The Nevada journal., 1854-10-06

at the same time. One has wild ow anG
her two daughters. There are also instan-
ces of the niece being sealed to the ,tncle
and they excite no more attention than
any ordinary case. How the plague spo
is to spread in this direction remains to be
seen; Brigham Young stated in the pulpit
in 1852, that the time might come, when
for the sake of keeping the lineage of the
priesthood unbroken, marriages would be
confined to the same families as. for in.
stance, the son of one mother would marry
the daughter Of another by the same father.
There has been some talk of going even
beyond this, and allowing a father to seal
his own daughter to himself
THE HAREMS OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
The high priest dignitaries of the church
are exceeding skilful in obtaining young
girls for wives. They inculcate the idea
that elderly members, who have been tried
and found faithful. are surer instruments
of salvation than the young, who may apos.
tatise; and as marriage to one who remains
steadfast to the end is essential to escape
from the fate of mere angels, a great many
young women are fooled into this bubbing
and seething cauldron of prostitution. Ell
der Wilford Woodruff, one of the twelve
apostles, has regular system of changing
his harem. He takes one or more young
girls, and so manages after he tires OF
them, that they are glad to ask for d.
vorce, after which he beats the bush for
recruits. He took fresh one, about IA
years old, in March, 1858, and will proba-
bly, get rid of her in the course of the en-
suing summer These maneuvers are
practiced more or less By the whole gang
the girls discarded by one become sealed
to others, and so travel the entire rounds /;
and when they accomplish the whole cir.
cult, and are ready to start anew, they
have profoundly 'realsing sense of fe-
male modesty, to say nothing of its ad-
juncts.
A wife, it Utah, cannot live out half her
days. In families where polygamy has
not been introduced, she suffers in agony
of apprehension on a subject which can
scarcely be conceived, much more describ-
ed. There is sad, complaining suffering
look, obvious to the most ordinary ebserv>
er which tells the story, if there were no
other evidence on the subject. In most
cases it produces premature old age, and
some have already sunk in an early grave
under.the intolerable weight of early afflic-
tion. The man from the moment he de-
termines to bring one or more concubines
into the family, becomes always neglectful,
and in most cases abusive to his wife
But we forbear; we will explore this
sink of pollution no deeper. Those who
wish for further details, given in a manner
as little offensive as the nature of the sub
ject will admit, will find them in Mr.. Fer
ris' volume. We would not have devoted
space to so revolving subject. had it been
one of merely speculative interest, to see
TO what depths of degradation men may
descend. But the Mormon question may
at any moment assume practical aspect
1t cannot be long before the population of
Utah will be sufficient to warrant an appli,
cation for admission into the Union. 1t H.
already bruited from several dizreputab'e e
quarters that we have nothing to do with
this institution Of the Mormons that we
have no right to say TO them, when the ?
apply for the admission of Utah. they m nst
first remove this foul blot; they must first
send Brigham Young to the state prison,
not to the Senate OF the u. S. By parity
Of reason, it should be neld that if gang
of thieves and robbers were to settle in a
new territory, and formally legalize robbie
ry and theft, we would have no right to
exclude them from the Union. For our
own part we wish that the common law of
| Chrlstendom were today extended over
Utah, and every member OF the Mormon
hierarchy were punished for his beastly
offences against virtue and decency.
anecdotes Of Frederick the Great.-From
DR.. Vehe's "Memoirs of the Court of Prus-
sia,' we take the following Characteristic
anecdotes of Frederick the Great One
Of his Wallets, one evening, had to read
prayers to him. Arriving at the words
The Lord bless thee, the silly man, in
his habitual subserviency, thought he must
read The Lord bless your Majesty on
which the king at once cut him short, you
rascal, read as it is in the book; before
God Almighty am but a rascal like your
self The servants were never safe in hi
presence. He had always two pistc' 60
loaded with salt, lying by his side, W. ,;cb G
if they blundered, he would fire p, thon u
In this manner, one man he'd b;s ' fan,
dreadfully injured, another ,ost m an aUo ,ve
notwithstanding all whi.h, he was ou;te
offended that he was genr.ra,lv oons;de..I fu.'I
tyrant. Terror p.ig It be said 'ueisu to no ~"
fore him. A functicnary who was va 81 once Os
Unexpectedly sun. .moned 70 b;s n.a. na' onoe
fell down des.d from fright. His cane be
applied SO unr:eservedly to evervbodx' "t that at
one oay he maltreated with it a major in
llont OF h.is regiment, on which the officer
a. a. once drew his pistols, fred one before
We teet of the kings horse, and with the
olher shot himself through the head. 1t
was very awkward thing to meet the
King IN the street. Whenever he was
struck with the appearance of any one, he
rode up to him so closely that the head of