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Show I Iowa; and fields, orchards, flocks, herds, Territory, by our own railroads, a dis- last, we as people have always consid- - ) happy homes, and a peaceful and intelli- tance of some 170 miles nearly due north ered a' paramount duty, to diligently blUhe(J KTEKT VENIXO,8niyi excepted gent people were rapidly adding to the and south, with branches to Little Cot seek useful information from every availbT the Oumm funLusma Contain. wealth and strength of our nation.' tonwood 'and Bingham Canyons in Salt able source, at all times and under all Lake County and American Fork ia Utah circumstances. With what success this next the less two than During years Charles W. Penrose, after the massacre of the Prophet and County,, and the road from Echo to the duty . has been prosecuted, under numtad BujiseM Matmgor. Patriarch, the. Temple was completed; a coal beds in Summit County, to lend erous disadvantages unknown to the site selected on the Mississipt river for their powerful aid in facilitating travel world, let the 55,000 school-childre- n of L TAIL building a dam for manufacturing pur- and ; transportation, so necessary to the our young Territory answer. T poses, and all possible improvements en rapid advancement of our agricultural, Turning from the brief glance at our Wednesday Evening', 5ot. 26, 1873. couraged and prosecuted te the utmost, manufacturing, mining and all other ma- material and educational interests and until the power of religious intolerance terial interests. And we hope to ccn- - advancement, I deem it fitting to remark urned efforts for continued and increas inue, until the inhabitants of this beau that from uly 24, 1847, to this auspiPRESIDENT YOUNG AT ing improvements into preparations for tiful and thriving city are in railroad cious day we are celebrating, our legisPJtOVO. communication with that extensive net- lators, our judges, our county and city leaving the State of Illinois. Such were some Of the labors of the work of roads ramifying our great coun- officers, our justices of the peace, all The entrance of the Utah Southern of the spirit, xeal and try from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and holding authority, ia . each and every Railroad into- - Prove, was celebrated Saints, partaking energy of their leader, the Prophet extending into Canada and Mexico. . department, and the whole people, with yesterday with appropriate ceremo- Joseph Smith, the founder of the great Furnaces are busily occupied in sraelt- - comparatively fewer exceptions than I nies. After a speech of welcome latter-da- y ng tne ncn, argentiferous galena ana am aware of elsewhere, have labored work, which the Lord o from Mayor A. O.' Suioot, and a re- Hosts has commenced, and which he copper ores so abundant in our mount assiduously for the broadest enjoyment, ' ains. by all, of the rightsind privileges desponse from President George A. will watch over for good, unto its final thus briefly sketched a few of signed by our Creator for our benefit, to Having in accordance consummation with His Smith, the following address, by he prominent items of our history, I prevent the least encroachment upon. President Brigham Young, was read Divine will. In February, 1846, the Saints began again refer-t- tne conditions under wtucn the riglits of any, no matter of what D. as Col. by reported McKenzie, our labors have been performed. ly name, faith, or nation, and to spread the crossing the Mississippi river on their David W. EvaDS, Esq., for the Dcs-ero- t way to these distant valleys, and, mak It is true that the angel, commissioned area of freedom, uniting with everything ing resting p'aces at Garden Grove and to restore, in this our day, the fulness of conducing , to the true progress of the Evening News: : Pisgah for those who were to follow, the everlasting gospel, found Joseph but human family in all that is in any wise Friends ahd Fellow Citizen youth and comparatively unlearned, beneficial, and to discourage, prevent Assembled to celebrate the completion where we immediately provided school he for tents that houses, having had but limited opportunities and eradicate, to the utmost of our intemporarily using of the Utah Southern Railroad to this for education in the then wilds of west fluence, means and opportunities, all and a from requisition filling eityi I gladly join in your rejoicings, purpose;, New York; but, from that date, until that in the least degree militates against era our aid men in Government to 500 for feel . a deep interest, in common with so massacred with his brother the welfare of our fellow beings, doing the with war then the foully Mexico, crossing you, in the successful progress cf a ' " in hun Missouri erected several and Carthage, Hancock county, all possible good to all. Hyrum river, work' fraught with so nrany benefits to of acts of the chilthe In speaking dred log houses; made many dug-outIllinois, on tne zita ef June, 1844. in the people of this Territory. has been it wisely said: and, according to our the 39th year of his age, he assiduously dren of men, I deem this a fitting occasion for built a grist-milthem." A know fruits their ye invariable custom, school houses; divid applied himself to studying the English, "By briefly tracing our progress in the ed this of the few fruits people, produced by into wards, with the German, Hebrew and other languages, grani and steadily "onward and up- and peopleand conducted all Bishops and gaining all information of worth during the past forty years, have bow matters Police, ward" march of praiseworthy improvefor the benefit, to the utmost, of a chmp from every available Bource, especially been passed in a review deemed best to ment. be very brief; and in my reflections T revelation from Heaven, Soon after the organization of the at its halt in Winter Quarters (now through often wish, that tho whole world would Florence) on the west bank of the Mis- fountain of all light and knowledge. As Church f Jeeiij Christ of Latter-da- y do themselves the justice to carefully no of his life a was of several miles above where now is many you know, Saints in Fayette, Seneca County, State souri, scrutinize our course, all Omaha. ordinary character, driven from place to and candidly of, New York, on the 6th of April, 1S30, and purposes, anywhere and That year wa carried the standard of place, surrounded by implacable ene. our acts with six member, the people removed we have been true to when for his blood, harrassed everywhere, to Eirtland, Ohio, and at once began true civilization to California, establish mies, thirsting our earliest history till from our faith, there the first library, and soon be by vexatious law suits, and worse than erecting buildings, opening the streets, ing frui s, whether our and learn, by the California Star, tne all,. by the dark plottings ef false breth now, and fast friends to true preparing (o build a temple, which they gan publishing ever are not we first aewspaper, so far as I am aware. ren which culminated in his foul mur so far as they will completed; resumed the publication of fellow our all beings, inted on the western slope of theEocky der, yet, through all these vicissitudes, to the "Evangelical and Morning Star," he never ceased his exertions to improve permit, and ever zealously laboring Mountains. the of destruction the after printing the utmost for the most rapid improve Shortly after that date, the Frontier himself and his brethren. ment in all things conducive to the tern press, ty a aoby in Jackson County, Believing in his teachings, the teach Guardian was published in Council Bluffs, 1833 un in then it ; published and eternal welfare and happiness Missouri, ' M' ' ings of the Savior, through His servants poral ( der the title of Messenger and Advocate; Iowa. mankind. Saints have from the be of In April, 1847, the Pioneer Company, the Latter-da- y sent missionaries to various portions of : Permit Friends and fellow-citizen- s 3 women and 2 ginning striven to emulate his pure and to again congratulate you in now the United States, Canada, and Europe; numbering 14,3 men, me noble example, and notwithstanding the founded celoniea near Ike western Wr-de- children, began their journey westward, same in communication with all Steam spirit of opposition that sought to being of Missouri, and labored zealously in search of a location where w6 could lines by sea and land throughout the destroy the prophet Joseph and the and to wish peace, union and and indefatigably for the welfare .of unmolestedly serve the Lord our God in work-o- f the Lord has world, unceasingly larbor accordance with His commandments. abundant mankind, until they left their hard earnprosperity, to your beautifnl I we.ll remember that, when riding in ed to threw every obstacle in the way of to all who are laboring to pro and ed homes in Kirtland and the adjacent city, advance of that company with my then our social, political and intellectual ad mote' true 1 i 3 progress, and advance com regions., ' vancement, wo have great reason to feel C. Kimball and Heber First Counselor, , . mendable improvements. la 1831, when forming their settle thankful for the results already achiev anvats near tke western borders of Upper others, to search out the route for the ed. I' to- follow, we were carefully Missouri, the Saints found a region wagons in the Pioneers of arrival the From Prices. for and frequently , conversing sparsely settled and but rudely improv watching Territhis of the 1847 until now, people about a route for a railroaid across the ed, and, with their characteristic love Perhaps there is no question of po tory have at all times labored assiduouscontinent. once established at far improvement,' litical economy that presents itself averse amid many ly and untiringly, the reached That company present as soon eaiiaols, superseded the hominy settle- go often to all classes of Bociety Lake City, on the 24th cf circumstances, for th prosperous of Salt ste and lew of mills driven the and the block high by simple question grater, by ment of the "Great American Desert" horse and water power, published the July, 1847, and at once began its survey and the regions .bordering, nd for the prices. To: determine, waetner and lots, and, aided by Capt. is "dear" o? wcheap," we must first number of the Evening and Morning into streets best and most rapid development of the thins? Brown's detachment from the James ootn tne price asueu anu consider I ; if Slr in Juae, 1832, then, rightly 'Mormon resources of theso valleys and mounthe erection of a or character of the thing. the Battalion," 'quality the only newspaper publish remember, tains. As some of the results, under the the as comfort of for the and But fort incomprehensible as it may security ed in Missouri outside of St. Louis, Jefof Israel's God, our cities, who arrived that season, to the blessings supplies the families appear, , experience ferson City aad Eeoneville; published a towns and .villages are now numbered evidence that 50 of all percent, some of per number 3,000 persens, keok entitled the Book of Commandments, by hundreds, and extend from the Soda sons who make purchases and give a A. Smith prePrest. In "George 1849, and, through unity ond industry in ev Springs, in tho Territory of Idaho, some money equivalent lor the thiDgnght sented, in the legislature of the provis230 miles north ef this city, to the set- or ery possible and laudable improvement, privilege bought, decide tne ques a memorial to were rapidly , acquiring desirable and ional State of Deseret, some 400 miles tion adversely to their own interest, ia' tlements Arizona,' for the construction of a naand farms by mainly considering only one ele surroundings, when Congress very aMnnendabl to the Pacific coast, which south. Orchards, gardens tional railroad still mere int were driven barren- ment, the price. ' where sparsely they In 1852, he have widely multiplied settled adjacent counties, where they said legislature adopted. has had sway for ages; commodious ness It cannot be denied but that one presented & like memorial in the legist and with are houses and school patience untiring meeting again began, yard of calico may be dear at lOc tive assembly of the Territory o'f Utah dwelling, of the that and another .cheap at 15c; that oue the ruder improvement energy, fast buildings unflagging supplanting was also adopted, under the following at first compelled; pound of butter may.be dear at l)c themselves, their children,' their few circumstances to Congress for the "Memorial title: have relieved the slow and and another cheap at 40c: that one neighbors, and everything around them construction of a central national, be dear at $7, great,' This course was pursued, and prosperous tedious processes of hard labor in the barrel of flour .may to the Pacific coast." Pages railroad of course in at another ?9; cheap manufaotnre of textile fabrics; saw and settlements, were dotting the prairies as 225-- 6 of laws of Utah, published 1852. and price cases these each of quality mills have teen multiplied to meet by magic, until their expulsion from ' These grist considered. It is thus clearly shown that, from increasing wants; our publications havo were1 both duly that State in 1838. At the time of this that so are facts clearly time of. our leaving the Missouri increased frem the small-size- d "Deseret expulsion Gen. Clark remerked to the tho axiomatic as considered be te and they may Saints : "Tou must not be seen here as river, oar attention was drawn News," first published weekly by Dr. tmthB, which furnish the base of all an in of favor exercised influence our to "Des the in are the 1850, Willard Richards many as five together; if you transactions of purchase and sale. railroad, and so continued eret News," published weekly, semi- ei i liens will be upon yon and destroy And what is true in transactions of the completion, early in 1869, of weekly and daily; the "Juvenile Instruc you, but you must flee immediately out until character is equally true in al this and Central the Woman't Expo- classes of business transactions wher of the State." 8;ill he wished the that great work, the Union tor," construction of Saints ' to5 remain, if they would only Pacifio Railroad, to the nent;" the "Salt Lake Herald," weekly, ever an exchange of value is involv Utah rendered of the inhabitants which and daily, the 'Ogden ed. Thus : The prescription of a for their discard forsake or religion, aid. efficient most and daily; the quack doctor for SI may be dearer industrious an are "You Junction," people said he, editions of than one at $5 from a competent tel Times." to of advent the "Provo hailed in daily: more large three if done have years Few, any, yea Book; physician; tho services of aa efficient of "Book Mormon," more than with and the "Hymn facilities the it, joy improve build up country egraphio than the eld settlers have done in sixteen did the people of Utah, as evidenced by "Answers to Questions," "Catechism," clerk it SOU per montn may do dear; our furnishing and settling some 600 and other publications, not forgetting er than the services of a really com years."- - XiX I petent one at 150; the services and After the expulsion from Missouri, miles of poles for the first overland tel the famous "Keepapitchinin." Ah counsel of a poor lawyer may be little mention the Hi to not omit in must their scattered numbers were gathered egraph line, to hasten magnetic coramu dearer at 10 than the services and in St George. on the left bank of the Mississippi Tiver, nicatioa with the intelligence of the "Cactus" counsel in the same case of a first-clas- s now of that world, Since the completion at a small town named Commerce, Education, in all that is useful, so attorney at 50 or 100; and Nanvoo, in Illinois, in the sf ring of line the "Deseret Telegraph Company" obviously underlies - true human pro the instruction . given by inefficient 1839, and they there again began to ex has stretched its wires to an sggregate gress, that a slight allusien in detail and unfaithful teachers at any price hibit that wonderful, unflagging seal for length of 1000 miles, connecting all our may be interesting to many and serve to or for nothins.' ; may . ba far dearer In the next five years principal cities, towns and mining camps, show the importance we have always than the instruction given by first-claimprovement. Eastern Nevada, attached to the education ef our chil schools teachers and first-clas- s preceding the massacrs of the Prophet and penetrating South Idah6. Southern and circum most adverse Northern and the first-clasAriiona, s Hjrum for- anl Patriarch, Joseph dren, under prices. Commercial of the Union stances. Review. Smith, an extensive city site was laid IJSoon after the completion or Utan the dwell commodious Pacifio Railroad, of people out; large number President George A. Smith, now my Government grants, began ings were erected; the lowlands drained unaided by first counselor, in settling Iron County walls the construction of the Utah Central, and the reared edifices the winter of 1850-5- 1, did not wait many public U between Ogden it first the to completed raised speedily but of a costly temple' for the ereotion of a school-housin opera- - and Salt Lake Cities; the Utah Southern schools elemen numerous few the with put story; beean teaching, AT THE OLD STAXD. oband designed to connect with the Texas Ta tion; a University and other cLarteib tary text books then in possession, earli the at commenced then was tained; and several thousands of happy cific, the light of the sage and greasewoocl Three doors soatta of livcrj Stable has been prose by erected industrious people were building up a est practicable date, and camp fires. The first building MAIN STREET, OGDEN. cuted as rapidly as means and other fa a sub ia locality and was a siicd, city prosperous goodly that in great county shuncilities would permit, and we are new stantial block-housfor the use of meet- Orders promptly filled. Repairs neatly previously so unhealthy as to be assembled to celebrate the result of this executed. impressing ned by all but few. and schools, thereby ings 6 . uuu uiu Oteer flourishing settlements were labor. oi uuiu tne juu-minus Give me a call. We are on the point of connection with upon of what, from first to J made in various parts of Hancock Counthe importance the of Franklin, in tho extreme north ty, and across the river in Lcc Couuty, Sue gdftt'gmwtiott. SPECIAL FOR CONFERENCE. I fiU Editor (Jit1 OGI)E. At and C5, 07 G9 East Temple Street.- 10..; ' - ,fdi! mi ivi is1 "'' Having Purchased an entirely :A 10 ClflU NEW STOCK OF GOQPS FROM THE EAST, n Selected by ourselves with greal care and regard for the wants of the people of Utah, we invite all our friends to call and ' ' h i.v a ' n j rZki inspect our Full line of ,ftk city gets Cool MERCHANDISE! GENERAL, ft' inter Mlfia TEASDEL & All to be Sold Cheap dS-2- tjt Co. & ';''' w dip pofli NEW STOCK s; or ; Ion,' bjM - ' l, owns . General merchandise. AIco W IH, ', ;V.WM; T. BAKER 1 ' tie nl tunitj BUSINES3 IN HIS KEW PREMISES, HAS COMMENCED limat FIFTH STREET, OGDENif With a SELECT and SPLENDID ' of STOCK . "eele' . DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES, PRODUCE TAKEN. AIL FOR TUB LOWEST PRICES. dlO-t- f Tin I , itnii AGAIN. HO! FOR OONFEKENOE, JONES HIMSELF (til! G. W. Davis.. SALT LAKE CITY. rs HAS , numer-ous.factori- K I! AND FAMILY CROCERIES". busi- The Undersigned has ness at his old eland I .A ,, between the AND CITY DRUG STORES. PIONEER ' Main Street, Ogden. A choice selection of ''BROAD-CLOTH- ; i ; ai :. II- : to tttr 77 ! l TO. "1 eJ .v Ail Inii ,'J- ; 1. BuriDg their visit to Conforenc. triii indu "Quality Unequalled. to order in the Latest Style and at the lowest prices. G. f , 'it T. W. JONES. I i iae nen! w. davis; that "- moTi wiil ' Dl NFORD ;& TREES! TREES! pair ' tloqi Just Receive Suits or sinale aarments made ' lei FVJICITASE A.STJFFLJ VEST1NGS, Etc., SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Citj , - ' tID hal WOULD DO WELL SCOTCH TWEEDS,' CASS IME RES, :: ;.; m S, s ., , Oity.i FAMILIES .v .!, BEAVERS," " i Lake Salt ;.;,;i AND ;; DOMESTIC FOREIGN pe cm A ; 801 KOTI Wtl A es All kindi of , Salt Lake City, ..:'""".. l ; j f Trarlft (ronarnll V. to for sals at I of. ...MM .? 4Yia: (ho teoi .... . Wish to call the Attention Fruit and Shade Trees, eelf-evide- nt inter-ooean- ii THE COFFEES : ' w CHOICEST TEAS, - nigh and tow tlto . 4 - Thi fall lines of Mil up; Lust I ifei lit tctni !to , ic NURSERY, semi-monthl- y; semi-week- ly semi-week- ' ' 'i BOOTS AND SHOES, U Two blocks esat of Muiu Stroet. JOB! Bef , til! Second Sontli Street. ly lit; HATS AND CAPS, lilt hn , Kix SALT LAKE CITY. GZOVM GENTS9 ' ? -- 10,000 Mulberries, 5,000 Black Walnuts, At Conference time call and see the Conservatory. e, Boot and Slioemalfor, Xjadlos' JxlT0 ' ! ss e, h s . W. S. READ, AND 'ii ' .,.,, ii : . '. Opposite the Post Office. DRY-GOOD- FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, ETC. All at reasonable AND . - MENDELSOHN IIA9 NOW OFENED full stock of goods at ilia new .tore, CALL V In pric , nd quality : v MENDELSOHN'S. JULUTS i price. EXAMINE. THEY DEFY GOMPETITiON. Tin trade would do well t CAIX OX TIIEH, And look oyer their stock before chasing elsewhere. WHOLESALE Fur" & RETAIL |