Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-12-08

| you do right 10 cheer him. Cheers. He
thought he might say, without breach OF
confidence, that Grant thought Sheridan
one of the finest bTayest and most success
FIJI generals in the world.
He saw here a railroad singularly built on
an inclined plane. The river widening near
its mouth to six or eight miles, at It's mouth
flows through rocky gorge, narrow and
tempest-tosscd.
| From Portland over the mountains, and
I through a very poor road they learned how
thirteen passengeFs could be packed into a
coach holding FIVE, by putting SIX on horse
back Riding threugh the grandest forests
in the world, where the telegraph is carried
miles without poh, they reached Olympia.
They found many men anxiously awaiting
| the cargo Of seven hundred young women
that were to 5e siaH}ed to them from the
East.
Large forests gave them inexhaustible tim
Der, and at the Strait ofFuca many ships Of
/ different nations are gathered to receive
/ their cargocs lie hadthere the sublimest
mountain view that ever gladdened his eyes,
only rivaled BY a sunset upon the Columbia,
! tinting those snoRy peaks. They then ar
/ rived within the dominions of the British
| Queen, with the Stars aud Stripes and the
Royal George over them. A thirty hour
/ soiourn and visit to Governor Douglas
garden, where, near up to Labrador, roses
and fuschias bloom in thegarden, were hap
| py remembrance.
| Many Of the vineyards Of California are as
1 rich in wealth as they are in beauty. They
drove down hillside with thirty-six turns
and 1000 feet descent, in ten minutes, and
it could only be equaled by ride down. Nj
! agara Falls Far up 10 the Sierra Nevadas,
/ passing Stockton, 300 miles from San Fran
! cisco, is the wonder of the continent, the
| 70 Semitic Valley. Through deep valleys,
! up mountain RANGES, Skirting long hiilsides
/ for fifty miles, at last you look down into the
wonderful fssure which you must wind a
round miles 70 enter Its beauty is beyond
/ description The towering Sierras were a.
7 round. and they looked down into a smiling
valley, eight miles long and narrowing to
! half mile in width, little river winding
| through and the mountain walls raising
/ from 2000 to 6000 feet, verdureless and
4 seamless 1t seemed as if at the creation,
1 The rock was ploughed out from the valley
and thrown away At last they were in the
wonderful valley, riding along the river,
/ drinking in its new beauties
/ They saw a creek sixty feet wide. falling
! nine hundred feet at single leap and at
/ times its waters were ike mists. Again,
| they saw a stream falling in two leaps two
! thousand six hundred feet, sixteen times as
much as the Niagara Fails, leaping down
at last with circular rainbow mt the base.
| The fatigue and danger Of ascending the
mountain is repaid by the grandeur Of the
view A visit across the Continent is am
ply repaid by these sublime scenes.
Six thousand feet above the sea they found
a tree ninety feet In circumference. lie
gave glowing descriptions Of these redwood
| trees, with cinnamon bark, one to two feet
/ thick They are supposed to be several
thousand years old. born even before the
earliest wears Of the age Of Christianity.
They taught how brief and narrow were the
span OF years given +" man. bur a tfGeth 10
hundredth part Of these grand old trees
! lives.
But they were back at San Francisco, the
last gun was fired, and in the noble steamer
they sailed away from the coast, along the
shores Of the Republic of Mexico and /;
call it Republic cheers. long and loud) /
call it Republic because recognize no right
! full Empire there loud cheers.4 They
passed along Guatemala; passed the volca-
noes Of fire aud water beautiful with YER
dure; around the coast of Tehuantepec and
| Honduras, prolific in mahogany; Nicaragua
| and Costa Rica, which has nearly all Of Its
! population in single valley. At last they
/ were off New Granada.
After trip of $500 miles from the Col
/ den Gate, they landed at Panama, crossed
! forty-seven miles Of the Isthmus which cost
/ SIS, 900, GEO. and has well repaid It, 1t Is
! built about by the inhabitants of Granada,
! whose costumes seem to be fashioned after
! the garments Of the Garden Of Eden
On the fourth day they we're in the At
lantic on the fifth in the Gulf Stream; in
six and a half they sailed up the crowded
bay Of New York, and the long journey was
over
Two subjects demanded special notice
Mormonism and the Pacific Railroad.
In the heart of the continent l0O, O,O00peo
! pie are governed despotically by the will OF
one man. Through the twelve apostles,
then the seventy minor disciples, with the
iufallibihty they concede to the Church,
/ they form a compact union Polygamous un-
ion, in every man and woman so combining,
/ has the tendency of making all Of them its
defenders; for nowhere else in the whole
civilized world can they thus live. They
! profess to believe in the Old and New Test
/ aments, baptism, regeneration, and the Trim
! ity. The speaker had listened to an Elder,
with SIX wives, who preached that he had
as a sectarian believed God to be a spirit,
but now he thought God had the same pas
sions as mankind He reiterated this six
times. He said the Savior was to the faith
er as the child is TO its father He closed
| the sermon by the prediction that Gentle
unbelieyers would suffer eternal misery.
| The man, with this population of diff
/ ferent language and nationalities, Is no COM
mon man. He has, despite a lack of edu-
/ cation, great administrative powers. tie IS
| well preserved, broad chested man OF SIX
four years. He uses no stimulants, and has
4 an infexible will. His wealth is the result
of good business qualities, for he has never
been accused of dishonesty.
The speaker had had many conversations
with Brigham Young on the subject That
man had contended that he had had spe-
cial revelation on the subject of taking more
wives to himself, The speaker had declared
| it was full time to have another revelation,
prohibiting it hereafter. Young had de-
cared he wished that would occur: but
asked if they gave up the plurality OF wives,
would they not be required to give up the
| Mormon Bible. Ihe speaker had answered
| No. He trusted they would soon have the
revelation. daughter.
Yet there was open dissent by that public
to Young's expression. The "gentiles
numbelieg scarce one among fifty, labored
manfully against polygamy, and spoke de-
/ terminedly against the evil One elder with
three wives said if Brigham made such a
revelation they would take occasion to dis
/ cover whether it was n holy revelation