Show 1 i ahe the following letter to bishop edward hunter from elder joseph C rich eich on a mission in the eastern states has haa been kindly furnished for nor publication by bibro bro hunter carthage HAN hancock COUNTY illinois dec 1869 bishop edmard edward grunter IT Tr unter deat dear brother having a few hours leisure while awaiting the arrival odthe of the train for springfield I 1 feel that the time cannot be better appropriated than writing 0 to o youl as I 1 have visited several places once familiar to you yon I 1 have recently visited galesburg in this state where I 1 stayed a week with mr john P F Edger tona portrait painter who spent the winte winterhof win tero rot 50 jao an ancl anil 15 31 1 in sali bait lake city and air john T barnett an old settler of nauvoo they were exceedingly kind hind and so clabe elabe friendly towards 0 our people and particularly 1 inquired n concerning your welfare kales sales es burg has grown 6 to be a place of considerable importance from galesburg I 1 went ti to burlington in iowa where 1 I spent a week stopping 1 most of the time with J wilson williams w formerly surveyor of hancock county and or of the thi city of ok Nauvoo he also was very kind hind and wished to be remembered to you near his bis place I 1 visited mr mathew peek a son of bishop reek peck who I 1 ascertained had renounced mormonism and grafted himself into the methodist churche rhey were very much opposed to poly gamy and attacked me roughshod rough shod OH on that subject before I 1 1 had been in the house ten minutes ini ibi they were so pious that their faces hung down longer than mules and their righteous groans resembled the woeful lamentations amenta tiong of a plute pinte pi ute squaw at the loss of her last 11 As they expressed great faith in the scriptures I 1 gave them a short essay on the lc history herein contained but before I 1 had proceeded fa far fan the lady informed her hus band it was time to go to bed about 8 and to prevent any farther discussion on religious subjects they had breakfast ready by half past two the blest next morning and I 1 footed it five miles before day light to the railroad station they were evidently determined I 1 should not be too late for the train from prom rom burlington I 1 came down the aver to montrose stopping at the hotel kept by old sister bowen who could id not do too much for the sonin son in law of her old friend bishop hunter she had a hundred questions to ask esk concerning yourself and family she still continues strong in the salt lake mormon faith notwithstanding the tile prevalence of Josephi josephf sin in thal thai vicinity the next day I 1 crossed over to nauvoo experiencing experienC iD some little leas the river riven was almost blocked up with tee ice which at times comple compie completely completed tei tel hemmed in our skiff I 1 went to the mansion sion slon house for dinner and there aa as all the time I 1 stayed in phee thee pie nie ity city I 1 experienced feelings that I 1 never felt before I 1 always have venerated the hame name of the prophet and ther the impressions impress lona iona made on my min mind in reading the church history have caused me to ad look upon naila nauvoo and the places pisces frequented by jose joseph ph aa as almost holy ground judge then my feelings when I 1 crossed the threshold of the mansion house where once the spirit gorgod seemed to animated ani matei matel even the vew very building iosef I 1 stepped into the office where perchance angels onee once visited and there sat eat three men two were playing checkers and the ther third did Bl bidamon damon the present husband of emma sat spitting tobacco on the stove fixtures bhe fic tures of the assassination of lincoln Lincola adorn md steamboat and railroad notices adorn the the furniture and 1 beneral appearance of the room were ild unclean and decidedly shabby 1 anner was announced and I 1 passed through the hall once familiar to the paints into the kitchen kichen there I 1 be leid bield for the first time e that I 1 can remember ta emma the youthful wife of oine coe of gods most honored prophets I 1 ut at down at the table to eat but my were oa on other times emma sticks very old and broken she never poke ke while I 1 was vas as in the room only to yve directions to the hired girl who waited on shouble the ther table Uble while in conver atlon tion with bidamon 31 damon at the table I 1 bated in answer to his questions that I 1 vaa faa as from salt lake city at the same irne tine me telling who I 1 was i looked hooked over nowhere w here emma was sitting knowing bat hat t she was weil yell acquainted with my arents ants nuts buts bentshe enever never raised her eyes r said a word while I 1 remained there could not help thinking what a ehan chan change ge has come over that wiman woman woman now she is the wife of a man who even among his friends lenda fr is reproached pro ached as everything vile the outside of the mansion house looks even more dilapidated and forsaken than the inside it does not seem thavone that one improvement has been made since the prophet left it I 1 next visited the nauvoo house which still stands as it did when the work on it ceased it has the tho th appearance of recent work in its masonry i the bricks are as good as thedac the aay day they were made and the finishing touch of the trowel indicates anat it was done but yesterday old oid bidamon claims to have purchased the property y and ex pee peets tsin ln case of the removal of the capitol tol toi here that he will yet derive from it 14 a handsome fortune the masonic hall still stands but looks old president youngs younos house remains in good repair and bro tro as good as the day he haeft left it I 1 went all through your house just below the temple now owned by a german it stands as you yon left ular it in splendid condition the barn though weather beaten and aldis old oid is still good and the old oaken bucket still hangs in the well I 1 stood upon he spot where once stood the temple tempie of the thi tord lord not one stone is left upon an ane other a fw few fragments only remaining while the cellar has been diled filled and a vineyard now luxuriates luxuriated where the saints once onca attended to the ordinances for their dead the temple rock can be seen allover all sli over the city converted into wine cellars and basements for stores drinking saloons and residences I 1 took dinner with doctor wells who als alb aiso also 0 inquired about you I 1 visited the old mormon graveyard kow cow a complete forest of oak and hickory r there is probably fifty tombstones tomb stones st standing andino among the number I 1 found one to the memory ofay sister the fence around the graveyard is down an anc and exposed the ground was bought by the city in thormon tM ormon oili ciri days from vm win marks but no deed for it exists on record and many of the old settlers here in nauvoo are anxious that a deed should be made either to the present corporation or some responsible party that th atthe the mormons cormons Mor mons might name in order that the ground indy inky may be enclosed and held sacred from agricultural encroachments encroach ments at present it belongs to no one and having a fine forest of timber therein the probability proba bilty Is that thit ere long some one will enclose it and forever ol obliterate its existence as a graveyard application has been made by barnett chauncey robison and others to marks for fog fora a quit quite claim laird deed to the property in order that it might be taken care of but he be refuses to make one although ilo lie hohas has received his hla pay for the land from 11 the old city of nauvoo I 1 stayed an hour or two with old kreamer who flatfooted flat footed asserts that you are an honest man he is very friendly and would walk forty miles to shak shake e hands with you uncle benny lenny niter riter is also your particular friend and says he is 14 not tron troubled a dach bit with the tho kind of divina grace they have in thi this s country ii i I 1 visited your farm on the carthage road the house stands good but the barn and outbuildings buildings out show old age the double ditch has been ploughed sloughed hed down and a young osage grange orange orange hedge has taken its ita place cottonwood trees have havo grown up in the we hollows and wet places east of the house but otherwise it looks as you left it the settlers in this thia bounty are generally of the opinion that th atland thailand land fand once occupied by the nor mon mormon idono no matter matted as to the richness of the soil soll has never seemed profitable to the owners since the saints were driven sway away a war way they say may the curse ol 01 god is visibly manifested inthe in the earths productions tiou tion I 1 told some of them that I 1 wished to god it would rf refuse fuse 0 to o produce even white beans but I 1 realize it would bot do for me to judge these matters the old oid mod moo 6 spirit has about died out and a general feeling of reg re refat gretat the manner of treating ho mormons cormons Mor mons Is very prevalent lawyer morrill in it nauvoo says the of this county are nearly all dead and in hell while he few that aie ale are remaining wish themselves there speedily old oid toa tom sharp Is here herel but persons have told me that hohas he has not ven ventured turid out after dark for ten years swears for fear of being murdered I 1 wish yau you would tell heber johr john johr richards that his mother lies buried la irs the bouth south east corner of the square where the old grave yard was south of the temple last summer while an old bid frenchman was makin making an excavation for a wine cellar he ame came upon the vault containing her remains everything was in splendid preservation my informant stating had bad not d decayed one particle even the gloves on her hands being as clean and white as they were the day she ghe was buried she ghe was removed to the above mentioned place easily recognized as the slab upon which is engraved eer zer her name birth marriage and death remains over the spot nauvoo does not progress ro gressin in improvements while the whole country is going ahead it islands still palmer one of the two men who fired the temple is now in the fort maddison penitentiary for life the man mam that was president of elg Eig dons twelve apostles butterfield d by name fell down in the street the night I 1 stayed in montrose and his neck I 1 subscribed tw enty cents centa towards burying him dr bennett died in iowa a vagabond on the earth 11 carthage jail stands as it did when the prophet was murdered but efforts are being made for the erection of a new buil bull building dink dinh in the course of ten day days s I 1 shall be in in kentucky thence to pennsylvania I 1 have not had a particle of news from utah since I 1 left except what I 1 have seen in the papers kind love to lil all as ever J C RICH biall f JOURNAL or wealth HEAlTH OX ON mook MODE kate KATt DRINKING A menhant prince of new york a portly aporte six footer of great manly a abeau beauty who ho never dined without ii out his hla b brandy ran d and water ater nor went ent to bed without a terrapin tar rapin or an oyster oysten sit sti slipper per pen was never known down to be runk drunk died of chronic diarrhoea diar rhoba rhosa a common end of those who are never intoxicated and fult fall ful fui of liquor halpa batts journal of health gives this account of his death months before he died he was a year in d dying ng he e cou could eat not nothing n without death the hole whole all ali alimentary ent canal canil was wag amass a mass of disease in theu the midst of his millions ha died of inanition this is not tuot half the readers he had been a steady drinker for twenty awen ty eight years sero scrofula fula fala has been eating up one daughter for fifteen years another is in the madhouse mad house the third and fouth fourth were of unearthly beauty but they bl blighted and paled and faded faded into heaven we trust in their sweet teens another is tottering on the verge of the grave and only one is left with kli lii fall the senses and each of them ls is is 14 weak adwater as water the same periodical instances another case ease that should supplement the one Just gIven A gentleman of thirty dive five was sitting fitting owa ona chair with no loi special critical present still he was known asa as a dissipated young man he rose ian pan ran fifty feet felt fell down and died the whole covering of the brain was thick T ened its cavities were filled with a fluid that did not belong to it enough to to kill half a dozen doten men taen with agop apoplexy lexy a great portion of one lung wa was S in a r state of gangrene and nearly all the other was liar hardened deDed and useless blood and yellow in matter latter plastered the inner covering of the lungs luuga while angry nod td rod patches of destructive inflammation teera viero beatt scattered ered alan along the whole allmen ahmen taryl anal canal Why here was enough bit bif death in lit that 1 on bue emans mans body to have killed forty men inen the doctor who talks about guzzling liquor every day daybell being healthy 3 14 Is a perfect dis dit disgrace grace in medical edical ninie name an aud and d ought u gatt to break rock for we tue term of hl ha n natural urai ural life at a shilling a day and find himself |