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Show \ MOBMON BED- ROOMS., 123 from every, crack and knothole- ' During this season of comparative inaction, we received from the authorities and' citizens of the commtQiity every kindness th* t the most warmhearted hospitality could dictate] and no effort was spared to render us ad comfort-table as their own limijpd means would admit* Indeed, we werq much better lodged than many of our neighbours; for; as has been previously, observed, very many families were Obliged still to lodge wholly or in part in their wagons, which, being covered, served; when tak$ n off from the wbeefe and set upon the ground, to makq bedrooms, of limited dimensions it is true, but yet exceedingly comfortable. Many of these were comparatively large and commodious, and, when carpeted and furnished with a little stove, formed an additional apartment or back building to the small cabin, with which they frequently communicated by a door. It certainly argued a high tone of morals and an habitual observance of good order and. . decorum, to find women and children ' thus securely slumbering in the midst of a large city with no- protection from midnight molestation other than a wagon- cover of linen and the aegis of the law/ Jn the very next enclosure to that occupied by our party, a whole family of children had no Qther shelter than one of these . wagon*, where they slept all the winter, literally out of doors, there being no communication whateverwith the inside of their parents' house: The founding, within the space of three years, of a large- and flourishing community, upon a spot so remote from the abodes of. man, so completely shut out by natural, barriers from ( the rest of the world, BO entirely unconnected by Watercourses with either of the oceans that wash- the shores of this continent- a country offer* ing. no advantages of inland navigation or of foreign coipmerce, but, on the contrary, isolated by vast - uninhabitable deserts, and only to be jreached by long, painful, and often hazardous journeys by Ipnd- presents an anomaly so very peculiar, that it deserves more than a passing notice. In this young and progressive country of oursy where cities grow up in a day, and states spring into existence in £ year, the successful planting, of a cojony, where the natural advantages hpve been suck as to hold out the promise of adequate reward to the f> rojectors% would have excited no surprise; btat the. success of an / enterprise under circumstances so at variance with all our preconceived ideas of its probability* may well be considered ad one of the most remarkable incidents of the present age. • ( A brief reference to the early history of this people, and to the |