The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-09-14

| amAse great fortunes; but Wnat would become OF
the good psme and fame of the State? Let no
one be simple enough to believe that they care
aIy thing about that To them Excelsior" refers
only to the stock list when they are in the mar
ket to sell.
NEWS FROM UTAH-TERRIBIE EXCITEMENT
AMONG THE MoRMoNs.-The copious details of
the news which we publish from our latest files of
the Mormon newspaper organ at the Great Salt
Lake, will attract this morning the special atten
ton of our readers. Brigham Young. fully ap-
p,ised of the intentions Of the administration,
has stirred up the Saints to an awful pitch of ex
element They threaten the determination of
the United States army and the destruction of
the government. The army in Flanders
never swore more terribly" than does the
Mormon prophet and his apostles. He says -
II declared in Nauvoo, when my enemies looked
me in the face, that would send them to hell
acroes lots, and ask no more odds of all hell to-
day !" and if this is from speech, as printed in
his official organ at Salt Lake. we may conclude
that he is in earnest and boldly throws down the
gauntlet of treason and rebellion.
But with all their blasphemy, all their cursing
swearing, threats and calculations, we can assure
the Mormon prophet his apostles and his de.
luded followers, that detachment of the United
States army is on its march to Utah, competent
to enforce submission to the laws, should any
resistance be attempted. There is no help for
it. The Mormons must make up their minds for
the abolition of their infamous institution of
polygamy or prepare to quit the country. 1t
will not be the business of Colonel johnson to
reduce, by the bayonet, the prophet, his apostles
and elders to the Gentle arrangement of one wife
for each man; but it will be the duty of the army
to enforce the supremacy Of the laws Of the
United States in Utah over all other laws And
where these federal laws may conflict with the
local arrangements for the protection OF poly
gamy, the latter will have to be abandoned
is all for the present.
II will, however, become the duty of Congress
to look little more deeply into this disgaceful
excrescence of sanity poygamy, and to provide
little more directly for its abolition or its ex-
pulsion than heretofore. Mormondom is, in fact
public nuisance, which cannot safely be permitted
much longer to disgrace our liberal institutions
in the eyes Of the world. II is true that the Nor
mons havesufiered much from lawless prosecutions
and border ruilian spoliations-that they have
not received many special favors from the govern
ment; and that, through habits Of industry and
perseverance, without parallel 10 the history of
any race or sect Of people, they have reclaimed
the deserts OF Utah and made them blossom like
the rose. II is true that their labors In
the settlement Of those almost inaccessible de-
serts, In the irrigation OF their fields, and In the
erection of their various home manufactures,
have been wonderful, and the results almost mi.
raculous; but II is aso true that their filthy insti
tuition of polygamy has reduced this otherwise
useful community to public nuisance, which
must sooner or later, be abated or expelled.
Let the Mormons abolish it themselves-re-
form their dirty religion, reduce each man to one
wife, and provide literally for the re-marriage
and subsistence of their surplus wives and for
conform to the general social laws of the Ameri-
can people, and TO the laws Of the Union, and
they will have nothing to fear. On the contra
ry, the government will literally aid them and
protect them, and eecure them In the country
they occupy against all disturbing intruders
Otherwise, II the Mormon community prefer poly
gamy and it, consequences TO the countenance of
the government and its generous protection, they
must prepare for an exodus to some island or
islands 10 the sea where their religious orgies
will not interfere with the laws and usages of
their neighbors. In the meantime let them not
attempt the expulsion Of the United States army,
for the immediate result Of such fanatical piece
Of folly would be the determination Of the rebels,
the dispersion Of the women and children to the
charity Of the Gentiles, and the restoration of
Utah TO the wild Indians.
A FINANCIAL Revision, But No PASrc.-To
many people it doubtless appears very surprising