MUTINY AMONG THE MORMONS.

Southland Times, Issue 1223, 15 March 1870, Page 3

MUTINY AMONG THE MORMONS.

.*■•;.. j . (New ATorh Serald,) . It is reported from Salt Lake City that mutiny in tbe Mormon camp has become so rampant that the convocation ofthe elders have felt it necessary to make examples of a number of dangerous heretics by excommunication. If this news is true, it is very significant ; for Stenhouse's paper has heretofore been the Moniteur, the official organ, of Brigham Yonng. If there is td he, however, a general break-up of Mormendom in Utah, we have no fears of Stenhouse. He is a smart, industrious, enterprising man, and will be able to save himself from the wreck. Some eight or ten years ago he was a reporter on the 'New York Herald '; but he wanted to be a Mormon, and so he set out for the Promised Land ofrrUtah with a wife and five* young children, saying he would get there if he had to take the little ones in a hand cart. And he did get there, though he was compelled, with his wife, to wheel three of his children — of six weeks, two, and four years old, 800 miles over the Plains and Rocky Mountains in a hand-cart. Thus safely landed ia the Mormon Zion, Stenhouse lost no time in getting up a newspaper, and from that day to this he has prospered like a green-bay tree. He has made a fortune, and has increased his household to nine wives and a whole flock of children. His eldest daughter is one of the wives of Joseph Young, Brigham's eldest son. Stenhouse has made a trip to New York on business every year or two, and he always calls to report progress at the Herald office. On his latest call last summer he was full of the Pacific Railroad and its advantages to the "Saints," and has always been a great admirer of the executive abilities aud sagacity of " President Young." Barring his polygamy, which is Brigham's, Stenhouse is a good man, and has those qualities which would stamp him as a man of influence and a gentleman anywhere. In tbis view we are inclined to the opinion that he has not been excommunicated, or that, if he has .', been, Brigham Young has upset or will reverse the judgment of the elders. Hep worth Dixon, in his late work entitled- " New America," speaks ofthe editor and elder Stenhouse as one of the most intelligent and useful men in Salt Lake Valley. . .