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... town. The grand jury of the United States District Court have found twelve indictments (mostly against the head men of the Mormon church ) for counterfeiting the coin of the United States. Among the number indicted are Brigham Young, president of The ...

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... of songs may be expected, too tedious to nientlonl, Novel Newspaper.-It is said that the waggonsi that are to convey the Mormons to Callfornia will number five thousand, and will form a line twenty-five maise long I In the front there will be a press ...

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... charge of Backentos, The Warsaw two lure Signal, of the 8th nlt., has the following:- We learn .i im- that quite a number of Mormons in the county have so- MD A ceded from the church, and expressed their determina- c x- tien to scatter through the country ...

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... quantity Ire so minute as to elude the defection of chemical resqarcih.-K anox's Irish Wateriung Places. THEI MonoNs.-.Thlre Mormon emigration to Oregon, from Nauvoo, certainly presents a novel and interesting sight, considering the peculiarity or the emigrants' ...

MORMONIS.—A SAD TALE

... and no ungainly a set of adepts, could have succeeded so well, as, un- happily, too many wretched dupes can testify. The Mormon priests adopted the old tactics; they plied the females with glowring pictures of unknown delights in Nev Jerusalem-not that ...

Published: Sunday 08 November 1846
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... enough to hold the states of La Plata together. The back-woods of North America have been found favourable to the growth of Mormonism, and to the excesses of camp meetings and revivals. In the secluded districts of Brazil also fanatacism flourishes ; though ...

LITERATURE

... and surrounded by an almost interminab e wilder- ness. This magnificent structure, which was designed y by a Mormon architect, and built by Mormon work- a men, at an estimated cost of 800,000 dollars, is one of n the finest buildings in the New World. It ...

LITERATURE

... blood at 2,000 :-so that the 0 whole population probably does not exceed 15,000. . (This is, of course, exclusive of the Mormons and y other military adventurers, who have of late immigrated from the United States.] The Pclimate is salubrious, some parts ...

THS LITERARY EXAMINER

... not out his hand, but making a rude hen, lie exclainmed,-' ot a dimae, sir: good afternool. mr Lanman saw the far-famed Mormon city of IfTaunoo. It was built six years ago, and is now a ruin. Hardly five hundred inhabitants remain of up- wards of t ...

A MORMON MIRACLE

... A MORMON MIRACLE. (From Life in the Far West, in Blackwiood's Magazine for ,ining this time they November.) ,DIwring this time they 'were continually receiving converts to the faith, and mans of the more ignorant courtrv people were disposed to join ...

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. (From our Correspondent.) London, Saturday Evening. The almost iacredible success of ..

... labour, and house rent, caused by the numbers who have deserted trade and business, to proceed to the mountain ravines, or Mormon diggings, 25 miles np the American fork of the San Francisco. The Colonel says, merchants pay a monthly rent of 100 dollars ...

LITERATURE

... such a place. But such pleasant scenes as these are to be wit- nessed only in the lower washings of the streams, called the Mormon Diggings, where life and pro- perty are yet tolerably respected; in more remote districts, amongst the mountain ranges, the ...