Show PA PAP loway iOWAy dec 1869 dear brother cannon oa on the instant we had a big visit from black hawk his brother mountain Aloun tain and quite a number of his band black hawk brawk and mountain Mount aln ain talked to the people in the meeting house in the evening bro shelton from beaver being the interpreter black hawk made great declarations la of friendship and said he wanted a big peace a strong peace and a long peace the day before his arrival the Naya Nava joes had made a raid on our horses and a company of men were in pursuit black hawk of offered ferell to go 90 and bring the horses back if we would furnish him and his men fresh horses to ride but it was not seen fit to accept his hia generous onerous offer he told us to catch I 1 A the Nava joes if we could when they came to steal and not kill them but talk to them and show that thab we do not desire to shed blood send them back to their home and friends to tell what was said eaid to them this he said would do far more good than killing them this ismery is very good advice but comes with rather a bad grace from such a quarter he said that he wished to see the settlements on the sevier sevien river elver established again and promised that they should not be disturbed by the ute indians black hawks consumptive look and hollow cough indicate that he cannot last long his brother mountain a thoughtful and intelligent looking indian lidian then addressed the meeting and said that he had always told the indians when they wanted him to join their raids that he would not ga go for he be had horses to ride and when he wanted anything to eat cat he could kill deer and rabbits and always advised the indians to stay atheme at home the indians present testified to the truth of what he said he told them that they had stolen hundreds of cattle and horses and they were poorer now than ever and they always would be poor while they continued to steal now they had no chief they were all under ground and they would all ardie ardle die dle if they did not do better he says he does not want to shed the blood of any body but wants all 1 to live till god wants them to die this indian I 1 believe to be no coward has a great influence among the tribe and will likely be the chief at black hawks death the people had to furnish them the usual amount of beef biscuits and flour andt and they pey went on their way rejoicing the general health of the settlement is good things move on peaceably as usual with the exception of our indian troubles A great many of the brethren have been quite successful in securing their next years bread and seed wheat by laboring and trading in other settlements and are preparing to farm extensively next season and hope to make up the loss caused by the grasshoppers the past season for the past week the weather has been very severe freezing much harder than it has before for several years ire lre I 1 remain main most respectfully yours I 1 W C McG REdon SALT LAKE CITY Dec editor news dear sia sin two letters written by me at ogden dee dec and 2nd were received in hi this city ten days after one letter writt written enat at franklin cache county on the ath dinst neachea reached here yesterday thi and another one written at paris both bearing the franklin postmark post mark dec ath hould should have arria arrived ol 01 here within three days ormall of maii mailing instead thereof they were some twenty days coming about miles 50 of this by railroad the postmaster at logan told me that the entire letter and paper mail malt due duo from this city dec ath had not reached its destination on the I 1 am satisfied the blame does not rest in these instances with the post masters here at ogden or at franklin but I 1 fear the letters ac referred to abre were not taken from the cars at ogden and probably have had a ride either to the states east or west I 1 regret this carelessness as it makes people feel bad and would in any other comin community unity promote profanity besides it ia is difficult for men of business to connect when their communications are not regularly received and answered f respectfully ac A MILTON MUSSER PROVO dec 1869 editor deseret X news nees ees ces dear brother I 1 have been betros retrospect pecking pec ting ing the period since the year 47 on the first christ mas inas after we came to these valleys our grea greatest luxuries lux urne urie were the wild thistle and a little beef well pounded in corning coming over the plains comparing those days with oui our pret present sent bent comforts comforti who cannot see that thab the hand of the lord i has been over q us and that his volpe voice has dictated every inove move of our leaders for the good of his people and now in the year ear 1869 1860 is it likely ile he will turn a deaf deaf ear to his many faithful faitha I 1 children I 1 think not T As the labor of making farms building cities and subduing the climate has been measurably overcome the people are in a condition to give greater attention to the improvement of our schools I 1 am proud to say that we have a number of good schools in provo conducted by able and efficient teachers who are performing a i good work because they are odthe of athe true faith this has not always wa s been the case with us here I 1 commenced teaching school in the dayer dayson of the prophet joseph in nauvoo and have always advocated the early earls instruction of children in correct principles that children do not attend attend school simply to learn what is contained in their books but they should also be taught good manners morals truth integrity and everything that is calculated to fit them for usefulness teachers should understand how to smoothed the way to the head through the heart and if the heart be good all the other good qualities will manifest themselves if taught to them meekness is also a beautiful virtue of christian modesty in fact it is the most commendable I 1 this is a great age and we are all students in a great school if we can only live according to the rules laid down and bo be gain will be ours and it will be well weli lor for us when our term is expired MRS M batten PATTEn PATTERSON sos sox NAUVOO hancock hancook CO ill iii december 1869 E editor deseret mews news presuming that a few lines from a former city of the saints might not be uninteresting to your man many readers who were once residents of this place I 1 give you a few items that have come under my observation since bince emy my sojourn here accompanied by brother wm bringhurst I 1 made a detour from ithe the diree direct route to the tho east for the purpose of visiting nauvoo also some relatives leja iela tives residing in the vicinity we found communication ni by rail to montrose on sunday nov we crossed the mississippi si p p to nauvoo I 1 the river was full of floating flo fio a ting ice lee and it was with some difficulty that we crossed on arriving at nauvoo we went to the nauvoo mansion and found major biderman the husband of emma smith and proprietor of the house engaged in playing cards the fire having gone down the major with sundry twists of the poker assisted by some oaths too profane to be mentioned here succeeded in arousing the fire I 1 mention thid as it forcibly struck me to think of the contrast between that house now and the days when it was occupied by its original proprietor I 1 at dinner I 1 saw emma smith for the first time I 1 must confess I 1 was somewhat disappointed in her appearance pe arance since my arrival I 1 have been engaged in visiting my rl relatives and other acquaintances who reside in the prairie east of nauvoo I 1 have been received with the greatest friendship and cordiality we expect to leave here on the morrow for cleveland ohio it has been with peculiar feelings that I 1 have trodden the streets and viewed this ruined city the thought suggests itself where are the many faithful souls who by their hard labor in so short a time raised these piles of brick and stone where are the masons whose trowels rang over the walls of the nauvoo house masonic hall and the temple where are tike the stone cut whose hammers clinked on the hard limestone of the a adjoining quarries where are the carpenters the sound bound of whose chisels and axes rangin rang in the construction of the homes of the fugitive saints where are the plough boys who first turned the prairie sod and planted the corn for the sustenance of the brethren where are the brick makers the hewers of wood and drawers of of f water the merchant the and the preacher of the word where is the prophet by whose instrumentality in the house of god arose the city the ruins of which I 1 see around me where is the temple saints v oge grandeur w was as the pride of the and the greatest ornament of the mississippi valley they are all all goi gol gone rp at montrose garden grove mount pisgah council bluffs winter quarters and over the hills and dales from the missouri river to beyond the rocky mountains are to be found the final resting place of many of them these thoe at least have found an asylum forever secure from the wrath of mobs others with their numerous descendants are to be found in happy homes in the peaceful valleys of the great basin and some painful thought yielded to the pressure and turned from the truth the prophets blood ia is at carthage jail he too I 1 is forever secure from the hands of those who shed his blood and tho the temple tempie once the crowning glory of this city by the hands of wicked men is not left one stone upon another what a complete metamorphosis the next question gm that naturally arrives is what is the cause of all this none of the present inhabitants of naul nall can tell me they shrug their shoulders they shake shako their heads at the ques question tio n I 1 must go farther for an answer I 1 must not ask the prejudice of the american people it would not mot answer truly he who would answer me truly would say the cause lies in the intolerance with which religious truth has ever been received upon the ahe earth in the proclivity the world has ever ha had d to crucify their messiahs in the same cause that shed the blood of christ and desolated the houses of the former day saints an old inhabitant took me to the spot where once stood the noble temple not a vestige of it remains mains le grape vines and weeds encumber the soil the stones of which it was built are scatter to the four winds some have been used in the construction of less pretentious edifices some shipped to st louis and other cities and some aroused for fon the door steps of the neighboring farmhouses the nauvoo house is just as it was vas left the walls are in as perfect a condition ondi tion as when the masons left them them the Maso masonic nin nip hall remains and is used for the purpose for which it was built the seventies hall has been torn down and rebuilt for a church I 1 think the residence of bros brigham kimball hyde snow jos Young sen and others are still standing brother parleys house is used fora for dor a temporary catholic church and a fine edifice for the he same purpose Is being erected adjoining it the arsenal lias has been converted into a private reside residence nce many any of the smaller buildings have been een torn down the m majority j arity of the larger ones remain the h inhabitants of nauvoo are nearly all wine bibbing beer drinking germans aud number bout three thousand I 1 have respectfully asked what has baa become of thosa those who drove the saints from their homes homek and the anvar unvarying ying ving testimony has been that those hoser who are alive are socially and politically dead mr lil ISI M morrill an attorney Z in n nauvoo brother of senator morrill of maine main e who ia Is an old inhabitant of the place in n reply to the above question said I 1 they are either dead in the penitentiary or gone to h 1 11 palma the fiend who set the temple on fire is now a convict in the penitentiary at fort madison the rev thos brookman brockman commander of the mob forces who expelled the remaining saints from their homes in sept 1846 afterwards ran for the office of county clerk for this county he made his eminent servi services cesin in expelling the saints a radical point in his claims upon his party for election he wis was defeated overwhelmingly and left the country in disgust before leaving he made 9 valedictory address to the citizens of Cartha carthage gd in which he bitterly complained of the treatment he had received from the citizens of hancock co in being ungrateful to him for his mighty services ren rendered derel derea in expelling their enemies during his address he had the flag which waved over his myr amidons laying on the desk before him he pathetically said he wished to bequeath the flag to some citizen of hancock co who would preserve it and asked who would take the flag no one made answer for sometime finally a in man mau an whose name I 1 have forgotten stepped forward and received that glorious flag which had waved over fifteen hundred brave heads 2 who had sad succeeded in driving a few defence less men women and children from their homes brockman and col williams are both dead died ditol en enjoying there thene the tho re respect act of no one as far as I 1 can learn co col F mccally McC anly I 1 one of the leaders leader of the mob still lives but in h a state of df abject poverty and his hl faculties are close clote bordering on idiocy tom sharp still lives it ift ia is said sald his ills nose lengthens as he grows in years the present citizens of hancock county as far as I 1 can learn deprecate the expulsion of the saints and aid none of those engaged gag gal ed in the unholy act ever enjoyed any social al respect afterward nay more they were despised by their neighbors and former friends joseph ce had an eye for for the beautiful when he selected this forthe site of a city it is one of the most beautiful situations for a city that I 1 ever saw efforts arg are being madd made by certain parties to have nauvoo selected as a site for the proposed new national capitol the whole city is now a vine yard an and wine olwine is nearly the whole trammie traffic of the inhabitants i to me there appears to be a gloom settled over this the streets are not animated with the busy throng as ivas was once the case at the th grog geries gerics culminate ull tall the apparent life of the inhabitants and the houses generally appear to be occupied by a very untidy class 1 1 how dlf dif different is me the scene now from that which would be presented had the peaceful industrious saints been permitted to remain instead of a squalid dilapidated town the traveler would nina fina find hue here the handsomest hanso city in the mississippi s I 1 pi valley surrounded by a paradise when wh en will the world learn who are its benefactors bro bringhurst joins in love to you and all friends your hr brother arother other 1 W H eltee upwards of or 0 one he hundred I 1 and forty two thousand emigrants reached the port of new york in 1856 tp vp obtain an au approximate idea of what the emigrants brought into the country in ready cash the commissioners of emigration took particular pains that year to inquire of each one vihay what amount of money he fie borshe or she brought to the country many of them were unwilling to give the into inlo sought but it was ascertained certa ined that they had brought with them in copey an average of sixty eight doll dollars ars per head amounting in the aggregate to about nine million seven hundred thousand dollars the san fran eran ose use Af orning morning gall catl call uses q goshow its readers that jho abo bo right hinds kinds of immigrant 0 sare are of benefit to a state in more ways than one speak speaking ing t of immigration to california calit it says I 1 probably ten thousand immigrants to this state would add a million of dollars and might add several millions to tho the tho permanent por manent capital of her |