Show opposition allt to Cart rince lince nd nauvoo CANTON 11 fulton co ili til 1 dec 25 1875 editor deseret news it is with pleasure that I 1 proceed to inform you ai well as I 1 can of the progress of the work in my vicinity I 1 myself fam am well in health and spirits spirit s and am apa in the midst of friends frienda my labors thus far have been confined to this state and principally in this county I 1 have held several eral public meetings and have done much fireside preaching I 1 have as yet met no unkind opposition except on one occasion about two weeks hince since when wilen I 1 held heid a meeting at a village called st david where there there were some apostates aho who vho formed a plan to mob mo as soon as the meeting which was to be held in the evening was over but I 1 managed to get out ont of the house before the crowd hd did mounted a horse provided for me tue by a relative living in U the country four miles distant and rodo abode rode to his residence thus giving the would be the slip I 1 have met with bitter opposition from frol apostate po states whom I 1 meet frequently ly but am kindly treated by all others none but apostates I 1 believe belleve were in the plot to mob me and the devil divil dt vil vii stirred them up to it because I 1 was about to baptize a few persons I 1 have just been spending a short time visiting carthage and nauvoo I 1 arrived in carthage on the tho evening of the dinst stayed all night at a hotel arid and in the morning proceeded to the building where whole the prophet and patriarch met their death A family bythe hythe by the nameon name of browning own the property I 1 ventured to call and introduce myself to mrs browning who received me very kindly and after a shot ahot and pleasant chat she politely showed me up the stairs and into the room where the prisoners were e confined the same stairs and abor to the room remain and the bullet hole made by the ball that is said tj ti have havo hit hyrum hynum in the face killing 0 him instantly is filled with putty I 1 leaving a 1 dent dont however that is plain to bo be seen A part of the door near the lock that was wag splintered by bullets has been cut out and a piece neatly fitted in the room was elegantly papered carpeted and furnished but all the old wood work remains with the addition of new base boards no alteration has been made in the stair stairs but the too cells colls have all been taken out and a frame addition built which transforms the old jail into a neat ineat residence tile the well near which the corpse of joseph lay after being shot has leen been filled up and a flower garden planted over the spot spot mrs browning informed me that great numbers of visitors had called to seo eo the tho place and on one occa sion she conducted as many a as forty five up stairs in one day carthage has been built up so that now it is quite esquite a handsome and important town two railroads run through it and two weekly newspapers are published in it I 1 left carthage during thedore the forenoon taking a train for Keo kukon the iowa side of the mississippi lippi river and in tho the evening evering took a train for montrose twelve miles above keokuk and just opposite nauvoo it was very dark and there was yas too much floating ice in the river for the steam ferryboats ferry boats to run so I 1 paid twenty five cents to be rowed over in a skiff on reaching in the nauvoo side I 1 proceeded at once onee to the old nauvoo ing been informed that major bidaman tho the husband of the prophets widow kept a hotel there the major has hag put a roof in a portion of the building making it habitable on the following morlo morning Dg the the sun shone brightly and I 1 proceeded to take like a walk through the tho city As I 1 passed through the almost deserted streets street a scene of ruin decay and neglect met my view on every hand that made me utterly heartsick As I 1 walked up the hill towards the site of the temple and glanced at my surroundings I 1 involuntarily called up in my maud the beautiful city that I 1 had read about with its twenty five thousand thrifty busy and industrious inhabitants and compared it with thia feene scene of desolation with its ruins of fine line residences untrimmed orchards weedy vineyards fallen fences and almost universal ne neglect lect elect rox mox rod inel inet ft my teim apfl rhe the com P parison arlson arison made me still more heartsick The thero there rowna wals no ice ico or snow enow visible and the heavy rain during the night hl seemed to have bavo washed the st streets r beets and there was wag but little hudso that the wal wak walking ing was wag quite good I 1 leisurely proceeded till I 1 ca the spot where the temple stood and having tile tiie th e exact location of it pointed out to me I 1 approached approach edit it there now remains not one stone upon another of the and scarcely a fragment 1 of the stone stene can be picked up on the ground grou hid fid IC found one piece however which I 1 preserved ibe ground actually covered by the temple has been divided between different owners but a small email lot which includes quite a large portion of it is now corsale for A few young peach trees stand on the ground otherwise it is barren the stone of which the building was composed has entered into the construction of other buildings been made in to tombstones used for walls and pavements and I 1 was informed that portions of it had bad been transported to quincy keokuk burlington and other places to be made into tombstones eq mantels etc at all events it h has 8 all been carried away from the site of the temple according to the most reliable information I 1 could get there are less than three thousand inhabitants in thu tho city and 1 if I 1 were to judge them by what I 1 little ittle I 1 saw of their works I 1 should pronounce them just le the tho opposite to iu in all respects of the original inhabitants there are but two or three stores in town of any account though saloons are numerous I 1 saw but one workshop open that was a marble cutters shop I 1 fell into conversation with the proprietor and he said the town was picking up and was much more lively noi now than it had been two or three years previously he said that particular pieces of rock from the Temple tempie commanded high prices among relic seekers and that he had bad just sold a trumpet carved in inthe ir the cap stone of one of the pi lasters rs for 25 B P F cummings box ender ELDER co dec 30 30 1875 edito editor deseret new 3 there have been of late several beveral letters published in the nr NEWS aws in regard to the raising of potatoes 0 of different varieties and of their quantity and quality y E every very cultivator of the soil knows that any kind of grain or vegetable in course of several years pian plan planting ting successively on the same kind of ground will naturally produce less to the acie the Neshan Keshan noo has been for a great many years our standard potato consequently it will naturally produce lesi less to the acie acio as I 1 have stated above the tile peerless Com comptons comptois Comp tons tona surprise and the early vermont opt are all now to our soil As our climate is not to be equaled in raising such artl arti article articie cie cle they naturally grow ilke like mushrooms jl there has been enough said sald from time to time in regard to the latter kind I 1 will just state my experience of the old standard neshan noc noe the tho past season the land was of good quality and entirely new I 1 planted the potatoes in their season I 1 dug them in october they were as my neighbors stated the best they ever saw the tubers were thoroughly solid I 1 weighed several which went as high as 4 lbs ibs lacking an ounce 31 3 lbs ibs and 3 ibs lbs one hill weighed 10 16 lbs ibs 3 oz from froni one cut one eye to a cut thus you can see ece that I 1 raised over a peck of potatoes from gibout one and a half hair ounces of seed I 1 have sold r several overal several of the above kind to the leading hotels in the county and they have stated that thai they would rather have them by b five percent per cent than either the surprise or the peerless the latter iatter has a better appearance when cook cok ed but stow them away for six or 01 seven months and they will not no equal the old standards in taste A YOUNG xoung FARMER |