New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-16
For the Ladies Only-A Piqunnt Lecture
by Mrs. DIR. Newman Adventures
Among the MOrnnOns.

among the .WOF1nO1kSs
A Washington correspondent telegraphs
to the New York Herald Of Tuesday:
Mrs. DIR. Newman, wife of the celebrated
pastor of the Metropolitan church in this
city. delivered a lecture exclusively to ladies
at Lincoln Hall this evening. No gentle
men were admitted, and tho affair was con-
sidered a great secret, but your cor
respondent has obtained a sketch. A
lady, youthful and graceful, appeared
unannounced, seated herself leisure
ly, and after calling attention to the
prayer meetings of the Women's Christian
Association, to be held at their rooms every
Tuesday at noon, produced her manuscript
and commenced to unfold the incidents and
matters of interest which impressed them
selves on her mind during trip of several
Thousand miles. The distance to various
points were given with perhaps too much
minuteness and detail. hut the general tone
Of the narrative was in "a simple and unaf-
fected style. and the descriptions were III
teresting and many of the anecdotes
piquant:
American desert, with its sage bush, and
countless prairie dogs looking out from
their earth huts; the gradual ascent of the
great Pacific road up the slope OF the
Rocky Mountains, as though nature in her
wonderful torethOueht had made provision
for bridging this great vertebra of earth
and had actually contemplated this road in
advance. As for being sealped by the
Indians she had no special RELISH and
seems to have placed more confidence in a
little pistol which she carried i'll her reticule
than in the doctors armOr of righteousness
for their conversiOn--agreeing in this with
one of our celebrated generals. She men
toned the case of poor unfortunate. who.
tof- nIx f.,un .Nt ,fn Af fhn
ears at way station, stepped to a spring a
little out of sight for a drink. and thereby
lost his scalp. He was taken up by the
next train, and SO escaped. The condition
of the Mormon women was subject OF
much interest Evidently Mrs. Newman
has little desire for DR.. Newman to add
another Mrs. Newman to his household,
and is in no wise in love with polygamy;
nor does she believe that the Mormon
women themselves are in that happy and
cOntented state in which they have been
represented.
She related a number of incidents to show
the truth of this; described OrsOn Pratt in
his matrimonial relations; and was so much
disguised with Brigham Young, with his
double harems of the eagle and the bon, as
hardly to be willing to speak of him at all.
In answer to a request from some of the
women as to what she. could do for them, a
wOman's Christian association was organ
lied. and gOodly number of names pledged
to its support. The descriptions of San
Francisco, Sacramento and the Pacific coast
were brief but the visit to the mammoth
trees-the giants Of the worli-was wildly
described. not forgetting the ludicrous figure
of Drs. Newman and Sunderland crawling
through the windows in one of them known
us the Minister'S knothOle. Passing over
the rest. the perilOus ascent to the heighth
overlooking the Yosemite Valley, with its
escapes and the magnificent
prospect lying beyond, led her TO exclaim
with the poet, ''See Yosemite Valley and
die ~ In this she dares to disagree with
Olive Logan, who asserts that lit does not
pay to visit Yosemite" We are inclined to
agree in this respect with Mrs. Newman,
and if fortune favors, will some day visit
this wonderful valley. The lecture was
worth the hearing, and may be considered