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[Written for Dodge's Literary Museum,]
THE CRY OF WUNGARY.
BY T. H, CHIVERS, M. D, .
[Here is a stirring lyric, rousing the heart like
the shout of a trumpet.]
We asked but for justice—for justice we wanted—
Our wishes were few, yet we asked them in vain!
We cried out for bread, ‘but red scorpions were
granted,
And commands, from the tyrant, to tighten our
‘ chain,
Break, break every link in the chain!
Then the heroes of Hungary, with voices of thun-
ler,
Uurled back the gross insult thus treacherously
given, 1
Swearing never to rest till they rent them agunder,
As the lightning the ocak, by the vengeance o
Heaven.
Call down the dread vengeance of Heaven!
But rather than Wungary should have compensation
For the loss of her freedom, her sons slain in fight,
The tyrant of Austria then sold all his nation,
By selling himself to the dark Muscovite.
Down, down with the dark Muscovite!
To that God-chosen land far beyond the deep ocean,
That Canaan of countries, the land of the free:
From this dark Nile of night we will go to that Go-
shen,
And eat the ripe fruit plucked from Liberty’s tree.
‘ On, on tothat land of the free?
Domestic Manners of the
MORMONS,
\ R. BENJAMIN G. FERRIS, late
it U.S. Secretary of Utah Territory,
who possessed all necessary means of ac-
quiring information, and whose veracity is
unimpeached, has just published a book on
Utah and the Mormons, from which we
take several extracts explanatory of Mor-
mon habits. The first is in relation to
THE LAW OF MARRIAGE.
Thus says the law, as spoken by Joseph
Smith : . :
“And egain, as portaining to the “law of
the priesthood, if any man. espouse a yir-
gin, and desire to espouse another, and the
first give her consent; and if he espouse
the second, and they are virgins, and have
vowed to no other man, then he is justified ;
he cannot commit adultery, for they are
given unto him; for he cannot. commit
adultery with that that belongeth unto him,
. and none else ; and if he have ten virgins
given unto him, by this law, he cannot
commit adultery, for they belong to him,
and they are given. unto him; therefore he
is justified.” ©
But as it might very well happen that
the first wife should not give her consent,
_provision is made for dispensing with it:
,, "And again, verily, verily, I say unto
you, if any man have a wife who holds the
keys of this power, and he teaches unto her
the law of my priesthood as pertaining to
these things, then shall she believe and ad-
minister unto him, or she shall be destroy-
ed, saith the Lord ‘your God; for I will de-
stroy her; for’ I will magnify ° my ‘name
. upon all those who receive and abide in my
“law.” ve oe whee : i
Let us look a little at the practical work-
ings of the system, as seen by our author:
ities DOMESTIC ECONOMY. |°
“Polygamy,” says Mr. Ferris, “is intro-
ducing a new style of building at Salt Lake
City. “A man with half a dozen wives
‘builds, if he cau,'a long, low dwelling, hav-
ing six catrances from the outside; and
when he takes in a wife, if able to do so,
adds another apartment. “The object is te
keep the women and babies, as much as
possible, apart, and prevent : those terrible
cat-fights which sometimes ‘occur, with all
the accompaniments of Billingegate, torn
caps, and broken broom-sticke. . As the ‘di-
vine institution’ extends, these buildings in-
crease, and in a few years the city will look
like a collection of barracks for the accom-
modation of soldiers. Some have separate
buildings in parts of the city remote from
each other, and others have farm-houses,
and the wives are thus kept separate, the
husband dividing his time between them
all”
EFFECT OF POLYGAMY UPON POPULATION,
“The effect upon population is decidedly
deleterious. The prophet Joseph had over
forty wives at Nauvoo, and the rest of the
priesthood had various numbers, correspond-
ing to their standing and ‘inclinations, and
nearly all the children of these polygamous
marriages died at that place ; indeed, it is
alleged by Mormons, that not one was taken
to Utah.”
Brigham Young has thirty children, of
whom eight are by his first and second law-
ful wives ; the remaining twenty-two are by
his spirituals. He has about fifty wives,
some of whom were widows of Joseph Smith,
and are probably past the time of having
children; but, supposing him to have thirty
who are capable of having issue—which is
below the true number—the twenty-two
children would be less than one child to a
concubine. If each of these degraded fe-
males could have been the honored wife of
one husband, the aggregate number of chil-
dren, according to the usual average of four
in a family, would be one hundred and twen-
ty, showing a loss in population of ninety-
eight.
“The children are subject to a frightful
degree of sickness and mortality. ‘This is
the combined result of the gross sensuality
of the’ parents, and want of care toward their
offspring.’ ‘As a general rule, these saintly
pretenders take as little care of their wives
careful farmer in the States would of his’
cattle ; and nowhere out of the ‘ Five Points’
in New York city can a niore filthy, miser-
able, neglected-looking, and disorderly rabble
of children be found than in the streets of
Great Salt’ Lake City. © The Governor,
again, whose attention to his multifarious
family we are bound to suppose greater than
the average, affords a fair illustration. He
was twice lawfully married, and has had
cight legitimate children, who are all living.
Te has had a large number of children by
his concubines—no one knows how many—
it is only known that there are only twenty-
two surviving. These females do not reside
as of their children; and of both, less than a}
How far the plague-spot is to spread in this
direction remains to be seen. Brigham
Young stated in the pulpit, in 1852, that
the time might come when, for the sake of
keeping the lineage of the priesthood un-
broken, marriages would be confined to the
same families; as, for instance, the son of
one mother would marry the daughter of
another by the same father. There has
been some talk of going even beyond this,
and allowing the father to seal: his own
daughter to himself.”
THE HAREMS OF THE PRIESTHOOD.
“ The high-priest dignitaries of the Church
are exceedingly skillful in procuring young
girls for wives.’ They inculcate the idea
that elderly members, who haye been tried
and found faithful, are surer instruments of
salvation than the young, who may aposta-
tize; and as marriage to one who remains
steadfast to the end is essential to escape
from the fate of being mere angels, a great
many young women are fooled into this
bubbling and seething caldron of prostitu-
tion. Elder Wilford Woodruff, one of the
twelve apostles, has a regular system of
changing his harem. He takes in one or
more young girls, and so manages after he
tires of them, that they are glad to ask for a
divorce, after which he beats the bush for
recruits. Ife took a fresh one, about four-
teen years old, in March, 1853, and _ will
probably get rid of her in the course of the
ensuing summer. These maneuvers are
practiced’ more or less by the whole gang;
the girls discarded by one become sealed to
others, and so travel the entiré rounds; and
when they accomplish the whole circuit, and
are ready to start anew, they have a pro-
foundly ‘realizing sense’ of female modesty,
to say nothing of some of its adjuncts.”
THE MORMON WIFE. o
“A wife, in Utah, cannot live out half
her days. In families where polygamy has
not been introduced, she suffers an agony of
A School Incident.
Ty the early years, I attended the public
school in Roxbury, Mass. Dr. Nathaniel
Prentice was our respected teacher; but
his patience, at. times, would get nearly ex-
hausted by the infractions of the school rules
by the scholars. On one occasion, in rather
a wrathy way, he threatened to punish, with
six. blows of a very heavy ferule, the first
boy detected in whispering, and. appointed
some as detectors. Shortly after, one ,of
these detectors shouted,
“ Master, John Zeigler is whispering.”
John was called up, and asked if it was
a fact. (John, by the way, was a favorite,
both of the teacher and his school-mates.)
“Yes,” answered John; “I was not
aware what I was about. I was intent in
working out a sum, and requested the one
who sat next to reach me the arithmetic
that contained the rule, which I wished to
see.”
The Doctor regretted his hasty threat,
but told John he could not suffer him to es-
cape the punishment, and continued:
“T wish I could avoid it; but I cannot
without a forfeiture of my word, and the
consequent loss of my authority. I will,”
continued he, “leave it to any three schol-
ars you may choose, to say whether or not
I omit the punishment.”
John said he was agreed to that, and im-
mediately called out G.S., T. D., and D.
P.D. ‘The Doctor told them to return a
verdict, which they soon did, (after consult-
ation,) as follows:
“The master’s words must be kept invio-
late—John must. receive the threatened
punishment of six blows of the ferule; but
it must be inflicted on volunteer proxies;
and we, the arbitrators, will share the pun-
ishment by receiving two blows each.”
John, who had listened to the verdict,
stepped up to the Doctor, and with out-
stretched hand exclaimed,
“Master, here is my hand; they sha’n’t
be struck a blow; I will receive the punish-
ment.”
The Doctor, under pretence of wiping
his face, shielded his eyes, and telling the
boys to go to their seats, said he would think
of it. I believe he did think of it to his
dying day, but the punishment was never
inflicted.— Cincinnati. Times.
apprehension on the subject. which | can
scarcely be conceived, much less described.
There'is a sad, complaining, suffering look,
obvious to the most ordinary observer,
which tells the story, if there were no other
evidence on the subject. In most cases it
is producing premature old age, and some
have already sunk into an early grave under
the intolerable weight of affliction. The
man, from the moment he makes up his
mind to bring one or: more concubines into
the family, becomes always. neglectful, and
-in most cases abusive, to his wife.” _
in the *Governor’s house,’ so called, but in
different establishments, from ‘one up to a
dozen in a place.” .
. | PROGRESS OF INDECENCY. ~
" “ Their system of plurality has obliterated
nearly all sense of decency, and would seem
to be fast leading to an intercourse open and
promiscuous as the cattle in the fields: A
maa living in common with a dozen dirty
Arabs, whether he calls them ‘wives or con-
cubines, cannot have a very nice sense of
propriety. It is difficult to give a true ac-
count of the effects which have resulted from
this cause, and, at the same time, preserve
decency of language.. The Saints are pro-
gressive. Last year (1852) they seriously
discussed the subject of introducing a new
order into the Church, by which the wives
of absent missionaries might be sealed to
Saints left at home. There is a number
of cases in which @ man has taken’a widow
and her daughter for wives at the ‘same
time. One has a widow and her two daugh-
ters.. There are also instances of the neice
being sealed to the uncle, and they excite no
more attention than any ordinary case.
A’ Stiant Mistaxe.—We don’t believe
the following anecdote has been printed, and
it is too good to be lost.
One day an honest Hibernian strolled in-
to one of our churches—no matter where—
on communion Sunday ; and at the invita-
tion usually given for all “in regular stand-
ing,” &c., he, being somewhat verdant in
matters of this kind, thought he would stay
too. Accordingly he remained in his obscure
pew, and waited ‘to see how the’ waters
would move. ; :
Soon a venerable man approached him,
and offered the bread and the cup. ; He took
@ generous sup of the latter, and some of the
former, and the good man passed along.
Going back to the desk, a request was made,
if any had been omitted in the distribution
that they would rise, | What was the dea-
con’s astonishment to sée the occupant of
the stranger's pew arise, and with a peculiar
OveR five millions of dollars are said to
be left by Dr. Peter Shoenberger, who died
at Marietta, Pa., lately. He was known as
“the king” iron-master.
CLouns are the veils with which Day
coquettishly conceals her face, in order to
appear the more beautiful—From the Ger-
man of Jean Paul.
Home and Wife on Saturday.
Tapry is the man who has a little home
and a little angel in it, on a Saturday night.
A house, no matter how little, provided it
will hold two or so—no matter how furnish-
ed, provided there is hope in it; let: the
wind blow—close the curtains! _ _,.
What if they are calico, or plain without
border or tassel, or any such thing? Let
the rain come down; heap up the fire. No
matter if you hav’n’t acandle to bless your-
self with, for what a beautiful light glowing
coals make, reddening, clouding, shedding
sunset radiance through the ‘little room;
Just enough to talk by; not so loud ‘as in
the highways; not rapid, as in the hurrying
world—but . softly, slowly, , whisperingly,
with pauses between them, for the storm
without and the thoughts within, to fill up.
Then wheel the sofa round: before ‘the
} no matter. if the sofa is a settee, un-
cushioned at that; if so, may it be just long
enough for two, or say two and a half in it.
How sweetly the music of silver bells from
time to time falls on the listening car then.
How mournfully swell: the: chimes of the
“ days that are no more.” . :
beck-of the finger, motion him that way.
Obeying the sign, he walked towards the
beckoner, who arose as. he approached, and
shading his mouth with his hand, as he leaned
half over into tho ‘aisle, said ‘in ‘a ‘subdued
tone,
- “ Have you got any chaze?™. Goo
Bewanu of mental Intoxication gnd fap;
tasies.
_Under these circumstances, and at such a
time, one can get at least sixty-nine and a
half’statute miles nearer “kingdom come,”
than at any other point inthis world laid
down in “ Malte Brun !” heapdie os!
May, be you smile at this. picture; but
there isa secret between us, viz: it isa
copy of 3° picture, Tydely drawn, but true
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