A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, writing from Nauvoo, states that "Mormonism is as different and distinct from any thing which the Prophet Smith ever taught or ordained, as Mahometanism is different from Christianity. The sect is already split into seven different bodies, each repudiating the other. These are as follows:—Rigdonites, who are the simon-pure of the sect, are scattered through the land; Brighamites, usurpers, occupying the valleys of Utah; Strangites, a la force, Beaver Island, Lake Michigan; Hydites, squatters on the unsurveyed public lands in Western Iowa—Kanesville their head quarters; Cutlerites, settled on Silver Creek, Mills County, Iowa; Brewsterites, at Socorrot, New44Mexico; Bishopites, at Kirkland, Lake County, Ohio,
The Strangites, Brewsterites, and Bishopites, are new lights; the Cutlerites are reformers; and the Hydites are the Whig branch of the usurpers of the government of the church after the assassination of Prophet Smith."