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Show A NriK-IIUKX ARTK lill. It is remarkable what a reputation the New York Ita-aM has acquired during the last year for gassy self-laudation self-laudation and unreliable sensationalism. sensational-ism. The country began to feci disgusted dis-gusted before the tanlcy-Africanus braggadocio censed, and the imprisoned impris-oned commissioner business proved a more sickening dose still. The Vienna Vien-na telegrams, written by novelists who bad no realization of news, and some of whom reported 'be opening of the exposition without secuig it, wad another of the windy, puily style of sensations. And since then the Khiva correspondence, made up from old magazine essays on the Crimean war, re-vamped and remodeled to lit the circumstances of the Russian ivd-vance ivd-vance on the Khanrmte, is the latest of the IfcivM's fiascos. We give below be-low a spcciiueu of the old twaddle upon Utah alliiirs, filial with the usual systematic misstatements and direct falsehoods, manufactured with a purpose, but too transparent to deceive those who are able to study and understand the situation for themselves. The article is scarcely worthy the space granted it. except as a specimen of New York Jlmih' humbug and w ind. It is taken from the issue of the A)th instant. Till: ITAH JI IMCIAltY TKOl. lll.l--. R-v this time it must be nauseating to the reading public to nntiee that, time after time. Rrigham Young, an ignorant but astute religious fanatic, puts at defiance the legitimate tonus of government which the Republic, for the development of the country, has seen fit to adopt in the Territories Territo-ries under its immediate tutelage. Two week ago we drew attention 10 the ridiculous taree of legal pnn-ced-ims in I" tali, in which the juries of the tederal Courts could only auine an existence by the united consent of the litigants, and that all criminal jurisdiction was virtually at an end in that Territory. Rv telegrams from Washington yesterday we learn that the federal government is now awa- i,..,HT.,wi';,.ri,i ti..it. ti,.. . lvpresentationc. wen.1 not only true in fact, but demand serious attention. The Attorney -Uouenu's department throws the responsibility of thi-conru-i sion upon Cwigiess. and no doubt j with good reason hold? the ropresmt-i ropresmt-i atives ot the nation responsible-. Rut j w'uile it is the clear and indisputable ; fact that the lower house has Ihx-u j slow to look at I tali a flairs within the i.is; three years, and so deal with its enormities as the house had done in termer years, it is a melancholy truth ti;at.ju:iu proportion as Rrigham Young's commercial dealings with eastern merchants haw become pr"f-itabie pr"f-itabie and desirable to eor.tir.ue. so in tint ratio iias he derived strength in Congress. At some liiture lime it may not Iv amiss tor the U- rc'i to ventilate the measures t;U;en by some of the :uc:x-:i:i;iie heusCs of t:;:s tity. IJosten and Fhii.uielph:;! to preven: th.e action of Congrtss in deaiiug di- j nxtly witii Utah. How humiliating for a proud nation to listen to tin? daring and ranting psUeiio-pltel wh.eu he slaij-is i;p ;y:brr his p.-r. connd.ing pon-le in 1 his TaN.-rr.acie. and toils t:.e:ii that1 he can at any moment buy up Con- I gr-.ss and ti:e government o:hei:ds wh.enever it pha.--.-s his fancy or lo.- j necessity may demainl such vni. I 1 It divelvt-s r,-vii Rrc? :..!(. :it Li:i:.t -.0 N clear a::d .mph.irie in hi- s-,:: ;-Tt ; of tlie lev t era 1 authority in that 1 rri- j ton-, and the whole nation will en- j dorse every cor.stitunonai mans ti:.u 1 can lv d-.v-sxU ibr riddir.g the lni:ei States of tlie scaj-d tl of barbarism in Utah: and. as Brihani Yo-uug g, :s march of e:v;.: u:ou w: i:,.t N" ro-taiih'f ro-taiih'f bv hi- wiun and n..;w and his" New York dry g.,,b nur-j ' chants, grocers- and shoviu.tk-Ts w'-M j 1 wind up thtir win working ai W.1-I1- 1 ingtou. ! |