New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-06

THE MORMON eioef came INTO ou5 Cos, no7i W
foot Of the mountains, and sst near us. He would
have been good-Iookirg II be had koked good. lie
had Q peculiar manDer-it indcssed such perfect
satisfaction with bimself and the world. heard him
soy he had gone to Sal, Like City before the hr'f
furrow had been TUNED in the ground. listened 10,
who is nat curious concerning that wonderful exodus
heard him tell Of their great temple and how went
IN stone bv stone, and With esch the power OF 'he
devil Grew less and less How new pro.elytes cams
nouyny in 10 swell the host that was waiting to re-
,e;xe tie Christ when he should come to reign
{, housa,d years upon the earth He was man OF
m reading. His kDo Wedge wa like Mr.. Gfsdgnndsl
confined to facts bat he had natural gift for con-
v.,..top and gave rapid and skilfu outline of bis
,ntiect in w.y that interested you at once. When
the 1iokt grew dark he came and sat behind Us. he
had fallen into the hands Of gentleman whose de1-
terity in questioning led him to speak freely OF
biuself and so gradually they came to the peculiar
institution. He said the women seldom cared to
many men of their own age that their affections In.
cDed toward the prests snd elders. THE convinced
me that If the me are all hypoertee, the women are
not wholly co. but that they do this for the exatson
of their souls. Ny lawyer, for so shall call the
oues.ioner ssked whether the women were not jssl-
GUS Of each other especially the younger ones The
Saint answered, no 'Same few, he continued,
were little difficult, but it mostly confined to
the Young. To be sure bis wife felt ii when he mar
RED a second time, the rest had never cared Did
shA cara % very much = continued the 'swyer. 'oa
yes; thought at first il would have killed her. You
zee when became convert, did not understand
that port of it, because my wife and hsd been so
happy together We married early, aud had scarce.
ly been dsy apart. When wanted to go to alt
Lake she did not incline to 60, because che did not
see 20 clearly as the truths Of our great religion
but the idea of my marrying was no hnderance. II
did not occur her possible, and ii was not for
long time after got there that thought of it
Dy,elf
"Magartt did not mix with the people. She re-
tanned her old Eastern ways and was always at home
had nev err let her Go much work her hands too
small fer that She was stately in her form, and she
had queer way Of twisting her long hair round her
head, 90 it locked like crown. The folks said she
was proud and one or two who had daughters asked
me Why did not take wife, and if were not
afraid So it came upon me gradually while upon
her, you see, it fell like stroke
"'You must have found it difficult to break such a
thing to her
"'Yes, it was hard to do But at lastI said will
do it on Thursday, ard on Thursday evening when
came home she was standing in the garden and
went and put my around her, ard told her how it
had been revealed to me that must marry again.
"'What did she say
"Neihing. Not one word. She just gave one
scream. declare shall never get that scream out
of NY ears. believe should hear il if were on
the Andes. thought heard it minute ago.
1.-The elect ratified az ainst the windows Of car,
and the bleak midnight wind swept down the noun
tains, ard thought heard it too.
"Tte Mormon proceeded And then che fell like
one dead. thought che was dead, but che came TO
after while, and would you believe ii, she never
mentioned the subject to me. could not find it in
my heart to say thing about it again for more
than five months. Meantime che had taken cold
and old not get strong again. saw she was wear
ing the thought of it about her like mourning
weed, end so, when the seemed little better
talked TO her about the great principles Of Faith
and how those TO whom the spirit revealed itself must
follow IFS dictates, or be forever cast into He'll And
told her she need not fear my affection for her would
be divided, for / lad had a vision, in which ii
told me that sbould love her forever and that we
should die but live together ADD the thou
ssnd years of Chrsts reign upon the earth, and be
by him rewarded for our obedience and willingness
now to cast aside our sefsh human will and sacrifice
TO him.
"'Margaret was always true believer. But
had always been wandering in search Of a rock Of
Faith until anchored here. had heard from pulpit
to pulpit, such conflicting doctrine, could lay my
hand on nothing that 'eemed secure and think she
was unwilling TO set me adrift again. and she
senttd. My parting from her was dreadful one for
she moaned and wept like one in despair, and II
was fool enough to CRY too
al don't wonder said his nterlocutor. 1t is
hard wholly to subdue nature, even at the call oil
duty; and he gave low laugh
".Wbep came back, continued the Mormon, il
had been just so all the time. She had never eaten
and never slept, bu. only walked up ard down, al
ways, hour after hour.
"'Well, how did she get used to it ,
She retained the house had flint built Of course.
1t was large, and We had no children, aud she
very lonely, for l was necessarily much away from
her. went as often as | could, bat married in
quick succession two others, and so we were much
separated, and che fretted in my absence. At last
il was this or she saw the folly Of resisting her fate
che got quiet in her mindused to ii in fact People
do get used 10 anything, you know When the Iron
force Of circumstances presses them on every side,
and they do not know where or how to resist they a.
lea,t grow qriet. She took il into her head, after
while that she would not live very lorg, and she
sail ii was not worth while TO be separated so much
the little tine che was here, and ii Pleased the
families might all come and live together. l told
her she was sersbe, and gettirg used TO things Bat
she only said something herself about the coll apsng
sides Of an iron shroud, pressing out he. life. 1t
sounded like poetry. She always had way Of pick
ing up such odd things out of books.
"Did she get well ?
"'No, Rot! yet. Indeed her cough is rather worse,
and she is ore feeble but abe seems happy enough.