Show proclamation IV whereas cereas the law of the cengr Con congress gr of a the united states approved sept 9 1850 1830 organizing a territorial government for utah provides that the governor of said territory shall ishall after enumerating the inhabitants make an apportionment of the members of council and house of representatives in accor accordance dance danne with the ratio of population in their respective counties therefore 1 I brigham young governor of said territory have caused the enumeration of the inhabitants to be taken and the following apportionment to be made and direct that an election be held in the respective precinct precincts a throughout the territory on the first in august next in accordance cor dance with the existing laws of the provisional government ernnie nt of the state slate of deseret desent regulating the elections passed ly by the general assembly nov 12 1849 page paie paje 9 for the tile election of the following officers viz 6 councillors and 13 depre representatives senta tives for great salt lake like countr county 2 councillors and 3 representatives for gor weber county I 1 councillor and 3 representatives senta ilves tives for davis county I 1 representative for tooele thoele county 2 councillors and 3 representatives senta tives for utah county I 1 councillor and I 1 representative for san apte county I 1 coun billor and 2 representatives for iron county at the same time ti me and place in the respective precincts an election will be held for a delet delei delegate ate to the house of representatives of the tiie united states to represent said territory Terr tory BRIGHAM YOUNG governor N B th the U S Al marshall arshall of said territory will give due notice and advertise the same accordingly in three of the most public places in the beveral several counties B Y G S L city july 1 1851 I 1 ithe ethe Sherif sherlf Ta of the respective counties count ies jes of utah territory will recollect 1 hat that according to the laws of the provisional government of deseret regulating elections passed by the general assembly nov 12 1849 1819 page 9 the elections in the counties for probate justices justices of the peace sheriffs constables ac will be held on monday nonday the first afy dasy of august next therefore be vigilant and govern yourselves ac accordingly cordin corain gly 4 nominations NOMI OF IROS COUNTY at a t wen gen eral elat clat meeting ine lne eting of or the citizens of iron county duly duty organized at their council house in paro wan city may 16 1851 1831 dr john lii ISI bernhisel was nominated and unanimously su sus S bained usilio ashe delegate to represent utah te territory r at the next session dession of the congre congress 89 0 of the united states stales george A smith was nominated to be one of the counselors coun roun and ellsha 11 II groves to be one of the representatives of iron county to the legislature N of and carried ARRIVED dr john IM bernhisel al mon moh W babbit esq judge snow mr ip harris and I 1 rs rose and day ib indian agents saturday uly jely jyly J 9 proclamation TO ALL WHOM IT MAY mlle CONCERN WHEREAS the law of congress 0 entitled an act to establish a territorial government for utah approved sept 9 1850 devolves the duties of superintendent of indian affairs within said territory upon the governor of said territory and whereas there have been appointed by the united states government one indian agent and two sub agents fur fur for this territory now therefore by virtue of said authority and to advance the tiie purposes of the government for the benefit of the indians I 1 do hereby order and direct that this territory be divided into three agencies as follows to wit the first or parvan indian agency to include all within the limits of the territory west of the shoshone nation and north of the south line of the parvan valley the second or uinta agency to include all of the snakes or shoshones Sho within said territory the uinta and yampa all other tribes south within said territory and east cast of the eastern rim of the great basin I 1 the third or parowan carowan agency 0 to include all the country lying west of the eastern rim of the great basin and south of the south line of the parvan valley to the western bounds of the territory henry it day and stephen B rose the sub A agents n ants having arrived and being ready to enter upon the discharge of their respective duties are hereby temporarily and until further directions assigned to their respective agencies as follows to wit henry rt day to the first or parvan achen agency 0 and stephen B rose to the second or uinta agency BRIGHAM YOUNG governor of utah territory and superintendent of indian af fairs G S L city july 21 1851 we have recently heard from san pete utah an and dWeber weber general health and prosperity prevail and the harvest is abundant though considerable wheat has been dama darn aged for lack of season seasonable able abie irrigation the weather continues warm day and night and showers on the surrounding mountains multiply donors to the tabernacle whose subscriptions are due and some have been due since the first of june are requested to forward the same to the trustee or the tithing tithing office without delay the building 1 is hindered for want of funds and unless special exertion is made and the thee friends are punctual nai nal from this time forward the buil bull building diny dint cannot be completed for sep conference RAIN RAIM descended in torrents on our city sunday july between 4 and 5 p in after a drouth of 63 days since sirce which the nights have been cooler ES VV elder phinehas 11 II young and gen gea brown arrived on the loth dinst W af mrs hannah E crosby has favored us with millennial star march 15 and april 15 from which we learn that bro bellanger who was baptized by elder taylor at paris had returned to his native place le grand luce and on the february had commenced preaching and baptizing and meeting with strong opposition ship olympus left liverpool march 4 souls elder wm win howell president eiers elders elers john ta tay y lor or and lorenzo snow were in in liverpool the first week in I 1 march elder taylor was expecting soon to repair to germany to establish the work and translate and publish the book of IN mormon in german and elder snow was about to publish the in italian elder snow has published two pamphlets let iet in piedmont italy which have been circulated by elder woodard ip that region and by elder Sten stenhouse house bouse in switzerland elder erastus snow writes from niom copenhagen feb 19 about have been baptized among whom were 2 Ic elanders who were soon to start for iceland with the gospel the work of ule the lord js is prospering wherever it exists and the devil is not dead in any country where the gospel is preached good THE PAPERS state that twenty give five vol umes of ancient manuscripts have recently been found at rome in the library of do manican friars devoted to descriptions of the territory of the united states A new state is proposed to be formed in new york composed of or N Y city kings queen suffolk and rich richmond ond kopd counties perhaps some others ethers to be called manhattan the oregon oreon legislature the seat scat PC at of government eminent at salem and adjourned the tile governor refused to sign the act tiie the Calif ornit legislature adjourned adjourned till july juit arter after unsuccessful balloch ballo tings digs for U S benator senator or the most prominent candi candidates dases dales were ellig E mg weathered and fremont twelve persons were killed about the luth loth of march at los hermanos Herma nos nod on chagros chagres river supposed obed to have bl been ben blen en by the boat carthaginian Cart hagenian negroes wille the tha travellers trav ellers were asleep it is said that thit D 0 S leavitt of maysville has discovered a process by which the tle finest linens can be manufactured from unrolled hemp lemp and flax as cheap as from orom orni cotton belleau Bel bei levu in louisiana has been destroyed by a tornado in relation to J davis dav is IM philosophy of spiritual intercourse the gem GEM GEN or OF THE tire PRAIRIE intimates that all ail the spiritual ings mappings rap pings bell table moving and other mysterious phenomena are attributed altril buted to dr franklins improvements in electric scie scle science hice fice in which lie he la is making rapid advances in the spirit world so that his telegraph extends not to new mew orleans merely but to another auther ci world it is re potted that mr elijah slack slick of renfrew hag bag ds covered a process by which coarse hemp old bagging jut c are converted into the finest flix fl n ix and arid flax cotton it appears also that mr dolin dohn and chevalier P Clauss claussen tn have made some soine discoveries of alike a ilke like nature the glasgow post says wi we have before us specimens of flax flax flat cotton thread animal iced dyed flax also a piece of or fine ian lan lawn n muslin figured fir ared with the flax cotton which has all ail a ll 11 the he t lustre and glossy appearance of silk it itis is thought thoum lit that a great revolution in the spinning and weaving beavin we avin world is 13 at hand at Ilou Hou quang china jan 1 1848 the missionary reports that during an inundation a fire broke out in the shipping when more than vessels on the shore of the kiang were burned many of them containing 40 50 and 69 60 persons of whom were drawn out of the water mutilated and disfigured one man ordered coffins these vessels belonged to various parts of the kingdom and were habitually occupied by their incites wherever they were vere the fire continued about 3 hours unparalleled iros IROT countr county july 2 19 1851 J to the editor odthe of the news newa dear sir nothing af pf much moment has transpired since I 1 last wrote you we are progressing in our labors though we received quite a burthen of additional dit ional lonal crops to tend bv by the return of so many of the brethren the water at this place has been limited because the streams have not risen risen this spring and from appearances this is is an uncommon dry season to increase the water we have made a canal about seven miles in length to bring in red creek to water the lower surveys in our field this has been quite a ajob job and had not the colony been weakened by bythe the return of A 4 part this would have been completed one month earlier thereby saving thousands thou sinda of bushels of grain it seems almost nin tin incredible credible the amount of labor that has been done and yet jet much is is before us and every man is straining ning every nerve to ac nom oom the task bea before ore ora him hi n the wire drw survey which was thought by the WISEST farmers to need but aut little water upon trial requires double the amount of the upland the indians appear quite saucy lately and imagine they have hae a right to our catlie cattie for they have foreclosed on i a number of them and we are under the necessity of having them herded herde d our fort is pot yet enclosed but will be as speedily epe edily as possible allis all sil 13 peace and quiet and our crop lois loes I 1 ok well weil ell eil where there has been a supply of water but the llie crop will be light liht frodi aroa circumstances beyond our control at present the lessons lesions learned this year may not be lost upon many next this being leing an untried country many advantages are passed and disadvantages improved which will be alter alten d the coming season I 1 intend to return to the city so as to be there at conference if nothing happens to prevent many of the brethren are i intending tilen rilen ding to return a at this time and from appearance we shall find this point considerably week en ed bro shirts continues his explorations and reports large bodies of fine timber ac he started a few days dayan ago ngo goin in company with bro gould to find a place for a road through the mountains to beaver valley theistic they succeeded beyond their expectations finding an opening for a road without 4 mountain and easily worked so that a good road can be had with lut difficulty and expending far less labor than expected our meetings on the sabbath are well attended and all seem interested in them two of those who came camp with us not belonging to the church have been baptized respectfully I 1 remain your brother GEO A SMITH MAIL main arrived this thid th w day and brought the fi P allowing letter honolulu oahu bahu sandwich islands jan 27 1851 J DEAR BRETHREN having an opportunity 21 ity of sending a few lines to you in informing formin W you of our whereabouts and prosperity I 1 embrace it with pleasure thinking that it will not be uninteresting to you to hear from us I 1 arrived here in company with nine of the brethren on the morning of the of december 1830 1850 18 0 afier fter a passage cf twenty days from san francisco all in the enjoyment of good health we found affairs here a little different from what we had llad expected not near a as ai i many whites as we thought there would be and the majority of those that that were here were fluctuating kopul stion composed of california calif Cali frnia ania grid gold diggers and sailors my illy first proceeding was to ascertain the situation of or the different islands I 1 found that there were five principal vil vii p il islands in this tills group and that all had more or less whites upon them with american i missionaries who preached to tle the natives on sunday evening after our arnival arrival I 1 called the brethren together ether to select partners and islands I 1 chose bro thos thus whittle to stay with me roe upon this island th brethren having havins thought it best for me to stay here we then cen bro W and myself selected four edthe remain remaining remaining int ine brethren lo to select partners and cast lots for the islands molokai blo Alo lokai fell to bros brog 11 AV bigler and thomas morris kanai kanal to bros john dixon and wm farrer hawaii to bros broa hawkins and blackwell and anti maui to bros cannon and keeler they all started for their different islands the next week from their I 1 letters etters I 1 learn that they have had no success with the whites there being being but very few on any but this those of them then 1 thattie that are staying tr are endeavoring to learn the language as fast as they can the tile motives are nearly all educated so that they can read and write and are very much under the influence odthe ru missionaries in fact they seem the government and the missionaries to be linked together to a considerable extent and every thing is left to their management the minister of pub ilc lie instruct instruction loa ioa i th the tae nation is an ex missionary named A i n r W tg i th y have issued three or f ur editions edi edl tons 0 of f the t bible in the native ron Con orue crue and bau blu ks olnear lyall kinds together with a paper printed for S the natives weekly w we e wih wil Y il i th the influx ence odthe press to contend with us as well as their personal influence but hut we have no fear the lord will open the way wy and will confirm the work by signs following I 1 went and saw an agent of the govern ment who had charge of the market house here to get gret it to hold meetings in he let na via have it free of cost I 1 preached several times a few turned out the first time but they discontinued cantin tied tred and we gave up preaching I 1 am now trying to learn the language I 1 have been blessed since I 1 have been here by the lord and the tile signs have followed my administration I 1 have administered tl to sev eral of the natives who have been restored resto red this is in accordance with the blessing g given ve me by father joseph in kirtland he told me that I 1 should be upon distant islands odthe of the sea and arid the power ol 01 god should be with me in administering the ordinances I 1 have had dreams |