The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-29 00:00:00

LIFE AMONGST THR MORMONS.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune describes
an interview which took place last mouth in Great Salt Lithe
City, between ex-Speaker Colfax and Brigham Young.
Mr. Colfax's travelling companions and the Mormon dig-
niteries were presses. Of polygamy the writer says :
" On this subject we bare hid a long, frank, and very
free conversation with Brigham Young and several of WS
leading men, and at verious times during the week with •
very considerable number of the bishops and elders not
present at our interview this afternoon. Is all these on.
venatioos Mr. Colfax and his party have sot hesitated to
express titer coudeinoation of the system, and to say that
it is under the ben of the entire civilised world. In several of
these couversations we have told them frankly that, is
our judgment, the nation would never sanction it
by receiving Utah as • state until the whole this(
was wiped out. The law of congress on this sub-
ject, as all other laws, we assure them mast be obeyed.
Alter exhanstiog all topics in regard to the history, re-
swiss, topography, and extent of the territory, President
Young himself introduced the t vie of polygamy, and for
an hour all the arguineate for • plurality of wives were pre-
vented by Brigham and his friends, and all those at the
command of Mr. Colfax and his party wore manfully plied
against tie polygamous gentlemen. Sharp retorts were
abundant ow both sides, and it is very likely both parties at
the close believed as firmly es ever ia their own peculiar
dorms. As to the facts we have been able to gather, our
convictioes in regard to the demoralising effects of poly.
gamy, are, if possible, more decided than ever before. The
mu who practice it have been educated by one father and
one mother, and, therefore, the full results of the system
will not appear till long after the present generation of
adults are dead, should it continue to be tolerated by the
government and the people of the nation. The want
of proper parental instruction that must exist
where polygamy is practised, and the utter degradation .1
women, incidental and inseparable from the system, will
as sorely in the cad fall upon Anelo.ffaxon polygamists u
they do upon the Orientals or any other bathes nation.
AS at the South slavery was practised by the wealthy and
isSusetlal, so this peculiar vice in indulged in mainly by the
leading and wealthy men among the Mormoss, some is;
aufouth, some think more, sad some Ws, while the
majority, and some of the leaden as well, have but one
wife each. While the men who have two or more wives
pretend to be thoroughly convisoed that they are doing
right, se are soured that there is sot an intelligent Mumma
woman in the territory who, when her real southeast. cen
be known, approves of polygamy. Whatever opinions we
may form of the men, all who know anythingof the misery
they suffer, must pity the Mormoo womee. To us
they appear dejected aod, many of them, heart-broken ;
and as time rolls on the essential evils of the
system most become the more apparent sad revolt-
ing. To degrade woman from being the conapasios
and crown of ber husbaod to a life of mere serfdom, minis-
tering to the lusts of men, and merely giving birth to other
human animals, is the inevitable tendency and sure result
of polygamy—an unclean, abominable thing, which must
sot and menet he psi maiiently tolerated in this civilised
Christian republic. The sooner this determination ie
ns-
der,tood by those who practice it the better; for, like all
festering sores, the longer it is Inn:lured, the more difficult
of removal end the more dangerous it brume*. Our con.
versatioo with Brigham Young and his leading men leads ,
us to believe that they begin to caderstend their position,
and in parting all of us expreased the hope that es they
claimed polygamy was permitted, said in some came com-
manded by a new revelatioo, their high priest might have
another, peremptorily forbidding the system. This would
certainly be • peaceful and most happy way to remove the
bet foul blot upon the national character. Let the revela-
tion be speedily made, and Brigham Young will complete
one of the most eventful and the most wonderful personal
histories made during the present g tine.
" The business done by the merchants of Salt Lake City
is truly immense. William Jenoiege, Esq., • leading Mor-
mon merchant, told os that his freight bill alone this year
will amount to 150,000 dollars, and that of Walker
Brothers will not be less. The stocks of goods embrace •
wide range, but in extent and value they would not fall
much below many of our leading Chicago houses. Both
leather and shows, sad flour are manufactured largely In
Utah. Cotton is raised quite successfully io the
southern portion of the territory, and there are factories for
manufacturing It. One or two woollen factories are in spa.
ration ; Brigham Young be. also a paper mill • few miles
from the city. The Norma). have shown their wisdom by
devoting themselves to atriculture, manufactures,and trade,
for the demigod fur food and goads from Idaho, Moieties,
and other surrounding territories has made them rich mad
independent. On the 12th of Sone Mr. Colfax mode •
speech in the Mormon capital, In the course of
which he said that he had so disguise to make of his senti-
ment' or his principles; that he didn't, or he wouldn't
stand before them with a forked tongue; that, while a
friend to their industrial, general, and mining interests,
and advocating the rights that their general government
owed to them, he wished to tell them [rashly whet this go-
veromeot hal • right to demand of them, to wit% allegiance
to the collat.tutioo, obed:euie to the laws, sod &yeti= to
the union of the goverment! These territories be termed,
with their yet undeveloped mineral wealth, the ' treasury
of the world." And,' be contioued. 'God pat this minuet
In your mouotaios. It craps out everywhere is your midst.
If you don't develops it yourselves, or 'stud liberal en.
coursgement to have it done, take my word for it the tide
of an immense emigration is bound to roll in among yogi
sod take it to develop. for themselves. For here, from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, will be the seat of •
richer empire than Europe or Asia ever owned."

The farmers in the south of England are
already crying out about the early swedes. Tho grub-
mama ia, it appears, Disking sad havoc amongst them,
Dearly 30 grubworme were taken from one root at Bittern,
I. Hampshire.

We (Railway Tins) understand that the new
017'41 Pekoe line of the landau, Chatham, and Dower
Railway will be °peso! for public traffic on Tuesday next.
The London station of the Midland Railway will
base the largest roof span of say building in the world.
1$ will bane a clear spas of 240 feet.
Csaisittixis Lac-Lulli.—We understand that in
seeonisee. with the *Dino of coulee% a petition will be
promoted against the return of Mr. Forsyth to parliament,
on the ground of his disqualification by bolding an °Mee
under the croon ; and public nodes baying been gives of
such disqualificatioe, the mat will be gleamed for the
biabeist cm the poll of the two liberal esaddates.—Cass.
bridge Indepnactent.
CRYSTAL PALACIL —Tbe new high-level station
will be opened on Tuesday next, and nineteen traits' will
run daily between the Palate sod Visloris. The station
will be thrown ores to the impassion of eisitote to the
Palest after the ecaseet ibis efteessea