| Show cincinnati OHIO aug 6 editor deveret deseret news dear sir soon after writing y you au from montrose Mont rose roae we fell in company with a gentleman on the banks of the mississippi amusing himself in a small email boat playing his flute we soon boon joined the stranger who found that we were elders and missionaries from balt baft lake who had been exiled from our h homes omes in this part of the country and were about to visit nauvoo he desired to become one of the party after wattine waiting some time for the tardy steam ferryboat we chartered a skiff and started over we the waters the i land between montrose and nauvoo has hag grown up with witt timber so as aa to obstruct rapt a fair view we took a farewell look at moti roso rose where in 1839 1 I with many others of the latter day saints took refuge in the dilapidated and deserted soldiers barracks now bow removed and replaced by two or three steam mills a few stores and hotels and some respectable dwellings very tew few of the old inhabitants remain we had bad however the pleasure of dining with scipio owens practical pilot over the keokuk and nauvoo rapids son bon of doc to lorOw rOwena ena eua well known to the old saints while at dinner we had the pleasure of the company of a st louls louis lady who said that we were the first jive livo mor conall mons that she had ever placed her eyes upon and she was wag surprised to see and bear scripture quoted so much and to know of sueh buell cultivation and i civilization in utah I 1 neing being belu bein such a con to wt what at she had heard beard and read 1 we parted with a warm shake of the hand band our boatman now rowing us over the river tells us of 21 tuna of fish that he caught at one haulon haul on the above us and opposite nauvoo our oue stranger had many ques questions tiong onra onla to ask ayk white while gilding gliding over the river which le is nearly one and a hait halt miles across A A few mormon hongg were pleasant while gazing on the cornfields corn fields and dilapidated houses of the once famed city of nauvoo one block nor h of where rethe the temple tempie stood in fair view from the river is IA a catholic church AU 40 by feet and feet high to the top of the spire we landed nemr near the old stone house known as the e rigdon bigdon house still standing re all ail the rest of the tho city it 16 dismal and forlorn hyrum smiths housa house and office remain we stepped into joseph smitha smiths old store found a man build ing a boat down downstairs stai stal reHe reho he said sald upstairs was waa used for a place of meeting and tind that this dilapidated old store was a fair f kir sample sampie bf tah present nauvoo the brick brlek work of the store from froba its outward appear appearance anc e looks well we pass around the corner and to the edge of tho the river where on the norh corner of the nauvoo house standa a rather coarse dwelli dwelling uk we haw beaw the old sign of the mansion house after p assing to the frant and seeing ik a breach in the nauvoo house some of the stone work placed into the fence and some bome also with the bric brtek brick know row now 27 37 27 yearb years eais old I 1 in n the strud structure ture we e entered i n ete ite the dwelling after passing be the time of day we introduced i our stranger to lo emma smith n now ov bidaman emma had hud her arm in ina a sling having fallen down the cellar collar quite ke recently and broken her left arm jube just above the the wrist which she ahe said was doing well weli the present app appearance darance of the elty eity city CAY not being very inviting wo we called at the old mansion an and 4 introduced our stranger to alexander smith the present proprietor and passed up the street president B brick house the masonic hall bishop E hunters huntera stone bouse houge antt anti barn president H 0 rim kimballs Kim balls and a few still stand old land laud marks and eracles of old nauvoo rhe fhe temple block ad especially Pec lall y where the tern temple tempie pie pit stood now grows grape gaspe vines weeds and vegetables scarcely anyone any one was to ta be seen been in the streets which were grown over with grass and the lower part of the city was a vast cornfield we hurried up to the old upper haild landing and in a few moments wore were en in one of the state room rooms gor sor of a beautiful steam packet the early in the morning we were lauded at burlington 36 miles allea and the last we saw of our stranger B R E bovard ex cx newspaper correspondent and school teacher was on in the steamer bound for st paul he expressed many thanks for the information he be had bad obtained and for the agree ible visit to nauvoo he sympathized with those who lawlessly sly siy had suffered and said he would not rest satisfied without a visit to utah he further expressed surprise to see emma smith looking so 40 much like a servant from burlington we pasted passed per rail to francis city miles and found the representative of 68 58 souls who by letter to utah desired light but more P particularly emigration we passed on to Ciuc cincinnati lauati via indianapolis miles finding no trouble to talk and answer all the questions quest ious so far as we had strength to merchants preachers and the traveling public generally bot hot both gentlemen and ladies it is not now a day of baptizing but a day of enquiry and removing of prejudice and preparing the people for the things that are coming EDWARD STEVENSON |
