New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-19
FROM UTAH.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.

Corresp pondence Of The N. Y Tribune.
GREAT SALT LAKG CsrY, Dec z, 1860.
Some months ago gave the ae4Ais of the kidnapping
Of the negro Ben and Of the injuries he sustained at
the hands Of the scoundrek vino him off, with the
intention of sefng him back into bondage IN Texas
Though the source of my information was such that
could trust to it un1,rbsingy was certainly startled
Yesterday in the set by confronting in all the ENJOY
uent of life libery and the pursuit Of happiness,
the sane merry Ben" l learned from Ben that
10 Heler G. Kimtgal the second man in MormonlaId,
WAS he indebted for HE freedom and return 10 Salt Lake
City.
It would be 700 long to give Bens narrative Of cap
ture binding whipping, running aud release; but the
latter de erve least the few words Two OF bhe fel-
lows who no mpanied the assumed proprietor returned
here after short visit TO Pixies Peak whittier they
had gone instead of TO Texas Heber saw one OF them
and demanded "Ben;" aud though the man ls OF that
class on whom the pointed revolver makes hltle I'M
Ben said Heber told him " Dat he hab let me go, or
he'd sarve em up, dc whole Kit of EN-, soul an body
II was enough. The young fellow returned 10 inc
Peak and though probably daring enough TO hVe
without fear Of other mortas he could mol snase on
the Mormon prophet, and Ben got the hint that ne
might return SO much to Brother Hebers credit
The story of his sympathy and manly action fpr the ne
pro's Fl eedom gave at the time of Bens capture.
Yesterday afternoon met in the library OF the Uni
versity tie Hon. WIN. Crosby the representative from
Wash gton County 10 our Legislature who furnishe'
me with some items Of information respecting the
county be represents worthy passing notice, especial
lv as there is 70 little known of that county Inc m
habants are estimated at about 800 persons, chiefly
engaged in farming and grazing The County OF
Washington In area, Is a. large as the stale oil Con-
necticut generally of barren, desert character,
broken and mountainous. On the borders OF the Rlo
Virgin and the Santa Clara there narrow strips Of
land exceedingly fertile, which everything grows
with great richness and at cost Of very little labor
During the present year only $1,000 pounds OF cotton
have been rsed, but properly cultivated and attended
TO the inhabitants there could raise all the cotton ever
required by the inhabitants Of this Territory. AT
present its cultivation is almost neglected for the want
of proper facilities for its manufacture. The entrance
also OF the army in 1891 followed by immense trans oi
goode-whIch, by the by, some Of the merchants
never taid cent for and it is very doubtful II they
ever w-was also a crushing competition TO the peo-
pie Of Washington County.
Every kind of fruit that has been tried there grows
with great uxuliance The apple pear plum, apricot,
peach and fig trees do exceedingly WELL The English
walnut tree grew this nine feet, and the CaiwD
grape grew nineteen feet and halt before the oh OF
September. The buIches of those grapes, many OF
them measured nineteen inches in length At Toqner-
Vile one Of the small towns in that county, one man
Ialsed this wear two water-me ons from vine thai
weighed the one sixty, and the other fifty pounds.
Al the Agricultural Exhibition held there last Sep
tember the fine grapes which | have mentioned were
on exhibition At the same time there was~exhlbited
stalk of cotton containing three hundred and seven
FORMS a radish measuring eighteen inches IN circuu-
ference sun-fower head thirysix inches, and mon
ster castor bean stalk sweet po,ato vine five feet
and half long, and one Isabella grapevine twenty
FIVE feet long. One had III his garden trees
which, in Fix months, grew as follows;