Show a FROM THE BRITISH MISSION BATH batu ENGLAND april 26 yoo 60 ED NEWS DE dearbra ARBRo after an absence from your city of eight months I 1 thought f perhaps my friends might wish to know bow how 1 a am A L getting along in old i england and occasionally wish they could I 1 hear from me i well I 1 will say to them that I 1 am well antl and have chosen the news for a medium to let them know of my whereabouts and how things are progressing in this part of the world as I 1 see them I 1 have been greatly prospered in all my labors and s ince since I 1 left the valley and the blessing of the lord through i his servants has in many things been ful filled to the letter and the rest will be the I 1 holy spirit is my dally daily companion and by it I 1 have been able to bear a faithful testimony I 1 and also to be in my weak way and I 1 may I 1 add imperfect manner a representative of the j saints of god in the mountains mounta ins in regard to the journey to this land the improvements in locomotion have been so great in our day that the first thing we knew we I 1 i were by the tha e help of mules and the power of 1 j steam landed in liverpool on the day of I 1 i november 1859 right in the field of our present labors with the fruit already beginning 0 to ripen for the harvest and as soon as we could dewent we went forth into the field some to I 1 one side sido and some to the other it fell to m my i lot to go to the ancient britons in south I 1 I 1 wales where I 1 labored for a season and the I 1 i lord bore testimony with the influence of his spirit to the things which I 1 declared to the people the ile saints felt to rejoice mu much eh in scein seeing some messengers from zion oil again after their absence for the space of two years I 1 have had migny many take me by the hand and shed sired tears of 01 joy and thankfulness to td go d and president young 1110 for sending the elders last fall after leaving wales I 1 went to the southwest part of lih lIn england gland giand and was received with joy joy r by all who wished the prosperity of the good cause and the rest you know I 1 careno carero care nothing thing about on the of january I 1 visited london in company with the balance balan ce of the american elders where we had a conference after which I 1 labored in company with elder jacob gates in london and around that quarter af ter which we nye started for the southwest south west of england a aga agnand inand the midland counties where we belabored labored labored until the of march then we went to liverpool and saw baw the ship underwriter 1 sail with nearly six hundred saints for their home in the mountains elder gates and myself started again for wales after the departure of the saints where we labored four weeks held four conferences I 1 and heard the reports of the prosperity of the work about forty had been baptized since I 1 was there before we crossed the bristol channel back into england an the of april after holding a meeting meet lilg ilIg together in bristol we parted again that we might assist more of the saints in relation to the tha world in commotion I 1 will say that many are wanting to khow know bw what all the signs of the times mean they say that brigham young m has either got more sense naturally than the rulers of the nations or i that he is a pro prophet gliet which all saints have the I 1 ass assurance brance urance that he e is i j the enemies of the gospel begin to be waked up again not to mob but to write and I 1 ask if there mere cannot be something done for the benefit of their countrymen who are leaving them for the mormon empire as many call it now I 1 have made a few suggestions to them for their comfort a as follows con congratulating them on their wealth wealth and their eK education cation ration ane ant and as they say their friendly relations with each other and as they have an abundance of means they had better have a national conference and commence at once the building of a tower get god dethroned dethroner and then ask what shall be done for nothing short of that will stop shop the progress of nf his kingdon set up in the nineteenth century and it will stand forever I 1 would say to the saints who are dwelling I 1 in the mountains whose friends live aca scattered tt e re abroad on the face of the earth write to them I 1 and let them know that you live if you are alive as the irishman said if not answer by the next post 5 f in conclusion I 1 will say let the elders have your united prayers of faith for their welfare and strength th to fill the present mission I 1 AV will ill now n ow close hose with my humble wishes for the triumph of truth throughout the world and that the blessings bles bies sings singo of heaven may rest on all who favor the cause in every lard your fellow laborer in the gospel MILO ANDRUS A troy paper says that a stupid bass was caught just below that city on thursday morn ing lilg which weighed 53 12 1 2 lbs ibs and measured 3 feet 10 inches in length and 14 inches wide that is some bass the steamer orb of pittsburgh bound for the mouth of the red river with a cargo of railroad iron snagged and sunk on may 18 I 1 ninety miles above memphis and was a total I 1 loss oss A little boy died in montreal not long since drinking a large quantity of liquor the man who gave it to him shoun be tried fy murder |