Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-08


E,bs rsslers e lAs fribsns gives the isllswing
aoseaas u b OBSERVATIONS snasg our fellow -sis'-
Ths.s Movma.ss ere In the main M iadustrinas
| frugal, hard waking people. Few Of them are
ha6itaal idiers: few live by erofsssionsof pursuits
| that require M physical exertion. They make
work fur but few Inv yers-i know hut four among
,hem--their differences and disputes ara usually
| settled in and by the Church; they have no female
ontcasts few doctors, and pay salaries 70 their
| preachers least, the leaders ray 20. But
| ANAL portion If them use Tea and C,,dee. For
| ipsrly they drank little or no Liquor; but, since
| the Army came in last year, money and whiskey
| have bolb been D,ore abundant, AMI now they
| drink considerably. More than thousand barrel.
! of whiskry have been aid In this city within the
last year, ut an average of not less than - per
| gallon, making the total coat tn Consumers .vcr
| $780, 900. wherefore the Mormons have pad ut
| least half If they had thrown instead Sl50.OUD
IN hard cash into the deepest part Of Salt Lake, it
would have been far better for them. the appe-
| tite they acquiring or renewing will cling t.
them after the Army and its influx of cash shall
| have departed: and Saints who now drink lit
tie will find themselves as thirsty rs their Val.
ley. before they suspect that they care anything
for liquor.
A yet, believe, they have few or no drunk
ards but there is nothing more decetful than the
appetite Tor liquor. As yet, Utah has not a single
export Of any kind; the army supplies her with
cash when that is gone her people will see hard.
er times. She ought To manufacture almost every
thing she consumes. or f,reign debt will over
wheln he. Yet, up To this hour. her nanufac
turing energies have been most unhuppily direct
cd. Some 5000 was expended in preparations
for iron making at place called Cedar City but
| the ore, though rich, would not fux, and the
terprise had 10 be totally Abandoned leaving the
capital dead lose. Wool and Flax can be grown
here cheaply and ahundantly: yet, owing to the
| troubles last year. no spinning and weaving ma
| chinery has yet been put in operation-l bel eve
some is now coming up from 1T. Louis. An ut
tempt to grow Cotton is likely to prove II f,ureas
| might have been predicted. The winters III long
and cold hero for the latitude aud the Saintsmust
make cloth Or shivcr. trust they will soon be able
| to clothe themselves.
| Sugar is another necessary Of life which they
have had bad luck with. They can grow the Beet
very well. bu, it is said to yield little or no sugar
--because. it ssupposcd, of an excess of akal in
| the soil. The Sorghum has not yet been turned to
much account, but it is to be. Common Brown
Sugar sells here Mt Goo. per h.; coffee about the
same in the newer settlements they are OF course
still higher. All sorts of imported goods cost
twice to six eight times their prices in the Sta
| ties; even Quack Medicines (so cnllcd) and yellow
covered novels sod ut double the prices borne
on their labels or covers. Consider that the peo-
! pie came hither over IA thousand miles from their
former homes-that they generally reached these
valleys in the Fall. which afforded them excellent
chnn,es Of starvation before they could raise crop
--tlat they have been constantly invested or beg
| ged or stolen from by the Iadans whose game
| they killed or scared away. and who feel that
they have right to live here SO long as there
cattle or crops to live on--that these valleys are
lofty, narrow, and parched by intense drouh
from May to Novombor-that implements and
seeds scarcely. to be obtained short of three
months journey. and then at an enormous cost
| that they have had one year of virtual and costly
hnstities with the Federal Government in
which very little could be done, and improve
! ment was out OF the qnestion-and / amazed
that NJ much has been well done here il, the
way of building, tilling, fencing, planting trees,
&c. OF course this city is far ahead of any
rival being the spiritual metropolis and the
earliest settled; but am assured that the valley
of Utah Lake is better cultivated than this though
Proyo,is county seat. is far behind the city, which
with it's broad, regular streets. refreshed by rivu
lets of bright. sparkling, dancing water, and sha-
ded by rows OF young but thrifty trees, mainly
Locust and Bitter Cottonwood is already more
attractive to the eye than an average city of like
size in the States. The houses (ot adobe or mere
! ~ sun-dred bricks are uniformly low and rene
rail- too small but there is seldom more than one
family to dwelling, and rarel y bu, one dwelling
on lot of an acre and quarter. The gardens
arc well filled with Peach, Apple and other fruit
trees, whereof the peach already bears profuselv
and the others begin tn follow the example April
cots ana Grnpes are grown, though mt vet album
dant; NJ of Strawherrys. Plums are ia profusi,n
and the Mountain Currents are lars., abundant
aud very good. Many of the lots are fenced with
c"bbe stones laid in clay mortar, which seems to
stand very well. That of Brigham Youny's gar.
den and ground is or 10 feet high, 3 feet thick
ut the base, aud cost some 500 per rod Undouht.
edly these people are steadily increasing in wealth
and comfort.
Still, the averng" life in Utah is hard one -
Many more days faithful labor are required to
support II lnmlly here than in Kansas or any If
the States. The climate is severe and caprciouS
now intensely hot and dry: in winter ell and
stormy; and though cattle nre usually allowed to
shirk for themselves in the valleys they are npt
to resent the insult by dying. Crirkcts and grass
hoppers swarm in myrisl-, aad oi,cn devour all
before them. Wood is scarce and poor lrrirn-
tim is hborious and expensive; Ms vet, il has tat
been f'unt practical 10 irrigae onr-fpnrth Of the
arabic land ut all. Ultimately, tie valleys will be
generally irrigated; but this will require 20 cost
ly dams and canals. Frost is very dcst uct,vc here:
Indian corn rarely escapes it wholly and wbrn,
often suffers f ON it. Wheat. onte corn harley
ani rye. are grown ut alb M equal cost per h,shcI
81 may be tnhea MS t!,cr average price; whrn'
is unusually heavy. though this wear it threatened
to lie relatively light. estimate that 80 .lnvs'
faithful lnhur IL Kansas. will prnlu ns large am
aggregate 1T 'he es>arics Of lie -n.ur r thi,,,
fue-as JUS 300 such days w,rk in ulah. Hence,
the adults here generally wear tn.warn, anx.
ious look, and niliv Of theia are older in frame
than in years ardenhy hope it may not always
be thus.
ANOTHER XouAyE SruRy.--The Courier DIES Tos.
ges has the o!l'wng:- A few DAYS ago a znuuye
named Galniche. of the village of Ormlnnt, ff cen
years in the service, and who has taken part in
twenty-cight campaigns, was trudgng along the