Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1857-12-11

leave until July and August, travelling by OK
teams towards California, then almost unknown
and quite unpeopled By the Anglo Saxon race.
Their enemies asserted that the intention OF
the Saiuts was to excite the Indians against
the government, and that they would return to
take vengeance on the whites for the indlgnities
they had suffered. Nothing appears to have
been further from their Intentions. Their sole
object was to plant their Church in some fertile
and hitherto undiscovered spot, where they
might be unmolested by any opposing sect
The wal against Mexico was then raging, and,
TO test the loyalty of the Mormons, it was
suggested that demand should be made on
them to raise 6ve hundred men for the service
of the country. They consented and that
number Of their best men enrolled themselves
under Gen. Kearney, and marched 2,400 miles
with the armies of the United States. At the
conclusion Of the war they were disbanded in
Upper California. They allege that it was one
of this band who, in working at mill, first
discovered the golden treasures OF California;;
and they are said to have amassed large quanti-
ties of gold before the secret was made gener-
ally known TO the 'tGentiles." But faith was
not kept with the Mormons who remained in
Nauvoe. Although they had agreed to leave
in detaehments, as rapidly as practicable, they
were not allowed necessary tine to dispose of
their property, and in September, 1916, ;he city
was beseiged by their enemies upon the preteDce
that they did not intend to fulfltbe stipuiations
made to the people and authorities Of Illinois.
After three days bombardmcpt, the last REM
nant was fUally driven out.
II 1 Al.
over the Rocky Mountains has been described
by Mr. Kane of Philadelphia, in an interesting
Fhamphiet, which is honorable to his own char
acter for good sense and for benevolent feeling.
No religious emigration was ever attended by
more suffering, no emigration Of any kind was
eyer prosecuted with more bravery. 1t result
ed IN the permanent establishment of the 'sCom-
mcnwealh of the New Covenant" in Utah or
Deseret, one of the interior Of this Continent,
near its western border. OF this territory Mr..
Kane says:
"Deseret is emphatically new country: pew
IN its own Characteristic features, newer still
an its bringing together within its limits the
most inconsistent peculiarities OF other coun-
tries. cannot apily compare it to any. De-
scend from the mountains, where you have tho
scenery and climate of Switzerland, to seek the
SKY of your choice among the many climates of
Italy, and you may find yelling ont of the same
bills the freezing springs of Mexico and the
hot springs of Iceland, both together coursing
their way to the Salt Sea of Palestine, in the
plain below The pages of Matte Brun provide
me with less trnthfu lparallel to it than those
which describe the Happy Valley Of Rasselas,
or the Continent of Ballibarbi"
unr L:.~-y vf H. RT~---'oa.e 49, -
been an unbrokcn record of prosperity. Ii has
looked as though the elements of fortune obe-
dent to law Of natural reaction, were strug-
Cling to compensate their undue share OF sut-
ferlng. They may be pardone1 for deemlng 1t
miraculous. But, in truth, the economist ac-
counts for it all, who explains to ms the speedy
reeuperation of cities, laid in ruins by blood,
fire, and earthquake. During its years of trial
Mormon labor had subsisted on insufficient cap
ltai, and under many difficulties, but 1t mas
subsIsted, and survives them now, as intelligent
and powerful as ever it was at Nauvoo With
this difference, that it has in the meantime been
educated to habits of unmatched thrift, energy
and endurance, ana has been transpated to a
situation where it is in every respect more pro-
ductiye. Moreover, during all that period OF
their journey, while some hare gained by
haudicraft, and the experience of repeated
essays at their various halting places, the minds
of all have been busy framing designs and
planning improvements they have since found
opportunity to execute. Their territory is
unequalled as a stock raising country; the
finest PASTURES of LonIbaray arc not more es-
imable than those on tile cast side of the Utah
Lake aud It's tributary rivers, and it is scarcely
less rich 10 timber and minerals than the most
fortunate portions of the continent.
From the FIRST the Mormous have had little
10 do in Deseret, but attend TO mechanical and
strictly agricultural pursuits. They have made
several successful settlements: the farthest
north is distant mere than forty miles, and the
farlhest south, in valley called the Sanpeecb,
two hundred from that first formed. A dupli-
cate of the Lake Tiberias empties its waters
into the innocent Dead Sea of Deseret, By a
fne river, which they have named the Western
Jordan. 1t was on the right bank of this
stream, on rich table land, iraversed by cx-
haustless waters falling from the highlands,
that the pioneers, coming out of the mountains
in the night Of the Oath Of July, 1S47, pitched
their first camp in The Valley, and consecratcd
the ground. This spot proved the most
favorable site for their chief settlement, and
after exploring the whole country, they founded
on it their city Of the New Jerusalem. It's
houses are diffused, to command as much as
possible the farms, which are laid out in wards
or eantons, with common fence 10 each. The
farms in wheat already covera space nearly as
large as Rhode Island. The houses OF New
Jerusalem, or Great Salt Lake City, as it is
commonly called, src distributed over an area
nearly as great as that Of New York. The
foundations have becu laid for temple more
magnificent than that which was erected at
Nauvoo.
The foregoing paragraphs were written in
1851. At that time the writer said thai s.in-
formation just received from Utah iustifes ap-
prehensions that the ambition Of Brigham
Young will 6e continually productive Of diff
culties." The lapse Of six years has verified.
the prediction. They have been years Of in-
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