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Show SALT LAKE AS A CITY. There is in tho Great Basin, a city of the Saints, that has been built up on a new religious belief. It is beautifully beauti-fully located, and is beyond doubt one of the most picturesque in tho Union. A thousand miles of sandy plains with tedious days of travel must be crossed from the east to arrive at it. For more than twenty years the Mormons made their pilgrimage to tho city in so slow a way, and under so many difficulties difficul-ties that people who were aware of the facts, wondered at their persistence and were surprised at the strength of the faith enabling them to bear up under so many hardships. Their doctrine was reviewed, and newspapers and public speakers were laboring for years to show the fallacy of the doctrines doc-trines promulgated; but it was of no e fleet upon that deluded peonle. They followed in the train and arrived at the haven that the heads of the Church had found in tho wilderness. In poverty and sorrow they eked out an existence sustained by tho faith of the prophet j, and in the hope inspired by them. Years wont on and the few tenfs became be-came houses. An immense building was erected, and a city sprung up. It is splendidly watered, and was from the first, a nucleus, above which many settlements have been made. It lias been settled by other than by Mormons, until within a year past, and since that tiuie it has been tho mining centre of the Territory, and thousands of good mines havo been discovered. Furnaces have been ercotcd, and a population of religious fanatics have had the influences of outsiders brought to baro upon them. That in many cases it may be bad there is no doubt; but the population that have and will arrive there has given the Mormons new and enlarged views. The city is not as exclusive as of old, and the mines are building it up on a diifiVret plan to that heretofore pursued. The rich mines that are now increasing the population will bring capital from the earth. Much money will beproduced. , Salt Lake City will be the Inrgest in the basin, and with the thrift of the people, and its present advantages we expect to see it ono of the most wealthy of the interior cities. Eureka Senti-nal. A Big Steamer. It is said a mammoth mam-moth steamer for the Hudson river is to be completed early next Summer, to be run between Albany and New j York, to compete with the palace cars of the Hudson river railroad. It is intended that the new steamboat shall be five hundred feet long, to be capable capa-ble of making twenty-eight miles per hour, and to average nearly that speed daily. It is proposed that this steamboat steam-boat shall run to New York and return re-turn to Albany in twelve hours, leaving leav-ing Albany in the morniDg and returning re-turning by ten o'clock in the evening. The steamer will be run exclusively for passengers. She will have ail the appointments and accommodations ol , a first-class hotel. "She will be built with a very light draft of water, and with a view to the groatest speed. Ex. |
