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Show CORRESPONDENCE. St. George, Utah, Nov. T, IS70. Dear Ilrrahl : Our semi-annual autumnal Conference, after a session uf three days, closed last evening. The instructions were varied and good, treating on many interests, public and private, spiritual and secular, but especially touching our domestic comfort com-fort and safety. The finishing and establishing es-tablishing of our cotton and woollen factory, the building and endowment of a castellated fort on our Indian frontier fron-tier at Kanab, were interests well discussed. Our duty in regard to tithing tith-ing ourselves was ably and clearliy portrayed; and President Snow epeci- ullv priininprl it unnn oil nrl. anA guardians to send their children to school. A committee of three was set apart to organize and tak6 charge of a lyceum, where proper courses of lectures lect-ures may be given to boys and young men, upon such subjects as will interest inter-est and entice attendance. The weather has been quite pleasant through Conference, and many from the settlements around vere in attendance. attend-ance. Our late harvests are now completed. The late corn scarcely ripened. The sorghum gave a usual yield ; sweet potatoes po-tatoes made a medium crop ; the wine crop was more than double that of any heretofore, and of a far superior quality. I presume that in this and Kane county not less than '20. 000 gallons gal-lons have been realized this year. The quality in much of it is so far in advance ad-vance of former years that I doubt not it would pass creditably with those most difficult to please in your market. There has been also a goodly amount of grapes dried and cured for raisins, some of which will compare favorably wiih the best usual specimens from Spain or France. We shall make an exhibit and comparison of wines and raisins about the first of the new year, the result of which your readers shall hear. As yet there has been little frost in the city. Much of the verduro still holds its bright hue, and flowers in gay colors adorn our gardens, exhaling their rich and varied odors, and giving food for the industrious bee, whose hum may still be hsard throughout the day. Grapes of some varieties still han, pluaip, on the vines, and look as if they might so remain until Christmas. Rice, bene, peanuts, sweet potatoes and yams have been fairly tried and prove to yield as well as elsewhere, and make excellent crops. News is unimportant and trade dull. 1 learn that jMajor Powell, accompanied accompa-nied by Jacob llaniblin and others, left Kanab sonic time since for the Colorado, to make a treaty with the Navajoe Indians. Our people look tp the Herald with much interest as a special champion cham-pion for the right, that will yet be instrumental in-strumental in breaking the bands that tie together the enemies of all good in this Territory, and open the eyes of many a benighted wayfarer, who will be led from the influence of those who seek the downfall of the best people on earth. God speed your mission. You nave tne prayers ot tue tauhtul and will receive more of (heir substantial support. Anon. J. |