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Tiir f'lTY or N ti'vuu.—Th« editor of ilia Keokuk I ■*!lt;• t'ilv thus describes Nmuoo, II! . the former city of th« Mormon-. lt;- i'. appear e«l io him on a late visitl*iittinup a', the ‘Nuuvoii 'I m-.on,' -forni-r residence of .h*e Smith. :utd tin* ien-(h /.vousof tl U . Un we founil it a.tin* Iritied hotel, surrounded hy shrilbltery. i very-1 thin g ne.rly kept an-! ear. 1 for. ami impart -1 ing ft fro h, wholesomu air. The hostess was 1 tin- former wife of .In-*, who. with her present 1 husband anti ohi 1 Iren hr lier former spouse,* still reside on the premises sin* entered with the prophet when the Saints first founded the1 city. She informed me that she had resided ’ in tlie 'Mansion’ f--r six'cen vcan.I I uring that peri • 1 she had v. iitif,- ! the origin, growth and decay of the «*uy; the inception of a new religion, the most strange* conglomerate of trnth. fanaticism, supersiitioft an! arrant cheating that was ever inauguratedP in ft civilised conimnnity: l as witnessed its di-velopenient. been f.niiihar with fs.-l trader.and cognisiint w t h the motive* which rtili !, its bailers, s. eii the I i-t of the strange thing'^ enacted there, pa—.• 1 throti ;h a I the social r. chan; s in iddit.i that community: ob-II erved all the important facts of :••• . ;u!ar a-i ! interest:!! • 1 l’.»ry. an 1 at l i t tin Is her-^ self the i|ti: •: I tl--wit. . a p'-asant c■ in’.ry ^ tavern, which w i- bo: r----c»tlv the h-nn and li-'ad.[iiart -rs of a hand ol men --f peculiar character tnd pro’. nsions. an I ..f her husband who was their eh; t Nauv.o. nnd particularly the #'l i .- .01.' must j *- -«s a stini.g-and remarkable in'.-rest t-r 1 r. \ laughter lt (now a widow.' nnd »ev»rtl «on«, -i tl iren of *' Smith, an 1 falling-o lie family, li -,s !• l themvery we.ai'i v: bo* there ar* n - m- .1 os* ter I'ioos ’■ ■ • r it' .v:•*•. a • : t! v.n. As»*en.!•., t: • hi .-vim. :: • ’tcmpV v an 1 its fiurr , • • UW n t! ■■ C'..;i-'• miltiitv of M -n Cab who w-re ga o re 1 IS for dinner in i large house in the rear which* s.— med to 1 ’he rnm oi i;m * room ot t — and with emir* - •• . , 1 - -• '-.A'-’ -f.l' » is m’iveoed by a ban 1 •: instrumenta' mu-^ sic. nombenng some thirty performers, and _ they seem- 1 t.. be as in’ent on celebrating. in r: tbeir own way. the gr- it anniversary | -I i of July.) as any body o!~c. An address was pronounced bv Mm.lt; ''abet in the foren. ot, in French, and other tddresses were made in 1' lid man an 1 Knglishlt The T.-mpie is a pile* of ruins, as most p«o-r pie know, except the front. That, with the le exception of in* lower, still remains. There'.v is enough in t’-.a !• atf-rd some idea of itsal-11 most wu-rd like, incongruous, heathenish. but ‘ trcsh and vigoious archia-cturo. It is drej lv lo to be deplored tha' van !ul hands should l ava |r- been permitted t-. d- stroy that monument of j' strange religion that caused it to be ere--tsd.and the strange worship to w iiieh it was l',n dc iicate.l. The en‘ranee to an underground avenue i* still dt-ccrnal.i- among li:-» rubbish u- onthe souU; side of it This avenue, and H \ Wn,Ph “’-husband of Mrs smith m-S 'Tnivd^exivclben-V . tl... -arfa, ■* .,f the S tf^und. led by tha c . ction u ilh tl cm to •* »-'eral pomt* wh,re tha ltaders for various purpose s_assembled to coud-a-t rs .* ft..-„ c .. Ct their schemci art ! , x-00 ecuto In- rfd The large, and -o fa; as - UJpUste 1 tho--h* built hotel, w! h : u‘vted ciose haul the 'nians’.-n.' Slo •• fit -iied up f.,r a mill‘If and machinery wi h the h« irs f‘U.e*pr«;'u-etd.sion putting it;U it. Many of the o-.eeno - ' -ertir.e. but now Jiu; !a!e d r.-si jetK--.s have latterly been ©ccup;-J, and the town is evide: tlv‘r- improving.
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Richmond Indiana Palladium
Richmond, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 23, 1855
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