MIGRATION OF SODOMITES TO THE SALT LAKE. 375 the recait ing otcer tanie Ma of his MIGRATION OF SODOMITES TO THE SALT LAKE MORMONS.-The Wolverhampton Chronicle states that carly Joe Smith this week a party of Mormonites, numbering upwards of 180, arrived at the Queen-street station, in that town, by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, en route for the Salt je ty. Lake. This large body of perverts to the mischievous and evil doctrines of the impostor Joe Smith, were chiefly from the agricultural districts of Worcestershire. The greater proportion were young people, varying from sixteen to twenty-five years of age, although among the number were several infirm and decrepit old men and women, accompanying their families and grandchildren.—Morning Advertiser, May, 1856. WHY WOMEN BECOME MORMONS. Mormonite the Em peror of It has been a matter of great wonder to me how the women Harems of could be induced to consent to polygamous marriages. It is so priests and repugnant to all the instincts and feelings of a true woman, that eders. I could not understand it. The mystery is partly solved. It seems that one part of their ridiculous creed is, that a woman cannot be saved unless she is scaled or married to a Mormon ; and he must be one, too, who will remain steadfast to the end; and, as they are noted for a great number of apostates, it becomes an object with these silly fools to get into the harems of the priests and elders, because it is believed they will not apostatise. Of course, any one with half an eye can see the object of the prophet Smith in promulgating such a doctrine; and the wouder Frochets of is, that its transparency is not obvious to all. I made this discovery by talking with Aunty Shearer, about an old lady by the Sodomy. name of Western-commonly known as "Mother Western". one of Brigham's wives. I was marvelling why she should marry in her old age, especially as fiftieth or sixtieth wife, when my oracle said "She was only scaled for the sake of salvation." She further informed me that Brigham had more wives in this way than anybody knew of-that he did not even know himself, the scaling to him being considered a more certain guarantee for salvation, because he was the reigning prophet, and was sure to remain faithful. One scarcely knows whether to be amazed most at the profane profligacy of the leaders, or the superstitious credulity of their dupes. The effect of the Mormon creed is, evidently, to gather together a low class of villains and a still How Mr. Parrott became en tangled in the meshes of the Mor monites. The head larters of Sodomites and their object. lower class of dupes; and it follows that the latter are easily governed. The only disturbing element is, that the villains may quarrel among themselves; and, so far as I can learn, this has happened on more than one occasion. A further effect will probably be to operate as a Botany Bay to society generally, by relieving it of its superabundance of both classes.-Mrs. Feris's Letters from Utah. LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS. We stated last week that we had received a long letter from a person named Parrott, residing in Bristol, in which he detailed his experience among the Mormons, which sect he had left with the greatest disgust. This person's statement, the accuracy of which is vouched for by the Rev. J. B. Clifford, is to the effect that, some time since, he became entangled in the meshes of Mormonism, through the influence of a "leader," a most pleasing and fascinating man, who introduced the subject to him, and he was led to join a "church" which met in Milk-street. For a time he was perfectly enchanted with the system, and, with his wife and children, was preparing to leave his home and take his departure for the settlement on Salt Lake. At first he observed the strictest sanctity in their public services and movements, but after a while their real character began to develop itself, as he says, "in the most Satanic manner." After honestly watching their private and public actions, and carefully observing their principles, and having been, by the priest, favoured "to attend one of their secret council meetings held every Monday night, until midnight, when they secretly concoct their hellish and diabolical purposes to entrap the innocent," he determined to withdraw from them, and on March 18th last, he wrote a letter to the pastor requesting to be excluded from the "church." For this course of conduct he was publicly anathematised in the following language:- May his eyes sink in their sockets; his flesh rot and fall from his bones; may he wish to die, but not be able; may his right arm wither; may he beg his bread, but none be given him." Mr. Parrott states Brigham Young, the present head of the Mormons, has now about twenty women, whom he denominates as his wives, besides the keeping of all the wives of the missionaries while they are away on missions for five and seven years together, and he instances the case of an "elder" or "priest," who has just been removed from Cheltenham for having seduced twenty young women. The PERPETUAL IMPRISONMENT OF YOUNG WOMEN. 377 officials and Satan. The Book of Mormon, Mormons now number, in officers, as follow:-Three presidents, Governing seven apostles, 2,086 seventres, 715 high priests, 514 ordinary emissaries, priests, 471 teachers, 227 deacons, 331 missionaries, altogether & of "1,3 15 trained officers, or black spirits, ready for anything their leader Brigham Young has for them to do." Mr. Parrott states, in conclusion, that the real object of the American Mormon leaders, called priests, in their mission to the United Kingdom, is, under the mask of religion, to recruit men, women, and children, for the purpose of raising an army, to carry the Book of Mormon, by the sword and fire, into the present peaceful States of America, of which army Brigham Young, like a second Mahomed, is to be the king. The men, on leaving England, are expected to provide themselves with a six-barrelled revolver, a Minié rifle, a sword, and a large knife, under the pretext of killing buffalo; while the women are taught to make bullets, &c. The Mormons intend to call to their aid the neighbouring disaffected powerful tribes of Indians around Utah, in order to assist them in deluging the States in rivers of blood.-Bristol Times. as creed of Satan, to upor the be forced ple by the sword and fire. PERPETUAL IMPRISONMENT OF YOUNG WOMEN sister of Justice WE recommend English fathers and mothers to give some Deportaattention to the case which has just been brought under their tion of a notice in our law reports, respecting the alleged deportation of through the a young girl, named Mary Ann King, from this country, through of the agency of a lady superior and other officials in a convent mercy. at Norwood. The girl in question, who was fifteen years of age in May last, Before Mr. was, through the influence of one of the priests at St. George's Church, admitted to the Convent of Our Lady at Norwood. 10 March, The mother of the child, who may or may not in the first instance have been satisfied with the admission of her daughter to this convent, was, after a few months, anxious that she should return home, and had several interviews with her at Norwood, but those interviews were conducted in such a manner, and accompanied with such restraints, as to prevent any interference with the control of the nuns over this young person. It appears that the daughter was really anxious to return home, and that 1856. Irison at Norword The Popish it was only in consequence of the entreaty of the nuns, that she was allowed to remain in this Popish prison for six months longer. Subsequently, the mother called again from time to time; but it was evidently the study of the "Reverend Mother" and her assistants to prevent all free intercourse between the parent and her child. י} A reverend mother and her necons dise the Queen's A papistical Protestant At length, before the time fixed for the return of this young girl to her home, her mother, ou applying at the convent of Our Lady at Norwood, found to her great distress, that her child had been removed. She called, with her solicitor, to see the "Reverend Mother," and was informed that the girl was in France. A writ of habeas corpus was applied for, and obtained, for the production of the girl, and we have now an opportunity of learning the manner in which a "Reverend Mother" and her accomplices can neutralize the force of the Queen's writ. In the return it is not alleged that any of the facts asserted are untrue. Those facts are too recent, and too easily proved, to render it safe or prudent to attempt their denial. We have, then, the allegation which it is usual to give in such circumstances, and the untruth of which there are no means of proving. The hypocritical pretence now set up is, that the girl has gone to France "of her own free will," and had obtained a situation there. If this most holy mother, and the veracious sisters, who are bound to obey her in all things, are to be believed, neither she, nor any one else in the convent, has had any control over this young girl, nor had they the custody of the child at the time of her departure for France. There are people of enormous faith, who wonld deem it a mortal sin to question the truth of anything which a "Reverend Mother" may find it politic to utter in defence of herself and her nunnery. We think, however, that there are others who will find it impracticable to swallow the wholesale dose presented in the statement now before us. It should be remembered that on one of the last interviews between Mary Ann King and her mother, the child "expressed her dislike to go abroad, and appeared pleased when she heard that she was to be at the convent only six months longer." The Learned Judge before whom this allegation has been judge ma made, has expressed himself satisfied with the defence given by the "Reverend Mother" and her assistants. We must confess that we have no such satisfaction with this defence. We have here precisely the answer which it is usual to give under such gown. 379 hoy con fessors of circumstances, and which any one may have anticipated who is at all aware of the practice in the Romish Church of inveigling young people, shutting them up in convents, and cutting for ever the tie that had bound them to their relations and friends. The good people who have now to lament over the removal The pious of their daughter, may have sufficient confidence in the veracity viis and of the "Reverend Mother," and the pious virgins and holy confessors around her, to believe that their daughter was wayward, and wilful enough to abandon them and go off to France, St. George's instead of returning to their home, according to her own anxious wish. If they have such a belief, they must have strange credulity indeed, but we do not think that credulity will be shared with them by half a dozen sober-minded people in England. It is true that the writ appears to have compelled the keepers of the place to give information respecting the girl, which the applicants could not procure before the serving; and, so far, the law has not been quite a dead letter. But there can be little doubt that the whole of the story is not laid before the public. Generally speaking, the law of England is a complete blank, in regard to these prisons, where every precaution that guile, covetousness, and cruelty can devise, is taken to conceal the immured from the knowledge of their relations and friends. They are locked up, and never permitted to go outside the gate, without the licence of a bishop; they pass under false names within the houses; and when they die, no one out of the house knows the manner of the deaths, or the nature of the disease, For slight offences they undergo disgusting and humiliating punishments; for more grave faults they suffer the lash, with their mouths gagged, and are imprisoned in underground rooms, without light or a fire. Miss Henrietta Griffiths was confined in a darkened closet, in the Norwood Nunnery, without a bed, Under these false names, it is a common practice to transport nuns to foreign countries, where cruelty can be put in force, with even less fear of detection and punishment than in England. The law is rendered perfectly nugatory by these artifices for ensuring secrecy. If Mary Ann King had died in a prison, a workhouse, a hospital, or any other public institution, her friends would have had the satisfaction of an inquest into the causes of her death: but owing to the remissness of the Legislature in the case of nunneries, if she had been murdered, neither her friends nor the public would ever have learned the Norwood couvent and Churel. Nummeries eiving bases for exported to alias re girls, until the Con tinent. Disgusting and lami ating prae tices in the Papistical England. seraglios of |