New-York tribune., 1867-09-05

ready formed her acquaintance IN public ana now en-
countered her accidentally foT zen lu.es h III 01o
parlor Again and again had heard her husband aver
that tho women not merely acquiesced IN pOygay Dut
often urged their consUrts TO take adohoi Wives A'or
some general conversation, kle asked.
What is the most noticeable thIng you hEu among
Tho neacefuIness of the rival wives Tho fact that
they ro only refrain from breaking each others heads
hut generally seem friendly, sometimes even ahecuoh
"That IS from strong religious conviction Nothing
o1so c"rd nrodrce h. believe our women are better,
moro patient than any others in the world. Nobody
knoWa .he severity OF the trials they have 10 endure
Yor reouie have treattd us with the greatest court
,- md lhyn ms much which excitos Our sympathy and
admiration They have exhibited little OF your hone-ie ;
bt that little only confirms my previous belief that to
o another woman the sacred name OF wife Is the great
est cnmc the last possible outrage man can commit
erons bi own wife and the mother of ms children"
The lady replied in painful earnestncss, with teeth
Certainly il is I would rather see my daughter in
her shroud than married 20 a pluralist"
The first wife deems herself superior to the rest some
times Iensng to associate % or sneak %'h tne OF 10 rec
4" Arc you MI. Is oihy wifeP asked Gentle OF a
Mormon lady.
~ am" Was the reply; "though several other women
cGH themselves his wivosw
We were told OF cue poor fellow with pair OF wives
IN n single house containing but two rooms. When ne
brought home his second spouse, the ist Indignantly re-
pudiaed him. and would 10 longer even speak 10 I'm @
Soon after the second vito also refused 10 serve MN 1-
thcr; and the lucesl man was sleeping alone upon inc
floor of his cabin and dong his own ecSKng psed n
hating him cordially! Like Old Weller he had "uoio IL
We dIued at the house Of a leading Saint whose two
wives present at the board, but only rs walters were
dressed precisely alike, and really seemed TO REGARD e"ch
one portiy brother has wife in nearly every village
so that when he makes the annual tour OF lne
win s own famlyl Polygamy Is nj least seisustalh
ing; the women are expected to support themselves
During the past year Mr.. Richardson went ont to
the end of the Pacific Railroad, at that time two
hundred and forty miles west Of Omaha Ills ac-
count of the progress of the road up to the date of his
tctor lard of
son by which to estimate its subsequent operations
AT ten miles from Omaha, the road. after making
short elbow TO the South runs westward along the
Platte valley and for the distance OF forty miles is as
straight as the track of a rifle ball hundred miles
ont on the praires is Columbus which promises To be
the site of n great citv At the end of the track were
long sleeping and eating cars for the workmen VINO
press forward so fast that only portable houses VIII
serve them. All supplies come from the East.
The soft cottonwood sleepcIs which are oious"'
down the Missouri from the forests oi iowa
are treated with an Infusion oi zinc "n',n
makes them no less durable thah oaH'
Many of the imbcrs for bridges are OF black walnut
often sixteen inches square. The charter permits
only American iron The rails are from Now-ioTk
and Pennsylvania Each rail is dropped in Il place
with the precision of machinery and between Two
and three miles of track have been lald dally iot
weeks. The labOrS OF tWelNe ihouhhuu hi''' ~
directed by telegraph from the headquarters oi the
company in New-York The Platte valley, according
TO Mr. Richardson, is incompaIaby the most idVoia-
bic railway route in the world almost dead level
from the Missouri up to the mountains For five
hundred miles the grade averages only seven feet to
the mile The Summer of the present year opened
with twenty-five thousand men employed on the
main stem of the Pacific Railway and the California
and Nebraska Companies expect their locomotives
to meet in the vicinity OF Salt Lake carly IN 1910.
Apart from the great amount of curious and yalua-
be information which is given IA this volume 1t Is
recommended to public attention by the attractive
style in which it has been brought ont and ITS pro-
fusion of pictorial illustrations, many OF which are
accurate and striking sketches from nature, while
others are provokngy comic, although We cannot
say much in praise of the portraits, which for the
most part look more like scarecrows than the originals
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