The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-12-07
POLYGAM y.


Discoveries George Alfred Town
sead.
From the Cincinnati Commercial
Polygamy is warmly defended, even b,
Mormon monOgamists, as tight, if not con
venient. John Young, the son Of Brigham
ha. three wives, and Joseph Young, Jr.
two, while two pairs Of Brigham's daughter
are married respectively to H. B. ClawsoI
Brigham Young's most noted wife is callet
Amelia; she is vivacious, spirited woman
about thirty-two years old, American born
and without children. Another of the Pies
dents wives is Mrs. Decker, who retains in
dica,ions Of much former beauty, and heI
daughters are the handsomest of Brigham,
children. The old gentleman looks out well
for avocations for his sons-in.law, and il il
said that in his will he has divided all his
property into seven hundred shares, given
the bulk Of it to the church, and distributed
the rest Of it equally among his families.
saw Brigham at the Social hall, on the
occasion Of my last visit here, bid four Of
his wives adieu. The old gentleman had
been dancing, but lad fatigued the legs Of
seventy years, and he approached the cluster
of his helpmates, buttOned up in n blue
Overccat with white vest underneath, red
WOODEN comforter around his neck, and a
worn silk hat in his hand. He looked very
large, square and bland, and he said with
tenderness and dignity, shaking eaci, by the
hand:
"My dear, bid you good night"
The wives crowdipg up, with apparent
emulation, asked if it was his wish that they
also should accompany him home.
"No," said Brigham, 'stay as long rs you
please will have the carriage come back
and wait for you at the door below. Good
night"
They were all middle-aged women, COM
mod-place but cheerful. Brigham Young is
said TO object to his wives dancing round
dances. It is wonderful that Mormon,
with half dozen wives, can be jealous and
fastidious about each of them, and yet have
heard people here fly into passion because
their wives were spoken to on the street by
strangers, or stared at. The only case Of
chargeable, with any degree OF
probability, to the MOI mons, was that of
Brassfield, a teamster, shot dead in the streets
Of Salt Lake, tor selling Mormon's furni-
ture and proposing to elope upon the pro-
ceeds of it with a wife.
(,nAhv ,rho hafas Rr;uho,. Vnuno OH,
cerelv has four wives b.s,des ono d;ro,ced
since no 10, hon ..,n, ofF,, f,,,,,, ,h, ot,,.oL
bs has con,enri.,sd ss,,;,, ,ha an. III. >.
r,dical Inonoasmv .And 70, ~ savs "a
bv UI love sII NV v;vss ~ .onai,v "a
tbev ali love mo 40 h.rmou;oHslv r., T
cannot n;cI m, the ono 10 s,.v mr. ,h,so who
nm, ao
Beerher o. Dsrwinism.
Henry Ward Beecher has had his s,v ON
he Darwinian theory. and i, il probable that
he majority of mankind will be willing to
lcceu his disposition of the matter. In bis
ermon preached las, SUNDAY ON the suls,an-
ial unity Of the race for all moral purposes.
to the view that man is but an ex.
ension the animal kingdom. In analogy |
o the growth OF the vegetable world. he
aid: do not care if one man came from |
monkeys, another from allieators. and an. |
,ther from lizards ANYTHING YOU please-if |
can mould them Alright, it makes no differ. |
nee what thew sprane from. Tin evolving
n working up. thew are substantially the
anne. the important questions are stttled |
We hear a great deal about the length of the
eel and the curvature of the chin Rnt are
or all men alike in all great fundamental
oints? Are not the principles Of genera
ion and secretion the same, whether Eth.
plan, Anglo saxon, Norman or Dane.
jon't We ali have livers, and stomachs, and
carts and spleen? II the African's heart
Duld be proved to be in his liver. that would
e a knock-down argument against the unity
+ the race: but what difference can a kink
q the lair make? Look at the fiat nose
the African saws one. "The idea of
utrins that man on an eouality with
> of the Grecian type" Does it make any
ifierence whether he smells fiat or sharp?
[is olfactories are the same a our. In
,ne as a bird, while another will be dumb.
re will be clear in poetic.l matters, and an
her clear in ethical. Does ANYBODY saw
at ,bese children do not belong TO the same
mily? That moment you strike man YOU
rike the great note Of humanity. Even