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Show THK CLOSE OF COIKF.BESCE. The prea of other matter coa-pL-lld us to hold over the conference minutes taken on Sunday. The meetings were largely attended, from ten thousand to eleven thousand being present. In the morning Pre-ident Bri:hatn Young addressed the assemblage, betQg the firs: time ;inc3 his return from the south lat winter. In the opening of hij remarks he kindly said "good morning" to the congregation, which was similarly re-ponded to by them: and after referring incidentally to his late imprisonment and to the gentlemanly gentle-manly behavior of deputy marshal Evans, he continued with brief remarks re-marks on more gcceral topics. lie was followed by eider Oron Pratt. Elder A. Carringtoo then presented to the conference the following additional addition-al names of elders called on missions: To Europe Thomas W. Jennings. To the States George Pierce, Lyone, Edward Stevenson, Salt Lake : city, Nathan T. Porter, Ccntreville. Home Mis-ionary JosephA. Voung, Salt Lake city. In the afternoon President Briglum Voungagainspoke.and in the cour.soot' his remarks said he desired that the j cases in which indictments had been' found or commitments uiade, including ' bis own, should be prjs-icuted. Ifj any pcr.-oti had an) thing to testify ! against him he wished them to have the opportunity of doing so before a legal court, lie al.-o d-Mred the legal papers iu the cases to be preserved and handed down to posterity a.s matters mat-ters of history. President Geo. A. Smith and elder Wilford Woodruff each made a few re marks; and the conference was adjourned ad-journed until the Cth of October next, to meet at 10 o'clock in the New Tabernacle in this city, the benediction benedic-tion being pronounced by President B. Young. |