Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — Immortality. [ARTICLE]

Immortality.

How beautiful the following gem from the pen of Prentice, and how happy the heart that can see these beauties as he portrays them: “Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud come over us with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass away, and leave us to muse on their faded loveliness? Why is it that the stars which hold their nightly festival around the midnight throne, are placed above the reach of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with their unapproachable glory? And why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view, and then taken from us, leaving the thousand streams of affection to Sow back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a land where ! the rainbow never fades—where the stars will be set out before us like islands that slumber on the ocean.audwbefe the beautiful being that passes before us like a meteor will stay in our presence forever.” Arrival of Runaway Mormons at Omaha, N. T.—We learn, says the St. Louis Democrat, from one of the officers of a steamer which from the upper Missouri, that 6n reaching Omaha City, he was informed by some of the citizens, that a party of sixty j Mormons had arrived on the 2d. inst.— I The party encamped in the town, and stated that they intended to start down the river by some boat in a few days. They were loud in their denunciations of the ruling men of Utah, and aver their firm belief that a large number of the inhabitants of the valley, as soon as they see a chance of protection, by the arrival of the United States troops, will gladly avail theihselves of .the opportunity of withdrawing themselves from the yoke they are now groaning under. These, persons who have reached Omaha, were a portion of the dissatisfied citizens of Salt Lake city, and their escape ( that is the word they use ) was the result of a well devised and cautious strategem. They left Balt Lakeabout April 50th.