New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-16
LATER FROM UTAH.
From Our SPECIAL Corrsspondont
CPr.rSuTI, CITYT Sept. ID, 80

out becoming We'll acquainted Win 'he "i'-'
of many of the people by whom he IA surrounded'
There appears To be hardly Mormon family some
part of whose history is not scandalous; and, IN
very many instances, the fact OF scandal attaching
itself in the States. was the cause OF the conver-
sion Of the family to Mormonism, and its removal
70 this valley There is more clannish feeling,
believe. among the Mormons than among any other
sect in Christendom They are bound together no
less bv realizing that they are religious parlahs
on earth than by believing that they shall De kings
and queens in heaven. Hence there is DISPOSE
ton among them TO be blind 10 one anothers do
nestle scandals, and guard the knowledge OF them
from the Gentle world. But. among those VINO
! are dsafected with the church, disposition d.
recty the contrary prevails. and their mouths are
full of all manner of scandalous stories about their
brethren, any one of which, put on paper, would
! be- secure Of place among the yelow-c0Vered
literature of eastern cities. Since We have enter
ed the valley some of these domestic histories have
been revealed in the courts. and one of the most
/ singular of all was disclosed at the beginning OF
the week in a case OF hdbsGs corpus, before Judge
/ Sinclair.
In ls4G man named Almeiron Grow
! practitioner of medicine in Cni0ntown. Union Co.,
! kv About that time MS wife became prostl-
! tute. He procured divorce from her, and his
| two children were of course adjudged Ia his Gus
/ tody He soon removed with them TO Southern
/ Illinois. where after a while he began 10 study
/ law. and was admitted to the bar of that State in
/ January lr,tj. lie had been regarded there as
! crackbrained persOn-a reputation which the tact
of his running for Congress in the lXth District of
that State did not dispel. After entering the bar,
he started with his children across the plains 10
/ California. On reaching Salt Lake City he
Z 1 NJ, and x..len iUrn
/ the church. for legal requirements are scarce
among the Saints and he combined the practice of
law with the art of dentistry. His first legal ser
vice TO the brethren was in drawing the papers of
sale Fort Brdger to Lewis Robinson, the Mormon
Ousrtermaster-G General which old Maj. Bridger was
compelled BY threats and violence to sign. His
second exploit was of such II character that he was
expelled from the Bar by Judge Kinney, against
whom he immediately brought suit, laying his
damages al 500 COO The Church itself became
at the same time mstrustiul OF Bro. Almeiron, and
he had great difficulty in procuring wife. At last
/ he succeeded, and married at o'clock one
afternoons; but, going to his wltes house to tea
! her relatives drove him Off and would not allow
him access to her. In his perpexity he removed
TO Fillmore, where Brigham kindly allowed another
/ youpp woman To be- - sealed to him. Soon after
J ward, however he was sent by Brigham on mis-
sion to England the principle that those people
who are least fit to act decently at home are best
> tlt 10 preach Inc h1OTlHoh SVspti hVioiu. w nat
| was the success OF his mission / do not know.
| He obeyed the summons To return, issued
| last year to all missionaries in for
! eign parts and was taken prisoner in
November, by the army, on Green River, sus-
picion that he was Mormon being first excited by
the fact that he black beaver hat-an object
not often seen at this distance from the frontier.
A diary, which was found in his pocket, showed
that he had walked the whole dstauce-more than
|. 600 miles-from Council Bluffs, alone. Brigham
| shortly alterward complimented Gen. Johnston
upon the acquisition, - inasmuch as 1t saved him
the trouble and expense of paying Bro. Almel-
rons board Elder Grow proving of no use to
ANYBODY but himself, and rations being short in
! camp the General at last released him and sent
him into the city with Gov. Cummings proclama-
| ton. Here he passed the Winter, devOut
/ Mormon as need be, although somewhat embar-
rassed by the circumstance that during his absence
! his wife had been :" sealed " to somebody else, In
pursuance of the principle that absence III case OF
Mormon marriages is equivalent 10 death, and that
! no man has right 10 refrain from lmpartlng the
additional "glory" Ia himself and his wife which
: each successive child d" raised to the Lord
fers. Bro. Grow seems to have been infatuated
with this woman. and she in self-deense, procured
divorce from him in the Probate Court on April
l5 1855. The custody of the daughter by the first
marriage was given by the Court to her step
mother. and the father concurred with her in
! placing il in the charge of Amos N. Musser one
Cf the clerks of Brigham Young. In his regret for
the loss of his wife, Grow soon after upbralded the
| brethren publicly. ctkglng them win alternating
her affections, sedudBg her, etc., the result
of which proceeding on his part was that he was
compelled to sign paper asking forgiveness for
his language He soon departed to California and
returned to the valley only few days ago. On
bis return he instituted most vigorous measures 10
regain possession of his daughter, " fearing, as he
! writes in a letter on file among the papers in the
case, ''thai my little girl. now l3 years old, will
soon be- sealed to some polyganist as many
! "haye been even as young as She tie sued OUT
q writ of habeas corpus, the return to which con
tested his claim to the possession OF the child on
the ground that he insane. Ii was attempted
I to be- shown in evidence by prominent Mormons
that he continually declared himself cand-
date for the Presidency; that on his return
from California he walked more than 300
miles saving that he was exploring route
for the Pacific Railroad, 10 recommend in
his first message to Congress: that whle practcing
dentistry in this city, customers being scarce and
shy of lis manipulation. he pulled every tooth out
of his own head in order ~ establish his professional
skill: that he repeatedly cropped his head 50 close
that il would have been hard Ia catch hold of
single hair with pair of tweezers, and once
insisted on serving his wife in the same manner;
that he one day put all his wites silks and ribbons
into ii carpet sack and threw them into the fire. in
/ order be- said, to wean her from worldly yanitcs
! &c. The Judge withheld final decision the
/ case until October. constituting the child. in the
: mean while. a ward Of the Court. During the
/ cross-exaIninaiion of the defendants witnesses
/ many ludcrous scenes occurred In one instance
/ Elder Jesse c. Little, the City Marshal. had been
giving his testimony with great yiruence against
! Mr. Grow, when be was taken aback by the fol-
lowing series of questions:
Q. Did understand yon 10 say that you have con-
sidered Mr.. Grow insane since YOU heard him de-