Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-02

by, it appears the most marvellous counter
felt of a half-ruined, gigantic old.world
Gothic cathedral, that can be imagined
We stopped before it just as the sun had
gone down in the West, and as the full
moon came up the eastern horizon, and
the soft, contrasting lights, deepening
slowly into shadowy dimness, gave ex-:
quisite development to the manifold
shapes and the beautiful and picturesque
outlines, that rock and clay had assumed.
The Milan or the Cologne cathedral, worn,
with centuries, ill-shapen with irregular
decay, could not have looked more the
thing than this did. Everything belong
ing to the idea was there in some degree
Of preservation. Porch, nave, transept,
steeple, caryatides, monster animals, saints
and apostles, with broken columns, tum-
blcd roof departed nose or foot, worn and
crumbling features, were all in their place
, or little out but recognizable and name-
able We walked Uround this vast cathe-
dral of sandstone and clay--a full half
mile-and greater grew our wonder, our
enthusiasm. 0.t "''1
The hour and light were certainly propi-
tious; but viewed under any light, it is
certainly one of the great natural won
ders Of the continent and is chief among
three or four things that have abundant
ly repaid me for this long journey. Flow
ing out from the Buttee on all sides was
a solid thick stream of fine stone and
clay that told how the work was done,
how it was going on still, refining, point
ing, carving, chiseling, but gradually and
surely leveling as all mountains the world
over are being leveled, and the whole sur
tace of the globe made one vast plain.
The share which the high winds and the
sand they take up blow With powerful
force in lines and in curves, and in whirls,s
have in this great work, both in its fam
tastes and in its destruction, is such as
: can hardly be realized by those who have
. not experienced or witnessed them. Sand
showers or sand whirlpools are of almost
daily occurrence. They load the atmos-
/, phere with sand; they carry it everywhere
among rocks, into houses, through wall,
of houses, through into the bod
t les Of everything animate and inanimate
: and there keep it at its work of iestruc-
s tion and reconstruction There is win
a dow among the mountains of Colorado
8 that single storm of this sort has chang.
t ed from common glass into the most per-
t feet of ground glass; and the fantastic
t architecture of its creation among tho
!. rocks of the country, from the North
Y Platte to Fort Bridger can only be m
IS derstood and appreciated by being seem
n AS we approached Fort Bridger, the coun-
y try grew fairer, sage bush gave way to
to grass; the streams became purcr; tim
'. ber lined the water courses and the land
N became bearable indeed. Fort Bridger is
of a pleasantly located post; fresh river
S. runs through the camp-yard; the valley
Il looks sweet and green in June; and back
tz rise the always snow-covered mountains.
At Here we stopped, had kind greeting at 2
D. o'clock in the morning, went to bed for
r the first time in week, and after sump-
s. tuous breakfast with Judge Carter, passed
# on and over into the Basin of the Great
N Salt Lake. But that days ride,5 our re-
,e cction and experiences among the Nor
no mons must wait another letter. ID .slui
" We remain here till next Monday. The
N grass is too green; the trees too new to
8. ourl eyes; the roses too red and re-
es freshing; the Strawberries and green peas
or too tempting to our carnai appetites |; the
lv curious social and wonderful material de-
no velopments of this city and territory too
W rare and remarkable; and the hospitality
es of the people, Mormon and Gentle. too
10 generous and inviting, to permit us to
! leave burriedly. We had planned to 60
u up to Montana, 600 miles northeast from
v this point, where the latest and most re-
a niarkahlo of all our gold mining is in
$ progress but the Indian troubles there,
X and somewhat WEAKNESS Of the 8eshto'
ho wards stage riding, have inclined us t.
carry out our original purpose, and 60 di
ha rectly on to California, and visit'Montan'
: if at all, when we do idaho, from ofegoi
!, in August. We expect to reach sau Fran
: cisco the lst of July, tospend that mont