Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities, embracing New York, Washington City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and New Orleans ... Illustrated with numerous engravings

Prologue

. WHY THE VEIL HAS BEEN UPLIFTED. The following pages, descriptive of five distinct phases in American civilization, have been prepared solely for purposes of enlightenment, which, it is my earnest hope, may be regarded in the light of wholesome revelation. While the descriptions are devoted to unmasking social evils, they are not prompted by pessimistical reflections, but rather to show the dark and ominous sides of national life, that the beauties of refinement aud purity may appear nobler by comparison. The rich are too often painted with colors which fawn ing sycophancy delights to use, and are made subjects for adulation even though their virtues be the bane of society. I have, therefore, sought to dispel illusions, and present pictures of vice which may serve a useful pur pose in estimating metropolitan life.

The labor involved in this work has not been altogether pleasant or agreeable to my better feelings. Recognizing the importance of faithfulness in my descriptions, and to familiarize myself thoroughly with the subjects treated, I visited personally the cities of New York, Washing ton City, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and New Orleans, and remained an appreciable length of time in each, studying the phases of their social life. No apology shall be offered for the language herein employed, for I have diligently striven to avoid pruriency by using chaste euphemisms when the subject was of offensive character. My motive is none other than a wish to enlighten the public upon matters which, if uni versally understood, would be a blessing to all humanity, by mitigating misery, restoring domestic and social con- YROLOGUE. fidence, and by keeping purs the morals of our youth.

In describing the hidden or secret vices of city life, I have tried to remove the seductive masks which sin as sumes and expose its hideous deformities. The pitfalls of depravity are on every side, how important then is the duty of those who know them, to erect sign-boards of warning that none may fall therein. " Siu is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen." It is the sentiment expressed in this popular couplet that has prompted and directed me in the preparation of this volume, and if I succeed in turning one soul from a dan gerous contemplation of alluring vices, or influence one to an honorable life, it will be a full measure of compen sation for this labor. I have to acknowledge obligations to J. M. Dorcy, Esq., New York's most noted detective, for services rendered me while visiting the Metropolis, and also to John Avon, Esq., a world-famous detective of San Francisco, who gave me such valuable assistance in my studies of Chinese life.

Mr. Avon was guide to President Hayes, and also to Gen. Grant and party, during their trips through Chi natown, and his knowledge of the imported Orientals causes his services to be sought by all distinguished peo ple visiting San Francisco. In Salt Lake I had the co operation of so many prominent Gentiles that it would be tedious and a needless sacrifice of space, to mention them individually. Washington City and New Orleans are familiar to me through repeated visits on journalistic missions. Whatever may be the omissions in this work, absolute reliance may be placed on the truth of every de scription and declaration it contains. With what success my self-allotted task has been performed, I leave for the judgment of my readers. J. W. B. St. Louis, April, CONTENTS. NEW YORK.

Chapter I. The Great Maelstrom Of Vice

PAGES. New York City. — First Impressions of a Visitor. — The Jostle and Jam of Broadway. — A Comparison between Men and Women. — Why so many Strangers fall into Meshes laid by Swindlers. — The Dangers to which Beautiful Women are exposed. — Why so many Women visit the Great Metropolis. — Harvesters and Gleaners of Unsophisticated Virtue. — Fidelity in Lustrous Garniture Floating in an Ocean of Monstrous Vice, 25—30

Chapter II. Clerical Parasites

The Anomalies of Social Life — Wine, Women and Cards — Following Ihe Edicts of Fashion — Female Dissipation in Club Rooms. — Licentiousness and Affluence Twin Sisters. — How Fortunes are Acquired. — The Components of Aristocratic Society. — Marriages and Funerals in High Life. — Ministerial Opportunities — Consoling Beautiful Widows. — Cultivating Illegitimate Pastures.— Why Ministers are always Exonorated after Plucking Forbidden Fruits. — Nature's Apology. — Following Patriarchal Example. — Salaries of Fashionable Ministers. — The Real Disciples of Christ. — Mission Women and Clergymen. — Who shall receive the Reward ? - - - - - 30—40

Chapter III. Concert Halls And Beer Gardens

Some Dangerous Quarters. — The Slung-Shot, Sand-Club and Knife. — Disposition of Murdered Men. — A Visit to the Concert Halls. — The Effects of Missionary Work. — Changes in Gotham. CONTENTS. —Kit Bums' Dog Pits.— Songs of Praise.—" Standing Treat." — Flag of our Union, with a smell of the Faderland. — Belmonico Hall and its Pretty Girls.— A Peculiar Set of Bar Maids.—Atlan tic Garden with a Female Band. — Owney Geogahean's Boxing Hall. — An Irishman's Introduction. — Whew, Smell his Breath. — A Market Place without an Owner. — Harry Hill's Theatre. — Stage Talent sans Beauty. — Forbidden dalliances, which Modesty Refuses to Describe. — Theo. Allen's Dive. — The Wickedest Man and his New Establishment. — " Black and Tan," or " Chemise and Drawers." — A Mixing of Colors. — Kissing his Partner. — The Cremorne Garden. — Seventy-five Pretty Barmaids. — A Talk with the Prettiest. — " Buy a Bottle of Wine and let's Drink it Privately," — The Old Story of a Broken Casket, 41—6I

Chapter IV

, PROSTITUTION. Prostitution Generally Considered. — Society Responsible. — An Example. — Wrecking a Beautiful Girl. — The Dreams of Youth. — A Hyperion Satyr. — The Lascivious Waltz. — Promise of Marriage.- — Only a Letter. — She Has Fainted. — Pity a Poor, Old Mother. — Wrecked and Deserted.— A Terrible Soliloquy. — Leaving Home. — The Jutting Cliff. — Thrown up by the Sea. — Will God Forgive her ? - 61—69

Chapter V. Prostitution Continued

Another Example. — A Wolf among New England Flocks. — A Little Maiden Dreaming at the Fireside. — Golden Visions. — Entrance of The Despoiler. — How he won her Love and Confidence. — Drawn to New York by Specious Promises. — The Mock Marriage. — Happy Days. — Love's Offering. — Desertion. — Alone in the Storm. — Drinking Bitter Dregs. — God help her bear this Burden. — Sinking by the Wayside. — Lifting her Eyes to Heaven. — At the Foot of the Cross. — Dead, but who shall Mourn. — A Poem. — Society to Blame. — Hugging a Serpent. — In Palaces of Sin. — Practices of Painted Harlots. — Traps for the Lustful. — A Tour of the Lowest Haunts. — Parlor Pictures. — At the Dance. — High Kickers. — The Art of Caressing. — Down among the Sewage. — Etchings from Life. — The Dead Bawd's Epitaph, - 6q gg CONTENTS. 5

Chapter VI. Assignation Houses

How the Secret Vice is Practiced.— Boarding House Advertisements. — How Country People are sometimes Deluded.— A Paul Pry. — Innocent Girls who seek cheap rooms. — Who they are liable to Encounter. — Assignation among the Rich — Precious Secrets. — Society Belles in Heavy Veils. — A Little Blackmail. — Down at Coney Island. — Detectives on the Hunt — Divorce. — A Moral for all, ...... gg — g .

Chapter VII. The Rich

New York the Financial Centre. — Concomitants of Wealth. — Its Millionaires. — Jay Gould's Domestic Life. —Out of Fashion's Whirl. — George Gould. — His Studiousness and Promise. — Vanderbilt's Delusions. — $50,000,000 in Government Bonds. — Are the Rich Happy ? — Routine Life among the Fashionable. — Amusements. — Punctilious Mannerisms. — The Fancy Dress Ball. — A Revelry of Silk Stockings and Intoxicated Heels. — Temptations. — Drunkenness. — Spirit Mediums and their Patrons. — Going to the Fortune-Teller. — All is vanity, 93—106

Chapter VIII. The Poor

A Contradistinction. — The Poverty Sink of America. — A Medley of Closely Packed Humanity. — The Italians and Chinese. — Impious Trade of the Padrones. — Shocking Brutality. — Street Musicians. — Scenes of Distress. — A Stroll through the Alleys. — Victims for the Potter's Field. — Buds of Beauty grdwing in Beds of Pollution. — A Sad Scene. — Taking Mother's Body to the Grave. — Alone in the World. — A Faithful Sister. — Out of Work. — Pictures of Agony. — Seeking Aid. — "Blessed are they that Moum." — Which of two Roads. — A Plunge into Oblivion. — Fished out of her Grave. — Dreadful Accident in Tenement Quarters. — Mangled Bodies. — New York's Charities. — What Have the Millionaires Done? — The Elevated Railway and the Blessings it confers, ------ 106 — CONTENTS. '37 '51 160

Chapter IX. Criminals And Cunning Frauds

Why New York has so many Criminals. — Division and Subdivision of Classes. — Burglars. — Pick-Pockets. — Confidence Men. — Scenes in the Tombs Police Court — Pictures Illuminated with Humor and Stained by Misery. — Society arraigned with Poverty. — Tricks of Swindlers. — Operations of Burglars. — Fleecing the Banks. — Visitor Brown taken in. — Visiting Tom Parker's Nephew. — Experience of a Rich Philadelphian, - - i 125-

Chapter X. Some Valuable Exposures

Baiting and Catching Gudgeons. — Panel Doors. — The Outraged Husband Game — Feasting Love under Difficulties. — Advertising Tricks. — An Exposure of the More Popular Ones. — Evading the Obscene Literature Law. — Lotteries. — The Manner in which Pick-Pockets Work. — Description of the Instruments they use. — Shoplifters and their Practices. — Confidence Games. —A Safe Bet. — Tricks Exposed. — The Gold Ring and Thimbles. — Conclusion, - - - - - . 1 137 WASHINGTON CITY.

Chapter I. Sacred Memories And Homelv Facts

The Grand Conception of Republicanism — Hallowed Associations — Bulwarks of National Security — Magnificent Architecture — Reluctant to Lift the Veil — Exaggerated Ideas of Congressmen — A Picture of Bucholic Simplicity — Pumpkin Pies, Babies and Cross-Roads Whiskey — Factors in a Successful Canvass — Romancing — How Congressmen Appear in Fact — Elections in City and Country — Whooping Up the Boys — Packing Conventions — Meteoric Flashes of Genius — English and American Politics — Who Receive Appointments — Roads that lead to Oblivion, - 153. CONTENTS. 7

Chapter II. Peculiarities Of Washington Society

New York and Washington Compared — Summer and Winter — Peccadillos and Punctillios — A Feast of Sensuality — The Plenipotentiary's Reception — How a Fashionable Party is Conducted — Pictures of the Participants — A Venerable Senator's Mash — Circe in the Role of a Railroad Lobbyist — Her Career — Another Beautiful Adventuress — A Bachelor Foreign Minister and his Daughter — His Opportunities — Wine and License after Midnight — Cause and Effect, ..... i60 — 165

Chapter III. Office-seekers

— WASHINGTON SCANDALS. The Mad Rush of Applicants — An Army of Women — Selling Character for Clerkships — 10,000 Beautiful Women — Sly Winks behind a Wire Screen — Lifting the Veil — A Terrible Drama of Sensuality — Assignation Houses — Who Patronize Them — A Lustful Old Senator — Two Gentlemen who lived off the Fat of Washington Belles — A Pretty Postal Clerk and her Amorous Chief — The Ruin Wrought by a Spanish Diplomat — Sending Their Daughter Abroad for her Health — A Cabinet Officer's Wife and a Presidential Aspirant — The Conquests of a Caloric M. C. — Grazing in Green Pastures — Tackling a Beauty — An Earthquake at Welcker's — Trying to Captivate vi et armis - 165 — 175

Chapter IV. Washington Scandals

— CONTINUED The " Cattery " — An Assignation Room in the Capitol — A Singular Case — A Kentucky Congressman and his Concubine — Gen. Breckenridge's Mysterious Note — A Mother and her Illegitimate Son —The Chivalrous Part taken by Gen. B. — A Bright Voung Lawyer — The Ladies' Audience Chamber — How Flashily Dressed Chert Amis view the Senate Sittings — Stolen Sweets — A Case in Point, ...... 176—182

Chapter V. Washington

SCANDALS— CONTINUED. Changes Produced by "the War — A S'ory Beginning with President Lincoln's Cabinet — The Beautiful Daughter of one of his Sec- CONTENTS. retaries — How she Ruled Washington Society — Youthful Adven ture — Marriage to a Rich Bachelor — Return to Washington — Forgetting Marriage Vows — Intrigues with a Popular Senator — Private Seances at Wormley's — A Senatorial Methuselah and an Ambitious Cleopatra — Smilax and Myrtle — Serious Charges of Unfaithfulness — Was the Wife Guilty ? — Suit for Divorce — Run ning through the Streets of Washington Dishabille — A Pathetic Sequel, ..... - 182—190

Chapter VI. Washington

SCANDALS— CONTINUED. A Service Officer and his Pretty Treasury Girl — Distilling Precious Sweets — Wanting More Room — Construction of a Private Palace for his Young Mistress — Rare Revels in Rich Pastures — The Discovery — An Outraged Wife shows her Mettle — Raiding the Voluptuaries — The Officer Arrested for Embezzling Government Funds — Another Public Functionary in Trouble — How he Found a Pretty Girl who didn't Object — How his Wife entered Protest — A Cowhiding on the Public Street — A Lecherous Governor — Pardoning a Condemned Husband for the Sacrifice of a Wife's Honor — Getting Even — Infecting the Infamous Executive — A Horrible Death, ...... jgo — jg<j

Chapter VII. Corruption And Debauchment

Frauds in Office — Greed and Lust Inseparable — Power of the Lobby — The Curse of Party — Burdens which Popular Suffrage Imposes — Why so few Honest Men are in Office — A Notable Illustration — Making $15,000,000 in Fifteen Years — Influences to which Congressmen are Subjected — Female Lobbyists — How Charges of Bribery are Evaded — Gambling for a Stake already Won — The Efficacy in a Piece of Fresh Crinoline — An Old Legislator's Visit to a Beautiful Lobbyist — Preparing for a Mash — In a Bed of Aromatic Clover — Pulling Down the Blinds — Sweet Coddling over a New Measure — How the Old Lothario's Support was obtained, - - - - . 200 — 206

Chapter VIII. Fraudulent Measures And Gambling Practices

Other Schemes for Bribing Legislators — Credit Mobilier — Arrears of ons PensionsBill — $300,000,000 Filched from the National Treasury CONTENTS. 9 .—How the Bill became a Law — How it is made the Vehicle of Fraud — Gambling Customs — Playing Poker on Government Money— A New Science in Book-keeping — Employes Ruined by Cards — A Melancholy Incident — Discharge and Ruin — Courting his Wife — Calling upon God for Pardon — Shooting his Wife and Killing Himself — A Touching Letter, ... 207 — 216

Chapter IX. Society Divertisements

How Washington People Amuse Themselves — Ministerial Receptions — Two Ministers in Disgrace — Ladies in Fencing Matches — Private Theatricals — The Production of Adam and Eve — How to Dress the Characters — A Beautiful Virginia Belle and her Lover — In Corselet and Bodice — Taking a Cue from John the Baptist — An Unfottunate Accident — Losing his Covering be - fore a Select Audience — Jumping Through a Screen — Modesty Terribly Shocked — Why his Fiance went Back on Him — Private Wine Suppers — Where and How they are Given — Manicures and Artistic Eye Painters — Why Congressmen never bring their Wives to Washington — A Word Personal in Conclusion, - 216 — 227 SAN FRANCISCO.

Chapter I. Discovery And Early Settlement

The Interest that attaches to Stories of '49; — History of California — Early Discoveries — Voyage of Commodore Wilkes — Fremont's Overland Journey — Settlement of Yerba Buena, now San Francisco — Arrival of Mormons — The First Ship — Accidental Dis covery of Gold — The Metal pronounced nothing but a Pyrite — A Second Discovery — The Excitement that Followed — Everybody in a Delirium— Infecting the World — How the News affected Congress — Europe, Asia, Australia and South America Wild with Eagerness — The Advent of Chinese — Some of John's Peculiarities, ....... 229 — CONTENTS.

Chapter II. The Days Of

'49. Metamorphosis of Coloma Valley — New Discoveries — Gold, Gold, Everywhere — Thousands of Sails Bent towards California — Landing of the First Steamer — Opening the Floodgates of Population — Mudscows worth more than Ships — A Jumble and Babel — Stuck in the Mud — Weighing Gold on Steelyards — Ships Abandoned — Going up the Sacramento in Dug-Outs — Humorous Scenes — Romancing on Fabulous Finds — Eggs Fifty Dollars per Dozen, and Cathartic Pills Ten Dollars Each — Indians coming in for Some of the Profits — Rioting and Bursting Up, - - : 237—249

Chapter III. The Most Exciting Times

San Francisco in her Glory — Wild Speculation — Lots Jumping from $1,000 to $20,000 in a Day — A Comedy of Paradoxes — Rent of Houses — A Fortune fora Shanty — Hoodlums in the Ascendancy . — Murder and Robbery in the Streets — Pioneer Women — Bull and Bear Fights — Gambling — $20,000 on a Card — The First Vigilantes — How they Purified the City- — The Second Reign of Terror — Vigilantes Organize for Another Campaign — Swift Justice — Assassination in the Streets — Dreadful Excitement — Lynch Law — Conflict with U. S. Authorities — Capture of Government Arms — Committee of 601, ----- 249 — 268

Chapter IV. Social And Commercial Peculiarities Of The Chinese

The Unnaturalized Chinaman — How China Opened her Doors to English Cannons — The Magic Effect of Gold — Love of Native Land — Eternal Allegiance to Chinese Sovereignty — Superstitions — Metes and Bounds of Chinatown — A Stroll through Alleyways in Chinese Quarters — Singular Sights — Ki-lo — Confucian Disciples selling Priestly Blessed Amulets — How Chinese Advertise their Occupation — Some Mysterious Packages — Decorating for Festival Occasions — Fortune Telling by the "Eight Diagrams," 268 — 275

Chapter V. Chinese Prostitution And Opium Smoking

A Stroll through Underground Chinatown — Singular Ceremonies to Keep out Evil Spirits — Visiting the Brothel 1 louses — Absence CONTENTS. 11 of Modesty — Configurations of a Chinese Woman — Legality of Prostitution in China — No loss of Caste on account of its Practice — Only Five Virtuous Women in Two Thousand — How Chinese Women are Enslaved — Importation for Immoral Purposes — Description of a By-Court — Through an Underground Passage — Visit to a Thieves' Den — Horrible Fantasies — Catching our Pis tols — Pestilential Quarters — A Dreadful Hive — Sights and Description of an Aristocratic Opium Den — White Men and Women Behind the Pipe — How Opium is Smoked — DeQuincy's Letters — Grant's Visit to the Opium Dives, - - - - 27s) — 285

Chapter VI. Chinese Theatres And Religious Worship

Love of Amusement — Absurdities of Chinese Theatres — Their Construction and Interior Arrangement — Chinese Musicians and their Instruments — Old Dan Tucker and Rye Straw — Chinese Singing — Make-up of the Star — Killing a Chinaman on the Stage — A Corpse acting as Pail-Bearer — Plenty of Fun — An Interminable and Incessant Orchestra — Music by the Hundred Feet — A Theatre Property-Room — John Chinaman's Religion — Metaphysical Character of his Ethics — Doctrines taught by Confucius and Mencius — The Three Leading Sects — Description of a Joss House — Roman Oracles and Chinese Spiritualism — Utilizing the Gods —Are the Chinese essentially Religious? — H jw Images are used to Determine the Future — Confucius, Living or Dead, Equally Potential, ...... 287 — 302

Chapter VII. Social, Business And General Characteristics

Some of the Thousand Singular Ceremonies — Betiothal, Marriage, Divorce, Death and Superstition — Distinction between the Rich and Poor — Intellectual Training — Chinese Schools — Why Women are not Taught — Branches of Instruction — Chinese Restaurants — Description ofan Aristocratic Dinner — The Poor, Middle Class, and Wealthy — A Translation of the Bill-of-Fare — Seven Courses at Dinner — The Author's Experience — Chop- Sticks versus Knives and Forks — A Strong Prejudice against Beef — The Chinese Hades full of Butchers — Punishment provided for those who kill Beeves and Buffaloes — A Post Prandial Smoke, ....--. 302—310 CONTENTS.

Chapter VIII. The Tonsure And The Six Companies

The Chinaman's Pig Tail — A History of the Singular Fashion — A Badge of Servitude — Death Penalty for Wearing the Hair like Other Nations — The Tonsorial Artist in America — How a Customer is Shaved — Two Hours without a Back Rest — Cleaning his Ears — John Chinaman as a Monopolist — How he Controls the HogTrade — The Six Companies, or Highbinders — Full History of the Organization — Quintye's Rebellion — A Nihilistic Order — Their Utopian Ideas — Horrible Initiatory Ceremonies — Bloody Daggers and Molten Metal— Scaring the Heart out of a Candidate — How the Funds are Secured — Six Directors with Six Keys, -..---- 310—320

Chapter IX. The Six Companies' Memorial

Natural Cunning of the Chinese — Their Want of Advantages— The Labor Question Considered — Subsisting on Rats and Dogs — Why White Laborers cannot Compete — The Law of Self- Preservation — Pacific Coast Agitation — The Six Companies' Memorial — Shrewd Diplomacy — A Wonderful Document — Chinese Answers to all Opposition — Efforts to Modify the Burlingame Treaty — A New Bill Before Congress, ... — 326

Chapter X. Funeral Ceremonies

Disposition of the Poor — Shipping the Bones to China — Reasons Why Chinamen must finally be buried in their Own Country — An Edict against Naturalization- — Death Penalty for Violation — Bidding Farewell to the Deceased — Lighting the Spirit's Way — Giving Food to the Dead — Turning the Bridge-Ladder — Services Performed by Relatives — A Chair for the Dead to Sit In — How the Spirit is Carried to the Hereafter — Dressing the Corpse- — Placing the Body in a Coffin — Making a Rag Doll to Represent the Deceased — Keeping Watch beside the Body — Chinese Graveyard near Lone Mountain- — Giving John a Good Send-Off — Setting up a Circus— Dining off the Food Prepared for the Dead — Dispersion, -----. 327 -ivj

Chapter XI. The Beauties Of San Francisco

Delicious Climate of California — Cosmopolitan Character of San Francisco — Beautiful Women — Their Perfect Development— CONTENTS. 13 •343 •354 360 The Cable Railroad — Aristocratic Residences on Nob Hill — Montgomery Street and the Speculators — Kearney Street and its Lovely Promenaders — Woodward's Garden — San Francisco Harbor — Abundance of Game — The City's New Park— Elegant Drives — ClifOHouse View — A Thousand Sea Lions — Diving One Hundred Feet — The Golden Gate and its Beauties — A Stroll on the Beach — San Francisco the Future Summer Resort, - ; 337- SALT LAKE CITY-POLYGAMY. CHAPTER HISTORY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. The Singular Phases of Religion — The True Standard of Righteousness — Consideration of Mormonism — Joseph Smith — His Youth and Surroundings — Divination and Exorcism — Finding the Seer- Stone — His Conversion — Visited by Angels — Transported to Heaven — Revelations from God — Supernaturally endowed with Prophecy — The Golden Plates — An Angel delivers the History — Urim and Thummim — Regarded as an Imposter — Bearing Testimony to the Revelations — A Scribe Engaged — Testing Smith's Honesty — Miraculous Virtues in the Manuscript — Synopsis of the Book of Mormon, - - - 345-

CHAPTER II. AUTHENTICITY OF SMITH'S WORKS

— SENSUAL MOTIVES. The Real Author of the Book of Mormon — Solomon Spaulding's Writings — His Idealism and Religious Prejudices — Chapter 8 of the Book of Mormon — Churches Decried — Stiff-necked and Abominable — A Paid Ministry — Evils of a Priesthood — How Joe Smith stole Spaulding's Manuscript — Josiah Spaulding's Testimony — Ignorance betrayed in the Writings — Establishment of the Mormon Church — First High Priests — Joe Smith Arrested for Theft — Building a Church in Ohio — The Tree bearing its First Fruits — A Monstrously Lacivious Ceremony — Subordinating Lust of the Flesh to Righteousness, ... 354. CONTENTS.

CHAPTER III. EARLY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH.

Sidney Rigdon's Exhortations — Orson Pratt's Cunning Device — Gabriel's Trumpet — Blowing a Blast for Pratt's Benefit — How Gabriel was Caught in a Wood-Pile — " Let go of my Horn " — Joe Smith delivers another Revelation — Removal to Jackson County, Missouri — Joe Smith and Rigdon Tarred and Feathered — Indiscretion brings on a Conflict — A Fight — The Cholera Plague— Smith and Rigdon as Bankers — Charged with Unlawful Appropriation — Sending Missionaries to England — More Fighting in Missouri — Mormons driven from the State — Founding of Nauvoo— Prosperity of the Church in 1840, - . - 361 — 367

CHAPTER IV. CHURCH PROGRESS, OBSCENITIES AND ASSASSINATIONS.

Brigham Young's Success — The Character of Nauvoo Converts — Mormon Political Power — Despoiling the Gentiles — Sealing Other Men's Wives — Establishment of the Endowment House — Joe Smith's Peep Hole — Bevies of Ladies in Undress — How Joe made his Selections — Adam and Eve in extreme Literalness — How the other Priests Thirsted and Yearned — Why Women were Compelled to have more than One Husband — A System of Concubinage* — Quotations from the Book of Mormon — Joe Smith a Candidate for President — Outrages and Assassination — Smith's efforts to Seal to Himself a Member's wife — Military Uprising — Opposing Lawful Authority — Arrest of Joe Smith — Assassination of Joe and Hyrum Smith by a Mob—Dreadful Excitement, ....... 367 — 382

CHAPTER V. BITTER FIGHTING AND CHURCH DISSENSIONS.

Trouble Concerning the Succession — Birth of David Hyrum Smith — Candidates for the Presidency — Brigham Young Chosen — Renewal of Hostilities- — Danger on the Highway — Burning of Mormon Dwellings — Searching out a New Place for Zion- — Hegira of the Mormons — A March scarcely Equalled in History — Precipitate Flight causes Indescribable Sufferings — Going into Camp to escape Freezing — Brigham Young's Visit to Jordan Valley — Driving New Stakes — Decimation of the Morm on Ranks by Death and Apostasy — Subsisting on Wolves and Rab bits — Returning Prosperity — Destruction of the Nauvoo Temple byFire> 382—390 CONTENTS. 15

CHAPTER VI. FOUNDING OF SALT LAKE CITY

— MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. Planting the Stakes of Zion in Jordan's Valley — Progress of the Church — Arrogance again following Prosperity — Brigham Young's Bad Counsels — The Church in Conflict with the Government — An Armed Mob compels a Federal Judge to Abdicate — War Declared — The Murderous Danites — Highways Gorged with Murdered Emigrants — Mountain Meadows Massacre — The Most Horrible Crime ever recorded in American History — One Hundred and Thirty unarmed Men, Women and Children shot down — Nemesis on the Trail — Blood Crying from the Ground, 390 — 406

CHAPTER VII. MORMON INDUSTRY AND THE NEW REVELATION.

Conviction and Execution of John D. Lee — Marvellous Industry of the Mormons — Rising Phœnix like from their Ruins — Extracting Piosperity from Adversity — Wonderful Success in the Jordan Desert — Their Great Buildings — How they were built and at what Cost — Environing the Institutions with Strong Walls — An $8,000,000 Temple — Brigham Young Revises the Church Creed — How Polygamy was made an Ordinance — Plundering Joe Smith's Cupboard — A Summary of the Revelation concerning Plural Marriages — Reception of the New Law — Changing the Endowment Ceremonies — Hiding Nakedness with something more than Fig-leaves, ..... 407 — 415

CHAPTER VIII. ENDOWMENT HOUSE CEREMONIES.

A Young Girl's Interesting Story — How she was Induced to Leave England and Marry a Mormon — Her Husband Espouses Three Wives in One Day — A Domestic Rebellion — Refusing to occupy a Marital Bed — Outraging his own Wife — Going through the Endowment Ceremonies — Sending her Husband to the Penitentiary — Adam and Eve — How the Devil got in his Work — A Denominational Symposium — Selecting a name for Judgment Day —Terrible Oaths — Secret Grips of Mormonism— A Wife's Perpetual Subserviency to her Husband — The Gate-way to Heaven, ....---- 415 — 438

CHAPTER IX. PROMISCUOUS POLYGAMY

— HORRIBLE SENSUALITY AND BLOOD-ATONEMENT. How Brigham Young enjoyed Polygamy — Making Joe Smith Responsible for it — Endowment House Oaths — Woman's Subjec- CONTENTS. tion — Living by Husbands' Permission — How Wives are forced to accept Polygamy — Schisms in the Church — Dreadful Sensu ality — Wives at Twelve Years of Age — Fathers Bartering their Daughters — Marrying all the Female Members of a Family- Taking Sisters to Wife — Abraham and Lot's Examples — Excess Produces Disgust — Doctrinal Teachings on Polygamy — What Women must do to be Saved — How Women are Degraded — Universal Suffrage for Mormon Wives — What it Means — The Law against Bigamy a Dead Letter — How Women are Blood-Atoned — Murder for Apostasy Justified by the Church, 438 — 447

CHAPTER X. BLOOD-ATONEMENT

— TWO HORRIBLE INSTANCES. Brigham Young's Cohesive Forces — A Woman who Divulged Endowment House Secrets — Her Execution in the City Hall — Tongue Cut Out, Throat Cut, Body Disembowled and Dismembered — Another Story even More Revolting — Sufferings of a Fond Wife and Mother — To save her Sons she tells them Mormon Secrets— Her Husband a Prosecuting Witness — Taken into the Dark Pit — All Night in a Cellar Praying — Convicted and Sentenced to Death — The Ceremony of Blood Atonement — Stripped and Bound to a Table — Her Tongue Torn Out — Ripped up while yet Alive — Her Body Subjected to Horrible Mutilation — Her two Sons made Witnesses to the Cruel Deed — Tell ing the Story — A Lady who will Testify to the Facts — The Boys Murdered by Danites, ------ 447 — 458

CHAPTER XI. WHY WOMEN BECOME MORMONS

— PITIABLE STORIES OF THOSE IN POLYGAMY. Psychological Peculiarities of Women — Their Religious Fanaticism — Enduring all Suffering for the Faith — Mormonism the Religion of the Patriarchs — Mrs. Hunt's Experience in Polygamy — A Story of Miracles and Suffering — Outraging a Noble Wife — From an Eden of Love to a Hades of Misery — Taking the Second Wife — Persecution of the First Wife — Determined upon Suicide — Swallowing Laudanum — A Cry for Help — Saved by Inspiration — A Horrible Picture — Marrying a Second Wife while the first was in Confinement — Indescribable Sufferings, - 450 471