The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-02-17

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which ! was afraid N tlu whle living
there, A my lit would have men n
danger ny ~ doing. But A. I am
now 10 free country, can an,ter
my wings, and ran aend To my
friends the truth n These things As
they cxlst there, without heinp afraid
In my prcvious letter. I have l,crn
very silent on the polyganiy uues.
ton | think a little news NJ that
kind will be very interesting n YOU
and few Of your friends. In The
first place, old men Of seventy marry
Girls at fourteen years Of age, and In
suiso instasoes they give the parents
Of the child o COW cr an old gun, or
some other trlaing thing. In tho
next place, q man will marry 4 Girl,
and that girls brother will marry /
her husbands daughter; and very
frequently man marrics two or
three sisters but, worst Of all, many
go 30 far MS to marry woman and
her daughter, or daughters, as the
case may be. Again, the mission-
aries from there TO the old country
urge the emigration, especially that
Of the females; and many women
have, when they had not sufficient
means to emigrate with their whole
family emigrated with their daugh-
ters, and left their husbands and the
rest Of the family TO follow them the
next year, or as soon after as they
can procure the means. In many
instances when the man gets there he
finds out that his wife is married to
another man; and should he be so
fortunate with his wife, he has to
keep one eye open all the time, or he
will lose her, especially if she has the
appearance Of smart woman; for !
can assure you that there are a set of
old men with one leg in the grave
and the other out, crawling around
after women, and should they see
one that they would like, they tell
the poor woman that their husband
can't save her, and persuade her to
get a man higher in the priesthood
than her husband, and these old
cripples often succeed in getting her
away, and the poor man can't help
himself. II is the order Of the kind
dom of their God.
l have told YOU that they marry.
| will now tell you how some of
them live. viii speak Of those in
the neighborhood | lived. Three OF
my nearest neighbors were polyga-
mists-one old man who had no
children; he lived pretty fair with
his women. The other two lived like
devils; they used to fight and call
each other filthy names. IL the man
has means enough, he gets a house
for each of his women; if not, they
all live together. =
One young woman that we were
acquainted with went and listened
one night at the window of the other
wife Of her husband, and heard
something that she did not like. She
up with her fist and broke almost
every pane Of glass in the frame, and
for the panes she broke, her wages
was several of her teeth knocked
out. Oh, Zion, when l think Of
thee! A sister Of one Of the apos-
ties has no less than four husbands,
and all living. Women there, II
they don't like their husbands, go to
Brigham Young, and he giveithem a
bill Of, divorce. for which he charges
$40, which her late husband has to
pay, and calls that his pocket money.
Mr.. W., ] can assure you that
there is not that happy smile there
upon q woman's counteuance which
characterizes an English woman.
Many Of them, as soon as they get
there begin to peep through the wool
that has been drawn over their eyes,
probably for years, and some Of them
come out and say Mormonism in
Utah and Mormonism in England
have no comparison. ! found il 80
long beforeI got 70 Salt Lake, but ]
would like to have found il out be-
fore ] left my home. At any rate, !
am quite satisfied now, and have
come to this conclusion, that il God
owns that people, the Devil owns the
best.
/ am, sir, your humble servant,
rtt wharf.
p. S.-As / am out Of danger,
you can make what use you like Of
this letter.
If President johnson makes an