A DISGUSTED MORMON GIVING HIS EXPE-RIENCE.—The Troy Whig publishes the statement of Mr. JAMES CHALLONER, formerly a Mormon, now re-siding in Troy. Having become disgusted with Mor-monism, he has returned from Utah, and renounces his errors. He says:
"I having been so unfortunate (with others) as to be induced to leave my native land in 1853 and to emi-grate to the Holy Land of the Latter-Day Saints, and having remained with them until last May, 1858, be-fore I could with safety leave that land of marauders, I feel now that I am safe and can express myself without any fear of their Danite band, as they call them, who do their dirty work, such as cutting throats, disguising themselves as Indians and slaying emigrants and those who undertake to leave them, &c.; also, saving their own members such as they wish to put out of the way. ("Saving" one is to cut his throat, believing that such take part in the first resurrection—and I knew MARIO ANDROS, an Elder and Missionary in England, to save one of his own wives in that way, sanctioned by BRIGHAM YOUNG him-self.) I therefore believe, having suffered great fear and troubles, that it is my duty to warn others that intend emigrating as I did, that the worst opin-ion that can be formed has been realized with them, and it astonishes me to think that such a band of robbers and murderers are allowed to occupy a space in an enlightened land, and I assure you we were glad when the United States took it in hand so as to give us some chance of escape. How-ever, I blame the United States officers for one thing—i. e., BRIGHAM YOUNG was allowed to bring in false debts, taxes, &c., against all those coming away, and those that could not pay had to remain. I think they should all have been freed from that awful banditti. They would even rob each other's storehouses, and commit other acts of murder and cruelty, so that I have known the Indians to upbraid them for their cruelty, and would not join them in a war with the United States. I could write a long and true history of their conduct, give names and particulars; but as I understand there is a party near here on their way to Salt Lake, I write this for their benefit. My name is JAMES CHALLONER. I live in South Troy—aged 63 years."
