| Show merchants and monetary affairs for several months past mercantile business has been considerably on the decline in in this city and merchants transient traders 9 speculators gamblers and others who are generally about when and wherever mo money ney is is plenty and business active have been going away one after another till their numbers are greatly reduced and comparatively speaking there are few of them now seen in the streets or elsewhere about the city hotels 1 Ta taverns terns boarding I 1 trading rading 17 establishments commission houses Groceries Liquor sh many other catchpenny concerns have been closing I 1 up for want of patronage or their proprietors having 0 foreseen what was in the future have sold out or closed up before it was too late to wind up their business without great pecuniary loss among the most prominent boarding and batin eating establishments that have been compelled by the force of circumstances to discontinue business is that popular restaurant the globe which on monday last once more ceased to revolve the proprietor mr candland well known as an accomplished and genteel restaurateur who always takes delight dolight g in administering to the wants of his guests whenever it will pay wisely concluding in 0 that a business that was not reasonably remunerative had better be abandoned than kept up with few exceptions the hotels and other kindred establishments in this territory and more particularly in this city have hitherto received most of their patronage from that transient and mobile class of people who come and go like birds of passage arriving 0 in the spring or summer and d departing ep arting in the fall br or before it is too cold to continue contin ue their journey or retrace the way by which they came in safety last winter owing to the presence of a small portion of army in the territory was an exception and some business men and many gamblers and speculators were induced to remain here in in hopes ho P es of reaping a rich pecuniary harvest which with the hosts of missionaries that came out to civilize and moralize mora ilzo lizo the mor mons greatly increased the population of this city during 0 tho the winter and till late in the summer how much the hotel and restaurant keepers were benefited by their sojourn never has been reported but one thing is certain the treasury of this county was thereby greatly depleted diany many of those who have left this fall probably never intend to return unless sume a different shape from what is now expected and another mighty efort effort is made to subdue the peaceful citizens of this territory where as some of those who have been here reported on their return to the east no white man would dwell if the mormons cormons should leave it itt if another enormous amount of money cou could id be appropriated and expended to gratify I 1 those who are constantly howling 0 about the crimes and abominations abominate 1 ons committed and practised practiced by the people 0 of utah for the sole purpose of inducing 1 I the government to make maki further appropriations for the benefit of speculators gators and gamblers some of those who have migrated lately would unquestionably return in order to secure a share in the spoil ilsa lisa a greater one if possible poss ibie ible than they obtained before but bat there will surely be no sorrowing 0 if their faces are seen no more in the 11 valley alley aliey ailey of the great salt silt lake most of the mr merchants chants and some few others when they went away expected to return next sp they went on business connected with their own or other mercantile firms some of them will doubtless visit washington during durin a the winter to assist in raising 0 the wind 1 but the 0 greater reater part of these adventurers and traders have gone if reports are true to obtain an extension not of any of the rail roads that have been commenced running 0 wes westward from the missouri nor of any mail facilities nor telegraphic line but of their credit which is a matter of no secondary consideration in these scarce times for money with men who have purchased goods in the eastern cities for the utah market without paying payin for them orits or its equivalent at the time such will naturally be governed by circumstances they may return to this country and they may no not but wb whether ether they come or stay it will make but little difference with matters and things here their presence will make no one rich and their absence cannot decrease the wealth af t any permanent resident of the territory the result of the utah difficulties or mormon war bumbu humbug has been quite different dif dlf derent Terent from what some of those who assisted in its creation anticipated some few of the government pets have made princely fortunes a few of the host of gamblers that followed in the wake may have heaped up a little shining 0 treasure won from each other from merchants and the officers of the army and some of the speculators may also have made a small raise J but where is it now or where will it be by the time the farce is ended many groans of despair have been uttered already and and the reaction has but just commenced by the time the receding receding 0 ball is fairly in motion there wilf be greater consternation among some of those who were instrumental in bringing about the late difficulties and amon among those who have been engaged in specula speculating speculation tin 0 at the expense of others and trying by every means in their power to keep up the excitement in order to further their diabolical designs than has been witnessed as yet and when the measure that has been meted out by them to those whom they wished to destroy shall have been fully measured back they will probably no not exult much over the spoils they have gathered nor greatly rejoice at the success of the scheme that was concocted to enrich them at the expense of the mormons cormons Mor mons we are not particularly sorry to see those who have resided here for years quitting 0 the speculating and as they believed money making schemes which they entered into on the arrival of the army and its followers in the territory and resuming their former avocations no doubt most of them are satisfied with the result of the course they have pursued whether they have made anything by their 0 operations pe rations or not and will willingly C betake themselves to the agricultural mechanical or other pursuits which they left for the purpose of trafficking and trading with their avowed enemies inmost in most instances because some of them had a little gold since the mercantile business in the city has been on the decline and many of the sojourners have left there has beell been less less shooting 0 and we wish it could be said in truth less horse stealing 0 going 0 on than there was before and ard there is a fair prospect that ere long 0 peace and quietude will again resume their former dominion throughout 0 state of things more to bs be desired than treasures of gold and silver or any pleasure that such wealth ca can n bestow |
