Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-06

est cordially, during the hours that he
has spent in their society. The bishops
house consists of two rooms and when my
informant staid there with Gentle friend, the
bishop being absent, one wife slept III the same
apartment with them, rather than III that occu-
pied by her double. ! presume that an ex-
IRENE case, but the spirit which impels it is
not unusual l met, this evening, large
party of young people, consisting in nearly
equal numbers of husbands and wives; but no
husband was attended by more than one wife,
and no gentleman admitted or implied, in our
repeated and animated discussions of POlyga-
my, that he had more than one wife. And
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 polygamy. That many women ac-
quiesce in it as an ordinance of God, and have
been drilled into a mechanical assent to the
logic by which it is upheld, I believe; but that
there is not a woman in Utah who does not in
her heart wish that God had not ordained it, L
am confident. And quite number Of the
young men treat it i'll conversation as tempo
rary or experimental arrangement, which is to
be sustained or put aside as experience shall
demonstrate its utility or mischief One old
Mormon farmer, with whom l discussed the
matter privately, admitted that it was lmpossi-
bic for poor working man to have well or
dered, well governed household, where his
children had two or more living mothers occu-
plying the same ordinary dwelling. On the
whole, l conclude that poygamy, as it was
graft on the original stock of Mormonism, will
be outlived by the root-that there will be
new revelation, ere many years, whereby the
saints will be admonished to love and Hcherish
the wives they already have, but not to marry
any more beyond the natural assignment OF
one wife to each husband.
regret that l have found time and oppor-
tunity to visit but one Of the nineteen Common
Schools of this city. This was thinly attend
ed by children nearly all quite young, and of
the most rudimentary a:tainments. Their
chronological developments were, in the aver
age, bad Isay this with freedom, since have
stated that those of the adults, rs noted them
in the Tabernacle, were good. But | am told
that idiotic or matormed children are very
rare, if not unknown here. The male Saints
emphasize the fact that a majority of the chill
dren born here are girls, holding it proofthat
Providence smiles on their peculiar lnsttu-
ton )" |, on the contrary, maintain that such
is the case in all polygamous countries, and
proves simply preponderance of vigor on the
part of the mothers over that of the fathers
wherever this result is noted. presume that
a majority of the children of old husbands by
young wives in any community are girls.
But again the wheels revolve, and my face
must once more be turned westward. With
the most hearty and grateful Acknowledgements
of the exceeding kindness and hospitality with
which have been treated here alike by Nor
mon and Gentle, and with barely word of
praise for the magnificent gardens / have been
invited to visit-of which Brigham Young's is
probably the most extensive and eye-pleasing,
but l like Heber Kmball's the best-I bid
adieu to Salt Lake City, the great mass of
whose people, am sure, have an unfeigned
''zeal for God,'' though must deem it "not
according to knowledge Long may they
live to unlearn their errors, and enjoy the rich
fruits of their industry, frugality and sincere
though misguided piety HG