Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-09
From the New Orleans Bulletin.
snd story Of Norm mi The N other and Chit

short history of certain transactions, partly IN
this city, and partly out Of it. which afford very
fair illustration Of the practical effect of that
beautiful ~ stem Of impo-ture which IL shedding
its lights aud shadows upon the tops of the Yves.
tern mountains. Possibly our readers may be IN.
teresied in it-especially if they should ever, in
che mutations of the future, be thrown within the
valley where the Cpas sheds its poison and re-
veals the gha-tly carcasses which strew the
ground, they may perhaps be enabled to turn 1t
To practical use. With this object in view, we
will briefly state the circumstances 10 which we
allude. suppressng names for the reason that
some Of those affected. by those circumstances,
Of our own citizens, and TO whom Ne would
tender our profoundest sympaihies.
few years since. gentleman, bis wife and
two iufnntile children, like thousands of others,
left this city for the golden shores of the Pa.
cifc, the husband and wife, dreaming doubtless
that in the land of the shining they
should realize fortune for themselves
and their chiidren.--1he lady, we may premise,
possessed more than an ordinary share ct intel
lect, which had been cultivated 10 highly res
peolable degree. by the care ot fond and doailng
parents. who little thought of the use to which
that intellect would in after years be devoted, or
how their devotion would be repaid. Alas! they
can feel how sharper than a serpents tooth it is
10 have thnnkless child or one that brings
them only sorrow instead of joy
Tho family settled in San Francisco. Some
time aftcrward. the gentleman and his wife in
connection with brother OF the latter, CHANGED
to step in on Sunday to heara Mormon mission
airy from Utah. who was holding forth in San
Francisco. They were prevented by the bad
weather and walking from attending their usual
place Of worship, and tho house whore the
Mormon was speaking happened to be in their
way, they concluded after leaving home, and
fronrmere curiosity, 10 60 in and hear him. Fa-
tai curiosity lnauspicioos day What the par,
tieular subject of discourse was which they heard
we are not advised. After coming out, the hus
band aud brother expressed themselves very free
ly upon the merits of what they Ind heard, and
pronounced some of it little if any, short of bias
phemy. To the utter establishment of both.ltow-
ever, the wife and sister expressed herself highly
pleased with it,
AS probable solution of such Il mystery we
may shy, before proceeding further, that it sub
sequently turned out that she had heard Nor
mon missionary while n young lady residing in
one Of the river towns in Mississippi. Poly gamy
was at that time carefully concealed from the
outside Gentiles by the apostles of Joe Smlt hand
stoutly denied. Probably tho young lady was
fascinated by the romance which the Mormon
may Eayo skilfuy woven into his discours =, and
the seeds OF blasting ruin thus lodged in he mind
TO spring up. fructify and bear apples of Sodom
To turn to ashes in the tasting many days after
wards. BE this as it may the lady soon became
strongly attached to the Mormon faith, and went
frequently, if not constantly, to hear its apostle.
In short time he had acquired sufficient InD-
ence over her to cause her to resolve TO quit her
husband--ifh he would not accompany her---ann
repair to tho grand rendezvous of the Latter Dag
Saints as they style themselves, at Salt Lake
City.
The determination once taken, nothing could
dissuado her from her purpose. But the children,
what was to become Of them The mother was
dovotedly, passionately attached to them, and eh"
determined to take them with her he father
and brother Of course became alarmed. To pre-
vent her from going, they knew well would be
impossible, but they resolved to save the chill
dren from the yawnng gulf which was about o
pening to receive them; and in pursuance OF this
resolution, they determined to send them to their
grandparents in this city. They were therefore
taken when the mother absent, placed on
board n steamer, and safely reaching New Or
leans, were soon under the loving care and hos
pltable roof OF tEelr grandpa
Who, however. can battle circumvent de-
termined woman, fanatic though she be,when her
feelings, her pride, and her affection all combine
10 spur her ON to the accomplishment of her OLD
Jecl! The very next steamer that sailed brought
that mother to this city, chaiing like an onraged
tgress, whose young had been taken from her
Her parents, who had been made aware of tho
circumstances, determined that she should
not take her children from them, md that II sha
was bent upon booming herself TO destruction.
she should not drag her innocent babes down in
10 the foul abyss with her. We pass over tho
struggles. the watchings that ensuca in this city.
little more than ono year ago, on the part OF
the grand parents of these beautiful children OF
some four or five summers, to keep the mother
from taking them to Utah, and of her efforts to
obtain possession of them for that purpose. SUI.
flee il to say, for the time being she failed. How
completely hA whole soul had become wrapped
up in the gross and disgusting deception which
had seized upon her like giant, the reader can
judge when we inform him that rather than relln-
qnish Joining the vile horde which coniaminate
the sir of Great Salt Lake by their denominations,
she actually tore herself from the children Of her
heart and went without them.
She did not, however, abandon her purpose
Finding herself hafled for the time being she de-
termned to change her tactics, the more certainly
to secure at Il future day what she could not then
effect. She went to 5 ut Lake city via St. Louis
and her parents had the melancholy satisfaction
10 know that if she lost that her children were
at least safe. These, brother and sister, under the
bountifu and fostering care which they received
budied like the opening rose beneath the sweet
and genial influences of the Southern spring.
They heard nothing more of her till one day last
week. when they were struck almost dumb with
anazement by her entrance into the family mansion?
We pass over what followed, the reader can much
| better imagine than describe it. She had
been To Utah, had been teacher there, had boarded
at Gov Brigham loungs--only boardtd-had seen
much suffering there from famine, and had seen also
the error of her waysl Said she had been Rd} had
now lett the Nomons and come to live with her pa
rents and children, and to do what she cond to make
| them happy She asked them to restore her once
more to their confidence. OF the delight of
| her parents houhdless. She dill not profess,
| however TO have reuounced Mormonisn. but wished
not TO return to ah, aud insisted that the Mormons
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