The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-13

| anu hoeher were opposed 10 poiySamy; Dut
| Emeline had ambitious projects, accepted
his proposal and became the favorite Of the
harem. The favor shown her brought on q
| row. The other concubines carried this jeaI-
ousy to such pitch that the prophet had a
private passage constructed from his bedroom
| to Emeline's room, so that his visits to her.
and hers to him, could be made without obser-
| vatlon. She has contributed greatly to his
glory nth IN the tIt future world by presenting him
| The poetess Of tho church rs Eliza Snow,
said to be quite intellectual.
| Zina Huntington also writes poetry and acts
as sort OF governess to the numerous chill
dren Of the prophet. Zina camo to Salt Lake
| with her lawfully welded husband, DR.. Jacobs.
Brigham liked her, sent the doctor on mis-
sionary tour to England, took his wife into the
harem, and became the spiritual father Of her
children-made her his temporal concubine
that he might also exalt her to be q queen in
| heaven The doctor returned from his mis-
sion, apostatized and went to California, where
| he now resides.
| Amelia Partridge has added four children to
| the prophets household. She is said to be OF
| q. sweet disposition, and is, mot jealous when
the prophet turns his attentions to the other
Mrs. Augusta Cobb was formerly Bosto-
| nian, became converted to Mormonism eigh-
teen years ago, left her home, and accepted
position in the harem.
Mrs Smith, q devout Mormon, wished to be
| sealed to Brigham for eternity; but the proph-
| ct did not care to make her heavenly queen
He seated her 10 Joseph Smith for eternity,
and to himself for time.
one poor unfortunate" Clara Chase, be-
came maniac, and has gone where the wicked
cease from troubling.
Amelia Folsom, native of Portsmouth, N
H., is the mistress Of the harem. She entered
nineteen, and the prophet sixty-three. She
has things pretty much her own way-pri-
vate box at the theatre, carriage of her own,
silks, satins, q plane, parlor elegantly fur.
nished. If the fsophet Sights her, she pays
him in his own coin.
Such is an outline Gfthis sanity household
thirty women or moro, aud seventy or eighty
children.
BRIGHAM AT TIE THEATRE.
de owns q theatre which cost, it is said,
S2OO, 900, and which has yielded q large reve-
nue. It is well-built edifce, nearly as large
as the Boston theatre, with parquet and circle,
dress circle, family circle and gallery. Gen
tiles are consigned to the dress circle, though
saints also sit there.
Climbing narrow stairway wo find ourselves
in the dress circle, occupying front seat, Civ
ing US good position to study the audience.
We are not there to see the play, but the peo-
pie. The curtain is still down q nd the audi
ence are taking their seats. The parquet is
arranged with slips like those in church. At
the right hand side in the parquet circle is
Brigham's family pew distinguished from all
stery. In the right hand side of the parquet
is a rocking chair, which Brigham sometimes
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 being used instead, but there is light
enough for us to study the countenances of
those around U.S.. On seats adjoining ours are
TWO young girls. fresh, fair, rosy-cheeked ac-
companied by young man we'll dressed-Gen-
tiles, ljudge from remark dropped now and
then. at our right hand is a woman with q
baby in her arms, three other children by her
al hnr t1,a~r
and great strapping fellow with red whls-
kers by her side. Behind us are three royster-
ing fellows from the mines Of Montana, ogling
the girls in the parquet. They are Gentle
last Sunday to beware of those who came in
sleeps clothing to lead them away from the
church and down to perdition. 1hesewolves
90 sometimes carry off the finest lambs Of tue
love Of hardy, good-looking young Gentle to
the fortieth or fftieth part Of wlthered old
apostle.
Two seats distant is another baby. The
lines OF care and suffering across her forehead
and in her sunken cheeks. as if time had been
turning deep burrows, and his ploughshare
had gone down into the subsoil and had cut
the same joyless cast of countenance on every
female face. Artists who with pen and pencil
paint character-who can read the Joys and
SORROWS OF life in the lines Of the human face
pItOulO COLIo W 6Hlb lidko ClGys InoY would
find it one vast studio---every woman a sub
ject. dead Affections would be an appro-
pirate title to their pictures. Stifed, rather.
These women never have known what il is to
They are slaves-in bondage to the church
and the devil at the same time. They ore
groundit to powder between two mighty mill
stones-the upper one religious idea, the
lower one the lewdness and lust Of hard-heart-
ed mon. Heaven and hell together are
brought into action, crushing out human af-
fections and the highest and holiest instincts
of the soul. {, fF
The Priests or Buddah, in China, in one Of
their delineations of the damned, have accu-
rately portrayed the condition Of these women
of Salt Lake.
But there is man who runs the mil--the
head of the church-Presdent and Revelator-
in the private box by the side Of the stage.
wears white vest, black broadcloth coar, kid
| gloves, puts an opera glass to his eyes, and
looks over to the gallery containing us Gen
tiles. to see who is there, He has broad
white. Ability, decision. duplicity, shrewd.
ness, cunnng-the good and bad elements OF
haracter-are plainly marked in his counte-
nence. Apostle Wells, tall, thin, spare man,
nearly as old as Brigham, is by his side.
In Brighams family circle we see two of his
concubines and twenty-five of his children
all but three OF them glrls. One Of the women
is past the prime OF life-plain countenance.
pldluIy OISsScu. Ou0 ~ SuQ-SaQ Wlon others
laugh. The play IS ''The Somnambulist," (" but
the comic scenes which set the crowd laugh.
| ing brings no smile to her face.
| AT the end Of the seat is one of the favorite
| conoubines--a woman Of thirty, pale, thought
full, with an intellectual cast Of conntenance
with book in hand which she reads between
the scenes!s She has large lustrous eyes, dark
brown hair, jewels on her fingers, and moth
er-of-pearl opera glass in her hand. She il
elegantly dressed-wears a costly fine cape
Did not know that they were Brigham's con.
cubines, should set them down as teachers
OF a girls boarding school, who had come Will
their classes to enjoy the evening.
1t was molly audience. saints, sinners anG
Indians. For up in the gallery see three o
the Ute tribe, in moccasins and blankets
gazing with imperturbable gravity upon tn
scene.
BRIGHAM looks upon the audience most O
the time, turning his attention to the stag
only when something especially attractive o
laughable occurs. He talks with brother Wells
takes @ knile from his pocket, pares an apple
which he slowly munches He has the ap
pearance Of d man not we'll acquainted witt