Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-01-24
pRfeHAM YOUNG on poLYcAMY.

ference lately held at Salt Lake City, is
taken from his organ, the Desert News:
"The last time was in tho city OF
Lowell there were fourteen thousand
more females than males in that one city.
This was many years ago. &hey live
and die in single state, and are forgot
ten. Have they filed the measures Of
their creation, and accomplished the de-
sign of Heaven in bringing them upon
earth ? No, they have not. Two thou
sand good, God-fearing men should go
there, and take to themselves seven
wives apiece. 1t is written in the Bible,
'and in that day, seven woman shall lay
hold of one man, saying, we will eat our
own bread and wear our apparel; only
let us be called by thy name, to take away
our reproach.' The Government of the
United States does not intend that that
prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Lord
| Almighty intends that it shall. Do you
not think that the Lord will conquer?
l think He will, and we are helping Him.
1t is the decree of the Almighty that in
the last days seven woman chall tase
hold of one man, etc., to be counseled
and advised by him, being willing to spin
their own clothing, and do everything
they can to earn their own living, if they
eau only bear his name, to take away
their reproacb. What is this order for?
1t is for the resurrection; it is not for this
world. would not go across this bow
cry for polygamy, ifit only pertained to
this world. 1t is for the resurrection
and the spirit ofthe Lord has come upor
the people, and upon the ladies especial
ly, and prepares the way for the fulfil
ment of His word The female sex hay
been deceived so long, and been trodds
under foot of man so long, that spil
has come upon them, and they want
place, and name, and head for
man is the head of the woman, to lead
her into the celestial kingdom of our
Father and God."
ORIGIN OF VEGETBLEs.-Garlie same
| from Sicily, where for my part, wish it
had staid. Beans blossoued first within
sight of embryo mummies, in the land
of Sphinx; and the egg-plar'sfrst and
laid its glossy treasures under the Afri-
can sun, and Southern Europe gave us
the artichoke and the beet. To Persia
we stand indebted for peaches, wslnuts,
mulberries, and score of everyday lux
uries and necessities; to Arabia we owe
the cultivation ofspinsge; and to South
ern Europe we must bow in fearful graft
tude for the horse. radish. At Siberia
the victims Of modern intemperance may
shake their CORY locks forever-for from
that cold, unsocial land came rye, the
father of that great ire-water river which
floats so many jolly souls on its treacher-
QUO tides, and engul phed so much of hu-
manity's treasure. The chestnut, dear to
squirrels and young America first drop
ped its burrs on italian soil. Who ever
dreams, while enjoying his Bergamotte,
his Flemis Beauty, or his Jargonelle,
that the first pesr-blossoms opened with
in sight of the Pyramids; and what fair
school girl of the pickle-eating tribe,
dreams of thanking the East-Indies for
her cucumbers?
Parsley, that prettiest of all pretty
greens, taking SO naturally to our Amer
lean soil that it seems quite to the mannor
born is only soiourner among US. Its
native home is Sardinia, or, rather, there
it first secured and acquaintanceship with
civilized man. Onions, too are only na-
tural foreigners IN America. l had hop
ed that in poetic justice research would
prove this pathetic bulb to have sprung
from the land of Niobe, but no, Egypt
stretches forth her withered hand and
claims the onion as her own Maize
and potatoes, thank Heaven can mock
us with no foreign pedigree. They arc
ours--ours to command, to have and to
hold, from times beginning to its ending,
though England and Ireland busters
over corn, and praties till they are hoarse.
II [HarpeI's Weekly.