The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-06
AFFAIRS OF THE MoRMoNs.


We have received an extra from the st. Johns
New Era, containing u letter from Nauvoo dated
the 18th ult.
esting :
Certainly greater sensation has not been felt during
the present year that has augured deter
mined decisive and perhaps to many good citizens, fa
tai results
The excitement among the Mormons is intense, and
man to man seems urged on to desperation. The new
and old citizens OF Nauvoo united in their purpose
recting and the old Mormon citizens the eecting pow
err The usurpers, will be SEEM seem determined to
make the usurped the defenders of the usurpation They
have about 500 well disciplined men, the larger portion
of whom can fire twenty rounds. noticed some six
eight in Iowa. opposite the city, and numbers of
Mormons lingering around, if watching the orthco
ming destiny Of their friends and only hopes.
The Mormons cast three pieces Of cannon this week,
and have in toto five six FOUNDERS.
The antics have collected to the number of six hun
dred men in Carthags-haYe five pieces Of srleryob-
serve minute military order-and appear deerminedto
enter Nauvoo on Saturday next
The destruction and defence of the temple seem
TO be, to great extent, the watchwords of the
parties. There is also given a letter from Gov.
Ford, directing Major Parker of the 32d regiment
to repair to Nauvoo, and assist in defending the
city. Upon the receipt of this, Major p publishes
his proclamation, to whichpohn Carlin replies,
refusing TO acknowledge his authority, and decla-
ring himself as acting legally. Major Parker, on
receipt ofthis, writes to Carin, requesting himl to
dispense his posse, and trust to him to enforce the
laws
These facts indicate that it is moro than pro.
bable that Nauvoo will yet be the scene Of battle
and murder
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20, 1916.
The MormoMs in Paragraph.
The strange history of the Mormons, the mar
vellous accounts of their great temple, and the
singular fact of people distinct in religion, Gus
toms and social institutions, living and fourishing
in the midst of overwhelming masses bitterly op-
posed to them, had long aroused in me desire of
visiting a community yet in existence, which ere
long might only be traced In the records of the
past. With superhuous amount of funds,
therefore, and tine single, but of late unaccustom
ed luxury of change of linen and spotless GALL
gaskins, awaited the arrival Of a boat from the
lower regions-of the Mississippi, mean. The
opportunity was not long wanting. The
deep asthmatic thunder of one of these fresh wa
ter monsters was soon heard laboring away afar
in the horizon, and tn lapse of brief hour
so, behed her surging naaniully up the stream and
fastening to the floating wharf on shore. To de-
scribe Mississippi boat in detail, would be to
give you a brief but glowing, picture of Noah's
ark, with all its beasts, birds, and creeping
things, and to give you any adequate
idea of .,the hurry burly, topsy turvy pro-
cess OF unloading, more particularly with heavy
wind and rapid current, would be to transport
ltical meeting in the Park. Suffice it then to say,
that with each eye looking in different ways after
lodging several arm-fulls of cord wood-bu
OF tobacco, pigs of lead and whisky barrels after
numerous skltul evoutlons over slippery planks,
and divers exhibitions of posturing among empty
hogsheads and rolling kegs, that would not have
disgraced pfofes of the tight rope, at length
found myself saisfyha s i firmly meant to say
cious-hurry and heller SHELTER was the order of
the day. Comma nds and counter mands rapidly
followed, and with grand flourish of hallowing,
squabbling and shutting, at the expense oil divers
tender shins, and a mans hat overheard, we at
last swung of and CALAMITY pushed up the stream.
The banks of the Mississippi this point, with the
exception OF the bluffs OF Warsaw are elevated
but slightly above its current, exposing deep
black and rich stratum of mould seven or eight
feet in thickness, and constituting in fact div-
sion of the famous !" Mississippi Bottoms" Here
the dense prmeval forests crowd down to the very
waters edge, and fling their broad arms fa- over
its bosom, dropping with the tendrls Of the ivy
cucumber vine, and festooned with the purple
clusters of the wild grape,s sr the scarlet blossoms
stems dim and distant vistas may be seen wind
ing to obscurty, and rare scenes of sylvan beauty
stretch away in endless succession-here shroud-
ed in rank growth OF grassy vegetation and wild
vet-like sward, over which the deer still gambols
as of yore, and the panther and lynx yet find re-
treat and subsistence. This neglected region still
sleeps in the tranquility OF bygone centuries, and
the silence of natures world viii yet hnger long
among its solemn arches, unbroken save by the
report of the hunters rifle, the deep reverbera
tons OF some aboring steamer But all this
beauty Of scene is but the deceptive coloring OF
danger. The fatal malaria arising from numerous
stagnant ponds and vast inland bodies of water,
whose depths never know current, and surface
Is thicky coated over with an accumulation OF
deep green, heavy slime, through which the trails
of the otter and rattle-snake may be seen winding
for hours after their passage, together with the
rank exhalations from shore, marsh and lake, rem
dered an hundred fold more malignant by the IN
tense and unremitting heat CT the sun, hangs
like pau over the earth; and scenes where
Eden might be pictured, now only give pro-
lection to the wild denizen of the forest,
and to all others harbor disease and death in
every breeze. A few miles farther brought
in sight of the town of keokuk; but
here my reflection on the ultimate destiny ofthese
fertile regions, when the hand of man, and the
united etfons OF dense population thall have re-
moved many of the prevailing causes Of unheal-
thiness, were brought to untimely end by a
certain indetinable craving not easily described
Alas a weakness too common to steamboat ira
vellers, after hearty dinner. In plain English,
was rampant after a cigar, and forthwith pro-
ceeded to make the acquaintance of that high po-
tentate, and arch tnncuonary on the Mississippi,
the bar keeper. This character, generally the
prince OF good fellows, found in the present in
stance, to be a Grabbed old Frenchman, whose
sourness of visage was only equalled by his own
cider, and which, no doubt, to put the most cha
ritable construction on the matter, had turned his
brandy into water, and his wines into vinegar
Him found in that state, certain somniierous
poets describe as approaching nearest the celes-
tial, namely, gentle doze Despairing of obtain
ing his aid in that condition, | proceeded to ad-
dress this spirit of spirits, in potent adJuration,
consisting chiefly of divers cultural hens and
haws, intermIngled occasionally with an ominous
rafting of small change; but alas he was long
deafto all my spells, until stentorian voice roared
ont over my shoulder, HALO, stranger, amt you
round, and behelda gigantic, bread shouideied
long-armed, open-mouthed geodnatured looking
characer,who, in every hneament ofhis frank ,fro-
hcksome countenance bore the stamp of"old Ken
k."."That are chap" continued he, in an under