New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-03

pererc-d DO difficulty; " fer SD my morn -
vousnl she introduced hi. Two younger wives
reirl. If - ard l41 ss his daughters snd mar
I" rrd them both off ID the course Of si1 weeks
lam assured by Gentle. that there Is alArse bl'-
ness done here il rnmsrrying IS well s. marryIns'
some Of them assure NE .haIthe Church e1scts siee
Of On the marriage Of each wife after the hrs'
bu. charges .tI lea, Ter Zee for dEorcins 90 not
lnow tia. this is true and su.Psc. my infornsn's
were no wiser in the premises than Am. bu'
certainly looks 10 NE ss though rich dign'ary IL
the Church has fresr and fuller range for tie &C.
,c,on Of l. sixth or eighth wife than poor young
Ian Of ordinary st.odDg la. for choosing his fT''
AID MFR tta. the more sbsrpsishted young men
vii not slsay. be content With this
Since the foregoiDg vas written, have enjoyed
opportunities for visiting Mormons, and studying
No, monifD, in the homes Of lie votarie., and Of
discussing with them wha, the outside world regards
q. it 'ingusbine feature in the freedom offnend-
" ,ocia intercourse. 10 one instance, veteran
aposile Of the faith having first introduced 20 ne
a worthy mstron Of fftyfye or siIty-'he wife OF
be youth. and the mother Of his groxn-up sons
o. Mn, T., coon after introduced young and VIII
mig lady Of perhaps twenty f'e summers, in these
word.: "Here s another Mrs. T" This lady Is 8
recent emierant from our State, Of more than aver
age powers Of mind and graces OF per.oD, who
came here with her brother, as q convert, little
over ayear sgO, and has been the sixth wife OF Mr..
T. since few weeks after her arrival The in
termedi.te four wives Of Elder I. live on farm
or farms some miles distant). The manner Of
the husband Was perfectly uncOnstrsined end OF
hand throughout; but could not well be mistaken
in my conviction that both ladies failed to conceal
classification with their position in the eyes Of
their yisitor, and Of the world They seemed to
feel that it needed yndlcation. Their manner To-
ward each other was mOst cordial and sisterly-
sincerely SO, | doubt nOt-but this IL by ~ means
the rule. A Gentle friend, whose duties require
hun to travel widely over the Territory, informs
me that lie has repeatedly stopped with Bishop,
some hundred miles south Of this, whose two wives
be has never known 10 address each other or eylnce
the slightest cordisliiy during the hours be has
spent in their society The Bishops house con-
si.ts Of two rooms; and when my informant stsd
there with Gentle friend, the Bishop being Alb
cent, one wife slept in the same apartment with
them rather than III that occupied BY her double.
| presume that an extreme case, but the spirit
which impels il is not unusual | met this evening
large party Of young people, consisting IN nearly
equal numbers Of husbands AID wives; but no hus-
band was attended By more tdsn one wife, and no
eentemsn admitted or implied, in our repeated
aud animated discussions OF Polyg,my, tina. he had
more than one wife. Ard was again struck BY
the circumstance that here, as heretofore, no
woman indicated, by word or look, her approval OF
any argument in favor Of Poygamy Tina! many
women scquiesce in it as all ordinance Of God, and
have been drilled into mechanical assent 70 the
logic by which it .upheld, lbelieye but that there is
not a woman ia Utah wDo does not IN her heart wish
Il At God had not ordsinedit, am confident AID
quite number of the young men treat IT 10 con-
versation Is a temporary or experimental arrange
ment, which is to be- sustained or put aside as eI
perience ,hsll demonstrate its utility or mischief
One old Mor.lon farmer, with whom discussed
the matter privately, admitted that it was inpos-
sible for poor working msn to have wel-ordered,
well. governed household, where his children had
two or more living mothers occupying the same
ordinary dwelling. On the whole. / conclude that
Polygsmy, as it was graft on the original stock
of MormOnisln, will be outved by the rOOt-that
there will be n new revelation, ere many years
whereby the Saints " III be admorished TO love and
cherish the wives they already have, but not to
marry any more beyond the natural assignment Of
one wife to each husband.
j regret that have found time and opportuni-
ty to visit but one Of the nineteen Common Schools
Of this city. This was ttinly attended by chill
dren nearly all quite young, and Of the most rudi
ment,ry attachments. Their Psychological deyel
opments were, in the average, BAD | say this
with freedom, since have stated that those Of the
adults, As neted the in the Tabernacle, were
children are very rare, if not unknown here. The
male Saints emphasize the fact that msjority Of
the children born here are girls, holding il proof
that Providence smiles on their peculiar igstitu-
ton" l. on the contrary maintain tina. such is
the case in all pOlygsmous countries, and proves
SIMPLY pIePobteIaLCt vi ''sol On the part vi Tue
mothers over that Of the fathers wherever this re-
suit is noted. ! presume that a msjority of the
children Of old husbands by young wives in any
community sre girls.
But again the wheels reyoye, and ny f,ce
must once more be turned westward. With the
most hearty and grateful acknos Judgments of the
exceeding kindness ard hospitality with which
have been treated here alike by Mormon and Gen
tile, and with barely 4 word Of praise for the mag
nifcent gardens i have been invited to vi.it--of