Mr. Editor—Sir—The Millenium has commenced. Not ’s, he is too late, the third of April has gone by, and the world remains as it was, and the Millerites remain as they were I suppose. We dont have any of them in this region—but the Mormon Millenium commenced on the 6th inst. Thus you see that guessed better for “Jo” than he did for himself this time.

It was thirteen years, last Thursday, since the of “Latter-Day-Saints,” or of “Jesus Christ,” or, of the “Mormons,” was organized in , N. Y., with only six members; but on the first day of the fourteenth year of the church, and sixth day of the fourth month, commonly called April, in the year A. D. ’43, four or five thousand of these Mormons assembled on the floor of the , (is to be, for the walls are only from 6 to 12 feet high, above the floor) and covered the whole establishment, so that nothing could be seen but the persons of the Saints; and this, said the prophet, is “a Millenium,” “all is peace here;” so I concluded by this that the Mormon Millenium consists of peace as one of its principle ingredients, or, as some one has said, “there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy.”

There seemed to have been a little mistake by some one, in this Millenium, for while was making a defence for his proceedings as , the of the , who had charge of the meeting, (for you must know these Mormons don’t allow any disturbance in meeting, Millenium or no Millenium) brought up a gentleman (? nothing more than a passenger, I presume,) for disturbing the meeting. Said “he had not disturbed the meeting.” said “he had.” “I fine you five dollars,” said the Mayor. “I have not got $5,” said the culprit. “Then take him way out of the crowd,” was the sentence of his honor.

Thus while the speaker stopped about 30 seconds, Mayor’s Court was opened; prisoner arraigned; testimony for and against presented; pleas of plaintiff and defendant heard, sentence pronounced and executed; Millenium restored; speaker resumed; and all satisfied just as though nothing had happened. This is the way the Mormons do business; suddenly, but not in haste.

In the Millenium were all sizes, from the prophet to the infant—the sisters on one hand and the brethren on the other, (the prophet did not tell us whether this seperation was to continue through the Great Millenium, or thousand years) and when their heads were uncovered, it would have appeared like a sea of wool, if all their hair had been as white as ’s who took such a drubbing from the prophet, and then was sent off by the to to preach to the sinners around Cummorah, the hill where the was found.— When the prophet wants to whip a thousand men, he takes a post and whips that, and it answers every purpose of whipping a thousand. “Old white head, ,” was the whipping post on this occasion.

Something has had a wonderful effect upon the weather since the Millenium commenced. It had not been in operation two days, before the ice began to move, and although the is full of ice, yet it is in a high state of derangement; and if this is the effect of the Mormon Jubilee, may it continue forever, for there is hope that Spring is not far off.

A word more about the Temple Committee. They have the sole direction of erecting the great , under the prophet, who is “sole trustee in trust,” for all public funds of the church, according to the statutes of ; and this committee are under bonds to the trustee, for a faithful application of all funds; but it appeared that somebody had thought, that somebody had surmised that some of the committee had taken a little better pay to themselves than they had given to others, and had used a partiality. Thus complaint was presented, and the Committee, , and , came up on trial, and all pled perfect innocence—some more innocent than others; but the , brother to the prophet, and who is prophet too, as well as patriarch, said the committee could not talk much, but he could, and he would defend them, for he had been a temple committee himself, and knew all about the mill, and it was a perfect mill, and ground close, and he knew it, and would tell the whole of it; it reminded him of the boy who saw something on a tree, and he went and told his father he had seen an elephant on a tree; his father did not believe it, but on going to look found an owl on the tree; now (said the ) the complaints against this committee are “not an elephant, but an owl,” I see, “it is an owl I see.” The saw more than I could, for I looked close and could see no owl, but I discovered a scare-crow, which, I supposed, had been stuck up on the tree, by the thieves, to keep off the owls, while they pocketed the chickens that perched on the boughs. [p. [2]]