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Show MOK.tII. It All.IlO Al KNTF.lt. I'lttUK. I 'Vh: hi.-tory uf the lir;t Murmou emi j gran 1. 4 lo Salt Lake ciiy iias never : ' been fully written; but as I obtain tin; 1 i particulars from some of the men who participated in all the hardships of th I meiiiuiablc hegira from th" Missouri river acr.j.-s tin: American desert, aud I who havo adhered to the lbrtuu'-s of; this peopl.j ihruiiL'h all I heir troubles I and triumph--, 1 am sati.-.licd that j nothing vivo the most implicit faith in ! their religion as a direct revelation j from liod, and an undoubting cor.ti- dence in tlic in.ireil characters of ; their leaders, cnuld have cem:-nled ; j such a population as were led hither ; I by Brigharu Y oung in 6 (7, and have j I since been accumulating here from till j j part3 of Europe and America, amid i ; the physical aud intellectual obstacles , they had for years to encounter. One ( instance of their trinu:cnl ncce.iiy for self-control and self-denial may be learned from the fact that for t he first years of their settlement so scarce and expensive were the bare necessaries ol' lite that a most rigid system of daily allowance to and by every family was practiced, so that (here mirht be no actual suffering and that nothing should be wasted. Time of course obviated ob-viated the necessity of this system, and the railroads havo placed large portions por-tions of the Territory within the roach of tho markets, so that all kinds of merchandise are within the mean3 of the people. Salt Lake city is tho great Rocky Mountain market, as it is the natural centre lor a large region of country. IUILHOAI) KNTKRPRISK. Allow me to correct an impression which Eccms to have been prevalent in the eastern States, to the effect that tho Mormon church authorities, in their desire for isolation from Christian Chris-tian civilization, havo invariably opposed op-posed the railroad enterprises and especially the building of the transcontinental trans-continental railway. History informs us that at the first session of tho Utah legislature, held in 1801-52 in this city, memorials to congress were adopted, praying for the construction of a national na-tional central railroad, and also a telegraph tele-graph line from the Missoori river, t la Salt Lake city, to the 1'acilic, aud subsequent sub-sequent legislatures continued to mo-moralize mo-moralize congress from time lo time, until these objects were accomplished. The first memorial on this subject of the above date was signed by Governor Brigham Young, and calls tho attention atten-tion of congress to the fact " That not less than live thousand American citizens citi-zens have perished on the different routes of emigration within the last three years, for the want of proper means of transportation; that an elli-gible elli-gible route can be obtained your memorialists me-morialists have no doubt, being extensively exten-sively acquainted with the country." The memorial also calls attention to the abundance of material to build the i road existing at various points on the j routo; its necessity to develop the trade I and mineral resources of the country, and adds words that have been very j often repeated and which have now at j least been partially verified by the i facts of history, hut which at the dis- I taneo of nearly twenty years from their j utterance bear almost the impress of i ! prophetic knowledge: I "Vour memorialists are ol theopin- I ion that the minernl resources ol'Uali-' : fornia, and these mountains, can nover j be fully developed to the benefit of the 1 people of the United States, without tho construction of such a road, aud upon its completion the entire trade of China and the Last Indies will pour through the heart of the Union, thereby there-by giving our citizens the almost entire control of the Asiatic and Pacific trade, pouring into the lap of the American States, the millions that arc now diverted di-verted through other commercial channels; chan-nels; and last though not least, the road herein proposed would be a perpetual chain, or iron baud, which would effectually ef-fectually hold together our glorious Union with an imperishable identity of mutual interest; thereby consolidating our relations with foreign powers in times of peace, and our defense from foreign invasion by the speedy transmission trans-mission of troops and supplies in limes of war." It was the hope of the iMormons that the Pacific railroad would touch at Salt Lake city, but it wai determined deter-mined otherwise; .the nearest station being at Ogden, which is the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads. Brigham Young, however, how-ever, built a large section of the road, aud subsequently, the leading men of the Territory built with their own resources re-sources and without any government subsidy, a railroad connecting Ogden with this city, the Utah Central. The Utah Southern railroad already extends ex-tends to Sandy station, fifteen miles south of the city, and will be pushed rapidly to Provo city, some thirty-five miles furthcr.and as soon as practicable -will be extended to the Arizona line. There are also roads projected from Salt Lake city to Denver, through a wonderfully fertile country, and from j Portland, Oregon, to Ogden junction; and a road from Central Nevada to this city is among the probabilities of the ' next ten years. The Utah Northern railroad company com-pany is already organized under the presidency of John V Young, one of the prolific family of the great prophet. It starts at Willard city, a few miles north of Ogden, running due north through a rant;o of Mormon settlements settle-ments in Cache valley, crossing the Idaho line and following (he Bear river valley to the Soda Springs, over one hundred miles from Ogden. At Soda Springs the people of Idaho propose pro-pose to connect with this road a line from tho principal points of mining interest in the territory. This is a narrow gauge road, a small portion of which is already constructed from Willard Wil-lard city, and Mr. Young is quite sanguine san-guine that he will be able to bring sufficient suf-ficient capital to his aid lor its construction. con-struction. There is already a locomotive locomo-tive upon 1 lie tracks and with the opening of tho next spring the work will undoubtedly be pushed rapidly. ; These facts, 1 think, sufficiently an-i an-i uwor the frequent allegation that the : Mormon people or their loaders have ever been desirous of isolation from the outside world, or that they opposed the introduction of any of the modern facilities to bring I bom reive into communication com-munication with the rest of mankind. They would sometimes, no doubt, havo been glad to divest themselves of some . of the peculiarly progressive aud to them iina-ive ideas of ticuiiic civili-I civili-I .ition; iliouili ihcy claim to ak only ; fair play and equal rights :it the hands , of their neighbors and tin govrnitig 1 powers. ' Tin: Ntw l EUKt'Ai, A'l rtu:i;v. , Mr. Ceorgo C. liates, liie ueiv U. S. j attorney, appointed voluntarily by ' president Grant to lake the place of : temporary assistant attorney Luskin, ; has been iu'.ruduccd to the bar and . m;ik-..-; a fa oi.tb'e iiupa-s.-iou upon all who lute met him. 11c is a lawyer of 1 great learning, natural abilities and ex- perisuet), and his appointment indicates to those who kuow him beat the desire uf president Grant to have the peculiar Maws bearing upon the Mormons ese-' ese-' cuted with discretion and intelligence. Whoever expect Mr. Bates to ride ! rough-;hoJ over law, precedent and authority, au-thority, governed only by a desire to i convict, ii is predicted, will find them , selves mistaken. The new officer is too good a lawyer to depart from the , highest rules of the profession and the . demands of justice to gratify partisan necessities or to conciliate cither exacting ex-acting Mormon or Gentile. L. X. F. I Correspondent of the Newark, N. J., 1 Daily Adc-rdaei: |