Show EXTRACTS I 1 from a letter from elder john oakley to president richards SAINT PETERS PL aers PORT guernsey channel Is dec ath 18 1853 53 j I 1 am here in what is called the french mis eions ars lamoreaux Lai Boreaux and taylor are on the island of jersey where I 1 left them at a few daya ago 0 o well veil and doing well I 1 can truly say that I 1 rejoice in their company and counsel they are I 1 in n verity verily men of god and seek the interest of his kingdom I 1 br lamoreux lamoreaux is preparing paring tp to go to belgium and lift the gospel standard there as there seems fit at present more liberty there than in france the emperor with his standing army together with the legions of jesuits and catholic priests at his bib comina command hd has well nigh put an end to the very shadow of religious liberty and I 1 might almost say liberty of any atay kind except to oo do evil but igno ignorant Tant ethemer ephem ep hemer erm he and his fellow absolutes know no better way tp to prop up their tottering thrones they feel that should they cease to oppress they in their turn would be oppressed they know nothing of the liberty aud and salvation the lord has decreed on the land island t choice above all land like the haughty king of prussia they in their I 1 ignorance 9 norance spurn from fram them the alz glad tidings 1 ilese these islands ire are the habitations of refugees from france and other nations also of pensioners aud and stipen diaries because of the cheap living duties being merely nominal the french refugees are living here in brotherhood spending their all and anxiously waiting the revolution revolutionary ag wheel to turn over we saw a few days after the ad of de dec those very priests whom the republic in 1848 enthusiastically asti cally consecrated give their blessing to the murderers while the blood of their victims streamed stae sta amed earned everywhere in paris and ass assist louis in the nation it is for such a purpose that the nation n is willing to ia clothe feed and maintain I 1 them they obey a foreign chief they receive from rome the watchword they hold the sword of bf which as it has so properly r op been said the handle is at rome an and the point everywhere Is it with a view to nurse such a dangerous dominion that the ecclesiastical ludge budget t is preserved ved what can be imagined i ned more anju unjust t mom ridiculous than to compel protestants to feed catholic priests by whom they are consigned to eternal damnation 7 let every one pay the minister of his own worship the russian war together with le the partial failure of crops in england and france lias has so i aided prices that the poor will suffer stiffer much this winter tims thug I 1 mens hearts fall fail them for fear looking for those things coming on the earth notwithstanding the opposition I 1 baptized one person last night but at ma making king converts here WM now is like th of grapes when the vintage is done these islands are something g li like keIthe the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every un clean and hateful b bird 1 and among man a large proportion of adulterous spirits this island annually produces tons tona of chicory out of chichis chis manufactured pure ground cof coffee feer the saints here are extremely anxious to emigrate but they them have not the wherewith only five on these islands can go this season with their own means the fierceness of the oppressor is great I 1 extracts a of a letter to governor young yog I 1 botn HEHN INDIAN MISSION deail quarters Ju aiters harmony june IS 1854 54 DEAR SIR eight of us started southward two week ago and 20 miles below this on ash creek or the upper rio virgin fo found und chief jokers To kers present home they were grubbing burning trees and clearing small patches of land of from one to three acres at the base of the moun mountains bains on the eastern side aide of the river we saw some corn two feet high some beaus beans potatoes squashes find and watermelons water melons they have made an araga irrigating canal round the base of the mountains in some places several feet deep and over ever half a mile in length cut without tools or implements save it be sticks ox or paddles resembling our axe bandies soil light and sandy two miles farther down wb found some ten acres of better soil that had been covered with corn in former years deserted I 1 supposed suppose for the want want of implements to take up the roots farther down on the rio virgin we found fouti dather other ups well peo peopled aut led here also they were cultivating the soil but were almost naked and destitute dasti tute of ploughs hs spades hoes ac twenty five miles farther south we struck the santa clari clara there is some good laud land cultivated here also some deserted and more unbroken we found three inhabited ups but the natives were at first much afraid of us we however did not leave them till fear gave way to confidence and love here were five acres of df good wheat all al headed and some of it ripe also cord corn be beans ac farther advanced advance than that first seen ripe rip gooseberries goose berries black white and red currants were aaita plenty lenty on op this stream tream fi about 7 miles up the santa clara clam we located out our central point the indians ians being more numerous and the land more extensively ten cultivated the crops of wheat are the besta have seen iu in these valleys valley sand nd much earlier than those north we traveled among those mountains and found the red men literally in eaves caves holes and dens of the earth also on tile the tops of almost inaccessible mountains We meandered the santa clara from its mouth to its source about 40 miles saw some indians camped with them unmolested and strove hard bard te learn their language IMPURE towards the head of th this is river rive r we met dolA Col Keeses train of goodhand good sand were informed that a good field lies before us on the muddy some 90 miles farther south andrest and west br Prat tand one of the brethren from here had bad been there their present salvation and the foundation for their exaltation will be much advanced by furnishing them tools and farming fanning implements and showing allowing them their use that they may produce enough for their sustenance and have a surplus to procure cloth doming lug they arg are very industrious and simple as child ren own but few guns and fewer horses many 0 of them in try trying t to hold upa up a gun would put it to the left shoulder with the lock d downwards they rejoiced much to hear that the big captain had told walker to quit stealing their squaws squads and children and still maro more when we told them we should ask the big captain if we could get ploughs hs spades and hoes oes for them and that probably we might come next year and teach them we left two of our company among thero them and today to day five more have started out from this place ilace to join those bra abraham and reese presented us one dozen shirts to these indians wo we have finished the fourth part of the public I 1 I 1 I 1 Z I 1 I 1 corral which velch is 30 20 rods square and done mote more than half afi the labor on an 8 mile irrigation capal canal THOS D BROWN I 1 Recorder for the mission |