, 1868-08-07
From Son Bernardino to SAN Lake.

An Invalid who recently made the trip
between San Bernardino and Salt Lake.
writes bis observations in letter TO the San
Bernardino Guardian. From it we extract;
A trip from San Bernardino to this point,
has been full of moving incidents, by food
and field" The wether was lovely until
we got North of the Black Ridge, forty mile.
North of st. George from there it has been
as above described. There is not one Of
the party that does not yearn for the sun.
shine of Southern California. We are worse
than the children of Egypt, wishing for the
heshpots' and small beer of their old homes.
Eight hundred miles of country is too vast
to be described in short newspaper article,
SO it must suffice to say that the mountains,
with small valleys, which, North of st.
George, are literally filed with Mormons-
all striving to keep the wolf from the door,
to love Jesus, and believe in Brigham Young
as the Prophet of the Lord. II there is a
prolific people on the earth, it is the Nor
mons. If children were a legal tender,
should like to start bank in Utah. They
are the only production that is plenty in the
country we have passed. From what Col
jackson used to tell me of the Mormons, and
their superior offspring, l expected to find q
wonderful people in Southern Utah, but
what was my disappointment, when every
other child met was either Cross eyed Oh
snub-nosed, mostly both. 1t is all hoax
about the Mormon children being smarter
than the American children. They are moi
equal in anything. There is no money il
this country. Molasses and carrots are the
legal tender. Everything goes by trade. II
a man gets q stock Of molasses and carrots
ahead, he is ordered by the Bishop to take
to himself another wife. A man with only
one wife in Utah is worse off than man
too ugly to get one in California He CAM
hold an Office, nor have any respect shown
him. In the early days of California man
was esteemed among his fellow men, accord
ing to the number Of cattle he owned. He
went in on his horns. Here it is according
to the wives he has. Brigham Young is the
great man of the country, because he has
the greatest number of wives. 1t is the
doctrine of the oaints that women cannot
20 to heaven unless she is sealed to a MorS
mon in good standing. l have not seen a
pretty woman in Utah ; and 1 claim to be a
JuQS6 III SdCH 44OOp ohIbo oLO
not known South of Fillmore in Utah. Think
of one of our San BernardinO beauties appear
ing on the streets without hoop skirts !!
Well, we have had to look upon these hoop.
less sisters ever since we struck the Terri
terry. This is rough country for gentle
to travel in. The Mormons are afraid OF
the manly beauty of the gentiles, and guard
their wives and daug ghters with as much
care as Turk does the inmates of his harem.
One poor devil of a lawyer, from Nevada,
forgot his briefs and put in special plea to
Mormon girl, at St. George, while we
were there. he quoted Byron, Tom Moore,
and all the rest of that class of authorities,
but without avail she let the Bishop know
the state of the case, and the disciple of
Blackstone was given twenty minutes to get
up aud shake the dust from his feet. He
stood not on the order of his going, but went
in hurry. 1t is bad country in which
to practice love law. Let the profession
govern itself accordingly.