The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1866-06-05

MORMONDOM.


The Gepsiles have not only invaded
Z Utah, but become bold, even to audacity,
in assailing "the patriarchial institution" !"
The Vidette, which is the GENTLE news
paper, has eyinced degree of radicalism
quite offensive to Mr.. Brigham Young
and bis fellow conservatives. The editor
has been scolded, after the most approved
fashion has been denounced in the
choicest 5illingsgate, and has been fero-
sCiously threatened with various dire at
fictions, from simple cow-hiding up to
bloody assassination, and this without
sbating his public opposition to the name
less pollution of Mormon society. At last
he has been forced to succumb. There
are terrors before which even devoted
martyrs quail and shrink back and so
this editor has suspended over bis head
horrors which appall his sturdy spirit
Just see what is denounced against him,
and how he trembles in prospect of the
impending doom:
awe stop the press to give place to the
following Now as the lark said to her
young ones, Sit IS time for us TO leave !
We could stand the 'bloody hand and the
skedaddle' of other warnings, but the fol-
lowing gets US. Just count US out p
wer SALT LAKE CRY, April 8, 1866.
sslr. EAitor Vidette:-Ify you don't quit abus
ing Stenhouse and the Mormons, we'll come
and marry you, We don't 'mean blood, and
we won't stand to have Stenhouse maligncd,
SO you look out.
527 MORMON WOMEN"
12fNVe weaken on the turn. viii some
one take our place ? '27 Mormon women?
P-h-e-w We apologize. We don't edit
the Vidette-Stehouse is good fellow
brave man-and be can look dog in
the face Besides he never did borrow
pair of brass knuckles. '27 M D Lord
have mercy upon US, miserable sinners
Don't shoot this way! We are not the man
81 wives Well go"
"Won't Congress hurry up Constitu-
tional Amendment for his reliefI
An Extraordinary Occurrence.
A correspondent Of the Hartford Times
tells story of a volunteer in one of the
Connecticut regiments, who in the ad-
vance of the grand army of the Potomac,
in 1864, was taken sick, died, and was
buried, the correspondent performing the
last sad rites over the remains of the dead
comrade A volley was fred over the
grave aud the soldier was left to his long
sleep. Time passed the war was ended,
the correspondent was honorably dis.
charged, and he had forgotten, in the rush
of events, his cOmTade sleeping by the
banks of the aRapidan, when, the other
day, in Hartford, who should appear be,
fore him but that same dead and buried
soldier. 1t is not strange that he felt a
curious sensation come over him that be
looked at the figure before him without
speaking; that he stepped aside when the
other advanced to him with out.stretched
hand, The denouement is thus given
''Old chum, don't you know me?"
Said I, yes, do! But what in the
name of God are you doing here2 l helped
to bury you, once, in Virginia!
81 know that some one buried me, and
| always thought you was one of the IN as
you were always SO kind to me. But you
see, now said he, offering his hand to me,
that l am flesh and blood"
| shook hands with him, and he told
me that he was in a trance when we buried
bin, and that he was digging his way out
? and had got his head out, when the rebels
came along and assisted him They then
sent him to Libby Prison, where they
kept him in duress for year. They then
sent him to Georgia, where he remained
till the war was ended-Whcn he was re-
leased.
FAME VS.. FoRTUNE.-An anecdote Ii
related of Benjamin West, then small
boy in his Pennsylvania home. LIE ac-
companied neigbor's son. to mill sharing
boy-like,in his ride upon the bags of grain
AS they rode lcisurely on, they discussed
their plans for. the future, and Benny
surprised his young playmate by announc
ing his design to become an artist aac
paint the portraits of kings, queens, anC
mobiles
"Very WE'LL" returned the rustic, ~
intend to be tailor"
s"Then you may ride by YOURSELF" ex
claimed Benny, loaping down from the
back of the thrice ridden horse ''I'Il no