Show OF or PRESIDENT toung YOUNG I 1 THE fine weather yest yesterday erds k afforded the people the desired opportunity to attend services in the tabernacle and the morning and afternoon meetings were crowded that building hasteen has been often filled to its utmost capacity but we never remember seeing so large a congregation abany at any previous time within its walls as that which assembled yesterday afternoon to listen to president young besides those who entered the building it is estimated that thousands went away who were unable to obtain an entrance had the new tabernacle been in a suitable le condition for the people to convene there and PU public bile blie notice been given to that effect a larger body of people would have gathered than was ever witnessed in W this city so noted for foi large assemblages in one body excepting at general conferences feren ces or on celebration days when the people from ahe the country attend since saturday the people have been brimful of gladness at beholding their thein their beloved and tried leader once morein more in their midst he has been fiffi fafty two days absent a longer absence from this city than has been required beany previous trip which he he has made since bince his return with the pioneers in 1847 to winter quarters for his family of course the josof joy of the people at hla hia return in perfect health beaith habbe has beejai e V proportionately tiona tely great there had ing surmises and even predictions if we have been rightly informed from those who envy him hig his position and popularity to the effect that something would happen to him and that he would not return it Is not the first timea time neither will it ibba be the last that the predictions and hopes of apostates andi and the enemies of gods kingdom have failed foiled president young and compa mave nave traveled during their thein absence about e leven eleven hundred and sixty miles and held meetings with the people in all the settlements which they have visited in every place the meetings wire vire were crowded the buildings bein being always too small to hold those who wished to hear peace and union prevail and the delight of those who reside in the settlements which the president had never before visited was unbounded unbound ef had he and his company been angels they could not have been more warmly yel nel rei rel coded and more kindly treated than thin th they ey were by the people wherever they went there is a certain class of persons who are fond of dwelling upon the despotism which prevails in utah but the reception extended to the president and his company cumpf w as not note atoch people in a free land extend te tea tah a man who aims alms at tit the tho ex exercise ercle ercie of or despotic i power it is 19 the affection and lo 10 love iove which a free people I 1 ain lin manlest man p rest Kest ept est to the man who under god aas las nas oden greatest benefactor who has lias labor labored 1 ed long years unceasingly frdd tir advantage 0 and whom they aa I 1 as their devoted friend there is not naf another man in the world however exalted his bis station wylo wio holds such a high place in the hearts of the people with whom he associate associates a as president young the love entertained forham for fon him is not expressed by lip service but is that which animates men when they die for their friends he may many have bitten bitter enemies bub but buffor pr this he has abundant compensation in the devoted af f friends 9 the country visited by president Youn young giand gland and company is probably as forbidding and unattractive as any to be continent it is only fit for indians or latten latter day saints ajo jo body else would live in such a and jand a ad the united testimony is ahai ahat ith ita bast production is latter day saints its if is an excellent country fon for raising them the climate who ilke like warmth very delightful and exceedingly healthy and the prospects are that when the land is subdued and properly 0 cultivated ib wili will yield fruits in abundance and grains to supply local demands 0 prest geo A sm 9 in his remarks yester yesterday aay morning monni mold to told id wit with 9 good d effect this 0 of caracta cus the british king ring who was captured by the boil Roil romans tans lans and carried eternal city elty to trace grace the triumph upon seeing tile the magnificent buildings and immense wealth of rome and being asked his opinion about them replied that he was astonished that so great and weal w thy a nation possessing so rich a land adorned with i such splendid edifices should envy him the possession of a humble cot in britain jat lit isA matter of e equal ual astonishment to the people of iwah ulah utah that they who have th choice cholee parts of the continent and who would not suffer the latter day mainla saini to live there should envy them the homes which they by incessant toil have arb created in the midst of a wilderness and desert land a land laud that no civilized and man would reside in from choice if the strangers of whom so many 1 attended meeting yesterday afternoon thought to hear president debit defit young allude to the measures that are arenow arenow now before con congress g re ss and her people their expectations were nob not realized we heard a gentleman remark that he guessed he had not heard of the cullom bill if he has heard of it he views the matter with complete indifference and in fact this is ig remarkable in th the e entire tire people we never saw the L era day saints more calm or less 8 agitated in their feelings than they are now we believe that the prospect of the people of utah being assailed in any form gives our outside friends and the apostates more concern than it does the members of the church I 1 |