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Show the cm of .vuroo. A visit was nude to the c!d-time "jronnou" city on the banks of the Mississippi by a party from the office of UieQuIney, Illinois, Journal Jour-nal oa the 13tb ult, and that paper published a three-column article on the subject on tho 21st.- We extract a few paragraphs which havo been reproduced In several eastern i-Iiers i-Iiers "The Mormon city of Xauvoowas Intelligently laid out. The avenues are broad, and the heavy curbing stone etui protrude In straight lines some ten feet from tho fences. Stumps Indicate where trees wore planted at regular Intervals along the avenuo hading to Smith's mansion. Inside the fences scooped ont places maik tbe cellars cf Mormon buildings that were torn down by the peopio who sueeeeded the routed Mormons. "In Joseph Smith' time the entire penlasnli was covered with buildings. As tbe visitor pauses upon the incline leading to tbe present village of Nau-voo Nau-voo and looks "riverward, a scene cf commanding beauty stretches before him. If he be city -bred, lhe thought that undoubtedly came to Joseph Smith when be first gazed upon this scene will posses bis mind:. What a matrcincent site for a great city for a commercial metropolis ! "Tbe Mormons knew how (o pick a site for a city. Not on the Father of Water is there a site equal to tho ono chosen by Joseph Smith for the city of tbe latter-day Saints. Dubuque Daves port, Jlurlington, Tort Madison, Keokuk, Qulncy, Hannibal, Alton cannot compare with Nauvoo In tbe natural advantage that enhanco the value of a site. "And as tbo meditative observer feasts bis eyes upon the grand scenery, tbe mind is bewildered with thoughts that gallop through tbe brain. Had tb Mormon been let alone what would bare been lhe history of this magnlScent site? Here would havo been a city of 990,00) peopla. Tb Is wide peninsula would be trembling beneath a mfibon iron wheels. Here would have been the manufacturing quarter of tbe chy of Nan veoT On the highlands, high-lands, yonder, would have been long streets and avenues lined with superb reskleriees. 'Salt Lake City would have stood upon the Illinois bink of tho Mississippi Missis-sippi Hirer, where only a sleepy village vil-lage and silent evidences of a deserted city now exist! "This is the fact. Had the followers follow-ers of Joseph Smith been lot alone Salt Lake City. Utah, wonld never have been founded by I hem. Nauioo would have bad a different and less re- gretf ol history. "It Is quits certain that th Inside history of the Mormon's stay In Nau-voo Nau-voo will never bo written. It ought to bs, however, and by a dispassionate mind. The site ol Nauvoo is, to man v, one uf tbe most interesting points in tbe Great Valley, made to by tbe tragic events of tbe Mormons' sojourn in Illinois. Whethar the Mormons did or did not merit tho treatment tbey received at the lime, and the malignity ma-lignity that was heaped upoa tbem afterward, will never be known. Nor will the line where the crimes of tho Gentile blacklegs end and those of tbe persecuted Mormon begin, ever be traced. That the Mormons were a makeshift (or tbo crimes committed by all the thieves, vagabonds and cct-throUsoJlho country adjacent to Nauvoo, is a well known fact. Barring Bar-ring their polygamy, there are waitehalred men and women in Nauvoo today who will tell yeu (bat the Mormons were not so black as they were raided. And these neonln not believer in Mormonbm. After all else has been said, Joseph Smith was a wonderful man and the energy and zeal of his follower was and is something marvelous. "Pletnre of toe Mormon Temple are far sale zlNauvoo. Thepostofflce building is made of tho stones tfcat were taken from (bo ruins of this houso of Mormon worship. On the picture Is printed: The Nauvoo Mormon Mor-mon Temple. Tbe Temple was built of light grey limestone; it was 113 feet long, 83 feet bread, CO feet high, and the top of tbe tower 00 feet. It bad 30 hewn pilasters which cost $3,000 each. Tbe whole cost of the building was 1,W090. The baptismal font, supported by twelve carved cxeu. was In tbe basement story, and with the oxen, was intended to be gilded. Corner Cor-ner atone laid AprdGUi, 1SI1. Burned October 8-9di. 131S. Joseph Smith killed at Carthage, June 27th, ISlt "In the burning of this Temple tbe Mtssuslppt Valley lost a valuable relic Some senseless vandal climbed into tho tower and set it on fire. A -senseless vandal' he may havo been a religious fanatic." |