Show arrival kr from england uy by the ilie PR IN G FUND FRIDAY sept 3 aj 4 PM capt A 0 smoots company of 31 wagons was escorted into this city by the first presidency of the church some of the twelve apostles and many of the citizens on horseback an and in in carriages I 1 carit adapt pitts band in the presidents i carriage met the company at the mouth of ofed fim 1 gration migration kanyon kanyo where the saints of both sexes of near 70 years of age danced and sung for joy and their hearts were made glad by a distribution trib ution of bf melons and cakes after which the th band came in the escort and cheered the hearts of the weary travelers with their enlivening end strains next in the came a band ot of pilgrims sisters and children walking and i we weather ather beaten but not forlorn their hearts were light and was plainly manifest by their happy and joyful countee ances ancela I 1 next followed the wagons the good I 1 condition of the cattle and the general appearance of the whole train did credit to bishop bloot as a wise wise and skilful niti manager nager who was seen on horse in all the various departments of his hii company during their egress from the kanyum to encampment As the escort and train passed the temple block they were saluted with nine rounds rif df artillery which made i the he everlasting hills tt to shake their sides with joy while thousands of 1 men women and children gathered from va various r i I 1 I 1 parts of the te city to unite anite in the glorio glorious glor ioui and joyful welcome after co on unior square the emi emigrants were called together and prest I 1 young oung addressed them as follows 1 I have but a few words to say aay to the breth brethren reB I 1 aiva d J e abor ahe T ati 8 rael jj bless fit y you u I 1 and ill I 1 i i comfort your hearts the company and bystanders stan derr responded A AMEN we have prayed for you yon continually thousands of prayers have been offered up up for you day baday bj day to his hibi who has commanded comin us to gathor gather israel save the children of men b by y the pr preaching of the gospel and prepare them for the coming of the 1 messiah you have had a long hard and fatiguing I 1 i journey across the great waters and the score scorched hed plains but by the distinguished favors of heaven you are hoi hoie e in safety I 1 we understand that the whole company 1 started under bro smoots smooth guidance are alive aim 1 and well with but a few exceptions for this i we are than thankful to our oar father it in heaven and our hearts are filled with joy that you have had faith to surmount the difficulties that have lais lain in your path that you jou have ov overcome e acome sickness tea and death and are now with us to enjoy the blessings of the people of god in these peaceful vallies you yon are now in a laud land of plenty where by bt a reasonable amount of labor you ma may realize a comfortable subsistence I 1 you ou have had trials and stife sufferings rings in y your our journey but your sufferings have been beenen few compared with thousands of your brethren and sisters in these vallies we have a great many of us been under the harrow for the space of 21 years I 1 trust you have enjoyed a good meas ure are of the spirit of the lord in the midst of your toils and now as you have arrived here 4 let your fet feelings be mild peaceable and not framing arto to yourselves any particular bouras that you will pursue but be patient until the way opens before you be very cautious that you yon do riot not watch the failings of others and by this means expose yourselves to be caught in the snares or of tho the I 1 devil for the people here cwb the bailin fa failings ilin natural to man the same me s you yon have look well to yourselves that the enemy does not get the ad 1 vantage over you see sec that your own hearts are I 1 pure and filled with the spirit of the lord aad 1 you will be willing to overlook the faults of i others and endeavor endear or to correct your own j 1 with regard to your circumstances and con I 1 1 sections alre here I 1 am little acquainted but bat this 1 I can say you are in the midst of plenty no person here is under the necessity of begs begging ng his bread except the natives and they beg eg I 1 more than they care for ford or can use by your i i labor you can obtain an abundance the soil I 1 is a rich and productive we have the best 0 of i wheat and the finest of flour as good a was ever produced in any other country in the world we have beets carrots barlots bar rots turnips aib cabbage peas boarts beans melons and I 1 may say all kinds of garden vegetables of the best quality the prospects are cheering for fruits of different kinds the grapes that we have hare raised this semon season are doubtless as fine as were ever exhibited fot for sale in the london market the peach we expect will do well also we had but bat few last year this chis season we have more we are under the necessity of waiting a few years yeam before we can have much fruit but of the I 1 pie articles of food we have a great abam dance I 1 with regard to your obtaining habitations to shelter you in in the coming coining winter all of you I 1 will be able to obtain work and by your industry you can make yourselves tolerably comfortable comfor f for table in this respect before the winter sets in all the improvements that you see around you have been made in the short space of four years four years ago this is day there was not a rod of fenee fence to be seen been nor a house except the old fort I 1 as we call it though it was then new I 1 all this that you now naw see oft has been accomplish I 1 ed by the industry of the people and a great deal more that you do not see for our oar settlements extend miles south and almost miles north we shall want some of the brethren to repair I 1 to some of the other settlements such as mechanics cb add farmers no doubt they can provide themselves with teams aa to bear them i to their destinations those who have acquaintances quain here will all be able to obtain dwell j ings until they can make accommodations of I 1 their own I 1 again with regard to labor dont im imagine me unto yourselves that you are going to got get rich I 1 at once by it As for the poor there are none here and neither are there any who may be called rich but all obtain the essential comforts of life let not your eyes be greedy when I 1 met you this afternoon I 1 felt to say this is the company that I 1 belong to the poor company as it is called and I 1 always expect to belong to it until I 1 am crowned with eternal riches in the celestial kingdom in this world I 1 possess nothing only enly what the lord has given to me and it is devoted to the building up of his kingdom do not any of you suffer the thought to enter your pur mir minds ids that you must go to the gold mines in sear search ch for riches that is no place for the I 1 saints some have gone there and returned they keep cowing coming and going but their garmen garments tit are spotted almost universally it is scarcely se arcell possible for a man to go there and come back baci I 1 to this place with his garments pure dont f any of you imagine to yourselves that you can go to the gold rines mines to get anything to help yourselves with 11 yon ou must mitat live here this is the gathering ea place for or the saints the man who is trying t to 0 gam gain i to himself the perishable treasures of this thib world and suffers his affections to he be staid upon them may despair of ever obtaining a crown of glory this world is only to be used as an apartment in which the child I 1 tea im of men may fee prepared for their eternal redemption sad and exaltation in the presence of their savior and we have but a short time allotted to us up berez here to 0 accomplish w ame k wor aoa k I 1 win will say to this company they have had the I 1 lonor lionor of being escorted into the city by some I 1 of the most distinguished individuals of our so I 1 1 clety and d ft a band of in music aste accompanied with a salutation f from rom the cannon other companies fhate not had this mark of respect shown to them they belong to the rich and are able to help el themselves emse ves I 1 rejoice that you yon are here and that you will find yourselves in the midst of abundance of the common necessaries necess necessaries arkes of life a liberal iberal supply chupo bof of which you can easily obtain by your our labor here is the best beat quality of food you axe are in the best atmosphere that you lever er breathed and we have the best water that I 1 epou u ever drank make yourselves elves happy happ YI and so not let your eyes be hike the fools eye wan bering after the things of this world but inquire what you ean can do that shall be for the best beat interest et of the tee kingdom of god I 1 no man or woman will be hurried away from ah wagons but you may hilve hare the privilege of ee V ving ring in them until you get homes I 1 hope the ired ethren ren who live near by or those who five live at a dist distance anee v will send our brethren and sisters I 1 I 1 lome me potatoes and mellons or anything else CY hey have that they may insy not go hungry and let V hem chave have them free of curge charge that they may w blessed with us as I 1 exhorted th the e people last b bath fa I 1 I 1 have not anything more to say to you at tie his time as my presence is wanted in another ilabe iao 0 I 1 pray we the lord god of israel to bless I 1 ferou ou and I 1 I 1 blow bless you in the name of jesus men en |