The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-30

ASAi uAAA ~ EAh.-Ouk foo0of8 will roooliees
an extraerdinary account which appeared Is ~
San Francisco Bulletin, Of the immense numbsr T.
wives possesssdby the heads Of the Mormon church
and Legislature Of Utah. A correspondent Of ths
Sacramento Union, writing on the subjecs, says:
As Gentle, but latsiy from the Great Sal,
Lake settlements, where spent several months,
may, perhaps, be allowed to correct the false
statistics given, having been either personally OF
oy sight and reputation acquainted with the In
dividuals named
Heber Kimbau, Youngs first counsellor, is
sasntiy eross.eyed- He does not possess half the
number of wives named In the table II is doubtful
II any one but himself can tell the exact number,
bnt ne has Il Is said more than Young or any other
OF sne mormon followers of polygamy. Wells is
nor cross-eyed. but has slight defect Of vision,
ana mas only hve wives He Is the business mana.
ger of the Mormon church. and as such receives a
moderate salary for hich he is largely a creditor
-an uniucky occurrence, even with strict econo
my, IT no possesses nineteen wives, which he does
not. Nv WIS
Darlington is cripple, only so far a. the slov
recovery from severe attack of rheuma maiism rem.
ders him SO, and only has two wives. He il editor
OF the Deseret News. the duties of which keen
him too much confined for wife hunting. and
was co-iAborer with Capt Stansberry for which
the latter deservedly eulogized him in his rsnort
Pratt, one of the Twelve" Woodruff. one of III a
Twelve" Stoker, Farr, Snow, of the "TweIva y
Harrington, johnson and Smith, of the Twelve y
are not crippled and near sighted" nor have ths
number of wives assigned them by the figures
opposite their names. Whatever be Moreiev, a
age, he has the appearance of q man aged about
60 years. might go on and criticiss the House
CT Representative list, in the same manner; but
let one instance of each kind of misrepresenta-
ton sutfiee: Little is from New Hampshire, in
stead of Boston, Mass Benson is only about As
years of age, and is far better looking man than
Judge Drummond. of Utah. Richards has four
wives. instead OF fifteen; bis fourth an accomplish
q Or ri tok lat
scend the Ohio river in the same boat with her
and her sister, and was daily regaled by the pas
sengers with the information that the two eirls
were undoubtedly the wives of silver.haired Old
Engnsnman, under whose protection they were
emigratng.
will leave the principles and acts Of the Nor
mons to them and their opponents merely stating
tnat my review of the Herald letter viii serve
very wen as an expose Of half the stories have
read of late in the California papers, concerning
the Mormons, so far as my knowledge extends
PANTHER fIGHr.-,A fsw evenings since ss Wm
rste, we'll known IN these parts a. Kickapoo
range was meende ling the crooked trail from
this town to Port William he was halted By respsot.
able looking footpad, in the shape Of fun erowu
ale panther, and requested to stand and deliver
Mr. rate objected to the surl5 manner in which the
oemapd was made and informed his tieer-like ma.
!esy that his property all told eonsisted of an emp
y bottle ana bowie. knife, tn of which he stood
IN need OF, and, ~ he was in hurry, he would be
Obliged to the geutlemau to retire. As that wss
not what Mr.. Panther desired, aud as be showed
ms teeth and gradually Infatuated hiusslf towards
Mr. Pate Mr. Pate waxed wrothy, and let Mr. Pan.
tner have the bottle over his pate, with all the ner.
vous energy OF a strong arm. That act being CON
ndered by Panther as declaration of war he closed
IN on our gallant Pate who being some himself and
nothing 10th for an engagement now that his blood
was up, seized his belligerant opponent by the
ssalp-iock with his left hand, while he applied the
shining steel with right to the sleek of his
tagonist In few moments Panther had az beau
tliui "slashed je,iin" as one would ish to see.
while Pste, still In the ascendancy, stood by minus
eoaf, hat breeches, some hide, part of an ear, aud
bowie knife But our friend was victsr and 10.
,htng daunted hs shouldered his enemy ana carried
HIM home where he was measured by several neigh
bora, one of whom has kindly furnished us with the
full measurement of the animal from tip to tip
which was seven feet three inches s-Kickapoo (Kan-