The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-14

tho n1enitude of fine linen and full dress
broa5cloth. Brighnm's picture would seem
to make him out vigorous, handsome man
Of forty, and justly bestows on him pre-
sence to impress feminine admirer nc
Iess than it's own sex. The array Of pic
lures has just the same shade Of gloss and
like peculiarities Of color and treatment; go
they are probably the recent work of the
same hand. Maps of Salt Lake City, Utah,
and that part of the United States west of
the one hundredth degree of longitude,
hang elsewhere on the walls. The room
contains several large desks made Of ex-
pensive woods, highly vanished, and two
large tables of beautiful green and mottled
marbles, piled high with books and docu-
ments. The floor is richly carpeted, the
chairs large and luxurious. Three or four
carved bookcases, all closely filed, are dis
posed in various spots next the wall.
Now for glance at Brigham himself as
he sits gravely upright in his chair, with
his large, broad feet making decent right
angle on the soft carpet. He is clad III a q
suit of greenish cassimere-coat, vest, ana
pantaloons all of the same piece, all maze
roomy and comfortable, with no pretenslons
whatever to stylish build. The vest ID CUT
so as to reveal q broad expanse OF white
linen shirt and turn-down collar. The only
iewelrv visible is heavy but tasteful
watch-chain, leading from vest Dut'on-
hole to the left vest pocket. a crlsply' ciean
parti-colored silk pocket-handkerchlef Is
tied around his neck, and fastened IN q
comely knot, as if freshly adjusted there
bv The last new bride. The occasion of this
addition to his ordinary costume is trltiing
disorder of the throat, incurred IN preacn-
inp the funeral discourse of Heber hlmoail,
and following his remains to the grave. Ii
Won chance to get near enough, you VIII
1000 sionallv notice that he wheezes little
after speaking.
of it's original golden color. 1t ID neatly
combed back, and its tendency to turn IN
under the ends increases q little. Inc
blonde face is q good looking one IN whole
and in detail, but far from easy to construe:
The forehead is broad, moderately high ana
we'll marked in the perspective region over
tbe brows the eyes are keen IN their glance,
though light in hue and not naturally nus
irons: the nose is o good, strong, straight
sort Of nose, and has been handsome aqul-
line. with sensual nostrils. The mouth can
hardly retain much of it's origina! form and
EXPRESSION. Authority has remoulded and
comnressed it until it is more like seam
than q mouth. When he speaks, the words
seemed to be calmly weighed by the brain,
clipped by the teeth, and finally squeezed
through the left half of the almost locked
ND lips. The jaw is the one undisguisedly
animal portion of the face. 1t is heavy,
purplish in its fulness Of blood, and
inclines to take on the double chin.
The throat is thick, the chest deep, the
shoulders broad, the arms rather short,
the legs yeomanlike in stOutness,
and the whole figure that Of well-pro-
portioned large man nearly six feet in
height, who has passed his prime and COM
menced to descend n little. The predoml-
nant expression of his face is broad sort
of shrewdness. A profound knowledge OF
human nature, combined with quick, solid
intuitions, and rare capacity-a capacity
of intelligently dispatching important work
with rapidity, and no hustle have placed
Brigham Young where he is, and made his
little empire in the desert one of the won
ders of the world. For man of sixty
eight he is well preserved. Hardly gray
hair is perceptible in his head. But when
he walks across the floor there is sugges-
ton of old age, with its coming tiabbinesa
and want of supple sinews. His step lacks
elasticity, and his complexion the freshness
of vigor and ripe robustitude. The Prophet
is going down hill.
lie is no longer young, nor mlddle-aGed.
Though he has taken two new wives within
the last six months, he has not increased
the number of his offspring for three years
and better. IIeber Kimball, who died at
the age of sixty-eight, leaves platoon of
infants en- eSchei0n, all the way from three
months old upwards, but Brigham's young
est is an urchin already in pantaloons and
wise enough to know its own mother, which,
for Mormon baby, argues no small en-
dowment of precocious reasoning powers.
Three years ago Brigham married Anne
lia," the vivacious, wilful, pale, and rather
homely daughter of Salt Lake carpenter.
From the altar she has exerted o strange
influence over her august lord and, though
she has borne him no child, she ID still his
favorite, is most frequently seen with him
in public, and is the object of attentions
from him which few of his harem have ever
known. Two new wives have succeeded
her-one of them widow-but neither Of
them has supplanted her as the Prophets
dearest.
The conversation rippled in the shadows
for awhile, and then one Of us made push
for deep water with the question, ''Does
your community, Mr.. Young, take any in
terest in the general politics Of the coun-
try"
"No, SIR" was the reply. owe believe
here in men, and not in parties" And he
changed the topic, almost in the same
breath, to that of mining, in which some
of his visitors are interested.
Gentlemen" said he, II understand
some of you are going to the Pahranagat
mines. You are very hopeful l observe,
but you will lose your m0ney-mark my
words. The ore is there, true enough but
not one mine in fifty can be probably
worked in America until wages are twenty
FIVE cents a day, as in Germany, instead of
six dollars, as at your mines. The expense
Of reducing your ore will swallow up all
the revenue, and much more. 1t won't do.
What would my community be to-day if it
had taken to mining instead of agriculture
Set one hundred men to mining and
ten to farming, and at the end Of ten
years the ten will be worth more than
the one hundred, and probably have
to feed them gratuitously. You say it
is possible that my views on this subject
may be changed. They may be enlarged,
and for your sake hope they win. But
can only repeat my fullest conviction that
you are doomed to bitter disappointment
and heavy losses"
g. understand, President Young" said
another, "that you have taken contract