Show fe tho the following r letter from our senior should haye have reached us earlier but better late than never EDITORIAL correspondence NDE M CITY colaiano CoLO IAno HAIo TT november 1864 J kim far on oa our somewhat soine what tortuous tort and decidedly stormy way have we pro pressed grossed leaving camp douglas on an the 9 ath 5 th dinst your correspondent has encountered snapping 1 cold weather blusterous binate storms 4 S high winds and snow drifts during almost tho the th o entire journey between the realms of the saints and this pros lepors and cedr mountain town I 1 could not ouch each lay day as the blast blew more shrill from the rocky steeps of tho the north american andes pitying those shivering soldier boys who loft left the day after us in search of glory glary A the red re d sk skis skins is of the plains As we progress p din eda N colladay s best and warmest coach the snows be canic caimi deeper the roads more difficult to traverse traver pe and the the troops following us its more and more inere apparent notwithstanding my high hopes of the brave californians bo in to strike a fearful blow on the kavage avage inal marauders sliders of tho the platte plains thas tha winder and aad relieving the stage road from their ci c i attacks I 1 fult felt relieved lie veti and b breathed a most aca hearty arty amen aken gen connor after riding a long IL 16 stancu tance thoughtful and silent decided tomtit would be worse than useless to attempt to bring co s L and M across the mountains amid these storms along almost the entire route of miles the country cott is destitute of forage and it was evident that no for forethought energy or til of ewans could subsist the iMM mals so that the they y could be servi serviced 1 cea mi hl after the trip hence I 1 elt felt f rejoiced and grateful when the general ordered his troops to halt at baid ger er and go g into winter quarters so ends eads for the present at least the proposed po sed winter campaign by california troops against the indians east of the mountains if in the early spring ere the young grass or of the prairies shall woo them from their hiding places for renewed assaults on the emigration the cali formans forfi lans should swoop down upon them their g our surprise prise would not be greater than would be the joy of the citizens of donver denver J and vicinity at this present writing I 1 cannot give your readers even evea an abstract ab of the notes of ifor trip over the mountains iii as I 1 I 1 had intended severe indisposition for several lays days kas has prostrated prostrate d your correspondent on oil his bed and conva leseke has progressed only so far as to enable him hini to wield a bather sickly pen which I 1 trust your yo ur readers will not sarcastically whisper is his normal condition suffice ice it ta t say ray that one night we had quite an ail adventure from being lost in a snow storm As mr injun said we were not lost but bit t the tit station was after grouping around over ever the trackless trac klem plains plaine we safely made our uy way back to our starting point church ch buttes arid and laid by till daylight great teat was the disappointment of your correspondent at passing in the night in t i those buttes so graphically and poetically described by y fitz 11 ludlow in the however as we snoozed awatin away in our warm coach during the storm adorm we lot let imagination carry us its into dro dreamland amland where 1 ponderous domes and nd lofty minareta mina and 11 spacious A daei were mixed all up together while W hile to t dreamy sense the r adoring orom or of om ow of f ow W was chy mistaken for the deep tones of some far off OF cath cathedral edrul organo organ perhaps ill have bate better hick when JL 1 p po bw and be able to see tile the great natural wonder by fitz the Cath cathedral edmi th OB jai m er w of f tb 4 breonn vo 1 ji tain ith the e was ble eked and said to be b e 1 IN cassab 4 from f ro in drifting d 1 ri 11 kr f t i n g snows V bat B at on we went breaking the road an deol lobred lowed by another coach which had ha d been snow bound for several days we had bad not proceeded far ere down we went into a snow drift the wheels were locked blocked b aud and the eulem plunging inK in six feet of snow nothing was to be done but to jump out and shovel 1 in 11 handy hand di dig ig out our way through the tri trials Alsi mn fim boaks etc etc of that night will not soon be forgotten eh eb bun ben it was no holiday pastime sure talking about holladay holiday and snow drifts in connection with the detention of the mails sometimes I 1 remark in all fairness fairal ss that bat I 1 never real realized i z c d the magnitude tude of tile the undertaking of ff a daily mail acro across th continent until I 1 had taken this I 1 late ate trip in the dead of winter the real wonder is not that the mails are sometimes detained but that anybody should have the hardihood and energy to attempt to transport them through the snow enow drifts of the plains plain and the rocky mountains it is an enterprise the difficulty and almost insurmountable obstacles 0 of f which can only be reali realized zeil or appreciated after afler one has liets taken such a trip in midwinter mid winter as did your correspondent As it was wo we v were ere ten days in passing from salt lake to denver and no amount of forethought lit or energy energy could have compassed coni passed the distance in less time so much f dankness an kness and candor compel us to say and it is no fulsome puff but verily vel rily the frozen truth denver is a thriving city of about with many fine substantial brie brick business buildings it has hag suffered immensely during the past year from floods fires and the indian raids which cut off communications with the east but it is a live lire town and its people as I 1 can attest a most hospitable kindly and populace bace more anon if opportunity favors another epistle ber efrom I 1 propose to return to m my y editorial duties in a few da days y s 11 II A y wo we find i in n tile the trw latter DOY day saints herald the following item in the printed proceedings M of a semiannual semi annual coll conference feren ce or of the mormon church held in shelby county comity iowa in october 64 bro alex mccord reported his utah mission lie ile and bro E 0 briggs arz ar rived there and the first thing they lid did was to go and report themselves them delves to brigham lie ile said lie ho did not fear brigham or liis his emissaries but all he feared was his own weakness brigham 0 refused them thein the privilege of ppe speaking aking in tiny any of their places pi ases of holding public meetings and aca acq acque almed bro briggs br ar ddn ars frs ot of slandering him he not only to lot let them preach in the city but asserted that ho he would write to his bishops and counsel them them also to refuse to let them preach in in any of their public meeting Ille eting houses at the first inee meeting thim which was hold held at bro stiles house there were thirteen persons present and they were well pleased with the doctrine preached the work then beran began e to spread lw w baptized ab about tit sixty h in i all dhere arenow are now about a dozen elders actively engaged all of which have been baptized and ordained there bro john stiles said that he presented himself before the congregation as a fl delegate elegate from utah when he be was appointed point edlis ns a delegate it was known that bro mccord would return home therefore lie he had nobody to report to but himself elf ile he went to utah in 1852 arriving in october ile he said it was then taught that young joseph smith was the man illan to lead the church but since joseph did not go to the state stale of deseret y and lick the feet of brigham Brig hain they repudiate him when he first went there lie he baw SP W many things that he did not like blit felt that it was not his bis province to question their authority ile he saw in one a 1 feast ast held bv by one seth M blair to which all the rich the noble and the grem great were invited to attend including brigham and ins his counsellors coun and at the sume tune time a poor widow a saint lived within a stones throw of said blairs beairs house who was wai destitute of tb the necessaries or of me life but she was wail passed unnoticed and left to suffer where nobles wre were feasted on every good tiling thing that the country emu chuia ej vow JArit 1 f c charch I 1 i a h b bocak e caw J sc e h be e would not acknowledge ed bi brigham 1 as his 71 7 1 god but was aft afterwards er restored y th tg ey y thinking thi tAking perhaps that uch actions were rather too strong r to set well veil i or goinie timo time yet ile that sonio some of the women went so fir as a to cull the bishops their gods thi inan god od doctrine h he 0 says sayd 14 i vory very clevah lit in ill utah lie he at length len th got ot some soine knowledge of thi the reorganization and looked forward with wit h much interest to the tinie time when the lie missionaries should olied arrive and by aud and by the lon looked for day arrived bros mccord and briggi arrived and many rejoiced at the glad tidings the first 11 josephite M meting meeting eting as it was called was held in ill liis his house he then saw the day d dawn awn ing and his heart has been made to rejoice and his own words are brethren I 1 an am with yon soul and body all that I 1 can call do to further this cause will cheerfully be doney done |