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Show LETTER FROM ST. GEORGE. St. George. Utah, Ju'y -'", '70. 1 tvjr :-. a Id .-Yesterday we cele-bra'ed cele-bra'ed the en'mnci of the Pi' !:i-ers into Salt Lake Valley in a bee -'ining n.a'iner. The day was c -1 ani par-t par-t a' y cloudec, the concourse wa- hir-e. an.: the pre.-. .-ion a: 0. :'!. a if t--m -"J uwi.r Maj r II .v iy. e.ivere.l two -;.!.- of the public square. I will enclose programme that you may note the t extent of our preparation for a grand j holiday. The joyous outburst of feel-; ing pervaded old and young, from early I morn to a late hour at night, in an ; enthusiastic manner. W e noticed with I pride the display of banners, flags and I mottoes from aimost every division of the procession, the twenty-four youns , ladies in white carrying a beautifully ' gilt banner, and formirg a decided at-1 traction; the twenty-four young men leading and beine joined to the former, by tasselated silk cords in the hands of the two front young ladies. All went along ''as merry as a marriage bell," the large concourse filling the spacious hall of the new Tabernacle, where the oration and speeches were made in a most splendid and interesting interest-ing manner. The day's amusements closed with a musical festival, and a general gathering gather-ing of old and young to "trip the lk'ht fantastic toe" in the evening. We should not forget to notice the splendid splen-did display of ripe fruits, exhibited in the procession by the Gardener's Club and Pomological Society, of apples, peaches, oears, plums, cherries, grapes both white and bkek, ripe, rosy and no doubt delicious. We have been blessed with the absence ab-sence of prasshoppeis this season, and of late with several refreshing showers of rain, which makes better prospects for corn, vegetables, fruit and late crops. The wheat crop has been 1-trge and excellent; the fruit crop abundant and superior, and the growth of trees and vines unprecedented in our observations. obser-vations. Many varieties of choice, early, foreign grapes and early peaches, are ripe, and numbers of loads have already gone to the mines, to the west. Threshers are busy with the wheat stacks, and farmers are d-ing up the last of planting corn. The sweet potato po-tato '"patches" look fine, and a de'er mination to extend the cultivation of that crop, bene, rice and peanuts is general. Health is good, for the season of the year; heat areat; flies troublesome; trade rather dull, and wj at the Lot torn of our scribble. Yours, J . |