Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-08-14

order otRriestly leaders, Which consigned
them to saeh mode of life. The writer
paid a visit to Brigham Young's (" harcm,"
which had been removed to Provo. OF
this visit he remarks:
Such, glances as | obtained showed me
that Brighamls man of some taste, and
thet his spirituals arc generally fine looking
womon-some of them, indeed, quite pretty,
and all of them, so far as | could Judge,
Intelligent. lsupposcd saw in the "shan-
ty quarters some thirty women, butwhcth-
or they were all ofthcm wives of the proph-
ct, or whether these constituted his entire
household, of course am not informed
The general impression here seems to be
that he has nearly or quite fifty wives
lie only claims to have forty children liv
ing, having had forty-scvon altogether
This, doubtless, is the highest figure he can
claim, as the "Saints" consider large
plumber OF children subject of pride and
boast These wives arc all their own ser
wants, and the nurses of their own children.
Io sec them sitting under the ovcrhamginc
caves of the shantics just at dusk, with
Their numerous children hanging around
them, all crying, chattcring or teasing at
once, was certainly suggestive of a found
ling hospital
L was curious to know whether these wo-
men were happy in the strange life they
led, and glance at their faces impressed
me with the conviction that theirs was the
happiness of stolid listlcssncss, an existence
in which all the higher and holicr scuti-
ments OF refinement and affection had been
sacrlllccd upon the altar of fanaticism. -
They seemed to me to be virtuous- willing
perhaps, and rcsigncd-but nevertheless
unhappy victims of sclfinhctcd tortures,
10y whichthcy hoped to mcritsainty reward
10 tcwof them, perhaps, these remarks
would not apply Some of the younger
females appeared thoughtless or reckless,
but Che elder, who were educated in circles
where woman was queen rather than vas
sal slave, wore their chains evidently with
inward murmurings.
BosToN, August Ga severe thunder
storm was expericnccdin Essex county this
afternoon. A barn in Swampscott was
struck by lightning and burned, together
with the celebrated marc Lady Suffolk, val
ucd at $4,000 A young man at Dovcrs-
port, named Holders, was also seriously in
iurcd by the lightning, but may rccovcr.-
SEA laborcr was Instantly killed at the same
place BY the lightning while working on
building.
YANKEE Boys IN INDIA.-Hiram l..
Ferry, the young man of Easthanpton,
Mass, who serving in the British army
in India, thus writes under date of Mccrut,
llindostan, May IL, 1888
81 have been iii fiapy sgeinents since
j arrived in lIindostah and mnfe very
heavy fires, and am not hurt yet. Many of
my comrades have fallen beside me- At
Lucknow, was in a battery of "a eighteen
poundcrs, where constant fire was kept
up for eight days and nights, All the
sleep L got was on tho ground beside my
gun. IL took most of our time to bury our
dead, l enjoy first rate hcaltllaad spiritss
i have left my complny aud j6lilod Sld aef!-
mcnt of YaaISee bays Hndef captaia al tiay
They ars iFan New FORK, Councetfcutt,
Massachusetts aifG New hampshire. Men.
women and children are dying around me
by hundreds, of caolcra. Hard drinking
and fruit, together with the climate, arc
tho causes. go to church every Sunday,
when not in action, with sword and gun,
ana 10 ROUNDS or powder and ball.
Young Ferry states, that while engaged
in the siege of Lucknow he was robbed of
the treasure he had plundcred at Gavin
pore Mecrut is about 1000 miles from
Calcutta and 40 miles from Delhi, and in
sight of the IIimalaya mountains.
TOBACCO PRoDUcINd PARALYSIS The
Detroit Tribune of Friday evening says
= timt Police Justice Bags, of that city, has
suffered an attack of paralysis, confined to
his right arm, and physicians attribute the
stroke to the free use of tobacco put up in
tin foil.
A REvoLUrioNARY TRopIlY.--NIr Robert
White, living near Cedar Spring, cxhumed
upon his farm ycritablc British Yager,
found on Clark's treck, when pursued by Fer
guson. Considering that the several parts
of the old gun have been suEiectcd to- the