The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

MYSTERIES OF MORMONISM

In the Supreme Court of New York a case is under
bearing, the particulars of which will be explained by the
following evidence :-• Robert Murray sworn : the book
which I have here is the register of • migrants by the ship
Thornton, on her last voyage. The names are in my
handwriting. I recognise J. Ries, from England, with
th ce children, destination Utah, cash means none, and no
connections in this country. J. Thomas and wife, from
England, destination Utah. cash means six dollars fifty
cents., and no connections in America. I have seen a large
number of these Mormons arrive, and have come in contact
with them. I have seen from 2,000 to 2,500 arrive here.
I consider the treatment of their children very brutal
indeed. I have seen a number of children dying, and no
attention paid to them before or after death. On one oc_
casino, I saw a fine child, about four or five years old; it
was in the agonies of death for a whole day, and no person
paid any attention to it whatever until I called the attention
of the presi lent of the German Society, Mr Garragne, to it.
Those Mormons were Danes. I could not speak their
language, and requested Mr. Garragne to request the
parents to take the child to a room for sick people, and they
paid no attention to it whatever, until finally we called our
men and rem, ved it there ourselves. The child died that
night. On another occasion a sh'p arrived between Christ-
mas and Yew Year, with Mormon emigrants. There was
a child died in the midd e of the day, in this Garden.
After the death of the child one of the elders of the Mor-
mons mounted a box or chair, and addressed his brethren
and sisters in these words, " All we can say about it is, we
will have cue leas pig to feed." I have heard the Mormons
speak about having a plurality of wives. They have fre,,
quently tried to draw one into a discussion on the divine
right, of having a number of wives • have met with some
who have told me how many wives they had ; one man told
me he had 19, another told me he had 9; I can't say with
regard to sexual intercourse ; my attention has not been
drawn to the subject except in those instances. [This whole
evidence was objected to as being irrelevant.] Cross-
e' onined by Mr. Lockwood : I have been connected with
the Garden since the Ist of August last; I saw no unkind
treatment of the children in the charge of the respondent.
Bernard W. Gammon : I am a sergeant in the United
States army. I have been among the Mormon, in Salt
Lake City, Utah Territory. Was there eight months. Had
an opportunity to observe their conduct towards the chil-
dren while there. I never saw anything wrong towards
their children in the territory. I have seen a great deal of
lad conduct otherwise. I knew a brother to be married to
his own sister. I knew Brigham Young to take her into
his house, and she said she was married to Brigham himself.
He said the time had not crane for the brother and sister to
be married to • ach other yet, but that it would come. She
became so far advanced with child that Brigham had to send
her back to her brother. I saw the, child. Her brother
was sexton in the .Temple. I have been introduced to
Brigham and several of his wives at a party at Judge Kin-
ney's. He had 49 wives when I was there ; they have
connection with Brigham and his office and stay all night
with him. I know a man not far from Salt Lake city, who
h:as three wives. By the last wife he had a child ; the other
two wives used to take care of that child while this other
woman would take a yoke of oxen, go into the woods, and
cut a load of wood, and perhaps stay ail night and bring it
back. Many of the women do this sort of work barefoot
and bareheaded. I knew seven of Elder Taylor's wives,
and boarded in one of his wive's house ; they have very little
employment for the children, and live very poorly and
wretchedly ; they are getting np schools. One of Elder
raylor's daughters went with us when we left. We took
80 or 90, and could have taken as many. hundreds if we
could have carried them away, for they were very anxious
to get away. The youngest wife has to wait on the others.
Women do work fit for men. There are some very good
people. Those who wash fez the Gentiles are not off from
ho church, they eel! us d d Gentiles; Brigham himself
gave us a general invitation to church one day. The
women there are very discontented Brigham's own
daughter-in-law tried to leave - are liable to have their
throats cut if they do or attempt to; I knew many of them,
and a great. many I knew were anxious to get away. I have
beard Brigham Yonng say in the pulpit that when the
d—d Gentiles came into the country they would go and
open boarding houses. He asked if th. y knew what they
were. He said, if you don't tell me I will tell you ; they
ire what I call whorehouses. May be you don't know
what a whorehouse is ; it is a place where they keep women
for men. He said Taylor was a G—d d—d son of a
h h, and he wished he was rotten in hell. I knew a
Mfrs. Wheelock. She was married in England. Came
here with her father and family. She was a small woman.
Wheelock married two other women in Salt Lake city.
From her own conversation he treated her badly. The
women are treated as degraded persons. They are oppressed
by the men, and treated as menials. The children could
not get away if they wished. The women are used for con-
venience. Their doctrine is plurality of wives. I have
heard Brigham Young say he would have his own children
marry each other. He said it while preaching in the
Tabernacle. A tenth of everything they have belongs to
the church. I went there in August, 1854. [Evidence
objected to by the counsel for the respondents.] William
H. Caemerer : Am physician at the Garden. The Mormons
have all passed my notice. Have had no occasion to ex-
amine the children, except in case of sickness. The chil-
dren are dirty and filthy. Have told the parents to wash
them, and they have never done it. They leave here in the
same dirty state they enter, and they have more deaths
among them than the other ships. The other ships have
scarcely any deaths. When they arrive their children are
in a state of exhaustion and debility for want of food and
cleanliness. Tbey sometimes remain here for five or six
days in a dirty state. "I recollect the case of a child dying
where the parties had left Castle Garden without knowing
by whom or where the child was buried. In another
instance I saw a child about to die. I inquired for the
mother but could not find her. The child died. Am glad
when they are out of the establish- ent. I don't recollect
this woman. ]Evidence objected to by opposite counsel.]

TRADE RE PORT.-SAT ORDAY.

LIVERPOOL

COTTON.—There has been a moderately fair demand to.day, and,
with a plentiful supply, prices are the same es vesterday. The sales
—including 30 Pernambucos 7tld, 70 Pahias 6 7 16d. ;0 Maranhams
6id to bid, 100 Egyptians 7d to Sid, SOO Surats 44d to ssd—are re-
ported 6,000 bales, of which 2,000 are on speculation and for export.

IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERS

ILLEGAL lIRE OF WATER.—Mr. John Holmes, iron'
founder, of Pump Fields, was summoned before Mr. Mang'
field, on Saturday, at the suit of the Water Surveyor under
the act for using water for illegal purposes—purposes other
than he obtained water and paid- for. The gentleman wb°,,
attended for the prosecution said the defendant had enter('
and paid for water for three purposes for premises in Fatl39
Fields, namely—for his engine, for his boiler, and for the
use of the men. For this he paid £4 12s for the half year
up to June. Some few days ago the surveyor was passing
the premises, when he observed a large stream of dirt,'
water issuing from them, and, on examining the place, he
found that Mr. Holmes had been making a tank of iron
that contained 1800 gallons, and that the water had been
used in testing this tank, and thus wasted, which Mr.
Holmes had no right to do, as he did not get nor pay
water f, r such a purpose. The penalty for such an offence
was £5. The case having been fully proved by evidence,
Mr. Holmes, in answer, at once admitted the fact, but ,std
he was utterly unawasr that he was doing any, wrong. ne
was under the impression that he could do what he pleased
with the water, when he paid for it. Had he contemplated
anything wrong or illegal he could have run off the water
with which he was trying the tank at night, when no one
could see it, instead of in the day time. When he found
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he was not entitled to use the water for that purpose, "'
went to the gentleman for whom he was making the tanks/
and informed him of the fact, and the gentleman said 118
would test them himself in future, so that he would not
the water any more. Mr. Mansfield, after praising the nevi
fountains in the streets, which were so convenient to the
puhlic, said he had no doubt that the statement of Mr.
Holmes was correct, and therefore he would fine him in the
nominal penalty of Ss.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY

Intelligence reached London, yesterday, of the death
Bertram Arthur Talbot, seventeenth Earl of Shrewsbury'
which event took place at Lisbon, on Monday last. The
deceased earl was son of Colonel Charles Thomas Talbot, hi
the third daughter of the late Sir Henry Tichborne, of Tich'
borne Park, Hants. He was in the twenty fourth year of 111 is
age, having been born in December, 1832. and succeeded his
cousin John, sixteenth earl, November 9, 1852. The let!
nobleman was premier earl in the English and Irish peerage',
hereditary lord steward of Ireland, in which office, as well as
the earldom of Shrewsbury, he is succeeded by his kinsman',
Earl Talbot, of Ingestre Hall, Stafford, but it is supposed 11'3
the large family possessions do not descend with the title. Th.n
mother of the late earl is still living, and is married to Captain
Hibbert, of Bilton Grange, Rugby, who, since his m:irriagef
became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The late
earl had two sisters, lady Annette Mary, who married abort
eighteen months back Sir Humphrey de Trafford, Baronet, and
Lady Gwendeline Talbot, still unmarried. Within the last
week it was announced that the Earl of Shrewsbury was to be
enrolled with two other peers as K.P. His death.ls felt an
great loss to the Roman Catholic Church, of which he Rah
likely to be in this country a great benefactor.