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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4368, 3 January 1883, Page 2

The Salt Lake Tribune publishes a letter from G. & . Tucker, an English gentleman from New South Wales, giving-a. description of his visit to the Utah insane asylum near there, which is in charge of Dr "Seymour Young, nephew of Brigham Young, and three Mormon comniissytdsrs. Mr Tucker says he found 9 feists and 12 male patients, who were in the%ost filthy condition imaginable.; Soraa were in iron ca^es outside the main buildine; others in irons, bound hand and foot; • Of these patients two were perfectly sane, and have no idea why they are confined. One of • these sane persons fa a man named Sher-. man, who has been confined ten years. He was robbed of his wife by a Mormon poly, garaist, and has been confined in the place ever since. He is in one of the iron cages in the yard. The inmates of the institution are punished with a club and strap. Mr Tucker says:—" I have during the last four months visited four asylums in Hew South Wales, three in Victoria, two in, Adelaide, two in Tasmania, (wo in New Zealand, one in Honolulu, three in. California, one in Nevada,, and one in Utah and in no instance have I seen sights so horrible as those of to-day." ', John Taylor, the head of the Mormon = Church, has had another revelation, which is to the effect that those of the brethren who hold Church offices of high or low degree and have not obeyed the celestial order, must now go into polygamy or co out of the Church. They hare their choice of the penitentiary or the wrath of of Bogs Taylor, and there is a flatter consequently among the brethren