Show fi tue THE fr armens ARNEUS 1 sitf N it is not too much to say that had it not been for the religious loiis fanaticism which assembled and banded together the mormon people in this locality loda ioda lity the country aoam would have remal remained ned a desert for generations even ethe advent ot of the rall kail roaland roa dand the consequent opening of the country there is dotso far as we are aware single gentile farmer in the terri Terji ory retake we take lake this extract from mhd on salt lake city in the overland monthly t which we make reference in another colt coit column imn the statement respecting the cultivation of the ground we suppose is indisputable if there is a single Gentil Gentile ett elt 11 farmer in this territory we do not know it but even if if there are any th they eyare are so few aa as to be unnoticed and unknown passed through corinne a short time since it occupies a il site which for natural advantages compares favorably with many beautiful places in the territory but a more shiftless miserable looking place than it presented we have rarely seen the policy which has actuated the bri original ginal settlers of this territory and th that at which the crowd of adventurers have followed who have come here for the purpose if possible I 1 of making money out of their labors and trade I 1 could not receive a much better illusto illustration r a tion than is afforded by the appearance pe arance of that placa and the 0 other t her towns of utah territory we saw no gardens no trees no water courses no evidences of cultivation nothing in fact to indicate that men had bad settled I 1 there to make themselves homes or to produce what talfey consumed but we saw trading houses drinking saloons and the 0 oiher hen her et ceteras of arall arail a railroad road t town own a disagreeable uninviting place t hat that might with ordinary enterprise be e built in a few days and that might disappear Is appear in an equally brief period it looked like a town that had been built by men who calculated to live not by their own awn hard work but by the hard work of their neighbors a town such as we WO imagine would suit the ring to reside at where litigation drinking gambling and hireling preachers might flourish if the schemers who meddle so much with the affairs of the territory of utah would turn their attention te to farming they would be much better men less troublesome neighbors and be in every every way better citizens suppose instead of interfering so much with the mor mons who certainly attend to their own business the men who find so much fault commence the business of farming and try to cultivate an acre or two or moreon ground the pursuit will have a good effect upon them one of the best federal officers we ever had in this territory was a gentleman who brought his family here secured himself a piece of land and turned his leisure time to account in cultivating his garden he won golden opinions from the people all of whom admire industry he gave satisfaction we believe to the government he kept out of mischief and he raised good fruit which tasted doubly sweet to himself and family because he had produced it himself and which also enhanced its value in the eyes of his friends mormons cormons Mor mons and non cormons mormons I 1 whom he invited to partake of it with him we think the pursuit of agriculture would have a good effect upon the temper judgment and morals morais of many who are now here andia they will take our advice they will adopt it we are certain that if they wi will 11 try it 11 they will feel feilso so much better th they will li i thank us before their terms of 10 office b expire foay foal for suggesting it A late number of the and round table new york has an editorial article headed de DeMor martuis Mor mon tuis iuis in which the practice of writing puffing obituary notices is admirably dealt with it bays says if we are to judge by the tone in which the press and pulpit are accustomed to speak of the deadie have a greater assortment of saints ia im the United states than any other country can boast no sooner does a noted man whether he be a politician a journalist or a private citizen die than we hear on all sides nothing but his praises it proceeds to cite the case of two men who for some years have been connected with new york city olty journalism who have suddenly died one was a man 1 it says who during his whole career had been distinguished chiefly by his wilful abuse of the talents which had been given him his excellent father had died brokenhearted broken hearted because of his sons misconduct his wife had been forced to apply to the law for a release from his companionship b he 8 earned the distinction of having brought to notice and popularized a form of drunkenness nn ebs ebb previously all ail but uti ull unknown know in this country As an ati author his two most successful books boob were devoted to the details of hib his experience as an eater of has heesh and a smoker of opium As aba ASA a journalist hia hla statements were notoriously untrustworthy his character and ind habits were tte the perfectly p i erly edly well weli ell known to nine tenths of the community and the news of hla hia death had bad long been anticipated by those who knew know the inroads that hash bash eesa eplum made upon his constitution I 1 I 1 yet it adds if we are to put our faith in jn obituary notices this man who made moade willful shipwreck of his life deserved not a whit less praise ihan the other maan who died who was truthful I 1 honorable and upright chisman thib this man who ves vea we are retold told broke his fathers heart whose wife was forced to get et divorced from him hini who popularized z plunk eating and iril iiii smoking oking was fitz hugh ludlow whose visit to this country some years ago will be remembered by some bf bdour our oun citizens and whose essay essny on ai mormonism in one of bf his works is such as might be expected from a man of his morals our readers experience will enable them to imagine if they have not read the style in which a man of his habits would treat upon such a subject as mormonism 11 whenever we see men as savage upon the practices i ti ces ees of the IMor mormons cormons Mor mono mons aa as this man was and as some others in this city are we always conclude that if their private lives were known they would be found to tobe be grossly immoral our experience sustains ua us in having inhaling this opinion A GERMAN writer in the cologne gazette gives his opinion on the french soldiers the result of his observations in the crimea italy and in the present war he says it may sound rash but he as asserts 8 erts that t the he french soldier such as he is will gain no victory over troops like the germans either today to day or tomorrow to morrow still less for the degeneracy will but increase a few years hence the role of france is played out it will remain quiet by the rhine the country which yearly through the artifice allty of its manner of life its dissipations and its obstinate destruction of human life is de populated and whose people are physically declining that country after this fearful and bloody lesson jesson will have to give up thought of conquest in germany the french soldier through hi of life has lost all military virtue virtues I 1 8 his discipline is relaxed and an d his ambition stunted we wd find another statement respecting the peculiarly favorable temperature which has existed since the breaking out of the franco prussian war warin in the west of europe for the rapid healing healin goo of wounds the german wounded heal rapidly but the french do not the surgeons say because in the first place venereal diseases prevail among them and they are more restless than the germans |