South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-13
SATURDAY, JUNE IS, 1885.

Pierson should never die. But ii has
been asserted by persons who ought 10
be the best informed upon this painful
subject, that the last shock to her credu-
lily was not received, nor her deplora-
BILE infatua,ion entirely dispeIled until
she had given birth to child the sex
of which completely falsified the In.
postor's predictions. TIE confusion,
remorse, and misery, which followed
this event may be family conceived,
hni are far too painlei for contemplation.
Mrs. Fclger, an amiable, lady like,
more than ordinary Intelligent and in
variab!y devout woman, finding her
faith torn from its anchorage and driv-
en- to a pitiless dependency, finds now
her only consolation in that more ''sure
word of prophecy on which it origin.
ally reposed, and in the unalienable
affection of husband who cannot re-.
pFosch her errors. Ia the meantime
the decree that Mr.. Folger should be-
come the father ofan offspring ofincar-
nate angels by the daughter of Matthias,
was to be righ,eousIy fulfilled. Mrs.
Isabella Laisdell, charming young
woman, scarcely arrived at "sweet
eighteen," but the wife of Mr.. Charles
Laisdell, a smart young comb maker,
a. Albany, was sent for by her father
the prophet, and by Mr.. FoIger, to
bring her two younger brothers on a
visit to Mount Zion. Little imagining
the covert mo.ive of the invitation,
with the consent of her husband, she
arrived. She had not Invested herself
OF her travelling apparel, ere Mrs. Fol-
ger, her new spiritual step mother, be-
gan to indoctrinale her with the tenets
other father on the subjects ofmarriage,
sickness, death, and the New Jerusa-
lem, and 10 insist that an implicit ODE.
dience to his holy will was solemn &
imperious duty. Mrs. Laisdeli replied
that she would rather die than believe
his doctrines, and an alteration arose
characterized by the usual volatility &
dexlerity of female controversy. Mrs.
Eolger repaired TO the prophet and in
formed him thaI his daughter had not
only declared tha, she would rather Gle
than yield submission to his divine au.
lhority, bat had treated her with an air
of unceremoniousness and equality, de.
rogatory to her character as Smother of
the Kingdom" The prophet sum.
moned his presumptuous daughter, to
his presence, and taking raw cowhide
from under bureau, where he kept ii
for the administration of corporal chas-
sisement upon such subjects OF his spi-
ritual economy, as he considered trans.
gressors Of its regulations, inflicted div
ers blows upon sundry parts Of the fair
inidel's person. On the following day,
in consequence of her inflexioie objec-
lion to his doctrines on the nullity Of
marriage, and the indignan, tone ofun-
affected horror with which she reject.
ed them, he again inflicted aagelIation
so bfutally severe, that she retained the
scars which it occasioned for several
months. 81 told him." said Mrs, Lais.
dell in her testimony at White Plains,
"that / would not have his husband"
He replied, "you wont hey a"--and for
the assault which followed he is now
suffering Imprisonment.
This was certainly a most unseductive
and unfascinating mode of weaving her
affections from the husband of her choice.
to transfer them to bridegroom of
divine appointment, & we do not find that
it was repeated. She continued however,
in the holy family several weeks. during
which other methods were adopted.
Anxious at her long absence, and al
his receiving no answer to several let
tiers for her return, which he had written
to her from Albany, her husband had yet
10 suspicion of the foul scheme for SUBJ
verting her virtue and blasting the true
Eden of his domestic peace, until he ar
rived at Sing Sing, for the purpose Of
conducting her home. He here heard
to his great horror and apprehension, some
vague whispers concerning the mystic
ries of the pandemonium of piety in
which she was CENTRALIZED. Fastening to
its portals he demanded his wife; but
he was repulsed by the faithful Ceberus
who guarded them, and refused admls-
sion. Repeatedly did he make similar
efforts to obtain but transient inter-
view with the wife of his bosom, but
was ever denied the boon by the SER
vile domestic myrmidons, who acted upon
the injunctions of being whom they
considered divine, and the sacred pre-
cincts of whose abode he was forbid to
approach. Driven frantic by this out
rageous aggression upon his dearest
rights. his feelings had not been sutficlen-
tly collected to seek the means ofre-
dresR Which the In mn of he cnnnIru Affnrd