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IjEyvis m. grist, Proprietor. J fnbepenbtitt Jfamilg ^tciuspaper: Jor f|e |)romoti(m of tjie |)oIjtiraI, foetal, ^gricullural anb Conmertial Interests of % j$ont[>. jTERMS?$3.00 A TEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 18. YORKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1872. NO. 14. ????????^ ?gj\ ?Hijiiial focttn. For the Yorkville Enquirer. "INCREASE OUR FAITH." BY MRS. FANNY DOWNING. Oh! could some gentle Angel's hand From earthly eyelids lift the seal, And to enraptured eyes reveal The splendors of the spirit land. What wonder that the ravished soul Sprang from its swathing bands of clay, To its eternal source away, Sublimed by bliss oeyonu control: It may not be: "The Lord of light No mortal miracles decrees, But gives us in default of these, To live by faith and not by sight. Thrice heavenly Faith our fears dispart, And though the bliss that round us lies, Be hidden from our sin-blind eyes Print it the clearer on the heart. Dispel our doubts celestial Guest, Teach us the Master's will to know, And guided by thine influence, go Rejoicing to our place of rest. To rest, yet rest not! All for one, And one for all, in God's grand chain, Progressing upwards till we gain The glory of the central Sun. February 15, 1872. JU Original frtee Jtorg. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. THE FATE OF MILDRED WEIR. BY MRS. CLARA DARGAN McLEAN. CHAPTER VI. "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, Are but the ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." Coleridge. "But most of all would I flee from the passionate madness of Love, The honey of poison-flowers and all the measureless ill." Tennyson's "Maud." The weeks flew by rapidly. As the season advanced it became gayer, and Mildred found she had neither leisure nor inclination for the more quiet pursuits which bad occupied her in former days. Kate had no longer reason to complain of her cousin's "plodding." With characteristic earnestness she still pursued her music?that was part of her very life; but a taste, long latent, for society and its accompanying pleasures was now developed; and like the rest of her ardent race?a true child of the sun?she enjoyed it as few are capable of doing. She suffered no detriment; her heart and mind were as pure as when she had sung alone her wild airs, heard only by the curlews. But there was a feverishness? an excited, strained manner at times which Mrs. Moreton at length could not avoid observing. She had first loved Mildred for the sake of her mother, but these few months of daily intercourse had taught her to prize the girl for her own intrinsic loveliness of character. It was, therefore, with unaffected concern that she remarked the strange restlessness, the uncertain color?varying at a word from marble whiteness to a painfully bright crimson. The "mother" surmised the true cause, but she shrank from any allusion to it with instinctive delicacy. One morning as they were sitting together in Mrs. Moreton's own room?the girls having gone out on a shopping excursion?Mildred voluntarily broached the subject. She began by drawing a cushion to her aunt's feet, and seating herself upon it, laid her head on the inviting knee. Mrs. Moreton put aside her work, and stroked the soft brown hair whose shining tendrils twined carressingly round her fingers. She said nothing, but the gentle touch was more eloquent than words. "Aunt Marion," Mildred said presently in a low, weary voice, "I wish I could go home." "Why, my pet, are you getting tired of us?" "Oh! you know that is not so," taking the fair motherly hand, and pressing it to her lips; "you are all so good to me, and I do love you dearly?but, aunty, it seems to me that it would be better for me to be at home." She looked up, and at a glance knew she was understood. The red tide flooded her face as she hid it in her hands, and buried both in the folds of her aunt's dress. "Yes, I see. You have become too dear to me not to feel all that concerns you as if it related to one of my own daughters. I believe you would be safer at home?and happier. If Alexis really loves you?which I do not doubt?it will be time enough to decide the matter when your mother knows and approves it. In the meantime, my darling girl, commit your ways unto the Lord, and He will bring it to pass." There was a brief silence, and then Mildred spoke again. "I think I ought to have told you that he has?has asked me to marry hira; but I could not speak of it till now. It was only a few weeks since?the night you all went to the ball at the Casino, and I was too unwell. He came after you left, and?and?" She stopped and burst into tears. Mrs. Moreton was inexpressibly shocked. With oil hor opnsihilit.v. Mildred was usuallv re served in the exhibition of deep emotion. "My dear child, Mildred," she began, and then feeling it was wiser to await the subsiding of the storm, she paused. Presently Mildred continued, her sobs half interrupting : "Aunt Marian, I can't help believing that he loves me, and yet?" "You do not trust him?" "Yes, I think I do; but some things he says and does startle me. I don't understand him. There is a girl ?" Suddenly she stopped: something forbade her to speak of the little modiste at Olympe's. And this was the trouble. Though she had never seen the black eyes and cherry lips again, she could not forget that scene. Lately a fear had begun to dawn upon her innocent mind, and Walderaar seemed to suspect it, for he purposely introduced the subject several times, and descanted largely upon the fact that the "child" was an unprotected young creature; that her mother was dead, and he felt it a sacred obligation to look after I her in this great wicked city. Mildred listen- j ed and believed ; but there was a "rift within : the lute." "My dear," Mrs. Moreton said, "you must not place your ideal too high. Most girls of! your character have too lofty a standard? and men and women are only human at best. Alexis is spoilt by admiration, and it is quite natural that he should be sought after," sus-: pecting that Mildred's uncertainty arose from j some dormant jealousy; "but I do believe: that many men, unfortunately so constituted, i are saved by a pure love, and no one can I doubt the truth of his for you. I have only | si become aware of it lately, because at first I ; r considered his attentions to you on a par with j those which he lavishes on every new and j ii pretty girl. I have never heard, however, of j e a single act of his which would lead one to j p condemn him as really bad-hearted. But I c will say no more. Your mother is the only w person who can decide this matter. To her, \ my darling, we must now leave it. She knows h his guardian, who will speak honestly if there is any feature in the character of Alexis y which might prove a bar to your mutual hap- n piness." y Mildred felt all this to be the truth ; and 1 as Kate entered shortly after, the subject was a dropped. c But the next morning her uncle said, as he kissed her at breakfast: n "I cannot let you run away from us till g Mardigras is over. That is only a few weeks tl off now, and as everybody is recovering from I the fatigues of Christmas frolics, we may ex- c pect rare fun." r He had been reading the morning paper, ji but he now laid it aside, and removing his fi spectacles, took Mildred upon his knee, and c began to discourse on the ceremonies of that v festival so popular with the gay Creoles of the I Crescent city. "I would like to remain," Mildred acknowledged with a half-sigh, "and I have not quite u finished my last quarter with Barilli; but, tl uncle Louis, I have written mamma I will tl leave for home within the coming week." fi "What is that?" Jack asked, coming up; there was unmistakable excitement in his d voice. "Did you speak of going home, Mil- & dred?" ? "Yes, Jack," she said, sinking down wearily 81 upon the lounge, "Yes, I am going home." * - .... a He threw himself into the seat beside her. I ** Passiop, grief, almost anger, burned in his ? eyes; but he said not a word. For a moment he sat thus, biting his under-lip, as if to gain ? sufficient self-control to trust his voice. Then without touching her hand or looking in her ^ face, rose and left the room. Mr. Moreton had seen all. With that quick 11 parental instinct, with which even the lower * orders of creation are endowed, this father, 0! whose whole soul was bound up in his children, read the sad truth : love unrequited? even unheeded. There returned to him with c< strange distinctness an almost similar chapter 84 in his own life-story. The clear morning sunlight?the low crackling of the fire?the very 81 street-sounds bo cheerful in the cold, resonant h air?all struck with sudden sharpness? P "The electric chord wherewith we are darkly bound." CI Here-called the inevitable ending of all 81 "first loves"?disappointment ana regret. g The newspaper in his hand trembled, the si tightness in his throat became intolerable. The drooping figure on the lounge was so pathetic he could scarcely resist the temptation n to go to her and plead his son's cause. But & a moment after the others came in to breakfast, and it was too late. t( There was a general outcry when Mildred's intended departure was canvassed that morning. Kate and Henriette strenuously opposed a it; and in short the arguments on all sides contra were too vigorous to be long combat- 0 ted ; Mildred was secretly glad to be persua- ft ded into remaining a few weeks longer?at least till after Mardigras. st And now the recherche cards of invitation h were found under the door in the usual mys- tl terious manner, and extensive preparations & began to be made for that grand carnival. It delighted Mrs. Moreton to see with what b childlike eagerness Mildred entered into the tl discussions of costume, <fec., so different from g< the preoccupied air she had worn for some time past. p They had seen nothing of Waldemar for r< several days, the myth "business" having tl carried him off with a gay party of young ^ men to a neighboring town. But a note ar- a: rived on the evening preceding the grand n Masouerade. reoueetiner to see Mildred for a a1 4 , A w few moments alone. As she was coming down stairs, she saw Jack on the landing. w They had met but seldom lately, for the v young heir, contrary to prophecy, had been tl closely occupied in his father's office; and as Sf he stopped and bade^ her good evening, she r< was struck by the change in his face. "Why, Jack, you look pale and?almost oj sad. What is the matter ?" w "I pale and sad I" he exclaimed, forcing a laugh, " 'with anger, with sickness, or with ^ hunger, my lord, but not with love.'" P "No, upon my faith!" laughing in good ^ earnest at his apropos quotation?" 'upon my ei allegiance' not with love, or the pretty Ninon will have to answer for more than she is aware 111 of." y< "Ninon ! Pshaw! That joke is too stale ni even for an apology." 7( He spoke impatiently, and his lip curled with ill-concealed scorn. Mildred looked at hi him in pained surprise. Utterly unconscious w of his feelings toward her, she could not un- ti derstand this new phase in a character, of si which tenderness and strength seemed the st main elements. "Cousin Jack!" was all she could say in a la tone of reproach, while a faint flush spread over her face and throat. F "Mildred?Mildred?will you never under- le stand me ?" pj His voice was so hoarse that the words could ai scarcely be heard ; the next moment he had e? left her. ri Mildred stood in blank dismay?but this u] was no time for reflection. Repressing her rising emotion, she hurried into the drawing- m room. Waldemar was standing by the fire? ai his arras crossed on the low mantel, and his w head bent upon them. He raised his face as she entered. It was marble pale. sa "I hope I have not kept you waiting," she ra began ; but, with a movement of the hand, he awed her into silence. di She stood by him, her long draperies falling fa upon the velvet rug within a few inches of his t\ feet?the perfume from a tuberose at her tb throat stealing softly upon his senses. He sa looked at her?a pure, pale woman, from whom the very breath of innocence and fidel- ci ity seemed to exhale?and a consciousness, Anrvrx ar?rl AuorajKolminnr nf Vmq r?u7n ntlor nn. UGGJS uuu U.Vi .iuv.m,ufa) ..." v...^ V.W yy worthiness, rushed upon him. "So near and m yet so far!" He reached out his hand, and c, then suddenly withdrew it. "I have come here to talk with you." he m began without any prelude, "to have an un- tl derstanding?to say that?Mildred," with an ir energy which seemed to calm him?"to say I d must know my fate. You have been aware tl for weeks that you are all the world to me, ai and it is impossible to endure this state of e( iispense. Will you be my wife?or do you efuse ?" He did not attempt to come nearer; some lfluence, as potent as it was intangible, seerad to guard her from his very touch ; but the assion in his voice thrilled her as the closest areas. She trembled so violently that she ?as obliged to support herself against a chair. Valdemar took no notice ; only he clenched is hands closer together. "Mr. Waldemar," Mildred began in a low, et clear tone, "it is unkind in you to urge - T Uavta alwAOrltr aoirl T /von ffioD iiC lanuci. jl uavo antauj oaiu a vmu g??v ou no reply until I have seen my mother. Tou know but too well," and her voice fell ltnost to a whisper, "how much even that onsent implies." "Yes, yes," he muttered, "it is enough? lore than I have any right to expect. Forive me that I have seemed impatient, but here is more at stake than you can imagine." le stopped suddenly as if the words had esaped him unawares; then continued without eplying to her questioning eyes: "I have ast returned to the city, and find a letter rom my guardian," urging roe to spend the oming spring at Bayou La Fourche. It rests nth you whether I come or not. How must reply to his invitation ? Shall I accept it ?" "Yes." Scarcely was the irrevocable monosyllable ttered before Mildred Weir repented. Oh! bis fatal impulse which sways us all! Oh ! hat fearful word "Regret" which inevitably allows! A great man has said, "our wills are our estiniesbut it were hard to charge the sad ate of this young girl to the utterance of one mpulsive word. Yet it was so; and that poken word fell upon the ear of her listener rith the resonant ring of determination. Brow nd cheek flushed with a sudden glow of wildat joy. "My darling?my darling"?he murmured ver and over in tones which only the ear of >ve could detect?"I have won you $t last; ou cannot recall that word." Surprised and bewildered, Mildred at first iade no effort to release herself; but suddenr she threw back her head and laid her hand n his arm. "Alexis, do not take advantage of me. rou have my word?but no more. I cannot Dnsenttoan engagement until my mother inctions it?but, oh 1 Alexis, you know?" The excitement had been too great. She it down, and leaning her head upon her and, gave way to the feelings which overowered her. Walderaar strove in vain to aim her; indeed, he was frightened at the re1j 1 1 J 1 in oi nis impulse sou me intensity ui uer rief. He entreated her to forgive hira, but ie only murmured? "Go?go; I cannot bear to see you now." "And to-morrow night," he implored, "let ie join you. How shall I know you ? Give ie some clue to your costume." She raised her hand and signed that the >paz ring should be the token. "And your domino?" "White. We all wear white, but Kate has crimson tassel on hers." "Good night then until I see you at the pera House. Now say you forgive me be>re I go." He was on his knee beside ber chair and ill holding the hand he had taken to bid er adieu, when the. door opened; and through ie dusk?for the gae had not yet been light1?Mildred heard her cousins' voices. "I tell you, Henriette, it could not have een he, for Jack said only this morning that ie party had not yet returned from Pascaoula. You must have been mistaken." "I am perfectly confident," Henriette relied, the two entering the back drawing>om and not yet perceiving the occupants in ie apartment beyond; "I was standing with [r. Chetwynd at the comer near Romillet's, ad they passed in a close carriage. I recogized her face as that pretty girl who works t Olympe's." It was all said so deliberately that not a ord was lost; and the two sisters had &danced to the curtain which hung between ib rooms before Waldemar recovered his ifl /\ 1 1 _ 1 , .! J !/* ill-possession. tyuicaiy rising ne saia, as 11 turning a conversation? "I shall expect, then, to have the pleasure f meeting you to-morrow evening. Au re ? nr. The inimitable coolness struck Mildred umb. He bad disappeared through the oposite door, his retreat being favored by the im light, when Kate coming forward discov ed her cousin seated by the fire. "Why) I thought you had not finished dressig for dinner, Mildred, and instead I find du giving a private audience to one of your nmerous adorers. Who was it that just left du ?" Kate was in one of her teasing moods, and sr red lip wore that expression of mechancele hich is so particularly trying to sensitive naires. But Mildred was on her guard: the tort outburst had relieved her, and she was rong again. "Guess!" she said, looking up into the ughing eyes above her. "Oh! I can easily run through the list, alconer, Gervais, Chetwynd, Archille Pigot, and last, but by no means least,"?with a retty affectation of sarcasm?"the irresistible id fascinating Waldemar. Now answer for ich in succession." She sank down on the lg at Mildred's feet, and fixed her eyes keenly pon the face of her cousin. "Well, as ray father confessor, or rather as iy prime inquisitor, I make an honest, sincere, id unhesitating acknowledgement that it as?one of them 1" "Now I perceive thou art guilty," Kate dd solemnly. "Henricus, bring thither the ick." ' "It is just as I told you, Kate," Henriette rawled lazily from among the cushions of a uteuil, "Thegentleman I saw in the carriage 70 hours ago, and the gentleman who left lis room as we entered it, are one and the une?Alexis Waldemar." Rising wearily as if she did not care to disiss the subject, Mildred said : "Henriette is right as to the person who as with me: of the other I know nothing. I lust go to my room for a minute. Do exise me." "There's no fun in teasing you, but I'll lake Waldemar answer for this," was the Parlian dart which Kate threw after the retreatig figure; then turning to Henriette as the oor closed she said, "It would be better 1 link Dot to mention this at all, for our father ad mother might feel unnecessarily concern1. You won't speak of it, Etta ?" "No, of course not;" and the two began to 'discuss the absorbing subject of the ball. [to be continued next week.] I [Copied of the Enquirer containing the previous chapters of | tills Story can be furnished to new subscribers.] I ^isccUaucotts grading. I Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial. AMOJNU- T-tLEi MUltMUIN O. ? . ? Salt Lake City, March 5,1872. I was invited to a Mormon ball last night, and I went. I was glad of an opportunity to go, as it afforded me an insight into Mormon character, and I shocked the tender sensibilities of a Gentile friend by saying that I would go to a dozen Mormon balls if possible. My friend is a true Gentile, taking his whisky straight and not reading the Mormon Bible, nor any other. He is surprised that a Gentile from the East should associate so much with the Mormons. Yes, I do associate with them some, as I consider that their religion is their own business, and that we will not be held accountable for the sins of their belief. Perhaps if we of the East look out for our own sins, without running all over the world to hunt up other people's, we will have reasonable employment. I came here to learn some thing of JVlormonism beyond what is found in the catch-penny publications composed of onehalf lies and the other half a compound of malice, bigotry and prjudice; a mixture much of the sort that tortured Protestants in Spain and hung witches in Massachusetts. I stop at a Mormon house, the best in Utah Territory, the proprietor of which has two wives and is on the look out for a third. I attend Mormon service at the Tabernacle, go to the Mormon theatre, and to Mormon balls, and associate with Mormons sufficiently to learn something of them. As for Gentiles I can find plenty of them at home, and here, too, by dropping in to the nearest grocery. The Mormon creed I detest, but their industry, sobriety and temperance I admire. A BALL OPENED WITH PRAYER. The Mormons are great dancers. All dance, young and old, Church Elders and Deacons, and even President Young himself joins in the merry whirl, even now, seventy-one years of age that he is, and when he has to go and come in the custody of the United States Marshal. Hardly a week day night passes in Salt Lake City without one or more balls, and frequently as many as half a dozen are going on at once. The balls are always opened and closed with L Til J? _L_ I J prayer vy some JCiiuer wuu as ureueuu jluo ball last night was held at the Sunday-school Chapel of the Fourteenth Ward, and a very good ball-room it was. When the company had assembled, and after the musicians had tuned up their fiddles, an Elder invoked the Divine messing upon the assemblage, after which the mwicians struck up a lively tune, and the floor manager called "partners, to , your places." I had just taken a seat, and was prepared for a good "look on," when the manager politely asked me to take part in the amusement, proposing to introduce me to any young lady in the room, or old one, either. But I de- | clined, doubting my ability to hold a hand, or < rather to shake a foot, among those who had < become so proficient through practice. i THE BALL-BOOM < is used for sermons and Sunday-schools on Sundays, and balls through the week. At one end, in large letters of evergreen, was "Welcome," and under it "Fourteenth Ward Sunday-school. Teach children right principles, and they will govern themselves." Upon the right were pictures of Joseph and Hyram Smith and Brigham Young, and upon the left ' three other distinguished disciples of the Mormon faith. The music was made by three ( musicians on the platform, which is used for 1 a pulpit on Sunday. THE MAYOR OF THE CITY,. General Wells, (commander, I believe, of the 1 Mormon militia,) a stout, large-boned, red- 1 faced man, was present with two of his wives, having left three at home. He is perhaps fif- 1 ty-five years of age, and, after dancing two 1 sets, sat down to rest. 1 "General," I said, "let me compliment you 1 upon your skill as a dancer. I don't propose to interview you, but I do propose to let the 1 world know, through the Cincinnati Commer- > rial, how well you can dance." ( "I don't consider that I am a good dancer," ? he replied, laughing, "but I am very fond of 1 Via amnaamanf" 1 VUU WUIMUVU1VU(I? "You people all seem to be fond of it," I said, as the couples whirled by. "Yes we are; it is our chief amusement during the winter. It is healthful, exhilarating, moral, and not expensive." "Are any of President Young's wives present ?" I asked. "Oh! yes, two or three," pointing them out, trim, neat, but plainly dressed, matronly looking ladies. "And over there," he continued, "are two of my wives," with something of pride in his tones, which was proper enough, perhaps, for if a man is proud of one wife, he certainly ought to be with two. 1 "If it's a fair question, general, how many wives have you in all ?" I asked. "Well, McKean's Court has indicted me for having five, but I don't know whether they will prove it or not." 1 "There," he continued, pointing to a rather < handsome and very bright looking seventeen- 1 year-old-boy, as he swung around toward us, 1 "there is one of my sons, and over there is an- 1 other." Then a young lady swept by us, a < handsome, blue-eyed blonde, with a wealth of ) blonde hair streaming over her shoulders, hair of which a princess might be proud. "That is one of my daughters, he said, "and there 1 is another, and there is another," as two more blondes whirled past. < "You seem to have quite a family present," ] I said, as he pointed out still another. ] "Yes," he replied, "I have several here." "How many children have you in all ?" I ? asked. "Twenty-six," he replied. "That is something of a family," I said. "Are any married ?" "Oh ! no ; they are all single yet." Perhaps there are few men in the United States who can point to a family of twenty-six children, all unmarried, and all living tocrp.t.her. BRIGHAM YOUNG < came in, leaning upon his cane, and accompanied by the United States Marshal. The old man looks even better than he did the ] other day when I saw him, and if his church sails in safety through the breakers that at < present surround it, he may live to a green old t age to rejoice in its prosperity and comfort his ' sixteen wives and sixty-eight children. His 1 church is his very life, and his health goes and 1 comes as the prospect for a solution of the 1 troubles darkens and brightens. t "You seem to be improving, President * Young," I said, as he sat down upon a bench 1 ?nd leaned over upon his cane. "Oh ! yes, I have improved very rapidly, i very rapidly, for the past few days," he re- 1 plied, and then shifted to another subject, 1 saying: "Why, a young man like you ought 1 to be out dancing. Don't you dance, Mr. R ?" 1 "Not well enough to dance here," I replied. 1 "Oh I I'll venture you dance as well as any t of us; you can try, at all events." c "You have all become expert through prac- i tice," I answered, "while I have neglected my c early opportunities." "Well, we do dance a good deal, that's true," replied the President of the church. c "Come over and take an easy chair, Mr. fi President," said a lady approaching him. o "We have a comfortable rocking-chair here on a purpose for you. We don't like to see" you sitting on a bench when you are so feeble," c she continued in a real motherly tone. He 1 moved over and took the easy chair, with a i lady upon his right and another upon his left, who asked if he didn't feel better, and if the noise didn't worry him, and if he felt able to 8 dance, and how long he could stay, and if he r wouldn't have off his overcoat, and if he f would like a cup of tea, and fifty other ques- c tions that tender-hearted women can ask fas- j ter than a man can answer. f The love of the people for Mr. Young . amounts to veneration, absolute veneration, j He is considered a holv man of God, full of years and good deeds and honors, who, when called home, will shine as a star in the heavens forever and ever. "I have always tried to be a good man," said a Mormon to me the other day, "but I would die this minute, die joyfully, willingly, happily, if I though I stood as sure a chance to go to heaven as Brighara Young." A YOUNG MORMON. I fell iuto conversation with one of Mayor Wells' sons, a boy some seventeen years of age, and so bright and intelligent that I took a great liking to him. "Have you good schools here ?" I asked. "Very good," he replied, "as far as they go. We haven't any fine colleges and seminaries like you have in the East, but we will some time. We have to get along now with what we've got." "All these young ladies I see seem to be intelligent and pretty. Are they all Mormons ?" s "Yes, sir, every one of them, I think. There t are only two Gentiles here besides you, and s one of them is President X oung's guard." i "Are these young ladies pretty well educa- 1 ted ?" I asked. s "Fully as much so as the territory affords e facilities. They are all well up in the prima- i it branches, and a few of them have studied f the French. As to music we are considera- t bly behind, because you know the railroad * has ouly been built a few years, and before 1 that it took a small fortune to get a piano i over the plains. Now we can get them easier 1 and our young ladies have a chance to learn t that they never had before." i "Is it true," I asked, "as I have heard it 8 reported, that the rising generation here are opposed to polygamy ?" "It is not," he replied with emphasis. "We , believe it a God-ordained institution, and as sacred as any other tenet of our religion." "Would you not yield it in order to get ; Utah admitted as a State, so that you could get out from under these presumptive judges, and regulate your own affairs ?" 3 "No, sir; we would not yield it for anything ; it is part of our religion, and if we c give way to one demand, we will soon have , to to another, and after awhile they will rob us of all." ? "You speak of the men," I said, "and I 1 don't doubt but what many of you are opposed to giving up polygamy; but among the women it certainly must be different. Suppose, in a few years, you should marry a girl who loves vou. who is devotedlv attached to c ^ ?, ? . -J ^ % you, and whose love strengthens with years, | and then, after living with her awhile, you deliberately marry another, don't you know, don't I know, don't everybody know, that such a course will cause your first wife?loving, = devoted creature that she is?a thousand = times more agony than if you had pierced her heart with a dagger, or severed her head from ? her chaste body ?" "There is something in that," he replied, . thoughtfully, "and to tell the truth polygamy ^ is not popular with all the women. I have heard girls talk against it like everything, and then turn right around and marry some man who has two or three wives already. That is done repeatedly?indeed, it is done all the time." "Wouldn't any of these girls you speak of have preferred to marry single men, and have I those men prohibited from marrying anybody j slse?" b "Well, yes, of course, but they have to marry somebody, and if they choose a married o man, they save themselves the pang which 1 they would afterward experience if they took i: i single man, and he married again." r And right here, to my mind, comes in a par- t ticularly barbarous part of the barbarous 1 matrimonial creed oi the Mormons. Their C daughters are taught that they have to marry n somebody in order to get to heaven, and so they tie themselves to some old clerical repro- t brate, and move into his harem to drag out a a miserable existence, neither loving nor being v loved, and living in a hell in this world in or- v ier to get to heaven in the next. h I pointed this out to my young friend, ii though in milder language, and he acknowl- a ?dged there was "something in it," though he b .Viniiffht thin world made un of trials and trib- C alations anyway, and the more we suffered in ii ;he discharge of our duty, the more apt we a would be to be saved. p "But do you call polygamy a duty ?" I o isked. b "Yes, we are commanded by God to prac- t ;ice it." 1 "When did God give the command?" t "In a special revelation to Joseph Smith." t "What evidence have you of it." t "Why, living witnesses, just as we have that ;he contents of the book of Mormon was found g mgraved on gold plates. Nearly a dozen J witnesses saw the plates, and some of them are b iving, and that is better evidence than we aave of anything in the Old Testament, al- fc :hough, of course, we believe in the Bible, and live by it." r "Where are these plates now ?" I asked. u "Why, the angel of the Lord appeared and e look them up to heaven." g There was no arguing against this, and I S: did not try. These Mormons always bring a jrou up against that angel and those gold fc plates, and you are at the end of your row. a I ou can do nothing but flounder about and fi say you don't believe it, and then you are J isked what you are going to do about the tl plates that were handed Moses out of heaven, t( ion't you believe that ? Is one any more probable than the other? Where are your p witnesses for the Moses translation ? You say q pou believe one and not the other, and he 0 lays he believes both, and that's the end of it. ^ My young Mormon friend told me he h^l t] aever smoked, nor chewed tobacco, nor touch- ^ 2d spirituous liquors in any form. ^ THE GENTLE GENTILES. 8, "There are few Gentile boys can say that," o [ said. a "And there are few Mormon boys but what E ;an," he replied. "I used to associate with o ;he Gentile boys a great deal," he continued, n 'for they are open-hearted, generous, and I o: ike them, but their habits I detest. They Is lave often tried to get me to smoke and drink tl jeer, and I stopped associating with them on p; ;hat account. It seems as though they want- a id to compel a fellow to fall in with their bad ai labits. They are after one of President tl Foung's son's who is at West Point. He cor- Is esponds with me regularly, and in his last p etter he says six Gentile boys (cadets) got p: lim up in a corner one day and told him that oi le had to take a chew of tobacco or die. They tl lad the chew all ready, and it was a big one. h< tie tried to beg off, but they told him it was tl hat or worse, and he says that he yielded just ai >nce (he had once underscored) and tasted the ai lasty stuff, but that he will fight a dozen if they di sver try it again." gi "How does he like West Point?" m "Very well, only there's some prejudice tl tgainst him because he belongs to such a big I tl amily, as they call it. I don't think they J ught to have anything against him on that: ccount, do you ?" Certainly I didn't, for if a man is to be ex-! oramunicated because he has extensive fami- j y connections, what would become of brother-1 n-law Dent and all his brothers-in-law ? THE MORMON GIRLS. A good many people from the cultivated j ind refined East who come here to see Mor- j nonism and look at it through eye-glasses rom the shady side of some hotel between Irinks, are of the solemn opinion that the VIormon girls are not pretty: "nothing reined and delicate about them,' he says as he )ut his eye-glasses in his pocket and adjourns br another drink. You can not judge of the Mormon girls by That you see upon the streets, for they are not )f the sort that go often shopping, but you nust attend some ball or social gathering, ifter that you will acknowledge that nearly ill the Mormon girls are good-looking, and lome of them very pretty. The young ladies hat I saw last night will compare well with ;he same number picked up at random anyvhere. They are not what you would call lelicate, and for their own good it is well that bey are not On the contrary, stoutness is be rule, and too much delicacy the exception, rheir faces are fair but without surface indications of chalk; their cheeks are painted, >ut it is with the rose tints of nature; their lands plump and pretty, but not exquisitely vhite and small, like the city belle "who toils lot, neither does she spin," for the Mormon ;irls toil and spin both, and help their sever il mothers do the washing and cooking. They lever tight lace, and consequently their waists ire not of the delicate and wasp-like proporions of so many of our Eastern girls, who ace themselves into early graves, but they ire full and rotund just as nature, who gensrally knows what she is about, creates them, ^.nd not least important of all, they have the reshest, fairest, clearest, most healthy corailexions I ever saw to the same number, fhere is nothing of that muddy, yellow, bilious, unhealthy hue that you see so much of n Eastern cities and towns, indicating that a lalf dozen diseases are feeding upon the vials. A clear, fresh skin is not an invariable ndication of health, but it is so near so, that in occasional exception only proves the rule. GOING HOME TO SUPPER. Economy is an essential and worthy attri)ute of Mormonism. Their balls are pleasint, without being expensive. Their music sosts them nothing. Some venerable elder of he church will bnng his fiddle, somebody else mother stringed instruments or two, and thus, vithout expense, they have good music. Neither do they ever dress extravagantly. I loubt if there was a young lady present last light whose outfit cost over eight dollars. STot but what very many of them are able to Iress, but they do not choose to throw their noney away on gewgaws and folderols, in vhich respect they are far behind the times, ind no doubt need enlightment, so that they vill go shopping every twenty-four hours and un their several fathers in debt to the verge if bankruptcy. Now nearly every young lady iresent last night belonged to some one of the irst families here (there are first families here s well as numerous ones,) but there was not , trail in the house?no great long bolt of dry ;oods to trail around through the dirt and ;et stepped on. "Ball suppers" are different here from ball UDDersusuaUv. There is no extensive spread. mt about 12 o'clock a recess is taken, and the rowd adjourn to supper, going home to get t. This may look like a strange custom to ur Eastern people, but it is adopted to present the expense which always attends public uppers. So a Mormon ball is enjoyable without being expensive; neither the prayers he music nor the supper costs anything. TJiE MORMON PROBLEM.. By commencing prosecutions against the dormons, we have got a medium-sized elephant on our hands, and the animal is already eginning to trouble us. The course of Judge McKean has been that tf an intolerant bigot, so much so that no dormon can get justice in his court. To go nto it is to oe condemned. Sometimes he ules that his is a Territorial Court, and then hat it is a United States Court, and then a territorial Court again, jumping from one teurt to the other, and then back again, as it nay seem best to forward the prosecution. He convicted Thomas Hawkins of com raiting adultery with his own wife, upon the sole na uncorroborated evidence of his own wife, phich was a clear violation of the law, as the rife is never a competent witness against the lusband. Thus illegally was Thomas Hawkas sentenced to three years' imprisonment and , fine of five hundred dollars assessed against iim. He prayed an appeal to the Supreme teurt of the Territory, and the fanatical, onedead McKean fixed his bail at twenty thous,nd dollars, so as to keep him in prison and prevent his making a bond. It will take all f Hawkins' property to pay his fine, so that te cannot give such enormous bail. When he Supreme Court met, McKean peremptoriy adjourned it until June next, as is supposed o keep his Associate Judges from reversing he case, which they will be very apt to do, if hey can once get it before them, But this is not all?indeed, it is but a be;inning of the arbitrary acts of this unjust fti/Jrvn on/1 rtnlw fllO fflof fVlof Vin 1Q Q U7QW Oilf UU^Vj UUU ViiiJ VUV 4tfVW tiuuu uv AW MIIWJ vwv tere in the wilds of Utah, and but little mown of bis high-handed proceeding, keeps lim in office. While Hawkins was being tried, McKean uled that his was a United States Court, and ipon such ruling Hawkins asked to be allowd the ten challenges given by act of Confess. McKean refused, and gave only the ix allowed by Utah laws, flopping over into . Territorial Court. After he had resolved imself into a Territorial Court, Hawkins sked that the punishment, if any, might be xed according to territorial laws. At this IcKean flopped back again, and held that penalty must be meted out under a Unisd States statute. In short, this champion flopper pursued the ractice of a Territorial Court when the act of longress would have limited the prosecution; f a United States Court when the jury was eing selected; of a Territorial Court when be jury was being challenged, and of a Uni?d States Court when the jury might, under srritorial law, have been more lenient in preiribing punishment He was first one kind f a Court, and then another, being anything nd everything to secure the conviction of [awkins of the crime of cohabiting with his wn wife, married years ago according to the , ale oi nis cnurcn. w e Drag irom one r ourtn f July to another about the justness of our ; iws and the freedom of our institutions, but at , le same time allow a Methodist bigot to occu- , y the bench, and prosecute a religious sect un er imaginary laws. If there was law for it, , ad if that law was impartially carried out, , lere could be no ground of complaint, but | lw and practice are alike violated, that a few oor devils out here in Utah may be sent to rison or driven out of the country, whose j ily crime is a sincere and candid belief in ] le doctrines of their church. Let me say \ ere and for all, that while I detest many of i ie cardinal principles of the Mormon creed, ; ad think their so-called revelation is a .fraud ad a humbug, yet I do not for a moment \ oubt the perfect sincerity and candor and ; aod faith of those here who profess the Mor- ion religion. I believe they are as honest in leir belief as we are in ours, and I know that i iey are more faithful to their creed, more i self-sacrificing and zealous in building up their church than we are in building ours. For instance, every Mormon gives a tenth of his income every year to build churches and support the poor of the denomination, and do we do as much ? They prove their faith by their works, and we prove ours by the strength of our lungs rather than by the depth of our .pockets. The territory of Utah has been settled by the Mormons, and converted by them from a howling wilderness to the foremost territory in point of population and wealth on the continent. They have accomplished this with no other aid than their own stronz arms and willing hearts. They have, by their own exerAVr*rt?PA Vl**SMir*Vk t tlUU UUU ab bUCll U TTli UA^VUCV/} UiVU^UU iVl UJ thousand emigrants from the old world and added to the aggregate of the Nation's wealth not less than seventy millions of dollars. They have flourished and prospered as no people ever did under similar discouraging circumstances. They say their prosperity is because God favors them and their religion ; but from what I see of them, I think it is because they work twelve hours a day and drink no whisky. A people so industrious and temperate as the Mormons will flourish anywhere, no matter what their religious creed may be, so that they honestly and sincerely believe in it. Notwithstanding nine-tenths of the population of Utah are Mormons, and notwithstanding they hold eleven-twelfths of the property of the territory, and are as intelligent and law-abiding as the Gentiles, and far more so unless we look upon polygamy as practiced here as a crime; notwithstanding all this, no Mormon is allowed to sit on a jury in McKean's Court And now the Territorial Government, which is Mormon, very properly refuses to pay the p 1 /-i L . n _i__ expenses 01 any Bucn vAiuri ; wju^rew tuou refuses; the time for holding the Court draws near, and what are we going to do about it ? WHAT OUGHT TO BE DONE. Utah is now, or will be in a few days, knocking at the door of Congress for admission as a State, a sister State in the glorious galaxy of freedom, as the fellows will say who make speeches about it in Congress. The Convention which framed the State Constitution which will be presented to Congress, has just adjourned, and the result of their labors is enrolled 011 several pages of flatcap, and will go to Congress in that shape. The Convention held its Sessions in this city, and I have seen and talked with a large number of delegates to catch the drift of sentiment as far as possible. There were one hundred and two of the delegates, seven-eighths of whom were Mormons. They were quite a respectable looking bodv of men. and seemed zealous in their work. Nearly all of them were upon the ahady aide of life; so much so as to be noticeable, even to the most camiai observer who would drop in to witness their proceedings. They received no compensation whatever for their labors, their work being purely one of patriotism. They see no way out of the cloud of difficulties that overhangs Mormonism but to become a State, and take the reins of government into their own hands, under Congressional restrictions. They were only twelve days in framing a Constitution, notwithstanding they had to work from the "stump up," showing a degree of industry and earnestness the example of which ought to be taken into consideration by the West Virginia Convention. The Constitution they have turned out is essentially progressive. It is the embodiment of the "jump ahead" that Ben. Wade used to talk about It incorporates at one breath both negro suffrage and female suffrage. It provides for the minority representation, the abolishing of the grand jury, and for a twothirds verdict in civil cases; that is to say, making nine jurymen competent to render a ver-. diet independent of the other three. The other provisions are not materially different from those of other States. The election for the ratification of the Constitution will take place upon the 18th of this month, and, to give the Commercial the benefit of some early news, I will state that it will be ratified. The woman suffrage plank will cause some to kick up in the harness, especially those having half a dozen wives, but the desire to become a State will overbalance all, and the Constitution will be ratified. Now for my headline, "What ogght to be done?" There is an easy solution for all the troubles, and a clear way out?that is, to admit Utah as a State, and let her govern herself under such restrictions as Congress may prescribe, one of which should be the abolishment of polygamy. Let polygamy cease hereafter, but let those who are married already remain married, for any attempt to tear n existing domestic relations will result in ~r ?o ? untold trouble and misery. The Republican party now has it in their power to get rid of the elephant a few fanatics have saddled upon it, and come before the country saying "we have settled this difficulty, the Mormon troubles are forever at an end." But will the Mormons consent to come in as a State with their cherished branch of polygamy lopped off? They will. They are anxious to preserve their church from total disruption, and will give up polygamy in the future in order to save the rest. But they will consent to nothing that will require them to cast off any of their present numerous wives, or throw their children out with the brand of illegitimates and bastards upon their brows. Rather than do this they will apply the torch to their homes and in the light of their burning dwellings they will gather their children and their herds and march out of the United States domain forever. H. V. R. How to Get Out of Bed.?Dr. Hall does not approve of the old fashioned doctrine which was instilled into the minds of children namely, that they should spring out of bed the instant they awake in the morning. He says that "up to eighteen years eveiy child should be allowed ten hours to be in bed. They may not require ten hour sleep, but time should be allowed to rest in bed until they feel as if they had rather get up than not. It is a very great and mischievous mistake for persons, old or young, especially children, and feeble and sedentary persons, to j. _r i?j * i?? . puilLlUtJ UUt Ui UCU tUC Ujuiucut llicj rran.c up , all our instincts shrink from it, and fiercely kick against it Fifteen or twenty minutes spent in gradually waking up after the eyes are opened, and in turning over and stretching the limbs, do as much good as sound sleep, because these operations set the blood in motion by degrees, tending to equalize the circulation ; for during sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the heart beats feebly and slow, ana to shock the system by pouncing up in an instant and sending the blood in overpowering quantities to the heart, causing it to assume a gallop, when the instant before it was in a creep, is the greatest absurdity. This instantaneous pouncing out, as soon as the eyes are opened, will be followed by weariness long before noon." Newspapebs.?Dr. Johnson, when in the fullness of years and knowledge, said: "I ever take up a newspaper without finding something I would have deemed it a loss not to have seen; never without deriving firom it instruction and amusement." The newspapers in Johnson's time were meagre enough compared with those of to-day. Now a yearly newspaper volume is a perfect encyclopedia. t6F It is sweet to have friends you can trust, and convenient sometimes to have friends who are not afraid to trust you.