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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 72, 5 December 1855, Page 1

[From the Gfoventinefit G6zettf.(Pxonbce of Nelson), December 3,"-1&58.] .. ' ' • r ... PROCLAMATION., r 1 By His Honor Edward William Stafford, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, in ' tbo Islands of New Zealand, &c, &c. TI7HEREAS, by an Act of the ImperSi-. *▼ Parliament, passed in the Sessioa holden in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap. 72, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of. '.NewZealand," it is enacted that itfthaH be lawfcl for the Superintendent of any Province established by the said Act, by proclamation in the Government Gazette, to fix such place or places within the limits of , the Province, and such times for holding any Session of tjie Provincial Council as he may think fit, and from time to time, in manner aforesaid, to alte> and vary such times and places as he may juclge advisable and most consistent with general convenience : • . Now therefore I, the Superintendent of Nelson, in pursuance of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby proclaim and appoint that the Provincial Council of Nelson shall meet at the Council Chamber, Nelson, on Monday, the Twenty-third day of January next, at One o'clock, p:m. Given under my hand, and issued under the Seal of the Province, at Nelson, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. E. W. STAFFORD, Superintendent. By his Honor's command, , " ' Henry Adams, . ' • * Provincial Solicitor. - ;.' v God save the Queen !'** Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, December 3, 1855. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for general information, that a Writ for the election of a Member 6f the Provincial Council for the undermentioned District in the Province of Nelson, having been issued in accordance with the provisions of an Act of thelmperial Parliament, intituled "An Act to grant a- Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," and of an Ordinance of the Superiatendse* «nd Pro* vincial Council of the said Province, intituled "An Ordinance to. increase the Number of Members of the Provincial Council, 'and to alter the Electoral Districts oi*, the Province of Nelson, Session 11., No. 7," the Returning Officer for the said District "has returned 'the said Writ, with a certificate to the effect that the undermentioned gentleman hqg been duly elected to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the said District,, viz. t — For the District of Jniuri — George Leslie. Lee, of Highfield. By his Honor's command, S. L. Mvller, Provincial Secretary. The Mobmoks and theib Wiveb.— The Cleveland Serald, an American journal, has recently published some letters from Salt Lake, exposing flic tyrannous conduct of the Mormons over their wives, and, moreover, showing the depraved condition of the eect. Everything ia in connision, and the Women, instead of loving their lords, would make their escape to California or the States, if they were not hemmed in by desert plains on every Bide. One letter, dated February 25, says: — "I detailed fa you in previous letters the debased condition of the women of tTtab. The Mormons, after their passions (or, as they will call it, their holy desire to people the earth), aye gratified, seldom pretend to support thsir ntttaferorfc. wives. Brigham Young declared last conference, Aat he did not know how many wives he had. * Tdß th« Gentiles,' said he, * I d^ not know half of them whfa I see thjem/ The majority of these poor women are compelled to work for their daily bread, and many are in such a destitute condition, that they axe forced to seek the charity of strangers. It is an actual fiwfc that one of the wives of the Chief of its. Apdetfes gains her livlihood by washipg /or the boarders of a public-house in town. Indeed, it is nothing uncommon for these lords of creation to tend th^r wives out in canoes for wood, and any day you see women chopping logß and driving" cattle" Jo the mountains. Subjected to a slavery worae than oan, be realized in the south, turned into prostitute* and ooncubines against their will, denied even woman's .duet' prerogative — the use. of her tongue, there ore now, hundreds of females who only await the opportunity to abandon for ever a life that so iU befits 4he proud, spirit of American womanhood. It was but yestewlsy that a widow with her. daughters ealkd upon me, and after asking me to lock the door of- my room fo* fear she Bhould be surprised in tbfi house of a Gteatik, unfolded her story of bitter" vii onge aad iufferines' The bishop of her, ward had demanded &ar whole family, including herself, in marriage. She W given up all she had for tithes and other taxes, fcndwaahow in the dilemma of eithej Starving-or being compelhH to share an incestuous bed with the daughters of her own body. • With tears in her eve«, she prayed me to afford her tha mesas 'of going to. Califbriua in the "Pfipg- These cases^ ootfu* -evfiy day~-ineleed the spirit of dissatisfaction is universal. I have "never conversed with a ediiUrj woman who wae diecontented with her situation and preipeote. Tlhb speaaiß more than all the ingttuQtu arguments in favour of polygamy, and demonstrate! Uiat the practical working of the 'plurality BVBtem' is aove»e to lomeatic love and Happiness." HAr* would bo A gnat field for your strong-minded women. H a ftw ! Bloomers and fast yeuag ladiee Would go but to Vto&i and raise the cry of " virtue and iAdmendanM " in the valley of the mountaiae, ti*e. wfioie M«rmon female community would 'rise in a mad ttrfdlhake off the shackles that bind them. But there is 00 one I there to lead them on. The fear of feting cut oSftom tho Church, and of being " sent to «t«nutl hell across lots," as Brigham classically exptttaeil it, deter* them from such a course, and iht desert plains that hem them in on every sicte prevent them from alfrpiag secretly away to California, or the Stato). ' titan J*w become a huge brothel, and the indeeeoMaat dauj and hourly committed,' ufider tho cloak of religion, sanctified by Brigham Young and hi* diwipleg, at* sufficient to overturn morality, «ap the fo*jnaftti**i of virtue, and • destroy every vestige of domeitu happiness. • .