Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-02-15
A Sad History.

We Yesterday met n young and inter-
esting girl at house Of nm acquaintance,
who told us tale of wrong and .ufferin :
that would furnish material for good
sized novel
One year ago this young lady left her
home in Pennsylvania-a home where all
the iuxuries Of fife were ut her command,
her parents were indulgent. and she, an
only child was loved by them with all the
fondness of true parental affection. No
wish of hers remained ungratihed, for she
was the idol Of those parents; and the
light of the home made desolate by an act
which will forever cast n shadow on her
henrt
In February, 1864 she became acquaint-
ed with a Mormon pre- acher. who painted
To her in e owing terms the glories of Utah
and the Mormon religion. lie told her Of
the beautiful raIleys of Utah, fortified on
al sides by giant mountains, whose peaks,
FURNISHED by eternal SHOWS, looked down
upon the val eys of perpetual green, peo-
plei by God 5 own chosen kindred, who
were free as the mountain torrents that
leap the rocks of the lofty Ilmpanagos
range. He told her of the content and
peace relgning among the Saints, and as
sured her that the Mormons were God
'''' pSNf iti btoitlC, anu So "ohNS" 'fOit
her Imagination that she finally consented
to lie" e friends, fami Y, and all the endear
ments of home, and 20 with him TO the
Valley of the Saints.
Arriving at hicaeo, he forced her to
marry him, the ceremony being performed
by a mock priest, without record OF license.
On 1st April she left Wyoming. Nebras-
ka, with a Mormon train. for the land Of
promise, and finally arrived in the city o!
the Saints. Here she found her husband
had four other wi ca, who regarded her
with no tender emotions. but heaped abuse
and contumely upon her head.
After few months her iege ord told
her he had concluded to seal her to anoth-
er, who had taken great fancy to her, that
his other wives were Jealous, and declared
his last wife should live with, him no
longer
She declared she would die before shs
would thus he put away and forced to live
as the wife of n man with whom she had
no acquaintance. and had seen bat once
in her life Her husband tod her is was
Brigham 5 order, and she must do or
loose her life Determined not to be thus
sacrificed, she started TO run away with
the intention Of making her way to Camp
Breckinridge in Cedar Valley, then gar
risoned by United States troops, and claim
protection there She started on foot and
after travelling about ten miles, was caught
and brought back, placed in n dun ceon, or
rather cellar, AMI was thus kept for
month, with Just epough food TO sustain
life. The man whom she refused to live
with frequently visited her, and besought
her to change her 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,
az before, the jea ou5ies and quarrelS aris
ing were intolerable, and she again deter
mined to escape or die in the attempt
headquarters Of General Conner, to whom
she told her tale of suffering The General
treated her with kindness, gave her money
and sent her through the States with
Government train, bound for Fort kear-
ney which place she reached early last
week
She leaves this city o-night, a repent-
ant sorrowful child, for her home in Penn
svlvania-that home which she was pur-
ruaded to desert through the misrepresen-
tation and wi.es Of crafty scoundrel-
What Joy and gladness VII! swell up from
the hearts Of those parents. when they
again beho'd the one they believed lost u
them forever We drop the veil. Reader
this is not an isolated case, bnt an every
day occurrence in this busy, sinful world
st Joseph Herald.