Show PRESIDENT E 1 B YOUNGS SOUTH r id A IlEk liea beaver vim beaver co april ED N NEWS E WS we left you n a great hurry at beaver the ther company having started and we scribbling in the carriage ra 1 c we have since made dixie a and ng our return to this point 1 miles travel and held 14 meetings which have been crowded with attentive congregations gregat ions Z A general coolness exists against the longer acquaintance with those expensive luxuries tea coffee tobacco and whisky a coolness which we believe will vill be permanent bei bej and based on reason not the spirit of an excitable reformation or sudden resolve needing needam to be treated to stimulate its strength our arrival in dixie was sensibly realized by us as we passed down the black hill and caught sight of TOKER in the distance green and beautiful in its full summer verdure a very oasis nestling under the brow of the rocks and ano an encircled by san sand band dand and bar reness on every side we arrived here about 5 pm and held meetings thede the developments are tinder under the circumstances marvelous brick buildings are erected and others in course of erection several gardens are worthy of note and bear comparison with those of old settled towns the growth of trees from seed surpasses all experience of your friends in br augustus dodges dodgers garden we measured the years shoot of a fig tree at lit ten feet and felt our mouths water as we saw the almond tree loaded under its fruit and passed under bending ng boughs of half grown apricots and peaches eaches and heard the catalogue of his imported apples the trees now yielding fieldin g to the weight of their promise br dodge presented us with a choice boquet bequet from his floral beauties beau ties and showed us a sample of home ugar sugar from china cane cultivated on hi 4 place we rolled i out on the morning of the ad for which i Is s 18 miles distant and strived there to dinner and spent a chiw few happy hours in visiting with old frien friends ds here also are flourishing nourishing gardens gardei is orchard orchards and vineyards jn a the evening we moved on to ST tr GEORGE di distant stan sian chit elit G miles lies lles our first view of it warmed to lively emotions every love of the beautiful and actual observation reversed the poesy which makes distance lend enchantment to the view the city is beautifully bald out sloping from the blunn bluff east and south our arrival was warmly greeted by a large number of the citizens who were assembled at president E snows and j never we think was a company sooner quartered bartered uart ered than ours and what rendered t the ge reception doubly dear was the pleasure beaming faces of old and well tried friends A great proportion of dixie people are old standard members of the church and formerly residents of great salt lake laue city and after all that has been said mid can we be believed when we state that the people here are contented happy and victorious that they do not sigh for the leeks of great salt lake valley its kanyon hanyon kan han its snows its regenerators 0 or its ion lon long iong drem dren dreary drears dormant winters but cheerfully y each exchange V them all ali for their own sunny south I 1 with ath its spring aprim like ilke winters its lus ius luscious eidus eldus fig figs almonds almondi I 1 peaches grapes nectarines necta rines j apricots ac ac its cotton cane salt sweet potatoes ac ac ac and and I 1 its ts wine wing which in two years time promises to be plentiful enough to supply the entire elane territory and will this year go far towards H we tasted some pure wine made from thet thel sabella at it br W E dodges it kurp surpasses asses ahtes any sample we evel even ever tried we went over his garden gaiden orchard and vineyard and it seemed a paradise minus the forbidden tree we gere were ire shown 25 varieties of pears many loaded with fruit quinces figs many varieties of plums peaches and apricots in abundance br dodge has an extensive vineyard I 1 jn in bearl bearing beaning ng he showed us one arbon arbor j that last year was covered with a ton tolf of fruit which I 1 am told he held in me truse trust for his jess fortunate neigh neighbors bork bora we count counted pd we think twelve barrels to wine vine in hib his hoube house cellar his floral 1 department isnow blooming with choice i varieties Tarlet les ies of imported roses other flowers I 1 and shrubbery our old friend joseph i E johnson Is luxuriating amidst fruits I 1 and flowers his is the most tastefully I 1 arranged garden we ire have seen sean we tried trieb his straw strawberries berries and luscious hardly expresses their flavor we received a boquet bequet from his beautiful daughters which would w 0 u ad be Q vied for by the flower loving ladies of any land the buildings of st george are aro of a superior kind and built to last of stone and brick tastefully designed roomy and airy among the best dwellings are those these of D D meart McArt mcarthur hud huf J birch pres E snow jesse crosby B R bentley J gates and many more that thit we do not know the owners of conference CONTE hence KENCE on saturday the fth the conference opened at at 10 am A large concourse of people assembled many being present from the surrounding towns and cities in gazing on the assembly we felt to be much nearer knowing all present than we should be ina lna in a bowery meeting at great salt lake city we were favored with mus musie music lc from three choirs not the least interesting was that of our swiss friends who discoursed sweet melody in their own native tongue pres snow led off the first hymn with one choir and we have seldom witnessed the realization of a patriarch father much more fully than in him and his course he is universally beloved and universally useful kind and self sacrificing our old friend chan charley came in with his choir as another reminiscence 0 bour our home further north the discourses through the lay day were impressive and practical sunday dawned upon us calm and beautiful at 10 am conference resumed and much valuable instruction n was given the ing ipg have partaken partaker par taken liberally hb orally in the exercises professor thomas treated the visiting brethren to a concert in the st george hall he has accomplished wonders especially among the very young mere children seemed to utter music and respond to time under his guid guld guidance ance with a perfection of art which aou would 1 d grace many long lobig practiced choirs monday morning was spent slUng visiting vi perambulating the enjoying the refreshing seeli scenery ery presented throughout the city parting with friends friend sand and preparing pre paring for ta the return to washington bitou bi tou where mevin melin meeting was uras heio helo iu fu the lifter zher i upon tuesday we proceeded to harrisburg and a nd held rne ine meeting eting two to of the going on to Toker villo where thes they held i meeting in in the evening even ing anti ami enVe tl good time titue wednesday on to where the tile company reunited and aud held meeting this place is not yeta year old lorenzo roundy liow nosy tiow novy bishop was the tile first who located on the site about thirty families forty inen have built some thirty five dwellings div ellIngs facing facin a public square of four acres which with ith little exertion can be made to answer the purpose of a fort about acres are a dready already fenced and quite all au amount of it planted in grain this place may mayi be called in the fhe tem tein zone of utah K lanar lanau miles close under the brow of the mountain MO 13 miles south of cedar city and fid iid 24 miles nilles north of To kerville I 1 we remain a as 4 friends friend it 1 ic S ya A S 0 1 i i SALT olty CITY may alay loth 1867 I 1 DEAR NEWS pres young t and com pany left on the me morning tn inz ing of thursday the oth for cedar where meeting was wa held soon after arriving elder W W woodruff and some other brethren remaining far that tiia purpose the president traveled to parowan carowan Pa rowan with the krestof rest iest of the company meeting was held in the evening at parowan carowan Pa rowan next day ilay we traveled tb to Beav erand held meeting which was addressed ia hi a powerful manner and at conslo considerable erable length by pres young oh on the subject of tho the at atonement ton ement and redemption through the blood of christ next morning we rolled out from beaver benver for corn creek and held meeting inthe in the evening stopped overnight over night there started in the morning for fillmore held meeting at 10 loam a m out of meeting and into our bur carriages and off for scipio where meeting was held and the president though very vary weart weary made some most fatherly and encouraging remarks left scipio next morning about 8 am for nephi neph 1 arrived in the afternoon and held meeting in the evening next morning on onto santaquin San held meeting about noon rolled out for spring i i ville passing through payson and spanish fork and being indebted to the courtesy of bishop thurber for a ferry ferr boat to put us over the spanish fori fork fork fore river which was wag dashing onwards in an excited and turbulent manner with the bridge impassable springville at Spring ville and at nephi the demonstrations to welcome the president on his return were particularly noticeable held mei meb meeting barted ing in springville sprin Spring ville in the evening started this morning for this city dined at lehi and arrived at 5 rpm pm with the welcome accorded to the president on his arrival you are fully acquainted in our correspondence we have failed to minute many mady pleasing and note wor thy events but eur trip has afforded small opportunities for letter writing especially for eloquently eloquent ry clothing our observations over miles travel holding 35 meetings besides local councils and care of a team accomplished in 23 days has savored 11 so some me of missionary a labors rin in our remarks on dixie we gave results not the labor difficulties privations heart aches and unflinching courage rage which has produced them DIXIE is a monument a sermon in the desert a fulfillment fulfilment of prophecy an indisputable evidence of the actual power of a living unity permeating our organization an achievement a victory heilke of which graces no page of american history carlyle carisle says A man true to his ills own existence his own belief is of some meanings and some uses to humanity failing falling this he goes sooner or later to the wall wail be he king ring 0 or peasant our dixie people have been bem thus true redeeming the earth is a piert pt rt of our belief a few short years have redeemed a sandy parched mineral desert clothed it grateful shades wave their foliage over tasteful abodes of sterling intellectual life the patient and once almost fainting matron now carrols carrels the songs of zion to her loved ones amidst the fruits of the vineyard and a tear of gratitude rests on her cheek while with hands gently reclining on the boughs of the 11 ilg fig za tree she recounts to them a little so far as tongue may of the past instead of the nausea of the sage brush early morn finds her indal ing delicious odors from the roses and flowers of her own trim garden the brackish mineral waters are varied with milk and wine and over and above ab ove all the peace of god rests with them the entire satisfaction of duty performed the blessing of the future fatur can n any one tell their magnitude ma ni wait wait till the chains which bind the downtrodden down trodden masses of the world are broken till they flock like doves dovea to the windows window sly we have opened in the chambers of the mountains wait until the allne line is i drawn until a mark in the forehead shall become a necessity wait ye planters of the desert ye yo cultivators of the wilderness of the rocks until the resurrection shall introduce you to a multiplied posterity germinated into and in life from the fruits of your foundations lubi laid in faith blessed are the saints who jabor with the reali reail that not one jot or tittle shall fail fall that of a little a nation that we are a living rolling rolli dg stoll stoil that the feeble labors per j formed iu n unison with gods workings ivorski n s have in the magnitude of their results no earthly rule of adequate measure m I 1 ant nt LOYAL we are sometimes libeled labeled with the accusation of disloyalty it is a singularity that our traduce traducers rs in lying lie in the most outrageous manner we took special notice of the reception accorded the president and party through the tho entire route every ovation displayed splAyed dl the dear old stars and stripes p es long lon before reaching a settlement we could coul g catch sight of her waving folds bands commenced commented their welcoming strains with the star spangled banner or mail hail columbia and any stranger not knowing us to be mor mons would have accorded us a high mede mode of praise farold revolutionary patriotism and pride of country absolutely alive as of old kept gut put of the bisun disunion lon ion but not out of a union aurlon potential and and significant as being the only united people in theland the land whom the gods would Z destroy they first make mad what but madness acan anaka our nation believe us disloyal to the constitution constitute I 1 on refue refuse us state r rights and devise for us special legislation driven over and again from more fruitful sections from the shadow shad owings ings of or the broad wings of jour national eagle lr we have pione pioneered ered civilization to the very centre points of american aridity and barrenness and been thankful to find shade and rest under even the beak of the emblem bird and this while sonora lay an easy prize while british columbia was of easy access to our peopled peo plea people planted and rooted deep and strong in the tile backbone and loins of the continent holding the geographical key of the centre gate through which must ere long pass the whirl whirling nig hig masses of the eastern and western worlds I 1 and the treasures of nations in transi tit from and to commercial marts over a hundred thousand people renowned for experience industry energy indomitable perse derence ve rence unflinching courage frugality tenacity achievers of victories even out of defeat united with virtuous polygamy in their midst the only peo pie who ho have said to the rushing waves of prostitution osti aution thus far but farther no ar arresting pr es ti ng the curse before whose fiendish march manhood is becoming enervated and nations leprous whose strides pause not for the philanthropist divine or statesman for which as was said of old of our many virtues are we kept out of the union developments bear evidence of the vim and will which have been manifest in the settlement of Q G S L city surpassing us perhaps in reference to durability in building material stone and excellent brick entering largely into their calculations people erecting dwellings in st george put them up as though they and their posterity meant to stay their and occupy them the building of roads enter largely into their labors and are thoroughly done we would suggest a visit of the legislature to that country only we are prophetically sympathetic forthe forth e feelings of the house in embers members in view of the small appropriations of last winter developing new now resources for irrigating purposes are tire receiving increased attention veins of water are brought to the surface by boring into the tha hill sides and many acres of or sterility will soon become fruitful nelds fields independent of tho the freaks of the virgin preparations for self defence are not neglected the southern or iron military district numbers nearly 1600 1500 enrolled militia under command of brigadier general erastus snow the growing of vineyards is i s ra rapidly edl idl y on the increase and soon the |