Chaplain Newman of the Senate went out to Salt Lake to Convert It

Chaplain Newman , of the Senate and the Metropolitan Methodist Church of Washington, went out to Salt Lake to convert the Mormons and returned discomfited. He proposed to evangelize the Saints by discussing the question of polygamy, but Brigham Young easily got the better of the chaplain, not by vanquishing him in debate, but by simply refusing to debate at all. Newman's guns were cleverly and mortifyingly spiked. Other and shrewder Methodists are making a more formidable movement against the Mormons. They do not contemplate a public debate, and they will leave the question of polygamy alone, availing themselves of the more popular and attractive agency of camp-meeting. A tent accommodating 10,000 poisons has been provided, and as some of the people of New York need conversion as badly as those of Salt Lake, excursion trains will run between the two cities at unusually low fare.