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Show The Usual SrvLn. The New Y'ork llenthl publishes a letter from this city, bearing dale December 4th, which has not even the claim of originality to entitle it to a notice. It professes to give an "inside view'' of the late drilling in the 2uth Ward and the causes which led to the arrest of some of the officers. The Salt Lake Herald published an honest statement of the facts concerning the affair, and then dealt somewhat in burlesque on it. This sapient scribbler simply seeks the New York Hirahl as a medium through which to say that we failed to tell the truth. The gist of the letter is: that the Mnroions are rebellious we believe be-lieve that was published before somewhere; some-where; that Judge Hawley is fearless in the discharge of his duty (!) hm ! that Mormons are terrible hands at inventing in-venting falsehoods this fellow could give them ninety-five per cent, discount dis-count and run away from any of them; that the Federal officials here are patterns pat-terns of purity, perfection and patriotism: patriot-ism: that it is an "unmitigated falsehood" false-hood" about the "ring;" and that is about the substance of it. Had the letter been published where the writer is best known, we would not have noticed no-ticed it: as ii is, we can only say, it is a pity the New York Herald, or any other leading paper, should lend its columns to so mendacious and utterly ujreiiabie a tool as the writer, who thrusis himself unasked into decent men s company and appropriates their casual re-marks as if they were addressed ad-dressed personally to himself. |