Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-12-15
Brigham Young and his Harem. BY JOHN HYDE JR., LATE RESIDENT OF SALT
 LAKE CITY.

| ed garret of the "Lion House." and pass on.- We walk by three neat little offices, and then stand in front of Brigham Young's mansion.- ms IS a handsome two story house, built of adobe, nicely plastered, and dazzling white. It IS baconied from foundation to roof. On the top IS an observatory, whence Brigham can over- look the dreary city and dull valley, and some- tunes taEe peep at the stars, whose bright eyes seem to dance with mirth as they quiz Salt Lake and its doings. The whole is sur mounted by an imitation beehive. which is intended as the symbol of Utah.
 We open the gates, walk up the steps. when the door opens, and face to face, on his own door still, we confront the famous prophet Brigham Young.
 | HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE
 In person, he is above the medium height. and little inclined to corpueDcy Heis dress ed in black cloth, and, although the air is very warm he is we'll wrapped up in an overcoat- His habits of life make him very sensitive to the slightest change in the atmosphere He has suffered good deal in his younger days, and with this, the cares of his familv-for his chil- dren are very refractory-begn to weigh heavi- " upon hlm. Ills constant struggles and diff culties with the United States officers not only try his patence but also wear his body. His consuming anxiety about the object of his amdi tion-the establishment of an independent kino dom and his effort to maintain the people in constant submission, are sufficient to leave their mark on any mans physique. He Is now fiftv- SIX years old; and although young looking in features, stll evlnces age in his person. His face IS indicative of penetration and firmness. Some ladies think him very handsome; but his lower lip, if nothing else eminently betrays the sen- sual voluptuary. To strangers he is very cour- teous, but easily offended by any sighting allu- slon to the people or polygamy.
 "Good evening, Mr. Brigham Will you permit Us to inspect your mansion?"
 "Certanly, gentlemen: and as have spare hour, Will chaperon you myself"
 HIS HAREM.
 Blessing our srars for our good fortune, we followed our hostlinto his drawing room. There sis good natured lady, fiat, fair'' and fifty. She IS Brigham's seti for wife, and is called Lady Young. There sits another person about thirty. who smiles very swectly at Brigham on his en- trance She Is very good looking tall and ma lestlc In figure, oval features light blue eyes. light brown hair, and wearing an expression of subiued intelligence She is Brigham's favorite wife; that Is, he shows her the most attention. Emehne IS Brlgham's third wife He was mar Tied to her, l believe. at Council Bluffs. Iowa. and as she has born him six children, most of them being row dead Brigham liked Emeline so well that he thought he would like another from the same parent tree and therefore married her sister.
 There sits another lady, merilv singing to A fat boy baby. She is a black haired and dark eyed houri. She is the last wife of Brigham and thereby hangs tale" Eliza saw and loved Brigham Young. She was but child. almost unknown, and her affections seemed hopeless. But she had read in the Old Testa- ment how Jacob served seven wears to get a wife; she thought it. very good thing, too. that he did so, and conceived the glorious thouqht that perhaps what Jacob did to get wife. she might do in orler to obtain a husband She went to Lady Young and made the proposition. brlgham was consulted upon this novel way of getting wife, and as Eliza was very good look Ing, and her services very desirable, of course. he had no objections. She served her time demanded her wages, and obtained her "undi- vlded moety" of Brother Brigham Young. It was an attachment on her part worthy better object. Brigham calls her baby "My English Boy as she happens to be the only English wife he has retained.
 THE PHILOSOPHY OF "sEALING"
 There sits mother lady. She Is worthy to be looked at About forty years of age. with square brow, thin, straight nose, emaciated and compressed lips, cold, freezing, gray eyes, high cheek bones, and angular jaws. is 'Zion's poet eSs' Ellza R. Snow is a woman of decided ability. She is the representative of another class of Brgham's household She was among the first extra ladies of Joseph Smith, The Mormons contend that a mans future glory de- bends entirely or his children; the more children consequently the more glory; no children, no glory; hence, therefore, the more women, the more glorious; no woman, 10 glorious at oH'- All the children a woman my have after she has been 'sealed' to man, belongs to that man, irrespective of any other claims they may IoSse,s to paternity She may have had them by a previous husband who died or was divorced: she may have had them by a subsequent husband, to whom she was married after the demise of the man to whom she sealed; or she may have he'd them by duly appointed proxy, during any temporary absence of her sealed husband; whatever the time, or whoever the person, her children belong to the family of her sealed lord and master. Hence, after Smith died, so that he might not sacrifice any glory by his unfortunate decease, Brigham took his wi dowsi Eliza R. Snow is one of these happy, happy ladies. These blessed beings, who have consummated the end and ohject' of theirex- | lstenCe, cease to he wives and become "Moth. CTS in Israel !'
 Their duties are very various, and peculiarly Mormon being to convert young ladies into ad- vocates of polvgamy; to induce young wives into advising their husbands to take others; to in- struct young brides into physiological phvloso- phv; to meet in a weekly "Council of Health" attended exclusively by women, but presided over by man, and their debate, quite unre- servedly the most indelicate questions, etc. They form species of Matron Club, and devote themselves to gossip scandal; and are universal ly Brigham's most fervent disciples, as we'll as the stearnest and most garrulous advocates for "compete submission to the will of the Lord as coming through his prophets and lovely or acles." Brigham, however, does not reverence the claims of these old ladies to respect, and throws in among them many a firebrand of con- tention They are supposed to be fully versed in "the mysteries of the kingdom,'' and they talk outrageous nonsense on the most recondite subjects. God, angels eternity, creation of mat ter, and the insovent problem of good and evil, these old ladies make short work of and snuff and mysteries abound in their reunions.
 MRS CoBB
 There sits another person smiling at a girl about seventeen, with dark flowing rngets.- She is fine looking woman, although now past age. She illustrates another class of Brgham's wives That is Mrs. Cobb She saw, heard. believed and loved Brigham Young: embraced Mormonism and ran away from her husband, respectable gentleman in Massachusetts, carry ing off her daughter, Charlotte, the young ring lcted lady, She arrived at Council Bluffs, and married Brigham Young Her husband, half craZed endcavored to obtain his child, but was batfled and out man9nvered, and they got safely to Salt Lake. She Is now " a mother in Israel.'' and her daughter, ii not married to Brigham himself, will probably become second or third wife to one of his boys. Nor is this marriage of mother and daughter at all unusual at Salt Lake. One man, whom was acquainted with there has three sisters and their mother married to him. and he lives with them all 1 know of several instances of mother and one daughter being married to the same man, ard could mention their names. However atrocious this may ap- pear to benghted Gentes it is not the slightest stumbling block to enlightened Saintsl
 MRS. POULTERER