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Show i8o MORMON WORSHIP that remain are very young little children of six or eight ars, who are sent from home to be kept out of mischief, he teachers of these schools are not paid by the city, but the parents are charged for the children they send. The fees received are usually vegetables, fruit, butter, & c. The schools of Salt Lake City are quite in keeping with Brig-ham's ideas of education referred to elsewhere. I will now endeavor to give an account of the appearance, & c., of the Prophet and his prominent associates. A few days after my arrival at Camp Douglas, I gratified my curiosity by calling upon the President at his residence. I was received in his private office, and no one being pres ent but his second colleague and the gentleman who intro duced me, I had a good opportunity of conversing with the remarkable man, and of observing him under favorable cir cumstances. As I stated to the gentleman who accompanied me, that I was actuated only by curiosity in desiring to see his friend who had become so noted a character, and with this knowl edge he invited me to go, so I feel more at liberty to make public my impressions of him gathered from that interview than I would under different circumstances. Moreover, Brigham Young is a public character, and all such must - expect to be criticised. Mr. Young is a native of Vermont, was born in 1801, and is remarkably well preserved for a man of his age. I should not have recognized him as the individual I had seen in the " Bowery," or the one whose photograph I had obtained. He appeared not so large, nor was his. bearing as commanding or dignified. His forehead is contracted and his eyes small, with cunning well depicted in them, and giving him a reserved expression. His mouth of moderate size, with thin compressed lips, and a prominent chin, indicating decision. His hair is sandy, mixed with silvery threads, and his unshaven face, with beard of two weeks' growth, which he was making into whiskers, gave to it the usual unsightly appearance under such circumstances. At first he seemed inclined to reticence, but in a few min utes this passed off, and he conversed freely and even per- |
