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Show "AN ACCUSED MORMON." Under this heading the Philadelphia Telegram, ol' Doeember Sth, publishes lengthy and ituere.-uirje extracL from a letter by a lady of adored ability and reputation ad a writer. YVettip apart, the preceding portion relating to the killing of Yates and giving an expression expres-sion of the horror and digut with which the fair writer had viewed Hick.- j mm, the murderer, on seeing him at j Camp Douglas: One feels at a disadvantage where a point of etiquette arisen that neither precedent uor the handbook of politeness polite-ness throws aDj light upon, and in this dilemma I found myself ou entering the parlor of the accused Mayor and perceiving myself in the presence of two of his wives. What eeemed very strange to me was evidently very natural to him, for he said, with the easiest air possible. "This is iuy wife ilannah, and this is my wife Mary," and the introduction was complete. Then ho sat down and two young children sprang upon his knees, ana were tenderly fondled by him while he talked to their mothers and me. Every one who writes about the ; Salt Ijake women says that they wear I saddened expressions and are generally I subdued and depressed in manner. I saw nothing of the kind; from the Lion house to the most miserable adobe hut j in (Jgden. Ereodomofspoechndedend-, Ereodomofspoechndedend-, ence of opinion, and intense zeal in their delusions characterized all the Mormon women I met. If polygamy be a galling bond, it is hugged by its wearers; they unite in despising the temporal discipline that it involves, on account of the great spiritual glory it gains them, and without exception declare themselves to be the only truly blessed and enfranchised daughters of ! Eve. : The husband of five of these zealous j and contented women denisd in his ap-i ap-i pearance the accusation of the blood-! blood-! stained Hickman before he opened his I lips to speak, lie is a tall, gaunt man, ! with large features and peculiarly de-: de-: feu live eyes. His hair is light and ! budhy, and his brows project, but the i lower part of his face holds the expres- sioi'ot the whole, which is one of min-! min-! gled humor and benevolence, and theue 1 two characteristics unite with a digni- tied bimplicily of bearing to give couie-' couie-' liness to an otherwise rugged exter-I exter-I 'or- He is a man ol great independence I of thought, and makes no attempt to conciliate opposite opinion; he is ac-i ac-i cused of murder, and ready to await tho issue of his trial, though evidently not sanguine as to the justice with which it will be conducted. He did not willingly allude to his own case, and his way ol' treating it seemed very like the soldier George's in Bleak Iiouse, under similar circumstances, evincing more curiosity as to what they would do next than anxiety ai to i his own fate. ! But on the subject of the Mormon '. faith he was more than eloquent, and I like an old Kabbi's lovo of the law, I his fervor grew and strengthened with i the progress of the theme. Erom the j dark days of Nauvoo till the expulsion from Missouri ho followed the little : band across the akaline deserts and over tlio snow-flecked mountains, in search ol' the land of promise that had , been revealed to their leaders by a vision, until, with graphic narration, i he brought them toiling up through immigration canon, which was their j Pitiguh from which they caught j their first view of the valley by tho ; lukc, where they built their city and found rest for a time from persecution, i He receives the late movement i against them as a people as a warning ' of their remissness, and an awakening j touch from the rod of Heaven's jus-' jus-' tice, that is serving its purpose by bringing them together in a better and closer spirit, with greater zeal and self-tacrifice self-tacrifice than they had shown before. In alluding to Gentile visitors, he particularized Miss Dickinson, who had been the recipient of some atten-j atten-j tiona from a prominent Mormon j brother, who desired to show her tho truth of Mormon life, and, who in return, re-turn, had the pleasure of hearing him- self denounced in her lecluro called ! "Whitened Sepulchres," which he, , being a traveling elder, dropped in j upon in several cities in the oast. Ho ! was apparently more amused at the i odd reward of his hospitable friend ( than annoyed at tho unploawint view ; taken by tho looturess, and it was plain that he bolicved it beucath the dignity of a misrepresented people to rebel or expostulate. A New York paper had that day arrived, which reported re-ported the arrest of a follow-cut-throat of his, under the head of "Apprehension "Apprehen-sion of Parley Canon," charged with murder. This amtt;p4 lum beyond measure, and he seemed to realize the absurdity of the convenient mountain gorge being so defamed and put in durance vile. He has twenty-five living oliildren; thercforo it was not remarkable that a fcy of them should stray into the room where we sat. Three pretty blondes found their way there whom I had seen at the theatre a few nights before heartily enjoying a play, the plot of which turned on the hero having hav-ing married twice, supposing himself a widower after his first nuptials. After Af-ter his second marriage, number one, who was believed to have been lost at sea, turns up, and distracts the wretched wretch-ed husband, who still mourned her loss, but was overwhelmed with agony on discovering her to' be alive, and recognizing his own trammelled state with another wife. The Mormons fol lowed the story, scene after sccno, with breathless interest, and iirigham's daughter, who perlbripod the part of the second wife, played as heart-rend-ingly as if she never had heard of a way for settling such Ijltle. difficulties. difficul-ties. At last, whou the audience could not bo expected to endure the suspense any longer, a yacht party is arranged, and number two goes off to enjoy a sail which providentially proves an upset, and so she is provided lor. "Ah!" said General Wells, drawing a long breath of reliefj "that was the only way ib could be managed. I almost al-most expected something of the kind;" and from this remark it seemed to mo that they did not consider their own peculiar faith applicable to dramatic purposes. Though not in tlio proselyting spirit, I found nim very ready to discourse of the singular religion ho prolcsses, and to explain its requirements to any inquirer, in-quirer, and this be does in a spirit of such simple faith and earnestness that to doubt the sincerity of the man's nature na-ture would be impossible. His wives behaved as if in perfect sympathy with each other, and spoke without restraint in his pretent. Indeed, In-deed, no ouo seeing him so very much surrounded by his household angels, and so entirely good-humored and companionable, could imagine him as a mnn likely to shed or cau.se to be shed a fellow-creature's blood. He docs not ;cem exciteablc enough for an enthusi-! enthusi-! a-t, and in no other impulse than that j ol' fanaticism could such an amiable uinn hayc counselled such a deed, I lie had seen the martyrs to his own ' faith who died in prison from the vio-I vio-I lence of aniob, but remembrance did ! not move him as it did John Taylor, j who carries a ball in his side as a me-I me-I mcnto of christian nora-irencs. , General Wells l.is soihing gloomy or ; rcvcnsri-iul in hi? nature, and while such j a man laughs cheerfully and loves h if I children dearly, not to mention his capacity in (be way of connubial affection, affec-tion, I rhall be ?!ow to beli-jve the story sto-ry oi' the Camp Douglas renegade, to whom a murder more or less, without caie, docn't amount to anything, and who, now that his career as a marksman marks-man is cloaL'd, is exercising his inyen- i tion as he used to do his tire-arms, by ! aiming it at any convenient object. |