The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-05-26
SALT LAKE CITY.
BRIGHAM YOUNG ANB HIS WIVES.
THE ECONOMICAL BLuyDERs OF aoRMoSisn.

Correspondence Of the N. Y. Evening Post.l
OGDEN, May 3, 1871.
When we arrived at this place, day
before yesterday, a singular piece of
good fortune befell us. Mr.. Hooper, tho
Utah delegate in Congress, came down
with us. When the train got in we
found that Brigham Young, many OF
his elders and chief officers, and their
wives and daughters, had come up from
Salt Lake City, to welcome Mr.. Hooper,
and accompany him home. They, with
their band and singers, filed two cars,
and by the Intervention of Mr.. Hooper
another car, containing the party of
General Franchot, Of the Central Pacific
Railroad, was taken on as part of this
train. BY General Franchots kindness
my own little party was taken along;
and we had hardly started, on the special
train, when Mr.. Hooper asked US all into
MIR. Youug's car, and we were presently
introduced TO what somebody called
"all the nobility" of Salt Lake.
| believe the ladies OF our party never
thought to find themselves in such
strange quarters. After some general
greetings we were seated ia the two
cars for our ride of thirty-nine miles to
Salt Lake City; and being properly in
troduced fell as naturally into conver'a.
tion as though we had been in New
York. Brigham Young - President
Young he is formally called when you
are presented, but Brother Brigham his
| ,f.n III 4 N kp-
side one of the ladies Of our party, with
two others in front of him, and con.
versed affably all the way down. Mrs.
Young fell to my lot-a handsome and
clever person, well made up in every
way. Mrs. Young-I mean another
Mrs. Young, also handsome and clever
was seated beside another gentleman.
believe six or seven of MIR. YOung's
wives were distributed through the cars
and quite number Of his children.
will say that we passed very pleas.
ant two hours; and that, for my own
part, is all 1 can say. OF course we un-
derstood that we might have remained
in Salt Lake City six months and not
have seen as much of the saints and
their families as we saw here on the
train. OF course we were dying with
curiosity to ask endless questions and
draw out our strange travelling COM
panions. But of course being ladies and
gentlemen we conducted ourselves as
such and as they on the other side
were-not naturaly-guarded, have
very little to tell after all
Brigham Young is tall, stout, full
faced, robust man, who looks more like
a hearty beef.eating E1glish squire
than anything else-until you come to
look into his pale blue, keen eyes. Then
/ he looked to me like man extremely
on his guard, and man capable of
showing his teeth. He wore black, with
a silk hat, and carried loosely about his
, neck-the day being little cool--a some-
3 what conspicuous rose colored scarf
This color was worn also by one of his
i, wives.
Mr.. Young talked very freely with
t tho ladies near whom he sat, explain
-, ing to them the methods of irrigating
!, the land, the extent of his preaching
. tours, and the value of Salt Lake in the
e future. Mrs. Young = Mrs. Amelia
{ Young, suppose she might be called
,, explained to me in like manner many
9 objects of interest along the road. Once
q only she touched upon polygamy-and
! then in the most casual manner. Seeing
some Indians, l asked if the saints had
I made anything Of these people, she re :
| tIiaI that thu crirlr If taynn nj
: trained, make excellent and faithful
i servants. "Mr. Young" said, she, "has
had one in his house for many years,
she is very good woman, and would
not return to her people" proceeded
. to AXIS some further particulars about
. the Indian woman, to which Mrs.
y Young replied, with not the least en-.
= barrassment, can't tell you; she is
. not my servant; she lives with another
y of Mr.. Young's wives"-sister Eliza ]
= think she said -"who is not here To-
" day"
. To one of our ladies daughter of Mr.
'. Young related that her father had fifty
y five children; that he was very goot
u and .indulgent father; that he could no
," , very well meet them all together n
= every meal, and therefore took brea X
o fast with one half of them, and thpi
. with the other half.
~ One Mrs. Young related to some q
% >, our ladies that Mr.. Young takes IL
~ dinner, but only two meals per day
=. He breakfasts at the Beehive house
:. and takes tea at the Lion house. Thes
y y are his two principal houses. She adde
;, that all his wives do not live in thes
houses, some having houses of thei
own; and Mr.. Young goes occasionall
:, to take meal with one or the other {
20 these.
ar A Miss Young added that her fatho
- is fond Of dancing, and an excelleu
"a dancer (he is only seventy years of ag
- you know; and that balls are given /
- the theatre and elsewhere, occasionail,
~ mnr where he dances with great livellnes
,ot lheard this, too, from others; he SCENE
~ TO me heavy and slow.motioned for
dancer, but he is an extremely we
all preserved man, with the florid cor
ng plexion of person who lives much Of
tn of doors.
on We had just passed through Echo al
tie Webber Canyons, and the DEVILS Ga
mile after mile ofthe grandest, stran
est and rudest scenery.-like long Opt
RS, dream and now, on our way to 81
in Lake City, all this was changed, and
ter were enchanted by a gentle aspect
nd nature-distant mountain peaks, tn
5 a snowy tops seen across the broad
II. panse of the lake; the beautiful Re
Island in the lake, and altogether eve
not thing lovely and inviting where bef
hat 1t was grand and forbidding.
to At three or four hamlets above
lit road the train was stopped and