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streng box of this audacious adventurer.
The last estimate which we have seen of
his wealth placed it at eighteen millions
sterling; and, making all allowances for ex-
aggerations, there can be no doubt that he
possessed, and probably still possesses, in
spite Of his reported IiberaIity to his six
teen wives and sixty children, a vast for
tune. He ruled his people with severity,
and nothing was allowed to come between
his will and it's execution; but their obedi-
ence was rewarded by protection and by
the enforcement Of a system OF thrift,
economy, and industry which enabled
them to enrich him without impoverishing
themselves. His capital was in some re-
spects an ideal city; 1t contained no pau
per, no prostitute, and no thief BY the
system of polygamy which he invented
and which he practised with zeal, he held
out to the class of men from whom in
every land he drew his followers a strong
temptation and a fascinating lure !; and he
compelled the submission of women to his
system by enforcing on their weak and
superstitious minds the belief that through
this thorny and painful part alone could
they attain eternal life. It may be a ques-
ton whether Brigham Young, by his long
life spent in deceiving others, learned at
last to deceive himself, and to regard him
self as anything but a successful impostor.
1t is not probable There is nothing Of the
enthusiast in his nature he is cold, pas
s%ionless, and heartIess /; intensely selfish,
but not with that kind of s~eIfishness which
deceives it's posssessor into the idea that
the Happiness of others is best advanced
by his own exaltation. He is now u
years old, and bis future career can scarce
ly be an e|ventful one. If he would be
kind enough to devote his remaining years
to writing his confessions" and if he
executed that duty with candour, he would
do something to atone for the mischief he
has wrought. The United States Govern
ment may we'll congratulate themselves on
their good fortune. Brigham Young, by
his abdication, has probably done that for
them which they could not do for them
selves. Deprived Of him, the Mormon
community will speedily sink into the
position of a weak and decaying sect and,
through no exertions of its own, the Amer
lean Government will be rid of a foul and
dangerous eXcrescence upon the body pO-
little. Brigham Yonng has sent by tele-
graph to the Nel0 York HERALD a long state
ment of his policy. Ho says: " For over
forty years 1 have served my peop'e, la
bouring necessarily. | am now nearly
seventy-two years of age, and 1 need re-
Taxation. My resignation as trustee of the
Church, President of the Zion Cooperative
Mercantile Institution, and as President of
the Deseret National Bank, is made solely
from secular cares, and does not affect my
position as President of the Church We
intend to establish a settlement in Arizona,
in the country of the Apaches, persuaded
that if we become acquainted with them
we can influence them beneficia!ly. We
hope to assist in the construction OF the
railway which is to cross that country, and
bring a large portion of our emigration
that way" Brigham Young abandons the
old Mormon policy of exc, usiycness. He
invites good citizens to settle in Utah
urges capitalists to invest their money
there; and promises that their property
shall be protected and lightly taxed.-TRe
European Mail.
A TALKING MACHINE.-A p]ersevering