From the Baltimore Sun.
The Mormons.
One of the most remarkable of the peculiar-ities of Mormonism consists in the success with which it is attended in Europe. In England, especially proselytes, have been very numerous, and Utah has received a considerable portion of its profitable dupes from that country. We learn also that in the Scandinavian countries their missionaries found a fruitful soil, and gained thousands of converts, many among the agricul-tural classes. From Denmark some of these apostles to the Gentiles journeyed to Hamburgh. Where they firmly established themselves, and have already written a German translation of the Book of Mormon. They have also penetrated Saxony, and have succeeded in forming a society of adherents in the city of Dresden, carefully avoiding any collision with the police, who are ever on the alert for new religious sects, suspect-ing 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, with which they assist the needy among their proselytes. Several fam-ilies have recently left Dresden for Liverpool, where they will meet other converts, and con-tinue their journey to "the New Jerusalem in the great interior salt basin of America." Re-cently 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 en-dowments. The greater part of these new-born "saints" are making preparations to "forsake the thraldom of the heathens" and journey to Utah.
The following are some selections of the "Say-ings of Brigham Young, the prophet, on a vari-ety of collateral topics." He still storms and raves, and hurls haughty defiance against all the outside worlds:
POLYGAMY ACKNOWLEDGED.
'True we have more wives than one, and what of that? They have their scores of thousands of prostitutes; we have none. But polygamy they are unconstitutionally striving to prevent; when they will accomplish their object is not for me to say. They have already presented a res-olution in Congress that no man in any of the Territories of the United Slates shall be allow-ed to have more than one wife, under a penal-ty not exceeding five years' imprisonment and five hundred dollars fine. 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 hun-dred millions for building a prison, for we must all go to prison. And after they have expended that amount for a prison, and roofed it over from the summit of the Rocky Mountains to the sum-mit of the Sierra Nevada, we will dig out and go preaching through the world. [A voice on the stand: 'What will become of the women? Will they go to prison with us?"] Brother He-ber seems concerned about the women going with us: they will be with us, for we shall be here together. This is a little amusing."
AN ARGUMENT FOR MORMONISM.
"Mormonism is true and all hell cannot over-throw it. ALL the devil's servants on the earth may do all they can, and, as Brother Clinton has just said, after twenty-six years faithful op-eration and exertion by our enemies, including the times when Joseph had scarcely a man to stand by him, and when the persecution was as severe on him as it ever was in the world, what have they accomplished?"
HINTS ON THE FORMATION OF AN INDEPENDENT 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 so. [The con-gregation shouted Amen.] I say, as the Lord lives, we are bound to become a sovereign State in the Union, or an independent nation by our-selves; and let them drive us from this place if they can; they cannot do it. I do not throw this out as a banter. You Gentiles and hickory and basswood Mormons, can write it down if you please; but write it as I speak it."
BUTTERMILK AND POTATOES RECOMMENDED AS DIET FOR THE ELDERS.
"I want to see the Elders live on buttermilk and potatoes, and when they return be more faithful. But they go as the missionaries of the kingdom of God, and when they have been gone a year or two, many of them come back mer-chants, and how they swell, 'how popular Mor-monism is, we can get trusted in St. Louis, ten thousand dollars well as not, and in New York Brother Brigham's word is so good that we can get all the goods we want. Mormonism is be-coming 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 the priesthood is gone, Mormonism will never be-come popular with the wicked. Mormonism is not one farthing better than it was in the days of Joseph."
THE TROUBLES OF A MORMON PATRIARCH ILLUS-TRATED.
"If I would suffer it, I should have to lay out $500 yearly for morocco shoes and bootees at from three to five dollars a pair, for the women could not wash without putting on a pair of fine shoes. How many times have I told you these things? They are on my mind all the time, and I cannot get them off, but I must keep telling you until my mission is complete; I cannot help it. I foresee the consequence of an unwise course, as plainly as I see your faces to-day."
FATHERLY ADVICE TO CALIFORNIA EMIGRANTS.
"It is reported that many are going away. I had rather you would go than stay. I wish eve-ry one to go who prefers doing so, and if they will go like gentlemen, they go with my best feelings; but if they go like rascals and knaves they cannot have them. I have never request-ed but two things of those who leave, namely, to pay their debts and not steal. That is all I have required of them’”
