A Roseate View Of Polygamy

lho byracuse Courier guáranteos the authtmtioity uf the fiattering picture; of domestio bliss öonfeiined in tho following lotför. It was written by a Morinon lady to a fiiund resi ding near Syracuse : My Dear Marttia : You know I have never written to you since I camo here to the land of Prouuse and joined tho Alorinon faith. You kuow we used to talk about .Toe Smith and his twonty wives, and what a terrible wicked thing it was tor a man to have eo many wives, and that all such women ought to bu put to death, and we wondorod how they could eyer agree to live together and all that. Now l will teil you some of my experienco. You know I went with a company of sixtecn, sonio from New York State, sorae from Connecticut, and two from New Hampshire, and when we got heru a great parade was mrïde over us. We wcro taken into the tabernaelo whero our spiritual Lord and marter made a fine prayer and speoch to us, givinghisthanks tor coming so long a distanco to be with them and enjoy the only true religión and happinoss. The next day I was married to my husband, who is a farmer, is as fine a man as you ever did see ; he is noble and .generous ; ho had then only six wives, I beoame the seventh ; ho has married two more since, and wo are all glad he did, it is so ploasant whon wo all get together and teil each other of our tonner experienco before we camo here ; how we used to think it a mortal sin for a man to have moro than oue wife, and all such foolish nonsense. Onr dear husband often laughs at us wheu we teil hún of the silly notions we had in our younger days. Our husband is ono of the kindest mun ; if any one of us want any money all wo have to do is to ask him for it, and tho horses and the carriage are always ready to take us wherever we wish to go. We havo thirty-seven children altogether; only threo are mine, and most of th?m are old enough to go to school. I teil you it is mighty ploasant to see them all in the play-ground together enjoying themselves hugely, and their father in their midst as happy as any of them. I teil you ho is as nice a man as ever lived. Ho says he is going to have all the boys learn a good trade or profession (we have only nineteen boys), and we must learn the girls to work, so they will be useful wlien they become wives. I teil you, Martha, we havo no old maids in this country, no illegitimate childron, no abortions, no coronor's inquests over little babos at overy half mile along the line of the canals, as you have in your country. There are no houses of ill-famo in our country. In short, my dear Ylartha, we aro a happy and prosperous poople, and we enjoy life in a proper and Christian-liko manner. I would sign my full name, which I am proud of, but husband says I had better ■iign my original maideñ name, as this letter is going to a land of unbelievers. So adieu. CLABA. P. S. - I will writo you again before long, but husband s.'iys I must not urgo you to come here ; if you come, you must do so voluntarily.