... to the Mormon presidency. He is the Great Prophet of the Mormons still. Brigham Young has shown much shrewdness in the use of his position. He saw that the pure despotism-and this, too, a despotism of the basest kind-which is the essence of Mormon government ...

... Charles Mackay's little book upon The Mormons, or Latter Day Saints (1), brings down the strange history of that sect to the present day. The narrative is succinct and sufficient. Even if ill told, the story of the Mormons would be very interesting; here it ...

... regarding Mormons or Spaniards-the latter paltiecularly with a considerable amiournt of salt. One of the chief Mormon merchants, who has just now [Nov. t856], it appears been sent on a mission, as a punishment for rescuing- a Gentile from some Mormon assailants ...

... barren, that with all his pas- sion for work, a Mormon can only cultivate four acres of land, while a Gentile on the Missouri and the Kansas rivers can easily cultivate forty acres. -Take away the Mormon impetus, and in two years this city of Salt Lake ...

... them excellent Mormons. People are not more difficult in Utah than elsewhere; and there, as in all other places, they effect their salvation extremely well without knowing the metaphysics of the religion they profess. The creed of the Mormons, drawn up by ...

... the Mormons, he insists, have usually de- rived their information from sources little to be relied on; he is not an apologist, but the corrector of erroneous opi- aigns, and the object he has in View is truth. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, a ...

... foaming river. The train stops at Uintah. Here Mormon lads sell peaches, and Mormon women tempt the ladies in the train to purchase gloves which they have tastefully embroidered. Mr Rae's account of the Mormons will certainly occasion some surprise to our ...

... effective. The Chbristy's Jewel Waltz. By Charles Coote. The Jupiter Gatop. . Th'e Royal Lancers. i By Charles Coote, jun. The Mormon's Quadrille.) -Hopwood aid Crew. These compositions by the above veteran writers of dance music will all be found well-marked ...

... escaped through a back door to Springfield.-Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, was on his death-bed. Some new revelations to the Mormon Church are announced; the portion of the golden plates withheld from Joe Smith having been exhibited mysteriously to Elder ...

... Saints, a distance of 1,136 miles, accomplished in nineteen days, are scarcely inferior iu interest to those devoted to the Mormons. The aspect of the wide rolling prairie-in some places clothed with rich herbage, and gay with mnany-hued flowers, in others ...

... Great Salt Lake City.' By Jules Remv and Julius Brenchley, M.A. With a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an In- troduction on the Religious Movement in the United States. By Jules Remy. In Two volumes. With Ten Steel En- gravings ...

... are passionately devoted to him. He was an Elder at the first formal Mormon stake in this country, at Kirtland, Ohio, and went to Nauvoe with Joseph Smith. That distinguished Mormon handed his mantle and the Prophet business over to Brigham when he died ...