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Show A Tenia). Editors Herald: In a letter over the signature o( Ann Eliza Young, published in the New York Herald, of a recent date, and copied in the Salt Lake Tribune of June lib Lb, l find a reference to me, ia which the writer says: "He (meaning (mean-ing me) was very angry indeed, and when I left my home and went to the Walker bouse, in Salt Lake city, be saw an opportunity for revenge, and sold himself to Brigham to swear against me. My lawyers ascertained that he really was a bad man, whoso oath would not be accepted in court. He afterwards wrote to me and called at their office spying that the D.inites took him out on a hill one night and told him they would kill him if he did not do it; that he never wanted to harm me, and if we wuuld pay him he would Isave the territory and not appear against me. We utterly re-fuitid re-fuitid to accede to his demands." All of tbe above I pronounce absolutely abso-lutely false, io eveiy p.nlicular. J did not sell myself to, nor take a bribe from Brigham Young. I hai no such conversation with Ann Eliza's attorneys as she asserts. Those attorneys at-torneys are now in the city, and if they will tell the truth tbey will verify my statement in this matter. I never'told them that if they would pay me I would leave the territory, and in fact never aaked them for jmenfy nor intimated that I wanted i any. I In connection with this matter, in which my name has been mixed up i a good deal recently, I wish to say i further that, it having been exten-sivt-ly published that Brigham Young1 had an affidavit of Bjb Houghton, 'alleging that he (II.) had associated ;crimirilly wiih Aun Eliz-t, Brigham Yuuug hits no affidavit alleging the , abovtj signed R. E. Httislup, which is my uuine. R. E. Haiblup. Salt Lake, June 20, 1877, , |