Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-25

to Emelines room, 80 that his visits to her, and
hers to him, could be made without observation
She has contributed greatly to bis glory in the fu-
ture world BY presenting him with eight children
| in this.
The poetess Of the church is Eliza Snow, said to
be quite intellectual 49,. -. ,..,
Zina Huntington also writes poetry and acts as .
sort of governess to the numerous children of the
prophet. Zina came to Salt Lake with her law
fully welded husband, Dr.. Jacobs. Brigham liked
her, sent the Doctor on missionary tour to Eng
land, took bis wife into the harem, and became the
spiritual father Of her children made her his tenn
pora concubine, that he might also exat her to be
a queen in heaven The doctor returned from his
mission, apostatzed and went to California, where
he now resides. cc; .".'. >"if!11
Amelia Partridge has added four children to the
Prophets household. She is Of sweet disposi-
ton, and is not jealous when the prophet turns
his attentions to the other concubines. aoi>
Mrs. Augusta Cobb was formerly Bostouian,
became converted to Mormonism eighteen years
ago, left her home, and accepted position in the
harem. &A -. -. -n ~ s+a'iSfII
: Mrs. Smith; a dsyout Mormon, wished torbe
sealed to Brigham for eternity = but the prophet
did not care to make her heavenly queen He
sealed her to Joseph Smith for eternity, and to
him for time. -. -. .f;''
j. One ''poor unfortunate," Clara Chase, became
q maniac, and has gone where the wicked cease
from troubling. aar.' ."... ~
Amelia Folsom, native of Portsmouth, N: a.,
is the mistress of the harem. She entered ton
the 10Th Of January, 1853. She is about Nineteen
and the prophet sixty.three. She has things pref
ty much her own wsy-:private box at the theatre,
carriage Of her own, Silks :satins, piano, parlor
elegantly furnished. IF the prophet sights her,
she pays him in his own coin 's., MR. s:a:e,
Such is the outline of this sanity household
thirty women or more, and seventy or eighty child
rem. ..r
BRIGHAM AT THE THEATRE.
He OWNS theatre which esst, it is said, $780,
900, and which has yielded large revenue. tits
well-built edifce, nearly as large as the Boston
theare, with parquet and circle, dress circle,
family circle and gallery. Gentiles are consigned
to the dress circle, though saints also sit there.
Climbing narrow stairway, we find ourselves
in the dress circle, occupying front seat giving
US good position to study the audience. We are
not there to see the play, but the people The
curtain is still down and the audience are taking
their seats. The parquet is arranged with slips
like those in q church. At the right hand side in
the parquet circle is Brigham's family pew-dis-
tinguished from all other seats by its red plush or
damask upholstery. In the right hand side of the
parquet is rocking chair, which Brigham some
times occupies when he wishes to be on familiar
footing with the saints. -
The light in the building is rather dim, gas not
having been introduced to Salt Lake, coal oil be-
ing used instead, but there is light enough for us
to study the countenauces of those around U.s. On
seats adjoining ours are two young girls esh fair,
rosy-cheeked, accompanied by young man well
dressed -Gentiles, judge, from a'remark dropped
now and then. At our right hand is woman
with baby in her arms three other children by
her side. Beyond her another woman with baby
and great strappiDg fellow with red whiskers by
her side Behind us are three registering fel-
lows from the mines Of Montana, ogling the girls
in the parquet. They are GENTLE wolves, Elder
Williams cautioned the girls last Sunday to be-
ware of those who came in sleeps clothing to lead
them away from the church and down to perdition.
These wolves do sometimes carry off the finest
lambs in the flock. Some Of the girls prefer the
undivided love of hardy, good-looking young
Gentle to the forty or fftieth part Of withered
old apostle. 80.
Two seats distant is another baby. The mother
is wrinkled and careworn. We can see lines Of
care and suffering across her forehead and in her
sunken cheeks, as if time had been turning deep
furrows, and his ploughshare had gone down into
the subsoil and had cut the eart-striDgs. Not
hers alone We see the same joyless cast of coun.
tenance on every female face. Artists who with
pen and pencil paint character-who can read the
joys and sorrows of human life in the lines Of the
human face-should come to Salt Lake City
They would find it one vast studio-eyery woman
subject. 'sDead Affections" would be an appro-
pirate title to their pictures StiAed, rather
These women never have known what it is to love
or to be loved. They know only sacrifice. They
are slaves bondage to the church and the devil
at the same time. They are ground to powder be-
tween two mighty mill-stones-the upper one
religious idea, the lower one the lewdness and
lust of hard-hearted men. Heaven and he'll TO-
gether are brought into action, crushing out hu-
man affections and the highest and hoiest instincts
| of the SOUL .....E
The priests of Buddha, in China, in one Of their
delineations of the damned, have accurately por-
trayed the condition of these women of Salt Lake
But there is a man who runs the mil-the head
of the church-President and Revelator- the
private box by the side of the stage. He is port
lly, his hair is nicely brushed. He wears white
vest, black broadcloth coat, kid gloves, puts an
opera glass to his eyes, and looks over to the gal
|ery containing us Gentiles, to see who is there
BE has broad forehead, large nose, and whiskers
turning white. Ability, decision, duplicty shrewd-
ness, cunning-the good and bad elements Of char
acter-are plainly marked on his countenance.-
Apostle Wells, tall, thin, spare man, nearly as
old as Brigham, is by his side. ...
In Brigham's family circle we see two OF his con-
cubines and twenty-five Of his children-al but
three of them girls One of the women is past the
prime of life-plain countenauce, plainly dressed.
She is sad-sad when others laugh. The play is
'The Somnambulist, " but the comic scenes which
set the crowd laughing brings no smile to her face.
At the end of the seat is one of the favorte con-
cubines-a woman of thirty, pale, thoughtful,
with an intellectual cast of countenance, with q
book in hand which she reads between the scenes.
She has large ustrous eyes, dark brown hair jewels
on her fingers, and mother -ofpearl opera glass
| in her hand. She is elegantly dressed-wears q
costly fine cape. Did I not know that they were
Brigham concubines, I should set them down as
teachers of girls boarding school, who had come