Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-08-08
FROM UTAH.


me, and that one other the world do not
eem to be very ready to hearken unto.
Editors and otfice.hunters are constantly
iinnng the ears Of the President with the
Try that, "the Mormon problem is knotty
one," the matter becomes exceedingly com
plicated," "the Mormon question Is assuming
a shape that will not permit its solution to be
much longer delayed" something, hit or
miss, right or wrong, must be done with the
nj Mormons," and so on.
Now it is notorious to all who read and
fairly think that this noise and smoke are |
raised without the first shadow OF occasion
given by the people Of Utah, who are quietly
pursuing their peaceful and legitimate occu-
pations, breaking no applicable law, human
or divine. But the universal yell is, "Presi-
dent Buchanan must do something with the
Mormons." Not yet knowing how long and
how well he may be able TO Withstand the
terribly clamorous and unjust outside pres
sure, and we being known to be on the side
OF economy as well as justice, We most re-
specially suggest, in case he cannot with
stand the pressure, that he select one or
more civilians, unbound by any ism or isms,
If such can be found, also intelligent, strictly
honorable, upright and gentiemanly, in the
true sense of those terms and send them to
Utah on q short visit to look about them aud
see what they car see, and return and report.
This is certainly fair, is very economical,
and should be perfectly satisfactory to the
most rabid mormon" eaters. But in case
that should not suit the fre.eating, blood
ard.thunder, hel-and.fury, spoils-seeking, Of
ice-buDting and black mail l-levying portion oil
the community, we suggest to them that they
send committee from their own clans, and
so long as they behave at all as WHITE men
should we viii! guarantee that Gov. Young
and the people of Utah will treat them with
mare true courtesy and kiudness than they
have ever met with.
(From the Desert News Of June 27ih)
FACTS AND sUGGESTIoNS.
Great Salt Lake City is nearly one thou
sand miles, by sny known practical route,
from any important point Of trade On navi-
gable waters, and Utah has not q single
stream or sheet Of water valuable for navga-
ton within her borders. Proof all Of the
most correct maps published. In such an
isolated region, aside from other more forbid
ding peculiarties desirable for settlement by
this money, pleasure and trade worsbipping
geaeration No, for they never have settled
in it, neither could those of them who have
seen it be cbeaply even hired to occupy it.
Is it good policy in our government to have
its extensive domain improved by her own
subjects, and by those who desire 10 become
naturuized as fast as the laws will permit
Most assuredly yes. Then why such gen.
eral and most unwise bowling by priests
politicians, editors and people, concerning
the settlement of Utah by the most vrtuous
industrious, peaceful, united and lawabiding
population there is in the whole Union The
devil is too cunning to answer that question
and when the Lords servants and honorable
/ tall,, and ,n.t ln., l,, h.
| reason it really seems to be harder to beat
the actual facts into the brains of those howl
ers than it would be to split white oak-fork
with dough wedge and squash beetle.
! Within the United States are millions upon
millions Of fertile acres; where rains, SHOWS
and dews diStil their timely moisture where
| insects do not ravage; where timber is
! plenty, good, and handily procured; where
no droughts compel expensive and luborious
! irrigation where the soil is fertile and facii
! ties for locomotion and transportation cheap
| easily accessible aud abundant This, all viii
admit. Utah is broken in every direction by
rugged, barren mountains, interspersed will
sterile plains and dry valleys, upon which
dew is rarely, if ever seen and whose parchet
surfaces arc but occasionally and scantily
moistened by welcome rain while tie winter
blockading SHOWS are greedy absorbed wher,
as they melt, or devastatin2ly rush from til,
mountain ranges before the titled soil is avail
able for their application.
The few and widely scattered localities
that will at best but barely admit of occupan
cy by people whom the civilization au,
Christianity Of the nineteenth century will a
yet admit of living nowhere else, have to b,
made productive by an immense outlay o
labor and expense in constructing dams
bitches, embankments, water gates, sluice
and canals, to divert the punny streams upol
crops that would otherwise never mature
And oft. after this vast amount Of extra toll
the hnsbandman and tree grower are com
PEELED to behold, with what fort.ude the
may the results Of their anxious care withe
and die ere maturity, blasting their fond al
ticipations of healihful sustenance; aud fire
quently what the drouth has spared the dc
vourer consumes, for the grasshopper an
cricket have proved to be harder to cope wit
than the inexperienced have ever imagined.
The scant amount Of fuel and timber, whic
is mostly brittle. small and knotty, is almos
invariably confined to the narrow kanyon
and high, steep slopes of the mountains, far
if not always in distance at least in difficult
Of access-from the few places where settle
ments can be made, and the best of it gene
rally so located as to be pronounced inacces
sible by many Of even the most experience
settlers, and to procure a scanty and dea
: supply of which roads have to be laid ou
with much Judgment, and made and kept i
repair at great eXpense.-Locomotion an
transportation to aud from within Utah
borders is, aud without railroads and canal
must be, confined to the speed and strengt
of horses, mules and oxen, and to the capac
ty and conveniences afforded by carriage
and wagons, modes of conveyance rathe
unenticng to the dwelers amid railroads
canals and nayigable waters innumerable.
Strangers may be tempted to question th
correctness Of the above brief, outlined sketc
of Utah, and the contrast between her rugget
uninviting features, and the beautiful, smiln
countenances of the States, and may enqur,
"who knows concerning the truth of thes
statements?" Capt. Howard Stansbury, tn
late Capt j. W. Gunnison, and all Who'll hav
ever trayersed the country with eyes an
brains in their heads. and with judgment an
candor enough to fairly represent facts q
they do exist.
Few, if any, among them are sufficient
frank and intelligent to discern the justice c
publishing both views Of the question, tha
truth and error may have fair field o com