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Show THE MILITIA.. Loud Howls and iJeucetl Little ... Wool We have denied so often tho infernal in-fernal lies manufactured in tha Tri buno office in this city, and tele graphnd to the Now York Herald and San Francisco Chronicle, concerning the arming and mustering of the Nauvoo Legion, that it is becoming like Brick Pomeroy'a diot of onions fearfully monotonous. Although we have made diligent inquiry, wo have failed to learn that a single company of the militia has met for drill, or that any drill is aLlicipated. There is no denying tho fact that some weak minded people hare become be-come frightened by the sensational stories, and in California the excitement excite-ment is said to be intense, a general slaughter of Gentiles in Utah being confidently expocted. This seems like the veriest nonsenso, and doubtless doubt-less the villainous liars who started the stories, snicker in their sleeves at the breeze they have created. We undertake to assert that not half a iozen sane men can be found in the torrilory, who have the slightest fear of viuleuca from Mormons. Tiitre is no occasion for the least apprehension, and all know it; yet, two or three scoundrelly newspaper reporters have put in circulation a base lie which, if unchecked, might bring ruin and deflation upon a whole territory. .Wo publish below an article Irom the Corinne Record, in which the editor of that journal gives the lie direct to his Kansas border brolbsr scriba of this cify. The editor of tho Record, ai can b seen by the extract, is no Mormon sympalhizsr, yet he has the manhood man-hood to deny the Tribune's falsehoods. false-hoods. Does anyone suppose that if there were any real danger of the Mormons rising to do violence to Gentiles Gen-tiles the proposition ..is . nlmo.it laughably absurb - that the handful hand-ful of an ti Mormon cit'zaus in Corinne would sleep peacefully and Cicbe valley the alleged head and front of the military movement within a lew miles of tho burg on thfl Rfla Fnrtlinr. Inn wi-hIIi, iif : the Tribune give the lie to their own words by roonug about the stre'e' of ibis city, without (ear of moltsiatiou. f there were truth in what they said, bow Ijng would they dare to remain in Utah? -Again we assert that the business men of Salt Lake and of ; Utah, Mormon and Gentile, owe it to themselves to deny the truth of these stories, and send it out to the world that supremest peace and monotonous quiet exist in all sections of tbe territory. terri-tory. Here is what the Record has to say of the Cache valley stury: For some weeks pnst rumors have been rile that the Mormons throughout through-out the territory especially in the northern portion were arming anJ drilling with a view to resist the execution exe-cution of tbe law. One sensation-monger sensation-monger in particular the Salt Lake tribune has spar eil no eflort to set this community belore the people ! east and west as in a etate of insurrection, insurrec-tion, giving the impression that a i general' uprising of tbe Mormons was imminent, that destruction to I the road-beds ol the railroads was being planned, and that a feeling ot insecurity of life and Mmb was prevalent preva-lent among the Gentiles and apostate Mormons. Tuese reports have not only been publiihfcd here, but have been telegraphed east and west, causing caus-ing great excitement and injuring the buttinees interests of the territory. Seme few daye-ago the Record took up these stories and, on information aud belmf, characterized them as aensational, much to tho diBgu.it of our rabid Salt Lake contemporary, whose only object it appears is to misrepresent Utah matters for the purpose of getting notoriety as the reat(?) Gentile organ of the territory. terri-tory. In order to get at the bottom of the matier, the Record sent a representative rep-resentative uj Logan and other towns in Cache valley the very stronghold jr Mormonism to ascertain what ; grounds, if any, thsre wers for the stories, and to make the most diligent inquiries and report just what the facts in the case warranted. The reporter performed his mission,-and ihe result only confirms our previous invielion, that a great deal of undue excitement has been worked up in relation to the matter. Logan was the first place visited, n this town there is but one Gentile resident, the balance ol the non-Mar-. mon population beinn apostates. It was ascertain! aud this fact probably prob-ably furnished ground for the Tri bune's statement that the Nauroo Legion and Mormons generally were arming and drilling by night that a tmall squad of boys had been in tho uabit ol meeting and, without arms ot any description, going through ordinary military drill, sometimes doing so in open daylight on the public pub-lic square, and sometimes using private pri-vate buildings. And as totbedis patch reported to havo been sent by Brigham Young- to the bishop at Logan, calling on the Mormon to prepare themselves with arms and ammunition and be ready for their enemies meaning the officers of the law there could not be found in all Logan a non-Mormon who saw thedis patch or beard the discourse preached by the bishop. In answer to the inquiry of whether such movements ere on loot by the Nauvoo legion as to cause alarm and jeopardize the peace ol the territory, it was averred by all with whom the Record reporter came in contact that no danger of any kind was anticipated, no outbrtak feared, and no necessity for any steps being taken in the matter by Goi. Emery. All along the line, at settlements afcoYe and beluw Logan, non-Mormons were met with who dt-clare that, to their knowledge-, no tueh drilling had taken place, and no cause existed for any alarm. Written statement! to this effect have alsu been received at the Record oHioe, sent by men Gentilea who are trustworthy in ovury respect, and who, if anv real cause existed for alarm, are in a position to kuow it, and weuld not be slow to claim the protection of the proper au thorities. One and all, they declare that the publication of such report were uncalled for, sensutional, aud calculated to injure their business interests. in-terests. In this immediate vicinity, nothing ol a mili'.u.ry nature is observable in the doings of the Mormons, and now, so lar as northern Utah is concerned, our readers can judge for themselves whether any good ground exists fur the alarm occasioned by the published an 1 telegraphed stories of an inaurrec- ' lion. The Mormons are well aware that no such demonstrations will be brooked by Governor. Emery, and t although we cannot doubt that theii will to defy his authority is good enough, still a fuar ol tne conse yuences dolors tlietu hum doing :mght that would briny li. ' u Ulcers dI the law down upon them. |