New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-02

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To which add So for the number of Gov. Youngs
wives, and we have the whole number OF females thus
represented by the members Of the Legislature Off
Of same, and his Excellency amounting to 800;
or, in other words, 40 men have 400 wives. W
One of the most remarkable Of the peculiarites of
Mormonism consists in the with which it is at
tended in Europe. In England especially proselytes
have been very numerous, and Utah has received a
considerable portion OF its profitable dnpes from that
country. We learn, also, that in the Scandinavian
countries their missionaries found fruitful soil and
gained thousands of converts, many among the agr
cultural classes. From Denmark some of these
apostles to the Gentes ourneyed to Hamburg, where
they firmly established themselves and have already
written German translation of the Book of Mormon
They have also penetrated Saxony and have succeed
ed III forming society of adherents in the city of
Dresden, carefully avoiding any collision with the
police, who are ever on the alert for religious
sects, suspecting every new doctrine to be a mere
cloak for some political plot The apostles seem to
have plenty of funds at their command, apparently
derived from England, which they assist the needy
among their proselytes. Several families have re
Gently left Dresden for Liverpool, where they will
meet other converts, and continue their journey to
the New Jerusalem in the great interior salt basin
of America" Recently the Mormon community in
the city of Dresden numbered sixty members, males
and females belonging to various grades Of society,
some of them persons Of high intellectual endow-
ments. The greater part of these newborn saints
making preparations to forsake the thraldom Of
the heathens' and journey to Utah. ss f
The following are some selections of the sayings
Of Brigham Young, the prophet, variety of col
lateral topics. He still storms and raves, and hurls
naughty defiance against all the outside worlds
PoLYGAMY ACKNowLEDGED.--True,w we have more
wives than one, and what OF that? They have their
scores of thousands Of prostitutes; we have nome
But polygamy they are striving to
prevent; when they will accomplish their object is
not for me to say They have already presented a
resolution in Congress that man in any of the Ter
rtores of the United States shall be allowed to have
more than one wife, under penalty not exceeding
fipn m M a1uUdr
How will they get rid of this awful evil in Utah %
How IT MAY BE GOT RID OF.-They will have to
expend about three hundred millions for building
prison. for must all go to prison. And after they
have expended that amount for prison, and rooted
it over from the Rocky Mountains to the summit of
the Sierra Nevada, we will dig out and go preaching
through the world "A voice on the stand I. What
will become of the women? viii they go to prison
with US ri Brother Heber seems concerned about
the women's going with us they will be with us,
for we shall be there together. This is o little
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AN ARGUMENT FOR MoRMosIsM -Mormonism is
true and all hell cannot overthrow it. All the devils
servants on the earth may do all they can, and, as
Brother Clinton has Just said, after twentysix years
faithful operation and exerton by our enemies in
Gliding the time when Joseph had scarcely man to-
stand by him, and when the persecution was severe
on him it was in the world, what have they accom-
plished
NATIoN.-They have succeeded in making US an or
ganized Territory and they are determined to make
US an independent State or government, and as the
Lord lives it will be 1.-THE congregation shouted
Amen.l say, as the Lord lives, we are bound to
become sovereign State in the Union, or an indie
pendent nation by ourselves and let them drive US
from this place if they can; they cannot do it. LIDO
not throw this out as banter. You Gentiles and
hickory and Eastwood Mormous can, write it down ii
you please and write it as speak it.
BUTTERMILK AND POTATOES RECOMMENDED AS
DIET FOR THE ELDERs.--I want to see the Elders
live on buternk and potatoes and when they return
be more faithful But they missionaries to the
kingdom of God, and when they have been gone a
year or two, many OF them come back merchants,
aud how they swell how popular Mormonsm Is
we get trusted at st. Louis ten thousand dollars
as well as not and in New York Brother Bngham's
word is so good that we can get all the goods we
want. Mornonism is becoming quite popular Yes
and so are hell and the works of the devil When
Mormonism finds favor with the wicked in this land
it is gone into the shade but until the power OF TIT
| priesthood is gone, Mormonism will never become
popular with the wicked Mormonism is not one
farthng better than it was in the days of Joseph.
THE TROUBLES OF MORMON PATRIARCH ILLUS
TRATED-If would suffer it, should have to lay ou
$500 yearly for morocco shoes and bootees at from
three to five dollars pair, for the women could moi
wash without putting on a pair of fine shoes How
many times have told you these things? They are
on my mind all the time, and cannot get them off
Il but must keep telling you until my mission Is com
plete; cannot help it. foresee the consequence OF
an rnwise course as plainly as see your faces to-day
FATHERLY ADVICE TO CALIFoRNIA EMIGRANTs,
temen and ladies, you who wish to go to California
or to the States, go in welcome. / had rather you
would go than stay. wish every one to go who pre-
fers doing so, and if they will go like gentlemen they
go with my best feelings; but if they go iike rascas
and knaves, they cannot have them. nave meyer
requested but two things of these who leave namely
to pay their debts and not steal That is all nave
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