St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-08-22

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are pirates. and to hing them might he
justiisblc; but he say, nsresstfy has I'D
us to disregard former constitutional pro-
visions. since the commencement of this
strife LIB this Instance. the saIae "eces-
] s.iy would seem to dictate u relaxation Of
the strict rule of law. If We hang tiIess,
u,en. the rels-l> will hang Mr. Ely, Colo
mel Corcoran ana Colonel Wilcox. and then
W.. in hesitation. will hang Mr.. Faulkner
and the prisoners at For. Lafayette. Thus
there will be no end to horrors 10 av.sid
this, Mr.. Seward favors Il more leni~n'
course than h.. would recommend under
ordinary circumstances. His opinion has
great weight with the President; but the
matter is by no means yet decided. The
other members of the Cabinet are divided
in sentiment Oh the subject. Mr.. Welle>
sides with Mr. Seward. and the Secre-
;ary If War holds about the same views.
only he objects tn any further release Of
prisoners, as in the ease of Col, Program :
men. Mr. Bates and Mr. Blair both GO
for extrcnic measures. regardless OF con-
Sequences: and Mr. Saith also cntcrtains
the same views.
1t would thus appear that the most
blood thirsty aud radical members Of the
Cabinet are the renegade Southcrucrs.
4 FEESCHMAN's Account OF CrAH.-
A French gentleman, NJ. Jules Rcmy.
has published in Paris. an account III
two volumes. of a ,urney from Califor-
MIA to Great Salt Lake City and resi-
dence of some weeks among the Nor
mons He appears to have travelled for
scientific purposes. and to satisfy his GU
riosity about people of whom even we
Americans know but little From an
exhaustive English review Of his work
We gather that he was much pleased
with the industry and sobricty of the
Mormon population, and needed very
little persuasion to join himself to tho
Society Of L;.tcr-Day Saints 1T Dcscrct
On the subject Of Mormon wives, NJ.
Rcmy gives some curious details :.
"A first wife VII" should refuse per-
mission to her husband to take second.
is condemned by the law. because she
has not dome as Sarah did VIII II sh
gave Hagar t" Abraham. AMI rs Rachel
and Leah did when they gave b l.,
and Zelpha to Jacob. Tnc husband has
p 'rtion of the house to himself the
wives live all together, just as is prac-
tisc'l in the East The first married en-
joys Il certain asccudcncy over the others
Saints who can afford it live in Il separate
house from their wives 4 third system
obtains OF each wife having d separate
house. AMI the husband bo, and lod gcs
in each alternately for twcnty-fo four hours.
The wives must look upon one another a.
si:tcrs. and the children call all, except
their own mothers. aunt. They are dis
tinguishcl sometimes by their Christian,
names, as Mrs. Mary Angel, Mrs. Jane
Angel. and so on: bn' the president num-
b, rs his, Mrs. Young NJ. l. Mrs. Ioun.
No. ?. and so on no doubt to assist his
memory.
when wife has conceived. the husband
is dispensed from all marital duties towards
her. The Mormons have singularly re-
duccl the limits of rcla:io rsLip within
which marriage is forbidden among Chris
tians. Thus one man will wed all til.
daughters Of the same father and lnother
Others have married ,mothrr and daughter.
\ certain Watt Married his half-sis-
ter"
\ c.nsus taken in 1853, during the
campai gu against the Mormons, detcr,nin-
ed the cxlstcncc of 3,Ol1 poiygan.ists in
Utah, thus divided:
Husbands having wives and upwards. 3S7
Husbands having S wives. 49,
Husbands having wives. ] 100
Husbands having more than ] wife and less
than 4. 400
Little is. however. to be delnccd from
these statistics. as the Mormons have o,
no means, as many wives as they would
choose, for several reasons: First. their
want of means, although some do not
scrupie t" marry to make their wives
work. Secondly, from want Of women.
hence their represented missions to this
country; and, lastly, because it is not,
luckily, every woman who elects to be a
Mormon poly gamist's wife.