Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-07-19

uo ohly iuluS III III WeIe tnOSe OF IeeOle
Notifications which the Mormons set up
when President Buchanan marched his
army against them, but halted and went
away without attack, leaving stores of
provisions, wagons and ammunition and
a contempt for the government, which the
Mormons have hardly exhausted yet.
Early "sun-up' brought us to the last
station, kept by Mormon bishop with
four wives, who gave us bites and break
fast, the latter with green peas and straw
berries, and then. leaving wife No. at
this home, went on with US into the city
to parochial visits to the other three, who
are kept at convenient distances around
the territory.
Finally We came out upon the plateau
or "bench" as they call it here, that over
looks the valley of the great Salt Lake,
and the valley of the intermediate great
Salt Lake City. is scene of rare nat
ural beauty. To the right upon the
plateau, lay camp Douglass, the home of
the soldiers, and village in itself, hold
ing guard over the town, and within easy
cannon range Of tabucracle and tithing-
house; right beneath, in an angle of the
plain, which stretched south to Utah Lake
and west to the Salt Lakeland Jordon
rolled between, was the city, regularly
and handsomely laid out, with many fine
buildings, and filled with thick gardens
of trees and flowers that give it fairy
land aspect; across, the plain spread out
5 to | 0 miles in width with scattered farm
houses and focks cf cattle below, it was
lost in dim distance above, it gave way
20 miles off, to the line Of light that
marked the beginning of Salt Lake, the
whole flat as a floor and sparkling with
river and irrigating canals, and overlook
cd on both sides By hills that mounted
to the snow line, and out from which flow.
ed the fatness Of water and soil that makes
| this once desert blossom under the hand
of industry with every variety of verdurc
every product of almost every cline. Nc
internal city of the continent lies in sucl
field of beauty, unites such elements o
natures formations, holds such elements
of greatness, material and social, in tht
good time coming Of our Pacific develop
meut. met all along the Plains an(
over the mountains the feeling that Sal
Lake was to be the great central city o
this west | found the map, with Monta
ma, Idaho, and Oregon on the north, Da
cotah and Colorado on the east, Neyad;
and California on the west, Arizona ol
the south, and near connection with tn,
sea by the Colorado river IN the latter di
rection, suggested the same | recognized
it in the Sabbath morning picture of it
location and possessions; | am convinced
of it as see more and more Of IT'S op
portunitics, its immense developed indust
tries, and, also, its vast unimproved pos
sessions.
Mr.. Colfax's reception in Utah wa
excessive if not oppressive There was al
element of rivalry in it between Mormon
and Gentle, adding carnestncss and en-
crgy to enthusiasm and hospitality. Firs
came the milItary-"Egad a troop com
eth," with band of music, and marched
us slowly and dustily through camp Doug
las. Then, escaping there, our coach wa
wayiaid as it went down the hill by tn
Mormon authorities of the City. The,
ordered us to dismount; we were individ
ually introduced to 20 of them; we re
ceived long speech We made lonl
standing in the hot sand with sui
of 10000 lens power concentrated upo'
us, tired and dirty with weeks coacl
ride was il a wonder that the mildest 0
tempcrs rebelled 7--trausferred to othe
carriages, our hosts drove us through th
city to q hotel and thcn-bless their Nor
mon hearts--they took us at once to
hot sulphur bath, that nature liberall
offers just on the confnc of the city, an
there we washed out all remembrance Q
the morning suffering and all the accu
mulated CRIME and fatigue of the journey
, and came out baptized in freshness an
, self.rcspcct. Clean clothes, dinner, tn
Mormon tabneracle in tho afternoon, an
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