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Show A MISTAKEN IDEA- la a letter received by a KcnllcLuaD of thiri city, from a correspondent id Ilottton, the I'ullowiug pannage occurs: I see by the newspaper that yuu am about to muke a mtw exoduH to a now land, wlicroyna think you can bo i'ro.o from moicKlalion troui Gciitilu p.0lc. I am nrry tliat alter yritrrf of patient industry filch at no people in the world produced thn liko, you nro oblixd to rcHort to voluuiary cxil'i to efjny peaceably your religion. I know iho bincrity, tlm d!votiuo aril the ciilui-priac ciilui-priac of tho Mormons, and I know, too, that thoy are not interiu'iddl'Ts with other people's pn.HMCrtf ion or reli-giooH, reli-giooH, and I leol tho moro on LhU account for you. I am intfiri'sted in yn personally, fur your kimlnHH to run, both when at. the city and Mince. Slul! you no with thorn to Arizona V Tim idea of a general eiodan of tbo Mormons from I hah had been widi ly ommentcd on in tlio oaitcro papcrn, and wo prcHuino id very cocrully believed theio. X; hd its origin in tho preaj dilate he a neat f.oio this point, the public not having hav-ing yet fully learned Low utterly unreliable thoy arc; aud they tortured and distorted, in tho usual fashion, Home words upokcn by President Young at Conf'orcnoo into such a meaning. If tho Mormons aro about to loavo Utah we havo not yet learned of it. A settlement is being formed south of tit. George, in Arizona, juat as all tho other Mormon settlements havo been formed in tho Great Jiasio HOttlcmonta extending into Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. Tho objeot is to aubduo another portion of this great interior wilderness, to aid in ruakibg tho Indians in that region more tractable, tract-able, peaceable and civilized, and probably prob-ably to assist in building tho TexaB Pacific- railroad. Pio.iJuut lirigliam Young may possibly go down tlicro to wintor, as tho climate is salubrious, and mild. Wo do not know more of tho subject than ho announced at Confercnoo, but should iufor from what ho then naid tint it is probab'e ho may go Ihcro fir iho wiutor. This is about iho extent of tho "exodus." The Morincni cxroct to remain in Utah; thoy expect io enjoy tlieir legal and constitutional ri.hts here, and no more: and they ca'o ilatu to oultivato tho ground, work mino.", develop luaoufioturcs, and umko in theso val-lrys val-lrys a commonwta'th that will bo the admiration of tlio e iun'ry and of tho world. |