; and old maids they
GU. of the question; there is seldom if ever,
married fenae Of twenty yesrs cid to be found in the
Territory.
There is mistake but what the Morons 1T present
rats viii long control several OF the nterior States
constitute Mormon po yer as body posc. ia.-Flns
upanin y Of action Second their peculiar insitution
of marriage and multiplication; Thirdly, their in
which already Yields influence over the whole
globe You Down Casters may laugh at tn m;
theorists may speculate Mormon dissolur IN &c &c
but here they sse unitsnd the spirit Of union
cieatiDg with hem every year.
For outward appearance sake. and decent for
liberal institutions they will 60 through all the FORMS
and apply gcos earDes, fer admission on
but their sentiments that they do not care g
whether they sre admitted or not They cannot be
tebsible that their path IL onward TO self government
and eventusl Independence by whatever m cans this
finale will be approached. And they wise enough to
"bide their time.o
Our business Che mercanhle) is mare thaa usually
Gull this year, owing TO short crops and but tile travel
through Tire Territory. We sincerely h,pe government
will send some troops engineers, surveying parties rail
Tosd agents, what not, into these ''dgpos before
long, so as to scatter some dimes here and make It
little better times for business
For humanity sake and mutual benefit to the race
snd to beth sections of the country do, Mr. Editor
earnestly recommend the emigration from Down East OF
few hous ands Of Nrtuous and industrious young Ia
dies 10 this section Of the Union. few thousand
should arrive OF the right kind they would alt get
hands in few months. But they must be OF tbs right
strpe-reai hspmstse--who know how to work, snd
pde them elves on H. None Of your fashionable bellies or
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