Show f EXTRACTS 0 of of a letter from professor orsian pratt to afire 04 in this city dated agton march 4 ai 1854 f th iliam 1 I ana happy happ y to inform you that I 1 am iu in ti the e tojos all ment M ent of good health and all thiu geo as ww w ab 1 w I 1 roe me as I 1 coula elpe expect during the past two 0 i months I 1 have been writing upon th the no subject bectol cc I 1 ariage and the pre afe existence af 0 am 4 alq ant durigg J vyv timo tima I 1 have delivered deliver ad about twenty lectures tt 1 l b temperance hall ul upon almost every evely subject pert tf ing to jhb kingdom of god but few however 1 va attended my lectures and I 1 have been obliged tat ti them for want of bearers botone not one soul have I 1 fou f in washington who seems ib 16 manifest i the least 11 position of enquiry I 1 think never enjoyed greath I 1 liberty of speech than I 1 uve have in these lectures V I 1 t spirit has rested upon me might mightily fly but the heu hearty 14 f the people are sealed against the truth and I 1 vw 1 ec exceedingly at their unbelief aad and hardness of h heart 1 I 1 have already published the first 6 nos of a seer and shall ahall have the proof sheet of the seven V N 0 o tomorrow to morrow every item yet admitted into V seer beer has been new matter matte of my own composite compo siti a I 1 no small task to write pages of printed n 14 ter as margeas lar lax geas the seer I 1 am confident confide ut that 1 if b have to rest my mind a little and exercise roy my boi more in order to preserve preserve ray my health I 1 t I 1 I 1 washington is the plaue place above all others for us 1 publish a periodical I 1 get bettels constantly iro from M a t t parts of the united states and british province provinces Provi inces uce s sta ing that they had seen in the public prints t that at we t t started a paper at the capital and aishi wishing to 0 o wf H specimen copy the seer is doing great good am aro anotn tn the scattered saints halfhearted half hearted mormons cormons vre awakening out of a deep sleep and are beginning 9 j Z i take fresh courage and the he great enquiry by letter how shall we get to utah U tahl many old a I 1 I 1 are also beginning to rub open their eyes an and a are i coming rn more re fa favorable orabie and really y b begin eam i to tbt 11 is true william E EMeLl McL leUen elleu subscriber and has also proc procured tired several other A n scribers bers several of the prominent acosta apostates in ih ati are saying that if I they had seen the re I 1 before they would not have left the chure church wg miles writes from cincinnati stating that the sey doing great good there among the saints and H I 1 among the world my subscription list is gradually 1 I 1 i iii I 1 the increase the seer Is not without honor save it be la in its own native city where it is bublis published hed I 1 have some forty or fifty letters a week to attend to which requires much of my time my writ writing ivil has kept me so confined that I 1 have scarcely set foot within tile the capitol to hear congressmen spoilt and blow so far fai as I 1 have information I 1 verily believe that bro J M Ber bernisher Berm nishel shel has used his very best bes Zen endeavors deavors in in behalf of utah has been at his post visiting the committees and ingratiating ingi abating himself into their good giacche graces and has no doubt obtained may favol 6 in in this way that would have been utterly denied had they been sought in in a more public way bro bio Ber bernisher Bernish nishel cl is is a man of integrity and wis wisdom and his name will be had in in honorable kemem arnow among tile the saints generation to t generation gener loment I 1 expect dapril or may to visit england to expedite e the le printing arid and binding of the book of mormon and doctrine and coven covenants als I 1 shall probably he be absent about two months blos BIOS orson spencer houtz have been expelled from prussia br cairns from germay the four who went to the west indies were about the same as expelled they are now laboring in the states bro tin tai pin will preach in the middle states and will during my absence to england occasionally call and take my letters from the post office at washington and forward the seer to those who may send for the back nus and answer such lette letters a as may maybe be of importance I 1 have counseled bro farr fan to labor in the new england states stales bro lambson Lamb sou in michigan and indiana they will no doubt forward to you an account of their mission to theowest the west indies I 1 forward each no of the seer to each of the first presidency and the twelve I 1 also send one thousand of each no to mrs sarah M pratt to supply the calls in utah I 1 shall direct her in my next letter etter to pay one tenth of I 1 them as tithing I 1 have been today to toda day da v to hear the inaugural address of president pierce this evening I 1 shall accompany acco mcany our delegate to attend a levee at the Pies presidents president ident mansion I 1 expect after I 1 return ret urn from england to give washington another thor thorough oolah tri brinl si W fi by I 1 letters e i t t e fro from Y dr bernhisel nh to a friend ii in this ibis city dated washington grion nov ath 1852 to march ve learn that gen pierce is elected president of the united states by ai an t overwhelming majority three or four states only voting for gen t the postmaster general has comsea bonsen ted fed that service shall be ant on the route f from rom gi gibat eat silt salt lake city to san diego from the former place to tooele thoele and from our t goodly codly city to Kanes kanesville ville iowa should the bids for tile the last named route be too high and cor consequently not be let the department will order an increase of service on oil the route from independence to salt lake so as to give us a semimonthly semi monthly ma mail 1 I arid and the route from kanesville Kanes ville may be let to fort laramie only in t that event the pi es ent contractors will be required t to make two trips a month between the latter place and salt lake city an and dill will receive a corresponding increase of compensation the preceding routes having been advertised in the Nai national ional intelli ancer and washinton washington ton daily union tile the dol del r ment will order them to be advertised in the aseret aseret news I 1 have made two efforts as you will perceive hy by the accompanying papers to procure an extension of mail service service from brownsville Browns ville to box elder but the department thinks it is expending and coit contemplates templates to expend a great deal of money for our benefit and is unwilling therefore there foi foie e to incur at present any f urther further I 1 expense box elder being on the route roule to sacramento and having havin m recently procured the establishment of a post office at that place and the appointment of charles hubbard habbard as post past master we shall in f futine etui e have a monthly communication bilth it by mail nor can we at present for the same game reason obtain tile the establishment of a weekly mail mai I 1 from great salt lake city through the antei mediate ine diate settlements to santa clara and if we could the san diego mail would not go from and come to salt lake city but would connect with the mail at santa clara it is a rule of the he department larely arely i deviated from not to lo put two contractors on the same route the above mentioned routes which are now beaw being advertised will be let but for a short time and lexi next fall or winter all the loutes in utah and those leading to prid end from it will be adjei tided to he let the fol following lowin spring tor for four years from the first day of july 1854 elder orson 0 son pratt arrived in this cit city on the of december hired a liall hall arid and on ake the com fenced preaching one evening in the week and three times on t the he sabbath I 1 have seen but three bembera member of congress at the meetings on the evening of the the third sebba h brother pratt reached preached the doctrine ot of celestial marriage ac tuly ay arid and plainly and in all its vai various ions ramifications keeping nothing back the dist discourse ourse produced quite a i sensation in tae the hall a number left and when he lad had concluded his audience was reduced about one third hird the sunday morning succeeding eding the ad nini ini of this atter pill there being only about aalf a dozen persons in attendance bro pratt did not Op reach though he spoke in the afternoon and evening md and concluded inconsequence in consequence of the thinness of the audience ence to suspend the meetings and visit new york cork with a view to reprint some of our standard works the excitement does not run so high bih bi h as it lid fid a twelve ago neither priests priest nor people lor bior members of any of the brandies branches of 0 the national government overn ment will condescend to hear or investigate or I 1 presume they would consider it a condescension rid nd editors are expressing express iq their disgust t through the th ress I 1 brother pratt having returned from the north has et on account of the smallness small of the con legations negations to pi preach each only on oil sabbath evening john C L smith has been appointed poat poa master parowan carowan Pa rowan vice james lewis resign resigned pd 1 was at a dinner party at the presidents on tile the kh tilt alt it was a grand affair last evening broter I 1 I 1 pratt and myself attended the presidents levee he rooms of the executive mansion were thronged thron ged f aith ith beauty and bashon and the scene was a very q ay y one I 1 A colonel kane has gone to the west indies for the benefit of his health the Senate went into executive assion at half past one and con confirmed finned the new ca inet as follows secretary ecret arv of state mr maxey marey of new york secretary ecret ary of f the treasury mr guthrie of ken L icky secretary of war mr davis of mississippi secretary ecret ary of the ravy mr dobbin of north caro 11 ma secretary of the ln interior terio mr mcclelland of fi michigan dic lic higan post master general mr campbell of enn sylvania attorney general mr dishing cushing of I 1 massachusetts i ane bill reported by the house committee on j territories errit ories to p provide r ovide for the survey and construction E f a wagon road from the missouri to the set to cements in in california and oi Oe egon ecron on the location of I 1 lesaine ie same v via salt lake must go 0 over to the next I 1 1 I 1 the be senate made an amendment to the appropriation i ill for the support of the army the senate added an amendment to the army bill aich I 1 am happy to inform you was concurred in ill g y the house houe appropriating one hundred and fifty lohsand dollars to malce make such explorations and sur ill tys as the president may deem advisable to ascertain I 1 ie most practicable arid and economical route for fora a rail I 1 fo oad from the mississippi river to the pacific alcean cean t I 1 have the satisfaction to inform you that during he e recent session we have in addition to the go I 1 or r a penitentiary obtained the usual annual ap to defray the expenses of the territorial 3 government overn ment amo amounting tinting to for the indian arvice the current year for the same serice of for the next fiscal year vear 1000 besides mail ser rice ce on the he routes in utah and on those leading to to did id from it the letting of which will probably amount anio tint 0 about and which I 1 trust some of our 11 tr ethren will be fortunate enough to obtain 11 an n act to establish a territorial government under r ie name of washinton washington ton north of the columbia liver iver has been passed passel the we nebraska bill failed in r ie e senate the subcommittee committee sub to whom was reared ro by the Comm committee itee on te territories the statutes 01 E utah made quite a favorable report stating that 00 e criminal code was very good and that the c doole ude practice was better than that of any of the states 0 bro pratt preached here diligently and faithfully 0 1 long as the people would hear he seemed to elfy much of the spirit of the lord but prejudice is is so cr reat eat that toward the last his andi audience ence was so very I 1 call all that he suspended his meetings on thelast sab th in february he intends however shortly to take ke another effort to arouse the people of this lost ad A ruined mined city to a sense of their guilt and danger 00 0 id d to induce them to flee from the wrath to come t 1 1 e w is delro demoting ting almost every moment of his time and 10 erdies to the preparation and publication of the I 1 eer er and the reports lie receives from various narlens of the country countr I 1 are quite qui t e encouraging the lord willing I 1 shall all be at salt lake as early the leasot as I 1 conveniently convenient lv can 9 ther their rush for offices is tremendous there are thousands of hungry office hunters here it is said there are a hundred and one persons personal sl seeking the offices of utah james J strang of beaver beave island notoriety is among the applicants for the govern ship of our territory the president is literally avei whelmed with business and calls but he has promised me ine an interview soon in i elation to the affairs of utah extract of a letter from elder T B stenhouse to prest frest S W richards Bic baras cite derriere no 1 lausanne canton de vaud sept 1852 dear president richards I 1 have found the saints all well and rejoicing in the holy influence of the spirit of the lord I 1 um am much pleased with ith the labors of my brethren and very grateful to the lord for the increase of faith in tae church and the more than loan ordinary interest manifested by those who read our publications last night I 1 passed two hours very agreeably with monsieur i 1 ur I 1 dont think I 1 ever met a man out of the K kingdom ingao m 0 of f god who so well deserved to be called a gentleman he was courteous and sincere his objections were such as men without the spirit of god i would think profound his bible contained a quantity of pieces of paper each being a direction to some important objection against the doctrine of new revelation however after answering the first thief or four fear he shut the bible saying 11 1 1 see your manner of explaining the scriptures destroys completely all my objections oh may he and all such men humble themselves before the lord to seek after his spirit without which no man can say that the doctrine is of god nature has freaks so it is said so have earthly governments to one not uncommon in italy I 1 am indebted for a visit from elder woodward ilia his presence testimony and teaching have done the saints much good he requests that any letter for him from the brethren who are on their way to italy may be addressed here in a few days we will leave for the german cantons canton hoping with the blessing of the lord to introduce the gos gospel ej in the interior of the countr country y As we have not the liberty of pre arbing publicly we have made good arrangements for distributing the printed word and house preaching the night before I 1 left this place to visit england I 1 baptized my landlord who has during my absence been very zealous in spreading the principles among his friends and acquaintances last sunday we ordained him to the office of elder that he might be more useful to his nation through some of his intimate friends he has sent the book of mormon and our other publications into poland some time ago ago t I 1 I 1 had a similes similar opportunity of sending the book of mormon into st petersburgh Peters burgh the capital of russia the elder of whom I 1 write promises to be very useful on this mission as he his has a good knowledge of three languages and a smattering of the english mill star oct 9 I 1 tabernacle SUNDAY MORNING may ath 1853 1 |