American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-04-19
A SAD HISTORY.

We recently met young and iateres-
ting girl at the house of an acquaintance
who told us a tale OF wrong and suffering
that furnish material for a novel.
One year ago this young lady left her
home in Pennsylvania home where
all the luxuries of life were at her COM
mand. Her parents we're indulgent, and
she-an only child--was loved by them
with all the fondness of true parental af
fection. No wish of hers remained un-
gratified for she was the idol of those pa
rents, and the light of home made desc
late by an act which will forever east its
shadow on her heart
In February, 1864, she became acquain-
ted with Mormon preacher, who pain
ted to her inglowing terms the glories of
Utah and the Mormon religion He told
her Of the beautiful valley of Utah, for
tilted on all sides by giant mountains,
whose peaks, Furnished by eternal SHOWS,
looked down upon the valleys of perpetu-
green, peopled by Gods own chosen kin
dred, who are as free as the mountain tor
rents that leaps the rocks of the lofty
Timpanagos range. He told her of the
content and peace reigning samong the
saints, and assured her that the Mormons
were Gods own peculiar people, and so
worked upon her Imagination, that she
finally consented to leave friends. family
and all the endearments of home, and go
with him to theYalley of the Saints.
Arriving at Chicogo he forced her to
marry him, the ceremony being perform
ed by mock priest, without record or H.
cense. On last April she left Wyoming.
Nebraska, with Mormon train, for the
land of promise, and inrlly arrived at the
city ofthe saints. Here she found that
her husband had four other wives. who
regarded her with no tender emotions
but heaped abuse and contumeIy upon
her head
After a few months her legc lord told
her he had concluded to seal her to an
who had taken great fancy to her: that
his other wives were jealous, and declared
his last wife should live with him no lon
ger
She declared that she would die before
she would thus be put away and forced to
live,as the wife Of man with whom she
had no acquaintance, and bad seen bnt
once IN her life.-lfer husband told her
1t was Bringhams order. and She must do
50 or lose her life. Determined not to bo
thus saoraficed she started to run awav
with the intention of making her way to
camp Breckenridge in Cedar Valley,
then garrisoned by United States troops
and claim protection She started on foot
and after travelling about ten miles was
caught and brought back, placed ina dun
geon, or rather a cellar, and was thus
kept for mouth with barley food enough
to sustain life. The man whom she re-
fused to live with frequently visited her
and besought her to change hes resolution
in order to save her life.
Through force of circumstances she at
last yielded, and was duly installed in his
family as the sixth wife Here she
found as before, the iealousness and
1uarrcls arising were intolerabc, and she
again determined to escape or die in the
attempt. This time she succeeded in
reaching the headquarters of Gen. Conner.
to whom she told her tale of suffering
The Gen. sent her through to the States
with Government train bound for Ft.
kcarney, which she reached early last
week.
She leaves this tonight repenant sor
rowtul child, for her home in Pennsylya-
nla-that home which she was persuaded
to desert through the misrepresentation
and wiles of crafty scoundrel. What
JOY and gladncss will weel up from the
hearts of those parents, when they again
behold the one they believed lost to them
forever. We droy the veil. Reader.
this is not an isolated case, but an every
day occurrence in this busy sinful world.
81 Loas HeraH.
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