The Mormons

A Snit Luke correspondent of the Chicago Tribune shows the Calsity of the reports respeeting the military strength of the Mormons. lustend of the Mormons benig able to show 40,000 wll-armcd fightors, it is doul'tl'iil if pveu half me nuraber of able-boilied men conld be mustered in Utah to-day fornny military purpose. The population of Utah, by the census of 1870, was 87,000, of whom th full normal proportlon wore women and ohildrèn. ïhe inórense has certainly not been more than 50 per cent. within the past seven years, and at thnt rate the population would now be 130,000. The little prineipnlity of MonteBegro has 200,000 iulmbitants, and its ligètting force nll men botween 17 and Bfl yciiis of nge - is 2-1,000. The sanie propbrtion of ab ut onc to eight would givc Ütali about 16,000 fighting men, of whoni at li ast one-fourtli would never üglit in the Monnon ranks.