The weekly ledger., 1857-09-19
THE MoRMoNS.

stated which can scarcely be credited:
! Among the most important items | have
to communicate at this writing is one touch
ing the Kingdom of Sin at Salt Lake. The
facts which are developed seem too incredible
for belief; but since learning them from the
mouth of one who was six years ago Saint
and President of the Mormon City, and who
is still in correspondence with Sodom, where
they yet believe him to be one of the faithful
have also learned from Col. j. G..
father-in-law of Gen. V. +. II, that
my information is corroborated by the mouths
of several other witnesses who believe in its
truth.
Ny informant-with whom / became ac-
c;dentally acquainted through a business in
PRODUCTION, and whom shall for prudential
reasons designate as Mr.. B-receivcs his let
ters by private hand; no letters being entrus-
ted by the Mormons to the U. s. mail. He
tells me that he knolcs the object of their lea
ders, of whom Brigham Young is the Su-
preme Power-that it is to conquer the world,
and to bring every nation under their domn-
ion, physically and morally; which will be the
accomplishment of millennium, and Pcace
TnirersaL But the means Of this accom-
plishment are startling.
Every spring and fall, says my informant
company of seventy are ordained" and
sent out to different part of the globe
These Serenties, Of which sixty have already
gone forth as missionaries-m making in all
thus far, forty-two known as Destroying
Angels" and they go into all the world with
out "purse or scrip" and are directed to seek
such employment as will best enable them to
facilitate the great work of their religion
A great number are engaged in the fields of
China, and especially in the manufacture of
tea: into which, during their labors they in
corporate an insidious but fatal poison
Others are engaged in the same Godike (D
work, in the manniactny of liquor and tobac-
co; which articles, together with some others,
are guarded against by the Faithful, who re-
ceive what are called by Brigham, the "1cord
Of lriSdom" and Of course abstain from the
use Of the interdicted articles.
These posons are Of various kinds. Some
are so slow that long periods elapse before
they take effect while at the same time their
fatality may be precipitated by the admxture
of other poisons. One poison within the
knowledge and possession of Brigham pos
sesses qualities that remain inert in the hu-
man system for years before its fatal conse-
quenses are developed.
This may seem to partake largely Of hum
bug in the opinion Of scientific and medical
men, and its possibility may be hooted--
Brigham, indeed, may be complimented upon
his skill in some grand tea and whisky or to-
bacco speculation; or in the working ont of
the temperance reformation. Indeed. he says
that the puplic will not believe such a story
because of its improbability; that he don't
care whether they believe it or not that he
don't care il three-fourths Of his people at
Salt Lake should leave him-one-fourth is suf-
ficient to consumate his work whenever he
chooses to put his power in operations; and
that the United States will be the first to
feel, and the most severely, its effects
Mr.. s. tells me also that Uncle Sans
troops will be received with open arms and
with the greatest hospitality and kindness by
the Mormons at Salt Lake; but no one of
them will ever get away from there. Brig
ham intends to captivate them each with
homestead, six feet by two, in his romantic
valley.
Six years ago, Mr.. A entered the suburbs
of that heather metropolis, and the day be-
fore the arrival there of his company, he met
twelve missionaries, some of whom were his
personal acquaintance from the Atlantic
States, and it was from them he learned the
mission Of the Destroying Angels" and the
"Danitesp
Immediately upon entering the city, which
was about ten O'Clock in the evening, Brigham
Young came out to the street, in his night
dress wearing broad-brinmed black hat, to
observe the company newly arrived. There
was at this moment man named Hyel Saw
age, from Kentucky or Missouri, walking up
and down the street. cursing and shifting his
fist together, saying that only six weeks ago
he had come to this place with a young wife
and two children, and now that id Brigham
Young had made her one of his strumpets;
that he was going to leave the cursed place
for California Brigham, peering out from
under his hat, observed him, and hailing him
said: THUS saith the Lord, before the sun
shall rise and set three times, thou shalt be
lying under the sod" Mr.. b. hearing this
prophecy, thought he would watch for its
fulfllment; when sure enough, on the very
next day the young man, Savage was dead
and buried. His body, in every part was
swollen to the full extent. Mr. b. looked
upon the corpse and drew his own inferance.
The " Dan-ites" are body of "minute-men,"
who are at all times in readiness, at an in
stants notice, to fulfill to the letter the proph-
ceics of Brigham.
have thus given you glance at some of
the features of monster of monsters among
human creatures; which, if it have existence,
is worthy of the highest niche in HelPs Art
Irnion and the deenest damnntinn ON earth