The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1871, Page 4

POLYGAMY PARADISE What the Tourists See and How Much They Find Out. MORMONISM AT BAY. Ye Adventures of Bessie and Susie. INTERVIEW WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG. A Sabbath Scene in the Tabernacle. Brigham’s Want of Faith in the Press. Sawt Lake Crry, August 18, 1871, Just now it is considered that no Western tip 1s Complete until one has abode a day or two at Salt Lake, shaken hands, if possible, with Brigham ‘Young, learned as much of Utah as a peep-show | ‘museum will afford and talked to every one you | i Meet about polygamy. Next the wonderful transi- tion of the Valley from a desert into a garden must be admired and the Tabernacte visited; then the tourist departs contented, with about as much use- ful knowledge of its inner life and social and poll- tical conundrums as when he came. Of course the | tourists come bere with Monogamic faith fixed in their virtuous hearts, and the politic hedgipg on the subject in their conversations with such Mor- , mons as they meet 1s HALF POLITENESS AND HALF PUMPING. Among the visitors are a great many ladies, yonng end old, who display as much curiosity on the “deli- cate topic”’ as their original great grandmother did ground the apple tree in “Eden's bonnie yard.” Fashionable society in London, some few years ago, put the portrait of the Highiand Gillie in their albums because he was the sunject of an alleged unsavory royal scandal, and about tne same time certain noble ladies of spotless reputation in the Court of the Second French Empire wer eseen at a Dal masqué of the demi-monde, their avowed object ‘being to look upon the loose women who atiracted and led their rowe husbands from the path of the virtuous. What a holy horror howl went up from London, then, at the women whose curiosity drew them to compare themselves with the demi-monde of Paris, and yet tums same modern Babylon was sniggering to its heart's content over John Brown. Let not a captlous world, then, judge too harshly the women of our land who PEER AND PEEP AND PRY ground Brigham’s bechive, in the hope of spying some of tne many “lights of his harem.’’ They are only curious, you know, to see the abandoned crea- tures, and then proceed to pity them. It is only a a few days since’that Susan B. Anthony and Eliza- beth Cady Stanton passed through here, and car- ried their inguiries in those regards to an extent hitherto unparalleled. Wherever two or three Wives were gathered together in the name of po- lgamy Susie and Bessy were sure to be in the midst of them, to ask the cyprian devotees how they liked it. Bessy reports a dissatisfaction among the re- Oned and beautiful. The numoer of this class among the Mormon women of Utah is scarcely ap- preciavie to the naked eye, except sister SUSIE BE TAKEN AS A STANDARD, and then they count by thousands. They do not Sey much about their interviews with the Mormon Masters of this “refined and beautiful’ human stock, but itis to be presumed they have their ex- periences. It grieves the gizzard of Susie and swells the manly bosom of Bessy with a throbof disgust that the women of Utah have had the right of suf- frage conferred upon them, and that such of them ‘as use it suffer themselves to be driven in herds to the polls, there to support the iniquity which causes them so much “dissatisfaction.” It is women suf- frage “hoist with its own petard.” So, after al their cackling and scratching among the social mud of Utah, this brace of “sage hens,” as the desert papers irreverently style them, departed with an ungatisfactory stone egg to hatch at their letsure—a saddening instance of misdirected maternal perse- verance wherever it occurs. To be sure, one would | be sorry to judge the womankind of our nation by | such vicarious specimens as Susie and Bessie; but | it certainly 1s not gratifying to any one who respects the pure-mindea mothors and sisters of America to see them poking their noses into the homes of our abomination, which the civilization of 2,000 years (not to speak of the religious view of the subject) has condemned as the offspring of unbridied lust, between whicn and prostitution THEIR CONSCIENCES AND THE LAW draw no line whatever. I can safely be snid that no one of them envies the Mormon women their posi- tion, and it is certain that the male Mormons like to see those lady visitors less and less. Not afew murmured aiscontents lave been uttered, it is satd, by the isolatea saints of the feminine gender at the sight of the well-dressed, world-free Gentile women who fit through their MOUNTAIN-DBARRED CAGE. It is the railway which has brought this discon- tent to their doors, for the outsiae world was begin- ning to fade or had faded from thelr mental vision as surely as it ever did from the farthers of the desert in the times of old, Times have changed surely since U bat if, instead of the primitive ! pent-up temptatr of Old Brimstone,a St. Anthony had a railroad ru of the period popher hole and a bey. of AUX vnd belles cropping in daily with the mc $ and talking Fifth avenue, Long Branch or atoga, it is within the probat 3% that the distracted holy man would e:ther take the frst rain for New York or ask the nearest blonde or brunet fu ble existence with the b he might at least die happy. 4b are not tempted to this extent exactiy. 1 seem to lave learued a Jesson from the prairie a in this particular, The moment a traveller # mons males 23 proaches a gopher hole tne prairte dog, aiter i wt the intruder runs inte his retreat, but te ow! Wno houses with him bops about with & stolid, de- faut blink, ana looks tor ail the world like au vid | MORMON AT HIS CABIN DOOR ‘When some excursion party Is spying round, Leaving the excu sts to their pryiug, there Js another class wi is & thorn in the side of the Latter Day Saints. These are ihe miners, For many years nthe time of their in i847—the fact that the innumerable mountains of Deseret were almost one mass of ores and minerals was Known among the followers of Joe Smith, and | the secret was jealously guarded, it might pring the Gentiles to Utaa. Jetter starve,” Brigham woula say. The rich places of Califorma, with their native gold, caught the spirit of the adventurous, end how long Gold, gold, cold, gold, Hard, suicing, yeu w and cold,” there the red washed, tells to-day: the . carried ior miles in the | decaying sluices, attest 1t, | imost f pimlog here, | was the miners’ idol scarred aud furrowed puriing mountain str Wooden fumes to rud earth, all and its febrile memory yet 18 stamped in the fantastic, but suggestive names that cling to the mountains, gulcies, creeks and canons of the Go.den State. fever subsiaed and capital went im quest of the precious gold into the hearts of une rocky hills. and those who “shook their rocker” on the surface | and scattered their gold n gains with the reckless bess of the times bec me toilers of the gloomy juartz mine or started for other hanting grounds. olorado, Nevada, Idaho and Montana were pro- and sliver wok the place of its yellow sisver ctlons Of the miners; tor, a Marmontel “Quand on nas pas ce quien atime, tl faut ce Quion a.” Utah was jeft aside and its great moweral deposits » their sleep of thou- Sand years undisturved, because stray Gentles were ip those days likely to “perish in the fesh,”’ ani perished prospectors told no tales. But the | miner foliowed the mineral trail over the moun- tains where the raliroad came, and at last Wwe story Was out that Utah was pertiaps RICHER IN VARIED ORES than any other section of the world, As it was not uriace diggings there Was no rash asm ° It is in hard Hssure veins that the valuable metals hie, | and pence the hardy pioveer who scales the peaks | and scrutunizes every inch of bis rugged path when | he “sirikes’ anything worth while tust generally well as best he can, for it wants money and plenty of it to develop che discovery he has made, The suc- cess of some of these already sold and resold has surred the purses of the rich who want to be richer BU, and itis battwo days ago tuat one of them (the Mier mine), was sold to # New York cupltaiist past the top of his | } peor Gradually the gold | for a quariér of & million, while the Emms mine is yielding ‘amos difteen ‘uousaind dollars a Vnder such encouraging circumstances the money () miner bas taken vo the nefarious practice ol | SALTING THE MINES (packing them with bigh grade ores from otner mines), and i¢ requires a sharp lookout to prevent @ swindie. One genUeman lately bought a $15,000 three latter are staring up’ everywhere. Besides these are antimony, bismuth and mercury. A mountain of solid muriate of ammonia, anotier of Ps = pe ona &@ fourth of chioride of sod no) , chemically pure, are amon; the receut announcements, aie aj ‘The lorevoding of the Saints on these matters is | at present, therefore, ¥ke most of the mines, rather on the prospect: than on established facts, At preseat they submit to the circumstances with an easy grace, and, with the ete of & high Chris- tianity, feed and supply the pick and shovel brigade at Mormon prices. [hey do most of the hauling | from the mines, and make ail the charcoal used, 80 that fipanciaily, up tothe present, VIRTUE ON THEIR PART } 1s abundantly rewarded. that uitimateiy Deseret’s attraction will be more tor silver than for saints that the children of the pro- phet look with uneasy eye upon the staiwart men of muscle who throng the footways of East Temple street, Outside of the Mormons, indeed, nothing | but mines ts talked of. Stald newspaper men, who 1n the far East confined their attentions to theories of farming and mild dissertations on tue sin of stock miling, or smoked a brierwood pipe over their Sul existences and a giass of lager, become trans- | formed tuto miracies of mining acuteness and in- | vest ali thelr —— (if any) in wilacat Geog e up the callons. ‘That this class of cynics has caught ‘the Infection 18 an evidence 0: hew man may | away from the direct path and 1s a pretty fair index of how widespread the mania is. AD occasional | load of bullion, rich in stiver, heaped on the foot. | pains, and ore specimens on every hand, are tne | tangible indications here; but ouvwide of this the straggling GARDEN AND ORCHARD CITY With its 20,000 inhabi‘ants, 3000 “Gentile” and the balance Mormong looks much as it did some years ago. oneriap morning, on arriving here from Ogden, { waiked leisurely ap from the depot in the direc- tion of Brigham Young’s house, which lies beyond , the Tabernacle, with its dish-cover rool, which seems perpetually cary: Heaven tora liandle. On the street that bounds tnis large house of worship longitudinally, and just beyond it, is the Tithing } House, standing back from its high, stout wall, | which is built of boulders and buttresses at inter- vals, as though intended to form a stronghold in case of attack. This wail encloses a series of build- ings, which, President’s house and one for the oid stnner’s favor- , lve wives and their numerous progeny. Entering a wooden gateway I found myself 1u front 0! an oven | door taat led directly into THE RECEPTION ROOM of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of ; Latier Day Saints. As Istood upon the threshold, a sober-faced Mormon, With a quiet, inveilligent ex- | Pression, asked, 11 a slight Scotch accent, my busi ness. “The President is engaged for a few moments and is very busy to-day. There 18 a mecting in the other room of the Directors of the Utah Central Railroad in session, and they are waiting tor aim.” i han ednim my card and saw that he handed it to a gentleman seated conversing with another bus a few feet off, There were one or two others present also, wailing for a hearing I was told. A conversa- tion between the usher and the gentleman ensued. | I noticed, meauwuile, that the room was hung with portraits in oi] of the principal Mormons, including } the “prophet” Joseph and his brother, tne parriarch Hyrum Smith. ‘The slight Scotch accent arrested my attention with:— “PRESIDENT YOUNG, this 1s a reporter of the New Yor« HERALD.” A fresh-complexioned, gray-bearded man, dressed in a white linen suit, moderately stout in outline ano rather under the middle height, stood before me, With @ peculiar sardonic smile on fis thin, com- pressed lips and a twinkle in the dark gray eyes ba‘ closed to the piercing point. The slight stoop in his shoulders seemed more the result of habit than age, so weil does he carry his seventy-one years. Histnin fair hair carefully comved back, although gradually whitening, gives him a fox-lixe | look not at all pleasant, He stuck one hand in his pocket and offerea me the other with the easy air of @ man who has a good deal of handshaking to get through datly, “What can{do for you, sir?’ he said, relaxing into an open smile. RgeroRTER—I should be glad to have a few minutes’ conversation with you. BRIGHAM—Take a@ seat, sir; | havea ' callers, and I do the best [ can for all. represent the New YoRK HERALD! REPORTER—I have that honor, Mr. Young. Youna— THE HERALD? THUNDER! How that paper has lied about us; but the press generally does that for us. (Brigham here started to his feet and walked briskly up and down fora moment, with his hands in his pockets and his eye counting the patterns on the carpet.) The HERALD, sir, has done us justice sometimes, but very seldom, very seldom. A reporter comes along and makes his report. He cannot doubt the evidence of nis | senses, if he 1s an honest man, and so his report goes. But as son as it reaches headquarters some excitable editor, with an eye to sensation, works it up to catch the public eye, and then another howl against the Saints is the result, We have got used to them now. REPORTER—The course of a journal ts not always | Satisfactory to an interested individual. here are two sides to every question. Youna (suddenly turning round)—How long have you been in town, sir? Ri TER—About twenty minutes, Youne—ah ! you arrived on the ten o'clock train. Well, you may judge Jor yourself, then, waether we have been misrepresented; but wait awhile (bit- terly), you wili go down the street and you will meet at many ou say you | men by dozens to poison your ear with stories about us—apostates and others, 0 you come direct from the East? REPORTER—NO. I come from California. Younc—Ha! What do they say about us there? RePORTER—TO Say the truth, Mr, Young, they don't say much that 1s good of you. YounG—Of course, of course. You find things, don’t you, different to wnat they said? REPORTER—Yes; things seem quieter than I an- ticipated, I understood that you were at present in great trouble about THE FATE OF POLYGAMY. Younc—Polygamy—that’s their everlasting song. Meo who would defile their neighbors’ daugbiers and sleep with their neighbors’ wives, who support prostitutes, talk about having polygamy swept off Uhe face of the earth! But, Mr. Reporter, how do they propose to do it? This was.said with @ mixture of concentrated | bitterness and defiance which nearly closed nis ; eyes and drew the corners of his mouth down viclously. ReEPORTER—They have no plan; that’s tne trouble. YounG—Ob no; they are like the man choppin hard wood witha blunt axe—‘‘Guess Dil leave off; it only knocks vhe chips in my eyes and does no | good.” That's about the way of it, aintity Every- body says let somebody else throw the first stone. tu And Brigham laughed heartily at bis own ilustra- on. | " Reporrer—I understand, Mr. Young, that a case has been brought up in the United states Courts which may come to be @ test on the legality of a | plurality of wives? ‘ Younc—Yes; the Harriet Hawkins case | ing). On, that won't amount to anything. She was HAWKINS’ FIRST WIFE, and now she sues him for aduitery because ne took anotuer, ‘Mey can never react a conviction (langh- or Uiree years since, and now she cores up to swear that she saw him in bed with another woman, per- aps fiiteen or sixteen years ago, Wait tll it comes belore the Grand Jary. Rerorrsk—‘he territorial law is very severe upon ney can make nothing of that case. to try again. sam here chuckled exniting iy. orrex —With regard to the mining interests ) lavely developed in Utah; it 1s said to be tne policy of the Mormon Church to discourage them. —No. sir. On that and other heads we ur OWn business, aad leave aad expect other to mind theirs. oRTER—How does it at present affect your “4 sou miad peopl Young—For every dollar taken out of Utah there are from five dotiars to ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS SPENT HERR, so that our people are the gainers. They supply almost everything, haif the lavor included, to tue miners. Rerorter—Are any of the high officials of your charch engaged in mining ¢ YounG—None that J know of. Ido not encourage | it among them. The poorer classes, who have | teams and wagons, hire themselves out for hauling ore or builion, and they can afford to do it at such prices as must alwavs defy competition. REvorTeR—The ores are said to ve practically in- exhanustibie, Younc—There is a great deul more said about these mines than is worthy of credit, Grauted that tere is plenty of vaiuavle ores, but most of them | are out of reach Of a market on account ot dificuity | of transport aud tts consequent cost. Rerorrer—That, { have no doubt, will be reme- | died in time. Your new railroad will help chem | Maverially through southern Utah. Youne—It with. RerorteR—it would seem, then, that your policy 4s to foster the new interest. YounG —Our policy always has been to inaugurate advancement and sustain it, from Wwuatever quarter | it may come. Revorrer—Yet 4 clannishness appears to extst among your people in storekeeping and as tar as | CS in business generally—excluding the Gen- iles. YounG—That is something which inquiry will at once disprove. city and you Will find that ONE OF THE SAINTS WILY. TRADE with you as readuy as with a protner, whether to bay or sell. RePoRTER—In your co-operative stores 1s there any distinction made in the matter of prices be tween Mormons ana gentiles? Yousa—Why, no. Douglas the other day was living in New York he would get nis wile wo send to Salt Lake for her dress goods. At this juncture a couple of bronzed Mormons ch an unbiased Walk Unvough our | dropped in and Mr, Youyg arose, sayloy, “Excuse | shook | | me fora moment.’ As they approacned hy hands with them, each hailing film as brotver Brig. ham, and he ta turn hailing them fn like fraternal form. A conversation eusied With each sevarately, experience in this way, and found he was the only © vaiuable sold, Gold, silver, copper and iead are | found often in one specimen, and gooa lodes of the | itis rather from the fear | besides several offices, include the | on | that, because she was divorced from him some two | One of the officers at Camp | id that he heiteved if he | ‘The first was dismissed after afew words, but the | | Second received leagthy DIRECTIONS FROM THE BOSS SAINT | as to a certain sawmill in which, as in everything else in Utab, the blooming Brigham agpeared vo | have a live, if nota financial, interest. When sun- | dry detatis as to water course, &0., had been dwelt upon the model Mormon was told to see that every- thing was in order to begin running, to all of which the latter lent a diligent ear and promised observ- ance to the letter, “Well, Mr, HERALD,” observed Brigham, looking at his waieh, “4s there anything else I can iniorm you on?” ReEPoRTER—Certalnly, Mr. Young. But Mr. Young walked to the other of the room, where a desk was standing, and looked over | , some papers. The slight Scotch accent again ar- rested my attention with the remark :— | “You see everybody comes to the President about everything, and he sees them all. He has so many things vo think about that the only way he manages to keep his head clear—and (sotto voor) ITS A POWERFUL HEAD, SIR— i is Just when a subject's out of conversation to drop all regard for it till it comes up n.”? I mentally pondered whether it was in this way | he dealt with his wives, as it seemed to open up a curious vein in the top Mormon’s idiosyncracies, 1 entertained it for @ moment, but not seeing that it was much of my business how he managed his un- nappy polygamic herd, I gave the thought no utter- ance. Brigham had by this time got through with his papers aud approached me with the air of a man prepared to meet any reporter on his own ground and said;— “What else ta there you want to know!” RErORTER—You have had some diiliculty with the Internal Revenue De; ent on the score ol pay- ing income tax for tithing. What is your present position on the matter? Youna—The same it nas always been. We say there is nothing on which the tax is payable, and the government has found that out, too, at last, REePORTER—Then you affirm that the goverument has withdrawn ali effort on the matter? Youn@—Certainly; you can find all that out at Washington. They made a great deal of sur about | dat @ while, but had to acknowledge themselves eaten. ReEporTER—Abont that Fourth of July matter and | the acting Governor forbidding the parade of | : YOUR NADVOO LEGION ' in the processton, what’ were the reasons given for that action? Youne—I don’t know anything about it, 1 was not here at the time, I was down at Soda Springs. You had better see Mayor Wells about that. He was concerned in thac affair throughout, and can speak from his own knowledge. H Brigham looked decidedly as if he did not wish to | be held accountable for that onpleasantness, After | @ pause he turned sharply round aud satd:— ‘Pnat 18 the way. Your newspapers get a tele- gram and publish it (Brigham Young reads the apers), and then, after we have been ugain placed , In collision on paper with the government, you Come down to find out if it’s true. IT LOOKS SENSATIONAL, and it will take.’” RePORTER—The people are always glad to hear that polygamy is in troubie, Mr. Young. Young—Oh, yes—polygamy, polygamy! That's as good and better than most things to assail | When times are dull. Brother brigham was proceeding to grow more sarcastic when | asked:— “Do you complain of the federal oMcials in that matter!” Youna—See Brother Wells, Mr. Reporter. HE IS TRUTHFUL, and will give you the whole story. Observing that Brigham was resolved to hedge behind Brother Wells 1 asked where this truthiul | Daniel could be found, Young (to the slight Scotch accent)—Let some one conduct this reporter t the Mayor and say I sent | im This sounded very like @ passage from Richard IIL, where Edward is sent with a message ot like import to Old Nick; 801 braced myself to meet his Satanic Majesty if necessary, remarklag to Brigham that they aid not seem to pull well with THE UNITED STATES AUTHOR!TIES, Youns—1 have only to recal! what | sald—that all We ask 18 to be let mind our own business, and let the government mind theirs. | Acouple of inquiring Mormons agam came to the relief of Briguam, and with the request that I should | let nim see what { said of him he bowed nimseif | bluM@y mto the adjoining room. It was very evi- | dent that there is an abiding fear in the Mormons’ breasts that government will at last take steps in | regard to their institutions, and their natural desire is lo ie! from provoking an attack as long as possible. After seeking the Mayor in vain at his house his son, a tall, Overgrown boy of eiguteen, with an | overgrown nose, led me to the Tabernacle, where | tne truthful Daniel was seated chatting toa Gentile | with a fery red beard. The awkward boy presented me to his father, and Daniel H. Wells, Mayor oi Salt Lake City, Second Counsellor of the President of the Cnhurca, Justice of the Peace, “Lieutenant General’? of the Nauvoo Legion, and a thousand things be- side, stood up with something very like a scowl upon his unhandsome face, and as he clutchea my hand in his huge claw bore out my impression Ttounded on Brigham’s expression in his regard. Wells 1s six feet high, a lantern-jawed, long-faced, Taw-boned, loose-jointed, shambling-gaited man. There ts little of Brigham’s oily, foxisn look in his face; 1f there is any at all 1t1s more of the ape’s vicious cunning than of the former. But neither in tace or form 1s there any in dication save of rugged strength. His fore- head is somewhat re‘reating, his nose is large and the massive jaw and formidapie teeth seen at times through his gash-like mouth are those of a man of rude, sudden action, not a man of thought. Like most of the orthodox, he wears no mustacie, but along, grizzled goatee adds oddly to tue length of his visage. But little expresston can be gatnered from the “windows of the soul,” for one of his eyes (the leit) turns cutward at an obtuse angle from the nose; yet, as if nature were trying to surmount a dimiculty, bis body, arms, hands and legs writhe In a contorted gesture wnen he becomes excited and enraged, unui his whote person assumes a demoniac appearance almost inhuman. Verily, a trusty ser- vant of the Lord or the devil in the hands of such a man as Young, fit for any deed of violence, and no questions asked, when the word from the prophet is—havoc. Much more than his oily master did he betray in the cofiversation witch loliowed the bit- terness they feel at heart in secing the long-trium- phant tniquity of MORMONISM AT BAY, for backed down by the glorious surge of civiliza- tion 1t has commenced to be at last. Wells spoke without reserve the splenetic hate of his fanatic mind, and often in coarse language fed fat the an- cient grutige, with an undoubttul earnestness, “The government,” said he, “sends men nere Whose every thought 1s how they can annoy us. Adventurers who, when they come here, do nothing but sit and hatch PLOTS FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT. Grant does it. He seems to select creatures csl- culated to provoke a collision with us, that he may make captial out of our troubles. He will lose by it, There were thousands here who would have Voted for his re-election two years ago, but not to- day, You want to know about the 4th of July? Well, that was one of their tyrrannies. They for- bade the Legion of which I am _ Lieutenant General to maren, but some detachments aid after all. An, remember in °57 lymg out three weeks in the mountains there, when ohuson’s army came te destroy us, and then we de- fied them and they dared not advance. After a while they sent Peace Commissioners here to treat with the rebels, as they cadJed us, and they were glad to pardon us, pardon! (and Wells laughed dia- Uolically) rebellion! and we warring on no one but those coming to root up our bearthtires, and, as our | spies heard them boast, to sieep with our wives through the winter time, “times are changed, Mr Wells; there is no | danger of violence now, and the tmon army 13 | here,” As I satd this I pointed over to Camp Dougias. A blacker scowl seitied on his features, 1 he hissed out:— says, ‘Let us tave peace!’ but he or his ellites treat us to worse than war i the \G OF HUNGRY CONSPIRATORS he sends here.” He referred, with a grim satisfaction, to the dis- content of the Western volunteers, which the hopes awakened and tie defiance uttered by Brigham Young and the res Mormons in the sad days of our tribolation, caused to be stationed in Utah while their comrades were battling for the Unton on the | bloody flelds of the South, When he had satiated his anger in this direction he said, suddenly, “I MAY HAVE SPOKEN HASTILY,” and the conversation ran smoothly, nis only other stornful phrasing being poured uyon the heads of the recalcitrant Mormons wno accept the leadership of W. 8. Godbe, of Salt Lake City, and callea Gok beites. Mr. Wells grew more courteous still when this was out of is way, and, as he ia nothing if not vigorous, the remainder of our conversation was not interesung. With reference to the Godveites, or, themselves, the Liberals, much that credit cannot be said, because while doing good service in severing themselves trom Brighain’s grasping, tron sway, and thereby forming a nuciens round which the discontented may rally, they sull practice polygamy, which is the most glaring of all the evils of Utan, The ay forge, therefore, which essays to compat Mormonism & Voulrance, 1s the “Gentile” population, which is not very strong at present, but is hurdy, vigorous and growing. On Unis point 11s somewhat a pity that the advance guard should be so largely of tie honest miner | class, Whose standard of ethics is not always of the | highest order. Buteven with them, Whose code of mnorality is like Falstaft’s army, NOTHING TO BRAG OF, thelr vigorous detestation of polygamy is proof of | how @ groveliing sin appeals to the seorn ol ali man- | Kind, nO matter now much cat loose from the ways ev a the influeuces of religion and strict rule, luis being the Sabbath, I attended the services at the Taberna , ad heard two illiterate mission= aries discourse upon their javors in Scotland. ‘They were both Scotchmen, and drew a discouraging pic ture of the morality of their can! countrymen. The one, if vossibie, more ignoran declared that when appointed to ge NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET. te untyeren verdict both for brutalized men and Jack! hich is that nachos of al hope and jacking, wie! that Co! mide et life, with the influence of a’higher des ‘iny than unremitting toll, to be lightened only by carnal pleasure. ‘his sight saddens one not very much older than themselves, and recalls imvolunta- Tily Goldsmith’s lines:— But all the gentler morals, aueh as play piss strangely Through life's more cultured walks, and cba eae, far dl ‘on timorons pinio Fovsport and date 1a a kinder exy- Next let the eye wander along the crowded benches and rest upon the rostrum or pulpits where the aposties and their chief sit in front of the great organ. Tuere are four of them easily distinguisha- ble. First and highest is Young himself, seated, with the fox-like smile ever playing around the corners of sinister mouth, In the pulpit beside him stands George A. Sintth, his firat counsellor, @ coarse, corpulent man, bloated in the face and vulgar 1n la age and gesture, as, like a huge toad, he croaks out Mis rambling piece. He has one hand in his trousers pocket, and"with the other he fumbles the leaves ofa large Bible, On the other side of the pulpit sits Wells, the Mayor, already de- scribed, On the vench next below sits Orson Pratt, looking With an odd leer from the penthouse of his white brows, that slant and make him look a horned owl, over his long white beard. He is the theologian of the Church, and his theology 1s solely a lame pettiio prine:pis of the doctrine of revelation. Curiously, the likening of these men to the kindred brute creation forces itself on one, and the scene seems like @ sketch, from La Fontaine's tables, wherein A FOX, A FROG, AN APE AND AN OWL mock humanity with an imitation of mankind. But Smith leprae ing: and tuere is no defence of doc- trine to-day ; it is a long tirade against the gentiles, about two hundred oi whom are present, and 13 directed principally in the pleading tone to them. He 13 succeeded by Brigham 1 oung; but here 1s still less ol a sermon. ‘It ig, in fact, a stump speech, in- verspersed with blasphemies and prolanity, using Such phrases as ‘See you in hell first,”’ “I'd see that son @ hundred ‘thousand miles farther—in eaven sooner than do 1,” &c. It was still, how- ever, the address of aman used to unbounded au. thority tinding that power slipping trom his grasp. Again it was Mormonisu at bay, and, like all wil animals, butting wildly. It did not, there‘ore, much astonish me to Qear him launch forth as folows: — Yesterday a reporter called upon me ana said that he was told in California we lived in dug houses, had no stone, and that he was surprised to find how he had been mistakea. But 1 have no doubt he will go away and LIE ABOUT UB, as others have done, as soon as the benign influence Of our institutions 1s removed, As I cannot but think that this was given for my especial venefit, | need only say that in my conver- sation with him there was no reference to dug houses or anything else 1 had heard to California about them, otner than as given above. Tne tree- dom of the press, however, is something wiich does not agree with Brigham or those of his kidney, and the whole thing ridiculously recalls the robber, who, when pursued by an honest man, began lustily crying, ‘Stop thief’ —a somewhbaé thin device, even for a saint. NEW YORK CITY. The tollowing record will snow the changasin the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicared by the thermometer at Hudnut's Phare mnacy, HERALD Building, corner of Ann street:— 1s70. 1s71. 1870, 1871, BA. M....00. TH 7444 38P.M « 853g 85 7 72 6PM. + 83 81 76 78 9 P.M. - 80 7 79% 83 12 P. M. 21 BY Average temperature yesteraay.. seeceee 13 Average temperature for corresponding date | dast year.... About twelve o'clock on Monday night John Falby, a man forty years of age, while walking in his sleep, at 22 Vandewater street, fell from one of ‘the first story windows into an area, and was 80 severely injured that he died soon afterwards, Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest at 26 Oak street, on the body of Michael Peters, a man thiriy-Hve years of age, who died from the effects of injuries received on Monday, in Brooklyn, by being kicked 1n the stomach by a horse. Deceased was beatiug the horse at the time he was kicked, ‘The animal belongs to Robert McGrath, OMcer Curtain, of the Twenty-ninth precinct, found Thomas H. Nelson on the street with a brace- bit, skeleton keys and & jimmy in nls possession, ready for operations, The would-be burglar was conveyed to the Thirtieth street station house, aud Sane morniug locked up in detault of $2,000 ail by Justice Suandiey, at Jefferson Market, Officer Gick, of the Sixteenth precinct, on Monday night captured Charles Harrison and Wiillam Forth in the yard of 367 West Twentieth street, having in their possession a complete set of burgiar’s tools ready for operation. Captain Kiilelea yesterday morning sent them before Justice Shanley, of Jef- Jerson Market, wo comuutted them in deiauit of $1,000 bail. The members of the Oriental Club had engaged a tug and contemplatea proceeding to the Narrows to-day to meet the steamer Russia, oa bvard of which was their fellow member, Mr. W. J. Florence, the comedian, and have a grand biow-oul; but, con- trary to their calculations, tat vessel arrived at a very early hour yesterday morning, and their friend, With his accomplished wife, was receiving the con- gratuiatious of hundreds of callers at the Fifth Ave hue Hotel during yesterday afternoon and evening. The body of an unknown man, about forty years of age, in a nude state, was found floating off the foot of Catharine slip, East River, by Michael Knowles, of 654 Water street. Deceased had dark hair, was slightly bald, five feet eight inches in ht, and wore heavy mixed gray whiskers, The olice reported that deceased had a stab wound in he side, but itis probable the wound was caused by some hard substance coming tu contact with the body after death, while in the water. Tae remains ‘were removed tu the Morgue. On Thursday last William Knoterer, a German, twenty-four years of age, who was employed ina manufactory in Hester street, attempted to filla Kerosene ol lamp wiltie tt was 1 hted, As might have been expected by any one having practical common sense or who perused te daily papers with any degree of care, the lamp exploded and burned Knoterer most fearfully all over his body. He was taken to Beilevae Hospital and died on Mon- day night from the effects of the burns. Coroner Schirmer was notified to hold an inquest. Deceased ‘was a single man, and boarded in Curystie street, Deputy Coroner Cushman, assisted by Dr. Vande- water, of Centre Strect Hospital, yesterday, at No. 9 Mulberry street, made a post mortem examination onthe body of Dennis O'Connor, who was fatally stapbed by Joha Cullum, as previousty reported, A stab Would on the right side of the chest, between the second and third ribs, half an inch to the leit of the median line, was found. The stcel penetrated the aorta; the right side of the chest was partially filed with blood. Death was caused by shock and from interna! hemorrhage. Coroner Schirmer will hold an inquest to-day. Captain Kennedy, of the Sixth precinct, has secured gall the important wit- nesses in the case, The action of society bricklayers in demanding $4.50 per day has, in a majority of cases, been suc- cessful, the bosses making little or no resistance to the advance. Jn a few instances the increased rate lias not yet been given, but there 13 an understand. ing that 1t will be granted when the employers find that others have acceded to the demand made by the men. Outside tne society bricklayers in many instances are willing to work, and are working, for $4 a day, and seem ty be quite satisfied with their position, There seems to be no general strike among the unions, as each man has been left to work at $4 if he should so preter, instead of jeaving off work. ’ TRENTON THIEVES. Two Accomplished Young Females in Cus- tody. Two young thieves, Maggie MeGuire and Saran Long, one fliteen, the other thirteen years of age, who have served a term in the State Prison, and have only been at liberty a few days, have resumed their old practices, and will now be sent to the Re- formatory for Girls, according to the provisions of the act passed by the last Legislature, The two girls have proved Uiemselves the most accom- plished thieves in this section. They stole $80 in money from @ merchant’s desk, aud raoneys in other parts of the city before they were sentenced to State yrison, On Monday they took $1 50 from @ til in Front street and abstracted $3 from Moore's mill, in Warren street, Their plan of action bas been to ask to look at samples of goods, watch their opportu. t money. The eidest girl, Long, 18 of good addr nd as sharp a8 a razor, They have picked up their education on the stree and can dec auy one not posted as to their chare acters. They are now safely In custody, and their cases prove the wisdom of the Legislature in pro viding a home for puch Kind of girls. nity and then grab “broken in speerit, aud amaist refused to | forted” until a heavenly angel appeared to hy struck several Gentiles’ present (hat the ministering spirit might have taught the poor man a uuie bug- lish at the time, They said PROSELYIIZING IS SLOW WORK al present, on account of the woful bilndness of the people to the divine mission of Joe Smith. In the aiternoon a congregation of about eight thoa- sand people of bot sexes assembled, for the high dignitaries were expected to talk. If any one has a curiosity to judge of the grade of humanity which the Latier Day doctrine has gathered together he cannot get a betier idea than in this afternoon Sab- | bath service, In vain the eye searches for the al- the so the earth A vers low grade 1s | Vure light of intelligence on { eartiv while surround bid, } IN Over the taffrail io-t bis balance ACOIDENTS IN NEWARK. Last evening in Newark, een five and six o'clock, a sad drowning accident took place. A seven-year-olds on of Captain Jacob Van Houten, of the tugboat ©. H. Melntosh, pushed of from the shore in @ small boat to Intercept his facher's steamer, He got atongside all right, but in mount eatvail 104 and fell over. at Ol board. ‘The hive fellow was drowned in sig: his distracted father. About noontime yesterday another boy, named Rudolph Goeiler, fell overboard from Hedden's dock, foot of Ogden street. and was likewise drowntu. OUR BOILER BEDFELLOWS. The Death-Dealing Engines in the City That We Sleep Over. Inspections by the Police Since the Westfield Horror. Location, Owners and Condition of Boilers. Owing to the great interest felt by the community in the condition of the boilers located all over the city and in close proximity to THE SLEEPING ROOMS OF TENEMENT HOUSES that swarm with human life, and the charges that Many of these boilers are im an unsound condition and likely to explode at any time, the HERALD has endeavored to obtain some definite information cal- culated to arrive atthe actual condition of these dangerous engines of death. Knowing that under the law it is the duty of the Sanitary Police to inspect all boilers in the city at least once per year, Captain Peter Fule, of the Sani- tary Police, was applied to for the information sought. From that gentleman it was ascertained that FIVE PRACTICAL ENGINBERS are constantly employed in making sctentific tests ‘and inspections of boilers, but he declined to give the results of these inspections untl! the consent of the Police Board had been first obtained. To Captain Yule and his obliging clerk, Mr. George W. Winant, the public are indebted for the following carefully prepared list of inspections and tests SINCE THE DATE OF THE WESTFIELD HORROR. The report is brought up to yesterday. It will be seen that about one hundred ana twenty-seven tests have been made in less than @ month by Inspectors Daniel D, Suttoa, Joseph E. Coffee, Thomas McLaugniin, Charles E. Borden and Micnaei 0, Cun- ningham, who, it is belleved, have been most thorough in their examinations. Out of the number Inspected it will be observed that nineteen or twenty boliers were found more or less defective, but the columns of remarks will show in what par- ucular. The table given below will bear careful examination, and, it is to be hoped, will make engl neers more cautious in THE CARE OF THESE UGLY FELLOWS, beside which 80 many people slumber in apparent security. The report, when it is remembered that Captain Yule and his command have under super- vision over 2,700 botiers, shows that in the past three weeks the police have not been slumbering, and are thoroughly aroused to the importance of careful work. It will also be seen that nimeveen of the boilers are located in vaults under the sidewalk, over which pedestrians are continually passing to and fro in the pursuit of their dally avocations. Im this connection it should be stated that Captain Yule makes it a special point to prevent the use of @ boiler the moment it is found defective until such time as the repairs ordered by his inspectors are completed, and even then the boiler must pass @ re- inspection before it can be used. Name of Owner. Number and Street, Location. $$ re Remarks. ‘57th st. and Lith ay poy " 629 West B9th at ‘ard. ..2.) = ‘| Firat’ floor. = \ Jacob Li iy «|First floor. - James Totte West Si) Blsat floor ee W. J. Blak 458 West Slat x é +]Ordered new tubes to boiler and to 315 West 47th at.. Foot of West 43 | at. --|Blevator Hebberd.. Rottman & Co. E, 5. Higgins ELM. Van Tassel. John Curry. dacob Dunn. George Sienser. 1327 West 41st st. Cell 1,550 y Christie, Crests & Co. 512 West 23d 838 West 45th Brockway & Wrisi R. G, Mitchell & Co.. John McCarten. Cochran, McLean & Co. Brannsaorf & Co. 87 Elizabeth T, Hogben. 76 Kitzabeth st. W, J. Keri 22 Canal at Arnold, 311 Cans Halstead, Haines & Co. Mygatt, Haviland & Co. Brondw: George Bain & Son 817 Washington | Sherwood & Truesdell. Ja G. A. Merwin & Co. 160 Duane st... ‘New York Printing Co......|83 Centre st.... McCullough Lead Company. |60 Duane st. New York Lead Company. .|63 Centre st 40 Centre st. Henry Aught. Bebuitz & Hunken. | Van Tassel & C N.Y. Improved Barrel Co. h 539 Weat 32d st ven Thom 433 West 320 st. James Thompso1 33 Wes Wilkeson « Co 1207 West 82d Marcotte & Co. 58 W Charies Metzle Spaulding & C CeeJ. ONell.: Newman & Capron. W. H. Bowden. Legeest & Storm Bruce's Son & Ci Bonnett, Schenck & Co..,... |57 13 Chambers Park place... F. Hart & Go... D.C. Weeks & So G, F. Biake & Co.. tn 2 Spruce at. uring slip. Tl Durch ste. W. McCallum. Robert Dilion. 8, Wilde's Sons... McMann & Russell, R. Hoe & C Davin & Riker... Benton & Annin. Lanman & Kemp H, Mouquin. J. A. Currier ‘American Bai Brookiyn Bridge Compat W, fmerman Nesbitt & Co. Pince & Co. Metropolitan Bank. N. Buckabe Charies H. Lalor. R. Kol 139 Front st.. 1h Broadway..s.ss 5 Ladlow 834 Cherry st. .|Pier 48 East River... | P. H. Marrav. THE WESTFIZLD £XPLOSION. Continuence of the Inquest Over the Brook- lyn Victims—The Explosion Caused by Low Water—The Boiler Was Never in a Fit Condition to Ran, The ingest over the bodies of the Brooklyn vic- tums of the Westfield explosion was resumed yester- day at the Brooklyn Morgue, in Willoughby street. EVIDENCE OF MR. JOHNSON, Mr. B, M. Johnson, of Greenpoint, testified as fol- lows:—I reside at 93 Dupont street; am an engt- neer; examined the boller of the Westfield after the explosion (model of botler produced by witness, and the position of the various pieces of broken machinery in whe boat explained); | the rear part of the shell was driven about forty feet from ita original position; the second sheet from the fire box was thrown toward the end of the boat on a line with the original posi- tion of the boiler; in making my first visit vo the vessei my attention was calied to arent at the ex- treme bottom and end of the boiler furtherest away from the fire; I had from the first beticved that low ‘water Was the cause of the exploxlon; I looked for marks or indications; my attention was called by Mr. Bergen to an opening at the end of the bowler; | Lalscovered @ rent four‘een inches Jong and halt an inch im width; this confirmed me tn the opin that THE EXPLOSION WAS CAUSED BY LOW WATER; directly above this point of the boiler are found the indications the Indications very strong; the marks I have made are a little above the water line and ex- tending to the centre, and ranning the whole length are the marks of intense heat, having the appear. ance of having been red hot; below those marks It fs apparent that 1t had been Intensely hot, and the iron had been bent out of shape; the moment a red hot suriace Js presented to the sieam an explosion will follow; the moment It becomes hot decompost- Hon takes place; the steam, in its proportion of | gases, is identical with water—oxygen eight parts and hydrogen one; in fring up steam the oxygen Is burned and not the hy nd when seven and @ half parts of the former hi been burned up one- half parts 1s left and canses an explosion; the marks that are left after the explosion immediately over ‘where the hot place was was covered With scales of difierent volor. By Cononer—Conld this state ot the engineer not ve aware of th? things exist and A. it might have levator... Cellar... .|See'nd floor; fete floor. safety valves, Order complied with; re tested, ‘and found in good condition. Steam gauge defective. Ordered repaired. Order complied with, and found eor tyidt William Kelly. Frederick W: Mosk. Firat floor. john B. Lec! ‘rat floor. dete Whiting & Co First floor. a Sipe meee Tuliocn & Gill Firat floor. te Leak 10 steam drum. riers re; aired. Order compiied with. and found in good conaition. W.T. Brown 456 West 46th st. -|First floor. J. Benedict. -/650 West 46th at... |First floor. - J. B. & 0. M. Corvell... 2th av., 26th and 27th sts./Firat floor.|Goo: =- Nicholas Joout .....-+ 561 West 45th at... | Firat floor: Steam gauge defefective. Ordered steam gauge repaired. A new sled, and found correct. tae {|Steam gauge and safety valve defective. Ordered repaired. Order complied with and found correct, Shell on ade of boiler gave out n testing, Oriered to repair shell. Order complied with, Ke-tested and found in good oom- diuon, . | Defective. . Steam gauge defective, Ordered re paired -|Defective.. Steam gauge defective. Ordered _re- paired. Order compited with and found correct. Steam gauge defective; orderea repaired. Ordef complied with and found’ eorrect. [00d inset a. tay saioe ‘| Deroctive®: | eater Teakin acca ondemned, and forbidden te yidl ‘Ordered repairedyimmediately, .|Defective../On inspection and test the shell of boiler burstedzout, and the {ron in the legs js very thin, Boller worn out and com demned, Ordered to discontinue use of if, (orm gauge and safely valve defective. Vobbagal On mternal examination @ patch Was or- dered to be put on flue, pss Va Steam Gauge paired, defective and ordered re- Good. dood. Defective St Gauge. Had new tube head put in before inapeo- tion and test. Ordered new water legs and a patch to be placed on back of fire box and on steam cram, gone on for some time, but I very much doubt it; im my examination I found seventy-one inches of an old crack; it was there when the boiler wag in the hands of the workmen, CoRoNER—What was the cause of the rent which you have referred to? A. It was the constant use and consequent enlargement of the original crack; the boiler should have been examined by compe- tent persons sooner than It was; 1t would not have lasted much longer; it was @ mere matter of times the boiler was never safe from the first, when came from the workshop; 1 do not believe there was more than twenty-seven pounds of steam om the builer at the time of the explosition. EVIDENCE OF DAVID BURDEN. David Burden, being sworn, tostified as follows:— Tam aconstructing engineer and reside at Green- point; examined the voller of the Westfeld, and lound’ it ina very bad conditioa, very bad, mdeed; 1 found several patches on it, two or three to cover each weak place; the right way to repair it would have been to Bae in new stay bolts; saw the rent mentioned by Jobnson; the original point of the rupture was in the flanging of the head, at the lower side; the cause of te rent was the imperfect com. dition of the boiler at that point; the iron was not more than a Let of an inch thick there; com- der that the boiler was é reer EVER IX A CONDITION TO RUN SAFBLY; the hydrostatic pressure 1s the safest test on boiler in general; if I had been engineer of the boat, and knowing, a3 I would, tte Imperfect conditiod, I do not think the company could have hired me to go om the boat, and 1 should consider it my first duty to expose them for using such & voller; any engineer or mechanic could have discovered the defects in tne boller; on the lower end of the head, Inside the man-hole, 14 a quantity of scale, showing & careless ness and incompetency on the part of the engineer, as these scales should always be removed. ‘The remainder of the evidence fally corroborated that of Mr. Jobnson, wine inquest was then adjourned until this morn- ing. THE HOBOKEN FUBLIO SCHOOLS, * ‘The expenditures made in maintaining the public schoots in Hoboken from the 1st of May to the Ist of August of the present year have been reported as follows:—Teachers’ salaries, $6,619 39; janitors? $669 68; supplies, $1,402; repairs, $772; printing, ¢184; taking the school census, $301 85; water rents, $40 19; Insurance, $4 88 Total, $10,004 06, ‘The Board of Education 18 more energetic than ang previous board im tHoboken and the desire emulate the schools of New York ia manifest,