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Show FALSE PROPHETS. While tho Herald has little to say about defunct officials or obsolete events, it takes some saliMacttoa in reminding the croakers who a few weeks Bince predicted blue ruin to this community on account of a change of federal officials, that Utah atill survives; that afl'airs here are in a more settled condition than ever before, and that the great bugbears which have been reared and kept in existence to terrify the nation and lead to the belief that its existence was serious'y imperilled by the condition con-dition of society in Utah have been entirely swept away under a regim of judicial common sense. We nov begin to see how much of the troub'f and perplexity might have beet avoidrd for the past flvo years unde: different auspices. But perhaps tht experience has done the people nr. harm; it has certainly evinced lh( woaknesa and (oily of fanaticism in high places, and it has shown thai patience and a regard for law wiil in the end win against the most formidable formid-able obstacles. The lie has been cast into the teeth oltnose who have charged that the pe -pie cf Utah are disloyal to the government of the United States, or that they require to be kept in congressional servitude or in judicial manacles for the safe y of the nation. We challenge a comparison com-parison between this territory and that ot any other in the United Stales in regard to temperance, good order, and tue practice uf the domestic virtues vir-tues generally. The faUe prophets have stopped howling, and naw pit-oujly pit-oujly whino. They feel that their Occupation of vilifying and slander ing has gone lorever, and that the iriligaiu little credit lor such practi |