Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-26
From tn No. lOrS ErP-ess.
Poiy.aIziy AT Home.

Nr. Senator Johnson, OF Tenn. during the
debate on the Army Bill. Wednesday, dcclar-
Cd that there was more pOiygamy ih New
Iork city tlan III salt Lake, the difference
being that Il was tolerated in the latter place
10y rali sous belief, but exists in the former in
violation of law and themoral sense of the
community. Now, a. it is generally believed
th,r. are some scventy-iour thousand Nor
moas at SAT- Lake, dos the Hon. Senator
mean To say that We have aS MANY pOlyga-
mist Us that here? The Moral Reform Soce-
tv would like to see some authority for lis
statistics. There can he no doubt We have II
vast deal OF sic2, of TIE polygamnus Kind
among us.-hut let us hope that the Senator
has Lecn looking at it through mag .nIyiug
glass.
Leaving the morality of the thing ont of
the question, howcver,-and viewing it Simp-
ly as a matter of ecOnomy.-tbe Senator from
tennessee ought to know that it costs too
much to keep one wife in New York just now,
To think of doubling that cost by having two.
Hard times are excellent cOuScrvators Of
good morals, among N al u at women, IN great
citi-s, and probably there j., ia things OF this
KIND, Ho D,tter provocative to purity than
poverty. How is it, Senator johnson:
But Mormouism il by no means confined to
Utah and New York. We have already given
some account of the bisamist, Coombs arrest
:
year or two, married i've or six wives; and
numerous similar cases have been brought 10
Ii CHI within few months. The Worcester
(Mass.l Transcript gives The particulars OF
another arrest for poligamy:
~ man named Cheslce was arraigncd in the
police court on Friday, on u charge of having
an unlawful surplus of wives. lie was re
Gently resident of Grafton, which place he
left some months since, aud took up ms abode
at West Canaan, n. ii. II appears from doc
uments in the case that in January, 1850, re
married Miss Jane +. Hodgson, OF Shaplcigh,
Me-, and in November, 1858. be was married
at Nashua, TO Miss LUcretia A. Snow OF
Haspswcll. Me; aud in November 1850 he
married third wife at Chicopec, the victim of
his yillalny in the last case being Miss Lucin-
da \. R.cker, of " rt.s Ter. Me. a few days
since, wife No. 3, hayin; discovered the dccep-
tiuu practice upon her, applied in this oity
for divorce. "A inquiry int0 the circum-
stances induced steps 10 he taken for the ar
rest Of Chsslce, aud officer Coleman being
pat upoa his track. succeeded in hadiHs him al
! Manchester y. IL where he had iust taking u -
his residence with Nif, M. z. it appear, also
that wife M. 1, obtain Il IA divorce IN Apr,i,
4 lS5I. IL WAS conirun, in the poltce-cUurt
10y wife No. 3, but pleaded not guilty to Tie
charge against him. and waving AN cAamiua-
\ tlon, was ogdrrOd 10 r-cUgulZc Ia the sum OF
/ Sao0 for his app ara4cc Al thc May tvr.G OF
thc Court OF Collnto.i Pl.us, ald log wait OF
surely was locked up Tor al cpiag.r
In another Eastern eyca.l.i &c Ne dud the fol-
lowing:
| k,ioch Carter. of Carlisle. was arrested YES
tsrda, Ca a charge "fbgaWy. Carter II bout
my years oid. uni claim- 70 k cousid r. Of
= patriarch. being the ,..,Gd afher OF tWcaty
children, and aas bccn l,ins i"r the last two
years with his third VII, by whom be IA had
| two cNildren.
In view OF these facts, Ar Jolasaa better
move an amendment tofLe Army Bill to send
/ "A regiment North To rl1t out tie Irlg ham
/ Youngs ia New York aud Ae,y England. b.
I fore going 10 l tan.
At the Court Of Common Pleas Tor Mtddle-
sex county, Ca Thursday Ia trial al rhos \.
| Miller, oi SANDWICH. oii 4 cliarse NJ marrying
/ Mary A. Pope OF S-.IiG..scsi, al i.owu II. OF
/ tla SIN Dcceinper last IS hrSt " lie. Issi lella
brown. of Englana, O,in : 81 II alive, Was CON-
nlenced. 4 he acetared h the al Uniycr-
salist clergyman, aud has laIteTly been ea-
! gagged - lamp peSlllaT. lbs second wife
Nae ualy about Is years of age, and " tnt OIL
suddenly trosn Sandwich with the accused on
the hah D.s,s uii,vF iast. ner brother follow I'd
Ter 1, this city. aIld, AFR lolsg szarch dir
coz RID tiie ysasrsGiso1ts of Miller aud cs.tiss
/ bis arrest. A number OF Inhabitants OF sand
witch anu ProyincetVwi slitied 10 the dselar
! atloa.s Of Miller that tie woman bnuwn " a.
his wife. she il present al ,ne trial. Ia,
real name is Joseph Andrews Boston Jour.
nj.