Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-04-10

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MORMON MARRIAGES: An important al
yorce decision has just been given ina London
court court. TIE petitioner in the caseaof yHydeivs.
Wooihouse claimed d dissolution Of his mar
rage on the. ground Of the adultery Of, his wife.
The alleged marriage was contracted at Utah,
in the territories Of the. United States of
America, and the petitioner and respondent
both professed the Mormon faith at. the time
The petitioner has since quilted Utah and
abandoned that faith, but the respondent has
not. After the petitioner had left Utah the
respondent was divorced from him m,Iapparently
in accordance with the law obtaining among
the MormonS, aud has since taken another
husband Z This is the adultery. complained of.
The judge remarked in summing up the case:
Marriage is one and the sama thing substan-
tialy all the Christian world over. Our whole
law of marriage Ssumethis and itlis impor-
tant to observe that we regard it, as "a wholly
different thing-a different status from Turk
ish or other marriages among lnhdel nations,
because we clearly should never recognlZeNthe
plurality of wives and consequent validity OF
second marriages, which second marriages the
l2ws of those countries authorize and validate.
This cannot be put on any rational ground, eX:
cent our holding the infidel marriage to be,
something different from Christian marriage,
and the Christian marrlageto be the same
everywhere. Therefore, all that the Courts of
our country have to determine is, whether or
not the thing called marriage, that known re-
lation of persons, that relation which those
courts are acquainted with and know how to
deal with, has been validity contracted in the
other country where the parties protested to
bind themselves. -
Inasmuch as the marriage IN hand was not
according to his view legally contracted, he
could not grant the prayer of the petitioner for
divorce He added: s;saLz1fi .,,-,,,
All that is intended to be here decided is.
that as between each Other they are not enti-
tied to the remedies, the adjudication, or the
relief of the matrimonial court Of England. -
The Dry ToRTUGAs PRISONERS. The gov
ernment transport Eliza Hancox, from Calves
ton on the 22d ult :, touching the Florida coast
brings TO Fortress Monroe several discharged
prisoners and news of Dr.. NIudd, Arnold,
Spanger and Col armaduke,..> :. ~ ='
DR.. Muld who at one time attempted to es-
cape, is still kept under close guard, and com
PEELED to clean out the bastions in the casemates
Of the fort, and do some of the most, ,menial and
degrading work required to be done. Never
very robust, he IS now but little more than Il
Skeleton, and his growing emacia,ion shows
how bitterly his spirit chstes under his impris-
onmcnt His constant prayer is for death.
Arnold is employed as clerk OF Captain
Van Reade, post adjutant He IS an uncom-
monty fine penman and accurate accountant
and well behaved and modest and yielding in
his demeanor. He grows 10 usefulness and
popularity each day. A guard attends him to
his meals which are the same as the other
prisoners; and at night he is kept in close Gus
t0dy -; + saf,ritsr3.F
Spangler is at work IN. the gquarterm aster' $.
carpenter shop. Already he begias t. count
the years, months and days remaining to com;
plete his term of imprisonment He is robust
and joy-a physical condition. he attributes,
however, solely to his being innocent of any
participancy in the dreadful crime charged
against him. ~ j .sssl .3 = i
Colonel Matmaduke found guilty of the con
spiracy to free the prisoners at Camp Douglas
and burn Chicago has charge of the post gar=
den. lnrespect to manuallabor he has an easy
time + zui-..-aa & s4@*@41 sz#*Tei
WHAT ARE WE TO EAT Some kind of pes
thence has broken out among the fish, if We
are to believe New York papers and already
four hundred barrels ofdiseased heIrings' have
been seived on one Of the piers in that city,
This is bad news again rinderpest fright.
ened many people from their beef steaks and
Savory rossts, and the trichinina horrifea
them, at the idea Of being eaten up alive while
ndulglug ina roast pig, sauSages and buck
wheat cakes Then 1t was said, and sswlse}
men encouraged the deluson, that mutton was
the healthiest meatin the market, and that
sheep was never attacked by disease. But
that aSSertlOn3has not been made good for we
have accounts from England and Scotland that
aspecles Of plague had broken out in both
countries amopg the sheep. Then tiInid peo-z
PIE tell back on poultry, and were just compos-
log themselvesto breakfast, dine, and sup en-
chickens, when Intelligence was brought us
that tdlSease had fastened upon this class of the 4
leathered race in the West lndies, and that it
would most likely reach this country by way Of
some som heucoop or barque trading between tie ,
Islands and the United States This vas
enough, and the terrified patrons Of the pullet
and the capon forbade Their. appearance in the
Sltchen orat the table, and surned theirsiat
tentlon to the Inhabitants of the sea- But
W S1at must be their dismay at learning that
nsh' IKE bteeves, hogs, sheep, and chickens,
are also llasle to and affected by disease? What
no" no are thy to do? What shall they eat 2
II II enters lgto everyday life, and cannot be
iS"ored Nan must ear, but what to eat, in
'heSe latter days, IS an interrogatory easier
PRFopounded than expounded.-I,hilaaelphstS