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Show AFFECTING INCIDENT AT CEDAE CITY. 211 This city is destined to become a great place of business, and, in case the Pacific Railroad does not come through or near Great Salt Lake City, it will be the channel through which all importations for the Territory of Utah will come, it being only about four hundred and fifty miles from San Diego, on the Pacific coast; a distance frequently travelled in ten days. I renewed my acquaintance with the president, Henry Lunt, with much pleasure, I remained at his house during my stay, and to himself and kind lady, (they are among those who deprecate the spiritual wife system), I was indebted for many little attentions and civilities. Mr. Lunt was about visiting the city of New York, on his way to England, and I gave him a letter of introduction to my family, which he delivered afterwards in person, before I arrived at home. The morning after my arrival, I arose very early, and taking my sketch-book along, I sauntered around the city; in the course of my peregrinations, I saw a man walking up and down before an adobe shanty, apparently much distressed; I approached him, and inquired the cause of his-dejection; he told me that his only daughter, aged six years, had died suddenly in the night; he pointed to the door, and I entered the dwelling. ^ Laid out upon a straw mattrass, scrupulously clean, was one of the most angelic children I ever saw. On its face was a placid smile, and it looked more like the gentle repose of healthful sleep than the everlasting slumber of death. Beautiful curls clustered around a brow of snowy whiteness. It was easy to perceive that it was a child lately from England, from its peculiar conformation. I |