Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-10-14

the interestinybridesro,am. The wife, 'ifi ahd 1
her husband-who, it would appear fol
lowed originally the the classic occupation
of organ grinding-were then settled upon
an out .of:,he-way patch of land, to till the
soil, and be happy to the top their bent
And still the dream of her heart possessed
the little woman, and once again, with the
child that had been born to her, she sought
to look upon the prophet, aud inquire if in
her day the Temple was likely to be fin
ished. Her amisble husband, moi seeing
very clearly the point of matters refused to
aid her in making her way to the resiatnce
of Mr.. Young,-some forty miles distaut
and therefore pennyless, and but ill-clad,
and with three pounds of -four for susie
nance upon the road she again set forward.
She had been told that all were brethren
and sisters here, and that no one was al
lowed to suffer hpoh the highway. Once
more to her surprise, however, the more
faithful of the church looked 'coldly upon
The object of her errand, and accorded to
her hut rarely even shelter for the night.
She arrived at the city, in brief, in state
of utter misery and destitution. OF the
prophet she got no further satisfaction than
at first, and with this her faith appears
somewhat to have failed, and her dream to
have faded.
In among the female part of the popula-
tion was gentle woman, regular stiff
old stager from away down in the slate of
Main. She had often deied the Mormons
TO degree, and it is recorded that even
recently, on being required to move south
ward, on the occasion of the flight of the
Mormons, she refused to accede, actually
drove away party of Danites sent to pro-
cure her forcible removal, by poking an
old rifle through the windows, and threat
ening vengeance if they dared invade her
houshold. Under the roof of this woman
who, with all her stamina, melted at the
tale of woe-the little Swede and her child
have been allowed for the lime being a
home and shelter. How it happens in
the meantime the have not both been de-
manded by the husband and father, am
unable to say. 1t may be that another
wife has been sealed to the deserted indi-
viduul, and his grief thus soothed into 81
lence and inactivity. But there lives now,
or did a few days since, the subject of my
story. Her only hope and longing as now
left, are to get back once more 10 her na-
tive land and there die in peace. The pro-
phet tells her, 'oh yes, certainly go if you
will-but remember you leaus your child
behind Was ever such pitch of fiend
ish art and vllianya The old poligamist
knows well that to quit the child would but
be as it were, 20 quit her life itself;-and
thus he still holds the woman as his church
has doubtless held many another crushed
and bleeding heart, or wretched and help
less captive, in this valley of every vile
abomination. What if she were to rebel
and the ready william to use them, to-
gether with the lonely cannon and the riv-
er Jordan whose water tell no tale-or at
least no tale that Others of the dupes of this
church dare name above whisper even
among themselves.
Does any one doubt this? Is it too
wild and too fearful for the modern day of
republic like our own? If so, let him
peruse yet more attentively ly the abundance
of recorded evidence from time to time put
forward by others since the establishment
here of the church of latter day saints =
As an instance, showing what might have
occurred, even in the valley occupied by
our troops, no little sensation was created
q short time since by the fact of dog, be-
longing to one of the officers, bringing into
camp, in his jaws, human head and this,
too, atfording every evidence, both to my
own and others views, of having been
severed from the body by some sharp in
strument. From the appearance of the
hair also, the head was judged to be that
of female, one who, for all we may tell,
suffered the oft-told fate of the rebelious
or iEconstant among there people. Whsre
the dog had found or dug up the head,
no one has yet been able to ascertain; but
there stands the fact of its discovery in this
solitary, and, until recently, uninhabited
place; and others like myself can imagine
whether or not foul crime has been the
cause of its deposit here.
But to return. Such are the terrors held
over many a timid mind, and such, coupled
with the deprivation of her child, may well
retain to the end of her days, the unhappy
victim of whom l speak. Possibly with
the presence of our army better day may
yet dawn upon her now half demented
mind. But even we're such to be her for
tune, how many kindred tale will yet
90 out in other hearts equally sad and op-
pressed by the selfstyled prophet and
his myrmilousG Heaven send at least
some form of deliverance to the victims of
this vile system. a.-