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Show TfTE.EYMING-NEWS- : satartsy. Discorxarn irrsronicAX, A. SMITH. r.m nun. r... in fAe Sew Tabernacle, Salt Lakt REPORTS!) BY DA.VID W. EVAXS. remarks of Khier J. It. Clawson are ,Uculated to tordblj" tmp" upon our mind the Importance of fulfilling oar cot eoant, which, hu been so often renewed, which was first midd within the walla of the Tetnple at Jfaavoo, that we would n our Influent and propj to vuur utmost powers gather the Saints cuts bondage to a ahItr la the Rocky fountain. This covenant wss Kli,U - In ibat nacred building which hsd coat us so much labor and sacrifice to build, when our prophet and Patriarch had been murdered. uumlmlftof our houses burned, the life of H.err raithrul elder Jeopardized, and when noAtile forces surrounded us on every f SL though we are now urrounded by wr- uuitUiucr so rerr different in their char- ami we, peradventure, can not me urgent necessity Ibr gathering tho :h that necessity, nevertheless , a till ex sint; we ought to remember our cove- and i.ta, oi'lw -- ti. w r, tiianta. We hv done much, yet much remslAe be done, snd I hope that the Elders In who have been privileged to goon mlloii, and those who hare not, will all romemhr and contribute 111 rally of their intMai until all who hare r cored them-".lv- e faithful and true a oioog the nations hall be relieved from bondage and gath ered to inherit the blewlng of freedom in this land. -The wonl that ioUh HMMOoTAmoav JadaS aod Jerusalem. Xhm iNnci olnv ays, la itaball eneaeto "And Ul aaal! b t hM be mountain oftne Lortl'a bo -la tbe tof or tUunl o- above toe bill; ant a'l hil nntolr. maor paoplaaball oand aay. mi re, t mnnuini,u4 itltl 'ud l.t uaaaHeeatanf UId.o rul M4b wti teactt turn U.M1M f IS Qodof J r ni and we wtU wala I n hla u law, and Ibe r ui of Zwn .ball m farm iu- Lor4 wa. il - lh. tremJrttalm. time the covenant I bare referred one another to gather to the lo.- -t hlp we were ItocWy Mountain, was made, unfortuand urroanded by very alngular were in Wo Illinois, nate circumstance. a frn. State, and under a Constitution that tcuMrnttnl u freedom of faith and thought, and, in Uct, every liberty that could be by those who wished to do right. We poo-pi- e, were an Industrious and of this matters chcrscter, being, oa all above ananicion. We were the moat industrious and peraerering cltlxens on the Mississippi rirer, a oar works plainly Oat of m showed to the peascr-bwe a erected a wilderneae had and awimp a crowned city, by magnificent Temple, and turned a wild country Into gardens orchards, farms and pleasure grounds in an incredibly short space of am! tinder vrv adtarta cirenm- titn .Vt the de-ir- td law-abidi- ng y. itUuce. Religious Intolerance had murdered our Prophet and Patriarch, and lighted a flame that had consumed hun- dreds of our dwellings to ashes; many of ,ur bams, grain stacks and fences had also beeti givaa a prey to the devouring element and a great number of our people, scattered around In that region, had to flee into the city for protection, 1 earing their property to the mercy of their persecutors. A convention of delegates, from nine count lee, had framed a decree and formed av resolu Saints must learre tion that the Latter-da- y the State on pain of extermination, Thomas Ford, the Oorernor, through General John J. Hardin and Hon. Stephen A. Douglasa, had informed us that It was for us to be protected In the State under the circumstances. We had previously scut petitions to the Oorernor of erery Stale In the Union, ex-ethe Governor of Missouri; also to eh President Of the United States. Llng for an asylum and protection from lrsecutIon and that our people might be permitted to reside in their States, and enjoy the common rights guaranteed to Amer-W- o citiams by the Constitution. Only ne deigned to send us an answer, that was Arkansas. Oorernor Brew, of that State, advised na to go to Oregon. An arrangement was entered into with the leaders of the mob in Illinois that, on condition that all rexatious lawsuits should l stopped and mob violence and house-bur- n iog cease, we would leave the State, ' but before doing so, ws would, at whatever cost, nnlsa the Temples One of the condition of thia agreement' was that tho lead-- r of tbevanob ahostki aid na in disposing of our immense property. Notwithstanding this it was but a short time before murder and the firebrand were aain resorted to by the mob against us, and the venerable Elder Edmund Durfee im-pnani- ble pt was slain. Others' were 'fired upon and their buildings "and Macks burned. In order that they might carry out their agreement to leave the State the people of Nan-ro- o organised Into companies of a hundred and every hundred, and I may say very fifty, established a wagon shop, and tlmoet every man in the town who knew ajthlag about butchering1 wood commenced the business of wagon making. cren timber, Juat as it was cut In the woods, was boiled in brine and conrert-- d into wagoosv' and thousands of wagons were built in the fall and winter of 1S45-The; Mississippi river waa dosed up, rendering" it impossible to get sll the iron that- waa needed in their construction. All the iron thai could be got in thet-wnof the neighborhood along the river had been bought and used, and the residue of tho wagons mads st that time, instead of having the necessary Iron work. were fixed up with raw bidedekory withes na every other simple invention thai oald posaibly answer the purpose: many ons made the whole Journey, from the lasiaaisptto .this. valley without, iron each, 6. - a . On f thicthof FtbruarVliW ta.Jna the Saints from IUmoIa comxnsnced. ZF W 00 JP1? b f .Xn. Lhs T wiU 45 try it will very soon be Odr.3 ! bn oo-operat-eu w. otxx-yin- g - ft ..-te- country. arouxKi Jtsad purchased., rurnitore wasXefl Jn the 4tS,XMt. eonsfo7r,r rSnSdwSd t7:t::aiw8T Mttr?.Sd a wautest ol. citytwelve and then In tens, and fives and .Vho It, moos :to niJan California the got In they: that old rmUbufialo meat an Iowa the sold lined of bad Tfltho,rattftiqies tho time they got o rmon vacsted hoasc,' aad aux'rneityjiric to tho OorerninVnVoaVoar rrequiflai rraattlatory TjowracttTery. freouently.by would bo two in a, mountains ahra tor. cost.or it had taktn year to aocnmulates-A- s many cPsrhidi had bean forinedmthaicoun. dcsk quauxy; . ou poor . eaons. as; xes incy as could took a few. of their best articles, try were allowed to. remain. As many as keen sppetlto wilt render them palatable. they wouiavrdlfldM smdjxiiaiMr10 feed , only that which was considered. In- - were able fitted thsmselree .up m' well as The band of Providence was ore,ua,for, Doseret i were frequently JT Buperinn..indents who have II t AMot two urousan! wasona poaslblevand we continued on rJourney west- strange as It may seem,during the last hun- peawu mv,pOTernmeat out eux pou wss eaMv- i i crossed the Mississippi river, a large por- ward, As Thexe were was so miles esse animals our where it several posdred in of and a as 14th every the of 41 culties, April, early the to Induce the sible tion of them on the ice. r IT remember, month,r befbro would j brys ifiWBonv startparties a spear of grass grew in that worn out that in the morning,, before they by telling them how quickly r T Indians uict the told Tnd dearly, the feelings thai tlirillodl through country, the ploneer!camp, oonslsting .of ing on their Journey, they had tolo lifted compromise in could fortunes make gold they inTnM my breast, when I turned my little family, President BrighamTToung and' bhe' hun- up and set on their feet; but the whole com- if they would not stop here and quarrel. feeble in health, out of doors Into a bor- - dred and forty-thre- e men and' three wo- pany and all the animals, except those tak en While passin g through the i trials and must which I have recounted the Our la. wagon to commence the Journey to men, started forward, alowly up the Platte by the Indians, reached Winter Quarters in difficulties Latter-da- y Saints attended their meetings, done all Mountains in the midst of an river, our animals subsisting .on the buds safety, and were recruited up and ready for observed their s Kocky and contributed happiness is sucn. inclement winter. Such feelings as. we and bark of the cotton wood trees and the the return Journey by the following Spring. their offerings to the poor, and as early ss whites. L a good way Stobedtuated Tnrftana have then experienced it is . impossible to to grain that we carried along with us. ' We On our way. down we passed six hundred 1849, the first year- after their arrival here the scarcity c U that tne in which they were able to control means, settlements hi hide to or the must describe; took a route that had nevsr'beex'travelsd wagons en route for this place; wo mot the they in fulfilment of their covenant to help apsrt.th.resulo: drcurtances sgine be passed through to understand them. before. .The .Oregon emigrants and' the first party at Green River and tho last at to gather those left behind, placed at the fair range betwet 1 t bnnt Places of the presiding' bishop, Edward in the mountains. We paseed over the river to the opposite mountain trappers had always' travsled the South Pas. They reached here that disposal dollars thousand five Xerxes in -- 7?trierto Great the . s with blufX; and took a farewell view of our bean the sooth side of the Platte rirer, but we fall and lived in the fort that winter, en- Hunter,'to return to the States, togold " TTTna of this be used out of these mounts! which" tlfui dty. (It was liks a dty of retired tnado a road. on the north aids for upwards larging it by enclosing . about thirty acres for emifixatins: those who needed assistance. being innumerable. country-seatdrtakW " ',. ... There were hundreds of bean-Uf-ul of six hundred miles, until ws reached mot land.'. through U. , there, perhaps, who hunt Indian, OiUli There were some wUl oou soonbe ,f Ttb?Te? not tho flour raise could Territory a but had team, gardena and magnificent buildings; Laramie; then we crossed over to the south There were both Ute and Shoshone Indifor the journey; anotner oouia very dimcultJf not a useU the centre crowned with a majestic Tem- side of the North Fork snd traveled for ans in the mountains, and they were said tnwfr if he hsd an oxx another could start if TnepoUcyoftheLegialai"1 ple, radiant with all the beauty of architec- three or four hundred miles on the old to be hostile; it waa our policy, from the Eo could only get the Iron to put the tires ritory has been one of econoL wKms tTlf the Territory into tural taste and skin, and which had cost us trappers' trail, mending and improving the start, to place ourselves in a state of pro- on his wagon," snd in this way the bishop thanVt salaries or none at all, oa fo organ-- it was enabled with tms small sum or money nearly a million dollars. We bade farewell same, where necessary, as we went along. tection and sitfetyso far as they were was necessary. ...Cj aid to hundreds. the to extend of absolutely. necessary to all, and 'pursued our Journey. About The plains for hundreds of miles, were and then by a course of Justice and The manner in wmcn we xormea our bors in Nevada as soon as they we e jjg. increased the as fifty miles took us beyond the laat aeCUew covered with, v buffalo, snd so numerous uprightness to maintain, friendly relatione companies was particularly characteristic ized a Territory hth wnen a company wss xormea, constating their Judges snd of the members ot t. ment into the wilderness portion of Iowa, were these animals that we often had a with them. s so waa inspected by a gislature ana commenoed imposing it of wagons, say, fifty without roads or bridges, a Journey ol un- difficulty in keeping our animals from On leaving the Missouri river, it was con- committee who would see that each wagon taxes; the result was that they becam . . known length before us and apparently no running oil in their herds. We were also sidered necessary for every man to take was provided with tho required outfit. A involved in debt that it is ssid they mi I hundred pounds of breadstuff for blacksmith snd such other mechanics ss an effort two years ago te get Utah attach ev possibility of obtaining the necessaries of surrounded at times with Immense bands three each one of hla family; also his seed grain were deemed necessary formed part of each to Nevada for Utah to neip to pay their life. During the .Spring, which seemed to of Indians, who manifested a disposition and implements of husbandry, and arms and when folly organized they debt. We took a different coarse: after de be the most rainy, stormy and inclement I anything but kindly; but our organization and ammunition for the Journey. It waa company, of thegovernment, moved out Dy tens, in fraying the realexpenses the publlo money was devoted tofsblie so aspositions understanding, among our people, that the line, from time to cnanging to all time, ever knew, the sufferings of the camp were was so complete that we were able to pro- the give man should start with less; but a great an equal chance of the road. At night they improvements, such as the conrr It ion intense. We sustained our animals with tect ourselves. When we reached Bridger no manv of the Mississippi company, portions formed corrals, sent out watches to guard of bridges, opening ot roads int iXJ val grain that we carried with oa and with the we struck off for the. lake. We had no of the battalion, and some others came in the cattle and to restrain any. who might leys and deveioping the interests and in You could be so bnnh that we could obtain "along the guide on the Journey. Rrigham Young here almost without provisions. from wandering about, so tercourse of our extending settlements; anci Of the fort in the that nodisposed,was ever out turn aee the people every fiscal year, when lost, and very few st the end of almost streaos; occasionally we sent down to the was our pilot and Ood was our guide, and morning and go over these hills snd with cattle. person sr surpimr nave Deen accounts seems the to almost incredible tell It northern eettleraents of Missouri and , and we were determined to find a place some- their littie sticks or spades dig the sego and of the safe manner in which they traveled ha 4 been left on hand. ciosea, Our county email supplies. In this way we where on tho face of the earth that nobody thistle roots, or anything and; everything through this strict- organization; while dty governments have pursued the same tne inquiry were to be traveled alowly alona; westward,. making would covet. We had made fine farms, that the wild Indians could subsist upon.re- other companies of emigrants were subject policy, and,to-asy,- ir There was a I retty general feeling of to losses' and dangers, many of them wan made, it would be found that their paper. the roads as we went along. I think we handsome houses and beautiful improvenever heard of again, in every instance, is worth as mochas the off joicing among our enemies in the States bridged among them ments five different times and had been who had driven us away, that we had dering ( f ;V 'f all these camps of the Saints nothing of national currency. .1 in aC was there where Into the the forks of the '.Grand, rtrcr, the t Locust, driven from thorn has her. mountains, Thus Utah finances. was. got tho ever. Known. managed kind Meetings intolethrough religious of us perishing, for. they were held Sabbath day; Saturdays and ir our countrymen ahould seo proper the Madison: the Hundred the rance; this time we were determined to every likelihood under the straitened circum- were usuallyevery that, to washing, repairing to admit us into the Union as a State, and - ' devoted expected Nodaway and the IHahnebatona, which re get so far away and into such an inhospitable stances in which we ahould be placed, we wagons, ana every userui vocation thereby give us the privileges that are our should break up and perish. However our that could Ea, quired conaiderable labor. . Our teams were desert that none would covet it followed on the route under Just due, having penetrated into and re be was complete, and the .division the circumstances was so weak that we were frequently compelled in. The claimed this desert country ana rounded a The labor in making a road from Bridger organization of breadstuff and other provisions was car- moment a camp stopped engaged some would be State, we ahould never trouble them so to double, that la, we took a few wagons here was very great; and while performing ried on to the nicest extent. A very large mending shoes; the blacksmith would tar as our expenses are concerned, for we two or three milea wi tlx double trams, when, this we were city was put under culti- put up hla bellows and go to work at his are able to sustain ourselves and nay our that the day was field eouth ofathis fence eleven miles long, the trade: knitting and sewinsr snd even weav way with for a not far distantanticipating unhitching them, we would-returvation, our and economy. In when a railroad would be mountains on one side snd the fence on the ing were all carried on, and in this way the fact, itbyis veryindustry few more and so continued until all were in constructed over we have ever rethat little the whole route. During The streams wi re turned from their feeling of which the Oregon people com- ceived. When the army under Gen. Johncamp. ,In this manner we worked oar wsy our Journey we located a route for it, and other. beds into different parts of this field, and was not manifested. X was told by son came here they paid twenty-eig- ht dol through the wilderness portion of Iowa the railroad now completed, in many parts. there seemed to be some prospects of a crop. plained cents ror their flour; ft portion no wo a man or man and lars from that fifty Oregon uatn we reached Council BlofX which Was has But myriads of great, black crickets, with man could cross these plains without being of it was brought from the States, out the adopted our trail, snd would have dono voracious came down from the about the last of Jane or early in July. of it was purchased by their orutauzea; Dut tneorxact ia, id relation to us, greater portion much better to have followed us in many mountains appetites, the growing crops, tnat devoured and our of traders enects tne cultivated people here at about five we numanity, reached the Missouri rirer, st other hen snd tens of thousands of young nursery of peace, order snd harmony existed tfn dollars a hundred. That war, however, I in parts. the place where the dty of. Omaha how hsd been planted and were camp of the Saints as much as in any set being a contractors' war, and aimed more When wo arrived on this spot, om July trees, which The brethren fought tlement in the world. do to we at the United States Treasury, ' ' a built promising stands, ferry boat and had ferried 2Uh, ISC, the ground was dry and barren; these foes with well. particularly device. every imaginable The irrigation system, which we have where it was eminently successful, is Only over a few hundred wagons, when we were there were no snd turned the water into been trees, and scarcely the least They cut ditches that to adopt, here, renders to be remembered aa one. of the blots oic viaited by Captain James Allan, a United would stop their pro- email compelled a necessity. I know the face of a nation which suffered itself to ' of any kind of vegetation. The ground them, thinking tracts land of sign but the crickets were smart enough that I fdt quite indignant States officer, with a requisition upon us for was covered the National be plundered by scoundrels. with large black crickets, gress; cross a would consider Government when she gaveatsuch to cross them. they immense We are here, and we rejoice in the truth. five hundred men to raaWatn our country's which had eaten and they devoured everything tracts of land to the people of Oregon little what able stream, vegetation up for Travel wherever you please through our nag in the war against Mexico. They were had; grown in the seemed ss if the colony a before them, and itwaa were There which is five that times spring. cities, towns and settlements and you will country, settling out of provi- better than oars, snd she would not required to march, aa infantry, by way of few willows alone: the edires of the creek. must perish, for it nearly find order, industry snd happiness. Almost give was was little and what growing Santa Jfe.. These men were mustered into but the sions, nave come con us to all the inhabitants are working their own. i. since the anything, l was not a rod wide. being devoured. After sll efforts to destroy dusion that that was effected vegetation overthe land claims; this is the case almost without service on the 18th of July and marched to by had guided us here. these pests had been baffled and pronounc- ruling Providence of the Almighty. Providenoe, however, A man has scarcely been here we If exception. Leavenworth, a distance of about 180 miles. During tho troubles and sorrowa that had ed hopeless, God, in Ills mercy, sent gulls had had immense tracts of land donated to more than one or two years until he has a There they received the arms and accoutre- surrounded the and they devoured them. It. waa regarded us by settling on them we ahould have home of'hts own. We 'iratbertmr people President Saints, Young by the people as a dispensation of Provi- been exposed to Indians, and should have from every part of the United States ments of Infantry, and soon after continued had a snd out to these this him vision, opening spot, dence; and, aingularly enough, gulls nations to ear of the other tracts. To and been unable fromthe these h Irrigate their Journey. Before doing so, however, and when he reached it, pointing to Ensign nave not viaited us since, or but very few irrigate a tract of land men have to com bring them here to make them useful in all who were not considered in every way On that occasion, however, they bine to construct the water ditches, snd developing the desert. It is ssid that a Peak, said he, MI want to stay here.' He of them. the crickets.. They would eat dams: sometimes a hundred are necessary. man who makes two spears of grass to grow competent for the Journey were sent back; also told the brethren that they might ex- destroyed and until then, vomiting them, they sometimes fifty may do it, and sometimes where only one grew, before, is a public K filled, the battalion continued their Journey, over would eat airain. and so continued until the in but plore direction, every country or five hundred are required, accord benefactor. The Latter-da- y Saints, by the a route of about 1,S50 miles through an un cleared the Gaidar "The crick- four entirely come would all which they God back haa and to this location condition and the ins of the say power spot they them, Jutvo. given, made their appearance land, and under no drenm standee, here, made what yom see in this ets nave sometimes known desert, to San Diego. I presume was the best. for six country, since In the that crops and places All-thInjured t one miles north south. attend and can to hundred without wealth hire that the history of nations might be searched man, so We built a dam and turned out the City time, but never to great an extent. tract.-thaand the results a to of the in other improvements, 'irrigation intgrieulx in vain for a parallel to this march of infan Creek and planted along its sides a few Not understanding the method of irriga parts of this country would be considered ture and mechanism have been produced wheat was sown that the of much the such under tion, adverse circumstances. try Saints where nothing wss moderate sized farm. Under these cir by the Latter-da- y and other things; but beyond a first had to be pulled by hand; the acumstances These men were sometimes on. balfj rations, potatoes desolation sod alkali before wild a our but farmers of sage, great portion few of the potatoes, which grew to be about strawyear was so short that it could not be cut. cultivate now acres Fruits to . here that at one ana sometimes on oj&srter rations, and oc- the size of of five grow Jrom plains. twenty our cultivation the It ripe nod unevenly too, owing to Improper lana: tmsonly chestnuts, never dreamed wno time of; the climate tne is many ruie. cultivate xney without tnese oimcuiues were over- more are tho casionally au any: and the blessing as severe awfailarsw We xaVadltch watering, so not is in this formerly; tho rains way exoeptidnsand as the system of irrigation, which of the Almighty, were as apparent to many from the hundreds of, springs,, ly to ourbe block to where the 6th come, wottfll and can; increasing; Temple only, bad to be learned by experience, became water of them in their preservation, and as won- Wardnorf is, .and turned, thaxwhols crseVjLhetter made their of have, appearance in tho protect ourselves irozn ins xnoians. understood. our are extending settlements In 1850, rswsftd an as the Children September, the Congress desert; of to derful, preservation into it, but the ground, was so dry that many to realize- set organizing Utah into a la may seem strangetree snd southern the and deserts, through exTerritory, of Israel by showers of manna when In the tonJctwo not ' now, every busn, - miles ox three) foe the water, to settle lnat,even smallest next aeason tney sent us a oaten or om reaching three huudred and fifty-already currant or gooseberry tne the wilderness on theirjourney from.Egypt.to the soU so that it days oeptlns cera. Mr. Visit Fillmore Briirham the St. of appointed water-coursoutherly. would run that distance. bush; hare their little ditch or George it dry aa this but quite ss the Holy Land. dty, , Somo of tho brethren got long faces over It, from which they draw their moisture and Young, Governor, he having led the people is not so large hither and having been Governor of Deseret: handsome, with good improvements, with" Up to the period that this battalion left It and said 44 ws shall never be able to irrigate support. officerswith the exception ofa smiling vineyards and cotton fields, where The second year ef the settlement here, the rest ofthetninic. had been the intention to puahr forward to were ' appointed East. not long since no man would hare thought man a Not seen ever had l irrigatlen the numbers were Increased by the arrival marshal, the Rocky Mountains, a company having here!, most came of them, opened their anything could have been produced at all. here done or knew about it. But of a thousand wagons, and by that time it They looted as tne aeserts and were dis For these results we thank God and pray been sent across the river for that purpose. while we. had allanything eyes, to have some system the disadvantages of s began to be necessary a portion Sim to continue them. To our friends who. could From what learn I gusted. to established. that But as it waa then late in the season, and sterile desert to contend of Up sent to been with and over timegovernment out visit us we asy, You are welcome to our them them of .had get man had done about what was of the every the camp was badly crippled by the loss of come, wo rejoiced as were troublesome. way, country, only tell the truth about us when they greatly oyer tho fact that right in hla own eyes. Of course, there When a. here raised howl. you go away." This Is all tho favor we got they so many effldont msn, it was considered there was no mob to disturb us, tho only were regulations existing amongst us, but they this were class Judges Brochus and aik. Of course when mercenary men are little time or thought was devoted to Among absolutely nsosas ajy to remain on the Mia denizens of the country, besides ourselves, very in the pay of newspapers theymnat and Write ' Secretary Harris. on Brandeberry They them. The representatives of the people raised fa popular; and It is 'not-- , pontnar So souri during that winter. A town site waa beings few naked Indiana, who seemed came what tremendous s the howl, calling s convention of in delegates, together to send five hundred men to asy much that is creditable about the TjsV 1 surveyed, which we called Winter Quar- inclined to steal, the mountain croat and snd organised what was called the provi-lon- Government y Sainsv We ask, however, that the the Mormons. J Harriahad brought ters, now known as Florence, Nebraska grizzly boar. government of tho State of Deseret. destroy to pay the Legislature, , but ho took wisdom of the Almighty may rest upon the money There seven hundred log cabins werecroo-te- d We laid out and surveyed a fort, and com that is, outside settlements had been formed it back with him. What he did with it I do rulers of our country, that they may realwhat we are and, what we mean to be; and one hundred and fifty dng-ctamenced bufldingwith logs from Red Bute In Davis county, a amau one in weDer not know; but he did not pay the Legists-latu- ize and that there are no hundred and fifty and met, however, we called them, were made, that is a cabin Canon, To organized They one in Utah another county. the Territorial government, and have held thousand citizens of the United States out timber from the canons, county, and get wao . half under ground. On the opposite sido was tho work of great difficulty and labor; We had brought the flag of the United nnnal sessions ever aince, and so strictly havo rendered more service totheic ootrn-J and had raised it while this in accordance with the we to of the river cami werefbrmodln probably oTCn'now, after years of labor In making States with us, than have, of Justice by helping' 'develop principles try oountryjwss Mexican territory. We adopt that, tho Congress of this desert, put up; the telejrisph line. twenty different localities on the Pottawat- roads and bridges, every man who, fetches ed a Constitution, repuoiicau in iorm, ana have they legislated four hundred miles of the Pacific States has its power to exercised tho United to Washington to .ask tamie lands, the settlements then formed lombsr from these canons for it richly sent our delegates and extendTmr our 'ttttnztitTxd course one of and their pays act, only disapprove as a tate. u naer on that occasion was into tne union having aince grown to be the towns and in hard labor; but the toil and trouble re admission an act of through these' mountains. 'The protection persecuconstitution, we organized the execu- tion to the Lstter-da- y onlySaints. This our police regulations have of a is vigilance villages of the present, day." Great quanti quisite now are nothing in comparison to our departments of record of which any Territory may. be been suah that there' tive, legislative and Judicial hss;been safety since1 ties of prairie hay were cut, but most of then. We built a The people elected a of our fort a citato government. and been we for hundreds ;of have andV large portion of A that here, believe, I act, portion proud. members of ; tho tho animals wore driven up the Missouri with adobics or sundriod brick. Somo of governor, J ad res, our miles no or benevolent through , that strangers,', Territory, religious the Tlattor convened and organ-ia- provides River snd wintered on the rush bottoms. our legislature; . the Territories of the United while traveling, experience ss much, proin institution carwent to Feska Twin the and counties and precincts, incorporated States shall own over in the streets of Xew Ybrk dtyt wltn some loss. The people were under ried party fifty thousand dol tection asalso a barometer with them to ascertain otties.enscted civil aod criminal ood ea,which lars' furnished a rxragazloe of sup-have We not do of Nowl worth suppose y. erri-torproperty. the necessity of obtaining their supplies their , height. Some .of our friends who atill form tne pasta 01 uie jsws or tne j ' means of which the gold fields pf, Tabernacle thia be in could ' The the that plies by organ in some built for a hundred thousand may arise from Missouri, 'exchanging for them their visit us now at this season of the Territories .have.been the all snd adjoining dollar, our we year, and minds "Howquestion officers?" did ). could face be in the the on of earth the what opened."'' trinkets, Jewelry, bedding and the most seo tho snow on thoso Peaks feel a desire to Wo acted upon tho support of retrench-men- t. brains of men to prfndplo to text relation the in will I read I say do legislate in thia way I valuable artides ther had bronn-h- with visit than. It is much more easy to do it governor had no salary: 'the not know. But such the that The at the 'mission commencement, a was the act, portion aries of this them from Nanvoo. Missouri at that time now than then, but to do it now with any had no salary; the members of the of which was aimed expressly and entirely people are abroad in the earth, Iudges no served all hsd salary; they are flowing to. 7inn,sooord, nationa was about as Interesting to"pur people as degree of comfort Latter-da- y the and as wears far So Saints. stthe would need a u uiwwuukti or w they uo KratUltOUSiy, to the words of the prophet, "and it we to little have however, ing very Egypt was j andsntlr tor Jsoobt, there twai and if they should happen to land in sod they did as much deliberative work ss concerned, come to shall men in the last days 'that the of. who of the have pass Many complain A corn and pork In1 Missouri." Many of the some of tho hollows up there they might was necessary. Tho General Assembly of been sent here and paid by the Government mountain of the Lord's house shall hj fes that rule member a. any adopted; teams were engaged through the winter in find it rather, difficult to get sway again. I Deseret tablished in the officers to the as of have become act undertaken to tops mountains, and who was not punctual in attendance ahould ' and newspaper exalted above the hills and all nationa il supplying; the camp with previsions, which think the reading of the barometer showed be fined; the fund thus raised was expend- book' makers have invented lies and all kinds flow unto it." This is the text. .You can had been rendered very destitute by the that they were 11,800 feet above the level of ed in furnishing wood, candles and brooms; of find probably thirty different languages in reports and sent them toback, in order to this member furnished his own stationery. induce men send Journey ofthe spring snd summer. A thou the sea; we, here, are aboat i,SO0 feet above each Government the here congregation; and educated men from A tax was assessed and enough thereof to mv One Judge of this class, by almost every country are scattered throughsand acres of land had been put under cul leveL destroy used to keep up the public records, the the and his associate, out the Territory.- Although, as a rneral tivation at two points-whersettlements After our company had remained here d rind oa! amount was expended 1n devel sentname ofasDrummond, since have I here, learned, con thing, we gather tho poor, we also vgathtr were Two the bridges country. had, been formed, to sustain thorn through about a month it was deemed necessary for oping inmen to men were troublesome of talent, education and skill. We of they soruaa wo vruu incr. uj wa tho winter) ono oT these places ' was called a portion to go back to our families on the structed also fluence, went back with reports and suc- have somo of the best mechanics in the Deseret v government; bridges were Garden Grove, and waa on' the east fork of Missouri IUver, and one parry started out built across the Provo, Weber and Ogden ceeded ein Inducing the Government to send- world, prepared to engage in any branch hundred infantry, two reel- of business that 'can be named. May the Grand IUver; tho other, on tho wast fork with oxen and the other with horses. I rivers;' and toads - tnrsngu tne mountains twenty-fivox. men ta. and. two batteries of blessings of Israel's God be upon yon. We estate cavalry, are tne duiii xney would aay; however, that during thia pe- were constructeo. of tho SAme rtrcry was caHod TIjji.-Whe-n . to us, the now but, by some means say to our friends who visit us, God bless artillery destroy by occupied University, or to return and we reachod.tho jMisaocri "tvet IT, was too riod the Pioneer, Company had .been in- House, before snd minds their you preserve as you, a other, they "changed' saftly legislative hall. and occupied it lives wsre your homes and families and give your Joy a vast numoer 01 people theyreaehed the dty, andf our anyottua .xbe way or; cmuva-- creased by the arrival of one hundred and In tne year ia;q " and rejoicing in your Journey, which we e rxnete for California, spared. serrsntv-fiv- e. threugh here, indudlnsr a company of passed There have been times, since our settle- ask in Jesus' name. Amen. for batslllon that In of search which of gold; We had barely got our csLaa finished in Saint fromjlhq Btato of Mississippi and the X have spoken, had found, while there, the ment here that we have had to exercise our to the utmost to protect our settlewinter Quarters when a very , important invalid portion of tho Mormon battalion, precious mstaL and nearly all the world powers thelndlsnsVfhe emigrants, passfrom ments It.. believe that I honestly TTOCXD TtTi SATEt crazy after personage,. daiming to be. an fOcer, of he who had been left on the Arkansas; these ran to Caliibrnia, would frequent- TIHi; mad HOXET have ing would through. of thousands persons the utterly bains in in every by family Territory United Stales, t came Into our 'csunp1 and arrivals had increased our numbers, mak commit outrages upon them. So far as on the Plains ifit had notion for ly CTJSTXS perished set a PZU5 of of the complete hundred wo were our four about of concerned relations' us" a us treated to thatSre ing ordered us all lesre, telling population the assistance and supplies received r while tho Indians with Justice and 2XO enable H will the DXXS; SIC posses they kindness, and sor to eat were on the Indian lands, and we must souls. Of that number ono hundred and passing through our settlements, They- did not seek. for their fashionable carmen t of every but style blood; knowwithout across continent tho parties started to order States to in back the get trot of Uvway. We told him of the fifrv atarted along would think it an amuse- worn by gentlemen, ladles and children, boss ln? now to provlas themselves with an passing thoir-fiT- n ATho Indians Sioux files ment to shoot an Indian aquaw, or to rob to tnaure a perfect fit. They are very annuls tiring had the War made requisiUon Department outSt.! Hun dreds and thousands of them were we and of her her of horsesjor something of this kind; and persons from 11 years old can Issrn'Jn svfew a stole ana unhorses teas almost portion naica.were and then tho have rsachod city upon us, which ws bad answered, and that Indians would come along, hours, to cut Ooata, rants. Vests, J2resses snd most of return the and to tare foot, though perform In oonsoquence it was Impossible for txs to compelled to and the wrongs done. to them at" CloaJta in all toe fashionable st lea of ladles avenge game for snd so saved thdr lrves.The Journey across tack some lone settler or workman in a snd shlldreoa'srear. In the 6tatej Fairs inOal-tfbro- ia journey on foot, depending, upon proceed on our Journey. He put on a noes Cimamsta ' threatened us wltb our subsistence, snd having no horses was s of, this character and kanyosw, at eo&tr that tXiri Plains time, the ttif jery trying Uiey hsvs taken the first prsmmm. have caused some and entailed to had of the to benis Muorxnons't butEaloywe took it good yrri one, pretty at rafsrences in the sttjrsJa-sflfantrWashington, a ean troops, The Department, amount of expense upon tho peoCesii ef old blb,whlch U mil perform It without ouarrtllng; gentiles heavy llrTcs 19 Parties bo for deajrosar. of cf these la Utter given, i:;3. la wtwfra tuca thiir'coa-paniea ple, It, Ihocht ccssaqueaca teas cfctotlsg Umscis, do IL' llssf.ct s tiicss, a xrzr casncl with the fxeijeandoso try ciZJlrj cn ltrs. Jca. tov-,or , but' as thsao obtained trero eoi3l4 hardly csLzzi soon Call, would after, permitted to remain tor that season. j starting. quarrsl caused much troubls, tho sst- - 17th Ward In this' city, who ls'ths Ssle Ageavt : est la In.-- . there was . Utile nd sT company" that atarted 'a hundred Ute-?XaxXyiXn.UiS' rpring or ;st sxrsn3meats cuiod to .gather up and or the Territory. kw Asrs'mis Vsaitsd. asens crcuuy. AJ37: .a wao stronz. wTruldtUrUs into frits pr thirties, ueiiU3,ijcs wxre raxd$ for the prosecution of our grs.i-is- j i 4 1st rth .old. aa'th.'oS fast-day- - . SInUe.J -- ' JZi , s. Jl0?JilS . h-s- mall con-corne- d, f . ob-talc- ed - and-wer- e abont-thlrry.strDam- and-Tw- o. n T -- , -- -- - . e t ap-pe- ar land-proper- : se . . . - . al ter-da- m. as : - , , wi 51 - - , t ' bsl-loo- n,' - penny-a-linera- nd - - e bo-cau- se -- -- -- -- -- to-ci-o i pos-sessk- m , . nx-suppl- ies ar--Tir- euit-abTnoch- aae Na-mero- os - j 1 y :r.---"1 , - It t J i- -i n n IQi :t Kim. - iv - |