Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-04

May 80, 1874.
EDITOR BEE:
Enoch is gaining ground. AS
palpable as the fraud is, fear of eX-
communication from the church,
and its consequent persecution, ig-
norance, avarice and all other in
ducements the Devil can invent, is
driving the Mormon hordes into it.
Some clear-headed, sagacious busl-
ness men like Col. Hooper, VIM.
Jennings and others, who have the
reputation of being able to furnish
their own brains, take none OF 1t In
theirs, and boldly proclaim their
ability to take are of themselves.
As b. Y. at the late conference dis
tinctly stated that those who refused
to join the order could not expect
the fellowship of the church; it re-
remains to be seen what will be
done with these promoters of dis
cord.
Their services are too valuable,
their influence too powerful, to be
cast out entirely and to allow them
to remain in important positions
within the church will not look well.
B. Y. may be able to solve the diff
culty-he has shown his usual dar-
ing and persistence in pushing the
matter thus far-but that venerable
pate will undergo many severe
Something's ere he unravels the
snarl.
To give themselves up body and
soul, more completely than ever,
may be expected of fanatical zeal
and bigotry, but independence and
virtue has not yet departed from all
MOrmons.
Salt Lake is Just now in its most
charming habiliaments. Standing
on the elevation in the northern
part of the city you e before you
broad avenues lined with trees, large
blocks i'm which here and there
the pure white walls of numerous
cottages dot the green verdure, the
huge Tabernacle rearing its turtle
back roof amidst an army of labor
ers, the city hall, a fine stone struc-
ture with its illumined clock the
first national bank building, costing
one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars, towering above all surround
ings I; the Walker House, q fine brick
block; the Wasatch Hotel, nearly
completed. and Brigham YOung's,
soon to be, palatial residence.
Beyond this to the south stretches
the valley, clothed in beautiful
green, plentifully sprinkled with
farms and houses, and smelters and
factories, until it appears almost
shut in by the mountains, which
like giants, have approached to
within a short distance of each other
and there remain, a gap between
them into which neither venture to
encroach. Even this gap is guard
ed by a towering, solitary mountain
which seems to have been placed
by the Creator as a sentinel be-
fore this gate to a Garden of Eden.
The snow has disappeared from
the mountains to the north and
east of the city, and they seem car
peted with green to the very top ;
but as your eyes follow along down
the mountain ridge on the left OF
the valley, they soon meet, first, a
white peak, then a long white streak,
which is some snOw-piled ravine,
until twenty to thirty miles away
they rest upon the mountains of the
Big and Little Cottonwoods, still
covered, as in winter, in a deep
mantle of snow, relieved only here
and there with the gray, glistening
rock, or the deep green of scattered
forests.
On the right of the valley the
morning sun first gilds the snowy
tops, but falls rapidly upon green
pastures, which seem to touch even
the edge of the snow.
Directly to the west lies the lake
barely seen in the distance. On
DtyOLu Is WHdt SctluS III tuc lily
lance another long, low range of
mountains; while nearer by, boldly
rising from the waters of the lake,
the rocky shore of Church Island
presents itself. The range of noun
tains on the west side of the valley
terminates abruptly at the head of
the lake by a single peak, standing
partially by itself, about half the
height of its fellows and a perfect
cone. Near this has lately been
built a fine hotel, and here also is
the steamer landing. IT'S a wide
stretch of sixteen miles across the
Jordan bottoms to this point, but
the drive on a pleasant day and a
steamer ride on the lake on a MOON
light night, affords a delight not
Don to be forgotten.
This is a picture, feebly drawn,
of the outside of Salt Lake CITY.