Show GOSSIP FROM THE ATLANTIC if ever I 1 carried a prayer to a throne of grace it was waa my wish that the democratic convention conven tiou in chicago would not recognize the utah alvage ai vage calling themselves it to ie gratifying to know that my prayer was answered an old proverb speaks of people going for wool and coming back shorn the Tuc went for hair and returned soaked scalded scalped ped where are they now A vessel was waa sunk a few nights ago off long island and none were left to tell the story of the lost buta but a white hat bat a du dua teran umbrella and a very large wo mouth nth were round found floating it jib is thought they belonged to lo one of a band of savages that was very noisy in chicago a few days ago did I 1 hey hive have sense enough to go and drown themselves if so 80 nothing in their lives so became them as the leaving of it too bad though that they lost their dust ere As aa they will need light clothing now boston is ie very wet and the air Is i abominable I 1 had no idea the old place coull behave so badly new england is 18 busy everywhere graduating boys boy and girls I 1 called on president eliot eilot yesterday and found him busy tomorrow is commencement at harvard he poke laughingly of the treatment he h had received on account of his address in salt lake and has not changed his mind I 1 met J M tanner and several other utah men and have w pressing invitation to visit them on friday I 1 have also met hon P A collins coll ins who chatted interestingly about utah utah in congress Con gresi for his part there some years ago in reference to the el munds tucker bill 1 I think it was waa he received many letters from ministers minister lawyers laymen and other old women in utah den denouncing jouncing him for daring to assume in any wise that th at the mormons cormons were not beasts of the field mr collins colline was the first to inform me of the fate of the the east ein papers never to even mention the existence of the band I 1 chave met representative editors and managers of the leading dailies here abd nd have engaged to furnish them matter frova utah with the under standing thin I 1 am working only for for fair play and equal rights for the mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 can see a great chat igei among paper men man since I 1 began to coax them two years and a half ago to publish something that had a kind word for a misunderstood people the press prees can do grand work where it tan fan afford to be brave and independent and it is the prom press far more than the politicians that is breaking down the prejudices against utah through more intelligent public opinion I 1 went to church twice last sunday Inthe in the afternoon to hear rev Justin D fulton on romanism 11 1 1 if he had bad used the term mormonism his discourse would have been exactly of the anti mormon character so often heard in salt lake in fact it seemed to me that the speaker was reading editorials agai against nat his attacks and denunciations were vere very coarse but they suited the anti anil catholic rabble that heard him A pamphlet was circulated pur purporting to t be letters froma froslan an eminent emine zif catholia Cat catholic holig 0 to the catholics in which the most open defiance of the government was urged I 1 saw that it was waa a ly a bishop weak affair and I 1 saw that people were deci declever cleved de eved by it hence I 1 asked the preacher who was the author of the he pamphlet he did not know adow and declared he had nothing to do with it then I 1 asked two of his deacons deao oas they both denied all knowledge of it yet the papers advertised fulton Ful tons Is sermon and added that Is a pamphlet of valuable information that should bein every home will be given to all present 2 all this was in the same advertisement yet neither the preacher nor his right hand men knew anything about it do you imagine I 1 believed him not a minute it was simply a bit of fraud just such fraud as has been played hundreds of times against the mormons cormons by unscrupulous men and women in the evening I 1 went to hear a unitarian on emerson emersion 12 there was no fraud about it but it was the most tame and insignificant treatment of a grand subject I 1 ever heard the man fulton was a mountebank the unitarian a dudel dude of all the hypocrisies to be found in the pulpits of today the greatest is this pretended religion that to is every thing and aad nothing its ministers are intelligent fellows they are generally atheists when judged by the bible they are up in modern science the younger ones but neither young nor old has the courage of his convictions or the manhood to rise above the theft of the name achris chriatian 11 to cover their infidelity CHARLES ELLIS |