correspondence effrom the NEW YORK march 2 1856 1836 PRESIDENT T taylor S dear sir thinking I 1 a brief sketch of or my mission to europe might not be uninteresting to you I 1 embrace the opportunity which a belv few moments leisure afford me of writing when set apart for my mission you laid your hands upon my head in connection with other hi highly esteemed brethren blessed me and predicted I 1 should have li ve health and astren strength I 1 th to accomplish the task assigned return rejoicing in the fruits of my labor I 1 am happy to testify that your words have been blen fulfilled and cind I 1 gratefully thank god yourself the presidency predl dency of the tire church and all my mv brethren I 1 left my much beloved belivea mountain home for europe oa on the march 1854 1834 in company with president F D richards elders G D grant J A kounz william G young J A little edmund ellsworth we crossed the plains with the late judge I 1 L read elders kesler halliday and levi steward we tra 1 meled ry by the mormon mail as far as fort laramie we expected to find relays rela reia s en route but the w olves wolves and severe sev sei ere winter had destroy ed them notwithstanding this rough snowy and stormy w eather weather likewise we had an expeditious and agreeable journey from fort laramie to the tile states we had a change of weather r and circumstances we had frequent relays of grain fed f ed animals who were well whipped and loudly cursed by drivers whose con conduct was a disgrace to their race and with it all less expedition one day da which was so strikingly marked judge read after having sat pensively for some time raised his head and asked our com dany gany any wh why dont you pray to god to bless iese icse animals as you prayed for those possessed by the mormons cormons who brought us to laramie miel I 1 I 1 some one answered judge budge how can we ask alk god to bless thein them when their owners are cursing them every moment true true tnie 1 replied the judge but we are the majority let us pray at any rate for greater progress 1 we parted with his honor and the brethren who were on business to the states at st etlou louis we had bad many proofs of the judges attachment tach ment to us but the last is is worthy of mention notwithstanding lie he had been absent a considerable time from his family and home biome lie he paid them but a short visit and came to nev new york to see us before we started we visited the lion hon J 31 bernhisel at washington and procured passports for europe after biter visiting several eastern cities citie swe we left new york by lre ire the canada for europe in eleven days we landed in liverpool where we were cordially received by elder S IV richards president of the british churches by appointment I 1 left liverpool on the ath of june of the same year to labor in the pastorate of elder daniel T tyler ier ter elder T received and treated me with with the kindness of a father I 1 had scarcely gone through the conferences feren ces under his charme charge before he h was appointed to succeed eler elder eier T B 11 II stenhouse in the presidency of the swiss and italian missions I 1 was appointed to succeed him in the pastoral charge of the london kent reading in and essex essec conferences this change was unlocked booked for by both of us I 1 f felt feit elt eit as an elder once did who being similarly situated went woods to pray and said 10 0 lord I 1 have come here to do your will and you have 1 e promised to help me I 1 will do my best and if you dont help me ill be darned if I 1 dont go home I 1 witnessed the helping hand of the almighty and labored with much satisfaction the results I 1 leave for others to speak of I 1 had the honor of accompanying president F D richards last year on a tour tour through france switzerland italy and germany Ger miny in the latter place numbers were baptized and a church organized during our visit bein being released from my labors in the beginning of OF the vear year v ear I 1 left liverpool in in company with gen 13 D grant and arrived armed in in this place on the nit uit in the atlantic after a rough passage of 18 days da s 0 I 1 now report myself ready to execute your ajr orders in the kingdom of god and hope to make myself a useful spoke in in the great wheel I 1 remain yours c WILLIAM II 11 kimn KIMB from the 1 burlington MARCH 1 18 54 G TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORMON DEAR SIR you will see by the ablove alcove that I 1 am at burlington terminus of the railroad by which a portion one hundred and nineteen adults and a number of baarns bair ns of the mormon immigrant passengers per ship J J boyd have one exception arrived in safety I 1 left new york on saturday the uit one week ago today to today day dav for the west two days after the J J boyds company had le left f t forthe same destination by the new york and erie railroad by ilyf traveling on the express train I 1 overtook oer took the company at white pigeon after fettling settling up some arrearages arrea rages according to your instructions and making arrangements with capt peterson as to the course to be pursued in chicago in in separating the company ac I 1 a again gain took the express train arriving in 6 chicago the same evening 26 th owing to a heavy gale pale that came on from the north that evenin evening the snow was banked up along 0 the track to the depth of one or two feet preventing the immigrant train and two others from comi coming og in until they had fought through snow f for or about thirty six hours within eleven miles of chicago during the detention of tili th train one man jens johnson somewhat aged and infirm died and was buried ne near arthe the place on the the emi emigration gation gatlon train having arrived in the morning we separated the passengers and baggage ba gage some two hundred adults taking the cars for st louis with bro peterson and one hundred and eighteen for burlington which I 1 have placed in charge 0 of bro christian bro has been very efficient and assiduous in getting t places to make his countrymen an and brethren n comfortable andaas succeeded well weil v ell eil and I 1 think those who have come here will soon do well work is goin going tobe to be abundant here this spring sprin and these ape are are just the kind of men that can do 0 it they seem to have a natural aversion to idleness a constant desire to be actively engaged at something they are hale and robust 24 and if they the con continue t dinue 11 so are bound to make their zark lark mark a along OZ t hese these western prairies r a i somewhere if not hot all ail the way between pt the he mississippi river and nevada mountains of or california I 1 wish to refer briefly to the manner of treatment our people have received along the road on the whole it has been pretty good and in some instances better than could have been ex pecked taking into consideration the ihm prejudices ce of people generally with regard to mormons cormons and mormonism I 1 think my experience for foe the last year or two in the states will warrant my saying that there is nothing like the amount of prejudice now existing in the public igind towards that people that existed a few years ago notwithstanding g t their h e ar advocacy of that horrible old primitive doctrine of plurality of wives when the t train rain containing our people arrived it ct dunkirk 1 I was afterwards informed a circumstance occurred rather to disturb the equanimity of the danes just at the time but their anxiety soon subsided t X learned of mr correll corcell mr weeds railroad agent who was there present that the captain of a ship now lying at new york a nane dane hearing that his sister whom he had not seen sen for eighteen years had passed on to the west in this company from D denmark Din mark proceeded immediately to overtake her by taking the express train to dunkirk lie ile got there before his sister and made arran arrangements cements to take her forcibly from the tra inso so soon 0 11 as it should arrive tills mils he did I 1 am informed by those on the train irain very much against against her will by others however r have been t told kid pid old that so soon as sure it was her brother she was willin willing za to return with him to new york if the latter is correct and it was her free will and choice to go with her brother brot lier ller it is perfectly right that she should if however she bhe was forced to that alternative against her ber own will by an infatuated person though lie he may have been her brother and I 1 believe lie he was wag wai her friends in the company had good reason to be indignant I 1 nd ignant with the girl was taken also an ado adopted apted the girls parents the mother of the girl died oa on the ship valle crossing the sea I 1 called at mr burrs office in buffalo and received many attentions from him and all connected with the agency of the tile south shore railroad mr B vas mas was courteous and kind rendering me every information and assistance in the prosecution of my business I 1 am likewise under obligations to mr ritchie of the erie railroad for his interest and attention atteA tion while journeying from new york to buffalo mr darling bar superintendent of the st louis railroad at chicago and col hammond superintendent of the burlington railroad were equally attentive and I 1 am happy to inform you did everything to facilitate and render comfortable titis this emigration 1 I 1 shall leave for st SL louis via chicago on the ad instant from which place I 1 hope to communicate muni cate with you respectfully I 1 ALEX JR tim THE BRITISH NAVY A compilation mid modi from the official navy list just published shows a number amounting to ships and vessels of every eve denomination comprising the british fleet of f this force ships and vessels are in commission and employed in various ways as gun line of battle battie ships down to the 1 gun mort mortar aror jor gunboat and the steam yacht mounting no armament at all ten years ago we only had vessels as a grand grana total of all class in commission commission and nearly all those were sailing vessels now the character of the service is so thoroughly changed that nearly all are steamers and such few rely sailing gailin vessels as are yet doing duty are being set aside as fast as their terms of commission expire thus this week we have hare that noble three decker the neptune captain hutton button laid up in ordinary to make room for the more modern steam bulwark the marlborough and so the work of change will progress until a sailing man of war will v ill lii become as great a novelty elt eit y in the british cleel at was the steamer at the venture of the comet 5 it is estimated that we may count upon hav har ing this summer dummer s ummer available for the purposes of war 40 or more line ot of battle battie ships and heavy frigates of the right class upwards of 20 cor and heavily armed sloops and upwards of gun and mortar boats and batteries the baltic alone it is inferred will have a fleet of nearly pennants over steam and it is rumored that sir edmund lyons will be the grand commander in chief I 1 will strike the reader probably as curious that whereas at the close of hostilities in 1816 there were lieutenants on the navy list we have now when in the midst of another war but a total of 1976 of this number 1778 are represented aa as active on the active list iest fex rex ex SIMPLE BUTTER COOLER procure a large new flowerpot flower pot of a sufficient size to cover the butter plate and also a saucer large enough for the flower potto potato rest in it upside up side down place a trivet or meat stand such as is sent to the oven when a joint is baked in the saucer and put on this trivet the plate of butter now fill the saucer with water and turn the flowerpot flower pot over the butter so that its bottom edge will be below the water the hole in the flowerpot flower pot must be fitted with a cork the butter will then be in what we may call an airtight air tight chamber let the whole of the outside of the flowerpot flower pot be then thoroughly drenched with water and place it in a cool spot if this bedone over night the butter batter will be as firm as a rock at breakfast time or if placed there in the morning the butter will kill be quit guit ulta uita hard for use at tea hour the reason of this is that when water evaporates or dries up it produces cold the porous pot draws up the water which in warm weather quickly evaporates from the tile sides and thus cools it and as no warm air can now noi v get at the butter it becomes firm and cool coolin in the hottest da day y ex g I 1 wish you would not smoke ci cigars ars said saida a plump little black eyed girl to her lover i owhy chy may I 1 not smoke a as s well as your chimney n evl asked little e whiskers whisk ers erg because chimneys dont smoke when they are in good order