The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-15

make bricks without straw-that is, to get ZIP
those wonderful 'mince pies" without raisns.
A Mass OF News from the Mormons-very Pee
culiar-very Funny-very Romantic and
Very Remarkable.
We yesterday laid before our numerous
readers among the Gentiles mass of that
peculiar, racy, romantic, miraculous and very
interesting intelligence of the movements
progress, drawbacks, sayings and doings of the
Latter Day Saints, which can only be gathered
from the files of their official organ, published
at the City of the Great Salt Lake. To all out
siders, "from the rivers to the ends of the
EARTH" and especially to those silly people
among the old countries of Europe who are
hankering for the primitive institutions of the
Jewish patriarchs among the Saints OF Utah,
a careful reading of this mass of news, toge-
ther with these explanatory observations, may
prove to be instructive and seasonable.
At the first glance, it would appear that the
happiest people under the sun are these 'Latter
Day Saints" at their City of Zion of the Great
Salt Lake. Their festivals, anniversaries &C.
lebrations and convivial frolics are go nume
they have already entered into the substantial
enjoyments of the Mormon millennium. From
day to day they "eat, drink and are merry"
and from night to night their religious de-
votons of prayers, revelations, visions and
politics are enlivened by trumpets, drums, fid-
dies and dancing, or agreeably modified by
amateur theatrical diversions What was Ras-
selas in his Happy Valley? What were the
ancient worshippers of Cyprus? and what are
all the destinations Of life among the amiable
natives of the Friendly Islands, in the matter
of solid comfort, compared with the conse
Grated pleasures of the Saints at the Great
Salt Lake? Nothing, absolutely nothing. And
is there prince, king, governor, sultan, pasha,
rajah or potentate of any kind, within the
four continents or among all the islands of the
sea, who has blended all the net profits Of
church and State with greater advantage to
himself than the Mormon Prophet, High
Priest, Head Patriarch, Captain General and
Governor of the United States Territory of
Utah? Not one, by the mass, not one! He
has ninety wives as we are informed-Ameri-
can, English, Danish, Norwegian and Swiss
and, if all reports be true, some concubines
here and there Of the Simon Pure Digger In
dian squaws. And as when King David be-
came old and chilly, the realm Of Israel was
searched for the fairest damsel to comfort
him, so the Mormon Prophet Brigham Young.
(who from Western New York, went into this
thing with the original Jo Smith upon spe-
culation,) can order, as he would barrel of
-four, the fairest Of the fair Of Utah TO the ex-
allied privileges of his seraglo.
Turn we for moment to the entertainment
given by the Governor to Father Bernhisel,
the Mormon delegate to Congress. 1t was in
the Governors new and splendid mansion
elegantly furnished, where the browning glory
Of the feast was the exquisite dessert of
peaches and grapes from his Excellency's
garden And Miss Charlotte Cobb played to
the company upon the piano." the transporta-
ton of which, alone, from the frontiers Of
Missouri, a thousand miles across the unin-
habited plains, and the weary and desolate de-
files of the Rocky Mountains, must have cost
several thousand dollars What a splendid
fellow must this be, who, thousand miles
from ~ boGdsrs of civilized society, can build
pElAtG and MfnYsh it with the bijouterie of
Paris, and stock it as with the houris of Siam
boul
All this, however, is but a superficial view of
Mormondom 1t is the distant prospect of
fine looking edifce, which, upon nearer inspec-
ton, proves to be prison, workhouse and
a lunatic asylum combined. The real condi-
ton of the Mormons may be briefly summed
up. The few green and artifcially watered
patches Of land which they occupy in the vast
arid desert Territory Of Utah, are cut off by
intervening deserts and mountains. as we have
said, thousand miles from the inhabited
frontiers Of the Mississippi Valley, and about
the same distance from the settled costs of
Oregon and Of California; while, to the south
ward, an unbroken desert stretches away into
the very heart of Mexico. Such is the geo
graphical situation OF this Mormon Paradise
Like Crusoe on his desolate island, they are
isolated from the world, and must depend up
on their own resources But the grasshoppers
have been among them, wasting their fields
like clouds Of African locusts, and cramping
their means of subsistence to the hazards of
general famine with another such visitation
At the same time such Gentiles as have so
journed among them assure us that their pa
trarchal system Of matrimony is productive
Of untold miseries, suierngs and sorrows to
the wretched victims of this horrid imposture,
that "the Perpetual Emigrating FUND.- is gull
trap, of which Father Brigham is the absorbing
beneficiary, and that the fathcrly protection
of the faithful by the Governor and the prize, t.
hood is that protection which pack of wolves
accord to flock Of silly sheep.
The accessions of late years to this wretched
community are almost entirely from the igno-
rant and infatuated or criminally disposed
people of the overpopulated nations Of Europe:
and ii is for their information that we saw
that a pilgrimage Of an honest family to Nor
mondom, in order to live life of abundance.
happiness and holiness among the Saints, is a
FOOLS Grand and will inevitably end in crime