Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-04-09

Srsf. segan to BE- talked Of, have passed
crime Of their brothers blood"
"1 do, indeed"
"stlll, they are excellent men Brother He
eer Kimbsll and myself are every week in,
viied to address a train Of them down 1t Emi.
grant Square. They are honest, peaceful peo-
pie. But they are real true, good men. We
to conviction. Many OF them have staid with
us. Thus the Lord makes the wrath of man
TO praise him. The abolitionists-the same
people who interfered with our institutions
ano drove Us into the MISUNDERSTANDING
win the southern institutions till they broke
up the Union. But it's all coming out right
q great deal better than we could have ar
ranged 1t for ourselves. The men who fee
from aboiitionist oppression come out here 70
our ARK OF refuge and people the asylum Of
COOS chosen, Youth all be out here before
only makes matters worse. When vonr conre
try has become deeoialion, we the ssint.
whom you cast out, will forget all your sins
against us and give you a home"
Heber Kimball informed the critic hov "a.
orthodox plumber of wives was to be obtaine5
for these new converts.
"Why," said the old man, twinking his littl.
black eyes like godly Silenus, and nursing
one OF his fat legs with lickerish smile, "isn't
the Lord Almighty providin' for His beloved
ar's goin on till the biggest part o. you male
Gentilee hez killed each other off, then the little
handful I'll ats left and comes f1eein' g -cur
along with 'em so we shall hev women enough
to give every one on 'em them all they want.
and hev large balance left over to Distribute
round among Gods saints that hez been here
from the beginnin' O. the tribulationn
The sweet taste which this dIsabolical refec-
ton seemed 70 leave in Heber Kimballs mouth.
made me long 10 kno X him down worse than /
had ever felt regarding either saint or sinner
But it is costly to smite an apostle Of the Lord
In salt Lake City; and merely retaliated by
telling him wished could hear him say that
in lecture room full Of Sanitary Oommiss ION
ladies scraping lint for their husbands, sweet
hs arts and brothers in the Union army. didn't
know whether saints made good lint, but L
thought knew one who'd scraped a little
OF the general Of aspect OF "the Ball" Mr..
Ludlow writes:
After spending an hour in a circuit and sur
Sey Of the room as minute as was compatible
with decency. / arrived at the following re.
suits:
There was very little ostentation in dress st
the ball, but there was also very little taste in
dressing Patrician broadcloth and silk were
the rare exceptions generally ill made and ill-
worn, but they cordially associated with the
great mass OF plebian weed and calico. Few
ladies' wore jewelry or feathers. There were
some pretty girls swimming about in matetul
whip-syllabub of puffed tarletan. Where
sanity gentlemen came with several wives,
dressed, and acted much like an Eastern
chaperon toward her young sisters. wives of
the same man habltnalIy besister each other
in Utah. Another trium ph of graeeD
Among the men saw some very strong and
capable faces; but the majority had not much
character in their looks,-indeed differed little
in tsas regard from any average crowd OF mea
anywhere. Among the women. 10 my sur
prise, found no really degraded faces, though
many solid ones only one deeply detected.
fthis belonged 10 the wife of a hitherto mono
gamic husband, " no mad left her alone in the
dress circle, while he was dancing with a
chubby J oung Mormoness. likely to be added %
the family in month or two) but many i'm.
passive ones; and though l saw mWititudes of
kindly, good. tempered countensnces, and a
score which would have been called pretty
anywhere, l. was obliged to confess, after q
not met single woman who looked high.
toned, first class, capable of poetic enthusiasm
Or heroic self devotion; not single woman
whom an artist would dream of and ask to sit
for study; not one 10 whom finely con stitu-
ted intellectual man could come for compan-
lCnship in his pursuits or sympathy IN his
yearnings. Because knew that this verdic,
would be received at the East with Just as
you might have expected p cast aside every
thing like prejudice, and forget that was 10
Utah, as l treaded the great throng.
THE TALK OF THE SAINTS
Men, everywhere, unfortunately, tend little
toward the error of bashfulness i'm their chat
among each other, but the most of Us az the
East would feel that we were Insulting the
lowest member of the denai monde, If we uttered
before fer g. single sentence of the talk which
forms the habitual staple OF all Heber Kim
p6Ii s puDIiC sermons 10 the wives and dauEa-
tiers who throng the Sunday Tabernacle.
Hsber took a vivid interest In Bierstadts
ano my own eternal welfare, He onika taia
mmsef ont for our conversion, coming TO sit
win us at breakfast in our Mormon hotel
dressed in black swallow tail, bur yest,
and a stupendous turncate cone of Ixephorn.
which made him look like an Italian mounte.
bank physician OF the seventeenth century.
nave neard men who would misuuote Scrip.
ture tor their own ends, and talk long while
without saying nythng; but he so far sur.
passed in these particulars the loftiest efforts
within my former experience, that I could
think OF no comparison for him but Jack Bun.
sey taken to sxhorting