Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-25


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Aiscr reading the dscourses Of Brigham foung
respecting the discomfort among the women,
which you probably received ~ last months niaiL
itmay not be embarrassing 70 know the more
immediate cause OF these passionate declarations
aad threats Of the Mormon Prophet, althoagh
yon will find that no alIusion has since been made
to the promised manumission OF utah's white
slaves
Brigham resides IN large Two story house,
some fifty feet square, built in neat style, and
furnished as sumptnousiy as the country can AZ
ford. In this house lives with him bis rife, flor
although he has more than sixty concubines, she
alone is recognised as wife, the othersa are called
spirituals, and her four children, two girls and
two boys. She is not, however, his first wife,
for when she married Brigham he was a widow
er with three children two girls and boy who
are now all married. His Aispiritualsn or as they
are sometimes called, s.fixins," occupied small
houses in the neirhborhood of the gubcrnatori-
al mansion, living, generally, two or three in a
house: but Brigham found that as the popula.
ton Of the city increased this plan did not suit
bis hr,as had too much liberty: in fact. thew
would. as he expressedit, allow brethren to aget
between their sheets.n ne therefore had largo
establishment built adjoining his residence, con
tanning sxty small rooms. then surrounded the
whole premises with q stone wall twenty feet in
height Into this harem he nroposed to mt the
majority Of his spirituals. make them take turns
in cooking. washing. &c. and thus have them I'M
dor bis own immediate supervision. The females
however. with unpardonable obstinacy. refused
10 enter into this arrangement. and although
finally compelled To. did ed not without much
grpp,hl;no and uwhin;nun Tbis circumstance
Called forth the svmpath4 Of their sisters in mis-.
ery and the Pronhet found i. necessary to tbnn.
der his anathemas upon their unprotected heads.
| Thev saw no more the fire IL smothered. not
nnenched.
I am told by an eve witness of the scene that
Brigham, walking down the street few DAYS
snce mot a little bov ret,,rn;no from tho noun.
tain side with a few cows which he had been
| herdino Struck with something in his anpear
ance, the prophet STONED and called out. ..Here
sonnvi tell me. now. whose son YOU are.n The
| little curly headed urchin answered, ..Ma tells
me I'M brother Young's son. hut YOU ought to
| know who am" The seer knew not his own
child
Brigham Young and his associates seem deter
mined to drive all the Genties out of the Terri.
tory, They have made an attempt during the
past month to forcibly take possession of a tan.
| merry owned by Gentle now in the States Re.
! sistance being made by the gentleman 3 agent
| and some of his friends, they were arrested and
! fined $500 apiece, the Mormon Judge going even
to the length of fning the agents lawyer the
same amount for giving legal advice in the mat
ter. This is not, however, surprising to US, when
I, we see cases in which person arrested on the
complaint Of good Mormon, who may have a
spite against him, is compelled to pay one half
of the costs, although no cause Of action is found
| against him and the good Mormon is never made
| to pay the other half.
In connection with this, will give yeu q little
circumstance which came to my notice. Com
ment upon it is unnecessary. A party OF emf
grants on their way to California found it con-
veniens to pass through this place. day or
two before reaching this city, the small pox
broke out among them, and they acc ordngly
camped in the suburbs of the city, to rest and
procure the necessary medical assistance. The
physicians attending them naturally sought to
find out the origin of this disease, which SEEM
ed to have generated in the party. Upon in
vestigation, they found that few days previous
to the breaking out of the malady, the little
boy who was first seized with it had picked up
on the road, near q camp of the Shoshonee In-
dams large and unusually fine bead This
bead he still had in his possession, and on exam
ination the physician found it to be filled with
small por oirus, the ends being stopped with
cotton. Whence came this bead? Not from
the Indian camp, for they hate the small pox
more than any thing else on earth-so many OF
them having been swept off by its ravages and
it is very improbable that migrants should car.
Try such thing put up IN such a manner The
theory is that it must have been placed there by
Mormons, in the hope that they would thus i'm.
plant the seeds of that dreadful disease among
these Indians, whom they have been unable to
make tools Of
By the latest accounts from the Third Hand.
cart Company which is now between Green and
Bear Rivers, we hear that they are suffering
dreadfuy from cold and hunger. The train
contained $40 adults, and large number have
persisted This news has created some excite
ment among the people, and a great many teams
with provisions have been sent out to their as
sistance. Of the Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Hand
cart Cor panies we have heard nothing. Thew
are far in the rear. and if they have not STONED
at Fort Laramie will all perish. Besides these
there are several wagon companies, and the
number of emigrants yet on the plains is esti
mated at 200. You will perhaps have later
tern mail which left here on the lst, as he will
pass theu on his route.
have noticed articles in Mormon papers from
the States DENYING the existence Of slavery in
this Territory, but their mendacity in this as in
all cases where their institutions are concerned
is notorious. There are many slaves now own.
ed here, both negroes and Indians, and they are
as much an article of sale as any other proper.
ty.
1t is true that the number of negro slaves is
comparatively small, probably less than one
hundred; but this scarcity arises more from the
poverty of tine people tn an from any aversion
they have to slavery. Their laws sanction it,
and their religion inculeates the idea that they
1.-THE Africans) are an inferior race of beings and
that this inferiori.y will continue in the next
world. osaa.5 4s'. IS
suppose that not less than four hundred In
dian children are held in bondage under the
pretence of apprenticeship! These children are
purchased from the Indians (who steal them
from the neighboring tribes) for sums varying
from $40 to $40 apiece This traffic is thus en-.
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